Historical Committee MC USA Committee members Lee Roy Berry, Jr. lives in Goshen Indiana, with his wife Beth, where they are members of Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship. Beth is a librarian/teacher at Bethany Christian Schools. They have three grown children. Their son Joe is a physicist and his wife Karin a chemist living in the Denver area. Daughter Malinda is a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City while daughter Anne is in graduate school in graphic design at Kent State in Ohio. Beth Graybill is the outgoing director of MCC U.S. Women’s Concerns. She is completing her dissertation on Amish women through the University of Maryland.  She and her husband and young son are members of Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster. Raylene Hinz-Penner, after a long tenure as an English professor and in advancement work at Bethel College, now lives in Topeka, Kansas where she teaches in the English Department at Washburn University. Her interests are in humanities and local history, contemporary American literature and creative writing; she is a practicing poet and presenter of poetry. Her current writing project is telling the story of Lawrence Hart, Cheyenne peace chief and Mennonite minister. She is a member of the Southern Hills Mennonite Church in Topeka and a wider fellowship member of the Bethel College Mennonite Church. She is married to Doug Penner. Jim Juhnke taught American history and Mennonite history at Bethel College (KS) from 1967 to 2002. He wrote a number of books on Mennonite denominational history. His most recent book (with Carol Hunter) is The Missing Peace: The Search for Alternatives to Violence in United States History (2nd ed., 2004). With his wife, Anna Kreider, Jim served in overseas church assignments in Botswana and the Peoples Republic of China. He is currently at work on a history of Kansas Mennonite political ideas and behavior from World War II to the present. He is on the deacon board of the Bethel College Mennonite Church. Susan Fisher Miller grew up in Goshen, Indiana with a year of high school in Ireland. She majored in French and English at Goshen College, graduating in 1980, and received a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University in 1986. Her doctoral dissertation treats poetry by W.B. Yeats to his tower residence in the West of Ireland. College teaching assignments have included Goshen College, North Park University, and Wheaton College, where she is currently employed in the English department.  Susan is married to Goshen College graduate Lee Miller, a neurophysiologist on the faculty of Northwestern University Medical School. They reside with their three sons Peter, Christopher, and John in Evanston, Illinois, and are grateful for their community at Evanston Mennonite Church. Following a two-year period of residence in the Netherlands in the early 1990s, Susan wrote Culture for Service, a scholarly history of Goshen College, to mark Goshen’s centennial in 1994. She continues to pursue an interest in American Mennonite history and Irish studies through research, writing and teaching. Kimberly D. Schmidt is associate professor of history and director of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center of Eastern Mennonite University where she teaches local multi-cultural and women’s history and pursues her research interests in Amish and Mennonite women’s history. She received her Ph.D. in American History from Binghamton University in 1995. Publications include numerous articles and essays and Strangers At Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History from The Johns Hopkins University Press. She has lived in the Washington, DC area since 1989 and is married with two children. Frank Yoder lives near Kalona with his wife, Jane, and their son, Jesse, who is a senior at Iowa Mennonite School. Jesse will be serving in Jamaica with SALT beginning in the summer of 2004. Their daughter, Laura, who graduated from Goshen College is currently making decisions about graduate school. Jane is the librarian at Iowa Mennonite School and they are active members of Kalona Mennonite Church. Frank is an academic adviser at the University of Iowa and works on projects related to students making the transition from high school to the university. He also teaches courses in the history department. For his first eight years of education, he attended Snake Hollow, a one-room country school. After several initial feeble attempts at college, he earned a BA in history and religion from the University of Iowa and a PhD in history from the University of Chicago

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