Commencement
April 1, 2010
Stepping towards Commencement
Ronnie A. Yoder, chief administrative law judge for the U.S. Department of Transportation, will address the graduating students with a speech titled “A Niche for You—Immortality" at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25 when the 112th class of Goshen College students graduate According to Goshen College's press release, Yoder, from Alexandria, Va., “has been active in numerous administrative law judges’ associations and in developing, teaching and writing on the administrative judiciary for more than 30 years.” Yoder holds his B.A. and his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia and also spent a year studying at Yale Divinity School as a Rockefeller...
April 28, 2009
At 111th commencement, 236 receive degrees
Goshen College's Class of 2009 received degrees on Sunday, April 26, after being encouraged to take a leap of faith by President James E. Brenneman and to have courage and to persevere by Union College President Stephen Charles Ainlay, a 1973 Goshen College graduate. A highlight of this year's commencement was the conferring of the college's first master's degrees. Three students - Mallory Kuhn of Spencerville, Ohio; Nayla Jiménez Cabezas of Cartago, Costa Rica; and Todd Weston of Lee's Summit, Mo. - graduated with master's of environmental education degrees. The program is based at Goshen's Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center...
April 8, 2009
Ainlay no stranger to Goshen: Union College president to address 2009 graduates
This year's commencement speaker, Stephen Ainlay, is no stranger to the area. He grew up in Goshen and received his bachelor's degree in sociology from Goshen College. Ainlay, president of Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) will address the 2009 graduating class of about 230 students with his speech "A Pilgrim's Mind" during the 111th Goshen College Commencement on April 26 at 3 p.m. in the Recreation-Fitness Center. The college's first graduate degrees will also be given out to three students who will receive a master's of environmental education. In 2005, Ainlay became the 18th president of Union College after working as...