North Division opponents â Buffalo, Lehigh Valley, Pawtucket, Rochester and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre â a combined 91 times, 11 more than the traditional 80-game divisional slate of past years (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 17, Lehigh Valley and Buffalo 18, Pawtucket and Rochester 19).
Janet L. Yellen took office as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 3, 2014, for a four-year term ending February 3, 2018. Dr. Yellen also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policymaking body.
On Nov. 20, 2017, Yellen announced her resignation from the Federal Reserve Board as soon as Jerome Powell is sworn in. She was the first chair in nearly 40 years to not receive a second term. Background and History. Janet Yellen was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Aug. 13, 1946. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a doctor, and she eventually became editor of the Fort Hamilton High School newspaper, from which she graduated as valedictorian.