The Hesston College Music Department invites all community singers (high school age and above) to join the Hesston College choirs to present the college’s Masterworks Concert during Thanksgiving Weekend. Featured for this year’s concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, November 27, is Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria , conducted by Bradley Kauffman, music faculty member. Rehearsals are scheduled […]
by Carol Duerksen Take a banjo-pickin’ preacher, a new visual arts facility, a humorous chemistry professor, and an improv comedy team, and what do you get? You get 18 and 80-year-olds laughing in the aisles. You get bluegrass music and Paul Friesen art. You get a unique life lesson from Swaziland. You get a creative […]
by Andrew Sharp The Hesston College men’s and women’s basketball programs kicked off the 2008-2009 season with their annual “Midnight Madness” event on Friday night, October 3. After the doors of Yost Center were opened, the majority of the Hesston College student body poured inside while the Screamin’ Larks, the college’s pep band, filled the […]
by Susan Miller Balzer Ben Barwick cringes when he sees Kansans watering their lawns- especially when they do so after a recent rainfall. His experiences in the Holy Lands this summer as a member of a Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) delegation helped him see the preciousness of water and learn how power and oppression lead […]
New lighting equipment and curtains installed this summer and fall in Northlawn Room 109, part of the Music and Theatre Department building at Hesston College, have enhanced the multiple functions of that room immensely. The room becomes the setting for some theatre productions and music programs, serves as rehearsal space for the instrumental and vocal […]
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 […]
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 […]
