...that Patsy Ramsey was an AXiD...(heard this from an Atlanta AXiD who was mortified when Patsy and hubby moved to Atlanta -- "Gawd I hope she doesn't get involved with our group!")
Gamma Phi Beta has an Oscar Winner -- Cloris Leachman (won 1971 Best Support Actress Oscar for The Last Picture Show and Pulitizer Prize winner: Mary Wells Ashworth wrote a biography on George Washington that won a Pulitizer in 1958
other sorority factoids I know of:
The only sorority with royalty is DZ -- Crown Princess Martha of Norway (I think she is still alive too) was initiated when she was in the US -- in North Dakota or Wyoming or Nebraska -- can any DZ's shed light on this one?
AEPhi's Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of our nation's Supreme Court Justices
Sarah Tilghman Hughes (DG) was the first femal federal judge; she swore in LBJ on the plane after JFK assassination
Margaret Chase Smith (Sigma Kappa) first woman elected to teh US House of Reps and Senate
Zeta's Dr Ellen Zwilich is the first and only female winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1983)
In 1938, KD's Pearl Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for The Good Earth -- this book also won the Pulitzer prize
TriDelta's Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1995 for No Ordinary Time about FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt
Artist and KD Georgia O'Keeffe has won the Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor
Other sorority Oscar winners:
Faye Dunaway -- Pi Phi -- 1995: Best Actress "Network"
Joanne Woodward -- ChiO -- 1957: Best Actress "Three Faces of Eve"
Patricia Neal - ChiO -- 1963: Best Actress "Hud"
Christine Lahti - DG -- 1995: Best Short Film -- Live Action (she was the director)
Eilene Heckert - PiPhi - 1972: Best Supporting Actress "Butterflies Are Free"
Edith Head -- DZ -- 7 (that's seven!!) Oscars for costume design
Sherry Lansing -- Sigma Delta Tau -- first female head of a movie studio
First woman aviator to fly solo around the world (1964) Jerri Mock (Phi Mu)
Space Shuttle astronauts:
Jan Davis = AXiD
Rhea Seddon = SK
Bonnie Dunbar = KD
Anna Fisher = PiPhi
the late Laurel Clark
= Gamma Phi
Two sorority women have been Miss Universe:
Sylvia Hitchcock (1967) - Chi O
Shawn Weatherly (1980)- TriDelta