Hesston College students Sho Ishihara (Gunma-ken, Japan), Ayaka Senoo (Kanagawa-ken, Japan), Narumi Hayano (Kiyosu-shi, Japan), Danika Saucedo Salas (Santa Cruz, Bolivia), Shikou Morishita (Tokyo, Japan), Misaki Hirayama (Chiba, Japan) and Kento Ueda (Miyahi-ken, Japan) merge their cultures during the college’s annual Cultures Fair Feb. 20. International students shared their customs, culture, music and food with […]
Internationally acclaimed baritone Anthony Brown will present “I Go On Singing,” an original tribute to the popular African American performer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 28, March 1 and 8 and at 2 p.m. March 2 and 9 in the Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E Colfax Ave., Aurora, Colo. […]
Hesston College has been selected as a recipient of a $500,000 grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation in Tulsa, Okla., for the impending construction of a new campus entrance and renovation of the Northlawn performing arts building. The total cost of the project is $3.8 million. Large lead gift commitments totaling $1.52 million […]
by Quinn Kathrineberg Hesston College Theatre will present five performances of Molière’s seventeenth century comedy, “Tartuffe,” directed by Laura Kraybill, Feb. 26, 28, March 1 and 2 in the Northlawn Studio Theatre on the Hesston College campus. The play, first performed in 1664, follows the story of a wealthy household who gets tricked by an […]
The world-renowned and Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet will perform as part of the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts season lineup at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 27, on the Hesston College campus in the Hesston Mennonite Church Sanctuary. For more than 30 years, the quartet has been hailed as one of the most multifaceted groups in […]
Artist Mika Holtzinger defines what it means to be a “steward to nature” through her show “Coalesce” featured in Hesston College’s Regier Friesen Gallery through February 19. A closing reception, demonstration and chance to meet the artist will be from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the gallery. “I aim to discover how […]
Comedian Ted Swartz (Harrisonburg, Va.) will present the show “Didn’t You Get My Letter? Musings from the Apostle Paul” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 22, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. In the hour-long one-man show, Swartz presents the Apostle Paul as a man often misunderstood. Through Paul’s encounter with Jesus on […]
Pianist Avguste Antonov will present a concert of American music at 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 9, in the Hesston Mennonite Church Sanctuary on the Hesston College campus. The concert will feature the music of American composers Carter Pann, Gregory Hutter, Matthew Saunders and Robert Rollin. Antonov leads an active career as soloist and teacher. He […]
Hesston College observed Martin Luther King, Jr., Day with a week of events Jan. 20 to 24. The theme for the week was “A Voice of Conscience: Echoing the Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” and featured special chapel presentations with Hesston College history instructor John Sharp and local college educators and community leaders Evies […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will perform the program “Meditations and Illuminations” at several locations in Nebraska during a weekend tour. All performances are free and open to the public though a free-will offering will be collected to assist with expenses. The “Meditations and Illuminations” program, under the direction of Bradley Kauffman, depicts ways […]
Hesston College and Bluestem Communities, the local retirement community, will partner to offer a special Valentine’s Day treat for the local community. The neighboring organizations will present “Music of Four Loves: Agape, Storge, Eros and Philia,” a dinner and concert, Thursday, Feb. 13 in the Community Center at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College […]
Participants in Hesston College’s annual Anabaptist Vision and Discipleship Series (AVDS) conference Feb. 21 to 23 will have the opportunity to discover the relevancy of the Bible and making it come alive in today’s world through the weekend’s theme, “Reading the Bible in an Instagram World.” Select weekend events are open to the public as […]
This was not the path Hesston College Baseball’s Dustin King envisioned for himself following his graduation from Clearwater (Kan.) High School. Having left home and enrolled at a four-year Kansas private school, the ambitious right-handed pitcher envisioned immediate success as a student athlete. Early in the spring semester of his freshman year, however, King was […]
by Melanie Zuercher, Bethel College A hometown girl, whose home is now New York City, will take the stage at Bethel College for the third event in the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series for 2013-14. Rachel Kasper Fitzsimons, whose professional name is Rachel de Benedet, will play Emma in Tell Me on a Sunday, with music […]
Hesston College announced the names of full-time students whose fall 2013 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 FreshmenRachelle Adrian – Mountain Lake, Minn.Kailey Aiello – Salem, Ore.Megan Baumgartner – Hesston, Kan.Victoria Becker – Halstead, Kan.Oliver Denlinger – Denver, Pa.Maria Diener […]
