Women, Ministry and the City records, 1946-2002.

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Women, Ministry and the City records, 1946-2002.

The Women, Ministry, and the City Records contain the records of Grethen Leppke, the first coordinator, Board records, including minutes and reports, records related to the programs affiliation with Loyola University, and teaching materials. Addendum 1 covers (in order) the tenures of subsequent coordinators: Peggy L.T. Garrison, Mary Lou Codman-Wilson, Barbara R. Issacs, and Carolyn Vogt Groves.

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Loyola University of Chicago. Women and Leadership Archives.

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Women, Ministry and the City (Organization)

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Program to provide women seminarians with the opportunity to work with women already ministering in parishes and congregations. In the spring of 1982, Rosemary Radford Ruther gathered a small group of women to discuss an idea for a program that would give women seminarians the opportunity to work with women who graduate from seminaries and are ready to minister in urban parishes and congreations. Gretchen Leppke was chosen as coordinator of the program. By 1983, Women, Ministry, and the City ran...

Leppke, Gretchen, 1927-

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Born September 26, 1927. President, Lutheran Women's Caucus; Co-founder, Women of Faith Resource Center. Gretchen Buenger (Leppke) was born on September 26, 1927, one of two daughters of architect Edgar Walter Buenger and homemaker Gertrude Weber Buenger. Buenger graduated from Rochester High School in 1945 and enrolled in the University of Minnesota. In 1949, Buenger was awarded the Order of the Gopher, an honorary award for leadership. In the summer of 1949, she traveled to Sweden with Amity A...