Famous Thetas

Theta's have taken over the White House!

Laura Welch Bush, First Lady of the United States: Beta Sigma/SMU; Jenna and Barbra Bush, twin daughters of President Bush; and Lynne Cheney wife of Vice President of the United States: Beta Omega/Colorado College

Joan Ganz Cooney, Cofounder of Children's' Television Workshop and creator of Sesame Street: Beta Delta/Arizona

Sheryl Crow, Grammy award winning singer: Alpha Mu/Missouri; Amy Grant, Grammy award winning singer: Alpha Eta/Vanderbilt

Dian Fossey, Pioneer zoologist. Her life and work was the inspiration for the movie "Gorillas in the Mist": Gamma Xi/San Jose State

Mary Kay Place;Actress (Being John Malkovitch, The Rainmaker, The Big Chill): Gamma Tau/Tulsa;  Rue McClanahan, actress (The Golden Girls): Gamma Tau/Tulsa

Nancy Landon Kassebaum, First woman elected to the US Senate in her own right: Kappa/ Kansas

Julie Moran, Broadcast journalist (first woman to host Wide World of Sports): Gamma Delta/Georgia; Melissa Stark, Sidelines reporter for ABC's Monday Night Football: Delta Chi/Virginia

Marlo Thomas, Actress (That Girl), author (Free to Be … You and Me), social activist: Omicron/USC; Jenna von Oy; Six from Blossom

Kerri Strung, Gymnast (gold medal in the 1996 Olympics, bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics, silver medal in the 1994 World Championship): Beta Xi/UCLA

Others:

Walt Disney's daughters (Let's Go Fly A Kite), Bertha Van Hoosen, MD, Avis Green Tucker, Mary Louise Epperson Smith, Adelaide MacDonald Sinclair, Midge Rendell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Julia Morgan, Kate Millett, Harriet Bell Merrill, Kate Lehrer, Helen Hull Jacobs, Nancy Hanks, Patricia Gifford, Barbara Hackman Franklin, Tillie Kidd Fowler, Agnes DeMille, Ann Curtis Cuneo, Ann-Margaret

*Check out the Theta national website Kappa Alpha Theta