I received a great package from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection yesterday with information 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.

I did not find a biographical piece about Drue, but the letters were helpful. Clearly, these women 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 and she was winning awards for it.

I hope to write an article about Drue although the information gathering has been slow. I hired a researcher last year 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.

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I received a great package from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection yesterday with information 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.

I did not find a biographical piece about Drue, but the letters were helpful. Clearly, these women 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 and she was winning awards for it.

I hope to write an article about Drue although the information gathering has been slow. I hired a researcher last year 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.

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