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Women’s History Month: Day 26 & Janet Chusmir
Day 24 of Women’s History Month features Janet Chusmir. Janet Chusmir was a women’s page journalist at the Miami Herald in the late 1960s who rose to the position of Executive Editor at the Herald. She died suddenly in 1990. According to her obituary, “During her tenure she pushed the Herald to be more sensitive to ethnic and racial concerns, to think about how the events of the day affected real human beings, to publish a newspaper that, in her words, ‘connects with the community.’ As the newspaper’s first executive editor, she also brought diversity to the newsroom by creating new opportunities for women and minorities.” This is from her…
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Women’s History Month: Day 24 & Eleanor Hart
Today’s post for day 24 of Women’s History Month is another member of the Miami Herald’s women’s pages: columnist Eleanor Ratelle who wrote under the name “Eleanor Hart.” Eleanor’s papers are at the HistoryMiami Archives. They include several of Eleanor’s scrapbooks with entries from “A Column With Heart.” The advice column ran in the women’s section of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her most direct address to gender roles was in relation to an October 5, 1966 from reader, C.M.R. He identified himself as the husband of a stay-at-home wife with six children. He wrote: “I read the series by Lois Benjamin about the so-called…
- Dorothy Jurney, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson, Miami Herald, Roberta Applegate, women's history month
Women’s History Month: Day 23 & Miami Herald Women’s Pages
For day 23 of Women’s History Month: Miami Herald women’s pages – considered the best in the country in the 1950s and 1960s. I love this image which would have been taken in the 1950s. This photo includes Roberta Applegate, Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Jeanne Voltz.
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Women’s History Month: Day 16 & Marjorie Paxson
Day 16 of Womn’s History Month features Marjorie Paxson who helped found the National Women and Media Collection. She was a longtime women’s page journalist in Texas and Florida who became the fourth female publisher at Gannett. She worked on the hard news side during World War II and then returned to the women’s pages in peacetime. She worked at women’s pages in Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. She was a good friend of Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney. Here is a link to the finding guide for her papers. Here is a link to an article Lance & I wrote about Paxson.
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Women’s History Month: Day 15 & Virginia Heffington
Day 15 of Women’s History Month features Virginia Heffington – a food editor in Florida and later California. Recently, the Miami Herald cited a recipe from its 1960s food editor Virginia Heffington. This is the book that Heffington wrote in 1968 when she was the Homemaking Editor of the Miami Herald. At that point she had been at the Herald for five years and had won a Vesta Award – the top recognition for food journalism. In the introduction to the book, she mentioned that she was a graduate of Iowa State in home economic journalism. I also found an archive in Canada that had ten of Virginia’s clips in…
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Women’s History Month: Day 10 & Helen Wells
I am continuing with the Miami Herald theme for day 10 of Women’s History Month: society columnist Helen Wells. The photo above is from her 1969 retirement party held at Marie Anderson’s house. A Google News search revealed that she was also a longtime society editor at the Miami News. The above 1952 clip noted that she did club work in Washington D.C. prior to coming to Miami. It also noted that she served as a Gray Lady for the Red Cross during World War II. Here is an interesting online exhibit about the Gray Ladies. Wells died in a fire in her home in Coral Gables in March of…
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