Pat Millard-Hunter
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Honolulu Advertiser Women’s Pages in the 1960s
I am working on a journal article about Hawaii women’s page journalists Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter. They both won Penney-Missouri Awards so I found their letters to and from Awards’ director Paul Myhre. The file also included Hunters’ award-winning series about child abuse, LSD and divorce laws.
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Hints from Heloise and the Honolulu Advertiser
I have been collecting information about Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter who were women’s page journalists at the Honolulu Advertiser. Drue won several Penney-Missouri Awards for top women’s section in the 1960s. Pat won a Penney-Missouri Award for investigative reporting. I recently learned that the housekeeping column “Hints From Heloise” originated in Drue’s section: “Heloise has decided that she wanted to write a column in a newspaper for to help housewives, She marched to the office of the Honolulu Advertiser to see the editor to discuss her idea. She even offered to work for free for 30 days and the editor took a chance—The Readers’ Exchange column began in 1959.…
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Hints from Heloise and the Honolulu Advertiser
I have been collecting information about Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter who were women’s page journalists at the Honolulu Advertiser. Drue won several Penney-Missouri Awards for top women’s section in the 1960s. Pat won a Penney-Missouri Award for investigative reporting. I recently learned that the housekeeping column “Hints From Heloise” originated in Drue’s section: “Heloise has decided that she wanted to write a column in a newspaper for to help housewives, She marched to the office of the Honolulu Advertiser to see the editor to discuss her idea. She even offered to work for free for 30 days and the editor took a chance—The Readers’ Exchange column began in 1959.…
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Researching Pat Millard-Hunter and the Honolulu Advertiser
I just rehired a researcher to go through the microfiche of the newspaper, the Honolulu Advertiser. The women’s page editor of the newspaper, Drue Lyte, was a multiple winner of the Penney-Missouri Award – the top recognition for the sections. The photo above is of Drue. Last fall, the researcher went through the microfiche looking for Drue’s byline but found few examples. A collection of letters between Drue and Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myrhe show that she was more editor than reporter. Instead, Drue mentored reporter Pat Millard-Hunter. It was Pat who wrote groundbreaking health and crime articles that ran in the women’s section. (The letters can be found in…
