{{short description|American home economist}} {{Infobox person | name = Claribel Nye | image = ClaribelNye1914.png | alt = A young white woman with dark hair and eyes, wearing eyeglasses and a dark dress with a light ruffled front section | caption = Claribel Nye, from the 1914 yearbook of Cornell University | birth_name = | birth_date = July 18, 1889 | birth_place = Auburn, New York | death_date = November 22, 1960 (age 71) | death_place = Berkeley, California | other_names = | occupation = Home economist, educator | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse(s) = | relatives = }}
'''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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title= Faculty Biographies: Claribel Nye|url=https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/bios/claribelnye.html |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=What Was Home Economics? Cornell University}}</ref> [[File:Faculty of the Cornell department of home economics in 1914 (2).jpg|alt=A group of white women, posed in rows and photographed for a 1914 yearbook.|thumb|Faculty of the department of home economics in 1914. Seated, from left, are Helen Binkerd Young, Annette J. Warner, Flora Rose, Martha Van Rensselaer and Blanche Evans Hazard (Mrs. Sprague). Standing, from left, are '''Claribel Nye''', Helen Knowlton, Anna Hunn, Grace Fordyce (Mrs. Fox), Ethel L. Phelps, Clara Browning and Bertha Titsworth.]]
==Career== Nye joined the faculty of the Cornell home economics extension program immediately after graduation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1928-04-24 |title=Are Speakers on Home Bureau Program |pages=13 |work=Star-Gazette |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-gazette-are-speakers-on-home-bureau/127187225/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> As a state leader of the extension service, she traveled across New York State, giving classes and lectures,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=1921-11-19 |title=Meeting Plans Home Bureau Activities for Coming Year, Claribel Nye Gives Talk |pages=15 |work=Star-Gazette |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-gazette-meeting-plans-home-bureau-a/127201884/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> training local demonstrators,<ref>{{Cite journal |date=June 1923 |title=Leaders Train Leaders to Lead |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-xMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Claribel+Nye&pg=RA4-PA12 |journal=Niagara County Farm and Home Bureau News |volume=10 |issue=10 |pages=4}}</ref> and studying local issues, especially those affecting farmwomen.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 1923 |title=Miss Claribel Nye Coming to Niagara the Week Nov. 13th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-xMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Claribel+Nye&pg=RA7-PA4 |journal=Niagara County Farm and Home Bureau News |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1929-10-29 |title=Home Bureau to Help Housewife to Choose Reading |pages=5 |work=Dunkirk Evening Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/dunkirk-evening-observer-home-bureau-to/127211492/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 1920 |title=Claribel Nye Goes to Utica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mDo5AQAAMAAJ&dq=Claribel+Nye&pg=RA2-PA103 |journal=Extension Service News |volume=3 |issue=10 |pages=103}}</ref> Some of her study results were announced with blunt headlines like "Best Husbands are City Bred"<ref>{{Cite news |date=1929-03-14 |title=Best Husbands Are City Bred—Claribel Nye |pages=7 |work=The Ithaca Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-best-husbands-are-cit/127211263/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> or "Women Like to Take Care of Children."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1928-02-20 |title=Women Like to Take Care of Children; Favorite Task, According to Answers to 700 Questionnaires |pages=9 |work=The Ithaca Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-women-like-to-take-ca/127187859/ |access-date=2023-06-27}}</ref>
In 1930, Nye moved to Oregon,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1930-01-22 |title=New O. S. C. Staff Members Named; Claribel Nye and F. P. McWhorter Added to Instructors at College |pages=5 |work=Corvallis Gazette-Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/corvallis-gazette-times-new-o-s-c-sta/127188061/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and later to California,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1940-10-10 |title=All Farm Women Invited to Hear Claribel Nye |pages=14 |work=Stockton Evening and Sunday Record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/stockton-evening-and-sunday-record-all-f/127211125/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> doing similar work in supervising agricultural extension programs.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1932-01-07 |title=Extension Group Has Conference |pages=6 |work=Corvallis Gazette-Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/corvallis-gazette-times-extension-group/127187411/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nye |first=Claribel |date=August 1946 |title=Looking ahead |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQ9QUmSdAVoC&dq=Claribel+Nye&pg=RA1-PA98 |journal=Extension Service Review |volume=17 |issue=8 |pages=98}}</ref> In 1946, she was elected vice president of the American Home Economics Association.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1946-07-20 |title=Farm News: Claribel Nye Honored |pages=2 |work=The Placer Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-placer-herald-farm-news-claribel-ny/127187569/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Publications== * "A canning business for the farm home" (1913, with Bessie Earll Austin)<ref>Nye, Claribel, and Bessie E. Austin. [https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/45452/ttu_hcc001_000009.pdf?sequence=1 "A canning business for the farm home"] ''The Cornell Reading Courses'' (September 1, 1913): 221–228.</ref> * "Home Economics and the Rural School" (1915)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nye |first=Claribel |date=November 1915 |title=Home Economics and the Rural School |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjREAAAAYAAJ&q=Nye&pg=PA33 |journal=The Cornell Women's Review |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=33–36}}</ref> * "The Canning of Fruits and Vegetables" (1915)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nye |first=Claribel |date=February 1915 |title=The Canning of Fruits and Vegetables |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lM6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Claribel+Nye&pg=PA396 |journal=The Cornell Countryman |volume=11 |pages=396–397}}</ref> * "A Greeting to Freshmen in Home Economics" (1915)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nye |first=Claribel |date=October 1915 |title=A Greeting to Freshmen in Home Economics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x900AQAAMAAJ&q=Nye&pg=PA35 |journal=Cornell Countryman |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=35–36}}</ref> * "Secrets of Making Good Bread" (1924)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nye |first=Claribel |date=October 1924 |title=Secrets of Making Good Bread |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l8jJiRINkDYC&dq=Claribel+Nye&pg=RA3-PA49 |journal=The Delineator |volume=105 |issue=4 |pages=49}}</ref> * "How Good is Your Bread?" (1924)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nye |first=Claribel |date=November 1924 |title=How Good is Your Bread? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l8jJiRINkDYC&dq=Claribel+Nye&pg=RA4-PA56 |journal=The Delineator |volume=105 |issue=5 |pages=56}}</ref>
==Personal life== From 1940 to 1959, Nye lived in the Berkeley Hills, and shared a home with her former mentor and colleague, Flora Rose.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Elias |first=Megan |date=2006 |title="Model Mamas": The Domestic Partnership of Home Economics Pioneers Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4617244 |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=69 |doi=10.1353/sex.2006.0052 |jstor=4617244 |s2cid=142247487 |issn=1043-4070|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Nye and Rose drove together from California to New York and back, and visited Cornell again, in 1954.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rogers |first=Elizabeth |date=1954-10-29 |title=Flora Rose Finds 'My College' Flourishing |pages=3 |work=The Ithaca Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-flora-rose-finds-my/127188359/ |access-date=2023-06-27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Rose died in 1959, and Nye died in 1960, at the age of 71, in Berkeley.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1960-11-23 |title=Claribel Nye, Ex-Professor, Dies at 71 |pages=3 |work=The Ithaca Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-claribel-nye-ex-prof/127224820/ |access-date=2023-06-28 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}}
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