CINCINNATI, Ohio - A Joel Scudder triple with just eight ticks on the clock sent HCAC-leading Mount St. Joseph to a come-from-behind 57-55 win over Bluffton University on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. The Beavers slipped to 11-11 overall and 7-8 in the Heartland Conference, while MSJ stayed atop the HCAC at 12-3 in the conference and 17-5 overall.
Bluffton University’s Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band will present the university’s annual winter instrumental concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be taken during intermission for music scholarships.
Dr. Adam Schattschneider, professor of music, directs the Jazz Ensemble, while Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music, conducts the Concert Band. Paul Baransy, an adjunct trumpet instructor, will serve as guest director of the Jazz Ensemble for its rendition of his “Walkin’ to Gilboa.”
Heather Bruder, an assistant professor of sport management at Bluffton University, will address her doctoral dissertation topic—leadership in intercollegiate athletic departments—in a Bluffton colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Her presentation, titled “Leadership within Athletic Departments: Examining Sport Programs’ Success,” is free and open to the public.
Two longtime colleagues on the Bluffton University music faculty had talked many times about making music together. They have finally been able to accomplish it, on a nearly finished project that will be performed in the United Kingdom this spring.
Drs. Peter Terry and Mark Suderman have been working in tandem since last summer to create a lively “fanfare of voices” based on Psalm 100.
