On Wednesday morning, a purple welcome banner was hung on the Goshen College sign. A large white tent popped up on the lawn outside Kulp. All over campus, signs of preparation for Homecoming Weekend, held this Friday through Sunday, were taking shape. Goshen College expects to welcome back an estimated 400 alumni in an annual event that has occurred for decades. Kelli King, director of alumni, church and parent relations, estimates that gatherings have been held for more than 90 years, since the Alumni Board formed in the 1920s. The weekend boasts a full schedule of events, kicking off with...

By Record • October 6, 2013 • News

Twelve Goshen College musicians became professional recording artists last week by collaborating on a new hymn CD with Adam Tice, a hymn composer and GC alum. Tice has published two volumes of 50 hymns and is set to publish another one soon. GIA Publications, a major publisher of sacred choral music, asked Tice to make an accompaniment CD using GC choir members and St. Joseph Valley Camerata, a community choir directed by Scott Hochstetler, professor of music. Tice invited Goshen students because “he knows the halls and acoustics that Goshen has and knew this would be the perfect place to record,”...

By Drea Mast • March 20, 2013 • Arts

Sitting on a stool and eyeing a spinning mug from six inches away, Abi Abebe Tsigie trims the unwanted clay from the base of his hand-molded mug, and smooths the edges round before initialing the bottom and moving on to the next mug. On a shelf where he stores his artwork, Tsigie shows his collection of pots, mugs, vases and ceramic sculptures.  Some have been glazed and fired, and some are the collapsed remnants of failed throws, but all bear the fingerprints of an artist who hopes to shape the world he lives in like the clay he sculpts. Tsigie...

By Logan Miller • December 6, 2012 • Features

Marvin Graber owns a 1966 Chevelle convertible. “The color is cranberry metallic,” Graber said. “I can imagine the red and the sparkles of the metallic. It has purple, red and maroon pearl chips in it, a black convertible top, black interior, black tires, white letters and chrome wheels.” He went on to describe the engine parts under the hood, including the power steering and power brakes. Graber can provide an exact description of his car despite the fact that he has never seen it or driven it — because he is blind. He lost his vision at age 10. “If...

By Twila Albrecht • December 6, 2012 • Features

Rosanna Nafziger Henderson graduated from Goshen College in 2006 with majors in English and math, not the most obvious path to becoming an authority on food. Henderson herself admits that she could not have predicted that six years after leaving Goshen she would be a cookbook author and food blogger. On Oct. 2, she celebrated the official publication day of her second book, “The Lost Arts of Hearth & Home,” which Publishers Weekly called “an utterly charming collection of recipes and how-tos for the 21st-century hipster-homemaker.” Henderson described the slow process of writing at her home in San Francisco, where she...

By Kelley Scholfield • November 1, 2012 • News

Friday, Oct. 5, marks the beginning of Homecoming Weekend—when Goshen alumni and students alike come together to celebrate their vibrant campus community. Current Goshen students may recognize this as a time to showcase their talents in a wide variety of campus events such as sports, theater and music. A Goshen alum or interested student might choose to view the annual Peace Play on Friday night, cheer for Goshen Women's Soccer as they play against Bethel on Saturday afternoon and finish things off that same night by attending the Homecoming Music Gala. On Saturday, a special gathering will honor The Record's...

By Nathan Vader • October 4, 2012 • News

Errick McCollum II holds the single season and career scoring records in basketball at Goshen College. In the spring of his senior year in 2010, as a 6’1” guard, he executed a soaring dunk that became an ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10 play. But unlike the majority of Goshen College students, McCollum never traveled abroad en route to earning his undergraduate degree. His credentials as a global citizen came later, courtesy of his ability to speak with the basketball in any language. This year, McCollum, who is 25, is playing for Apollon Patra, a team in the Greek Basketball League. The...

By Jacob Maldonado Nofziger • September 27, 2012 • Features

After at least four years of higher education, many seniors are met with the question: “What are you going to do after college?” Some graduates take a year off and travel or volunteer, others move away to start their careers, while some decide to stay in the Goshen area. Some graduates even end up finding work with Goshen College—the liberal arts college that prepared them for the positions they have taken. Jeff  Hochstetler Graduated: June 2008 Degree: business and history double major Current job: Senior Apartments manager After settling on graduate school at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) in...

By Kaeli Evans • March 21, 2012 • Features

Peni Acayo, a 2011 Goshen graduate and long jumper competing for Kent State University, finished 11th in the triple jump at the NCAA indoor track and field championships. The Kampala, Uganda native missed the podium and the finals by two spots with a jump of 41’4¼” on Friday, March 9 in Nampa, Idaho. After completing her volleyball eligibility and graduating from Goshen, Acayo chose to finish her last year of track eligibility at a higher level of competition. She chose Kent State University because of the strong reputation of its visual communication design program and its Division I athletics. “Kent...

By Lexi Kantz • March 15, 2012 • Sports

The Goshen Art Center has, for the past four months, been developing a wider sphere of influence in the larger Goshen community through its new location on Lincoln Street. Abi Tsigi, a photographer and 2011 graduate of Goshen College, has been renting space for his budding photography company, Ras Studio. Out of the nine rooms that the Goshen Arts Center calls home above the Republican Headquarters in downtown Goshen, Tsigi uses two for gallery space, one for studio and office space and the remaining he shares with the other tenants and artists of GAC.  Those artists include painters, musicians, potters...

By Liz Core • January 19, 2012 • Arts

Jacob Landis-Eigsti, who graduated from Goshen College in spring 2011, will present 20 original comedies this Saturday at 10:00 p.m. in the Umble Center. The show will be completely free and is expected to last about 90 minutes. Landis-Eigsti has been working on films from a very young age. “I just loved the idea of creating something from an idea and sharing it with people; my friends and I remade Star Wars when I was nine," he said. That passion for films was apparent during his time at Goshen College, during which he accumulated many awards for his work on...

By Jair Hernandez • November 16, 2011 • News

Justin Gillette ran two marathons last weekend. He won them both. After finishing in two hours, 34 minutes and 50 seconds at a race in Sarasota, Fla. on Friday, Gillette got on a plane and flew back home to northern Indiana. Less than 24 hours later, he ran the Veterans Marathon in Columbia City, Ind. in two hours, 40 minutes and six seconds. Although he hopes to sometime run a marathon on back-to-back days again, Gillette will wait a little while. “I know I’ll do it again, because you hate to not do it again,” he said. “But I’m not...

By Ben Sutter • November 16, 2011 • Features

Playing sweet melodies of funky surf rock, the vivacious group of 11 band members formally known as the Kansas Bible Company will return to Goshen to play at the Goshen Theater tomorrow night. These former Goshen College students will make their way from Nashville, Tenn. to show First Friday goers their journey, “to the stars through rugged ways.” The show begins at 8 p.m. as a part of the musical entertainment of this month’s downtown Goshen events. Jason Samuel, communications professor and general manager of 91.1 The Globe, will emcee this free event sponsored by Downtown Goshen Inc. The band...

By Kaeli Evans • November 2, 2011 • News

Six alumni received awards for their servant leadership during Friday’s chapel. Arthur DeFehr (’65), Vance George (’55) and Ahmed Haile (’79) were awarded with the Culture for Service award.  This award recognizes alumni who have served or whose personal achievements are models of the Culture for Service motto. DeFehr has used his business skills to serve throughout the world, in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Somalia and Lithuania. He is the CEO of Palliser Furniture, a leading furniture manufacturer committed to environmental sustainability. Aside from his work at the company, DeFehr has invested time serving the less fortunate of the world through the...

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Michael David Omondi—a recent Goshen alum who was arrested for hopping the fence onto federal property at the WHINSEC (formerly called School of the Americas) vigil last fall—will be released from his six-month prison term on May 20. Ross Weaver, a fifth-year senior, attended the WHINSEC vigil with Omondi near Columbus, Georgia, in November. Thousands of people gather outside this military base every year to protest this institute that has been known to train military figures charged with serious violations of human rights. Groups of students from Goshen have often attended the protest. According to Weaver, Omondi, who was a...

By Sarah Rich • April 21, 2011 • News