Mindy Young, daughter of Ron and Vicki Young (Vicki is a DTR associate), covers her face during Sunday's BFR Halloween party. Click for more photos and a video.
James Grandey, head baseball coach at Bluffton University, is among this year's inductees into the Muskingum University Athletic Hall of Fame. He and three others will be inducted on Saturday, Oct. 22.
Grandey played baseball and football at Muskingum, where he graduated in 1999 with the William G. Moore Outstanding Senior Male Athlete Award. He had also been Muskingum's top freshman male athlete and, as a senior, was the university's nominee for the Clyde Lamb Award as outstanding male athlete in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC).
Bluffton University's fall play is getting its full-fledged premiere on the Ramseyer Auditorium stage.
"The Castle of Otranto," adapted by John Minigan several years ago from a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, has been scaled back for presentations as a staged reading and as a workshop production at the Orlando (Fla.) PlayFest. But it will be produced in full form for the first time Nov. 3-6 at Bluffton.
Darin Kerr, visiting instructor of theatre this fall, is directing the show, set for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3-5 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the College Hall auditorium.
"Sculpture Works by Greg Mueller," an exhibition in Bluffton University's Sauder Visual Arts Center, will open Sunday, Oct. 30, with a reception from 2-4 p.m. in the center's Grace Albrecht Gallery.
Free and open to the public, the exhibition includes two-dimensional wall prints documenting public art projects, as well as pedestal and floor pieces, and a larger exterior work installed near the center. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 20.
Bluffton University's Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band will take center stage Sunday, Oct. 30, for the university's annual Fall Instrumental Concert, at 2:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public; an offering will be taken for music scholarships.
The Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Adam Schattschneider, professor of music, will present seven numbers, including swing-era classics "In The Mood" by Joe Garland-with an arrangement by Paul Lavender-and "Take the 'A' Train" by Billy Strayhorn.
Tickets remain available for the next performance in the 2011-12 Bluffton University Artist Series, by the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Founded in 1991, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin has carved a niche for itself under the leadership of its founder and director, Misha Rachlevsky. Composed of some of Russia's finest young string players, the orchestra has earned international recognition as one of the country's leading ensembles, touring regularly in North and South America, Europe and the Far East.
