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2010 Women of Achievement Honorees
Sr. Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, MPF
International Mission Director, Religious Teachers Filippini,
Author of Aids Orphans Rising
Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd entered the Institute of the Religious Teachers Filippini in Morristown at the age of 18. After completing her formation and education, she taught elementary and high school science.
After receiving her doctorate from Columbia University in Nutrition and Public Health, she worked at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 1994, Sister was appointed secretary to Mother General and mission office director for the Religious Teachers Filippini Institute in Rome, Italy.
As mission office director she has helped single mothers, women and girls at risk, and orphans. She has helped develop programs to aid the Child Headed Households, i.e. brothers and sisters left orphaned by HIV/Aids, a work which now has become a priority for the institute. Her experiences in Albania, Brazil, Ethiopia, Eritrea and India inspired the writing of Aids Orphans Rising.
She is also the vocation director for the Religious Teachers Filippini, USA and a board member for Newark Family Resource Center.
She is working not only to provide God's love, food, clothing, and an education for the children, but most of all to give these children a future of peace.
Margaret Nordstrom
Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders
Margaret Nordstrom has been a member of the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders since September 1999. She was elected by her colleagues to lead the freeholder board as its director for three consecutive years - 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Under her leadership, the freeholder board began taking some of their public meetings "on the road," conducting some of those spring, summer and fall evening sessions in communities across the county.
Nordstrom is freeholder liaison to the newly established Freight Railroad Advisory Committee and the Department of Information Services, which includes the Morris County Library. She also chairs the freeholder Budget Committee and is a member of the Facilities Review Committee and the county's Aviation Advisory Committee, which she helped establish.
During her time on the board, Nordstrom has also been freeholder liaison to the County College of Morris, the School of Technology and the Morris County Park Commission. She is a former mayor of Washington Township, serving in that post from 1994 to the end of 1999, and she was also a member of the governing body in the community from 1991 to 2002.
Nordstrom is a founding member of the Washington Township Land Trust and a member of the board of trustees of the Arts Council of the Morris Area and the New Jersey Historic Sites Council.
She has bachelor's degree and a master's degree in political science and is a former ballet instructor. Nordstrom and her husband, Bill, reside in Long Valley, Washington Township.
Marlene Bauer Pissott
President and Founder, InGroup, Inc.
Marlene Bauer Pissott is president and founder of InGroup, Inc., Wyckoff. Established in 1995, InGroup provides marketing-communications and public relations services from concept to final implementation, including management and maintenance of the finished product for non-profit, government, and enterprise clients. The company also provides ad hoc creative services as needed for any client.
Prior to launching InGroup, Marlene enjoyed a successful career in marketing and medical publishing. Her accomplishments include a national branding/PR campaign for a manufacturer of executive leather goods. In the publishing field, she expanded the client base of the publisher's newsletter division by 600 percent in a little more than a year.
Now at the helm of her own company, Marlene and InGroup have several new successful ventures involving Web and print solutions. The company's Web specialty division, WebSwagger.com, provides professional and affordable Web sites and co-branded marketing materials to businesses and professional service firms nationwide.
In addition to running InGroup, Marlene lends her time and expertise to organizational boards. Currently, she serves on the board of the Bergen County Community College's Women's Institute. Past service has included New Jersey Network of Business and Professional Women and Felician College Alumni, among others.
She also shares her experiences and knowledge with interested groups. She has been a featured speaker for numerous organizations such as various chapters of the Alternative Board, Women in Communication, and Fairleigh Dickinson University 2008 Executive Lecture Series.
Marlene holds a B.A. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Felician College. She currently lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband and two children.
Wendy Shen
President/CEO, FLOMO/Nygala Corp.
From growing up in Taiwan to running her own business in the United States, Wendy Shen was drawn to be a leader and help others around her. Much of her childhood was spent learning the fundamentals of business and hard work at her parent's factory, enjoying extracurricular activities like Girl Scouts, and spending summers teaching handicapped children at a special school.
During college, Wendy ventured to the United States to complete her undergraduate studies at the University of Miami and studied for her MBA at Pace University in New York City.
In her final year at Pace, Wendy prepared a marketing plan, How to Start a Business in the United States, and with those principals she started selling FLOMO© party supplies, stationery, plush toys, and more - made all from her parent's factory.
As a start-up company, Shenny Enterprises, Wendy was president, receptionist, cleaning person, and saleswoman. By 1990, the business had grown to take on nationwide distribution, and in 1992 Wendy incorporated Nygala Corporation.
Today, the company has grown to become a recognized industry leader in the discount and party supply industry.
Wendy attributes her company's success to, "...talented and hard-working employees, innovative product ideas, superior quality, and excellent financial resources." As an employer, she takes pride in helping her employees succeed - and makes herself available to their friends and family when they need help.
Doris Sanders-Headley
Mitzi Golbek Spirit of Girl Scouting Award
Leader and volunteer, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey
Doris Sanders-Headley first became involved as a Girl Scout Brownie in Englewood in the 1970s. Although she was only in Girl Scouts for a year, she said the experience "stayed in her heart." She still has the Brownie Bike Bonanza badge she earned in 1973, her Brownie beanie and several Girl Scout pins.
Once she graduated from college and moved back home to Englewood, she decided to give back to her community by starting a Girl Scout Brownie troop at her church, Ebenezer Baptist Church, with about 25 first and second graders.
The troop has many wonderful experiences including an overnight trip to a museum in Pennsylvania, fashion shows at Kids R Us in Paramus, and the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, a Camp-O-Ree at Hershey Park, and caroling with the senior citizens of Englewood, which she still continues every year with Englewood Girl Scout troops.
In 1992, Doris became active in the already established Englewood Service Unit with other lifelong Girl Scouts and continued to work with the girls for years to come. She led her troop as they moved up in program levels and eventually graduated from high school and college. As she moved her troop up in the program levels, she recruited new leaders to take on younger troops.
In 2009, her first college graduates came back to lead their own troop as Girl Scout Daisy leaders.
In 2004-2005, Doris took on the position as service unit manager for Englewood. Although she no longer leads her own troop, she helps with and participates in community and council events, including Eco Trek 2009, town-wide camping trips, the My Favorite Girl Brunch, My Favorite Guy golf outings, and Christmas bus rides to Pennsylvania.
Doris is married and has one son. Carrying on the Scouting tradition in her family, her husband is a den leader and her son is a Cub Scout in Pack 216 of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Doris has worked for UPS for more than 22 years and is currently the Human Resource Representative.
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