{"id":5064,"date":"2025-01-15T20:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/sonicboom\/?page_id=5064"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:34:24","slug":"tau-beta-sigma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/sonicboom\/tau-beta-sigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tau Beta Sigma"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Tau Beta Sigma
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Empowering Women in Music: Celebrating Service, Sisterhood, and Excellence<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Zeta Iota Chapter of Tau Beta Sigma National Band Sorority\u00a0<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat It Means to Be Tau Beta Sigma<\/strong>

\n\nAs members of Tau Beta Sigma, we vow to uphold finer womanhood and musicianship by being outstanding bandswomen and teachers. It is our purpose to show others that the bond we share is unbreakable and immovable. Standing up to the many challenges we face, we are strong, determined women who refuse to be defeated.\n

\n\nOur Mission<\/strong>

\n\nTau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority provides service to collegiate bands, encourages the advancement of women in the band profession, and promotes and enriches an appreciation of band music through recognition, leadership development and education of its members.\n\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe first practical idea for establishing a \u201cband sorority\u201d as a national entity to meet the expressed needs of the growing number of women in college and university bands was presented by band member Wava Banes (Henry), along with her classmates, Emily So Relle and Rose Nell Williams, to director D.O. Wiley of the Texas Tech University Band in the closing months of 1937.\n

\nThis discussion led to a group of bandswomen at Texas Tech University founding a local organization known as \u201cTau Beta Sigma,\u201d modeled in principle on the example of Kappa Kappa Psi. Much like the Fraternity, Tau Beta Sigma\u2019s purpose at Tech was to serve as an honorary service and leadership recognition society, but it was designed especially to provide the important additional social, educational, and other positive experiences needed by women in the band.\n

\nIn June of 1943, the Tech women petitioned the Grand Council of Kappa Kappa Psi to become an integral part of the national Fraternity as an active chapter.\u00a0 Accepting the group under these circumstances, however, would have entailed a complete revision of the Kappa Kappa Psi constitution. Because of the war, doubt was expressed as to just when the next fraternity convention would be held so that the issue could be brought to the debate.\n

\nRather than postponing action on the women\u2019s request indefinitely, a suggestion was made that Tau Beta Sigma form its own national organization, just as the National Fraternity had done in 1919. Until a national convention of Kappa Kappa Psi could be held and the matter clarified, Tau Beta Sigma could be considered the \u201csister organization\u201d of the Fraternity.\n

\nThe Grand Council of Kappa Kappa Psi agreed that Tau Beta Sigma could share in all fraternal publications.\n

\nWhile applying for a national charter, the Tech Chapter encountered difficulties involving certain Texas state corporation laws. In 1945, A. Frank Martin, National Executive Secretary of Kappa Kappa Psi, was invited to meet with the women and work out a plan that would bring the Sorority the national status the Tau Beta Sigma women were seeking.\n

\nMr. Martin then suggested that the local band sorority currently in existence at Oklahoma State University apply for the charter since fewer difficulties would be encountered in Oklahoma. So, in January of 1946, the women of the Texas Tech Tau Beta Sigma Band Sorority, through their director, D.O. Wiley, graciously surrendered their name, \u201cTAU BETA SIGMA,\u201d their constitution, ritual, and jewelry designs to the local band club at Oklahoma State University, in order that the national organization could be established.\n

\nBy doing so, the Tech women understood that they were permitting the Oklahoma State group the title of \u201cAlpha, the Mother Chapter,\u201d and accepted the status of \u201cBeta Chapter,\u201d the second chartered chapter. On March 26, 1946, a charter was granted by the Department of State for the State of Oklahoma legally establishing \u201cTau Beta Sigma, National Honorary Band Sorority,\u201d later amended to \u201cTau Beta Sigma.\u201d\u00a0 On May 4 of 1946, the members of the Alpha Chapter traveled to Lubbock, Texas, to officially install the women of Texas Tech as the Beta Chapter of the National Sorority.\n

\nThese ladies paved the way for the ladies of Zeta Iota to become better bandswomen, and for this, we honor your legacy.<\/strong>\n

\nWE LOVE YOU!<\/strong><\/em>\n

\nThe Zeta Iota Chapter of Tau Beta Sigma was chartered as the 153rd chapter on May 6, 1978 at Jackson State University by eleven (11) young, talented, and musically inclined ladies.<\/strong>\n

\nBig Sister Sandra Toney
\nBig Sister Gloria Walker
\nBig Sister JoAnn White
\nBig Sister Veretta Shankle-Heidleberg
\nBig Sister Vanessa Mozee
\nBig Sister Cheryl Wilson
\nBig Sister Barbara Lewis
\nBig Sister Sherrion Lewis
\nBig Sister Juanita Williams
\nBig Sister Jean-Coney Lane
\nBig Sister Anna Martin
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