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Dorothy Jurney
I just found this reference to Dorothy Jurney’s parents. Her mother, Mary Zeola Hershey Misener was elected to the Indiana State Legislature in 1929. She is listed in A Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly, Vol. 2. Mary Zeola Hershey Misener was born on Oct. 22, 1878 in Ohio. She attended Otterbein College for three years and graduated from King’s School of Oratory in 1900. She married Dorothy’s father in 1905. This photo from the WHMC shows the newsroom of her father’s newspaper, the Michigan City News. This is an earlier post about Dorothy.
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Roberta Applegate articles
I just found these articles by Miami Herald women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate in the Florida Heritage Collection. The clip is in the papers of Gov. C. Farris Bryant scrapbook, folder 11, item 2. This is an earlier post on Roberta. She was a “first” several times in journalism before becoming a journalism professor at Kansas State in the 1960s.
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Paul Myhre
Paul Myhre was the director of the Penney-Missouri Awards program throughout the 1960s. This photo is from one of the workshops that were a part of the Awards. His letters at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection show that he was supportive of the women’s page editors. He died in 1971. After a long search I have found the date he died and today I ordered his obituary. I plan to write an article about Paul’s campaign to improve the status of women’s pages.
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Book Review
My review of the book Death Row Women: Murder, Justice and the New York Press, just came out in the journal American Journalism.
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Marie Anderson’s Father
I just came across the photo of a young Judge Robert H. Anderson, Marie’s father. (Marie Anderson was the women’s page editor of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s.) It seems to verify the couple in the earlier post are Marie’s parents. He was a member of the circuit court in Miami. This is the Who’s Who entry for Judge Anderson. Marie is listed as his daughter. This is another biographical entry for the Judge.
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More about Marie Anderson
I have found references to images of Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson in the Special Collections at the University of West Florida. This image is in Marie’s papers at the University of Missouri. I think these might be her parents. Here is proof that Marie was a delegate to the National Women’s Conference in 1977.Here is a slide show of Marie Anderson. This is my earlier post about Marie.
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