Vicki Kirkton, director of the undergraduate nursing program, will share a family story of healing.

Led by Academic Dean Anita Stalter, Dean of Students Bill Born and Associate Academic Dean Ross Peterson-Veatch.Come lend your thoughts to 3 big questions:What should all Goshen College students know by the time they graduate?What should all graduates be able to do?What should all graduates feel responsibility for?

John L. Martin, director of the Department of Disabilities for the state of Ohio, and winner of the “Culture for Service” award.Other 2009 award recipients: Culture for Service (Galen D. Miller ’74) and Champions of Character (Marty Hess Kelley ’71 and Lynn I. Williams ’60).Following chapel, at 10:30 a.m., a reception for the award recipients will be held in the Church-Chapel Gathering Rooms.

Race & Reconciliation at Goshen College” by guest speaker Brenda Salter McNeil

Founder of youth Ministries for Peace & Justice, Bronx, New York

Alexie Torres-Fleming is founder of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice in the Bronx borough of New York City.

Hymn sing chapel – a GC tradition!

Celebrating the learning of Maple Scholars–GC’s undergraduate research program, which offers summer opportunities for students to collaborate with professors on research projects.At this convocation, we will hear about two 2009 projects: one in environmental science (Jeremy Good, Adie Gerig and Prof. Ryan Sensenig) and one in women’s studies (Rachel Halder and Prof. Beth Martin Birky).