The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference recently announced the spring honorees of the HCAC All-Academic awards for the 2012-13 school year. Bluffton University had 19 spring athletes recognized for their efforts in the classroom.
Baseball along with track and field led the way for the Beavers with seven and five honorees, respectively.
The Bluffton University baseball team capped off its record-breaking 2013 season with seven Beavers earning All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honors for their play this season.
Kyle Niermann (Napoleon) earned his third straight First Team accolade after being named Second Team All-HCAC as a freshman. Fellow seniors Miles Richardson (Granville/Newark Catholic) and Greg Franks (Smithville) were both selected Second Team All-HCAC.
Morgan Schroeder is the first graduate of Bluffton University’s accounting program to benefit from a new Bluffton partnership with Bowling Green State University’s master of accountancy degree program.
The Columbus Grove, Ohio, resident, who earned her Bluffton bachelor’s degree in accounting and business administration on May 5, has received a full scholarship to the Bowling Green master’s program. The new “Beaver-Falcon MAcc Scholarship” includes a full-tuition award plus a paid graduate assistantship.
A pair of Bluffton University sophomores were recently named First Team All-Heartland Conference for their outstanding play on the diamond this spring. Katie Clark (New Palestine, Ind.) and Ariana Muffo (New Athens, Ill.) led Bluffton to its seventh straight HCAC tournament appearance in 2013.
Picking up Second Team All-HCAC honors were junior Shelby Erford (Paulding) and freshman Ashley Knippen (Wapakoneta), while sophomore Brittany Baker (Springboro) was an honorable mention selection.
Kiros Teka Haddis (right), president of Ethiopia’s Meserete Kristos College (MKC), chats with Dr. Susan Carpenter, an associate professor of English at Bluffton University, during a visit to the university May 6.
Joining the president were Kelbessa Muleta Demena (left), assistant to the executive secretary of MKC and chair of its board of trustees, and Carl Hansen, the Harrisonburg, Va.-based director of college advancement for MKC.
The visitors spent time at The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center on campus and later at First Mennonite Church in Bluffton.
Minutes away from becoming Bluffton University graduates on May 5, 279 students were reminded that they have another test.
“That test is called ‘the rest of your life,’” said Dr. J. Denny Weaver, a professor emeritus of religion at Bluffton and the speaker at the university’s 113th annual commencement ceremony.
The test is “how well you invest the education you have acquired,” he said, urging the graduates to do so by helping bend the moral arc that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said is long but “bends toward justice.”
