Arlene Alligood
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Milwaukee Press Club & Women Members
I was happy to see the article Lance & I published about the female journalists fight to get into the all-male press club was cited in this entry for the Milwaukee Encyclopedia. This picture is of me signing plaques for the Milwaukee Press Club.
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Women’s Page Editor Arlene Alligood
I am just beginning to collect information about 1968 Penney-Missouri Award-winning women’s page editor Arlene Alligood. She spent most of the 1960s working at the St. Petersburg Times and the Evening-Independent. While at the sister newspapers, she would have worked with Anne Rowe Goldman and Gloria Biggs. Here is one of her articles. Her Penney-Missouri Award was for her work at the Suffolk Sun in New York. She was a founding editor of the newspaper which began publication on November 21, 1966. In January of 1968, she joined the women’s page staff at the Washington Post. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida. Here is…
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Women’s Page Editor Arlene Alligood
I am just beginning to collect information about 1968 Penney-Missouri Award-winning women’s page editor Arlene Alligood. She spent most of the 1960s working at the St. Petersburg Times and the Evening-Independent. While at the sister newspapers, she would have worked with Anne Rowe Goldman and Gloria Biggs. Here is one of her articles. Her Penney-Missouri Award was for her work at the Suffolk Sun in New York. She was a founding editor of the newspaper which began publication on November 21, 1966. In January of 1968, she joined the women’s page staff at the Washington Post. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida. Here is…
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New Edee Greene image
Yesterday I received this great image of Edee Greene from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. It can be found in the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards. Edee was a groundbreaking women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s. She had a popular humor column and won several Penney-Missouri Awards. She was a leader in establishing a women’s domestic violence center in her community in the early 1970s – the center still exists today. I have an article about her coming out in 2011 based on a conference presentation. The image was discovered by the archivist who is organizing the papers after I…
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New Edee Greene image
Yesterday I received this great image of Edee Greene from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. It can be found in the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards. Edee was a groundbreaking women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s. She had a popular humor column and won several Penney-Missouri Awards. She was a leader in establishing a women’s domestic violence center in her community in the early 1970s – the center still exists today. I have an article about her coming out in 2011 based on a conference presentation. The image was discovered by the archivist who is organizing the papers after I…
