John Mack Carter is the only person who has been editor of all three of America’s most influential women’s magazines—Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal and McCall’s. He is a native of Murray and worked at Murray Ledger & Times while attending Murray State University; he graduated with master’s degree in journalism from University of Missouri. Carter received the Walter Williams Award for Writing from Sigma Delta Chi in 1949; he was named one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year” in 1963 by U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce; honored as “Publisher of the Year” in 1977 by Brandeis University; “Headliner of the Year” by Women in Communications, Inc. in 1978; and the Missouri Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1979. Carter received a honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Murray State University in 1971. He was appointed to various national commissions by Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, and Carter. Carter serves on the boards of numerous national charitable organizations. He now serves as editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping and director of new magazine development for the Hearst Corporation.