The recent death of Shirley Temple Black has brought many newspaper articles about her uplifting effect as a child actor. It was maintained that with her acting, singing and dancing, she actually helped people who suffered through the Great Depression. In this month’s enewsletter, we feature two women who were early entertainers in America: Sissieretta Jones and Molly Picon.
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During the months of November and December, many Americans traveled to see their family and friends – in both the U.S. and around the world. Although that travel may have been full of its own difficulties and delays, we are fortunate today to have the opportunity to fly almost anywhere in the world. We do this conveniently and in a relatively short time (you may know that the Mayflower took two months to get to America!). Two women who were aviation pioneers helped make flying possible for all of us. This month we feature Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart.
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In December 2013, General Motors announced that its first woman CEO would take the reins in January 2014. As 
part of the celebration of Mary Barra’s achievement in being the first woman to head a major automobile company, this month we profile two women business leaders from our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. The women we selected were early business leaders: Rebecca Webb Lukens and Rose Markward Knox.
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Two women who are profiled in our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America were 
honored during the recent New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Ceremony. This month we are pleased to feature them: Beatrice Hicks, who posthumously received the Advancement of Invention Award, and Shirley Ann Jackson, who received the Trustees Award.
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The recent announcement that Janet Yellen is President Obama’s choice to chair the Federal Reserve Bank means that, once approved, she will be the first woman ever to hold that position. We have often used the phrase “we stand on their shoulders” as we discuss the women who have come before us and who have done so much. In this instance as well, other women laid the groundwork in the financial industry that enabled Yellen’s appointment. For this month’s enewsletter, we feature two of those pioneers: Sylvia Porter and Muriel Siebert.
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The average life expectancy in 1900 was 45 years of age. By 2000, that number had risen to 78. A significant factor in that increase in average life expectancy was a decrease in infant mortality. Two physicians whose efforts were key are profiled in this month’s enewsletter: Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig and Dr. Virginia Apgar.
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