Marie Willard Anderson was a Miami, Florida newspaper editor.
13 Facts About Marie Anderson
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Marie Anderson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in English in 1937.
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Marie Anderson attended the Katharine Gibbs School to learn shorthand and typing, graduating in 1939.
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When she joined the Herald Marie Anderson started a column, Monday Musings, that ran for more than twenty years.
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In 1959 Jurney moved to the Detroit Free Press and Marie Anderson became Women's Page editor at the Herald, making Paxson her assistant.
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Marie Anderson transformed the section from one containing little information of any importance into one that addressed the emerging women's issues of the day such as reproductive rights.
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Marie Anderson subscribed to the Herald, clipped and duplicated the best articles, and mailed packets to other feminists around the country.
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Marie Anderson ran excerpts of Betty Friedan's controversial book The Feminine Mystique at the same time the New York Times and the Washington Post refused to even publish a review.
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In 1970, Marie Anderson requested a transfer to the city room but instead was moved to the home and design department.
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Marie Anderson left the paper in 1972 to become dean of University Relations and Development at Florida International University.
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In 1961, it won again, and the program director asked Marie Anderson to sit the 1962 awards out.
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Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere, writing in the scholarly journal Florida Historical Quarterly, said Marie Anderson "personified" the Penney-Missouri competition's goals.
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Marie Anderson's papers are in the National Women and Media Collection, housed at the Western Manuscripts Collection at the University of Missouri.