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The Beardstown Ladies is a group of 16 women in their 70s who formed an investment club, formally known as the Beardstown Business and Professional Women's Investment Club, in Beardstown, Illinois, in 1983 in a church basement.
The Beardstown Ladies, with an average age of 70 (1994), were asked to appear on The Donahue Show, CBS's Morning Show, NBC's The Today Show, and ABC's Good Morning America. For six straight years they were honored by the National Association of Investors Corp's "All-Star Investment Clubs".
A professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she had spent a decade writing a book about Beardstown, Illinois—a once struggling Midwestern ...
Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988) Janice Winifred O'Hara [×´Jenny×´] (November 30, 1918 – March 7, 2001) was a pitcher and utility who played from 1943 through 1949 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League .
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The Beardstown Ladies claimed that their stock picks gave them a 23.9 percent return from 1985-1995, when their first book came out. This was better than the 14.9 percent return of the S&P index. However, they made a mistake in their calculations and were including the investment club dues in their profits. The true investment return was 9.1 ...
Lincoln Land Community College is a public community college in Springfield, Illinois. [2] [3] It has extended branches in different locations, including Beardstown, Jacksonville, Litchfield and Taylorville, Illinois. The main campus is less than half a mile from the University of Illinois Springfield.
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