EMU celebrates the University’s 90th Annual Commencement. The graduates are thankful for the tentatively sunny day, allowing the ceremony to be held outside. Dr. Beryl Brubraker, retiring EMU provost, offers the Commencement Address.
EMU celebrates the University’s 90th Annual Commencement in this Baccalaureate Service. Dr. Christian Early, associate professor of philosophy and theology, addresses the community with his speech, “Wonder and Tragedy.”
Eastern Mennonite Seminary celebrates the Fifty-Ninth Annual Commencement with an address by Marva J. Dawn, and Senior Class Salutation by Jonathan D. Bowman
The Spring semester nursing graduates chose Dr. Beryl Brubaker, retiring EMU provost, to offer a prayer and words of encouragement. Three graduating Nurses share reflections, and Nursing coordinator Laura Esch emcees the pinning ceremony.
The Middle East Cross-cultural group shares reflections and adventures from their experiences this semester.
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Middle East Cross Cultural Slide Show: Download Middle East Cross Cultural Video [46:11m]: DownloadThe Guatemala Cross-cultural group shares reflections and adventures from their experiences in Latin America.
Catch up on more than 40 minutes of highlights from the Spring 2008 after-chapel Friday “Announcement” entertainment. Some of the announcement information has been removed, but the humor is preserved. Matt Pearson compares donuts to Mennonites while Seth Crissman raps, and both of them use and abuse several “volunteers”.
Pastoral Assistants, student leaders in the campus ministries team, lead worship as a farewell to the campus community. They guide the community in sharing reflections on things that we’re proud of, and sorry for, in our community.
Chapel features first-year student Anna Engle offering her winning speech from the EMU C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical contest.
Anna Engle is a first-year History & Social Science Education major with a TESL endorsement. From Streetsboro, OH, she has lived in the Harrisonburg area for 7 years. After graduating, she hopes to teach with Mennonite Central Committee in China or in Alaska.
Students participating in the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest reflect on the Christian peace position in relation to a contemporary concern.
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Emily Derstine–Welcoming the alien among us
Anna Engle–Called to true pacifism
Matthew Pearson–A common call to inclusion
Kristen Swartley–Voicewalkers, a Crow Poet, and the Table: Cultivating Peace Daily
Dianna Terry–Consumption of creativity
Ethan Zook–Anabaptist perspectives on service to the state
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