The lobby in Hirschy Hall is the latest residence hall lobby to get a makeover at Bluffton University.
Students moving in at Hirschy this weekend will see a lobby, and adjacent lounge, with new paint, flooring and furniture, courtesy of a 50th-year class gift from Bluffton’s class of 1965.
“The Art of Fiber,” an exhibition of work from the northwest Ohio art group Fiberforum, will kick off the 2015-16 schedule in Bluffton University’s Grace Albrecht Gallery, located in the Sauder Visual Arts Center.
Opening Aug. 31, the exhibit is free and open to the public through Sept. 25. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A reception for the artists will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13.
Marge Piercy, a poet and novelist whose 1991 book, “He, She and It” was this year’s summer reading for first-year Bluffton University students, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Sept. 1, as Bluffton welcomes the class of 2019 at its annual opening convocation.
With faculty in regalia looking on, about 240 new first-year and transfer students will be introduced during the ceremony, which begins at 10:45 a.m. in the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education.
Bluffton University will welcome leaders, teachers and scholars to campus Oct. 16-18 for a conference on “Mennonite Education: Past, Present and Future.”
