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Clara Regier Schmidt, Goessel, is the recipient of this year?s
?Outstanding Nursing Alumnus Award? at Bethel College.
Schmidt graduated from Bethel in 1941 with a bachelor?s degree in home
economics and science. In 1943, she graduated from Bethel Deaconess
School of Nursing.
Schmidt spent much of her career in Paraguay. She married physician
John R. Schmidt and served as his assistant in the Mennonite colony in
Fernhein, Paraguay, during the 1940s.
From 1951-72, Schmidt and her husband founded Km. 81, a Mennonite
leprosy mission in east Paraguay. They also operated a mission clinic
and hospital which served a population of 36,000. In 1983, the couple
returned to the United States, where Schmidt worked at the satellite
clinic at Bethesda Home in Goessel.
Currently, she volunteers at Bethesda Home and Harvey County Health
Ministries.
Schmidt and her husband have eight children. They are members of the
Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church at Goessel.
She is one of three alumni Bethel has honored this spring. The other
two are Franzie L. Loepp, Normal, Ill., who will receive Bethel?s
?Distinguished Achievement Award? for 2000? and Donald Klassen, Sioux
Falls, S.D., who will receive the ?Outstanding A
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