Role Model Audrey Hepburn

AUDREY HEPBURN

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Belgium. She is famous for being a British actress and humanitarian. She was very modest about her acting ability, but she was still one of the world’s most famous actresses ever. I admire Audrey Hepburn because she did good actions for the world in ways such as devoting much of her life to UNICEF, humanitarian work, and working in some disadvantaged communities in Africa as well as Asia and South America. I also admire her for doing all of this with appendix cancer. Audrey Hepburn unfortunately died of appendix cancer on January 20, 1993 in Switzerland at age 63. Audrey Hepburn is an amazing role model!

Role Model Cynthia Cooper-Dyke

CYNTHIA COOPER-DYKE

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was born on April 14th, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois. She’s a former American basketball player. She was a guard on the Houston Comets from 1997-2000 and in 2003. She was a champion in college, the olympics, and in the Women’s National Basketball Association and many people even consider her one of the greatest women basketball stars ever. She is currently in the basketball hall of fame and is also coaching the University of North Carolina Wilmington women’s basketball team. I admire Cynthia Cooper-Dyke because she decided to keep doing what she loved to do after she had to retire from playing on the team. Since she loved basketball so much she became a coach so she could keep doing what she loved to do. Cynthia Cooper is 49 years old and coaching the UNC Wilmington.

Role Model Rita Dove

RITA DOVE

Rita Dove was born on August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio. She is a poet and an author. She was the first and only African American to be a Poet Leaureate of America. In 1987 she was the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Rita Dove was also the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004-2006. Rita’s most recent award was the National Medal of Arts in 2011. I admire Rita Dove because she made history by doing what she loved. Rita is still around today at age 59. Rita Dove is a great role model!

Role Model Kim Campbell

KIM CAMPBELL

Kim Campbell was born on March 10, 1947 in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Her full name is Avril Phaedra Douglas “Kim” Campbell. She is famous for being the first woman Prime Minister of Canada. Kim Campbell is also the only female Prime Minister of Canada so far. She was the only Canada Prime Minister born in British Columbia. She was the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada, from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Kim Campbell is also a Canadian polititian, university professor, lawyer, and diplomat. I admire Kim Campbell because she was able to do so much and be very successful in all the things she did. Kim is still around and today, March 10th is her 65th birthday! Kim Campbell is a terrific woman!

Role Model Mabel Gillespie

Mabel Gillespie was born in 1877 in St. Paul Minnesota. Mabel Gillespie is famous for standing up for working women. In 1912 Mabel was set to the Minimum Wage Commision in Massachusetts. A few years later Mabel Gillespie became the president of the Stenographers’ Union. A year later, Mabel Gillespie joined the Women’s Trade Union League. She was on the executive board from 1919 until 1922. I admire Mabel because she did as much as she could to help working women. Mabel Gillespie died in 1923.

Interview With Nancy Gruver Part 2

NANCY GRUVER

How do you feel about accomplishing your founding of NMG?

I feel great!  It’s exciting and challenging and I’m always learning new things with NMG. I love doing all that. And I most of all love hearing from girls and young women how NMG is important to them and how it helps them through tough times and inspires them to try new things.

Was it originally your idea to start a website and magazine like NMG?

It was – I got the idea when I was looking for ways to help my daughters when they were pre-teens. I was worried about how low and limited the expectations of girls and the things presented in media about girls were.  I wanted something that honored and respected and celebrated girls and all their talents and their dreams and their goals for themselves. I want the world to see girls as individuals with important ideas and who can make the world better. But in 1992 that wasn’t the way things were at all.

How did you decide to use ShutterStock to get the NMG magazine covers?

With the recession we couldn’t afford to pay artists to paint/draw cover art any more.  So we use ShutterStock and invite photographers to submit photos of girls we can consider for our covers.

How do you find staff members for NMG?

Usually when we have an opening we have people who have interned or volunteered in other ways for us in the past who would love to work for NMG. If any of those people seem like a good fit from what we know of how they worked during their internship we invite them to apply. If we don’t have a few people who would be a good fit to apply we also put the word out through our networks that we have a job opening.

That’s the end of the interview! Click here to read the first part of the interview transcript! Thank you so much, Nancy! You did an amazing job answering these questions! I hope everyone enjoyed reading the transcript of my interview with Nancy Gruver! Nancy Gruver is so admirable to me! I hope you’ll join New Moon Girls!