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

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