Frederick A. & Marie Jederman Scholarship

The Frederick A. and Marie Jederman Scholarship is created for students majoring in WSU’s Social Science History program.

Criteria

1. Each recipient must be an undergraduate student enrolled full-time at Winona State University.
2. Each recipient must be classified as a junior or senior and be in good standing at Winona State University with a grade point average (G.P.A.) of 3.5 (4.0 = A).
3. Each recipient must be a declared major in Winona State University’s Social Science History program. Each recipient’s major must focus on History, not Legal Studies.
4. Preference will be given to a female student.

Biography/Motivation

FREDERICK A. JEDERMAN
Frederick A. Jederman was born in Nebraska in 1891, the youngest of a large German immigrant family. Soon afterwards the family moved to eastern Colorado and lived in a soddie – a house built of blocks of prairie sod. The family then moved to Bertrand, a small town in south central Nebraska. Frederick dropped out of high school to work in a local flour and grain mill, lugging 100 lbs. sacks of flour and grain. After a year, Frederick had saved enough money to return to high school graduating in 1912. Shortly thereafter, he gained certification to teach in a rural school. While teaching in the rural schools, he boarded with the families of his students. He graduated from Peru (Nebraska) State Normal School and became superintendent of a small school in Bellwood, Nebraska. When the U. S. entered World War I, Frederick was drafted into the Army and sent to Ft. Riley, Kansas. After training he was shipped overseas where he said he had “a worm’s eye view of France.” After the war, he stayed in London to study at the British Museum. Frederick was then discharged from the service in 1919. The following year he married Marie Maclntyre. Frederick enrolled at the University of Nebraska, earned a BA degree, and went on to become Superintendent of Schools in Atkinson, Nebraska. He later returned to the University to earn his MA degree in history. In 1925 he was hired as a faculty member at Winona State Teachers College. At that time Frederick was the history and political science department. He taught all the classes on these subjects, was Dean of Men and instigated and advised the Dynamo Club – a college extracurricular activity until ’WWII. In addition to these duties Frederick, as a faculty member, was expected to attend and participate in all school functions – athletics, concerts, plays, chapel exercises, parties, etc. Faculty wives were also expected to maintain a social place in the college and community. Frederick later chaired the social science division and was head of the Scholarship Committee. Shortly after retiring as professor emeritus, he died of a heart attack in 1964. He had one daughter, Jean Jederman, who established a scholarship in his name at Winona State University.

JEAN JEDERMAN
Following graduation from WSTC, Jean went to Elgin, Illinois. Thirty-five years later she retired from teaching. In the intervening years she earned a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota and a doctorate from Northern Illinois University, bought a house, and traveled around the world-Africa from Cape town to Cairo and several times to Europe. After retirement she attended several Elderhostels in the United States and abroad and continued traveling, to Antarctica, to the Galapagos Islands, to south and Central America, and to Europe.
Jean now volunteers at a local hospital in the medical records department and at the public library in technical services and delivering books to shut-ins. She is active with the American Association of University Women, the League of women voters, the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, and the Illinois Audubon Society. Jean also enjoys occasional concerts, plays and exhibits in Chicago, reading history and mystery, doing house and yard work, and going on innumerable dog walks.