GOSHEN, Ind. -- When new students arrived on the Goshen College campus over Orientation weekend, Aug. 23-24, admission counselors, professors, administrators, staff and returning students realized their hard work over the past year had brought about needed growth and a high quality class of students.
The first day of Goshen College 2003-04 classes, Aug. 27, opened with President Shirley H. Showalter's opening address, "Living Our Faith," to the campus in which she called students to deepen their relationship with God by living out the core values of Goshen College: a Christ-centered community of passionate learners, global citizens, compassionate peacemakers and servant leaders.
While many Indiana college and university graduates take their diplomas and pursue employment opportunities in other states, contributing to the highly publicized "brain drain," Goshen College imports more human capital to Indiana than it exports, concludes a study conducted this year.
Donors to Goshen College continue to value the education and mission of the school, giving the college a financial boost during the 2002-03 fiscal year.
Goshen College offers another great series for the seventh year of the Performing Arts Series. Continuing in the commitment to bringing accomplished performers from a wide variety of music genre to our stage, this year's line-up ranges in musical styles from orchestral to Cuban to bluegrass to Scottish.
Goshen College recently recognized 92 students for excellence in academics, releasing the names of students on the 2002-2003 spring semester Dean's List.
Philip Hefner, professor emeritus of systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, called on Goshen College's 233 graduates to change the world around them as they go out from college during the school's 105th commencement on May 25 in the Roman Gingerich Recreation-Fitness Center.
The first permanent residence hall to serve Goshen College students, built three years after the school located to Goshen in 1903, was Kulp Hall. It is appropriate then that Kulp Hall will be the first residence hall renovated in an upgrade "likely to exceed $8.5 million" to all the living spaces on campus over the next year and a half, according to GC Vice President of Student Life Bill Born.
A century ago the city of Goshens Commercial Exchange campaigned successfully to entice the Elkhart Institute to move its campus to Goshen. The exhibit "100 Years of Goshen College in Goshen" will pay tribute to all that has come since the first day of classes began on Sept. 29, 1903.
With a hearty laugh accompanied by a customary slap on the table, Dominican Republic President Hipælito Mejia expressed his amusement and pleasure of conversation with Adam Derstine, a Goshen College student from Harrisonburg, Va.
