Florida Women's Pages
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Naming of Hurricanes
The Associated Press recently ran a story about the names of hurricanes. What is left out of the story is the role that Miami feminist Roxcy Bolton (pictured below) played in changing the policy. Prior to her activism, hurricanes were ALWAYS named for women. She got tired of reading headlines about hurricanes with women’s names destroying communities. Instead, she suggested that hurricanes be named for senators – since they like to name things after themselves. By 1979, the policy was changed to alternate women and men’s names when it came to naming hurricanes. Here is a story that provides some background. Roxcy was a friend of Miami Herald women’s page editor…
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Elvis & Anne Rowe in Florida
Today, the Florida Historical Society featured the above photo on its Facebook page in celebration of Elvis performing in St. Petersburg in 1956. It was during that visit that Elvis was interviewed by St. Petersburg Times women’s page reporter Anne Rowe. Here is the resulting story. The interview was mentioned in her obituary.
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The St. Petersburg Times, Anne Rowe and DAY
I am finishing up a paper about the elimination of the women’s pages and the introduction of a newsfeature section at the St. Petersburg Times in 1969. It was overseen by Anne Rowe – pictured above. (Her work is often overshadowed by Ben Bradlee’s work creating a Style section at the Washington Post which predated the change at the Times by a few months.) It was the beginning of change for women in journalism and Rowe deserves more credit. This is how the paper begins: It was April 1964 and five young journalists from St. Petersburg were gathered in a hotel room on the Gulf Beaches. Known as the…
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Remembering Edee Greene
I posted this video about Edee Greene – women’s page editor at the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s – on YouTube a few years ago. Last week someone posted the following under the video: “Thank you so much for this. I knew Edee- she as a major influence in my life- mentored my writing career and was a very close and dear friend of my mother’s.from the Fort Lauderdale News.”Edee was one of my favorite subjects to write about. She was smart, witty and kind. She won several Penney-Missouri Awards over the years.
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Marie Anderson’s Papers Are Indexed
Elizabeth, the wonderful archivist at the Historical Society of Missouri, recently informed me that the papers of Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson have been indexed. They can be found in the National Women & Media Collection. I was happy to get the news – Marie saved everything and there is a lot of valuable material about women’s pages. (Marie is the one seated in the photo above. Roberta Applegate is the one standing.) My article about Marie Anderson was published in Spring 2007.
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Beverley Morales Presentation From the Florida Conference of Historians
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