Furnishings repoter Tina Satterthwaite
Tina Satterthwaite was an award-winning home furnishings editor at the Toledo Blade from the 1950s through the 1970s.
From her obituary: When she wrote about the subject, “she did it with great talent,” said Mary Alice Powell, retired Blade food editor, who worked with Lawson.
“I remember her as a writer with vision, ahead of her time in furniture design,” Powell said. “Besides all that, she was a really nice friend.”
Satterthwaite was a five-time winner of the Dorothy Dawe Award for distinguished home furnishings reporting and editing – 1958, 1963, 1966, 1972, and 1973.
On her way to a degree from the University of Toledo, she attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University; studied humanities at the University of Toledo and took classes at the Chicago Art Institute; was in the drama program at Wellesley College, and attended summer drama school at Columbia University in New York City.
She got her start with the former Toledo Times in 1946 and joined The Blade in 1950. At The Blade, she also was home editor; coordinated special sections; wrote a column on decor, and at times wrote travel, book, and theater reviews.
I am collecting stories that Satterthwaite wrote as I explore the coverage of furnishings – one of the four Fs of the women’s pages.
Furnishings repoter Tina Satterthwaite
Tina Satterthwaite was an award-winning home furnishings editor at the Toledo Blade from the 1950s through the 1970s.
From her obituary: When she wrote about the subject, “she did it with great talent,” said Mary Alice Powell, retired Blade food editor, who worked with Lawson.
“I remember her as a writer with vision, ahead of her time in furniture design,” Powell said. “Besides all that, she was a really nice friend.”
Satterthwaite was a five-time winner of the Dorothy Dawe Award for distinguished home furnishings reporting and editing – 1958, 1963, 1966, 1972, and 1973.
On her way to a degree from the University of Toledo, she attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University; studied humanities at the University of Toledo and took classes at the Chicago Art Institute; was in the drama program at Wellesley College, and attended summer drama school at Columbia University in New York City.
She got her start with the former Toledo Times in 1946 and joined The Blade in 1950. At The Blade, she also was home editor; coordinated special sections; wrote a column on decor, and at times wrote travel, book, and theater reviews.
I am collecting stories that Satterthwaite wrote as I explore the coverage of furnishings – one of the four Fs of the women’s pages.
