Waterhouse, Helen Stocking, 1892-1965

Helen Waterhouse was born in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1893 and received her education at the Boston Naval Art School and Fenway School of Illustration. She worked for the Springfield, Massachusetts Union and the Toronto, Canada Star Weekly. After moving to Akron, Ohio she became county correspondent for the Amherst Newspaper for two years. In 1925, John S. Knight, editor of the Akron Beacon Journal, asked Waterhouse to cover news at the Akron Art Institute (now the Akron Art Museum). By 1928 she became a full-time reporter for the newspaper while her husband Ralph served as superintendent of the Akron Public Schools from 1934 to 1942. In 1940, the marriage ended in divorce.

Helen Waterhouse's career was impressive. She entered numerous contests and sent photographs and clippings to the Ohio Newspaper Women's Association and the Ohio Federation of Press Women. Her stories placed first on 57 occasions as well as second, third, and honorable mention 41 separate times. In 1950 she was named "Ohio Newspaper Woman for the Year" by the National Federation and in 1957 and 1958 she was named "Press Woman of Achievement."

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