Gaede-Penner to talk about Alaska teacher at 60+ session

Writer, educator and speaker Naomi Gaede-Penner will present ?Last Frontier School Teacher? at the Tabor College Learning in Retirement Program, beginning at 9:45 a.m. Monday, March 8, in the Wohlge?muth Music Education Center.

A frequent speaker at the Learning in Retirement Program, Gaede-Penner, who grew up on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, will tell the story of her second-grade teacher, Anna Bortel, who accompanied her father, Elmer Gaede, on a medical and educational mission to serve the Nunamiut Eskimos in Alaska in 1959.

Gaede-Penner?s parents, Elmer Gaede and Ruby Leppke, grew up on Marion County farms and attended Tabor College. After earning his medical degree, the couple went to Alaska to serve the natives, where he flew his own airplane to remote Alaskan villages.

Gaede-Penner?s ?Prescription for Adventure? book series are non-fiction books that depict life in Alaska, including ?Bush Pilot Doctor,? ?Finding Home in Alaska,? and ?Anna: Alaska Frontier Teacher.?

The author?s web site, prescriptionforadventure.com, contains additional resources such as curriculum, discussion guides, and current adventures.

An alumna of Tabor College, Gaede-Penner holds a master?s degree in counseling from Denver (Colo.) Seminary. She has two married children and lives in Parker, Colo.

The public is welcome to attend all Learning in Retirement programs. Fees are $3 per session or $15 per semester ($28 per couple). Registration and discount cards for lunch in the cafeteria will be available at the door during the half hour before the meeting.

For more information, contact Connie Isaac, coordinator at 620-947-3121, 947-5964, or conniei@tabor.edu.

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