Dorothy Jurney
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St. Pete Beach
Lance and I are on our way to St. Pete Beach for the weekend. Women’s page legend Dorothy Jurney’s brother, Richard Misener, was the mayor of St. Pete many years ago. He owned a big boat on the beach. Many Miami women’s page journalists would meet with Dorothy and go sailing. I’m hoping to visit an archive while we’re there.
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Dorothy Jurney additions
I have been making additions to my manuscript on Dorothy Jurney – the godmother of women’s pages – for a revise and resubmit. I have so many copies from Dorothy’s papers at the WHMC that it has taken a long time to add to the manuscript.
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Helen Muir image
I just found this image of Miami journalist Helen Muir. (It’s in the Florida Photographic Collection.) I learned last week that Helen was Dorothy Jurney’s initial boss in the women’s at the Miami News before she left for Washington. Helen held an annual party for Dorothy after she left for Detroit. I am working on a revise and resubmit of Dorothy’s career. I plan to go through the papers of Helen Muir at the University of Miami in the future. Here is a link about her papers.
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Dorothy Jurney information
Yesterday I received the divorce record of legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney. (It was found in the State of Florida Office of Vital Statistics.) Dorothy mentioned in her oral history that her husband Frank had appealed the ruling to the state Supreme Court. She also stated that she did not know why he had appealed the ruling for divorce. The record reveals why he may have appealed the ruling. The divorce was granted on Dorothy’s grounds of “extreme cruelty.” Here’s information about the appeal: Florida Case LawJURNEY v. JURNEY, 110 So.2d 49 (Fla.App. 3 Dist. 1959)No. 58-197.March 19, 1959. Rehearing Denied April 8, 1959. The appellee-wife sued appellant for…
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Marie Anderson and Duke University
This week I received materials from the Duke University Archives about Marie Anderson. (She’s an alum.) One of the pages shows that Marie spoke at an alumni event in May/June 1972 about her experiences as a woman journalist. Marie earned a degree in English – she received her journalism training from Dorothy Jurney.
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Dorothy Jurney
I am working on the revisions of an article about women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney. She had such a long career that it is difficult to summarize without leaving out important information. This is the photo of Miami millionaire Neville McArthur who proposed to Dorothy twice while she was divorcing her husband Frank in 1959. She said no and moved on to Detroit. Proof of that story can be found here.
