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Prename: | Helen |
Surname: | Rogers Reid |
Name of birth: | Miles Rogers |
Profession: | Publisher, philanthropist |
Birthday: | 11/23/1882 |
Place of birth: | Appleton, WI |
Date of death: | 07/27/1970 |
Place of death: | New York City |
Married since: | 1911 |
Married to: | Odgen Mills Reid (1882-1947) |
Profession husband: | Jurist; private secretary to his father Whitelaw Reid; from 1911 owner and publisher of the daily newspaper "Herald tribune" |
Children: | 3 (Odgen Rogers Reid, born 1925) |
Education: | 1903 B.A. Barnard College (Ancient Greek, Latin, zoology) |
Career: | 1903–11 private secretary to Mrs. Elizabeth Mills Reid; 1918 advertising solicitor at *Herald Tribune*, soon director of the advertising section; 1921–47 *Tribune*’s vice president and executive director, 1947–55 president; 1948 honorary doctorates Smith College, Syracuse University, University of Wisconsin, Columbia University, Yale, and The New School for Social Research in New York City |
Memberships: | American Association of University Women (AAUW); from 1914 trustee of Barnard College; president of New York Newspaper Women’s Club; from 1947 director of Reid Foundation |
Biographical literature: | Elizabeth V. Burt, “Helen Rogers Reid (1882–1970),” in *Women in Communication. A Biographical Sourcebook*, ed. Nancy Signorielli (Westport, CN: Greenwood, 1996), 312–20; Ruth Gruber, *Inside of Time. My Journey from Alaska to Israel* (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), esp. 146–57; Richard Kluger, *The Paper. The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune* (New York: Knopf, 1986) |