Mary K. Oyer, a music professor who influenced many Mennonites’ relationship with the fine arts, died Jan. 11 in Goshen, Ind. The Goshen College professor emerita of music and former professor of church music at what is now Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary was 100.
Mennonite congregations took the stage at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., to lead and participate in public hymn sings and to talk about music from a Mennonite perspective June 29, July 1, 3, 4 and 6.