Drue Lytle
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Hints from Heloise and the Honolulu Advertiser
I have been collecting information about Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter who were women’s page journalists at the Honolulu Advertiser. Drue won several Penney-Missouri Awards for top women’s section in the 1960s. Pat won a Penney-Missouri Award for investigative reporting. I recently learned that the housekeeping column “Hints From Heloise” originated in Drue’s section: “Heloise has decided that she wanted to write a column in a newspaper for to help housewives, She marched to the office of the Honolulu Advertiser to see the editor to discuss her idea. She even offered to work for free for 30 days and the editor took a chance—The Readers’ Exchange column began in 1959.…
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Hints from Heloise and the Honolulu Advertiser
I have been collecting information about Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter who were women’s page journalists at the Honolulu Advertiser. Drue won several Penney-Missouri Awards for top women’s section in the 1960s. Pat won a Penney-Missouri Award for investigative reporting. I recently learned that the housekeeping column “Hints From Heloise” originated in Drue’s section: “Heloise has decided that she wanted to write a column in a newspaper for to help housewives, She marched to the office of the Honolulu Advertiser to see the editor to discuss her idea. She even offered to work for free for 30 days and the editor took a chance—The Readers’ Exchange column began in 1959.…
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Pearl Harbor and Drue Lytle
Today is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Hugh Lytle was the journalist whose teletype message provided Associated Press and the world with the first account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was married to award-winning Hawaii women’s page editor Drue Lytle. Here is Hugh’s obituary. Drue is mentioned in it. I have been collecting data about Drue for the past two years. The last few months have been especially fruitful. I found the above clip which answered many questions and I also located some great letters at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I hope to write an article about Drue after by book about Vivian Castleberry is finished.
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Pearl Harbor and Drue Lytle
Today is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Hugh Lytle was the journalist whose teletype message provided Associated Press and the world with the first account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was married to award-winning Hawaii women’s page editor Drue Lytle. Here is Hugh’s obituary. Drue is mentioned in it. I have been collecting data about Drue for the past two years. The last few months have been especially fruitful. I found the above clip which answered many questions and I also located some great letters at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I hope to write an article about Drue after by book about Vivian Castleberry is finished.
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Researching Pat Millard-Hunter and the Honolulu Advertiser
I just rehired a researcher to go through the microfiche of the newspaper, the Honolulu Advertiser. The women’s page editor of the newspaper, Drue Lyte, was a multiple winner of the Penney-Missouri Award – the top recognition for the sections. The photo above is of Drue. Last fall, the researcher went through the microfiche looking for Drue’s byline but found few examples. A collection of letters between Drue and Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myrhe show that she was more editor than reporter. Instead, Drue mentored reporter Pat Millard-Hunter. It was Pat who wrote groundbreaking health and crime articles that ran in the women’s section. (The letters can be found in…
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Drue Lytle article
In one of Penney-Missouri Awards’ Director Paul Myhre’s letters to Honolulu Advertiser women’s page editor Drue Lytle, he mentions an article about Drue that was published in the Kappa Alpha Theta magazine. The letter was dated in Januray of 1963. I contacted the Kappa Alpha Theta media coorindator who was kind enough to go through their archives and scan this article. It provides some significant details about Drue’s life. My thanks to the Kappa Alpha Theta folks!
