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Possible UCF internal grant
I just got good news – my internal UCF grant application made it through the first round. If approved, I will go through the papers of Kay Clarenbach at the University of Wisconsin. Kay was an influential feminist leader and one of the original organizer of NOW. She worked with many women’s page editors in the 1960s. She was also a good friend of Catherine East.
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Helen Muir information
I just heard back from PBS and someone was able to track down a copy of the American Experience program, Mr. Miami. The program includes an interview with Helen Muir – a Miami News and Miami Herald women’s page journalist I am studying. Here is a link to the transcript of the program. Below is a new image related to Helen that I just found. She was a big advocate for libraries. I am continuing to collect information about Helen.
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Catherine East oral history
I recently found an oral history conducted with Catherine East. Catherine was an influential behind-the-scenes government employee who helped improve the media’s coverage of women’s issues. I have gone through her papers at the Schlesinger Library in Boston twice but did not know about the oral history which I just received through ILL. Today I am skimming through the 300+ history looking for media references. On page 199, Catherine mentioned Vera Glaser and Marie Anderson. (Vera was a Washington wire service reporter whose stories ran in the women’s pages. Marie was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald.) The three worked together on women’s issues – especially publicizing the…
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Dorothy Jurney reference
I just discovered a story in the Michigan City News-Dispatch from Nov. 22 which features legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney. The article, written by Laurie Wink, includes the following: “Jurney was the daughter of Mary and Herbert Misener. Her mother was active in women’s causes and her father was then-publisher of the Michigan City News, a forerunner of The News-Dispatch. In her letter, Jurney said her mother had arranged for Amelia Earhart to speak (on an unspecified date) to Michigan City’s Women’s Study Club. Jurney clearly remembered Earhart being on the stage, “standing tall and straight in front of the big curtain.” “She looked fragile for all of her…
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Beach conservation and women’s pages
We spent Thanksgiving at the beach. (Curtis’s first trip to the ocean!) Women’s page journalists were often advocates for beach conservation before it was popular. This was especially true if local women’s clubs took up the cause. Below is some video of Miami Herald editorial page writer Juanita Greene speaking about her conservation efforts. (She worked with women’s page editor Maria Anderson in the 1960s.)
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Jim Bellows letters to Helen Muir
I came across these letters from Jim Bellows to Helen Muir in Helen Muir’s papers at the University of Miami. Helen wrote for the women’s page of the Miami News when Jim was an editor at the newspaper. (Helen would go on to be a book editor at the Miami Herald. Jim became a legendary newspaper editor.) The two stayed in touch over the years. Here is a link to a letter than Helen wrote to Jim following the death of his second wife, Maggie Savoy. I am working on collecting information about both Helen and Jim. They were both great journalists and advocates for women in the field.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
