Accomplishments of Mount Holyoke Alumnae

• Executive Producer of Sesame Street
• First person in U.S. to produce Valentine cards for sale
• First woman to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet and the creator of Social Security, minimum wage, and workman's compensation
• Designer of the Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2 computer icons: the moving watch, hourglass, trash can, folder, smiling Mac face, paintbrush, etc.
• First woman elected a state governor on her own (without succeeding her husband)
• Mother of U.S. President William Howard Taft
• First woman movie producer to win an Oscar
• Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in playwriting
• U.S. Congresswoman from the State of New York
• U.S. Olympic Gold medalist
• Editor at the Boston Globe newspaper
• Producer on NBC's Today show
• First woman to run a major New England bank
• U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon
• First girl in her hometown's all-boys baseball league and MVP winner
• First woman rabbi in the State of Connecticut
• First woman mayor of Brisbane, Australia
• U.S. District Court judge for State of New Jersey
• Emmy Award winning TV news producer
• First woman to skipper a boat in Pan-American Games
• First woman railroad superintendent

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