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Aug 17 2023
GC In The News
Zion Neat – Faith that Shines
Goshen names Phillips as Director of Volleyball
Jeff Phillips will serve as the Director of Volleyball at Goshen College, and serve as the head coach of the men's and women's volleyball teams. Wyatt Bollinger '23 will be the Associate Head Coach for the men's program and Assistant Coach for the women's program.
Bemisderfer chosen as next Director of Tennis
Director of Athletics Dr. Erica Albertin announced Jon Bemisderfer as the next Director of Tennis at Goshen College. Bemisderfer has over 35 years of tennis coaching experience and was most recently at Indiana Wesleyan.
Olivia Krall ’23 named archives coordinator for MC USA Archives
Mennonite Church USA Executive Board staff has named Olivia Krall '23 as archives coordinator for the MC USA Archives in Elkhart. Krall holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Goshen College, with minors in political studies and sociology.
Mennonite Church USA to unveil sculpture by Emma Zuercher ’23
Mennonite Church USA arranged for a sculpture designed and built by Emma Zuercher, a 2023 graduate of Goshen College from Apple Creek, Ohio, under the mentorship of John Mishler, sculptor and Goshen College associate professor of art.
Goshen College professor and AMBS alum among panelists at Youth & Young Adult Climate Summit
Goshen College named a top college by metrics from Best-In-Class Colleges
Keith Schrag’s ’60 ministry credentials restored; conference apologizes for exclusion
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.
Brad Stoltzfus ’18 selected as next Maple Leafs head baseball coach
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.
Six Anabaptist-Mennonite higher education schools collaborate to develop new curriculum on Anabaptism
Nancy Kauffmann ’73 named MC USA interim denominational minister of Church Safety
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.
Goshen College student finds meaning in scrap metals
Goshen College students help Mennonite Disaster Service get started in Red Lake
Owen Gingerich ’51, astronomer who saw God in the cosmos, dies at 93
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.
GC featured in recent episode of PBS Show, John McGivern’s Main Streets
Goshen College was recently featured in an episode of John McGivern's Main Streets on PBS.
Bryan Nateren honored with Senior Leadership Award
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.
Q&A with Jonathan Shenk ’88
Jonathan Shenk '88, a current student at the International Institute for Restorative Practices, was interviewed about his experience.
Q&A with Marvin Blickenstaff, retired professor of music (1978-1999)
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 named interim Goshen mayor
Gina Leichty '95 was recently selected as the interim mayor of Goshen.
Verlin Miller ’68 – Crafting Entrances to Sacred Places
Verlin Miller ‘68 is a custom craftsman whose work makes a grand impression all over the University of Notre Dame campus.
Professor John Buschert retires after 33 years at Goshen College
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...
Goshen College Athletics adds men’s and women’s bowling as newest teams, announces Scott Curtis as head coach
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.
Keith Mast ’82 sponsors Ukrainian refugee family – The Transylvania Times
“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.
Malinda Berry ’96: Technicolor truth-telling – Living in the overlap of womanist theology and Anabaptism
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.
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