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University baseball Coach Grandey earns win #100 in 7-2 victory at Defiance

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 22, 2011 - 3:42am

The Bluffton University baseball team scored in just one inning, but a seven-run eighth was all the Beavers needed to take down Defiance on Thursday, April 21, 2011. Bluffton improved to 13-17 overall and 5-10 in the Heartland Conference, while Defiance fell to 5-25 on the season and 1-14 in the HCAC.

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A dose of Japanese culture and a gift of $570 for disaster relief

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 21, 2011 - 5:27pm

Fourth graders from Bluffton Elementary School got a dose of Japanese culture on April 19. But they also gave in return-$570 that they raised in just over a week is being donated to Mennonite Central Committee for disaster relief in Japan.

Making the donation is Louise Matthews, director of Bluffton University's Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center, in honor of the "Children to Children" program that 22 Japanese children on spring break from Findlay City Schools brought to their Bluffton peers at a meeting on the university campus.

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'Dark Side of Chocolate' to be screened tonight at Stutzman

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 20, 2011 - 7:40am

Bluffton University's Peace Education and Action Community Endeavor (PEACE) Club and university senior Maggie Rose Stover, an intern for the Bluffton Fair Trade Task Force, will show the film "The Dark Side of Chocolate" at 9 p.m. tonight (April 20) in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The screening is free and open to the public.

The 45-minute documentary is about the cocoa supply chain in the Ivory Coast, West Africa, and the chocolate produced by children there.

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Del Gratz receives Larry Jones award; Miller, Rowland, Luderman top senior athletes

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2011 - 5:11pm
Taking home honors from Tuesday^aEURTMs Athletics Awards Forum at Bluffton University were (left to right) Del Gratz, Kim Miller, Shauna Rowland and Rob Luderman.

Bluffton University presented three athletics awards to four recipients on April 19.

Sharing the Kathryn E. Little Award as the university's outstanding senior female athlete were basketball player Kim Miller of Delphos, Ohio, and volleyball player Shauna Rowland of Bucyrus, Ohio.

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Alumnus, social work educator to speak at Bluffton University graduation

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 18, 2011 - 5:34pm
Dr. Robert Hewitt

Dr. Robert L. Hewitt, Professor Emeritus of social work at Shippensburg (Pa.) University and a Bluffton University alumnus, will return to Bluffton as commencement speaker on Sunday, May 8. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. in Salzman Stadium.

Hewitt, who received his bachelor's degree in social work from Bluffton in 1969, was a member of the university's board of trustees from 1995-2001.

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Social work celebration part of May Day at Bluffton University May 5-8

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 18, 2011 - 5:27pm

Bluffton University will mark its annual May Day weekend May 5-8 with traditional alumni reunions, student activities and graduation events, as well as a celebration of its social work program.

Featured at "Social Work Pathways," beginning at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7, in Musselman Library, will be social work alumni Dr. Elaine Ragsdale Schott, David Voth and Eva Voth, along with Jennifer Hughes, assistant professor of social work and current program chair.

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