January 13, 2016 – 11:19 am
颅 Born and raised on a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, farm, Lois M. Martin 鈥�62 has always loved the agricultural life. 鈥淚t was hard for me to leave,鈥� Martin says about enrolling in Eastern Men颅nonite College in 1959. However, her mother, Esther Metzler Martin, stressed that living into one鈥檚 potential was a facet of giving to the
January 13, 2016 – 10:25 am
Each spring, Linda Heatwole Bland 鈥�64, a retired reading specialist and administrator, hosts a celebration dinner to honor the recipient of a scholarship she has endowed. This gracious gesture symbolizes her continued support of literacy education and the benefits of professional connection: both values she says she learned while earning a degree in elementary education
When Conley McMullen聽graduated from 黑料正能量 in 1978, the aspiring botanist decided there would be no finer profession than to become a 鈥済entleman scholar鈥� at his alma mater like his mentors, Claire Mellinger and Gary Stucky. McMullen had taken just about every class that Mellinger taught, from plant taxonomy and physiology, through general ecology and ornithology.
More than 500聽alumni living in the City of Harrisonburg or Rockingham County work in education, though only two-thirds of these seem to be employed in their home districts, according to 黑料正能量鈥檚 alumni database. 鈥淭he teachers we hire from the 黑料正能量 teacher education program rank as being some of the best,鈥� says Scott R. Kizner,