Esther (Kniss) Augsburger (DFA, Grove City College, PA) is an artist, teacher and speaker. Sculpture is her area of expertise. Having lived the first twelve years of her life in a jungle village in India with missionary parents, she creates art that reflects a combination of both the Western and East Indian traditions. After her and Myron’s three children were in school, she earned her BA from Eastern Mennonite College and then crafted the art program at Eastern Mennonite High School, where she taught for almost eight years, interrupting one year to complete an MA degree from James Madison University. She has further studied in Europe and Washington, DC. She has used her gifts in developing an art program for inner-city children, in organizing art conferences for professional artists in Asia and Eastern Europe, and in speaking and teaching on art and faith in educational institutions and churches. Her sculptures, known for expressing peace, appear in collections in the U.S. and eight other countries. Best known is the large sculpture commissioned by the Metropolitan Police Department that she with her son Michael created, titled "Guns Into Plowshares." It contains three thousand actual guns from off the streets and now sits in Judiciary Square in Washington, DC.

Myron S. Augsburger (ThD, Union Theological Seminary, VA), President Emeritus of Eastern Mennonite University, has been involved for nearly 60 years in the service of Christ and the church: 15 years in pastoring and evangelistic ecumenical ministries; 15 years in education and theology as the president of Eastern Mennonite College (now University); 15 years in church planting in Washington, DC, and as the president of the Coalition of Christian Colleges; and since 1995 nearly 15 of his retirement years in Harrisonburg in a variety of activities, serving as an overseer in the Virginia Mennonite Conference, teaching in seminaries 

overseas, being active in ministries under the auspices of InterChurch, Inc., and accepting interim pastoral roles. He has written twenty-plus books and continues to write. In their retirement years he and his wife, Esther, enjoy their family of three children and two granddaughters.

Titus W. Bender (PhD, Tulane University) is Professor Emeritus of Eastern Mennonite University. He and his wife, Ann, have three children: Anita, Maria and Michael. In Mississippi he was pastor of Fellowship Mennonite Church in Meridian, a member of a statewide organization (Committee of Concern) that was involved in re-building places of worship destroyed in KKK-related activities, and Peace Representative in the South for the MCC Peace Section in the last half of the 1960s. After completing a doctorate in Social Work at Tulane University, he taught four years at the University of Oklahoma and then at Eastern Mennonite College/University for 22 years. Since 1981 he has been active alongside other community members in the initiation and development of Gemeinschaft Home, a Harrisonburg, Virginia-based program for the re-entry of addicted people from prison into the community. He and Ann are members of Lindale Mennonite Church.

James R. Bomberger (EdD, Columbia University) is Professor Emeritus of English at Eastern Mennonite University. Born in the depression, 1933, I survived a joyful childhood without any awareness of the plight of the unemployed. School was fun and reading was even better. Graduating from Mt. Joy High School, I went to EMU and signed up for an English major with an interest in education. What other job is there for English majors? In addition to teaching in high school and college, I found time to edit church publications. I also found teaching abroad stimulating: Liberia, China and Japan. I never wrote the great American novel. But work isn’t everything. Church and family influenced me. As time goes by, I’ve learned more and more to appreciate the Mennonite church and its mission, especially its peace emphasis. My own nuclear family, Doris, Doug and Cathy, with the addition of spouses and grandchildren, has been the solid core of my life. Special friendships continue from the past. Now retired at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community, I have time for reading, volunteering, fellowship groups, and sometimes work. I have a joyful retirement, but unlike in my childhood, I now have the awful awareness of world unrest.

Gerald R. Brunk (PhD, University of Virginia) is Professor Emeritus of History at Eastern Mennonite University. Born in Denbigh, Virginia, as the oldest of five children to George R. II and Margaret Suter Brunk, Gerald pursued a life of studying and teaching. At Eastern Mennonite University he earned a BA in Bible & Social Science, and at the University of Virginia he earned a Master’s in Teaching, as well as a PhD in History. After teaching for 36 years at EMU, he retired in 2001. He married the late Janet High in 1960, and they had four sons. For several years he led the singing in the Brunk tent revivals. He also served with his family for two years as the fi rst resident country representative in Egypt for the Mennonite Central Committee. He is the editor of Menno Simons: A Reappraisal and has given many impersonations of Menno, which he calls "My Road to Decision." In 1984 he married Shirley Nafziger, and they are enjoying their four grandchildren. He is a member of the Harrisonburg Mennonite Church, where he serves as an occasional Sunday-School teacher and song leader.

Ray Gingerich (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ethics at Eastern Mennonite University and Director of the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society (ACRS). He joined the EMU faculty in 1977, where his first major assignment came from Dean Al Keim: to establish an interdisciplinary peace and justice program. From this beginning of a minor, colleagues joined to carry the project further: an undergraduate major in Justice and Peace Studies, and the Summer Peacebuilding Institute which is now under the umbrella of EMU’s multifaceted graduate program, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Parallel to his teaching in church history and peace studies, Ray’s focus has also been on the construction of a theology of nonviolence, including the nonviolent God. During the 60s, Ray and his wife, Wilma Beachy Gingerich, lived in Luxembourg (Europe), working with Eastern Mennonite Missions. To transcend the stereotype of a "foreigner" engaged in church work, Gingerich founded Le Bon Livre, a self-sustaining bookstore that specialized in Mennonite-Anabaptist books as well as a broad spectrum of religious literature and belles lettres. Ray and Wilma are members of Community Mennonite Church. They enjoy their family of four married sons, whom Ray now calls his mentors, and seven grandchildren.

Samuel L. Horst (PhD, University of Virginia) is Professor Emeritus of History at Eastern Mennonite University. Born on July 18, 1919, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I was the third of eight surviving children. I was raised on a small farm along the borders of Berks and Lancaster Counties. The Great Depression emerged, and in 1933 at age fourteen I began five years of factory work in Reading. Drafted as a CO in 1940, I entered CPS in 1942, which broadened my outlook and gave me a clearer sense of direction. I married Elizabeth Good, and by 1961 we were the parents of six children. I received a BA from Goshen College, an MEd from the University of Virginia, an MA from American University, and a PhD from University of Virginia. In 1967 I was awarded a Fellowship by Johns Hopkins University and in 1969 a NEA Fellowship by Indiana University. Since my retirement in 1984 my faith and practice has been further enhanced by my ongoing involvement in historical study and writing.

Albert N. Keim (PhD, Ohio State University), Professor Emeritus of History, retired from Eastern Mennonite University in the year 2000 after thirtyfi ve years of teaching. His fi eld of study was recent American history; and he is the author of four books, among them his well received biography of Harold S. Bender, published in 1998. He also served as Vice President and Dean of the University for seven years in the 70’s and 80’s. Keim grew up Amish, was drafted in 1955 and worked as a conscientious objector in PAX Europe for two years. After the death of his fi rst wife, Leanna, he married Kathy Fisher in 2000. They live near Harrisonburg and attend Park View Mennonite Church. He has a daughter and two grandsons

C. Norman Kraus (PhD, Duke University) is a retired college and seminary professor, author, and Mennonite minister and missionary to Asia. He served on the faculties of Goshen College and Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary from 1951–1979. From 1980–87 he and his wife Ruth served the Mennonite churches in Japan, where he wrote the first of his two-volume theology, Jesus Christ our Lord: Christology from a Disciple’s Perspective. Over the years he has served on various national and international boards and committees of the Mennonite Church and on various teaching, consulting, and reporting assignments for the Mennonite

Board of Missions and the Mennonite Central Committee in Asia, Africa and South America. Among his latest books are To Continue the Dialogue: Biblical Interpretation and Homosexuality; An Intrusive Gospel?; and Using Scripture in a Global Age. He and his wife, Rhoda, live in Harrisonburg, VA, where he continues writing and publishing articles for scholarly journals and anthologies.

Nancy V. (Burkholder) Lee (MA, Vanderbilt University), a Virginian married to an Oregonian, Robert Lee, views her life as a surprising series of relationships and opportunities. Mother, grandmother, high school and university English teacher (Rockway Collegiate in Ontario, Goshen College, various universities in the U.S., Japan, and China, and more recently EMU’s Intensive English Program part time), the coordinator of the English program in the Department of English at the University of Houston for over a thousand non-native speakers of English, and writer (of curriculum material and other genre for Mennonite publications and of English education materials for university students and teachers in China and Japan), Nancy served in Japan and China under the Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Partners in China (MPC, formerly China Educational Exchange) for twenty-two years. Among the MPC teachers in China who have received honors, Nancy was named distinguished foreign professor by both her university and the city of Shenyang.

Harold D. Lehman (PhD, University of Virgina). Today I may be the oldest continuous resident of Park View. The defining events of my life, however, involved stepping out of the village. There was cross-town teaching at James Madison University and association with Semester in London programs. Traveling with my wife, Ruth, and TourMagination founders, Gleysteen and Cressman, brought on-site exposure to our Anabaptist heritage in Europe. With the Comparative Education Society I studied secondary and higher education on both sides of Europe’s iron Curtain (1968) and later in Cuba. There were trips to visit family members in Bolivia and Kenya. With retirement came VS in England and residence in a Quaker community. Now at the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community I am close to my first home and elementary school in Park Woods. Ruth and I are back in the village, now a Harrisonburg suburb, to stay.

John R. Martin (DMin, Lancaster Theological Seminary) is Professor Emeritus of Church Ministry at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. Earlier he served congregations in Walkerton, IN, Washington, DC, and Lancaster, PA. He also served as Executive Secretary of the National Service Board for Religious Objectors, Washington, DC, and Director of I-W Services, Elkhart, IN. In addition he served on several denominational boards and committees. He earned degrees from Eastern Mennonite College, Goshen Biblical Seminary, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Lancaster Theological Seminary and is the author of four books: Divorce and Remarriage: A Perspective for Counseling; Keys to Successful Bible Study; Ventures in Discipleship; and Calling the Called. A native of Harrisonburg, VA, he was the sixth in a family of nine children growing up on a dairy farm on the edge of Harrisonburg. He is married to Marian Landis from Blooming Glen, PA. The Martins have three married children and seven grandchildren.

Paul Peachey (PhD, University of Zurich), beginning soon after WW II, served five years under the Mennonite Central Committee in Europe in post-war relief and rehabilitation programs, along with occasionally studying part-time in graduate programs at European universities. He then completed his studies in sociology and history, along with a doctoral dissertation, at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). This dissertation, written and published in German, was a sociological study of Swiss Anabaptist origins, 1525–1540. All this resulted in varied Mennonite and ecumenical assignments for himself and his wife, Ellen, in the USA, Europe, and Asia. For the second half of his career, he served as a sociology professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. During that period, he also participated actively until the Cold War ended with Christians Associated for Relations with Eastern Europe and the parallel Academies of Science related Institute for Peace and Understanding.

Calvin W. Redekop (PhD, University of Chicago) was born on September 19, 1925, at Lustre, Montana. After receiving a BA at Goshen College in 1949, he worked in Europe under MCC from the fall of 1949 to December 1952, where he helped with the development of PAX and European Mennonite Volunteer Service. He earned an MA at the University of Minnesota in 1955 and a PhD in anthropology/sociology/religion at the University of Chicago in 1959. He has taught at a number of colleges: Hesston College, Earlham College and School of Religion, Goshen College, Tabor College, and Conrad Grebel College. His research and writings have focused on the sociology of religion, Mennonite identity, economics, and environment. After retiring in 1990, he continued to be involved in business entrepreneurship, the environment, and volunteering. He and his wife, Freda, are members of Park View Mennonite Church, and have three married sons.

Calvin E. Shenk (PhD, New York University) is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Eastern Mennonite University, where he taught in the fi elds of religion and mission from 1976 to 2002. Concurrent with his teaching at EMU, he and his wife, Marie, spent the spring semester for eight years (1994–2001) in Jerusalem as Mennonite Church representatives in inter-religious dialogue. Prior to moving to EMU, he served in Ethiopia from 1961–75, teaching at the Nazareth Bible Academy, Haile Selassie I University, and Mekane Yesus (a Lutheran) Seminary. Calvin has written two books: When Kingdoms Clash: The Christian and Ideologies (1988); and Who Do You Say that I Am? Christians Encounter Other Religions (1997). Beginning July 1, 2007, Eastern Mennonite Seminary has contracted with Calvin and Marie to explore the possibility of offering graduate courses at Meserete Kristos College in Ethiopia with the long-range possibility of developing an EMS extension there.

Edward B. Stolzfus (ThM, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Professor Emeritus of Theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, VA. He was pastor of Bethel Mennonite Church, West Liberty, OH (1950s), worked at Goshen College and Goshen Biblical Seminary, IN (1960s) and was pastor of First Mennonite Church, Iowa City, IA (1970s). He is a graduate of Goshen College, Goshen Biblical Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary. He served on numerous Mennonite Church boards and committees. He and his wife Mildred (Graber) have four children and eight grandchildren. contracted with Calvin and Marie to explore the possibility of offering graduate courses at Meserete Kristos College in Ethiopia with the long-range possibility of developing an EMS extension there.