Crossroads Summer 2008 - Alumni Magazine of Eastern Mennonite University

our Servant-leaders in Science summer 2008

emu... preparing students to serve and lead globally

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crossroads summer 2008, Vol. 89, No. 1

Crossroads (USPS 174-860) is published seasonally by Eastern Mennonite University for distribution to 16,000 alumni, students, parents and friends.

Eastern Mennonite University, founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is an educational institution of Mennonite Church USA. EMU serves students of diverse religious and cultural backgrounds and confers undergraduate, graduate, and seminary degrees. As a leader among faith-based universities, EMU emphasizes peacebuilding, creation care, experiential learning, and cross-cultural engagement.

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Eight alumni involved in research ranging from breast cancer to global warming.

EMU's mission, vision and shared values statement is posted in its entirety at www.emu.edu/president/mission.

Board of Trustees: Susan Godshall, chair, Mount Joy, Pa.; John M. Bomberger, Harrisonburg, Va.; Andrew Dula, Lancaster, Pa.; Gilberto Flores, Newton, Kan.; Curtis D. Hartman, Harrisonburg, Va.; Shirley Hochstetler, Kidron, Ohio; Gerald (Gerry) R. Horst, New Holland, Pa.; Joan King, Telford, Pa.; Linford D. King, Lancaster, Pa.; Herb H. Noll, Lancaster, Pa.; Kathleen (Kay) Nussbaum, Grant, Minn.; Kathy Keener Shantz, Lancaster, Pa.; J. Richard Thomas, Ronks, Pa.; Lillis Troyer, Walnut Creek, Ohio; Diane Z. Umble, Lancaster, Pa.; Paul R. Yoder, Jr., Harrisonburg, Va. Associate trustees: Myron E. Blosser, Harrisonburg, Va.; Steve Brenneman, Nappanee, Ind.; Robert (Bob) P. Hostetler, Erie, Pa.; Clyde G. Kratz, Broadway, Va.; Amy L. Rush, Harrisonburg, Va.; Dan Garber, Hutchinson, Kan.; Carlos Romero, Mennonite Education Agency rep, Goshen, Ind.; Judith Trumbo, Broadway, Va. Loren Swartzendruber, president; Lee Snyder, interim provost; Kirk Shisler, vice president for advancement; Andrea Wenger, marketing and communications director.

Bonnie Price Lofton Editor/writer bonnie.lofton@emu.edu

Jon Styer Designer/photographer jon.styer@emu.edu

Paul T. Yoder Mileposts editor paul.t.yoder@emu.edu

Jim Bishop Public information officer bishopj@emu.edu

Marcy Gineris Web content manager marcy.gineris@emu.edu

Jason Garber Web/new media coord. jason.garber@emu.edu

Lindsey Roeschley Project coord./videographer lindsey.roeschley@emu.edu

Laura Bomberger Project assistant

All EMU personnel can be reached during regular work hours through calling (540) 432-4000, or via contact details posted on the university website, www.emu.edu.

Cover photo of Serita Frey '86 by Perry Smith, courtesy University of New Hampshire Photo Services.

Also see page 3.

POSTMASTER: Submit address changes to: Crossroads Eastern Mennonite University 1200 Park Road Harrisonburg, VA 22802

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6 Science, Service, Success

Photos of science alumni working in health, space exploration, education and business.

20 Rural Rooted Loren Swartzendruber confers with Kirk Shisler, v-p for advancement, on expansion plans.

Modern Facilities Needed for Tomorrow's Servant-Leaders Five years ago, in preparation for assuming responsibilities as president, I reviewed documents outlining dreams for new and renovated facilities. The Suter Science Center was near the top of the list. I was momentarily disoriented; in my mind the Suter Science Center was a relatively new building and should hardly need a renovation. And then reality set in. Forty years ago this fall I entered EMU as a first-year student, the same year that the science center opened. The building and I had both aged since 1968!

The inspiring stories in these pages have emerged from a university that prepares students to be agents of change in the world. Our science alumni repeatedly note that EMU prepared them superbly for their graduate studies and for their roles as servants and leaders afterwards.

In 1969 I transferred to the University of Iowa to study pharmacy. I went from small science classes at EMU taught by PhDs (who were also in the labs with students) to lecture classes of 300-400 students at Iowa. Labs were taught by graduate assistants. When I advised my children to attend EMU and take advantage of its excellence, I was speaking from experience.

The quality of our current science faculty is impressive. They are well prepared to carry on the legacy of venerated faculty members of past decades. If one had to choose between quality faculty and state-of-the-art facilities, the faculty would have to come first. Now is the time to improve the science facilities to match the quality of our faculty. We will continue to prepare graduates to serve and lead globally.

EMU is undertaking a comprehensive campaign of extraordinary scale. The speed with which we are able to proceed with construction is dependent upon the generosity of alumni and friends. Please pray for this campaign. If you wish to be among the leadership group in making a commitment to this effort during the initial quiet phase of this campaign, please contact Kirk Shisler, v-p for advancement at kirk.shisler@emu.edu, or me at lorens@emu.edu (or by calling 540-432-4000). I hope to see you at Homecoming 2008, October 10 through 12.

Many alumni have chosen to care for the Amish or others in “under-served� rural areas.

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Daniel Suter, a legendary pre-med professor, is fondly remembered.

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Time to modernize and expand EMU's 40-year-old Suter Science Center.

30 Cross-Cultural Snapshots

A large percentage of our health-care alumni work outside of the developed West.

32 Array of Alumni

A cross-section of our hundreds of alumni involved in science-related work.

40 Alumni Honorees

Donald B. Kraybill, Donald R. Jacobs, and Herman Bontrager to be recognized Oct. 10-12.

56 Homecoming 2008

Find all the information you need to come and enjoy EMU's big annual celebration.

Blessings,

Loren Swartzendruber

President

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Tough of Mind, Strong in Spirit . . .

Serita D. Frey ’84 - ’86, PhD (Colorado State) Associate Professor, Dept. of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire

Our Science Alumni Tackle Unpaved Roads

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esponding to an appeal in the spring ’08 issue of Crossroads, more than 400 science-alumni filled out an online survey or sent us an e-mail to update us about their work. Most of the people pictured in this issue were drawn from those updates. As in our previous issue on “alumni in business,” we were somewhat limited by how far we could dispatch our photographers – brothers Jon Styer ’07 and Matthew Styer ’05 – to shoot fresh photos.

Occasionally we hired a distant photographer or asked alumni to send us their amateur photos from afar, in an effort to show the wide impact of EMU’s alumni.

As a result, the next 54 pages contain 62 photos of 81 alumni from 18 scientific professions, working in 15 states and eight countries. For an even better grasp of what alumni are doing, however, peruse the 359 listings we compiled on pages 20 through 27, based on our surveys and research. Realize, though, that the 457 science-alumni noted by name in this issue amount to no more than a quarter of the total emerging from Eastern Mennonite College/University over the last 60 years.

This magazine does not list, for instance, such servant-leaders as Richard Keeler ’60, MD, who was given EMU’s annual “distinguished service award” in 2004 for his 13-year commitment to the eradication of Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) in Trinidad and Tobago. We just didn't receive a survey from Dr. Keeler. We also didn't receive one from Beth Good '03, a nurse who was traveling around Africa for much of the late spring and early summer, working on programs to alleviate HIV/AIDS. Our alumni tend to be busy folks, so we are grateful for those who took the time to respond and we under2 | crossroads | summer 2008

stand why we missed hearing from many.

We dedicate this issue of Crossroads to those of you who are not pictured in this issue… To physician assistants like Mary Beth Lichty ’86, who "takes care of God's lost children" – those incarcerated in federal prisons. And to Konnie Landis, a ’96 graduate of Temple medical school who spent her honeymoon helping people with AIDS in Uganda and building a Habitat for Humanity House, before returning to the United States to serve in rural Washington state under the National Health Service. Konnie died of pancreatic cancer three years ago at age 36, just a year after her marriage, but she is remembered for being “a doctor who took her skills and compassion around the world,” according to the Herald newspaper in Everett, Washington.

Konnie wasn’t the first EMU alumnus in her family. Her physician-father, R. Laverne Landis ’63, began his career in rural Factoryville, Pennsylvania, where he saw patients in his home basement regardless of their ability to pay. Her mother, E. Jean Landis, a If you do not find your name and profession listed anywhere in these 56 pages – and if you are an alumnus or alumna working in, or retired from, the sciences (health, natural or technological) – please do send us your information. Just complete the online survey at: emu.edu/crossroads/update We will compile a supplemental listing which we will publish either on the Crossroads website, or if space permits, in the next issue of Crossroads.

’62 graduate with a nursing degree, helped in the practice and eventually opened a homebased day-care facility to take care of adults with Alzheimer’s, brain injuries and other chronic conditions. Mom and dad Landis also worked four years in Jamaica and another four years on an Apache reservation. They are now retired in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. Konnie’s brother Kenenth R. Landis ’94, MDiv ’04, is a Mennonite pastor in rural New York.

The pattern visible in the Landis family – multi-generations at EMU, embracing the underserved both in the U.S. and internationally – can be seen throughout this magazine. On page 20, we look at other alumni addressing the needs of the under-served in such areas as the coal-mining belt around Harlan, Kentucky, and Amish farm country in Ohio and Pennsylvania. On page 30, you’ll find photos borrowed from the home albums of alumni who have served extensively in cross-cultural settings. On pages 40 through 43, two of the three alumni-award recipients have worked directly for mission or church agencies in rural or overseas settings.

Occasionally we note that EMU needs your financial gifts to continue serving effectively as a nurturer of such remarkable servant-leaders. And somewhere – at the back actually – is an invitation to attend a jam-packed Homecoming celebration in October. Do both, if you can: supply ongoing support and come visit, not necessarily in that order.  Bonnie Price Lofton, MA ’04 Editor

I am an ecosystem ecologist. My research examines how global change – climate warming, nitrogen deposition, land-use change, biodiversity loss, and invasive species – is altering ecosystem function, particularly in terms of soil nutrient cycles. With funding from the National Science Foundation, I recently started a global change experiment at Harvard Experimental Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. I am also involved in the development of the National Ecological Observatory Network, a NSF-funded continental-scale observation program monitoring ecosystem responses to global change.

My desire to be an environmental scientist began when I was a pre-med major at EMU and took an ecology class with Dr. Clair Mellinger (’64). But I wanted to take more environmental science courses than EMU offered at the time, so I transferred to UVa’s environmental sciences program for my last two years as an undergraduate. I have to admit, too, that I wanted to experience something new. I was raised on a dairy farm near Harrisonburg and had attended Eastern Mennonnite High School, so I was ready to try on new experiences.

I keep in touch with my first-year roommate, Katrina Eby Yoder (’87), the daughter of Omar Eby (’57, retired EMU English professor), and with Gloria Rhodes (’88) who teaches justice, peace and conflict studies courses at EMU. I stop

by EMU regularly when I visit family and friends in Harrisonburg. My experiences at Eastern Mennonite were very positive and helped shape the direction of my life.

For more info on Frey’s work, visit:

unh.edu/natural-resources/fac-frey.html

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Richard E. Royal ’84, MD (Ore. Hlth. & Sci. U.) Senior Investigator, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Anthony R. Pratkanis ’79, PhD (Ohio State)

Janelle Aby ’86, MD (UVa)

Psychology professor, University of California-Santa Cruz

Clinical Associate professor of pediatrics, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California

+ Researches social influence, attitude structure, function and change (in particular, marketing techniques and consumer behavior). + Co-author of The Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion (revised edition, 2001). + Studies and consults on economic fraud crimes, especially those targeted at the elderly. + Founding editor of journal Social Influence and contributor to many other psychology journals. + Winner of USCS’s “excellence in teaching” award. + Over 350 appearances or citations via mass media, including Oprah, Dateline NBC, CBS News, C-Span, Washington Post, L.A. Times, and CNN. +

+ Research focuses breastfeeding and factors that impact it. + Seeks to improve the educational experience for residents and students in the nursery regarding the examination and management of term or near-term infants. + Clinical/ educational website: http://newborns.stanford.edu + “In my opinion, the benefits of the ’Ivy League’ universities are realized at the graduate level, not the undergraduate level.

I would absolutely recommend a school like EMU; the education received there can take one anywhere.” +

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+ Royal's group has developed immunotherapy (the alteration of a patient's immune system to cause a tumor regression), based mainly on lymphocyte immunology. + Directs several clinical protocols advancing the treatment of pancreatic cancer. + Clinically, specializes in complex resections of tumors of the pancreas, including vascular reconstruction and microscopic pancreatic duct restoration. + Research is targeted at extending immunotherapy to pancreas cancer. In one study, tumor cells from resected pancreas cancers are expanded, along with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes to better understand the tumor immunology of this disease. + Another study explored the interruption of immunosuppression as a way of allowing the immune system to cause regression of advanced pancreatic cancer. + An associate investigator in an effort to explore advanced immunotherapy against melanoma. + In the metabolism section, also an associate investigator into experimental regional therapies including peritoneal, limb and liver perfusions. + Credits retired biology professor Clair Mellinger for “the start you and the department at EMU gave me,” adding “from there my career has launched off to exceed my grasp at every turn.” +

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Abram M. Hostetter ’51, MD (Jefferson Med.) Psychiatric consultant and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Tammy Rowe ’98, MS (Shippensburg)

Virginia “Ginny” Mason, RN ’99

Analyst, Office of Science Policy, Planning and Communications, NIMH, Rockville, Maryland

Executive director, Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Bainbridge Island, Washington

+ Implements validity testing for disease categories and uses “program analysis research information system” software to do scientific coding, among other duties. +

+ Survivor of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) and founding administrator of a foundation launched in 1999 to address this "most aggressive form of breast cancer," which represents 2% to 5% of all breast cancers in the United States. + Sparks research into the causes of the disease and disseminates information about it, especially on recognizing its symptoms, because it is not usually detectable by mammograms or ultrasounds. + IBC usually grows in nests or sheets rather than a solid tumor; it can spread throughout the breast without a detectable lump. + More information at http://www.ibcresearch.org, including Mason's story. +

Kenton J. Swartz ’86, PhD (Harvard) Senior investigator, molecular physiology & biophysics section, Porter Neuroscience Rsrch. Ctr., NIH, Bethesda + Oversees lab that uses biochemical, molecular biological and biophysical techniques to investigate the structure of voltage-activated ion channels and to explore the molecular mechanics by which these channels gate. +

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+ Is one of a handful of researchers credited with a series of ground-breaking studies published in the American Journal of Psychiatry during the early 1980s on affective disorders (involving episodes of mania as well as episodes of depression) among the Lancaster County Amish. These provided “presumptive evidence” of genetic factors in affective disorders, as well as in suicides. + Was one of the authors of a 1987 article in Nature that summarized findings on the genetic link: “Bipolar affective disorders linked to DNA markers on chromosome 11.” + Toward the end of his 20 years of researching the genetic component of mental illness among the Amish, was one of the authors of a 1998 study published by the National Academy of Sciences that found that Amish with no signs of bipolar affective disorders seem to have protective alleles that prevent or reduce their risk of developing the disorders. “The identification and characterization of protective alleles and their gene products could lead to the development of a more rational and direct approach to effective therapy for affective disorders,” Hostetter and his colleagues wrote. +

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Science, Service, Success

"EMU . . . a nurturing, safe, God-centered environment."

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ome of the people in the photos on pages 6 through 19 are famous, some are known mainly to their families, colleagues and patients. But all came to Eastern Mennonite University (or College, as many of them knew it to be) at pivotal points in their lives and were put on the path to their careers. If they were pre-med majors, they were able to dissect one or more cadavers under the close and careful supervision of a PhD-holding professor, an exercise which put them ahead of many of their peers when they got to medical school.

“Our classes are smaller than one finds at larger universities and we do not rely on teaching assistants at the undergraduate level,” notes vice president and undergraduate academic dean Marie Morris, PhD, “Our highly qualified faculty members work with their students in small-class settings, collaborating with students one-on-one to do research that often is published in peerreviewed journals.

"These are some of the reasons why EMU historically has out-produced many large prestigious universities in the percentage of its graduates who go on to become successful physicians, nurses and other professionals in the health-care arena.”

In the last five years, 23 out of 25 applicants from EMU's pre-med program have been accepted into medical schools – an eye-popping 92% rate of admission. (See the list of schools on page 53.)

In March 2003, 17-year-old Aaron Trim-

ble journeyed from his home in Anchorage, Alaska, to scout for pre-medical programs in Virginia. The son of a neurologist, he was trying to improve his odds of admission to the University of Virginia medical school, which admits only 9% of its applicants on an average year. (The odds are better for in-state applicants, 18.5% of whom were admitted in 2005.) His father advised him to look at small schools that might have a pipeline to UVa.

UVa medical student Aaron Trimble '06

After applying to five schools in the vicinity of UVa and being admitted to each, Aaron settled on Eastern Mennonite. “In the end, it just felt right. I honestly felt the Lord was directing me here. This place challenged me in all the right ways.” Aaron was admitted to UVa medical school on his first try in 2006. “I think it helped that they knew EMU and its world view and the type of people that tend to come out of EMU.” Raised in an evangelical non-denominational church, Aaron drives an hour across

the mountain range separating UVa and EMU to attend a conservative Mennonite church each Sunday. “Going to church with farmers provides me with balance that I need; it keeps me in check despite the pressures of school.”

Kevin Foley ’96, a doctorate-holding pharmacologist who co-directs a medical lab program at the Mayo Clinic, echoes the observations of Aaron: “I have come to believe that the biggest problem facing new college students isn’t their intellect or their high school background, it is their work ethic and campus environment. I have worked in schools where numerous students start out as excited, starry-eyed freshman, eager to go on to medical school. But soon after moving on campus they become entangled in the sex, drugs, fraternity/sorority, partyatmosphere and their goals and work ethic quickly fade.

“I've attended two grad schools, completed post-doc research, and taught grad and undergrad students at different universities – I can honestly say that EMU is the best school I have been a part of. EMU provided me with a nurturing, safe and God-centered environment which, as I look back, was the reason I was able to be successful.”

Foley also thinks EMU’s graduates benefit from additionally receiving a broad liberal arts education – he majored in history and political science – and from “EMU’s peaceful environment and commitment to conflict resolution.”

photo by matthew styer Internist Emmanuel Mbualungu ’87 graduated from New York Medical College and did his residency in 1996 at the Washington Hospital Center, where he continues to practice.

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1. Susmita Solanki ’92 “Missy” Solanki is the daughter of Eastern Mennonite Seminary professor Dr. Anil Solanki, who came from India on sabbatical in 1988 with a mission of translating the Old Testament into Gujarati. He and his family of five ended up settling here, where Anil combines teaching at EMS with pastoring for the United Church of Christ. All three children of Anil and his wife Shaila went into health care after graduation from EMU. (See following entry.) Missy earned a doctorate in pharmacy at Shenandoah University and now works in the pharmacy of Augusta Medical Center in Waynesboro, Virginia.

2. Madhur Solanki ’93 Madhur Solanki’s role at Winchester Medical Center in the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley is not the typical one. An osteopathic-trained physician, Madhur is part of a team that ministers to patients lacking private health insurance or other means to fully pay their medical bills.

He cherishes those he serves, finding them down-to-earth and appreciative. Madhur is the youngest of three sciencealumni siblings. The middle child, Missy, is described above. The eldest, Elizabeth ’91, earned a masters degree in physical therapy from Old Dominion University and works at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg.

Madhur will be a featured speaker on Oct. 11 at 9 a.m. during EMU's homecoming festivities. He plans to explore the differences between the osteopathic and allopathic approaches to health care.

3. Susan Marie Zehr Dean ’79

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Registered nurse Sue Dean is employed by the Rockingham County School System to tend to the needs of vulnerable preschoolers in 17 of the county’s programs. “They live at or below the poverty level, live with only one parent or with parents who never finished high school, or are affected by other factors that make them at risk academically.”

She teaches health lessons to both the children and their parents. Sue and her husband Greg are the parents of two EMU undergrads – Joshua and Matthew – and Eastern Mennonite High School senior Janelle.

4. Joseph Gascho ’68 In addition to being a cardiologist, Joe Gascho is a photographer, with some of his best work displayed in the hallways of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of Penn State. The photos show patients of Gascho’s in their home or work settings, such as at a gift shop, in a car dealership, or with model trains that are the patient’s hobby.

“I want patients to be seen as more than a heart attack,” says Gascho, who taught physics, chemistry and math at Eastern Mennonite High School before deciding to be a physician. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1973. He now directs the Cardiology Fellowship Training program at his medical center.

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1. Robert E. Collins ’54 Robert Collins was the orthopedic surgeon for the Redskins from 1985 to 1990, during the years when Joe Gibbs became the winningest head coach in Redskins history…when quarterback Joe Theismann’s leg snapped in a compound fracture, forcing him to retire after a 12-year career in which he became the Redskins' all-time leader in pass attempts and completions… when the Redskins set 20 Super Bowl records…when Art Monk became famous. Collins was there through it all, and he has an official Superbowl ring to prove it. Of course, this is just one chapter in Collins’s long and successful career – he no longer operates, but he still consults with patients at his office in the Washington Hospital Center complex in Washington D.C.

2. gerald (jerry) Hertzler ’88 “I’ve always known I would be a teacher. My mother was a teacher, and it combines the interest I have in kids and in the outdoors,” says Jerry Hertzler. “Teaching is not really a job for me. It is something I enjoy doing that I get paid to do. What better deal is there than that?” Married to the former Lisa Mumaw, a 1988 nursing graduate, Jerry is a science instruction team leader and biology teacher at Harrisonburg (Va.) High School. Jerry's mother, Evelyn Hertzler '60, died this spring after many years of supporting EMU and other educational and church causes (more on Evelyn on page 50).

3. Gretchen Leaman Brandt ’88

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When Gretchen Brandt realized there was no branch of the Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA) for Washington, D.C. medical professionals, she joined with three others and started one in 2005. Such initiative typifies Brandt. As a medical student at Penn State, she went to Kenya in her fourth year of medical school. As a resident at Georgetown University Hospital, she opted for a rotation in Haiti and in Colombia. After a renal fellowship at Georgetown, she became one of three staff nephrologists at Washington Hospital Center – she loved the combination of clinical work, teaching, administration and research – then stepped away to be a stay-at-home mother for two children that she and her husband Randy adopted. These days she treats renal patients on a part-time basis at a Kaiser Permanente clinic near Capitol Hill (on left in the photo, with some of her staff and one of her patients). Recently, Brandt went to Thailand, presenting at a Christian Medical Education conference there and laying the groundwork for CMDA- and Georgetown-sponsored education exchanges.

4. rAYMONDE SAINTIL ’09 Nobody completes the clinical laboratory science program at EMU without successfully rotating through a yearlong medical technology lab practice. Raymonde Santil, a senior at EMU, is doing her rotation at Augusta Medical Center in Waynesboro, Virginia, where a half-dozen other graduates of EMU are employed.

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1. Philip Zapanta ’96 As associate program director of the Otolaryngology Residency Program at George Washington University Hospital, Philip Zapanta not only treats sinus disease, allergies, head and neck trauma, and general ear, nose and throat problems, he trains others to do so. An assistant professor of surgery, Zapanta is a board-certified otolaryngologist and specialist in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

2. Bonnie Zehr ’86 Pediatricians can fall into the trap of sacrificing the wellbeing of their own children in their efforts to meet the needs of other people’s children. It’s a trap Bonnie Zehr, a Lancaster (Pa.) pediatrician, hopes to avoid. She has placed herself in a group practice where colleagues cover for each other and she makes a point of wrapping up her day in time to do family things, like taking daughter Joelle (pictured with her mother) to an early-evening baseball game. Bonnie’s brother, Kenton J. Zehr ’83, is also a physician. He is a cardiac surgeon.

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This EMU nursing grad and experienced nursing administrator has an unusual title these days: “Transitional Planning Director at Rockingham Memorial Hospital.”

It’s a big deal, really. For the first time since the hospital was founded in 1912, it is packing up and moving to a new, expanded complex on 254 acres outside of the city of Harrisonburg. Somebody has to organize and coordinate the several dozen teams working on the move, to be completed by 2010. And that somebody is Judith Trumbo, who holds a masters degree in business administration from James Madison University as well as a BS in nursing from EMU. Trumbo is also on the board of trustees of EMU. She will be a featured speaker on Oct. 11 at 8 a.m. during EMU's homecoming festivities.

4. Thaddeus hollingsworth ’04 & Mark grimaldi ’94 For nearly a decade, Mark Grimaldi (on right of photo) soaked up knowledge and experience as a chemical engineer working for Merck Pharmaceuticals. Then he started his own company, Equinox Chemicals, in Albany, Georgia.

Since its founding in 2003, the company has “become one of the industry’s leaders in custom organic synthesis,” says Grimaldi, who is married to Jessica Derstine ’97.

Thaddeus Hollingsworth (on left) recently joined Equinox as chief chemist and lab manager. For information on the company’s synthetic and analytic capabilities, visit www.eqx.chem.com.

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1. Robert Conley ’68 In the late 1960s, Bob Conley thought he would be a schoolteacher and thus majored in elementary education at EMU. To avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, however, he declared himself to be a conscientious objector (C.O.) and was assigned to doing "inhalation therapy" at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. He enjoyed the work. After his C.O. stint was over, he got further respiratory therapy training in a two-year program at the University of the District of Columbia. Now he is in his 40th year of employment as a respiratory therapist, with 36 years in two Adventist hospitals in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. "I think I might be setting a record for the longest respiratory therapy career in Maryland," he said.

2. Geoffrey Nolt ’02 Dentist Geoffrey Nolt works in a family practice in every sense of the word. Not only does he treat entire families, he is surrounded by his own immediate family. After graduating from Temple University School of Dentistry, he joined his father, also a dentist, in his practice in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Their office is managed by Geoffrey’s wife, Stashia Davis (right side of photo), who is a 2002 graduate of EMU, and her mother, Carol Davis '78 (on left).

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Paul Mexcur works for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a proposal manager for the next NASA mission to Mars. “This mission will study Mars’ atmosphere, climate, liquid water and planetary habitability,” Mexcur says. It is scheduled for a 2013 launch.

Mexcur is technology and IT manager for heliophysics.

He was a liberal arts major at EMU, who went on to earn a masters in public administration. He is based at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

4. Sarah Kunjam ’06 Sarah Kunjam is facing difficult choices, as she weighs whether to remain as a nurse at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. or to transplant herself to the Norfolk, Virginia, area from which her husband Selam Hussein ’04 presumably will be deployed for the duration of his four-year enlistment in the U.S. Navy. Kunjam, whose parents are from India but who was born in the United States, and Hussein, an Ethiopian national who is the son of a Mennonite pastor and educator, have made it a priority to achieve financial and social stability as they prepare to welcome their first-born child into the world in late 2008. They have discovered that fellow alumnus Michael Williams ’06, a Navy nurse who has been caring for veterans at Bethesda Naval Hospital, understands their situation well, as he too is providing for his family through military service.

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1. Rebekah Hunter Davis ’93 While attending a small Christian high school in New Hampshire, Rebekah saw an EMU pamphlet that invited her to study nursing at a college where cross-cultural study was required, where “giving back to the community” was assumed. “Sounded like my kind of program,” said Rebekah, daughter of a Panamanian father and Jamaican mother. She considered being an osteopathic physician – even took classes at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for a year – but settled on critical care nursing.

She works two 12-hour shifts weekends at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, which allows her to be a full-time mother to her two-year-old daughter and enjoy weekday evenings with her husband.

2. GODFREY MUGANDA ’79 Godfrey Muganda, PhD, who majored in math at EMU, is climbing the ranks at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. With graduate degrees from the College of William & Mary and Lehigh University, Muganda is now associate professor and chair of computer science and coordinator of the masters in computer science program. He is the coauthor, with Judy Walters and Tony Gaddis, of 6th Edition, Starting Out with C++: Early Objects, 2007. Muganda is married to Lore Hower ’80 and they have three children.

3. Gerald (jerry) L. Kauffman ’73

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Being a pharmacist with no walk-in customers, Jerry Kauffman enjoys being able to dress casually at work.

“How many other EMU graduates are pharmacists?” Jerry wrote to Crossroads. (Answer: A tiny fraction of the number who are nurses and physicians.) “It’s a great field. We are always in demand, and that has been the case ever since I graduated from pharmacy school.” Kauffman’s employer, Omnicare Pharmacy of Wadsworth, Ohio, meets the pharmaceutical needs of institutional living centers, especially those caring for the aging.

4. Jill Gehman ’98 What are the chances of two nursing graduates from the same 1998 class at EMU – but now living in different states and working for different hospital systems – simultaneously winning the same prestigious national award? As the manager of the cardio-thoracic surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Jill Gehman led the team that won the Beacon Award from the Association of Critical Care Nurses in 2007. It’s an award conferred on only 121 intensive care units out of 6,000 eligible in the nation for demonstrating “clinical excellence, team work, evidence-based practice, and organizational ethics.” So imagine Gehman’s surprise when she learned that one of the other winners was Tiffany Good Witmer, also class of 1998, who directed until recently the cardiovascular surgical intensive care unit at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio.

(For more on Witmer turn to page 32.)

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J. Mark Snyder ’02 Optometrist Mark Snyder is the primary care resident at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia, where he diagnoses, treats and manages visual and ocular health problems. He also supervises students during their clinical rotations. He is married to Kristy Shellenberger ’02, a physician assistant in a busy urban pediatric clinic.

I stumbled across the field of optometry after needing an eye exam before I headed off on my cross-cultural semester my junior year at EMU. At first I saw myself being a physician, but I became interested in optometry because it allowed me to be specialized and challenged, yet it was widespread in scope – it touches everyone.

Also, optometry is rooted in math and physics, two subjects I enjoy very much. My father teaches both subjects at Western Mennonite High School, and both were sort of engrained in me from a young age. I enjoy being able both to use logic and to feel awe and wonderment.

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ily is very strong here. They are just good, honest, hard-working people here.”

“When patients come to see me, they don’t come alone,” says Richard. “They come with their husbands or wives, children, grandparents… whoever can come along in the family comes. Family means everything here.”

Adds Elaine: “In many ways, being away from the more mainstream of American culture is not a bad thing.”

Called to the Under-Served

Dairy cattle veterinarian Harley M. Kooker ’73 says 85% of his work is on Amish farms, such as this one.

They Sank Roots In Under-Served Areas

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ichard and Elaine Stotlzfus moved to Harlan County, Kentucky, because “we wanted to be out of the mainstream,” Richard ’59 says. “We wanted to be where we would feel really useful.”

That was 32 years, and two grown children, ago. Today they live in a log home they built about 100 yards from the duplex they shared with another Mennonite doctor and his family for most of their first 17 years in Harlan. They shared the telephone, washing machine, vacuum-sweeper, and nurture of the four kids – two per family. Now they just share part of the driveway.

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about a dozen Mennonites who moved to the coal-mining region of Harlan to be of service. They have stayed decades in the lovely Appalachian mountain region where the southwestern tip of Virginia meets eastern Kentucky.

Richard is an internist. Elaine, who spent 1961-62 studying at EMU’s seminary, is a certified health educator.

They work in clinics where warnings about the dangers of the abuse of OxyContin (a powerful prescription-only painkiller) are posted on the walls. They shop in places where the men in line ahead of them may have coal dust ground into their faces, necks and arms, making their skin pigment a

color that fits no racial category – gray.

The waitress at the local Chinese restaurant looks young enough to be their granddaughter, but she already exceeds by three-fold her ideal body weight. Her friend, lighting up a cigarette outside the door, looks the opposite – as if a strong wind would carry away his wispy frame.

A tough place to fret about people’s health? For sure. But Richard and Elaine love living and working in Harlan. They have since the beginning. They don’t regard it as a hardship. They regard it as safe and supportive – a great place to raise children.

“People who don’t have very much often have something else,” explains Elaine. “Fam-

Elaine and Richard may be different from typical American health-care practitioners, but they have lots of company among EMU’s alumni group. In a 1985 chapel on the eve of his retirement, veteran EMU biology professor Dan Suter reflected on what happened to the 300 or so students he had taught: “Many of these have or are practicing in third world countries or in deprived or underserved areas of the United States, devoting their abilities to alleviate suffering in areas often avoided by the medical profession.”

Elton Lehman ’58 was named "Country Doctor of the Year" in 1988 for serving a uniquely isolated group: the Amish. In a book and CD that chronicles his life, House Calls and Hitching Posts by Dorcas Sharp Hoover (2004), Lehman is portrayed as feeling undecided in the early 1960s between being a medical missionary overseas and serving a large Amish community in rural-eastern Ohio. He came to appreciate the need of the Amish for “doctors who understood and respected their convictions for living simple, separated lives,” wrote Hoover, and listened to God’s call to settle in Mount Eaton, Ohio.

Similar to his classmates who went to Kenya, Ethiopia or Haiti to offer medical care, Lehman found himself needing to be the “jack of all health trades,” from obstetrics (even home-delivering multiple sets of twins) to surgery (stitching up the victims of farm-machinery accidents).

Other EMU grads have stepped up to meet the needs of the Amish for scientific assistance beyond the level of their own education, which typically ends after grade eight. Veterinarian Harley M. Kooker ’73, for instance, tends to the dairy cows owned by the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

In Dayton, Virginia, the Carilion family practice – staffed, in part, by three EMU

alumni (nurse-practitioner Lisa Gallagher Landes ’86, physician Robert Pence ’87, and registered nurse Janet Sonifrank ’71) – has a well-used hitching post in its parking lot for the convenience of Old Order Mennonite patients. Like Lehman in Ohio, Landes makes house calls as needed.

Before retiring in Dayton in January, Martha Rohrer, a 1969 graduate of EMU’s nursing program, specialized in house calls

to pregnant women, doing 1,103 home deliveries in the Shippensburg area of Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She was particularly in demand

by Old Order Mennonite women. In 1980 Rohrer completed a one-year midwifery program at Meharry Medical College, a historically black college in Tennessee, to earn her midwifery certificate and pass her licensing exam. From 1956 to 1975, Rohrer photo by jon styer

Jeannette and Elzo Johnson of Harlan County, Ky., are deeply loyal to their doctor. photo by jon styer

Internist Richard G. Stoltzfus ’59 sees Jeanette and Elzo at his no-frills clinic.

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Lois Ann and Steve Alderfer, class of '86, share one nurse-practitioner job in rural Virginia, so they can share and enjoy parenting their three children.

Donald E. Yoder, MDiv '74, practices in the southwestern Virginia town of Pulaski and enjoys motorcycle riding on America's backroads. photo by matthew styer

EMU alumni-physicians pictured at the Mount Eaton (Ohio) Center, which serves Amish women desiring to give birth outside of hospitals: from left, Elton Lehman '58, Brent Lehman '91, Titus Dutcher '83, Maurice Stutzman '78

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Martha Rohrer '69 holds her great-granddaughter, born after Rohrer retired from midwifery in January, 2008.

did nursing in rural Ethiopia where, out of necessity, she delivered hundreds of babies.

She earned a nursing degree at EMU in 1969 while on furlough from Ethiopia.

Psychiatrist Harold Kraybill ’61 specializes in treating Amish and conservative Mennonite in- and out-patients, working from an Amish-built cottage-like facility in a secluded corner of the grounds of Philhaven in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Called the “Green Pasture Program,” it handles Amish with mental health problems from all over North America.

Among the low mountains of Nelson County, Virginia, two family nurse practitioners, Lois ’86 and Steven ’86 Alderfer jobshare so that they can be equally engaged with raising their three children. (For more information, see the article posted at www. emu.edu/news/index.php/1669/alumni.)

In Pulaski, Virginia, most of the patients of Donald E. Yoder, would be surprised to learn that their motorcycle-riding internist also holds a master's of divinity from EMU. Fellow motorcycle enthusiast Samuel Showalter ’65, practices part time at the Green Valley Clinic in Bergton, Virginia, located on a narrow rural road near Highland Mennonite retreat center.

Sticking Close to Home The disparate communities served by alumni working in rural areas tend to share a devotion to family and place. Like the Amish, the residents of Harlan County generally stick close to home, even without restricting themselves to horse and buggy transportation.

“Some of my patients have never left Harlan County,” says Richard.

But the ailments are different. Elton’s preretirement case load – he recently handed over his practice to another family practitioner, son Brent ’91 – revolved heavily around delivering babies and treating injuries. In Richard’s internal medicine practice, he sees conditions linked to the ways that Harlan residents must earn their living and the lifestyles they tend to lead, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic lung ailments.

One of Richard’s favorite patients is 73-year-old Elzo Johnson and his second wife Jeannette. A few years ago Elzo snipped some nature scenes from a calendar and slipped them into Elzo-made frames that now decorate the wall in Richard’s office.

Until June 23, 1983 – the date is etched

in Elzo’s memory – Elzo was a coal miner.

Now he is on disability from black-lung disease. Despite his shortness of breath – it’s not just the black lung, he still smokes unfiltered Lucky Strikes – Johnson maintains an immaculate, ranch-style house beside railroad tracks where coal-filled cars pass a half dozen times per day. He has improved the place himself over the years, installing log siding, wood floors, and a tin roof.

Elzo is not one to pull punches, verbally or otherwise. He talks about shooting and injuring some neighbors who were vandalizing his home and demonstrates his quick draw with his pistol. So when he says he likes his doctor and wouldn’t go to anybody but Dr. Stoltzfus, he means it.

“Dr. Stoltzus, he’ll talk to you. Some doctors say, 'Hello, how are you,' and hardly listen to what you say. They take notes and you’re out of there,” says Elzo.

Four years ago, Elzo took Jeanette, his wife of six years, to see Dr. Stoltzfus. She agreed with her husband: “A lot of doctors race you out the door, but he is concerned about you and he’ll give you as much time as you need.” So now Dr. Stoltzfus is her doctor too, treating her at age 55 for “hardening of the arteries.” www.emu.edu | crossroads | 23

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"I’ve been to three doctors in my life, and Dr. Stoltzfus is the best," says Elzo. "My plan, Humana, is saying that they won’t pay for it (his services) because he has to be in the plan and some other doctor is in the plan. But I will pay the 88 dollars myself if I have to.”

Richard’s not talking about retirement yet, but when that time comes Elaine and Richard probably will move closer to their two adult children. They are both graduates of Eastern Mennonite who have chosen not to settle in the remote area in which they were raised. Mark Stoltzfus ’94 is an anesthesiologist with Commonwealth Anesthesia Associates in Richmond, Virginia; Jill Stoltzfus ’91, with a PhD in psychology, is director of the Research Institute at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

"The only time I go back to Harlan now is at Thanksgiving, but it still feels like home," Mark says. "I ran into my second-grade teacher at the mall, and she remembered me.

I always run into old friends, and it is like I never left. We just pick up where we left off."

Yet moments later, Mark refers to interests he has developed as an adult that he could not pursue in Harlan, like scuba diving and competitive tennis.

"I never saw myself staying in Harlan permanently," says Jill, who was born in Haiti where her parents worked before moving to Kentucky. "These days when I visit my parents, I must admit to experiencing some culture shock, and it reinforces to me that I'm exactly where I need to be right now, living and working in the suburbs of Philadelphia and being close to where the 'action' is. Having said that, growing up in Harlan County helped shape my worldviews and values in significant ways."

Mark likes to get to know the patients he is going to "put under." The time he spends talking with patients pre-operatively, making sure they feel comfortable with the anesthesia process and with him, has resulted in thank-you notes – an unexpected gesture to someone in his line of work.

Mark seeks to treat everyone with equal respect – the janitor, technician, patient, desk clerk, nurse. "It is hard to say why I like to work this way or where it all comes from," says Mark.

His friends in Harlan wouldn't wonder.

They would nod knowingly: "Just like dad." 

Bellefontaine, Ohio, medical alumni: Upper row (from left) John Wenger '85, Charles Kratz '88, Rodney Graber '87, Roger Kauffman '73, Winfred Stoltzfus '80. In chairs, Ryan Kauffman '99 (left) and Randall Longenecker '75.

Small Is Better: Training Rural Practitioners

By Randall Longenecker ’75, MD

Sam Showalter '65, is co-administrator of the Mennonite Medical Association. photo by jon styer

“Medical education is rigorous, but that doesn’t mean it is relevant and responsive to the needs of rural communities, not to mention the learners themselves,” says family practice professor and practitioner Randall Longenecker ’75, founding director of the first “2-2-2” integrated rural-training track in family medicine in the nation. Here is his account of the founding and growth of Mad River Family Practice in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

EMU alumni designed, implemented, and continue to refine Mad River Family Practice, a program affiliated with Ohio State University to train rural practitioners. Mad River Family Practice – otherwise known as The Ohio State University Rural Program – is what we like to refer to as an “idealized micropractice” in medical education.

In addition to the “2-2-2” configuration (two residents a year for all three years of training – a waiver from the minimum requirement of four residents a year by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education), The Ohio State University Rural Program has spawned other innovations in medical education. “Clinical Jazz” is an eight-year experiment in group process

centered on the doctor-patient relationship, which we consider the core of clinical practice. “Faculty Jam,” a parallel process among program faculty, is our version of continuing faculty development, focused upon the teacherlearner relationships and learning to teach in practice.

The curriculum is a longitudinal experience in small-town group practice covering the full spectrum of family medicine, including an active obstetrical practice. It includes immersion experiences at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and University Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, an hour away.

Eleven graduates will have proceeded to rural or underserved initial places of practice in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Ohio, as well as Canada. In addition, two faculty have gone on to teach in residency programs in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Portland, Maine.

Mad River Family Practice emerged from Oakhill Medical Associates in 1997. The two practices, both heavily staffed by EMU graduates, share a building and collaborate to offer “a practice with a residency” (as opposed

to most residencies with a practice, or model family practice center). They are responding to a wider call for community-embedded, practice-based health professions education. In fact, at this point medical students and residents, nurse practitioner students, and pharmacy students all train here, creating a virtual rural health professions campus.

In addition to the author, alumni involved in this effort include Arland Esch ’76, D.O., assistant director until 2006; current assistant director John Wenger ’85, D.O.; and these members of Oakhill Medical Associates – Roger Kauffman ’73, MD; Charles Kratz ’88, MD; Ryan Kauffman ’99, MD; Rodney Graber ’87, MD; and Winfred Stoltzfus ’80, MD, who provides specialty teaching in cardiology and internal medicine. Andy Hershberger ’02 is assistant practice administrator for both Mad River and Oakhill.

For more information visit www.madriverfamilypractice.org or contact: Randall Longenecker, MD 308 E Williams Ave. Bellefontaine, Ohio 43311 (937) 465-0080 rlongenecker@embarqmail.com

Lisa Gallagher Landes '86, Robert Pence '87 and Janet Sonifrank '71, care for Old Order Mennonites, as well as modern Mennonites, in a Dayton, Va., office location.

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Dr. Suter, Model Teacher

Smart and Humble, Rigorous and Loving "Daniel Suter was a model for me. He was the type of person and teacher I hope to be."

Such was the message that emerged, comment after comment, page after page, when Suter’s daughter, Janice Showalter, assembled the notes she received from his former students after her father’s death on December 24, 2006.

“As a member of the last class to have him as an advisor, I feel blessed and thankful,” wrote R. Todd Weaver ’87, a dentist who is president of the Mennonite Medical Association. “Dan was the father figure who believed in me, next to my own father, of course. He was so supportive and respectful, unlike the professors I was to meet in professional school. He taught us to be respectful of ourselves and others…how to take initiative, responsibility, and how to problem-solve.

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scientist who demonstrated to me/us not only how to act as a scientist, but believe as a Christian.”

Suter joined the science department at EMU in 1948 and eventually became head of the biology department and pre-med advisor. He retired in 1985.

During his tenure, EMU established a remarkable acceptance rate for its pre-med students: more than 85 percent were and are admitted into medical, dental and veterinary schools, well above the national average of 40 to 50 percent.

“At many medical colleges, Dr. Suter’s word of recommendation was considered enough for admission,” says Stan Godshall ’65, a family practitioner who earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Suter provided recommendations for about 300 students during his 36 years of teaching.

“Dr. Suter quietly launched us all,” says Kenton J. Zehr ’83, cardiac surgeon at, successively, the Mayo Clinic and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Wrote Joyce Hostetler, a former administrator at the Mennonite Medical Association: “He was, in the very best sense, the kind of Christian I’d like to be…gentle, honest, clear, compassionate, and alive.”

Janelle Aby ’86, a Stanford University pediatrician, was among the last to be taught by Suter. In an anatomy class where a cadaver was to be dissected, “Dr. Suter made sure we remembered this was a person who had dignity, family, and friends – he insisted that we treat the cadaver with the utmost respect,” she said.

“As I later entered medical school and compared notes with many others, many of whom came from very elite colleges, I realized how rare an opportunity we had been given, and how important Dr. Suter’s preamble was in setting the appropriate attitude in medical work,” added Aby. “What a difference it makes to see patients as amazing creations of a loving God!” Aby also credited Suter and his fellow faculty members with establishing a reputation whereby “my EMU degree laid out

something of a red carpet for me on the interview trail.”

“People seemed to recognize that this small college with its unique opportunities gave its graduates some distinct advantages, producing future physicians who were conscientious, well-rounded, and prepared for further education,” said Aby (pictured on page 4), a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Stanford.

Suter was the son of Eastern Mennonite’s first registrar, J. Early Suter. His father advocated that Eastern Mennonite not limit itself to being a Bible school, but also offer academic courses like English, algebra and Latin. This proposal was accepted when he and A.G Heishman agreed to teach these courses on the condition that their pay come out of any money remaining after the Bible teachers were paid.

So Suter grew up in the shadow of this school and graduated from it when it was a junior college. He earned his bachelors degree at Bridgewater College. Years later, as a “mature” student with a family to support, he earned a masters degree at Vanderbilt University and a PhD in neuroanatomy at the Medical College of Virginia. (At MCV he found himself in classes with two former students of his – Ron David ’60 and Duane Diller ’60 – whom he laughingly said he “struggled to stay ahead of.”)

In a campus chapel on the eve of his retirement in 1985, Suter credited his wife Grace for “supporting the family (eventually four children) by taking care of a small laying hen flock, milking the family cow, and laundering shirts for EMC fellows” while he was away in graduate school.

Toward the end of his doctoral studies, Suter was offered a post at MCV. The offer was tempting: “time for research, a teaching load that small-college teachers dream about, teaching entirely in my area of interest, a unique opportunity to be a Christian witness in a non-Christian situation, and a salary nearly triple what I would get here.”

But he felt “God wanted me to be at EMC,” despite the frustrations of lack of educational resources, miniscule salaries that forced him to moonlight, and views sometimes expressed in the students' Weather Vane that made him think, “I may as well be teaching in a non-Christian school.”

As a freshly minted teacher in the late 1940s, Suter said he “practiced” on his early students, naming six of them in his

Dr. Suter teaching anatomy... (Recognize the student above? Tell us who at Crossroads@emu.edu.).

chapel talk. All became physicians, the first to emerge from Eastern Mennonite. [The six today: in a part-time, post-retirement position, Paul T. Yoder (pictured working in Ethiopia on page 31) is editor of the Milepost section of this magazine; Ruth Peachey is a retired psychiatrist in Florence, Alabama; John Paul Heatwole is a retired anesthesiologist in Waynesboro, Va.; David Kauffman Sr. is a retired family physician in Whitefish, Montana; Abe Hostetter, pictured on page 5, is a consulting psychiatrist in Charlottesville, Va.; and James R. Brunk Sr. is a retired internist in Harrisonburg.]

As chair of the Nursing Education Committee in 1966, Suter helped plan and set up Eastern Mennonite’s nursing program.

In the same era, he helped plan the science

center that came to carry his name. “The trustees gave the planning of the building and its furnishings almost entirely into the hands of the science faculty and its architects,” Suter said in his 1985 chapel, recalling that he moved the lab equipment from the basement of the old administration building to the new building in his GMC pick-up truck.

The satisfaction of seeing hundreds of students – often successive generations from the same family – ultimately “make a contribution to the spiritual and physical well-being of those they serve” trumped any misgivings and hardships Suter had along the way. “Very rarely did I have any doubt that here is where God wanted me to be.” 

One Way to Honor Dr. Suter's Memory and Devotion Maintaining the tradition of excellence and of worldwide service for EMU’s science graduates, established in the era of Dr. Daniel Suter, requires that we join together to modernize and expand the 40-year-old building bearing his name and still housing (inadequately) our science programs.

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Vision for a New Science Center........... Caring for God’s Creation Our graduates embody the healing way of Jesus Our graduates learn to think analytically and critically, to exercise compassion and care, and to creatively solve problems in meeting local and global needs. As practicing health-care professionals they give direct care to hurting individuals in God’s creation. From a Christian Anabaptist perspective, we understand that helping others through loving and sacrificial service is an attribute of a follower of Jesus, who was the Supreme Servant. Thus through a healthcare career, one can embody the "way of Jesus," who went about healing the sick and doing good.

This new facility will provide up-to-date facilities and equipment and will revitalize our programs.

I anticipate enhanced teaching and research opportunities, increased student enrollment, new programs, improved pedagogical approaches, and expanded opportunities in meeting the needs of our students.

Roman J. Miller, PhD Daniel B. Suter Endowed Professor of Biology Eastern Mennonite University

increased use of natural light

labs with improved air circulation

energy - efficient windows

photo voltaic energy use

green roof (absorbes run-off)

building materials purchased locally and regionally

bioswale (soil/drainage systems)

possible geothermal energy sources

The Need More EMU Science Grads

The Obstacle Inappropriate and Outdated Facilties

The Solution Consolidation, Modernization, Expansion

The world is asking for the kinds of science graduates EMU produces: well-balanced and cross-disciplinary people motivated by a concern for God’s entire creation, by a love of humanity, by a desire to offer healing and hope in our diverse world. This is why 92% of our pre-med students are accepted into medical schools. (See chart on page 53.) This is why hospital administrators who have hired our nursing graduates prop their door open for future graduates, noting that EMU seems to produce the kind of nurses that makes them natural picks for “nurse of the year” awards. This is why we have graduates working to improve farming techniques and address global warming, water pollution and other world problems.

The 40-year-old Suter Science Center – which was state-of-the-art when it was built – now impedes the quality education that EMU seeks to offer. The current facility wastes energy through inefficient heating and cooling systems. It has poor ventilation in its laboratories, making them unhealthy. It exemplifies non-sustainable building design at a time when EMU is trying to show and teach its students how to leave a lighter footprint on God’s earth. It makes collaborative learning difficult, though EMU has pioneered such learning and advocates it. In short, the building is due for an overhaul.

EMU intends to help reverse the national trend since 1980 of declining first-year enrollment in medical degree programs. The United States and countries around the world need more health-care workers like those nurtured by EMU, not fewer. In 1985, EMU had 145 students majoring in biology (the usual major for pre-med students); in 2006, the number had declined to 62. We propose to reclaim our leading role in preparing students for health-care and other scientific professions by renovating and adding to the Suter Science Center, providing the facilities that our faculty and students – in biology, chemistry, math, nursing, psychology, and computer science – require to teach, study, research, collaborate, and excel in their mission to serve and lead in a global context.

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Why EMU nurses are in demand by employers I often point to my strong science background at EMU as the reason why I am able to deal with the ever-changing health-care environment. EMU prepares its nursing students for a wide variety of situations and equips them with the flexibility and openness to learning that they will require all their lives while working in this field.

Whenever I see that a potential candidate has put "BSN-Eastern Mennonite University" on their job application, I act immediately to snap them up.

EMU’s nurses are of the highest caliber and have a world view that is unknown in wider society.

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Ophtha lm catarac ologist Paul t suger R y in Bu . Yoder Jr. ’6 where he has r 3 does donated ma, one of 13 countr his ser ies vices.

Surgeon and author Harry L. Krau s Jr. ’82 is currently living and working in Keny a.

Rick A. Yoder ’69, PhD, has advised the Nepalese government on public health matters.

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in East J. Harold Housman ’49 was the “Flying Doctor” in Africa for 12 years. He became an ophthalmologist 1980s. the 1970s and taught eye surgery in Nigeria in the

Nurse-midwife Na dene Swartzentruber Brunk ’75 is foun der and head of “M idwives for Haiti.”

Psychiatr is much of t Carl L. Keener ’5 his caree working r, late ’6 7 spent w 0 Wyoming ith native Americ s to ’90s, an popula and Mon tana. tions in

Harold flew his little red plane daily from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center. He visited each of the 19 clinics two times a month. He saw everyone who came and needed care, no matter how long the day.

From Nadene’ s website, ww w. midwivesforh aiti. org: “Every woman in th is world deserv es the knowledg e and care to have a safe pregnancy an d birth. With th right knowle e dge and tools, community women can keep babies and mothers from dying.”

Carl says: "Nowadays students at EMU get crosscultural training, but I didn't get mine until after I left. Gradually I learned that each tribe has a different culture and needs."

SNAPSHOTS OF CROSS - CULTURAL HEALTH SERVICE a Paul Yoder’s 21 years in Ethiopi ral seve by up ken bro e wer one, furloughs in the States. On TB e Paul worked at the Blue Ridg ed Sanatorium. On another he servey as interim pastor at Landis Vall Mennonite church. The third ns year, he got his MPH from Joh Hopkins. In 1992, at age 64, he completed his MDiv at EMU.

he impact of Eastern Mennonite alumni on health care around the world merits its own book, but we have just a short column here.

Let’s pull just one thread from the tapestry of the life of Dr. Paul T. Yoder, class of 1950, as an example of ripple effects . . .

Yoder worked in Ethiopia for 21 years, initially the only physician serving 33,000 people in the district where he and his family lived. A young Ethiopian named Ingida Asfaw enjoyed studying science in school. He observed Yoder, Dr. D. Rohrer Eshleman (ThB '45) and other health-care providers in action at a Mennoniterun hospital in Deder, Ethiopia. Yoder made house calls in his jeep, which doubled as an ambulance. Impressed, Asfaw set his sights on becoming a physician.

Fifty years later at EMU, Asfaw ’62 was named “Alumnus of the Year.” He was now famous in his adopted-home region of Detroit, wearing multiple hats, including chief executive officer of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons of Michigan. Traveling frequently to his native land of Ethiopia, he is laying the groundwork for a heart hospital and a medical school.

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Pediatrician George R. Br en with Navajo health worke neman ’57 (front left himself to Indian health rs in Arizona) has devo ted care for 46 years.

Verle has do almost ever ne ything where he works – a nursing sc with 150 s hool tudents – teaching, administrat io directing a n, community health pro gr translating am, an AIDS man ual into Swahili.

Verle Rufenacht ’77 has been a nursing instructor in Tanzania for the last 27 years.

MU alumni who immerse themselves in cross-cultural settings for years are, or perhaps become, a special breed. They come to feel immense gratitude for the way the experience informed and transformed them, and they may find it difficult to re-settle back home.

Accompanied by his wife and three teenage sons, general surgeon and best-selling author Harry Kraus ’82 has spent two years performing and teaching surgery at Kijabe Hospital in Kenya. “You come back here, see people who worry about things you don’t see as that important, and you have to be careful – you can be judgmental,” he said during a visit to his home city of Harrisonburg.

Kenton J. Zehr ’83, former chief of cardiac surgery at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is now spending every other month in Perm, Russia (“684 miles east of Moscow, the last city on the Trans-Siberian railroad before you get to Siberia”), co-directing a team that performs 3,000 heart surgeries per year. “I see it as a privilege to be here, training residents, lecturing a couple of hours a week, and having legions of grateful patients.”

Jan Emswiler ’98, a nurse teaching at Aga Khan University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, wrote to friends at EMU recently: “God, thank you for connecting me with the souls of others.

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ALUMNI IN SCIENCE A cross-section of our science alumni, derived partly from survey responses and partly from staff research. Additional entries, updates or corrections are welcome (for how, go to end on page 39). The photos in this section, pages 32 - 39, feature science-alumni from the same family.

Adams, Brooke Drooger ’00 Account executive Medical Education Training Associates Cheshire, Conn.

Benner, G. Kendall ’88 Research associate Merck & Co. Inc. West Point, Pa.

Brunk, Brian P. ’83 ApiDB project manager University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa.

Delp, Arlen ’60 Family physician Lakeshore Medical Clinic New Berlin, Wis.

Akers, “Margie” Yoder ’83 Private duty nurse Carilion Home Care Radford, Va.

Benson, “Bea” Frye ’05 RN, BSN-Care manager August Medical Center/Home Health Fishersville, Va.

Brunk, Susan Sverduk ’80 Certified nurse-midwife Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, Pa.

Denlinger, Chadrick ’96 Cardio-thoracic surgeon (fellow) Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Mo.

Alderfer, Richard “Dick” D. ’65 Retired physician Waynesboro, Va.

Bergey, David L. ’86 Staff RN, exercise physiologist Grand View Hospital Sellersville, Pa.

Burkholder, Gail ’77 Certified nephrology nurse Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, Pa.

Dennett, Amy ’00 Registered nurse Valley Ear Nose and Throat Harrisonburg, Va.

Berkshire, Diana S. ’74 CEO First Choice Home Services Harrisonburg, Va.

Byler, David ’79 Family physician Cornerstone Health Care Saint Marys, W.Va.

Derstine, Nathan ’97 Physician Greencastle Family Practice Greencastle, Pa.

Beya, “Belinda” Leidig ’78 Certified nurse-midwife Associates of Anderson OB/GYN Cincinnati, Ohio

Callihan, Bradley S. ’86 Certified pediatric nurse practitioner Laurel Pediatric Associates Johnstown, Pa.

Derstine, Timothy H. ’88 Psychiatrist, founder SunBridge Health State College, Pa.

Bouchonville, Susan Lehman ’98 Chemist New Mexico Department of Health, Scientific Laboratory Division Albuquerque, N.M.

Canepa, “Debbi” Beachy ’76 Associate professor of biology Linfield College McMinnville, Ore.

Dickerson, Marcia ’79 Clinical lab scientist Main Line Clinical Laboratories Wynnewood, Pa.

Carufel-Wert, Donald ’87 MD, asst. prof. dept. of family med.

University of Wis.-Madison, Madison, Wis.

DILoreto, David ’81 Family physician Rowan Family Physicians Salisbury, N.C.

Christophel, “M.J.” Slabaugh ’96 Registered nurse Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Dix, Mary Alice ’87 Registered nurse UVA - Augusta Dialysis Fishersville, Va.

Claassen, Lorna Snyder ’77 Home care and hospice nurse Goshen General Hospital Goshen, Ind.

Driver, Evelyn J. ’67 Professor of nursing Goshen College Goshen, Ind.

Clymer, J. Paul ’64 Family physician (retired) Lancaster, Pa.

Eberly, Carol Weaver ’76 Registered nurse, office manager Valley Children's Clinic Harrisonburg, Va.

Alexander, “Jim” G. ’77 Field service engineer Abbott Labs Abbott Park, Ill. Alger, Linda Crawford ’99 Director, critical care telemetry nursing Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Allen, Frieda King ’92 RN, site manager Carilion Medical Group Lexington, Va. Ambrose, Sharon Trauger ’83 Nursing care coordinator Dock Woods Community Inc. Lansdale, Pa. Baker, Audra ’05 Registered nurse Salem Hospital Salem, Ore. Barnhart, Cheeri Knabe ’77 Registered nurse Salem Hospital Salem, Ore. Beachy, Alicia Shenk ’93 Maternity case manager Siskiyou Community Health Center Cave Junction, Ore. Beachy, Micah W. ’00 Physician University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Neb. Baer, Rose Landis ’87 Nursing supervisor (PRN) Masonic Village Elizabethtown, Pa. Beckler, Carl ’83 Family physician Mettowee Valley Family Health Granville, N.Y. Beidler, Carmeleta Miller ’85 Nursing practice and education associate Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, N.H.

Tiffany Good Witmer '98 (left) and Elizabeth Good '01 are nurses and sisters, who have joined their nurse-mother Eileen Good in being administrators and clinical leaders at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio. Tiffany, associate v-p at Aultman, recently won the prestigious national Beacon Award (see Jill Gehman's entry on page 17 for more details). Elizabeth is director of the emergency room. Both sisters hold MBAs. Tiffany is earning an MSN while Elizabeth already has her MSN.

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Benner, Clara Nunez ’89 Project data manager Merck & Co. Inc. Souderton, Pa.

Bowman,“Randy” J. ’78 Physician Midwest Community Health Associates Archbold, Ohio Boyer, Linda Burkhart ’63 Staff nurse Northern Michigan Regional Hospital Petoskey, Mich.

Brangan, Dorothy Yoder ’75 Registered nurse Chesapeake Health Department Chesapeake, Va. Brenneman, “Angie” Freed ’95 Registered nurse, ER Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Brenneman, Anne Gingerich ’96 Clinical nurse specialist Primary Children's Medical Center Salt Lake City, Utah Brenneman, Susan K. ’78 Associate v-p decision support St. Luke's Hospital & Health System Bethlehem, Pa. Brubaker, Derick ’95 Physician Eastern Mennonite Missions Cusco, Peru Brubaker, Roy D. ’92 Forest resource planner Pa. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry Harrisburg, Pa.

Cook, Minerva Stauffer ’62 Family physician (semi-retired) Markdale Community Clinic Priceville, Ontario, Canda Crawford, Christy L. ’96 Critical care unit manager Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Custalow, Catherine Bomberger ’84 ER physician & assoc. prof. of emergency med. (retired due to physical disability) U.Va. Health Sciences Center Charlottesville, Va. Davenport, Joyce Sauder ’81 Blood bank advisor, MT (ASCP) Augusta Medical Center Fishersville, Va. Davidson, Elaine Martin ’84 Family physician Saltzer Medical Group Caldwell, Idaho

Eberly, Miriam “Mim” ’72 Nurse practitioner (retired) General Internal Medicine of Lancaster Lancaster, Pa. Eby, John B. ’63 Radiologist/nuclear medicine (retired) Formerly w/ Lewistown Hospital Belleville, Pa. Esch, Eric L. ’95 Family practice physician Norlanco Medical Associates Elizabethtown, Pa. Eshleman, D. Rohrer ’45 Emergency physician (retired) In Ethiopia w/ EMM for 20 years, as well as in Pa. Landsville, Pa. Eshleman, J. Lester ’45 Urologist (retired) In Tanzania & Kenya for EMM, as well as in Pa. Lititz, Pa.

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photo by matthew styer Eshleman, Keith ’80 Registered nurse Ephrata Community Hospital Ephrata, Pa.

Gingerich, Karen ’88 Clinical psychologist Professional Association Leavenworth, Kan.

Harder, Nathan ’05 Environmental science consultant Mennonite Central Committee Bolivia

Hershey, Luanne Tyson, '97 Clinical nurse York Hospital York, Pa.

Eshleman, J. Robert ’56 Prof. of dentistry (semi-retired) Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry Richmond, Va.

Gingerich, Keith ’75 Nurse anesthetist University of Michigan Hospital Ann Arbor, Mich.

Harder, Steven ’76 Family physician Sanford Clinic Mountain Lake Mountain Lake, Minn.

Hess, John “Fred” W. ’79 Senior investigator Merck Research Lab West Point, Pa.

Gingrich, Ryan A. ’95 Nurse anesthetist Kaiser Permanente Portland, Ore.

Harlow, Karen M., SUMMER '93 Substitute school nurse Shenandoah County Public Schools Woodstock, Va.

Gingrich, Trula N. ’79 Registered nurse Hospice of Lancaster County Lancaster, Pa.

Harnish, Henry ’53 Anesthesiologist (retired) Enid Anesthesiology Management Enid, Okla.

HeSS, Philip '91 Physician (moving soon to Alaska to serve indigenous peoples) Family Practice Center Helena, Mont.

Glick, Ruth Hartzler ’60 On-site visitor Department of Health Professions, Virginia Board of Nursing Richmond, Va.

Harnish, Sandra King ’87 Registered nurse Willow Valley Retirement Communities Lancaster, Pa.

Fath, Kenneth ’78 Internist/cardiovascular disease Kernodle Clinic Burlington, N.C. Fittery, Faye Brubaker ’81 Diabetes nurse educator Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, Pa. Fly, Ruth Ann Ziegler ’72 Licensed practical nurse Souderton Mennonite Homes Souderton, Pa. Foreman, Thomas ’85 Post doctoral fellow clinical and organizational ethics University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Foster, Richard ’76 Radiologist, diagnostic Medical Center Radiologists Norfolk, Va. Frankenfield, James ’81 Senior Director, Biochem Quality Genentech, Inc. Singapore Frederick, Shannon Kratz ’97 Physician assistant Doylestown Gynecology Doylestown, Pa. Freed, Daniel M. ’88 Staff physician (DO, MD) Bath Community Hospital Hot Springs, Va. Frei, Steven P. ’78 ER physician and clinical instructor Lehigh Valley Hospital Allentown, Pa.

Goad, Betty Arce ’83 Obstetrician/gynecologist Self-employed Charleston, W. Va. Godshall, Stanley Moyer ’65 Family physician Norlanco Medical associates Elizabethtown, Pa. Godshall, Stephen E. ’92 Family physician Rockingham Family Physicians Harrisonburg, Va. Goins, Matthew ’00 Physician, anesthesiology resident University of Virginia Hospital Charlottesville, Va. Goldschmidt, Mary Kolb ’70 Registered nurse Felix Platter Hospital Basil, Switzerland Gonzol, Karen Lehman ’79 Adjunct clinical faculty, nursing Shenandoah University Winchester, Va.

Harris, Norma Herr ’88 Clinical nutrition manager Sodexo Lititz, Pa. Hartz, Richard ’88 Principal scientist Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Wallingford, Conn.

Hartzler, Stephanie Wenger ’94 Registered nurse Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, Pa. Hatter, Dennis L. ’70 Family physician Stuarts Draft Family Practice Associates Stuarts Draft, Va. Haviland, Jennifer Heishman ’97 RN, clinical coordinator Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Heatwole, Marolyn ’86 RN, pediatrics NCH Healthcare System Naples, Fla. Heatwole, “Ginny” Carr ’79 RN - ambulatory surgery Bon Secour's St. Mary's Hospital Richmond, Va.

Frey, Edward ’76 Medical doctor, radiologist Radiology Inc. Powell, Ohio

Good, Kimberley Way ’92 RN, BSN assistant coordinator parent-child education department Mary Washington Hospital Fredericksburg, Va.

Friesen, Bradley ’93 Pediatrician Pediatric Medicine South Burlington, Vt.

Good, Peter A. ’95 Physician, internal medicine St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Duluth, Minn.

Friesen, Tina Groff ’95 RN - Healthy Beginnngs Plus Clinic, Childbirth Instructor Ephrata Community Hospital Ephrata, Pa.

Green, Marsha Shull ’93 Psychiatric nurse practitioner Remuda Ranch Milford, Va.

Helmuth, "Bill" ’63 Pediatrician (part time); neonatologist (retired) Union County Health Dept. & local child advocacy clinic Marshville, N.C.

Gross, Karen Kurtz ’75 Nurse practitioner Jewish Tower Atlanta, Ga.

Helmuth, Loren ’83 Surgeon Abbeville Surgical Associates Abbeville, S.C.

Grove, Andrew ’90 Scientific reviewer Food and Drug Administration Rockville, Md.

Helmuth, Loretta Miller ’63 Nurse, ob-gyn (retired) Marshville, N.C.

Furr, Margaret Reinhold '01 RN, pediatrics Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Gehman, Eric D. ’98 Biologist/manager, Engineering & Environmental Services Div. Haines & Kibblehouse Inc. Skippack, Pa. Gingerich, Derek J. ’96 Assistant professor, biology University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, Wis.

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Harder, Judy Dickerson ’76 Dietitian Sanford Clinic Mountain Lake Mountain Lake, Minn.

Heatwole, Eric V. ’93 Radiologist, interventional Summit Radiology PC Fort Wayne, Ind.

Herr, David R. ’54 Surgeon, plastic (retired) Vero Beach, Fla. Herr, James “Jim” ’79 Physician Lancaster Emergency Associates Lancaster, Pa.

Hiett, Judith Vrolijk ’84 Staff nurse Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Hill, Brian E. ’92 Urologist West Cobb Urology Mableton, Ga. Hochstetler, Marcus J. ’75 Clinical psychologist South Coast Psychological Center Irvine, Calif.

Hockman-Wert, David ’91 Biologist U.S. Geological Survey Corvallis, Ore. Hook, Krista ’98

Biomedical researcher Charles River Laboratories Wilmington, Mass.

Hooley, “Julie” Stauffer ’80 Director, Center for Study and Testing, School of Nursing Malone College Canton, Ohio Hoover, La Vonda ’80 Registered nurse Children's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles, Ca Horst, Marcia Schmidt ’71 Staff nurse Washington County Hospital Hagerstown, Md. Horst, Michael A. ’91 Director of research & CME Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, Pa. Hostetler, Janet Neuenschwander ’79 Nurse practitioner Primecare Zanesville, Ohio Hostetler, Vernon H. ’81 Fellow, American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetics Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc. Zanesville, Ohio

Laura Rosenberger '03 celebrated graduation this spring from Jefferson Medical School with her father, James Rosenberger '68, a math professor at Penn State and a former member of EMU's board of trustees. Laura is now a surgical resident at UVa. Hummel, Trent ’97 Pediatric oncologist, instructor Cincinnati Children's Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio

Johnson, Joan Epstein ’77 President, nursing consultant J.E. Johnson and Associates Plymouth, Minn.

Irish, Joseph D. ’79 Psychotherapist Schoharie County Mental Health Schoharie, N.Y.

Kabongo, Martin ’77 Asst. clinical prof. of family medicine; dir. of UNSC rsch. in fam. med. (has PhD in dermatopathology) U of Calif.-San Diego-Sch of Med. San Diego, Calif.

Iromuanya, Nnabugwu ’75 ER pediatrician, attending physician Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center South Bronx, N.Y. Isner, V. Scott ’94 Optometrist Self-employed Glen Allen VA Iwaniec, Sharyn Witmer ’92 Physical therapist Legacy Health Care System Portland, Ore.

Hostetter, Alden ’79 Pathologist Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Jarrels, Milton B. ’75 Pulmonary diagnostics supervisor Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Hostetter, Richard B. ’81 Surgical oncologist Goshen Center for Cancer Care Goshen, Ind.

Jenner, Hadley ’05 Registered nurse Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Huff, Vickie Braithwaite ’05 RN, team leader Winchester Medical Center Winchester, Va.

Johnson, Jill Waibel ’79 Staff nurse Barrett & Geiss Dermatology Lancaster, Ohio

Kauffman, Sharon Wert ’82 Registered nurse Lancaster General Women & Babies Hospital Lancaster, Pa. Kauffman, “Bill” S. ’84 Family physician, owner Spring Road Family Practice Carlisle, Pa.

Kennel, Larry J. ’69 Veterinarian, owner Cornerstone Genetics Mount Joy, Pa. King, Chad ’97 Assist. professor, environmental science Ohio Dominican University Columbus, Ohio

Kauffman, Elroy W. II ’81 Senior systems analyst Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis, Ind.

King, Jeanette Neuenschwander ’73 RN, Help Me Grow service coordinator Holmes County MR/DD Holmesville, Ohio

Keener, Brian Jay ’98 Surgeon, hand Lancaster Orthopedic Group Lancaster, Pa.

King, Julia Shultz ’75 Nurse clinician VCU Health System (MCV Hospital) Richmond Va.

Kennel, Arthur J. ’53 Cardiologist (retired) Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minn.

King, Richard N. ’79 Family physician Pueblo Community Health Ctr. Pueblo, Colo.

Kauffman, Richard S. ’81 Research agronomist W-L Research, Division of Land O' Lakes Columbia, Pa.

Kennel, Deryl ’72 Quality engineer, Asia Pacific, for Assurance & Compliance Merck & Co., Inc. Elkton, Va.

King, Rodney ’77 Regional agronomist Brodbeck Seeds Inc. Wabash, Ind.

Kauffman, Ryan D. ’99 Family physician Oakhill Medical Associates West Liberty, Ohio

Kennel, Elmer E. ’64 Surgeon Harrisonburg Surgical Associates Harrisonburg, Va.

Kanagy, Joy Burkholder ’75 Staff registered nurse (hospice) Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Kauffman, Jeff L. ’84 Nurse practitioner Oaklawn Psychiatric Center Goshen, Ind. Kauffman, Marla Yoder ’90 Pediatric nurse practitioner Riverview Hospital, Noblesville Pediatrics Noblesville, Ind.

King, Walter L. Sr. ’63 Ophthalmologist Viewmont Eye Association Hickory, N.C.

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Internist James Spicher '82 and diabetes educator & nutritionist Carol Burkhart Spicher '82, with son Jon Spicher, pre-med at EMU. Jon's grandfather is John Spicher '58, EMU's chemical safety engineer, retired from Westinghouse Corp.

Lewis, Irma Shenk ’72 Administrative supervisor Sarasota Doctors Hospital Sarasota, Fla.

Martin, John P. ’89 Family physician Cornerstone Care Inc. Rogersville, Pa.

Mellinger, Mamie Miller ’64 Home health nurse First Home Health Services Inc. Harrisonburg, Va.

Moyer, Susan M. ’76 Internist, specializing in geriatrics Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Pa.

Nafziger, Steven D. ’77 MD, vice-president of medical affairs Parkview Medical Center Pueblo, Colo.

Lichty, Mary B. ’86 Physician assistant Tri-County Infectious Disease Consultants Morgantown, W.Va.

Martin, “Jo” Histand ’81 Project manager IES Engineers Blue Bell, Pa.

Metzler, Marilyn J. ’93 Health education director Cross Over Ministry Richmond, Va.

Mumma, Julia Stoltzfus ’71 Registered nurse, BSN Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, Pa.

Nofziger, Dan L. ’68 Family physician Buhl Medical Center Buhl, Idaho

Lind, Andrea K. ’93 Family physician, esp. ob-gyn Pacific Family Medical Center Salem, Ore.

Martin, JoAnn Burkholder ’71 Family nurse practitioner Frontier Nursing Service Hyden, Ky.

Miedel, Hannah Miller ’97 Community clinic physician Holmes County Health Dept.

Millersburg, Ohio

Myers, Audrey Thomas ’88 Pediatric nurse practitioner Augusta Pediatrics Fishersville, Va.

OBRI, SARA NEUENSCHWANDER '03 Nurse specializing in HIV/AIDS Institute of Human Virology Jos, Nigeria

Livengood, P. Aaron ’97 Agronomist/farmer Livengood Family Agriculture Keyser, W.Va.

Martin, “Peg” Shenk ’84 Harrisonburg Pregnancy Center Nurse manager, nurse sonographer Harrisonburg, Va.

Mikaya, Martin ’76 Emergency physician/surgeon Memorial Hospital Towanda, Pa.

Myers, Herbert E. ’66 Senior psychiatrist Philhaven Mount Gretna, Pa.

Pasley, Faith Richardson ’68 Family physician, esp. gyn Jefferson Street Gynecology Roanoke, Va.

Livengood, Paul T. ’72 Family physician Ft. Ashby Family Practice Fort Ashby, W.Va.

Martin, Maria ’04 Lead mental health technician Oaklawn Psychiatric Center Goshen, Ind.

Miller, Barbara Wilson ’63 Staff nurse Clark Memorial Hospital Jeffersonville, Ind.

Myers, Sarah Bucher ’67 Program director Compeer Lancaster Lancaster, Pa.

Peachey Stoner, Robert ’92 Scientist, chemist Hospira McPherson, Kan.

Livengood, Ryan H. ’00 Hematology-pathology fellow Univ. of W.Va. Morgantown, W.Va.

Martin, Norma F. ’61 Home health RN (retired) Park Ridge Hospital Fletcher, N.C.

Miller, Calvin L. ’66 Ophthalmologist Regional Eye Center Bristol, Tenn.

Nafziger, Charles ’71 Certified RN anesthetist Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center La Junta, Colo.

Pierantoni, Julie Houff ’91 Patient educator Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Litwiller, Denise Hochstedler ’97 Informatics nurse specialist University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Iowa City, Iowa

Martin, Orpha Brubaker ’77 Home care registered nurse ComPassionate Home Care Middletown, Pa.

Miller, Darrell ’74 Psychotherapist Johnson County Mental Health Olathe, Kan.

Presley, Michelle R. ’88 Pediatrician & ER physician/pediatrics WellStar Kennestone Hospital Marietta, Ga.

Longacher, Joseph W. ’59 Family physician Virginia Physicians Incorporated Richmond, Va.

Martin, Raymond S. ’63 Executive director (MPH, Hopkins) Christian Conections for International Health McLean, Va.

Lowry, Stephen ’96 Surgeon General Surgery Associates Kansas City, Kan.

Martin, Robert “Craig” ’86 Internal & emergency medicine Georgetown Internal Medicine Georgetown, Ky.

Miller, Gregory ’85 and Joannie J. ’96 Co-owners and nurse practitioner (Joannie) Paulina Peak Family Healthcare, Inc. La Pine, Ore.

Nafziger, Daniel A. ’83 Medical director, infectious disease consultant MMA and Goshen Health System Goshen, Ind.

Kolb, Aaron J. ’74 Physician, occupational Susquehanna Wound Healing Ctr. Williamsport, Pa.

Kurtz, Elam S., ’48 Physician (retired) High Country Family Medicine Jefferson, N.C.

Kolb, Naomi (DuBlanica) ’62 Family physician (retired) Now active as UCC chaplain Birdsboro, Pa.

Kyler, Robert M. ’81 Radiation oncologist Rockingham Memorial Hosptial Regional Cancer Center/AMC Cancer Center Harrisonburg, Va.

Lyon, Deborah Martin ’88 Nursing supervisor The Good Shepherd Ashland, Ohio

Martin, Tonya King ’91 Physician assistant Cornerstone Care, Waynesburg U. Waynesburg, Pa.

Landis, Beth ’79 Family nurse practitioner Eagle, Idaho

Mahone, Irma Heppner ’80 Research assistant professor University of Virginia School of Nursing Charlottesville, Va.

Massey, Ruth Dutcher ’76 Registered nurse Riverside Methodist Hospital Columbus, Ohio

Landis, Cheryl Weaver ’74 Instructor, practical nursing Lancaster County Career & Technology Center Willow Street, Pa.

Martin, Allen S. ’59 Medical doctor Private practice Goshen, Ind.

Mast, Esther Cassel ’77 Certified nurse midwife OB-GYN of Lancaster Lancaster, Pa.

Martin, Barbara ’88 Executive director (PhD, Hopkins) Lancaster Heart & Stroke Foundation Lancaster, Pa.

Mast, Mark M. ’93 Family physician Springbrook Family Medicine Broadway, Va.

Martin, C. Edwin ’59 Radiologist/cardiologist Cardiac Diagnostic Associates York, Pa.

Mast, Melody ’00 Certified nurse-midwife, women's health care nurse practitioner Shenandoah Women's Healthcare Harrisonburg, Va.

Krabill, Sarah Thomas ’92 Family & internal medicine Goshen Health System Goshen, Ind. Kratz, Richard T. ’91 Pediatrician Pennridge Pediatric Associates Sellersville, Pa. Kratz, Ronald D. ’87 Anesthesiologist Riverside Anesthesia Associates Ltd. Harrisburg, Pa.

Leaman, David M. ’60 Cardiologist Penn State University Hershey, Pa.

Kraybill, Ernest N. ’58 Professor of pediatrics (retired); co-chair, biomedical institutional review board at UNC UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, N.C.

Leaman, Timothy J. ’93 Family physician & associate medical director Esperanza Health Center Philadelphia, Pa.

Kraybill, Eunice Kauffman ’57 Research assoc., pathology (retired) UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, N.C.

Lee, R. David ’90 Family physician Page Rural Health Center Stanley, Va.

Kreider, Elvin G. ’60 Allergist (semi-retired); pediatrician (retired) The Myers Clinic Philippi, W.Va.

Lehman, Stephanie Miller ’06 Chemist Lancaster Laboratories Lancaster, Pa.

Kurtz, “Jim” R. ’80 Staff nurse Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Philadelphia, Pa.

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Lesher, Ruth Detweiler ’75 Psychologist, partner Behavioral Healthcare Consultants Lancaster, Pa.

Martin, Darvin L. ’94 Product manager, analytical instruments Buchi Corporation New Castle, Del. Martin, Don R. ’79 Staff rheumatologist Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Martin, Jennifer Kulp ’89 Research dietitian National Clinical Research Richmond, Va.

Mast, Shari Yoder ’88 Physical therapist Hess Orthopaedic Rehab Harrisonburg, Va. Mayer, Natalie Seibert ’83 Family physician Fairbanks Clinic Fairbanks, Alaska Mayville, Heidi Wengerd ’93 Clinical pharmacist Lehigh Valley Hospital Allentown, Pa.

Miller, J. Allen ’68 Psychiatrist, child/adolescent Private practice Monterey, Calif.

Miller, Janice E. ’78 Registered nurse Capital Regional Medical Clinic Versailles, Mo. Miller, Joseph ’72 Registered nurse Pain Management Center of Ephrata Community Hospital Ephrata, Pa.

Nafziger, Judith Reimer ’81 Registered nurse Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va. Nafziger, Miriam Herr ’75 Registered nurse Lancaster Regional Medical Center Lancaster, Pa. Nafziger, Sara Strunk ’00 Nurse educator Shenandoah Women's Healthcare Harrisonburg, Va.

Proco, Ida Reinford ’74 Clinical coordinator nutrition services Centra Health Lynchburg, Va. Quiones, Donna Shank ’79 Research nurse coordinator St. Joseph's Research Institute Tampa, Fla. Reed, John E. ’63 Retired diagnostic radiologist Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio

Reist, Christopher ’80 Prof. & vice chair of psych. dept., asst. dean of med. sch., dir. of med. research UC-Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Long Beach, Calif.

Ressler, Melvin ’86 Surgeon, general Gloucester Surgery Gloucester, Va. Rhodes, Leanna Showalter ’75 Assistant director, staff RN Generations Crossing Harrisonburg, Va. Rice, Verna Long ’74 Certified school nurse Waynesboro Area School District Waynesboro, Pa. Rickerhauser, Nancy Martin ’87 Family & attending physician Valley Baptist Health System Harlingen, Texas Robinson, Donna L. ’84 Pediatric nurse practitioner Clinic for Special Children Strasburg, Pa. Ropp, Leland J. ’76 Emergency physician, pediatrician Henry Ford Hospital-Fairlane Dearborn, Mich.

Rose, “Katrine” Longacre ’83 Administrative coordinator of nutrition Prince William County Public Schools Manassas, Va. Ross, Betty Peachey ’78 Registered nurse Pohai Nani Good Samaritan Society Care Center Kaneohe, Hawaii

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Miller, Marian Swartz ’59 Teacher and office manager (retired) Merry Lea Environmental Center Goshen College Wolf Lake, Ind. Miller, Phyllis J. ’78 President, nurse Phyllis Miller and Associates Arlington, Va Miller, Richard B. ’70 Family physician Stuarts Draft Family Practice Assoc.

Stuarts Draft, Va. Miller, Ross D. ’83 Family physician Hillsdale Community Health Center Hillsdale, Mich Morris, Judith E. ’00 Clinic director Sunnyside Retirement Community Harrisonburg, Va. Morrow, Dorcas Stoltzfus ’56 Psychiatrist (retired) Service in Pa., Somalia, Tanzania Norristown, Pa.

Elton Lehman '58 (D.O.) and Brent Lehman '91 (M.D.), father and son, pose in the horse stable where Amish patients "park" near the Mount Eaton Center in Ohio. Elton established the center to serve those who did not want hospital births. When Brent finished medical school, he offered to take his father's place, permitting his father to ease off from working 24/7.

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photo by matthew styer Ross, Melissa Danner ’81 Registered nurse Frederick Memorial Hospital Frederick, Md. Rutland, Kimberly VanCuren ’85 Senior staff nurse Kadlec Medical Center Richland, Wash.

Shenk, Tanya Charles ’93 RN, shift coord., charge nurse over labor/ delivery, postpartum & nursery Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Stains, Kendra Martin ’90 RN, critical care Chambersburg Hospital Chambersburg, Pa.

Toman, “Cindie” Harris ’70 Associate professor Nursing Faculty of Health Sciences University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Wenger, “Bob” B. ’58 Professor (retired) of natural and applied sciences University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Green Bay, Wis.

Tro, Karen Kauffman ’90 Clinic registered nurse Women's Health Center of Oregon Oregon City, Ore.

Wenger, Evan ’95 Family physician Private practice Waynesboro, Va.

Shetler, Velma Myers ’79 Nursing supervisor Summa Healthcare Barberton Hospital Barberton, Ohio

Stauffer, Brian L. ’91 Cardiologist/assistant professor Denver Health Medical Center/University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, Colo.

Shinsky, Elaine Hochstetler ’87 RN, shift coordinator Martha Jefferson Hospital Charlottesville, Va.

Stauffer, John M. Jr. ’73 Family physician New Market Family Practice New Market, Va.

Troyer, Janet Brenneman ’86 RN staff nurse, shift coordinator Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Wenger, John R. Jr. ’58 Family physician (retired) Bedford Co. Community Hosp. & Cariilion Bedford, Va.

Shirk, Karen Hochstetler ’78 Registered nurse Dermatology Associates Ltd. Tinley Park, Ill.

Steck, Audrey Brubaker ’86 Pathologist Sentara Hospital Williamsburg, Va.

Troyer, Jeanne Miller ’74 Staff nurse Generations Crossing Harrisonburg, Va.

Wenger, Mark A. ’93 Allergist & immunologist Allergy and Asthma Associates Fredericksburg, Va.

Shrock, Paul J. ’65 Medical technologist Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services Inc. Lousiville, Ky.

Stickley, Ronald G. ’96 Director of health services Shenandoah University Winchester, Va.

Van Zant, Dennis J. ’86 Obstetrician/gynecologist Nash OB-GYN Associates Rocky Mount, N.C.

Sandy, Edward A. II ’81 Chairman, OB-GYN Dept.

Franciscan Skemp Healthcare/Mayo Health System La Crosse, Wis.

Siegrist, Jay D. ’67 Family physician Eastbrook Family Health Center Ronks, Pa.

Stoltzfus, Douglas A. ’85 Family physician Roscoe Village Family Medicine Chicago, Ill.

Vass, Sherri Allebach ’00 RN, emergency room Central Montgomery Medical Center Lansdale, Pa.

Wert, Daniel D. ’62 Anesthesiologist (retired) Formerly w/ Community Hospital of Lancaster Lancaster, Pa.

Silveira, Faythe Ropp ’86 Registered nurse Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Stoltzfus, Ky ’99 Internal medicine resident physician University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kan.

Sauder, Kurtis L. ’89 Pediatrician Blue Ridge Pediatrics Staunton, Va.

Skalsky, Debra ’88 Missionary/nurse Harvesting In Spanish Ministry El Salvador

Schaefer, Jonathan ’99 Registered nurse Augusta Medical Center Fishersville, Va.

Slack, Bethany Miller ’00 Medical technologist Beverly Hospital Beverly, Mass.

Stoltzfus, Patricia Baer ’83 Radiologist Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center West Virginia University Morgantown, W.Va.

Waite, Alyssa Livengood ’98 RN, maternity supervisor Lancaster General Women & Babies Hospital Lancaster, Pa.

Stoltzfus, Virgil DeLee ’54 Medical doctor (retired) Valparaiso, Ind.

Schlabach, Delmer ’74 Systems analyst Mennonite General Hospital Aibonito, Puerto Rico

Small, Cheryl Nissly '84 Registered nurse Froedtert Memorial Hospital Milwaukee, Wis.

Stucky, Janet Harder ’73 Registered dietitian Via Christi Health Systems Wichita, Kan.

Schmucker, M. Lee ’73 Family physician Loma Vista Medical Center La Junta, Colo.

Smith, Lisa Higgs ’87 Health care education faculty National College Harrisonburg, Va.

Stutzman, Merle D. ’80 Medical technologist Pomerene Hospital Millersburg, Ohio

Schwartz, Cheryl ’96 Pre-Op/PACU registered nurse Orthopaedics Northeast Fort Wayne, Ind.

Smith, “Mim” Eby ’59 Registered nurse Maryland School for the Deaf Columbia, Md.

Swartzendruber, Connie Miller ’84 Medical transcriptionist Kalona, Iowa

Seibel, D. Lamar ‘70 Physician, general practice Self-employed Vineland, N.J.

Smucker, Ray E. ’76 Family physician Molalla Medical Clinic Molalla, Ore.

Swope, John D. ’76 Dentist Private practice Roanoke, Va.

Seiler, Sigmund ’82 Family physician Huguenot Primary Care Midlothian, Va.

Souder, Christopher A. ’00 Emergency physician Palmetto Health Columbia, S.C.

Shearer, Cheryl Miller ’87 Nurse clinician Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation Chicago, Ill.

Spangler, Sharon Stevens ’75 School nurse Upper Adams School District Biglerville, Pa.

Taylor, Christopher ’91 Neurosurgeon Univ. of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Albuquerque, N.M.

Shelly, Martine Stauffer ’65 Director of nutritional services Calvary Hospital Bronx, N.Y.

Speigle, Joanne Brenneman ’81 Radiologist Doylestown Radiology Associates Doylestown, Pa.

Shenk, Jewel Harman ’65 Speech and language pathologist Sarasota County Schools Sarasota, Fla.

Speigle, Nancy J. ’92 Registered nurse, working on graduate diploma in international health University of the Nations Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Rutt, Ann ’82 Adult nurse practitioner New York Methodist Hospital Brooklyn, N.Y. Rutt, Clarence H. Jr. ’53 Surgeon (retired) With MCC in Indonesia; also in Pa. Landisville, Pa. Sahawneh, Tuomah ’72 Family physician Baptist Health Center Oneonta, Ala. Sanders, “Chris” Dennen ’81 Occupational therapist Fairfax County Public Schools Falls Church, Va.

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Taylor, Donald R. ’59 Administrator (retired) w/ MA in Science in Hygiene Elyria Memorial Hospital in Ohio Harrisonburg, Va. (in retirement)

Walter, Daniel B. ’73 Anesthesiologist Western Pa. Anesthesia Associates Ltd. Pittsburgh, Pa. Waybill, Peter N. ’81 Radiologist, vascular, interventional, diagnostic Hershey Medical Ctr. & College of Med. Hershey, Pa. Waybill, Rebecca A. ’88 Admissions coordinator, BA CRRN Ohio State University Medical Center Columbus, Ohio Wayland, Rose Herr ’78 Pastoral psychotherapist Pastoral Counseling Associates Washington, D.C. Weaver, A. Richard '60 Surgeon (retired) In Tanzania with EMM; also in Pa. Ephrata, Pa. Weaver, Deborah R. ’89 Psychotherapist Genesis Therapy Center Chicago, Ill. Weaver, John W. ’50 Prof. of computer science (retired) SSHE: West Chester University West Chester, Pa. Weaver, Lesetta Mummau ’97 Nurse practitioner Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, Pa.

Thiessen, Kellie Talbot ’95 Registered midwife Central Health Authority of Manitoba Winkler, Manitoba, Canada

Weber, Philip L. ’77 Clinical psychologist Self-employed Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Tiller, Patricia Powell ’70 Public health nurse manager Alleghany & Roanoke Health Districts Roanoke, Va.

Weber-Shirk, Monroe ’85 Director of AguaClara Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y.

Wert, Roy E. ’62 Surgeon, orthopedics (retired) Lebanon, Pa. White, Evelyn Weaver ’69 Diabetic education Aultman Health Foundation Canton, Ohio Wiebe, “Julie” Martin ’84 Senior account executive C. R. Bard Medical, StatLock Division Covington, Ga. Wingate, Lois Smith ’74 Endocrinology diabetes educator Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland AFB, Tex. Witmer, E. James ’64 Pediatrician Children's Clinic Perry Township, Ohio 44646 Wolgemuth, Kathleen L. ’02 Registered nurse Travel Nurse Across America Romeo, Colo.

Wood, Cynthia S. ’94 School nurse Keene School District Keene, N.H. Wyse, Katrina A. ’96 Obstetrician/gynecologist May Grant Associates Lancaster, Pa. Yoder, Alma Jean Wert ’63 Certified nursing assistant Naomi West (private individual) Bridgewater, Va. Yoder, Emma Hilty ’96, ma ’99 Director Mosaic Counseling Center Harrisonburg, Va. Yoder, J. Byard ’75 MD, assistant program director Penn State/Good Samaritan Family and Community Medicine Residency Program Myerstown, Pa. Yoder, Lavonne Byler ’85 Registered nurse Akron Children's Hospital Akron, Ohio

Ryan Kauffman '99 and Roger Kauffman '73, son and father, work side-by-side as physicians in the Oak Hill Family Medical Practice in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Yoder, Leo J. ’62 Family physician Self-employed Baton Rouge, La.

Yunginger, Richard c. Jr.’79 Family physician Norlanco Medical Associates Elizabethtown, Pa.

Yoder, Norman S. ’96 Physician assistant Rockingham Memorial Hospital Harrisonburg, Va.

Yutzy, LaVern ’70 CEO (retired) Philhaven Mt. Gretna, Pa.

Yoder, Paul J. ’77 Clinical psychologist Oaklawn Psychiatric Center Inc. Goshen, Ind.

Zehr, John M. ’84 Family physician Univ. of Northern Iowa Health Center Cedar Falls, Iowa

Yoder, Paul “Stan” ’65 Senior qualitative research specialist Macro International Inc. Calverton, Md.

Zimmerman, Barbara ’81 Emergency physician Elkhart Emergency Physicians Inc. Elkhart, Ind.

Yoder, Sharon ’98 American Traveler Wellman, Iowa

Zimmerman, Eugenia ’91 M.D. brd certified in phys. med. & rehab Triangle Orthopaedic Associates, P.A. Durham, N.C.

Yoder, Sylvia Weaver ’81 RN, home health staff nurse Amedisys Home Health Services Lancaster, Pa.

Zook, Ethan D. ’76 School psychologist Harrisonburg City Public Schools Harrisonburg, Va.

Yoder, Yolanda ’82 Physician Southern Indiana Community Health Care Paoli, Ind.

Zook, Kelly Kern ’96 Neonatologist Onsite Neonatal Associates Philadelphia, Pa.

Yoder-Bontrager, Marlisa ’80 Care coordinator Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, Pa.

Zook, Matthew ’95 Dermatologist (3rd yr. res); PhD in microbiology & immunology Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia, Pa.

Traveling nurse

Zook, Susanna Unternahrer ’95 Registered nurse U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Centers Houston, Texas

Alumni covered elsewhere in this issue are not listed on pages 33-39. we will compile a supplemental listing of "alumni in science" for publication on our website or possibly in the next issue of crossroads, if space permits. to submit or update an entry, please fill out the form at: www.emu.edu/crossroads/update

or send a message to the editor at the emu address on this magazine or to crossroads@emu.edu.

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Donald B. Kraybill ’67, author of 20 books, is EMU’s 2008 Alumnus of the Year

Kraybill Adept With News Media

But Prefers Quiet Scholarship

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f the subject is the Amish, Mennonites, or something linked to pacifism – and a reporter needs an expert to quote – look for the quote to be from Donald B. Kraybill ’67, EMU’s 2008 Alumnus of the Year.

An Associated Press story in May, for instance, contained Kraybill’s observations on a legal case pitting the district court of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, against two Swartzentruber-Amish men who refused to dispose of raw sewage in the manner prescribed by local sanitation laws. The AP story was printed in newspapers across the nation.

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Also quoted in the AP story was Herman Bontrager ’72, our 2008 Distinguished Service Award honoree (pictured on page 43). Bontrager was interviewed as secretary-treasurer of the National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom. Both Kraybill and Bontrager took the view that this sewage case was not representative of Amish non-conformist practices linked to religious belief.

In a USA Today report in June, Kraybill noted that some Amish claims don't pertain to their religion or culture: “Sometimes, you get a cantankerous individual who doesn’t

want to comply with a regulation," irrespective of his or her religious belief.

In the same two-week period, Kraybill was quoted in the Washington Post, this time on the varied responses of traditionally pacifist colleges to the danger of violent mass-assaults on campus. Kraybill expressed disappointment that the trustees at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, a historically Brethren school with a peace and conflict studies program, voted to permit armed guards.

"I would hope that colleges in the peace church tradition have the brainpower to

come up with creative nonviolent alternatives," Kraybill said in the Post.

“I find myself in the role of interpreting Anabaptist issues, perspectives and theology,” Kraybill told Crossroads recently. “I’m not a theologian. I’m a cultural sociologist.”

As adept as Kraybill has become at fielding reporters’ inquiries – he was on TV and in newspapers non-stop in the days after the shooting of 10 Amish schoolgirls in October, 2006 – Kraybill’s true spiritual and mental home is far from the spotlight.

Kraybill says he is happiest doing research and writing manuscripts quietly at his desk – office door closed, phone unanswered – at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. The center is the brainchild of long-time director Kraybill. It is housed in a 20-year-old stone-clad building that resembles a 1700s-era Brethren meetinghouse.

Beginning with Our Star-Spangled Faith in 1976, Kraybill has written 20 books, an average of one every year and a half. Many are heavy-duty books of record, complete with carefully researched data and citations.

His dozens of journal articles range in topic from suicide patterns among the Amish to methods of teaching research in the classroom.

Kraybill’s expertise on the Amish was established when he authored the bestselling The Riddle of Amish Culture in 1989 (revised in 2001; now published in French too).

Tourists to Amish regions of North America often rely upon Kraybill’s easyto-read, 48-page paperback Who Are the Anabaptists? Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites (2003).

In the larger Christian world, Kraybill might be best-known for his explanation of the distinctives of Anabaptist theology in The Upside-Down Kingdom, which won the National Religious Book Award in 1979.

With nearly 100,000 copies in print, it is in its third edition and has been translated into Arabic and five other languages.

“Over the last several decades, I’ve seen a growing respect in the larger world for the distinctive beliefs and practices of Anabaptists,” Kraybill said in an interview this spring. “The more we (Anabaptist institutions) can build on our unique distinctives, the stronger we will be."

Summarizing the values of Anabaptists, Kraybill said: “peacemaking, our sense of community, and our service to the larger world.”

“These distinctives cut across all Anabaptist colleges and help us distinguish ourselves from other colleges.

“The peacemaking institute at EMU is a great example of this,” said Kraybill, who was a member of EMU’s board of trustees in the late 1980s and early 1990s. “This (Center for Justice and Peacebuilding) is exactly what we should do. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t teach chemistry or art, but we should highlight in our academic programs our unique Anabaptist perspectives.”

After graduating from EMU in 1967, Kraybill returned to his home area – he was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania – and served as associate pastor at Willow Street Mennonite Church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for five years and as associate director of Mennonite Voluntary Service for four years. He then embarked on graduate school. For his doctoral dissertation in

sociology at Temple University, he studied ethnic socialization in Lancaster Mennonite High School and eventually wrote a history of the school.

In 1971 he began teaching at Elizabethtown College, affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. He has been there since, except for a hiatus (1996-2002) as provost at Messiah College. Desiring to worship with fellow faculty members and students, he became a member of the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren about 20 years ago.

Kraybill’s most recent book, co-authored with Steven M. Nolt and David L. WeaverZercher, is Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy (2007).

The global fascination with the schoolhouse shooting and how the Amish handled it – 2,400 media stories appeared in the week following the attack – motivated Kraybill and his co-authors to produce a book explaining the theology behind the Amish choice to forgive, show compassion, and respond in a gracious way, despite their deep pain. Amish Grace soon may top Kraybill’s list of bestsellers, with 60,000 hardbound editions sold in its first seven months on the market and a Japanese edition already out.

After spending nine months promoting the book, Kraybill is eager to return to the quiet of his office. On sabbatical for 2008-09, Kraybill will refuse public engagements – except attendance at EMU’s 2008 Homecoming – in order to work “morning to night” on his next book, A Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites, to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2009. He has another link to this press – he is its series acquisitions editor for the Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.

Kraybill is married to Frances Mellinger and they have two daughters, Sheila and Joy ’95. Learn more about Donald Kraybill by attending one of the several sessions at which he will speak at Homecoming 2008, Oct. 10-12, including a symposium in which he and Herman Bontrager will talk about the grace of the Amish in the face of the Nickel Mine shootings.

For more information, check out the homecoming program at the end of this magazine.

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Donald R. Jacobs, PhD

Herman Bontrager

Latest honor

Latest honor

Lifetime Service Award, 2008 EMU Alumni Association

Distinguished Service Award, 2008 EMU Alumni Association

Current position

Current position

Missiologist and Director Emeritus of Mennonite Christian Leadership Foundation

President/CEO Goodville Mutual Casualty Company

Long-standing other work Mennonite missionary, with wife Anna Ruth, in Tanzania and Kenya, 1954 to 1973 Director of Overseas Ministeries (in 23 nations) of the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions, 1975 to 1980.

Church Chestnut Hill Mennonite Church Lancaster, Pennyslvania

Education Studies at EMU, 1945 and 1948; B.A., Franklin and Marshall, 1952 ; M.A., European History, U. of Md., 1953; grad diploma in education, U. of London, U.K., 1954; Ph.D., religion and education, N.Y.U., 1961

Immediate family Wife Anna Ruth; children Jane, David, Alan and Paul; ten grandchildren.

Memorable quotes

 We were ordinary people – there was nothing very special about who I am and the missionaries I worked with. The momentum was created by the locals.

 I had to change my belief system in Africa.

Their belief in the supernatural was so contrary to my worldview – I had come from a secular society dominated by the Enlightenment.  I came to feel somehow at home in that (African) world. It was a little more like the world as Jesus talked about it.

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Long-standing other work Mennonite Central Committee roles, 1976 to present National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom Mennonite Board of Missions/Mennonite Mission Network Board

Recently in the news media as Spokesperson for the Nickel Mines Amish Community and School Victims Fund

Church Akron Mennonite Church Akron, Pennsylvania

Education B.A., sociology and Bible, EMU, 1972 Certificate in Spanish, Spanish Language Institute, Costa Rica, 1973 M.A., sociology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 1976

Immediate family Wife Jeanette Noll ’73; daughter Elizabeth; son Nathan ’07

Memorable quotes

 I am thankful for the variety of roles and responsibilities that I have been fortunate to experience. This is a gift, not a right.

 I have had a life-long mission to not accept a gap between business and church people – we are helped if we understand that our Christian vocation is first and primary and that occupational choices fall into place as a result.

 I hope I have done some good and done minimal harm as I have kept learning in every role I have filled. Learning is life-long.

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Beryl Brubaker Retires After 37 Years

By Heather Bowser of the Daily News-Record and Bonnie Price Lofton

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or the first time in several decades, 66-year-old Beryl H. Brubaker won’t be one of the key “go-to” people at EMU. She will retire in August, leaving behind her fingerprints on almost every aspect of the university.

“She’s an icon and a mentor of mine,” said president Loren Swarztendruber, describing the woman who served as interim president for eight months before he filled the position in 2004. “She has been the person I could trust to manage the operational details when I was away from campus.”

The middle of five girls, Brubaker and all her siblings attended Belleville Mennonite School in rural Pennsylvania. Her father, Clayton Hartzler, helped found the school and was president of the school board for most of her years there, serving as a model for her in her adult life. Her father also founded a retirement community and coffeehouse for young people.

In 1960, Brubaker entered what was then Eastern Mennonite College to pursue a music major. As a soprano she “loved singing high C’s” in various musical groups on campus. Yet toward the end of her first semester, she decided, “I didn’t see a future in music.

A career in singing just didn’t fit my concept of service at that point in my life.”

She switched to nursing, completing a nursing program at EMU and the Riverside Hospital School of Nursing in Newport News, a bachelors degree at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, and a masters degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1970 then-president Myron Augsburger called her at the Pennsylvania school, where she had become an instructor, and persuaded her to come to Eastern Mennonite. “At the time, there weren’t many Mennonite women with graduate degrees,” Brubaker said.

Over the next decade Brubaker and another administrator, Vida Huber, established EMU as a center of innovative excellence in nursing. They created the first “competencybased, self-paced” nursing program in the state.

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Taking advantage of a sabbatical year, Brubaker began work on a doctorate at the University of Alabama, completing it in 1984.

In 1994, Brubaker became EMU’s vice president for enrollment, where she led the school to achieve record enrollment – in part by expanding financial aid and matching church grants. In 2000, she became the university’s first provost, a behind-the-scenes position where she was second-in-command.

“I’ve been amazed at her administrative skills, her attention to detail and her sense of institutional history,” said Jim Bishop '67 who has worked with Brubaker for 36 years.

“Beryl has left an indelible imprint upon this place.”

As provost, she encouraged many initiatives, such as: STEP (Study and Training for Effective Pastoral Ministry) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; a program in Lancaster to enable registered nurses to earn their bachelors degrees; partnerships with local school systems in offering teachers masterslevel courses; and the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society.

She facilitated a series of campus conversations on homosexuality in 2005-06 and an Ethics of Biotechnology conference in 2003.

Her office helped fund major speakers, such as Jim Wallis of Sojourners and Archbishop Elias Chacour, both in 2006. She supported the organization of the first Faculty Senate and worked in collaboration with others to improve EMU’s policies on such matters as rank and promotion and academic freedom.

She wrote a number of successful grants for projects that have changed the face of the university, including a $1.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop the campus computer network and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation grant for construction of the seminary.

In retirement Brubaker – a self-described workaholic, accustomed to 60-hour work weeks – will work part time on EMU’s reaccreditation process. In her free time, she plans to garden as well as enjoy the company of husband J. Mark Brubaker, a biology professor at James Madison University, and their two children and four grandchildren.

The search for Brubaker’s replacement continues. An interim provost has been appointed for the 2008-09 school year: Lee F. Snyder, WHO was v-P and academic dean at EMU for 12 years in the 1980s and early 1990s. She then was president of Bluffton (Ohio) University, before retiring in 2006. Input on possiBle candidates for provost is welcome. contact EMU's director of human resources, marcy engle at (540) 432-4148 OR E-MAIL HER AT marcy.engle@emu.edu.

mileposts

Dr. Roman Miller, the Daniel B. Suter Endowed Professor of Biology, confers with Michelle Roth-Cline ’00, who is exploring the intersection of ethics, medicine, statistics, and law as a fellow in the medical science training program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed a PhD in clinical investigation in 2006 and will finish her MD in 2009. She plans a career in ethics and policy, with focus on human-subject research. Dr. Miller is an advisor for the pre-professional health sciences track at EMU and often writes the letters of reference that help students to gain admission to competitive graduate programs..

Faculty and Staff

Lori Leaman ’88, assistant professor in

the education department, completed her doctorate. She presented “Culturally Responsible Teaching” and “Differentiated Learning: Meeting Diverse Needs” at a Mennonite educators conference.

David A. King ’76, athletic director, is featured in the Mar. 3 issue of Mennonite Weekly Review regarding sports as an obsession in American culture. King maintains that a fixation on elite-level sports is keeping young people and families from gaining all the values of participation in sports. As a result, the game is shifting from creative fun and learning to a parent-driven emphasis on winning. The game becomes a stressor on the children.

Allon Lefever, former associate profes-

sor of the business and education department and vice president of Mennonite Economic Development Associates, was featured in the Mar. 3 Daily News Record for his work with NetsforLife in Tanzania. NetsforLife distributes mosquito nets for pregnant women in that nation in an effort to lower the death rate of malaria-stricken children. The organization works in cooperation with the local ministry of

health. This program captured the attention of President George W. Bush on his recent visit to Tanzania.

Margo McIntire, program representative

in the Adult Degree Completion Program, will fill the assessment counselor position, effective July 1.

Dorothy Jean Weaver ’72, professor of New Testament, co-led a work group to Nazareth and Bethlehem, May 2-19, with the Partners in Mission Program under Virginia Mennonite Missions.

N. Gerald Shenk ’75, professor of church and society, returned to the Evangelical Theological Seminary, Osijek, Croatia, May 12-23, to teach an intensive course in sociology of religion to upper-level and graduate students.

Moira Rogers, language and literature professor, will take a 40-hour crash course in conversational Arabic to improve her communication skills and enable her to connect with local people in Spain and Morocco during her crosscultural experience next fall.

Linford Stutzman ’84, MAR ’90, associate professor of culture and mission, challenged those attending the Sunday morning session of the Conservative Mennonite Conference’s 97th annual meeting in Maple City Chapel, Goshen, Ind., “to learn to sail with Jesus.” Linford spoke in the context of a journey by

himself and his wife, Janet Scheffel (MAL’91) Stutzman, in which they covered 4,000 miles by sea and 2,500 miles by land, traversing the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul. An account of that journey is described in their book Sailing Acts: Following an Ancient Voyage.

Julia White, artistic director and founder

of the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir, directed the American Choral Directors Association (Western Division) Honors Children’s Choir in Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 27-Mar. 1. About 150 children from 10 states participated in three days of rehearsal and a final performance.

Mike Zucconi was named Old Dominion Athletic Conference sports information director of the year at their annual meeting, May 1. He produces almost all of the press information for EMU’s athletic department.

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Evelyn Maust ’41, Harrisonburg, Va., is a volunteer at World of Good Thrift Shop and assistant manager of Park View women’s missionary and service commission.

1950-59

Horst Gerlach ’55, has a long and impressive history of teaching in various

contexts in Germany. He was under assignment with Eastern Mennonite Missions in Germany and Luxemburg.

He attended Heidelberg University, after which he wrote his dissertation on the British Peasants Revolt of 1381 and the German Peasants War of 1525. In addition to his many teaching roles, Horst has written a number of articles and books on the Amish and Russian Mennonites. According to Horst, there are no longer Mennonites in Russia. Many have moved to Germany.

Jan Gleysteen '55, Goshen, Ind., is coauthor (with Leonard Gross) of Colonial Germantown Mennonites, published in 2007. The book describes the first permanent Mennonite settlement in North America. Jan has pursued many interests and professions over more than five decades: painter, illustrator, photographer, storyteller, tour guide, slide lecturer and Mennonite historian.

He is also an environmentalist, train lover and humorist. Jan was born in 1931 in the Netherlands. He studied art at a rigorous academy in Amsterdam.

With his family, he attended 400-year-old Singel Mennonite Church, located in the heart of the city. After World War II, Jan met American and Canadian Mennonite relief workers, which led him to attend Goshen College, then EMU, for a year each. He then became a full-time illustra-

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tor, designer and editor at Mennonite Publishing House in Scottdale, Pa. He is on the board of Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust.

J. David Eshleman ’58, BD ’61, Man-

heim, Pa., has retired after 48 years of pastoral ministry and two years as a bishop in the Lancaster Mennonite Conference (LMC) and is now serving as church consultant for LMC and Eastern Mennonite Missions.

Florence E. Horst ’58, Harrisonburg, Va.,

Debra Boese '07 with professor Jim Yoder.

Suter’s Successors Are Creating Own Legacies EMU’s current science faculty may not have museums, planetariums or campus buildings bearing their names. Yet they are racking up significant accomplishments, much like their professorial forebears.

Dr. Doug Graber Neufeld works primarily on environmental science matters. With a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in environmental physiology, he recently spent two years with Mennonite Central Committee in Cambodia addressing water issues.

At EMU in 2008, Graber Neufeld joined with Dr. Jim Yoder to offer a “green design” course. Students researched ways to modernize and expand the 40-year-old Suter Science Center in a manner that promotes “sustainability.” They presented findings to EMU’s board of trustees and architects for consideration in building design.

Yoder advises the environmental science majors and teaches ecology, zoology, and conservation biology. His primary research interests include conservation biology, landscape ecology, behavioral ecology and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Currently he and his students do field research in Shenandoah National Park.

In the summer of 2007, two undergraduate students got intensive, practical experience in molecular biological research under a National Science Foundation grant administered by Dr. Greta Ann Herin, assistant professor of biology, working collaboratively with colleagues from Bridgewater College and James Madison University. The students spent 10 weeks in laboratories in the Suter Science Center studying “electrophysical investigations in glutamate receptor function.”

Advised by Dr. Roman Miller, Rebecca J. Drooger ’07 spent two years at EMU studying the responses of the young adult mouse prostate to neonatal phytoestrogen exposure. Drooger described it as studying the effect on young mice of “chemicals produced by plants that are similar in structure to human estrogen,” such as that found in soy-based products. The results could have implications for cancer studies that consider whether a diet high in such products has an impact on prostate cancer.

Organic chemistry expert Dr. Tara Kishbaugh has studied, with students, the water quality of the local Blacks Run. She also studies food issues, starting with what kind of food is consumed in EMU’s dining hall and how much goes to waste.

Other natural science professors at EMU have recently joined the faculty, or are returning from sabbatical, and thus are just starting local research projects: Drs. Shelly Thomas, Steven Cessna, and Matthew Siderhurst.

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has had a remarkable 95-year life journey that included operating the EMU snack shop and college kitchen. Since her retirement at age 70, she has read 582 books, according to a record she began in 1994. In addition, she reads Mennonite Church-related periodicals, the Daily News Record and magazines.

She is now residing in the Redbud wing of Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community Crestwood apartments.

Donald L. Mellinger ’58, New Holland, Pa., retired from teaching in the department of biology at Kutztown University in 2001. He now coordinates internet sales for Booksavers of Ephrata, Pa., for the benefit of Mennonite Central Committee.

Becci Stoltzfus ’58 Leatherman, Lititz, Pa., has discovered many service opportunities since retirement. These include Booksavers, a before-school program for low income families living near her church, Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster (CMCL), and Bridge of Hope. She is also involved in curriculum development and teaching in the Christian education department of CMCL. Harlan Steffen ’58, Syracuse, Ind., is engaged in various roles: pastor, realtor, developer of condos near Lake Wawasee, and helping establish a half-way house in Syracuse for women with drug and alcohol problems. He also directed a summer boat-in worship service on Lake Wawasee with an average attendance of 1,000 persons.

J. Daniel (Dan) Hess ’59, Indianapolis,

Ind., has engaged in research about leaders with college- and graduate-level education in Mennonite educational institutions. He published a series of articles in January and February issues of The Mennonite on the value and impact of Christian education, with a focus on higher education in a Mennonite context. In the series, Dan reported his interaction with the following EMU alumni: Paul Gingrich ’52; Ruth Nisly ’59; Pat Hostetter Martin ’64, MA ’98; Lee Roy Berry ’66; Brenda Lehman Benner ’89, MDiv ’06; Marilyn Metzler Benner ’92; Rigoberto Negron, MDiv ’95; Laura Brenneman ’96; Jeremy Byler, ’99, MDiv ’06; Tammy Krause, MA ’99; and Rachel Gerber, MDiv ’05. Their

robust and resounding affirmation of the context, value and impact of a Christian education is available for review in the Feb. 5, 22 and Mar. 4, 18, issues of The Mennonite.

Robert (Bob) ’59 and Eloise Beyeler ’61 Hostetler, Erie, Pa., are stalwart

financial supporters of EMU. At the Mar. 14 Friday morning student chapel, Bob presented a stirring, biblically-based, message entitled “Giving as Worship.”

He and Eloise have enjoyed granting “Pass it on Loans” to persons in need of financial assistance, with the understanding that the loan is not to be repaid to the Hostetlers but to be passed on.

1960-69

James M. Lapp ’60, Sem ’61, and his

wife, Mim (Book), were installed as pastors of Salford Mennonite Church, Harleysville, Pa., Mar. 30.

J. Lorne Peachey ’61, Scottdale, Pa.,

was recognized in the Feb. 19 issue of The Mennonite on its 10th anniversary for his leadership in the historical merging of The Gospel Herald of the Mennonite Church and the former The Mennonite of the General Conference Mennonite Church.

Donald Showalter ’62, Broadway, Va., an attorney with Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver PLC, Harrisonburg, Va., was ranked among the Legal Elite in Virginia Business Magazine.

David D. Yoder ’62, Auburn, Pa., is

director of development for Quakertown Christian School, a Franconia Mennonite Conference school, offering preschool through grade eight.

Glenn Cordell ’63, McConnellsburg, Pa.,

a retired teacher, spoke Sept. 1 on the lasting value of education on opening day ceremonies at a Muslim secondary school in Istaravshan, Tajikistan. Glenn was in the area visiting the family of an exchange student who had lived in the Cordell home during a school year and attended Rock Hill Mennonite Church.

J. Mark Frederick, Jr. ’63, BD’66, and his wife, Emma Longenecker ’64 Frederick, Quakertown, Pa., are intentional

interim pastors at Perkasie Mennonite Church, Perkasie, Pa. Dorcas Martin ’63 Good retired in 2005

from her role at Henrico County Public Library in Richmond, Va. She and her husband, James Good ’60, moved from their 37-year home in Richmond and now reside in Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community in Harrisonburg.

Dorcas is a volunteer at Book Savers and People Helping People. The Goods attend Ridgeway Mennonite Church.

Nancy Rudy ’63 and Robert ’60 Martin, Lancaster, Pa., led an 18-person work party to Nazareth Hospital in Israel. The group spent two weeks working and traveled another week.

Nelson Roth ’63, Belleville, Pa., is a counselor to men and couples at Crossroads Pregnancy Center, in Lewistown, Huntingdon and Mount Union. He is also engaged in private counseling and teaches Sunday school at Allensville Mennonite Church.

Jean E. Snyder ’63, Pittsburgh, Pa., has

taught English and music for a number of years. Currently she is a full-time music teacher.

Robert Wert ’63, Goshen, Ind., retired in 2004 after working at Oaklawn for 26 years as a clinical social worker. His spouse, Esther Glick ’63 Wert, retired in 2007 from her role as a data processing worker at Oaklawn.

Carroll Lehman ’64, Rindge, N.H., is di-

rector of vocal/choral activities at Keene State College, Keene, N.H., and music director and coordinator of Monadnex Chorus of Peterborough, N.H. Kenneth Nissley ’66, is a case manager for Lancaster Area Victim Offender Reconciliation Program. Kenneth manages the case load for a victim-offender conferencing program involving approximately 75 volunteer facilitators. This includes being liaison person between referring agencies, juvenile court and police departments, and the volunteers who facilitate the meetings. It also involves assisting with training classes several times a year and mentoring volunteer facilitators throughout the lifecycle of a case.

Anna Margaret (Peg) Groff ’68 Engle,

Harrisonburg, Va., was ordained May 2006 as a minister by Virginia Mennonite Conference. Peg serves as associate pastor for pastoral care at Lindale Mennonite Church.

Del Glick ’68, Washington, D.C., was installed Oct. 21 as intentional interim pastor at Mount Joy Mennonite Church in Pennsylvania.

Idella Borntrager ’68 and husband Emory Otto ’70, a psychologist, are in

private practice as a Christian counseling team in Lititz, Pa. Helen F. Christman ’69 Buckwalter, Homer, Alaska, assists and participates in the ministry of her husband, Daniel, a flying circuit pastor to a number of villages on the Alaskan Peninsula and leads summer vacation Bible schools in those villages.

Karen Hoover ’68 Ransaw, Detroit,

Mich., retired from teaching in 2003.

She is a volunteer in various roles in her church: front desk one day a week; in charge of a free movie one night a month; vacation Bible school coordinator the last four years; and secretary of church council. She is a secretary and interviewer for the church’s Good Samaritan Ministry, giving free clothing two days a month. In addition to these roles, she tutors two hours per week at a drug rehabilitation facility and volunteers for Detroit sport events.

Bernadine Swartzentruber ’68, Lowville, N.Y., retired in June after 21 years as a teacher aide at a local public school.

Dwight Wyse ’68, Harrisonburg, Va.,

started REC SOFT with his son, Derek in 2002 to provide camp management

software to camps and conference centers. They now serve over 130 sites in the United States and Canada. Wyse Solution provides websites to more than 100 customers.

George Zimmerman ’68, Thompson-

town, Pa., recently completed a term as interim pastor of Habecker Mennonite Church, Lancaster, Pa. He continues to work part time for Hoober, Inc, delivering farm equipment.

Willard M. Swartley ’69, Elkhart, Ind., has had his latest book, Send Forth Your Light: A Vision for Peace, Mission, and Worship, published by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. Willard has produced an erudite analysis of peace, mission and worship with well-documented biblical foundations. The book is dedicated to his wife, Mary Lapp ’57 Swartley, to celebrate the golden anniversary of their marital covenant.

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John Weber ’71, Ephrata, Pa., began

serving Jan. 1 as the moderator of Atlantic Coast Conference. He is the principal of Lancaster Mennonite School’s Kraybill campus in Mt. Joy, Pa. John and his wife, Janet ’98, are members of Akron Mennonite Church.

John D. (J.D.) Stahl ’72, is professor in

the department of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. His research deals with how values and perspectives are expressed in literary form across cultural boundaries. J.D. has written a book about Mark Twain and culture and gender and co-edited an anthology of children’s literary texts and criticism. J.D. was recently honored as the recipient of the 2008 William E. Wine Award.

The award, established in honor of the former rector of Virginia Tech Board of Visitors and president of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association, is awarded annually to three Virginia Tech faculty members to recognize “a history of university teaching excellence.”

Jan Rutt ’73 Landis, Akron, Pa., is a vol-

unteer teacher of English as a second language with the Literary Council of Lancaster.

Carolyn Grasse-Bachman ’76, Mt. Joy,

Pa., is assistant professor of education at Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, Pa. She teaches graduate students who are pursuing a masters degree in teaching and curriculum in an internet format. Carolyn is also a member of the board of directors of Lancaster Mennonite School.

Rose Zook ’77 Barber, Eugene, Ore., was licensed Nov. 18 as lead pastor of Eugene Mennonite Church.

Donald ’77 and Mary Ina Flisher ’77 Hooley, Bluffton, Ohio, spent two

weeks in India in June where Mary Ina attended her 35th class reunion at Woodstock School.

Clair Mellinger

Clair Mellinger’s Lesson: Take Students Outdoors If biology professor emeritus Clair Mellinger ’64 had his 37-year career at EMU to do over again, he would do this differently: “I would take everyone on more field trips.”

When Mellinger was an undergraduate, professor D. Ralph Hostetter "used to make us get up at dawn on Saturdays to birdwatch. He wanted us to have an uninterrupted stretch of time for his morning lab, and Saturday worked best,” says Mellinger, who retired from teaching in the summer of 2007.

Mellinger says Hostetter's trips left him with cherished memories.

"In geology, I recall especially the Canaan Valley (W.Va.) field trip and the overnight trip to Jones Wharf in Maryland. We took many shorter trips to local habitats in ecology and ornithology."

As a professor, Mellinger's own ornithology field trips were also once a week – on Tuesday or Thursday, but rarely earlier than 8 a.m.

Yet “the earlier you start, the more birds you see,” he says. Former students tell him such outings are what they remember best.

Mellinger was a protégé of Hostetter, from whom he took one of EMU’s first ecology courses in the early 1960s. Professors Daniel Sutor and Hostetter used Mellinger as a lab instructor in 1965, the year after he graduated with a bachelor of science degree. After that, Mellinger went off to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to pursue a doctoral degree in plant ecology.

While wrapping up his doctorate, Mellinger was asked to return to EMU as an assistant professor. It was 1970 and Hostetter was winding down his teaching career, shifting attention to his natural history museum. Mellinger took over the ornithology, botany, and ecology courses and introduced an environmental biology course.

“Most of the pre-med and other biology majors wound up taking at least one of my courses. I like to think this helped them understand that there was interesting God-created life outside of the human race,” Mellinger says.

Mellinger doesn’t mind being known as “the birdman,” given that he spends much of his free time banding and studying Northern Saw-whet Owls in northwest Virginia. "But I would consider myself to be an ecologist or a naturalist, even though this implies more of an understanding of plants, animals, soils, weather, climate and so forth than I have. However, I am still learning. We all need to learn more to enable us to sustain the quality of life we have in this biosphere.”

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Michael Kurtz ’77, Oak Ridge, N.C., is senior pastor of a 1,100-member United Methodist congregation. His ministry includes preaching, leading worship, teaching, vision casting, shaping leaders, counseling and pastoral care.

Judy Benner ’78 Frei, Whitehall. Pa.,

completed an MA in counseling at Biblical Seminary, Hatfield, Pa. She is a member of the pastoral team at New Covenant Church, Bethlehem, Pa. J. Eric Bishop ’78, is a doctorate-holding

English teacher at Christopher Dock Mennonite School, Lansdale, Pa. He spent his spring semester sabbatical working in lifelong learning initiatives at Dock Woods Community and taught a graduate course in adolescent and young adult literature at EMU’s Lancaster campus.

Myron Blosser

Myron Blosser Receives National Recognition Myron Blosser ’83 rose above about 1,000 other teachers of biotechnology at a mid-June (2008) convention of 20,000 people in San Diego, Calif., to receive the second-place prize of $5,000 for being one of the top biotechnology educators at the high school level in the nation.

Blosser teaches biology, advanced placement biology and a biotechnology course at Eastern Mennonite High School in Harrisonburg.

He promotes and leads an annual biotechnology symposium for schools in the central Shenandoah Valley. Now in its 15th year, the symposium brought scientists and students together for a day this spring to focus on nuclear genetics. Since its start, 4,500 students from 26 high schools have participated in the symposium.

Blosser was chosen by a panel of judges for “his proven leadership and excellence as an educator, his commitment to furthering the teaching of biotechnology by outreach to other educators, and the development of innovative ways to teach biotechnology.”

Blosser received his prize at the BIO 2008 International Convention, which drew 20,108 industry leaders from 70 countries and 48 states to its convention June 17-20. Keynote speakers were California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and General Colin L. Powell (Ret.).

The convention showcased how the biotechnology and life sciences industries could make the world a cleaner and healthier place to live through new drug developments, cleaner technologies, and improvements in food supply.

Blosser has been the recipient of numerous awards, including EMU Alumnus of the Year in 2005; biology teacher of the year in several different years (1993 from the Virginia Association of Biology Teachers, 1994 from the American Association of University Women, and 1998 from the National Association of Biology Teachers); and member of the 1999 USA Today Teacher First Team, one of 20 teachers nationwide named to this team.

Blosser is a member of EMU’s board of trustees.

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Mark Hartman ’78, is teaching at Central College in Pella, Iowa. This fall, he will become the orchestra director at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Mark continues to perform on violin and occasionally guitar and participated in the 16th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival at EMU this year.

Teresa King ’78, Long, Lancaster, Pa.,

has been named vice president of health services at Tel Hai Retirement Community, Honey Brook, Pa. Previously, Teresa was regional director of operations at Manor Care Health Services and, more recently, health care administrator for Lakeside at Willow Valley.

Margaret Rollins ’78 Kreider, Not-

tingham, Pa., retired from 45 years of nursing in 2006. Her career included hospital care, education and public school nursing. She is now employed part time in the health center at Lincoln University, Oxford, Pa. Doug Zehr ’78, Leo, Ind., graduated in June with a doctor of ministry from Ashland (Ohio) Theological Seminary.

His doctor of ministry project, “Prayer Ministry Teams in a Local Mennonite Church,” was part of the transformational leadership track. Doug is completing his 14th year as lead pastor of North Leo Mennonite Church. He has served churches in Dungannon, Brussels and Elmira, Ontario. He recently enjoyed a three-month sabbatical under the Clergy Renewal Program for Indiana congregations sponsored by Lilly Endowment, Inc. Fred Kniss ’79, Chicago, Ill., has been

the chairperson of the department of sociology of Loyola University since 2005. In 2007, he published a book, Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America’s Newest Immigrants, co-authored with a colleague, Paul Numrich.

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Roberta Jantzi ’80 Egli, Corvallis, Ore. is pastor of Deep Well, a United Methodist urban church in Salem, Ore., in a half time position. In addition, she serves as

a spiritual director, spiritual formation retreat facilitator and worship resource consultant. The mission of Deep Well is to empower individuals and groups to deepen their relationship with God and each other in worship and spiritual formation that engages faith in action. It is an ecumenical endeavor.

Sue Rutt ’80 and her husband, Kevin Glick, moved back to Akron, Pa., after 20 years in Portland, Ore. Sue works in the International Program Department at Mennonite Central Committee and Kevin at Ten Thousand Villages information technology department.

John Lowe ’81, Davie, Fla., is an as-

sistant professor at Florida Atlantic University Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Boca Raton, Fla. He is the primary investigator of the Teen Intervention Project-Cherokee and president of the Native American Nursing Scholars Institute.

Dennis G. McAdams, MAR ’81, and his wife, Effie, are promoting the Kingdom of God in the village of Hopongo, Rendova Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. Their ministry verse is: “For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing (2 Cor. 2:15).” Dennis requested we publish their website, www.dennisandeffie.com, to enable people to “check in with them.”

Charlottesville, Va. Mary Jo credits her Clinical Pastoral Education experience at EMS for influencing her to become a chaplain.

Stanley (Stan) Swartz ’87, Harrisonburg, Va., is featured in the Feb. 15 issue of the Daily News Record for his “Lifelong Love of Theater.” Stan has been the artistic director of theater at Harrisonburg High School for 19 years and continuously involved in productions since he was a sophomore in high school.

Regina Lutz ’88 Beidler, Randolph

Center, Vt., worked as a social worker in Boston and in Vermont. She and her husband, Brent, went to Chad under MCC in 1995. Since their return, they have operated their own dairy. Regina also works as the east coast coordinator for Organic Valley’s Farm Ambassador Program.

Meg N. Mason-Hahn ’88, Everett, Pa., is a stay-at-home mother of two children, Jonathan, 2 years, and Katy, 18 months old.

Jeff Myers ’89, Afton, Va., teaches 8th

grade physical science for Albemarle County.

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Margaret (Marta) Beidler Castillo ’90 is a pastor at Nueva Vida/Norristown New Life church of Franconia Mennonite Conference.

Douglas Phillips ’82, has served a number of years as director of Camp Brethren Woods, Keezletown, Va.

Jeff Gingerich ’90, Norristown, Pa., is as-

Kenny Boyers ’83, has been named the principal for the recently opened Cub Run Elementary School in Penn Laird, Va. Kenny was selected from a pool of potential candidates for his “clear vision for the identity of Cub Run Elementary,” according to a statement by the Rockingham County School Board.

Deborah Woodring ’90 Gish, Elka Park, N.Y., works for Rifton Equipment, which produces equipment for handicapped children to enable them to move and become more fully integrated in their homes, schools and society.

Susan Shirk ’83, is volunteer coordina-

tor at Landis Homes, Lititz, Pa. She was highly pleased that her group received the Volunteer of the Year Group award in 2007 from the Pennsylvania Association of Non-Profit Homes for the Aging—now known as Homes for Senior Services—for their “star comforter program” in which persons stay with persons who are dying.

J. David (Dave) ’83 and Shelby Landis ’85 Swartley live in Lancaster, Pa. Dave

is executive vice-president of Moravian Manor, Lititiz, Pa. Shelby is a social worker at Lancaster General Hospital Health Campus.

Susan (Sue) Blauch ’86, Harrisonburg, Va., has been selected from a pool of about two dozen qualifying American referees to represent the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Sue will be the only American referee for the women’s games.

Mary Jo Bowman ’86, MDiv ’07, Mt.

Solon, Va., is a chaplain resident at the University of Virginia Health System,

sociate professor of sociology at Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa.

Harry Jarrett ’90, MDiv ’06, pastor of Neffsville Mennonite Church, Lancaster, Pa., was a member of an Atlantic Coast Conference delegation that visited Argentina to renew a three-year-old partnership with 13 churches comprising a mission and outreach program, Vision Evangelica y Misionera de la Zona Oeste (Evangelistic and Missionary Vision of the Western Zone).

Rhonda Miller ’90 is an adjunct instruc-

tor, teaching Spanish, at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Va. Rick Augsburger ’91, Capon Bridge, W.

Va., is deputy director of the Headington Institute. Prior to joining Headington, Rick was the director of emergency programs (1996-2005) and deputy director for Church World Service. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School Executive Leadership program in performance measurement and management for nonprofit organizations. Rick has more than 19 years of experience in humanitarian programming. He has traveled extensively, working on relief and development in 50 countries.

Debra Gingerich ’91, Sarasota, Fla., is employed as the web communications and publications manager for Manatee Community College. Her first collection of poetry, Where We Start, has been published by Cascadia Publishing House. She recently received a John Ringling Fund Individual Artist Fellowship and had one of her poems read by Garrison Keillor on his radio program, “The Writer’s Almanac.”

Kevin Kurtz Lehman ’91, Middlebury, Vt., is a senior web producer at Country Home Products, manufacturer of the Newton battery-power lawn mower and the DR brand of outdoor power equipment. Kevin and his wife, Tanya Kurtz ’91, have lived in Middlebury seven years.

Gaye Spivey ’91, Reidsville, N.C., is employed by Wek Industries as a purchasing/planning coordinator.

Barrett (Barry) Freed ’92 is returning to his home community, Lebanon Pa., after 5 1/2 years of service with Eastern Mennonite Missions in Lithuania, where he taught English and engaged in church development.

Brad Schantz ’92 a PhD candidate, is IT project assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Audrey Mumaw ’93 Borkholder,

Centreville, Mich., has served as the director of Burr Oak Township Library for seven years. She is secretary of the local school board, Nottawa Community School, and secretary/treasurer of Burr Oak Chamber of Commerce.

Joanne Kaufman ’93 Brigham, Del Norte,

Colo., works as a nationally certified massage therapist. Joanne is active in economic development and sustainable resources in the region. She helped organize the Rio Grande County Oil and Gas Accountability Alliance.

Karen Minatelli ’93, Alexandria, Va., is a bilingual attorney and deputy director of the D.C. Employment Justice Center (EJC). Karen works closely with the executive director of EJC with her focus being on the internal aspects of the organization. She recently contributed a commentary on National Public Radio advocating that the D.C. Council enact legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick and safe days for the employees.

Jonathan Moyer ’93, Alburtis, Pa., has

been accepted into Hatfield Biblical Seminary in the masters in divinity program. His goal is to become a licensed professional counselor.

Kris M. Short ’93, Strasburg, Va., began working as a program manager at Evans Home for Children, Winchester, Va. Previously, she worked in the foster care unit at Harrisonburg-Rockingham Social Services.

Marcia Rempel Weaver ’93 MACL '08, Broadway, Va., recently provided leadership to the process for a new identity for

Former dean Joe Martin '59, left, at Harvard's research building dedication.

Photo courtesy of Harvard University News Office, by Stephanie Miitchell.

Joe Martin's Journey So Far Joseph Boyd Martin came to Eastern Mennonite College (EMC) in 1958-59 on a year’s leave from the University of Alberta. “My studies (at EMC) focused entirely on ethics, Bible studies, church history and the like,” he recalls. Martin transferred his University of Alberta credits here to obtain a B.Sc. in Bible from EMC. After graduation he returned to Alberta, where he completed his medical degree. Rachel Wenger, an EMC sophomore in 1958-59, left EMC to be Martin's wife. (She finished her degree at the University of Alberta, then taught elementary school in Edmonton.)

A year ago, Martin removed his flag from what many would regard as the summit of his hugely successful medical career. He stepped down from being dean of Harvard Medical School after serving for a decade, beginning July 1997.

At age 69 he remains, however, the Edward R. and Ann Lefler professor of neurobiology at Harvard. He is also on the board of directors of a couple of major private companies and is chair of the non-profit New England Healthcare Institute.

Martin’s trajectory: After Alberta, Martin did a residency in neurology and a fellowship in neuropathology at Case Western Reserve. He received his PhD in anatomy from the University of Rochester in 1971. By 1977, he was chair of the department of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University. He next moved to Harvard as neurology professor. In 1989, he became dean of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, eventually becoming chancellor of the whole university. In 1997, he returned to Harvard as dean.

What does this all have to do with Martin’s ethics studies at EMC? In the Harvard Gazette’s account of Martin’s contributions to that university (at www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/10.05/01-martin. html), he is praised for “his insights, his decency, his moral leadership.” Martin was known for fostering “collaboration” across disciplines and among academics and practitioners. He put new emphasis on “the value of teaching,” and he “improved diversity” by placing members of minority groups and women in key positions. He left a legacy of “stronger community ties.”

Martin did much more than this, of course, including raising money for and opening in 2003 a $260-million, 520,000-square-foot research building, the largest in Harvard's history.

Yet others have raised money for large, impressive structures and seen them built, including tycoons like Donald Trump. It’s in the less tangible, but perhaps more important, area of ethical, collaborative and community-oriented leadership, where EMC may be able to claim an influence on Martin. After all, he did spend a year focusing upon such matters, and that year was here. www.emu.edu | crossroads | 49

Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions.

The result is a new logo, name and tagline for what is now Virginia Mennonite Missions. Marcia worked two years as a graphic designer at EMU and has been a freelance designer since that time.

Jen Smith ’94 Caraccio, China Grove,

N.C., classifies herself as a “domestic specialist” after leaving her role as a Title I reading specialist in a local public school, to become a “stay-at-home mommy” for the couple’s four pre-teen children.

Jan Emswiler ’96 and her husband,

Matt Garber

EMU Mourns Three Deaths From June 2 to July 2, the EMU community mourned the deaths of three people near and dear to its heart: EMU’s alumni council president Evelyn Hertzler ’60, who died June 3 at age 70 after struggling with Lou Gehrig’s Disease; history professor emeritus Dr. Albert N. Keim ’63, who died June 27 at age 72, after complications following a liver transplant; and nursing graduate Matthew R. Garber ’08, who died July 1 at age 22 in a drowning accident in Costa Rica.

Evie Hertzler, who had a degree in elementary education from EMU, taught for more than three decades in New York City and West Liberty, Ohio. Upon retirement, she and husband Don moved to Harrisonburg to be near the families of their three children – Sandy ’92 (Byler), Jerry ’88, and Barry ’86. Evie filled her time with volunteer work, including the EMU alumni council, when not watching her grandchildren’s sports events and organizing family get-togethers.

She sang in numerous choirs and served on many boards, including Roberta Webb Childcare, Valley Brethren Mennonite Heritage Center, and Mennonite Women USA. Raised Amish in Hartville, Ohio, Al Keim taught in the EMU history department from 1965 until he retired in 2000. He also served as vice-president for academic affairs and dean from 1977 to 1984. He was the author of four books, all on topics pertaining to the role of Anabaptists in history or society. In 1972-73, Keim led EMU’s first semester-length cross-cultural seminar in Europe, which paved the way for cross-cultural education becoming a graduation requirement in 1982-83.

Honors student Matt Garber graduated with a BS in nursing and a minor in Bible and religion. He went to Costa Rica for the summer to help a missionary family and to learn Spanish. At summer’s end, he planned to return to his home area of Elizabethtown, Pa., and begin work at Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital’s emergency room.

Matt was a student who almost everyone knew, or felt as if they knew. He was seen in chapel after chapel, often singing with others, but sometimes as speaker or music leader. He was a residence hall community advisor for three years, active in the Young People’s Christian Association, and a member of Chamber Singers for four years. Mostly, he always seemed to be smiling, whether on photos for EMU marketing materials or simply strolling across campus.

At graduation, he was one of 10 seniors to receive EMU’s top recognition, named to the “Cords of Distinction” group.

Read more about Matt at www.emu.edu/news/matt-garber.

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Kajungu Mturi, have accepted a position with Mennonite Central Committee to work with its Somalia program. Jan, Kajugu, and their son, Luga, will return to the States in July. After participating in an MCC orientation, they will move to Nairobi, the base of their operation, due to security issues in Somalia.

Mark Schroeder ’96, Austin, Texas, is

relocating to Durban, South Africa, for a two-year assignment upon being promoted as regional director for Africa by his employer, Forecasting (Stratford) Inc. Ryan Shen-Hoover ’97, Lancaster, Pa., has worked as an advocate for communities affected by large dams in Lesotho from 1997-2000. Since returning to the United States, Ryan has continued this work as a member of International Rivers Network Africa program. In 2006, he launched the Investing in Africa newsletter.

Center Valley, Pa., in 2004. The last two seasons, he was an assistant coach for women’s soccer at James Madison University. Jason holds a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Premier Diploma and a NSCAA National Goalkeeper Diploma and is a NSCAA regional instructor.

Darla Knepp Trejo ’99, is an assistant in the math and statistics deptartment, at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Kyle Stutzman ’00, Staunton, Va., has been named vice president of technology systems at Dupont Community Credit Union. He has been with the credit union five years and previously served as systems manager.

Brittany Culbertson ’01 Bates, Harrisonburg, Va., has begun a new business in her home after being employed in the mortgage business with Wells Fargo for seven years.

Amanda Williams ’01 Knight, Broadway,

Va., was featured in The North Fork Journal as “Teacher of the Month,” nominated by one of her students at Fulks Run Elementary School, Fulks Run, Va. Mindy Nolt ’01, Lancaster, Pa., has

returned from Egypt and is now working in refugee resettlement with Church World Service.

Anthony Streiff ’01, Mount Sidney, Va.,

Fox’s Pizza in Harrisonburg.

a former track runner at EMU and a three sport athlete at Fort Defiance High School, participated in a wheelchair basketball tournament in Harrisonburg, Va., Feb. 23, as a member of the Shenandoah Valley High Rollers. His team was undefeated and took first place. Streiff’s involvement in typical sports activities came to a halt after a 25-foot fall from a tree. Anthony says, “I love competition. I love competing, and when I’m out here, I forget I’m injured.”

Michael Stoltzfus ’98, Harrisonburg, Va., has worked in information technology at Harman Construction and Harman Realty. On July 1, Mike will begin working as information technology specialist at Eastern Mennonite High School with approximately 25 percent of his time contracted out to Park View Federal Credit Union for information technology planning and management.

Rhoda S. Glick, MDiv ’02, Mountville, Pa., received her doctorate of ministry from Lancaster Theological Seminary.

The title of her dissertation is, “A Psychospiritual Model for Pastoral Care: Toward a Synthesis of Gestalt Pastoral Care and St. John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul.” Rhoda continues to practice and teach gestalt pastoral care in eastern Pennsylvania.

Christina (Tina) Hartman ’99, Lancaster,

David T. Maurer, MDiv ’02, Columbus

Anna L. Creech ’98, Richmond, Va.,

has returned to the east coast after three years working as the serials and electronic resources librarian at Central Washington University. She is now the electronics resources librarian at the University of Richmond.

Chad ’98 and Michelle Weaver ’00 Nussbaum, Dayton, Va., own and operate

Pa., is vice-president of lending and member services at the Lancaster office of Mennonite Financial Federal Credit Union.

Jason Moore ’99, previously of Telford,

Pa., has been named the men’s and women’s soccer coach at Bethel College, Newton, Kan. Jason began coaching as an assistant woman’s coach at EMU in 1999. He was a four-year letter winner at EMU, leading the team to Old Dominion Athletic Conference titles in 1996 and 1998. He was head women’s soccer coach at DeSales University,

Grove, Ohio, became the lead pastor of Bethel Mennonite Church, West Liberty, Ohio, July 2008.

Melanie M. Miller ’03 Rice, Millersville, Pa., is an oncology adult nurse practitioner and a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mandi Dagen ’03 Stoltzfus, Broadway, Va., is a stay-at-home mother caring for two children under two years of age. Her husband, Todd ’02, is a business lender for Park View Federal Credit Union in Harrisonburg.

Esther Harder ’03 will return to the United States in February after serving four years with MCC as a peace writer and secondary school teacher in Soroti, Uganda.

John Neiswander ’05, Millersburg, Ohio,

Nathan (Nate) Hoffer ’03, Ephrata, Pa., is pursuing an MBA degree at Eastern University. Recently, he and his spouse, Rebekah, formed a company by the name of lovetogive.net. The company enables people to donate money to a Christian organization while purchasing items online.

mental, Germany, is head counselor for Military Counseling Network. He provides supportive counseling for persons who serve in the military and who have developed a conscientious objection to warfare, often related to their experience in military service. As a result, some of them have received honorable discharges from military service.

Kristine Sensenig ’03, Staunton, Va., is the team leader on a 24-bed male forensic unit at Western State Hospital.

She particularly enjoys teaching yoga to the patients and has plans to pursue a massage therapy license and yoga teacher certification.

is serving a one-year term with Mennonite voluntary service as a paralegal with ProBAR in Harlingen, Texas.

Michael (M.J.) Sharp ’05 of Baum-

Todd Warren, MDiv ’05, is a hospital chaplain at Mount Carmel Health Systems, Columbus, Ohio.

Carolyn Weaver ’03, Augusta, Ga., has graduated from the Medical College of Georgia and began an obstetrics/gynecology residency in June.

Dustin Galyon ’06, Sterling, Kan., has been named men’s basketball coach at Hesston College. Dustin is noted for his excellent recruiting skills. He is thrilled with the challenge of building relationships with players, enabling them to be successful in their faith journeys.

Shawn Gerber, MDiv ’04, formerly of Avada, Colo., has joined Goshen General Hospital, Goshen, Ind., as a chaplain and coordinator of spiritual care.

Michael Kniss ’06 has moved from Chicago to begin a graduate program at the University of Maryland-College Park, School of Public Policy.

Eric Kennel ’04, site director for Lu-

Joel Lehman ’06 is a journalist for the

theran Immigration and Refugee Service in central Pennsylvania, reports in the February issue of Missionary Messenger on assisting two Burmese brothers to be resettled as refugees in the United States following the death of their father.

The preteen brothers fled Burma (Myanmar) to escape from killings and almost weekly raids in their home village, which is located in a region populated by a minority group named the Chin. Though separated when they fled through the jungles of Thailand and Malaysia, they were miraculously reunited, with the help of some friends, in the sprawling city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After months of interviews, security checks, and medical screening, they were eventually permitted to enter the United States.

Lancaster New Era newspaper in Pennsylvania. He joined New Era in 2007 where he edits interactive online content for the newspaper.

Jeff Carr MDiv ’05 is director of pastoral

care at Bridgewater Retirement Community, Bridgewater, Va. Aram DiGennaro, MDiv ’05, and his wife, Deborah (Debbie) Diener ’04, Colum-

bus, Ohio, with their two children, Priska and Shem Shadrach, have moved to Nairobi, Kenya, to become hosts at the Mennonite Guest House. Later, they will transition into the roles of missionary representatives for Eastern Mennonite Missions.

Benjamin J. Myers ’05, Arlington, Va., has presented his photographs entitled “Behind Closed Doors: An Insider’s Look at the Nation’s Capital” in a display at EMU. His photographs, printed on 16 x 21-inch aluminum sheets to give the images a silver finish, were taken while he worked as a photographer for The Hill, a journal aimed at those working in Congress.

Jill Gerig, MDiv ’07, is in training as a

chaplain resident at the University of Colorado, Aurora, Colo.

Kendra Nissley ’07, Columbiana, Ohio, has begun a one-year term with Mennonite Voluntary Service as a shelter and thrift store staff member with La Puente Home Inc., La Jara, Colo.

Phil Wiechart, MDiv ’06, Dalton, Ohio, was installed as associate pastor at Kidron Mennonite Church, Nov. 18, with primary responsibility for pastoral care and education.

Esther M. Good ’07, Lancaster, Pa., works at Lutheran Refugee Services in Lancaster.

Jason Ritter ’07, Washington, D.C., is

assistant equipment manager for D.C. United Major League Soccer.

Joy Shaiebly ’07, Harrisonburg, Va., is

teaching 8th and 9th grade health and physical education at Page County High School. She is also the head coach for the junior varsity girls’ volleyball team.

This spring, she volunteered her time as a goalkeeper coach with Eastern Mennonite High School’s and Broadway High School’s varsity girl's soccer teams.

Peter J. Eberly, MDiv ’08, began serving as youth pastor at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church in Virginia in 2003. He was licensed for his ministry in 2005 and ordained to continue the role, Apr. 27.

Where in the World?

We would be grateful if you would help us locate the alumni listed below to notify them of class reunions. Contact alumni@emu.edu or phone Donna Souder at (540) 432-4204.

Class of 1948 Raymond Stoltzfus Class of 1953 Elsie Cressman Anna Ruth Hess Martha Kulp Sylvia Parker Helen Teleskie Class of 1958 Mabel Baral Helmut Hauter Nancy Howe Nathan Lehman Rhoda Lind Alvin Mast Rachel Stauffer Class of 1963 Merle Alberts Ruth Delp Levi Hershberger Jr Oren Horst James Kayondo Elizabeth Kennedy Paul Lehman Frederick Martin Karen Roth Alfonso Ruiz Willard Shertzer Anna Stauffer Donald Swartz Grant Weaver Mary Yoder Class of 1968 Amzie Brubacher Bob Buckwalter Jr Everette Carr Peggy Casey Kay Foley Martha Francis Susie Gamble James Gascho Melvin Harnish Florence Khayenje Marilyn Kimble Ernest Lefever Wilma Mast James Nafziger Barbara Neal William Pigueron Justin Sabiti Mary Shank James Shank Jr Stephen Shriner Betty Stephenson Nematollah Tabrizi Mary Uchida Carl Wenger Carlton Wyse Class of 1973 Katherine Black Frances Dickerson Paul Foltz Ralph Fortune Christine Heller Janet Kauffman Sandra Miller John Morrison Alene Nafziger Garald Overholt Joanne Phillips James Shelly Rita Sims Dwight Stoltzfus Robert Stoltzfus Gary Troyer Karen Tyson

Lester Weaver Gloria Whitmore Esther Yoder William Yoder Jane Zongker Class of 1978 Steve Allen Barbara Beachy Jean Brunk Peggy Cassada Kim Craig Carol Davis Manoochehr Ghelejghshlagh S Lorraine Gordon Darlene Heinrichs Abdidahir Ibrahim Carol Jordan Carl Keener Joseph Kibler Clifford Landis Yvonne Lefever Brenda Liller Dan Martin Lavonne Martin Robert Millen James Miller Marcia Miller Randall Miller Susan Patterson Weldon Raber Charles Shank Ruth Shibata Janie Sinclair Joyce Stokes Gregory Stutzman Rose Vance Class of 1983 Chuck Albrecht Joyce An Charlene Brawley Melvin Buckwalter Mike Byler Beverly Chartrand Yvonne Clemens Jay Comfort Nazie Daneshvar Dave Donophan Ibrahim ElFaqir Debbie Goldstein Jay Graber Ivette Guzman Becky Hannah Bill Harkins Peg Heaver Phuc Huynh Keith Jackson Jewel Leaman Beverley Nath-Rampersad Jill Orsini Greg Paul Sylvia Perry Cindy Roa Debbie Sanders Billy Scott Jr Gina Showalter Beth Taylor Sheila Thomas Elda Tuinstra Roy Tuinstra John Uanivi Astrid Valdivieso Juan Vega Mary Vitasek Cheryl Warne Elizabeth Wilkson Jerry Wright

Geraldo Xavier Class of 1988 Krista Amaya Lynn Anthony Artemas Babili Janine Barrett Bruce Braun Sarah Click Beth Clineff Tracey Cochran Donita Eye Cathy Hampton Pete Harnish Bobby Hite Kenny Kreider Anne Lapp Dan Lebold Lois Miller Sue Miller Michelle Nguyen Pat Perich Sheri Rhodes Sandy Richner Janice Richter Rob Richter Jarey Schlabach Doug Wyse Cindi Yoder Class of 1993 Lisa Anderson Aaron Bartley Madeline Bender Nip Crites Jr Lynne Dueck Peggy Dunstan Merry Eton Dan Gardner Dale Glass Jeana Golin Tammy Gray Robert Habwe Lareine Hayes Aiko Hirai Kim James Melissa Judy Jenny Karumuna Andrei Kuznetsov Daryl Lambert Debra Lucas Karla Morris Brad Nevil Sharon Norris Sherman Pearson Nick Pizarro Patti Raab Tony Ramsey Juel Russell Tamara Ruth Sarah Showalter Andy Smith Ron Snyder Tema Tellado Phillip Thompson Doug Vogt Holly Yoder Lucinda Zehr Jeannie Zigler Class of 1998 Louise Alexander Hershey Burkhalter Charles Clutteur Chris Colombel Christopher Davis Jamie Delawder Greer Etchebarne Claudia Evick Neil Fencer Erin Fischer

Elizabeth Garber David George Tami Good Peggy Heishman Tammy Houge Liz Hylton Cynthia Kauffman Chad Landis Robert Mercer Gwen Miller Yolanda Moore Shabani Mwemena Tricia Nesselrodt Lynnell Payne Satthanha Phanhthy Jason Porter Carol Rames Cathy Ray Deborah Raynes Lorna Rivera-Wenger Carole Sandys Carrie Schwartzentruber Tonia Stutzman Saya Sugawara Victoria Sullivan Dawnita Taylor Sandi Thorpe Shirley Trobaugh Leslie Updyke Jessica Vaughn Sharla Wenger Wossen Yemane Sharon Yoder Steven Yutzy Class of 2003 Karen Allison David Bell Steve Brett Xiaorui Chen Martha Chiwanza Whittney Coffey Ashley Cook Can Deng Erin Garber Mary Grace Garris Melvin Gaye Nichole Hilmer Kristen Hoekstra Andy Hook Chris Kirby Brandon Knight Eric Lantz Nannan Li Chris Lowen Justin Mast Heather Menzies Homare Miyazaki Emily Nelson Moses Nyakia Tisha Poindexter Katie Propst Rus Pyle J R Rohrbough Todd Rohrer Abby Rosenberger Lisa Rowland Doreen Rukaari Laura Schubert Lynda Smith Daniel Stutzman Bonnie Switzer Erin Walker Jill Wenger Ben Wilkins Justin Yoder Lan Yu Albert Zeng

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Marriages

Ryan ’96 and Aletha Beachy Miller, Kalona, Iowa, Grael Elizabeth, Apr. 3.

June 30.

Robert ’97 and Gaby Ochoa Brenneman, South Bend, Ind., Robert

Madeline Bender ’93 to Paul Whelan,

Sidney Moyer ’94 to Jennifer Howren,

Sept. 29.

Lisa Guengerich ’98, to Merle Detweiler,

Christopher ’00 and Maria Clymer ’00 Kurtz, Stephens City, Va., Noemi

Salome, Dec. 25.

tian, Apr. 22.

Gabriel, Oct. 7.

Amy Sauder ’00 and Ted Lehman, Arlington, Va., Jackson Robert, Mar. 9.

Anniversaries

Deborah (Lynn) Eastman ’97 and Daniel Diener, Goshen, Ind., Daphne Almeda

Amanda (Mandy) Storms ’00 and Christopher Souder ’00, Columbia, S.C.,

Oct. 13.

and Andrea Danae, Apr. 4.

Virginia Showalter ’00 to Tim Godshall,

Shannon Kratz ’97 and Jim Frederick,

May 27.

Telford, Pa., Joshua Calvin, Feb. 27.

Kimberly Hein ’03 to John Bannister,

Dec. 30, 2006.

Trent ’97 and Cara Derstine ’97 Hummel, Cincinnati, Ohio, Ella Louise and

Melissa Horst ’03 to Matthew Kinman,

Ian Paul, Apr. 28.

June 20.

Michael ’97 and Mary Evans Kulp, Har-

Elliot Grace, Jan. 9.

Ryan ’00 and Sherri-Lynn Kauffman ’00 Wenger, Tofield, Ont., Caleb Garret,

Mar. 22.

Brooke Steury ’01 and Nate Clemmer ’98, Harleysville Pa., Aubrey Mae, Dec. 3.

Chad (MAL ’01), and June Miller, Hart-

Megan Hostetter ’03 to Zack Kennel,

risonburg, Va., Gregory Michael, Feb. 7.

June 30.

Jennifer Voth ’97 and Brent Roland ’97,

Kurt Holsopple ’04 to Ellie Lind ’04,

June 23.

Mechanicsburg, Pa., Alana Grace, Oct. 24.

Columbus Grove, Ohio, Josiah Wayne, Dec 5.

Dorothy Butler ’04 to Kirk Landis,

Heather Smith ’97 and Russ Steinman,

Geoffrey ’02 and Stashia Davis ’02 Nolt,

July 13.

Asbury, N.J., Ryan Wesley, Mar. 14.

Tiffany N. Williams ’05 to Cody Cole,

Andrea Buchen ’98 and Bryan Foard,

ville, Ohio, Hudson James, Nov. 20.

David T. (MDiv ’02), and Beth Maurer,

Denver, Pa., Caden Nathanael, Feb. 15.

Sally Gardner ’02 and Andrew Vogan,

Mar. 29.

Ephrata, Pa., Rebecca Gracy, Apr. 7.

Dayton, Va., Hannah Joy, Mar. 11.

Emily F. Burner, MBA ’06, to Lewis Burkholder, Oct. 20.

Chan ’98 and Kelly Holsopple ’00 Gingerich, Harrisonburg, Va., April Lynn,

Charity Shenk ’02 and Steven Zook,

Chris Jantzi ’06 to Lori Holsopple ’06,

Jan. 19.

Joel Lehman ’06 and Stephanie Miller ’06, Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 11.

Marla Norris ’07 to Brandon Alger,

Dec. 22.

Births

May 3.

Melody Nolt ’98 and Timothy Althouse, Alexandria, Va., Anna Naomi, Mar. 29.

Laurie Finkbiner ’98 and David Belote, Easton, Pa., Faith Madison, July 10.

Susan Lehman ’98 and Matthew Bouchonvillle, Albuquerque, N. M., Zachary

Ryan, Apr. 4.

Terence (Terry) ’87 and Elizabeth Phelps Jantzi, Ithaca, N.Y., Valerie Lynn,

Catriona Trice ’98 and David Vance,

May 15.

Gary ’98 and Charla Steiner ’98 Sommers, North Canton, Ohio, Luke Hayden,

Neil ’88 and Donna Harnish Reinford,

Blacksburg, Va., Jean, Jan. 24.

Akron, Pa., Gavin Zook, Mar. 24.

Emilie Hall ’03 and Warren Bontrager,

Hutchinson, Kan., Madison Paige, Jan. 7.

Jeremiah ’03 and Kristine Denlinger,

Lancaster, Pa., Isaac Widders, Nov. 28.

Megan Hostetter ’03 and Zack Kennel,

Lancaster Pa., Asher David, Apr. 25.

Mandi Dagen ’03 and Todd Stoltzfus ’02, Broadway, Va., Wyatt Stover, Dec. 3.

Brandi N. Tappy ’03 and Jason Breeden, Shenandoah, Va., Ava Grace, Feb. 3.

Christy Yohn ’03 and Andrew ’05 Michaels, Orrville, Ohio, Ellice Marie,

Lancaster, Pa., Joshua Dean, Jan. 7.

Nov. 10.

Joanne Kaufman, ’93 and Steve Brigham, Del Norte, Colo., Kaitlyn Lena

Derek ’98 and Joy Smith, Yoder, Hess-

Kauffman Brigham, June 16, 2007.

Ky ’99 and Tanya Ortman Stoltzfus, Kan-

Jonathan ’93 and Lian Yang Hartzler,

sas City, Mo., Asher J. Ortman, Sept. 29.

Cleveland, Ohio, Issabella Mae, Sept. 16.

Sherri Allebach ’00 and Emil Vass, Perkasie, Pa., Selina Rose, Oct. 30.

Feb. 7.

Micah ’00 and Shanna Eigsti ’00 Beachy, Omaha, Neb., Ethan Joseph,

Harrisonburg, Va., Leidon James and Darien Calim, May 14.

Lisa Paules ’93 and Arne Kauffman,

ton, Kan., Callie Rae, Mar. 31.

Philadelphia, Pa., adoption of 5th child, Amir Camryn Jedidiah, Jan. 9. Arrived home, Jan. 30.

Aug. 27.

Jen Smith ’94 and Frank Caraccio,

Brittany Culbertson ’00 and Tom Bates,

China Grove, N.C., Isabella Joy, June 30, 2007

Harrisonburg, Va., Tennyson Harper, July 30.

Amy Glick ’94 and Patrick Helmuth, Or-

Brooke Drooger ’00 and Jeff Adams, Providence, R.I., Tessa Elizabeth, June 21, 2007.

rville, Ohio, Anna Miriam, Mar. 20.

Robert (Bob) ’94 and Pamela Bressler Yoder, Goshen, Ind., Mira Susannah,

Apr. 12.

Marcelo ’95 and Melissa Mast, Lansdale,

Pa., Matthew Merrill, Dec. 27.

Jeremy ’95 and Joan Steiner ’95 Weaver,

Harrisonburg, Va., Claire Noel, Dec. 8.

Angela Zook ’95 and Delmar Zimmerman, Leola, Pa., Mara Beth and Lisa

Renae, Mar. 21.

K. Ryan ’96 and Amanda Ehst, Burke,

Va., Ashtyn Teagen, Jan. 28.

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Peter J. (MDiv ’08), and Natalie Lehman Eberly, Harrisonburg, Va., Isaac Chris-

Mar. 6.

Megan Mease ’04 and Hank Reifsnyder,

Orrville, Ohio, Brock Henry, Jan. 3.

Heather Brubaker (MA ’05), and Matt Benin, Harrisonburg, Va., Ella Catherine, Denis ’05 and Meghan Shank ’05 Cela,

Heather Risser ’05 and Bryan Harper, Broadway, Va., Kaleigh Grace, Jan. 11.

Adria Arnold ’05 and John Moore, Ches-

ter, Va., Sawyer Arnold, June 18, 2007.

Joy Zimmerman ’07 and Tom Haller,

Denver, Pa., Katelyn Jane, Feb. 9.

Winners of Prizes for Ideas In the spring ’08 Crossroads, we offered a $50 gift certificate to Ten Thousand Villages for feature ideas used in this issue. These three respondents won: [1] Serita Frey, featured on p. 3; [2] Linda Gehman who told us about the Beacon Award won by her daughter Jill Gehman, p. 17, and her classmate Tiffany Witmer, pgs 29 and 32; and [3] Randy Longenecker, who wrote on p. 25 about a new rural training track in family medicine. We thank all contributors!

Arthur ’39 and Rachel Shearer ’40 Kraybill, Atlanta, Ga., 65th, married Feb.

27, 1943.

Deaths

Mary Brunk GT ’34, Moyers, 94,

Broadway, Va., Feb. 23.

Mary W. Metzler ’35, 101, Lititz, Pa.,

What About Me? What Can I Do? Most of us reading this magazine are not health-care providers. We aren’t scientific researchers or biology teachers. What can we – all of us, inside and outside the field – do? How can we keep folks following in the footsteps of the hundreds of remarkable alumni covered in this magazine?

Mar. 25.

Eunice Heatwole ’37 Wenger 85,

Pinnacle, N.C., Feb. 10.

Lydia Pearl Heishman ’38 Eby, 86,

How can we help EMU to maintain, for instance, its current 92% acceptance rate into medical school for its pre-med graduates? Check out the data in the table at right.

Harrisonburg, Va., Mar. 31.

J. Leon Martin ’49, 85, Goshen, Ind.,

Mar. 6.

Arthur E Smoker, Sr. ’51, 88, West

Chester, Pa., Jan. 6.

Edna D. Whetzel ’55 Dove, 88, Criders,

Va., Jan. 31.

Mabel S. Miller ’55, 84, Wilmont, Ohio,

Feb. 1.

Kermit H. Derstine ’56, 74, Denver,

Colo., Mar. 29.

Harold S. Stauffer ’59, 70, Lancaster,

Pa., Feb. 13.

Mary A. Wismer ’59, 74, Souderton, Pa.,

Nov. 9.

Joan Esch ’59 Zook, 72, Laramie, Wyo.,

Mar. 21.

Illa Mae Homsher ’61, Shank, 81,

Morrisville, Vt., Mar. 20. Her husband, Ralph ’61, survives.

Joseph S. Hertzler ’62, 75, Goshen, Ind.,

April 15.

Mary K. Beyeler ’62, Hertzler, 73,

Goshen, Ind., Dec. 29.

Fannie M. Plank ’65 Yutzy, 66, Wooster,

Ohio, Dec. 12.

Paul R. Hurst ’67, 63, Lancaster, Pa., Mar. 13. His spouse, Louetta Weaver ’68, Hurst, survives.

Charlotte N. Shuler ’72, 91,

Shenandoah, Va., Mar. 19.

Janet Louise Koller ’85, Hottinger, 47,

Grottoes, Va., Feb. 14.

Correction: Birth: Phil ’00 and Jennifer Bender ’01 Bergey, Chesapeake, Va. Carter James,

Sept. 16.

Mileposts is compiled by retired physician Paul T. Yoder ’50, MAL ’92, who may be reached at paul.t.yoder@emu.edu or at (540) 432-4205. Feel free to send news directly to Paul or to the alumni office at alumni@emu.edu.

"If the past predicts the future, these EMU graduates will likely go where the need for health care is greatest, treat their patients with gentle respect, win acclaim for their high standards, gladly teach others what they know, and willingly cross cultural, racial and national barriers in their quest to be of service."

— Kirk Shisler ’81, vice-president for advancement So… find a contribution plan that works for you. Give sacrificially. Or not.

Your choice. There are ways to give where your needs are met now, but EMU and its students are provided for over time.

Robert ’59 and Eloise Beyeler ’61 Hostetler, co-chairs of EMU’s comprehensive campaign (now in its quiet phase), say they anchor themselves in prayer, seeking God’s guidance in discerning how and what to give. Bob, as he prefers to be called, is a retired Penn State math professor and author of bestselling math textbooks.

Ways to give (while likely cutting your tax bill) include:  Writing a check or using your credit card to make a gift  Gift of appreciated stock or real estate  Charitable bequest in your will or living trust  Life insurance policy – naming EMU as one of the beneficiaries  Gift annuity – make a gift and retain income from it for your lifetime.  Gift of the remainder from a retirement plan (IRA, 401k, or pension plan)  Charitable remainder trusts – provides income for a period of years or lifetime  Retained life estate – give your home or farm but live there until you die  Charitable lead trust – provides income to EMU for a period of years  Making a pledge to be fulfilled in 3 to 5 years What can we all do to keep EMU on track?

SOMETHING Work with the folks at EMU’s Development Office at 1-800-368-3383 – or visit www.emu.edu/giving – to discover a giving plan that works for you and for EMU.

Medical School Acceptances Of EMU Students, 2004 - 2008 Name of School

Location

Totals

Albany Medical College

Albany, N.Y.

1

Drexel University College of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pa.

2

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Norfolk, Va.

7

George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Washington, D.C.

2

Georgetown University School of Medicine

Washington, D.C.

3

Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, Pa.

1

Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine

Augusta, Ga.

1

New York Medical College

Valhalla, N.Y.

1

Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Hershey, Pa.

8

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Philadelphia, Pa.

1

Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine

Pikeville, Ky.

1

State University of New York Upstate Medical University College of Medicine

Syracuse, N.Y.

2

Stony Brook University School of Medicine

Stony Brook, N.Y.

1

Temple University School of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pa.

8

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine

Bethesda, Md.

1

University of Amsterdam Medical School

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1

University of California, Davis School of Medicine

Sacramento, Calif.

1

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Cincinnati, Ohio

1

University of Colorado - Denver School of Medicine

Denver, Colo.

1

University of Kansas School of Medicine

Kansas City, Kan.

1

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Md.

3

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Worcester, Mass.

1

University of Nevada School of Medicine

Reno, Nev.

1

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pa.

1

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Rochester, N.Y.

2

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Charlottesville, Va.

7

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Richmond, Va.

6

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Mo.

1

West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine

Lewisburg, W.Va.

1

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Morgantown, W.Va. 1

Wright State University School of Medicine

Dayton, Ohio

1

Total Acceptance Offers '04 - '08

70

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BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL

The following is a supplemental list of alumni working in businesses and business-related professions, based on information received after press time for the spring '08 issue of Crossroads. That issue can be accessed at www.emu.edu/crossroads.

Alderfer, James “Jim” R. ’80 Technical lead, computer programmer The Vanguard Group Inc. One of the world’s largest investment management companies. Headquartered in Valley Forge, Pa.

www.vanguard.com Amstutz, Laura Lehman '06 Co-owner Downtown Fine Furniture Company Sells custom-built Amish-crafted furniture in a variety of solid hardwoods and finishes. Located in downtown Harrisonburg, Va.

www.downtownfinefurniture.com Benner, Steven ’80 Project management lead- laboratory information systems Merck & Co. Inc. Global research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets vaccines and medicines. Headquartered in Whitehouse Station, N.J., with branches across the globe.

www.merck.com Berry, Alicia Slaubaugh ’00 & Dickel, Keesha Esbenshade ’00 Co-owners RubySky Photography Artistic photography that specializes in weddings and portraits. Located in Harrisonburg, Va.

www.rubyskyphotography.com Hartzler, Dale E. ’85 Senior software engineer Jenzabar Inc. Provides administrative management software and services for higher education institutions. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., with regional offices across the United States. Donald L. Bomberger ’72, Derek Christner, '97, Lois Ann Wenger Handrich ’67, Mark R. Horst ’05, Robert Ranck ’90, Mark Showalter ’91 and Michael D. Weaver ’90 also work at Jenzabar.

www.jenzabar.com Feenstra, Gregory ’94 IT development manager Foley Inc. Offers the full line of Caterpillar Construction Products.

Located in Piscataway, N.J.

www.foleyinc.com Fix, Julie Campbell ’88 Applications specialist Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative Provides high quality electric service to the Central Shenandoah Valley and the Potomac Highlands. Headquartered in Mount Crawford, Va.

www.svec.coop

Friesen, Joseph ’04 Owner Design Concrete Builders Inc. Offers decorative concrete to enhance sidewalks, patios and driveways for residential and commercial properties and insulated concrete walls that provide a distinct green advantage to turn-key buildings. Located in Harrisonburg, Va.

KFSE sells and services outdoor power equipment while KMS provides welding, fabrication, machining and hydraulics services. Both businesses are located in Harrisonburg, Va.

www.designconcretebuilders.com

jonathan.kreider@gmail.com

Lapp, Joseph L. ’66 Representative for Mennonite Foundation and MMA Trust Company Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA)

Longacre, Cory ’92 Vice president of retail services Farm & Home Oil Company LLC

Provides insurance and financial services, primarily serving people and groups within the Anabaptist family. Offices in 15 states. Chan Gingerich ’98, Sue Guengerich ’04, Glen Kauffman ’82, Geoff Keens ’07, Adam Savanick ’06, Joe Shenk ’02 and Kevin E. Strite ’95 also work at MMA.

www.mma-online.org Harman, Hans C. ’02 President H2 Enterprises LLC/ Harman Development Specializes in real estate development and construction in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Harrisonburg, Va.

www.harmanconstruction.com Hess, Wendy Jo ’02 Owner Wendy Jo's Bakery offering homemade cookies, pies and dog treats located in Lancaster City, Pa.

www.wendyjos.com Hileman, Geoffrey ’97 Director, group actuarial Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Delivers innovative health care products, services and information to nearly 3.4 million members. Located in Durham, N.C.

www.bcbsnc.com Kennel, Mary Ellen ’85 Digital forensic analyst and incident response specialist Mind Over Technology Conducts incident response investigations in compromises, fraud, embezzlement, extortion, theft of intellectual property, identity theft, and corporate espionage; performs forensic analysis and technical investigations; performs vulnerability assessments and penetration testing

www.mindovertechnology.com King, Starla J. ’90 Owner Signature Gardenscapes LLC Customized assistance with gardens and landscaping, including design, installation and/or maintenance.

Ashburn, Va.

www.signaturegardenscapes.com

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Kreider, Jonathan A. L. ’90 Owner Kreider Four Seasons Equipment and Kreider Machine Shop

Provides delivery and HVAC service for oil or propane fuel homes and businesses throughout southeastern Pennsylvania.

www.fhoil.com Lowe, Jon W. ’81 Application developer senior specialist CIGNA Medicare Offers a variety of Medicare plans to meet the needs of individuals

jon.lowe@cigna.com Steven W. Mumbauer ’88 is the managing partner of a practice with four pediatricians and 10 staffers in Waynesboro, Virginia. “People tend to not think about their doctors' offices or their hospitals as businesses. They expect their health-care providers to be compassionate professionals.

As a physician leader/entrepreneur, it is an interesting challenge to find the balance that allows me to meet the needs of my patients and their parents, but also make sure that the business runs successfully so that it will continue to be able to meet their needs in the future.”

Meng, Ravy ’93 System analyst and administrator Sherwin Williams Company Northeast Region Produces paints and coatings in the United States.

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

www.sherwin.com Miller, David V. ’94 Network administrator Intex Solutions Inc. Global provider of structured fixed-income cashflow models and related analytical software. Located in Needham, Mass.

www.intex.com Miller, Mark ’87 Senior internet engineer Verizon

Shank, Michael J. ’98 Inventory control/quality assurance Walmart Distribution Center 7045

Swartzentruber, John ’85 Senior software developer OSIsoft Inc.

Whitmore, Terry L. ’71 Vice president E & M Auto Paint and Supply Corp.

Public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Ark.

Specializes in delivering real-time innovations that help optimize operational performance. Headquartered in San Leandro, Calif.

Wholesale distributor of DuPont Performance Coatings throughout the Central Shenandoah Valley and the state of West Virginia.

www.osisoft.com

www.emautopaint.com

Thomas, John L. ’89 Chief information officer Florida Southern College www.flsouthern.edu

Wu, Jie-Rong “Jenny” ’92 Senior development engineer Aspen Technology

www.walmart.com Shirk, Erik D. ’80 Director of quality Morton International (Morton Salt/Canadian Salt)

Broadband internet services, TV service, local wireline and wireless telecommunication services.

Produces salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural and road/highway use. Headquartered in Chicago, Ill.

www.verizon.com

www.mortonsalt.com

Ruth, Kendall ’96 CPA Acuity Advisors and CPAs LLP

Smith, Phyllis Neff ’74 President, owner Phyllis D. Smith CPA PA

Specializes in accounting and consulting services for the agricultural and agri-business industry segments.

Located in Lancaster, Pa.

Accounting for business and tax preparation for corporations, trusts, estates and personal. Located in Sebastian, Fla.

www.acuitycpas.com

phyllispds@bellsouth.net

Saltzman, Andrew C. ’95 CPA Andy Saltzman CPA

Smith, Tracy ’94 Manager, data services University of Virginia www.virginia.edu

Sole practitioner CPA providing small business and tax preparation and consulting services to a varied Mennonite community, as well as the Amish. Located in Kalona, Iowa.

andysaltzman@yahoo.com

Weaver, Benjamin ’05 Retail store management Alderfer Glass Co Services auto, flat, home, and business glass needs in eastern Pennsylvania and south Jersey.

www.alderferglass.com

Applies process engineering know-how to modeling the manufacturing and supply chain processes that characterize the process industries. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass.

www.aspentech.com Yoder, Jeffrey “Dean” ’87 Application architect Accenture Ltd. Develops software applications for many of the largest banks in the U.S.

Weaver, Lamar S. ’72 President, owner TCW Computer Systems Inc.

deanjul@yahoo.com

Designs, installs and supports networks, wireless systems and IP phone systems; installs conference rooms and home audio and video systems. Located in Manheim, Pa.

Yoder, Micah ’96 Linux systems administrator II Rackspace IT Hosting

www.tcwcomputers.com

Enterprise-level managed services for businesses around the world. Based in San Antonio, Texas.

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Science center annual breakfast and program

Parents perspective

Class reunions

Session I: Annual breakfast

This seminar is led by the EMU cross-cultural program office and is especially intended for parents (or prospective parents) of EMU students. Come hear stories from past cross-cultural journeys, learn about future opportunities, and bring your questions.

Reunions will be held for the classes of 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003 at various locations on campus.

Check at the welcome center in the University Commons for reunion locations. There is no charge to attend your reunion, but please register. If you wish to join your classmates for dinner following the reunion, please pre-register on the registration form.

Suter Science Center, 8 a.m.

Advance reservations required. Dr. Madhur Solanki of Winchester Medical Center will speak on osteopathic vs. allopathic medicine at 9 a.m.

Session II: Mini Science Summit, 10 a.m.

Tour stations hosted by science faculty and students (environmental science and green design class members). Learn about student research, nursing, physics, biochemistry and chemistry, and preprofessional health sciences. Hear updates on EMU’s plans for new science laboratories and renovating Suter Science Center for nursing and other programs.

Haverim breakfast and program

Seminary fellowship area, 8 a.m.

Keynote speaker will be Dr. Donald Kraybill ’67, noted author, speaker, sociologist, and currently senior fellow/distinguished professor at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown (Pa.) College. Advance reservations required.

Homecoming and family weekend 2008 Join us October 10-12, 2008 To “Celebrate the Vision” at EMU we have planned activities for alumni, families of EMU students and friends. Please register now! It’s a weekend for everyone to connect to the past while renewing friendships and building for the future.

Friday, October 10 Conference: “Optimal Aging”

Seminary Building, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The Third Annual Conference on Family Solutions with the Eastern Mennonite Seminary Clinical Pastoral Education Program as supporting sponsor will feature Priscilla Friesen, LICSW, speaking on Optimal Aging. Ms. Friesen is the founder of The Learning Space in Washington, D.C. She has been an associate of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family since 1978 and has been on the faculty since 1987. For more information and registration visit www.shenfamilysystems.org.

Symposium: “Forgiveness in the Face of Tragedy: The Amish of Nickel Mines"

Lehman Auditorium, 10 - 11:30 a.m

Featured speakers will be Alumnus of the Year Donald Kraybill ’67 and Distinguished Service honoree Herman Bontrager ’72, both of whom spoke on behalf of the Nickel Mines Amish community following the tragic shootings in Oct. 2006. Question and answer session will follow.

The Paul R. Yoder Sr. Memorial Golf Classic, sponsored by Loyal Royals

Spotswood Country Club, 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. shotgun starts with lunch at 11:30 a.m. Four-person captains’ choice with flighted scoring and great prizes.

Cost is $100 per person, with many sponsorship opportunities.

Contact the EMU athletics office at (540) 432-4440 or schlable@emu.edu to register.

Welcome center and registration desk

University Commons, 3 – 8 p.m.

Evening meal

Dining Hall, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

Donor appreciation banquet (by invitation only)

University Commons lower level, reception, 4:45 p.m.; banquet, 5:30 p.m.

An Eclectic Evening with Ted & Trent

Discipleship Center, 8 a.m.

Judith Trumbo ’82, recently appointed as Transition Planning Director for Rockingham Memorial Hospital, oversees the coordination and operation of the organization’s move to its new location. She will speak on the intricacies of this task, and “answer” the question, “How do you move a hospital?” Advance reservations required.

Nurses’ breakfast and presentation

Campus Center 3rd floor, Lisa Haverstick Nursing Lab, 8 a.m.

Breakfast will be served in the classroom section of the lab. Following breakfast, the group will walk to the Science Center to take in the presentation there beginning at 8:45. Nursing alumni may also wish to remain and take part in the “Mini Science Summit,” described above under Science Center Breakfast. Advance reservations required.

Hall of Honor breakfast and awards

University Commons Court C, 9 a.m.

Sponsored by Loyal Royals and EMU athletics department.

Jen Kooker Peifer ’96 and Krista Ebersole Sensenig ’98 will be inducted into the Hall of Honor. Advance reservations required.

Lehman Auditorium, 8 p.m.

Join Ted Swartz ’89, Trent Wagler ’02, and friends for an evening of storytelling, extraordinary original music, comedy sketches, and acts of artistic heroism. The show, in its world premier, asks questions of faith, politics (gently), and “Why are we here?!” A most unique and unpredictable evening! Purchase tickets in advance via the attached registration form or pay at the door. (Program repeated at the same time Saturday evening.)

Saturday, October 11

Art exhibit:

Welcome center and registration desk

Hartzler Library Gallery, open during library hours

University Commons, 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

EMU professors Barbara Fast, Cyndi Gusler, Jerry Holsopple, and Steve Johnson will exhibit work in mixed media, photography and digital imaging. A gallery talk and reception will be held at 4 p.m.

Saturday at the Hartzler Library Gallery.

Fun run

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Business and economics breakfast and program

Meet at the track, 7:30 a.m.

Campus Center, room 226, 10:30 a.m.

Beginning at 3:30 p.m.

All-time Oakwood reunion

On the quad, between the “woods” residence halls, 11 a.m.

Registration and payment can be conducted simply and securely online at www.emu.edu/homecoming, or return this form and payment, with checks made payable to Eastern Mennonite University, by September 19. Mail to Alumni Office, EMU, Harrisonburg, VA 22802. List only those attending and indicate how the names should appear on nametags. Please include maiden name.

Artists’ reception and gallery talk

All former Oakwood residents are invited to gather near the former site of the “once-beloved dormitory” for a time of swapping stories, jogging memories, and light refreshments. Advance reservations recommended; no charge.

To share ideas or suggestions for this event, please contact Doug Nyce at douglas.nyce@emu.edu.

Jubilee alumni reunion luncheon and program

Campus Center, Irene Martin Greeting Hall, 11:30 a.m.

This event is for alumni who attended EMU 50 years ago or more.

The class of 1958 will be honored and inducted into the Jubilee Alumni Association. There will be designated tables for classes of 1958, 1953, 1948, 1943, and 1938. General seating is available for other Jubilee Alumni guests. Advance registration required.

Encore! Lunch and student/faculty music recital

Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Martin Chapel, 12 noon Sponsored jointly by EMU’s music department and the “Encore!” alumni support group, this luncheon is open to everyone. Following the meal, enjoy a variety of student and faculty musical talents and styles, instrumental and vocal. Advance registration required.

Lunch

Dining Hall, 12 – 1 p.m.

Noon meal served in the dining hall. Pay at the door.

Intercollegiate athletic events

Women’s Volleyball vs. Southern Virginia, 12 Noon Men’s Soccer vs. Roanoke, 1 p.m.

Field Hockey vs. Virginia Wesleyan, 4 p.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Virginia Wesleyan, 7 p.m.

Youth activities

Grades 6-12, 3:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Come explore EMU. From academics to social life, from the Shenandoah Valley to Delhi, India, EMU students and admissions counselors will lead the way. Meet at the registration area in the University Commons for fun activities, including free pizza dinner.

Please pre-register.

Hartzler Library Gallery, 4 p.m.

Join the EMU faculty artists for light refreshments and gallery talk.

Further description of this event under "Friday" on the previous page.

Family and reunion dinner

Dining Hall, Northlawn (by reservation) 5 – 6:30 p.m.

Registration Name _____________________________________ Class _ _____________ Spouse/Guest ______________________________ Class _ _____________

Enjoy a dinner buffet with classmates, family and friends.

Address _______________________________________________________

There will be designated tables for reunion classes.

City ________________________State___________Zip_________________

An Eclectic Evening with Ted and Trent

E-mail ________________________ Day Phone _______________________

Lehman Auditorium, 8 p.m.

Further description of this event under "Friday" on previous page.

Sunday, October 12 Homecoming worship service

Lehman Auditorium, 10 a.m.

Worship celebration of song and scripture led by Ken J. Nafziger.

Alumnus of the Year Donald Kraybill ’67, Distinguished Service Award recipient Herman Bontrager ’72, and Lifetime of Service Award recipient Donald Jacobs ’48 will participate and be recognized in the service. Child care available.

Lunch

Main dining room, Northlawn lower level, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Pay at the door.

Award recipient dinner (by invitation only)

Various locations, 12 noon

Monday, October 13 Alumni Association annual council meeting

Children’s activities

Children and Youth Activities Name _______________________________ Age ______ Grade__________ Name _______________________________ Age ______ Grade__________ Name _______________________________ Age ______ Grade__________ Childcare  During reunion  During Sunday worship Name _______________ Age ____ Name _________________ Age _ _____ Name _______________ Age ____ Name _________________ Age _ _____ Tickets

No.

An Eclectic Evening with Ted and Trent Adults (non-students age 18 and over) ______ Students

______  Friday evening  Saturday evening

Cost

Total

$7.50 $5.00

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Breakfast programs Haverim continental breakfast Science continental breakfast Hall of honor country breakfast Business deluxe breakfast Nurses’ continental breakfast Language & literature reception

______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

$5.00 $4.00 $7.00 $8.50 $4.00 free

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All-Time Oakwood Reunion

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free

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Jubilee Alumni lunch (class of 1958 and earlier)

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$6.00

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For Weather Vane staffers: Language & Lit. Dept. Reception

Pre-school (ages 0-5)

Encore! Lunch and Music Recital

______

$7.50

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A reunion for all former students associated with the Weather Vane.

Child care is available during class reunions. Please pre-register.

Information will be at the welcome center registration desk.

Reunion, class of ________ Family and reunion dinner

______ ______

free $8.50

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Jesse T. Byler Lecture Series

Grades 1- 5

Total amount enclosed

J. Eric Bishop ’78, Ph.D, will present “The teacher you choose to be.”

Eric currently teaches English at Christopher Dock High School, Lansdale, Pa. The lecture is open to everyone.

Meet in the Campus Center greeting hall for fun-filled youth activities organized and led by the EMU Student Education Association. These action-packed activities go far beyond child care.

Registration includes free dinner and supplies.

Campus Center, Room 203, 9 – 10 a.m.

Seminary Building, Room 123, 9 a.m.

5K run/walk. All welcome. No entry fee; premiums for all.

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Special showings of video documentary EMU at 90: Celebrate the Vision. A 30-minute video featuring historical photos and interviews will be shown during homecoming weekend.

The location and time will be posted at the registration desk area.

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Questions? Please call (540) 432-4245. You may also reach us by fax (540) 432-4444 or email alumni@emu.edu.

Refund policy: To receive a refund, send your cancellation notice by October 6. Registration and information is available at emu.edu/homecoming Office Use Only ID # ____________________ Amt Rec’d $________ Amt Due $_________

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Lodging Information The following hotels are holding rooms under the name of Eastern Mennonite University for the weekend of October 10 – 12, 2008. Please make your reservations directly with the hotel. It is important to indicate that you are requesting a room from the block of rooms reserved by EMU. Guests are responsible for securing their own reservations and making their own payments.

Best Western Tel #: (540) 433-6089 Rooms: 10 doubles Rate: $79 Lift Date: September 10, 2008 Candlewood Suites Tel #: (540) 437-1400 Rooms: 10 double & 10 king/queen Rate: $99 Lift Date: September 10, 2008 Pets allowed

Don’t miss An Eclectic Evening with

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Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Lehman Auditorium Those who have heard Trent Wagler '02 know he sings and plays guitar really well; but do you know that he can also act? Those who have seen Ted Swartz '89 know he acts really well; but did you know he sings…well, he acts really well!”

To see this evening of comedy and music, purchase your tickets for the show in advance via the Homecoming registration form attached, or online after Aug. 1 at www.emu.edu/homecoming. Limited tickets will be available to purchase at the door.

Hampton Inn Tel #: (540) 432–1111 Rooms: 10 double and 10 king/queen Rate: $139 Lift Date: September 10, 2008 Sleep Inn Tel #: (540) 433-7100 Rooms: 10 double and 10 king/queen Rate: $105 Lift Date: September 10, 2007 Pets allowed 59 | crossroads | summer 2008

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Oct. 10 - 12

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Don’t miss your class reunion!

Reunions Reunions for for alumni alumni who who attended attended EMU EMU 50 50 years years ago ago or or more more will will gather occur at at the the Jubilee Jubilee Alumni Alumni Luncheon Luncheon at at 11:30 11:30 a..m a..m in in the the Campus Campus Center’s Center’s Martin Martin Greeting Greeting Hall.

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Northlawn. Please Please register register for for both both your your class class reunion reunion and and the the dinner dinner to to follow. follow. All All Homecoming Homecoming and and Family Family Weekend Weekend guests guests are are welcome welcome to to register register for for this this Family Family and and Reunion Reunion Dinner.

Dinner. Serving Serving lines lines will will be be open open 55 –– 6:30 6:30 p.m. p.m.

EMU Guest House Tel #: (540) 432-4280 Rooms are also available in local homes.

Rate : Double, $42.50; single, $27.50 Lift Date: as long as “supplies” last…

Holiday Inn Express Tel #: (540) 433-9999 Rooms: 3 king and 7 with two queen size beds Rates: $89.99 and $99.99 respectively Lift Date: September 20, 2008 All reservations must be guaranteed with a valid credit card

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Advance recommended; reservations recommended; no student newspaper.

Advance reservations no charge. If you charge.

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Oakwood Reunion All who once once resided resided in in Oakwood Oakwood will will come come together together to to share share All Alumni alumni who memories memories and and refreshments. refreshments.

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All-Time Oakwood Reunion The (in)famous Oakwood residence hall, scheduled for demolition in August 2008, will nonetheless live on in the hearts and minds of its many former residents. While we lament the razing of this “legendary” dorm, and we know there will never be another one quite like it, we want to give all its “alumni” a chance to look back and remember. All men who once lived in this aromatic, stylish, and revered hall are invited to come together to pay tribute to the place where they once lived, and help keep the institutional memory of our beloved Oakwood strong.

There will be lots of storytelling, tall tales, and special guests commemorating the dorm and the activities of its residents over the years. Join us at 11 a.m. on the Quad (between the “Woods” residence halls) for light refreshments and The All-Time Oakwood Reunion.

Register in advance using the attached form; no charge.

EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY

PERIODICALS PERIODICALS POSTAGE POSTAGE PAID PAID Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg, Virginia Virginia

Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg, VA VA 22802-2462 22802-2462 Parents: Parents: IfIf this this isis addressed addressed to to your your son son or or daughter daughter who who has has established established aa separate separate residence, residence, please please give give us us the the new new address. address. Call Call (540) (540) 432-4294 432-4294 or or e-mail e-mail alumni@emu.edu alumni@emu.edu

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