Schenkofsky, Henry (b. 1882)

Who's Who among the Mennonites 1943 entry, p.211:

SCHENKOFSKY, Henry, Ph. D., Radio Poet since 1925; Dir. Religious Educ., The Poet of the Pacific; b. Aug. 12, 1882, Marion, Kans.; s. of Carl Schenkofsky and Mary Martin-Schenkofsky; marr. May E. Rhodes, Nov. 4, 1911, Marion Co., Ohio; children: Milton, b. Sept. 5, 1912.

Educ.: Bethel College, 1905-07; Tabor College, 1908; Chicago Univ., certificate; Class 1914. O. S. U.; completed A. B., Univ. of Calif., 1915; B. D., Berkeley Baptist Divinity Sch.; Ph. D., Univ. of Calif., 1916; Crowned, "The Poet of the Pacific" June, 1938, at International gathering.

Pos.: Sec., College "Y"; three years city missionary in city slums, Ohio; one year abroad to study city slums and prisons-Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France; fifteen years, Sec. of Calif. Ministers' Assn.; ten years social work to Portuguese and other foreign speaking people (Hull House Plan) in Calif.

Hon. Pos.: Two years, Pres., Berkeley Baptist Divinity Sch. Alumni; Sec., Parent-Teachers' Assn.; Historian, P. T. A.; Vice-Pres., Prison Band; Divinity Sch., Class Poet; One year Pres., World Prayer League; Founder, Daughters' Day, Fourth Sunday of Sept.

Prof. Assn.: Mem., Ministerial Assn., Oakland and San Francisco; Founder, Mt. Vernon Choir of America.

Learned Soc.: Mem., Western Writer's Assn.; International Peace Soc.

Other Information: Mem.: Committees creating recreation centers for the poor; creating city parks; saving the redwoods; saving American streams and wild life; Author twelve books of poems, four books of prose; Autobiographical Sketch and over nine hundred poems on press now.

Mem.: Menn. Brethren Ch. of N. A.

Address: 1925 23rd Ave., Oakland, Calif.