in Seattle, Wash., as a middle school, college and career planning coordinator with Treehouse. Briana Eshleman ’11 Miller, Harrisonburg, Va., is working as a registered nurse at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg. Brianna Oelschlager ’11, Sellersville, Pa., began her first year of medical studies at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in the fall of 2011. Jared Kent Stoltzfus, MDiv ’11, began serving as the youth director at Forest Hills Mennonite Church, Leola Pa., in August 2011. Philip Tieszen ’11, Harrisonburg, Va., is an admissions counselor in the undergraduate admissions department of EMU. Western Virginia and North Carolina are his primary areas of responsibility. Michael Tranum ’11, Bridgewater, Va., has joined DuPont Community Credit Union of Waynesboro, Va., as vice president for information technology. Michael has nine years of information technology consulting experience in a wide variety of industries. He previously worked at Pentagon Federal Credit Union.
Marriages
Janet Breneman ’72 to R. Wesley Newswanger ’67, May 7, 2011. Ardell Stauffer ’81 to Amy Nissley, Oct. 8, 2011. Ana Arias ’99 to Phillip Nisly ’97, Aug. 25, 2011. Christina Hartman ’99 to Max Campbell, Dec. 2, 2011. Lisa White ’99 to Lowell Brown, May 28, 2011. Melinda Steffy '03 to Matthew Lavanish, Nov. 20, 2011. Emily Sommers ’04 to Dariush Meraj, Oct. 22, 2011. Lindsay Martin '05 to Matt Alan Styer '05, Sept. 24, 2011. Rebecca Stutzman ’05 to James Patterson, Aug. 13, 2011. Carissa Sweigart ’06 to Timothy Gredler, Oct. 15, 2011. Jason Ritter ’07 to Samantha Schantz, Aug. 7, 2011.
Matthew Eshleman ’08 to Amanda Hill, June 11, 2011. Lachelle Rose Horst ’08 to Brian Hackman ’08, July 25, 2011. Julie Miller MA ’08 (education),to Stacy Shiflet, July 30, 2011. Keri Boshart ’09 to Drew Hochstetler, July 16, 2011. Samuel Buck ’09 to Marissa Benner ’09, Sept.17, 2011. Amy Miller ’09 to Jonathan Hershberger, June 11, 2011.
Katrina (Katie) Lehman ’09 to Jackson Maust ’09, Sept. 3, 2011. Melissa Miller ’09 to Jerry Mammen ’09, Aug. 20, 2011. Anna Elizabeth Smith ’09 to Gary LeRoger Parrish II ’09, Sept. 10, 2011. Laura Lehman ’09 to Benjamin Ruth ’09, July 16, 2011. Jennifer Ayers ’10 to Joseph Barton, Oct. 8, 2011. Andrea Bowman ’10 to Aaron Yutzy ’10, Sept. 24, 2011. Heidi Hershberger ’10 to Christopher Esh ’10, May 30, 2010. Tony Fajardo-Gomez ’10 to Yvonne Stauffer ’11, Aug. 13, 2011. Jennifer Hochstetler ’10 to Jonathan Spicher ’10, June 25, 2011. Isaac Wyse ’10 to Rachel Yoder ’10, Sept. 16, 2011. Benjamin Bergey ’11 to Katherine (Kate) Nussbaum ’10, Oct. 8, 2011. Briana Eshleman ’11 to Darrel Miller ’10, May 28, 2011. Michael Bruner ’11 to Luciana (Bia) Stoltzfus ’11, Sept. 24, 2011. Kaitlin Black ’11 to Eric Yoder ’11, Aug 13, 2010. Brooke Snyder ’11 to Jason Sprunger ’11, June 25, 2011.
Births & adoptions
Brian ’91 and Christine McGillis Stauffer, Golden, Colo., Charlotte Anne, Dec. 14, 2010.
Timothy ’92 and Kirsten Johnsen Martin, Lancaster, Pa., Maya, March 4, 2011. Sandy Waltner ’93 and Rob Huston, Goshen, Ind., Tobin (Toby) Rasul, adopted on January 6, 2011 from Kazakhstan. His birth date is Oct. 23, 2008. Sherri Kurtz ’93 and Gary Peters, Alexandria, Va., Luke Robert, July 7, 2011. Timothy ’95 and Nicolle Nogueras Swartzendruber, Silver Spring, Md., Shane Nogueras, July 31, 2011. Evan Wenger ’95 and Carleen LaymanWenger, Waynesboro, Va., Owen Burl, Sept. 11, 2011. Melissa (Missy) Adamire ’96 and Shawn Delancey, Mifflintown, Pa., James Donald, April 14, 2011. Marshall ’96 and Dione Yoder ’95 McDonald, Pasadena., Calif., Marissa Kate, Dec. 16, 2011. Peter ’97 and Maria Kalugina Kraybill, Lancaster, Pa., Claudia Jean, April 7, 2010. Brent ’97 and Jennifer (Jen) Voth ’97 Roland, Mechanicsburg, Pa., Lydia Ann, Aug. 2, 2010.
Suraya Sadeed, MA ’12, is pictured in 2001 at Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan at the time of a U.S. bombing campaign. With support from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Sadeed and a convoy of trucks crossed into Afghanistan delivering food and blankets to 45,000 Afghan refugees. Doug Hostetter ’66, director of MCC’s UN office, took this photo.
Sadeed’s ‘Forbidden Lessons’ Suraya Sadeed, MA ’12 (conflict transformation), has described her extremely difficult, often dangerous, efforts to build and maintain more than a dozen schools in Afghanistan in a fascinating book, Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse (Hyperion, 2011). Sadeed’s organization, Help the Afghan Children, has received sustained support from Mennonite Central Committee for the last 10 years, though she must raise the bulk of her funding from various other sources (Oprah helped at one point). Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus both gave Forbidden Lessons, coauthored by Damien Lewis, extremely favorable reviews. The Kirkus review read in part: "For the cost of one [American] bombing run," the author writes in this hard-hitting debut memoir, "I doubtless could have fed and clothed and cared for those 100,000 displaced Afghan refugees. For the cost of another...I likely could have educated their children." With assistance from Lewis (Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, 2009, etc.), Sadeed, the founder of the nonprofit Help the Afghan Children, chronicles her many trips behind the lines in Afghanistan, where most aid workers feared to go. The author weaves together her personal story with that of her native land in this gripping memoir. After the sudden death of her husband in 1993, Sadeed decided to raise money in order to provide basic necessities for the 100,000 people who were living in a temporary refugee camp on the outskirts of Jalalabad, and deliver it to them personally. The author describes the dangers she faced and the many brave, open-hearted people she encountered on this and subsequent trips. Some episodes were hair-raising, others heartwarming. She was able to convince some Taliban leaders to assist her humanitarian mission, while, unknown to them, she was secretly funding underground girls' schools and health clinics for women. Sadeed provides insight into the traditional values which still sustain the culture, while making an eloquent appeal for understanding, compassion and aid for the people of Afghanistan, and for more schools in order to educate young people and break the cycle of violence. [This is]a moving message from a courageous humanitarian, and more timely than ever. For more information, check out http://surayasadeed.com. Also visit www.emu.edu/peacebuilder – Sadeed was the cover story in the spring/summer 2010 issue of EMU’s Peacebuilder magazine.
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