List of Theta Sigma Phi members
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Theta Sigma Phi (ΘΣΦ) was an American honor society for women in journalism. It was established in 1909 at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.[1][2][3][4] In 1972, it was renamed Women in Communications, Inc.[1][2][5] In 1996, the organization was dissolved.[6] The nonprofit Association for Women in Communications, a professional organization for women in the communications industry, was formed in 1996 to carry forward the mission of Theta Sigma Phi.[1][2][7]
Following are some of the notable members of Theta Sigma Phi and Women in Communications.
| Name | Chapter | Notability | ΘΣΦ awards | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patty Abramson | venture capitalist who co-founded the Women's Growth Capital Fund | Headliner Award 1985 | [8] | |
| Shirley Abrahamson | Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court | Headliner Award 1987 | [8] | |
| Caroline Iverson Ackerman | aviation editor of Life during World War II and the first director of public relations for women for Shell Oil Company | Headliner Award 1949 | [8] | |
| Donna Allen | feminist, civil rights activist, historian, economist, and founder of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press | Headliner Award 1979 | [8] | |
| Madeline Amgott | television news producer | Headliner Award 1983 | [8] | |
| Marie Anderson | women's editor for the Miami Herald | Headliner Award 1964 | [8] | |
| Loreen Arbus | vice president-development of Viacom Productions; disability rights activist | Headliner Award 1984 | [8][9][10][11][12] | |
| Jane Ardmore | novelist and biographer | Headliner Award 1968 | [8] | |
| Marjorie Barrows | Chicago | magazine editor, book compiler, and author | [13] | |
| Bessie Beatty | War correspondent for the San Francisco Bulletin during World War I | [14] | ||
| Joyce Beber | advertising executive who co-founded the Beber Silverstein Group | Headliner Award 1984 | [8] | |
| Cathie Black | New York City Schools Chancellor, president and chair of Hearst Magazines, president and publisher of USA Today | Headliner Award 1984 | [8] | |
| Myrna Blyth | editor-in-chief and publishing director of Ladies Home Journal; publishing director of Metropolitan Home | Headliner Award 1992 | [8] | |
| Erma Bombeck | humorist and syndicated columnist | Headliner Award 1969 | [8][15] | |
| Mary Hastings Bradley | explorer and writer | [16] | ||
| Laura L. Brookman | editorial manager of the Ladies’ Home Journal | Headliner Award 1947 | [8][17][18] | |
| Barbara Everitt Bryant | Director of the U.S. Census Bureau | Headliner Award 1980 | [8] | |
| Christy C. Bulkeley | president and publisher of the Commercial-News, president and publisher of The Saratogian, and vice president-special corporate projects of Gannett Co. Inc. | Headliner Award 1978 | [8][19][20] | |
| Pat Carbine | executive editor of Look, vice president and editor-in-chief of McCall's, co-founder and first editor-in-chief of Ms. | Headliner Award 1975 | [8] | |
| Liz Carpenter | woman executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, press secretary for First Lady Lady Bird Johnson | Headliner Award 1962 | [8] | |
| John Mack Carter | editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping | Headliner Award 1978 | [8] | |
| Marguerite Cartwright | journalist, sociologist, educator, and actress, who served as a correspondent for the United Nations | Headliner Award 1975 | [8][21][22][23] | |
| Martha Cheavens | Novelist | Headliner Award 1939 | [8] | |
| Ruth Ellen Church | food and wine journalist, food editor for the Chicago Tribune | Headliner Award 1950 | [8] | |
| Ruth Philpott Collins | Freelance writer and author of children's books | Headliner Award 1964 | [8][24][25][15] | |
| Marion Corwell-Shertzer | public relations executive with Ford Motor Company, | Headliner Award 1969 | [8] | |
| Margaret Cousins | managing editor of Good Housekeeping | Headliner Award 1946 | [8] | |
| May Craig | war correspondent and journalist | Headliner Award 1952 | [8] | |
| Charlotte Curtis | journalist, columnist, and editor at The New York Times | Headliner Award 1981 | [8] | |
| Arlene Dahl | film actress, syndicated columnist | Headliner Award 1964 | [8] | |
| Edith Deen | author of religious books | Headliner Award 1963 | [8] | |
| Colleen Dishon | journalist for the Chicago Tribune | Headliner Award 1973 | [8] | |
| Margaret Dixon | political journalist, managing editor of The Advocate | Headliner Award 1960 | [8][26] | |
| Dorothy Ducas | reporter, editor, chief of Magazine Division for Jnited States Office of War Information; first woman to win a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship | Headliner Award 1943 | [8][27] | |
| Gladys Erickson | staff writer-reporter of Chicago's American; pioneer of prison and crime reporting | Headliner Award 1966 | [8][28][29] | |
| Doris Fleeson | journalist and columnist; first woman in the U.S. to have a nationally syndicated political column | Headliner Award 1950 | [8] | |
| Doris Fleischman | writer, public relations executive, and feminist activist | Headliner Award 1972 | [8] | |
| Genevieve Foster | Author and illustrator of children's books | Headliner Award 1948 | [8] | |
| Jo Foxworth | advertising executive | Headliner Award 1981 | [8] | |
| Lenka Franulic | first Chilean woman journalist, winner of National Prize for Journalism (Chile) | Headliner Award 1958 | [8] | |
| Pauline Frederick | author and journalist for newspapers, television, and radio | Headliner Award 1950 | [8] | |
| Dorothy Fuldheim | journalist and news anchor at The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV | Headliner Award 1967 | [8] | |
| Bess Furman | reporter for The New York Times; White House correspondent | Headliner Award 1949 | [8] | |
| Hazel Garland | journalist, columnist, and newspaper editor; first African-American woman to serve as editor-in-chief of a nationally circulated newspaper chain | Headliner Award 1975 | [30] | |
| Phyllis T. Garland | music critic and editor for Ebony Magazine; first female member of faculty to earn tenure at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | Headliner Award 1971 | [8] | |
| Georgie Anne Geyer | foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and a syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate | Headliner Award 1968 | [8] | |
| Beatrice Blackmar Gould | playwright, founding -editor of Ladies' Home Journal from 1935 through 1962 | Headliner Award 1940 | [8] | |
| Katharine Graham | publisher of The Washington Post | Headliner Award 1969 | [8] | |
| Denny Griswold | founder and editor of Public Relations News | Headliner Award 1975 | [8][31][32][33] | |
| Fran Harris | newscaster; the first female newscaster in Michigan | Headliner Award 1952 | [8] | |
| Heloise | syndicated newspaper advice columnist | Headliner Award 1994 | [8] | |
| Genevieve Forbes Herrick | Pi | journalist for the Chicago Tribune | [34] | |
| Lenore Hershey | editor-in-chief of Ladies Home Journal | Headliner Award 1977 | [8] | |
| Marguerite Higgins | reporter with the New York Herald Tribune, war correspondent, syndicated columnist for Newsday, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence | Headliner Award 1951 | [8] | |
| Kathleen Hite | writer for radio and television | Headliner Award 1964 | [8] | |
| Henriette Horak | publiity director, Women's Army Corps, European Theater | Headliner Award 1946 | [8][35] | |
| Barbara Way Hunter | co-owner and president of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy, the first major public relations firm in New York City to be owned and managed by women | Headliner Award 1984 | [8][36][37][38][39][40] | |
| Eleanor Murdoch Johnson | founder and editor of chief of My Weekly Reader from 1935 to 1961 | Headliner Award 1948 | [8] | |
| Clara Ingram Judson | author of books for children | Headliner Award 1948 | [8] | |
| Dorothy Misener Jurney | journalist and women's page editor for the Miami Herald | Headliner Award 1956 | [8] | |
| Irma Kalish | television producer and screenwriter, known for Too Close for Comfort, All in the Family, The Facts of Life, Good Times, The Hogan Family, Maude, I Dream of Jeannie, F Troop, and Family Affair | Headliner Award 1978 | [8] | |
| Alice Keith | pianist, founder of the National Academy of Broadcasting, and director of CBS Radio's The American School of the Air. | Headliner Award 1944 | [8] | |
| Marilyn Moats Kennedy | teacher and administrator at DePaul University, job strategies editor for Glamour | Headliner Award 1986 | [8][41][42][43] | |
| Julilly House Kohler | writer of books for children | Headliner Award 1944 | [8] | |
| Gini Laurie | leader of the independent living movement for people with disabilities | Headliner Award 1987 | [8] | |
| Ann Liguori | sports radio and television personality, talk show host | [8] | ||
| Malvina Lindsay | editor and columnist at The Washington Post | Headliner Award 1945 | [8] | |
| Kate Rand Lloyd | editor-in-chief of Working Woman | Headliner Award 1983 | [8][44][45][46] | |
| Mary Margaret McBride | CBS Radio interview host and writer, called "the First Lady of Radio". | Headliner Award 1940 | [8] | |
| Sarah McClendon | White House reporter | Headliner Award 1971 | [8] | |
| Lucille Saunders McDonald | journalist, historian, and author of children's books | Headliner Award 1959 | [8] | |
| Daphne Alloway McVicker | short story writer | Headliner Award 1940 | [8] | |
| Lois Seyster Montross | Author, novelist | Headliner Award 1939 | [8][47][48] | |
| Allen Neuharth | founder of USA Today, The Freedom Forum, and its Newseum | Headliner Award 1977 | [8] | |
| Andre Norton | science fiction and fantasy writer | Headliner Award 1963 | [8] | |
| Bonaro W. Overstreet | author, poet, and lecturer | Headliner Award 1957 | [8] | |
| Clementine Paddleford | food writer and editor with the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun, The New York Telegram, Farm and Fireside, and This Week | Headliner Award 1943 | [8] | |
| Eugene Patterson | managing editor of The Washington Post; editor of the St. Petersburg Times; awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing; | Headliner Award 1982 | [8] | |
| Marjorie Paxson | newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher of the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette | Headliner Award 1976 | [8] | |
| Mike Peters | Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm | Headliner Award 1983 | [8] | |
| Ponchitta Pierce | journalist, television host, and producer | Headliner Award 1970 | [8][15] | |
| Jeanine Pirro | television host, judge, and attorney | Headliner Award 1996 | [8] | |
| Kirk Polking | editor of Writer’s Digest | Headliner Award 1970 | [8][49][50] | |
| Sylvia Porter | economist and syndicated daily newspaper columnist | Headliner Award 1981 | [8] | |
| Barbara Gardner Proctor | first African American woman to own and operate an advertising agency | Headliner Award 1978 | [8] | |
| Madelyn Pugh | television writer, known for her work on the I Love Lucy | Headliner Award 1953 | [8] | |
| Nina Mason Pulliam | journalist, author, and newspaper executive; publisher of | Headliner Award 1954 | [8] | |
| John C. Quinn | editor of USA Today; vice president of Gannett Co., and president of Gannet News Service | Headliner Award 1986 | [8] | |
| Paige Rense | editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, and GEO | Headliner Award 1983 | [8] | |
| Barbara Leonard Reynolds | author, poet, and reporter for the Chicago Daily Tribune | Headliner Award 1976 | [8] | |
| Inez Robb | journalist and war correspondent for the International News Service | Headliner Award 1943 | [8] | |
| Alice Rohe | War correspondent for United Press International during World War I | [14] | ||
| Richard S. Salant | President of the CBS News | Headliner Award 1980 | [8] | |
| Marlene Sanders | news correspondent, anchor, producer, and executive or ABC News and moved to CBS News | Headliner Award 1971 | [8] | |
| Mari Sandoz | novelist, biographer, and lecturer | Headliner Award 1957 | [8] | |
| Jean Way Schoonover | co-owner and board chair of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy, the first major public relations firm in New York City to be owned and managed by women | Headliner Award 1984 | [8][51][52][53] | |
| Sigrid Schultz | War correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I | [14] | ||
| Shirley Seifert | historical fiction author | Headliner Award 1965 | [8] | |
| Gail Sheehy | author, journalist, and lecturer | [8] | ||
| Barbara Sher | speaker, career and lifestyle coach, and author | [8] | ||
| Bert Kruger Smith | writer, lecturer, and advocate on mental health and aging | Headliner Award 1966 | [8][54][55] | |
| Hazel Brannon Smith | editor and publisher of four Mississippi weekly newspapers | Headliner Award 1962 | [8] | |
| Mary-jane R. Snyder | president of Mj Enterprises, an international communications and public relations consulting firm; one of the founders of the Organization of Women (NOW) | Headliner Award 1979 | [8][56][57] | |
| Thelma Strabel | Author, novelist | Headliner Award 1939 | [8] | |
| Isabella Taves | author and syndicated columnist | Headliner Award 1974 | [8][58][59][60] | |
| Helen Thomas | reporter, author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps | Headliner Award 1972 | [8] | |
| Marion Spitzer Thompson | author, screenwriter for 20th Century Fox | Headliner Award 1944 | [8][61] | |
| Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | author, novelist, and recipient of the Newbery Medal | Headliner Award 1967 | [8] | |
| Esther Van Waggoner Tufty | journalist in radio and newspaper | Headliner Award 1966 | [8] | |
| Agness Underwood | journalist and newspaper editor, city editor of the Los Angeles Herald-Express | Headliner Award 1949 | [8] | |
| Judith C. Waller | broadcast radio personality and manager; director of public affairs and education for NBC Midwest | Headliner Award 1954 | [8] | |
| Barbara Walters | broadcast journalist and television personality | Headliner Award 1993 | [8] | |
| Eudora Welty | novelist | Headliner Award 1972 | [8] | |
| Mary Alice Williams | pioneering journalist and broadcast executive who broke gender barriers by becoming the first female prime time network anchor; vice president of Cable News Network | Headliner Award 1986 | [8] | |
| Lois Wille | Journalist, editor, and author who won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and Pulitzer Prize for Public Service | Headliner Award 1964 | [8] | |
| Nancy Woodhull | senior editor of USA Today; president of Gannett News Media; editor-in-chief of Southern Progress Corporation | Headliner Award 1987 | [8] |