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Catherine East & Vera Glaser
This letter shows the friendship between Vera Glaser and Catherine East. The newspaper series that Catherine describes ran in newspapers across the country. Vera received several fan letters after the stories appeared. Those letters and the one here can be found at the University of Wyoming. I am writing an article about Vera and Catherine’s friendship and advocacy.
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Maggie Savoy article
I learned this week that my article about Maggie Savoy will be published by a history magazine. It will come out next March. I’m glad that such a significant woman will be recognized. This photo is of Maggie speaking at the banquet at the Penney-Missouri Awards in 1967. It can be found at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Here’s a newspaper article announcing Maggie as the speaker. Here is a link to a timeline of Maggie’s life. Here’s a link to one of Maggie’s columns.
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Vera Glaser
I learned yesterday that Vera Glaser has died. She was an amazing reporter and columnist. Her stories were some of the first to explain feminist issues. She was friends with Marie Anderson, Catherine East and Dorothy Jurney. I am working on a paper about the friendships and the social change these women encouraged. This is my earlier post on Vera. Here’s a link to an article that mentions the “Offbeat Washington” column that Vera co-authored. This is a favorite Vera story. Here’s another link to an article Vera wrote.
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Janet Chusmir
Janet Chusmir was a women’s page journalist at the Miami Herald in the late 1960s who rose to the position of Executive Editor at the Herald. She died suddenly in 1990. According to her obituary, “During her tenure she pushed the Herald to be more sensitive to ethnic and racial concerns, to think about how the events of the day affected real human beings, to publish a newspaper that, in her words, ‘connects with the community.’ As the newspaper’s first executive editor, she also brought diversity to the newsroom by creating new opportunities for women and minorities.” This is from her own short autobiographical statement written when she won a…
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Miami Herald editor Lee Hills
I just found this photo of Lee Hills who Dorothy Jurney reported to at the Miami Herald in the 1950s. Dorothy later followed Lee to the Detroit Free Press in 1960. He was a champion of improving the content of women’s sections. Here is more about Lee Hills. In this photo, he is speaking at Journalism Week at the Missouri School of Journalism. A building at the School is named for Lee Hills. Several well known women’s page editors graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism including Carol Sutton and Marjorie Paxson.
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