Joan Ganz Cooney
Creator ~ Sesame Street

Millions of young children have benefited from the creation of Sesame Street by Joan Ganz Cooney. Joan graduated from the University of Arizona and went to work as a newspaper reporter. In 1954, she moved to New York City to write for television. Ten years later in 1964 she received a local Emmy Award for her study of the anti-poverty programs in New York . In this same year, history was made. Joan studied the use of television for preschool education and solicited more than $8 million from foundations and federal agencies to start the Children's Television Workshop….. and from there… Sesame Street!!!

Sesame Streets first show aired in 1969 and won numerous awards. It is now seen by numerous children around the world. Very few preschoolers have not benefited from Joan's creation. It has helped them learn about our world and all the different kinds of people in it while teaching learning skills.

Joan Ganz Cooney has certainly influenced the education of many children in the latter quarter of the 20th Century.

Audrey Hepburn
Actress/Writer/Activist

Audrey Hepburn (1919-1992), was a remarkable woman. Not only did she become a famous actress, she was a humanitarian. Several of her famous films were: Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Face (1957), and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). Audrey's father was a British banker and her mother was a Dutch baroness. She never really wanted for anything until WWII. The Nazi's occupied the Netherlands and she suffered oppression and malnutrition from 1944 to 1945. It is no wonder she later began her humanitarian efforts with those poor starving children in Africa and Latin America. In 1988, Hepburn was named as a special ambassador to the United Nation's Fund (UNICEF), and spent the last years of her life helping those special children.

During her life, she managed to write and there is one special piece that speaks to all women, regardless of nationality, creed, or religion. It is entitled: Beauty Tips

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw anybody out.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial move, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passions that she shows, and the beauty of woman with passing years - only grows."

Thank you Audrey for sharing these very special words with us.

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