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 Alan Kreider (class of 1962), professor, writer and speaker John W. Meyer (class of 1955), professor, sociologist Steven Nolt, professor at Elizabethtown College 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 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 1963–1967

Politics

Christine Kaufmann, member of the Montana House of Representatives Arthur L. Gilliom, 25th Indiana attorney general Jesse B. Martin, Canadian bishop and peace activist 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, founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Owen Gingerich, astronomy professor at Harvard University

Sports

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

See also

List of people from Indiana

References