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Yearly Archives: 2013

Five Work With Numbers at Alma Mater

Bert Oversees $32 Million Budget Eighteen years before becoming EMU’s vice president for finance, Daryl Bert ’97 came to EMU to play volleyball, recruited by Coach Sandy Brownscombe. In his four-year playing career, he set several school records, earning a place in EMU’s Athletics Hall of Fame. Today, with an MBA degree and corporate finance […]

A Wealth of Alumni

If you count the number of names in bold in the foregoing articles on EMU alumni whose professional lives are heavily intertwined with “numbers,” you’ll arrive at over 150. And yet many others, whom we were in contact with (or at least fully aware of), are not in those pages. Here is our supplementary list, loosely […]

Third Generation Joins Horst & Son

Many certified public accountants (CPAs) dream of working in one of the Big Four accounting firms. Kyle Horst ’02 got to live that dream, working at KPMG in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for seven years. Two years ago, though, he left big-time accounting and became the third generation to work in his family’s construction and development business […]

The Continuing Legacy of the Augsburgers

From the mid-1960s through the 1970s – encompassing 15 years of great social change within Eastern Mennonite College and beyond – theologian Myron Augsburger (BA ’55, BTh ’58) led this institution of higher education. “As a well-known evangelist, Myron had the vision and stature to guide EMC from being a rather insular school – one […]