The Pacific Region was first identified as the Western Region in 1933. The region’s first Regional Director was R. Lillian Carpenter. In 1937, the first chapter, Xi Alpha, was chartered on the campus of Occidental College, in Los Angeles, California.

 

The second chapter in the region was Gamma Beta, chartered at the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. Gamma Beta was unique, as its membership consisted of different colleges in Northern California colleges until 1983.

 

The first graduate chapter, Beta Eta Zeta of Los Angeles, helped host the first Grand Boulé in the Pacific Region in 1947. Gamma Sigma Zeta, also of Los Angeles, was chartered a few years later. In 1955, the Sorors of Beta Eta Zeta and Gamma Sigma Zeta voted to merge into what is now the Alpha Psi Zeta Chapter .

 

In 1996, the region expanded to Asia with the chartering of the Pi Eta Zeta Chapter in Seoul, Korea with Regional Director Laura Farwell and Southern California State Director Beatrice Nelson conducting the chartering ceremony. Two more Asia-Pacific chapters, Phi Eta Zeta and Omega Theta Zeta, were chartered in Japan by Regional Director Nui Brown.