February 2013 events at Goshen College
February 2013 events at Goshen College
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Programa de radio en español se concentra en la educación para los latinos de Michiana
Un programa de radio que sale al aire dos veces al mes trae un enfoque en la educación para la comunidad latina en Michiana.
Lasting Ties: “A rare chance…”
On the first Friday of May 1903, citizens of Goshen met in the city’s council chamber to hear what The Goshen Daily Times described as “a rare chance for Goshen to secure a desirable college.” The local Commercial Exchange had been busily raising money to lure what was then…
Alumni Coordinate Emergency Response After Haiti Earthquake
Kathy Troyer ’75 and Virgil Troyer ’74 felt the aftershocks of Haiti’s tragic January earthquake first hand, but left the disaster feeling inspired. The Troyers, in their second year as regional disaster coordinators, in Honduras for Mennonite Central Committee, were asked to coordinate MCC’s disaster response following the 7.0 earthquake…
Lasting Ties: Planting a Heritage For Future Generations
Landscaping stones surrounding a planter between Kulp Hall, the Administration Building and the Adelphian Fountain provide a small but important link to the past.(Photo by Jodi H. Beyeler ’00) From the day in June 1903 that Jesse Smucker’s team drove away with a load of soil…
Lasting Ties: ‘Every Stitch a Link of Strength’
Supervisor Joe Brunk operates the Maple City Shirt Company in the basement of Coffman Hall. Special thanks to Mabel V. Brunk for her research and her photo. On Sept. 15, 1934, the north end of Coffman Hall’s basement was filled with the whirr and clacking…
‘Yoder & Son’ take a journalistic journey together
Graphic provided by The Wall Street Journal Sunday Stephen Kreider Yoder ’81, San Francisco bureau chief for the The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and his 18-year-old son Isaac decided to do a different kind of father-son project this year. They have been jointly writing a weekly column…
Alum’s English pronunciation Web site is not tongue-in-cheek
A linguistics Web site doesn’t seem like an obvious path for someone who studied computer science, applied math and music in college, but Rachel Smith ’01 found a niche that combines all of her interests with the launch of her Web site www.RachelsEnglish.com. The site teaches American English pronunciation…
The First Masters Have A World For A Classroom
Editor’s note: Goshen College’s first three graduate students walked across the commencement stage in caps and gowns on April 26, and will complete master’s degrees in environmental education at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College in early June. Next year, the program will triple, with a cohort…
Tim Martin ’91 In Siberia For Climate Change Research
In the Siberian tundra, alumnus Tim Martin ’91, an earth science teacher at Greensboro (N.C.) Day School, lived and researched with an international team of scientists – from the United States, Germany, Russia and Austria – through the Polar TREC program, where K-12 teachers are paired with researchers in…