August 13, 2013 – 8:56 am
A favorite baseball metaphor captures the tremendous momentum of the Suter Science Campaign as we publish the summer 2013 Crossroads: With 84% of our $7 million goal achieved, we are rounding third base and heading for home! While we offer our deepest thanks to the 277 donors and foundations that have already supported this campaign, […]
The Solanki sisters, born in India but living in Harrisonburg since 1988, both majored in biology at EMU. Elizabeth Solanki ’91 (left) is a physical therapist; Susmita Missy Solanki ’92 is a pharmacist. Both have contributed to support the renovation of the Suter Science Center, the location of many of their studies as undergraduates. They […]
The Suter Science Center has served EMU admirably for most of its 45 years, but we can no longer make that claim. Yes, EMU continues to produce stellar graduates – more than 90% of the students completing our pre-med program have been accepted to medical school over the last 10 years – but they and […]
Long ago, when the grounds of the Suter Science Center were just a cornfield on the east side of campus, and John Spicher ’58 was a biology major taking science classes in the basement of the old “Ad” building – since burned down and replaced by the Campus Center – some forgotten person procured some chemicals […]
Over many years, seminar professor Nate Yoder has devotedly deducted money from his not-large salary to return as a contribution to Eastern Mennonite University. Now Nate has added a pledge to the Suter Science Center campaign. Nate has been affected physically in recent years by Parkinson’s Disease, but this has not diminished the enthusiasm he […]
August 6, 2013 – 11:31 am
Nine guys who lived on one floor of Maplewood during 1990-91 bonded so well that, a few years after graduation, they began reuniting for a weekend every year. They initially gathered at a cabin owned by the parents of Jeffrey Shank ’95, now a school superintendent in Sarasota, Florida, but lately they have rented a […]
August 6, 2013 – 10:44 am
Foundations based in central Virginia will be contributing a combined total of $300,000, assuming that matching funds are raised in some cases, toward renovating EMU’s Suter Science Center. “The support of respected foundations in the Commonwealth of Virginia testifies to the Suter Science Center’s 45 years of preparing graduates who proceed to become service-oriented professionals […]
August 6, 2013 – 10:25 am
No more than 25 feet north of my home (I live almost adjacent to EMU) resides one of the best neighbors a person could have, Mildred Heacock Hostetter. She graduated from what was then Eastern Mennonite College (EMC) in 1950. Mildred married John Jacob Hostetter Jr., whose desire to study business-accounting prompted him to transfer […]
After a couple of decades of massive scandals in the U.S. financial world – Enron, the savings and loan industry, the federal bail-out of this country’s top banks – it has become commonplace at business departments at colleges and universities across the country to speak of the value of “ethics” and of considering “the public […]
Among the 150 alumni contacted for this Crossroads, this note was struck often: the importance of the integrity of the individual financial expert and, by extension, the company represented by that person. Most interviewees seemed to feel they had secured the right work situation for their skill set and ethical values. But they didn’t always arrive […]
