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.
On Nov. 28, 1979, over 300 people gathered in the year-old Umble Center for an international variety show entitled “Flight #606.” Guided by “pilot” Michael DeShield ’80 and “stewardess” Brigitte Hudicourt ’81, dances, songs and skits filled the “flight.” Both had found their way to Goshen through connections with Study-Service Term units in their home countries, Belize and Haiti.
An Egyptian demonstrates that Goshen College clothing — like its alumni — can be found all over the world. An alert photographer saw this man in the early 19080s. (Photo courtesy of Natural History magazine) Longtime Bulletin readers may recall the mystery of an Egyptian seated…
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…
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…
On Oct. 15, 1974, the 91.1 FM evening broadcast featured Khatchaturian’s Violin Concerto. Off-air, WGCS student general manager Jon Kennel (future general manager) and others had spent the day fielding dozens of request calls for classical and rock music as part of a special phonathon. Since the fall of 1958,…
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…
