Hood, Alexander Cecil, 1888-1985

Margaret Page was born on February 9, 1892 in Connecticut. As a child her family moved to Massachusetts, but she spent her summers with her grandparents near Portland, Maine. It was Maine that she grew to love and would return to later in life. After graduating from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, Margaret received her first job as a teacher at Nasson Junior College in Maine.

The Pages had family in the Southwest, and in 1924, Margaret arrived in Las Cruces, New Mexico where she began her career in journalism in the publicity department of the Extension Service at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The following year she married Alec Hood. She continued working as a journalist after her marriage, writing articles for the El Paso Herald Post, the Rio Grande Farmer, the Christian Science Monitor, and the New Mexico Sentinel . She worked for the Sentinel until 1944 when it ceased publication. In 1954, Margaret received the Zia Award from the New Mexico Press Women.

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