Marion Blumenthal Lazan will share “Four Perfect Pebbles—My Holocaust Story” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Bluffton University’s Founders Hall. The campus forum is free and open to the public.
The author of a memoir also titled “Four Perfect Pebbles,” Lazan will recall her family’s life during the Holocaust, from events preceding Kristallnacht—the November 1938 attacks on Jewish synagogues and businesses in Nazi Germany—to imprisonment in concentration camps and, finally, to liberation.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's soccer team responded favorably to its first match at the Sears Complex in over three weeks when the Beavers welcomed rival Anderson University on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey may have taken the first step toward understanding her mother in Bluffton, Ohio.
She said as much following an Oct. 15 lecture at Bluffton University, where her late mother, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough, attended college for one year 50 years ago.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University volleyball team gave everybody in the Sommer Center their money's worth in a grueling five-set Heartland Conference victory over Franklin College on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Homecoming weekend started with a bang as the Beavers improved to 10-13 overall and 2-1 in the HCAC. The Grizzlies proved worthy opposition while falling to 13-8 overall and 2-1 in the conference.
The Bluffton University men's soccer team traveled to Earlham College on Saturday, Oct. 12, for a Heartland Conference match with the Quakers, falling by a score of 1-0. The Beavers battled through a scoreless first half before allowing an early second period goal which was all the Quakers needed in their shutout victory.
Natasha Trethewey, the Poet Laureate of the United States, will deliver Bluffton University’s annual Keeney Peace Lecture at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Founders Hall.
Trethewey will read from her work—including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 collection “Native Guard”—during her presentation, titled “On Poetry and History.” The event is free and open to the public.
