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Careers i in Professional Writing Post Reporter/Collummist By (Nitictineeel| [Deawiis || WC J had always wanted to write. [I] wasnt particularly interested in fiction writing, but I think I wanted to be in journalism before I knew what journalism was, says Rose Post. When the Rowan Public Library was still known as the Salisbury Public Library and located in the old community building, Post says she would go up to Edith Clark, the librarian and say, Give me a real big thick book so I can get to know these people for a long time. She says, All the books in the Rowan Public Library, inspired her to become a writer. These days Post admits that while books are her first choice, books on tape are not half bad either. Post says, Im a reader. Im too old for it now, so I listen. North Carolina daughter, Rose Zimmerman Post was born in Morganton 75 years ago and moved with her family to Salisbury when she was 13 years old. Post graduated from Boyden High School, where she began her career in the newspaper business working for the student newspaper. Post majored in English with a minor in history at the Womens College (WC), known today as UNCG. While in college she worked for the Carolinian, the weekly student newspaper. After starting as a reporter there her freshman year, she served as editor her senior year. We had a room in the bottom of the Alumni House and we went there on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night and put the paper out, says Post. As freshmen, it was wonderful getting out of closed study. Post was married her junior year. Following her graduation in 1948, she and her husband moved to Mount Vernon, New York, a bedroom community of New York City, where he had grown up. I went to New York having graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, having been the editor of the Carolinian and I could not get an interview, says Post. There was no way. T had one friend who had been on the paper [Carolinian], she had gotten on at the Ladies Home Journal as a secretary - very good writer, Post says. After months of searching and having no doors opened, Post finally thought she had secured a job. I was hired by the Mount Vernon Daily Argus, a small chain of papers in Westchester County, but they didnt tell me when to start, says Post. She was told she had the job and had even been told all about their expectations and her benefits. Rose left the interview that day expecting a call about her start date. They never called me, says Post. She says there must have been women in newspaper jobs in New York in 1948, but they did not get there through the front door. Post says, There was no way for a woman to get a newspaper job in New York. They told me the way women got in was to come in as secretaries to male editors then find out if they could do okay writing an obituary. Anyway, I didnt get such a job, says Post. And, I lucked into the job here because my very good friend was the only woman in the newsroom and she got married. In those days at the Salisbury Post only one woman was allowed to work in the newsroom. Getting that position was one thing, but keeping it was another. Then, women were also discouraged from covering anything considered remotely risky or risqu. we living@email wwou.edu Tt was a different day, Post says. teas would not let me take a wreck. It might be too violent or dangerous for feminine ears. Her job at the Salisbury Post is the only bang newspaper job she has ever had, she says. Post and her family returned to Salisbury and she started working for the Salisbury Post in 1951. During her first week on the job, Post needed to fill out a form for someone. There was a blank for her title, but Post did not know what that was. T wanted to ask the editor George Raynor, what am I? says Post. He was walking out the door when I asked that. And he said, Why, do you have to be something? And he turned around and never told me. When Post, the mother of five children, started her job at the Salisbury Postshe had three children, two had not yet been born: The trickiest part for her was managing her other two pregnancies and the responsibilities of her job and family, in a time when job security, especially for women, was nonexistent. Back then there was no Family Leave Act. Six weeks was all the time off allowed for maternity leave. One of Posts pregnancies went fine, while the other was not so simple. She says one of her children had some problems at birth and she had to bargain for an extra week to tend to her child. She returned to work after seven weeks. Otherwise, Post says, They would have filled the position with another woman and I wouldnt have been able to work in the newsroom. When Post began at the Salisbury Post she says she was more like an assistant to Raynor. She helped him with everything from wire material to obituaries. Post spent the next three decades covering a beat that started from a request made to Raynor by the school superintendent. J.H. Knox was superintendent of Salisbury schools for a long time, a wonderful, wonderful, brilliant man, says Post. She knew Knox from childhood and highly respected him. Proof that it is all about being in the right place at the right time, one such occurrence landed her a job working for him, and the rest became history. Post says one day she was in the employment office looking for a part-time job. Knox called looking for a temporary secretary to work at Frank B. John School. Post says, Knox told her, Come on over here right now. I need you for only six weeks. You dont have to worry about being a secretary longer than that. Knox turned out to be Posts biggest supporter when she became a reporter at the Salisbury Post. He delivered the minutes from the school board meetings for her to write up for the paper. On one occasion Knox pulled her aside and told her that everything from that weeks meeting was not included in the report. Knox told her that what he was about to tell her was off the record and was not included in the report. Post says he told her, Last night we dealt with the issue of a principal slapping a cuild at a fall festival. Its not in this story. It should be in this story. Post said he told her she should start covering the school board meetings. Then, Knox told Raynor that Post should start covering schools. So I started covering those school board meetings; wed never had anyone to cover those meetings, she says. After a few months on her new assignment, Knox was ready to encourage the Salisbury Post to give her more responsibility. It was a real opening, says Post. She says Knox said he was a taxpayer and needed to know what was happening at the County School Board meetings, too. Then he needed to know what was happening at the Library board meetings, says Post. There were all kind of things he needed to know. He designed my beat. I had it about thirty years. In 1983, Post became the papers featured columnist. However, she says she was not the first choice for the job. Dot Jackson who had just been fired from the Charlotte Observer was the editors favored pick for the position. But the publisher did not agree. Post says he told her editor, Thats silly youd have to pay her $600 a week and Rose would do it for $300. Rose agreed to take the job, but on her terms. She says she was not interested in writing a lot of opinion pieces or features on her family, but she did want to continue writing features about other people. That compromise with Posts editor has been a decision that has not only provided the Salisbury Post with a major asset but has also given Post the platform and opportunity to achieve some outstanding goals and accolades. To her credit she is a regularly recognized by the North Carolina Press Association and has been presented four times with the N. C. Press Womens highest honor. Of the many national awards Post has received, three have been O. Henry Awards from the Associated Press, and in 1989 she won the Ernie Pyle Award for her column, Tt is an education working for a newspaper - exciting and interesting, and I think a lot of fun, says Post. After half a century with the Salisbury Post, Post says she plans to keep her job as a columnist for as long as they will have her. Ive enjoyed it all along - glad to have it, she says. I figure my card now has on it now what my first editor didnt want to tell me, reporter slash columnist.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Date original: 2004-03
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.5"
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
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