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City College’s oldest student dies: Heide Juchnik earned two A. A. degrees, loved to write

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City College’s oldest student, Heidi Juchnik, works with a tutor in 2000. Juchnik, who died recently at the age of 86, earned two AA degrees and continued taking classes for enrichment. l Photo by David Steutel
City College's oldest student, Heidi Juchnik, works with a tutor in 2000. Juchnik, who died recently at the age of 86, earned two AA degrees and continued taking classes for enrichment. l Photo by David Steutel
City College’s oldest student, Heidi Juchnik, works with a tutor in 2000. Juchnik, who died recently at the age of 86, earned two A.A. degrees and continued taking classes for enrichment. l Photo by David Steutel

An 86-year-old Japanese woman who called Sacramento home for more than half a century and called herself City College’s oldest student died Feb. 16.

Hideko Saito Juchnik came to City College after her retirement as a hair stylist, taking classes from 1999 to 2013 and earning two Associate of Arts degrees with honors—one in Social Sciences and one in Communication.

She was born the granddaughter of the last of the samurai line in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, in 1929.

Heide, as she became known, immigrated to the United States in the 1950s with her American husband, Bill, and they lived for a time in his hometown of Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

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Heide trained as a hair stylist in the early 1970s, and she worked in that field for some time.

She came to write in a local Saturday morning writing group led by City College Journalism and English Professor Jan Haag after taking a creative writing class called “Writing as a Healing Art.” She was part of that writing group for more than five years.

“Heide was one of my students — my oldest student ever thus far and she was a delight,” said English Professor Marci Selva.

“She would bring me little gifts — pastries from a Japanese bakery, a little plant. She was so wise and had a smile that lit up everything. She will be very much missed.”

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