Edee Greene
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Edee Greene revisions
Today, I am working on revisions to my Edee Greene paper for presentation next weekend in Fort Myers, Florida. Edee is one of my favorite research subjects.
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Edee Greene reference
Today I am working on a conference paper about the Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene. She is referenced in this book about her city. The reference is about her threat to picket a restaurant that wanted to exclude women.
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Marie Anderson and Paul Myhre
This is a letter from Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson to Paul Myhre, the director of the Penney-Missouri Awards. Paul was a big advocate for women’s page journalism and often worked with Marie. The letter can be found in the Penney-Missouri Award papers at WHMC. The Penney-Missouri Awards were a way for women’s page editors to network. The letter includes a reference to Edee Greene, women’s page editor at the Fort Lauderdale News. I am presenting a paper about Edee at the end of the month.
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Florida Conference of Historians
Yesterday I received the program for the Florida Conference of Historians. I am presenting a paper on Edee Greene, women’s page editor at the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s, at the conference at the end of the month.
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Edee Greene on the radio
The project Radio Days has added Edee Greene to its website. Here is a link. She worked at WSUN in Central Florida in 1932.Here is a link to an article about Edee becoming president of the Florida Women’s Press Club. I am presenting a paper on Edee in February.
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Women’s Page Editors and Sports
Today, Lance and I are going to the Champs Sports Bowl Game in Orlando. The University of Wisconsin is playing Florida State. Several of the women’s page editors were sports fans. Miami Herald Club editor Roberta Applegate regularly wrote to her family about the Michigan State football and basketball teams. The Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene began her journalism career as a sports columnist while in high school in Palatka, Florida. The biggest sports fan on my list was the Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day.She was a big fan of the University of Miami football team and was a regular on the sidelines. That’s her…
