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Art and Culture
Marney Duckworth
(Delta Xi-Nebraska/Kearney)
Mrs. America 2007 and Mrs.
Colorado 2006.
Betsy
Joyce Kinney
(Omega-Texas)
Texas Sculpture Association
president
and a professional Limoges box artist for more than 25
sororities, civic organizations, the states of
Mississippi and Tennessee and nonprofit theater groups.
(See Winter 1997
Quarterly).
Patricia Blachly Meadows
(Omega-Texas)
Curator of the
Texas Sculpture Garden,
owner of Art Connections, former curator of the Dallas
Visual Art Center (1986-1998), former exhibition
director of the Texas State Committee of the National
Museum of Women in the Arts (1987-1999), co-founder of
D'Art Visual Art Center, listed in
Who's
Who in American Art
.
Elizabeth Mackay Ratcliff
(Lambda-UC/Berkeley) Retired school teacher and
originator of the idea for the
National Peace Garden
in Washington, D.C.
Julee Rosso
(Βeta
Βeta-Michigan State)
Founded Silver Palate gourmet food
shop. Co-author of
The
Silver Palate
Cookbook, The New Basics
Cookbook, The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook
and
Parade
magazine column. Co-owner of Wickwood Inn in Saugatuck,
Mich., “one of the top 50 small resorts, inns and spas
in the US,” according to the Zagat Review.
Kelly Stribling Sutherland
(Gamma Iota-Texas Tech)
Artist. Created four paintings
for 1995
Holidays at the White
House
guide. Creator of 1987 and 1995 Neiman Marcus catalog
covers and Fall 1988
Quarterly
cover. Named 1986 Southwest Illustrator of the Year by
Adweek
magazine.
Ann
Lee Thompson
(Gamma-DePauw)
Artist. Winner of cover contest for
The
Saturday Evening Post.
Created Spring 1986
Quarterly
cover.
Gale Martin Waddell
(Βeta
Gamma-Colorado)
Watercolorist. Past president of
New Mexico Watercolor
Society, art teacher at continuing education
of University of New Mexico, art featured in
American
Artist
magazine.
Alice
Waters (Gamma Beta-UC/Santa Barbara)
Executive
chef and owner of Chez Panisse, named Best Restaurant in
America by Gourmet magazine in 2001. Has received
numerous awards including Bon Appetit magazine’s
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and the James Beard
Humanitarian Award in 1997. Alice was named Best Chef in
America by the James Beard Foundation, and Cuisine et
Vins de France listed her as one of the 10 best chefs in
the world in 1986. Created the Chez Panisse Foundation
to help underwrite cultural and education programs.
Beverly Willis
(Βeta
Upsilon-Oregon State)
Co-chair of
Rebuild Downtown Our Town
(R.DOT), an effort to revitalize Lower Manhattan
following Sept. 11, 2001. Founder of Architect.org.
Director of the Architecture Research Institute, Inc.,
New York. First female chair of the Federal Construction
Council of the National Academy of Science (1973). First
woman president of the American Institute of Architects,
California Council (1980). Named
one of the top seven women architects in the nation by
Ms. magazine
(1976). Member of the 1976 U.S. delegation to Habitat,
the United Nations conference on human settlements.
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