Hesston College will host its annual two-mile run/walk, The Manickam Mosey, at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 29, during a weekend of community-wide homecoming events. The 2018 event will feature an Alumni/Community vs. Students Challenge, with the group producing the largest number of race participants laying claim to the first Manickam Mosey Challenge Trophy Cup. The […]
Hesston College announces the hiring of Chris Nachtigall as the Larks’ new athletic director. A 2001 graduate of Hesston College, Nachtigall holds a bachelor’s degree in sports management from Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa) and a master’s in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University (Irvine, Calif.). While at Hesston, Nachtigall played baseball and […]
Hesston College announces the following new faculty and staff appointments for the 2018-19 year: Mike Baker, director of Aviation, is a 1993 Hesston College graduate and holds a master’s in business administration from Tabor College – Wichita (Kan.) and a bachelor’s of science – professional pilot from Utah Valley State College (Orem). Travis Bunk, nursing […]
The Hesston College athletic department announces that 42 student-athletes have been named National Junior College Athletic Association Academic All-Americans. To be an All-American a student needs to complete a minimum of 24 credits over the two semester school year. The 42 student-athletes represents 24% of Hesston’s total athletes on campus. Congratulations to the following students: […]
On August 1 and 2, 50 Newton (Kan.) High School (NHS) student-athletes and coaches took a break from their summer break to learn how to be good leaders among their peers by participating in the Hesston College Leadership Academy. Drawing on leadership competencies outlined by the Kansas Leadership Center (Wichita) as well as the expertise […]
A new institutional scholarship that honors the legacy of longtime Hesston College supporters Arnold and Wilmetta Dietzel has been added to the college’s more than 100 available endowed scholarships. The scholarship was established with estate funds the Dietzels designated for Hesston College. After graduating from Hesston Academy in 1940, Wilmetta studied for one year at […]
The summer lull on the Hesston College campus will soon come to an end as students arrive for the 2018-19 year, which launches with Opening Weekend activities August 17 to 19, and the first day of the fall term on August 20. Community members are welcome to join the campus community for several weekend community-building […]
Kingdom Builders Network, Mennonite Mission Network and Hesston College – three organizations who five years ago had very little in common, have been on a journey of discovery toward mutual partnership. That partnership paved the way for a Hesston College course taught by Kingdom Builders Network leaders in Philadelphia. Kingdom Builders Network counts almost fifty […]
Rob Ramseyer, Hesston College vice president of Student Development and athletic director, announced his resignation effective June 29 as he will become athletic director at Friends University in Wichita. Ramseyer started at Hesston in 2011 as head baseball coach, leading the Larks for four seasons before transitioning to the vice president role in 2015. In […]
Hesston College Vice President of Academics, Brent Yoder, has announced Mike Baker, Andover, Kan., as the new director of aviation. His first day will be July 9. Baker comes to Hesston from the U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) – Wichita Flight Standards District Office (US DOT/FAA – FSDO) where he has served as […]
By AMBS Three alumni of Hesston (Kansas) College participated in the May 6 commencement service of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Elkhart, Indiana: Mariah Kate Martin of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, graduated with a Master of Divinity with a major in pastoral ministry. She plans to marry Nick Bouwman in July and is pursuing a pastoral […]
Hesston College announced the names of full-time students whose spring 2018 semester grades earned them a place on the Dean’s List (3.90 to 4.00) and Honor Roll (3.50 to 3.89). Dean’s List – Freshmen Sam Bartel, Hesston, […]
The Hesston College Board of Directors, the governing body for Hesston College, elected board member Ken G Kabira (Naperville, Ill.), a 1981 Hesston graduate, as chairperson during the May 2018 meeting. Kabira, who has served as a member of the board since 2014, will officially begin in his new capacity at the October 2018 board […]
The following was written by Bible and ministry professor Michele Hershberger, who is leading a three-week inter-cultural class in Philadelphia. Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Do we take God to the city? Or do we find God in the city? Those are two very different questions. They emerge from two very different worldviews. Along with […]
Someday in the not too distant future, Alex Hunter ’18 plans to be sitting in a radar control room, directing airplane traffic between its starting point and ending destination. Before Hunter had even earned his Hesston College degree in Aviation – Air Traffic Control (ATC) on May 13, he’d already moved part way through the […]
