Discovering the potential of wood has been a lifelong interest for Matt Thomas '12. Now, his company, Elko Hardwoods, sells custom tables online and at a retail location in the south side of Chicago.
Java Junction, GC's on campus coffee shop, is operated by students for course credit, making decisions around accounting, marketing, purchasing, hiring, training, technology and business analysis. They purchase coffee from a local roaster, working to balance cost and quality.
As a “lean” operation, Ben Hartman and Rachel Hershberger's Clay Bottom Farm thrives from the couple’s commitment to several key principles, as Hartman details in his book, The Lean Farm.
Ken Hochstetler's path to heading a $3 billion company and becoming Everence CEO began with a paper route as a kid.
Jessica Davila came to Goshen in high school, speaking no English. After graduating from Goshen College, Jess earned her Master’s degree in Medical Science at Indiana University and is now in medical school at Loyola University in Chicago.
Wilma Marie Springer '56 received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award after 45 years of teaching.
Ben '01 and his wife Rachel Hershberger '99 own and operate Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen. His book “The Lean Farm” is gaining a lot of attention in both the farming and business worlds.
The Goshen College Dean’s Office has announced the appointment of Dr. Beth Martin Birky, professor of English, as the next associate dean and Dr. Jan Bender Shetler, professor of history, as the next director of international education.
Gerhard Johan Reimer, professor emeritus of German, died Jan. 1, 2019. He was 90 years old. Reimer taught German and occasionally Spanish at Goshen College from 1966-1994, and led eleven study abroad groups for the college’s Study-Service Term (SST) and Brethren Colleges Abroad (BCA) in Costa Rica and Germany.
As she’s moved through life and her career, Joanna Osborne ’80 Masingila, a mathematics and mathematics education professor and dean of the School of Education at Syracuse (N.Y.) University, she has remembered God’s call for her to open her eyes and remained receptive to the opportunities and experiences placed before her.
