Talking About Clubwomen to the Junior League of Daytona Beach
I am looking forward to my talk tomorrow evening to the Junior League of Daytona Beach: “Women’s Clubs: Well Behaved Women Who Helped Create Community.” In my presentation, I will discuss Marie Anderson’s contributions to Miami.
Above is a photo of Marie Anderson, the longtime women’s page editor of the Miami Herald and the president of the Miami Junior League in 1945. (She is the one wearing glasses; she is sitting next to fellow journalist Dorothy Jurney.)
In the mid-1960s, nearly 9,000 women showed up when Anderson ran a notice asking if female readers were interested in continuing their education. It led to the highly successful Council for the Continuing Education of women.
The Council’s coordinator Betty Kaynor said: “Marie was the dreamer for it. It became one of the prestigious groups in the nation and we were consulted by people all over the U.S., but it never would have flown without Marie’s stories in the Herald. And she certainly put her civic/community resource Junior League training to work.”
The quote and more about Anderson can be found in Nancy Beth Jackson’s The Junior League: 100 Years of Volunteer Service.
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