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* [https://fanac.org/zoom.html FANAC History Zoom:] “The Women Fen Don’t See” with [[Claire Brialey]], [[Kate Heffner]] and [[Leah Zeldes Smith]]: [https://youtu.be/F5Oc9Cf-Dq4  Part 1,] [https://youtu.be/pBEL0x5v_O8 Part 2.]
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Latest revision as of 08:21, 28 April 2024

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

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