I learned this week that my article about Maggie Savoy will be published by a history magazine. It will come out next March. I’m glad that such a significant woman will be recognized. This photo is of Maggie speaking at the banquet at the Penney-Missouri Awards in 1967. It can be found at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Here’s a newspaper article announcing Maggie as the speaker. Here is a link to a timeline of Maggie’s life. Here’s a link to one of Maggie’s columns.

My article on Maggie Savoy has been sent off to a history magazine. My work on Maggie was described in an earlier post. The cartoon in this post was done by Los Angeles Times political cartoonist Paul Conrad in honor of Maggie when she died.

Maggie Savoy was an award-winning women’s page journalist who started her career in Phoenix in the 1950s after earning a degree from the University of Southern California. She attended the influential API meeting for women’s pages editors along with Marie Anderson, Vivian Castleberry and Marjorie Paxson. In the 1960s, she won three Penney-Missouri Awards while the women’s page editor of the Arizona Republic. After marrying journalist Jim Bellows, she moved to New York and worked for the Associated Press. When Jim became an editor at the Los Angeles Times, she followed him back west and worked for the United Press. She eventually became the women’s page editor of the Times…