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Women’s History Month: Edee Greene, Part I
Day 23 of Women’s History Month features Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene. Greene was a Penney-Missouri award-winning Florida women’s page editor. Her section included progressive content that tackled important social issues in Fort Lauderdale. A Florida resident since the age of 12, she began her media career with radio station WSUN in St. Petersburg in 1932. She wrote soap opera scripts and had her own movie show. A year later, she married Tom Greene. She left radio to take care of her family and working for her husband’s advertising business. It ended after 17 years, leaving her financially and emotionally drained. She was suddenly a single mother…
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Women’s History Month: Clarice Rowlands
For day 22 of Women’s History Month, I am featuring another Milwaukee Journal’s women’s page journalist – food writer Clarice Rowlands. After a search for her work, I found a brief profile of Rowlands. She was a native of Cambria, Wisconsin. She earned a degree in journalism in 1936 from the University of Wisconsin. She worked at the Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1937 to 1943. In June 1944, she joined the women’s pages as a general assignment reporter and later worked on the society desk. She eventually made her way to the food section. She was married to Charles Nevada, who worked in the promotions department of the Milwaukee Journal.…
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Women’s History Month: Lois Hagen
Day 21 of Women’s History Month features Milwaukee Journal furnishing reporter Lois Hagen. According to this article: Lois was born in Westby, Wisconsin in 1918. She earned a journalism degree at UW-Madison – at a time when it was unusual for a woman to do something other than earn a teaching certificate. Initially, Lois worked as a journalist at Time and the Associated Press. She spent the bulk of her career in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal. She set new standards for women at the newspaper, being the first mother to return to the Journal after having a child. She traveled extensively covering furnishings and she won a…
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Women’s History Month: Jean Otto
Day 20 of Women’s History Month and women’s page journalists features Jean Otto who died rather recently. Here is a link to her obituary. She started in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal in 1968 and four years later, she became the first woman to serve as an editorial writer with the Journal. And one of the few women in that position in the country. She was later named editor of the newspaper’s expanding Op-Ed page. In 1979, she became the first female president of the Society for Professional Journalists. It was an organization that had only allowed women to be members a decade before. She wrote a book…
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Women’s History Month: Peggy Daum
Day 19 of Women’s History Month features another Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist: Peggy Daum. Peggy was a women’s page reporter in the 1950s and 1960s. She became the food editor of the section in 1968 and remained in the position for two decades. Daum had a strong journalism background that she applied to her beat – food. Barbara Dembski, the Milwaukee Journal’s assistant managing editor of features, said Daum never abandoned her audience. She said of Daum: “Despite her national stature in food journalism, she never forgot who her section was for. She wrote it for the typical, salt-of-the-earth, best cook on the block.” And those neighborhood cooks, her…
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Women’s History Month: Aileen Ryan
Day 18 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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