Mr. Barra, 46, of High Falls, N.Y., has been testing the Hudson's power for his newest adventure, what he's calling the 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim.
For Ms. Barra, 55, who took the helm at G.M. in 2014 as the first female chief executive of a major automaker, it is the latest chapter in the company's long comeback.
The selection of Barra, 51, to lead GM into the future marked the latest in a spate of appointments of woman chief executives to corporations long seen as dominated by men.
The Nasdaq 100 returned -12% annually over the past five years, 9 percentage points below the S&P 500 and 14 below the Barra 500 Value Index.
Lagging them, but coming next, will be companies that sell products and services to them, like Advent Software (18, ADVS), which suffered in 2003 but will do better in 2004, and Barra (38, BARZ), a top-tier provider of quantitative analysis.
Barra, 51, whose father was a Pontiac die tool maker and whose mother was a bookkeeper, started working at General Motors when she was just 18.
Barra, 51, joins a handful of women as CEOs of major U.S. companies, including Marissa Mayer at Yahoo Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Meg Whitman.
In the 2001 census, each island overall was over 50% Gaelic speaking – South Uist (71%), Harris (69%), Barra (68%), North Uist (67%), Lewis (56%) and Benbecula (56%).
OCC plays host to College of the Canyons on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Navar, Barra (6), Wood (7) and Valle; Dowdy, Hartwell (6), Reta (7), Longville (7), Hill (9) and Fillingame.
Barra, 51, GM's executive vice president for global product development, purchasing and supply chain, was elected by the board as the next CEO and will be the company's fifth female director on the current board.
Barra, 51, has worked her way up from the factory floor as an intern and has been head of product development, purchasing, supply chain and quality for the last 22 months.
