Background
Schanke, Ruth Gloria was born on July 24, 1941 in Oklahoma City. Daughter of Henry Howard and Alice Charlotte (Soker) Scherer.
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Ruth Gloria Schanke
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Bachelor, Midland Lutheran College, 1963. Postgraduate, Midland Lutheran College, 1975. Postgraduate, University Minnesota, 1966.
Certified learning disabilities, Drake University, 1987. Postgraduate, University London, England, 1981.
Career
Social worker Department Human Services, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1963-1964. Teacher State Pennsylvania, Selinsgrove, 1964-1967. Homebound instructor Department Education, 1968-1969, special education teacher Montclair, New Jersey, 1969-1970, elementary teacher Fremont, Nebraska, 1973-1976.
Special education teacher Chrisitan Opportunity Center, Pella, Iowa, 1976-1980. Assistant director London program Central College, London, 1980-1982. Assistant social worker, activity director Pella Nursing Home, 1982-1983.
English as Second Language teacher to Cambodians and Vietnamese Pella. Social worker Department Human Services, Des Moines, 1983-1988, bureau chief quality assurance support, 1988—2002, management analyst division results based accounting, since 2002.
Achievements
Membership
Organizer Earth Day Celebration, Des Moines. Board deacons Windsor Presbyterian Church. Lead contact person, organizer Support Group for Spouses of Gays and Lesbians, 1994.
Member Plymouth Congressional Church.
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Married Robert Anders Schanke, June, 1963 (divorced 1987). 1 child, Julie Annual.
Education
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1963
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1975
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1966
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1987
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1981