Bluffton's has its share of 15 minutes of fame. Here's another: This month's issue of Ohio magazine.
The September includes a six-page spread on Bluffton University and the community.
The multi-page feature is part of the magazine's Ohio College Tours series. The September issue features Kent State University and Miami University, in addition to Bluffton.
Tiffany Luckey wrote the story for the magazine and Joshua A. Bickel took the photos. The feature includes 11 photos of campus and community.
The Bluffton University cheerleaders will host a two-day clinic for girls in grades 2-6, leading to a performance at a Beavers football game on Saturday, Oct. 17.
Participants will learn a dance, cheer and chant at the clinic, scheduled for 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, and Thursday, Oct. 15, in Bluffton’s Sommer Center.
The performance will take place at halftime of the Oct. 17 game against Earlham on Alumni Field at Salzman Stadium. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m.
Bluffton University’s Grace Albrecht Gallery will host “Instruments of Peace,” an October exhibition of miniaturist paintings and decal ceramics by Goshen, Ind., artists Justin and Brooke Rothshank.
Opening Oct. 7, the exhibit is free and open to the public through Oct. 30. Gallery hours in the Sauder Visual Arts Center are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A reception for the artists will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 10.
Jeff Gundy, professor of English at Bluffton University, will devote a campus colloquium on Friday, Oct. 2, to his spring 2015 sabbatical in Lithuania. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in the Kreider Room in Marbeck Center.
Gundy, who also chairs Bluffton’s humanities division, spent last spring semester teaching at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania. LCC International is an English-language liberal arts university with about 600 students from all over Eastern Europe and a number of Mennonites on the faculty and staff.
Lima First Assembly of God, 1660 Findlay Road, will host a two-part Living Proof simulcast of Beth Moore, Bible teacher and popular women's author and speaker.
The events are 6:45 to 9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 9, and from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 10.
The event challenges and encourages women to grow deeply in their faith. Over 250,000 women around the world will participate in this Internet streaming event.
Dove award-winning musical artist Travis Cottrell, who also serves as worship pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, Tenn., will lead worship.
