Billie O'Day
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More on the Music Career of Women Page Editor Billie O’Day
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. Yesterday, someone posted to this blog his memories of Billie’s work at Radio WIOD. This caused me to look back over Billie’s career. 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…
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End of the Miami News
While in Miami, we found a final edition of the Miami News. Billie O’Day was an award-winning women’s page editor at the News. I’m researching Billie’s career.Here is more about Billie.
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Disney & Eleni
Lance and I (along with Elza and Sami who are visiting from St. Louis) spent my birthday at Disney World. In the above book about Disney, The Magic Kingdom, Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day is quoted. A favorite birthday moment was getting an email from Eleni Epstein’s cousin. I’m looking forward to learning more about Eleni. The above photo is from Eleni’s papers at WHMC.
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Women’s Page Editors and Sports
Today, Lance and I are going to the Champs Sports Bowl Game in Orlando. The University of Wisconsin is playing Florida State. Several of the women’s page editors were sports fans. Miami Herald Club editor Roberta Applegate regularly wrote to her family about the Michigan State football and basketball teams. The Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene began her journalism career as a sports columnist while in high school in Palatka, Florida. The biggest sports fan on my list was the Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day.She was a big fan of the University of Miami football team and was a regular on the sidelines. That’s her…
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Women’s Page Editors on the Radio
In the book, The Encyclopedia of Women in Radio, 1920-1960, I was able to confirm that Billie O’Day was on the air at station WIOD in Miami from 1951-1955. She was at Miami radio station WCKR in Miami in 1957. (She went on to be a Penney-Missouri Award-winning editor at the Miami News.) Fort Lauderdale News editor Edee Greene was an on-the-air talent at the St. Pete’s WSUN in 1932. (The call letters stand for: Why Stay Up North?) I am looking into her career right now.
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Billie O’Day profile
