1. Joan Elizabeth Gilmore was an American journalist based in Oklahoma City, where she was an editor and columnist at The Daily Oklahoman beginning in 1952.
13 Facts About Joan Gilmore
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Joan Gilmore was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
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Joan Gilmore attended James Millikin University and in January 1951 earned an English degree from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.
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In 1951, Joan Gilmore was named society editor of the Muskogee Daily Phoenix.
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Joan Gilmore reported from New York Fashion Week and similar press events in the 1960s and 1970s, and returned to New York City to report on the Christmas shopping and store windows in 1966.
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Joan Gilmore cowrote a biography, Old Man River: The Life of Ray Ackerman.
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Outside of her professional work, Joan Gilmore was involved in various civic and nonprofit organizations.
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Joan Gilmore was a founding member of Leadership Oklahoma City and Oklahoma Children's Medical Research Foundation.
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Joan Gilmore served on the boards of institutions including the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation.
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Joan Gilmore was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1994, and in 2018 to the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
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Joan Gilmore received awards from the Governor's Arts Award program.
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Joan Gilmore retired from her column in 2020, at age 93, and she died in 2022, at the age of 94, in Oklahoma City.
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Joan Gilmore left $30,000 to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, for a future museum and scholarship fund.