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'''Some of Gamma Zeta’s Outstanding Alumnae:'''
'''Fraternity Council OfficersMembers:'''(If you have chapter alumnae who have received recognition in any of these three categories, please list them with the date(s) of recognition.) Loretta McCarthy, Field Secretary 1968-1970;Ellen Ruth (lvey), Field Secretary 1971-1974;Vicki Luciani, Leadership Consultant 2010-2011
'''Fraternity Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients:''' Loretta McCarthy, 1984, A top executive with American Express;Doris Born Monthan, 1984, Author, authority on American Indian culture;Holly Busche Cottor, 2012, Founder of Ryan House;Jewell McFarland Lewis, 2002, Former chairman of the board of Media America '''AdditionalOutstanding Gamma Zeta Alumnae:''' Molly Roller (Spingler), Graduate Counselor 1958-1959;Sue Forster (Vincent), Graduate Counselor 1959-1960;Loretta McCarthy, Graduate Counselor 1969-1971;Mary Hendershott (Itani), Graduate Counselor 1969-1971;Ellen Ruth (Ivey), Graduate Counselor 1971-1972
The story of Gamma Zeta's growth is also the story of the growth of the University of Arizona from the small 1,088 student Land Grant school of the 1920s to the fine university of over 27,000 students which it is today. The few university buildings of the past and the simply-structured student government have resulted in the complex campus of the 1970s.
Several Tucson women not then attending college organized Alpha Sigma, a local sorority, in the fall of 1916 for the purpose of "obtaining a chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma, also to derive social and scholastic benefits, and to promote college spirit as an organized society." The following year only one member, Norma Brazee (Sexton), returned to the university. Two other local groups existing then were receiving charters from Kappa Alpha Theta and Pi Beta Phi so it was important to reorganize Alpha Sigma quickly. Eight freshmen were pledged who became the core members of the reorganized Alpha Sigma.