Marie Anderson & the Servicemen’s Pier
The Veteran’s Day activities yesterday reminded me of some of the work women’s page journalists did stateside during World War II. Some went over to the news side of the newspaper – examples include Betty Ewing, Koky Dishon, Jeanne Voltz, Marjorie Paxson and Dorothy Jurney.
Other women were volunteers for the war effort – such as Marie Anderson, pictured above. She oversaw major projects at the Servicemen’s Pier in Miami. Here is a story about her work in a 1943 Miami News story.
I wrote about Marie’s work at the Pier in this book chapter about women in the Baby Boomer generation.
After the war, Anderson went to work at the Miami News and then the Miami Herald. She eventually won so many Penney-Missouri Awards (the top recognition for women’s pages) that she was retired from the competition.
