Gertrude Louise Poe <21 September 1915 - July 13, 2017) is an American journalist, lawyer, real estate agent, insurance agent, and radio broadcaster serving as editor of the Leadership of Laurel in Laurel, Maryland 1939-1980. He is known as "First Lady of Journalism Maryland."
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Life and career
Poe was born in Granite, Maryland in 1915, the youngest of the five Eligible daughters and Bertha Poe, and moved with his family to the closest Laurel as a child. Shortly after graduating from Laurel High School at the age of fifteen in 1931, Poe was hired by local lawyer George McCeney to work as a secretary at his law offices, located at 357 Main Street in Laurel. After five years working as a legal secretary, he was accepted to the Washington College of Law, where he graduated with a J.D. in 1939.
Leader
After graduation, Poe returned to the McCeney law firm with a view to joining the firm as a lawyer. The head of the office, G. Bowie McCeney, son of the late George McCeney, even named Poe editor The Leader, a paper he obtained years earlier from his founder, James. P. Curley.
"He [McCeney] gave me a copy of [The Leader] with a grin and said, 'My career as an editor has just ended. Sincerely has just begun.' Poe protested this assignment, reflected in a column in 1980: "I am amazed I am angry Law is my love I do not know anything about writing... With considerable disinslination, I take on my new assignments. " McCeney's intention as Poe who operates the newspaper while studying for the exam.
Under Poe's guidance, the Leaders diverted the scope model from national news to focus on local news, and in 1946 the paper changed its name to News Leaders when joining with the The Bowie Register , The Beltsville Banner , and The College Park News , each also owned by G. Bowie McCeney. Previously, Poe had served as the third editor of the issue as well. In 1950 Poe joined McCeney as a publishing partner and business partner of The News Leader while remaining editor.
During the first two decades of the newspaper, Poe was forced to perform many roles to ensure it was published on a weekly schedule. "I think from 1939 to about 1956 or 1957 it was a one-woman show, I sold ads, made them, wrote copies, went to printing factories, corrected and saw newspapers locked and printed, so I took the paper with me and put it in the letter. "Beginning in the late 1950s, after the National Security Agency moved to nearby Fort Meade, Poe increased the scope of military and on-base problems, and was later awarded the Patriotic Civil Service Award for his efforts. As part of his job as an editor, Poe drew attention to positive news in the city, and was known to write letters to editors to the Washington Post and other letters that published negative stories about the city of Laurel.
Shortly after G. Bowie McCeney died in 1978, Poe began considering selling the Leader and retiring. In 1980 he sold newspapers to Patuxent Publishing Company; His last day at Laurel Leader was June 26, 1980 - 2,132 problems of the Leader he supervised as an editor. In retirement, Poe remains active in charities and religious organizations in the Laurel area. In 1988 he awarded the Gertrude Poe Fund for Excellence Journalism at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, which "supports scholarship students at Merrill College, with a preference given to students with an interest in community journalism." His autobiography, Lady Editor , was published in 2014.
Other businesses
Poe operates Gertrude L. Poe Agency, an insurance agent formerly owned and operated by G. Bowie McCeney under the name G. Bowie McCeney Agency. In the late 1960s Poe delivered a five-minute daily report on WLMD, a Laurel radio station.
Past year and death
Poe never married or had children, and was very close to his three nieces and their children and grandchildren. In 2015, he is the honorary president of the Maryland state's annual luncheon who holds the honor of a tribute of 100 years or more. In Laurel Leader's article on his 100th birthday, Poe writes that his is "a good life and a good life." He died at his home in Ashton on July 13, 2017, at the age of 101.
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Awards and honors
- 1958: First woman elected president of Maryland Press Association (now Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association)
- 1963: Patriotic Civil Service Award
- 1967: Awarded Emma C. McKinney Award pf Merit, National Newspaper Association
- 1976: Named "Woman of the Year" by Xi Alpha Zeta Babeta Beta Sigma Pi International Sorority
- 1987: First live person, first woman sworn in to Maryland-Delaware-D.C. (MDDC) Press Hall of Fame Association
- 2008: Honorary Chairman, MDDC Press Association Gala 100th year
- 2011: Inaugurated as the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame
- 2015: Honorary Chairman in Maryland's lunch state for residents who have 100 or more birthdays
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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