Researching Kathryn Robinette
I am beginning a a potential new journal article about Palm Beach women’s page editor Kathryn Robinette who won two Penney-Missouri Awards, the top recognition for women’s pages in the 1960s.
Robinette earned an undergraduate degree and then a master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago before trying women’s page journalism at the Georgia newspaper Morning News and Evening Press in 1960. She wrote of the experience: “I typed weddings and all that tiresome stuff but managed to fall in love with the work anyway. I also formed firm opinions about what type of story best served the reader’s interest – having been one for so long.” In 1966, she left for the Palm Beach Post-Times. She often worked for the newspaper from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m., seven days a week; at times she attended several parties in a single evening.
