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Happy Birthday to Vivian Castleberry
Happy birthday to Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. Here is how Vivian was described in the documentary Trailblazing Texas Women: “An extremely bright, articulate woman, her close-cropped gray hair, pearls and suit reminiscent of the Kennedy era, Vivian Castleberry sips her cup of tea and tells her stories with a sardonic sense of humor and the same dry wit she deployed in print to blast those that treated her as “the little woman” journalist. Vivian knew from day one that she wanted to be a writer. She attended college on her own dime and states that“I never deviated a jot or a piddle, I went straight to being a…
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History of Sugar
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to hear the wonderful talk “America’s Sweet Tooth” about the history of sugar by food historian Francine Segan. It was a great mix of facts and anecdotes, along with some interesting ads. It really helped to confirm many of the areas I have researched for my book about the history of newspaper food editors. When it came to sugar, several of the newspaper food editors noted that readers never seemed to tire of recipes for cakes. The New York Herald Tribune food editor Clementine Paddleford helped her home cooks deal with the challenges of World War II and the limits on sugar. She encouraged her…
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My Talk at Duke University
Here is a link to my talk at Duke University. It’s called “Robin Morgan & Marie Anderson: Women’s Pages and the Women’s Liberation Movement.” Marie Anderson was the longtime women’s page editor at the Miami Herald – and an alum of Duke University. I will be at Duke University to go through the papers of feminist Robin Morgan – pictured above. I am curious about her interactions with women’s page journalists.
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Women’s History Month: Janet Chusmir
Day 31 of Women’s History Month features the Miami Herald’s Janet Chusmir. She went from women’s page editor to executive editor. For years, women in newspaper management had few role models. If they were mentored it was by a man. Many of these managers were hard-hitting, tough-talking men. Those first female leaders rarely had families – there was no career path. Then came Janet Chusmir. She was the exception. After earning a journalism degree and raising a family, she entered the workforce. After a few years as a reporter, she rose through the ranks to become the executive editor of the Miami Herald. She achieved success before dying suddenly of…
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Women’s History Month: Vera Glaser
Day 30 of Women’s History month features Vera Glaser – a Washington, DC-based wire services reporter whose work typically ran in the women’s pages in the 1960s. She made a significant difference in the coverage of the women’s liberation movement. Vera Glaser was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She was interested in journalism in high school. On the weekends she would visit the newsrooms of the local newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She graduated from high school first in her class. That position typically meant a scholarship to Washington University. Instead, the honor went to a male who had only been at the school…
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Women’s History Month: Beverley Morales
Day 29 of Women’s History month features Beverley Brink Morales She grew up on a Montana ranch where she punched cattle, dehorned calves, and herded sheep. She graduated from Montana State University and was hired by a newspaper to cover snow ski competitions and prizefights. After some public relations positions, she was hired as a society reporter at the Mexico News in Mexico City. She married the newspaper’s sports editor, Hector Morales. The couple came to the U.S. in 1956 and ran a newspaper in North Dakota. In 1959, she became an assistant editor in the Miami Herald’s women’s section – the top women’s section in the country. Unlike many…
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