women's history month
- Beverley Morales, Billie O'Day, Edee Greene, Kathryn Robinette, Lilly Pulitzer, Marie Anderson, women's history month, women's page history
My Orlando Talk, Lilly Pulitzer & Cute Cookies
I was excited to see that the Orange County Regional Historical Center list my talk in March for Women’s History Month. This is the description: Evening Lecture with Dr. Kimberly Voss: Fashion, Food and Feminism: Florida’s Women’s Page Editors in the 1960sThursday, March 6, 2014 Throughout the 1960s, the Florida women’s page editors were setting the standard across the country. They were regularly giving lectures to other women’s page editors and dominated the Penney-Missouri Awards- the top journalism prize for the sections. These editors were developing a community together. They socialized, encouraged and pushed the definition of women’s news. This time period was described by Marjorie Paxson, Miami Herald and…
- Florida Women's Pages, Janet Chusmir, journalism history, Miami Herald, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Janet Chusmir
Day 31 of Women’s History Month features the Miami Herald’s Janet Chusmir. She went from women’s page editor to executive editor. For years, women in newspaper management had few role models. If they were mentored it was by a man. Many of these managers were hard-hitting, tough-talking men. Those first female leaders rarely had families – there was no career path. Then came Janet Chusmir. She was the exception. After earning a journalism degree and raising a family, she entered the workforce. After a few years as a reporter, she rose through the ranks to become the executive editor of the Miami Herald. She achieved success before dying suddenly of…
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Women’s History Month: Vera Glaser
Day 30 of Women’s History month features Vera Glaser – 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…
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Women’s History Month: Beverley Morales
Day 29 of Women’s History month features Beverley Brink Morales She grew up on a Montana ranch where she punched cattle, dehorned calves, and herded sheep. She graduated from Montana State University and was hired by a newspaper to cover snow ski competitions and prizefights. After some public relations positions, she was hired as a society reporter at the Mexico News in Mexico City. She married the newspaper’s sports editor, Hector Morales. The couple came to the U.S. in 1956 and ran a newspaper in North Dakota. In 1959, she became an assistant editor in the Miami Herald’s women’s section – the top women’s section in the country. Unlike many…
- food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, Ruth Casa-Emellos, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Ruth Casa-Emellas
Day 28 of Women’s History month features Ruth P. Casa-Emellos, a former home economist for The New York Times. She worked with Jane Nickerson who I blogged about yesterday. In the photo above, she is feeding New York Herald Tribune food editor Clementine Paddleford. Casa-Emellos taught at Columbia University for 20 years before joining the food-news staff of The Times in 1943. Working with Nickerson, Casa-Emellos prepared the dishes that appeared in recipes and food photographs in the newspaper. She tested the recipes for accuracy in The Times’s test kitchen and adapted them, when necessary, for home use. She also wrote occasional columns on food. In one example, she re-created…
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- food history, food journalism, Jane Nickerson, New York Times food, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Jane Nickerson
Day 27 of Women’s History Month features New York Times food editor Jane Nickerson. Nickerson’s work is often overshadowed by Craig Claiborne at the NYT. He is given credit for including news in the food section in 1957 but Jane had been doing that since World War II. The story of Nickerson’s resignation from the newspaper was explained in Craig Claiborne’s memoir, A Memoir with Recipes: A Feast Made for Laughter (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1982). He wrote that at the beginning of 1957, she told the Times that “for reasons for family” she would be resigning from the newspaper as of September 1. Claiborne, who became the NYT…
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