Tag Archives: business administration

Outstanding young alum: Leader in hospital, church, community

August 20, 2014 – 11:02 am

Elizabeth Good ’01, is seldom far from the wise counsel of an EMU professor, though separated by many miles and years since graduation. “Ann Hershberger was, and still is, a tremendous influence on my life and career as a nurse,” says Good. “I still email her with questions and we sometimes talk on the phone. ...More

These businesses exist to raise money for charities

April 30, 2014 – 11:57 am

Hundreds of volunteers, many of them EMU alumni, are the backbone of four alumni-run, nonprofit charitable enterprises in Harrisonburg that funnel funds toward worldwide poverty alleviation, relief and development efforts. Gift & Thrift, and its used-book enterprise, Booksavers of Virginia, and adjacent Artisans’ Hope gift shop (all three in a small shopping strip an easy ...More

Goes around, comes around: EMU & Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community

May 2, 2014 – 2:29 pm

In the first decades of the 20th century, simultaneous efforts arose with the Virginia Mennonite Conference to establish institutions that might sit like bookends at either end of our lives: a school and home for the elderly. The first bit came together relatively quickly, with the school we now know as EMU admitting its first ...More

These businesses are owned or managed by alumni in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County

May 2, 2014 – 3:01 pm

About 250 alumni in the City of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County work as entrepreneurs or are otherwise engaged in business and independent professional activities. In early 2014, Crossroads attempted to identify local businesses that are owned by alumni or have top managers who are alumni. Here is the resulting list of 88 businesses (feel free ...More