Look for lots of improvisation in the upcoming Hesston College production of Godspell. The Music and Theatre departments will present the musical in the Northlawn 109 Studio Theater at 7:30 p.m. February 19-21 and February 26-27, and 8:30 p.m. February 28. Theatre director Megan Tyner says the script itself is open to interpretation. “I’ve seen […]
p> Organist Chris Shaw will perform in concert at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, February 8, at Hesston Mennonite Church. The concert, sponsored by the Hesston College Music Department, is free and open to the public. The program will include selections from Mass for the Convents by Francois Couperin, the Prelude and Fugue in C Major BWV […]
The Bel Canto Singers from Hesston College will present a concert at 3 p.m. this Sunday, February 1, at Hesston Mennonite Church. The concert is free and open to the public. The 20-voice mixed ensemble was selected by competitive audition in the spring of 2008. This winter, they will perform a concert of sacred choral […]
The Bel Canto Singers from Hesston College will perform in four Mennonite congregations in Kansas and Missouri, and one public high school in Kansas during its winter tour February 5-9. The 20-voice mixed ensemble was selected by competitive audition in the spring of 2008. This winter, they will perform a concert of sacred choral music […]
Photographs by Hannah Bader, Johnson City, Tenn., are on exhibit until January 30 in the Hesston College Gallery located in Smith Center. Bader spent nine years of her life as a missionary child in Kenya, then graduated from a high school in Canton, Ohio, where her parents live. She holds a bachelor’s degree in photography […]
Hesston College faculty member Tony Brown learned a great deal about Japan, including some of its cultural distinctives, during his recent fall semester sabbatical in that country. Brown, a sociology faculty member and internationally-acclaimed baritone, left the U.S. in early June and returned in early December. “I had three foci while in Japan,” Brown explained, […]
by Melanie Zuercher, Bethel College News Service NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – The King’s Singers make their fifth appearance on a Harvey County college campus when they perform in Bethel College’s Memorial Hall next month. The all-male a cappella sextet from England will give the next Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series concert Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 […]
Hesston College ranks near the top nationally in categories of student learning and engagement among small two-year colleges in the U.S., according to a recently-released report. And student learning continues to improve at Hesston, thanks to the ongoing use of assessment tools. The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), based at the University of […]
Howard Keim (second from right), president of Hesston College, and Vonnie Sieber (far right), vice president of Development, accept two checks for a planned memorial for Freedley Schrock from Peter Hartman (left to right), Wally Jantz, Belle Boyts, and Merrill Raber. Schrock served as an industrial arts instructor at Hesston College and Hesston Academy from […]
by Andrew Sharp During the recent annual Thanksgiving Weekend Pizza Hut Basketball Classic, former Hesston College women’s basketball coach Joel Kauffman was recognized for 21 years of devoted work in Larks athletics. Following the Hesston College women’s Saturday night (November 29) win over Tabor College’s junior varsity team (Hillsboro, Kan.), Kauffman was introduced to a […]
The dedication of a peace pole on the Hesston College campus was one of many varied activities available for people of all ages as part of “A Family Celebration” during Thanksgiving Weekend November 27-29. An estimated 100 people-students and parents, prospective students, faculty, staff, alumni, members of Hesston Mennonite Church and other interested persons, gathered […]
“I want my ordination to be a vote for the church,” Michele Hershberger said in her response to being ordained by South Central Mennonite Conference for Christian ministry in Mennonite Church USA on Sunday evening, Nov. 16. Despite indications that the church has fallen on hard times and is broken and wounded, Hershberger said, “God […]
About 50 family, friends, faculty, staff, and students attended a brief program and reception in Smith Center on the Hesston College campus Sunday afternoon, November 16, to honor the memory of Miriam Hershberger. Hershberger, a 1974 graduate of the college, died in a pedestrian accident in Philadelphia on March 10, 2005. Following her untimely death, […]
Shane Hipps has a message for the Mennonite Church: there’s a “tsunami of people coming your way because they are attracted to the Anabaptist faith. “You have people knocking your doors down wanting to live like this,” the pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church, Phoenix, Ariz., stated at Hesston College’s Anabaptist Vision and Discipleship Series, November […]
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) held a Leadership Development Workshop on the campus of Hesston College November 10-13. As a result, nine freshman students enrolled in the Disaster Management program, a cooperative effort of the college and MDS, learned more about MDS and its disaster relief work in the U.S. and Canada. Russ Gaeddert, director of […]
