I just came across the obituary for Honolulu Advertiser women’s page editor Drue Lytle. She was a Penney-Missouri Award winner in the 1960s. I am currently collecting information about Drue.

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.

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 interested in learning more about Drue Lytle who was a Penney-Missouri Award-winning women’s page editor at the Honolulu Advertiser in the 1960s. I recently hired a wonderful researcher who has tracked down a few of Drue’s columns and articles, including the above example. I am hoping to collect more information about Drue over the next few months. Much of her career is a mystery at this point.

The media coverage of Obama being in Hawaii for the holidays reminds me of Drue Lytle. She was a Penney-Missouri Award-winning women’s page editor of the Honolulu Advertiser in the 1960s. She had something else in common with Obama. They both attended Occidental College, known as Oxy. It is a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles. I plan to start collecting information about Drue’s section during the course of the semester.

This week I discovered information on Druzella Lytle who won a second-place Penney-Missouri Award in 1962 and 1963 when she was the women’s page editor at the Honolulu Advertiser. She was women’s page editor at the newspaper from 1953 to 1969. This photo is of Druzella when she was a student at UCLA in the 1920s. I plan to write an article about Druzella and the women journalists she worked with in Hawaii.