Tara Kreider ’05 and her husband, Danny, Yoder, active in Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, Va., with a deep interest in Israel/ Palestine, will serve in Nazareth, Israel, under Virginia Mennonite Missions. The first year, they will work at Nazareth Village. Tara will help write updates for The Village Grapevine and lead parable walks for English speaking groups through the village. Danny will develop web design for a variety of projects. Amanda Maust ’05, began a second year as a registered nurse with MVS in St. Louis, Missouri. Her new assignment is manager of Clinical Operations with La Clinica, a medical clinic for immigrants and refugees, most of whom are Spanish speakers. Sarah G. Yoder ’05, Akron, Pa., is the coordinator of volunteers in the bi-national office of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), in Akron. Sarah previously served for six months as the crew leader in Bayou La Batre, Ala. Last year, she was with the MCC SALT program in Bolivia. Heather Bender ’06, Kalona, Iowa, is on assignment under Mennonite Mission Network as a peace worker with St. Louis Mennonite Peace Center Dustin Galyon ’06, Sterling, Kan., led students and faculty of Central Christian School, Kidron, Ohio, in a week of spring renewal, Mar. 26-29. Dustin works in admissions at Hesston College and speaks at youth events, leadership seminars, sports events, churches and businesses. Rachel Jaberg ’06, works as a nurse at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Va. Brent MDiv ’06 and Lorie Lapp MDiv ’06 Hershey, Iowa City, Iowa, relocated to Philadelphia where Lorie became pastor of West End Mennonite Church. Brent will pursue completion of his thesis. Joshua Kautz ’06, Chicago, Ill., is a dormitory counselor at Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School of the University of Chicago. The school provides a safe and therapeutic environment for emotionally disturbed children, ages 10-21. Audra Baker ’07, Lebanon, Ore., worked as a “floating nurse” in neonatal care in Virginia and Oregon since graduation. She took a leave of absence from Salem Hospital in Oregon to co-lead a cross cultural group to South Africa with Harlan DeBraun, instructor, physical education and recreation department, this fall.
Mary Jo Bowman ’86, MDiv ’07, Jill E. Gerig MDiv ’07, Rachel Ringenberg Miller MDiv ’07, and Yumiko Nakashima MDiv ’07, from Community Mennonite Church were featured in the May 29 Harrisonburg Daily News-Record under the headline, “Four parishioners from one Harrisonburg church answer divine calling.” Mary Jo began a chaplain residency at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Jill is in a hospital chaplaincy program through the Clinical Pastoral Education program at the University of Colorado, Denver. Yumiko is joining her husband, Mitsunari Yumiko MA ’05, MDiv ’06, as pastors of a Japanese church in California. Rachel began as associate pastor at Portland (Ore.) Mennonite Church this summer. Ashley E. Chupp ’07 Eshleman, Arlington, Va., began working in the psychiatric unit of Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. Ethan Horst ’07, is attending James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va., in pursuit of a masters of science in biology. Rachelle Lyndaker MDiv ’07 Schlabach was recently appointed the director of MCC Washington Office, replacing J. Daryl Byler ’79, MA ’85. Rachelle, was editor of Washington Memo newsletter. She worked for the MCC Washington MCC office from 1998 to 2003.
Marriages
Jonelle Gingerich ’85 to Elvin Shenk, July 8. Vera Hailey ’90 to Christopher Valenzuela, June 16. Tim D. Martin ’92 to Kirsten Johnsen, July 29. Karla Alderfer ’98 to Brian Tierney, May 5. Jeremy Baker ’99 to Lisa Shultz, 8June 16. Darrick Hummel ’99 to Sheri Starkey, May 19. Andrew Eshleman ’00 to Ashley Chupp ’07, June 9. Jennifer Lynn Harvey ’00, MA’06, to Kerry Alan Saner, GCC ’05, Mar. 3. Amy Sommers ’01 to Mark Shelly, July 6. Brad Miller ’02 to Jessica Yoder, May 26. Emily Troyer ’03 to Jonathan Mellett, May 5. Jennifer Eberly ’04 to Timothy Freed, June 23.
Matt Weaver ’04 to Kelly Bower, Nov. 4, 2006. Elizabeth Ramsey ’05 to Adam Dove, Apr. 28.
Former EMU roommates and their children in an early '07 photo by Renita Denlinger of Denver, Pennsylvania
Dorm Friends Then, And Now…
Every week or so, some combination of 19 adults and 9 children get together in the Lancaster area to reminisce about their college years in the late 1990s, share what’s happening these days, and discuss hopes for the future. Each woman roomed with at least one other person in this photo while they were at EMU. Key to photo: 1.Winter Mouberry, 2. Megan Gredler Mouberry, 3. Doran Kennedy, 4. Kristel Wenger Kennedy, 5. Melissa Spory Beidler, 6. Miranda Beidler, 7. Tina Hartman, 8. Alyssa Livengood Waite, 9. Lilian Waite, 10. Tobin Waite, 11. August Stetler, 12. Elizabeth Foard, 13. Colette Sharp Stetler, 14. Krista Moyer Snader, 15. Andrea Buchen Foard, 16. Melody Nolt Althouse, 17. Erin Althouse 14
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Rare Book Donated
Elwood E. Yoder ’81 is the reason that the Menno Simons Historical Library at EMU has been given a rare book printed in 1539 by the Beck press in Strasbourg, Germany. Yoder is the author of a novel Margaret’s Print Shop (2005), based on the lives of Margaret and Balthaser Beck, early Anabaptists who ran a 16th century printing business in Strasbourg. The Swiss owner of the rare book, Bruno Weber, located Yoder via the internet. In e-mail communications, Weber developed an interest in the Beck press about which Yoder wrote his novel. The book is a translation from the Latin of Flavius Josephus’s A History of the Jews by Caspar Hedio, a Lutheran preacher. Yoder knows of only two other copies of the book of the same date – one in the Yale University library and the other at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He believes the book was actually handled by Margaret Beck, "since we know she established the press in the mid1520s." Yoder is chair of the Bible and social studies departments at Eastern Mennonite High School. –Jim Bishop www.emu.edu | crossroads | 45
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