Junior League
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Florida Conference of Historians: The Gasparilla Cookbook
FCH.gasparilla cookbook.presentation from Kimberly Voss Today I am presenting a paper about The Gasparilla Cookbook and food editor Clementine Paddleford at the Florida Conference of Historians.
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Women’s Clubs, Academia & Social Media
I have spoken several times about the need for academics to use social media to promote their research. Below is an example of how social media and the real world came together. In the Spring, I answered a Tweet from NPR’s the Salt about the cookbooks produced by Junior League organizations as fundraisers. That led to an interview with an NPR reporter and this story. A few weeks ago, I received an email from the president of the Daytona Beach Junior League who had heard the story on the radio. Last night, I spoke to the organization in honor of its 80 year anniversary:“Women’s Clubs: Well Behaved Women Who Helped…
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Talking About Clubwomen to the Junior League of Daytona Beach
I am looking forward to my talk tomorrow evening to the Junior League of Daytona Beach: “Women’s Clubs: Well Behaved Women Who Helped Create Community.” In my presentation, I will discuss Marie Anderson’s contributions to Miami. Above is a photo of Marie Anderson, the longtime women’s page editor of the Miami Herald and the president of the Miami Junior League in 1945. (She is the one wearing glasses; she is sitting next to fellow journalist Dorothy Jurney.) In the mid-1960s, nearly 9,000 women showed up when Anderson ran a notice asking if female readers were interested in continuing their education. It led to the highly successful Council for the Continuing…
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