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Spiritual Life Week Forum speaker heads Mission Year, urban initiative

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 15, 2010 - 11:00am

Leroy Barber, president of Mission Year, an urban initiative that seeks to place 18-29-year-olds in a mission and communal living situation for a year, will speak at Bluffton University's Spiritual Life Week Forum at 11 a.m.,Tuesday, Oct. 26, in Founders Hall. His presentation is free and open to the public.

Barber has spent more than 20 years confronting poverty, homelessness and racism in the United States. In 1990, he served homeless families and children who were living on the streets of Philadelphia and founded Restoration Ministries to carry on his work there.

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Tickets on sale of university production of Glass Menagerie

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 12, 2010 - 7:15am

Tickets are on sale for Bluffton University's fall production of "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams.

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Columbus Grove student crowned Bluffton University homecoming queen

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 12, 2010 - 5:20am
Bluffton University^aEURTMs 2010 Homecoming court were from left sophomore couple Lisa Baglien and Zeke Tracy, junior couple Bethany Bowman and Jake Atkins, senior attendants Libby Brinkman and Kenny Miller, Queen Ashtyn Shafer, King Cody Litwiller and senior attendants Jen Krehbiel and Tim Nofziger.

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Seniors Cody Litwiller of Hopedale, Ill., and Ashtyn Shafer of Columbus Grove, were crowned Bluffton University's Homecoming king and queen before the annual Homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 9.

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University philanthropy award to Richard, Carolyn Cripe

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 11, 2010 - 12:29pm

Bluffton presents philanthropy award to Richard, Carolyn Cripe
Richard and Carolyn Cripe, Indiana residents with a long history of giving and service to Bluffton University, are the 2010 recipients of Bluffton's Ray Ramseyer Philanthropy Award.

The honor was announced Oct. 9 at the annual President's Society Dinner in Founders Hall.

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Pilgrim Marpeck coming to life at Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 8, 2010 - 9:00am

Dale Schrag, director of marketing and church relations at Bethel (Kan.) College, will present a conversational Bluffton University Forum on 16th-century Anabaptist leader Pilgrim Marpeck on Tuesday, Oct. 19. Free and open to the public, the forum will begin at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.

Schrag's presentation, which entails some impersonation, will provide a "first-person" view of Marpeck's life. He will also draw observations that might be relevant to Christians today in what promises to be much more than a lecture.

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Percussion Group Cincinnati next in Bluffton Artist Series

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 8, 2010 - 8:59am

Tickets are still available for the next performance in the 2010-11 Bluffton University Artist Series, by Percussion Group Cincinnati at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Yoder Recital Hall.

The three-member group has awakened concert audiences to a wider world of music since 1979, using everything from amplified cactus needles, newspapers and garbage cans to the traditional sounds of drums, cymbals and bells from around the world.

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