famous delta zeta sisters
Here they are! The initiates of Delta Zeta who have found fame,
fortune or notoriety in some shape or fashion. Special thanks to
Tracy Bank for compiling this information!
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* Denotes Flame Eternal
Entertainment
Joy Behar, Queens College; Comedian & TV personality; "The
View" daily TV show with Barbara Walters (lives in New York City)
Nanette Fabray, Alum Initiate Ð Actress; Trustee of House
Ear Institute; worked to bring sign language and captions to
television (lives in Los Angeles, CA)
Florence Henderson, University Ca/LA (Aluma Initiate);
Actress "The Brady Bunch" and spokesperson for the hearing impaired
(lives in Los Angeles, CA)
Marsha Wallace, Parsons College; Actress; "The Bob Newhart
Show", "The Simpsons", Celebrity spokesperson for Saks Fifth Avenue
"Fashion Targets Breast Cancer" (lives in Los Angeles, CA)
Gail Patrick Jackson (Velde)* (Margaret Fitzpatrick)
Howard College; Actress in movies with Cary Grant and Gary Cooper,
produced the Perry Mason Show; 1962 Woman of the Year
Pat Priest, University of CA/LA; Actress in "The Munsters"
movies as the pretty blonde cousin; legacy of U.S. Treasurer Ivy
Baker Priest (see sisters under Government/Law)
Edith Head (Ihnen)* first female head of a movie studio
costume design department; winner of eight Academy Awards for
costume design including "The Sting" with Paul Newman/Robert
Redford; named one of ten outstanding Greeks during the 1976
Bicentennial; 1968 Woman of the Year
Arts
Francis Taylor Williams, Randolph-Macon Woman's College;
Sculptress; creator of "Melissa" plate series (lives in Newport
Beach, CA)
Phyllis Briggs Inselman Heyliger, Northwestern Oklahoma
State; watercolor artist who has been featured in movies and on the
cover of former President Jimmy Carter's book (lives in Colorado
Springs, CO)
Edna Mae Will Burnam Nauman, CA State University-Chico;
International published composer of piano music for students; 1992
Woman of the Year (lives in Sacramento, CA)
Ethel Mae Bishop Gullette; University of Minnesota;
concert pianist; 1982 Woman of the Year (lives in Essex, CT)
Esther Glewwe Stassen*; Alum Initiate; wife of
Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen; noted as instrumental in the
founding of the United Nations (lived in Saint Paul, MN)
Patricia Hurd, Northwestern; Lyric Operatic Soprano with
Chicago Symphony
Violet Hensen Anderson* University of Tennessee; famous
watercolor artist and poet; donated a 1993 limited edition print of
Delta Zeta National Headquarters as a fund raiser for the Foundation
Athletics
Kay Yow, East Carolina; head women's basketball coach at
North Carolina State University; USA Women's Basketball Olympic Team
coach; received John & Nellie Wooden Award for Top Women's College
Basketball Coach in the nation in 2000; 1987 Woman of the Year
(lives in Cary, NC)
Vee Sharkarian Toner*; University of Pittsburgh;
Internationally known swimming and tennis champion; one of the first
women to umpire at the National Open and Wimbledon; first American
woman named as Chair Umpire at Wimbledon; elected to Sports Hall of
Fame; Donated a bequest for Pitt's Emergency Loan Fund and for
scholarship funds for the varsity marching band and athletics; 1969
Woman of the Year
LeAnn Danner Eisenreich, Central Missouri State; World
Class Roller Skater; fundraiser; Eisenreich Foundation of Tourette's
Syndrome (lives in Kansas City, MO)
Authors
Kristina Ackley Baumler, Wittenberg University; PR MGR for
Network Solutions "the dotcom people;" Author; 100 Top Ten
Internet Job Sites/Get Wired, Get Hired in Today's New Job Market
(lives in suburban Washington, DC)
Zenith Jones Brown* (a.k.a. Leslie Ford) noted mystery
writer; Murder is the Payoff
Elizabeth Harler VanSteenwyk of Knox College; author of
best-selling teen-age and young adult fiction; My Name is York, A
Traitor Among Us
Jean (Haley) Harper, University North Dakota; Author of
Chicken Soup for the Women's Soul and speaker; one of the first
women airline captains for United Airlines; 1998 Woman of the Year
(lives in Denver, CO)
Georgina Jinkinson Bonesteel; Iowa State University;
author of seven quilting books; hosts popular quilting programs on
PBS Television (lives in Hendersonville, NC)
Rachel Mason Peden* Epsilon; author; Rural Free, A
Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living, The Land, The People;
featured columnist for the Indianapolis Star; 1972 Woman of the Year
Edithann Cooper Graber, Northwestern University; author of
a recently published novel, Maggie (lives in Breckenridge,
CO)
Kelley Janousek, Western Michigan; Asso. Librarian Cal.
State U-Long Beach; Author of United State Supreme Court
Decisions: The Literature from 1980-1995 (lives in Huntington
Beach, CA)
Jean Hickstom Liles; University of Alabama; Senior Food
Editor Southern Living/Oxford House; author of 10 cookbooks; named
one of 31 Top Women Graduates of Alabama (lives in Birmingham, AL)
Miriam E. Mason Swain; Epsilon; author of children's books
from the 1930s to 1960s; 1966 Woman of the Year
Mary Dranga Campbell; Epsilon; author of Dog Guides for
the Blind; 1956 Woman of the Year
Broadcasters
Barbara Meshad Dooley, Auburn University; radio talk show
host "The Barbara Dooley Show;" motivational speaker and author of
Put Me In Coach about her life with husband Vince Dooley,
former U of GA head football coach (lives in Athens, GA)
Joan Dondrea Lowry, Baldwin-Wallace College; Cleveland
Talk Show host; Board member of the Better Hearing Institute; former
Delta Zeta Foundation President; 1995 Woman of the Year; (lives in
Cleveland, Ohio)
Kelly McCarthy Acebal, Florida State; Morning talk show
host on WNDB radio, Daytona Beach, FL, "Morning Drive with Dave &
Kelly" (lives in Daytona Beach)
Jeanne Hirsch Blaylock, William Jewell; Television
Reporter 1st News, UTLV-12 Jacksonville Fl; developed breast cancer
awareness program called "Buddy Check 12;" 1994 Woman of the Year
(lives in Jacksonville, FL)
Meryl Lin McKean, Central Missouri State; medical
reporter/WDAF TV Fox Affiliate in Kansas City, Mo.; Emmy award
winner (lives in Leawood, KS)
Business
Jenny Hudson, University of Alabama, Sr. Producer of
Reader's Digest Music/Home Entertainment Division; received four
gold records and named one of the top 31 women graduates of Alabama
Shelia Howell Partin, University of Houston; owns Sheila
Partin's Sweet Sourdough Bread, Inc; sold in over 100 stores in
Texas and served on TWA and Continental Airlines; 1999 Woman of the
Year (lives in Houston, TX)
Sue Hastings Bohl, Northwestern University; President of
the Bohle Company, a public relation firm; 1993 Woman of the Year
(lives in Sherman Oaks, CA)
Margaret Edsel Fitch, Oklahoma State University; United
Nations consultant in home economic program throughout the world;
only U.S. citizen ever elected president of the International
Federation for Home Economics; 1971 Inductee of Oklahoma State
University Hall of Fame; 1975 Woman of the Year (lives in El Reno,
OK)
Carolyn Lee Wills, Georgia State; founder of Carolyn Lee
Wills & Associates Public Relations firm; special events planner;
1976 Woman of the Year (lives in Atlanta, GA)
Education
Marilyn Kritzman; Northern Michigan University; Special
Assistant to VP for Student Affairs, Western Michigan University;
Chosen one of Top Ten Business Women of the American Business
Women's Association; (lives in Portage, MI)
M.J. "Micki" Farmer VanDeventer; Oklahoma State
University; Adjunct Professor of Journalism at University of
Oklahoma; Director of Publications and Editor for the National
Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City; author of Western Design and
Native American Style; recent inductee into the Oklahoma Journalism
Hall of Fame (lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
Lucile Crowell Cooks* Miami University; Served on Board of
Regents, Miami University; President Emerita of the National
Historical Museum; 1973 Woman of the Year
Dr. Minner Caddell Miles, University of Alabama; first
woman professor to teach in the Alabama School of Commerce &
Business Administration; Past International President of Federation
of Business and Professional Women; named one of the Top 31
Graduates of Alabama (see plaque on campus)
Elizabeth Baker Devereau; Ohio State University; retired
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Marshall University
of Medicine; Past National President Delta Zeta Sorority; 1984 Woman
of the Year (lives in Huntington, WV)
Marcia Earl Humpal; Baldwin-Wallace College; music teacher
& therapist for special learners; co-author of "Together as Friends"
video; (lives in Olmsted Falls, OH)
Dana McMillan; Central Missouri State; Director of Early
Childhood Programs at the Learning Exchange; author of books focused
on developmentally appropriate activities for young children; 1990
Woman of the Year
Mildred Freburg Berry; Iowa; one of the first scholars to
focus her research on language disorders in children; Mildred Berry
Distance Classic run/walk is held each year at the Symposium on
Research in Child Language Disorders in her honor; 1951 Woman of the
year
Government/Law
Honorable Yvonne Kauger; Chief Justice, Oklahoma Supreme
Court; received the American Judicature Society's Heritage Award;
1989 Woman of the Year (lives in Edmond, OK)
Ivy Baker Priest (Stevens) Alpha Chi; United States
Treasurer; California State Treasurer (look for her name on old
money)
Maurine Brown Neuberger* University of Oregon; U.S.
Senator from Oregon 1961-66; sponsored Wildlife Preservation Bill;
first woman senator elected in her own right; teacher of American
government at Boston University, Radcliffe Institute and Reed
College
Shelley Levine Berkely, UNVL; Regent of U of Nevada
System; Deputy Director-Nevada State Department of Commerce; 1991
Woman of the Year; (lives in Las Vegas, NV)
Beverly Baldwin Burnsed, Florida State; former member of
Fla. State legislature and Assistant Secretary of State; 1983 Woman
of the Year
Military
Brigadier General Barbara Campbell Fast, Central Missouri
State University; Associate Deputy Director of Operations, Military
Support, National Security Agency (NSA); 2000 Woman of the Year
(lives in Washington, DC area)
Colonel Michele "Mitzi" Manning (Retired); Eastern Michigan
University; USMA Former Commander-Western Sector, United States
Military Entrance Processing Command; Veterans Affairs Advisory
Committee on Women Veterans; National Chaplain-Women Marines
Association (lives in Alexandria, VA)
Science/Medicine
Dr. Carolyn Leach Huntoon; Northeastern State University
of Louisiana; Astronaut Director of NASA; leading scientist in space
travel; 1977 Woman of the Year (lives in Houston, TX)
Janet White Doak, University of Ca/LA; Ex. VP of House Ear
Institute (one of our National Philanthropies); named 1999 Fund
Raiser of the year by the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the
National Society of Fundraising Executives (lives in Los Angeles,
CA)
Dr. Mary Hill Fulstone,* University of Ca/Berkeley;
Nevada's Mother of the Year in 1950; Nevada's Doctor of the Year in
1961; Distinguished Nevadan by University of Nevada in 1963; called
a "true Nevada pioneer woman"; 1950 Woman of the Year |
