Goshen College students have received six awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts, a yearly national competition of all colleges and universities in the United States with media and broadcasting programs. Small schools such as Goshen compete against large Division 1 schools such as the University of Alabama. “The national recognition from this BEA award not only validates our student’s work but it also validates our hands-on learning methods at Goshen College,” said Kyle Hufford, assistant professor of communication.   "The majority of our submitted content is borne out of our daily broadcasts on the radio...

By Landon Weldy • February 21, 2019 • News

Being a Buckwalter means loving coffee, being passionate about teaching and driving a car from Buckwalter Motors. Or so it would seem after getting to know Renee and Anne Buckwalter, twin seniors from Wellman, Iowa. Recently, another similarity has appeared: Renee and Anne are both being honored by the Indiana Association of Colleges of Teacher Education with the Outstanding Future Educator Award. Renee, the younger twin by 31 minutes, is an elementary education major who student taught kindergarten at West Goshen Elementary School. This semester she is spending around 18 hours a week there in a special education classroom. Anne,...

By Kristin Troyer • February 15, 2019 • Features

91.1 The Globe has been named a finalist for the “Best College Station in the Nation” award for the ninth consecutive year. Along with Globe TV and FiveCore Media, the three Goshen College media outlets have been nominated for a total of 34 national awards in the 2019 Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) College Media Awards. 15 students, two faculty members and one professional staffer were named finalists for the awards, which will be presented at the 79th International IBS Conference in New York City on Saturday March 2, 2019. “It’s a big deal really,” said Kyle Hufford, assistant professor of...

By Megan Bower • February 7, 2019 • News

This past Friday served host to the 2018 Alumni Awards convocation during Homecoming Weekend. The event began with Harold Watson, the athletic director, introducing the history of the Champions of Character Award to a primarily alumni audience. The Dr. Roman Gingerich and Dr. Ruth Gunden Champion of Character Awards are presented each year to a male and female alumni athlete who exemplify the college’s core values in their lives, work and community service. This year’s awardees were Byron Shenk ’63 and Penina Acayo Laker ’11. Over the last 67 years, Shenk has spent time in the roles of professor, coach...

By Landon Weldy • October 10, 2018 • News

Gilberto Perez Jr., dean of Students at Goshen College, is receiving an award, but that is one of the last things on his mind. Perez is being recognized by his alma mater, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The Distinguished Service Award is awarded annually to a graduate of EMU who has made an outstanding contribution to EMU, the church or the greater community. A 1994 EMU graduate, Perez has crossed off all these requirements and more in his postgraduate life. Whether creating mental health curriculum for immigrants from Latin America, helping bring churches and law enforcement together in...

By Zack Begly • September 26, 2018 • Features

Katie Hurst, who served as editor in chief of The Record last fall, received a second-place award from the Hoosier State Press Association for an editorial that she wrote in which she called for Goshen College students to commit to "showing up for each other." On the occasion of Sexual Violence Awareness Week and the roll-out of a Goshen Resident Identification Card, she wrote about the connection: "So what does it mean when we 'stand' with an individual, a group of people, a movement? Are we literally placing our bodies on the front line next to each other and standing...

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Members of The Correspondent, The Globe and FiveCore Media travelled down to Indianapolis to attend the the Indiana Association of Schools Broadcasters (IASB) annual awards luncheon. Both the television and radio station teams won a total of 18 awards from the 15 audio and visual categories that were available. About 25 projects were submitted from work done on the television news program, The Correspondent, FiveCore Media, which is GC’s video production company, as well as on the campus radio station, WGCS 91.1 The Globe. Students were able to participate in a job fair, a luncheon and a celebration. This event...

By Pamela Ortiz • April 12, 2018 • News

The Indiana Collegiate Press Association’s (ICPA) annual convention proved to be yet another award-winning year for Goshen College’s newspaper, The Record, and literary magazine, Red Cents. The publications, both student-run, won a total of 34 awards, the most prestigious being The Record’s “Newspaper of the Year” award. Red Cents won third place in a tie for “Best Literary Magazine of the Year.” This is the second time in three years that The Record has won “Newspaper of the Year.” Last year, The Record came in second to The Bachelor of Wabash College. Eight first place awards were awarded to various...

By Abby King • April 12, 2018 • News

Jonathan Bontrager-Waite is a first-year at Goshen College studying theater and writing. Last November, he submitted a short play for a chance at the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Plays, a national playwriting award given by the the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The play he submitted is about two high school boys in show choir that take a field trip to an art museum, who eventually get to know each other better through discussions of art. Bontrager-Waite’s play was one of the two short plays selected as regional finalists out of the 45 that were submitted...

By Cecilia Garcia • February 8, 2018 • Features

Five alumni will return to Goshen College on Oct. 6 to receive awards for their dedication to GC’s core values in their lives post-graduation. The 2017 Culture for Service awards will be presented to Sheri Hartzler ’73 of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Philip Thomas ’87 of Goshen. Nicole Cober Bauman, an ’08 graduate and Elkhart resident, will receive the 2017 Young Alumni Award. The 2017 Dr. Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Award will be received by Stan King ’61 of Goshen, and the Dr. Ruth Gunden Champion of Character Award will be presented to Justine (Clemmer) Pletcher ’72 of Goshen. The...

By Abby King • October 5, 2017 • News

A total of 27 Goshen College students received awards at the Indiana Collegiate Press Association’s annual conference for literary magazine and newspaper awards on April 8. The Record took home the second place award in the “Newspaper of the Year” competition amongst Indiana colleges in the Division III. The Record is in Division III, which puts it in competition with other colleges and universities with an enrollment under 3,000. The Bachelor of Wabash College finished first with a total of 52 points, and The Record finished second with a total of 46. “Students that come here to study journalism are...

By Lexa Magnuson • April 13, 2017 • News

Goshen College’s communication department took home gold from the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) awards, as well as the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) awards. Over spring break, representatives from Goshen College’s radio station 91.1 FM The Globe traveled to New York City on Saturday to receive awards from IBS. Lucia Nisly, Karen Ramos, both first-years, Laura Hoover, a sophomore, Spencer Buttermore, a junior and JD Hershberger, a senior, attended the IBS awards. Jason Samuel, general manager of WGCS and assistant professor of communication, and Kyle Hufford, general manager of FiveCore Media, accompanied the students. The Globe was named a national finalist...

By Abby King • March 9, 2017 • News

While still in Peru on her Study-Service Term (SST), junior public relations and Spanish major Achieng Agutu received an email from Duane Stoltzfus, professor of communications, requesting her to reserve a Saturday in December for a trip to Indianapolis. She had won a Hoosiers State Press Association Award for her opinion piece, “Reflections on Living in a White World”. This prestigious award accepts pieces from five journalistic categories: news, sports, opinion, feature and photography. Stoltzfus, in addition to being a communication professor, doubles as an advisor to the school newspaper, the Record, and is responsible for picking these pieces. “The...

By Marris Opsahl • January 26, 2017 • Features

Alia Byrd, a sophomore elementary education major, with a double minor in TESOL and Spanish, was awarded the “Realizing the Dream” award on Nov. 5 along with other first-generation college students. She was nominated by Goshen College faculty for her outstanding academic and extracurricular achievement in her first year at college – but when asked, she says she could not have been more surprised. “When I was told that I had received the Realizing the Dream award, I was a little confused, honestly,” Byrd said. “In my eyes, I see myself as just another college student trying to get by....

By Hayley Mann • November 17, 2016 • Features

This past weekend, GC alumni made their way back to campus. A select four of these alumni were honored for the work they’ve accomplished since they walked across the stage at their own graduations. Ellah Wakatama Allfrey ’88 of London, England, as well as Dr. Doug Schwartzentruber ’78, of Indianapolis received the 2016 Culture for Service Awards. Aletha Stahl, ’89 of Richmond, Indiana received the Dr. Ruth Gunden Champion of Character Award. Meanwhile, James Gingerich ’66 of Albuquerque, New Mexico received the Dr. Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Award. Each of these four awards were presented on Friday morning at...

By Maddie Birky • October 13, 2016 • News