Teachers in Elkhart County are busy readying for the first day of school. Whether it’s their first year teaching or their 15th, these men and women all have a mission to impact students’ lives for the better. Here, a few local teachers share their thoughts on teaching and on the upcoming school year.
The Goshen College Library Gallery will honor Sylvia Gross Bubalo, an artist with Mennonite roots, with an exhibit showcasing her art and poetry this fall. The exhibit, which highlights Gross Bubalo’s passion for spirituality, language and community, will run from Aug.12 through Nov. 16, with a reception on Sept. 8 from 3-5 p.m. in the Library Gallery.
After spending some time last Monday morning at the Write on Sports camp at Goshen College the future of journalism appears to be in good hands. - See more at: http://goshennews.com/localsports/x2088950672/KEIMS-KORNER-Future-journalists-impress-News-writer#sthash.DstePqjE.dpuf
Maria Jantz, a Goshen College sophomore physics/pre-engineering and interdisciplinary double major from North Newton, Kan., was selected as one of 20 college students from across the country who will serve as delegates at a meeting of rising young leaders in the sustainable energy sector.
Lois Mary Gunden Clemens, a 1936 Goshen College graduate and a French professor at the college from 1939-1941 and 1944-1958, was recently honored as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Gunden Clemens is only the fourth American to be recognized with this prestigious honor.
Ten rising middle schoolers from the Goshen area are blending a love of sports with a love of journalism by participating in Goshen College’s Write on Sports camp from July 8-19, 2013.
Mary Roth, a 2013 Goshen College graduate with an English writing major, was chosen as the 2013 Luci Shaw Fellow at Image, a quarterly journal of faith, literature and the arts located in Seattle, Wash.
Six books were published through the Goshen College English Department’s Pinchpenny Press in 2013, four of which were authored by individual students and two of which were collections of student work.
Benjamin Kelly has long had a desire to make his living as a baseball play-by-play announcer.
