List of Goshen College people
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This is a list of famous individuals associated with Goshen College, including students, alumni, and faculty.
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[edit] Academia and theology
- Harold S. Bender (1918) - Former president, American Society of Church History and author of The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
- Alan Kreider (1941) – Professor, writer and speaker.
- J. Mark Ramseyer (1976) - Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
- Said S. Samatar (1973) - African historian
- John Howard Yoder - Christian theologian, ethicist, and Biblical scholar best known for his radical Christian pacifism.
- Howard Zehr - "The Father of Restorative Justice" and assisted with the founding of the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program
[edit] Science, technology and medicine
- Owen Gingerich (1930)- Astronomy Professor at Harvard University.
- David Bartel (1982)- Biology Professor at MIT, Member of the Whitehead Insititute, Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- O.J. Eigsti Goshen College Professor and inventor of the seedless watermelon.[1]
- Philip A. Beachy Gallo Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
[edit] Arts and music
- Vance George - Grammy-winning choral director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, 1982-2006
- Rudy Wiebe – taught 1963 to 1967.
[edit] Politics
- Tim Kauffman - Westminster, Colorado mayor pro tem.
- Alan Kauffman - mayor of Goshen, Indiana
- Christine Kaufmann, member of the Montana House of Representatives.
[edit] Popular culture
- Justin Yoder (current)- first child with a disability to drive a soapbox in the All American Soapbox Derby
