Roberta Applegate
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Women’s Page Editors and Sports
Today, Lance and I are going to the Champs Sports Bowl Game in Orlando. The University of Wisconsin is playing Florida State. Several of the women’s page editors were sports fans. Miami Herald Club editor Roberta Applegate regularly wrote to her family about the Michigan State football and basketball teams. The Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene began her journalism career as a sports columnist while in high school in Palatka, Florida. The biggest sports fan on my list was the Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day.She was a big fan of the University of Miami football team and was a regular on the sidelines. That’s her…
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Roberta Applegate articles
I just found these articles by Miami Herald women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate in the Florida Heritage Collection. The clip is in the papers of Gov. C. Farris Bryant scrapbook, folder 11, item 2. This is an earlier post on Roberta. She was a “first” several times in journalism before becoming a journalism professor at Kansas State in the 1960s.
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AJHA Acceptance
I just learned that my paper “Powerful Partnership: Florida Women’s Page Editors and Club Women,” has been accepted for the American Journalism Historians Association Convention in Seattle this fall. The paper tells the stories of Florida women’s page editors in the post-World War II years through the 1960s and their interactions with women’s clubs. The progressive women’s page editors of the state were expanding their coverage of women’s news following the war. Together, these women helped to create the foundations of their communities from libraries to hospitals. They created awareness about social issues from child abuse to environmentalism. This photo is of Roberta Applegate, a Miami Herald women’s page reporter,…
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Kim at Roberta’s Hall of Fame Induction
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Roberta Applegate II
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Roberta “Bobbi” Applegate
Roberta “Bobbi” Applegate was a women’s page journalist in Michigan in the 1940s, before becaming an Associated Press reporter covering the statehouse during World War II. She went on to be the club editor for the Miami Herald’s women’s pages in the 1950s and early 1960s. I appreciate the funding I received for researching Bobbi, including a $8,000 Summer Research Fellowship from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a travel grant from the University of Michigan. Read more about Roberta in my article in the Michigan History Magazine, April 2008. Here’s more about it:http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/breaking-barriers-in-michigan/ Roberta was recently inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Her papers are located in the…
