The Bluffton University track and field team made the trip to Ohio Wesleyan University for the second straight weekend to partake in the Division III All-Ohio Championship meet and came home with a couple of school records.
Bluffton University will host its annual Academic Awards Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 23, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Students to be honored include graduating seniors in the Honors Program, C. Henry Smith Scholars and Pi Delta inductees, as well as departmental award recipients, who are recognized as distinguished senior scholars. In addition, several seniors will present on their departmental honors projects.
Bluffton congregations have several special services planned for Easter week. In addition, the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association’s Good Friday Procession of the Cross takes place.
Here is the schedule of Easter week church services. Churches with information missing from this schedule may e-mail details to: [email protected].
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs president Dick McGarrity introduced a new executive director, Paula Scott, at the April 12 Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting.
The new half-time appointment will be coordinated with Scott’s other half-time job as CEO of the local chamber of commerce.
In fact, Scott simply flipped over her badge to show that one side says BCE and the other says Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. Scott previously served as communications director for the business incubator and has operated her own digital marketing business.
Catherine Manning and Steve Boyer-Edwards will perform in the next Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy-Chappell Dick.
The free performance, open to the public is at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 17.
Chappell-Dick describes the performs this way:
Catherine Manning is an Accredited Music Therapist practicing in oncology and end-of-life care in Toronto, Canada. Her patient bedside repertoire includes everything from Mozart to sacred song to AC/DC, but folk music is her home.
Blanchard Valley Medical Practices, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, recently welcomed Maria Slack, MD, to ENT & Allergy Specialists of Northwest Ohio. The office is located at 1110 W. Main Cross St., Findlay, and Dr. Slack is welcoming new patients. She specializes in treating allergies in both pediatric and adult patients and has completed extensive research in allergy and immunology.
Hannah Conklin ’19, a convergent media major and journalism minor from Westerville, Ohio, was named the winner of Bluffton University’s annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest held April 3.
