Jo Werne
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Orlando Home & Garden Show
Today we attended the Orlando Home & Garden Show. It reminded me of the trade shows that furnishing editors used to cover for the women’s pages – such as Lois Hagen at the Milwaukee Journal or Jo Werne at the Miami Herald. We heard the gardening writer for the Orlando Sentinel speak. Many women’s pages included columns on gardening. I am curious if there was a connection between those columns and the gardening clubs that existed in most communities.
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Talking to Chairs & Furnishing Writers
With all the mocking of Clint Eastwood talking to a chair at the RNC, I kept thinking how much fun the furnishing writers of the women’s pages would have had. (Furnishings is one of the 4 Fs associated with the women’s pages.) Three of the furnishing writers I am researching are Dorothy Dawe and Lois Hagen from the Milwaukee Journal, and Jo Werne from the Miami Herald. If I were talk to a chair, this would be the kind I would choose.
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New Jo Werne images
The wonderful folks at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri just posted these images of Jo Werne. Jo, who died last week, was a longtime reporter at the Miami Herald. She spent many of those years in the women’s pages. I was sad to learn of her death so I wanted to share these images in celebration of her career. The great women journalists of south Florida are so intertwined – I find connections on a regular basis. Late summer, I found a note from Jo to Helen Muir (a Miami journalist and library advocate) in Helen’s papers at the University of Miami. The September 29,…
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New Jo Werne images
The wonderful folks at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri just posted these images of Jo Werne. Jo, who died last week, was a longtime reporter at the Miami Herald. She spent many of those years in the women’s pages. I was sad to learn of her death so I wanted to share these images in celebration of her career. The great women journalists of south Florida are so intertwined – I find connections on a regular basis. Late summer, I found a note from Jo to Helen Muir (a Miami journalist and library advocate) in Helen’s papers at the University of Miami. The September 29,…
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Death of Jo Werne
I was so sad to hear of the death of longtime Miami Herald reporter Jo Werne. She died earlier this week. Here is her obituary. (I always noticed her byline since my middle name is Jo.) Jo often covered furnishing – one of the four Fs of the women’s pages. Yet, in 1972, she won a Penney-Missouri Award for fashion. Here is what I learned about her from the Penney-Missouri Papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri:Werne combined her hobby with her work and it led to the 1972 Penney-Missouri Award for fashion writing. A reporter on numerous beats, she had been sewing for years.…
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