Hannah Eastin, artist-in-resident for the Art Department, works on raku firing of ceramics outside the new Friesen Center for the Visual Arts.

Jim Yoder, chemistry professor at Hesston College, and a 1962 Hesston graduate, was the featured speaker at the alumni banquet. Jim and his wife Phyllis spent ten months during the past school year in Swaziland on a Fulbright grant.

Marion Bontrager, an overseer in South Central Mennonite Conference, and Bible professor and Hershberger’s colleague at Hesston College, led the ordination ceremony of Michele Hershberger. As part of the ordination by South Central Mennonite Conference, Bontrager places a red stole around her.

Faculty member Deb Roth teaches the Education department’s Exceptional Student course during the spring term of 2008.

Tony Brown poses for a photo with an Ainu Indian man from northern Japan during the international summit of indigenous people held in Sapporo this past fall.

At the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Tony Brown stands with a tour guide whose father died as the result of the affects of the atomic bomb. “He told me to be sure to tell the story of Hiroshima as I travel around the world,” Brown said. The only building left standing after the atomic bomb can be seen in the background.

Dr. Jim Yoder

Recent Hesston College Air Traffic Control graduates, Jerry Holloman (left) and Jacob Gayer (right) work with Director of Aviation Dan Miller in the on-campus table model simulation lab. The table model and computer simulation labs give students a hands-on approach to learning the dynamics and demands of the air traffic control profession.

Michele Hershberger uses a timeline to explain where Biblical events fall in Heilsgeschichte.