title: List of Goshen College people
text: # List of Goshen College people
  
  This is a list of notable individuals associated with the American Goshen College, a private liberal arts college located in Goshen, Indiana. The list includes students, alumni, and faculty.
  
  ## Academia and theology
  
  * Stephen Ainlay, 18th president of Union College (since 2006)
  * Harold S. Bender (class of 1918), former president, American Society of Church History and author of The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
  * Denise Konan (class of 1988) - Professor of Economics and Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
  * Alan Kreider (class of 1962), professor, writer and speaker
  * John W. Meyer (class of 1955), professor, sociologist
  * John Mark Ramseyer (class of 1976), Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School
  * Emma Richards, first ordained female Mennonite minister
  * Said Sheikh Samatar (class of 1973), Somali scholar, historian and writer
  * Rebecca Stoltzfus ( B.A. 1984 Chemistry), professor & vice provost at Cornell University
  * John Howard Yoder, Christian theologian, ethicist, and Biblical scholar best known for his radical Christian pacifism
  * Howard Zehr, "The Father of Restorative Justice"; assisted with the founding of a victim-offender reconciliation program
  
  ## The arts
  
  * Abbie Adams, contemporary artist and illustrator
  * Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE (class of 2008), editor and literary critic
  * Howard Dyck, Canadian conductor and radio broadcaster
  * Vance George, Grammy Award–winning choral director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1982–2006)
  * Luke and Jesse Miller, members of the electronic jam band Lotus
  * Royce Salzman (class of 1950), co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival
  * Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
  * James C. Strouse, independent filmmaker, writer and director who wrote the comedy-drama film Lonesome Jim (2005) and directed the drama film Grace Is Gone (2007)
  * Rudy Wiebe, taught at Goshen College from 1963 to 1967
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Allan Kauffman, mayor of Goshen, Indiana
  * Christine Kaufmann, member of the Montana House of Representatives
  * Tim Kauffman, mayor pro tem of Westminster, Colorado
  * David Dale Reimer U. S. Ambassador to Mauritius and to the Seychelles.
  * Jesse B. Martin, Canadian bishop and peace activist
  * Arthur L. Gilliom, 25th Indiana Attorney General
  
  ## Popular culture
  
  * Justin Yoder, first child with a disability to drive a soapbox in the All-American Soapbox Derby
  
  ## Science, technology and medicine
  
  * David Bartel (class of 1982), biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member of the Whitehead Institute, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  * Philip A. Beachy, Gallo Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
  * Roger N. Beachy, biologist and the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  * O.J. Eigsti, Goshen College professor and developer of the seedless watermelon
  * Owen Gingerich, astronomy professor at Harvard University
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Katie Sowers, first openly gay and first female coach in Super Bowl history
  * Errick McCollum, professional basketball player
  * Jason Booth, pitching coach for the University of Saint Francis baseball team and manager of the Hamilton Thunderbirds
  
  ## Past presidents of the college
  
  * Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, 2017–Present
  * Kenneth Newbold (Interim President), 2017
  * James E. Brenneman, 2006–17
  * John D. Yordy (Interim President), 2004–06
  * Shirley H. Showalter, 1997–2004
  * Henry D. Weaver (Interim President), 1996
  * Victor S. Stoltzfus, 1984–96
  * J. Lawrence Burkholder, 1971–84
  * Paul E. Mininger, 1954–70
  * Carl Kreider (Acting President), 1950–51, 1970–71
  * Ernest E. Miller, 1940–54
  * Sanford C. Yoder, 1923–40
  * Daniel Kauffman, 1922–23
  * Irvin R. Detweiler (Acting President), 1920–22
  * Henry Frank Reist, 1919–20
  * George J. Lapp, 1918–19
  * John E. Hartzler, 1913–18
  * Noah E. Byers, 1901–13
  
  Principals of the Elkhart Institute (Elkhart Institute was the former name of Goshen College)
  
  * Noah E. Byers, 1898–1903
  * Willis E. Tower, 1895–98
  * Reverend F. A. Hosmer, 1894–95
  