The 21-member student choir, directed by Janet M. Hostetter, will perform Vivaldi’s "Gloria," accompanied by the EMU string quartet; John Fast, organist; April Miller, oboist; Jim Warner, trumpeter; and soloists Rebeca Barge, Kirsten Getz and Sylvia Hooley.

The program will conclude with several smaller octavos, including "Hope for Resolution," a piece featuring both children and adult choirs, flute, piano, saxophone and djembe.

Hostetter is an alumna of EMU and James Madison University where she completed a BA in music education and her MM in choral conducting. Hostetter is also director of music at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church and an elementary music educator in Rockingham County.

Admission to the program is free.

Lindsay M. Dale

Andrea J. Kniss

April J. Miller

Brent A. Schilt

Donovan E. Tann

Hannah E. Yoder

The at 草莓社区 has awarded academic scholarships to 11 students for the 2005-2006 academic year.

The award amounts vary, depending on each student’s demonstrated need. All have distinguished themselves as outstanding students.

Lindsay M. Dale, a senior education PK-12, German and Spanish major from Willow Street, Pa.; Kendra Nissley, a sophomore German and justice, peace and conflict studies major from Columbiana, Ohio; and Ashley Wiederrecht, an incoming freshman from Mount Joy, Pa., received the Ernest G. Gehman Scholarship.

The Gehman Scholarship was established to honor foreign language majors, with preference to those pursuing German study. Recipients must have grade point averages of at least a 3.0 and qualify for financial assistance.

The late Ernest G. Gehman (1901-1988) taught German language and literature at EMU, 1924-73. He maintained an intense interest in the Pennsylvania German dialect spoken by many Amish and Mennonites, taught course in the dialect and produced a recording of Pennsylvania Germany poetry. He was an ordained minister, prolific writer-editor, illustrator and inventor.

The Hubert R. and Mildred Pellman Literature Scholarship was awarded to: Andrea J. Kniss, a junior English, culture, religion and mission major from Harrisonburg; Karina J. Martin, a freshman English major from New Holland, Pa.; April J. Miller, a senior English major from Corning, N.Y.; Wayne R. Paxton, a junior English education major from Churchville, Va.; Brent A. Schilt, a senior history and English major from Marietta, Pa.; Donovan E. Tann, a sophomore English and music major from East Petersburg, Pa.; Carey L. Yeager, a senior English and Spanish major from Chesterfield, Va.; and Hannah E. Yoder, a freshman English major from Hubbard, Ore.

The Pellman Literature Scholarship was established to honor full-time students in language and literature, with preference to English majors. This year’s recipients all had grade point averages of at least 3.2 and qualified for financial assistance.

Dr. Pellman, a professor emeritus of English, taught at EMU from 1941 to 1983, with several breaks along the way for graduate study and sabbaticals and serving as a visiting teacher in California, Indiana and Sapporo, Japan.

He researched and wrote the official history of Eastern Mennonite College (now University), which was published on the school’s 50th anniversary in 1967. The veteran teacher was named EMU’s "Alumnus of the Year" in 1969. He lives with his wife, Millie Kauffman Pellman in Park View.

A concert by the 草莓社区 orchestra will feature the winners of a concerto/aria competition held on campus in January. The program will take place 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 31, in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium.

The student soloists will be Michael Dezort, baritone, singing the count’s aria "Vedro mentr’io sospiro" from the Marriage of Figaro; Jonathan Keener, pianist, peforming the third movement of the Mozart Piano Concerto in G Major by Mozart, and April Miller on oboe featuring the first movement of the Haydn Oboe Concerto in C Major.

Jonathan Keener

The program will conclude with the "Russian Easter Overture" by Rimsky-Korsakov for full orchestra, a colorful work in celebration of Easter.

The 45-member orchestra, directed by Joan Griffing, is made up of EMU students and commmunity players from Harrisonburg, Staunton, Bridgewater, Elkton and Orange County.

April Miller

Dr. Griffing, associate professor of music, teaches violin and viola and coaches chamber music in addition to conducting the EMU orchestra. She is also concertmaster of the annual and the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra.

Griffing earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University, where she studied with Tadeusz Wronski, and her D.M.A. in violin performance from Ohio State University.

Admission to the concert is free; donations are welcomed for the music department student scholarship fund.