You grew up in a very music-oriented family. Do you remember the very first song you learned to sing as a child?
I remember the first song that I learned to sing in harmony at age five- I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. It was a praise song from my parents' house church.
How many instruments do you play? Was piano first? Cello?
Bluffton native Rick Emmert (BHS 1968 graduate) sends The Icon this update on several projects involving him.
Theatre Nohgaku, which I founded in 2000, is having its first Asian tour at the end of June and beginning of July.
We think we have a great performance that shows off both the power and beauty of noh theater and our own continually improving abilities as a company-the only theater company doing English noh in complete traditional style.
Aaron Shelly was named to the spring Dean's list at Goshen College, Goshen, Ind. Shelly, son of Art and Lisa Shelly of Bluffton, is a junior studying physics and mathematics. He is a 2009 graduate of Bluffton High School.
A discussion of Lisa Tan's book The Kitchen God's Wife will take place in the family room of Maple Crest Senior Living Village on Monday, June 27, at 2:30 p.m.
Copies of the book are available at Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main St., Bluffton. Maple Crest Senior Living Village is located at 700 Maple Crest Ct., Bluffton.
Dr. Jed Marquart of Bluffton, professor of mechanical engineering at ONU, served as the advisor of the Ohio Northern University student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) that placed 17th at the SAE Aero Design East Competition in Marietta, Ga., from April 29-May 1.
One area student on the team is Logan Kingen, a junior mechanical engineering major from Pandora,