HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF PHI ZETA

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               The TAU CHAPTER

Phi Zeta was originated in 1925 by a group of senior veterinary students in the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University. With the assistance of a group of faculty members, including the dean of the college, Dr. Veranus A. Moore, the Society was organized and Dean Moore was elected as the first president of the Alpha Chapter. The Society of Phi Zeta was organized in 1929 at a meeting in Detroit, Michigan and Dean Moore became the first president of the Society. Since 1929, twenty-seven chapters of the Society of Phi Zeta have been established, one at each of the schools or colleges of Veterinary Medicine in the United States.

The Tau Chapter of the Society of Phi Zeta was chartered at the School of Veterinary Medicine of Louisiana State University in 1977, the year LSU graduated its first class of veterinarians.