Photo sent by Deb King Helmuth `80 of her “Kratz Dorm friends celebrating 60th birthdays in 2018 in Sonoma, California
#friendshipsforalifetime”. In the photo are: Christine Wiebe, Deb King Helmuth, Gail Schrock Neumann, Joy Neumann Landis & Molly Jo Skiles Seeck
A photo from Carolyn Smith Diener ’55. She writes, “I am sending in a golden oldie of our production of “Merchant in Venice” directed by Roy Umble, around 1953. L to R: Verlin Garber, Carolyn Smith, Carol Tuesher and perhaps Ron Schertz and Margaret Jantzi”.
Greg Ebersole `75 with one on his paintings. He writes, “I was an art major and graduated in 1975. Years later, I began a 30+ year career as a newspaper photojournalist. I still have a lot of close friends from my GC days. I enjoyed my time there.”Greg Ebersole `75Haircut on the roof of Kulp dorm one year before we were married. John D. Roth `81 and Ruth Miller Roth `81.Another angle of that fortuitous haircut. Ruth Miller Roth `81 and John D. Roth `81.Atlee Beechy `35. Photo from his grand-daughter Kate Beechy Kreider Minielly `98Photo credit Kate Beechy Kreider Minielly `98Photo credit Kate Beechy Kreider Minielly `98Kate Beechy Kreider Minielly `98, Liam `25 and Scott Minielly `96Kate Beechy Kreider Minielly `98 and Scott Minielly `96Passing time on the February 1975 Chamber Choir tour to Pennsylvania and Ohio. Pictured are Don Clymer, Kate Schertz, Mary Lehman, and Chris Gerig. Photo from Bill Clemens `75.Having fun during the April 1974 GC Chorale tour to Michigan and Ontario. The photo features choir members Darrell Miller and Sid Richard. Photo from Bill Clemens `75.Woohoo Pichincha! Caleb and Nina Longenecker-Fox `15 in Quito, Ecuador preparing for SST-ers to arrive in the fall. Here is a picture of the Sophomore Comets, the 1952-53 girl’s basketball team, submitted by Carolyn Smith Diener `55 (pictured in the middle)Trisha Handrich ’11 writes: Here’s a collage of meaningful photos representing my GC experience!Graduation photo from April 2018 for child #2 out of 4!
Linda Anneler Zehr ’87, Marvin Zehr ’75, Bek Zehr ‘2021, Jacob Zehr ’18, Emma Zehr ‘2024, Paul Zehr ’16 and Nuray Mammadzada (exchange student from Azerbaijan)Rachel Eash Scott `98 writes: “My passion for underserved medicine stemmed from my time at Goshen, surrounded by folks who linked service and work and helped me explore my own interests. My SST experience in the Dominican Republic solidified my Spanish language abilities, and now much of my day is spent giving healthcare to folks in their preferred language. I’m proud that my son chose Goshen and is already having a life-changing experience.
I’m so glad to be a Goshen College grad!”(L to R): Taylor Rex, Rianna Koteles, Taylar McKinley, Makayla Collier. All will graduate from GC this month. The Rychener GC 7! This is photo from a Christmas gathering with our parents, Earl and Helen (Frey) Rychener in Pettisville. At that time, the three oldest children had already graduated from GC. There was at least one of sibling on campus from 1960-82, except for a four-year period in the 70’s.This photo is mostly members of the Class of ’55, likely taken in the home of Dean Hartman near GC during our last year. At G.C. we developed many lifelong friendships and had fun doing it!
Pictured left to right: Fred Meyer, Phyllis Ramseyer (Miller), Bill Miller, Norwood Schmucker, Lila Rae Thomas (Stetter), Marjorie Headrick (Schmucker), Gerald Wilson, Roma Wyman (Wilson), Dean Hartman, Geneva Swartzendruber (Stoltzfus)Members of the class of 1969 Mike Klaus, Ron Gunden, Randy Noe, Fred Miller, Dave Minter and Tom Bishop celebrating GC East Hall connections and more than 50 years of friendship in the Cayman Islands, February 2020. Chris Liechty, Dan Koop Liechty and Doug Albrecht at their 1988 graduation.Kratz 3rd Apple Picking! Annette King ’83 Decatur, GA Kulp Hall third floor, 1960-61GC Friends Reunion. Jennifer North Bauman ‘90Anne (Harnish) Weaver ’58 & Glenn Weaver ’58 GraduationDale ’78 and Kay (Miller) Kempf ‘77Students on May term Ecology course in the Himalayas. Photo credit Spencer AeschlimanFred Kauffman, Minh Kauffman, Pat Massanari, Joy Kauffman Khader, Badawe Khader, Tony BrownPaul `87 and Shari Roten. Nine Mile Falls, WA.Study break. Dan Koop Liechty ’88, Margaret Fisher Aeschliman ’87 and Jeff Aeschliman ’87The Koop Liechty family. Emma ’18, Dan ’88, Elsie ’21, Cormac ’25 and Jill ’90.Lin Garber ’57Gretchen Yoder-Schrock `88, Margaret Jeschke 90, and Bart Miller ’89 in front of Kulp Hall.This picture was shared by Lin Garber ’57. He writes that it is of a group international students in the 50s with their foster family in Dunlap. Some of the students are Jimmie Chen and Jing-Chang Liang from Formosa (that’s what we called Taiwan in those days), Grace Mattar from Jordan, and Toshi Inoue, and Takio Tanase from Japan..Lois Gingerich Beck ’68 and Rose Aschliman Roth ’68, roommates at GC in 1967-68, photographed at a 2017 reunion in Phoenix, AZ.1983 class reunion in Evanston, Illinois. Randy Stoesz, Doug Nissley, Ellen Hoover Stoesz, Dave Strycker, Andrea Warkentin Strycker, Winston Gerig, Sibyl Graber Gerig, Ken Miller, Doris Boehr Miller, Doug Smucker, Susan Fisher Miller and Lee Miller. Photo from Lee Miller ’80Taking a roadside break while roving through Austria after GC Study-in-Europe, summer 1978. John D. Roth, Susan Fisher Miller, Joe Springer and Janice Yordy Sutter. Photo from Lee Miller ’80Dr. Kathryn Aschliman ’54 was a professor of Early Childhood courses and also taught the Laboratory Kindergarten Classes where many Elementary Education students observed her expertly teaching those kindergarteners! Photo provided by Rose Aschliman Roth ’68Twilight portrait on the Georgian Bay, September, 1979. Bob Bontrager, Kevin Gerig, Galen Martin, Lee Miller, Patricia Shoemaker, Sibyl Graber Gerig, Janis Miller, Randy Stoesz and Winston Gerig.Photo from Lee Miller ’80Group gift of a tent for Susan and Lee’s wedding, June 26, 1982. Doug Smucker, David Strycker, Andrea Warkentin Strycker, Susan Fisher Miller, Lee Miller, Randy Stoesz, Dan Coyne, Sibyl Graber Gerig, Winston Gerig, Ann Graber Miller and Galen Martin Navigating near Lake VLake Valicita in the San Juan Mountains (Summer, 1980) Galen Martin, Randy Stoesz, Neil Miller and Winston Gerig. Photo from Lee Miller ’80Quick break at Dave and Andi’s house in Indy, on the summer 1981 bike ride from New Orleans to Goshen. Doug Smucker, Randy Stoesz, Winston Gerig and Lee Miller. Photo from Lee Miller ’80Ready to set out on the Big Manistee river canoe adventure (Summer 1978). Ken Miller, Andrea Warkentin Strycker, Randy Stoesz, Lynette Shoemaker, Charles Buller, Becky Bauman, Martha Coyne, John Buschert, Eric Haarer, Deb Cantu-Hertzler (window), John Ulrich, Rita Hartman, David Cantu (window), Dan Coyne, Janis Miller, Bruce Bishop and David Strycker. Photo from Lee Miller ’80Sidewalk science project. Audrey Roth Kraybill, Merle Jacobs (professor), Stan Grove, Jane Yousy and Ned Nafziger. Photo from Lee Miller ’80Nancy Kauffman Hess ’74 wedding, the day after her graduation in April, 1974. Three graduates got married that day, two on campus, and one in a private home in Goshen.Marilyn Houser Hamm ’74, Brenda Beechy Huneryager ’74 and Mary Lehman Yoder ’75 singing a trio from the red Mennonite Hymnal at Nancy Kauffman Hess’ ’74 wedding.Ondrej Polisensky and Katy Mancewicz at their 2008 graduationKathleen Duerksen ’81 and Tina Springer ’81Sue Schmucker Coblentz ’90Phyllis Ramseyer Miller ’55 and Bill Miller ’55Pauline Clemens Fisher ‘48 and John J. Fisher ’48Grace Leatherman ’60Shane ’90 and Harvey Hartzler ’61Off-campus housemates. Lorne Dueck ’87, Carey Miller ’86, Keith Helmuth ’86 and Gordon Bontrager ’85Ron Schertz ’58 and Leanne (Fricke) Schertz ’58 on the GC campusThe 2016 Organizational Leadership program cohort. Photo from Linda VandenBosch ’16Christmas 1998. Spencer Aeschliman ’19, John Miller ’14, Chris Miller and Peter Miller ’09Ben Meyer Reimer ’19, Matthew Smucker ’19 and Lukas Thompson ’19 at the NATS vocal competition in 2018Kevin Claassen ’96 and Jennette Badgett Claassen ’97 in the Howell House dining room (95/96 school year).Howell House residents in the Spring of 2009. Photo from Maria Hosler Byler ’10 Karla Santiago ’10, showing her GC love at a basketball game! Joyce Bedsworth ’72 and Vicki Krikton ’73Myrl Nofziger ’64 writes “I was a Normal Control at NIH in Bethesda MD, between my first and second year at GC. Years 1959/60. Our unit leader was Dr. Jim Conrad ’58 in the center of this photo and I am on the far right.” Carol Shenk Bornman ’90 in China for SST in 1987Jonathan and Carol Shenk Bornman ’90The 1987 China SST Unit. Photo submitted by Carol Shenk Bornman ’90Lorraine Murphy 64′, a very proud GC alumna and former Alumni Council member from Sarasota, Florida.Ellah Wakatama ’89 and Gayatri Patnaik ’90L to R: Lynn Williams ’60, Margaret Miller Williams’69, Nancy Gerber Conrad ’60, Mark Conrad ’60 and Marian Smith Yoder ’60Solidia Brown ’90 and Heidi Dyck Hilty ’89. Solidia writes “Roomies and best friends for life. :)”GC sister graduates. Ellen Kempf Miller ’73, Marge Kempf Swartzendruber ’82 and Anita Kempf ’88Multigenerational Reedy, Umble, Klassen and Longacre families – Goshen alumni (including Ben Longacre, class of 2020, top)Erica Gunden ’22 and James Gunden ’80 on Christmas hike in California.Judy Weaver ’81 and Richard Aguirre (Administrative Faculty). Andrew ’98 and Ruth ’99 (Alfaro) Hartzler. Celebrating 23 years of marriage this May 2020.Goshen Friends Canoe Trip, 1976: Burdette Gunden, Todd Woodworth, Kevin Kaufman, Lynn Lais, Will Swartzendruber and Wayne MartinJohn A Amstutz’ 62., enjoying Colts game with daughter Becca (Rebecca Amstutz ’93).Senegal SST 2008. Photo submitted by Neil Detweiler ’08Go Broncos! Jeff ’87 and Kay ’87 Miller, with Hans 19, Josh, and Jared ’14This photo is from Emma Caskey 16 & Jackson Bush’s ’15 wedding with all the GC alumni at our wedding! Emma writes, “Pardon our expressions, but we were all singing the alma mater during this photo :)”.Inaugural Women’s Soccer team, Fall 1991. Photo submitted by Jennifer Heubert (Miller) ’92Jenny ’92 Huebert (Miller) and Daryl ’92 Miller, Spring 1990. John ’68 and Elaine ’68 (Smucker) HarleyDon Bacher ’69. Don writes, “I did general maintenance around campus and road one of the maintenance shop bikes with a big basket on the front and I think a box on the back. I made a sign that said “Service for Culture” and attached it to the back of the bike.”David Canal ’78, Brian Zehr ’78 and Kirk Stiffney ’80, prior to our bicycle ride across the country, 1976.Margarita Klassen de Melo ’95 at her graduation, with her one year old daughter, Jessica, and her husband, David Melo Lizardo ’92.Rachel Nafziger Hartzler ’70, shared this photo of part of the GC nursing class of 1970 in a classroom at Elkhart General Hospital, with professors Norma Jean Weldy and Anna Mae Charles (Fretz).Elisabeth Fast Beels, ’75, with the Goshen students she took with her to Nepal. To the right of Elisabeth is Barb Weybright ’95, instructor.International Student Club members celebrating Holi.Lindsy Glick ’08, shared this picture from a prank war she and her roommate were in with guys from Yoder 1 South. They came back from Thanksgiving break to find everything in their room wrapped like a present. Here is Elisabeth Fast Beels, ’70 sitting in Tansen, Nepal with Shakuntala Thangu. Shakuntala was one of Beth’s first nursing students back in 1977-80 in Kathmandu, and later Shakuntala was Beth’s boss in the Tansen Nursing school 2010-13. AND, Shakuntala’s daughter, Ashika Thanju graduated from Goshen College in 2018. A rare nap was so exquisite! Photo submitted by Lori Hollenberg Bontrager ’78Lots happened in the dorm Halls. Photo submitted by Lori Hollenberg Bontrager ’78Mary…. Flitting by! Photo submitted by Lori Hollenberg Bontrager ’78Spending fun time with profs. Photo submitted by Lori Hollenberg Bontrager ’78Group projects in Nursing. Photo submitted by Lori Hollenberg Bontrager ’78Beth Swanson Hower ’73 writes, “SST in South Korea was the most memorable and impactful experience during my college years at GC.”My High Park Hunnies! Photo submitted by Lori Hollenberg Bontrager ’78Black Student Union members Maryan Mohamed ’07, Ebony Goodwin Clement ’08 and Pearl Msibi ’07Class of 1984. L-R… Cliff Wenger, Carol (Moser) Wenger, Rod Stutzman, Marci (Ropp) Glick, Jim Smucker, Phil Zimmerman, Beth (Shaffer) Stoltzfus and Dale StoltzfusA photo from Samita Thapa’s ’13 2020 wedding in Kathmandu, Nepal. With her are GC friends, Fasica Mulat 14, Dolly Zewdie 14, Samita, Bethesda Zewdie ’13, and Ly Nguyen ’12Graduation day 1967 with our parents. Left to right: Perry J Miller (Assoc Prof of Education), Lucile Miller, Sally Jo Miller Milne, Ron Milne, Freda Milne, Robert Milne.Kenwood House crew (All 2005 grads) Steve Schrock, Dan Horst, Chris Meyer, Brett Buller, Jason Schmucker, Adam Roth, Daniel King, Jaron Kennel and Andy Graber. Ken Ebersole ’73, with daughter Allison Ebersole ’19, both GC soccer playersMargaret Miller ’59 and John Ingold ’59
