Ura and Gladys Gingerich Scholarship Fund
Ura and Gladys Gingerich, Akron, Pennsylvania, founded the Badorf Shoe Company, which makes children’s shoes, in 1967. Now they oversee a firm that employs nearly 90 people.
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C. J. Gerber Scholarship Fund
To say that C. J. Gerber led an “active life” would only give a small sense of the energy, enthusiasm and enjoyment with which he lived his 96 years. Born in the Canadian northwest, C. J. homesteaded at the age of 17, spending the summers “riding the range” and attending school in Edmonton during the colder months of the year.
Nelson Ray Geigley Scholarship for Communication Majors
“Enthusiastic involvement” characterizes Nelson Ray Geigley’s life as a Goshen College communication student and staff member, 1979—84. He exhibited an intense desire to learn and participate in a variety of communication activities, which gained him the respect and love of both his professors and peers.
Ralph and Luella Foulk Scholarship Fund
A southwestern Ohio couple, who combined diverse careers in railroad property protection and hospital and private duty nursing, provided for a scholarship fund at Goshen College before their deaths in 1985.
Ned. L. and Agda S. Farber Scholarship Fund
Ned L. Farber and Agda S. (Mitchell) Farber both grew up in the Goshen area. Agda attended Goshen schools. Ned attended Harrison Township, Wakarusa, and Goshen schools.
Paula N. Culp Scholarship for Music Majors with Special Interest in Percussion
F. Jane Culp is a longtime friend and supporter of Goshen College. This scholarship has been established in honor of her daughter, Paula Culp.
Emery and Mattie Cender Scholarship
Now, with their scholarship fund, the Cenders are reaching even farther out, to touch the lives of young people they’ve never met. In a letter their children wrote to them to celebrate their 50th anniversary, the Cenders are perhaps described best. “With patience and love,” the letter reads, “you have taught us to worship and work.”
Joe and Nellie Buzzard Scholarship Fund
What was it the poet said about the ‘best laid plans”? The gist of it was that such plans inevitably go awry——that life is a series of adjustments to new circumstances. A look at the lives of Joe and Nellie Buzzard proves the truth of that notion.
Robert C. Buschert Scholarship Fund
Robert Buschert, professor of physics, is one of the distinguished teachers and researchers at Goshen College. He pioneered the idea of having undergraduate science students do significant research as part of their course of study and set up the Turner Laboratory to do that experimentation.
J. Lawrence and Harriet Burkholder Endowment For President’s Leadership Award
When the subject of this gift for scholarships comes up, Howard and Myra Brembeck don’t want to talk about themselves. ‘Just make our part about a paragraph,’ Howard said. Instead, they want people to know about their friends in whose name the gift was made: J. Lawrence and Harriet Burkholder.