Penney-Missouri Awards at 12 Years
I recently came across this article from the 1972 Penney-Missouri Award Program. (This was the top honor for women’s pages. It was sponsored by the J.C. Penney Company and overseen by the Missouri School of Journalism.) In it, Paul Myhre who oversaw the program wrote about the first dozen years of the program. The program notes that Paul had passed away the previous September.
“So women remain women: Talented, arbitrary, competent, charming, capricious creatures. They are the liberationists; the serious career types; and those who guide and rear the family first and still. Others are finding their first voices, for better or worse. Many millions more are working out of necessity, many are listening and reacting.”
He concluded: “After all, hasn’t this been the objective of Penney-Missouri Award for more than a dozen years? Helping people report family news more accurately, honestly and creatively than before?”
The papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards are now at the Missouri Historical Society.
