Vera Glaser
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Vera Glaser
I learned yesterday that Vera Glaser has died. She was an amazing reporter and columnist. Her stories were some of the first to explain feminist issues. She was friends with Marie Anderson, Catherine East and Dorothy Jurney. I am working on a paper about the friendships and the social change these women encouraged. This is my earlier post on Vera. Here’s a link to an article that mentions the “Offbeat Washington” column that Vera co-authored. This is a favorite Vera story. Here’s another link to an article Vera wrote.
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Catherine East manuscript
This week I received the manuscript written by Catherine East called “Critical Comments on A Lesser Life, the Myth of Women’s Liberation in America.” It was located in Kay Clarenbach’s papers at the University of Wisconsin archives. I am currently working on an article about Catherine and her friendship with political journalist Vera Glaser. I went through Catherine’s papers at the Schlesinger Library this past summer and Vera’s papers at the University of Wyoming last fall.
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Vera Glaser (also shown as a guest on Meet the Press)
Vera Glaser was a Washington, DC-based wire services reporter whose work typically ran in the women’s pages in the 1960s. She made a significant difference in the coverage of the women’s liberation movement. Vera Glaser was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She was interested in journalism in high school. On the weekends she would visit the newsrooms of the local newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She graduated from high school first in her class. That position typically meant a scholarship to Washington University. Instead, the honor went to a male who had only been at the school for a year. Decades later, she recalled…
