I just got an email update that my article about Seattle P-I women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum is scheduled to run in the Spring 2010 issue of a Washington history magazine. Bobbi was a Penney-Missouri Award winner in the 1960s. Sadly she died at age 25 and her story was largely lost until now. I am now collecting images for the article. The photo above is from the Penney-Missouri Awards papers at the University of Missouri.

I just got an email update that my article about Seattle P-I women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum is scheduled to run in the Spring 2010 issue of a Washington history magazine. Bobbi was a Penney-Missouri Award winner in the 1960s. Sadly she died at age 25 and her story was largely lost until now. I am now collecting images for the article. The photo above is from the Penney-Missouri Awards papers at the University of Missouri.

I was so happy to get an email from one of Bobbi McCallum’s friends. It included the about image of Bobbi which I love. She looks so young and happy. Bobbi was an award-winning women’s page journalist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the last 1960s before her death at age 25. I have an article about her coming out next year.

A Seattle preservation group is planning to save the globe that is found on top of the former Seattle P-I building. Here is a story about it. I am trying to find out if anything is being done to save the memorial for Bobbi McCallum that is found in front of the building. An image of the fountain memorial is shown above. We went to see it when we were in Seattle last fall. I emailed the reporter of the story about the globe to see if anything is being done about the McCallum memorial, and she responded with the helpful: “Not that I know of.” Not very helpful. My…

I got good news about my article on Seattle women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum. The article is scheduled to run in a state history publication this fall. This picture of Bobbi was taken at a Penney-Missouri Award workshop. This letter is from Janet Grimley, an editor at the Seattle P-I before the newspaper folded. She was a great help in tracking down information about Bobbi.

I was so sad to hear that the print edition of the Seattle P-I will end tomorrow. Here’s a link to the story. This fountain, a tribute to the late women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum, sits out front of the P-I building. My article about Bobbi comes out next month. My thanks to P-I editor Janet Grimley for her help.