Professor Jeanette Eckman Tuve taught in the History Department from 1965 until 1984. She began her career as an educator teaching high school, and then moved to the university level, earning her doctorate at age 55. Her final book (of four) was published when she was 81. Her work focused on women across a range of experiences. She wrote a book on Russian women physicians and a biography of Florence Ellinwood Allen, the first woman to serve on a state supreme court. In 1986 she conducted a series of oral history interviews with 29 women of eastern European birth or heritage. She was a role model for what is now called the non-traditional or returning student, and she forged a path for women in academe, both as students and faculty. The scholarships given in her name each year are intended to help a new generation of women achieve their academic goals.
This year’s recipients of the Tuve Scholarship are Madison Noren and Deborah Parchem.
Madison Noren is a graduating senior with a major in History and very deserving of the Tuve Award. Dr. Cole has had her in three courses, and in each, “her presence has always benefitted the entire class.” Not only has Madison shone academically, even at present in the running for CLASS Valedictorian, her commitment to the community is equally impressive. She credits part of her success to the more inclusive environment here at CSU as compared to what she experienced at a larger, Columbus-based institution that shall remain unnamed. Madison has been accepted into the Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs where she will pursue an M.A. in Public Administration. We wish her the best!
Deborah Parchem is a gifted History major/Classical Studies minor with a variety of interests, including learning Arabic. The timing of the pandemic couldn’t have been worse for her as it prematurely ended her semester abroad in the central Italian city of Viterbo in Spring 2020. The semester before that trip Deborah took HIS 401 with Dr. Cole and he still remembers her paper and oral presentation, entitled “Individual Freedom, Sexual Autonomy, and Social Activism: The Intersection of the Women’s Movement and the Homosexual Movement in the Weimar Republic,” as “very well researched and methodologically sophisticated.” Upon graduation, she will go on to a graduate program in Library Science. Congratulations on your Tuve Award, or should we say Mabrouk!
