New Dorothy Jurney letter
I am back to working on my women and politics book that focuses on several women’s page editors, including Marjorie Paxson, Marie Anderson, Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney.
In my research, I came across a great letter to women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney from food editor Eudora Garrison. It can be found in Jurney’s papers in the National Women & Media Collection.
Dorothy was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s when she was asked to go to the Charlotte Observer for a few weeks to help improve the women’s pages at that newspaper. Eudora was the food editor at the time.
Eudora wrote to Dorothy in 1988 after she earned the Missouri Honor Medal: “Congratulations and sincerest love to one of the most cherished and stimulating friends I’ve ever had. I will never forget those weeks and months you spent with that fledgling women’s department at the Charlotte Observer. You quietly and skillfully extracted from the staff latent talents they had no idea they possessed. And all the while, how we enjoyed your charm and love and friendship.”
