Paul Myhre
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Talk about Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre
This afternoon I am speaking on an AEJMC panel about using archives. I will address the partnership between Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre and women’s page editors in the 1960s. It is based on the PMA papers at the Missouri Historical Society. That is an image of Paul below. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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Penney-Missouri Awards at 12 Years
I recently came across this article from the 1972 Penney-Missouri Award Program. (This was the top honor for women’s pages. It was sponsored by the J.C. Penney Company and overseen by the Missouri School of Journalism.) In it, Paul Myhre who oversaw the program wrote about the first dozen years of the program. The program notes that Paul had passed away the previous September. “So women remain women: Talented, arbitrary, competent, charming, capricious creatures. They are the liberationists; the serious career types; and those who guide and rear the family first and still. Others are finding their first voices, for better or worse. Many millions more are working out of…
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Raising the Curtain on Paul Myhre, the Man Behind the Penney-Missouri Awards and the Network of Women It Fostered
Today I was working on my AEJMC 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.” In writing the panel presentation, I came across the letter and speech below between Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson and Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre. The exchange indicates the special friendship that Paul had with the women’s page editors during the 1960s.
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Raising the Curtain on Paul Myhre, the Man Behind the Penney-Missouri Awards and the Network of Women It Fostered
Today I was working on my AEJMC 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.” In writing the panel presentation, I came across the letter and speech below between Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson and Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre. The exchange indicates the special friendship that Paul had with the women’s page editors during the 1960s.
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Marie Anderson and Paul Myhre
This is a letter from Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson to Paul Myhre, the director of the Penney-Missouri Awards. Paul was a big advocate for women’s page journalism and often worked with Marie. The letter can be found in the Penney-Missouri Award papers at WHMC. The Penney-Missouri Awards were a way for women’s page editors to network. The letter includes a reference to Edee Greene, women’s page editor at the Fort Lauderdale News. I am presenting a paper about Edee at the end of the month.
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Maggie Savoy, Jim Bellows and Paul Myhre
This letter is from Jim Bellows (Maggie Savoy’s husband) to Paul Myhre, director of the Penney-Missouri Awards. The joking reference to Mary (Paul’s wife) is about the fact that Maggie was recently hired by the L.A. Times. Jim, Maggie and Paul often wrote letters back and forth to each other through the 1960s until Maggie’s death in 1970. Paul died in 1971. The letters showed humor, activism and journalism. The letter can be found in the unprocessed Penney-Missouri Awards papers at the WHMC at the University of Missouri
