Grammar Gazette- Issue 2, 2016

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Emma Bills (12W, profile on page 20)

Elizabeth Moss (9E, profile on page 20)

Josephine Dooley (11G, profile on page 20)

Lydia Pascoe (12O, profile on page 21)

and female CEOs. All but two (out of 30) of the male CEOs that Fitzsimmons interviewed had captained football teams (Fitzsimmons, 2011). They had learned leadership and other skills broadly applicable to work life prior to entering the workforce. In her 2011 article, The Secret To Being A Power Woman: Play Team Sports , author Jenna Groudreau states: ‘Playing team sports in school not only helps women succeed in business, it sends them straight to the top.’ PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi played cricket in her native India; Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld played four varsity sports in high school and college basketball at Cornell University in New York; and SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro played lacrosse and field hockey at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. A sports background instilled in them valuable lessons for the boardroom, a mental and emotional toughness and the ability to speak a key business language obscured to those who don’t ‘get’ sports.

Milan Agnew (12L, profile on page 20)

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