{"id":47366,"date":"2020-10-05T22:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=47366"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:49:00","slug":"meet-emus-2020-alumni-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/meet-emus-2020-alumni-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming 2020: Alumni Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\">Celebrate EMU&#8217;s Alumni Award recipients Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 on Facebook Live!<\/a><\/strong> These honored guests will be joined at the Homecoming opening celebration with President Susan Schultz Huxman (and you won&#8217;t want miss being there when EMU&#8217;s lion mascot, Herm, passes the torch to <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/the-unofficial-history-of-herm-emus-mascot\/\">his successor<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/homecoming\/\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">View the full schedule of 2020 Homecoming events!<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/distinguished-service-award-susan-and-stan-godshall-65\/\"><strong>Distinguished Service Award<\/strong>: Susan and Stan Godshall &#8217;65<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-Godshall-News-features.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46438\" width=\"317\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-Godshall-News-features.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-Godshall-News-features-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-Godshall-News-features-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Susan and Stan Godshall \u201865 <\/strong>have devoted years of their lives to medical and missions work in the United States and in Africa. While serving with Eastern Mennonite Missions, the couple helped to found Shirati KMT Hospital in Tanzania. Stan spent the majority of his 40-year medical career in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, at a family health center. Susan held several positions while raising their three children: teaching Spanish and English as a Second Language and doing administrative work at EMM and Mennonite Central Committee. In 1996, Susan was chosen as EMM\u2019s representative to Africa, the first woman in that role. She chaired EMU\u2019s Board of Directors for six years, serving a total of 12 years, and later trained as a chaplain at the Philhaven Behavioral Health Hospital.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/distinguished-service-award-susan-and-stan-godshall-65\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/alum-of-the-year-luke-gascho-74\/\"><strong>Alumnus of the Year<\/strong>: Luke Gascho &#8217;74<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/Gascho-Luke-13-formal-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46613\" width=\"272\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/Gascho-Luke-13-formal-3.jpeg 481w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/Gascho-Luke-13-formal-3-245x300.jpeg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From the beginning of his career as a 21-year-old principal of a small Christian school to cultivating the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College into an accredited program with award-winning green building designs, <strong>Luke Gascho \u201874<\/strong> has used every opportunity to live out his commitment to his faith, education, and creation care. He served at Johnstown Christian School for two decades, and shepherded the school through full accreditation before moving into higher education. Gascho then spent 22 years at Merry Lea. The center provides educational programming for over 5,000 K-12 students annually. Under his leadership, the center created field-based programs in sustainable agriculture, environmental science, and sustainability leadership with Goshen College, and a master of arts in environmental education. <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/alum-of-the-year-luke-gascho-74\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/young-alum-award-lyubov-slashcheva-11\/\"><strong>Young Alum of the Year<\/strong>: Lyubov Slashcheva &#8217;11<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-lyubov-News-features.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46437\" width=\"281\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-lyubov-News-features.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-lyubov-News-features-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/07\/202077-lyubov-News-features-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lyubov Slashcheva \u201811<\/strong> works with the nonprofit Apple Tree Dental as a specialist in public health and special needs and geriatric patients. She is also a research collaborator with the Mayo Clinic\u2019s departments of dental specialties and health sciences research, and holds leadership positions in the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry, the Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship, and the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions. She, her husband Scott, and their three children live on their urban vegetable farm in Minnesota.<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/young-alum-award-lyubov-slashcheva-11\/\"> Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate EMU&#8217;s Alumni Award recipients Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 on Facebook Live! 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