{"id":518,"date":"2020-09-30T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=518"},"modified":"2020-09-30T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:37:31","slug":"farewell-and-welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/farewell-and-welcome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell and Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We said farewell to the following faculty this summer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian Buchanan \u2013 17 years, band, and digital recording teacher, auditorium and general technical expert<\/li>\n<li>Claudia Fencer \u2013 one year, anatomy &amp; physiology and AP biology teacher<\/li>\n<li>Lee Good \u2013 11 years, middle and high school science teacher<\/li>\n<li>Laurie Loucks \u2013 one year, English for International Learners<\/li>\n<li>Susan Melendez \u2013 nine years, 6th grade teacher<\/li>\n<li>Kierra Sauder \u2013 three years, high school English teacher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New EMS employees this fall:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Gardner \u2013 band teacher and auditorium sound technician<\/li>\n<li>Merridy Gnagey \u2013 teacher assistant, 4th grade<\/li>\n<li>Mark Gornto \u2013 English 7 &amp; 8 teacher and drama coordinator<\/li>\n<li>Leah Huyard \u201917 \u2013 teacher-in- training with Larry Martin in 6th grade<\/li>\n<li>Gwen Lantz \u2013 library assistant<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Mitch \u2013 science 7\u00a0&amp; 8, anatomy &amp; physiology, environmental science teacher<\/li>\n<li>Karen Suderman \u2013 English for International Learners<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Weaver \u2013 teacher assistant, Spanish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Board of Directors members<\/strong> (pictured above)<\/p>\n<p>Four new members beginning two-year terms on Eastern Mennonite School\u2019s Board of Directors bring diversity of denomination, life experience, and race.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Berry, assistant professor and chair of the music department at Eastern Mennonite University, member of Divine Unity Church in Harrisonburg, and EMS parent.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Fairfield \u201903, representing the Central District of Virginia Mennonite Conference, pastor of Christiansburg (Va.) Mennonite Church.<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Malvaez, co-pastor at Manantial de Vida Mennonite Church and EMS parent.<\/li>\n<li>Scott Rogers, realtor with Funkhouser Real Estate Group, member of Asbury United Methodist Church, and EMS parent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More on these appointments at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/2020\/08\/eight-new-faculty-members-join-eastern-mennonite-school\/\">easternmennonite.org\/news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We said farewell to the following faculty this summer: Brian Buchanan \u2013 17 years, band, and digital recording teacher, auditorium and general technical expert Claudia Fencer \u2013 one year, anatomy &amp; physiology and AP biology teacher Lee Good \u2013 11 years, middle and high school science teacher Laurie Loucks \u2013 one year, English for International&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":524,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[27],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-fall-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}