Dianne White Clatto
Dianne White Clatto was a weather anchor who, in 1962, according to many of her colleagues, became the first full-time black television weathercaster in the country. Others have been credited with the same honor, depending on whose timeline is used, but many agree that the distinction is Clatto's.
Clatto was working as the host of a live radio show when she was referred by a co-worker to an executive at KSD-TV in St. Louis, Missouri. The station hired her as a weather reporter in 1962 and she began training with the National Weather Service, the Weather Corporation of America and KSD weathercaster Howard DeMere.
A trailblazer even before her career began, she was among the first black students to enroll at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and she was the first black model for St. Louis department store Stix, Baer & Fuller.
After her career in weather she worked as an assistant to the mayor of St. Louis, Francis G. Slay, and she hosted local radio and television programs.
Dianne White Clatto was a weather anchor who, in 1962, according to many of her colleagues, became the first full-time black television weathercaster in the country. Others have been credited with the same honor, depending on whose timeline is used, but many agree that the distinction is Clatto's.
Clatto was working as the host of a live radio show when she was referred by a co-worker to an executive at KSD-TV in St. Louis, Missouri. The station hired her as a weather reporter in 1962 and she began training with the National Weather Service, the Weather Corporation of America and KSD weathercaster Howard DeMere.
A trailblazer even before her career began, she was among the first black students to enroll at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and she was the first black model for St. Louis department store Stix, Baer & Fuller.
After her career in weather she worked as an assistant to the mayor of St. Louis, Francis G. Slay, and she hosted local radio and television programs.
Clatto died May 4, 2015, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was 76.
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