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John Pennekamp Research
I am collecting information on Miami Herald editor John Pennekamp. He was an early champion of the environment – especially the Everglades. I am going to examine how he framed the cause of conservation. This was also a common cause of women’s page editors and women’s clubs. (As always, I am searching for references to women’s page editors.) I am hoping to go through his papers at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida before the baby arrives. I am also hoping to find a thesis that was written about Pennekamp in the early 1970s.
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New Maggie Savoy image
I just found this image of women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. It was taken in 1966 at the Society of Women Engineers National Convention in Phoenix. (Maggie is sitting on the far right.) The image can be found online at the Walter P Reuther Library. I think Maggie was working as the urban affairs writer for UPI at the time. Here is my article about Maggie that came out earlier this year. I am collecting new information about Maggie – focusing on her years at UPI. It was the only time she wrote under the byline “Maggie Bellows.” (Her third husband was the amazing newspaper editor Jim Bellows.)
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Potential Honor for Marjorie Paxson
I have nominated women’s page editor and later Gannett publisher Marjorie Paxson for the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. I just received confirmation that the nomination was received. Marjorie was an amazing journalist and leader. Here is my article about Marjorie. I received a letter from her last week. The committee will look at the nominations in December. My hope is that women’s page editors are included in more journalism halls of fame – so they are a part of public history. (I nominated Roberta Appplegate into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame two years ago. I was thrilled to see her inducted.)
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More Beverley Morales research
I am continuing to collect information about Florida and Ohio women’s page editor Beverley Morales. She has a long and varied career so it has taken years to collect data. I just found someone to collect clips from the newspaper Beverley and her husband owned in North Dakota in the 1950s. I am just beginning an article about Beverley for a regional history journal.
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Edee Greene update
I just received word that my article on Edee Greene, women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s, is under review with a state history journal. I also heard from Edee’s daughter last week. I am glad that my work on Edee is coming along – she is a favorite!
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Dorothy Brant Brazier & Anna Roosevelt Boettiger
I have started a new research project about Seattle women’s page editors Dorothy Brant Brazier & Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (pictured about with her mother, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt). Dorothy Brant Brazier was 1964 Penney-Missouri Award winner for her work at the Seattle Times. She was the women’s page editor at the Times from 1931 through the 1970s. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger was the women’s page editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1936 through the 1943. I learned about Anna while doing research last week for a sidebar to go with my article about P-I women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum. I plan to collect articles by the two women and begin an…
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