Vivian Henderson, ’92, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Vivian Henderson. [Interviewer] And Vivian,  you went to William & Mary correct? [Vivian] I   did. [Interviewer] And what year did  you graduate? [Vivian] 1992. I remember   because the community was so small,  it was, didn’t take long to meet  

The AKAs, the Deltas, and the Zetas because they  were the only ones on the on the yard at the time,   and I just want to be clear that I value, I  commend and exalt every divine nine organization.  

This is purely how my choice led me to Zeta. So  I’ve never been a clone of anybody, you know, I’ve   had, I was “me phi me”, you  know, so I was not attracted to   anything that looked like that so if I looked  on the surface at an organization or a group,  

And everybody looked the same, everybody acted  the same, that was a turn-off to me because then   I wondered if I’d have the freedom to be me,  right, and so when I had the opportunity to see  

These women, because at this time, I still didn’t  know who they were. One was the director of Ebony   Expressions which was the gospel choir, and she  was the director and musician for it, and there   were literally like, choir rehearsal was the place  like where all the black students almost were  

Would be at, at choir rehearsal. And I started  realizing that a number of the people in there who   exhibited character traits that I found  attractive, all seemed to be together   in this blue and white group  that I had no idea who they were.

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