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The Beta Beta Chapter of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority was founded at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1924. It was formed from a local sorority, Zeta Eta Phi, which had been established three years earlier. In 1969, when the chapter...
George Henry Zimmerman was born to Joshua and Elizabeth Zimmerman on September 20, 1838 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He prepared for undergraduate studies at Washington College in Maryland and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle,...
John Zug was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1818. Little is known of his childhood except that he began to study Latin in 1830. These studies allowed him to enter Dickinson College on September 10, 1834 as a sophomore. During his...