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In 1971 Burkholder left the Ivy League to lead the small college in Northern Indiana he knew intimately. He returned to Goshen College to serve as its 11^th president with the conviction that "Mennonites had something to contribute to the world, and I wanted to be part of it," he said.

Burkholder, who served as president until 1984, began his presidency with a simple religious service and the planting of 138 trees around campus. "I wanted to bring beauty to a campus that seemed somewhat barren," he said. "And I hoped to soften and humanize the image of the place in the process."

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http://www.goshen.edu/news/pressarchive/06-24-10-jlb-death475.html