Guidelines for the Sushil K. and Christine Horswell Jain Endowment Fund

This Horswell Jain endowment fund is established in honor and in memory of Christine’s parents.  Her father, Richard Glenn Horswell, M.D., was a physician based in Bristol, Indiana, for nearly 60 years, establishing his office there in 1940.  His wife, Mary Lambeck Horswell, was trained in bookkeeping and related business subjects, and divided her time between keeping the financial records for the office and raising their children.

The Horswells settled first in a house north of Bristol and then moved to Elkhart when Christine, their first child, was ready for school. The Elkhart house became almost like a library over the years, as many books and magazines were bought and read — everything from the standard classics of literature, through history, medicine, and politics, to comic books.

Many years later, a book originally prompted the idea of supporting the publishing activities of Pinchpenny Press at Goshen College. Judy Wenig-Horswell, Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Dr. and Mrs. Horswell’s daughter-in-law, gave a copy of her Pinchpenny Press book of African drawings, Drawing: Côte d’Ivoire, to Sushil and Christine Horswell Jain (a 1962 Goshen College graduate) as a Christmas present in December 1996.

The Jain’s contributed funds to the Department of Fine Arts for the purchase of  a rolling mill, and gave modest funds to the English Department starting in 1997, and projects have been going on ever since.