Background
Ashhurst, Anna Wayne was born on January 5, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Astley Paston Cooper and Anne Pauline (Campbell) Ashhurst.
Ashhurst, Anna Wayne was born on January 5, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Astley Paston Cooper and Anne Pauline (Campbell) Ashhurst.
AB, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1954. Master of Arts, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh, 1967.
English teacher, International Institute Spain, Madrid, 1954-1956; assistant professor, Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1961-1963; assistant professor Spanish department, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1968-1974; acting chairman Spanish department, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1972; convenor, foreign language council, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1972-1974; associate professor department modern foreign languages, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1974-1978.
Member Welcome Wagon, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1968—1970, 1971—1974. President Ferguson-Florissant Branch, American Association of University Women, St. Louis, since 2006, Interbranch Council American Association of University Women, since 2008. Outreach volunteer instructor Spanish Christ the King Lutheran Church, Florissant, 2003—2007.
Member American Association of University Women (president Ferguson-Florissant branch 1989-1991, 95-98, chairman St. Louis area interbranch council 1992-1994, chair environmental task force Missouri 1992-1995, local arrangements chair for Missouri state convention 1997, Woman of Distiction award 1998), International Institute in Spain, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese.
Married Ronald G. Gerber, July 22, 1978.