Husband of Dorothy Cameron Disney
Father of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
According to the 1940 Census, Milton and Dorothy MacKaye, and their 6 year old son, William Ross MacKaye (who was born in New York), lived in Guilford, CT, where both Milton and Dorothy were "magazine writers." Milton’s work appeared mainly in The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. Writing under the name Dorothy Cameron Disney, her maiden name, Dorothy was also well known in the 1930s and 1940s as a mystery story author. In the 1950s Dorothy created the column “Can This Marriage Be Saved?,” which she continued to write for the Ladies Home Journal for the next 40 years.
William later became a successful and respected journalist and editor, so the talent definitely ran in the family. On Nov. 22, 1963, William was the Washington correspondent for both the Houston Chronicle and The Fort Worth Star–Telegram riding on one of the two official press buses in the presidential motorcade in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated. In Fort Worth that morning, prior to the assassination, he filed a story headlined: “President Kennedy, the nation's foremost Democrat, paid a call on Dallas, the state's foremost Republican citadel, today,” according to a 2013 JFK 50th anniversary retrospective article published in the Houston Chronicle.
In 1966, William became the religion editor of The Washington Post, and in 1975, while still WaPo religion editor, he was a fellow of the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Journalism Fellowship Program (now known as the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship Program) at Stanford University. In later years William became associate editor of The Washington Post Magazine and then editor and chief executive officer of In Trust, Inc., an organization that teaches principles of good governance to the boards and senior administrators of North American graduate theological schools.
Father of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
According to the 1940 Census, Milton and Dorothy MacKaye, and their 6 year old son, William Ross MacKaye (who was born in New York), lived in Guilford, CT, where both Milton and Dorothy were "magazine writers." Milton’s work appeared mainly in The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. Writing under the name Dorothy Cameron Disney, her maiden name, Dorothy was also well known in the 1930s and 1940s as a mystery story author. In the 1950s Dorothy created the column “Can This Marriage Be Saved?,” which she continued to write for the Ladies Home Journal for the next 40 years.
William later became a successful and respected journalist and editor, so the talent definitely ran in the family. On Nov. 22, 1963, William was the Washington correspondent for both the Houston Chronicle and The Fort Worth Star–Telegram riding on one of the two official press buses in the presidential motorcade in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated. In Fort Worth that morning, prior to the assassination, he filed a story headlined: “President Kennedy, the nation's foremost Democrat, paid a call on Dallas, the state's foremost Republican citadel, today,” according to a 2013 JFK 50th anniversary retrospective article published in the Houston Chronicle.
In 1966, William became the religion editor of The Washington Post, and in 1975, while still WaPo religion editor, he was a fellow of the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Journalism Fellowship Program (now known as the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship Program) at Stanford University. In later years William became associate editor of The Washington Post Magazine and then editor and chief executive officer of In Trust, Inc., an organization that teaches principles of good governance to the boards and senior administrators of North American graduate theological schools.
Husband of Dorothy Cameron Disney
Father of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
According to the 1940 Census, Milton and Dorothy MacKaye, and their 6 year old son, William Ross MacKaye (who was born in New York), lived in Guilford, CT, where both Milton and Dorothy were "magazine writers." Milton’s work appeared mainly in The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. Writing under the name Dorothy Cameron Disney, her maiden name, Dorothy was also well known in the 1930s and 1940s as a mystery story author. In the 1950s Dorothy created the column “Can This Marriage Be Saved?,” which she continued to write for the Ladies Home Journal for the next 40 years.
William later became a successful and respected journalist and editor, so the talent definitely ran in the family. On Nov. 22, 1963, William was the Washington correspondent for both the Houston Chronicle and The Fort Worth Star–Telegram riding on one of the two official press buses in the presidential motorcade in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated. In Fort Worth that morning, prior to the assassination, he filed a story headlined: “President Kennedy, the nation's foremost Democrat, paid a call on Dallas, the state's foremost Republican citadel, today,” according to a 2013 JFK 50th anniversary retrospective article published in the Houston Chronicle.
In 1966, William became the religion editor of The Washington Post, and in 1975, while still WaPo religion editor, he was a fellow of the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Journalism Fellowship Program (now known as the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship Program) at Stanford University. In later years William became associate editor of The Washington Post Magazine and then editor and chief executive officer of In Trust, Inc., an organization that teaches principles of good governance to the boards and senior administrators of North American graduate theological schools.
Father of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
According to the 1940 Census, Milton and Dorothy MacKaye, and their 6 year old son, William Ross MacKaye (who was born in New York), lived in Guilford, CT, where both Milton and Dorothy were "magazine writers." Milton’s work appeared mainly in The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. Writing under the name Dorothy Cameron Disney, her maiden name, Dorothy was also well known in the 1930s and 1940s as a mystery story author. In the 1950s Dorothy created the column “Can This Marriage Be Saved?,” which she continued to write for the Ladies Home Journal for the next 40 years.
William later became a successful and respected journalist and editor, so the talent definitely ran in the family. On Nov. 22, 1963, William was the Washington correspondent for both the Houston Chronicle and The Fort Worth Star–Telegram riding on one of the two official press buses in the presidential motorcade in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated. In Fort Worth that morning, prior to the assassination, he filed a story headlined: “President Kennedy, the nation's foremost Democrat, paid a call on Dallas, the state's foremost Republican citadel, today,” according to a 2013 JFK 50th anniversary retrospective article published in the Houston Chronicle.
In 1966, William became the religion editor of The Washington Post, and in 1975, while still WaPo religion editor, he was a fellow of the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Journalism Fellowship Program (now known as the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship Program) at Stanford University. In later years William became associate editor of The Washington Post Magazine and then editor and chief executive officer of In Trust, Inc., an organization that teaches principles of good governance to the boards and senior administrators of North American graduate theological schools.
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