Category: Women

Marjolijn de Jager Marjolijn was born in 1936 on Borneo, Indonesia—then still a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East-Indies—where her father was a young engineer with Royal Dutch Oil (Shell). After brief travels to the Netherlands and the USA, the family returned to Java in late 1941. The Japanese invaded the country in March 1942 …

Charlene Chiang Hillman is a psychotherapist in private practice with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders; developmental trauma and PTSD; and somatic/energy techniques. Until September of this year, she was also the Director of Social Services for the town of Weston, CT. Charlene is a first- generation Chinese-America born to Ying Ming Wang Chiang, daughter of …

My small claim to fame is that on November 5, 1936, I was a sophomore in Warren Harding High School, when Amelia Earhart came to talk to the Girls’ Assembly. She told us that it was not only a “Man’s World”, but a “Woman’s World” as well. After the Assembly, 3 Honor students were chosen …

Penny Pearlman: I Get Restless I’ve always tried to live my life with the philosophy, that, like a bumble bee, contrary to what others think I’m capable of, I fly anyway. About every five years or so, I get restless and have to shake things up. At each stage, I’ve learned life lessons. As a …