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Dr. Reuben P. Jeschke, former college president, minister and long-time educator, died November 20,2004, at his residence in Salem, Oregon. He was 93. Jeschke, who moved to the Capital Manor retirement com*munity in 1982, was born July 20, 1911, near Volinia in the Russian Ukraine. When he was two, he and his family immigrated to Canada and settled in the Lockwood-Drake (Saskatchewan) area. In 1925 he and his family moved to Nokomis, Saskatchewan, where he completed his last three years of High School. In Nokomis he took on a paper route, stocked for various farmers and worked on threshing crews for post-high school education. He was also a hired-hand for his uncle, David Jeschke, deceased. At the age of 18, Reuben moved to the United States to study at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, with a Bachelor of Arts and was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology from Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from New York's Columbia University in 1951 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Northern Baptist Seminary, Chicago, IL., and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Jeschke was president of Sioux Falls College, now the University of Sioux Falls, from 1953 to 1970. Before assuming the presidency, Jeschke was dean of the college. His teaching career included a professorship from 1947 to 1952 at the North American Baptist Seminary, Sioux Falls, SD, where he also served as registrar. As a Baptist minister, Jeschke served as pastor of the Memorial Baptist Church in New Britain, Conn. 1933-1937; the Fourth Street Baptist Church, now Shroyer Road Baptist Church, Dayton, Ohio, 1937 -1947; and the First Baptist Church, Stanford, Conn., 1970 - 1974. He was listed in "Who's Who in America in 1964". He was the author of two books, "Dream of the Pioneers", a history of Sioux Falls College; and "My Life and My Family", an autobiography. He was married in 1935 to Sabina Jacopian of Stanford, Conn. He is survived by his wife, Sabina; two sons, Paul Jeschke of Mule Beach, Calif, and Thomas Jeschke of Panora, Iowa; sisters, Walda Kwast, Lansing, Mich. and Elva Kuhn of Salem; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Locally, he is survived by first cousins: Eric and Alfred Jeschke, Emiline Ediger and Dorothy Wolter. A memorial service was held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at Capital Manor. Private interment at Salt Creek Cemetery, Dallas, Oregon.
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