Merit Learning Center Principal Kristen Watt was raised in Goshen, she cares about its community and she’s passionate about the success of its students. The Merit Strategy embodied in her school helps students gain the confidence they need to not only succeed academically, but to contribute to the greater good of the community that has embraced them.
Jon Zirkle wants kids to know there’s more to farm work than driving tractors and digging in the dirt.
Ignition Music Garage is a staple of Goshen’s downtown scene. A music store, radio broadcast center and concert venue in a transformed former mechanic’s garage, Ignition offers a way for people “to listen to music the way artists intended it to be heard.”
The Telegraph Quartet, a young rising string quartet based in the San Francisco Bay area, will perform a chamber music recital in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. The recital, part of the 2014-15 Rieth Chamber Series, will begin at 4 p.m.
GENEX Services, LLC, has awarded Goshen College $20,000 for scholarships in the nursing program.
Ethan Setiawan first picked up a mandolin in 2010, when he was 13 years old. Last Friday, at the age of 17, he was the youngest person ever to be named national mandolin champion at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in Winfield, Kansas.
As Goshen College’s carbon footprint continues to shrink, its reputation as a leader in sustainable colleges is growing. GC was recently named to Sierra Magazine’s eighth annual list of “Cool Schools,” a ranking of America’s greenest colleges.
Community School of the Arts Piano Program Director Dr. Luke Norell will present a solo piano recital in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall on Sunday, Sept. 28. The recital will begin at 4 p.m.
This summer, two students created a Peruvian cookbook, “Los Sabores del Peru,” to sell for charity.
Goshen College art professors Kristi Glick, Randy Horst, Merrill Krabill, Leslie Miller and John Mishler will present selections of their own work in a faculty exhibit from Sept. 28 through Nov. 9. A reception will take place on Saturday, Oct. 4, 5-7 p.m. in the Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery.
