ON MARCH 4, 1969, Daniel (Dan) Leatherman ’58, associate professor of political science, sent a three-page resignation letter to President Paul Mininger ’34. Leatherman had distinguished himself academically as an undergrad and after studying at the University of Chicago, he returned to join the GC faculty in 1963.
221 tons of structural steel, 515 cubic yards of mass concrete and another 37,000 square feet of concrete slabs. All of this and more went into the original construction of Westlawn Hall. This article originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2022 issue of The Bulletin.
Pictured: This collage of images includes the 1952 and 1973-74 women’s basketball teams Ruth Gunden ’52 coached, her working at her desk in 1958 and a 1980s mugshot. Gunden’s official intercollegiate coaching record spanned 1965-1985 and three sports: basketball, tennis and volleyball (cumulative record: 196-107-1). Throughout the late 1960s and…
High Park, which was finished in 1957 across Main Street from the college, served as a college residence hall and at various points housed the bookstore, switchboard, health center and the college’s first computer lab. In the 1990s, it was sold to Goshen Hospital. This fall, they tore it down as part of an expansion project that is underway.
Historians Susan Fisher Miller ’79 and Joe A. Springer ’80 share “touchstones” from the college’s 125-year history — events and themes that represent specific moments in time and larger symbols of institutional identity.
Founder Henry A. Mumaw (1850-1908) sits at the right of this early group of Elkhart Institute students in Elkhart’s Grand Army of the Republic hall during its inaugural year in 1894-95. This story originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2019 issue of The Bulletin BY JOE SPRINGER ’80, Curator,…
By September 1968 — when the first Study-Service Term groups departed Goshen — the student body had been testing the waters of international exposure for over two decades.
Finally, on Sept. 12, 1968, the first three “official” Study-Service Trimester (SST) groups left northern Indiana for Costa Rica, Guadeloupe and Jamaica. And that was the beginning of what has become 50 years of transformative global citizenship.
Interesting facts about a man who made his mark on Goshen College and the Mennonite Church.
When Gabriel (Gabe) Coll ’47 arrived on the Goshen College campus as a junior history major in the fall of 1945, he found himself flooded with requests to talk about his homeland, Puerto Rico. Coll, the first native Spanish speaker enrolled in a degree program at Goshen, was also the only one of 284 students on campus that fall for whom English was not his first language.
