The Bluffton University art department will present its 46th annual Juried Student Exhibition from April 15-May 4 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will showcase work created this academic year by students in university art classes or supervised independent studies.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays except Saturday, May 4, when the gallery will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Three Bluffton University seniors will compete in the university’s annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event, which also includes a reception, is free and open to the public.
Participating students give a speech of no more than 10 minutes that applies the Christian peace position to an issue of contemporary concern. This year’s presenters, and their speech titles, are:
Bluffton University’s Camerata Singers will release “Promises of God’s Reign,” a CD of music from the group’s 2012-13 repertoire, this spring.
Producing and mastering the CD as part of a senior honors project is Jonathan Luginbill, a music major and a member of Camerata Singers. Luginbill spent last fall semester studying recording techniques at the Contemporary Music Center in Nashville, Tenn. His honors project is titled “Experimentation in Choral Microphone Technique.”
The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges has recognized Bluffton University junior Jena Diller for her volunteer work for diabetes awareness and other causes with its 2013 Service-Learning Leadership Award.
Diller, a marketing and communication major at Bluffton, will receive the award during the foundation’s “Evening of Excellence” April 10 in Columbus.
The Bluffton University baseball team split a non-conference doubleheader with Oberlin College on a cold and windy afternoon in Bluffton. After control issues caused Bluffton to fall in game one, 18-8, the Beavers rallied with three runs in the bottom of the seventh to take game two by a score of 3-2.
It may have been April 1, but it was certainly no April Fool's joke that senior standout Kyle Niermann (Napoleon) has been named the Heartland Conference Hitter of the Week.
The All-HCAC rightfielder went 8-of-12 (.667 BA) in Bluffton's first-ever series win over RHIT and scored five runs with one RBI. He hit two doubles last week to finish 8-of-16 (.500 BA).
In the process he became just Bluffton's second player to eclipse 200 career hits. His 212 career safeties are just three behind all-time leader Tyler Stephenson's 215.
