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Goshen College alumnus Joel Jimenez '01 was recently honored as Backline Technician of the Year at the Country Music Association Touring Awards for his exceptional work as backline crew chief and guitar tech for renowned country music artist Thomas Rhett.
Britt Kaufmann '96 has her poem "Midlife Calculus" published in Scientific American.
Mennonite Mission Network Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of interim executive director Marisa Smucker as the permanent executive director, effective January 23, 2024. Smucker has served as interim executive director of Mission Network since March 2023.
As a child, I simply remember spending a lot of time creating — drawing, painting, making paper dolls and clothes, singing, etc.
Mary K. Oyer, professor emerita of music, died on January 11, 2024, in Goshen at the age of 100. Oyer taught at Goshen College from 1945 to 1987, during which time she developed a Fine Arts course that became legendary among students and was instrumental in bringing wide recognition and acceptance of the fine arts in a Mennonite liberal arts education.
Last November, Gina Leichty '95 became the first woman elected mayor of Goshen.
Everence Financial announced Rachel Swartzendruber Miller '02 as the organization’s new regional director for the western United States.
FIDAF scored a victory by appointing Katie Sowers '09, a former coach in the NFL and the first woman to coach in the Super Bowl.
John A. Lapp, former provost and academic dean at Goshen College, died Dec. 5 at the age of 90 in Goshen. He served the college for 12 years, from 1972-1984.
Somewhere in prairies southeast of Goshen — newly restored fields in the early 2000s where the endangered grassland bird known as Henslow’s sparrow started to appear — Drew Weber’s childhood love of birding broke open like a tiny seed that had just germinated.
