Members of Bluffton University’s Ohio Collegiate Music Education Association and Bluffton Education Association are inviting community members and trick-or-treaters to Mosiman Hall from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31, Bluffton’s trick-or-treat night. Classrooms will be decorated for the Halloween holiday and treats will be handed out.
The Bluffton University Social Work Club is sponsoring a canned food drive during the village of Bluffton’s trick-or-treat time on Thursday, Oct. 31.
Jeanna Haggard, assistant professor of food and nutrition, will present the Colloquium, “Apprentice at Chef and the Farmer,” at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
During the presentation, Haggard will share about her apprenticeship with celebrity chef Vivian Howard, owner of Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, N.C., and star of the PBS show “A Chef’s Life.”
Mortimer Brewster (Adam Shanaman ’22, right) reassures his brother, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt (Eric Lehman ’22), that “the country is squarely behind you.”
The scene is from a practice of Bluffton University’s fall play “Arsenic and Old Lace.”
The 1940s dark comedy centers around Brewster, whose charming and charitable aunts have an unusual ministry – helping lonely boarders to their heavenly rest by serving poisoned elderberry wine.
Melissa Florer-Bixler, pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church, will share “Becoming Atheists: Worship Among the Gods,” during Bluffton University’s Spiritual Life Week Forum on Tuesday, Nov. 5. The presentation begins at 11 a.m. in Bluffton’s Yoder Recital Hall. Forum is free and open to the public.
During the presentation, the Mennonite pastor and author will invite the audience to take cues from the earliest Christians to become atheists to the gods of our day: late-stage capitalism, white supremacy and religion-infused nationalism.
The Bluffton University football team played host to conference foe Anderson University in what was a cold and rainy afternoon on Saturday.
The Beaver defense came up big late in the game and stuffed a fourth down try by the Ravens that would help propel Bluffton to its first victory of the season, 24-17.
Bluffton improved to 1-6 overall and 1-3 in Heartland conference play while Anderson fell to 3-5 overall and 1-4 in the HCAC.
