Open House:

Goshen residents will have an opportunity to explore renovated spaces at Goshen College, experience a live broadcast of 91.1 The Globe and win prizes, including an iPad mini, during a community fair and open house on Sunday, March 24 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Visitors can explore the newly renovated Union Building space, which includes a new Welcome Center, the recently established Center for Intercultural and International Education, and 91.1 The Globe’s revamped radio station. The family friendly event will also feature student musicians and performers, face painting, student and faculty artwork and complimentary food.

Guests will also have the chance to register for a number of giveaways in addition to an iPad mini, such as Performing Arts Series tickets, a college cabin rental, passes to the college’s Recreation-Fitness Center, a Music Together class for children, student artwork and tickets for upcoming student musical and theater performances.

Goshen College’s student-run, award-winning radio station, 91.1 The Globe, will broadcast live from the lobby of the Union building, and guests will have the opportunity to meet the DJs and experience the radio station in operation. The Globe was just awarded “Best College Radio Station in the Nation” for the second time in three years by the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, and was named “Radio School of the Year” in Indiana for the last two years by the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters.

In 2012, the Union Building underwent a renovation that transformed the west half of the old gym into new office spaces, a conference room, reception area and renovated bathrooms. The project was funded by the Lilly Endowment, which in 2006 granted $12.5 million to Goshen College to establish the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL), now known as the Center for Intercultural and International Education (CIIE). CIIE encompasses what was once the Multicultural Affairs Office, CITL, and the International Education and Study-Service Term (SST) programs.

“Although the emphasis is on the remodeled spaces in the Union Building, we really hope this event will attract folks who are not familiar with Goshen College or just curious to know more about this community asset,” said Jim Caskey, vice president for institutional advancement at Goshen College.

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Ted & Co. will present three evening shows at 7 p.m. on Feb. 8-10. Tickets for the evening shows cost $5 for individual tickets or $10 for the whole family. Wednesday night’s show will be in Goshen College’s Umble Center; Thursday night’s show will be in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel; and Friday night’s show will be at The Goshen Theater (216 S. Main St.).

Tickets will be available to purchase through the Goshen College Welcome Center. Call (574) 535-7566 or email welcomecenter@goshen.edu. Tickets will also be available at the door of each show. All profits from ticket sales will go to The Window, a nonprofit organization in Goshen that helps meet the basic needs of those with low income.

Ted & Co. will also perform during chapel on Wednesday, Feb. 8 (“The Big (& Ted) Story”) and Friday, Feb. 10 (“Reflections on Laughter and Lament”) at 10 a.m. These events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday night’s show in the Umble Center, titled “The Big Story,” combines Scripture, story and humor. Both theater and seminary trained, Swartz has found a unique and entertaining discovery; at the intersection of humor and biblical story is often a greater understanding of the text. In this show, Ted brings biblical characters to life in unexpected and entertaining ways.

For Thursday night’s performance in the Church-Chapel, Swartz will present “Laughter and Lament.” In this show,

Overall schedule of events:

Wednesday, Feb. 8
“The Big (& Ted) Story” chapel at 10 a.m. in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel
Free and open to the public
“The Big Story” at 7 p.m. in Goshen College’s Umble Center
*Tickets cost $5 for individuals or $10 for the whole family. Youth group discount available (contact the Welcome Center).

Thursday, Feb. 9
“Incorporating Drama in Worship” church workshop, 9:30-10:30 a.m. in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel Koinonia Room
Free and open to pastors and worship leaders. Call (574) 535-7565 or email churchrelations@goshen.edu to reserve a place.

“Laughter and Lament” at 7 p.m. in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel
*Tickets cost $5 for individuals or $10 for the whole family

Friday, Feb. 10
“Reflections on Laughter and Lament” chapel at 10 a.m. in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel
Free and open to the public

“I’d Like to Buy an Enemy” at 7 p.m. at The Goshen Theater (216 S. Main St.)
*Tickets cost $5 for individuals or $10 for the whole family

*All tickets can be purchased through the Goshen College Welcome Center. Call (574) 535-7566 or emailwelcomecenter@goshen.edu. Tickets will also be sold at the door of each event. All profits from ticket sales will go to The Window.

Swartz offers audiences a glimpse into his 20-year friendship and creative partnership with Lee Eshleman, which ended when Eshleman took his own life in 2007. Swartz explores the paradox of working with a comedic partner struggling with bipolar disorder, as well as the challenge of writing and performing God’s stories while experiencing the absence of God after Eshleman’s death. Using monologue and multi-media, “Laughter and Lament” reveals the unique journey of working in the theater and church under the shadow of a mental illness, and offers hope and humor.Also on Thursday, Feb. 9, Swartz will lead a church workshop, “Incorporating Drama in Worship,” at 9:30 a.m. in the Koinonia Room in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel. This event is free and open to pastors and worship leaders. Call (574) 535-7565 or email churchrelations@goshen.edu to reserve a place.

Friday night’s performance at The Goshen Theater, titled “I’d Like to Buy an Enemy,” will be a hilarious and poignant satire that explores peace, justice and the American way. This thought-provoking show allows us to laugh at ourselves while engaging us to think about the place of the United States in the world. It confronts the fear that is such a large part of U.S. culture and considers ways to work for peace and justice in this country and in the world.

Swartz graduated from seminary in 1992, and began a ministry that took him not to a pulpit in a congregation, but to audiences across the United States and beyond. The first 20 years of this work included the creation of Ted & Lee TheaterWorks with Lee Eshleman, and development of plays such as Armadillo Shorts, Fish-Eyes, Creation Chronicles, Live at Jacob’s Ladder and DoveTale.

Since Eshleman’s death in May 2007, Swartz has been writing and performing new plays with a number of other artists. Swartz lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

For more information about Ted & Co., visit tedandcompany.com.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S.News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

GOSHEN, Ind. – It’s not often that Goshen College students have the opportunity to pick the brain of a close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But that’s exactly what happened during a convocation on Monday, Jan. 16, when senior Yolo Lopez-Perez sat down with Dr. Vincent Harding to ask him questions about race, multiculturalism, identity and servant leadership.

Harding stressed the idea that the work of the civil rights movement is ongoing, and that each person has the ability to help. “You now have a freedom to be engaged with each other in ways that may make it possible to create a better Goshen College, city, maybe even Elkhart, but maybe even America,” he said. “I am asking you all to be free to see that you are citizens of a country that we must still be creating. A country where all of us are welcome, where all of us are deep participants, where all of us can sing and move and meet each other, where the oldest among us will always know that they are cared for and the youngest among us will always know that they will be nurtured.”

When it comes to balancing an organization’s need for cohesion while welcoming diversity, Harding said it is important to be open to the natural changes and developments that come along. “Identity is not something that is most valuable to us when we are grasping it, and saying ‘Don’t lose it!’” said Harding. “Identity is most helpful and useful to us when we’re saying, ‘How can we join what we have with what others have.’”

Harding used a caterpillar as a metaphor for what could happen if we hold on too tightly to our identities. “If the caterpillar said, ‘I’m going to be a caterpillar, that’s all!’ it loses its chance to fly,” he said.

When asked about servant leadership, one of the college’s core values that is being emphasized this school year, Harding pointed to the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Before King became a civil rights leader, a group of women in Montgomery, Ala., began taking radical actions to protest against discrimination, including Rosa Parks. But the group of women needed a spokesperson, said Harding, so they called on King and he became their servant.

“[King] didn’t come galloping into Montgomery on a steed saying ‘I am your leader,’” said Harding. “The people knew the kind of leader they needed, and King listened to them.

Harding also spoke of the importance of standing in solidarity with the poor, the underprivileged and the discriminated against, a cause to which King literally gave his life.

Part of being a servant leader, said Harding, is taking Jesus seriously. “I don’t see any way of taking Jesus seriously without standing with the poor, without being available to anyone who’s in trouble, without always looking around for where are the outcasts and the weak, and going to stand by their side.”

Harding ended the time by encouraging students and the campus community to be in open conversation with one another, and to live into the freedom of the great variety that the campus has and to take full advantage of it.

Harding was a close friend of Dr. King, at one point living around the corner from him in Atlanta when he and his wife, Rosemarie (a ’55 GC alumna), directed a Mennonite Voluntary Service unit, from1961 to 1964. Harding drafted the “Beyond Vietnam” speech that King delivered at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, and in 1968, Harding became the first director of the King Memorial Center in Atlanta.

The convocation also featured performances by the Parables worship team, and was among the various activities the college offered for its annual Martin Luther King Study Day. Other activities throughout the day, which focused on the theme “Hope, History and Change,” included a spoken word coffeehouse, a community conversation about race, a community luncheon, and a candlelight vigil and march for peace and justice.

– By Alysha Landis

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, renowned concert violinist, author and teacher, will offer a recital with Anne-Marie McDermott, nationally recognized pianist, for Goshen College’s Performing Arts Series on Friday, Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.

Tickets for the performance are selling fast, and can be purchased at the Welcome Center for $40, $35 and $20. Call (574) 535-7566 or email welcomecenter@goshen.edu for more information. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.goshen.edu/tickets.

Salerno-Sonnenberg has performed with orchestras around the world. The Vancouver Sun describes her as “a performer of splendid technical accomplishment and an artist of deep feeling informed by a subtle intelligence.”

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1961, Salerno-Sonnenberg immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 8 years old to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Later, she studied with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. She became the youngest-ever prizewinner in the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition in 1981. In 1983 she was honored with an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 1999 she received the Avery Fisher Prize for “outstanding achievement and excellence in music.”

Salerno-Sonnenberg has been a frequent guest on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson and has been featured on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” She has also appeared on the TV show “Dharma & Greg” and is the subject of Paola di Florio’s documentary, “Speaking in Strings.” She has also released a number of recordings on the Angel/EMI Classics, Nonesuch and NSS Music labels. Her most recent album, “Together (with New Century Chamber Orchestra),” was released in 2009 and includes Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” Bartok’s “Romanian Dances” arranged for string orchestra and Gershwin’s “Bess You Is My Woman Now” from “Porgy and Bess” arranged for string orchestra.

In 1999, Salerno-Sonnenberg received an honorary master of musical arts degree from New Mexico State University, the first honorary degree ever awarded by the university. She is currently the music director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, a 19-member string orchestra from the San Francisco Bay area of which she is also a member.

For over 25 years McDermott has played concertos, recitals and chamber music throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. In 2011 she became the artistic director of the Vail Music Festival, which hosts the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony, in addition to presenting over 40 chamber music concerts throughout the summer. She is also Artistic Director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival (FL) and The Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao. Most recently, she was appointed Curator for Chamber Music at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego.

Her repertoire spans from Bach and Haydn to Prokofiev and Scriabin to works by today’s most influential composers, such as Clarice Assad and Charles Wuorinen. Wuorinen’s last solo piano sonata was written for her and premiered at New York’s Town Hall. As a soloist, McDermott has recorded the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Bach English Suites and Partitas, and most recently, Gershwin Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony and Justin Brown.

McDermott studied at the Manhattan School of Music. She was a winner of the Young Concert Artists auditions and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Seating for those with disabilities is available and the minimum age of attendees is 5 years old. Tickets are nonrefundable.

The Goshen College Performing Arts Series debuted on Sept. 21, 1997. Since then, the college has hosted more than 100 concerts by some of the world’s greatest performers as part of the program.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S. News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

GOSHEN, Ind. – The Duo Vinlanda, husband-and-wife performers Jorge and Jennifer Muñiz, will perform a concert of music for two pianos, titled “Across the Atlantic – A Window to Europe from the America’s on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the Sauder Box Office one hour before the concert, cost $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and students.

Jorge Muñiz, adjunct professor of composition at Goshen College, is a noted composer currently on the music faculty at Indiana University-South Bend. Jennifer Muñiz served as visiting instructor of piano at Goshen College in the spring of 2011. The program will feature works for two grand pianos by Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Osvaldo Golijov and 20^th century American composer John Corigliano.

A dynamic Spanish-American composer, Jorge Muñiz has been recognized on two continents for his highly expressive style and refined artistry. For five years, he worked on the opera “Germinal,” based on the novel by Emile Zola, commissioned by the Opera Festival of Oviedo, Spain. His works have been performed in Spain, Italy, Germany, France and the United States by groups including the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Seville Symphony Orchestra, Malaga Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Das Scardanelli Quartett and Cámara XXI.

Jorge Muñiz has garnered many international awards. In addition to the First Grand Prize of the European Young Composers Competition, he has won top prizes from many competitions and foundations and received grants and fellowships from Fulbright and Rotary International, among other institutions.

Born in Switzerland in 1974, Jorge Muñiz earned his master’s degree in composition at Carnegie Mellon University, and his doctorate in musical arts in composition from Manhattan School of Music. Before coming assistant professor of music composition and theory at Indiana University South Bend in 2006, he was a member of the Manhattan School of Music theory faculty for four years. Since 2009, he is the coordinator of music and director of graduate studies at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at Indiana University South Bend.

Pianist Jennifer Muñiz, has performed in Spain, Italy, Mexico and the United States. Jennifer Muñiz made her New York solo debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and has garnered numerous awards and honors since her concerto debut at age 11, including several public radio broadcast performances and a four-year performance grant for chamber music from the Liberace Foundation. As the pianist for the Liberace Trio, Jennifer Muñiz performed in many educational outreach presentations, including a video program for the Library of Congress. She has given solo and collaborative performances in Tuscany, Italy, culminating in a world premiere performance in the Duomo in Siena.

Jennifer Muñiz received her master’s and doctorate degrees in music from Manhattan School of Music. She has worked as a vocal coach for Manhattan School of Music and Barnard College, and maintained a private studio in New York City for seven years. She served as a piano instructor and accompanist at the University of Notre Dame for four years.

Jennifer Muñiz taught piano at the Magistralia summer course in Spain, and was featured on a compact disc of contemporary Asturian songs released in 2007. Currently, she is performing as a collaborative pianist with an emphasis in contemporary music and is a visiting assistant professor of music, accompanying and music theory at Indiana University South Bend.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S.News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Irish poet Peter Fallon will offer a poetry reading in Goshen College’s Newcomer Center Room 19 on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. A reception will follow the reading, during which books will be available for purchase and signing. The event is free and open to the public.

Fallon’s most recent collections of poetry include “The Company of Horses” (2007) and his acclaimed translation of Virgil’s “Georgics” (2004). He is also the author of “News of the World: New and Selected Poems” (1998). With Derek Mahon, he edited “The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry” (1990).

Fallon has a personal connection with Goshen College, as he has both served as the S. A. Yoder lecturer and hosted numerous groups of Goshen College students at his home in County Meath who participated in the Ireland literature and peace course taught by Emeritus Professor John Fisher.

Fallon was born in Germany in 1951 and grew up on his uncle’s farm in County Meath, Ireland. He is an Honors Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was Writer Fellow in 1994. When he was 18, he founded The Gallery Press, which has since published more than 400 books of poems and plays. The Gallery Press is recognized as Ireland’s pre-eminent literary publishing house and has published writers such as Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson and Brian Friel.

Fallon’s collections of poems include “The Speaking Stones” (1978), “Winter Work” (1983), “The News and Weather” (1987), “Eye to Eye” (1982) and “The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart” (1997). In 1993, he received the O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute.

“Delighting in the landscape and its creatures, Fallon writes with understanding and compassion about the superstitions and misfortunes that affect a small community,” wrote Poetry International. “Fallon’s poetry has a deceptive simplicity and accessibility even as it affirms the values of endurance, survival and communal life.”

Fallon has been a poet in residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and a professor of Irish studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he received an honorary doctorate. He currently lives with his family in County Meath.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S.News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Mary Catherine Levri, organist and assistant director at the University of Notre Dame Basilica of the Sacred Heart, will present a recital of organ music on Sunday, Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. in Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall. Levri will present a recital of music from the 16^th through 20^th centuries by Bruhns, Weckman, Brahms, Frescobaldi, Bach and more.

Levri graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2006 with a degree in the program of liberal studies and organ performance. She also graduated from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family with a master’s in theological studies. In 2011, she received a master’s of sacred music from Notre Dame. She played two degree recitals in March and December 2010 on the Fritts organ at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Levri is now the assistant director of the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir and an assistant organist at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus at Notre Dame. She has previously served as organist and choir director in parishes in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.

The Rieth Recital Hall organ, designed by Taylor and Boody, is based upon 18th century North German organ-building principles. It features more than 1,600 pipes, and a case of carved solid white oak. The temperament, Bach-Lehman, is a hypothetical reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach’s preferred system and was re-discovered by GC alumnus Dr. Bradley Lehman Ô86 in 2004 and published in the February and May 2005 issues of Early Music. This instrument was the first organ since the 18th century to employ this tuning in its construction. The organ was dedicated in a series of concerts and events May 1 through May 8, 2005.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S.News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

Saloma Miller Furlong, author of “Why I Left the Amish,” just published by Michigan State University Press, will give a reading and presentation titled, “Two Lives in One: Inside and Outside the Amish.” The presentation, sponsored by Goshen College’s English and History departments and the Mennonite Historical Society, will be on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in Goshen College’s Newcomer Center Room 19 and is free and open to the public.

Miller Furlong was born and raised in an Amish community in Geauga County, Ohio and is a 2007 graduate of Smith College. In her memoir, “Why I Left the Amish,” she recalls her experiences as a child growing up Amish and how, over time, she came to leave the Amish community. During her presentation, Miller Furlong will read from her memoir and engage in a question-and-answer session on her experiences. Copies of her book will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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 Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S. News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Democrat Allan Kauffman, the incumbent Goshen mayor, and Republican Don Riegsecker, a Goshen city council member, are the two candidates in the Nov. 8 general election for Goshen’s next mayor. They will both be on the Goshen College campus twice on Monday, Oct. 3 to discuss their reasons for seeking election as mayor.The candidates will speak during campus convocation at 10 a.m. in Goshen College’s Church-Chapel and again during a forum at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.

During the convocation, the candidates will specifically focus on what they hope to accomplish as mayor in the context of servant leadership, one of Goshen College’s core values and the convocation theme for this year.

In the evening, the Yoder Public Affairs Lecture Committee will sponsor a mayoral candidates forum. Each candidate will speak on his vision for the city of Goshen as mayor, followed by a question period (involving a time for questions from the audience), moderated by Vince Turner, vice president and regional manager of Mutual Bank in Goshen.

Del Good, chair of the Yoder Public Affairs Lecture Committee, said, “The Frank and Betty Jo Yoder Public Affairs Lecture series was established to give the Goshen community the opportunity to hear persons of interest and expertise on current issues of broad interest. It seemed important to help provide a forum for the community to hear from our mayoral candidates on the issues facing our local community.”

The Frank and Betty Jo Yoder Public Affairs Lecture Series is an endowed lectureship, created for Goshen College in 1978 by Frank (1917-1996) and Betty Jo Yoder of Goshen with the goal of enabling faculty, students and community to hear well known speakers address current issues. Each year, experts from a wide variety of fields and vocations visit campus. Speakers have included Frances Moore Lappe, Ralph Nader, Juan Williams and Bill McKibben.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College Acting News Bureau Coordinator Alysha Bergey Landis at (574) 535-7762 or alyshabl@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S.News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.

GOSHEN, Ind. – The ninth annual Goshen College and Ryan’s Place grief seminar, titled “Narratives of Grief: Listening for the Stories,” will be held on Friday, Sept. 30 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Goshen College Church-Chapel Fellowship Rooms. The registration deadline is Monday, Sept. 26.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Heather Servaty-Seib, associate professor of educational studies at Purdue University and a licensed psychologist. She will present “Narratives of Grief: Listening for the Stories.” Servaty-Seib has published books in the area of death and dying, particularly dealing with adolescents. She maintains a small private practice counseling children, adolescents and adults who are struggling with loss issues. She is also the first vice president for the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the leading international organization of death and dying professionals.

During her keynote address, Servaty-Seib will focus on describing the narrative approach to understanding grief, the idea of meaning-making and how storytelling helps in this process and how a person can be truly present and listen to the stories of grieving individuals.

The seminar, especially recommended for social workers, educators, counselors, therapists, nurses, clergy and other human service professionals, is co-sponsored by Goshen College and Ryan’s Place, and will offer several breakout sessions in the morning and afternoon featuring qualified local therapists and practitioners. A panel discussion about pertinent issues raised throughout the day will conclude the event.

The seminar schedule includes: “Activities, Activities, Activities” by W. Rex Gleim, “The Power of Art in the Grieving Process” by David Labrum, “Children’s Stories of Grief” by Jennifer Miller, “Intercultural Thoughts on Grief: Reflections on the Latino Immigrant Experience” by Gilberto Perez Jr., “Ethics in Grief Counseling” by Rachel Schertz, “When Teenagers Experience the Death of a Friend” by Heather Servaty-Seib and “Transforming the Story: Therapeutic Work with Grief” by Crystal Whitlow.

The objectives for the seminar are for attendees to learn how to work with families who are experiencing loss and grief for a variety of reasons, learn about resource materials, establish a network of personal connections and provide hope in time of loss.

Seminar schedule
8 a.m. – Registration
8:30-8:45 a.m. – Welcome
8:45-9:30 a.m. – Opening session
9:30-9:45 a.m. – Break
9:45-10:55 a.m. – First morning session
11 a.m.-12:20 p.m. – Second morning session
12:15-1:15 p.m. – Lunch
1:15-2:25 p.m. – First afternoon session
2:30-2:45 p.m. – Break
2:45-4 p.m. – Panel discussion
4-4:30 p.m. – Completion of evaluation and awarding of CEUs

The cost of the seminar is $60 for the general public and anyone who wishes to receive CEUs and $25 for students and seniors. The registration fee includes lunch, snacks, a resource notebook and a continuing education certificate (six CEUs are available). This year, teachers may use the agenda as documentation of Professional Growth Points for license renewal.

For further seminar information, or to register, contact the Goshen College Social Work Department at (574) 535-7400 or e-mail margemb@goshen.edu.

– By Alysha Landis

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, ” Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S. News & World Report‘s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.