Lois Hagen
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Women’s History Month: Lois Hagen
Day 21 of Women’s History Month features Milwaukee Journal furnishing reporter Lois Hagen. According to this article: Lois was born in Westby, Wisconsin in 1918. She earned a journalism degree at UW-Madison – at a time when it was unusual for a woman to do something other than earn a teaching certificate. Initially, Lois worked as a journalist at Time and the Associated Press. She spent the bulk of her career in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal. She set new standards for women at the newspaper, being the first mother to return to the Journal after having a child. She traveled extensively covering furnishings and she won a…
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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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Milwaukee Journal furnishings editor Lois Hagen
I am researching the career of Milwaukee Journal furnishing reporter Lois Hagen. According to this article: Lois was born in Westby, Wisconsin in 1918. She put herself through university at a time when it was unusual for a woman to do something other than earn a teaching certificate. Lois worked as a journalist, at Time, with the Associated Press and for the bulk of her career at the Milwaukee Journal. She set new standards for women, being the first woman to return to the Journal after having a child, having a successful career and a family. The above in-house ad from 1953 demonstrates a trend that I have seen in…
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Milwaukee Journal furnishings editor Lois Hagen
I am researching the career of Milwaukee Journal furnishing reporter Lois Hagen. According to this article: Lois was born in Westby, Wisconsin in 1918. She put herself through university at a time when it was unusual for a woman to do something other than earn a teaching certificate. Lois worked as a journalist, at Time, with the Associated Press and for the bulk of her career at the Milwaukee Journal. She set new standards for women, being the first woman to return to the Journal after having a child, having a successful career and a family. The above in-house ad from 1953 demonstrates a trend that I have seen in…
