Prominent Members
The complete list of our accomplished members would be miles long. Here are just a few prominent Gamma Phi Betas:
Mary Elizabeth "Betsey" Bayless (Arizona)
Arizona Secretary of State and 2003 Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate
Kristin Chenoweth (Oklahoma City)
Actress, singer and 1999 Tony Award winner for Best Featured Actress in a Musical ("You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"); 2009 Emmy winner for Best Supporting Actress ("Pushing Daisies")
Rachelle Chong (California-Berkeley)
First Asian American appointed to the Federal Communications Commission (appointment by President Clinton)
Click image to enlarge Laurel Salton Clark, M.D. (deceased, Wisconsin-Madison)
Astronaut on Space Shuttle Columbia
Julie J. DiLorenzo (Boston)
First female Naval Captain; awarded several honors and awards for service
Jennifer Blackburn Dunn (deceased, Washington)
Six-term member of Congress for the state of Washington; twice named delegate to the United Nations Commission on the status of Women
Click image to enlargeJoAnn Schneider Farris (Colorado College)
Professional ice skater, coach and author; silver medal, United States National Figure Skating Championships; double gold medalist, U.S. Figure Skating
Alexandra "Alex" Wystrach Flanagan (Arizona)
Sports journalist for the NFL Network, sideline reporter for Notre Dame home football games; former sideline reporter for ESPN
Demetra George (Oklahoma City)
Resident soprano for Nevada Opera Theatre, awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from Oklahoma City University, Grammy nominee, Oklahoma City University Performance Hall of Honor Inductee, Miss Oklahoma, 1972 (Formerly Deborah Giannopoulos Mustafoglu)
Janet Butel Graham (Kansas State)
Famous cancer researcher
Click image to enlargeBailey Hanks (Coastal Carolina)
Broadway actress, Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde: The Musical"
Dr. Karen Horney Holbrook (Wisconsin-Madison)
Former President of Ohio State University
Click image to enlargeMarylou Luther Imparato (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Internationally acclaimed fashion editor, syndicated fashion columnist, author
Cloris Leachman (Northwestern)
Actress, author; Oscar and Emmy Award winner
Maude Hart Lovelace (Minnesota)
Author of the "Betsy Tacy" series
Comedian on "Chelsea Lately," actress, author
Kelli O'Hara (Oklahoma City)
Broadway actress, three- time Tony nominee ("The Pajama Game", "The Light in the Piazza"), will join Matthew Broderick in “Nice Work If You Can Get It” on Broadway in spring 2012
Click image to enlargeMary Beth Peil (Northwestern)
Opera singer, actress on "Dawson's Creek," 1985 Tony Award nominee for "The King and I," and currently co-starring on "The Good Wife"
Elizabeth Pitcairn (Southern California)
A classical violinist that has concertized widely and is said to have inspired the film "The Red Violin"
Charlotte Thompson Reid (Northwestern)
Republican Congresswoman from Illinois, 1963-1971
Susan Engel Mathis Richard (Purdue)
Special assistant to President Ronald Reagan
Sarah Richardson (Western Ontario)
Star of the HGTV design shows: "Room Service," "Design Inc.," "Sarah's House," "Sarah 101" and "Sarah's Cottage"
Julie Marr Robinson (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Press coordinator for First Lady Pat Nixon
Christine Shelly (deceased, Vanderbilt)
Former Political Advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Army
Lynn Lufkin Stuart (Auburn)
Alabama State Supreme Court Judge
Click image to enlargeShirley Bennett Tallman (San Jose State)
Author and screenwriter
Linda Watt (Vanderbilt)
Former U.S. Ambassador to Panama; Chief Operating Officer of U.S. Episcopal Church
