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Kinderforest program gets Goshen kids out of the classroom and into the woods

About once a month, 24 students from the Goshen College Laboratory Kindergarten class — a partnership between the college’s education department and Goshen Community Schools — spend the day climbing trees, building shelters and making mud pies in Witmer Woods, through Merry Lea’s Kinderforest program, the first of its kind in Goshen.

Wilma Marie Springer ’56 presented with Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who

Wilma Marie Springer '56 received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award after 45 years of teaching.

Campus Center for Young Children receives re-accreditation

The Campus Center for Young Children (CCYC) at Goshen College was recently reaccredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals.