Researching Women’s Page Editor Drue Lytle
Today I got back to writing about Drue Lytle – the women’s page editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards in the 1960s. Her letters back and forth with Awards’ director Paul Myhre can be found in the Penney-Missouri Awards papers at the NWMC.
I also found some great articles about Drue. Clearly, women’s page editors like Drue – with help from Paul – were pushing to change the content of women’s pages. For example, Drue was working to add more medical and health news in her section.
I am re-starting an article about Drue although the information gathering has been slow. I hired a researcher several years ago to go through the Advertiser on microfiche. She found few bylines for Drue. Thanks to the letters, I now see that while she did not write much but as editor, she was assigning progressive stories.
