Children in grades 3-7 spent 24 hours at Bluffton University Oct. 21 and 22 learning how to build bridges of friendship with each other and with their neighbors, both across the street and around the world.
Those bridges, constructed through many activities, were central to "Celebration of Peace: A Bridge Between Us," a conference hosted by Bluffton's Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center in celebration of its 25th year on campus.
Bluffton University kicker Austin Sweeney (Adrian, Mich./Whitmer) has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Football Player of the Week on special teams for the week ending Oct. 23.
"i>>?"i>>?The sophomore opened the game's scoring with a 22-yard field goal in the first quarter and connected on all four of his extra point attempts as the Beavers handed Rose-Hulman a 31-13 loss at Salzman Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 22. Sweeney also drilled six kickoffs for 305 yards in the Beavers' fourth straight win.
The Social Work Club at Bluffton University is collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the West Ohio Food Bank.
The club hopes to collect 500 items in its "Trick-or-Canning" drive. Donations may be left in boxes placed at Marbeck Center on campus and at Community Market and Common Grounds in Bluffton. The drive continues through next Monday, October 31, Trick-or-Treat night in Bluffton, when club members will also visit homes in the community to collect items.
James Grandey, head baseball coach at Bluffton University, is among this year's inductees into the Muskingum University Athletic Hall of Fame. He and three others will be inducted on Saturday, Oct. 22.
Grandey played baseball and football at Muskingum, where he graduated in 1999 with the William G. Moore Outstanding Senior Male Athlete Award. He had also been Muskingum's top freshman male athlete and, as a senior, was the university's nominee for the Clyde Lamb Award as outstanding male athlete in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC).
Bluffton University's fall play is getting its full-fledged premiere on the Ramseyer Auditorium stage.
"The Castle of Otranto," adapted by John Minigan several years ago from a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, has been scaled back for presentations as a staged reading and as a workshop production at the Orlando (Fla.) PlayFest. But it will be produced in full form for the first time Nov. 3-6 at Bluffton.
Darin Kerr, visiting instructor of theatre this fall, is directing the show, set for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3-5 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the College Hall auditorium.
