Antonia Myrup Frank

Toni has always been a sunshine in my life and an encouragement when I was a fledgeling public relations assistant in my third career. Graduating in my late 30s from journalism school, I first met Toni when I joined the group Women in Communications where she played a vital role furthering women in journalism, public relations and advertising. Then we met often when she was an editor at the Santa Monica Outlook and I an insecure publications editor at Saint John's Hospital. I regularly...

From Virginia Braitigan Aste:

She was a good friend and mentor when we studied at UCLA a million years ago. She introduced me to jazz and New World Writing.

Toni was an important and very helpful person in my life. She enabled my career in Southern California and was a great friend, as well. At the same time, I admired her ability to be a very capable single mother to her two lovely daughters.

I am sorry that Toni did not get a chance to read this tribute to her and other women like her which I published in a book just this year:

THERE WAS ONCE an important part of just about all American newspapers called Society, or maybe the Women's Section. For short, it was SOC, pronounced sock. And it was important for a newspaper's profits.

Women did read those sections, and women did most of the shopping at the big, heavy-advertising department stores. ...

SOC was...