A visit from Holly and a reminder of Beverley Morales
On Sunday, we traveled to St. Petersburg to see one of our former SIUE student-turned-journalist Holly who was in town to go through a Poynter workshop. She works at the Rapid City Journal in South Dakota. Her visit reminded me of Florida women’s page editor Beverley Morales. She, and her first husband Hector, ran the Beulah Independent in North Dakota during the 1950s. Above is an example of one of the issues. Beverley wrote the editorial.
Holly and I talked about some issues in the Native American community which also reminded me of Beverley. She ran the Native American newspaper, A’tome in Lame Deer, Montana in the 1970s and married Jack Badhorse. I have tracked down several issues of the newspaper in the archives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where I did my undergrad. There does not seem to be any mentions of the newspaper in the literature on Native American newspapers.
Beverley also wrote her University of Wyoming master’s thesis about four Native American newspapers.
