Ruthe Deskin

Ruthe Deskin

The Yerington native and graduate of the University of Nevada began her long career at the Las Vegas Sun in 1954 as assistant to publisher Hank Greenspun. She was warned in journalism school that women had no place in newspapers. Her long-running column in the Sun began as a memo she gave her boss. Without her knowledge, he published the memo.

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