Career move after Africa? I say no to my alma mater
On This Day Seven years before I wrote this letter, I was a senior at Lancaster Mennonite School and editor of campus newspaper. Faculty advisor is Omar Eby, standing. I am seated, left. The invitation to teach came from the Dean. March 18, 1969 to Lancaster Mennonite School. Dear Bro. Good, I was fore-warned of your letter by my sister Loretta. She's in your German class. She is half hopeful that I accept your offer although she "wouldn't want to be in any of my classes." I see my vocation as teaching in the broadest sense of the word, be it writing, preaching, or teaching. Therefore, I plan to do graduate work in theology next year. Perhaps in a European university. Was it your infectuous love and facility with languages which gives me this desire? I spent one year in Belgium and France learning French. Prior, I had thought that the Germanic tongues were my cup of tea. ...