Donors contribute record $2.3 million to GC Fund and $14 million total in 2023-24 fiscal year
Donors to Goshen College contributed a record-breaking $2,311,906 to the GC Fund during the 2023-24 fiscal year.
Donors to Goshen College contributed a record-breaking $2,311,906 to the GC Fund during the 2023-24 fiscal year.
As a testament to the legacy of John and Pauline Clemens Fisher, family, friends and former students dedicated a new Fisher Terrace, built in the Fishers’ honor, Saturday, Oct. 2, during Homecoming Weekend.
Giving to Goshen College continued to increase for the 2019-20 fiscal year, with an overall growth of nearly 32 percent from last year and a 9.2 percent increase in gifts to the Goshen College Fund, one of the highest years of undesignated giving in GC's 125-year history.
On Tuesday, April 26, Goshen College held its first ever Together Goshen Day, seeing more than 1,200 donors and a total $357,470 given toward students and programs at GC.
As part of their 50th class anniversary in October 2019, members of the Class of 1969 raised more than $180,000 in cash and pledges and nearly a half million dollars in deferred gift pledges from 65 class members, which will help endow the SST program.
The Goshen College Union Building opened its doors this week after an eight-month renovation project, welcoming visitors to the new Hunsberger Commons, which is home to the Hunsberger Haitian Art Collection and the relocated Juanita Lark Welcome Center, as well as an overhauled Leaf Raker Cafe.
Glen ’42, Reuben ’40 and Esther ’37 Widmer, are three of nine siblings from Wayland, Iowa, who attended a one-room school, walked four miles a day to high school and continued their education at Goshen College before entering the medical field.
Rachel Ann Zehr ’60 lived her life with a passion for education. This passion stemmed from an upbringing in which education and service were cornerstones.
In 1962, while Goshen College Director Emeritus of International Education Arlin and Naomi Hunsberger ’55 were working in Haiti with Mennonite Central Committee, they became interested in the local art.
On Nov. 1, 2017, a small gathering of family and friends honored the life and work of Carl ’36 and Evelyn ’36 Kreider, planting two Frontier Elm trees on the lawn on the west side of the Visual Arts Building (the old Memorial Library).