Dr. Melissa Friesen, associate professor of theatre and communication at Bluffton University, will discuss "Mennonites Take Manhattan: Reflections on the Broadway Teachers Workshop" at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The colloquium is free and open to the public.
Wauneta A. Suter, 81 of Pandora died Jan. 19, 2011, at her residence Pandora. Although in declining health over the past six months, she lived a life full of activities travel and creativity.
She was born on Aug. 11, 1929, in rural Medina County, Ohio to Jay and Eva Garra Root. On Nov. 27, 1952 she married Gene Suter who preceded her in death April 13, 1988.
Mrs. Suter was a member of Grace Mennonite Church, Pandora, where she taught Sunday School for the Living Faith Class. She also enjoyed teaching at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
Bluffton University students are part of a generation that holds the most hope yet "of making our national creed a reality," a longtime civil rights and racial reconciliation activist said at Bluffton Jan. 18.
Today's young people constitute "a post-racial generation," according to John Perkins, the speaker at the university's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Forum. Americans should be "rejoicing" at having their first black president, he asserted, saying the United States can now possibly become the "one nation" the Founding Fathers desired.
