Beverley Morales
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Writing about Beverley Morales
We spent Sunday at out favorite beach – Playalinda at Cape Canaveral. It was a perfect day – 78 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. I worked on my presentation on women’s page editor Beverley Morales and her years at the Sun Sentinel. I will present the paper at the Florida Conference of Historians in Lake City next month. The talk is largely based on her letters to and from Penney-Missouri Awards’ Director Paul Myhre that are housed at the University of Missouri. I will be comparing and contrasting her career to other Florida women’s page editors.
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Beverley Morales Presentation
I will be presenting the paper “Pioneering Journalist Beverley Morales: Redefining Women’s Page Content in 1960s Florida,” at the Florida Conference of Historians next Spring in Lake City, Florida. Beverley Brink Morales (pictured above) was a ground-breaking journalist who spent much of the 1960s in South Florida. It was a significant time for women’s page editors as women’s news was being redefined as a mix of traditional and progressive content. Florida was a significant place for women’s page journalists as they won a majority of Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for women’s pages – throughout the 1960s. Morales won a prize in the first year of the Awards for…
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Beverley Morales and Atome
On Friday, I received several copies of the Native American newspaper Atome. It was edited by women’s page editor Beverley Morales. (At the time, she was using the name Beverley Geary.) It is an amazing piece of journalism. The copies are from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Collections. Beverley had an amazing life that is taking time to document – from her early years as a society editor in Mexico City to a women’s page editor in Florida and Ohio to her work in the Northwest.
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Beverley Morales and Atome
On Friday, I received several copies of the Native American newspaper Atome. It was edited by women’s page editor Beverley Morales. (At the time, she was using the name Beverley Geary.) It is an amazing piece of journalism. The copies are from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Collections. Beverley had an amazing life that is taking time to document – from her early years as a society editor in Mexico City to a women’s page editor in Florida and Ohio to her work in the Northwest.
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Beverley Morales and North Dakota
A wonderful researcher has collected some clips of the newspaper the Beulah Independent. Beverley Brink Morales (a Florida women’s page editor in the 1960s) and her husband Hector Morales owned the newspaper in the 1950s. Above is one of several editorials that Beverley wrote while running the newspaper. This is the wedding notice of her sister. Beverley’s maiden name was Brink. I am working on an article about Beverley’s long career especially the ways she reinvented herself after the end of the women’s pages.
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Beverley Morales and North Dakota
A wonderful researcher has collected some clips of the newspaper the Beulah Independent. Beverley Brink Morales (a Florida women’s page editor in the 1960s) and her husband Hector Morales owned the newspaper in the 1950s. Above is one of several editorials that Beverley wrote while running the newspaper. This is the wedding notice of her sister. Beverley’s maiden name was Brink. I am working on an article about Beverley’s long career especially the ways she reinvented herself after the end of the women’s pages.
