Julie Hostetler Graber is going to Kenya in July to share her teaching experience with the staff of the Mathare Menno Kids Academy. The Academy is a nursery to eighth grade school located in Mathare, a poverty-stricken area of Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. Because Julie was born while her parents, Don and Joyce Hostetler of Bluffton, were serving as volunteers in East Africa, she has developed a lasting interest in the children there. This will be her third visit to Africa as an adult.
The final honor roll of the 2010-11 season was released on June 3 for Bluffton elementary fourth and fifth graders. The students are listed in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
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.
