Mrs. Payne talked to some leadership classes today about job interview skills, the importance of networking, and how making positive choices now will help prepare a for better future. Thank you, Mrs. Payne!
Spring pictures tomorrow!
Abigail Johnson is the President and CEO of Fidelity Investments, founded by her grandfather Edward Johnson II, and is one of the world’s wealthiest women with a net worth of $15 billion. She owns an estimated 24.5% stake of the firm, which has nearly $2.9 trillion in managed assets. With an MBA from Harvard, she is also the only woman to serve on the board of the Financial Services Forum. Johnson has embraced cryptocurrencies and, in 2018, Fidelity launched a platform that allows institutional investors to trade bitcoin and ether. She has also worked as a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Capitalization.
Oprah Winfrey has become a powerful and respected female leader. Best known for her award-winning talk show, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Winfrey received $30 million of the grossed $125 million after her first season. The style of personable interviews continued to attract viewers, as did her two most famous segments, "Oprah's Book Club" and "Oprah's Favorite Things."
Oprah was the first black female billionaire and became a generous philanthropist. Winfrey has advocated for girls' education across the world and Oprah's Angel Network has raised more than $50 million for charitable programs.
STAAR is almost here and tutoring is well underway! Here are the STAAR dates for CMMS students. #2710
The Caddo Mills Wind Ensemble Band performed at Canton HS today for UIL. Great job band and keep working hard!
Mary Barra is the CEO of General Motors. She is the first woman to secure this position and is also the first women to hold the title of CEO in the automobile sector. Barra has invested billions in electric vehicles, self-driving cars, and a ride-share service called Maven, and, in the spring of 2020, she shifted GM's production lines to help Ventec Life Systems make critically-needed ventilators.
If you are signed up to be on the Caddo Mills Middle School Drill Team for this upcoming 2023-2024 school year, all uniform money is due to Ms. Crawford by next Wednesday, April 5th. Please see Ms. Crawford if you have any questions.
Congratulations to the Girls' 8th grade track team. They are the Canton Relay Champions!
Congratulations to Channing Hartford for being elected the new Junior Beta State President!
Ranked fifth on Forbes’s The World’s Most Powerful Women, Gates continue to raise and provide funding to help solve global challenges of education, poverty, and sanitation. She has also focused her foundation to help all people lead healthy, productive lives, devoting time and energy to specifically women’s rights. Now, Gates's mission is to close the funding gap for female founders through her investment and incubation company, Pivotal Ventures.
Tomorrow students can wear a hat for a $1.00 and or PJs for a $1.00! Help support our local scholarships. #2710
After winning the 2020 presidential election with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris is making history as the first woman, first Black woman, and first Asian American vice president in U.S. history.
Beautiful day for some Fox Tennis!!!
The CMMS Symphonic Band has made history by earning "Sweepstakes" at the Cedar Creek Concert Competition in Kemp. This is the first time the CMMS has had a Non-Vasity band. They earned "Superior" ratings in both their Concert and Sight Reading performances. GO FOXES!!! 🦊
Known as the "Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. She's known for her rendition of Otis Redding's "RESPECT," and songs of her own like “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." She was also involved in civil rights activism, and performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.
The First Lady held the first press conference for women reporters on March 6, 1933. She would cover issues “of special interest and value to the women of the country,” according to the National Women's History Museum. Over the next 12 years she held 348 press conferences for women reporters.
Curie was a scientist whose research on radioactivity led her to discover two new elements. She also researched the atom, and her findings have been integral in scientific advancements related to atomic bombs and medicine, according to Scientific American. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, as well as the first person and only woman to win two Nobel Prizes. She won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911.
Women are outnumbering men in earning postsecondary degrees. According to 2021 data from the Education Data Initiative, 59% of women continued their education after high school, compared to 50% of men.
One-hundred and forty-five women serve in the United States Congress out of 535 total members.
Mayra Nohemi Flores (born January 1, 1986) is an American politician who represented Texas's 34th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2022 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she is the first female Mexican-born member of the House.
