{"id":25824,"date":"2018-05-13T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25824"},"modified":"2018-05-13T00:43:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T05:43:54","slug":"apsus-reagan-giving-circle-honors-late-professor-stewart-county-native-with-2018-women-in-philanthropy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/05\/13\/apsus-reagan-giving-circle-honors-late-professor-stewart-county-native-with-2018-women-in-philanthropy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU\u2019s Reagan Giving Circle honors late professor\/Stewart County native with 2018 Women in Philanthropy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Peay State University<\/h2>\n

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Whenever people describe the late Betty Joe Wallace, the often use words like \u201cscholar,\u201d \u201ctrailblazer,\u201d \u201cmentor\u201d and \u201cfriend.\u201d In the four years since the Austin Peay State University history professor passed away, another word frequently comes up\u2014\u201cphilanthropist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before she died, Wallace told her husband, John Chapman, that she wanted to help students from her home in Stewart County earn a college education at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

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Late Austin Peay professor Betty Joe Wallace honored with 2018 Women in Philanthropy Award.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In 2017, Chapman honored this wish by establishing the Betty Joe Wallace Memorial Endowment Scholarship, which will be awarded annually to a graduate of Stewart County High School.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never had a moments regret for teaching, and this (endowing a scholarship) is what she wanted to do,\u201d Chapman said last summer.<\/p>\n

Several of her former colleagues also are working to honor her legacy by establishing the Betty Joe Wallace Lectureship Fund at Austin Peay, and earlier this year, in honor of the giving spirit that surrounds her memory, The Reagan Giving Circle awarded Wallace with its 2018 Women in Philanthropy Award.<\/p>\n

The Reagan Giving Circle consists of APSU alumnae and friends who recognize that women, as donors, have the ability to make a tremendous difference at Austin Peay. Named for Dr. Carmen Reagan, APSU\u2019s first female dean of the College of Business, community volunteer and philanthropist, the Reagan Giving Circle unites contributions in support of female students at the University while encouraging women as philanthropic leaders.<\/p>\n

The Reagan Giving Circle offers scholarships to females who embrace the attributes of its namesake; academic accomplishment, community involvement and leadership in order to cultivate these women as leaders and celebrate the impact of this scholarship program.<\/p>\n

Wallace exemplified all these qualities. She 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

The Reagan Giving Circle awarded Wallace with its 2018 Women in Philanthropy Award (posthumously) at its annual scholarship awards event, The Young Women\u2019s Leadership Symposium. Sponsored by APSU political science department, the Reagan Women\u2019s Giving Circle and The Network, the symposium is a half-day event featuring keynote speakers, leadership seminars and the Reagan Circle Scholarship Award Luncheon.<\/p>\n

This year, more than 100 young women attended the event. Along with the 2018 Women in Philanthropy Award, five APSU students were awarded scholarships. The Reagan Women\u2019s Giving Circle has awarded more than $50,000 in scholarship funds since it began in 2012.<\/p>\n

For information on how to support the Reagan Women\u2019s Giving Circle, or the Betty Joe Wallace scholarship or lecture series, contact the APSU Office of Advancement at www.apsu.edu\/advancement<\/a>.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN – Whenever people describe the late Betty Joe Wallace, the often use words like \u201cscholar,\u201d \u201ctrailblazer,\u201d \u201cmentor\u201d and \u201cfriend.\u201d In the four years since the Austin Peay State University history professor passed away, another word frequently comes up\u2014\u201cphilanthropist.\u201d Before she died, Wallace told her husband, John Chapman, that she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,8551,31727,7207,262,18744,29793,30628,14082,825,8522,1584,18962],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25825,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824\/revisions\/25825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}