Paul Myhre
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Celebrating Archival Research & Re-examining Women’s History
Lance and I went to a wonderful talk at the University of Tampa last Friday. Kacy Tillman presented “The Epistolary Salon: Female Letter-Writing during the American Revolution.” She argued that writing letters was a way for the 18th century American female to engage in the American Revolution at a time when they could not fight, vote or legislate. I found it interesting how much of the material in the letters sounded like journalism. Her talk was also a reminder that women’s history and the role of women in the public sphere is more complex than previous historians have written. Kacy described some wonderful finds in archives such as notes in…
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from Curtis James, Paul Jacob, Lance & I! Curtis is named for Curtis Castleberry, the husband of legendary Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and James Bellows, husband of groundbreaking women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. Paul is named for Paul Myhre – a champion for women’s page journalism as the director of the Penney-Missouri Awards.
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Big Finds in the Marjorie Paxson Papers
I just finished going through the wonderful package of papers that arrived from the National Women & Media Collection. The copies are from the newly indexed Marjorie Paxson papers. Marjorie, who helped established the NWMC, was a longtime women’s page editor before becoming a newspaper publisher. That is a drawing of her above and a card signed by her friends and colleagues at the Miami Herald as she was leaving for the St. Petersburg Times. There are also great photos of her going away party – including one image of Marj with women’s page pioneer Marie Anderson. In some ways it was bittersweet to see the images. Marjorie looks so…
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New Research Finds
I have completed two orders for new material about women’s page journalism and food journalism. From the Fales Library at NYU, I ordered a transcript of an interview between Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone and the great food writer Laura Shapiro. I am presenting a paper about Cecily at the National Communication Association Convention this fall. From the National Women and Media Collection, I placed a large order of copies from the papers of women’s page editor and later publisher Marjorie Paxson. It includes references to Paul Myhre, Edee Green and Jim Bellows. There was also a folder devoted to a food editors meeting.
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Future Baby Will Have Women’s Page Connection
We learned a few weeks ago that Mr. Curtis was going to be a big brother. (Below is a photo of Curtis this past weekend at Disney – he is such an Orlando child.) We learned the day before his second birthday that Curtis is getting a baby brother. Like Curtis, the new baby will have a name with a women’s page connection. (Curtis James is named for Curtis Castleberry – husband of legendary women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry – and famed newspaper editor James Bellows – who was also the husband of favorite women’s editor Maggie Savoy.) The new baby will be named Paul after Paul Myhre, who was…
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Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre Article
Yesterday I sent off my article about Paul Myhre – director of the Penney-Missouri Awards, the top honor for women’s pages in the decade of the 1960s. That is a photo of Myhre above from the Penney-Missouri Papers now at the Missouri Historical Society. The paper, “The Wizard of the Women’s Pages: Raising the Curtain on Paul Myhre, the Man Behind the Penney-Missouri Awards and the Network of Women It Fostered,” was presented at the AEJMC convention in St. Louis this past August. It is expected to run as an invited piece in a national journal in 2012. The papers adds more detail to the changing content of the women’s…
