I just received this book through ILL. It includes references to women’s page editor Beverley Morales. She interviewed subjects for the oral history project. I am working on an article about Beverley.

I have found more references to Miami women’s page editor Beverley Morales. She has an article in the above journal. I have also found that Beverley interviewed several people for an oral history project conducted by the Montana Historical Society. They were taped so I am hoping to get to hear her voice. I am working on a biographical piece on Beverley. I spoke to her sisters over the summer.

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Lance & I have arrived in Orlando. I went through my first orientation session yeserday at the University of Central Florida. Before we left St. Louis, I interviewed Beverley Morales’s sisters who were a great help. I also spoke to the editor of Montana: The Magazine of Western History about an article about Beverley. The editor was very helpful. I will continue to collect information about the Montana native. Here is my earlier post about her.

Beverley Brink Morales 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 women’s page journalists she was a mother –…