Clarice Chase Dunn, a 1937 Eau Claire State Teachers College graduate from Cornell, Wisconsin, was a school teacher for 35 years. In addition to teaching in high schools and junior college, she taught illiterate adults, foreign students and homebound children. From 1942-1943, she was an English teacher at the Heart Mountain (Wyoming) relocation camp school for Japanese Americans. While at Heart Mountain she taught classes including English, social science and civics, along with an adult evening class on cooperatives. In 1943, Dunn was sent back home to Washington, D.C., following a battle with chronic bronchitis. She went on to teach English to Russians on a Lend-Lease Mission and later worked with the USO in Texas. During the Korean War she was a program director at a service club in Yokohama, Japan, for Army Special Services. In addition to teaching, Clarice became an accomplished writer and speaker, publishing hundreds of articles in magazines and newspapers and receiving many awards. Her work in special education included developing projects for the Wisconsin Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Madison Association for Retarded Citizens. Dunn has retired from teaching and currently resides in Madison.

As of 2022, through the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation, a scholarship is named in Dunn’s honor, the Clarice Chase Dunn Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is available for $400, to a student from an ethnically diverse background who has a demonstrated financial need. Preference is given to an ethnically diverse student who also has a disability. The scholarship was established in 2011 with an estate gift from Clarice Chase Dunn. Claire taught in many locations, including a Japanese relocation camp during World War II. An accomplished writer, she had articles and short stories published in local papers and national magazines. In Madison, she developed classes for intellectually challenged adults and initiated a program to encourage senior citizens to write their reminiscences.