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Hostetter, who was not a co-author on the recent paper, called the results exciting because they "could lead to new or improved medications for treatment of mood disorders."
About 30,000 members of the Old Order Amish community in Lancaster County trace their descent exclusively from 32 people who immigrated from modern-day Germany to Pennsylvania in the 1750s. Genetically distinct from other Amish communities in the country, this "closed gene pool" presents a unique opportunity to study the genetic components of mental illness. In some families within this group, both bipolar disorder and EvC are more prevalent than in the general population.
According to the recent study, statistical analysis of these two conditions within the study group shows that a person with the genetic mutation that causes EvC is prevented from developing bipolar disorder. Linking that genetic mutation – which affects a protein called Shh – directly to bipolar and other affective disorders represents a breakthrough in understanding the genetic basis of these conditions.
Hostetter has been involved with the project, known in the field as the "Amish Study," since it began in 1976. When he was invited to participate, Hostetter was working in private psychiatry practice in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where he regularly saw Old Order Amish patients. Hostetter had a further connection to that community because his grandfather had been a moderator of Lancaster Mennonite Conference and was well-known to local Amish leaders.
"Dr. Hostetter brought to the Amish Study his special expertise based on a life-long exposure to the cultural setting and religious traditions of the Old Order Amish, as well as his experience as a practicing psychiatrist and hospital medical director involving Amish-Mennonite patients," writes Dr. Janice Egeland, the director of the Amish Study and professor emerita at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
At Egeland's invitation, Hostetter joined a group of psychiatrists that established specific criteria for diagnosing bipolar disorder in members of the Amish study group. They eventually identified more than 100 patients with the disorder. In 1987, Egeland, Hostetter and six others published the first research connecting bipolar disorder to a specific gene, in a paper that has since been cited hundreds of times.
"But just identifying a gene doesn't cure anything," said Hostetter, who approaches the research with a practical focus. "Now this recent finding is showing what one of the genes does. That's the next important step."
Hostetter attended EMU for two years before transferring to the pre-med program at Goshen College, another Mennonite college in Indiana. After graduating in 1953, he went to Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While collaborating with Egeland and other colleagues on the Amish Study, he continued in private practice in Pennsylvania until retiring in 2003. He now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, but remains involved with the Amish Study as it approaches its 40th year.
In addition to linking bipolar disorder to a specific human gene, Hostetter and his colleagues have also used their research to identify childhood risk factors that suggest an eventual bipolar diagnosis.
"There's been a real move toward earlier identification of the problem," he said. "Misdiagnosis is one of the big problems in dealing with this illness, and this study has been recognized as having led the way in greater accuracy and specificity of psychiatric diagnoses."
Over 40 years, lots of data piles up, and there's always new insight to tease out. Another paper Hostetter says he and his colleagues might try to tackle would demonstrate inheritance of specific sub-types of bipolar disorder that variously manifest with symptoms like violence, grandiosity, hypersexuality and others. This spring, he plans to pay clinical visits to some of the families that have participated in the study. It's an extension of what Egeland describes as an unusual degree of concern for individual subjects of the ongoing research.
"Numerous patients have benefitted from 'Dr. Abe's' personal efforts to improve understanding and reduce the stigma so often inherent in mental illness," she wrote.
]]>Chances are those words elicited some kind of emotion.
If you're under 30, you may have just looked up or away from your digital device and rolled your eyes.
If you're over 30, your facial expression might be an unbidden, but half-amused grimace accompanied by a bit of nodding.
If you'd like to hear and engage with the author in person, whether to take issue with his stance, and/or to soak up the intellectual discourse of one of the eminent thinkers of the day, you're in luck.
Author Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University, will speak at Eastern Mennonite University Thursday, Feb. 5, on "The Humanities in the Digital Age." Bauerlein's talk will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Strite Conference Room in the Campus Center, followed by a discussion with the audience, including formal responses by Heidi Winters Vogel, professor of theater, and Eric Codding, director of residence life.
Bauerlein will also speak at Friday's 10 a.m. chapel in Lehman Auditorium on "From Atheism to Catholocism." A talk-back with refreshments follows in Common Grounds from 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Bauerlein has taught at Emory University since 1989, with a break in 2003-05 to serve as the Director of the Office of Research and Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published numerous scholarly works, including an acclaimed account of a 1906 race riot in Atlanta, Negrophobia. In addition, his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, where his blog eloquently promotes the humanities.
For a preview of his visit– and to develop a sense of Bauerlein's wide-ranging and deeply personal conversation with and among great texts as an enlivened source of consolation, wisdom and revelation – read this 2012 essay "My Failed Atheism," published in the magazine First Things (in one sentence, he quotes Sartre, Faulkner and Nietzche, in that order).
That essay, and Bauerlein's unique perspective about the relevance of the humanities in the digital age are reasons why Mike Medley, professor of language and literature, is pleased to welcome him to campus. Both Bauerlein's book and academic studies are closely linked to this year's campus Common Read selection, Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. http://www.emu.edu/academics/events/read/
At a time when study of the humanities are under attack, Bauerlein is an ally of the many professors on college campuses who "are eager to give students exposure to great texts, images, sounds and ideas," says Medley, who notes that it's not the digital devices themselves that are the problem, but the time-consuming and intense nature of the peer-to-peer relationships they enable. "If we can lure them away from their addicting digital devices, we think we can get them hooked."
Bauerlein's lecture is the fourth event in a year-long exploration of the effects of the digital age on education. He joins two other scholars, both from University of Virginia, who have lectured on this theme: Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and author of "The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), and Dan Willingham, professor of psychology and author of "When Can You Trust the Experts? How to Tell Good Science from Bad In Education."
]]>"It is an honor that you've come to visit us," Martin said, clasping the hands of 98-year-old Amos J. Yoder.
"Oh, don't make too much of it," said Yoder with a grin.
Much was made of Yoder's visit, the first time he had set foot on campus since graduating in 1954. He may be EMU's oldest living graduate.
There was a reason Yoder left campus right after commencement and crossed four states quickly heading west, according to daughter Rebecca Barbo, who lives in nearby Dayton.
While at EMC, Yoder was trading letters back and forth with an Amish woman named Sara Miller. "It was the confirmed bachelor courting the confirmed bachelorette," said Rebecca. "She was a trained nurse. It was quite unusual at that time among the Amish to be single at her age, but she was her own woman."
The couple married in June 1954 in Iowa. Yoder began a long teaching career in the midwest, the couple raised six children, and he just never managed to make it back to Virginia.
Rebecca says her father always carried fond memories of his time in Harrisonburg. "He's an intellectual, always thinking about something, so being here and having the chance to study and learn was really important to him.
"When I was growing up, he would tell us these stories about coming here and going to school, and it was almost other-worldly, the way he described it, with this sort of ethereal beauty. It was a very important place to him. I knew that when I was able to convince him to come and visit me that we would have to come back."
Last week, Yoder traveled from his home in Grove City, Minnesota, to visit Rebecca and her husband, who recently returned from nearly 20 years living overseas.
"Up until last summer, Dad was living alone, milking his goats every day," she said. Rebecca's mother had died in 2013. "Can you imagine? In the Minnesota winter? So he moved in with my brother and since my brother has a new grandbaby on the east coast he wanted to visit, I said, 'This is perfect timing. Dad, come and see me.'"
Yoder and his daughter were greeted by a delegation of EMU alumni relations representatives and former classmates, including Doris A. Bomberger and her husband James '55, Ruth L. Burkholder, Kenton K. Brubaker, and Martin.
"Have you noticed anything's changed?" asked Laban Peachey, who was dean of students in 1954 when the campus consisted of an awkward-looking "Ad Building" with mismatched additions on each end, Lehman Auditorium, the lower levels of Northlawn which was under construction, an exercise hall (now storage building) north of Northlawn, and a brick observatory on the top of a barren hill. Park Woods cabin was the student recreation area.
"It's not too familiar anymore," Yoder remarked, smiling.
When Yoder came to what was then still Eastern Mennonite College in 1949, he was 33 years old. It wasn't just his age that set him apart.
Martin, his former classmate, says he remembers Yoder on campus because he was one of four Amish students. Although Yoder appears in the 1954 class photo, the Amish aversion to being photographed is reflected in the absence of his individual portrait among the senior class in Shenandoah, the college yearbook. (The 1954 class had 52 students, 48 of whom were Mennonite, including two Japanese students, Itoko Maeda and Taizo Tanimoto, and Harrisonburg native Margaret "Peggy" Webb, the first African-American graduate of EMC).
Unlike most of his classmates, Yoder was also old enough to have his life completely disrupted by World War II. He was born in an Amish farming community near Weatherford, Oklahoma, and expected to live there for the rest of his life.
But in 1941, at age 25 and still unmarried, Yoder was drafted.
To accommodate conscientious objectors like Yoder and nearly 12,000 others, the U.S. government created the Civilian Public Service (CPS), an alternative to military service that provided draftees the opportunity to work on tasks "of national importance." Many of these projects were agriculture or natural resources-related, though some served in public health or relief work. (For a story about EMU alumni who worked in mental hospitals under CPS, click here.)
The majority of CPS participants were Mennonite and Brethren, and most of the camps were operated by agencies linked to the "peace church" tradition: Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Brethren Service Committee and American Friends Service Committee.
Yoder served in Colorado Springs for four years with two MCC-operated units attached to the Soil Conservation Service. When he was discharged in late 1945, war-torn Europe was awash with a flood of refugees.
"I was given the opportunity by MCC to enter relief work and I decided maybe I could help somewhere," Yoder said, "so I volunteered and was sent to Paraguay for two years."
MCC purchased two large tracts of land, on which eventually settled more than 4,800 refugees within what became the Volendam and Neuland colonies. This added to the sizable population of Mennonites that had been living in Paraguay since 1928.
After his service with MCC in Paraguay, having plenty of practice speaking German with refugees, Yoder arrived on campus to continue his language studies.
In 1954, newly graduated and newly wed, Yoder spent 13 years teaching in Iowa in Amish schools. Rebecca, who was taught in a one-room schoolhouse by her father, says one of his professional goals was to improve and reform the Amish school system. Most teachers only had an eighth-grade education, she said, and her father brought not only pedagogical training but also life experience to the sheltered classrooms he taught in.
During summers off from teaching in the Amish schools, he attended Iowa State University for five sessions and earned a master's degree in education.
"Then I decided to have a little change," he said, "and I found employment with the Hutterites at Birch Creek Colony in Montana. That was something of an undertaking. I had to learn to think like a Hutterite and that takes some doing, me being an Amishman. But it worked out and we got along just fine."
Yoder and his family moved to Glacier Colony, a Hutterite community near the Canadian border, the following year, followed by a return to Amish schools in Iowa and Ohio. He retired from teaching in 1972 and moved to Minnesota, where he still resides.
His educational experience at EMC was "one of the high points of my life," Yoder recalled, as he leaned on his cane in the president's reception room at the campus center, surrounded by eager listeners. "It did influence me. Very much."
]]>Armstrong, who started on Jan. 5, 2015, succeeded Don Steiner, who retired last summer. She is responsible for the 90 graduate students on the home campus as well as the 46 master's students at the EMU center in Lancaster, Pa. Her duties include teaching four courses a year.
Previously Armstrong was at the University of Virginia (UVa) in Charlottesville, where she worked with school superintendents and education administrators to provide professional development programs and graduate courses for practicing teachers. She was senior director for K-12 professional development in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and then director of programs for the Statewide K-12 Education Advisory Council at UVa's Curry School of Education.
Armstrong's first contact with EMU was when she was assistant superintendent of Staunton City Public Schools from 1999 to 2007. "Our principals would actively seek teachers who had graduated from EMU," she said, "telling me that they were highly effective and hit the ground running." For teachers who wanted to be reading specialists, she and her staff asked them to enroll in EMU's reading specialist program.
Over the years she taught two graduate courses at EMU – "Teaching Diverse Leaners" and "Research on Risk and Resiliency." She also mentored students who were completing their action research studies at the end of their graduate program.
"I'm delighted to have Sarah with us," said Jim Smucker, dean of EMU's School of Graduate and Professional Studies. "She brings lots of energy and experience in administration, and she's very connected to schools throughout Virginia."
For the past 10 years, Armstrong has worked closely with superintendents and educational leaders around the state and is acquainted with efforts to improve teaching and learning. "I see potential in offering focused courses and certificates that are unique – or somewhat unique – to EMU," she said. An example is the proposed Restorative Justice in Education program which she will help implement.
Armstrong is particularly interested in recent research on the brain and how it affects learning in the classroom. She plans to teach a graduate course on neuro-education next fall.
The new EMU administrator got her start in education at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she earned a BA in elementary education and an MEd as a reading specialist. She went to UVa for doctoral studies, graduating in 1986 with an EdD in educational leadership and administration, with minors in curriculum and reading.
Armstrong started her career as a classroom teacher and reading specialist for four years in Amherst County Public Schools in Virginia. Moving into administration, she supervised programs for reading and gifted students in Amherst for 10 years.
She then moved to Nelson Public County Schools for eight years, where she was executive director of instruction and personnel, followed by executive director of personnel and student services.
From 1996 to 1999, Armstrong was principal of Burnley-Moran Elementary School in Charlottesville.
For the past seven years, she has also worked as a consultant in neuro-education. "I believe working in schools and school districts around the country on ways to improve teaching and learning," she said, "will help me stay current in practice and bring valuable 'stories' to my job at EMU."
]]>Luciani's work received wide recognition in early 2015 as a result of a Jan. 10 Associated Press article published by more than 50 media outlets nationwide, from Hawaii to Florida – including the San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Miami Sun Times, and the New York Times. It even appeared in the United Kingdom, published by the Daily Mail, and in the Philippines, published by Yahoo News (Luciani is visible at right in the fourth picture in this posting.)
"At Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest, the shift has been tectonic," wrote
Five years ago, students were scolded with 74,765 days of suspension; last year, they received 8,351, an 89 percent decrease." Luciani, a Belgian whose native language is French, pioneered the shift in disciplinary climate at Augustus Hawkins High School located in "one of LA's most disadvantaged neighborhoods," according to AP. At Augustus Hawkins, suspensions dropped 44 percent from one year to the next.
With schools struggling to keep kids learning in their classroom rather than in detention hall, it's no surprise that restorative justice is a serious and worthy option to replace the old-school, "you're-outta-here" disciplinary model. Restorative justice techniques, with an emphasis on intervention, communication, and the emotional needs of the student and school community, are receiving growing attention within educational systems, primarily because they work. (EMU profiled Luciani in a June 2014 news article, "CJP grad helps pilot restorative justice program in nation's second largest school system.")
That widespread media interest comes hard on the heels of a groundbreaking endorsement. In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Education published a 27-page report, Guiding Principles: A Resource Guide for Improving School Climate and Discipline, along with a "Dear Colleague" letter, which referred to "the development of alternative disciplinary approaches such as restorative justice."
EMU is home to the nation's first graduate program, led by education professor Kathy Evans, specifically focusing on restorative justice in school settings. Since 2012, the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice, co-directed by restorative justice experts Howard Zehr and Carl Stauffer, has provided education and training through web-based and onsite training.
]]>EMU entered the day tied with Randolph, Hampden-Sydney and Bridgewater for fourth in the league standings, but all three of them lost. The men now have a win over each of those teams muddled in the middle of the ODAC pack.
The visiting WildCats, hamstrung with a healthy roster lacking in height, executed their game plan as designed, shutting down EMU's All-ODAC big man, David Falk (Madison, Va./Madison County), by swarming him with defenders every time he touched the ball. Randolph also got back on defense after every shot attempt, resulting in a halfcourt game with a combined two offensive rebounds and six fastbreak points. How would the up-tempo Royals handle that type of a game?
Eastern Mennonite responded by running their offensive sets and finding the open man. They shot 12-of-23 from the floor in the first half, including 6-10 from outside, to take a 36-34 lead into halftime, thanks to an inside jumper from Marcel Crump (Richmond, Va./Highland Springs) in the closing seconds. Randolph was almost a mirror image, shooting 12-for-25 with 5-10 from three point range.
The second half was just as tight until the WildCats scored nine straight points to build their largest lead of the day at 52-43 with 11:19 to go. Behind some hot shooting from freshman Jerome Jones (Charles Town, W.V./Washington), the Royals stormed back to within four points, but Randolph wouldn't give up the lead.
The visitors matched EMU shot-for-shot, leaving the lead between four and seven points until the game hit a pivotal moment with 5:04 remaining. With EMU on offense, Falk jumped to gain possession of a loose ball. As he came down and turned, he collided with a Randolph defender and was whistled for elbowing and tagged with his fourth foul.
The home crowd sat in disbelief and Coach Kirby Dean was livid. The WildCats calmly went into their offensive set, drew a foul and connected on both free throws to put the lead back at 64-57. The five Royals on the floor, however, decided it was their time.
Ryan Yates (Alexandria, Va./T.C. Williams) hit a jumper to trigger a run. Falk swatted a shot to start a fastbreak, which Yates converted to slice the deficit to 64-61. After a defensive stand, James Williams (Capitol Heights, Md./Archbishop Carroll) found Jones for another three ball, this time knotting the score at 64-64 with 2:52 left and igniting the home crowd. After another big block from Falk, EMU's big man hit a jumper in the paint to put EMU in front for the first time since the 17:31 mark.
Randolph looked rattled and turned the ball over on their next two possessions, leading to a knockout punch from Williams. The point guard sliced into the lane for the hoop and harm, converting a three-point play to push the lead to 69-64 with 16.1 seconds left. Williams' effort capped a decisive 12-0 run, as the Royals clamped down Randolph for a stretch of 4:34 in the final five minutes of the game.
The final seconds were packed with WildCat layups and EMU free throws, but the men went 3-4 from the stripe to seal the key 72-68 win.
The teams combined to shoot 50 percent from the floor and 54 percent from long range. Eastern Mennonite was 24-47 in shooting, including a season-best 10-17 from three. Randolph shot 24-49 overall and 10-20 from outside. The Royals made the difference up in quantity at the free throw line, hitting 14-21 compared to 10-11 for the visitors.
Jones made Randolph pay for every open look he got, burying 6-of-7 three pointers for a career high 22 points. Williams picked his moments and was 6-6 from the free throw line for 14 points. Yates hit a trio of threes and added 13 points.
Falk had a game high nine rebounds and three blocks. Crump turned into a distributor with a career high eight assists. He previous best was four handouts.
Reid Jacoby led a balanced Randolph attack with 14 points, as he hit four treys. Zach Desgain had 13 points, six assists and five rebounds. Jason Eddie added 12 counters.
The Runnin Royals are now 12-5 overall and 5-3 in the ODAC. Randolph slips to 10-7 and 4-4. EMU stays at home on Wednesday to host Shenandoah, who just earned their first ODAC win of the season in an overtime effort over Hampden-Sydney.
]]>"It might be good news for your church to get smaller," said the Duke Divinity School professor. "That is, if the people who are there are really curious about Jesus."
Approximately 250 participants, including church leaders, seminary alumni and students, converged on the Harrisonburg campus Jan. 19-21 to explore the concept of "nones," those 46 million Americans who identify themselves as agnostic or atheist or who simply claim no affiliation with organized religious denominations.
Winner reminded the participants that Jesus was not there when the women went to the tomb after he had been crucified and died.
"Jesus has risen and moved on," she said. "One task for the church today is to ask where the resurrected Jesus is and to get our bodies to that place." She encouraged participants to think about what would be missing from their communities and the world if the church just stopped.
Using the metaphor of fire to describe the things a church does well, Winner asked, "Where is the fire in your church? No one church has fire everywhere. If there is not fire for something, stop doing it."
Winner's comments on "naming our fear, bringing it to light, and allowing it to be transformed" were especially meaningful to church planter Chris Scott, of Winchester, Virginia. "I also appreciated that she named that basically my job is to talk about God a lot."
"I appreciated the push toward continuing to clarify the gospel of Jesus in the context of the community and world," said Duane Beck, pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. "How is the gospel transformational for us? It is out of that transformation that we experience and express who Jesus is more clearly."
Winner also participated in a panel discussion with EMU Provost Fred Kniss and Daniel Aleshire, president of the Association of Theological Schools, which dug deeper into the statistics and sociological research of the current religious landscape in the United States.
With more than 35 years in theological education, Aleshire brings a unique perspective to the discussion about cultural shifts. Since 1998, he has headed an organization that oversees accreditation of more than 270 graduate schools of theology, representing a wide range of denominations, in the United States and Canada.
He reminded participants that religious participation in the United States is the highest of any liberal democracy in the world. It is significantly higher than any other western nation. However, for the first time, Protestant denominations are less than the majority of the U.S. population. The majority of those now claiming no religion are white, and formerly identifying as evangelical and mainline Protestants.
Aleshire, who holds an MDiv from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD in psychology from Vanderbilt's George Peabody College, also pointed out that there is a rising number of single people, either never married, married and divorced, or widowed, in the U.S. "How much of church life is based on family?" Aleshire asked. "It is important that we attend to the life space of people over time."
In addition to keynote speeches and plenary and panel sessions, morning and afternoon workshops provided insight into ministry across age ranges, generational differences, and spiritual leanings.
Jeff Carr, pastor at Bridgewater Church of the Brethren in Bridgewater, Virginia, attended a panel discussion of "nones," one of whom made a particularly memorable comment that Carr says he won't soon forget. "The person asked, 'Why doesn't the church spend time working to create a good space for those who actually want to be there, instead of spending all its time and energy trying to get those outside the church in?'"
Emily Hedrick, a self-proclaimed "actual millennial" who studies at Wake Forest Divinity School, was appreciative of SLT's thematic focus. "It was great to get affirmation that people do care about us," she said. "They want to ask questions. It's important for millennials to learn our own role and that it is possible to be helpful [in addressing this issue]. Conversations across age groups are good and helpful and necessary."
Hedrick, a graduate of Goshen College, recently published the allegorical novel Confessions of a God Killer, part of which was penned while working at the famous Iona Abbey in Scotland.
SLT participants came from a variety of denominations, backgrounds and generations, and ample opportunity for fellowship and networking occurred during breaks and over meals.
The theme of change dominated the discussion. "God and the Spirit are dynamic, always moving," said Kniss. "But the church is afraid of change."
SLT gave participants permission to identify and name their fear, to learn about the changing landscape of religion in the United States, and to reflect theologically on what that means for churches and congregations.
To download worship resources or order a DVD of this event, visit emu.edu/slt.
]]>An annual and favorite tradition among the EMU community is a trip to Sprague's Barbershop in downtown Harrisonburg, where Tyrone Sprague gives haircuts along with lively conversation on the sixth floor of a Court Square building. Sunlight streamed in through lacy beige curtains as a group of EMU students filed in to learn and discuss the history of racism in Harrisonburg.
"America's original sin is that America was established as a white society," with slavery being a key foundation of the nation, said visit facilitator Stan Maclin, vice president of the Northeast Neighborhood Association, a community group working to keep that area of Harrisonburg clean, safe, and crime-free.
In the 1950s and 60s, the northeast corner of Harrisonburg – where Rose's and Autozone are now – was a bustling neighborhood of black culture and business. Then came Project R4. Cities across the country were given the opportunity to receive development funds for "urban renewal" projects in areas labeled as slums. Harrisonburg's black neighborhood was declared eminent domain, residents were displaced, and their land sold to commercial developers.
Maclin cited King's "Beyond Vietnam" address in response to structural racism such as Project R4: "I am convinced," King wrote, "that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values."
Sprague, giving a haircut during the visit, said that he sees this "revolution of values" happening in younger generations. Across different ethnicities, "they eat together, they laugh together, they go dancing together. In the 1960s and 70s, you didn't see that," said Sprague, who grew up in Farmville, Virginia. Sprague remembers that his mother – and white culture – taught him to fear repercussions for looking a white woman in the eyes if he passed her on the street.
The celebration also brought visitors to the EMU campus and the local community, including The Rev. Dr. Nikita Okembe-Ra Imani, a prominent poet, hip-hop artist, musician, and black history scholar from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Speaking at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church during a Sunday service, Imani credited King's confidence in the face of such ingrained mistrust to his faith in God. When we see "mayhem and destruction, the kind of sickness without compassion," said Imani, "the world is calling for the people of confidence." King's ideology and strategies were direct results of his pacifistic Christianity, Imani explained. "The system had tanks. The system had batons … the system had financial power. King had the Word."
At the next day's MLK Day chapel service, Imani called all Christians to join together. Cultures of violence, he said, are ultimately impotent before Christians, who "bring power and brotherhood where there is hatred and malevolence."
Accompanying Imani to Bethel AME and also during the on-campus MLK Day service was the EMU gospel choir and newly installed Harrisonburg mayor Chris Jones.
Jones, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), led an afternoon community program at Lucy Simms Center (formerly Lucy Simms School, this segregated school taught area black children from 1939-1966).
The program included two songs by the MLK Celebration Choir. EMU members of this community group included campus chaplain Brian Martin Burkholder, cross-cultural program assistant Linda Martin Burkholder, and Celeste Thomas, of multicultural student services.
Thomas co-chaired the MLK Celebration planning committee with student Christian Parks. The committee wanted to "create a celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by concentrating on who he was as a person as well as what he did for our country," she said.
"The hope is that King's vision and dream can inspire more dreams and more efforts," said Parks. "In the gathered beloved community, I believe we can dream an America that truly finds the beauty in all things."
]]>Allen is the sort of activist who will give someone the lunch out of her knapsack – quite literally. Trained in Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) in 2007, she works with the Tucson Samaritans to provide food, water, emergency medical assistance, and trauma recovery to people crossing the Sonoran Desert around the Arizona/Mexico border. These Samaritans routinely go into the desert to refill "water drops," supplying emergency water and food for those crossing the treacherous desert.
During one foray in late 2014, Allen's group came across two young men from Central America who had been apprehended by the Border Patrol. Having already deposited all their bulk supplies at water drops, Allen and another volunteer gave their own lunches to the apprehended men, along with water that remained from the drops.
Coverdale has also trekked into the desert with Tucson Samaritans. In high school, he participated in their 14-hour training session, and regularly joined water drop teams. One time, while walking along a migrant trail, his team found their water bottles punctured and scattered in the scrub. Slogans like "go border patrol," "my dogs like bottled water," and "stop illegal immigration and those who support it" were written on them in marker. Such opposition to migrant aid programs is common in Arizona.
Often, the Samaritans restock water drops without ever seeing their beneficiaries. However, when they do, one branch of the organization is medical intervention.
Allen explains that, in extreme situations, they must sometimes call the Border Patrol as a last resort to help someone who is very sick. "We stay with the person until help arrives, and usually travel with a nurse, or one is on call at the time."
Her passion for this work stems from ten years of activism work in Latin America, becoming familiar with the violence and hardship that migrants face.
Current migrants, including children and elderly, are fleeing a variety of problems; political upheaval, gang and cartel violence, poverty, forced displacement, and de facto martial law prompt many Central Americans to seek stability elsewhere. "For a short time, I actually assisted with migrant families who were 'cleared' for entry at the border, and we heard many stories of families who had fathers assassinated in these countries," says Allen
Allen, whose birth name is Sally, is currently training to become a DACA interviewer – a person knowledgeable in immigration legislation who assists applicants for U.S. residency or citizenship with the newly reformed process. This assistance includes answering migrants' questions and helping them prepare documentation. For the most part, Allen says, migrants are trying to find family already living in the States. The stakes of reunion, however, are high.
"These families and migrants are very traumatized because of the risks they run crossing the border," as well as the conditions that caused them to leave their homelands, says Allen. "The land is very difficult to cross, and they often lose their way. Others become very ill from extreme heat or cold, and die in the desert."
Coverdale recounts another water drop during the winter, during an unusually cold, 12-degree day. He found out later that several migrants had died that night due to exposure. The desert is unforgiving enough at its average temperatures – "it's really easy to get lost and turned around," says Coverdale, "especially if you're dehydrated and delirious."
The many miles Samaritan teams drive to water drops are daunting enough in vehicles. "That vastness represents days and days of travel for people who are fleeing systemic violence and oppression."
A leather shoe smaller than an adult's hand gives Coverdale a tangible reminder of migrants' pilgrimages. He found it, filled with spiders and dirt, next to a photo of two boys and a laminated card depicting the Virgin Mary.
"I still have it, and I still think about whose foot that was on last. . . did they make it?" Physical remnants such as those remind Coverdale of the reality of people's struggles amidst broader discussions of policy and politics. "That made it very real for me," he says. "It was very sobering."
]]>These are the messages being spread by alumni of the Center for Justice in Peacebuilding (CJP) of Eastern Mennonite University who are working in West African countries affected by Ebola.
"Local communities should not be seen simply as the source of problems or as victims," writes Libby Hoffman in an Alliance for Peacebuilding article published this month (January 2015). "Ebola is not just a medical problem – it is a community problem, and this dimension is being largely ignored within the current international response."
Liberian peacebuilding alums Nathaniel Walker (CJP MA '10) and Gwendolyn Myers (CJP Grad. Cert. '14) offered similar sentiments in commentaries published in The Guardian and the Liberian Daily Observer, respectively.
"Communities that have taken Ebola prevention and control matters into their hands have recorded [a] significantly low number of cases," wrote Myers in a Dec. 11 commentary. "Whereas, in communities that are yet to fully embrace the outbreak and to take action to avoid infection, we have seen an increase in transmission."
Local efforts include developing the Pen-Pen Peace Network, an initiative of motorcycle taxi drivers. The Network has communicated about Ebola prevention through text messages, billboards, social media and loud speakers, distributed 3,000 fact sheets through communities, and built handwashing sanitation stations for citizens, wrote Walker and co-author Kai Kuang in an Oct. 15 commentary.
In another grassroots initiative, Vaiba Flomo (CJP Grad. Cert. '13) has rallied her close-knit Rock Hill community in Monrovia – where many of the 25,000 adults and children survive by hand-crushing rocks to sell for construction projects – to do health education. With her women's team (called GSA Rock Hill Community Women), Flomo has distributed buckets, chlorine, and soap to various groups and centers where youths and adults typically gather, including clothing shops, prayer bands, video clubs, and drug stores. In an impoverished community largely ignored by governmental agencies, Flomo and her team have received funding from the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa.
Liberia is still recovering from a brutal civil war (as is Sierra Leone, one of the other West African countries hit hard by Ebola). For Walker and Myers, community-driven efforts toward Ebola prevention are vital not only to eradicate the disease, but to preserve the fragile peacebuilding steps that have been taken in recent years to heal these communities. (Guinea, the third West African country widely affected by Ebola, has suffered from political violence, but not outright civil war.)
In both Liberia and Sierra Leone, peace remains tenuous and distrust runs high (in many of these communities victims and perpetrators are living side-by-side), so fighting Ebola is intimately tied with communities' ability to transcend past transgressions and develop open and honest communication.
"Lack of trust within communities is the unseen but powerful inhibiter of Ebola prevention and treatment initiatives," writes Hoffman, whose charitable foundation, Catalyst for Peace, is the main U.S. backer of Fambul Tok, a Sierra Leonean peacebuilding initiative.
"Conversely, empowered and trusted local voices and leadership magnify the success of prevention efforts, and they do so while strengthening community capacity for post-Ebola recovery."
Hoffman writes that building trust in communities actually provides a "social immunity" that goes beyond the disease at hand, and into the underlying fabric of society, leaving communities "stronger to face the next crisis, whatever it may be."
Fambul Tok community members in Sierra Leone have been using their hard-earned trust to distribute soap to their communities, teach about prevention techniques, and develop the Bridging Communities Network, which functions much like the Pen-Pen Network in Liberia. [Hoffman attended EMU's Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) in 1996 and 2000; she has employed CJP graduates to work with Fambul Tok and sent Fambul Tok staffers to SPI sessions.]
As an example Michaela Ashwood, who attended SPI '14, heads a group called Peace Mothers under Fambul Tok. These mothers have been distributing soap and promoting handwashing in six mainly rural districts of Sierra Leone, seeking to reach about 250,000 households per district, often by going door to door.
"We believe that the outbreak will end when actors at all levels – the national and district governments, community-based organizations and the health sector – work cooperatively to engage local communities," said a "project report" released Sept. 2, 2014, by the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee (MA '07 in conflict transformation).
This seems to be happening at last. The tide seems to be turning from Ebola in West Africa. On Jan. 15, BBC News reported that weekly UN figures show a decline in new Ebola cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Even though the "death toll from the world's worst Ebola outbreak has reached 8,429 with 21,296 cases so far," schools in Guinea opened Jan. 19 after a five-month closure and the national daily infection rate in Sierra Leone is two-thirds lower now than it was in November. Liberia had its lowest weekly total since June and all three countries "have sufficient capacity to bury all the people known to have died from Ebola," said the BBC.
In Sierra Leone, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman has found that the locals are proving amazingly resilient.
"Vigor seems to be part of Sierra Leone's national ethos," he wrote in a Jan. 10, 2015, article on Sierra Leone's passionate surfers, "especially now, when so many people are fixated on staying healthy. Freetown's streets thicken at dawn with men and women decked out in the latest and brightest spandex — jogging, stretching, jumping rope, or doing situps and push-ups in the grass."
If one visits Gwendolyn Myers' Facebook page, you'll see that interspersed with updates on trainings in handwashing to stop the spread of Ebola, are fun photos of Myers in colorful clothing and high heels, sometimes with color-coordinated decorations around her neck and in her hair. It's as if she's saying, "We are not all gloom and doom here! We're resilient Liberians and proud of it!"
Leymah Gbowee will be the featured speaker at a Feb. 7 fundraising dinner to support families who have lost loved ones or been displaced due to Ebola. The money raised will be distributed by the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa to two Liberian service organizations founded by alumnae of EMU's Women's Peacebuilding Leadership Program: GSA Rock Hill Community Women in Monrovia, founded by Vaiba Flomo, and Messengers of Peace, a youth outreach group founded by Gwendolyn Myers. To attend the dinner or for more information, click here.
]]>Linford Gehman '59, a doctor serving a rural population in northern Rockingham Co. and across the border into West Virginia, still uses his iconic black bag on occasion. After graduating from what was then Eastern Mennonite College, he attended Jefferson Medical College, where he studied with Robert Gallo, one of the discoverers of the retrovirus that causes AIDS. After graduating from Medical College of Virginia in 1963, Gehman entered a residency that was cut short by a request from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to practice medicine in Vietnam and then Nigeria before returning to Virginia.
The journey to Vietnam marked the beginning of nearly five years of medical mission work for Gehman. He described his travels and experiences to an audience composed primarily of students and faculty in a seminar titled "Will the Glorious Respect for the Country Doctor (Health Care Provider) Continue into the Future?" this Jan. 12.
Upon arriving in Vietnam in April 1965, Gehman trained under and eventually replaced Carl Yoder, a physician MCC assigned to Vietnam long before the U.S. deployed its first foot soldiers in March 1965. Gehman worked in a hospital in the city of Nha Trang, treating the worst cases of cataracts and entropions, a complication resulting from the inward folding of the lower eyelid.
After more than three years in Vietnam, Gehman was reassigned by MCC in 1969 to Biafra, a secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria. There, he treated outpatients in conjunction with the military of the Igbo people, who failed in their efforts to secede in the three year-long Nigerian civil war. Hunger killed far more people than military weapons, causing Gehman to feel acutely aware of his privilege. "The experience was unpleasant, if not disastrous," said Gehman of his year-long experience in Biafra. Even so, he "rather liked the adventurous aspect of medical relief work."
When the Igbo leaders fled the country, indicating the end of the civil war, Gehman also left. He returned to the United States, refreshed his education at the University of Virginia, and began what turned into 45 years of providing healthcare through the Green Valley Clinic on Brocks Gap Rd. in Bergton, Va. (With the closure of this clinic in mid-January, Gehman moves eight miles up the road to the E.A. Hawse Health Center in Mathias, W.Va., where he plans to work at least another two years, until he is 83.)
Gehman found examples throughout his life where old practices differ from modern ones. For example, he graduated about $6,000 dollars in debt, substantially less debt than most medical graduates face today. He also described performing cataract surgery "the old way, via dovetail incision through the sclera." The "new way" is less invasive and less risky and requires no numbing or stitches. Medical charges to his patients have also increased from the maximum of $10 when he began at Green Valley Clinic.
Some things, however, never change. One might suspect that the sophistication of modern medicine has rendered the black bag carried by "horse-and-buggy doctors of years ago" obsolete, but Gehman still takes it when visiting home-bound patients.
Gehman shared his experience and contrasted his generation from the rising generation of medical doctors as part of EMU's 2014-15 Suter Science Seminar Series. Students, faculty, alumni, and community members are welcome to the remaining seven seminars for this academic year.
]]>Eastern Mennonite's volleyball men officially open their new season on Tuesday, hosting Lancaster Bible College at 7 p.m. in Yoder Arena. The Royals finished 2014 at 12-14, but tied for the longest winning streak in program history at six matches in a row.
Porter said his team did well with the hand they were dealt.
"I felt the year went as well as we could make it go given the roster size and injuries," explained Porter. "The team worked hard and prepared for the long season last year knowing we did not have numbers to successfully scrimmage in practice."
The men returned seven of their ten players, a nice core despite the fact that they lost their top hitter and setter.
"It means a lot to have those returners because they know what playing in college looks like and they are the ones pushing everyone else to get better and do better," Porter commented. "We are in a good place right now."
Back are outsides Scott Brigham (Montpelier, Va./Patrick Henry) (3.29 kills/game and 1.84 digs/game) and Jesse Reist (Lancaster, Pa./J.P. McCaskey) (2.49 kills/game and 1.61 digs/game), along with rightside hitter Marc Lovell (Newport News, Va./Menchville) (0.98 kills/game and 1.54 digs/game). Kyle Storc (Columbus, Ohio/Bishop Watterson) was one of the top blockers in the nation last year at middle averaging 1.16 stuffs per game along with 0.98 kills. Fellow middle Garrett Delph (Berryville, Va./Leesburg Christian) brings back 1.03 kills and 0.85 blocks and Joe Spriggs (Chester, Va./Thomas Dale) added 0.66 blocks off the bench.
Zach Guiciardi (Creighton, Pa./Deer Lakes) spent much of last season as the team's libero, but becomes more of a general this year.
"Zach will be stepping into the setter position and I am very pleased about his versatile role on the team," said Porter.
EMU's coach also explained that he is expecting a lot of leadership out of his upperclassmen.
"Jesse, Kyle and Marc will lead the team as returners and two of them are seniors," he said. "Their roles will have to be fulfilled this year in full as we have a young team."
Porter also expects a lot of out his eight freshmen, both in contributions this year and during their four seasons as a whole.
"We have three liberos in Micah Buller (Richmond, Va./Douglas Freeman), Colton Frey (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) and Logan Kreider (Lancaster, Pa./Lancaster Mennonite) and we could not be in a more stable place with the liberos we have," he explained. "Outside Tim Callahan (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) will be producing a large amount of our offense this year as well as middle/rightside Dan Lutz (Greencastle, Pa./Greencastle-Antrim). Justin Spanka (Virginia Beach, Va./Salem) is one of the most athletic rightsides to play at EMU, and setter Russell Long (Hampton, Va./Bethel) and his club teammate middle blocker Ben Durren (Gloucester, Va./Gloucester) who will also be seeing time this year as freshmen."
Besides the influx of versatile talent, Porter is excited to simply have more than the needed 12 players to complete a six-on-six scrimmage during practices. The Royals only had 10 men on the roster last spring.
He also sees this group of athletes functioning well as a team.
"Our biggest goal is for this group of guys to work well together," he said, "and to do the right, simple things all the time. They are coming along well. Our short term goal is to progress day to day through practice and then game experience. Our long term goal is to make the CVC Tournament."
EMU finished 2-8 in the Continental Volleyball Conference in 2014 and are still looking for their first postseason appearance as the league enters its fourth year of existence.
There is a major change in the structure of the CVC this year, however, as the Western Division of the league (made up of teams from Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio) amicably left during the offseason to form their own more geographically-concise conference, the Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League. The Eastern teams of EMU, Marymount, Stevenson, Juniata, Thiel and Cairn maintained the rights to the CVC name as well as automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, and added a seventh team in Rutgers-Newark.
While the league was originally started to provide an automatic bid when the NCAA added a sponsored national championship for 2012, the continued growth of the sport allowed the expansive conference to add more teams and now cut down on travel expenses.
Porter agrees that the split was for the better.
"It just makes our conference even tougher with a greater focus on the seven teams here in the east," he explained. "Having a Western Division was okay but to really just pay attention to what we have in our region is better for the program and the conference."
The top four teams in the final standings will advance to the postseason CVC Tournament, which is hosted by Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., on April 10-11.
With the volleyball men sporting their largest roster size since also having 15 on the team six years ago in 2009, Porter is glad to have three assistant coaches this year, giving him extra eyes and feedback.
While Porter knows this season will see a lot of learning curves with more than half of the roster being freshmen, the Royals are excited.
"Practice is more competitive and we look more like a team," he said. "Our most noticeable strength is being able to play multiple people during matches. We have guys that can play more than one position and that's a good position to be in."
After the season-opener tomorrow night in Yoder Arena, the Royals will have to forge their identity on the road, playing six straight away from home.
]]>Plum, a native of Shenandoah near Luray, joined the bank in 2006 and assumed the position of chief financial officer in 2007. In February 2014 he was named chief administrative officer. When he was asked to head the bank, he became only the 11th president in the 122-year history of the institution.
A 2001 graduate of EMU, Plum majored in accounting and economics. He minored in political science. "I had a great experience at EMU," says Plum. "The professors were wonderful, offering both a personable and challenging educational environment." He tells people, "I would put my EMU undergraduate experience up against any other institution."
Plum chose EMU partly because his mother, Wanda Wood, is an alumna. (She attended one year in the 1970s and finished in 2007.) What sealed the deal for Plum at EMU was a conversation with business professor Rick Yoder during a campus visit.
He did not have to wait to apply his learning to a post-college job. During his senior year Plum took a job that used his accounting knowledge to help improve some of the processes in a local government office. He earned a master's degree in accounting at James Madison University in 2003. Seven years later, while working at Blue Ridge Bank, he earned an MBA from the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia.
Plum, a certified public accountant (CPA), has been named a "super CPA" three times by Virginia Business magazine and the Virginia Society of CPAs.
Plum entered the banking business just prior to the recession of 2008-09, when many banks failed and some were bailed out by the federal government. In general, though, the smaller locally owned banks fared better than the larger national institutions, he says.
"There were a lot of small bank failures," he says, "but the major macroeconomic problems created by the credit crisis had their seeds sewn and incubated within larger institutions." At Blue Ridge Bank, says Plum, "we have always maintained a conservative lending culture, so we avoided the significant loan problems that many others experienced in the wake of the last recession."
The beauty of the locally owned and community-based bank is that it understands local businesses and individuals, says Plum. "There is much less rigidity in a community banking process than when dealing with large national or regional banks," he says. "We often have the background knowledge already in place to be thinking about how to address local problems."
The growth of the local economy and the success of a local bank go hand in hand. "We only do well when our communities are doing well," says Plum. "For those who want to see growth in the local economy, there is nothing better to do than depositing your money with and getting your loans from your local community bank."
Plum is married to Jennifer Ryder Plum, who is a kindergarten teacher at Luray Elementary School. They have two children – Briana (6) and William (4).
]]>Okembe-RA Imani is chair and professor of the Department of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is also a veteran of more than 27 years of activism in Black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements, dealing with race, class, gender, nationality, language and religion. He is ordained as a minister in both the Southern Baptist and African Orthodox churches and is also a consecrated African traditional priest of Amen-RA.
Okembe-RA Imani is the author of two books, The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities (Routledge, 1996) and Head Games: De-Colonizing the Psychotherapeutic Process (University Press of America, 2010).
He previously taught sociology and Africana studies at James Madison University.
Thursday, Jan. 15
8 p.m.: Movie and talk back – "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Common Grounds Coffeehouse)
Friday, Jan. 16
10-10:30 a.m.: Reading circles of MLK Jr. sermons and speeches. (Parkwoods Apartments Community Room, Cedarwood 2nd floor lounge, Northlawn Great Lounge, Campus Center Brunk Maust lounge, Seminary main lounge, Hartzler Library, Science Center rm. 104, University Commons student life lounge, Roselawn 200)
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Mix-it up at lunch. (Northlawn Dining Hall)
7-9 p.m.: Evening of service and visit to Tyrone Sprague's barbershop. (Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, John Wesley United Methodist Church and Tyrone's Barbershop) Vans depart from the University Commons main entrance at 6:30 p.m. To sign up for service, email Y-Serve or the Black Student Union at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
Saturday, Jan. 17
10 a.m. – 12 p.m., or 12-2 p.m.: Day of service and visit to Tyrone Sprague's barbershop. (Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, John Wesley United Methodist Church, Blacks Run and Tyrone's Barbershop) Vans depart from the University Commons main entrance at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. To sign up for service, email Y-Serve or the Black Student Union at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
Sunday, Jan. 18
11 a.m.: Community church service with Rev. Dr. Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani. (Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 184 Kelley Street, Harrisonburg) Vans depart from the University Commons main entrance at 10:30 a.m.
1 p.m.: Community lunch for church attendees. (John Wesley United Methodist Church, 425 Effinger Street, Harrisonburg)
Monday, Jan. 19
9:50-10 a.m.: "One Dream" Solidarity March
10-10:40 a.m.: MLK, Jr. Celebration Chapel with Rev. Dr. Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani, the EMU Gospel Choir and the Alpha Omega Dancers for Christ. (Lehman Auditorium)
10:45-11:30 a.m.: After chapel talk-back on dynamics of the prison industrial complex (Common Grounds Coffeehouse)
Tuesday, Jan. 20
7 p.m.: Food Drive for The Salvation Army, Our Community Place and Patchwork Pantry. Bring non-perishable food items to the men's volleyball game at Yoder Arena in University Commons.
Admission to all programs is free. For more information on activities related to Dr. King observances, or for a full schedule of events, visit emu.edu/mlk/ or call campus ministries at 540-432-4115.
]]>She never imagined that desire, born from hours of long-distance conversation with her family members and prayer over the sufferings of fellow West Africans, would draw the attention and support of her university community – and a Nobel Peace laureate.
"Doing something was a way to help myself with the panic of thinking about my family and what was going on in my country," said the economics major. "I didn't want to be silent and just sit on my hands, so I started thinking, 'What could I do?'"
That question quickly became "What can we do?" when shared with fellow members of EMU's International Students Organization (ISO).
To Gray-Johnson's surprise and delight, Liberian peace activist and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee (MA in conflict transformation '07) learned of the fledging movement and enthusiastically agreed to headline a fundraising dinner.
Tickets for the Feb. 7 dinner with Gbowee at EMU's Martin Chapel, with a seating capacity of 140, are $100, with $80 of that a tax-deductible donation to the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa. Dinner guests will receive preferred seating at a public lecture later in the evening in Lehman Auditorium.
A freewill offering will be taken at the lecture, with an online donation option for those who cannot attend.
"She is helping us raise awareness, but at the same time, we know that this money will go through her organization to those who most need it, [to] the children who have lost family members or been displaced," Gray-Johnson said.
Gbowee, who received the 2011 prize for her work in ending Liberia's civil war, says that her country's decade-long peace is threatened by Ebola.
"We must face another enemy from within," she wrote in an August 2014 op-ed published by The Guardian in Britain. "…Ebola is resurrecting old traumas from those who survived the war."
Since the Ebola outbreak began, Gbowee's Monrovia-based non-profit Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa has contributed to community-based, grassroots education, outreach and awareness. Donations from the EMU fundraiser will be shared by the foundation with two Liberian organizations founded by alumnae of EMU's Women's Peacebuilding Leadership Program: GSA Rock Hill Community Women in Monrovia, founded by Vaiba Flomo (CJP Grad. Cert. '13), and Messengers of Peace, a youth outreach group founded by Gwendolyn Myers (CJP Grad. Cert. '14).
Gbowee's visit kicks off a series of events planned by the International Students Organization in March, including a color run, chapel talk, and movie showing.
Kaltuma Noorow, ISO co-president, said students have rallied to the cause, inspired first by Gray-Johnson's willingness to share how she and her family were personally affected by the outbreak.
Wilfred Gray-Johnson, Winifred's father, is executive director of the Liberia Peacebuilding Office of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund Secretariat. During the outbreak, he and his team travelled frequently to rural areas "to work on an early warning and response mechanism to ensure that Ebola did not lead to a national conflict," Gray-Johnson said. "While in the field, he could see firsthand what was happening."
At later ISO planning meetings, student organizers discussed "the stigma of disease and who was getting aid and who wasn't, which led to conversations about who needed help who wasn't getting it. We've all seen that in our own countries," said Noorow, a junior peacebuilding and development major from Kenya.
In a year of new leadership and transition for the organization, Noorow credits ISO members for pulling together and taking on "huge responsibilities" to work on this fundraiser and the upcoming events in March, she said, adding that she's reluctant for any one member of the group to be singled out for attention. "We've all learned a great deal from the process. It's important that every member be recognized for their thoughts and all the time spent deliberating and processing."
Her own involvement with the project has been empowering, Noorow added. "In class, we learn a lot of theory and just reading about it is great, but I'm interested in change. I'm a doer. This event shows that we students can actually do something given the platform. We never imagined it to reach this magnitude. It's been a lot of work and a lot of time, but we're all really excited."
From following appropriate fundraising protocols to parsing out the correct wording for public relations releases and invitations, Gray-Johnson says the hands-on experience has taught her about the complex realities of fundraising for international causes.
"I've learned a lot about professionalism and credibility, about raising money for a cause," she said. "It is important to me that the money raised here go through the right channels… [It helps that] Leymah's giving us her credibility and that of her foundation."
Noorow and Gray-Johnson both met Gbowee briefly when she came to campus in spring 2014 to deliver the commencement speech and celebrate the graduation of her son, Joshua Mensah, a digital media major. They are looking forward to learning more about Gbowee's peacebuilding experiences from the woman herself.
Gray-Johnson hopes to share the experience with her 14-year-old sister, Addy, who moved from Liberia this summer to Maryland, where she's living with an aunt.


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Crown has received government permission for an additional 500 gaming machines its new six-star luxury hotel development proposed for Perth.
Crown on Monday said the Gaming and Wagering Commission of Western Australia had given approval for "additional gaming product" at Crown Perth, conditional upon the development of Crown Towers Perth proceeding.
"The commission has approved an additional 500 electronic gaming machines (phased in over five years) and an additional 100 table games (phased in over four years)," Crown said in a statement to the Australia Securities Exchange.
It also said the commission would consider Crown Perth's application for the remaining 30 table games when it considered variations to the licensed casino area to accommodate the new VIP gaming salons proposed as part of the development.
Crown Towers Perth would be developed at a total cost of $568 million, taking Crown's investment in Perth to over $2.2 billion dollars, the company said.
The luxury hotel will provide employment for over 500 people when completed and create an additional 700 construction and construction-related jobs over the three-year building period.
Crown said it was committed to making Crown Perth a world-class entertainment precinct to compete not only in the region with the integrated resorts in Singapore and Macau, but also globally to capture a share of the expanding Asian tourism market, particularly out of China.