I just read about the death of Texas women’s page editor Annie Lee Marshall Shelton Williams Terry. Here is her obituary. According to the obituary: “She was a writer and journalist her entire life, and loved the hustle and bustle of the newspaper office. Annie Lee graduated from Graham High School and the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in journalism. She was a member of Girl Reserves while growing up, a member of Theta Sigma Phi (National Honorary Professional Journalistic Fraternity), honorary member of the former Woman’s Forum, and a member of P.E.O. for over forty years. She was Women’s Editor at the Wichita Falls Times and…

The North Dakota newspaper, The Forum, ran an interesting article about its old women’s section. There is a timeline at the end. Here is the article. Here is the beginning of the article: “When Syb Gullickson began working in The Forum’s “women’s section” in the late 1960s, she and other department staff had resigned themselves to several hard facts. They knew they would probably make less than anyone else in the newsroom. And they knew they would spend hours writing stories that male reporters wouldn’t touch, including society gossip, ladies’ club news and meticulously detailed accounts of local weddings. Yet Gullickson enjoyed writing about the people and families in these…