12 Notable alumni of
Goshen College
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Goshen College is 2624th in the world, 909th in North America, and 859th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Goshen College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Errick McCollum
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- basketball player
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Errick "E" Lane McCollum II is an American professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe Beko of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Goshen. At a height of 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions.
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John Howard Yoder
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianwriterphilosopher
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John Howard Yoder was an American Mennonite theologian and ethicist best known for his defense of Christian pacifism. His most influential book was The Politics of Jesus, which was first published in 1972. Yoder was a Mennonite and wrote from an Anabaptist perspective. He spent the latter part of his career teaching at the University of Notre Dame.
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Sofia Samatar
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- writeruniversity teacherscience fiction writer
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Sofia Samatar is an American scholar, novelist and educator from Indiana. She is an associate professor of English at James Madison University.
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Howard Zehr
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- criminologist
- Biography
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Howard J. Zehr is an American criminologist. Zehr is considered to be a pioneer of the modern concept of restorative justice.
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David Dale Reimer
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United States - Occupations
- diplomat
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David Dale Reimer is an American diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service. He had served as the United States ambassador to Sierra Leone from 2021 to 2023. He previously served concurrently as the United States ambassador to Mauritius and United States ambassador to Seychelles from 2018 to 2021. He has also served as Chargé d'affaires ad interim to Burundi and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Mauritania.
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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
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- journalistwriter
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Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL, is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press. A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize. In 2016, she was a Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, and was the Guest Master for the 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia. The former deputy editor of Granta magazine, she was the senior editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House and an assistant editor at Penguin. She is the series editor of the Kwani? Manuscript Project and the editor of the anthologies Africa39 (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (Dundurn/Cassava Republic).
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Harold S. Bender
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- writertheologian
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Harold Stauffer Bender was a prominent professor of theology at Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana) and Goshen Biblical Seminary. His accomplishments include founding both the Mennonite Historical Library and The Mennonite Quarterly Review. He served as president of the American Society of Church History, and was a major scholarly influence on fellow Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder.
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Art DeFehr
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Arthur A. DeFehr OC OM is a Canadian businessman with investments in real estate and Palliser Furniture. He also was involved in initiating the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, LCC International University, Canadian Mennonite University, International Development Enterprises, and immigration policy including the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program.
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Stephen C. Ainlay
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- teacher
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Stephen Charles Ainlay is a former president of Union College and former chancellor of Union University. He became the 18th president of the institution in June 2006, succeeding interim president James Underwood, who succeeded Roger Hull after Hull retired in June 2005. He was succeeded by David R. Harris on July 1, 2018.
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James Brenneman
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James E. Brenneman is the president of Berkeley School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, one of the founding seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union. Prior to coming to Berkeley School of Theology in 2017, Jim was the sixteenth president of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana from 2006 to 2017.
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Christine Kaufmann
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
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Christine Kaufmann is a Montana politician. A member of the Montana Senate from January 2007 to 2016, she previously served three terms in the Montana House of Representatives. She last represented the 41st senate district, based in Helena, Montana.
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Elizabeth Horsch Bender
- Years
- 1895-1988 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- translator
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Elizabeth Horsch Bender was an American Mennonite editor and translator.
