Billie O'Day
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Women’s History Month: Day 11 & Billie O’Day
Today I presented a paper about women’s page editor Billie O’Day at the Florida Conference of Historians. I have long been interested in the story of Billie O’Day. I first learned of her as a winner of two Penney-Missouri Awards (the top recognition for women’s pages) for her work in the women’s pages of the Miami News in the 1960s. I also knew that she had quite a career in music and radio. Billie Corinne Womack (O’Day was her radio name that she began using as her own name) was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1919. As a child she both played football and musical instruments. She earned an…
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Billie O’Day as Symphony Conductor
I was happy to find this reference to Billie O’Day as a symphony conductor. Her daytime job was the women’s page editor at the Miami News. I am speaking about O’Day at the upcoming Florida Conference of Historians.
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FCH Talk about Billie O’Day
The Florida Conference of Historian program is out. I am happy to be speaking about Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day. This is from her obituary: “Summing herself up in her notes, Billie O’Day wrote: “I believed Anita Hill. My favorite TV shows are ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘Brooklyn Bridge,’ ‘Murder She Wrote,’ ‘The Civil War,’ and any other documentary by Ken Burns.“I watch CNN and C-Span. I go to lunch every day with my next-door neighbor, a Juilliard grad and a terrific vocalist and pianist. I don’t go out at night.’’
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Florida Conference of Historian Acceptance
I am excited to get to speak about Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day at the 2017 Florida Conferences of Historians. I have been speaking about Florida women’s page editors and food editors at this conference since 2009.
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New Billie O’Day Image
I recently came across this great image of Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day. Here is an earlier blog post about Billie’s career.
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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…
