- Carol McCready Hartley, food history, food journalism, journalism history, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Carol McCready Hartley
Day 12 of Women’s History Month features another Arizona food editor – Carol McCready Hartley. Hartley graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics, focusing on textiles. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first job was in Chicago, at Carson Pirie Scott, the city’s second largest department store, as a member of the Fashion Board, staging style shows throughout Chicago and North Shore suburbs. She married Richard H. Voshall in 1955. The couple divorced in 1961. She moved from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona in 1961, and went to work for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., the following year. She became the first…
- Arizona Republic, Dorothee Polson, food history, food journalism, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Dorothee Polson
Day 11 of Women’s History Month features Arizona Republic food editor Dorothee Polson. She was a Vesta Award winner for top newspaper food writing and knew Arizona women’s page editor Maggie Savoy who I blogged about earlier this month. I came across an oral history with Dorothee. It is available here. In the history, Dorothee mentions Maggie and her experiences as a food journalist. Here is one of my favorite parts as she described coming to Phoenix in 1962:“I think it helped me that there had not been a food section, because there were no rules and regulations to follow. I could just do whatever I wanted to. And I…
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Women’s History Month: Betty Preston Oiler
Staying on the West Coast for day 10 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…
- Bobbi McCallum, journalism history, Seattle Post-Intellincer, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Bobbi McCallum
For day nine of Women’s History Month, I am blogging about Bobbi McCallum – a women’s page journalist from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1968, at age 25, McCallum won the top national reporting award for women’s pages – the Penney-Missouri Award. Her five-part series about young pregnant women, “Unwed Mothers-The Price They Pay,” examined the lives of women facing significant social stigma. She interviewed teens, hippies, career women, and African American women. She told warm yet probing stories of young women whose voices often went unheard. Her work demonstrated what was happening at newspapers across the country in the 1960s-women’s pages were changing. New topics captured women’s attention and their…
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Women’s History Month: Maggie Savoy
On day eight of Women’s History Month, I thought I would look over to the West Coast and feature Maggie Savoy who was the women’s page editor at the Arizona Republic and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s. Maggie was an outspoken feminist who did not live long enough to witness the victories of the Women’s Liberation Movement. In a 1970 article Savoy wrote for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, she took editors to task for not fully explaining the issues central to the women’s movement. She wrote: “Blunt fact: American women are second class citizens. They want a fair shot at the starting line. Like other minority…
- Florida Women's Pages, food history, food journalism, Jeanne Voltz, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Jeanne Voltz
Day seven of Women’s History Month features my final Miami Herald women’s page journalist: food editor Jeanne Voltz. Here is a link to my article about Voltz’s career at the Los Angeles Times where she went after many years at the Herald. Like several food editors, Voltz wrote several cookbooks – including one of my favorites, The Florida Cookbook. Today, Voltz’s recipe for Green Corn Tamales can be found on the Food Network website with a note giving credit to her acclaimed book, Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, and Other Great Feeds. James Beard, a well-known name in food and a contemporary of Julia Child, wrote of the book, “Jeanne Voltz…
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