Background
Rishworth, Susan Knoke was born on August 25, 1945 in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Leland Leonard and Gertrude Helen Martha Posselt Knoke.
Rishworth, Susan Knoke was born on August 25, 1945 in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Leland Leonard and Gertrude Helen Martha Posselt Knoke.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1967. Master of Library Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1968. Master of Arts, University Maryland, College Park, 1998.
Library. African studies Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1968—1970. Africana bibliographer Library. Congress, 1970—1974; library to library director Southeastern University, 1983—1990.
Interim director library services University Maryland, College Park, 1985. History library, archivist American College Ob/Gyns, 1990—2001. Archivist American College of Surgeons, Chicago, since 2001.
Founder Chicago Area Medical Archivists, since 2002. Co-initiator Lone Arrangers Roundtable Severe aplastic anemia, Birmingham, Alabama, since 2002. Presenter in field.
Co-founder Annual Martin Luther King Tribute, College Park, 1991—2001. Facilitator Human Relations Committee Race Study Circles, Prince George's County, 1996—2000. Baha'i travel teacher National Spiritual Assembly of Baha'is of United States, Wilmette, Illinois, 1972—1973.
Baha'i pioneer National Spiritual Assembly of Leeward Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, 1981—1983. Baha'i travel teacher National Spiritual Assembly of Baha'is of Cameroon, Yaounde, 1998. Secretary Spiritual Assembly of Baha'i, College Park, 1973—2001.
Facilitator study circles Baha'i, Chicago, since 2002. Member of Midwest Archives Conference, Society of America Archivists, American Association for History Medicine (shryock award committee 2005-2006), Archivists and Libraries in History of Health Science (secretary, steering committee 1994-1995, 2004-2006), Association Bahai Studies.
Married Clarence Douglas Rishworth, April 7, 1971. Children: Corey Adam, Benjamin Tobey, Amelia Marzieh.