Bluffton University’s music department has announced the soloists for its 120th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in Founders Hall. Soloists are Kate Merryman, soprano; Lianna Wimberly Williams, mezzo-soprano; James Flora, tenor; and Weilong Tao, baritone.
Sarah Dhondt, a senior from Perrysburg, Ohio, is Bluffton University’s fourth recipient of a full scholarship to Bowling Green State University’s master of accountancy program.
Dhondt has earned the Beaver-Falcon MAcc Scholarship, a Bluffton-Bowling Green partnership that includes a full-tuition award plus a paid graduate assistantship for a Bluffton accounting graduate.
Participants in the fourth annual Giving Tuesday—a global initiative to encourage charitable giving amid holiday consumerism—can, for the second year, direct their generosity to Bluffton University on Tuesday, Dec. 1.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The awards continue to roll in for senior Jenny Brown (St. Marys/Memorial) who was named Honorable Mention All-America by the American Volleyball Coaches Association following Bluffton's third straight NCAA Regional appearance. She is the first Bluffton volleyball player to earn All-America status after her First Team All-Great Lakes Region recognition less than a week ago.
In the repressive Soviet Union of the 1980s, dissident Aleksandr Kalugin kept his art under cover in a grand piano—“hidden in plain sight,” as Olwen Pritchard put it Nov. 12 at Bluffton University.
But Pritchard and her husband, Dr. James Satterwhite, a Bluffton professor, acquired five etchings from Kalugin and eventually brought them back to Bluffton, where they are now on permanent display in the university’s Musselman Library.
