Beverley Morales
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Women’s History Month: Day 4 & Beverley Morales
Day 4 of Women’s History month features Beverley Brink Morales She grew up on a Montana ranch where she punched cattle, dehorned calves, and herded sheep. She graduated from Montana State University and was hired by a newspaper to cover snow ski competitions and prizefights. After some public relations positions, she was hired as a society reporter at the Mexico News in Mexico City. She married the newspaper’s sports editor, Hector Morales. The couple came to the U.S. in 1956 and ran a newspaper in North Dakota. In 1959, she became an assistant editor in the Miami Herald’s women’s section – the top women’s section in the country. Unlike many…
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Montana Book & Women’s Page Editor Beverley Morales
I was so excited to learn about the book, Montana Stirrups, Sage and Shenanigans: Western Ranch Life in a Forgotten Era. It was written by sisters Francie Brink Berg, Anne Brink Sallgren Krickel & Jeanie Brink Thiessen. I communicated with all three women in my research about their sister, Beverley Brink Morales. Beverley was a women’s page editor in Florida and Ohio who won Penney-Missouri Awards. I presented a paper about her work in Florida a few years ago. The book includes some great information and images of Beverley. I especially loved the image of her with her bees on page 343. After graduating from college, she worked as the…
- Beverley Morales, Billie O'Day, Edee Greene, Kathryn Robinette, Lilly Pulitzer, Marie Anderson, women's history month, women's page history
My Orlando Talk, Lilly Pulitzer & Cute Cookies
I was excited to see that the Orange County Regional Historical Center list my talk in March for Women’s History Month. This is the description: Evening Lecture with Dr. Kimberly Voss: Fashion, Food and Feminism: Florida’s Women’s Page Editors in the 1960sThursday, March 6, 2014 Throughout the 1960s, the Florida women’s page editors were setting the standard across the country. They were regularly giving lectures to other women’s page editors and dominated the Penney-Missouri Awards- the top journalism prize for the sections. These editors were developing a community together. They socialized, encouraged and pushed the definition of women’s news. This time period was described by Marjorie Paxson, Miami Herald and…
- Anne Rowe, Beverley Morales, Edee Greene, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Gloria Biggs, Janet Chusmir, Marie Anderson
Importance of Women & Regional History
I am in the middle of reviewing Eileen M. Wirth’s book From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism for an Iowa history journal. It is an important book and I enjoyed her closing messages: “I had no idea how many women of achievement in journalism and other fields have been overlooked even in state and regional histories where they might be expected to appear.” (p 163) Further, she wrote “We cannot understand the history of women in the United States unless we consider local and regional dimensions because family obligations have limited the geographic and career mobility of the vast majority of American women.” (pg 164) Her…
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Women’s History Month: Beverley Morales
Day 29 of Women’s History month features Beverley Brink Morales She grew up on a Montana ranch where she punched cattle, dehorned calves, and herded sheep. She graduated from Montana State University and was hired by a newspaper to cover snow ski competitions and prizefights. After some public relations positions, she was hired as a society reporter at the Mexico News in Mexico City. She married the newspaper’s sports editor, Hector Morales. The couple came to the U.S. in 1956 and ran a newspaper in North Dakota. In 1959, she became an assistant editor in the Miami Herald’s women’s section – the top women’s section in the country. Unlike many…
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Florida Conference of Historians
I just presented the paper, “Beverley Brink Morales Geary Badhorse: Trailblazing Journalist and Advocate,” at the Florida Conference of Historians in Lake City. It has taken many years to put together Beverley’s story. In this paper, I largely focused on her Florida years at the Sun Sentinel. I hope to put together a journal manuscript that focuses on all of Beverley’s newspaper work.
