1. Pegeen Fitzgerald was an American radio personality perhaps best known for co-hosting The Fitzgeralds on radio in New York City.
18 Facts About Pegeen Fitzgerald
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Shortly after Pegeen Fitzgerald was born, the family's home burned down.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald attended the College of St Theresa in Winona, Minnesota, but she had to leave after two years to help support her family.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald had won a scholarship to attend The Sorbonne, but was not able to do so; due to the illness of her father, she needed to go to work.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald was a newspaperwoman and "a prominent department store executive in marketing and advertising" before she became a broadcaster.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald worked first as a bookkeeper at a Portland department store; she worked her way up into the store's advertising department.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald taught English at night school as a source of more income.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald kept her advertising job while her husband worked in the Orient as a foreign correspondent.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald began working on the air for WOR November 21,1939.
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In 1955, Pegeen Fitzgerald moved into the executive area of broadcasting, becoming manager of retail merchandising for WRCA and WRCA-TV in New York City.
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At a face-to-face meeting with both the program director and general manager, Pegeen Fitzgerald was told the program would have its last airing that evening and that this last show would be recorded for broadcast so station attorneys could review it prior to its airing.
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Angry to be thought of as unprofessional after fifty years in radio, Pegeen Fitzgerald refused to tape a last broadcast.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald returned to the WOR airwaves in 1985 as the hostess of a radio program for the Millennium Guild.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald hosted episodes for Gimbels and Bergdorf Goodman on WRCA-TV, displaying the stores' merchandise for viewers.
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Always involved with helping animals, Pegeen Fitzgerald became involved with the Millennium Guild and the Vivisection Investigation League, eventually becoming president of both of those organizations.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald founded a private animal shelter for cats called "The Last Post" in 1982.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald died of breast cancer at her home in Manhattan, New York on January 30,1989, aged 84.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald was survived by four sisters and a brother.