westlawn dining
January 16, 2025
A familiar face joins the AV staff
As of the beginning of 2025, Isaac Bontrager, a senior music and biology major, has taken the position of AV Operations Manager at Goshen College while still completing his undergraduate degree. Bontrager first got a taste of the AV world before college. “What kind of got me interested in that was when I was in high school, I played trombone in show choir and we needed someone to work with sound stuff … I knew nothing about it, but … I’ve always been interested in taking things apart and putting them together, seeing behind the scenes, that sort of stuff,”...
October 24, 2024
Dining returns to Westlawn
On Sunday evening, Westlawn opened for dining, 415 days after it was shut down as part of broader renovations in the building. “Do you remember when we moved everything out of here?” President Rebecca Stoltzfus asked me, referencing a Saturday morning last September when Stoltzfus, along with other members of the faculty and staff, helped transition out of the dining hall into a temporary space in the Union building. Now, over a year later, Stoltzfus joined 214 other people to experience the renovated kitchen and updated dining hall. The rest of the building is currently expected to open at the...
October 3, 2024
Westlawn project nears completion
After a year of construction, Westlawn will partially reopen in the final weeks of October, beginning with the dining hall. Though the menu for the first meal has not yet been announced, the director of dining services promised an expanded cuisine. Brian Mast, director of facilities at Goshen College, said that construction is on track to finish on Oct. 15. Dining services will be moving back to the ground floor of Westlawn during the week of fall break, with a tentative reopening date of Oct. 20. The nursing department, which has a new home on the second and third floors...
September 8, 2023
$21M Westlawn renovation begins
Editor’s note, published Sept. 14, 2023: After reviewing the article last week on the Westlawn renovation, we would like to add some context and update the language used. Referring to the $7 million as “unaccounted for” was imprecise, and the subhead that described the funding as “missing” was a poor word choice — “fundraising is currently short $7 million” would have been more accurate. The fact that the project is two-thirds funded was not common knowledge before The Record’s article, and that information is newsworthy and merits prominence. More context is required, though: It is President Stoltzfus’s “confident goal” that...
September 8, 2023
Cooking for hundreds in a trailer
Westlawn Dining Hall hadn’t felt quite the same the past few weeks. Its usual round tables were replaced by long, rectangular tables, shrouded in cheap, purple plastic tablecloths — the kind that are fun to make holes in at birthday parties. The juice machine was gone, replaced by large see-through coolers that had to be filled with ice to keep the juice cold. Just like its orange juice, Westlawn had become a bit watered down. Red tape labeled “danger” lined the street and Kulp entrances. A few electrical cords hung from the wall. The artwork hanging over the fireplace had...