Regis Louise Boyle

Boyle was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Charles Weems Boyle and Elma E. Payne Boyle.{{Cite news |date=1952-07-08 |title=Mrs. C. W. Boyle, 74, Widow of Top Solicitor on Agricultural Staff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-mrs-c-w-boyle-74-widow/147334946/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Evening star |pages=14 |via=Newspapers.com}} Her father was a lawyer who worked for the USDA.{{Cite news |date=1939-02-09 |title=Miss Regis Boyle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-miss-regis-boyle/147334181/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Evening star |pages=27 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1942-05-05 |title=Charles Weems Boyle, Attorney, Dies at 65 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-charles-weems-boyle-attorn/147334851/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Evening star |pages=12 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Trinity College in 1933.{{Cite news |date=1933-06-07 |title=83 Trinity College Girls Get Degrees |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-83-trinity-college-girls-ge/147333704/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Evening star |pages=21 |via=Newspapers.com}} She earned a master's degree{{Cite news |date=1934-06-14 |title=520 Students Given Degrees at Catholic U. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-washington-herald-520-students-given/147333946/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The Washington Herald |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}} and completed doctoral studies in literature at Catholic University of America. Her 1934 master's thesis was about Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass,Boyle, Regis Louise. "Poetic license of vocabulary and syntax in Walt Whitmans's Leaves of Grass." MA thesis, Catholic University of America, 1934. and her dissertation was about the novels of E. D. E. N. Southworth.Bernstein, Adam. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2007/09/26/regis-l-boyle-95-advised-students-in-journalism-projects/3e90ccc0-38f9-4b1c-9bf1-a5f528005bef/ "Regis Louise Boyle, 95; Advised Students in Journalism Projects"] Washington Post (September 25, 2007).

Although she never had a paid job as a reporter or newspaper editor, Boyle taught journalism classes for many years, and advised student publications at high schools and colleges, including at Eastern High School from 1942 to 1955,{{Cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Angeline |date=May 1948 |title=Our Junior High Yearbook is a Yearling |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_student-press-review-spr_1948-05_24_2/page/n7/mode/2up?q=Regis+ |journal=The School Press Review |volume=24 |pages=7-8 |via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite news |date=1961-03-10 |title=Workshop Will Hear 4 Experts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-advance-worship-will-hear-4-ex/147331471/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The Daily Advance |pages=18 |via=Newspapers.com}} Woodrow Wilson High School, and Walt Whitman High School.{{Cite news |last=Beyer |first=Shula |date=December 5, 1979 |title=Whitman Newspaper, Nation's Top High School Publication |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/12/06/whitman-newspaper/a6acc357-29e1-447f-8516-6898b589b083/ |work=The Washington Post}} Starting in 1947,{{Cite news |last=Shane |first=Peggy |date=1947-07-20 |title=Boyle Directs Class at C.U. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-herald-boyle-directs-class-at-cu/147331668/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Times Herald |pages=49 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1965-06-11 |title=Students Learn Techniques at C.U. Journalism Institute |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bristol-daily-courier-students-learn/147332741/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The Bristol Daily Courier |pages=36 |via=Newspapers.com}} she was founder and director of an annual summer Journalism Institute for high schoolers, held at Catholic University.{{Cite news |date=August 1, 1958 |title=Teenaged Journalists |url=https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=tmon19580801-01.2.54&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |work=The Monitor |pages=6 |via=ATLA}}{{Cite journal |date=October 1952 |title=Students Produce Newspaper by Using 'Pioneer' Methods |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_c-s-p-a-a-bulletin_1952-10_9_2/mode/2up?q=Regis+L.+Boyle |journal=The Advisers Bulletin |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=1-3 |via=Internet Archive}} She also taught journalism and yearbook courses at the University of Maryland.{{Cite news |date=1975-08-27 |title=UM-J School to offer course for teachers of journalism |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-um-j-school-to-offer-course-for/147331166/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The News |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1974, she was described as "one of the country's leading authorities on high school journalism."{{Cite news |date=1974-07-16 |title=Journalism authority to speak |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oshkosh-northwestern-journalism-auth/147331965/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The Oshkosh Northwestern |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1944, Boyle was elected president of the Quill and Scroll, an international honor society for school journalists.{{Cite news |date=1944-06-24 |title=Dr. Regis L. Boyle Honored |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-dr-regis-l-boyle-honored/147331308/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Evening star |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=February 16, 1945 |title=Scribes Herald Press Meeting |url=https://archive.org/details/greyhound18loyo_4/mode/2up?q=Regis+L.+Boyle |work=The Greyhound |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was president of the Educational Association of Washington,{{Cite news |date=1955-05-31 |title=Trinity Alumnae Elect Dr. Boyle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-trinity-alumnae-elect-dr-b/147330730/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Evening star |pages=49 |via=Newspapers.com}} served on the executive board of the Maryland Scholastic Press Association,{{Cite journal |date=January 1948 |title=Maryland Scholastic Press Publishes Tourney Awards |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_student-press-review-spr_1948-01_23_6/page/n5/mode/2up?q=Regis |journal=The School Press Review |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=5 |via=Internet Archive}} and was vice-president of the National Association of Journalism Directors. She was elected national president of the Trinity College Alumnae Association in 1955. Boyle was also active in Catholic charities, as president of the National Christ Child Society, and as a dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Boyle was an officer in the District of Columbia chapter of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae.{{Cite news |date=1943-09-03 |title=Catholic Alumnae Appoint Officers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-catholic-alumnae-appoint-of/147333491/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=Evening star |pages=22 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1964, Boyle was recognized as an outstanding alumna of Catholic University.{{Cite web |title=Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awardees |url=https://engage.catholic.edu/alumni/notable-alumni-and-award-winners/distinguished-alumni-achievement-awardees |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=Catholic University Advancement}} In 1970, she was one of the first recipients of the NSPA Pioneer Award, given by the National Scholastic Press Association to journalism educators.{{Cite web |title=NSPA Pioneer Award Winners |url=https://studentpress.org/nspa/awards/nspa-pioneer-award-winners/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=National Scholastic Press Association |language=en-US}} In 1988, a former student made a $10,000 donation to the University of Maryland's journalism program, in her honor.{{Cite news |date=January 29, 1988 |title=Boyle remembered by student donation |url=https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/tower%3A14316?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=08788716caeb76c43504&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=2&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=4#page/2/mode/1up/search/%22Regis+L.+Boyle%22 |work=The Tower |pages=2}}

• "Bibliography of Teacher Education: English, 1930-40" (1941){{Cite journal |last=Boyle |first=Regis Louise |date=1941 |title=Bibliography of Teacher Education: English, 1930-40 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41382556 |journal=The Elementary English Review |volume=18 |issue=7 |pages=263–278 |issn=0888-1030}}
• "Devising a Journalism Curriculum" (1947){{Cite journal |last=Boyle |first=Regis Louise |date=1947 |title=Devising a Journalism Curriculum |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/808126 |journal=The English Journal |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=188–191 |doi=10.2307/808126 |issn=0013-8274|url-access=subscription }}
• "Equipment Helpful, Cost Negligible" (1951){{Cite journal |last=Boyle |first=Regis L. |date=March 1951 |title=Equipment Helpful, Cost Negligible |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_c-s-p-a-a-bulletin_1951-03_7_4/page/n3/mode/2up?q=Regis+L.+Boyle |journal=The Advisers Bulletin |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=5-6 |via=Internet Archive}}
• "Student Publications" (1952){{Cite journal |last=Boyle |first=Regis Louise |date=February 1952 |title=Student Publications |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/019263655203618408 |journal=The Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals |language=en |volume=36 |issue=184 |pages=57–73 |doi=10.1177/019263655203618408 |issn=2471-3317|url-access=subscription }}

Boyle had a longtime partner, Joseph Roney, who died in 1974. His three children were described as her survivors when she died in 2007, at the age of 95, in Bethesda, Maryland.

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