Background
Harper, Diane Marie was born on October 22, 1938 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Harry Paull Rineard and Berneice Marie (Westhafer) Gerhardt.
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Diane Marie Harper
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Education
Student, Harrisburg Area Community College, since 1991.
Career
Telephone operator United Telephone Pennsylvania, Carlisle, 1956-1959, keypunch operator Harrisburg, 1960-1961, Safety Sales & Service, Harrisburg, 1967-1970. Keypunch operator, lead data entry operator Kinney Shoe Corporation, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, 1970-1984. Data entry operator First Health, Harrisburg, 1984-1992.
Resolution analyst Electronic Data Systems, Camp Hill, 1992-1997. Communications retailer Electronic Data Systems, Rossmoyne, 1997-1999, retired, 1999. Part-time cashier KMart, 2000-2001.
Stephen minister of Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stephen minister training leader, 2003. Reporter, writer publications committee Electronic Data Systems, 1996-1997, human resources coordinator corrective action committee, 1993-1996, social coordinator 2d shift Pennsylvania XIX staff, 1993-1996.
Membership
Committeeperson 4th Ward, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1959-1961, 1st Ward, Mechanicsburg, 1997-2010, committee person,2005. Minority inspector polls, Carlisle, 1959-1961. President Mothers of DeMolay, Carlisle, 1976-1978, Mechanicsburg Area Democratic Club, 1998-1999, president emeritus, 1999, vice president, 2000.
Halloween parade associate City of Mechanicsburg. Member council, chair witness and outreach committee St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 2000-2004, also lay minister, member choir, home visitation and communion lay minister, 2005. Delegate to Federation Pennsylvania Democratic Women's Clubs' Conventions, 2005, 06, Cumberland County Democratic Committee.
Member National Organization of Women, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, National Parks and Conservation Association, National Resources Defense Council, National Arbor Day Foundation, Pennsylvania Sheriff's Association (honorary), Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, Mechanicsburg Museum Association, Legal Assistants Club, Friends Dauphin County Library., Friends Mechanicsburg Library., Little Theatre Mechanicsburg (vice president 1962-1963, president 1963-1967), National Trust for History Preservation, Women's Democratic Club Carlisle (chaplain 2004-2005, president, 2006-2007), Mechanicsburg Democratic Club, Tri-County Federation of Democratic Women, Democratic National Committee, Blues Society Central Pennsylvania, Red Hat Society.
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Connections
Married William Irvin Harper, November 17, 1957 (divorced August 1981). Children: Dawn Michelle, Steven Lee, William Madison. 1 stepson: William Lee.
