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Edee Greene letter to Paul & Mary Myhre
I came across this letter from Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene to Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre and his wife Mary. Over the years the three became good friends, as noted in the tone of the letter. In this letter Edee mentions having lunch with Beverley Morales who was pregnant with Maria at the time. I am working on a paper about Beverley right now. Her long career has taken some time to document. My article about Edee is currently under review at a journal. She was the funniest of the women’s page editors. Her letters are as funny as her columns were.
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Edee Greene letter to Paul & Mary Myhre
I came across this letter from Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene to Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre and his wife Mary. Over the years the three became good friends, as noted in the tone of the letter. In this letter Edee mentions having lunch with Beverley Morales who was pregnant with Maria at the time. I am working on a paper about Beverley right now. Her long career has taken some time to document. My article about Edee is currently under review at a journal. She was the funniest of the women’s page editors. Her letters are as funny as her columns were.
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Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan
This afternoon I am working on revisions for the article I am working on the women’s section of the Milwaukee Journal. I am focusing on the work of fashion editor Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. During her first summer of work in 1921, Ryan attended a meeting to hear Milwaukee Journal Editor Marvin Creager say he was happy to have females on the staff because “women have cleaned up newspaper offices.” Ryan later recalled the statement made her feel as though she had been hired to use a mop. Ryan started under the editorship of women’s page journalist Elizabeth B. Moffet. Moffett had been recruited from the…
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Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan
This afternoon I am working on revisions for the article I am working on the women’s section of the Milwaukee Journal. I am focusing on the work of fashion editor Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. During her first summer of work in 1921, Ryan attended a meeting to hear Milwaukee Journal Editor Marvin Creager say he was happy to have females on the staff because “women have cleaned up newspaper offices.” Ryan later recalled the statement made her feel as though she had been hired to use a mop. Ryan started under the editorship of women’s page journalist Elizabeth B. Moffet. Moffett had been recruited from the…
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Paul Myhre and Drue Lytle’s fight to improve the women’s pages
Today I went through letters between Paul Myhre (director of the Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for the women’s pages in the 1960s) and Drue Lytle, women’s page editor at the Honolulu Advertiser. By the early 1960s, Drue oversaw 15 reporters including stringers from eight major military bases on Oahu. Her section placed at the Penney-Missouri Awards in 1962 and 1963. Yet, despite her recognitions for her work, she was in a constant battle with management to improve her section. She wrote in a 1964 letter to Paul Myhre: “My pages seem uninspired and I don’t know much to do about it. I have so much mish-mash that the…
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Paul Myhre and Drue Lytle’s fight to improve the women’s pages
Today I went through letters between Paul Myhre (director of the Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for the women’s pages in the 1960s) and Drue Lytle, women’s page editor at the Honolulu Advertiser. By the early 1960s, Drue oversaw 15 reporters including stringers from eight major military bases on Oahu. Her section placed at the Penney-Missouri Awards in 1962 and 1963. Yet, despite her recognitions for her work, she was in a constant battle with management to improve her section. She wrote in a 1964 letter to Paul Myhre: “My pages seem uninspired and I don’t know much to do about it. I have so much mish-mash that the…
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