Vivian Castleberry
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Texas A & M and Vivian Castleberry
Yesterday it was announced that Elsa A. Murano, the first female president of Texas A & M, was stepping down. Here is the NYT article about it. It was a reminder of how far Texas A & M has come – after all, women were not fully accepted as students until 1971. Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry oversaw the women’s section of the student newspaper at Texas A & M while her husband Curtis was going to school there in the 1950s. Vivian worked for the newspaper because, at the time, the university did not accept women. In fact, when Vivian spoke to the president, he told her the…
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It’s going to be a baby boy
We learned yesterday that I am having a baby boy. His name will be Curtis James. He will be named for the husbands of two great women’s page editors: Curtis Castleberry (married to Vivian Castleberry) and James Bellows (married to Maggie Savoy). This is a photo with Vivian and Curtis. Lance and I stayed with them last summer for a few days in Dallas. This is a photo of Jim who I interviewed a few years ago. Jim (a great editor in his own right) died a few months ago – I learned about his death while I was in Dallas being interviewed for a documentary about Vivian Castleberry.
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Vivian Castleberry documentary
Last night, Dallas PBS affiliate aired the documentary Texas Trailblazers about Vivian Castleberry, a longtime Dallas women’s page editor. There was a screening at the Women’s Museum in Dallas. I flew out to Dallas in March to be interviewed for the documentary. This is a photo of me with Vivian at her home last summer.
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Trailblazing Texas Women
I spent yesterday in Dallas being interviewed about women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry for the PBS documentary Trailblazing Texas Women. It was great to talk about Vivian’s importance. Vivian is the one in the upper, left corner in this image.
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Vivian Castleberry documentary
On Saturday I am flying to Dallas for the day to be interviewed about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry for a documentary. I wrote an article about Vivian for the Southwest Historical Quarterly and visited her last summer. I am going over my notes about Vivian.
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Vivian Castleberry
Today I heard from the woman who is making a documentary about Dallas woman’s page journalist Vivian Castleberry. I am flying out to Dallas to be interviewed for the documentary next weekend.
