List of Goshen College people
This is a list of notable individuals associated with the American Goshen College, a private liberal arts college located in Goshen, Indiana. The list includes students, alumni, and faculty.
Academia and theology
- Stephen Ainlay, 18th president of Union College (since 2006)
- Harold S. Bender (class of 1918), former president, American Society of Church History and author of The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
- Alan Kreider (class of 1962), professor, writer and speaker
- John W. Meyer (class of 1955), professor, sociologist
- John Mark Ramseyer (class of 1976), Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School
- Emma Richards, first ordained female Mennonite minister
- Said Sheikh Samatar (class of 1973), Somali scholar, historian and writer
- Rebecca Stoltzfus ( B.A. 1984 Chemistry), professor & vice provost at Cornell University[1]
- John Howard Yoder, Christian theologian, ethicist, and Biblical scholar best known for his radical Christian pacifism
- Howard Zehr, "The Father of Restorative Justice"; assisted with the founding of a victim-offender reconciliation program
The arts
- Abbie Adams, contemporary artist and illustrator
- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE (class of 2008), editor and literary critic
- Vance George, Grammy Award–winning choral director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1982–2006)
- Luke and Jesse Miller, members of the electronic jam band Lotus
- Royce Salzman (class of 1950), co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival
- Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
- James C. Strouse, independent filmmaker, writer and director who wrote the comedy-drama film Lonesome Jim (2005) and directed the drama film Grace Is Gone (2007)
- Rudy Wiebe, taught at Goshen College from 1963 to 1967
Politics
- Allan Kauffman, mayor of Goshen, Indiana
- Christine Kaufmann, member of the Montana House of Representatives
- Tim Kauffman, mayor pro tem of Westminster, Colorado
- David Dale Reimer U. S. Ambassador to Mauritius and to the Seychelles.
- Jesse B. Martin, Canadian bishop and peace activist[2]
Popular culture
- Justin Yoder, first child with a disability to drive a soapbox in the All-American Soapbox Derby
Science, technology and medicine
- David Bartel (class of 1982), biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member of the Whitehead Institute, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Philip A. Beachy, Gallo Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
- Roger N. Beachy, biologist and the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- O.J. Eigsti, Goshen College professor and developer of the seedless watermelon[3]
- Owen Gingerich, astronomy professor at Harvard University
Sports
- Jason Booth, pitching coach for the University of Saint Francis baseball team and manager of the Hamilton Thunderbirds[4]
- Errick McCollum, professional basketball player
Past presidents of the college
- John D. Yordy (Interim President), 2004–06
- Shirley H. Showalter, 1997–2004
- Henry D. Weaver (Interim President), 1996
- Victor S. Stoltzfus, 1984–96
- J. Lawrence Burkholder, 1971–84
- Paul E. Mininger, 1954–70
- Carl Kreider (Acting President), 1950–51, 1970–71
- Ernest E. Miller, 1940–54
- Sanford C. Yoder, 1923–40
- Daniel Kauffman, 1922–23
- Irvin R. Detweiler (Acting President), 1920–22
- Henry Frank Reist, 1919–20
- George J. Lapp, 1918–19
- John E. Hartzler, 1913–18
- Noah E. Byers, 1901–13
Principals of the Elkhart Institute
(Elkhart Institute was the former name of Goshen College)
- Noah E. Byers, 1898–1903
- Willis E. Tower, 1895–98
- Reverend F. A. Hosmer, 1894–95[5]
See also
References
- http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=rjs62
- Josephson, Harold (1985). Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders. Connecticut: Greenwood. pp. 607–8. ISBN 0-313-22565-6.
- "Orie J. Eigsti". Mennonite Weekly Review. May 19, 2003. p. 11. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
… develop[ed] the American Seedless Watermelon variety known as 313.
- "Jason Booth". Oakville Royals. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
- "Past Presidents of Goshen College". Goshen College. 2006. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
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