A fantastic finish to the 2013 season was capped off on Wednesday, Nov. 20, when 10 Bluffton University football players earned All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honors, including three selected to the first team. Four Beavers were named to the second team following a season that saw Bluffton post victories over Anderson, Franklin and rival Defiance in the final three games this year.
William B. Irvine has a “five-second rule” that has nothing to do with eating just-dropped food off a floor.
But it has a lot to do with a person’s ability to brush off an insult, the Wright State University philosophy professor said Nov. 19 at Bluffton University.
JACKSONVILLE, Ill. - The Bluffton University men's basketball team was the victim of a late-game run and fell to the Illinois College Blueboys, 87-82, on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. The home team was able to close the game on a 6-0 spurt to earn the victory over the Beavers, who fell to 1-1 on the season.
JACKSONVILLE, Ill. - The Bluffton University men's basketball team was the victim of a late-game run and fell to the Illinois College Blueboys, 87-82, on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. The home team was able to close the game on a 6-0 spurt to earn the victory over the Beavers, who fell to 1-1 on the season.
Sarah Diller, a Bluffton native and a 2011 Bluffton University graduate, leads the list of soloists for the university’s 118th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in Founders Hall.
Joining Diller, a soprano, are fellow soloists Sandra Agans Krueger, alto; Jon Jurgens, tenor; and Timothy J. Bruno, bass. Conducting the performance is Dr. Mark J. Suderman, a professor of music and director of choral activities at Bluffton.
Justin Romine grew up in church and Sunday school knowing “all the right answers,” he told a Bluffton University audience Nov. 12. He was also “the kid who hated prayer,” he recalled. “I was very impatient with it.”
Photo: Justin Romine (right) speaks during a Spiritual Life Week panel discussion at Bluffton University. Listening are Heather Koontz (left), a social worker and former Bluffton faculty member, and campus counselor Rae Staton.
