Long-ago Beacon Journal food writer Pauline Katherine “Polly”
Paffilas is the subject of an article on the Women’s Page History web site by
Kimberly Wilmot Voss, a member of the Nicholson School of Communication faculty
at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Polly retired
in 1987 after 45 years as a reporter, food
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| Polly Paffilas |
writer, women’s pages
editor and About Town columnist for the BJ. She began her Beacon career as a
Reference Library (aka Morgue) clerk in 1942 for $23.50 a week.
Polly was born Aug. 8,
1921, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, attended Akron’s Crosby Elementary School
and was graduated from West High School.
In 2002 she donated her
recipes, including more than 5,000 published in the BJ, to the Akron Public
Library.
Polly died in May 2005.
A wing for diabetics at Akron General Medical Center is named in her honor. Polly was a
diabetic and a major fundraiser for that cause.
Click on http://www.womenspagehistory.com/
to read the article about Polly.
A tip of the BJ Alums blog hat to Tom
Moore for finding this gem.
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