Melinda Windsor
| "Melinda Windsor" | |
|---|---|
| Playboy centerfold appearance | |
| February 1966 | |
| Preceded by | Judy Tyler |
| Succeeded by | Priscilla Wright |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 25, 1944 Akron, Ohio, United States[1] |
| Measurements |
Bust: 38"[1] Waist: 23" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
| Weight | 119 lb (54 kg; 8.5 st) |
Melinda Windsor (born June 25, 1944 in Akron, Ohio) was the pseudonym used by 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.[1] She did finish her bachelor’s degree later in 1966.[2]
She had been 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.[3]
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 the editors of 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.[4]
Windsor was photographed by Alexas Urba for the January 1967 issue of Playboy,[5] and by Morton Tadder for the Fall 1967 issue of VIP magazine.[6]
Identity research
In an Akron, Ohio newspaper article, Bob Dyer claimed that Richard Newsome of Brooklyn, N.Y. contacted him with information that Windsor's real name is Ann Brockway. Brockway graduated in 1962 from MacArthur High School in Decatur, Ohio, went to Graceland College in Iowa, and then to UCLA. By age 22, she was already married to a man named Niels Hansson. Newsome claimed to have used his premium access to a database called Newspapers.com, which has been digitizing old newspapers. Newsome added that a contemporary Decatur newspaper revealed she was the Playmate in question.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 "Playmate data". Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ "Playmate Review". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 14: 174. January 1967.
- ↑ "Student Princess". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 13: 94–97. February 1966.
- ↑ "Editors response, Letters to the Editor". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 13: 14. June 1966.
- ↑ "Photo Credits". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 14: 4. January 1967.
- ↑ "Photo credits". VIP No.15. HMH Publishing Co. Inc.: 2 Fall 1967.
- ↑ Dyer, Bob (July 25, 2016). "Mystery Playmate finally identified". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 15 June 2018.