The Zeta Tau Lambda Fraternity was organized in 1926 and procured its charter as a Greek-letter fraternity in 1927. It was admitted to membership in the Inter-Fraternity Council in 1931, under a 1930 rule granting membership on the council to local fraternities in existence for more than three years. Membership on the council required that the local be granted a national charter within four years after their admission to the group or disband. In 1932 the local became a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha.