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Jul 24 2023
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Central District Conference of Mennonite Church USA has reinstated the ministerial credential of Keith Schrag 36 years after he relinquished it in 1987 during a ministerial meeting in which he was questioned for being a gay man.

Interim head baseball coach Brad Stoltzfus will no longer have the interim tag in front of his title. Goshen College Director of Athletics Dr. Erica Albertin announced the GC grad will be the next head baseball coach for the Maple Leafs, effective on August 1.

Mennonite Church USA has named Nancy Kauffmann, former board president of Dove’s Nest and longtime Mennonite church leader, as the interim denominational minister of Church Safety for MC USA’s Church Vitality office.

Owen Gingerich ’51 died on May 28. He received the Goshen College Culture for Service Alumni Award in 1991. Owen was a professor of astronomy and history of science emeritus at Harvard University, and also a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Goshen College was recently featured in an episode of John McGivern's Main Streets on PBS.

Bryan Nataren Barahona, a physics major and math minor from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was among the recipients of the new President’s Graduating Leader Award.

Jonathan Shenk '88, a current student at the International Institute for Restorative Practices, was interviewed about his experience.

PianoInspires.com did a Q&A with Marvin Blickenstaff, a retired professor of music who taught from 1978-1999 at Goshen College. PianoInspires.com is the digital home for the Frances Clark Center community. In 2023, the Frances Clark Center established the Marvin Blickenstaff Institute for Teaching Excellence in honor of his legacy as a pedagogue.

Gina Leichty '95 was recently selected as the interim mayor of Goshen.

Verlin Miller ‘68 is a custom craftsman whose work makes a grand impression all over the University of Notre Dame campus.

Together with students, he designing and built networked, electronic musical instruments. His Electronics and Astronomy classes will be remembered by students across campus. [Prof. John Buschert on the ‘Obloe’ (left) and Sophomore John Miller on the ‘Marimbar’ at the Guthman...

The Goshen College Athletic Department is excited to announce the addition of men's and women's bowling as the 15th and 16th teams, becoming the eighth Crossroads League school to add the sport. The teams will get underway during the 2024-25 academic year.

“It started on Feb. 24 last year,” said 38-year-old Yuri Polienok. He and his wife, Anastasia, also 38 – who at the time was pregnant with their daughter, Nicole – along with her 13-year-old son, Kirill, lived in Mariupol, Ukraine.

I feel honored to be in a unique place to speak to the overlap between womanist theology and Anabaptism. In my experience, 99.9% of Anabaptist-Mennonites are unaware of womanist theology beyond the basic idea that it focuses on Black women’s experience. And there is so much more to womanism than that.

Nelson Kemboi was named an All-American for his school record performance in the men's 3000-meter finals on Saturday at the final day of the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships.

Krysten Parson '02 coached the Bethany Christian Varsity Girl's Basketball team to a semi-state victory. The victory was even more special thanks to the support from her adopted nephews.

February 7, 2023 was the official release date for Dr. Howard Zehr’s newest book Restorative Justice: Insights and Stories from My Journey. Published by Walnut Street Books, the book contains what the title suggests – stories and insights (and photographs!) from Howard’s years spent teaching, practicing, critiquing, synthesizing, mentoring, and leading.

Sonja Bontrager '87, assistant professor of Spanish and co-director of Hispanic Initiatives at Newman University, was awarded the "Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Award" by the university.

Jeff Phillips has been named as the 12th head women's volleyball coach at Goshen College, as announced by Director of Athletics Dr. Erica Albertin today. He most recently served as the head girl's volleyball coach at Wawasee High School in Syracuse, Indiana.
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