Miami Herald
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A Visit to the Kennedy Space Center
We visited the Kennedy Space Center this weekend. When the space work in Cape Canaveral first started, Miami Herald women’s page reporter Roberta Applegate wrote a 5-part series on the women who worked for NASA.
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Florida food writer Virginia Heffington
Last month, the Miami Herald cited a recipe from its 1960s food editor Virginia Heffington. Above 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 – an area that I am researching for my book. A librarian at Iowa State was helpful in tracking down information about Virginia. I also found an archive in Canada that…
- Dorothy Jurney, Florida Women's Pages, Jeanne Voltz, jounalism history, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson, Miami Herald, Roberta Applegate
Saving the Miami Herald Building
Yesterday, the Miami Herald featured this story about a preservation group’s fight to save the Miami Herald Building. Marie Anderson was the women’s page editor of the Herald when the building opened in 1963. The Miami Herald had one of the top women’s page sections in the country in the 1950s and 1960s. Journalists who wrote for the section at the time included: Roberta Applegate, Dorothy Jurney, Marjorie Paxson and Jeanne Voltz.
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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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Roxcy Bolton House
Lance and I spent last weekend in beautiful Coral Gables. On Friday we went through the papers of Helen Muir at the University of Miami. We were happy to discover folders about several of the people we study: Jim Bellows, Dorothy Jurney and Jeanne Voltz. We found interesting information about the state of Florida journalism and the role of women. We also found evidence of great friendships. After our archiving, we visited the Roxcy Bolton House which is near the campus. (That’s a photo of the visit above – I’m 6 months pregnant with Curtis James.) Roxcy worked with the Miami women journalists as an early feminist leader. For example,…
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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 own short autobiographical statement written when she won a…
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