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Women’s History Month: Day 15 & Virginia Heffington
Day 15 of Women’s History Month features Virginia Heffington – a food editor in Florida and later California. Recently, the Miami Herald cited a recipe from its 1960s food editor Virginia Heffington. This is the book that Heffington wrote in 1968 when she was the Homemaking Editor of the Miami Herald. At that point she had been at the Herald for five years and had won a Vesta Award – the top recognition for food journalism. In the introduction to the book, she mentioned that she was a graduate of Iowa State in home economic journalism. I also found an archive in Canada that had ten of Virginia’s clips in…
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Women’s History Month: Day 11 & Billie O’Day
Today I presented a paper about women’s page editor Billie O’Day at the Florida Conference of Historians. I have long been interested in the story of Billie O’Day. I first learned of her as a winner of two Penney-Missouri Awards (the top recognition for women’s pages) for her work in the women’s pages of the Miami News in the 1960s. I also knew that she had quite a career in music and radio. Billie Corinne Womack (O’Day was her radio name that she began using as her own name) was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1919. As a child she both played football and musical instruments. She earned an…
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Women’s History Month, Day 9 & Marie Anderson
Marie Anderson was a groundbreaking women’s page editor at the Miami Herald. She was mentored by Dorothy Jurney who I blogged about yesterday. In this photo, Marie (wearing the glasses) is speaking with club editor Roberta Applegate. Marie won so many Penney-Missouri Awards (the top recognition for women’s pages) during the 1960s that she was retired from the competition. She was a leader in the women’s page community. Marie was interviewed for the Washington Press Club Foundation’s “Women in Journalism” oral history project. She was beginning to lose her memory and the interview does not provide much detail about her career. Her papers are part of the National Women &…
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Women’s History Month, Day 8: Dorothy Jurney
Day eight of Women’s History Month features Dorothy Jurney who was known as the godmother of the women’s pages. She is pictured above without glasses (The woman in the glasses is Marie Anderson – I will blog about her tomorrow.) Jurney was a groundbreaking women’s page editor who encouraged other editors to improve the content of their sections. Dorothy worked on the hard news side during World War II and as forced back to the women’s pages in peacetime. In 1950, she revolutionized the women’s pages of the Miami Herald and mentored Marie Anderson to take her place. Below are some resources about Jurney: Her papers are at the National…
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Women’s History Month, Day 7: Roberta Applegate
For the seventh day of Women’s History Month, I am continuing to focus on Miami Herald women’s page journalists: club editor Roberta Applegate. She highlighted the important work that women’s clubs were doing as Miami grew. She left the Herald in 1964 to become a journalism professor at Kansas State University where she taught about women’s page reporting. Prior to working at the Herald, she was a reporter for the Associated Press in Michigan. A few years ago, I nominated her for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. I was happy that she was accepted. This is me speaking at the induction ceremony for Roberta. Here is my article about…
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Day 5 of Women’s History Month features Orlando Sentinel food editor Grace Warlow Barr. She attended Goucher College in Baltimore before marrying Leal Barr. The couple had twins: Gracia and Graham. They divorced in 1936 and she joined the Sentinel in 1940 to support her family. She initially became the society editor with a column called “Cynthia’s Tea Table Chatter.” The column ended in 1964 and she focused on food. She was the food editor until her retirement in 1969. Her cookbook, Cooking with Grace, was published in 1970. She was known for her recipes that began with “start with a stick of butter.” She had an active social life…
