{"id":34814,"date":"2017-09-11T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=34814"},"modified":"2017-09-12T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:44:45","slug":"distinguished-service-award-2011-glen-lapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/distinguished-service-award-2011-glen-lapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Service Award 2011: Glen Lapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1263 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emustories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Glen-Lapp-in-Afghanistan.jpg\" alt=\"Glen-Lapp-in-Afghanistan\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/>For the first time ever, EMU\u2019s annual Distinguished Service Award will go posthumously to an alumnus: Glen Lapp \u201991.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/now\/news\/2010\/08\/emu-grieves-graduate-killed-while-working-in-afghanistan-updated-81210\/\">Glen\u2019s life was cut short on August 5, 2010<\/a>, when he and other aid workers with International Assistance Mission, a Christian charity, were gunned down in northern Afghanistan. Glen was a volunteer with Mennonite Central Committee, assigned to <span class=\"caps\">IAM<\/span>, where he was an executive assistant and manager of its provincial ophthalmic program.<\/p>\n<p>The medical team \u2013 six Americans, three Afghans, a German, and a Briton \u2013 were returning to Kabul from an arduous service trip to northern Afghanistan, when the team was ambushed and robbed. All except for one Afghan were left riddled with bullets in a remote wooded area of Badakhshan Province.<\/p>\n<p>Glen was 40 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Glen graduated from <span class=\"caps\">EMU<\/span> as a math major. Four years later, in 1995, he earned a BS in nursing at Johns Hopkins University in the school\u2019s second degree accelerated program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis life exemplified selfless service,\u201d said Duane Ringer, Glen\u2019s former colleague at Lancaster Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>In nominating Glen for EMU\u2019s Distinguished Service Award, Trina Trotter Nussbaum \u201999 wrote: \u201cWhat a fitting way to honor his life\u2019s work! He offered his life up for service like Jesus did and ended up losing it, like Jesus did. Who knows how people have been touched and inspired because of Glen\u2019s witness and sacrifice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/president\/\"><span class=\"caps\">EMU<\/span> President Loren Swartzendruber<\/a> said: \u201cAs with many of our alumni around the world, Glen was fulfilling EMU\u2019s mission of serving and leading in a global context, which often involves great personal sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/schirchl?ssi=cjp\">Lisa Schirch<\/a>, an <span class=\"caps\">EMU<\/span> professor who became friends with Glen during her visits to Afghanistan on peace-related work, told a newspaper reporter that Glen was compassionate, humble and \u201cdevoted to using his life to serve others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Zimmerman \u201994, MA \u201902 in conflict transformation, was Lapp\u2019s direct supervisor for <span class=\"caps\">MCC<\/span> in Asia. She said Lapp\u2019s interest in Afghanistan emerged while visiting a friend there in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlen loved the adventure of it,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m sure this last trip to the outer reaches of Afghanistan \u2013 places where hardly any other people on earth have ever gone \u2013 was the dream of a lifetime for him. The team travelled by Jeep for several days, and then they walked and rode on horseback over mountain passes just to get there. They had to carry all their equipment with them. It was terribly hard to reach, and in the end, it was also dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman added, \u201cGlen was the ideal nurse, very self contained and capable, as well as extremely compassionate \u2013 and above all, humble about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before working in Afghanistan, Glen provided care to an underserved population of the Havasupai Nation on a reservation in Supai, Arizona. When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Lapp went to help in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Lapp\u2019s perspective was recorded in a report he filed for his supervisors at <span class=\"caps\">MCC<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere I was [Afghanistan], the main thing that expats can do is to be a presence in the country,\u201d he wrote. \u201cTreating people with respect and with love and trying to be a little bit of Christ in this part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glen Lapp was a member of Community Mennonite Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where his parents Mary and Marvin Lapp \u201972 live. They will be accepting Glen\u2019s award on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published Aug. 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, EMU\u2019s annual Distinguished Service Award will go posthumously to an alumnus: Glen Lapp \u201991. 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