{"id":420,"date":"2019-09-24T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=420"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:59:55","slug":"farewell-and-welcome","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/farewell-and-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell and Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We said farewell to the following faculty and staff this summer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dave Bechler<\/strong> \u2013 23 years as Athletic Director (22 as boys varsity basketball coach)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jodi Beachy<\/strong> \u2013 11 years as 5th grade teacher<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frances Cedeno<\/strong> \u2013 1.5 years on dining hall team<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roy Good<\/strong> \u2013 five years as bus driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hope Graber<\/strong> \u2013 1.5 years on dining hall team<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carla Hurst<\/strong> \u2013 six years as counseling office manager<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ardith Kauffman<\/strong> \u2013 nine years as EMES office coordinator<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liz Martin<\/strong> \u2013 six years as dining hall manager<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melodie May<\/strong> \u2013 one year in the front office<\/li>\n<li><strong>Barbara Miller<\/strong> \u2013 12 years as kindergarten teacher<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wendell Shank<\/strong> \u2013 nine years as Spanish teacher<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary Kaye Slonaker<\/strong> \u2013 four years as part of the Advancement team<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wendy Stapleton<\/strong> \u2013 five years as biology teacher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New EMS employees (pictured above) who joined our community this fall include: Front row, left to right: Erin Williams (EMES art and K assistant), Claudia Fencer (HS science), Jen Stoltzfus (EMES\u00a0office assistant), Erika Gascho (5th grade teacher), Laurie Loucks (academic lab, English for Internationals), Sarah Mitch (HS science and boarding coordinator).\u00a0Back row, left to right: Kristi Strum, Edith Emswiler, Deb Pardini, Devin Archie (dining hall team with Pardini as manager); Emily Moyer-Warren (reading assistant, 3rd grade assistant teacher). Not pictured, Valeria Eshleman-Robles (HS Spanish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We said farewell to the following faculty and staff this summer: Dave Bechler \u2013 23 years as Athletic Director (22 as boys varsity basketball coach) Jodi Beachy \u2013 11 years as 5th grade teacher Frances Cedeno \u2013 1.5 years on dining hall team Roy Good \u2013 five years as bus driver Hope Graber \u2013 1.5&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":426,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[24],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-fall-2019"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}