September 4, 1959 – With two daughters at home, Dottie Ray said she wouldn’t be able to be in the KXIC station every day, so station owner Gene Clausen brings the mic to her, setting up a makeshift sound room in her home, and The Dottie Ray Show is born!
Dorothy “Dottie” Klein Ray was born to Fred W. and Mary Klein on September 20, 1922 in Eagle Grove of Wright County, Iowa. After graduating from Eagle Grove High School and Eagle Grove Junior College, Klein became a journalism major (1942) at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.
While at SUI during World War II – with most of the men in the service – Dottie became editor-in-chief of The Daily Iowan (1944-1945), leading an all-female editorial staff, putting the first female sports editor in the Hawkeye press box, and covering big stories such as D-Day (June 6, 1944), and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death (April 12, 1945).
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