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Famous Alpha Phis Kimberly Williams (Northwestern) Actress - Movies: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride: Part 2 and Indian Summer. Stage credits: Vagina Monologues. Television credits: Neil Simon's Jake's Women, Relativity, The 10th Kingdom miniseries and Hallmark commercials. She currently is in the cast of ABC®’s According to Jim. Jeri Ryan (Northwestern) Actress. Movies: Men Cry Bullets, The Last Man, Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, Disney's The Kid, Down With Love. Television credits: Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager; Ronnie Cooke on Fox’s Boston Public. Other roles include Melrose Place, Who’s The Boss?, Matlock and Dark Skies and numerous TV movies. Maile Misajon (UCLA) Singer, actress. In female pop group Eden’s Crush and on Popstars television series. Has appeared in several commercials. Albums include Popstars, featuring the group’s hit single "Get Over Yourself" Martie Ramm Engle (UCLA) Broadway producer, choreographer, singer, dancer, director. Part of Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, supervising worldwide productions of Beauty and the Beast. Member of the Broadway touring companies of A Chorus Line, Sweet Charity, Evita and Annie. Holly Evans (Butler) Radio City Rockette Natalie Loftin (Oklahoma City) Singer. Winner of Clear Channel’s Radio Star Competition. Listen for her songs on the Radio this fall. Kat Parsons (Northwestern) Chicago-based singer, songwriter. Made her recording debut with Framing Caroline (1999). http://www.katparsons.com/ Hazel Raymundo Siegel (Northwestern) Singer, actress, journalist. Played Kim in Chicago and Boston production of Miss Saigon. Performed first staged reading of Disney's Aida. Has performed in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Inga Swenson Harris (Northwestern) Broadway and television actress and lyric soprano. After training at Northwestern's famed Drama Department, Swenson made a splash on Broadway in "The First Gentleman" (1959), earning strong reviews and being lured to Hollywood, where she had featured roles in Advise and Consent (1962) and Miracle Worker, The (1962). She later returned to Broadway, where she earned Tony nominations as Best Actress in a Musical for her work in "110 In The Shade" (1964) and "Baker Street" (1965). She is perhaps best-known to a later generation in the atypical role of tart-tounged, German-accented executive housekeeper Gretchen Kraus on the popular 1980s TV series "Benson" (1979) (ABC: 1979-86). She also had appearances on Bonanza, Soap, Barnaby Jones, Hotel, Newhart, and The Golden Girls. Mildred Dunnock Urmy (Goucher) Actress. Well-respected character actress who came to Broadway after a teaching career, and made her stage debut as a Welsh schoolteacher in "The Corn Is Green," a role she reprised in the 1945 movie version. Dunnock made her most vivid film impressions as the wheelchair-bound woman pushed down a flight of stairs by Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (1947), and as Linda Loman, the long-suffering wife in Death of a Salesman (1951), the latter another role she immortalized on film after playing it in the landmark Broadway production. She received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her work in Salesman and another for her role as the crazed aunt in Elia Kazan's film of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll (1956). Dunnock also appeared in Peyton Place (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), 7 Women (1966), The Spiral Staircase (1975), and The Pick-up Artist (1987). Kazan once noted that she was "a superb actress who didn't find nearly the roles she deserved." Originated the role of Big Mama in the 1956 Broadway version of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Marcia Baldwin Gray (Northwestern) Professor Emeritus of voice at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NewYork. Spent twelve seasons with Metropolitan Opera Ms. Baldwin graduated from Northwestern University with a double major in voice and piano, and currently holds the position of Professor Emeritus at the Eastman School of Music. She has performed nearly 40 operatic roles in over 500 performances at the New York Metropolitan Opera. She can be heard on disc as Mercedes in the Bernstein, Horne DS Recording of Bizet's Carmen. Ms. Baldwin has studied with renowned teachers including Marinka Gurewich and Ellen Faull, and many of her students are currently performing in leading opera houses in the US and Europe. Margaret Pease Harper (Arizona) Founder and public-relations director (1961-85) of outdoor musical drama Texas a musical drama performed summers in Palo Duro Canyon. She was elected the first president of the Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation. Founding member, first president of the nationally recognized Lone Star Ballet. Author of Meet Some Musical Terms: A First Dictionary (1959). She lectured across the country on a variety of arts-management topics and was the vice president of the Texas Tourist Council. Her many honors include induction into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and the Texas Hall of Fame for Women; she was Citizen of the Year in both Canyon and Amarillo, and she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Division of the American Association of University Women. Pamela Klinger (Duquesne) Singer-Dancer; Cast member in Broadway production and the movie of "A Chorus Line" (1985) and The Who’s Tommy (1993). Randi Mayem Singer (UC/Berkeley) Writer and producer. Wrote screenplay for Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Chasing Liberty (2004). Television credits: writer and producer of Hudson Street (1995) and creator and executive producer of Jack & Jill (1999-2000). Eliza Orlins (Syracuse) Eliza Orlins was born in New York City, where she grew up when not traveling to China with her family. When she was four years old, she and her parents went to Beijing, where they adopted her sister, Sabrina. Sixteen months later, her youngest sister, Emily, was born. Her father's career moved them to Hong Kong, where she attended Hong Kong International School. A couple of years later, her family moved back to New York until 1995, when they moved to Washington, DC She attended the Sidwell Friends School where she ran varsity track and cross country. She participated in the Marine Corps Marathon with the AIDS Marathon Training Program her junior year. At Sidwell, she also wrote and edited for the school newspaper and was the assistant director of the Spring Musical during her senior year. Last summer, Orlins interned at the Legal Aid Society in New York City. Orlins is currently a senior at Syracuse University, where she is working a dual major in international relations and political science, with a minor in Chinese. She is a Dean's Scholar and has made Dean's List every semester. She is in the process of applying to law school and intends to be a public defender after graduation. She's a member of Alpha Phi Sorority and was the vice president of New Member Recruitment, for which they won the award for best overall recruitment at their national convention. Orlins is also a member of the Golden Key Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She is currently working on her Honor's Thesis and will graduate in May 2005. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor9/survivors/bios/eliza.shtml Carolyn Burkett Muegge Vaughan (ΓΗ-North Texas) Co-leader of the Mount Vaughn Antarctic Expedition (1993-94). Participant in three Alaskan Iditarod dogsled races. Second degree black belt in Judo. Location Manager for National Geographic, Production Assistant for Alaska Film Group, Convention Sales Manager for Anchorage Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. Stacia Hookom (Colorado) National Snowboarding Team member since 1993, Salt Lake Olympics 2002
Courtney Jean Barfield Sparks (Oklahoma City) Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader
Marion Dale Roper (UCLA) Winner of bronze metal in platform diving as member of U.S. Olympic Team in the 10th Olympic Summer Games that were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, USA. Wanda LaBounty Means (Arizona) Kicker and punter for the Austin Rage, Women’s Professional Football League (1999-2001). Brenna Miles (North Dakota) Fitness Professional. In 1988 Brenna began her fitness career as an Aerobics Instructor. Since then she's been a successful Aerobics Director, participated in fitness videos and commercials, presented master classes in several states and taught at some of the top gyms and studios in the country. You may have seen Brenna on Cory Everson's "Gotta Sweat" fitness show on ESPN2! She currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Supreme Health & Fitness, and she's also a staff member for Cory Everson's Mind/Body Retreat. www.brennamiles.com Melinda Erickson Roeder (Duquesne) Professional football player for Indiana Speed, Women's Professional Football League. Dr. Joann Boughman (Indiana) Geneticist. Executive Vice President of the American Society of Human Genetics which works with the Human Genome Project. Former University of Maryland, Baltimore, vice president for academic affairs and graduate school dean (since 1995). She is an adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; consultant to the Greater Baltimore Alliance; and advisor to the Maryland Science Center. Named among “Maryland’s Top 100 Women” (1997, 1999, 2001). Secretary’s advisory committee on genetic testing, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1999). Dr. Sophie DeAberle Brophy (UC/Berkeley) Specialist in Indian Affairs and the first practicing applied anthropologist in the United States. Named superintendent of the new agency United Pueblos Agency in 1935 which united five Indian administrative units. Conducted medical research for the National Academy of Science. She was a research director at the University of New Mexico, a health consultant to the All Indian Pueblo Council, a founder and staff member of the Bernalillo County Medical Center, on staff at the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry, and served on the New Mexico Commission on Indian Affairs. Of national note, she was Director of the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Education Survey, 1963-1967 and a member of the Commission on the Rights, Liberties and Responsibilities of the American Indian, becoming Executive Director in 1959. In 1965 she began working with Pueblo leaders to bring computers into the pueblo schools. Her association with the Computer Assisted Instruction Program lasted until 1976. Edris Rice-Wray Carson, M.D. (Cornell) Long career as a public health doctor, primarily in Central America and Mexico. Faculty member of the Puerto Rico Medical School and medical director of the Puerto Rico Family Planning Association Founded Mexico's first family planning clinic, Mexico City. Birth control pioneer who headed the first large scale clinical trials of the birth control pill. Recipient of Planned Parenthood® Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award (1978). Brigid Gray Leventhal, M.D. (UCLA) Former director of the Clinical Research Administration, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center; Professor of oncology and pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Served as the Director of the Division of Pediatric Oncology of the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center and helped found new inpatient and outpatient clinics there. Was one of only six women in the Harvard Medical School class of 1960. Worked at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Leventhal co-authored the text book Research Methods in Clinical Oncology as well as hundreds of articles in scientific books and journals. She received numerous honors including the Federal Women's Award (1974), the Outstanding Career Woman of the National Council of Women (1979), and the Professional Achievement Award of the UCLA Alumni Association (1982). She was very active in professional societies, serving as an elected official in, among others, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Association of Cancer Research. In 1993, ASCO established the Brigid Leventhal Travel Award to assist a woman doctor to travel to society meetings. She was a Founding Member of the Pediatric Oncology Group and a Founding Member and President of the Women in Cancer Research. Dr. Leventhal also served as a member of the St. Jude's Children's Hospital Scientific Advisory Board and the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health. Ann Sigby McFarren (Michigan State) Lobbyist and public advocate for programs in reproductive health. Developed Alpha Phi’s AIDS Peer Education Program. Former Executive Director, AIDS Action Council, Washington, D.C. Barbara Blakemore (DePauw) Former fiction editor of Redbook; Former editor of Family Circle; Former executive editor of McCall's. Past president of Women's Media Group. Christy Bulkeley (Missouri) Daily newspaper reporter, editor and publisher for Gannett Co., Inc. for two decades. Program and grants administrator for the Gannett Foundation (now the Freedom Forum) for seven years. One of the first women publishers for Gannett Co. As a newspaper executive, she was the first woman Gannett named chief executive of a daily newspaper (1974). National president of Women in Communications, Inc. (1975-76). Michelle Fulcher (Colorado) National editor of The Denver Post. Part of the Post news team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for their coverage of the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 . Mabel Cooper Haeberly Lamb (Texas) was a magazine and newspaper writer in 1920’s. She was the first woman to fly over Mexico and Central America in a single-engine plane and later, as a guest of the Mexican government on three separate occasions, she wrote features on the progress of women in Mexico and Mexico’s growing interest in such American sports as polo, tennis and track. While taking summer courses at the University of Mexico, she took private art lessons from famed muralist Diego Rivera. Began selling real estate in the 1951 when she established Mabel C. Lamb, Inc. and headed a multi-million dollar real estate business. She was the first woman member, later secretary and vice-president of the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce; holder of many offices on the New Canaan Board of Realtors and chairman of the committee that installed the area’s multiple listing service, and member of the first state education committee for the Connecticut Association of Realtors. Served as International Director of Programs from 1948-1952, international Vice President of Alpha Phi from 1952-1954 and she was one of three Trustees of the fledgling Alpha phi Foundation, charter member of The Chairman’s Council in 1987. Ruth Stafford Peale (Syracuse) Religious leader, public speaker and author. Co-founder, publisher and chairman of the board of Guideposts, Inc., an interfaith magazine with approximately 4,250,000 subscribers and Peale Center for Christian Living, which distributes inspirational literature to 1,000,000 people worldwide. Ruth Peale is a member of the board of directors of the American Bible Society, Interchurch Center and Institute of Religion and Health. Author of Secrets of Staying in Love and The Adventure of Being a Wife. Mrs. Peale is the first woman president of the national board of North American Missions and the first woman chairman of the Planning and Program Committee of the National Council of Churches (1966 Assembly). She has been elected national president of the Women’s Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America, vice president of the Council of Churches of the City of New York and a trustee of Hope College, Champlain College and Syracuse University. She is also a member of Northwood’s National Women’s Board. Famous Quote – “Find a need and fill it.” She is co-founder, publisher and chairman of the board of Guideposts. She is a member of the board of directors of American Bible Society, Interchurch Center, Blanton-Peale Institute, and Laymen's National Bible Committee. Mrs. Peale has written numerous articles appearing in Reader's Digest, Woman's Day and Saturday Evening Post. She is the author of Secrets of Staying in Love, published by Thomas Nelson. Among other distinctions, Mrs. Peale was the first woman president of the National Board of North American Missions of the Reformed Church in America, and the first woman chairman of the Planning and Program Committee of the National Council of Churches 1966 Assembly. She served for ten years as national president of the Women's Board of Domestic Missions of the Re-formed Church in America; served as vice president of the Council of Churches of the City of New York and of the National Council of Churches; and as a trustee of Hope College, Holland, Mich.; Champlain College, Burlington, Vt., and Syracuse University in New York. Mrs. Peale is also a member of the National Women's Board of Northwood University.
Nan Robertson (Northwestern) Pulitzer Prize-winning (1983) reporter and feature writer for the New York Times (1955-96). Author of Getting Better, Inside Alcoholics Anonymous (1988) and The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times (1992). Barbara Brooks Wallace (UCLA) Award-winning author of children's books, including NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia (2001) and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor (1983). Other books include Secret in St. Something, Ghosts in the Gallery, Sparrows in the Scullery and The Twin in the Tavern. Janice Woods Windle (Texas) is an accomplished and well-known author. Windle's first two novels, True Women and Hill Country and her first published work, the True Women Cookbook, all became best sellers and are based on extensive research into Windle's ancestors. "True Women," Mrs. Windle's second novel, revealed the stories of Texas women who were caught up in the passions of war and revolution, slavery and redemption, lust and murder. Immensely popular, "True Women" was published in eight different languages and also became the basis for a CBS miniseries starring Angelina Jolie, Dana Delaney, and Annabeth Gish. She is also a Father of Texas Awards recipient and the Texas Legislature passed a bill commending her on her superb contributions to the citizens of Texas.
Dr. Quincalee Brown
(Wichita State) Executive Director of the Water Pollution Control Federation in
Alexandria, Virginia. Former executive director of AAUW, American Association of
University Women,1980-86. Recipient of Alpha Phi Frances E. Willard Award, 1994.
Martha Foote Crow (Syracuse) was a founder of Alpha Phi International Fraternity and the American Association of Collegiate Women. She served as national president of both organizations and was also a professor at the University of Chicago and was the fourth Alpha Phi Dean of Women at Northwestern University.
Susan Hasslocher (Texas) First woman president of Texas Restaurant Association, 1986-88. Vice president for Corporate Planning and Development of Frontier Enterprises, a group of Texas restaurants.
Margaret McNamara (UC Berkeley) Founder of "Reading is Fundamental" which operates in 47 states and receives extensive Congressional funding.
Julie Hindorff Schwindt (Northern Colorado) President of Wyoming Education Association,1986-88.
Barbara Smith (DePauw) Vice President External Affairs, DePauw University. Past president of NewYork City chapter, Women in Communications. Past chair of Women in Communication, Inc.'s National Public Affairs Advisory Board, 1984.
Alice Leyland Smitherman (Arizona) President of the American Dietetic Association, with 53,000 members, 1986.
Eileen Hurney Stevens (Alumnae Initiate) Lecturer. Founded CHUCK (Committee to Halt Useless College Killings) to bring about awareness of hazing practices. One of 10 Women of the Year, New York Daily News (1993).
Marilyn Aboussie (ΓΩ-Midwestern State) Chief Justice, Third Court of Appeals, Texas (since 1998), the state’s first woman justice (1986). First woman district judge in Tom Green County, Texas (1983-86). Named Outstanding Democratic Woman Officeholder of 1994. Recipient of the Travis County Women Lawyer’s Association TCWLA’s Government Award in 1998. Past Chair of the State Bar of Texas. She was the first recipient of the Outstanding Jurist Award by the Texas Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). The AAML works to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards, and advance the cause of matrimonial law. Serves on the Executive Committee of the University of Texas’ Commission of 125. Austin Alumnae Association Chapter President for Midwestern State Alumnae. MSU's 1997 Commencement speaker. Jane H. Barrett (CSU/Long Beach) Los Angeles attorney and past president of the American Bar Endowment. First woman to serve as chairperson of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division (1980-81). First woman in 104 years to be elected to the Association’s board of governors (1982). She is an experienced litigator in a number of fields, most notably intellectual property, labor and employment, and general business litigation. She regularly represents Microsoft Corporation in intellectual property, unfair competition and commercial disputes. She has represented Southwest Airlines Co. for many years in a broad range of intellectual property and labor matters, including a multi-million dollar contract dispute matter. As a national counsel for a major client in trademark litigation, Ms. Barrett has been admitted and argued in numerous federal district courts throughout the United States. Carol Manhood Huddart (Toronto) Appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province (1996). Appointed to County Court (1981) and Supreme Court (1987). Veronica "Ronni" Mathein (Illinois) Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., the world’s largest unified court system. Domestic Relations Division (since 1996). Dorothy Wright Nelson (UCLA) Senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter (senior judge since 1995). Former dean of the University of Southern California Law Center. Mildred Davis Ramynke (South Dakota) Retired judge serving for 27 years. First and only woman to serve as a South Dakota circuit judge. Louise Grant Smith (Missouri) Graduated from Law School in 1921. First woman assistant attorney general of Missouri (1944). Past president of Kappa Beta Pi international law fraternity. Delegate from Missouri to the National Women's Conference in Houston (1977). Susan Pierson Sonderby (Illinois) First woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois. Elevated to chief judge (1998). Elaine Bland Baxter (Illinois) Iowa Secretary of State (1987-94). Former member of the Iowa House of Representatives for three terms. Appointed to Humanities Iowa board of directors by Iowa Gov. Thomas Vilsack. Nancy Osborn Brataas (Minnesota) Retired Minnesota state senator (1975-92), the first woman senator in Minnesota history to be elected in her own right. Minority chairperson of the senate employment committee (1978-92). Becky Cook Cain (West Virginia) is the immediate past president of the League of Women Voters of the United States (1992-1998). As the national president of the League, she played an active role in seeking congressional action on a broad range of public policy issues including the fight for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act. In 1996 the Ladies' Home Journal named her one of the most powerful women in politics in the category of issues and advocates. Following her tenure at the League of Women Voters, she worked to achieve campaign finance reform in Congress as the president of Campaign for America. Marjorie "Bunny" Lawrence Clement (Colorado) Jefferson County, Colo., commissioner (1981-93). Appointed to succeed her late husband and re-elected for three terms. Anne Marie Conroy (UC/Berkeley) Youngest member to sit on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors (1992). Current executive director of Treasure Island Development Authority, San Francisco. Mary Prior Dambman (Colorado College) Former Colorado state representative.
Georgia Neese Gray
(Washburn) First woman Treasurer of the United States (1949-53), appointed by
President Harry Truman. She is a past international president, active in
politics and chairman of the board of trustees of the Alpha Phi Foundation.
Jane Wells Schooley (Penn State) Public speaker, trainer and author of newspaper column. Civil and women's rights advocate. Executive director, Pennsylvania Political Party. Former national vice president for National Organization for Women (NOW). Co-founder Crime Victims Council. Athena Award winner and Allentown Lehigh County Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year. Bonnie McCulloch Scott (Purdue) Lt. commander in the U.S. Navy, one of only 25 women out of more than 5,000 commanding officers in the Navy. Diane Steed (Kansas) President, Coalition for Vehicle Choice (since 1991). Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) (1983-89). Nancy Harvey Steorts (Syracuse) President of Nancy Harvey Steorts International consulting firm. Former chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission under President Ronald Reagan. Consultant to the director of the U.S. Office on Consumer Affairs at the White House and as special assistant for consumer affairs to the Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and Ford administrations. She was also named "One of the Best Public Servants in 1984" by the Gallagher report, and received the George P. Arents Medal for Excellence in Government. She is a noted international lecturer and writer and has appeared on numerous television shows. Her book, Safety and You, was published in 1999. Nancy also serves on a variety of corporate and community boards. Adis Vila (Rollins) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (1989). One of 14 White House Fellows (1982-83). Named "One of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States." Among 10 Outstanding Young Women of America for 1983; also among "100 Women of Promise" honored by Good Housekeeping magazine in May, 1985. Career in U.S. State Department. Frances Willard (Alumnae Initiate) was the first woman represented among the illustrious company of America’s greatest leaders in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. She was founder of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), national president of Alpha Phi in 1887 and first dean of women at Northwestern University. Lynn Robinson Woolsey (Washington) Elected to her fifth term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Sixth Congressional District in California (since 1992). Visit her web site at: http://www.house.gov/woolsey/ Elizabeth Mackay Ratcliff (Λ-UC/Berkeley) Retired school teacher and originator of the idea for the National Peace Garden in Washington, D.C. Beverly Willis (ΒΥ-Oregon State) Co-chair of Rebuild Downtown Our Town (R.DOT) which is involved in the revitalization of Lower Manhattan. Founder of Architect.org. Director of the Architecture Research Institute, Inc., New York. President of the American Institute of Architects, California Council (1980). Ms. magazine named her one of the top seven women architects in the nation (1976). Member of the 1976 U.S. delegation to Habitat, the United Nations conference on human settlements. Bishop Catherine Maples Waynick (ΕΖ-Central Michigan) Ordained priest. One of only eight women bishops in the U.S. Episcopal Church. Julee Rosso (Michigan State) Founder of The Silver Palate gourmet food shop. Co-author of Silver Palate Cookbook, The New Basics Cookbook, and Parade magazine column. Recipient of Alpha Phi.
Julie Clark (UC/Santa Barbara) Awarding-winning veteran pilot and North America’s only solo T-34 acrobatic performer. Captain for Northwest Airlines (since 1984). Inducted into the International Women’s Air and Space Museum.
Nancy Austin (UCLA) Business consultant, author, lecturer. Internationally recognized authority on cutting-edge management. President of Nancy K. Austin, Inc., Northern California (since 1985). Contributing editor and management columnist for Working Woman magazine. Co-author of 1989 best-seller, Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference, and author of The Assertive Woman: A New Look. Speakers Platform™ called her "the most sought after woman keynote speaker in American business."
Deborah Lippman (Arizona State) When it comes to nails, there's only one name to "file" away for safekeeping - Deborah Lippman, celebrity manicurist and nail expert extraordinaire. Her sought after, clean, innovative style has made her "manicurist to the stars," and her product line is deemed the best-of-the-best. http://www.lippmanncollection.com/index2.html Goldie Horton Porter (Texas) is a founder of the Omega chapter, was a prominent mathematician and one of the University of Texas’ earliest female professors, a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 50 years. She was born in Athens, Texas; she received a B.A. from The University of Texas in 1908, an M.A. from Smith College in 1910, and a Ph.D. from The University of Texas in 1916. The first Ph.D. at The University of Texas had been given out only the year before, and Horton was the first woman to receive the Ph.D. from this institution. In 1944 her biography appeared in American Men of Science; its title is an indication of how unusual it was for a woman to teach mathematics or science at the university level. Goldie Horton Porter taught full-time until 1958, and continued to teach part-time until 1966, when she was given the title of Professor Emeritus of Mathematics. Befitting her pioneering role as a female university professor, Horton was a member of the American Association of University Women, and a founder of its Texas Chapter.
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