In the repressive Soviet Union of the 1980s, dissident Aleksandr Kalugin kept his art under cover in a grand piano—“hidden in plain sight,” as Olwen Pritchard put it Nov. 12 at Bluffton University.
But Pritchard and her husband, Dr. James Satterwhite, a Bluffton professor, acquired five etchings from Kalugin and eventually brought them back to Bluffton, where they are now on permanent display in the university’s Musselman Library.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton University senior defensive end Ryan Aelker (New Bavaria/Holgate) helped the Beavers claim a 35-14 win at rival Defiance College on Saturday and has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Football Player of the Week on defense for the second time this season. He was also honored following his performance in Bluffton's 38-26 win over Baldwin-Wallace on September 12.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The Bluffton University harriers ventured west to the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind. for the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Cross Country Championship meet. With both the men’s and women’s team being dominated by freshmen and sophomores, it was not a day to see high team placings. It was rather a day to see young runners vastly improve their times since the team raced on this same course at the pre-regional meet in late September.
Dr. Gerald Mast, a professor of communication at Bluffton University, will discuss “Joyful Submission and Network Separation in Old Order Mennonite Computing” in a campus colloquium on Friday, Nov. 20.
Free and open to the public, his talk will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Bluffton University’s music department will host a holiday instrumental concert featuring the Bluffton Concert Band and chamber ensembles at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Including a variety of holiday music, including carols, the concert is free and open to the public.
Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music, conducts the Concert Band. He will also lead three performing ensembles (two brass and one woodwind), while Dr. Adam Schattschneider, professor of music, will lead two (flute and saxophone).
