Bluffton University will host its annual Academic Awards Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 23, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Students to be honored include graduating seniors in the Honors Program, C. Henry Smith Scholars and Pi Delta inductees, as well as departmental award recipients, who are recognized as distinguished senior scholars. In addition, several seniors will present on their departmental honors projects.
Hannah Conklin ’19, a convergent media major and journalism minor from Westerville, Ohio, was named the winner of Bluffton University’s annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest held April 3.
Bluffton University will present “Guys and Dolls,” forit May Day musical Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, in Founders Hall.
“Guys and Dolls” depicts gambler Nathan Detroit, who is seeking cash to set up the biggest craps game in town, but both the authorities and his fiancé of 14 years are breathing down his neck.
When Detroit makes a bet with a fellow gambler’s love life, this oddball romantic comedy takes us from Times Square to Cuba to the sewers of New York City.
Bluffton University will recognize its top student-athletes at the annual Athletics Awards Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Two awards will be presented. Bluffton’s top senior male athlete will receive the A.C. Burcky Award, while the top senior female athlete will receive the Kathryn E. Little Award.
During the Forum, Brad Woodson, a 1989 Bluffton graduate and dean of students at Groveport Madison High School, will present “Leveling the Field.”
State Representative Riordan McClain will address Bluffton University’s 2019 graduating class during the Sunday, May 5, commencement ceremony in the Sommer Center.
McClain, a 2006 alumnus, is serving his first full term in the Ohio House of Representatives, having been appointed in January 2018 during the 132nd General Assembly. He represents the 87th House District, which includes Wyandot, Crawford and Morrow counties, as well as portions of Marion and Seneca counties.
Meghan Gibson ’19, a music major with a concentration in performance studies, will pursue a Master of Music following her May graduation from Bluffton at NYU Steinhardt. Gibson a Pandora native will focus on music theatre performance.
“If you’re going to do musical theater, and most music in general, you want to go where the business is,” explained Gibson. “So for the business of musical theatre, that’s Broadway or the other option would be Chicago. But New York is where it’s at.”
