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Helen Palmer Henley
Helen Elisabeth Palmer Henley Robertson (November 26, 1903 – July 1976) was an American journalist. A 1961 Guggenheim Fellow, she worked in the staff at The Christian Science Monitor, including as a reporter, assistant to the American news editor, and farm editor. BiographyHelen Elisabeth Palmer[1] was born on November 26, 1903 in Norwood, Ohio.[2] She was the daughter of Nellie and lumber company manager Walter Carey Palmer.[1][3][4] She attended Evansville Central High School,[5] before obtaining her AA at Principia College in 1923.[2] After working at Principia Publications as an assistant editor (1929-1932), she joined the staff team of The Christian Science Monitor in 1934.[2] After spending almost a decade as an advertising copywriter, she was promoted to assistant woman's editor in 1949 and assistant to the American news editor in 1949, before becoming a general news reporter in 1950.[2] In 1956, she returned to the newspaper's editorial staff as their farm editor.[2] She also taught at her alma mater Principia College as a summer writing lecturer from 1956 until 1958.[2] In 1961, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of the family farm in the contemporary United States".[6][2] Henley, who by then had retired from The Christian Science Monitor and assumed the surname Robertson, she was a speaker at the 1971 luncheon of the National League of American Pen Women Cahokia Valley Branch.[7] On June 15, 1925, she married Francis Kern Henley,[1] a corset shop manager in Saginaw, Michigan.[8] They were married until his death on August 31, 1928.[8] Henley herself died in July 1976.[9] References
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