The English Department releases a review of the 2012-13 school year so far. Exciting scholarships, internships, and student writings are included inside.
Fall 2012 Newsletter
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Fall 2012 Newsletter
Billy Funk's Triple Showdown with Reality – Billy Funk, January 2013
Senior Billy Funk ‘ 13 showed off his acting range when he selected three vastly different one acts. He opened with “Interface,” followed by “Eukiah” in which Eukiah hides in an airplane hangar. Cowboy Butch wants to dig his friend...
City Life
Lima is a thriving metropolitan area situated along Peru’s central coast. The population has swelled in recent years as families move here to find work or enroll their children in what are considered the best schools in the country. Several...
A Grace Note and a Concert Hall
Part of the task of an assessor is to review blueprints of buildings that are under construction in an attempt to calculate an estimated value prior to the building being completed. One of my first blueprint reviews was that of…
Immersing Ourselves at Rabbit Island
This is the third of three blog posts we’re putting up today — one on our lectures and language classes over the last week, and one Kate’s reflections on being in Cambodia. Please see those blogs as well. On Saturday...
Language Classes and Mosque Visit
(This is one of three blogs posted today, so please see Kate Yoder’s reflections as well as the blog post on our trip to Kep and Rabbit Island.) Over the last week students continued to have Khmer language classes each...
“Cambodians Have Wonderful Sense of Humors”
This blog post is by Kate, and first appeared in this week’s Record back on campus: “If You Pay 10 dollors, you can eat pork belly and drink endlessly until when you say ‘STOP!’” Welcome to Cambodia, where the English...
Machu Picchu
In the Quechua language, Machu Picchu means “Old Peak”. A bit understated, it would seem. For on this majestic outcropping of white granite, the Incas constructed a magnificent citadel — complete with houses, temples, stairways and terraces — incomparable in...
Winter One Acts to show Feb. 15, 16 & 17
Goshen College Theater Department’s 2013 Winter One Acts will have variety, featuring a man who believes he is Edgar Degas, a soldier returning home from Afghanistan and a stop-motion film.
Convocation: “Strong Relationships Begin with a Strong You” – Jennifer Beer, campus counselor
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Heritage Works, 2013
Paintings by Abner Hershberger, Emeritus Professor of Art at Goshen College, that explore historical Mennonite and agrarian themes by manipulating images from the family photo album. Small black and white photos were enlarged to provide industrial-sized negatives, which allowed life-size...
Rocks and Flowers
The rocks were cut, polished and placed here centuries ago. The flowers, on the other hand, were fresh, the product of mid-summer rains that water the hillsides each year. Ollantaytambo is a mix of old and new. The main draw...
Textiles and Tastes
Traditional woven cloth has made a comeback in the Cusco area in recent decades due, interestingly enough, to the strong demand for authentic materials and designs by international visitors. Handmade textiles are time-consuming to produce. However, if foreign tourists are...
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Chapel: Camping Inquiry – 2012 CIP students
Each summer several GC students do “Camping Inquiry Program” internships at church camps across the continent, learning about leadership in those settings. The 2012 CIP students will lead this chapel service. Click for audio file
Jessie’s Khmer Rouge Interview
We’re preparing for a weekend trip to the south coast of Cambodia, where we will observe, analyze, and immerse ourselves in the Natural World components of the SST experience. Before that, though, we wanted to hear from another student’s perspective,...
Gold
On our last day in Colquemarca we scheduled a workshop on the topic of informal, or artisan, mining. We made our way to Jacinto’s house for a demonstration of how he produces small quantities of gold using fairly primitive technology...
Goshen College choirs to perform opera scenes in winter concert
The Goshen College Choirs will welcome the Fairfield High School Concert Choir to the Sauder Concert Hall stage in the Music Center to perform scenes from various operas throughout music history in their winter concert on Sunday, Feb. 17 at…
Professor Emerita of Nursing Fran Wenger dies
Professor Emerita of Nursing Anna Frances “Fran” Wenger, 79, died on Feb. 2, 2013 in Goshen after a four-month battle with cancer.
Village Life
The Andes mountains are home to tens of thousands of small villages, where families live and work much as they have for centuries, even millenia. Subsistence farming is the common profession. Sometimes people grow enough potatoes, corn or habas beans...
Michiana Monologues 2013
Thanks to the American Association of University Women for underwriting the Michiana Monologues at Goshen College February 21, 2013. Over 170 people attended, raising a $1,000 for beneficiaries.
Goshen College Chamber Choir to sing for Afternoon Sabbatical on Feb. 12
Goshen College’s Chamber Choir will present an Afternoon Sabbatical concert on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 1 p.m. in Sauder Concert Hall. The program is free and open to the public.
Life around Phnom Penh
In addition to the stimulating weekend trip to Siem Reap (please see the three entries posted 24 hours ago on Angkor Wat, Kampong Phluck, and Skuon), our larger week has been full with more routine and once-in-a-lifetime activities in Phnom...
Violin students to perform free recital of Baroque sonatas
Goshen College violin students in the studio of Associate Professor of Music Solomia Soroka will perform a free recital on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall.
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