She attended public school in
Milwaukee, graduating from West Division High School in 1902.
After completing a two-year course at the old Milwaukee Normal
School, she taught in public schools in Milwaukee and Wisconsin
Rapids until returning to college to complete her formal education.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in 1913. She then taught at North Division
High School until 1916 when her uncle, Lucius W. Nieman, founder
of The Milwaukee Journal, persuaded her to join the Journal
Company where she served in various posts for the next twenty
years.
Upon Mr. Nieman's death in 1935, Miss McBeath inherited one-fourth
of his holdings in the Journal Company, a substantial fortune
which was eventually used to establish the Faye McBeath Foundation.
During the last thirty years of her life, Miss McBeath devoted
herself actively to a variety of causes in the greater Milwaukee
community. She established the Lucius W. Nieman Chair of Journalism
at Marquette University in memory of her uncle, and gave generously
and quietly to support many programs relating to the education
and care of children, help for the blind, and in the arts.
In her later years, she was honored by many organizations
and institutions which had been strengthened by her leadership,
her gifts, and her compassion.
Upon her death on June 7, 1967, the bulk of her estate went
to the Foundation which she had created a few years earlier,
to be devoted entirely to the welfare of the people in the
community in which she and her uncle had lived and worked.
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