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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference
We had a great time at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference this past weekend at Daytona Beach – out third conference in 4 weeks. I spoke about her cookbook, Cross Creek Cookery, which is celebrating its 75 anniversary. I plan to write it up as a formal journal paper this summer.
- food journalism, Food Studies, Ruth Ellen Church, wine editor, wine journalism, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Day 31 & Ruth Ellen Church
On the final day of Women’s History Month for 2017, I am featuring Ruth Ellen Church, the food editor of the Chicago Tribune who wrote under the pen name of Mary Meade for many years. She was the food editor from 1936 to 1974. She was also known as the country’s first wine editor. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1933 with a degree in food and nutrition journalism. The photo above is from the Special Collections at that University. I plan to find out what information they have about her college years. She published many cookbooks during her career -I have tracked down several. Sadly, she was murdered…
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Women’s History Month: Day 30 and Eleni Epstein
Day 30 of Women’s History Month features Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She was one of the most noticeable Washington, D.C., voices in translating fashion news in the post-World War II era through 1981. Epstein found fashion to have a unique role in Washington society. After all, as she pointed out, it was her city’s unique social events that required the high couture clothing that she wrote about. “Washington women have always been interested in fashion,” she said. “Our city is one of achievers and doers.” It was a world that Epstein circulated within and would share with her readers as someone who could rarely afford many of the…
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Women’s History Month: Day 29 & Betty Preston Oiler
Day 29 of Women’s History Month – featuring Betty Preston. She was a women’s page editor at the Glendale News-Press in California. Betty Preston Oiler went from an award-winning women’s page editor to a top editor during her career in Glendale, California. A Michigan native, she graduated from Petoskey High School and attended Michigan State College (now Michigan State University). She graduated in 1941 with a degree in journalism. She was taught by the chair of the journalism program Albert A. Applegate who had a daughter, Roberta, near Preston’s age. Roberta Applegate (mentioned in an earlier post) would also go on to be a significant women’s page journalist. She said:…
- Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Janet Chusmir, Miami Herald, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Day 26 & Janet Chusmir
Day 24 of Women’s History Month features Janet Chusmir. Janet Chusmir was a women’s page journalist at the Miami Herald in the late 1960s who rose to the position of Executive Editor at the Herald. She died suddenly in 1990. According to her obituary, “During her tenure she pushed the Herald to be more sensitive to ethnic and racial concerns, to think about how the events of the day affected real human beings, to publish a newspaper that, in her words, ‘connects with the community.’ As the newspaper’s first executive editor, she also brought diversity to the newsroom by creating new opportunities for women and minorities.” This is from her…
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Women’s History Month: Day 25 & Aileen Ryan
Day 25 of Women’s History Month features the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. Each day this week will feature a Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist. 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 Kansas City Star, where she had pioneered a…
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