Clarice Rowlands
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Clarice Rowlands Information
I am continuing my work on the Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalists from the 1950s and 1960s. The other day, I received the above death certificate for Clarice Rowlands who had died suddenly in 1967. Her death was referenced in Jean Otto’s book but I never found Clarice’s obituary. The death certificate clarified that she died of a heart attack and that she was still married to Charles Nevada at the time. (He worked in promotions at the Milwaukee Journal.) It also clarified that her official name was Clarice Nevada even though she wrote under her maiden name of Clarice Rowlands.
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Clarice Rowlands Information
I am continuing my work on the Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalists from the 1950s and 1960s. The other day, I received the above death certificate for Clarice Rowlands who had died suddenly in 1967. Her death was referenced in Jean Otto’s book but I never found Clarice’s obituary. The death certificate clarified that she died of a heart attack and that she was still married to Charles Nevada at the time. (He worked in promotions at the Milwaukee Journal.) It also clarified that her official name was Clarice Nevada even though she wrote under her maiden name of Clarice Rowlands.
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Milwaukee Journal’s women’s pages
I am working on the fashion, food and furnishing stories in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s and 1960s. I came across an interesting quote from food writer Clarice Rowlands. In a profile of her – after winning an award – she is asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: Does she cook? (Fashion writers hated to be asked if they sewed.) These women found it undermined their roles as journalists. After all, a sports journalist isn’t asked if he played baseball. This was Rowlands’ 1961 response: “No, I am a reporter in the field and it is not any more necessary for…
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Milwaukee Journal’s women’s pages
I am working on the fashion, food and furnishing stories in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s and 1960s. I came across an interesting quote from food writer Clarice Rowlands. In a profile of her – after winning an award – she is asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: Does she cook? (Fashion writers hated to be asked if they sewed.) These women found it undermined their roles as journalists. After all, a sports journalist isn’t asked if he played baseball. This was Rowlands’ 1961 response: “No, I am a reporter in the field and it is not any more necessary for…
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Clarice Rowlands
Yesterday’s response to a post about Clarice Rowlands inspired me to look back at the Milwaukee Journal women’s page and food journalist in the 1940s through 1960s. After a search of her work, I found a brief profile of Rowlands. She was a native of Cambria, Wisconsin. She earned a degree in journalism in 1936 from the University of Wisconsin. She worked at the Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1937 to 1943. In June 1944, she joined the women’s pages as a general assignment reporter and later worked on the society desk. She eventually made her way to the food section. She won numerous awards for food writing – the Vesta…
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Clarice Rowlands
Yesterday’s response to a post about Clarice Rowlands inspired me to look back at the Milwaukee Journal women’s page and food journalist in the 1940s through 1960s. After a search of her work, I found a brief profile of Rowlands. She was a native of Cambria, Wisconsin. She earned a degree in journalism in 1936 from the University of Wisconsin. She worked at the Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1937 to 1943. In June 1944, she joined the women’s pages as a general assignment reporter and later worked on the society desk. She eventually made her way to the food section. She won numerous awards for food writing – the Vesta…
