In Florida, she found Soror Sue Jenkins.  Soror Jenkins served as the Associate Director for Florida.  However, there were no organized meetings of State Zetas and chapters.

Informal meetings and gatherings were held at the home of Soror Marian Harris Shannon during the summer sessions of the Florida State Teachers Association.  Zetas in attendance would congregate at Marian's to discuss possibilities for a conference to take care of concerns for all chapters in Florida.  During one of these tete-a-tetes on the front porch of Soror Shannon's home, the idea blossomed for a statewide conference for Zetas.

With the appointment of Soror Lucille G. Coleman as Regional Director in 1950, some action took place to present the idea of a state conference to the national level.  The regional director was showered with too much at the regional and state levels.  Soror Coleman asked Soror Shannon to assist chapters in Florida.  In this position, Soror Shannon was able to make the recommendations to Grand Basileus Woolridge.

The issue of the director within the state of the regional director was not realized until the election of Dr. Deborah C. Patridge as International Grand Basileus in 1955.  Soror Grace Walker Phillips was appointed Regional Director and Soror Irene A. Morgan Matthews, Associate Director of Florida.

In 1955, the first organized meeting of Zetas in the State of Florida was held in Tallahassee, Florida.

Source: Soror Marian Harris Shannon, A History of the Florida State Leadership Conference Florida Zetas and Florida Zeta Amica Auxiliaries "It's a Sad Frog Who Doesn't Praise His Own Pond" Soror Margaret Singleton Staples, State Historian (2008)