Bluffton University

"All the Queen’s Horses" on Oct. 22

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A screening of the documentary “All The Queen’s Horses” will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in Bluffton University’s Yoder Recital Hall.

The documentary focuses on the largest case of municipal fraud in American history and poses the question, “How could one woman steal $53 million without anyone noticing?”

The crime, which fed a quarter horse breeding empire, forced years of staff cuts, budget slashing in the police department and neglect of public infrastructure in Dixon, Ill.

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Bluffton University’s mathematics department will host its annual math competition for high school students on Saturday, Nov. 9, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.

The test consists of short-answer questions covering high school math topics through pre-calculus. Fifteen cash prizes will be awarded, and test scores of seniors considering attending Bluffton may be used to award renewable scholarships of up to $1,000 per year. Scholarship awards will be offered by January 2020.

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 Bluffton senior Obi Martin, an English major from Gordonville, Pa., will present, “When Spells Weren’t Cast But Written”, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 11 a.m. in Musselman Library’s Reading Room. 

Martin, who serves as assistant editor for “Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal” will present on writing and performative arts, as well as his work with “The Curator” and “Leaf Magazine,” online and print literary journals based out of Hagerstown, Md. 

Tim Bender and Leslie Beasley are the royal couple

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Seniors Tim Bender of Wellman, Iowa, and Leslie Beasley of Columbus, Ohio, were crowned Bluffton University’s Homecoming king and queen at halftime of the annual Homecoming football game on Oct. 12.

Other seniors on the Homecoming court were Andrew Sluss of Houston, Ohio; Von Thomas of Dayton, Ohio; Megan Hill of Arcadia, Ohio; and Alexis Cash of Gaines, Mich.

Junior attendants were Jules Frazier of Nova, Ohio, and Caleb Nesbit of Deatsville, Ala.,

Sophomore attendants were Evan Burden of Sidney, Ohio, and Veronika Stafa of Lezha, Albania.

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Bluffton University will host an instrumental concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, in Yoder Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

Dr. Roy Couch, associate professor of music, will conduct the program with a piece by Barry Milner called “An October Sky” and “Gales of November” by James Hosay. The varied choices will reference the fall season. 

Well, he's in the "Arsenic and Old Lace" cast at Bluffton University

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• BHS grad Caleb Mikesell is on the cast
Bluffton University will present “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Joseph Kesselring for the fall play from Oct. 31-Nov. 3. 

In “Arsenic and Old Lace,” theater critic Mortimer Brewster’s charming and charitable aunts have an usual ministry helping lonely boarders to their heavenly rest by serving poisoned elderberry wine.

The famous 1941 dark comedy features a nephew who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a gangster on the run and unsuspecting police officers dropping in on the mayhem.

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