Anne Bratton Bohlke ’69 MAT

Anne Bratton Bohlke ’69 MAT, of Hastings, Neb.; Sept. 10, of complications after suffering a stroke. She taught high school English in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York. She began teaching at Hastings College in 1983, serving as an English professor until she became associate vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty in her final six years of service. While teaching full-time, she earned her PhD in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. During her tenure at Hastings College she was the recipient of the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award (2004) and the Vondrak Outstanding Advisor Award (2006). She retired from Hastings College in 2012. A week after her massive stroke she was inducted into the College’s prestigious Pro Rege Society and participated in the celebration from her hospital room virtually. She is survived by two daughters, two stepsons, two grandsons, a sister, a brother, and a sister-in-law.