Bluffton University's Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble will take center stage Saturday, Oct. 30, at the university's annual fall instrumental concert, at 7:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
Dr. Jeffrey Boehm, professor of music, conducts the Concert Band, which will perform five numbers by Russian composers. Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich will be represented, and Brandon Fullenkamp, a Bluffton senior from Wapakoneta, will conduct "Pictures at an Exhibition," one of two pieces by Modest Mussorgsky on the program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
