Kreider Fellow Discusses Mennonite Women in a Changing World

Diane Zimmerman Umble Researched Early Diaries

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Diane Zimmerman Umble

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (02/24/2010)(readMedia)-- Diane Zimmerman Umble, 2010 Kreider fellow, presents "Being Mennonite in a Changing World: Mennonite Women's Diaries, 1920-1970" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the Bucher Meetinghouse at Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Umble's discussion centers on research of the diaries of two Mennonite women, Anna E. Umble (1889-1964) and E. Elmira Zimmerman (1898-1978). The diaries give insight into the women's lives, families, daily routines, social networks and religion.

"They married, worked, raised families and served their churches and communities in times of war, financial stress, and great technological and social change. What counted for them and what they leave unspoken provides a window into how they constructed and negotiated their lives within the religious and cultural constraints of their changing times," Umble says.

Umble, a communication professor at Millersville University, received her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She has several published works, including "Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life," and multiple chapters and articles on women's history, telephone history and media criticism. She co-edited "Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History" and "The Amish and the Media."

Contact Stephen Scott at 717-361-1470.

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