| Title: | Noelle Kennedy Masukawa collection |
| Call Number: | Coll358 |
| Creator: | Kennedy Masukawa, Noelle |
| Dates: | 1950-1999 |
| Size: | 3 linear feet (3 boxes) |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The materials include photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, research notes, and drawings collected by former Baltimore Sun researcher and employee, Noelle Kennedy Masukawa, who provides a more intimate perspective on the social interactions of the Baltimore Sun Newspaper at a time where research and reporting was a male dominated field. |
| Citation: | Noelle Kennedy Masukawa collection, Collection 358, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD). |
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Noelle Kennedy Masukawa, born Noelle Kennedy in 1932, worked for the Baltimore Sun
from 1952-1955. She came to the United States on the Baltimore Mail Ship at age 3
months from Paris, France, where she was born. During that voyage, the ship encountered
a terrible storm in the mid-Atlantic, which became a headline for a Baltimore Evening
Sun, dated March 23, 1932, entitled "3 Month Old Baby Calm in Sea Storm: Sleeps as
St. Patrick’s Day Gale Rocks Main Line Ship.” As it would have, decades later, when
hired as a library assistant for the Sun, Masukawa came across the very story that documented
her welcome to the United States. From her time as a Sun staffer, she amassed a variety
of Baltimore Sun related materials that highlight the various projects, publications,
and inter-office social connections of the renowned newspaper. She formed long term
friendships with Sun reporters, including Gwinn Owens and James "Jim" Bready, among
other notable alumni. This collection of materials provides insight on an experience
as a female employee in the early 1950s as she comes into her own as a researcher,
writer, and creative in her own right. Noelle passed away in Septembr 2025.
The collection is maintained in 3 archival boxes in the original order that they were transferred. Ms. Kennedy Masukawa transfered and additional folder of materials that has been added to her initial archival deposit.
Accession MSS2024-09 and MSS2024-10.
This material was transferred to UMBC Special Collections in August 2024 by her son, Joff Masukawa.
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Finding aid available.
Materials are available for research. There are no restrictions.
Reproductions allowed for research purposes. Please email speccoll@umbc.edu for permission to reproduce.
Kennedy Masukawa, Noelle
Baker, Russell
Bready, James
Doelp, Alan
Goodspeed, John
Kanigel, Robert
Kennedy Masukawa, Noelle
Kent, Frank
Lerner, Leon
Manchester, William
Owen, Gwinn
Baltimore (Md.)
Baltimore (Md.)-- Newspapers
Reporters and reporting
Sun (Baltimore, Md.: 1837)
