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Broadway is topic of Bluffton Colloquium

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2011 - 4:47pm

Dr. Melissa Friesen, associate professor of theatre and communication at Bluffton University, will discuss "Mennonites Take Manhattan: Reflections on the Broadway Teachers Workshop" at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The colloquium is free and open to the public.

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Wauneta A. Suter 1929 -2011

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2011 - 11:56am
Wauenta Suter

Wauneta A. Suter, 81 of Pandora died Jan. 19, 2011, at her residence Pandora. Although in declining health over the past six months, she lived a life full of activities travel and creativity.

She was born on Aug. 11, 1929, in rural Medina County, Ohio to Jay and Eva Garra Root. On Nov. 27, 1952 she married Gene Suter who preceded her in death April 13, 1988.

Mrs. Suter was a member of Grace Mennonite Church, Pandora, where she taught Sunday School for the Living Faith Class. She also enjoyed teaching at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

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25 Bluffton faculty, staff honored for service

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2011 - 11:50am
Honored for the most years of service at Bluffton University^aEURTMs annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Dinner were (left to right) Phill Talavinia, Lawrence Matthews, Sue Van Eman, Gary Schiefer and Larry Kinn.

Bluffton University honored 25 faculty and staff members for their years of service at the university's annual recognition dinner on Jan. 16.

The honorees have been at Bluffton for five, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years.

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Footprints in the snow

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2011 - 11:29am
Footprints in the snow

A small creature left these tracks on the edge of the frozen National Quarry recently. To view all our January photos click here.

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Young people can help U.S. fulfill promise: King speaker

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2011 - 11:27am

Bluffton University students are part of a generation that holds the most hope yet "of making our national creed a reality," a longtime civil rights and racial reconciliation activist said at Bluffton Jan. 18.

Today's young people constitute "a post-racial generation," according to John Perkins, the speaker at the university's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Forum. Americans should be "rejoicing" at having their first black president, he asserted, saying the United States can now possibly become the "one nation" the Founding Fathers desired.

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Wapak beats Bluffton girls 64-34

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2011 - 11:10am

Bluffton High School girls' basketball team lost to Wapakoneta 64-34 on Jan. 18, in a non-league contest on the road. For a box score open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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