Business Leader, CEO/Founder of Men’s Wearhouse

NASA Expert in Climate Change

HISTORIAN

Virginia Drachman began her career as a historian committing a historic act. As a senior, she led an action by high school women – her friends-- against the school dress code. The “girls” came to school wearing culottes instead of the approved skirt. The principal, Aaron Fink, knew when he was beaten and caved.

POLITICAL ACTIVIST, WRITER

“Sleep not but thrive
So shalt thou live”

So began Nan Aron’s self reflections in Bandersnach. After Scarsdale High came Yale University and Yale Law School and some years in Civil Rights Law and teaching at Georgetown and George Washington University Law Schools.

LEADER IN WOMEN’S SPORTS

When Deborah Larkin attacks a problem, she attacks it from a hundred directions at once. So when she was concerned about the treatment and accomplishments of women in sports, she climbed high and founded the White House Project. Of course that organization did not limit itself to sports. Its goal was to advance women’s leadership in all aspects of American life including the presidency.