Vivian Castleberry
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Happy Mother’s Day
Several women’s page journalists were mothers, including Vivian Castleberry, Edee Greene, Jane Nickerson and Dorothee Polson. They each had at least three children while also working as journalists. This was at a time when there was no daycare or maternity leave. These women had to pave their own ways as working mothers. A special recognition of my favorite toddler who loves pudding. He is taking his mother to the beach today. Happy Mother’s Day!
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Happy Mother’s Day
Several women’s page journalists were mothers, including Vivian Castleberry, Edee Greene, Jane Nickerson and Dorothee Polson. They each had at least three children while also working as journalists. This was at a time when there was no daycare or maternity leave. These women had to pave their own ways as working mothers. A special recognition of my favorite toddler who loves pudding. He is taking his mother to the beach today. Happy Mother’s Day!
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Congratulations to the Texas A&M Women’s Team
Congratulations to the Texas A & M Women’s Basketball Team – the 2011 NCAA Champions! This is a good time to remember 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 became the women’s editor of the student paper because there were no male students but plenty of wives. When Vivian spoke to the university president, he told her the school would never accept women as…
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Congratulations to the Texas A&M Women’s Team
Congratulations to the Texas A & M Women’s Basketball Team – the 2011 NCAA Champions! This is a good time to remember 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 became the women’s editor of the student paper because there were no male students but plenty of wives. When Vivian spoke to the university president, he told her the school would never accept women as…
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Feminism and Vivian Castleberry
Of all the women’s editors I have studied, the most outspoken feminist was Vivian Castleberry. She said recently: “I entered the feminist movement before there was a feminist movement. I pushed, prodded and prevailed in moving what was a traditional women’s section to become a bellwether for the reporting of issues significant to women and the family – abortion, child abuse, custody, women and legal concerns, family and spousal abuse, violence and on and on.”
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Assassination Attempt
The attempted assassination attempt on Congresswoman Giffords reminded me of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Dallas Times Herald Vivian Castleberry allowed her seventh-grade daughter, Cathy, to stay home from school to watch the president drive through the city. Cathy had pled with her parents to allow her to skip school. She later noted, that Kennedy was a hero among her peers. They were impressed that Cathy would get to see the president. Cathy helped her mother prepare to meet Jacqueline Kennedy by reading newspaper clips in the car on the way to work. After a visit to a coffee shop, Cathy went to the library to wait for…
