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Ken Nafziger '63 stepped to the front of the crowded room and, as he has for countless times over the last 40 years, asked his Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) colleagues to sing. This time, it was “Amazing Grace,” the first two stanzas together and then the first stanza in rounds.
Armed with a great idea, an entrepreneurial spirit and a liberal arts education, our young alumni are finding ways to make a living doing what they love. Some studied business or earned one of GC’s entrepreneurship grants right out of college. Others crowdsourced startup capital or started small and grew their business. But no matter how these creative professionals got started or what they studied, they all have a few things in common — strong critical thinking skills, a global perspective, a desire to serve and real-world experience based in a Goshen College education.
Evelyn Kreider was my grandmother. When she died earlier this month, she was 102 years old. She was a remarkable woman, a devoted listener to WVPE and possibly the most passionate critic, for good and ill, of my work on Michiana Chronicles. She will be missed.
Ann Marie Nafziger '94 found out she had been elected when she saw the handwritten results taped to the window of City Hall.
Ann Marie Nafziger '94, an artists from Marfa, Texas, was elected mayor by a landslide.
Jessica Schrock Ringenberg '04, one of Alan Kreider’s former students, shares a tribute to her former teacher who left a big impression on all his students. Kreider passed away on May 8, 2017.
Recent GC grad Maggie Weaver '17 writes about Women’s World Music Choir and its founder, Dr. Debra Detwiler Brubaker '79.
Kat Luginbuhl '11, a third-generation artist, has returned to Bluffton, Ohio to help run an art gallery started by her father, the late Gregg Luginbuhl.
Let us also recall the lives of Norbort Khongolo and Corneille Malula; let us remember Pascal Kulungu and the Center for Peacebuilding, Leadership and Good Governance; let us pray daily for the security of our Congolese Mennonite brothers and sisters and for all those in the world who live in fear; and let us not shrink back from the call to be peacemakers in a violent world, even if the cost is high and the weight of history seems overwhelming.
The Board of Trustees of the American Baptist Seminary of the West (ABSW) (Berkely, California) unanimously elected Rev. Dr. James E. Brenneman as their new president. In June he will step down after three successful terms as president of Goshen College in Indiana, and will assume his duties at ABSW in August.
