by Matt Gerlach, sports information director Each spring, student-athletes, coaches and athletic staff gather to celebrate the year’s athletic achievements, including academic achievement, team success, individual accomplishment and the growth of student-athletes. This celebration also serves to announce and honor the male and female student-athletes chosen as Lark Athletes of the Year. The 2017-18 recipients […]
Student-athletes earn Academic All-American status Lark student-athletes were recognized as Academic All-Americans by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) for the 2017-18 year. Named to the All-Academic First Team with a GPA of 4.0 were Jenna Boller (Kalona, Iowa), women’s soccer; Jade Gleason (Brush, Colo.), volleyball; Cal Hartley (Benton, Kan.), men’s basketball; Kylee Kasselman […]
Hesston College graduates were sent on to their next chapter challenged to love with the radical love of Jesus at commencement exercises on May 13. Michelle Armster, M.Div., executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Central States (North Newton, Kan.), delivered the commencement address, “What’s love got to do with it?” based on the college’s […]
Many members of the Hesston College Class of 2018 shared their future plans at the New Alumni Dinner hosted by the Advancement Division, which includes Development, Alumni and Church Relations and Marketing and Communications. Congratulations Class of 2018 and best wishes as you go everywhere! This list includes the plans shared by those who chose […]
by Mackenzie Miller ’18 After 50 years of impacting Hesston College students and colleagues, Dr. Jim Yoder ’62 brought a close to a life chapter as he retired from teaching at the end of the 2017-18 year, leaving behind the longest teaching legacy to date. As the son of a college professor, Yoder always knew […]
Mike Baker ’93, director of Aviation, holds a master’s in business administration from Tabor College – Wichita and a bachelor of science – professional pilot from Utah Valley State College (Orem). Baker previously worked for the U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration – Wichita Flight Standards District Office as a front line manager in the […]
It’s not unusual for Hesston College employees to have long tenures. After all, when you find a community that welcomes you, embraces you and supports you so well, it’s easy to love it and you stay where life is good. At least that’s how Brent Brockmueller ’01 felt about it for 13 years. What’s unusual […]
Urban Life and Culture participants with Aldo Siahaan (right), pastor of Philadelphia Praise Center, a Mennonite church in South Philly. The end of the academic year doesn’t mean a break in learning experiences. In fact, in many cases it offers opportunities for learning in a new setting. Here’s where student groups have traveled this summer. […]
by Stephanie (Jackson) ’02, Alumni Advisory Council President, and Justin ’03 Yoder Several years ago, we were approached about becoming Hesston College Partners and there was no doubt that we wanted to do just that. Hesston College was such an important time and place for both of us. We are Hesston College Partners because Hesston […]
It was a hot, dry summer in Hesston, Kansas, the first time I set foot on campus in 1985. The brown lawns had cracks large enough to swallow a baseball it seemed. Students and parents alike gathered in the few air conditioned spaces available at the time, and most students seemed to already know each […]
The majority demographic of south central Kansas is pretty predictable –white Americans with European ancestry. But walk across the Hesston College campus in the heart of south central Kansas, and you’ve entered a different, unpredictable story. In classrooms, dorm rooms, the dining hall and athletic and performing arts venues across campus, students from around the […]
The living Hesston College presidents share reflections of their tenures during Homecoming and Inauguration Weekend 2017. From left: Laban Peachey, Kirk Alliman, Loren Swartzendruber, Howard Keim ’72 and Joe Manickam ’87. It’s a position only a few truly understand: president of Hesston College. What does it mean and how does it feel to bear the […]
by Mackenzie Miller ’18 Amanuel Wondimu ’16 comes from a family of engineers, so it’s no surprise that he would dream of being one, too. But to study in the United States? Wondimu is the first. Bringing his interests in aerospace and mechanical engineering with him, Wondimu chose to come from Ethiopia and start at […]
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia MAJOR: Health and medical occupations INVOLVEMENT: Ministry assistant, student ambassador Start Here I learned about Hesston College through my childhood friend. She came to Hesston and I knew she had had a good experience and was glad she had started here, so I thought it would be the same way for me. […]
Pipersville, Pa. MAJOR: Biology and international agriculture from Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Va.) CAREER: International agriculture in service Making service a career Much of my work after college has been spent in service. My wife, Jenny, and I served in Mozambique with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). In our first term, I was a sustainable agriculture […]
