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M. Catherine Peeke
as pictured in the 1947 Tornado Yearbook. |
The life's work of Dr. M. Catherine Peeke
greatly symbolizes the mission of the Peeke School of Christian Mission.
A 1947 graduate of King College, she continued her studies at Columbia
Bible College (now Columbia International University). In 1949, Dr.
Peeke joined Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of
Linguistics and worked in Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador as a linguist and
translator. She then received her Ph.D. in Anthropological Linguistics
in 1968 from Indiana University.
She subsequently began two years of language study and service to the
Waorani people in Ecuador. For fourteen years Dr. Peeke worked closely
with Ms. Rosi Jung from Germany and with several Waorani to complete the
translation of the New Testament in the native language.
Since the dedication of the Waorani New Testament in 1992, Dr. Peeke
has retired and yet has returned to Ecuador several times as a
volunteer. She and Ms. Jung traveled to jungle villages to teach the
Waorani in the use of the translated Scriptures. She is currently
working on a bilingual dictionary in Waorani and Spanish. Peeke is a
member of First Presbyterian Church, Weaverville, North Carolina. |