Dr. Frank Dobson Jr., author of the novel The Race is Not Given and the newly released Rendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks, Whites, Love and Death, will read from his work at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27, in Bluffton University's Musselman Library. The reading is free and open to the public.
Dobson is executive director of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and has taught African-American and American fiction courses at Wright State University, Dayton.
Dr. Perry Bush, history and religion department chair at Bluffton University, will present "Becoming C.: The Anabaptist History of Henry Smith" at a Bluffton Colloquium Friday, Sept. 24. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Bush will outline his research on Mennonite historian and longtime Bluffton faculty member C. Henry Smith, one of the first Mennonites to earn a doctorate and stay in the Mennonite church.
Jerry Suter says that fall starts when pumpkins are in season. Here are the pumpkins, so it must be autumn. These orange-(and white) vine plants are available at Suter's Produce. Now that Suter's Morning Star Cider Press on Putnam County Line Road is open, the days and nights are beginning to feel like a change of season.
First National Bank announces that Mark DePue was awarded a diploma on Aug. 20, at commencement exercises during the 66th annual session of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. DePue is the Senior Vice President and Senior Lender of First National Bank.
BFR Sports and Fitness will begin the fall Adult Coed Volleyball League the week of Sep. 27. A competitive team division will play on Monday nights and a recreational division will play on Thursday nights.
Matches are scheduled from 7-9 p.m. The league will include six nights of divisional play and a tournament.
Registration form and team fee of $130 is due by the first night of play. Interested teams are encouraged to contact BFR (419-358-4150) immediately.
