Questionnaire Responses 

50th Reunion 

Class of 1968

Jan (Kauffman) Andrews Spouse for 40 years: J. Carl Andrews; died in 2011 from almost 3 active years dealing with cancer. We married in 1970 while I was teaching, introduced by a co-teacher's husband. Carl was a "native" of South Bend, so I've been here ever since, and in the same house! Children: Jonathan Carl, 43 yrs., married with 3 children, 18, 10, 8. in Plain City, OH, but returning to live in Lexington, KY.

Joy Alicia, 40 yrs., married with 2 children, 9, 8. Living in San Diego, CA. I got to go with them to Grenada, East Indies this summer to visit my son-in-law's homeland. Also with his mom, who lives in LA.

"My significant other" is John Wierzbicki, also from South Bend, who worked as a carpenter in the

school system. We had seen each other but were too busy to connect. He's younger still working, with younger grandchildren living in South Bend. So I'm as busy as when teaching but mostly when I want to be!. My first Home Economics teaching job was in South Bend for 7 years, when I had our son, then our daughter, which ended up being 14 years of being a room mother, baking and decorating cakes. It was a rude awakening to get back into the middle schools, but I retired with a total of 28 years! We have been active in Kern Road Mennonite Church, SB, for 40 years, after attending Prairie Street in Elkhart for almost 8 years. Carl was raised Catholic, but I enjoyed their worship services and relationships there. Edye & Arnold Casas introduced us to Kern, which is closer for which we have been grateful! Lots of memories from the dorm, snack shop, cafeteria, and the last summer living in Goshen doing the Kauffman shuffle, in the middle of the streets, and building with the bricks, stacked for the "new" library!

Walter Bachman 1. Family....Lynette (Class of 71) 47 years of marriage. Children are Brett and Heather. And 3 grandkids Jonah, Claire, and Avelea. And two grand dogs. Toy poodle and English Staffordshire Bull terrier. 2. I have enjoyed 6 different jobs including Everence counselor, purchasing manager farm chemicals, development at AMBS Seminary, financial counselor. 3. We have been members at Eighth Street Mennonite Church for 47 years. Served on various commissions and driven church bus. Have been to Mississippi on 6 occasions for week long service project. 4. Enjoying reading history and mystery novels and a well told story. 5. Jamaica SST, WGCS radio announcer, bonfires, singing in Choirs each year, roommates and dorm experiences are cherished. The time I shut down WGCS because I hit the switch the wrong direction. The annual trips to different churches on tour for the Choir.

Terry (Brown) Beachy Greetings from Terry (Brown) Beachy. I’m unable to attend our reunion this year because of other travels, but I send wishes for good times catching up. Roger and I have two children, K.C. in Evergreen, Colorado with our three grandchildren, and Kyle in Chicago with wife Kristin. I retired from my profession as a Speech Pathologist several years ago, and began joining Roger more often on his journeys. Our fiftieth wedding anniversary last year was celebrated with a trip around the world. Travel is definitely our biggest pastime, with my English shade garden (pictures below) waiting for attention each time we return to St. Louis. When not in St. Louis, we spend time skiing and enjoying the cooler summers of Colorado. A favorite time of year is the annual ski trip Goshen College friends make to our Colorado home.

Terry (Brown) Beachy continued...

Joy (Hershey) Blair Spouse: Norman Blair MD. I met Norman at an Inter-varsity meeting in Indianapolis. He is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist. Children and Grandchildren: We have three children, Michael, Marla, and Ruthie. And three grandchildren, Mateo, Isabela, and Sabrina. Mateo is a freshman at University of Washington St. Louis. Occupation: I taught school in the inner city of Indianapolis the first year of forced integration of teachers 1968. So I had an all black 4th grade class. I loved. It. After marrying Norman, I went to Vietnam with him through MCC. I taught children of Wycliffe Translators in Nha Trang, Vietnam for three years. On returning I was privileged to stay at home to raise our children. I went back to college and got a Masters in Occupational Therapy. I worked at Cook County Hospital (John Stroger Hospital now) in Chicago for 17 years doing occupational therapy with children birth- three years old. I then did Early Intervention with children in their homes for 7 years. I also took care of our grandchildren while both parents finished med school and specialty training. After retiring: I volunteered with Heartland teaching refugee children for three years. I now am getting my dog certified for pet therapy and will be doing pet therapy in schools and hospitals nearby. My favorite past time is photography, taking and editing photos. I especially love photographing wildlife. I also love hiking and crafts. My biggest memory at Goshen College was coming on campus as a transfer student from Hesston . My twin had been a Goshen for a year already. Whenever someone stopped to say "HI" and talk I had to quickly determine if they thought I was Jean or if I really should know this person from somewhere. Should I just play along or tell them? Here are two photos of then and now. Me with our first child born in Vietnam in 1973 and Norman and I hiking in 2017. I usually took the photos so can't find many of me. And I can't post photos with Cook County patients or the refugees on the web.

Joan (Smith) Carter Husband: Philip (Phil) Children: Richard (Rick) and Ellen Grandsons: Shan and Devan Occupation: Community college instructor. Taught Biology, Microbiology and Anatomy/Physiology Retired in 2006 We have lived in Raleigh North Carolina since 1982. I love the South. Before that we lived in Urbana Illinois for 1 1/2 years. And before that we lived in Saranac Lake New York (near Lake Placid where the olympics were) for 10 years. We met and were married at Notre Dame, where we lived for 2 years before moving to Saranac Lake. We will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary in August 2019. Favorite pastime: We spend a lot of time traveling. My son and family lived in Dresden Germany for four years, so I visited them a few times. The UK is also a favorite spot to visit. We went on our first cruise last year, which included Italy and Greece. Also last year, we drove to Columbia South Carolina and saw the total eclipse of the sun. That was really awe inspiring. In January we are going to Antarctica. That was on my husband’s bucket list. GC memories: Going to Pigeon Key for the Marine Biology Course. We had so much fun (and learned a lot). I caught a baby octopus with my bare hands. That was pretty cool. It was fun sitting out on the screen porch every night after supper, talking, laughing, and telling everyone what we caught that day. I loved hearing the GC song a cappella in perfect 4-part harmony at basketball games. The other team was always amazed. And of course I remember “Menno-Pause”.

Children and Grandchildren from left to right:

Daughter’s boyfriend, Daughter, Grandson, Son, Daughter-in-law, Grandson

Mary Ann (Aschliman) Eastty 1. My husband of 43 years is Gary. We have 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren. A year ago we moved from Washington to Colorado. WA is a beautiful state, esp. the Pacific Northwest. We miss it, but are grateful to be in another beautiful state, closer to our kids and grandkids. 2. I taught public school for 7 years after graduating from Goshen, I homeschooled our children for 16 years, we were missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 25 years and with Wiconi International for 14 years, working with Native Americans with both of these organizations. 4. I enjoy hiking, camping, reading, sewing, quilting. I'm including a picture of the last quilt I made. In the pic, I don't have the binding on yet, but you can see the finished top. 5. I remember that the new library was put into use during our senior year. However, I was not able to participate in the historic event of students forming a human conveyor system that moved the books from the old library to the new one as I was doing my student teaching that semester.

Jean (Hershey) Fitch Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren First spouse, Charles Benjamin deceased Second spouse divorced Two children, Anna Lee Hershey, adopted in Vietnam and John Charles Benjamin, finished law school and now finishing computer science. Occupation and examples of work accomplishment Nurse practitioner - family and child Taught nursing in Vietnam - 1971 - 1975 Then most of my years spent as advanced nurse in College Health. Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation MCC - Helped in homeless feeding program. Rainbow Mennonite Church Favorite pastime/hobbies Pets - Dog, cat and fish Photography Hiking Travel Share a memory from your Goshen College experience When my twin sister came from Hesston to Goshen one year later there was much confusion. Some thought I was stuck up because I didn’t show recognition. (It was Joy).

John L. Frankenfield

1. Spouse, Jane Gross Frankenfield, class of ’70, married 51 years; 2 children – Meghan F. Schrag and Sarah F. Price, GC graduates. 3 grandchildren – Greta Schrag (16), Libbie Derstine (15), Eden Schrag (12)

2. Began my work life at GC for a 5 year development stint in Alumni and Community Relations (’68-’73). Our daughters were born in late ’73 prompting us to move back home to eastern PA. After a year in real estate, I began a 12 year experience as Business Manager and Development Director at Penn View Christian School (’74 –’86). While at Penn View I also managed a small Mennonite property / casualty insurance company, Franconia Mennonite Aid Plan. The company purchased and developed a 12 acres campus for church related entities in 1984. In 1986, I began my insurance career full time managing Franconia Mennonite Aid Plan and a new agency which served Mennonite Mutual Aid (now Everence) and a number of related companies. I purchased the agency in 1994 and established Franconia Insurance & Financial Services (FIFS). FIFS, an independent insurance agency, grew to become the largest agency for Goodville Mutual Casualty Company and has continued to be a local leader in property casualty, life and health and financial services. I continue as a director of Goodville Mutual. In 2013 I sold my interest in the agency to 3 three partner associates and continued to work until December 2016 when I retired.

3. We are members of Blooming Glen Mennonite Church where I had served in a number of leadership and committee roles. I continue to be involved in the music program as a choir member. For the past 14 years I have been a board member of Peter Becker Community, a Church of the Brethren Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC). Currently I am board chair for Peter Becker. Since 2005 I have served as chair of MHEP Properties, a property management entity created by the Mennonite Historians of Eastern PA. MHEP owns and is located on the campus created in 1984. Since 2003 I have served on the Lower Salford Township Zoning Hearing Board and current am board chair.

4. We enjoy travel which began mostly with the GC Educational Tours sponsored by the college directed by Janette Yoder spouse of classmate Doug Yoder. We were on 5 GC trips – Greece and the Cyclades; Turkey; England, Scotland and Wales; Eastern Europe; and Spain, Portugal. In addition to GC travel we have been on 3 Italy tours as well as to Croatia. Since GC has discontinued Educational tours, we have taken couple of Viking River cruises to sailing on the Seine and Rhone in France and central Europe on the Danube. Gardening has continued to be my favorite past time. Growing up with a vegetable garden transformed into a focus on roses, perennials and annuals as well as vegetables each season.

5. Any memory of Goshen College becomes a collage of college life during my 4 years plus the years following on staff. How could I forget Sam Steiner of Menno-Pause fame my freshman roommate, 7am choir rehearsal with touring choir, touring choir trip during Palm Sunday tornado, Kenwood House – Jr year, WGCS, 91.1 FM, Fine Arts with Mary Oyer and hours in the listening room, Frank Bishop and Jonathan Roth passion for bio.

Joan Gerig Family: Husband: Orlando Redekopp. Daughter: Tasara Gerig Redekopp Occupations: Teacher Anti-apartheid organizer School librarian Volunteer work: Organize donated books at thrift shop Community gardening Pastimes: Reading Exercising Political work GC memory:

March to Goshen courthouse following Dr. King’s assassination. (I’m still marching—now in Chicago)

Louise (Burkholder) Gingerich

I married John Gingerich (GC class of 67) and spent 2 years teaching Home Ec in Albion, Michigan while John was in 1-W. After moving to Oregon I taught one more year while John got his Masters Degree in Math education. We have four children and six grandchildren. Jeremy (GC class of 93) is an accountant, married to Jennifer, a teacher’s technology trainer; their son Harrison, a GC sophomore and daughter Emma, a high school senior. Second son Ben has a construction business, his wife Katrina, a pediatric oncology nurse; Megan is a fourth grader and Connor a second grader. Daughter Jennifer (GC class of 2002) is a hospice chaplain and her husband Paul Boers (GC class of 2009) works for a sustainable forest products company. Our youngest son Andrew (GC class of 2006) is a nurse in an extended care facility, his wife Mary Leichty (GC class of 2006) an orthopedic nurse; Eli is in kindergarten and Olive is two and a half. While John taught junior high math we also had a nursery business propagating rhododendrons and other woody plants. It provided work and college money for the kids! We have been active in John’s home church, Zion Mennonite, Hubbard, OR. I especially enjoy being involved with the MCC projects the women’s group makes. Quilting, reading, knitting, crocheting and jigsaw puzzles are my favorite pastimes. One memory I have is being paged for a telephone call (the phone being at the end of the hall) or to come to the desk downstairs which the whole residence hall floor could hear. Times have certainly changed!

Bev (Short) Goetzke BC Canada I'm currently in St. John's Newfoundland on a cross continent motorbike trip with Reimar (one bike). I don't plan to return east for our 50th reunion in October. In 2015 we rode across the states to Harrisburg, PA for Mennonite World Conference. Went to the US Atlantic Coast then. Here are my answers: 1. Spouse: Reimar Goetzke (my last name is Short). 2 children and 2 grandchildren. 2. Retired teacher after 40 years. 3. Ten Thousand Villages/Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmother to Grandmother(African women raising their grandchildren due to HIV-AIDS deaths of children) member/Langley Mennonite Fellowship. 4. Snow skiing, paddling in a 10 person canoe, motorcycling with Reimar. We've done 2 cross continent trips. 5. My first substitute teaching experience was when I did my student teaching at Goshen. My supervising teacher, who was pregnant, had to go home because she felt sick. I capably handled the class for the afternoon as a volunteer. (I spent years as a substitute in BC, but was paid for my efforts.) Thanks for the chance to remember. Sorry I can't be there.

Mary K Grieser Family: In 1976 I married Chuck Prather and also became a stepmother to two great children. Our daughter and her husband live in the Central Coast Area of California; our son and his wife live in the Denver metro area. We have two grandsons, both in their early 20s. Chuck has been a fly-fishing guide in Colorado for the past 18 years. We enjoy living in Colorado. Occupation and examples of work accomplishments: After teaching high school Spanish for two years after graduation, I moved to Colorado. I worked in the business arena until retiring in 2016 as the Controller of a geophysical exploration company. Share a memory from your Goshen College experience: Spending a semester during my junior year in Colombia (pre-SST); running to/from the gym in a coat covering shorts (since shorts were not approved campus wear); attending compulsory chapel services; dining room angst; navigating the Passion Pit on our way back to Kulp Hall; the move to the new library; making lifelong friends.

Alice (Albrecht) Hill After Goshen I spent a year in VS in Cleveland, working in Mt Sinai Hosp. chemistry lab. From there a VS friend, Linda Rush, and I moved to Oregon in 1970. I spent my first summer at Drift Creek Camp, a magical place in the Siuslaw National Forest. In the fall we moved to Portland. I spent my working career with Legacy Labs at Emanuel Hospital. My husband John and I both went through Med Tech training at Emanuel. John is a graduate of George Fox and later earned an MBA at the University of Portland. Between the two of us we have worked over 80 years for Legacy Labs. We are now both retired. We have one son, Andrew, born in 1982. He recently completed his degree in Renewable Energy Engineering. Last summer he married his long time girlfriend, Danielle. I enjoy having her as part of our family. My hobbies are quilting, more quilting, gardening, and spending time at the beach. Beside family and friends, most of my quilts have gone to the MCC Fall Festival in Oregon. Over the years I probably have donated over 50 quilts to MCC. Most of them were wall hangings. My mantra over the years has been, "I work to support my quilting habit."

Sharon (Kirkton) Hughes Married to Charles Robert Hughes 49 years ago. We have children Ashley Neal and Lief (Alex). Ashley has 3 sons Trever, freshman at Eureka College, Sam, freshman in HS and Drew in the 7th grade. Alex has 2 children, Brock in the 7th grade and Sydney in the 2nd grade (and our heroic leukemia survivor). I taught kindergarten from 1968-1970. In 1970 I began teaching home economics until 1983 when I started teaching 1/2 time kindergarten and 1/2 home economics. In 1996 my school began offering all day kindergarten and I moved to teaching full time kindergarten. I retired from teaching in 2002 after 35 years. When we moved to Minnesota I worked part time in a flower shop for 11 years. When Bob retired I also decided to retire again. We currently worship at a Lutheran church. I volunteer with a women's knitting group there. Besides being available to help with the grandkids we love to be their biggest fans at whatever they are doing at the moment. Reading is also something I love to do and, of course, knitting (might even try other crafts from time to time).

David Kauffman Some memories from Goshen College. I was in the class of '68, but attended GC only in '64' fall term & '65 spring term. Then I did 3 years at Purdue, graduating in '68. 1. See if you can dig up that picture from the GC Record of the sidewalk lined with briefcases, on a nice day when we didn't expect rain or snow, we left our briefcases, full of books, sitting beside a sidewalk, and took to class only the book we needed for that class. At Purdue, nobody left their books unattended. Stealing textbooks & selling them back to the bookstores was a common way of picking up extra spending money at Purdue. 2. At Purdue, I'm sure we partied & drank a lot more than the students did at GC. Even in the dorms. And especially in the fraternities. Some of the frats had professional hookers at their parties. And some of the non-professionals that were invited to the parties were only a notch above the professionals on the skanky scale. I wasn't in a fraternity, so this is all hearsay. 3. At GC, almost all of my professors knew me by name, even the ones with large lecture classes. At Purdue, absolutely none did; not even the ones with small classes of 25-30 students. Most of the instruction was done by grad students, so we often didn't ever meet the professor they taught for. One of the grad instructors never showed up for Saturday classes because of his Friday night partying habits. One time he missed 2 weeks because he was in jail in Illinois. He single-handedly stopped an Illinois touchdown by tackling the runner. The touchdown was counted of course. When I volunteered for the Navy in 1968 (I was not a Mennonite), I needed a letter of recommendation from 1 college professor. I didn't know even one at Purdue who knew me, so I turned to a GC professor, J. Dan Hess, for a letter. He wrote one for me, but the navy and army didn't want me because of my eyes. That's probably one reason I'm alive today. 4. My best friend at GC was Tom Harley. He was one of the 4 students that were expelled from GC in '66 or '67 for publishing 2 issues of the Menno-Pause. Chances are good that I would have been in that circle and would have suffered a similar consequence had I been at GC that year. I lost touch with him after that, but I re-connected with him in '14 when we had our 50-year high school class reunion. He bounced back I think and had a good life. One of the 4 committed suicide though, but it may not have been connected to his expulsion, He was semi-out-of-the-closet gay in an era when that was not an acceptable lifestyle. He should have just hung tough for a decade or two and life would have improved for him. But he didn't. Sam Steiner landed well. Last I heard from him he was a professor at the University of Kitchener in Ontario. 5. My second-best friend there was Tom Harmon. I attended his wedding to an Amish girl and re-connected with him in the 70's when he was a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. His wife was deceased by then. I don't remember if he met her at GC or not. 6. One of the boys in my class at GC in '65 had longish hair, which was rare at GC, but not totally unheard of in those pre-hippie days. It was combed back in a stylish fashion. One day I saw him walking across campus with his parents. They were Amish; his hair was down in dutch-boy fashion, and he was wearing full Amish clothes, including the hat. 7. One of the biggest scandals at GC when I was there was when a physical education professor walked across campus in shorts. OMG!! I think her name was Vickie Goodenough, but I'm not sure. I don't remember seeing her that day, but it sure was talked about for days after.

David Kauffman continued... 8. The second biggest scandal was when an off-campus GC "hootenanny" turned into a full-fledged dance, when dancing was not permitted. I don't know what the consequences were. In retrospect I wish I had stayed at GC and graduated there. I think my life would have turned out better. I enjoyed a successful I/T career at General Motors & Electronic Data Systems, retiring in 2007. However, my family life left something to be desired, and probably was a consequence of my lifestyle at Purdue. The Christian lifestyle that was preached and taught by example at GC would hopefully have influenced me in a better direction than the hedonistic and materialistic lifestyle taught at Purdue. But then again, if I had been expelled in '66 or '67, maybe I would have landed at Purdue anyway. Nobody knows. I do a lot of volunteer work with my church and we manufacture hand-cranked vehicles, which we ship to developing countries to give mobility to leg-handicapped people.The websites are: http://www.petinternational.org (international organization) http://www.petmieastmi.org (local chapter in East Michigan) Well, I'm done reminiscing about my GC days. I might make it to the reunion, but I don't know yet. Hope that you have a good one. Good luck. Keep up the good work there. To God be the Glory....

Richard (Dick) Kauffman Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren Wife: Suzanne Beechy (“68) Two children: Chris (“92), Jeremy (“97) Three grandchildren: Madeline (GC sophomore), Seth, Sophia Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Editor AMBS VP and theology instructor Pastor Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation College Mennonite Church Board Currently interim pastor at Lombard (IL) Mennonite Church Favorite pastime/hobbies Reading, biking Share a memory from Goshen College experience Playing God in the play, J.B., by Archibald Macleish

Dottie (Dorotha Shank) Kauffmann 1. Family: married Duane Kauffmann who taught at Goshen College for 40 plus years in Psychology plus during some of that time also taught Marine Biology. One son whose married with 2 school-age sons who live north of Goshen. Both son & daughter-in-law are GC grads. 2. Occupation: Registered Nurse -most of my career was at Goshen Hospital. Started & led their Cardiac Rehab program for 32 years, retiring 7 years ago. 3. Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation: Live at Greencroft Goshen where I volunteer by delivering campus mail to 4 courts twice a week; on committee to plan tours for Greencroft & help lead day or several days trips; take BPs several days & places on campus; variety of other volunteer activities on campus. Member at College Mennonite Church where I volunteer by taking pictures each Sunday plus at other church activities. 4: Favorite hobbies/pastime: photography, knitting, walking, helping others

Titus King 407 Pringle Drive Goshen, Indiana Mobile 517-416-4487 titusking1@gmail.com CULTURE FOR SERVICE dovetails nicely with my family upbringing. After graduating GC that principle guided my work world for almost forty years as a public school teacher, most often in grades 5-9. For the past eleven years of retirement, voluntary service locally and internationally have given me satisfaction and motivation. Currently one day a week at Camp Friedenswald, a member of the Mennonite Church Camping Association, is spent contributing mainly in the Facilities area. The camp is located in Michigan a thirty minute drive north of my Goshen west side residence. Month long or longer blocks of volunteering more recently were again in Tucson, in the Mennonite Mission Network SOOP program working with three nonprofits - Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona, Native Seeds/SEARCH, and Watershed Management Group; and in Saipan, The (USA) Commonwealth of the North Mariana Islands typhoon disaster relief with FEMA and Mennonite Disaster Service. Multiple week volunteer stints began several years in the 1990s teaching English in the summer language institutes at Lithuania Christian College (now LCI International University) in Klaipeda, Lithuania, on the Baltic Sea. Subsequent terms were at LCCIU completing the first dormitory building project, numerous times with MDS in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, and in month long stints in Jamestown, Colorado, Pateros, Washington, and Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. [In Colorado I reconnected with classmate Doug Swartzendruber and with Bob and Donna Richer Oswald who I had not seen since college days.] Previously our farthest volunteering was at the Haggai Institute on the Hawaiian island of Maui as hotel blue collar workers in support roles for persons learning advanced leadership training skills over twenty-five days; identified Christians, 75% in business and government jobs, 25% in religious leadership, from The Global South who are now are better equipped to be leaders. My Silverwood Mennonite Church, the local Lacasa affordable housing not for profit, the Goshen Interfaith Hospitality Network , the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale and Auction, and the local Mennonite Central Committee The Depot Thrift Shops provide opportunities for intermittent sharing of my volunteer time. After graduating Bethany Christian High School, Goshen, I enrolled at Eastern Mennonite College for 1964-65, then transferred to Goshen College. GC study was interrupted January 1967-August 1969 to serve twenty-four contiguous months of alternate service as a conscientious objector to military service at New York Medical Center. I worked in the Pediatrics Department in Bellevue Hospital headed by Saul Krugman who had developed the Rubella vaccine, and matriculated at night through tuition remission at New York University in Greenwich Village. Returning to Goshen, I finished my degree requirements, including a tenor voice recital and testing out of a (German) language requirement, and student teaching my last semester. At Middlebury, Indiana, schools I taught music for one year, then taught music at St. Clair Shores, Michigan, (a Detroit suburb) for two years. Ann Arbor (Saline Area Schools) was my work world until 2007, music mostly, grades ranging from 2-12 - general music, choir, orchestra, band, and guitar, with sometimes assignments in world geography, history of the U.S., algebra, and literature. When a middle school team teacher I developed electives relating to my long time birding interest. (In addition to birdwatching, and using optics to learn about birds and bird behavior, I had joined the North American

Titus King continued... Bluebird Society in the 1970s and had begun erecting bird houses since farmers had begun to use steel posts. That resulted in a 40 box bluebird trail that required a weekly monitoring inspection.) And in night flying bats. And in native bees. Activities in those elective classes included construction and assembly of bird boxes, bat houses, and bee condos. Now I have the satisfaction of those three construction/assembly activities at Camp Friedenswald, with youth camps, with family camps, and with retreat camps. And with my grandchildren who live in Rockford, Illinois, Chelsea, Michigan, and West Lafayette, Indiana. (We have children in Asheville, North Carolina and Mishawaka, Indiana also.) Yes, there is a bat house on my Goshen house, Eastern Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, and House Wrens nest in boxes there, and Mason Bees occupy bee condo blocks of wood as well. My wife of sixteen years, Joy (Kropf) Kauffman King, and I are discerning life choices going forward as we recognize our energy levels take more of an effort to maintain. Local commitments, amount of travel, volunteering for multiple weeks away from home, garden or not garden next season, and aging in place versus downsizing into association living or a planned retirement community are the major topics of our conversations. We are grateful for relatively excellent health, and, as my mother was oft to pray a word of thanks, right use of our minds. When one of our five children graduated GC I remembered the words I heard months earlier as he and others gathered for a send off outside the Union Building, “. . . as you board these buses and spend a term off campus in places across the globe, it will surely be for you a forming and transforming experience.” Study Service Term was forming and transforming for him; his time in Cotê d'Ivoire led to a French minor degree and a subsequent decision to morph a history major into a medical school degree and practice; we graduated just as SST was getting set to fly. I’m a bit envious not having had the experience. I might be fluent in Spanish, the parent language of about a third of the county in which I reside currently.

Gretchen (Neuenschwander) Kingsley For a bit of information, after transferring from Bluffton College, I was at Goshen College for my junior year of '65-'66, then out a year and returned as a married student to finish my art major in the 1967-68 school year. I came as Gretchen Neuenschwander in 1967, and graduated as Gretchen Kingsley. So I was not a four year student with either the 1967 or 1968 graduating class. 1. Spouse; Keith Kingsley

Children: Nathan, Aaron, Sarah, all married and living in Goshen, Indiana. Grandchildren: five

2. Church and art related work, then missionary under Mennonite Mission Network, 1997-2011 in northern Argentina, among the Toba Qom indigenous churches. 3. Active member of Fellowship of Hope Church in Elkhart, Indiana. 4. Painting banners/wall hangings and doing artwork for church, drawing, painting. 5. My classes under J.R. Burkholder and Stanley Shenk heightened my interest in the Bible at the same time I was learning from Ezra and Abner Hershberger in the art department. Then a children's literature under Mary Royer sparked my interest in book making. All this came together when I felt inspired to illustrate Bible story books for the indigenous children we worked with in Argentina.

Henry (Hank) Landis Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren Spouse: Jane Children: Andrea and Katrina (GC alumnus) Grandchildren: (Andrea) 3 Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Hank - Founder of Delaware Valley Family business Center Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation Happy members of Salford Mennonite Church MCC VS Appalachian Program, Whitesburg, KY

Jerry Lapp Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren 2016 remarried to Alma Boyle from Northern Iceland Two children Three grandchildren Two step sons Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Artist/potter Carpenter Bread and breakfast proprietor of Red Bridge Retreat B & B in Goshen. Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation Goshen: Mayor’s Arts council Maple City Market LaCasa - Help-A-House Mennonite Favorite pastime/hobbies Art / aesthetics Music Travel

Darlene Larrison <larrison.darlene@gmail.com> I have been married to Ted Larrison for 54 years. We have 3 children and 8 grandchildren. I am now retired from teaching (elementary children). I have taught K, 1, and 2 plus worked with preschoolers. My most rewarding teaching experience was teaching Reading using the Reading Recovery methods the last 7 years of my teaching. I am enjoying retirement and currently am a volunteer for our local food cooperative. I enjoy worshipping at Paoli Mennonite Fellowship and in the past have taught Children’s Education classes, helped with Bible School, and other miscellaneous tasks. I enjoy singing in a community choir at Christmas time and also in special musical numbers during our worship service. I am also enjoying crocheting a couple of afghans for 2 of my granddaughters for Christmas. My favorite of all pastimes is reading mystery novels and many more books about relationships. A Goshen College Memory: rushing to an 8 o’clock class as the clock is chiming. But most importantly was when we helped move books from the old library to the new one. A momentous occasion.

Ted Larrison <ted.larrison@gmail.com> Darlene and I have 3 children, 8 grandchildren and a great grandson. The two oldest were born in Jamaica when we served with Friends United Meeting Wider Miniseries ‘69 to ‘72. Our youngest was born 10/77 in Elkhart when I was working for the Elkhart Probation Department as Director of Volunteer Services and serving as Trainer and Consultant with the National Center for Voluntary Action. We moved from Elkhart to Paoli in 1980 where I worked for Southern Hills Counseling Center retiring as Manager of Employee Assistance, and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 2010 and again in 2012. I served several terms as the president of The Kentucky Employee Assistance Professionals Association. I was also invited to become a member of a private national collegial group of EAP Professionals called The Workplace Alliance. This group agreed to openly share innovative entrepreneurial information with each other and agreed to not complete for contracts. While in Elkhart we joined Hively Avenue Mennonite Church. When we moved to Paoli we took an active role with Paoli Mennonite Fellowship (CDC & INMIC). Here I’ve served twice as Interim Pastor and served several years on the CDC Missional Church Committee. I still occasionally serve as worship leader or share the meditation/sermon. We’re active with the Orange County Democratic Central Committee and I was elected as Paoli Township Trustee in 2014. For several years I’ve served on the board of the Lost River Market & Deli food cooperative. In 2008 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I elected to have surgery and remain cancer free. In 2009 I was invited to participate in a Reel Recovery Retreat a fly fishing retreat for men with cancer. It was a powerful and wonderful experience. I learned to catch fish with a fly rod. Two years later I was invited to become a Retreat Facilitator. I’ve enjoyed outdoor sports all my life and this proved to be an excellent match of my passions and skill set. I’ve been leading 6 to 8 Retreats each year. This is a powerful non-religious spiritual retreat. I am blessed by each retreat. A GC memory, spending an exorbitant number of hours working together with Glenn Smucker on our 1 credit hour senior research assignment, Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors of Mennonite College Students. It was excellently written piece of research and he had the nerve to dock it a letter grade because we turned it in after the deadline. It was late because he didn’t get us our research data on time. Another memory is helping with the play, “Barefoot in Athens.”

L. Richard (Dick) Meyers Family: Married Linda Dee King the day of graduation. Two wonderful daughters—Jessica and Katherine. Jessica (BA Goshen 2003; MJ Berkeley 2008) recently returned to DC area with her spouse (Jeff Kearns) from three years working as journalists in Beijing. Katherine (Haverford, 2007; Penn Vet VMD, 2013) is a board-certified small animal veterinary surgeon in St. Paul, Minnesota. Looking forward to her marriage to Taylor Friday in the near future. Professional Background: After graduation spent four years with MCC in Serowe, Botswana, teaching and working in a rural development cooperative. Obtained Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell. While pursuing a doctorate, took a short-term position with the Harvard Institute for International Development in Kenya working as a Field Advisor in the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development throughout Eastern Province. Employed by the World Bank in 1978, based in Washington, DC, initially as a Special Assistant to several senior vice presidents. After several years (and a bout with non- Hodgins lymphoma), began operational work in the health sector in the East Asia and Pacific Region until retiring as Lead Operational Officer in 2007. This entailed significant in-country travel working with national, provincial, district and village-level government officials. Worked for ten years on Vietnam, six years on China and undertook additional work in Malaysia and The Philippines. The work involved collaborating with government officials to prepare and design health projects that were then implemented by the government followed by periodic joint Bank-government supervision visits while the projects were being carried out. Among other things, on the Bank side, was the person responsible for the China TB Control project, the largest such project in the world at that time. Also was involved in projects combating the threats of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Avian and Human Influenza. An additional component of this work was supervising Bank staff and consultants in carrying out analytical work on various aspects of a country&#39;s health sector, for example, undertaking the first comprehensive health sector review in Vietnam. Post-retirement, worked as a consultant with officials from the Asian Development Bank, AusAid, the World Bank, WHO and various countries and research institutions in the Asia Pacific region to facilitate the formation of a regional observatory on health systems and policies. The Asia Pacific Observatory is intended to help countries learn lessons from elsewhere on building more effective and equitable health systems. Other: Passionate about international travel, particularly in Europe and East Asia, most enjoyably in the company of our kids and their partners.

Linda Dee (King) Meyers Family: Right after graduation married Dick Meyers. Two terrific daughters—Jessica and Katherine. Jessica (BA Goshen 2003; MJ Berkeley 2008) and her spouse Jeff Kearns recently returned to DC area after three years in Beijing as journalists. Katherine (BS Haverford 2007; VMD Penn Vet 2013) is a board-certified small animal veterinary surgeon in St. Paul, Minnesota. We’re looking forward to her upcoming marriage to Taylor Friday. Professional Life: After graduation spent four years with MCC in Serowe, Botswana, teaching and working in a rural development cooperative. Then graduate school in nutrition—MS from Colorado State and PhD in nutritional sciences from Cornell. Settled in Bethesda, MD, outside of Washington, DC in 1982. Served as senior nutrition advisor and then deputy director in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services. After 15 years moved on to serve as deputy director and then director of the Food and Nutrition Board at the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Had the opportunity to work on health objectives for the nation, nutrition labeling, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and related policy issues and later on Dietary Reference Intakes (what nutrients people should eat), food safety, and obesity prevention in children. Retirement: Retired the first time in 2013 and worked part-time as senior science advisor at the American Society for Nutrition and later as health scientist (contractor) in the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. Trying retirement again as of June 2018. Volunteer work includes serving on the Expert Group for the Access to Nutrition Foundation. Also enjoy traveling with Dick. Memories: Lots, including the lilacs by the Admin building, the great library move, and, especially, the march following Martin Luther King’s death.

Keith Miller

1. Keith married Lois (Shetler), 49 years ago. Two sons & daughters-in-law. Bradden and Kristin live in Anacortes, Washington. David and Lindsay live in Granger, IN with 3 sons, Christopher,12, Harrison,10, and Elliot, 9

2. Keith owned a major appliance repair business (10 years) in Kansas and Lois owned a preschool.(3

years) Keith was employed by Whirlpool for 24 years which took the family to Oklahoma, Georgia, Michigan and Indiana. He was involved with many projects including technical training development, service support of refrigeration products sold to Sears and creating a refrigerant recovery/recycling process. Lois made jewelry from broken china & vintage silverware and we did art shows for 20 years. Both retired in Edwardsburg, MI near grandsons.

3. We belong to Hope United Methodist Church and are involved in a small group, Bible studies, and Lois

is creating a class for an autistic child. In several of the previous locations we sang in church choirs.

4. Keith loves to repair all kinds of equipment, garden, sing, and run go-karts with grandsons. Lois loves to find unusual things to grow such as luffa sponges, garlic, kale, cabbage, etc.etc.

5. Lois started with this class and Keith came from Hesston College to finish with this class. So many

memories! The train whistle. Menno-Pause. Sitting 6 to a table in cafeteria. Protesting the cafeteria food. Chapel cards. LM’s. Moving the library. Tornado hitting over Easter break.

Flow Blue jewelry set

From Keith’s mother's silverware and china

Super Heroes helped cover garden with straw

Harrison, Elliot and Christopher

Twila (Gingerich) Miller Family: Husband Ed Miller (class of ’67) Two sons and daughters-in-law Four grandchildren Occupation: English teacher (ESL, secondary & middle school) in USA for 17 years MCC volunteer in Nepal for two three-year terms (’69 to ’72 and ‘’76 to ’79) Writer for MCC India program while serving as Country Rep with Ed for MCC in India (’01 to ’07) Pastime/hobbies: I like to write, read, spend time with friends & family, learn to know my new neighbors in our retirement community and bike.

Verlin Miller Spouse Elaine Guengerich Miller, Three sons and their spouses, Five grandchildren living in Boston MA, Eugene, OR, and Evanston,IL Continue part time custom woodworking producing exterior entry doors for Michiana area Churches, University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College as well as historic homes. Examples are below. Member of Fellowship of Hope in Elkhart-serve as elder and treasurer. Serve on Stewardship Team for the Indiana Michigan Mennonite Conference Enjoy photography, woodworking, and reading---and spending time with my grandchildren ages 1 thru 13. The experience of the Menno-Pause publication and subsequent fall out still marks my life after 50+ years.

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Veryin Nofziger Family: Wife of 50 years: Marge Troyer Nofziger (69) Son:Shawn and his wife, Ryan (Chicago and New Buffalo) Daughter: Tara (Manhattan) Career: 41 year educator at Middlebury Community Schools (retired) 13 years, baseball coach; 17 years, assistant football coach; Northridge H.S. Helped start the Outdoor Education program at Camp Amigo in Sturgis, MI Served on many committees for the Middlebury Teachers Association including Vice-President Hobbies: Reading Gardening Working out Dog sitting Traveling Volunteer: Usher for 20 years at Trinity on Jackson in Elkhart,IN Upward basketball @Trinity serving over 500 kids K- 6th grade Start-up committee member for Trinity Life Center Past membership care committee chair Mentor to young students Youth Committee with trip to Puerto Rico in 1995 and Alaska in 1998 Help deliver paperback books to the local WIC office

Ethel (Smoker) Oatman Spouse: Was married to Howard Oatman in 12/67 (almost 50 years). He died in July, 2017. Have lived in Colorado for 45 years; in Denver area for 32 years and now Fruita for 13 years. Fruita is in the desert part of the state (20 miles from UT) with lots of recreational opportunities. Daughters: Lisa Polacsek is an elementary school librarian and lives with her family in Arvada, CO. Husband, Alan and grandsons Ethan-16 and Zaine-14. Aimee Conrardy is an architect and recently moved from Aspen area to Pittsburgh. Husband, Shaine and grandchildren Tessa-16, Brady-14, PIerce-11. I worked as an RN for 40 years, 25 in Occupational Health with companies such as Rockwell International, United Parcel Service, and US Postal Service. Liked the autonomy and patient educational opportunities. Received my Masters in Public Health while working. Since retiring have volunteered for 10 years delivering Meals on Wheels. Have also volunteered at a local CO Welcome Center. Was a docent on Amtrak route from Grand Junction to Denver for 4 years until the program was discontinued this year. I participate in a local garden and newcomers club (which is really a senior activity club). I have hiked and snowshoed with them. Also, a book club. I like traveling and by 1996 I had visited all the states except North Dakota. Since then I have traveled to all the continents except Antarctica. Even met an SST group in Peru in 2014! Am going on an African safari in November. I will always remember the early bus rides from Goshen to Elkhart General Hospital. Also, how we had a chain of students pass the books from the old library to the new Good library.

Claudia (Wolfe) Rosen I was blessed to be married to Lowell Rosen for nearly 49 years before he passed away 2 years ago. We have 1 daughter and 3 sons happily married with 11 beautiful grandchildren, ages 21-11. My nursing career of 50+ years included floor nursing at Wabash County Hospital; nurse for family practice doctors in Clinic setting; Oncology nurse and finally retired from HHC/Hospice at Wabash County Hospital. I am currently filling my days visiting people who are homebound; leading a grief support group at my church, St Paul’s County Line Church, Andrews, IN. I also am serving on the board for 85 Hope, our free medical clinic in Wabash County. I have been blessed to serve on mission teams to Haiti, Ecuador and Brazil. I also served as camp nurse for one week at Joni and Friends camp for handicapped persons and their families. What a blessing and challenge that was! My heart is for serving others in whatever way and wherever God leads me. My bags are packed when He tells me where He wants me to go. I’m praying I’ll be able to make a trip to the Holy Land this winter. Thinks that brings me up to date!!!!

Elaine (Gerig) Schrock Family: spouse, number of children grandchildren Spouse: Dan Schrock (“64) Children: Barbara Schrock Grandchild: Isabella Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Goshen College Nurse School Nurse:

American School of Kuwait Cairo American College Westview School Corp. (LaGrange County, IN)

Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation College Mennonite Church:

Elder Jubilee Fund Caring Commission

Favorite pastime/hobbies Music Current Events Tennis Travel Share a memory from you Goshen College experience. Taking the nursing bus to Elkhart Hospital at 5:00 a.m.

Nancy J Schrock Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren Spouse: Ron (“66) Children: Daniel and Valerie (“98) Grandchildren: (Daniel’s children) James 13, Austin 8, Emma 7 Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Masters Degree in 1970 1st job - Concord High School - P.E. and Health East Allen Co. Schools - New Haven, IN - 5 years Comstock Public Schools - 27 years - MI Dysart Public Schools - Surprise, AZ - subbed 5 ½ years Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation Mennonite Favorite pastime/hobbies Reading Golf Traveling - 80+ countries Share a memory from your Goshen College Experience. As a P.E. teacher, I had to pass proficiency tests in many areas. Dr. Gunden took us to the Maple Crest Golf Course. On the first three holes, my score was 21, 18, 19… I’ve improved since then and have won 14 crystal vases, dishes, etc. (club championship and other tournaments).

Glenn Smucker Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren Wife Jacky of 40 years deceased - 2 children. My wife died about 4 years ago, less than two months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. We adopted and reared two children, each of whom was 7 years old when they came to live with us. Now I have a wonderful new family in Haiti together with Vernande and 2 step children, ages 10 and 14. We are building a new life together as a blended, multi-cultural family. Our son spent his first 11 years in Cuba and came to live in Haiti 3 years ago. Our household uses 4 languages - French, Creole, Spanish and English. Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Cultural anthropologist, career in applied anthropology overseas Book on grassroots peasant organisations in Haiti, also numerous other reports and publications Led policy study of Haiti's environment, leading to some 300 million dollars of environmental investment by the US Agency for International Development. Led program for protection of the mountain gorillas on the steep slopes of Rwanda's volcanoes. Conducted studies and advocacy on behalf of child servants, and cross-border trafficking of adult and child laborers including sex workers (Haiti/Dominican Republic). I am a cultural anthropologist living and working in Haiti. My career in anthropology is based on practical applications of social science to solving human and environmental problems overseas. This includes studying how people relate to their world where they live and work, and designing and carrying out programs that meet people’s needs while protecting their environment. In a very literal sense, I continue to make a living based on culture for service. The culture in question includes my own culture and a service ethic learned at home. It also includes culture imparted by institutions of higher learning, especially Goshen College. Furthermore, as a practicing anthropologist, my work is firmly rooted in understanding the cultures of others as a tool for service.

I was a community development assistant in Haiti for two years of voluntary service with Mennonite Central Committee after graduating from Goshen in 1968. I subsequently worked as a social worker in Chicago.

Following graduate studies in New York, I conducted fieldwork in Haiti for my dissertation. When doing so, my wife Jacky and I lived for 2 years in a small thatched roof house in the Haitian mountains, about two hours walk from the nearest roadway. Afterwards I did many years of consulting for the U.S. Foreign Assistance Program in Haiti, also the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. I served as director of the Pan American Development Foundation, which operated a farm forestry program in Haiti, working with thousands of small farmers who planted millions of trees. I later directed a natural resource management program in Rwanda. This included working with the government of Rwanda to protect the endangered mountain gorillas made famous by Dian Fossey and a movie called Gorillas in the Mist.

In 1987 I started Smucker Consulting in Milwaukee. Over the years I carried out short-term assignments in Rwanda, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Belize, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, but mostly in Haiti. This included programs to document and combat child trafficking, child labor practices and gang violence. During the past two years I have been working with Sean Penn, the Haitian Government and the World Bank to devise a program of environmental protection in Haiti, including the design of a highly participatory methodology for planning and carrying out watershed management activities together with small farmers.

Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation Promotion of community schools, including library resources in rural Haiti Promoting grassroots community organisations and improved local governance in rural Haiti. Vernande and I work closely together on these activities. Favorite pastime/hobbies Hiking, Music, Reading, Hosting people

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Field Work in Haiti

Dr. Donovan Steiner Rita (Graber) Steiner 1. Three children, 8 grandchildren 2. Rita-started her teaching career on the Navajo Reservation in AZ, completed a master degree at Northern AZ Univ in 1971, taught in IA, IL and VA then retired from elementary teaching in 2004. She continued to sub for all elem grades for 7 more years.. Don-started out his career teaching elementary and middle school students on the Navajo Reservation, then in IA after completing a master degree in 1971 at Northern AZ University. He went into college teaching at Greenville College (IL) in 1973, completed a doctoral degree in 1979 at SIU Carbondale. In 1982 he began as director and chair of department of education at EMU (VA) where he retired as director of the teacher education master program in 2014. Encouraged to apply and then hired, he went on to complete a one year assignment as interim executive director/elementary principal of Penn View Christian School in Souderton, PA for 2014-15. Don continues as an adjunct professor for EMU, teaching several classes a year. 3. Both are members of Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA. We helped start a Christian school in Lezha, Albania in 2011. Rita is on the Albanian Christian Education Foundation and helps with fundraising. Don is chair of the Board of Education and travels there once a yr for graduation and a board meeting with his board and a parents board. Rita has provided guest lodging through the years for many international students, student parents, and prospective faculty. 4. Don enjoys reading, traveling, gardening, being a grandpa to 8, helping his kids with their home projects, and researching family genealogy. Rita enjoys reading, planning the travel, helping her kids with home projects, being grandma to 8, and spending time with family and friends. 5. Rita and Don....A memory....waking up in our dorms in the middle of the night to that piercing train whistle!

Sam Steiner Married to Sue Clemmer (1969); no children. Had 49th anniversary on August 2. Archivist/Librarian at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario from 1974-2008. Wrote three books. The most important was In Search of Promised Lands: a Religious History of Mennonites in Ontario. Herald Press, 2015. Also wrote a history of Rockway Mennonite Collegiate in Kitchener and a biography of 19th century Ontario Mennonite leader, Jacob Y. Shantz. I have been active on the executive boards of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada and Mennonite Church Canada from the 1980s into the early 2000s. I have been managing editor or assistant editor of the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) at https://gameo.org/ since its beginning in the 1990s. Sue and I are members of Rockway Mennonite Church in Kitchener (Mennonite Church Eastern Canada. Photography, reading mysteries and Mennonite history, and working on GAMEO. Menno-Pause, chapel cards, and Students for a Democratic Society. My experiences at Goshen sent me on a trajectory I wouldn't have imaged. Canada is a great place to be at this time in my life.

Margaret (Brenneman) Thut The years as a student at Goshen College seem so long ago but not so far away since I have lived a few blocks from the college for the last 41 years. Goshen was a good place for Tim and I to raise our family. Our youngest daughter Amy lives nearby and teaches at Bethany Christian Schools. She is married to Greg Imbur and they have two children now 8 and 4. I have had the privilege of a second round of parenting caring for them. It’s nice to have a child running home again from Parkside School. Our other two children live in Philadelphia. Dan is married to Karla Hernandez and they have three children. Rebecca is married to Douglas Witmer and they also have three children. Both of their families own and operate the Green Line Café coffee shops. We have made many trips to Philadelphia over the years. My brief teaching career also seems long ago. A lot of my work outside of the home over the years has been with the church. We were part of a group that started Faith Mennonite Church 30 years ago and it has been rewarding to see the church grow and carry out the vision of reaching across socio and economic boundaries. Another significant involvement for me has been with SEMILLA Latin American Anabaptist Seminary in Guatemala. Dan worked there in the 90’s which led into my becoming treasurer and serving on the North America board of the seminary. One regret about college is that I studied French instead of Spanish. Spanish would be much more useful in our current setting. However one valuable outcome of studying French was to have Mary Eleanor Bender as a professor. In recent years I have visited her weekly and appreciate her insight and wisdom. Tim is gradually retiring as a family physician. We plan to celebrate our 50th anniversary next year by traveling with our family in three separate trips – one with each family – Costa Rica, Greece and Switzerland. An anchor in our family life has been to attend Little Eden Camp every summer in July. We have not missed a year for 41 years. The photo is on the beach at Lake Michigan in 2016.

Jerry Troyer Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren: Spouse: Joyce Frey Children: Ryan and Jeff Grandchild: Evan - 9 years Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Hospital / Nursing Home / Administrator VP Mennonite Mutual Aid (now Everance) Executive Director - Laurelville mennonite Church Ctr., Mt. Pleasant, PA Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation Board of Directors - Glencroft - Phoenix, AZ Favorite pastime/hobbies Backpacking Bow hunting Mountain biking Fishing I took a group of seniors to Alaska and we floated a remote river in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean. Share a memory from you Goshen College experience. I spent all of my senior year in a leg cast from a broken leg.

Gladys (Schrag) Wade 24 S. Lakeshore Dr., Whispering Pines, NC 28327 email: bglwade@gmail.com Married to William K. (Bill) Wade, for 47 years...and counting :) 2 daughters: Kelly Wade Hines, and Lauren Wade Wilson 7 grandsons, ages 15 to 2 Retired educator. Taught French for 34 years, retiring in 2003. 5 years in Goshen, IN Community Schools, 5 years in Moore County Schools, NC, and 24 years at New Hanover High School, Wilmington, NC. Head of Foreign Language Dept.; active in local, UNC university, and NC state foreign language associations; contributor to Holt, Rinehart, Winston French textbooks; led numerous student trips abroad, etc. Religious affiliation: Lutheran Hobbies: traveling, golf, water sports, reading, painting, Special memories:playing field hockey, Mary Oyer's art appreciation class, moving the library, cleaning up near Shipshewana after the Palm Sunday tornado, early morning choir rehearsals, the A Cappella Choir spring trip, off campus parties, listening to The New Rising ... Most important: lifelong friendships with 3 special class of 68 classmates

Galen Wenger Carolyn (Liechty) Wenger Family: spouse, number of children and grandchildren Carolyn (Liechty) Wenger and Galen Wenger both graduated in 1968. We have two children. Alyssa married Chris Bonner and lives in Jonesboro, AR. They have two children ages 11 and 8. Alyssa is an ophthalmologist in private practice and Chris is an intensive care nurse. Aaron married Amy Dowell and lives in Little Rock, AR. They have two children ages 6 and 3. Aaron is a licensed architect and Amy is a hospital administrator. Both families are very busy with work and children’s schedules. Occupation and examples of work accomplishments Carolyn was an elementary school teacher and taught in Denver, CO, Boston, MA and Little Rock, AR. While teaching in Denver she completed her M.A. with an emphasis in reading and psychology. She retired after 37 years of teaching. After graduating from GC, Galen enrolled in graduate school at West Virginia University School of Medicine where he received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in Denver at the University of Colorado Medical School. He completed a second post-doctoral research fellowship in Boston at Harvard Medical School and then took a faculty position in Pharmacology at Harvard. In 1978, he left Harvard to accept a faculty position in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He became Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department and retired after 36 years of service in research, teaching and administration. We have lived in Little Rock for 40 years.

Volunteer opportunities/religious affiliation Carolyn and Galen are members of Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, AR. Carolyn serves as an Elder and the Mission Chair of the Presbyterian Women’s group at the church. She also volunteers in the Church Office, is on the Cook Team providing meals for the homeless in the Little Rock area, participates in card making for Pastoral care, and serves as an usher as needed. Galen serves as an usher when needed and sings in the Church choir. He also sings with the River City Men’s Chorus. Favorite pastime/hobbies* We enjoy spending time with our children and grandchildren. We also enjoy traveling and touring our Church Choir and with the River City Men’s Chorus. Recent tours included Italy, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, U.K. and eastern Canada. Carolyn enjoys reading and participating in her book club, sewing “Dresses for Africa”, and going out to lunch with her retired teacher friends. Galen loves to play tennis and plays 2-3 times per week. He also enjoys fishing out of his fishing kayak.

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Left: Daughter Alyssa and husband Chris Right: Alyssa and Chris’ children Beckett and Ainsley

Left: Son Aaron and wife Amy Right: Aaron and Amy’s children

Abel and Ava

Dress for Africa

River City Men's Chorus - Rome

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Choir - Wales, UK performance

Margaret (Peg) (Wiedemer) Wigton I graduated in the class of ’68 with a BSN and have worked for 50 years as a nurse. Work experience includes 6 years of hospital nursing at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and at the Detroit Medical Center in the fields of urology/general surgery and oncology. I also worked for one year at a home for unwed mothers and adoption center in New Orleans, 5 years as a staff member with Nurse’s Christian Fellowship, 29 years of home care, 2 years of public health and 5 years as a case manager. I received my MSN in 2004 and since 2006 have served as affiliate faculty at Regis University-online from 2006-2014 and Colorado Christian University-online from 2010-present. I currently work one day a week at the local health department. I am married to David K. Wigton who is a pipe organ builder. He builds mainly for churches. We have three adult children. Our oldest daughter is a nurse in the Detroit area. Her husband does CAD for auto suppliers and they have a 2 year old son. Our son is an electrical engineer in Ft. Collins, CO. He works for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. His wife works as a computer engineer for Intel. They have three girls, 5, 3, and 4 months. Our youngest daughter is an Occupational Therapist working in the Detroit area. Her husband is a supervisor in a grocery store chain. I am very active in my church - Holy Redeemer Lutheran Church in Dryden, MI. I head the Evangelism committee, and am a Stephen Ministry leader. I teach an adult Sunday Bible study and a Bible study for nurses. I also attend a women’s Bible study and serve as a lay reader. My husband and I sing in the Detroit Lutheran Singers and this past summer went on a choir tour of German in the steps of Luther and Bach. We traveled with a similar group to the Holy Land last summer and in 2014 to Scotland. Other hobbies include gardening, book club, camping and bicycling. We live in Lapeer County Michigan.

Doug Yoder Janette and I have three sons, two in business and one veterinarian and eight grandchildren, three of whom are in college, and ranging in age from 21 to 2 1/2 years. My career was in dairy veterinary medicine from which I retired last fall. Our son Dereck Klopfenstein and I started a dairy cattle veterinary practice in Elkhart County in 1999 which has grown to include six veterinarians. We have attended Waterford Mennonite Church for many years. I enjoy working outdoors and bicycling is a passion I share with a neighbor friend. We completed a cross country bicycle ride of over 4000 miles last month, one of several multi-day rides we have done. I left GC after two years for an MCC assignment in Morocco. I basically studied all the time except for weekends as an orderly at Elkhart General Hospital. I worked the hardest in M.K. Oyer's Fine Arts classes which are the ones I remember and have appreciated the most. They were two hour courses that took as much time as Zoology and Calculus.

Ken R. Yoder 1115 S. 8th St. Goshen, IN. 1) The "best decision I made in my life," was to get married to fellow class of '68 classmate, Ferne Eileen Kilmer. 49 years and counting.... 2) We've lived in St. Louis, MO. , Wichita, KS., Syracuse, IN., Elkhart, IN., and now back to Goshen. 3) We have two children, both married. Daughter, Karen, teaches German/Spanish here in the Goshen public schools. Son, Ben, an engineer, living in Boston with Thai wife, also an engineer, with our TWO GRANDSONS!! We get to Boston often. Grand parenting "certainly changed our lives." 4) Wife, Ferne, retired from elementary school teaching in the Elkhart Public Schools 8 years ago. We then moved--7 years ago--to historic 8th St. just blocks from the College. 5) I continue to work, I often say, "I'm addicted to it," working as a psychiatric social worker (primarily with the Amish) at Oaklawn, where I have been for decades. I'm lucky to enjoy my work... 6) The craziest, wackiest thing I ever did in my life (by far?!) was to run a marathon in every state with my son, Ben. From 2005-2010. "It was not about the marathon, it was about a father-son relationship." Can't wait to see "ya all," at our famous class of '68 reunion, just next week!! What fun awaits us all. Editor’s Note: Here is Ken’s convocation.

Alumni Breakfast Invocation Homecoming at Goshen College, Oct. 6, 2018

By Ken R. Yoder

"We scattered into the winds, following our graduation in 1968, set to 'change the world,' over the utter divisiveness of the Vietnam War era. It was an unforgettable clash...who can forget the war moratorium, the Kent State Shootings, marches, Nixon, Watergate, assassinations, and on and on and on. It was awful. We were naive, passionate, but committed to some kind of action and service. Is this not the spirit of Goshen College?

We set ourselves out into the world, armed with that motto: 'Culture for Service.' Many of us went into alternate service, TAPers in Africa, VS in St. Louis, MCC work, some fled to Canada, some into the Vietnam war zone. Is this not the spirit of Goshen College?

We sought to offer grace, a spirit of peace, reconciliation, justice, love for all. We are now also beset with unparalleled times, new strange words, 'Kavanaugh, Ford,' culture clashes, some of which may even exist in this room? Just HOW do we get there--to a much desired destination?, What did Yogi Berra say? 'You have to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there!' We wish to evoke the spirit of common humanity, of people together, searching, longing for peace, belonging, welcoming for all human beings. Is this not the spirit of Goshen College?

We have suffered, buried classmates, parents, uncles, aunts, friends--even some of us, spouses. 'Some of us are no longer here.' [A moment of silence, remembering them] We have also found joy, celebration, happiness, incredible goodness from others, friends, family, children, grandchildren. Suffering, Joy, and celebration. Are they both not a necessary part of our lives together, of the human condition? Is this not the spirit of Goshen College?

These ancient teachings: We receive this food in gratitude to all beings Who have helped to bring it to our table, And vow to respond in turn to those in need With wisdom and compassion 'May you be happy, may you be peaceful, may you be free from suffering!' We end with those three simple words: We humbly receive Thank you!"

Ethelou Yazzie My grandfather, parents and the Missionary Stanley and Arlie Weaver of Goshen were my inspiration to my accomplishment educationally, spiritually and mentally. I went shopping off reservation for what was needed in my community. I had my mind on what I would do to improve and upgrade the living standard on the Navajo Nation. I worked with the first Indian controlled community school per P.L. 93-638. In that school, I worked as a teacher, education project coordinator, elementary principal, curriculum development project director, school executive director for the entire school operation. In 1978 I left Rough Rock Community School and was hired by newly established school board near Winslow, AZ to develop the entire school system to be contracted with BIE (Bureau of Interior). I assisted the little Singer School Board and developed the elementary school programs, the total school operation programs (supportive services ie. maintenance, transportation), educational curriculum, teaching and administrative staff. I left the Little Singer School in 1983. That Little Singer School is operating successfully today. I changed my educational field to community development and began working with the Navajo Nation Executive Branch. I assisted the tricummunity with the infrastructure (water, electrical power line extension, telephone, internet) projects. 95% of community homes were electrically connected when I retired. Grandpa Honaghanii Burbank would have been proud. I believe God has blessed and guided me so my people may benefit from my services through programs. Goshen is a great place to begin.

Examples of curriculum and educational materials for Navajo schools. (Picture taken at the 50th reunion).

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