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Alumni Profiles–Brent Retzlaff (CMU ’14)

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This video features Brent Retzlaff (CMU ’14) at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014. With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.

Here, Brent explains how his studies and independent research at CMU have opened his eyes to the relationships that link people groups, individuals, and events across space and time, weaving us all together.

Brent Retzlaff
Bachelor of Arts, 4 Year
Major: History

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Alumni Profiles–Erin Sawatzky (CMU ’14)

Erin SawatzkyThis video features Erin Sawatzky (CMU ’14) at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014. With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.

Here, Erin extolls her interdisciplinary education for the way it shook her certainty, helped her un-learn things poorly or incompletely apprehended before, and provoked her best scholarship by offering her ever new, bigger, subtler and more daringly real-world questions to wrestle with.

Erin Sawatzky
Bachelor of Arts, 3 Year
Major: Social Science

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Alumni Profiles–Jami Reimer (CMU ’14)

Jami ReimerThis video features Jami Reimer (CMU ’14) in performance at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014. With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.

Here, Jami offers a dramatic rendition of Medtner’s Fairy Tale, Op. 20, No. 1

Jami Reimer, pianist
Bachelor of Music
Concentration: Music Education

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Alumni Profiles–Josiah Brubacher (CMU ’14)

Josiah BrubacherThis video features Josiah Brubacher (CMU ’14) at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014, a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.

Here, Jami Reimer provides Joshiah with piano accompaniment for a performance of Johannes Brahms’ Die Meinacht.

Josiah Brubacher, tenor
Bachelor of Music
Concentration: Music Education

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Alumni Profiles–Kristen Wiltshire (CMU ’14)

Kristen WiltshireThis video features Kristen Wiltshire (CMU ’14) at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014. With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.

Here, Kristen talks about how her studies in Peace and Conflict Transformation at CMU have shaped and reshaped her understanding of what peace and conflict really are, what it means to build peace in a pluralistic society, and what it takes to be peace-loving in thought, word and deed.

Kristen Wiltshire
Bachelor of Arts, 4 Year
Major: Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies

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Alumni Profiles–Natalia Dyck (CMU ’14)

Natalia DyckThis video features Natalia Dyck (CMU ’14) at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014. With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.

Here, Natalia expresses her thankfulness for the wealth of stories to which her program at CMU exposed her, the increased capacity for insight in literature that it afforded her, and the way it taught her not only to read for character development and parallel structure, but also for the presence of God.

Natalia Dyck
Bachelor of Arts, 4 Year
Major: English

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Alumni Profiles–Simon Hamm (CMU ’14)

This video features Simon Hamm (CMU ’14) at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014. With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them. Here, Simon reflects on the deep appreciation that his Mathematical studies at CMU have given him for the Unreasonable Effectiveness of studying that which is fascinating and delightful before that which is “practical”.

Simon Hamm
Bachelor of Arts, 4 Year
Majors: Mathematics, Biblical and Theological Studies

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Alumni Profiles–Stephanie Crampton (CMU ’14)

Stephanie CramptonThis video features Stephanie Crampton (CMU ’14) at With Gratitude, April 26, 2014. With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend event at which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.

Here, Tirzah Lyons provides piano accompaniment for  Stephanie’s performance of Perfect As We Are from the opera Little Women.

Stephanie Crampton, mezzo soprano
Bachelor of Music
Concentration: Performance; Voice