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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.
Marian secured a victory over Evansville Memorial to win the Class 2A title, the program's third overall.
The Bruins outlasted Forest Park in penalty kicks 3-1 to win the school’s — located just south of Goshen — first state championship in any sport.
Leichty defeated Republican newcomer Benjamin Rogers to become Goshen’s first female mayor. According to the unofficial results, she won with 54% of the vote.
During high school, Peter Fairfield '02, Dan Steller, David Wingfield, and Peter Fairfield were all in the same graduating class of ’98 at Eastern Mennonite School. Now, the three are part of a team racing against time to help preserve the Ojibwe language.
