Kathy Bergen: Working for justice in the Middle East

Kathy Bergen is one of four people who received CMU's 2014 Blazer Distinguished Alumni Award at Fall Festival this past weekend. The awards celebrate alumni who, through their lives, embody CMU's values and mission of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society.

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John Neufeld in 1995.

John Neufeld: Helping others belong

John Neufeld is one of four people who will receive CMU's 2014 Blazer Distinguished Alumni Award at Fall Festival this weekend. The awards celebrate alumni who, through their lives, embody CMU's values and mission of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society.

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Zach Peters graduated from CMU in 2010.

Bridge-builder profile: Zach Peters

When the campaign to fund CMU’s new Bridge, Library and Learning Commons began, Zach Peters was the Vice President Activities on CMU Student Council with then-president Dylan Tarnowsky. The two joked with each other that their time as student leaders would have such an impact on the university that CMU would name buildings after them.

“He wanted his name on that bridge: The Dylan Tarnowsky Skywalk,” Peters recalls with a chuckle. “We decided that if he got the bridge, I would get my name on something too: The Zach Peters Library and Learning Commons.”

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The deep fryers are ready. So is Ted.

Ted talk: Nine facts about Ted Dyck

Get to know Ted Dyck, Director of Food Services at CMU—the man who will be serving up chicken fingers and fries at the upcoming alumni event, Dinner with Ted.

1. He’s a family man. Ted has three grown sons—Neil, Andrew (married to Annali) and Sam (married to Saara), and a stepdaughter named Mary. Ted and his wife, Pat, have been married for four-and-a-half years, and they became grandparents in 2012 when Andrew and Annali’s son, Henry, was born.

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Ted Dyck is looking forward to serving up chicken fingers and fries on Friday, May 30.

Chicken fingers and fries: ‘It has always been a popular meal’

It doesn’t make sense.

People today usually say they want healthy, locally sourced food. While the kitchen staff at Canadian Mennonite University does its best to provide that, the most popular meal in the six-week meal plan is, hands down, chicken fingers and fries.

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