Goshen College business students won first place at the Student Case Competition during MEDA’s (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) annual convention in Wichita, Kan., on Nov. 9.
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Goshen College business students take top prize at MEDA competition, again
High School Honors Choir to debut at Nov. 17 Community School of the Arts concert
Three Community School of the Arts (CSA) youth choirs will perform as part of the CSA’s Fall Showcase Concert on Sunday, Nov. 17. The concert begins at 4 p.m. in Sauder Concert Hall.
Indiana Station of the Year award marks trifecta for Goshen College’s 91.1 FM The Globe
91.1 The Globe (WGCS) was named “Station of the Year” by the Indiana Broadcasters Association (IBA) at the 26th Annual Spectrum Awards in Indianapolis.
Convocation:”Restorative Justice: Making Peace between Victims & Offenders”
Ann Lehman, from the Center for Community Justice, and Gretchen Lund, Goshen city judge, will introduce the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP). The first VORP program in the U.S. was begun in Elkhart by Goshen College alumnus Howard Zehr in 1978.A...
Carmina Burana
Date: November 9, 2013 Photographers: Alia Munley ’15 and Hannah Aube Sauder ’16 The Goshen College choirs were joined by the Goshen High School Advanced Crimson Choir, as well as special soloists, community members and a children’s choir in a performance of...
What matters most: Sowing compassion
"As a college whose peacemaking roots run deep, naming one of our core values “peacemaking” seems obvious to me..."
Expanding the sound pool: Celebrating Professor Emerita of Music Mary Oyer’s 90th birthday
"Mary Oyer’s passionate quest and openness to expanding the musical canon, the 'sound pool,' of the Mennonite church and of Goshen College to be more than mere perfect imitation will prove to be, in my estimation, one of her greatest…
Letters from Lois
Though it was well known in her family, community and college that Lois Mary Gunden Clemens ’36 (Goshen College French professor 1939-41, 1944-58) had served in southern France during World War II with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), helped many children…
Experiencing “Jesus and his nurses”
When Isaac Steiner, 7, died on March 6, 2013, after a 21-month struggle with brain cancer, his parents, Rob and Sarah Steiner ’98, were devastated. Though the experience of Isaac’s illness was agonizing, the Steiners found that having meaningful nursing…
Merritt Lehman ’64: Rowing to gold on the world stage
Merritt Lehman ’64 won the gold medal at the World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston in February. In the process, he set a new American record in the 2,000 meters for the 70-79 lightweight age group.
Lasting ties: bonnets overboard
The day of March 29, 1921 found Vesta Zook (Slagel), a 1915 graduate, and Vinora Weaver (Salzman), a 1918 graduate, in the New York City harbor boarding the SS Regina d’Italia ship for a 19-day voyage to Constantinople. Three months…
Laura Charles ’00 takes a Tony with Cinderella costume
Few people can say that they created a Tony award-winning costume, but Laura Charles '00 can. Charles, who honed her costume design skills as a Goshen College theater major, lives in New York City and works for a shop called…
Hannah Sommers ’96 innovates for NPR
It all started when Hannah Sommers '96, of Washington, D.C., landed an internship at National Public Radio (NPR) in 2001. A few years later, Sommers was hired by the organization as an audio archivist. Today, as program manager, she leads…
Amya Miller ’98 advocates for Japanese tsunami victims
Just weeks after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated 300 miles of Japan’s coastline on March 11, 2011, Amya Miller '98 returned to the country, where she was born and spent her childhood, in order to volunteer as…
Karl Frey ’88 helps with global food security
Through his work for Save the Children, an international organization that provides aid and advocates for children’s rights, Karl Frey '88 has the opportunity to help and learn from people from cultures around the world.
Kathy Short ’75 named to prestigious Caldecott Committee
Kathy Short '75 is highly accomplished in the field of children’s literature, but when she found out that she was nominated to the 2014 Caldecott Committee, she was understandably “excited and honored to be elected.”
Chapel: Employee Faith Story
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Two Goshen College students earn first place at statewide singing competition
Two Goshen College voice students earned top honors at a statewide singing competition on Saturday, Nov. 2. Rhianna Cockrell, a junior music major from Rileyville, Va., and Ben Ganger, a sophomore music major from Goshen, each won first place in…
Machu Picchu: An experience beyond words or photos
The day to visit Machu Picchu finally arrived, and it dawned sunny and beautiful. We arose early, ate a quick breakfast, rubbed on sunscreen, filled our daypacks with water bottles and snacks and headed for the bus that takes tourists...
Goshen College’s performance of “Wit” explores poetry, hope and death
The Goshen College Theater Department will explore life, death and poetry in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Wit” by Margaret Edson. The 2013 fall mainstage production, directed and produced by Tamera Izlar, assistant professor of theater, will be presented on Nov.…
Art exhibit to explore digital culture and video games
The Hershberger Art Gallery will show works by artists Jason Lahr and Krista Hoefle beginning on Nov. 10 in an exhibit that explores the two artists’ shared use of images, processes and surfaces derived from gaming and related digital culture.…
Biking to Work, to School and to Shop
Students in a Business Capstone class taught by Jerrell Ross Richer, Ph.D. participate in a hands-on learning experience with community partners from the Goshen area.
Goshen High School choir to join Goshen College choirs for Orff’s “Carmina Burana”
The Goshen College choirs will be joined by the Goshen High School Advanced Crimson Choir, as well as special soloists, community members and a children’s choir in a performance of Carl Orff’s celebrated cantata “Carmina Burana” on Saturday, Nov. 9.…
Convocation: Peru SST, spring 2013
Kate Stoltzfus & Kolton Nay are organizing this convocation, which will tell stories from the Spring 2013 Peru SST unit. Click for audio file
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