Claribel Nye

Claribel Nye
A young white woman with dark hair and eyes, wearing eyeglasses and a dark dress with a light ruffled front section
Claribel Nye, from the 1914 yearbook of Cornell University
BornJuly 18, 1889
Auburn, New York
DiedNovember 22, 1960 (age 71)
Berkeley, California
Occupation(s)Home economist, educator

Claribel Nye (July 18, 1889 – November 22, 1960) was an American home economist. She was based at Cornell University early in her career, and then in Oregon and California. She was elected vice-president of the American Home Economics Association in 1946.

Early life and education

Nye was born in Auburn, New York, the daughter of Jay Powers Nye and Ruth Anna Hammond Nye. She graduated from Cornell University in 1914. She earned a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1927.[1]

A group of white women, posed in rows and photographed for a 1914 yearbook.
Faculty of the Cornell home economics department in 1914; Claribel Nye is standing at far left.

Career

Nye joined the faculty of the Cornell home economics extension program immediately after graduation.[2] As a state leader of the extension service, she traveled across New York State, giving classes and lectures,[3] training local demonstrators,[4] and studying local issues, especially those affecting farmwomen.[5][6]

During World War I, Nye worked on food conservation programs, assisting her Cornell colleague Martha Van Rensselaer in Washington, D.C. at the United States Food Administration. After the war, back in Ithaca, she became leader of the Cornell Study Clubs, a statewide adult education program aimed at women.[1][3][7] Some of her study results were announced with blunt headlines like "Best Husbands are City Bred"[8] or "Women Like to Take Care of Children."[9]

In 1930, Nye moved to Oregon,[10] and later to California,[11] doing similar work in supervising agricultural extension programs.[12][13] In 1946, she was elected vice president of the American Home Economics Association.[14]

Publications

  • "A canning business for the farm home" (1913, with Bessie Earll Austin)[15]
  • "Home Economics and the Rural School" (1915)[16]
  • "The Canning of Fruits and Vegetables" (1915)[17]
  • "A Greeting to Freshmen in Home Economics" (1915)[18]
  • "Secrets of Making Good Bread" (1924)[19]
  • "How Good is Your Bread?" (1924)[20]

Personal life

From 1940 to 1959, Nye lived in the Berkeley Hills, and shared a home with her former mentor and colleague, Flora Rose.[21] Nye and Rose drove together from California to New York and back, and visited Cornell again, in 1954.[22] Rose died in 1959, and Nye died in 1960, at the age of 71, in Berkeley.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b "Faculty Biographies: Claribel Nye". What Was Home Economics? Cornell University. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  2. ^ "Are Speakers on Home Bureau Program". Star-Gazette. 1928-04-24. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b "Meeting Plans Home Bureau Activities for Coming Year, Claribel Nye Gives Talk". Star-Gazette. 1921-11-19. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Leaders Train Leaders to Lead". Niagara County Farm and Home Bureau News. 10 (10): 4. June 1923.
  5. ^ "Miss Claribel Nye Coming to Niagara the Week Nov. 13th". Niagara County Farm and Home Bureau News. 11 (2): 4. October 1923.
  6. ^ "Home Bureau to Help Housewife to Choose Reading". Dunkirk Evening Observer. 1929-10-29. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Claribel Nye Goes to Utica". Extension Service News. 3 (10): 103. October 1920.
  8. ^ "Best Husbands Are City Bred—Claribel Nye". The Ithaca Journal. 1929-03-14. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Women Like to Take Care of Children; Favorite Task, According to Answers to 700 Questionnaires". The Ithaca Journal. 1928-02-20. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  10. ^ "New O. S. C. Staff Members Named; Claribel Nye and F. P. McWhorter Added to Instructors at College". Corvallis Gazette-Times. 1930-01-22. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "All Farm Women Invited to Hear Claribel Nye". Stockton Evening and Sunday Record. 1940-10-10. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Extension Group Has Conference". Corvallis Gazette-Times. 1932-01-07. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Nye, Claribel (August 1946). "Looking ahead". Extension Service Review. 17 (8): 98.
  14. ^ "Farm News: Claribel Nye Honored". The Placer Herald. 1946-07-20. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Nye, Claribel, and Bessie E. Austin. "A canning business for the farm home" The Cornell Reading Courses (September 1, 1913): 221–228.
  16. ^ Nye, Claribel (November 1915). "Home Economics and the Rural School". The Cornell Women's Review. 1 (1): 33–36.
  17. ^ Nye, Claribel (February 1915). "The Canning of Fruits and Vegetables". The Cornell Countryman. 11: 396–397.
  18. ^ Nye, Claribel (October 1915). "A Greeting to Freshmen in Home Economics". Cornell Countryman. 13 (1): 35–36.
  19. ^ Nye, Claribel (October 1924). "Secrets of Making Good Bread". The Delineator. 105 (4): 49.
  20. ^ Nye, Claribel (November 1924). "How Good is Your Bread?". The Delineator. 105 (5): 56.
  21. ^ Elias, Megan (2006). ""Model Mamas": The Domestic Partnership of Home Economics Pioneers Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 15 (1): 69. doi:10.1353/sex.2006.0052. ISSN 1043-4070. JSTOR 4617244. S2CID 142247487.
  22. ^ Rogers, Elizabeth (1954-10-29). "Flora Rose Finds 'My College' Flourishing". The Ithaca Journal. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Claribel Nye, Ex-Professor, Dies at 71". The Ithaca Journal. 1960-11-23. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-06-28 – via Newspapers.com.