“Still 77 Cents on the Dollar: Gender, Communication and Work” will be Dr. Kerry Strayer’s topic for a Bluffton University Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Founders Hall.
The presentation by the 1984 Bluffton alumna, now a university trustee and an associate professor of communication at Otterbein University, is free and open to the public.
Bluffton University’s Grace Albrecht Gallery will host “Auditions and Curtains,” a November exhibition of paintings by artist Chris Hyndman.
Opening Nov. 9, the exhibit is free and open to the public through Nov. 24. Gallery hours in the Sauder Visual Arts Center are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A reception for the artist will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22.
Bluffton University’s Jazz Ensemble and Gospel Choir will present a concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in Yoder Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public; an offering will be taken during intermission for music scholarships.
Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music, conducts the 19-member Jazz Ensemble, while Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, associate professor of music, conducts the Gospel Choir, which includes 28 voices from the campus and community.
Dr/. Susan Streeter Carpenter, an associate professor of English at Bluffton University, will talk about the writing process and read some of her recent fiction during a campus colloquium on Friday, Nov. 6.
Free and open to the public, her presentation, “A New Story,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Instances of water-walking still happen in the world—and Jonathan Larson says he has found some.
Maybe not exactly parallel to what Jesus and the apostle Peter do in Matthew 14, but nonetheless what Larson called “real ‘water-walking’” deeds of moral courage in examples he provided Oct. 27 at Bluffton University.
And Jesus’ words to Peter—“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”—echo in every story, taken from the work and travels of Larson, Bluffton’s Spiritual Life Week speaker.
Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, gestures during an Oct. 27 discussion of her new book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control,” in Bluffton’s Musselman Library. The book is the first by Janzen, a third-year faculty member at the university and its 2015-16 C. Henry Smith Scholar. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Toronto.
The annual meeting of the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership (BRWP) will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at the Hancock Ag. Center, 7868 County Road 140, Findlay.
A continental breakfast will be served at 7 a.m. with the meeting portion starting at 7:30 a.m. The meeting will conclude by 9 a.m. A RSVP is required for breakfast; please respond to [email protected] or call Phil Martin, Watershed Coordinator at 419.422.6487.
Judy Augsburger, Jerry Cupples and David Steiner shared their views and visions of Bluffton to 92 persons who attended a Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce mayoral candidate forum on Tuesday evening in the middle school.
Moderator Stanley Scott, Bluffton University political science professor, led the forum. Duane Bollenbacher served as timer.
The Icon created videos of each mayoral candidate's opening response during the Oct. 28 mayoral candidate forum. In addition, the candidate's closing remarks are taped.
On an evening when voters across the nation watched a televised Republican presidential debate, Bluffton held its own “debate.” The event was Oct. 28.
Bluffton’s chamber invited Bluffton’s three 2015 mayoral candidates to a mayoral candidate forum. Held in the middle school, 92 persons attended to hear each candidate’s view on a range of village issues.
Lasting over one-hour, candidates provided opinions on 15 questions, allowing a 90-second answer for each response.
