{"id":24515,"date":"2017-07-14T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24515"},"modified":"2017-07-13T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T02:13:29","slug":"new-austin-peay-state-university-scholarship-honors-trailblazing-history-professor-betty-joe-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/14\/new-austin-peay-state-university-scholarship-honors-trailblazing-history-professor-betty-joe-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"New Austin Peay State University scholarship honors trailblazing history professor Betty Joe Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Earlier this year, several of Betty Joe Wallace\u2019s friends and former students gathered in the Austin Peay State University Morgan University Center for a special memorial dinner honoring the late history professor.<\/p>\n

On that winter evening, under the warm lights of the center\u2019s ballroom, attendees heard familiar stories about this trailblazing woman who helped found both the African-American Studies and the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies programs at Austin Peay.<\/p>\n

\"Betty<\/a>

Betty Joe Wallace<\/p><\/div>\n

The event was part of a fundraising campaign to create a Betty Joe Wallace Lecture Series at Austin Peay.<\/p>\n

John Chapman, Wallace\u2019s husband, knew his wife would have been pleased with the honor, but he also remembered something they\u2019d talked about before she passed away.<\/p>\n

A few months after that memorial dinner, Chapman contacted Kris Phillips, executive director for University Advancement, and told him one of Wallace\u2019s last requests\u2014she wanted to help students from her home in Stewart County earn a college education.<\/p>\n

Chapman promised his wife he\u2019d honor her wish, and last month he made a significant gift to the University, establishing the Betty Joe Wallace Memorial Endowment Scholarship.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>

John Chapman<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cShe taught here for over 50 years, and she was always really interested in the students,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cShe never had a moments regret for teaching, and this (endowing a scholarship) is what she wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new scholarship will be awarded annually to a graduate of Stewart County High School who has at least a 2.75 GPA and demonstrates financial need. The scholarship\u2019s selection committee will give preference to applicants majoring in history and general studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe came from Stewart County and was always proud of that fact and proud of the students from Stewart County,\u201d Chapman said.<\/p>\n

[320left]Wallace inspired several generations of students during her five decades at Austin Peay, and she also dedicated herself to making the University more inclusive. In 1968, she chaired a committee that looked at adding courses in African-American studies to the campus, and in 1978, she developed Austin Peay\u2019s first women\u2019s studies course.<\/p>\n

She went on to help found and serve as director of both the African-American Studies and the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies programs. She won the APSU Alumni Association\u2019s Distinguished Professor Award in 1989, and she spent much of her career training hundreds of the area\u2019s history and social studies teachers from 1974-2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew of Betty Joe Wallace from my days as an Austin Peay student, and she was every bit as impressive and inspiring as people say she was,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cI\u2019m happy Mr. Chapman chose to honor his late wife in this way because, with an endowed scholarship, it means her name will be associated with Austin Peay in perpetuity.\u201d<\/p>\n

For information on how to support this scholarship or the lecture series, contact the APSU Office of Advancement at www.apsu.edu\/advancement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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