{"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
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Celebrate 黑料正能量’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’t want miss being there when 黑料正能量’s lion mascot, Herm, passes the torch to his successor<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 黑料正能量\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. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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, 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. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celebrate 黑料正能量’s Alumni Award recipients Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 on Facebook Live! These honored guests will be joined at the Homecoming opening celebration with President Susan Schultz Huxman (and ... read more about Homecoming 2020: Alumni Awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,359,5590,5591,14184,5592,5861,17562,8845,5643,264,60,356,5600,12579],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17426,17241,17422],"class_list":["post-47366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-applied-social-sciences","category-biology","category-business-and-leadership","category-campus-guests","category-chemistry","category-conferences-and-events","category-digest","category-emu-at-lancaster","category-environmental-sustainability","category-graduate-programs","category-homecoming","category-language-and-literature","category-nursing","category-pre-professional-health","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature","feature-news-landing-page-main-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\n\n\nView the full schedule of 2020 Homecoming events!<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nDistinguished Service Award<\/strong>: Susan and Stan Godshall ’65<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAlumnus of the Year<\/strong>: Luke Gascho ’74<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nYoung Alum of the Year<\/strong>: Lyubov Slashcheva ’11<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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