EMU student drowns

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The Eastern Mennonite University community, Harrisonburg, Va., gathered on July 2 to mourn the death by drowning of recent graduate Matthew R. Garber (above left) in Costa Rica on July 1. Garber, 22, of Elizabethtown, Pa., was swimming with a group of young people in a cove that was not known to be dangerous. A riptide apparently caught several of the swimmers; all but Garber managed to return safely to shore.

Garber had graduated with honors from EMU on April 27 with a bachelor of science degree in nursing and a minor in Bible and religion. He was spending the summer in Costa Rica assisting a missionary family and learning Spanish. Pictured above with classmate Shannon (Yoder) Roth, Garber was also active in EMU’s Ministry Inquiry Program, having completed a summer internship at Plains Mennonite Church, Lansdale, Pa.

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