Senior Maggie Garber McClary set to become first music and peacebuilding grad
by Ryan Cornell for Eastern Mennonite University and available here
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After her first two semesters at EMU, Maggie Garber McClary, who was then undecided in her major, had an idea for a program that would combine the two areas she loved studying most.
“I found that I really enjoyed both my music classes and my peacebuilding classes,” McClary said. “So, I approached [EMU Music Professor] Benjamin Bergey and asked him, ‘What would it look like to pair them?’”
Her question couldn’t have come at a better time.
“He told me, ‘This is crazy, but there’s this major I’ve been working on,’” McClary recalled from her conversation with Bergey. “It was this moment of total serendipity.” […]