Penney-Missouri Award
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Paul Myhre
Paul Myhre was the director of the Penney-Missouri Awards program throughout the 1960s. This photo is from one of the workshops that were a part of the Awards. His letters at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection show that he was supportive of the women’s page editors. He died in 1971. After a long search I have found the date he died and today I ordered his obituary. I plan to write an article about Paul’s campaign to improve the status of women’s pages.
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Florida Conference of Historians
My article about Edee Greene has been accepted for presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians in February 2009. Edee Greene was the women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1950s and 1960s. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards and was good friends with fellow Florida women’s page editor Marj Paxson. Here is my earlier post on Marj. I just found the obituary of Edee’s father Henry Nielsen. The obituary of Edee’s brother proved that “Edee” was a nickname for Edith.
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Lakeland Ledger
We went to Sarasota this weekend and drove through Lakeland. Two Lakeland Ledger women’s page journalists won Penney-Missouri Awards in the 1960s: Dorothy-Anne Flor and Sallie Batson.
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Penney-Missouri Awards
The Penney-Missouri Awards, beginning in 1960, recognized the best in women’s page journalism. Sponsored by the JC Penney Company and run by the Missouri School of Journalism, the competition rewarded progressive content that went beyond the traditional four Fs of family, fashion, food and furnishings. The awards also included workshops that encouraged women’s page editors to improve their content. My article about the first decade of the competition is in the Spring 2006 issue of the journal Journalism History. Since publication of this article (which came from a dissertation chapter), I have collected additional information about the awards. Papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards are at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection.
