Guadalupe and Octavio Romero ’52 Peeling potatoes in the Goshen College kitchen one afternoon in 1949, Octavio Romero ’52 switched on the radio to a local station. He was enjoying the music until college dietician Phyllis Roose made him turn it off. She explained that only classical music was allowed.
What could be more fun for a group of young adults than a road trip together? For Matt Troyer-Miller ’05, Elizabeth Troyer-Miller ’06, Mark Gingerich ’05, Randy Keener ’08 and Jessica Roth ’06, such a road trip took them this summer to Mennonite congregations in the Central Plains Mennonite Conference…
After spending his career around professional athletes and sportswriters, it was only natural for Byron Yake ’61 to tap his full Rolodex for a cause greater than himself. The former Associated Press sports editor – who was at the wire service for 35 years – founded “Write on Sports”…
Kathryn Stutzman ’07 Kathryn Stutzman ’07 spent six weeks of her Study-Service Term (SST) in the Dominican Republic working on an iguana farm and Scott Barge ’99 spent three years in Lithuania with Mennonite Mission Network (MMN) teaching English at Lithuania Christian College after graduating from…
In September 1949, Lillian Zook Yoder (above) spent each Sunday teaching the first and second graders of fledgling Sunnyside Mennonite Church in Dunlap, Ind. Her future husband, Sam, drove the college bus through the neighborhood to bring in the flock. More than 30 GC students participated regularly that year in…
Known for his passion of Robert’s Rules of Order, Professor Emeritus of Communication Al Albrecht passes away Professor Emeritus of Communication Al Albrecht ’50 passed away on June 23 in the hospital after a lengthy illness at the age of 84. He taught at the college for 23 years, from…
He got his start in his backyard as a boy, but Dr. David Denlinger, ’67 now studies interesting bugs in interesting places as professor of entomology at Ohio State University. Denlinger, who earned a doctorate degree from the University of Illinois in 1971, has been studying insects for more…
For most Goshen College students, classes during May term are intense, but peppered with afternoons of studying on the lawn or playing Ultimate Frisbee as they relish final days before heading home for summer. But this past May didn’t offer such leisurely opportunities to senior Adrienne Nesbitt and other…
John D. and Winnie Yordy at April reception. For 31 years, Provost and Executive Vice President John D. Yordy said he pursued the goals of providing “extraordinary care to the ordinary and routine work that we do, to the special challenges that are sometimes part institutional life…
I’m aware that the title of my reflections – “Do Denominations Matter?” – is likely to evoke a range of responses. For some, the topic may feel like a waste of time: Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, who cares? What does it matter? You grew up Presbyterian, I’m a Catholic; you worship…
