{"id":49426,"date":"2021-05-20T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=49426"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:21:00","slug":"ems-teacher-retires-after-33-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/ems-teacher-retires-after-33-years\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS teacher retires after 33 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After 33 years of teaching history and Bible classes at Eastern Mennonite School, Elwood Yoder is ready to \u201cre-wire\u201d \u2014 not retire \u2014 for a new chapter of history making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoder is a 1981 alumnus of 91短视频, where he met his wife Joy Risser Yoder &#8217;81 and graduated with a degree in Bible and theology. The Yoder family, including sons Philip and Nathaniel and daughter Maria are all alumni (see photo below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/05\/18105003\/Elwood-Yoder-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49428\" width=\"377\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/05\/18105003\/Elwood-Yoder-family.jpg 583w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2021\/05\/18105003\/Elwood-Yoder-family-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><figcaption>The Yoder family at May 3, 2021, recognition at Eastern Mennonite School. From left to right, Philip &#8217;15, Elwood Yoder, his wife Joy Risser Yoder &#8217;81, daughter Maria &#8217;10 and son-in-law Aaron Billings &#8217;09, and two grandchildren. Unable to attend, his son Nathaniel &#8217;08 lives in Kansas with his wife Maggie Parker Yoder &#8217;08 and children. (Courtesy photo) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In this chapter, Yoder will focus full time on his loves of research, writing, and church history. He will partner with historian Steve Nolt to write a Virginia Mennonite history book, a joint project of the Shenandoah Valley Mennonite Historians and the Virginia Mennonite Conference Historical Committee (see more below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before turning his sights to that tantalizing project, Yoder is engaged at the school. \u201cI want to finish well and focus on the students I love,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/2021\/05\/after-33-years-elwood-yoder-is-ready-to-re-wire\/\">Follow this link to read the full article on the EMS website. <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 33 years of teaching history and Bible classes at Eastern Mennonite School, Elwood Yoder is ready to \u201cre-wire\u201d \u2014 not retire \u2014 for a new chapter of history making. <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/ems-teacher-retires-after-33-years\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMS teacher retires after 33 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,17562],"tags":[],"feature":[17427],"class_list":["post-49426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-digest","feature-emu-home-page-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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