List of Goshen College people explained

This is a list of notable individuals associated with the American Goshen College, a private liberal arts college located in Goshen, Indiana. The list includes students, alumni, and faculty.

Academia and theology

• Stephen Ainlay, 18th president of Union College (since 2006)
• Harold S. Bender (class of 1918), former president, American Society of Church History and author of The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
• Denise Konan (class of 1988), Professor of Economics and Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa^[1]
• Alan Kreider (class of 1962), professor, writer and speaker
• John W. Meyer (class of 1955), professor, sociologist
• John Mark Ramseyer (class of 1976), Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School
• Emma Richards, first ordained female Mennonite minister
• Said Sheikh Samatar (class of 1973), Somali scholar, historian and writer
• Rebecca Stoltzfus (B.A. 1984 Chemistry), professor and vice provost at Cornell University^[2]
• John Howard Yoder, Christian theologian, ethicist, and Biblical scholar best known for his radical Christian pacifism
• Howard Zehr, "father of restorative justice"; assisted with the founding of a victim-offender reconciliation program

The arts

• Abbie Adams, contemporary artist and illustrator
• Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE (class of 2008), editor and literary critic
• Howard Dyck, Canadian conductor and radio broadcaster
• Vance George, Grammy Award–winning choral director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1982–2006)
• Luke and Jesse Miller, members of the electronic jam band Lotus
• Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
• James C. Strouse, independent filmmaker, writer and director who wrote the comedy-drama film Lonesome Jim (2005) and directed the drama film Grace Is Gone (2007)
• Rudy Wiebe, taught at Goshen College from 1963 to 1967

Politics

• Christine Kaufmann, member of the Montana House of Representatives
• Arthur L. Gilliom, 25th Indiana Attorney General^[3]
• Jesse B. Martin, Canadian bishop and peace activist^[4]
• David Dale Reimer, U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius and the Seychelles.

Popular culture

• Justin Yoder, first child with a disability to drive a soapbox in the All-American Soapbox Derby

Science, technology and medicine

• David Bartel (class of 1982), biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member of the Whitehead Institute, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Philip A. Beachy, Gallo Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
• Roger N. Beachy, biologist and the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
• O.J. Eigsti, Goshen College professor and developer of the seedless watermelon^[5]
• Owen Gingerich, astronomy professor at Harvard University

Sports

• Jason Booth, pitching coach for the University of Saint Francis baseball team and manager of the Hamilton Thunderbirds^[6]
• Errick McCollum, professional basketball player
• Katie Sowers, first openly gay and first female coach in Super Bowl history

Past presidents of the college

• Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, 2017–present
• Kenneth Newbold (interim president), 2017
• James E. Brenneman, 2006–17
• John D. Yordy (interim president), 2004–06
• Shirley H. Showalter, 1997–2004
• Henry D. Weaver (Interim president), 1996
• Victor S. Stoltzfus, 1984–96
• J. Lawrence Burkholder, 1971–84
• Paul E. Mininger, 1954–70
• Carl Kreider (acting president), 1950–51, 1970–71
• Ernest E. Miller, 1940–54
• Sanford C. Yoder, 1923–40
• Daniel Kauffman, 1922–23
• Irvin R. Detweiler (acting president), 1920–22
• Henry Frank Reist, 1919–20
• George J. Lapp, 1918–19
• John E. Hartzler, 1913–18
• Noah E. Byers, 1901–13

Principals of the Elkhart Institute
(Elkhart Institute was the former name of Goshen College.)

• Noah E. Byers, 1898–1903
• Willis E. Tower, 1895–98
• Reverend F. A. Hosmer, 1894–95^[7]

See also

• List of people from Indiana

Notes and References

1. Web site: Denise Konan · UHERO.
2. Web site: Human Ecology Bio Page . www.human.cornell.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101113063309/http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=rjs62 . 2010-11-13.
3. Verbeek . Ann Gilliom . The League and the Law: Arthur L. Gilliom and the Problem of Due Process in Prohibition-Era Indiana . Indiana Magazine of History . December 2011 . 107 . 4 . 289–326 . 10.5378/indimagahist.107.4.0289 . 10.5378/indimagahist.107.4.0289 .
4. Book: Josephson, Harold. Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders. Greenwood. 1985. 0-313-22565-6. Connecticut. 607–8. registration.
5. News: Orie J. Eigsti . . 11 . May 19, 2003 . March 24, 2009 . … develop[ed] the American Seedless Watermelon variety known as 313. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080705152226/http://www.mcusa-archives.org/MennObits/Mennonite%20Weekly%20Review/MWR%202003/05-may%202003.html . July 5, 2008 . mdy .
6. Web site: Jason Booth . Oakville Royals . March 24, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090502012400/http://www.oakvilleroyals.com/Coach%20Booth.html . May 2, 2009 . mdy .
7. Web site: Past Presidents of Goshen College. Goshen College. 2006. May 11, 2008. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225610/http://www.goshen.edu/inauguration/presidents.php. September 26, 2007. mdy-all.