List of Goshen College people

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
 * 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 from 1963 to 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 and the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
 * O.J. Eigsti, Goshen College professor and developer of the seedless watermelon
 * Owen Gingerich, astronomy professor at Harvard University

Sports

 * Jason Booth, pitching coach for the University of Saint Francis baseball team and manager of the Hamilton Thunderbirds
 * 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