Melinda Windsor

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]

"Melinda Windsor"
Playboy centerfold appearance
February 1966
Preceded byJudy Tyler
Succeeded byPriscilla Wright
Personal details
Born (1944-06-25) June 25, 1944
Akron, Ohio, United States[1]
MeasurementsBust: 38"[1]
Waist: 23"
Hips: 36"
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Weight119 lb (54 kg; 8.5 st)

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 a 2016 Akron, Ohio newspaper column printed in the Akron Beacon-Journal, journalist Bob Dyer requested information about her, hoping to honor Akron's "mystery playmate" on the 50th anniversary of her appearance in Playboy. He subsequently published in his column what he believed to be her real name and some details of her life, gleaned by a reader from extensive searching in a digitized newspaper database.

See also

References
  1. "Playmate data". Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  2. "Playmate Review". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 14: 174. January 1967.
  3. "Student Princess". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 13: 94–97. February 1966.
  4. "Editors response, Letters to the Editor". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 13: 14. June 1966.
  5. "Photo Credits". Playboy. HMH Publishing Co. Inc. 14: 4. January 1967.
  6. "Photo credits". VIP No.15. HMH Publishing Co. Inc.: 2 Fall 1967.
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