Just because a Daughter turns 20 years old, doesn't mean she has to leave Job's Daughters. Also, learn about some of Job's Daughters' famous Majority Members.

Famous and Notable Jobies

The following information is courtesy of Chantay Nieber, PHQ and MM of Bethel 96, Tujunga, California, unless otherwise noted.

Meghan Cary
Meghan Cary

Singer, Songwriter, Jobie of Bethel 17, Hershey, PA

"A Poetic flair reminiscent of Shawn Colvin and the Indigo Girls. Seek this one out."
-- Billboard Magazine

Meghan Cary's music has drawn comparisons to Shawn Colvin, Stevie Nicks, Blind Faith and even Bruce Springsteen. An award-winning songwriter and a natural on stage, Cary was named Billboard Magazineís Critic's Choice for Best Newcomer when she hit the music scene. As one critic exclaimed: "Cary is a star waiting to happen!" (Barry Fox -The Patriot News). The star has risen.

On her newest release, "Live at Your House", Cary serves up the magic of her live show on CD, and literally leaves her audience howling. “Live at Your House” is unique in the fact that it was recorded live in a living room. "I perform house concerts all over the country, so when it came time to record my first live album I knew that to capture the intimacy, energy and comfort level I wanted from the room, it had to be a living room." This album captures it all.

Raised in Hershey, PA, Cary studied math and chemistry at Duke University, with plans of becoming a doctor. But she made an about-face at school, ultimately earning her B.A. in theatre before going on to obtain her M.F.A. in acting at Florida State Universitys Asolo Conservatory. She has performed in more than 50 plays throughout the United States and Europe while simultaneously working in film, television and radio. Cary is a founding member of the NYC-based, Actor's Shakespeare Company. If you haven't caught her playing Helena in "Midsummer", you've probably seen or heard Cary on television selling you everything from diapers to long distance telephone service.

Meghan did not plan on having a recording career but when her fiance Matthew Black passed away she channeled all of her feelings and thoughts for him into songs. She actually had to learn to play guitar at that time and it was on Matthew’s guitar that she learned and then wrote those songs.

Meghan says "It struck me as I was working on my new tune 'Building a House' (you'll be hearing it soon) that in May of 2005, I will have been writing, recording and performing my own music for 10 years. I couldn't believe it. To this day I pick up my guitar to write a song and it feels like a brand new experience." To commemorate her first ten years of music making, Meghan recently released a 3 CD set, "boxset - A Decade of Song,", that includes 3 of her 4 CD releases: "New shoes," "Onion Dream," and "Live at Your House." To listen to any of Meghan's music, you can log on to www.meghancary.com, you can also purchase a CD on that webpage.

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Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall

Best known for recently portraying Samantha Jones on "Sex and the City" on TV Kim has been an actress since age 11. Her latest movie is "Ice Princess."

Born in Liverpool, England, her family moved to Vancouver Island, Canada when she was three years old.

At age 11 Kim returned to London to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for a semester.

After graduating from High School in Vancouver she won a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and was discovered by Otto Preminger and given a part in his movie "Rosebud" in 1975. After that film she returned to Vancouver Theatre and an agent saw her in a production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in Toronto, and offered her a seven-year deal with Universal Studios in Los Angeles

She was in "Porkys," "Police Academy," "Mannequin," "Star Trek VI," "Bonfire of the Vanities," and many, many other films.

One of my favorite quotes of Kim's is;

"There are so many avenues of performing. I'm not interested in the form of musical theater unless it's something like The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), which is a blast."

Kim is from Bethel 8, Courteney, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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Anita Sue Dennison

As Anita Sue Dennison she was known as a PHQ of Bethel 6, Webster Groves, MO.

Anita is married to James Oberwetter, the current US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia who was appointed Janurary, 2004. Ambassador Oberwetter is from Cuero, TX. In Saudi Arabia she is actively involved in the embassy and expatriate communities. She serves as the honorary chairman of the American Women of Riyadh, a social and philanthropic organization and is active with the American International School.

Anita is the owner and president of Texas Anesthesia Consultants, a private nurse anesthesia practice in Dallas, Texas. She is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist who has been in anesthesia practice for 30 years. She has been voted one of the Great 100 Nurses of Texas and is a member of the National Nursing Honor Society. She is a Past President of the Texas Association of Nurse Anesthetists, where I'm sure her training as HQ came in handy.

When she signed the Missouri Job's Daughters web guestbook she wrote "I have very fond memories of my time participating in the Job's Daughters organization. I was proud to serve as the Honored Queen of Bethel #6 in Webster Groves, Missouri. That opportunity and organization allowed me to have the skills to understand people, to experience the joy of giving, and to share fellowship with other young women. I applaud your continued success for young ladies everywhere."

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Jacquelynne Fontaine
Jacquelynne Fontaine

She is the current Miss California, and is planning to compete in the Miss America pageant.

Jacquelynne Fontaine is a PHQ of Bethel 142, Oxnard, CA.

Her sister, Vanessa, was Grand Bethel Jr. Princess in 2000 so Jobies is a big part of her family life.

She joined after having fun participating in a Jobie volleyball practice.

She would play and sing for many, many installations and Masonic installations in the next seven years.

At Supreme Bethel, 2001 Jacquelynne won First Place in Voice, Piano and Dramatic Monologue.

She says "competing in the Miss California seemed a natural step for me after all of my years in Job's Daughters.

The Miss America Organization stands for four values; Community Service, Education, Talent and Physical Fitness. Job's Daughters nurtured and developed all of these areas, and I count myself lucky to have been in this beautiful organization."

Now her other achievements.

University of Southern California - Masters Candidate in Music, Vocal Arts
California Lutheran University – Bachelor of Arts, Music, Magna cum Laude

Dean’s Scholarship and 4.0 GPA -USC
Magna cum Laude Graduate with Departmental Honors, CLU 2004
Dean’s List, 2000-4; CLU Merit Scholarship 2000-4
Who’s Who Among America’s High School Students, 1998-2000;
Honor Roll and 4.0 GPA 2000
National English Merit Award, 2000

Sang in cathedrals and toured throughout England with University Choir

Private voice and Piano Instructor
Opera Soloist for Symphony benefits
Assistant Choir Director and soloist, Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Server and Law Clerk

Music Teacher, Weemes Elementary
Choir Director, St. Agnes School
Director of community theater productions
Miss Ventura County 2004

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Nancy Flemming

Miss America 1961

Recently retired from a successful career as a program host and interviewer for ABC-TV, Cable Health Network (now Lifetime) and PBS TV show "Sewing Today," Nancy remains active with community and political volunteer activities. Certified as a University of California Master Gardener in 1992, Nancy works on projects involving habitat restoration, school and community gardens and the promotion of non-toxic gardening alternatives. Ms. Flemings diverse interests include hiking, reading, garden design, continuing education programs and travel. In preparation for a vacation in Italy, Nancy began studying Italian language, history and culture. She has currently completed six college semesters and has participated in home-stay language immersion courses in Sienna and Venice, Italy.

Nancy has been married to radio and television personality, Jim Lange (The Dating Game) since 1978 and has two adult children from a previous marriage who share her passion for lifetime education.

Nancy was involved with the 2004 Howard Dean for President campaign in Marin County, California.

She won the talent portion of Miss America by giving a fashion show of the clothes she designed.

Nancy was from Bethel 59, Montague, Michigan.

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Judy Garland
Judy Garland

"That Old Man River keeps rolling along" was one of the many songs that Judy Garland recorded. She was born in the Upper Mississippi River town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where the Judy Garland Museum takes up an entire floor of the old grade school. A block away is the site of the home where Garland spent the first five years of her life. That spot is now occupied by a multiplex cinema in the town's only shopping center. Garland's father operated the only movie theater in Grand Rapids until he moved the family to California in 1927. Garland made her stage debut at that Grand Rapids theater with her two older sisters. In 1934 the Gumm Sisters performed in Chicago during the World's Fair there. That is where Frances Gumm was advised to change her name to Judy Garland.

She immediately attracted attention in such films as Pigskin Parade (1936), Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) and Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), but Judy Garland didn't truly become a star until she was cast in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Her performance as Dorothy won her a special Juvenile Oscar, and it was this role, of course, that gave her her most famous song, "Over the Rainbow." She then appeared in a long string of classic MGM musicals, including Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Easter Parade (1948) and several with her friend, Mickey Rooney. Unfortunately, the same studio that made her a star unwittingly made her a drug addict, providing her with amphetamines to keep her energy level high and her weight level down. This in turn kept her wide awake at night, unable to sleep, so she was given barbiturates to help her sleep. She soon couldn't live without these "wonder drugs." She also couldn't seem to live without a man, as she went through several affairs, often with older men, and by 1950 had been married twice, to bandleader David Rose and director Vincente Minnelli. She had a daughter, Liza Minnelli, with Vincente. All during this time her drug intake had increased dramatically, which led to increasingly erratic behavior and she often failed to show up on time at the studio. MGM eventually couldn't take it any more, and her contract was terminated in 1950. She divorced Minnelli the following year and married producer Sidney Luft. Luft, the father of her daughter Lorna Luft and son Joey Luft, took it upon himself to orchestrate her comeback with a series of very successful concert tours. He also produced the film A Star Is Born (1954), in which many feel she gave her greatest performance. By now she was concentrating on her career as a singer, which was winning her more legions of fans. She continued touring throughout the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in three more films and starring in her own television variety show in 1963, which had to be canceled after one season because the competition, "Bonanza" (1959), was too strong. She divorced Luft and married actor Mark Herron; she divorced him when she found out he was gay, and married disco manager Mickey Deans. Throughout this time, however, she still continued her dependency on prescription drugs, and finally the inevitable happened: on the night of June 22, 1969, she overdosed on barbiturates and died. Thousands mourned the world over. It was a sad way to end, but she has left a great legacy: her many films and recordings, as well as her children. Liza and Lorna are now singers as well, carrying on the family tradition.

Source: www.imdb.com

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Mary Ellen Gilbert

Mary Ellen Gilbert was not an Actress or Senator, or Beauty Queen.

She was a Navy Wave during WWII, something to be more proud of than any of those other titles. From Feburary of 1943 to December, 1945 she was a Navy Wave Yoeman stationed at the Bureau of Naval Personal in Washington, DC. One of her many duties was to see that a billfold, wristwatch or other personal items from a sailor who had been on a ship that was sunk made their way back to the sailors family. Tracking down these families had to be done secretly so the newspapers didn't find out about ships sinking. She knew about the loss of a ship before the public or newspapers but had to keep it a secret.

Mary Ellen was born in Colville, WA. and grew up there helping her father on his farm, graduating from High School there in 1940. Her father was a veteran and was very proud of her when she decided to enlist.

She was the FIRST HQ from Bethel 13, WA.

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Christie Hageman
Christie Hageman

Christie Hageman is a PHQ from Bethel 3, Billings, MT.

She graduated from Billings Senior High School and
San Jose State University – Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance

She is now attending the University of Texas at Austin studying for a Master's of Music in Opera Performance

She was active at First Immanuel Church, San Jose, CA. during those 4 years at San Jose State, singing solos during worship services and giving several concerts in their sanctuary.

Her talent in the Miss Montana contest was a jazz rendition of the song "Route 66."

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Jenilee Harrison

JENILEE HARRISON is probably still best known for being on the TV show "Three's Company" as Cindy Snow, the little sister of Chrissy Snow, who was played by Suzanne Somers. She was written into the show 1980 when the salary demands of Suzanne Somers were responsible for her part being reduced and eventually got her written out of the show. The next season the Cindy Snow character was sent off to UCLA and replaced by Priscilla Barnes as Terri Alden. She still made appearances on the show but not every episode.

Jenilee was Miss San Fernando Valley and was also a Miss Young America. She was a Los Angeles Rams Cheerleader from 1978-1980. She also starred in "Dallas", a TV show, from 1984-1987 when her character was killed off. She received a Soap Opera Digest nomination for Best New Actress for "Dallas". She also did several episodes of "Fantasy Island". Today she can be seen on infomercials on TV.

Jenilee attended USC where she graduated with a BS in Education. She is from Bethel 76, San Fernando, California.

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Heather Moore
Heather Moore

Heather Moore is known to the citizens of Raleigh, NC. as the field reporter for News14 Carolina but as Heather Mallard she was known to hundreds of Job's Daughters and DeMolays throughout North and South Carolina for many years.

Heather's JD credentials

  • Four-time PHQ Bethel #2 Raleigh, NC
  • Miss Carolinas Job's Daughters 1996-1997
  • Jurisdictional Senior Princess of the Carolinas 1996-1997
  • NC DeMolay State Sweetheart 1997
  • Order of Eastern Star, Millbrook Chapter #293, Raleigh, NC 1998 - present

Heather is on the spot whether it is an impending Hurricane approching or at the court room, or on the street covering late breaking news bringing the citizens of Raleigh the coverage that they have been accustomed to since she started working at News14.

Heather got her start in television on ADTV at Athens Drive High School. In addition to ADTV, Heather was a member of the Varsity Softball Team and the Step Team.

After high school, Heather attended North Carolina State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication with a concentration in mass communication and a minor in psychology. In college, Heather worked as a student supervisor and sports official for Intramural and Recreational Sports. She also volunteered with the NCSU Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

Heather's first full-time job was with WARZ-TV35 in Smithfield, NC, where she worked three years as the News Director/News Anchor. Heather also produced local high school football games.

She enjoys watching and playing sports, especially football. She rarely misses an opportunity to cheer on the NC State Wolfpack or the Carolina Panthers. Heather's hobbies include dancing, deep sea fishing, reading, and experiencing new things. The love of Heather's life is her five-foot iguana, Iggy.

Heather wrote,

"I would be honored for you to use my name and information. My time in Job's Daughters was such a big part of my life growing up and a big part of who I am now. ...[M]y name back then was Heather Mallard. Everyone from Jobies and DeMolay would know me as Heather Mallard, but everyone now knows me as Heather Moore from TV."

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Jean Rabe

Do you like fantasy stories? Love going to Renaissance Fairs, Science fiction? Have you read any of the Dragonlance Dhamon Sagas? Have you read Red Magic, Secret of the Djinn or Night of the Tiger? Then you are enjoying books written by PHQ Jean Rabe. Jean is a former TSR author, game designer of way too many role-playing modules to list, and former director of the Role-Playing Game Association (RPGA).

Jean says;

“I actually started writing in grade school, and I remember telling a second grade teacher that I was going to write books for a living. I'd enter every writing contest I saw posted, and I managed to win a few prizes -- trophies, a desk lamp, but nothing really major.

When I was in Job’s Daughters I would enter every Grand Bethel and Supreme writing competition I could. I won once for a story about an elderly woman I had befriended while visiting the Eastern Star Home in Illinois and again for a piece on patriotism.

I was published while still in High School; an article about comic book collecting.

I attended Northern Illinois University, where I was studying journalism, and geology and was a reporter for the college paper. After graduating I was hired as an education reporter for the Herald-Whig in Quincy, IL. I moved to the Evansville Press in Indiana as a transportation, police and government reporter, covering air disasters, murders and the occasional school cafeteria worker who was caught embezzling money. All this time I was sending off stories, and collecting rejection slips. When an opening became available at TSR (the producers of Dungeons & Dragons), I applied for it. They hired me as coordinator for the Role-Playing Game Association Network.

I still correspond with the woman who was the Bethel Guardian when I was in Job's. And I have such very fond memories of the organization.”

Jean has written 20 novels, with more on the way. She has edited a half-dozen anthologies and written more than three dozen short stories.

She recently finished Andre Norton's final novel “A Taste of Magic”, an incredible honor. (Andre Norton is considered the "Grand Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy," author, poet, editor, whose published works span seven decades). Then Jean Rabe will write a true crime book with F. Lee Bailey, noted Criminal Attorney (calling back on her days as a crime reporter).

Now Jean lives in a pleasant subdivision in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She has a goldfish pond in the backyard, a couple of cherry trees in the front yard (she misses the small orchard they had in the sticks), and two dogs that wrap themselves around her feet while she writes.

TOR Books by Jean Rabe:

  • The Finest Creation
  • The Finest Choice
  • Return to Quag Keep
  • The Finest Challenge
  • A Taste of Magic

Wizards of the Coast novels by Jean Rabe:

  • Redemption
  • Betrayal
  • Downfall
  • The Dawning of a New Age
  • Day of the Tempest
  • The Eve of the Maelstrom
  • The Lake of Death
  • The Silver Stair
  • Maquesta Kar-Thon
  • Secret of the Djinn
  • Night of the Tiger
  • Red Magic

Jean says you can visit her website at www.jeanrabe.com.

Jean (Mooney) Rabe is a PHQ of Bethel 52, Ottawa, IL.

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Aimee Teegarden
Aimee Teegarden

Aimee Teegarden is on the NBC drama "Friday Night Lights" and also the current Sweetheart for Walt Disney Chapter DeMolay in Anaheim.

Aimee is a PHQ from Downey Bethel 244 in Downey, California.

She has guest stared in shows such as "Cold Case", "The Bold and the Beautiful", "Hannah Montana", and "Ned's Declassified". She can also be seen in commericals such as Lays Potato Chips and Axe "Clix". Aimee has also been in print campaigns for Hollister, Nike, K-Swiss, Old Navy, and Alltell.

Aimee plays the coach's daughter.

This show is based on the movie and is getting very good reviews.

If you'd like to see this famous jobie in action, "Friday Night Lights" is on Wednesday nights at 8:00/7:00pm Central on NBC.

In August 2007, Aimee also asked Miss Teen South Carolina the question, "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?" Watch the response on YouTube.

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