The high-energy Irish David Munnelly Band made a big impression on south central Kansas when they first appeared at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield several years ago, and now they’re coming to Bethel College. The band is the fourth artist group in the 2008-09 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series season. They will sing, dance and […]
Ireland’s legendary folk singer and peace activist, Tommy Sands, will appear with his children and accomplished musicians, 25-year-old Moya and 26-year-old Fionán Sands, at the Hesston Mennonite Church Community Center. The performance is 7 p.m., Tuesday, February 24. The concert is sponsored by Hesston College, and Peace Connections of Newton. A freewill offering will be […]
Plan on fun for the entire family when Hesston College hosts its annual Alumni and Community Basketball Games at the college’s Yost Center Saturday afternoon, February 21. The Larks will host Southeast Community College from Beatrice, Neb. The women’s game tips off at 2 p.m., and the men’s game to follow at 4 p.m. The […]
Poet and social activist Mama Brenda Matthews will speak at Hesston College February 18-19. She is the fifth speaker in the Melva Kauffman Lecture Series that began in 2005. Matthews, who lives in Chicago, is a poet and dynamic speaker whose purpose is to plant seeds of change in the hearts of those who have […]
Abstract and mixed media created by Ashley Sauder-Miller, a 2001 graduate of Hesston College, will be on exhibit in the Hesston College Gallery located in Smith Center February 9-March 9. Her works were produced largely during the final semester of her master of fine arts degree that she earned from James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Va.) […]
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 […]
