The Hesston College alumni office will sponsor its annual Community Night during the final regular season home basketball games Saturday, Feb. 19. The teams will face Region VI rival Brown Mackie College (Salina, Kan.) with women’s tip off at 2 and the men at 4 p.m. “This will be an exciting and entertaining afternoon of […]
Lyric Arts Trio, a chamber ensemble of soprano voice, clarinet, and piano, will be the fourth concert in the 2010-11 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts Series The trio, which hails from Kansas City, will present “American Voices” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Acclaimed coloratura soprano Sarah Tannehill, […]
“Stories and Songs of Peace and Hope,” a concert featuring internationally acclaimed baritone Tony Brown will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20 at Tabor Mennonite Church. Tabor Mennonite will co-host the event along with Hesston College as Brown shares stories from his travels as a peacemaker through music. The concert is free and open […]
About 180 junior high students and sponsors from Mennonite churches across Kansas and as far away as Milford, Neb., descended on the Hesston College campus Jan. 29 and 30 for the biennial Know Jesus event. The event, organized by the Western District Conference of Mennonite Church USA and hosted by Hesston College, is a weekend-long […]
Hesston College announced the names of full-time students whose fall semester grades earned them a place on the Dean’s List (3.90 to 4.00) and Honor Roll (3.50 to 3.89). Hesston College – Academic Honors – Fall Semester 2010 (Full-time students completing 12 hours or more) Dean’s List 3.90 – 4.00 Freshmen Zachary Baumgartner – Hesston, […]
Hesston College Pastoral Ministries student CJ Chukwukelu (right) and his wife Ude perform at an on-campus coffeehouse Jan. 21. The coffeehouse was one of several events at Hesston College Jan. 17 to 21 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Week. Other events included conversations with nationally-recognized human rights and environmental activist Rosina Philipe from […]
Brothers Bob and Paul Mullet remember well the station wagon that brought their family to Hesston in 1958. Their parents, Roy and Bess Mullet, were moving the family from a farm in Montana to Kansas so their five sons wouldn’t have to commute 25 miles to attend high school in the dead cold of an […]
North Newton, Kan. – A popular vocal ensemble – which also happens to be known as “the world’s reigning male chorus” (The New Yorker) – makes its fifth appearance in the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts Series. Chanticleer comes to the Memorial Hall stage on the Bethel College campus Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. “Hesston-Bethel Performing […]
The Hesston College campus community was shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Elam J. Peachey from a heart attack Thursday morning, Jan. 6. Elam worked at Hesston College in various roles in Development since September 1990, including Development Officer, Director of Development and Executive Vice President for Advancement. At the time of his […]
The nursing program at Hesston College was formally granted re-approval by the Kansas State Board of Nursing (KSBN) at a Dec. 13 and 14 meeting in Topeka. The Board’s recommendation came from a two day visit to the Hesston campus in late September. After visiting with nursing faculty and assessing the program’s facilities, curriculum and […]
Photo courtesy MEDA Several members of the Hesston College community, including five sophomore business students and two instructors traveled to Calgary, Alberta, Canada Nov. 4 to 7 for the 2010 Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) convention. “MEDA was such a good experience,” said student Sarah Lederman. “We were able to talk with Mennonite business professionals […]
photo by Larry Bartel Kevin Wilder, Hesston College psychology and youth ministry instructor, and Saralyn Mast, a freshman from Ephrata, Pa., show off Wilder’s new hairstyle “The Mr. T.” Wilder, who is also Mast’s academic advisor, donated his hairstyle as a fundraiser for a service trip to Haiti during Christmas break where she will spend […]
$10,000 grant will support Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts’ presentation of Chanticleer Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts has been approved for a grant of $10,000 to support a performance and residency by male a capella chorus Chanticleer Feb. 8, 2011. Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts is one of […]
by Rachel Schlegel Students at Hesston College on Nov. 30 looked significantly younger than usual. That’s because 164 sixth graders from John Marshall Middle School in Wichita spent much of the day on campus getting a glimpse of college life, learning about opportunities for their future, and meeting and interacting with college students, faculty and […]
A team from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools will visit Hesston College for a comprehensive reaccreditation evaluation March 21 to 23, 2011. Hesston College invites the public to provide written comments to the Commission which will be forwarded to the evaluation team for its review. Comments must […]
