Roberta Applegate
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FHS 2019: Celebrating the Women of Cape Canaveral
I am looking forward to putting together a proposal about women who worked at Cape Canaveral in the 1960s. Roberta Applegate wrote a great series for the Miami Herald about the first NASA women who worked at Cape Canaveral.
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
- Dorothy Jurney, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson, Miami Herald, Roberta Applegate, women's history month
Women’s History Month: Day 23 & Miami Herald Women’s Pages
For day 23 of Women’s History Month: Miami Herald women’s pages – considered the best in the country in the 1950s and 1960s. I love this image which would have been taken in the 1950s. This photo includes Roberta Applegate, Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Jeanne Voltz.
- Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Miami Herald, Roberta Applegate, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month, Day 7: Roberta Applegate
For the seventh day of Women’s History Month, I am continuing to focus on Miami Herald women’s page journalists: club editor Roberta Applegate. She highlighted the important work that women’s clubs were doing as Miami grew. She left the Herald in 1964 to become a journalism professor at Kansas State University where she taught about women’s page reporting. Prior to working at the Herald, she was a reporter for the Associated Press in Michigan. A few years ago, I nominated her for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. I was happy that she was accepted. This is me speaking at the induction ceremony for Roberta. Here is my article about…
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Gulfport Talk: Florida Women in the 1950s & 1960s
I am looking forward to speaking at the Gulfport Historical Society about the Florida women I study – including several in the photo above. This image from the Miami Herald in the 1950s includes Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Roberta Applegate.
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Roberta Applegate & Dorothy Jurney Photo
I just came across this old image of Miami Herald women’s page journalists Roberta Applegate and Dorothy Jurney. I love their hats and gloves.
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Florida Women’s Page Journalism Publications
I was inspired to put together a list of my publications about Florida women’s page journalists from the 1950’s and 1960’s after re-reading the book Orange Journalism which overlooked Florida women’s pages. The photo above is of the women’s page department of the Miami Herald in the 1950’s. It includes Marie Anderson, Robert Applegate and Dorothy Jurney.
