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Bobbi McCallum memorial
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Beasley Award
My recent paper about Florida women’s page editors and club women was named honorable mention for the Maurine Beasley Award at the American Journalism Historians Association Conference in Seattle last weekend. This is an article from Editor & Publisher about Edee Greene. Edee was included in my paper. I am working on a biographical piece on Edee for an upcoming history conference.
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Bobbi McCallum
While in Seattle for AJHA, I visited the memorial to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum. My article about Bobbi has been accepted for publication. Here is a link to an earlier post on Bobbi.
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More Eleni Epstein papers
I have found more references about Eleni Epstein. Some of her papers are at the Smithsonsian. I have ordered copies of her work in the Smithsonian’s “Fashion as Culture” program in 1977. I am working on an article about Eleni career as fashion editor at the Washington Star. She won a Penney-Missouri Award in 1960 for her work. This is my earlier post on Eleni. In this photo, she is interviewing Pierre Cardin. The photo is in her papers at the WHMC.
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Martee Wills
I was sad to learn that Martee Wills, a longtime reporter in the women’s pages of the Tallahassee Democrat has died. Her obit was written by Dorothy Clifford who won a Penney-Missouri Award for her work at the Democrat. I interviewed Dorothy last year and hope to speak to her again.
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Sen. Lori Wilson Park
Yesterday, Lance and I visited Florida Sen. Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach. (It’s beautiful.) My article about Sen. Wilson and the fight to ratify the ERA in Florida is under review at a historical journal. We also visited the Florida Historical Society in Cocoa. Update: I just received DVDs of a Lori Wilson oral history.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
