Ruth D'Arcy (Inducted 1997)

D'Arcy worked in features for 32 years at the Detroit News, serving as a writer, columnist, Women's Editor and Lifestyle Editor. In the mid 1960s, D'Arcy was one of several editors in the country who not only believed that there was more to a woman's life than society and high fashion, but had the ability to force her paper to change. D'Arcy always believed that her section should reflect who the readers were and what they talked about, worried about and dreamed about.

D'Arcy transformed the Women's section to the Lifestyle section and won four straight Penny-Missouri awards in the process. During this period of growth and change, she frequently spoke at the American Press Institute about the changing role of women's pages.

D'Arcy left the Detroit News to join the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, both as a teacher and director of the Penney- Missouri Awards program. She later left Missouri to retire to San Diego, where she was a part-time writing coach for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She is now fully retired, living in Richmond, Va.