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Performing Arts Jane Huckle Campbell ( ΒΡ-Washington State) Producing director of the Honolulu Theater for Youth, Hawai’i’s only professional nonprofit theatre. Katie Dean (ΘΝ-Appalachian State) Manager of international development for the Country Music Association. Cynthia Edwards (ΕΒ-Butler) Stage director for the New York City Opera. Holly Evans (ΕΒ-Butler) Radio City Rockette. Laura Leigh Hughes (ΒΔ-UCLA) Founder and executive of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, helping at-risk teens create original theatre drawn from their lives. The company received the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 2000 National Juvenile Justice Award for its work. Laura received the Agape Season of Non-Violence Hero of the Week Award (2000). Martie Ramm Engle (ΒΔ-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. Maile Misajon (ΒΔ-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" (see Fall 2001 Quarterly). Jeannette Butts Paulson Hereniko (Τ-Oregon) Director of the Asia-Pacific Media Center, Los Angeles (since 1996). Established the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC/USA) (1994). Founding director, Palms Springs International Film Festival (1990). Founder of the Hawaii International Film Festival (1980), serving as its director until 1996. Eliza Orlins (A - Syracuse) Contestant on CBS's mega hit show, Survivor. Hazel Raymundo Siegel (Β-Northwestern) Singer, actress, journalist. Played Kim in Chicago and Boston production of Miss Saigon. Performed first staged reading of Disney's Aida. Jeri Ryan (Β-Northwestern) Actress. Played Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. She joins the cast of Fox’s Boston Public this fall. Other television credits include Melrose Place, Matlock and Dark Skies. Films include Men Cry Bullets, The Last Man, Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 and a cameo in Disney's The Kid. Randy Mayem Singer (Λ-UC/Berkeley) Writer and producer. Wrote screenplay for Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). Television credits: writer and producer of Hudson Street (1995) and creator and executive producer of Jack & Jill (1999-2000). Jodie Sweetin (Eta Upsilon - Chapman) Best known for her portrayal of Stephanie Tanner on the 80s-90s sitcom, Full House. Also appeared on Party of Five. Kimberly Williams (Β-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 appears this fall on ABC®’s According to Jim (see Fall 2001 Quarterly).
Journalism Catherine Anaya (ΒΠ-USC) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles (see Spring and Summer 2001 Quarterlies). Christy Bulkeley (Ο-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). Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter (Ω-Texas) Writer, feminist. Former reporter and public relations expert. Press secretary and staff director to Lady Bird Johnson (1963-69) and author of Start with a Laugh, Ruffles & Flourishes, Getting Better All the Time and Unplanned Parenthood: Confessions of a Seventy Something Surrogate Mother. A founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and of ERAmerica. Lisa Colagrossi (ΒΙ-West Virginia) Emmy®-winning television anchor, currently with WKMG in Orlando, Fla. Michelle Fulcher (ΒΓ-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 (see Fall 2000 Quarterly). Jennifer Gilbert (Β-Northwestern) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for WBFF-TV in Baltimore (since 1993). Ann Martin (Σ-Washington) Prime time news anchor and co-host of Woman 2 Woman, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. Winner of three Emmy Awards®, two Golden Mike Awards and an award for best 30-minute news cast. Early in her career, first female to anchor the weekend news solo in Seattle, Wash. (see Spring 2001 Quarterly). Nan Robertson (Β-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).
Public Service Elaine Bland Baxter (ΒΑ-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 (Ε-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). Marjorie "Bunny" Lawrence Clement (ΒΓ-Colorado) Jefferson County, Colo., commissioner (1981-93). Appointed to succeed her late husband and re-elected for three terms. Anne Marie Conroy (Λ-UC/Berkeley) Youngest member to sit on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors (1992). Current executive director of Treasure Island Development Authority, San Francisco. Georgia Neese Gray (Υ-Washburn) First woman Treasurer of the United States (1949-53), appointed by President Harry Truman. Charlene Prince Lawrence ( ΒΒ-Michigan State) Retired police chief. First female captain of the Indianapolis Police Department (1985-97). Shirley Pugh McLoughlin (Ξ-Toronto and ΒΘ-British Columbia) Councillor for the Town of Comox, British Columbia. Leader of the Liberal Party in British Columbia (1981), the first woman leader in Canada. Polly Cutler Rosenbaum (ΒΓ-Colorado) Arizona state representative continuously for 46 years (1949-94). Bonnie McCulloch Scott (ΔΜ-Purdue) Lt. commander in the U.S. Navy, one of only 25 women out of more than 5,000 commanding officers in the Navy. Nancy Harvey Steorts (Α-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. Eileen Hurney Stevens (ΑΛ) 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). Adis Vila (ΒΛ-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 Good Housekeeping magazine’s "100 Women of Promise" (1985). Lynn Robinson Woolsey (Σ-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). Becky Cook Cain (ΒΙ-West Virginia) Past national president of the League of Women Voters (1992-98). President and CEO of the Greater Kanawha Valley Community Foundation (see Fall 2001 Quarterly).
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