ALUMNI CROSSINGS
KELLI BURKHOLDER KING ’77, DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS
PEDICAB DAD
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’d like to tell you a little about our alumni board chair, Peter Eash-Scott ’99. He’s both a very unique individual and the embodiment of so many of our alumni and their intentional choices that make a difference in the broader world every day. Peter is a stay-at-home dad, while his wife, Rachel ’98, works as a physician at Health Ministries Clinic in Newton, Kan. If you were to meet Peter on the street, he would most likely be riding his pedicab (a bicycle rickshaw). Peter purchased his pedicab four years ago to haul his two young children around Lancaster, Pa., where they lived at the time. He took Daniel, age 10, and John, age 6, to school, piano lessons, soccer practices and trips to the store. For Peter, this is a preferred mode of transportation. “A pedicab is the next best thing to walking,” he said. “I like how it helps me engage the environment and the people around me (as well as the boys) compared to the isolation of being enclosed inside an automobile.” While it’s great exercise, the extended and quiet time during pedicab commutes also gives Peter and his sons a unique opportunity to connect and learn from each other. On the morning of the 50th anniversary of the “March on Washington” last year, he and his sons listened to Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, inspiring one of the boys to even request that they listen to the speech again on the ride home. In addition to being the primary child caregiver and household manager, Peter enjoys sharing his playwriting and acting
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talents broadly. He and Greg Wendling ’99 have collaborated on several traveling comedy productions as the Squendling Brothers. And in February 2014, his oneact play “Stay Tuned” premiered on the GC campus after receiving the honorable mention in the college’s 2012 Peace Play Competition.
SAVE THE DATE: HOMECOMING 2014 Mark it on your calendar, Homecoming 2014 is scheduled for Oct. 3-5. Reunions will be held for the classes of 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 2004. You are invited to attend, even if it isn’t your reunion year. We look forward to seeing many of you back at the spot in Indiana where the leafy Maple grows!
NEW SECTIONS ADDED TO ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES In this issue of the Bulletin, you’ll note that we’ve added two new sections: one for alumni of our degree completion and adult education programs (organizational leadership, RN to BSN, business administration and social work), and one for alumni of our four master’s degree programs (environmental education, nursing, intercultural leadership and business administration). Because of the ways these programs have expanded in recent years, we want these alumni to have their own space for their updates and no longer be interspersed with our traditional undergraduate programs.
Thoughtfully caring for the environment, relationships and broader justice issues in the world are attributes of many GC graduates. Like many alums, Peter also does this quietly, everyday, and with good humor and creativity. What’s unique, though, is that he’s a pedicab dad. I am so thankful for all that Peter brings to his role as chair of the alumni board, and thankful to all of our alumni for making your own unique mark in your family, church, work, community and world through everyday choices!
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