Zeta Phi Beta Fraternity () of Puerto Rico is a nonprofit fraternal organization that has served the Puerto Rican and Dominican Republic communities for more than 50 years. The group was founded on November 21, 1957 at the

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) in Spanish (also referred to as Colegio and CAAM in allusion to its former name), is a public land-grant university in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. UPRM ...

campus A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a college campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centers or dining halls, and park-like se ...

by 7 young students from diverse backgrounds. Today, the

fraternity A fraternity (from Latin language, Latin ''wiktionary:frater, frater'': "brother (Christian), brother"; whence, "wiktionary:brotherhood, brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club (organization), club or fraternal ...

has over 3,000 members and 11 chapters at university level, including 2 chapters in the Dominican Republic. Founding members were: *Luís Manuel Carrillo, Jr. *Oscar Fermaint Giboyeaux *Orlando Clavell Pumarejo *Juan Antonio Martínez *Pedro J. Narváez Negron *Luís Antonio Oliveras Arroyo *Eladio Rivera Rodríguez

Chapters

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Alpha Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whic ...

(A) 1957 -

- Mayaguez Campus *

Beta Beta (, ; uppercase , lowercase , or cursive ; grc, βῆτα, bē̂ta or ell, βήτα, víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2. In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiod ...

(B) 1958 - University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus, later transferred to University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón *

Gamma Gamma (uppercase , lowercase ; ''gámma'') is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop . In Modern Greek, this letter re ...

(Γ) 1958 - Interamerican University of Puerto Rico - San German Campus *

Epsilon Epsilon (, ; uppercase , lowercase or lunate ; el, έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel or . In the system of Greek numerals it also has the value five. It was der ...

(Ε) 1960 - Interamerican University of Puerto Rico - Arecibo Campus *

Eta Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...

(Η) 1962 - Interamerican University of Puerto Rico – Hato Rey Campus *

Delta Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta") * Delta Air Lines, US * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 Delta may also re ...

(Δ) 1963 - Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico - Ponce Campus *

Sigma Sigma (; uppercase Σ, lowercase σ, lowercase in word-final position ς; grc-gre, σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 200. In general mathematics, uppercase Σ is used as ...

(Σ) 1965 - Interamerican University of Puerto Rico- Ponce Campus * Omicron (Õ) 1968 - Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University - Dominican Republic * Omega (Ω) 1984 -

Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR) (commonly referred as Poly or La Poly in Spanish) is a private university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. PUPR offers technical degrees with a special focus on engineering professions. History Polytechn ...

- Hato Rey Campus * Tau (T) 1997 - University of Puerto Rico –

Utuado Utuado () is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central mountainous region of the island known as the '' Cordillera Central''. It is located north of Adjuntas and Ponce; south of Hatillo and Arecibo; east of Lares; and west ...

Campus * Lambda (Λ) 2008 -

Universidad Central del Este Eastern Central University ( es, Universidad Central del Este; abbreviated as UCE) is a private university in the Dominican Republic, founded in San Pedro de Macorís on October 15, 1970, in the eastern region of the country. The university's De ...

- Dominican Republic

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