women's page history
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Chicago Tribune 1965 Women’s Pages
Great to see this cover of a 1965 Chicago Tribune women’s page on Instagram. Legendary women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon would have created this section – one of many she founded at the Tribune.
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Chicago Tribune Beauty Editor Eleanor Nagle
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Quilt Journalist & Artist Edna Marie Dunn
I found this great biography about Edna Marie Dunn who illustrated the quilt column that ran in the women’s pages of the Kansas City Star.
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Quilt Columns in the Newspaper
I was excited to find this book, Women of Design, about the history of quilt columns in the women’s pages of newspapers. It includes the stories of many interesting women – all from Kansas. I will include them in my next book about the history of the women’s pages.
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Women’s History Month: Day 31 & Ruth Ellen Church
On the final day of Women’s History Month for 2017, I am featuring Ruth Ellen Church, the food editor of the Chicago Tribune who wrote under the pen name of Mary Meade for many years. She was the food editor from 1936 to 1974. She was also known as the country’s first wine editor. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1933 with a degree in food and nutrition journalism. The photo above is from the Special Collections at that University. I plan to find out what information they have about her college years. She published many cookbooks during her career -I have tracked down several. Sadly, she was murdered…
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Women’s History Month: Day 30 and Eleni Epstein
Day 30 of Women’s History Month features Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She was one of the most noticeable Washington, D.C., voices in translating fashion news in the post-World War II era through 1981. Epstein found fashion to have a unique role in Washington society. After all, as she pointed out, it was her city’s unique social events that required the high couture clothing that she wrote about. “Washington women have always been interested in fashion,” she said. “Our city is one of achievers and doers.” It was a world that Epstein circulated within and would share with her readers as someone who could rarely afford many of the…
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Women’s History Month: Day 29 & Betty Preston Oiler
Day 29 of Women’s History Month – featuring Betty Preston. She was a women’s page editor at the Glendale News-Press in California. Betty Preston Oiler went from an award-winning women’s page editor to a top editor during her career in Glendale, California. A Michigan native, she graduated from Petoskey High School and attended Michigan State College (now Michigan State University). She graduated in 1941 with a degree in journalism. She was taught by the chair of the journalism program Albert A. Applegate who had a daughter, Roberta, near Preston’s age. Roberta Applegate (mentioned in an earlier post) would also go on to be a significant women’s page journalist. She said:…
