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The Return of Home Economics
The Los Angeles Times food section ran an interesting article this week about the return of home economics this week: “The evolution of home economics programs.” The author wrote: “Home ec has not disappeared, it’s changed, evolving into classes focusing on child development, nutrition, family health, food service and hospitality. It hasn’t been lost as much as translated. In 1994, the name of the course in most of the country was officially changed from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences, or FCS, in an effort to dispel the impression that home ec was about teaching girls how to be housewives. More than 5 million students were enrolled in secondary…
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Women’s Equality Day March
Yesterday was Women’s Equality Day – the 90th Anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. I took part in the UCF march honoring the day. Several female lawmakers spoke at the event. The women’s page journalists were too young to take part in Women’s Suffrage – but legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney’s mother was a suffragette and one of the first woman elected to the Indiana legislature.
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Furnishings repoter Tina Satterthwaite
Tina Satterthwaite was an award-winning home furnishings editor at the Toledo Blade from the 1950s through the 1970s. From her obituary: When she wrote about the subject, “she did it with great talent,” said Mary Alice Powell, retired Blade food editor, who worked with Lawson. “I remember her as a writer with vision, ahead of her time in furniture design,” Powell said. “Besides all that, she was a really nice friend.” Satterthwaite was a five-time winner of the Dorothy Dawe Award for distinguished home furnishings reporting and editing – 1958, 1963, 1966, 1972, and 1973. On her way to a degree from the University of Toledo, she attended the Medill…
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Editing on the way to the beach
We spent yesterday at the beaches of Cape Canaveral. On the drive to the ocean, I edited my article about Anne Rowe Goldman, the longtime women’s page editor at both St. Petersburg newspapers. I presented a paper about her last Spring and am getting the piece ready to send off to conference proceedings. The challenge has been to edit the paper down to only 12 pages while still explaining her significance in Florida journalism.
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Dorothy Dawe and furnishings coverage
One of the four Fs of the women’s pages is furnishings. (Although I have found that at some newspapers, furnishings stories were found in the real estate section.) For decades, the top recognition for furnishing coverage was the Dorothy Dawe Award. Yesterday, I started looking into furnishings coverage and the award. I learned that the award is named for a furnishings reporter at the Milwaukee Journal. (That is a photo of her above.) I found her obituary – which noted that she died at age 42 but there were no other details. I am filling out the paperwork to get her death certificate. I did discover this story about a…
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Searching for Clarice Rowlands information
In my work on top 1950s and 1960s top food sections – an important element of the women’s pages – I have come across a new name: Clarice Rowlands. She was the assistant women’s page editor of the Milwaukee Journal. In that position, she won several Vesta Awards – the top recognition for food sections. That is one of her awards above. I have several of her articles through Google.News but then she disappeared. One of her final articles ran on Nov. 3, 1966: Breakfast for Players or Fans. Then, on Nov. 4, 1967, the Milwaukee Journal featured a letter to the editor about the sudden death of Clarice. I…
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