Anna Doerschuk

Anna Doerschuk
Doerschuk, from the 1907 yearbook of Oberlin College
Born
Anna Beatrice Doerschuk

(1879-08-11)August 11, 1879
Shanesville, Ohio, U.S.
DiedApril 21, 1974(1974-04-21) (aged 94)
New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other nameBeatrice Doerschuk
OccupationsCollege administrator, educator
RelativesRuth Dicker (niece)

Anna Beatrice Doerschuk (August 11, 1879 – April 21, 1974) was an American college administrator. She was director of education at Sarah Lawrence College from 1928 to 1946.

Early life and education

Doerschuk was born in Shanesville, Ohio, the daughter of John Doerschuk and Mary Catherine Zahner Doerschuk. Her father was a banker.[1][2] She graduated from Oberlin College in 1906,[3] and completed further studies at Teachers College, Columbia University during World War I.

Her brother Herbert Marion Doerschuk was the electrical engineer for whom the Doerschuk Site, an archaeological site in North Carolina, is named.[4] His daughter Ruth Dicker was a noted artist.[5]

Career

Doerschuk taught at Michigan Seminary and the Oxford College for Women in Ohio after college. She was associate dean of women at Oberlin College from 1911 to 1916.[6] She was assistant director of New York City's Bureau of Vocational Information from 1918 to 1927,[7][8] and organized the Bureau of Vocational Guidance for the YWCA.[9][10] "Our whole present movement in education is based on recognizing that individual students have different needs, different abilities, different capacities, and different interests," she explained of her vocational work, to an academic audience in 1927.[11]

Doerschuk became director of education at Sarah Lawrence College in 1928,[12] and retired from Sarah Lawrence in 1946.[13] Her successor as director, Esther Mohr Raushenbush, became the president of Sarah Lawrence in 1965.[14]

She became a member of the Oberlin College Board of Trustees in 1926, and was active in the Oberlin Women's Club of New York.[15][16] In 1952 Doerschuk received the Alumni Medal from Oberlin College.[17][18]

Publications

  • Opportunities for Wartime Training for Women in New York City (1918)
  • "Rhoda McCulloch, '10" (1920)[19]
  • Women in the Law (1920)[20]
  • Women in Chemistry (1922)
  • Training for the Professions and Allied Occupations: Facilities Available to Women in the United States (1924, with Emma P. Hirth)[8]

Personal life and legacy

Doerschuk died in 1974, at the age of 94, at a nursing home in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.[7] There is a reading room named for Doerschuk in a campus library at Sarah Lawrence College.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Poirier, Noel (2025-08-26). "Gunfire and Nitroglycerin: The Shanesville Bank Robbery". Tuscarawas County Stories. Retrieved 2026-06-29.
  2. ↑ "Mrs. Mary Doerschuk is Dead". The Kansas City Star. 1932-08-05. p. 19. Retrieved 2026-06-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Oberlin College (1909). Seventy-fifth Anniversary: General Catalogue. p. 276.
  4. ↑ "Doerschuk (Montgomery County) | Ancient North Carolinians". Retrieved 2026-06-30.
  5. ↑ "Ruth Doerschuk Dicker". The Press Democrat. 2004-12-04. Retrieved 2026-06-30.
  6. ↑ Oberlin College (1916). Quinquennial Catalogue of Officers and Graduates. p. 382.
  7. 1 2 "Anna Doerschuk, 94, Dies; Sarah Lawrence Director". The New York Times. April 23, 1974. p. 44. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-06-29.
  8. 1 2 Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, N.Y.) (1924). Training for the Professions and Allied Occupations: Facilities Available to Women in the United States. Bureau of Vocational Information.
  9. ↑ "New Vocational Adviser". War Work Bulletin (58): 3. January 31, 1919.
  10. ↑ "Vocations: Address by Miss Beatrice Doerschuk, Vocational Adviser". The Eleusis of Chi Omega. 22 (3): 311. September 1920.
  11. ↑ "Welfare Worker to be Speaker; Beatrice Doerschuk to Give Address for University Women". Springfield News-Sun. 1927-12-05. p. 6. Retrieved 2026-06-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "To a College Committee; Miss Beatrice Doerschuk Named at Sarah Lawrence". The Kansas City Star. 1945-04-26. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-06-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Beatrice Doerschuk is Honored at Sarah Lawrence Graduation". The Herald Statesman. 1946-04-27. p. 6. Retrieved 2026-06-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ Esther Mohr Raushenbush Papers, Sarah Lawrence College Archives.
  15. ↑ "Oberlin Honors Miss Doerschuk". The Herald Statesman. 1952-06-13. p. 21. Retrieved 2026-06-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Oberlin Alumnae Meet; New York Club Has Luncheon--Dean Woodworth Speaks". The New York Times. April 10, 1938. p. 38. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-06-30.
  17. ↑ "Oberlin's Women: Anna Beatrice Doerschuk". Oberlin's Women: A Legacy of Leadership & Activism. Retrieved 2026-06-29.
  18. ↑ "Oberlin Honors Miss Doerschuk". The Herald Statesman. 1952-06-13. p. 21. Retrieved 2026-06-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ Doerschuk, Beatrice (March 1925). "Rhoda McCulloch, 10". The Oberlin Alumni Magazine. 21 (6): 9.
  20. ↑ "We Have Just Finished Reading..." Filing and Office Management. 6 (2): 48. July 1921.
  21. ↑ Dean of the College Records, Sarah Lawrence College Archives.
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