Rick Benjamin’s Paragon Ragtime Orchestra will open the 2008-09 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts season with a 3 p.m. concert at Hesston Mennonite Church on Sunday, October 26. The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra (PRO) is the world’s only year-round, professional ensemble re-creating “America’s Original Music” – the syncopated sounds of early musical theater, silent cinema, and vintage dance. […]
The Bel Canto Singers from Hesston College will perform in Mennonite congregations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas October 17-20 during fall semester break. The 19-voice mixed ensemble was selected by competitive audition in the spring of 2008. This fall, they will perform a concert titled “Jehovah Abides Forever,” featuring an eclectic repertoire celebrating God’s faithfulness. […]
The pain of divorce and other family dynamics will be the topic discussed by Phil and Gail Ebersole, Denver, Colo., when they serve as pastors-in-residence at Hesston College Monday, October 13, through Wednesday, October 15. Phil will speak during the 11 a.m. chapel October 13 on the topic “What happens when divorce hits your family […]
During a warm and sunny fall afternoon, an estimated 250 people gathered in a shaded lawn area on the Hesston College campus to dedicate the new Friesen Center for the Visual Arts. At the end of the dedication service Saturday, September 27, Norm Yoder, chair of the Hesston College Board of Overseers, joined Paul and […]
Two new art exhibits are open to the public until October 22 at Hesston College. A retrospective art exhibit by Paul Friesen, faculty emeritus in art, can be viewed in the Student Gallery of the new Friesen Center for the Visual Arts. The Friesen Center, dedicated Saturday, September 27, has been used by art students […]
A play set during the Depression, “The Diviners,” will be performed by the Hesston College Theatre Department October 9 through October 12. Performances in Northlawn Room 109 are scheduled at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and at 2 p.m., Sunday. “The Diviners,” which Theatre Director Megan Tyner described as an “intense, yet beautiful play,” tells […]
Hesston College alumni, students, faculty, staff, plus members of the Paul Friesen family, and donors will attend the dedication of the new Friesen Center for the Visual Arts at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, September 27. Weather permitting, the dedication service will be held on the Northlawn lawn next to the Friesen Center on the campus of […]
More than 500 alumni and friends of Hesston College are expected to attend A Hesston College Homecoming September 26-28. Friday activities include morning class visits by visiting alumni and prospective students; an 11 a.m. chapel address by 1980 graduate Dave Foncannon, musician, artist, and pastor of Pueblo (Colo.) Mennonite Church; an afternoon Visual Arts department […]
The end of spring semester will mark the close of 54 years in education for Hesston College professor Al Yoder. With his retirement, Yoder concludes 25 years at the college, in assignments that included teaching education and English as a second language courses. In Yoder’s estimation, his Hesston years have been his happiest. “I’ve enjoyed […]
Spring 2005 marks the second retirement of visual arts professor Paul Friesen from Hesston College. Friesen officially retired from Hesston in 1978, but was invited to teach the second-year ceramics class at the college the past four years during the spring semester. He says he’s sorry to call it quits at the end of this […]
