Early Femmefen

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The Women Fen Don’t See
or, Women in Fandom Before Tricon[edit]

By Leah Zeldes Smith
Reprinted from Unsettled 73 (October 23, 2021).
© 2021 by Leah Zeldes Smith. Used with permission.

Tricon, the 1966 Worldcon, was notable in fanhistory for a number of reasons, but among them is that it screened the premiere of a new TV show: Star Trek. And after that came the deluge.

Common fannish lore says there were hardly any women in fandom before the Enterprise boldly flew across our television screens and fandom grew exponentially — but common fannish lore, and the poor memories and male fanhistorians who fed into it, are wrong.

Men did outnumber women in early 20th-century fandom, yet there were many female actifen even during fandom’s earliest days. (It’s worth noting that, by 1959, fanspeak had developed two nongender-specific pronouns, heesh and hiser.) René Walling’s research into Worldcon membership demographics, from 1939–60, shows that women made up roughly 20 percent of the attendance at early Worldcons. While Sam Moskowitz recalled that at the first Worldcon in 1939, “Of the 30 women in attendance only about 7 were interested in science fiction, the others were wives, sisters, and friends” — how could he know what they were interested in?

Much early fanboy grousing about the lack of women in fandom really meant not enough single — i.e., available — women. As Lee Hoffman recollected in Fanhistorica 1 (May 1976, p. 10): 

In those dark ages, a major complaint in fandom was the shortage of femfans. There were some, but not enough to go around. Young male fans in search of intellectual companionship often complained that all the active femfans came into fandom on the coattails of male fans (as girl friends or wives) and were subsequently unavailable. At the same time that they were voicing these complaints, they seemed to be taking a perverse chauvinistic pride in the predominant maleness of fandom.

Jack Speer was positively dismissive back in 1944, writing in Fancyclopedia 1, “The great majority of fans are male, and it has been asserted that females cannot be the psychological type of the s-f fan, but,” he acknowledged, “there are several dyed-in-the-wool fannes to refute this.” However, he went on to say, “In addition there are a lot of sweethearts, wives, daughters, sisters, etc. of the he-fans, who tag along at fan gatherings, make some appearance in the fanzines, and assist in dirty work like mimeoing.” As if all that weren’t fanac!

It’s important, though, when discussing fandom’s attitudes toward women, to compare with those of the macrocosm of the respective eras. Recollect that the first Worldcon was fewer than 20 years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

In general, the men of fandom were at least as welcoming of women in their events and doings as other men of their times, if not more so. Fandom was never, at least overtly, considered a boys’ club emblazoned, “Girls keep out!” The surprise and delight when Lee Hoffman turned out to be Hoffwoman shows that.

Male fans were, however, as blind as their mundane contemporaries to women’s accomplishments. The first Worldcon to have a female goh was back in 1946, but E. Mayne Hull was named jointly with her husband and collaborator, A. E. van Vogt. It wasn’t until 1975 that a woman pro, Ursula Le Guin, was honored solo.

The first woman to win any Hugo was Elinor Busby, for Best Fanzine in 1960, but that was jointly with her husband and two other men.[1] It took till 1988 for a zine edited by a woman alone to win — Pat Mueller’s Texas SF Inquirer — and not only was it a clubzine, but before the rocket was awarded, FACT, the sponsoring club, had taken the editorship away from her in favor of a man.

Worldcon didn’t name its first female fan goh until 1972: Juanita Coulson, but, again, she shared the honor with her husband, Buck. The first femmefan a Worldcon honored on her own was Lee Hoffman in 1982; it took another 30 years till the next — second-generation fan Peggy Rae Sapienza — in 2012!

Yes, some women first entered the microcosm as wives, girlfriends and daughters of male fen (or sisters, cousins and aunts), but they did their share of writing for the fmz, cranking the mimeos, organizing the clubs, designing and sewing the costumes and working on the cons. Five women — Dirce Archer, Noreen Falasca, Julian May, Anna Sinclare Moffatt and Ella Parker — chaired Worldcons before 1966. They count.

And — they were editing, writing and drawing for the prozines, too. We lay claim here to some female pros who may or may not have been especially fannish, but early in fanhistory, pros and fans formed one close-knit community in a way they haven’t in more recent times.

Women have been an important part of the science fiction community since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley invented the genre in 1818.

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  1. ↑ The next year’s award went to Earl Kemp for Who Killed Science Fiction?, according to TheHugoAwards.org as well as contemporary accounts. But if you look at the fanzine itself, you’ll see it’s credited to Earl and Nancy Kemp! Similarly, the first major fanzine index is historically attributed to R. D. Swisher, but the zines credit F. N. Swisher, his wife, as well.



Women in Fandom by 1966[edit]

This list of femmefen active by 1966, culled from convention and club membership lists, fanzines, fan directories and discussion on the Facebook Fanhistory group, is very much a work in progress, and is surely missing names. Moreover, such information as exists for many women is quite sketchy. Please do add what you can, especially for the redlinked names.

Note that lots of women had numerous name changes, so the person you’re thinking of may be there under another variant. (See “The Naming of Names.”)

  1. Wendayne Ackerman (Mondelle / Tilly Porjes / Mathilde Wahrman)
  2. Gillian “Jill” Adams
  3. Rose Alberti ff
  4. Beverly Amers (DeWeese)
  5. MayBelle Anshutz ff
  6. Florence S. Anderson (Stephenson)
  7. Karen Anderson (Kruse)
  8. Ruby A. Anderson
  9. Virginia Anderson (Combs / “Nanek”)
  10. Valeria K. Anjoorian (“Valkon”)
  11. Pearle Appleford
  12. Dirce Archer
  13. Eleanor Arnason
  14. Lynne Aronson
  15. Abby Lu Ashley
  16. Pauline Ashwell (Whitby)
  17. Sheila Ashworth
  18. Chris Atkinson
  19. Delcie Austin (Stuart)
  20. Betty Ballantine (Elizabeth Norah Jones)
  21. Irene Baron (Scortia)
  22. Evelyn Barrett ff
  23. Terry Bartfield (Terri Pinckard / Merat / Merrit)
  24. Jonne Evans Bates (Hanlon)
  25. Susie Beam (Rivers)
  26. Margaret Bertrand
  27. Judi Beatty-Sephton
  28. Virginia Beebe (Hoskins)
  29. Martha Beck
  30. Kay Becker
  31. Doris Beller
  32. Josie Benderavage
  33. Bess Benjamin
  34. Zelda Benowitz
  35. Beryl Bentcliffe (Watkins)
  36. Betty Berg
  37. Phyllis Berg (King)
  38. Jean Berman
  39. Ruth Berman
  40. Ruth Bernstein
  41. Diane Berry
  42. Margaret Bertrand
  43. Sandi Bethke (Gerber / Maia Nemzek)
  44. Helena Binns (Margaret Duce / Roberts)
  45. Judy Blish (Judith A. Lawrence)
  46. Barbara Bliss
  47. Gilda Blitzer
  48. Perdita Boardman (Lilly / Nelson / Girsdansky)
  49. Jean Bogert
  50. Shirley Booher
  51. Irene Boothroyd
  52. Barbara Bovard (Edge) ff
  53. Leigh Brackett
  54. Helen Bradleigh (Joan Domnick)
  55. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  56. Jacqui Bratton
  57. Catherine M. Brennan
  58. Kay Brickman
  59. Rohelen Brickman
  60. Marjorie Broadbent
  61. Marlene Broderick
  62. Beverly Bronson
  63. Jacqueline G. Brooks
  64. Rosel G. Brown
  65. Beverly Browne
  66. Margaret Brundage
  67. Marjorie Brunner
  68. Doris Pitkin Buck
  69. Daphne Buckmaster (Bradley)
  70. Edna Budrys (Duna)
  71. Pamela Bulmer (Buckmaster)
  72. Thelma Bunch
  73. Isabel Burbee
  74. Joyce Burke
  75. Kay Burwell
  76. Elinor Busby
  77. Freda Busfield
  78. Linda Bushyager (Eyster)
  79. JoAnne Calkins
  80. Doña Campbell (Stewart / Smith)
  81. Peg Campbell (Winter)
  82. Cynthia Carey
  83. Irene Carnell
  84. Carol Carr
  85. Edith Carr
  86. Gertrude M. Carr
  87. Miriam Carr (Miri Dyches / Knight / Lloyd)
  88. Jean Carrol (Jane McClain / Engel)
  89. Phyllis Carter
  90. Ann Chamberlain
  91. Penny Chandler (Bale)
  92. Evelyn Dolores Chappell
  93. Joan Chapman
  94. Ada Charles
  95. Pat Charnock
  96. Lorraine “Sandy” Charnoff
  97. Meredith Chatterton
  98. Lilly Chibbett
  99. Bev Clark
  100. Eugenia Clark
  101. Gina Ellis Clarke (Georgina, “Dutch”)
  102. Joan Cleveland
  103. Eva Jane Clevenger
  104. Mildred Clingerman (McElroy)
  105. Audrey Clinton
  106. Jessie Clinton
  107. Helen Cloukey ff
  108. Martha Cohen
  109. Rosalind Cohen (Wylie) ff
  110. Esther “Es” Cole
  111. Eli Colter (May Eliza Frost / Harvey)
  112. Eva Conn
  113. Lillian Conway
  114. Peggy Cook
  115. Millen Cooke (Wilma Dorothy Millen Vermilyea / Belknap / Trench)
  116. Rita Coriell ff
  117. Leigh Couch
  118. Juanita Coulson (Wellons)
  119. Mary Elizabeth Counselman ff
  120. Lucille Counts
  121. Phyllisann Courtis
  122. Chantelle Covington
  123. Anne Cox (Myla Seidel)
  124. Marion Cox (Oakes)
  125. Margaret “Peggy” Crawford (Finn)
  126. Dian Crayne (Girard / Pelz)
  127. Pat Crossley
  128. Lora Crozetti
  129. Ruth Cuher ff
  130. Elizabeth Cullen
  131. Betty Cummings (Elizabeth Starr Hill) ff
  132. Monette Cummings
  133. Doris Currier
  134. Mary Marcarette Curry ff
  135. Betsy Curtis
  136. Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) ff
  137. Eleanor Daugherty (O’Brien)
  138. Virginia Daugherty (“Jim-E” or “Jimmy” Laney)
  139. Rose Davenport
  140. DEA (Margaret M. Dominick)
  141. Audrey Deane
  142. Dorothy de Courcy
  143. Miriam Allen deFord
  144. Marie DeJack
  145. Wilma DeMory
  146. Helen B. Dewey
  147. Shirley Dickensheet
  148. Ann Dietz (Ashe)
  149. Belle Dietz (Cohen)
  150. Ann Dinkleman
  151. Isabelle Dinwiddie
  152. Fay Dishington
  153. Sonya Dorman
  154. Ree Dragonette (Rita Marie Dragonetti)
  155. Sally Dunn (Brues / Kidd)
  156. Lorraine Dunkelberger
  157. Sheila Dvorak
  158. Mary Dziechowski
  159. Marion Eadie (Marion Turner / Fiona Turner)
  160. Rose Ebert
  161. Phyllis Economou
  162. Phyllis Eisenstein (Kleinstein)
  163. Jane Ellern (Gallion / Jacobs)
  164. Marjii Ellers
  165. Pat Ellington
  166. Sophie Wenzel Ellis ff
  167. Corinne Ellsworth
  168. Elaine Ellsworth
  169. Morjeanne Elman
  170. Carol Emshwiller
  171. Christine Entrekin
  172. Jill Esternik
  173. Frances Evans (Varley)
  174. Thelma Evans (T. D. Hamm / Morgan)
  175. Pat Everest
  176. Audrey Eversfield
  177. Edythe Eyde (“Tigrina”)
  178. Hazel R. Fahringer
  179. Djinn Faine (Virginia Russell / Dickson )
  180. Rory Faulkner (Dorothea / “Dotty”)
  181. Alicia Feather ff
  182. Nancy Featherstone ff
  183. Harriet Fellas
  184. Marianne Ferguson ff
  185. Helen Finn
  186. Dorothy Finn (Hasse)
  187. Eva Firestone ff (Upton)
  188. Sue Francis
  189. Ruth Frayne
  190. Polly Freas
  191. Wendy Freeman
  192. Ingrid Fritzsch
  193. Elizabeth Foyster
  194. Edith Furcsik
  195. Helene Gardiner
  196. Frances Garfield (Wellman)
  197. Sonia Garner
  198. Beverly Garrett
  199. Jane Gaskell
  200. Nan Gerding
  201. Robbie Gibson (Roberta Collins)
  202. Sheila Gilbert (Elkin)
  203. Bea Gittery
  204. Helen Glaser
  205. Bea Glass
  206. Frances Glynn (Jason / Ferguson)
  207. Mary Gnaedinger ff
  208. Evelyn Paige Gold (Stein / Eve Paige Spencer)
  209. Cele Goldsmith (Lalli)
  210. Evelyn Goldstein
  211. Cynthia Goldstone
  212. Joy Goodwin (Clarke / Sanderson)
  213. Phyllis Gotlieb
  214. Jessica "Toni" Gould (Wilson)
  215. Diane Goulding (Ellingsworth)
  216. Mary Graham
  217. Penny Grant
  218. Roberta Gray (“Bobbie” or “Bobby” Wild)
  219. Jessamine Greer
  220. Jean Grennell
  221. Pauline Grimm
  222. Joyce Grissom
  223. Reta Grossman
  224. Arniece Gurley
  225. Rosalyn Gutstein
  226. Eunice Guyy
  227. Ann Hafler
  228. Gay Haldeman
  229. Vol Haldeman (Candace Ettlin)
  230. Sandy Hall (Alexandra or Sandra)
  231. Tikwis Hall
  232. Frances Hamling
  233. Joan Hammet
  234. Verna “Vee” Hampton
  235. Eclare Hannifen (Hilda Hoffman)
  236. Dorothy Hansen
  237. F. E. Hardart (Flossie Elizabeth Sheehan)
  238. Barbara Harmon (Gratz)
  239. Agnes Harook
  240. Clare Winger Harris ff
  241. Evelyn Harrison
  242. Dorothy Hartwell
  243. Laura Shay Hastings
  244. Harriet Hausman
  245. Margery Hawthorne
  246. Christine Haycock (Moskowitz)
  247. Cindy Heap (Cramer / Van Arnam / Williams)
  248. Helen S. Heap
  249. G. N. Hedinger
  250. Nella Hellinger
  251. Norma Hemming
  252. Gertrude “Trudy” Hemken (Caroline Ferber)
  253. Zenna Henderson
  254. Charlotte Hensley
  255. Freddie Hershey (Curtis)
  256. Mary Hershey (Gibson)
  257. Rosemary Hickey (Becker)
  258. Carolyn Hickman
  259. Carolyn Jo Higgs
  260. Alma Hill
  261. Hyacinthe Hill (Virginia Rose Cronin/Anderson)
  262. Dora Holland
  263. Joan Hunter Holly
  264. Caroline Prescott Hoar ff
  265. Lee Hoffman
  266. Doreen House
  267. Addie Huddleston
  268. Katya Hulan (Katherine Jean Wheat / Kathy Atkins / Stevens)
  269. E. Mayne Hull (van Vogt)
  270. Carole Ingersoll
  271. Margaret Irwin
  272. Sherry Jackson
  273. Sylvia Jacobs
  274. Lilian “Lily” Jaggers
  275. Mary Jameson ff
  276. Vida Jameson ff
  277. Elsie “Else” Janda
  278. Julie Ann Jardine
  279. Val Jeeves (Valerie Williams)
  280. Barbi Johnson
  281. Bertha Johnson
  282. Helen Johnson
  283. Marijane “Janey” Johnson
  284. Flora Jones
  285. Margaret Jones
  286. Marsha Jones (Elkin / Brown)
  287. Bertha Jordan
  288. Deborah Josephson
  289. Janet Kagan
  290. Marcia Kamien
  291. Sheila Mae Kamper
  292. Helen Weinbaum Kasson
  293. Joyce Katz (Worley / Fisher)
  294. Betty Keat ff
  295. Margaret Ford Keifer
  296. Bernice Keller ff
  297. Celia Keller
  298. Dorothea Keller
  299. Nancy Kemp
  300. Anne Keylock
  301. Rita Khrone
  302. Virginia Kidd (Emden / Blish)
  303. Betty Knight
  304. Gail Knuth (Joey Knuth / Gail Daniels / Thompson / Whiskin)
  305. Mary Kolb
  306. Harriett Kolchak
  307. Mary Kornbluth (Byers)
  308. Irene Korshak (Odenheimer)
  309. Anna Krenzel ff
  310. Eva "Wildcat" Kreuger
  311. Frances Krueger
  312. Bridges Kuhn
  313. Betty Kujawa
  314. Karen Kurz (Cooper-Johnston)
  315. Gertrude “Trudy” Kuslan (“tKuslan”) ff
  316. Ziva Kwitney (Sheckley)
  317. Ruth Kyle (Landis)
  318. Janie Lamb
  319. Marion Lansdale (Linwood)
  320. Deedee Lavender
  321. Lois Lavender
  322. Denise Laws
  323. Betty Leedham
  324. Alberta Leek
  325. Kathleen Leerburger
  326. Ursula K. Le Guin
  327. Jonquil "Johnny" Leiber (Stephens) ff
  328. Louise Leipiar (L. Major Reynolds)
  329. Madeleine L'Engle
  330. Dorothy Les Tina
  331. Suford Lewis (Susan Hereford)
  332. Barb Lex
  333. Olga Ley
  334. Frances "Fran" Light
  335. Annie Linard
  336. Pauline Lincoff
  337. Ethel Lindsay
  338. Fran Lipton
  339. Amelia Reynolds Long ff
  340. Lilith Lorraine ff
  341. Audrey Lovett
  342. Pat Lupoff
  343. Lesleigh Luttrell (Couch)
  344. Pam MacInnes
  345. Constance "Connie" MacKenzie
  346. Katherine MacLean (Kate Dye / Mason / West)
  347. Florence Magarian
  348. Bea Mahaffey
  349. Pat Mahaffey (Lake)
  350. Mary Mair
  351. Marion Mallinger
  352. Faye Manning
  353. Mercedes Mansfield
  354. Carmela Marceau
  355. Katherine Marcusson
  356. Cylvia K. Margulies (Kleinman)
  357. Shirley Marriott
  358. Mary Martin
  359. Adrienne Martine
  360. Winifred Marx
  361. Barbara May
  362. Julian May (Judy Dikty)
  363. Anne McCaffrey
  364. Orma McCormick
  365. Joyce “Lin” McDaniel (Potter / Johnstone / Jumper)
  366. Winnifred McGill
  367. Dorothy McIlwraith
  368. Shirley McKeown
  369. Renee McKie
  370. Carol McKinney
  371. Ann McKnight (Newell)
  372. Buddie McKnight (Lillian Heim Jacoby / Evans)
  373. Helene Mears
  374. Jean Mehegan
  375. Beryl Mercer (Henley)
  376. Judith Merril
  377. Lois Miles
  378. Terry Mill
  379. Virginia Mill
  380. Lynette Mills
  381. Pat Milnes (Doolan)
  382. Lesley Minard
  383. Zeda Mishler
  384. Anna Sinclare Moffatt (“Stfanna”)
  385. June Moffatt (Poulson / Konigsberg)
  386. Dora Hepner Moiteret
  387. Gisela Molander
  388. Laura Molesworth
  389. June Casey Monroe
  390. Frances Trego Montgomery
  391. Belle S. Mooney
  392. C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Kuttner)
  393. Nancy Moore (Shapiro)
  394. Ronnie Morgan (Takacs)
  395. Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas) ff
  396. Daphne Muggoch
  397. Mary Munro
  398. Jeanette Nagle
  399. Monica Naughton
  400. Ann B. Nelson
  401. Lil Neville
  402. Ruth Newbury
  403. Marjorie Hope Nicolson
  404. Marilyn “Fuzzy Pink” Niven
  405. Jo Noble
  406. Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton) ff
  407. Marge Nuttall
  408. Marijane Nuttall (M J Nuttall)
  409. Betty Nystrom
  410. Edith Ogutsch
  411. Judy Oppenheim
  412. Enid Jacobs Osten
  413. Patty Paccassi
  414. Pennie Palmer
  415. Cory Panshin (Seidman)
  416. Ella Parker (Canada)
  417. Ella Parker (U.K.)
  418. Ellen Parkes
  419. Celia Parks
  420. Ann Patrizio (Temple)
  421. Pat Patterson (Lyons)
  422. Amelia Pemberton
  423. Jan Penney (Sadler / Kauffman / Samuels)
  424. Jo Perew
  425. Leslie Perri ff
  426. Helen Perry
  427. Luise Perrin (Petty)
  428. Betty Peters
  429. Elaine Phillips
  430. Charlotte Picard
  431. Margaret Picken
  432. Marjorie Pickles
  433. Mavis Pickles
  434. Brenda Piper
  435. Audrey Plimpton
  436. Pogo (Mary Corinne “Patti” Gray / Russell / Wood) ff
  437. Carol Pohl (Metcalf / Ulf / Stanton)
  438. Nancy Pooley
  439. Elizabeth Pope
  440. Irene Potter (Gore)
  441. Lou Ann Price
  442. Valerie Purnell
  443. Dorothy Quick ff
  444. Dorothy Quinn
  445. Mary Quinn
  446. Jane Quirk
  447. Evonne Rae
  448. Joni Rapkin (Markwood)
  449. Nancy Rapp (“Kabu” / Nan Share)
  450. Dorothy Ratigan (Jacobs)
  451. Vanessa Redgrave
  452. Kit Reed
  453. Mary Reed (Legg / Long)
  454. Eugenie Reid
  455. Diane Reinsberg
  456. Jeannette Reol ff
  457. Carol Resnick
  458. Mona Lee Rhines
  459. Trina Robbins (Perlson / Castillo / Petit)
  460. Lottie Robins
  461. Chris Robinson
  462. Joan Rock
  463. Elenore Rockey
  464. Doreen Parker Rogers
  465. Mary Evelyn Rogers ff
  466. Sidonie “Sid” Rogers
  467. Felice Rolfe (Maxam)
  468. Su Rosen
  469. Betty Rosenblum
  470. Marilyn Ross
  471. Dori Rothman
  472. Agnes Rundle
  473. Joanna Russ
  474. Florence Russell
  475. Marion Ryan
  476. Virginia "Ginny" Saari
  477. Margaret St. Clair ff
  478. Alice Sander
  479. Dorothy Sanford
  480. Peggy Rae Sapienza (McKnight / Pavlat)
  481. Josephine Saxton
  482. Helena Schaumburger
  483. Barbara Schmidt
  484. Virginia Schultheis
  485. Gretchen Schwenn (Boggs)
  486. Phyllis Scott
  487. Harriet Segman
  488. Daphne Sewall
  489. Lila Shaffer
  490. Sandy Shapiro
  491. Marie-Louise Share (Shoemaker)
  492. Juanita Sharp
  493. Noreen Shaw (Falasca)
  494. Sadie Shaw (Sarah)
  495. Monna Sheller
  496. Nancy Sherry
  497. Wilmar H. Shiras
  498. Ina Shorrock
  499. Maril Shrewsbury
  500. Nancy Shriner
  501. Thelma Shull
  502. Bella Siegel (Lifshitz)
  503. Barbara Silverberg (Brown)
  504. Rosemary G. Simmons
  505. Pat Sims (Oswalt)
  506. Lee Sirat
  507. Rosalie Sisson
  508. Margaret Skiffington ff
  509. Joan Skirvin
  510. Joyce Slater
  511. Ricky Slavin (Rhoda Katerinsky)
  512. Riva “The Bat” Smiley
  513. Clarrissa Smith (Honey Wilcox) ff
  514. Cindy Smith
  515. Evelyn E. Smith
  516. Jeannie Smith (Jeanne Craig MacDougall) ff
  517. Mary Southworth (Young)
  518. Ruth Stage
  519. Sue Stanley
  520. Rose Stark
  521. Barbara Steedman
  522. Genevieve K. Stephens
  523. Inga Stephens (Pratt / Clark)
  524. Anne Steul
  525. Francis Stevens (Gertrude Mabel Barrows Bennett)
  526. Lyn Stier
  527. Julia Stone
  528. Leslie F. Stone ff
  529. Joni Stopa (“Kitty” Doyle / Cornell)
  530. Mae Strelkov
  531. Evelyn Stroud
  532. Betty Sullivan
  533. Kathleen Swearingen
  534. Frances Swisher ff
  535. Frances Alberti Sykora (Quarterman) ff
  536. Frances Helen Sykora (Racic) ff
  537. Chrystal Tackett (Allen)
  538. Frances Tanner
  539. Millie Taurasi ff
  540. Beatrice Taylor
  541. Joan Teagle
  542. Joan Temple
  543. Diane Tenglin
  544. Diane Terwilleger
  545. Zylpha Thailing
  546. Jeanette Marie Thomas
  547. Maggie Thompson (Margaret Curtis)
  548. Dorothy Tomkins
  549. Suzanne Tompkins (“Suzle”)
  550. Lee Anne Tremper (Lavell)
  551. Jan Trenholm
  552. Verna Smith Trestrail ff
  553. Bjo Trimble (Betty JoAnne Conway / McCarthy / Wells)
  554. Irene Tubb
  555. Marilyn Tulley
  556. Hellen Tullis (Nagy)
  557. Leslie Turek
  558. Eleanor “Ellie” Turner
  559. Mary Ellen Tyrrell
  560. Marie Uney
  561. Beatrice Unger (Gilsenberg) ff
  562. Helen M. Urban
  563. Sophia van Doorn
  564. Fran Varley
  565. Helen Vasquez
  566. Bea Venable
  567. Marilyn "Lyn" Venable
  568. Catherine Verrastro
  569. Suzanne “Suzy” Vick
  570. Jessie Walker
  571. Simone Walsh (Restall)
  572. Mary Helen Washington
  573. Ardis Waters
  574. Beryl Watkins
  575. Doreen Webbert
  576. Jane Wells (Janie Ely)
  577. Margaret Wells (Hughes)
  578. Elma Wentz (Miller / LeCron)
  579. Helen Wesson (Vivarttas)
  580. Mari Beth Wheeler
  581. Betty White
  582. Peggy White
  583. Phyllis White (Price)
  584. Robin Postal White
  585. Sylvia Dees White
  586. Thelma "Pat" White
  587. Evelyn Adams Whyte
  588. Kate Wilhelm
  589. Allison Williams (Phillips)
  590. Cecile Williamson
  591. Madeleine Willis
  592. Genie Willmorth
  593. Gabrielle Wilson (Cummings)
  594. Liz Wilson
  595. Mary Wilson
  596. Helen Winick
  597. Mari Wolf (Graham)
  598. Eva Wolff
  599. Elsie Wollheim
  600. Honey Wood (Graham)
  601. JoAnn Wood (Schmidt)
  602. Natalie H. Wooley
  603. Barbara Wrede
  604. Marjorie Z. Wright ff
  605. Belle Wyman ff
  606. Geneva Wyman
  607. Rose Wyn
  608. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  609. Cathie Youden
  610. Donna Young
  611. Jean Young
  612. Mabel Young (Mae Sims)

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