Kathryn Robinette

Kathryn Robinette won Penney-Missouri Awards for her women’s section of the Palm Beach Post in 1966 and 1968. She earned an undergraduate degree and then a master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago before trying women’s page journalism in 1960 in Georgia. She wrote: “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.” She married and had children. While she covered the many galas of Palm Beach, she covered social issues, too. Her 1968 full-page Mother’s Day article was about the role of foster mothers in her community.

This photo is from my most recent trip to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri.