Juhnke, Anna Kreider (1940-2005)
Anna Rachel Kreider was born 11 May 1940, in Newton, Kansas, USA to Leonard Kreider (16 February 1910-12 May 2001) and Rachel Weaver Kreider (28 May 1909-30 Oct 2015). She graduated from Bluffton College (BA, 1961) and got her PhD from Indiana University in 1965. She married James C. Juhnke on 31 August 1963. They had one daughter and one son. From 1966 to 1996 she taught in the English department at Bethel College. She died 17 June 2005 after a long battle with cancer.
Juhnke was a feminist who encouraged women to take leadership roles in Mennonite schools and churches. She was the first woman chair of the Bethel College faculty. She served for 12 years on the board of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) and on the executive committee of the Mennonite Central Committee US board. In 1980 at the triennial General Conference Mennonite meeting in Estes Park, Colorado, she helped lead a women’s insurgency that elected women to all four of the GCMC major boards. She taught in Botswana as an MCC volunteer 1971-73, and in China with China Educational Exchange 1987-88. She was active with Mennonite World Conference (MWC) and was a plenary speaker at the MWC assembly in Wichita, Kansas, in 1978.
Autobiographical writings
Speaking for Herself, The Autobiographical Writings of Anna K. Juhnke, ed. by Joanne Juhnke and James C. Juhnke. Wichita, KS: ADR, 2009. http://www.juhnke.com/Anna/
Selected scholarly articles
“Religion in Robert Frost’s Poetry: The Play for Self-Possession,” American Literature 22 (May 1964): 153-64.
“Remnants of Misogyny in Milton’s Paradise Lost,” Milton Quarterly 22 (May 1988): 50-58.
“North American Mennonite Playwrights, 1980-1996,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 71 (1997): 43-68.
| Author(s) | James C Juhnke |
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| Date Published | August 2018 |
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