Women’s Page Editors and Dogs
We just adopted a five-year-old puggle (a mix of a pug and a beattle) named Pugsley. The video above is our son Curtis meeting his new dog.
Several women’s pages editors had dogs. Marjorie Paxson who was a women’s Paged editor in Houston, Miami and St. Petersburg, always had a dog. When she was interviewed for the Washington Press Club Foundation’s Women in Journalism oral history, she had a dog named Typo.
When she became a publisher in Muskogee, Paxson became known in the community for bringing her miniature dachshund, Tiger, to work. She said, “He was a small dog and so I thought he needed a name that would boost his ego.”
Her mother was shocked when she learned that Tiger accompanied her daughter to the office. Her mother said, “‘I don’t know about your taking that dog to the office, Marjorie. What will they think?’ And I said, ‘Mom, I am ‘they.’’ That’s when it got through to her that her daughter was really the boss. More about Paxson is available here.
