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The 2023 alumni awards were presented to: Daryl Abbott ’69, Goshen, Culture for Service Award; Pauline (Graybill) Kennel ’53, Goshen, Culture for Service Award; Jeremy Pope ’11, Nashville, Tennessee, Young Alumni Servant Leadership Award; Melissa (Lehman) Gillette ’05, Goshen, Dr. Ruth Gunden Champion of Character Award; Geof Landis ’76, Goshen, Dr Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Award
Martha Smith Good, DMin, of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; Peter Stucky, MDiv, of Bogotá, Colombia; and J. Denny Weaver, PhD, of Madison, Wisconsin; are the 2023 recipients of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s (AMBS) Alumni Ministry and Service Recognition.
Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand this summer, you’ve probably heard of the Merlin Bird ID App. It’s a creation of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that allows you to identify birds you see or hear, with ease. Over the course of this year, it’s been downloaded by millions of people who use it to identify thousands of species of birds based on their song. And the man behind the app is 2006 Goshen College graduate named Drew Weber.
Goshen singer/songwriter Sadie Gustafson-Zook '17 began performing music in Goshen as a fiddle player in the family band at the age of six.
Janneken Smucker, a foremost authority on Amish and other American quilts, will give a gallery talk on Saturday, September 16, at 2 p.m. in the Goshen College Library Gallery.
Mennonite Church USA Executive Board staff has named Olivia Krall '23 as archives coordinator for the MC USA Archives in Elkhart. Krall holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Goshen College, with minors in political studies and sociology.
Mennonite Church USA arranged for a sculpture designed and built by Emma Zuercher, a 2023 graduate of Goshen College from Apple Creek, Ohio, under the mentorship of John Mishler, sculptor and Goshen College associate professor of art.
Central District Conference of Mennonite Church USA has reinstated the ministerial credential of Keith Schrag 36 years after he relinquished it in 1987 during a ministerial meeting in which he was questioned for being a gay man.
Interim head baseball coach Brad Stoltzfus will no longer have the interim tag in front of his title. Goshen College Director of Athletics Dr. Erica Albertin announced the GC grad will be the next head baseball coach for the Maple Leafs, effective on August 1.
Mennonite Church USA has named Nancy Kauffmann, former board president of Dove’s Nest and longtime Mennonite church leader, as the interim denominational minister of Church Safety for MC USA’s Church Vitality office.
