Researching Miami Herald Journalist Kay Murphy
I have been researching Miami women’s page journalist Kay Murphy.
I found a scholarship is given in her name – as recently as 2017. Here is information about it:
“Kay Murphy Price Scholarship: Kay Murphy Price was a Scripps alum who had a 33-year career as a feature writer with the Columbus Dispatch and Miami Herald. She was also an artist, winning awards for her poetry, and gourmet cooking, and dabbling with a paint brush. She established this scholarship for students with an interest in newspaper or magazine journalism.”
Here is a link to one of her many stories about furnishings.
Here is information about her from her Ohio alumni magazine:
1930
Kay Murphy Price (Mrs. Norman Price) has retired from The Miami Herald (Miami, Fla.) after 33 years. As a
writer for the Home and Design section, she won five Dorothy Dawe Awards from American Furniture Mart for distinguished coverage of the home furnishings field.
The Miami Herald honored Kay with a special luncheon before her departure. Among those present were Eleanor Haz-
lett Ratelle (Mrs. Noel J. Ratelle) also of the class of ’36, who alerted Kay to the opening on The Herald that brought her
to Miami in 1942. Eleanor is still working, a member of The Herald’s “Living Today” staff.
Kay Murphy will also be included in my upcoming book about women’s page editors.
You May Also Like
