Melinda Windsor

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"Melinda Windsor"
Playboy centerfold appearance
February 1966
Preceded by Judy Tyler
Succeeded by Priscilla Wright
Personal details
BornAnn Brockway [1]
(1944-06-25) June 25, 1944 (age 78)
Akron, Ohio, U.S. [2]
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Melinda Windsor (born June 25, 1944) was the pseudonym used by Ann Brockway, a 21-year-old student at the University of California, Los Angeles who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Tony Marco. [2] She received her bachelor's degree in 1966. [3]

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Windsor was born in Akron, Ohio. She was working as an insurance rater and taking night classes at UCLA. She was going to use the money she earned posing for Playboy to finish her degree and then attend graduate school; her goal was to get a PhD and become a teacher. [4]

A small controversy arose after her appearance in Playboy. In a newspaper article, the university stated that they had no one by the name of "Melinda Windsor" enrolled. Readers of the magazine wrote to Playboy asking if they had their facts straight. Playboy responded that "Melinda" was a student at UCLA in the fall of 1965 when she posed, but was not enrolled during the winter of 1966 and that she had used a pseudonym. [5]

Windsor was photographed by Alexas Urba for the January 1967 issue of Playboy, [6] and by Morton Tadder for the fall 1967 issue of VIP magazine. [7]

Identity research

In a 2016 Akron, Ohio newspaper column in the Akron Beacon-Journal , journalist Bob Dyer requested information about Windsor, hoping to honor Akron's "mystery playmate" on the 50th anniversary of her appearance in Playboy. [8] Her name was publicly revealed to be Ann Brockway in the 22 December 1966 Decatur Daily Reveiw. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (December 22, 1966). "Ann Brockway On Cover of New Playboy". The Decatur Daily Review. Decatur, Illinois. p. 26.
  2. 1 2 "Playmate data" . Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Playmate Review". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 14: 174. January 1967.
  4. ↑ "Student Princess". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 13: 94–97. February 1966.
  5. ↑ "Editors response, Letters to the Editor". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 13: 14. June 1966.
  6. ↑ "Photo Credits". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 14: 6. January 1967.
  7. ↑ "Photo credits". VIP No.15. HMH Publishing Co. Inc.: 2 Fall 1967.
  8. ↑ "Bob Dyer: Mystery Playmate finally identified". Beacon Journal . July 25, 2016. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021.
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