Yesterday I found this column Anne Rowe Goldman (a former women’s page editor) wrote in her role as ombudsman at the St. Pete Times during the late 1970s. Goldman was like many of her fellow women’s page journalists who reinvented their careers after the end of the women’s sections. Carol Sutton took on a similar position at the Louisville Courier-Journal after being the women’s page editor and then a brief tenure at a managing editor.

My review of a biography of Helen Gurley Brown, Bad Girls Go Everywhere, was published on H-Net today. It is available here. At one point, Helen wrote a column that ran in the women’s section. The column was based on her book, Sex and the Single Girl.

Just received some positive feedback on my article about Glendale (California) women’s page editor Betty Preston Oiler. It took several years to piece together Betty’s story. (I am appreciative of the help her step-daughter Pam provided over the past year.) Betty was a women’s page editor beginning in the World War II years through the elimination of the section in the early 1970s. (She won several Penney-Missouri Awards.) She went on to be an executive editor at the newspaper in later years.

Television journalism icon Walter Cronkite died this weekend. His wife of 65 years, Betsy, was a women’s page editor in Kansas City when they first married. She was a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. (That’s a photo of Betsy above.) The newspaper that she worked for, the Journal-Post, went out of business one day while she was out on assignment. The story is in Walter Cronkite’s autobiography, A Reporter’s Life, pages 77-78.

This is a letter from Paul Myhre, director of the Penney-Missouri Awards, to the Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson. In it he tells of the death of 25-year-old Bobbi McCallum, a women’s page journalist in Seattle. I have an article about Bobbi’s career under contract at a history publication.