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Convocation

Convocation is an all-school assembly that generally meets twice weekly during the term at 11 a.m. It is an integral part of the liberal arts education experience at Bethel. Guest lecturers, performing groups and audio/visual presentations provide students with a wide ranging exposure to issues in politics, society, religion, the arts and sciences. The convocation experience is designed to help build community, broaden horizons and explore basic value issues. Nathan Bartel, assistant professor of literary studies, serves as convocation coordinator.

Past Convocations

This list is constructed from the published convocation brochures, which may not necessarily reflect last-minute changes to the convo schedule.

• 2010-2011

  • Spring 2011

    	Spring 2011 Schedule
    Feb. 4	David H. Richert Distinguished Scholar Presentation Brad Born, vice president for academic affairs Introduction to Convocation Dale Schrag, convocation coordinator
    Feb. 7	Pueblo, Peace, Papaya Tree Alan and Elizabeth Claassen Thrush, Mennonite Central Committee workers in Nicaragua
    Feb. 11	Interterm travel reports
    Feb. 14	Freedom Riders (DVD) The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.
    Feb. 18	Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? William (Buzz) Alexander, founder and member, Prison Creative Arts Project, and professor, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Feb. 21	Why We Love Our Enemies: Tactics from Jesus for a World at War Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author, New Monastic, and associate minister, St. John’s Baptist Church, Durham, N.C.
    Feb. 25	The Impact of Globalization on the World’s Poor Albert Lobe, North American representative, Mennonite World Conference, and friends
    Feb. 28	Do Your Future a Favor: What You Do Now Can Shape Your Financial Future Ashley Hagelin, counselor, Lutheran Social Services, Duluth, Minn.
    March 4	A Conversation with the President Perry D. White
    March 7	The Character Challenge Riccardo Harris, family engagement facilitator, Wichita Public Schools, and pastor, Resurrection Community Church, Wichita
    March 11	An Open Clinic with the Bethel College Jazz Combo Bob Mintzer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
    March 14	Young Alumnus Award: The Power of Possibility Matthew Schmidt (1994), director of community support services and access/emergency services at Prairie View Mental Health Center, Newton
    March 18	Student Senate Convocation
    March 21	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    March 25	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    March 28	Forensics Road Show
    April 1	Uneasy Inheritance: Amish Settlements and the Trail of Death Marty Lehman, director of churchwide operations, Mennonite Church USA, Elkhart, Ind.
    April 4	Seeing Afghanistan through a Muslim Woman’s Eyes Palwasha Kakar, program manager, Access to Justice and Women’s Rights in Islam, The Asia Foundation, Kabul, Afghanistan
    April 8	How I Became a Disability Advocate: My Journey Into the World of the Blind Carol Thieszen-Culp, independent living core services manager, Center for People with Disabilities, Boulder, Colo.
    April 11	Common Ground: Bethel’s Shared Liberal Arts Experience Common Ground Task Force
    April 15	An Introduction to the Electric Violin Tracy Silverman, “the world’s greatest living exponent of the electric violin” (BBC)
    April 18	Infectious Diseases Challenges in the 21st Century Laurel Preheim, chief of medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, and associate chair, Department of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha
    April 22	NO CONVOCATION — Good Friday
    April 25	C. Henry Smith Peace Oration Finals
    April 29	Seeking Peace Among Christians, Jews and Muslims Duane Friesen, Edmund G. Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Bible and Religion
    May 2	Schubert’s Mass in E flat Major William Eash, professor of music
    May 6	Out of Breath Margaret Edson, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “Wit,” Atlanta, Ga.
    May 9	Awards Convocation
    May 13	Champions of Character Awards Convocation

  • Fall 2010

    	Fall 2010 Schedule
    Aug. 30	Formal opening of school: The Art of Wondering Dr. Brad Born, vice president for academic affairs
    Sept. 3	Introduction of new faculty/staff and introduction to convocation
    Sept. 6	The Night I Met Einstein Dr. Perry D. White, president
    Sept. 10	Impacting the World Robert William, director of international student services/program manager, Brethren Colleges Abroad, Elizabethtown, Pa.
    Sept. 13	Student Senate Convocation and Club Fair
    Sept. 17	Political candidates’ forum
    Sept. 20	The God of Isaiah: A Jewish Reading of the Prophet Dr. Nissim Wernick, rabbi of Ahavath Achim Hebrew Congregation, Wichita
    Sept. 23	World Café: A Community Exercise Chad Childs, vice president for student life, facilitator (This convocation will be held in Memorial Hall.)
    Sept. 27	Journey in the Diaspora: A Personal Story Bassima Schbley, assistant professor of social work, Washburn University, Topeka
    Oct. 1	Student study abroad reports
    Oct. 4	Undergraduate Research, Internships and Creative Activity (URICA) reports
    Oct. 8	Fall Festival Convocation: Bethel’s Got Talent
    Oct. 11	Site Inspired Jennifer Miller, adjunct instructor, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, Colo.
    Oct. 15	Beating Time Daniel Hege, music director and conductor, Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Syracuse (New York) Symphony Orchestra
    Oct. 18	NO CONVOCATION — Fall Break
    Oct. 22	Broadcasting Belief: Faith, Media and Culture Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor, Manchester College, North Manchester, Ind., and former editor of The Messenger, denominational magazine of the Church of the Brethren
    Oct. 25	Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers: How la causa Turned from Triumph to Tragedy, and Why the Unraveling of This Remarkable ‘60s Social Justice Movement Matters Miriam Pawel, former LA Times editor/reporter, and author of The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement
    Oct. 29	Stories from the Mountain Kingdom Makoala Marake, the “herdboy professor,” department of soil science and resource conservation, National University of Lesotho, Roma
    Nov. 1	Menno Simons Lecture: The Christian Faith in Global Perspective John D. Roth, professor of history, Goshen College, Goshen, Ind.
    Nov. 5	Lies in the Land of Promise: Reflections from Jerusalem Peter Miller, resident director, Warkentin Court, and former service worker with Mennonite Central Committee in Jerusalem
    Nov. 8	Loving Your Enemies: Did Jesus Really Mean It? Frank Cordaro, former parish Priest and founder and member of the Des Moines Catholic Worker community, Des Moines, Iowa
    Nov. 12	A Latino Perspective on the Arizona Immigration Law Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University, College Station
    Nov. 15	Honors Convocation: Reflections from a Life of Teaching Dr. William Eash, professor of music, and recipient of the 2010 Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teaching Award
    Nov. 19	Ugandan Advocates: Peace and Proscovia Jenna Ingrassia, Middle America team leader, Invisible Children Face to Face Tour
    Nov. 22	Making Bethel College ‘Greener’ Roger Reimer, maintenance technician, Gary Histand, professor of chemistry, and friends
    Nov. 26	NO CONVOCATION — Thanksgiving Break
    Nov. 29	Called to Greatness Wayne Simien, former All-American basketball player at the University of Kansas and member of the 2005-06 NBA champion Miami Heat
    Dec. 3	To be announced
    Dec. 6	Biology: A Lifelong Affair Francisca Méndez-Harclerode, assistant professor of biology
    Dec. 10	Messiah sing Featuring the Bethel College orchestra, student soloists and conductors and all of us in the chorus (This convocation takes place in Bethel College Mennonite Church.)

  • Spring 2010

    	Spring 2010 Schedule
    Feb. 5	Give Yourself to the Poor Rick McNary, president and CEO, Numana, Inc., El Dorado, Kansas
    Feb. 8	In Pursuit of Hope: My Spiritual Journey Ervin Stutzman, executive director, Mennonite Church USA, Harrisonburg, Virginia
    Feb. 12	Interterm travel reports
    Feb. 15	An Exploration of South African Music Gloria Creed-Dikeogu, director of library services, Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas
    Feb. 19	Jazz Ensemble I and Mello Cello
    Feb. 22	Biblical Storytelling: The Word Made Flesh Tracy Radosevic, dean, Academy for Biblical Storytellers, Baltimore, Maryland
    Feb. 26	A Western Youth in the Ancient Middle East Mike Prahm, U. S. Navy veteran, missionary, and plant maintenance supervisor, Kansas Ready Mix, Wichita, Kansas
    March 1	Beautiful and Abundant: Visualizing a Sustainable Human Future Bryan Welch, publisher and editorial director, Ogden Publications, Inc., Topeka, Kansas
    March 5	TBA
    March 8	Philanthropist for a Dollar: How Tiny Gifts Change the World Toby Tyner, associate director of development, and the Bethel College Advancement Department
    March 12	TBA
    March 15	What Do You Do With a Broken Heart? Monica Epperson, chairman and CEO of Blended Love, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma
    March 19	Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America David Ngaruri Kenney, Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, Rockville, Maryland
    March 22	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    March 26	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    March 29	Young Alumnus Award: Leaps and Bounds: From Goessel, Kansas, to Washington, D. C. Katrina Toews (1998), director of The Washington Ballet at THEARC (Town Hall Education Art and Recreation Campus), Washington, D. C.
    April 2	NO CONVOCATION — Good Friday
    April 5	C. H. Wedel: A Centennial Post-Mortem James C. Juhnke, professor emeritus of history
    April 9	The Universe in Oscillation: ‘Music for a Higher Purpose’ Paul Rudy, professor and coordinator of composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City; composer-in-residence, Bethel College
    April 12	Surfing the Event Horizon on the Magic Carpet of Sound Paul Rudy, professor and coordinator of composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City; composer-in-residence, Bethel College
    April 16	Breathe In, Breathe Out: Yoga as Spiritual and Cultural Practice Karen Sheriff LeVan, English department, Hesston College
    April 19	Cluster Munitions: Can Banning Little Bombs Lead to a Bigger Peace? Virgil Wiebe, associate professor, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    April 23	Becoming a Supergirl: The Process of Developing a One-Woman Show Amanda Petefish Schrag, assistant professor, communication, theatre and languages, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri
    April 26	C. Henry Smith Peace Orations
    April 30	Forensics Road Show
    May 3	TBA
    May 7	Appreciating Twentieth-Century Masterworks: Poulenc’s Gloria (1961) and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms (1930) William Eash, professor of music
    May 10	Awards Convo
    May 14	Champions of Character Awards Convo

• 2000-2009

  • Fall 2009

    	Fall 2009 Schedule
    Aug. 31	Formal opening of school: “We Don’t Need No Education” Brad Born, vice president for academic affairs
    Sept. 4	Introduction to convocation and new faculty
    Sept. 7	A Wild Strawberry Conspiracy John Sheriff, interim president, Bethel College
    Sept. 11	Love, Sex and HIV/AIDS: Stories of Heartbreak and Courage Amidst a Resource-Starved Reality Joanna Hiebert Bergen, HIV/AIDS program coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee
    Sept. 14	Student Senate Convocation and Club Fair
    Sept. 18	Looking Back on America from Abroad: Reflections from Study-Abroad Students
    Sept. 21	Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States (NOTE: This convocation will take place at 10:00 a.m. instead of 11:00 a.m. Classes normally held at 10:00 a.m. will be held at 11:00 a.m. on this day only.)
    Sept. 25	World Café: A Community Exercise Chad Childs, vice president for student life, facilitator (NOTE: This convocation will take place in Memorial Hall.)
    Sept. 28	Honors Convocation: Social Work Narratives: Privilege, Responsibility and Turning Points Ada Schmidt-Tieszen, professor of social work and recipient of the Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009
    Oct. 2	Fall Festival Convocation:The Free Staters, a quartet performing fun, fast-paced, popular music from 1850s America on period instruments
    Oct. 5	Undergraduate Research, Internships and Creative Activity (URICA) reports
    Oct. 9	The Fall of the Wall Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history
    Oct. 12	Thinking the Unthinkable: Let’s Create a National Individual Healthcare Identifier Barry Hieb, M.D., chief scientist, Global Patient Identifiers, Inc., Tucson, Ariz.
    Oct. 16	Rev. Reuben Eckels, pastor, New Day Christian Church
    Oct. 19	NO CONVOCATION — Fall Break
    Oct. 23	To be announced
    Oct. 26	Opening Up a Can of Beans Chad Childs, vice president for student life
    Oct. 30	Quiet Riots: Mennonites, Black and Latino/a Identity, and the Politics of Interracial Alliances Felipe Hinojosa, assistant professor, Texas A&M University
    Nov. 2	Menno Simons Lecture: Entering Whitman’s America: A Theopoetics Of Public Life Scott Holland, associate professor of theology and culture and director of peace studies at Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Ind., and lead minister of Monroeville Church of the Brethren, Pittsburgh
    Nov. 6	Flood the Luminous Body: Erin Coleman-Cruz Shares Experiences of Integrating Art into Life Erin Coleman-Cruz, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb
    Nov. 9	Staley Lecture: A View from the Underside: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Al Staggs, D.M., performing artist
    Nov. 13	Welcoming the Stranger at the Door: My Experience in Refugee Resettlement in the United States Karrie Peterson, graduate student in social work, Washington University, St. Louis, former employee with Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Services (Chicago) and International Rescue Committee (Washington, D.C.)
    Nov. 16	What Christians Should Know about Judaism Patricia Shelly, professor of Bible and religion
    Nov. 20	Giving Jesus a Bad Name: Christian Responses to Westboro Baptist Church’s Military Funeral Protests Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence
    Nov. 23	The Darwinian Revolution: The Perspective after 150 Years Jon Piper, professor of biology
    Nov. 27	NO CONVOCATION — Thanksgiving Break
    Nov. 30	To be announced
    Dec. 4	To be announced
    Dec. 7	What Christians Should Know about Islam Patricia Shelly, professor of Bible and religion
    Dec. 11	Messiah sing, Bethel College Mennonite Church

  • Spring 2009

    	Spring 2009 Schedule
    Feb. 6	A Conversation on Racial Profiling Kevin Myles, president, Wichita Branch, NAACP
    Feb. 9	The Conflict in Gaza: Perspectives from the Jerusalem Seminar Jerusalem Seminar participants
    Feb. 13	Weathering an Economic Downturn in Kansas: More Taxes or Less Spending? Duane Goossen, Director, Division of the Budget, State of Kansas, Topeka
    Feb. 16	“I Am Not a Social Activist,” Ron Sider, president, Evangelicals for Social Action, Eastern University, St. David’s, Pennsylvania
    Feb. 20	Awakening from the Spell of Hypnotic Consumerism Darryl Dahlheimer, Program director, Lutheran Social Services Financial Counseling Service, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Feb. 23	Bethel Jazz Band
    Feb. 27	Study Abroad/Interterm Travel reports
    March 2	David Munnelly Band
    March 6	Staley Lecture, Living as an Ordinary Radical Shane Claiborne, founding member of The Simple Way faith community and author of The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
    March 9	Conflict and Rape in the Congo: Women Struggling for Peace Sara Reschly, former staff member, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Chicago, Illinois
    March 13	The Importance of Identity in a World of Diversity Margaret (Cynthia) Peacock, Kolkata, India; Tigist Tesfaye, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Bert Lobe, St. Jacob’s, Ontario, Canada; Global Church Advocates, Mennonite World Conference
    March 16	Young Alumni Award convocation: Creating Change for the Health Care of Tomorrow Jennifer Scott Koontz, M.D., Via Christi Sports Medicine, Wichita
    March 20	Dealing with the Challenges; A Contrarian Agrarian’s View of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Godliness Ken King, founder of Jako, Inc., an organic and sustainable agriculture farm near Hutchinson
    March 23	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    March 27	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    March 30	To Be Announced
    April 3	To Be Announced
    April 6	Affirming the Conservative Voice in Convocation: An Attempt at Conversation
    April 10	NO CONVOCATION — Good Friday
    April 13	Forensics Road Show
    April 17	Common Ground Among the Abrahamic Faiths Jerald Dirks, clinical psychologist (ret.), Hesston
    April 20	Student Senate convocation
    April 24	The Sword, the Diamond, the Mirror & Me Balbir Mathur, president, Trees for Life, Wichita
    April 27	C. Henry Smith Oratorical Contest
    May 1	Jazz, Image, Story: The Language of Faith Duane Friesen, professor emeritus of Bible and religion; Jim Mininger, president of Lithuania Christian College (ret.), and Vern Rempel, pastor, First Mennonite Church, Denver, Colorado
    May 4	Breaking Plowshares into Peaces Neal Eash, associate professor & soil scientist, Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
    May 8	Yes We Can: Creating Change through Personal Action Jyothi Bathina, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York
    May 11	Awards Convo
    May 15	No convocation

  • Fall 2008

    	Fall 2008 Schedule
    Sept. 1	Animal House/Bethel Brad Born, vice-president for academic affairs
    Sept. 5	Introduction to convocation and new faculty and staff
    Sept. 8	Differentiate Yourself Barry Bartel, president, Bethel College
    Sept. 12	At What Cost? Patterns of Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Addiction Among College Students and Responsible Responses Chad Childs, director, Regional Prevention Center of South Central Kansas at Mirror, Inc., Newton, Kansas
    Sept. 15	Never Ignore, Never Forget: A 1,300-Mile Relay Against Genocide Matthew Heck and Michael Gurley, seniors at Wichita East High School, Wichita, Kansas; Aaron Gurley, sophomore, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas
    Sept. 19	Encountering “Enemy Combatants”; Photographing Guantanamo Detainees. Travis Heying, photographer, The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas
    Sept. 22	Student Senate convocation and club fair
    Sept. 26	A Castle on the Prairie: Bethel’s ‘Old Main’ in Word and Image Robert Regier, professor emeritus of art; Keith Sprunger, Oswald H. Wedel professor emeritus of history
    Sept. 29	Honors Convocation: Social Networking, Social Undoing? Christine Crouse-Dick, assistant professor of communication arts, 2008 Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teacher Award recipient
    Oct. 3	Gas Pump Panic: Science, Energy, and the Environment in the Arctic Stan Senner, executive director, Audubon Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
    Oct. 6	Dinner (Or, A Deranged Event Staged in a Theoretical Mansion, in Which Time and History Have Been Grossly Suspended and What We Know as the Laws of Physics Wildly Subverted, Conducted as an Inquiry into the Genius of Madness and the Art of the Faux Pas, and Having as a First Course to be Served to a Cast of Sixteen Eccentrics a Dish of Carrot Cabbage Salad Meant to Tickle Every Palate) Chris Janzen, art faculty, Fresno Pacific University, and Jesse Nathan, free-lance writer and cultural critic, Berkeley, California
    Oct. 10	Promoting Change: Engaging Allies and Bystanders in Preventing Sexual Violence Mary Stolz, coordinator of program services, and Horace Santry, community outreach coordinator, Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center, Wichita, Kansas
    Oct. 13	Considering The Sacred Cosmos Terence Nichols, professor of theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
    Oct. 17	Election 2008
    Oct. 20	NO CONVOCATION — Fall Break
    Oct. 24	Hope Rises from the Ashes of My Lai Mike Boehm, executive director for Madison Quakers, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin
    Oct. 27	A Conversation with the Author of Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Claudia Rankine, Pomona College, Claremont, California
    Oct. 31	The Science of Sleep CBS 60 Minutes and staff from Wichita Clinic-Bethel sleep medicine clinic
    Nov. 3	Menno Simons lecture: The Prophetic Political Dissent of the Anabaptists: Then and Now James Stayer, professor emeritus of history, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    Nov. 7	Is Diversity Enough? Christians and Difficult Conversations about Race Regina Shands Stolzfus, assistant professor of sociology, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
    Nov. 10	True Encounters: Are We Ready to Learn from People of Other Cultures? James R. Krabill, senior executive for global ministries, Mennonite Mission Network
    Nov. 14	From Scalpels to Sequencers: Reflections on Fifty Years of Change in the Biological Sciences Wayne Wiens, professor of biology
    Nov. 17	Higher Learning Commission Accreditation review HLC Self-Study Steering Committee
    Nov. 21	To be announced
    Nov. 24	A Woodwind Clinic The Lieurance Woodwind Quintet, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
    Nov. 28	NO CONVOCATION — Thanksgiving Break
    Dec. 1	Is It God’s Universe? Owen Gingerich, professor emeritus of astronomy and the history of science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Dec. 5	To be announced
    Dec. 8	The Wonderful World of Chemistry Gary Histand, professor of chemistry
    Dec. 12	Messiah sing, Bethel College Mennonite Church

  • Spring 2008

    	Spring 2008 Schedule
    Feb. 8	Introduction to Convocation, Dale Schrag, convocation coordinator Things I’ve Learned While Serving Hannah Klaassen, Jewish Vocational Services and Catholic Charities volunteer, Kansas City, Kansas; Dan Regier, Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona volunteer, Tucson, Arizona
    Feb. 11	Bethel College: More Than You’ll Ever Know Arthur Marks, 2008 Young Alumnus Award Winner
    Feb. 15	The Greatest Stories Never Told: A Lecture/Concert John McCutcheon, noted folk singer and instrumentalist
    Feb. 18	The Bethel College Presence at the Kansas Music Educators’ Association Annual Meeting Bethel College Concert Choir, Bethel College Jazz Ensemble I, Bethel College Jazz Combo
    Feb. 22	Study abroad reports
    Feb. 25	Staley Lecture, Digital Christianity: How Technology and Media Are Shaping Faith. Presentation 1: The Electronic Gospel: Why Changing the Methods Always Changes the Message Shane Hipps, pastor, Trinity Mennonite Church, Glendale, Arizona
    Feb. 29	At What Price Security? A Case of Mistaken Identity Brandon Mayfield
    March 3	Hollywood, the Honeybee, and Small-Town Kansas Brent Barkman, chairman of the board of Golden Heritage Foods, Hillsboro, Kansas
    March 7	Up Close and Personal The Wailin’ Jennys, Canadian folk music trio (in Memorial Hall)
    March 10	Until It’s Gone–Ending Poverty in Our Nation, in Our Lifetime Scott Miller, co-founder and CEO of Move the Mountain Leadership Center, Ames, Iowa
    March 14	Mexican-American Lowriders: The Space of Culture in Everyday Life Benjamin Chappell, assistant professor of American studies, University of Kansas
    March 17	Perennial Wheat Breeding Via Chromosome Mapping Matt Arterburn, assistant professor of biology, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
    March 21	NO CONVOCATION — Good Friday
    March 24	Multicultural Club convocation
    March 28	Mennonites and the Military: Bridging the Gap Tim Huber and Michael Sharp, Military Counseling Network, Bammental, Germany
    March 31	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    April 4	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
    April 7	The Sapphire Trio: A Persian Gulf Tour Margaret Baldridge, violin; Maxine Ramey, clarinet; Jody Graves, piano
    April 11	“Mommy, Where Do Scholarships Come From?” The Bethel College Development Team: Sondra Koontz, vice president for advancement; Fred Goering, director of development; Toby Tyner, associate director of development
    April 14	Sexual Assault: Is It Really All About Power and Control? Diana Schunn, executive director, Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County
    April 18	The Anatomy of Coincidence Matt Kaiser, University of Kansas School of Medicine student, Kansas City, Kansas
    April 21	Student Senate convocation
    April 25	What’s a Thresher? Remembering Bethel’s Symbolic History John Thiesen, director of the Mennonite Library and Archives
    April 28	C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest presentations
    May 2	To be announced
    May 5	The Mexican-American Community in Newton Ray Olais, Newton High School art faculty
    May 9	Mozart, Mary, and the Magnificat William Eash, professor of music
    May 12	Awards convocation
    May 16	To be announced

  • Fall 2007

    	Fall 2007 Schedule
    Aug. 27	(Formal opening of school. Special time: 7 p.m.) Omnes supervenientes hospites tamquam Christus suscipiantur; Or, “A Separate Kitchen,” Brad Born, vice president for academic affairs
    Aug. 31	Introduction to convocation and new faculty & staff
    Sept. 3	Find Your Space Barry Bartel, president, Bethel College
    Sept. 7	Student Senate Convocation and Club Fair
    Sept. 10	Living Among the Ayatollahs: Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Iran David and Linda Kusse-Wolfe, Quaker clergy studying at the Imam Khomeini Institute in Qom, Iran (MCC Exchange Program)
    Sept. 14	From Bethel to Big Bird; A Broadcaster’s Journey Jesse Huxman, director of content, KPTS, Wichita
    Sept. 17	The Second Mile: Reflections on My Friendship with Gen. David Petraeus John C. Murray, pastor, Hesston (Kan.) Mennonite Church
    Sept. 21	NO CONVOCATION
    Sept. 24	From Bombs to Classics: the Curious History of the Great Books Idea Daniel Born, vice president for post-secondary programs, The Great Books Foundation, and editor, The Common Review
    Sept. 28	Everything I Needed or Wanted to Know I Learned From Football George Rogers, former Bethel College defensive coordinator, athletic director, and dean of students, now corporate treasurer, Whitewing Construction, Newton
    Oct. 1	Honors Convocation–The Promise of Digital Media: Resources for Scholarship Dwight Krehbiel, professor of psychology, and recipient of the 2007 Julius A. and Agatha Dyck Franz Community Service Award
    Oct. 5	Understanding Jazz: An American Art Form Ben Markley, doctoral candidate in jazz studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; Robert McCurdy, former director of jazz studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho; James Pisano, assistant professor of music, Bethel College
    Oct. 8	Choices Col. Peter Garibaldi, chief of staff, 3rd Medical Command, U.S. Army
    Oct. 12	Not What You Say, But How You Say It Nathan Regier, director of process solutions, Prairie View
    Oct. 15	FALL BREAK–NO CONVOCATION
    Oct. 19	No “End of Time”: A Window Into the Native American Worldview Raylene Hinz-Penner, Washburn University, Topeka
    Oct. 22	“Master for Us All”: the Mathematics of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) Edward Sandifer, professor of mathematics, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut
    Oct. 26	Know Why You Do What You Do Jeff King, LCSW, Prairie View
    Oct. 29	Menno Simons Lecture: Flour and Yeast Rudy Wiebe, award-winning Canadian novelist
    Nov. 2	Cluster Munitions Survivors’ Tour Bassam Chamoun, Ansar, South Lebanon; Sida Douangtasivilai, Ban Hay, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos; Raed Mokaled, Nabetiah, Lebanon; Phounsy Phasavaeng, Sekong province, Laos
    Nov. 5	Flannery O’Connor, Writer for Wingless Chickens L. Lamar Nisly, professor of English, Bluffton (Ohio) University
    Nov. 9	Bethel College Talent Show
    Nov. 12	Undergraduate research reports
    Nov. 16	Green Chemistry Gary Histand, associate professor of chemistry, Bethel College
    Nov. 19	The Lure of Conspiracy and the Boredom of History: The Kennedy Assassination Revisited William Juhnke, professor of history, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa
    Nov. 23	THANKSGIVING BREAK — NO CONVOCATION
    Nov. 26	Spoken Among the Trees–A Poetry Reading Jeff Gundy, professor of English, Bluffton (Ohio) University
    Nov. 30	An African Perspective Samuel Bankole, Sennai Fiseha, Yenikah Fon, Judith Lusenaka, Rachel Maingu, Patricia Ngigi (Bethel students)
    Dec. 3	The Convergence of Cultures: On the Road from Zaporozhye to Khiva Sharon Eicher, associate professor of business and economics, and James Juhnke, professor emeritus of history
    Dec. 7	Messiah Sing (held at Bethel College Mennonite Church)

  • Spring 2007

    • Feb. 2: "Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public: Practicing Toxicology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration," Peter Goering, research toxicologist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    • Feb. 5: "Introduction to Convocation," Dale Schrag, convocation coordinator
    • Feb. 5: "Introduction to The Bethel College Project," John Sheriff, executive vice president for institutional development
    • Feb. 9: Interterm Travel Reports
    • Feb. 12: "Systemic Racism in Education," Conrad Moore, Damascus Road trainer
    • Feb. 16: "Why Wages Don’t Fall During a Recession," Truman Bewley, dean of graduate studies, economics, Yale University
    • Feb. 19: "Taking Risks: Christian Faith and Politics," Gilberto Flores, denominational minister, Mennonite Church USA
    • Feb. 23: Multicultural Club convocation
    • Feb. 26: "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Health: 10 Key Facts," Arneatha Martin, co-founder of Wichita’s Center for Health and Wellness
    • March 2: "Report from Iran," Patricia Shelly, professor of Bible and religion and member of U.S. Religious Iran Delegation representing Mennonite Church USA
    • March 5: "Sacrifice Honored and Remembered," Karen Ross Epp, author of "With Love Stan: A Soldier’s Letters from Vietnam to the World"
    • March 9: "Protecting Your Personal Information: An Introduction to Encryption," Susan Loepp ‘89, the 2007 Bethel College Young Alumnus Award recipient and associate professor of mathematics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
    • March 12: "Understanding Afro-Cuban Music and Its Influences on American Music," Ryan Korb, Afro-Cuban percussionist, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
    • March 16: Study Abroad Reports
    • March 19: Spring Break — No Convocation
    • March 23: Spring Break — No Convocation
    • March 26: "Belgrade from the Air," Djordje Maricic, senior from Belgrade, Serbia, and Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history
    • March 30: "Communists, Gringos, Farm Workers, Chicanos: The Troubled Worlds of Cesar Chavez," Felipe Hinojosa, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston
    • April 2: "The Truth About the World-Famous DOVE Campaign: A Look Behind the Ad Agency Scenes from Ogilvy Düsseldorf/Germany," Joachim Strate, managing director, Ogilvy and Mather, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • April 6: Good Friday — No Convocation
    • April 9: C. Henry Smith lecture contest
    • April 13: Forensics road show
    • April 16: Staley Lecture: "Stories from the Street," Jimmy Rienzo, street musician, Denver, Colo.
    • April 20: Student Senate convocation
    • April 23: "Two Prairie Tales: A Story of Manipulation and a Story of Restoration," Jon Piper, professor of biology
    • April 27: "Making the A-List"
    • April 30: International student convocation
    • May 4: "Carmina burana," William Eash, professor of music
    • May 7: Academy Award Shorts, Sondra Koontz, vice president for advancement
    • May 11: Awards Convocation

  • Fall 2006

    • Aug. 28: Formal opening of school — "Called Out, Called In and Called Forth," Brad Born, interim dean and vice president for academic affairs
    • Sept. 1: Introduction to convocation; introduction to new faculty
    • Sept. 4: "Walking Away from Happy Valley," John Sheriff, interim president
    • Sept. 8: "Ethical Dilemmas in Sport," D. Stanley Eitzen, professor emeritus of sociology, Colorado State University
    • Sept. 11: Student Senate convocation
    • Sept. 15: to be announced
    • Sept. 18: "Reflections on Right Remembering: The Case of Michael Sattler," Dale Schrag, director of church relations
    • Sept. 22: "History Held Hostage: The Agony of the Middle East," Father Bob Layne, rector, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Newton
    • Sept. 25: "Islam and Media in America," Dr. Nabil Seyam, head of Islamic School in Wichita
    • Sept. 29: to be announced
    • Oct. 2: Honors convocation — "Come With Me: Journeys in Music and Emotion," Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music
    • Oct. 6: Fall Fest convocation — "A Bethel College Talent Show"
    • Oct. 9: "Meet Your New President," Barry Bartel, president
    • Oct. 13: to be announced
    • Oct. 16: Fall Break — No Convocation
    • Oct. 20: "Walk a Mile in My Shoes: An Immigration Story," Nayely Arreola, student, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California
    • Oct. 23: "The Sounds of Silence: A Solesmes Sabbatical," William Eash, professor of music
    • Oct. 27: A Dialogue on Immigration
    • Nov. 3: "Fairness in the Fields," Josh Chittum, Oxfam CHANGE leader
    • Nov. 6: Bible Lecture — "Slavery, Sabbath, War and Women Revisited," Willard Swartley, professor emeritus of New Testament, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana
    • Nov. 10: " 'Los Angeles at its Best': The daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, Public Concerts, and the Production of a Multicultural Urban Public," Marina Peterson, assistant professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, Athens Ohio
    • Nov. 13: "Chosen: Biblical Texts, Group Identity and Peacemaking," Rich Meyer, Palestine Project support coordinator, Christian Peacemaker Teams
    • Nov. 17: to be announced
    • Nov. 20: Business Ethics Class
    • Nov. 24: Thanksgiving Break — No Convocation
    • Nov. 27: "Dubious Angels: Poems After Paul Klee," Keith Ratzlaff, professor of English, Central College, Pella, Iowa
    • Dec. 1: to be announced
    • Dec. 4: Undergraduate Research Reports
    • Dec. 8: Messiah Sing — Bethel College Mennonite Church

  • Spring 2006

    • Feb. 3: "A New Beginning"
    • Feb. 6: John Sheriff, "Bethel's Hedgehof Concept"
    • Feb. 10: Interterm Travel Reports
    • Feb. 13: Lawrence Hart, "Reconciliation at the Washita"
    • Feb. 17: Julie Hart, "The War on Terrorism and Drugs in Colombia: Perspectives on the Ground"
    • Feb. 20: "Sex Signals"
    • Feb. 24: Braden Dragomir, "A Closer Walk"
    • Feb. 27: "Sticks and Stones: A Conversation about Our Conversations"
    • Mar. 3: to be announced
    • Mar. 6: Duane Goossen, "How Kansas Spends Your Money"
    • Mar. 10: Mark McCormick, "Why Are We So Poor?"
    • Mar. 13: Suzanne Wedel, "One If by Air; Two If by Land! Critical Care Transport: From Chaos to Collaboration"
    • Mar. 17: Cynthia Peacock and Twila Miller, "Being Christian in a Multi-religious Culture: How Does/Should One Respond to the Caste System, Arranged Marriages, the Dowry System, etc.?"
    • Mar. 27: Young Alumnus Award recipients
    • Mar. 31: Philip D. Gingerich, "Evolution: The Fossil Record and the Origin of Whales"
    • Apr. 3: General education discussion reprise
    • Apr. 7: C. Henry Smith oration contest
    • Apr. 10: George M. Marsden, "How 'Otherworldly" Fundamentalism Became Political" (Staley Lecture)
    • Apr. 17: Forensics Road Show
    • Apr. 21: to be announced
    • Apr. 24: "A Conversation about the Death Penalty"
    • Apr. 28: International student convocation
    • May 1: Music Department convocation
    • May 5: "A Book That Made a Difference"
    • May 8: David Long, pottery demonstration
    • May 12: Awards Convocation

  • Fall 2005

    • Aug. 29: Formal Opening of School; E. LaVerne Epp, "Mind on Fire"
    • Sept. 2: Introduction to Convocation
    • Sept. 9: Meet the New Faculty
    • Sept. 12: Student Senate Convocation
    • Sept. 16: Kate Brubacher, "The Faces of Suffering: Liberian Widow Refugees"
    • Sept. 19: Paul Lewis, "The Promise and Peril of Cognitive Mediation in Schizophrenia"
    • Sept. 23: Weldon Nisly, "A Mennonite Pastor's Journey to Becoming a Benedictine Oblate"
    • Sept. 26: John Rempel, "Reality and Illusion at the United Nations: Confessions of a (not so) Innocent Bystander?"
    • Sept. 30: Steve Jones and Friends, Fall Festival Jazz Concert
    • Oct. 3: Brad Born, "The Sports Complex: A Call to Play"
    • Oct. 7: J. Fred Humphrey, "Self-Interest and the Common Good"
    • Oct. 10: Dwight Krehbiel, "Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity"
    • Oct. 14: Robb Davis, "Faith and Malaria"
    • Oct. 17: Palden Gyatso, Tibetan Buddhist monk, "Transforming Suffering into Compassion"
    • Oct. 21: Matthew Schrag, "The Mathematics of an Airline"
    • Oct. 28: Larry Friesen and Ada Schmidt-Tieszen, "Living on the Margins: Getting by in the U. S."
    • Oct. 31: Jaime Adrián Prieto Dalladares, "The Abundance of Oral Tradition in the Construction of Anabaptist History" (Menno Simons Lecture)
    • Nov. 4: C. R. Snyder, "Is Hope a Good Thing?"
    • Nov. 7: Student forum on General Education Review
    • Nov. 11: Larry Rasmussen, "God and Earth: The Everlasting Covenant"
    • Nov. 14: Thanks for the Memories: Farewell to E. LaVerne Epp
    • Nov. 18: Bethel College Unplugged
    • Nov. 21: Jo Becker, "Children as Weapons of War"
    • Nov. 28: Open Road (men's octet)
    • Dec. 5: John McCabe-Juhnke, "Monday Morning Live"
    • Dec. 9: Christmas Gala

  • Spring 2005

    • Feb. 4: Program Review Team, "Program Review Review"
    • Feb. 7: Robert Regier, "Visual Journeys, Visual Voices"
    • Feb. 11: Interterm Travel Reports
    • Feb. 14: Poetry Festival
    • Feb. 18: Jim Wallis, "Peacemaking in Hard Times"
    • Feb. 21: Felipe Hinojosa, "Chicana/o Spaces: Race, Power, and Resistance in Greater Mexico"
    • Feb. 25: Diana Schunn, "The Real CSI and Its Effects on Sexual Assault"
    • Feb. 28: Howard J. Shipp, Jr., "Black History: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times"
    • Mar. 4: "An Exercise in Shaping the Cross-Cultural Future of Bethel College General Education"
    • Mar. 7: Kathryn Kasper and Merle Schlabaugh, "Opera Excerpts: A Faustian Adventure"
    • Mar. 11: "A Conversation with Pres. LaVerne Epp
    • Mar. 14: Forensics Road Show
    • Mar. 18: Loren Larson, "A Celebration of Mathematics at Bethel: Fortieth Anniversary of the Putnam 'Win'"
    • Mar. 21: Raylene Hinz-Penner and Lawrence Hart, "Finding Sacred Ground: Lawrence Hart's Journey"
    • Apr. 4: Jalane Schmidt, "From 'Witchcraft' to 'Folklore': Racial and Religious Hybridity in Afro-Cuban Religions"
    • Apr. 8: Forum Theater
    • Apr. 11: Eric Massanari, "On Belay: Lessons Learned at the End of My Rope"
    • Apr. 15: David Long, "The Art of the Apocalypse"
    • Apr. 18: R. Bruce Woods, "Living Life beyond the Warranty"
    • Apr. 22: William Eash, "Requiem aeternam"
    • Apr. 25: Student Senate
    • Apr. 29: Lee Lever and Doug Luginbill, "The Marriage Amendment: Two Pastoral Perspectives"
    • May 2: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration Contest winners
    • May 6: Bethel College Dance Ensemble, "The Dance of Oz"
    • May 9: Sondra Koontz, "Academy Award Shorts"
    • May 13: Awards Convocation

  • Fall 2004

    • Aug 30: President E. LaVerne Epp, "Curious George"
    • Sept. 3: Dale Schrag, "Introduction to Convocation"
    • Sept. 6: "A Stadium Celebration"
    • Sept. 10: Amy Barker, "A Theological Pilgrimage"
    • Sept. 13: Mark McCormick, "What He's Done for Me"
    • Sept. 17: Club Fair and Senate Elections
    • Sept. 20: Ron Roberson, "Light from the East? A Methodist Who Became a Catholic Looks at the Orthodox Churches"
    • Sept. 27: Bud Welch, "From Rage to Reconciliation"
    • Oct. 1: Brad Born, "Popeye, Chick, X-Men and the Justice League: the Revelation of Comic Books"
    • Oct. 4: Triple Play, "Understanding All That Jazz"
    • Oct. 8: Arthur W. Marks, "Still 'Ain't Misbehavin': A Musical Revue"
    • Oct. 11: BIFL students, "A Revealing Look at the Last Book of the New Testament"
    • Oct. 15: Gary Histand, "The Wonderful World of Chemistry"
    • Oct. 18: James Juhnke and Lowell Peachey, "An Atypical Presidential Debate"
    • Oct. 22: Randy Brown and Carolyn McGinn, "The 31st District State Senate Race"
    • Oct. 29: Duane Friesen, "The Story of a Love Affair"
    • Nov. 1: Lee Palmer Wandel, "Textual Communities: Theologians and Evangelicals" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov. 5: Undergraduate research reports
    • Nov. 8: Galen Gisler, "Calculating the Future: The Meteor Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs"
    • Nov 12: Ted (Swartz) and Lee (Eshleman), "Humor and Faith: A Holy Accident" (Staley lecture)
    • Nov. 15: ?
    • Nov. 19: Sandra Birdsell, "Headlines Then and Now: Katya and the Birth of a Personal, Historical, Novel
    • Nov. 22: Donna Sweet, "HIV/AIDS: Definitely Not Gone, but Forgotten by Many"
    • Dec. 3: Michael Davis, "The Jewish World of Yesterday and Today"
    • Dec. 6: "A Book That Made a Difference"
    • Dec. 8: Annual Messiah sing
    • Dec. 10: Christmas Gala

  • Spring 2004

    • Feb. 6: Mark E. McCormick, "The Delightful Burden of Feeling Too Deeply"
    • Feb. 9: Curt Goering, "Human Rights, Iraq, and the 'War on Terror' "
    • Feb. 13: Cookie Wiebe, "Blame It on Bethel: Service for Life"
    • Feb. 15: (7:30pm) Naim Stifan Ateek, "The Use and Misuse of the Bible in Palestine: An Historical and Theological View" (Bible lecture)
    • Feb 16: Naim Stifan Ateek, "Jonah: The First Palestinian Liberation Theologian" (Bible lecture)
    • Feb. 16: (7:30pm) Naim Stifan Ateek, "The Bible and the Land" (Bible lecture)
    • Feb. 20: Interterm travel reports
    • Feb. 23: Andrew Rice, "Exploiting Sept. 11th for Pre-Emptive War: How Our National Tragedy Was Used to Launch an Unjustified War"
    • Feb. 27: Travis Heying, "Iraq from a Kansas Perspective"
    • Mar. 1: The Bartered Bride opera excerpts
    • Mar. 5: Donna Sibaai, "Life as an American Muslim"
    • Mar. 8: Cheryl L. Stucky, "From Bethel to Berlin and Beyond: A Science Journey" (Young Alumni award convo)
    • Mar. 12: Brad Gregory, "Why History Matters"
    • Mar. 15: Ami Regier, "Seeing a Sacred Truce in the Landscape: Visual and Literary Notes from a Quick Trip to Athens"
    • Mar. 19: Forensics road show
    • Mar. 29: Arvis Arvette, "The New World Order: How It Affects Human and Civil Rights"
    • Apr. 2: Steve Shawl, "Highlights from the Hubble Telescope"
    • Apr. 5: Ronald Barker, "The Story of an Air Force Fighter Pilot"
    • Apr. 12: International student convo
    • Apr. 16: Bethel and Beyond, African-American Alumni Association
    • Apr. 19: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
    • Apr. 23: Anga Rory (Joyful Spirit), Paraguayan dance troupe
    • Apr. 26: Student Senate
    • Apr. 30: William Eash and Brad Born, "Dona nobis pacem: a Celebration of Peace or a Celebration of War?"
    • May 3: Joseph Goering, "Finding the Holy Grail: An Historian's Quest"
    • May 7: Douglas T. Shima and Bill Rich, "Law Day 2004: The 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas"
    • May 10: Music department convo
    • May 14: Awards convo

  • Fall 2003

    • Sept. 2: E. LaVerne Epp, "Like the Green, Beginning Again"
    • Sept. 5: Dale Schrag, "Convocation: Why Are We Here?"
    • Sept 8: "Windows into the Lives of Bethel's New Faculty"
    • Sept. 11: Christopher White, "Born on 9/11: The Making of a Marine Turned Veteran for Peace"
    • Sept. 15: Club Fair and Senate Elections
    • Sept. 22: John McCabe-Juhnke, "Living to Perform - Performing to Live: My Tour of Life's Stages" (honors convo)
    • Sept. 26: 2002-2003 Study Abroad students, "The World is Our Classroom"
    • Sept. 29: Jonathan B. Hook, "Self-Esteem and Indian Mascots"
    • Oct. 3: Thane Chastain, "Content Analysis in Communication Research: The Simpsons - A Case Study in Cartoon Verbal Aggression" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct. 6: Robert Hull, "Dealing with People You Wish Would Go Away"
    • Oct. 10: A Plagiarism Primer
    • Oct. 13: Rhonda Holman, "Newspapers Make You Smarter - Or Should"
    • Oct. 17: Brent Noel, "Forum Theatre"
    • Oct. 20: D. Paul Miller, "Senior Olympics and Life Style"
    • Oct. 24: John Simmering, "Perspectives on Alcohol Use and Abuse"
    • Oct. 31: "Travels with Jonah and John: A Window into BIFL"
    • Nov. 2 (7:30pm): Jean Janzen, "Mud: The Mound That Saves Us" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov. 3 (11 am): Jean Janzen, "Water: Wailing in the Shower" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov. 3 (7:30pm): Jean Janzen, "Fire and Air: Breathing the Light" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov. 4: (7:30pm): Jean Janzen, "Text: Marking the Stone" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov. 7: C. Leo Hartshorn, "Drumming for Peace: Rhythmic and Irenic Pedagogy or Teaching Peace with a Funky Beat" (Staley lecture)
    • Nov. 10: C. Leo Hartshorn, "Drumming for Peace: Rhythmic and Irenic Pedagogy or Teaching Peace with a Funky Beat" (Staley lecture)
    • Nov 14: Bethel College Unplugged
    • Nov. 17: Summer 2003 Undergraduate Research Reports
    • Nov. 21: Bethel College Dance Festival
    • Dec. 1: Student Summer Science Internship Reports
    • Dec. 5: Rajmohan Gandhi, "The Legacy of My Grandfather for Peacemaking Today"
    • Dec. 8: Jerry Stein, "Asubpeeschoseewagong/Grassy Narrows First Nation: Sovereignty, Treaty Rights, and Logging Road Blockade"

  • Spring 2003

    • Feb. 7: Laurence A. Marschall, "Measuring the Age of the Universe"
    • Feb. 10: Paul Rudy: "Anthropological Impulses in the Creative Process: 'I'll have my eggs unscrambled please' "
    • Feb. 14: Bryan Dietrich, poetry reading from Krypton Nights
    • Feb. 17: Service Day: Megan Goering, Mark Smith
    • Feb. 21: Multicultural Life
    • Feb. 24: Interterm Travel Reports
    • Feb. 28: Loren L. Johns, "The Left Behind Series: Vision of God at Work?" (Bible Lecture)
    • Mar. 3: Paul Schrag, Wendy Funk Schrag, Young Alumni Award Convocation
    • Mar. 7: Students for Social Chagen
    • Mar. 10: Bethel Internships: Learning Outside the Classroom
    • Mar. 14: Todd Davis, poetry reading from Ripe
    • Mar. 17: Charles Snowdon, "Primate Family Values: Monogamy and Cooperative Infant Care"
    • Mar. 31: Kristi Smith, "Don't Kill for Me"
    • Apr. 4: Patricia Kaurouma, "Sacred Music of Duke Ellington"
    • Apr. 7: Sondra Koontz, Academy Award Shorts
    • Apr. 14: Deanell Reece Tacha, chief judge, 10th District Court of Appeals
    • Apr. 21: C. Heny Smith Peace Oration finals
    • Apr. 25: Noel Rasor, "Seeing Urban America: The Landscapes of Urban Redevelopment"
    • Apr. 28: Student Senate
    • May 2: G. Joseph Pierron, Richard B. Walker, Douglas T. Shima, "The United States Supreme Court in Review"
    • May 5: Forensics Road Show
    • May 9: Music Department
    • May 12: Awards Convocation
    • May 16: Bethel College Unplugged

  • Fall 2002

    • Sep 6: E. LaVerne Epp, "Packing for College and Playing Large"
    • Sep 9: All Campus Forum, "9/11 One Year Later"
    • Sep 13: Club Fair and Senate Elections
    • Sep 16: 2001-02 Study Abroad Students, "The World is Our Classroom"
    • Sep 20: Mahat Farah el-Khoury, "Women and Peacemaking in Syria"
    • Sep 23: Diane Flickner, "Champions of Character - A Standard Higher Than Victory"
    • Sep 27: Summer 2002 Undergraduate Research Reports
    • Sep 30: Dwight Krehbiel, "Why I Love Science (and Hope You Will Too)" (honors convo)
    • Oct 4: Garry Boston, "Politics 2002"
    • Oct 7: Jonathan W. Jantz, "The Effects of Television and Videos on Adolescents and Subsequent Violence"
    • Oct 11: Fall Festive Jazz Concert, Bethel College Faculty Jazz Quartet
    • Oct 14: Adrian Melott, "Our Universe: Its Earliest Times, Its Ultimate Fate"
    • Oct 18, 20, 21: James E. Brenneman, "A Subversive Holiness: Studies in the Book of Exodus" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 25: Kjell Ove Nilsson, "Martin Luther and the Protestant Revolution"
    • Oct 28: no convo, Fall Break
    • Nov 1: Spanish Department, "Dia del los Muertos: The Mexican Celebration Representing Unity between Life and Death"
    • Nov 3-5: C. Arnold Snyder, "The Rich Legacy of Anabaptist Spirituality" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 8: Kenneth Armitage, "The Galapagos Islands: The Enchanted Isles"
    • Nov 11: Student Development, "Substance Abuse"
    • Nov 15: Student Summer Science Internship Report
    • Nov 18: Duane Friesen, panel discussion on The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder
    • Nov 22: Kathryn Kasper, "Too Many Sopranos," excerpts from the fall opera
    • Nov 25: to be announced
    • Nov 29: no convo, Thanksgiving break
    • Dec 2: Department of English, "Creative Writing at Bethel College"
    • Dec 6: Charles Epp, "Litigation and Social Reform"
    • Dec 9: Renee Dreiling and Phyllis Abrams, "Community: Contemporary and Contemplative"
    • Dec 13: annual Christmas convocation

  • Spring 2002

    • Feb 8: Schuyler Jones, "Background to the Situation in Afghanistan"
    • Feb 11: Keith Ratzlaff, poetry reading
    • Feb 15: Multicultural Life
    • Feb 22: Clayton Koppes ('67), "What Every Yale [Bethel] Freshman Should Know . . . But Didn't in 1963"
    • Feb 24-26: Perry Yoder, "Songs of the Kingdom" (Bible Lectures)
    • Mar 1: Interterm travel reports
    • Mar 4: Karl Friesen, Kurt Friesen, Gwen Neufeld, Jeff Stehman,"Riding the Hype: Five Years in the Internet Business" (Young Alumni Convo)
    • Mar 8: "Learning Outside the Classroom" (Bethel internships)
    • Mar 11: Keith Sprunger, "Finding History and Excitement in Your Kansas Hometowns"
    • Mar 18 morning: John McCabe-Juhnke, "Performance in Prison: Doing Theater While Doing Time"
    • Mar 18 evening: Student Development, Damascus Road Team, film "The Legacy"
    • Mar 22: "Bethel College Unplugged" (Bethel College student folk artists)
    • Mar 25: Kate Campbell, folk singer
    • Apr 8: Doris Bergen, "Gender and Genocide"
    • Apr 12: Forensics Road Show
    • Apr 15: Jeanine Hathaway, poetry reading
    • Apr 19: Student Senate
    • Apr 22: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
    • Apr 26: Music Department
    • Apr 29: David McReynolds, "Socialism in the 21st Century"
    • May 3: Jim Goering, "Some Thoughts on Future Global Challenges and the Christian Professional's Response"
    • May 6: to be announced
    • May 10: Honors Convo

  • Fall 2001

    • Aug 28: Douglas A. Penner, "Education and Imperfection: Living and Learning in the Real World" (opening convo)
    • Aug 31: Steve Unruh, progressive folk/rock concert
    • Sep 7: "The World is Our Classroom", 2000-2001 study abroad students
    • Sep 10: Club fair and Senate elections
    • Sep 14: Thorvald Holmes, "Who's at Home on the Range"
    • Sep 17: Clayton Koppes, "What Every Yale [Bethel] Freshman Should Know . . . But Didn't in 1963" [cancelled]
    • Sep 21: Student summer internship reports
    • Sep 24: Billy McCray, "A Voice from the Community"
    • Sep 28: June Alliman Yoder, "Remember and Do Not Forget: Sacred Stories of Our Lives" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 1: June Alliman Yoder, "Remember and Do Not Forget: Sacred Stories of Our Lives" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 5: Summer 2001 undergraduate research student reports
    • Oct 8: Mark Jantzen, "Flunking History Could Kill You: The Role of History in the Conflicts of the Former Yugoslavia"
    • Oct 12: Susan Schultz Huxman, "You've Come a Long Way Baby: Milestones of U. S. Women in Sport" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 19: Kahlil Green, "Realities of Prison Life: A View from the Hutchinson Correctional Facility"
    • Oct 26: Dale Suderman, "Banality and Euphoria: The Art of 'Getting High'"
    • Oct 29: Alan Kreider, "Oath-Taking and Truth-Telling" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 2: Bethel professors panel, "Neuroscience and the Soul"
    • Nov 5: "The World of International Students"
    • Nov 9: A. Emerson Wiens, "Technology, the God That Limps"
    • Nov 12: Bethel College Peace Club, "Report from Mobilization for Global Justice, Washington, D. C."
    • Nov 16: Jerry Herbert, "Citizen Disciples: What's the Gospel Got to do with America?"
    • Nov 19: John Sheriff, "Where the Meanings, are"
    • Nov 26: Advent hymn sing
    • Nov 30: "Prairie Nutcracker", "Informance"
    • Dec 3: "Student Poets Read Their Work"
    • Dec 7: Christmas convo

  • Spring 2001

    • Feb 2: Shukura Sentwali, "Africa's Contribution to World Civilization: Forgotten or Never Taught?"
    • Feb 8: Prairie Wind Dancers, "Stories of Addiction"
    • Feb 9: Interterm 2001: Travel Reports
    • Feb 12: Raylene Hinz-Penner, "Valentines: Poems for the Birds, the Saints, and Eros"
    • Feb 16: Carmen Pauls, "Hungry, Thirsty, a Stranger: Mennonite Central Committee Responds to the Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq"
    • Feb 19: Shana Goering and Jesse Graber, Service Day
    • Feb 23: Treva Reimer, "Carnival in Rio!"
    • Feb 26: Seiichi P. T. Matsuda and Bonnie Bartel, "Experimenting with Food" (Young Alumni Award)
    • Mar 2: "Learning outside the Classroom" (Bethel internships)
    • Mar 5: Multicultural Life: Alumni
    • Mar 9: Henry Holden, "Don't Dis the Ability"
    • Mar 12: Jeff Gundy, "Rhapsody with Dark Matter"
    • Mar 26: to be announced
    • Mar 30: John Janzen and Reinhild Janzen, "Voices from the Aftermath of War in Rwanda"
    • Apr 2: Bill Born, "I'll Know It When I See It: Campus Forum on Pornography on the Internet"
    • Apr 6: Multicultural Life Students
    • Apr 9: Ronald Sider, "Justice for the City: An Historic Opportunity for American Christians" (Bible Lecture)
    • Apr 16: Student Senate: 2001-2002 candidates
    • Apr 20: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
    • Apr 23: Bethel College Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 27: Norma Kehrberg, "The Cross in the Land of the Khukuri"
    • Apr 30: Sonda Bandy Koontz, "Academy Award Shorts"
    • May 4: Music Department: Ensemble Showcase
    • May 7: Honors convo
    • May 11: William Eash, "Haydn's 'Creation': Evolution of a Masterwork"

  • Fall 2000

    • Aug 29: Douglas A. Penner, "Listen for the Call" (opening school convo)
    • Sep 1: Bret Boyer, solo guitar
    • Sep 4: Harold Schlechtweg, "Labor Day Reflections: The Need for Unions Today
    • Sep 8: Michael Meade, "Violence and Apathy amongst Modern Youth"
    • Sep 11: Club fair and Senate elections
    • Sep 15: Student summer internship reports
    • Sep 18: to be announced
    • Sep 22: Chuck Neufeld, "Can You Live with It? With What You've Gathered, That Is?" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 25: Chuck Neufeld, "So You're Packed, Now What? From Obligation to Privilege!" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 29: Summer 2000 undergraduate research student reports
    • Oct 2: Ami Regier, "Reading Elbib Doownosiop Eht Backwards: Narrative Ethics and Readers' Ethics in the Twentieth-Century Novel" (honors convo)
    • Oct 6: Ken Hiebert, "The Spirit of a Place" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 9: Christine Downey, "Campaign 2000: Kansas Senate, District 31"
    • Oct 13: Carls Nolla, "Campaign 2000: 4th Congressional District"
    • Oct 16: Karen Klassen Harder, "Reflections on Africa"
    • Oct 20: Adam Knapp, "The Role of Sports in Society"
    • Oct 27: Abner Hershberger, "Reading Our Culture through Visual Art"
    • Oct 30: Mark Noll, "Who Are Today's Evangelicals and What Are They Up To?" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 3: Terry Chappell, "Safety in Medicine"
    • Nov 6: Student Senate, "Who Are We and What Are We Doing?"
    • Nov 10: Academic Fair
    • Nov 13: Martin Chislom, "The Year Was: Frederick Douglass's Life"
    • Nov 17: International students
    • Nov 20: John Sheriff, "Untitled #2: By Any Other Name"
    • Nov 27: Bob Gress, "Kansas Wildlife"
    • Dec 1: Department of English, "Creative Writing at Bethel College"
    • Dec 10: Christmas Convocation

  • Spring 2000

    • Feb 7: "Bethel Internships: Theory into Action"
    • Feb 11: Albert Goldbarth, "Poems Approaching Valentine's Day"
    • Feb 14: Mara Vanderslice, "Life before Debt: Jubilee 2000"
    • Feb 18: Lauren Perkins, "Your Media"
    • Feb 21: "Interterm Travel: Student Reports"
    • Feb 25: Larry Friesen, Jim Harder, Karen Klassen Harder, "Sabbatical Experiences in the Field"
    • Feb 28: Multicultural Student Organization
    • Mar 3: Ivars Peterson, "Moebius Fantasies and Other Excursions into Mathematical Art"
    • Mar 6: Leticia Palacioz Nielsen, "Forming Disciples of Christ and the Stewardship Way of Life" (Young Alumna Award)
    • Mar 10: Cynthia Doyle, "The Journey: North Newton and Back" (African-American Alumni Reunion)
    • Mar 12: J. Denny Weaver, "Salvation through the Slain Lamb" (Bible Lectures)
    • Mar 13: J. Denny Weaver, "Atonement: A Conversation with Black Theology" (Bible Lectures)
    • Mar 13: J. Denny Weaver, "Atonement: A Conversation with Feminist and Womanist Theology" (Bible Lectures)
    • Mar 14: J. Denny Weaver, "Atonement: The Bible and Defenders of Anselm" (Bible Lectures)
    • Mar 17: Donald C. Holsinger, "Islam and the West: Coming Clash of Civilizations?"
    • Mar 27: Bill Born, "Student Development: Campus Housing Plans 2000-2001"
    • Mar 31: Administrative Cabinet
    • Apr 3: "Microcosmos" (documentary film) [not shown?]
    • Apr 7: Marjean Harris, "To Eat or Not to Eat: Is That the Question?"
    • Apr 10: Marie Snider, "Too Young . . . Too Old"
    • Apr 17: Student Senate 2000-2001 candidates
    • Apr 24: Bethel College Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 28: Music Department Honors students
    • May 1: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
    • May 5: Sol y Sombra, Wichita salsa band
    • May 8: Honors Convocation
    • May 12: William Eash, "Yo, Elijah! 'Sup?"

• 1990-1999

  • Fall 1999

    • Sep 6: John Sheriff, "The Aims of Education, or, a Guess about . . . What?"
    • Sep 10: Club Fair
    • Sep 13: "Pushing Forward the Frontiers of Science," student summer internship reports
    • Sep 17: Thorvald Holmes, "Who's at Home on the Range?"
    • Sep 20: Student Senate
    • Sep 24: Michael McPherson, "A New Picture Album in My Mind about the College Experience"
    • Sep 27: Merle Schlabaugh, "Andere Länder, andere Sitten, or Why I'm a Foreign Language Educator" (honors convo)
    • Oct 1: Lemuel Sheppard, "The Traditional Blues: History and More" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 8: J. Nelson Kraybill, "We Regret to Inform You that Tomorrow has been Canceled: Anxiety and Faith in Early Apocalypticism," (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 10: J. Nelson Kraybill, "In Bed with the Beast: Making Sense of the Book of Revelation" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 11: J. Nelson Kraybill, "Out of the Loony Bin and into the Church: Eschatology for a Pilgrim People" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 15: Tanya Ortman, "Stepping into Another Culture: Three Years in the Rural Philippines" (Social Work 25th anniversary convo)
    • Oct 18: Summer 1999 undergraduate research student reports
    • Oct 31: Royden K. Loewen, "Wonders and Drudgeries: The Worlds of Migrant Diarists" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 1: Royden K. Loewen, "The Potato Patch in the Corn Field: The Hidden Worlds of Women Migrants" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 1: Royden K. Loewen, "If Equal in Grace, How Much More in Property? Migration and Inheritance" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 2: Royden K. Loewen, "Bright Lights, Hard Truth, Soft Facts: Learning from Ethnic History in Canada and the United States" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 8: Student Senate
    • Nov 12: Academic Fair
    • Nov 15: International Students
    • Nov 19: Alcohol Awareness (sponsored by Student Development)
    • Nov 22: James Juhnke, Kirsten Zerger, Lois Barrett, "Vietnam Moratorium Remembered, 1969-1999"
    • Nov 29: Tom Luer, "Bebop, Cool, and Blue: Fifty Years of Great American Music"
    • Dec. 3: "Lines: Poetry and Prose from the Bethel College Journal of Creative Writing"
    • Dec. 10: "A Special Christmas Convocation"

  • Spring 1999

    • Feb 5: Study Abroad: Student Presentations
    • Feb 7: Theodore Hiebert, "Through a Priest's Eyes: Dominion (Genesis 1)" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 8: Theodore Hiebert, "The Priest's Legacy: Stewardship" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 8: Theodore Hiebert, "Through a Farmer's Eyes: Dependence (Genesis 2-3)" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 9: Theodore Hiebert, "The Farmer's Legacy: Servanthood" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 15: Stephen Obold, Christa Eshleman, Krista Voth, "Considering Service in Your Future"
    • Feb 19: Majory Byler, "Rights for All? Human Rights Abuses in the United States" (peace lecture)
    • Feb 22: Robert Regier, "Visual Journeys - Visual Voices"
    • Feb 26: Chris Clark, "Minority Life Program: Bethel and Beyond"
    • Mar 1: Priscilla Howe, "The Truth and Beyond"
    • Mar 5: Multicultural Organization
    • Mar 8: Susan Schultz Huxman, "Where No Voice Had Ventured: Stories of Rhetorical Genius from Petticoats, Plowboys, and Politicos" (Young Alumna Award)
    • Mar 12: David Grossman, "Lessons from Jonesboro: The Effect of the Media on Our Culture"
    • Mar 22: James H. Chapmyn, "The Fruit of My Veins"
    • Mar 26: Student Development
    • Mar 29: Wichita State University Dance Ensemble
    • Apr 5: Pascal Poindron, "International Scientific Cooperation"
    • Apr 9: Forensics
    • Apr 12: Donald M. Douglas, "You HaShoah, National Observance Day for the Holocaust Victims"
    • Apr 16: Adrian Melott, "How We Happened: The Beginning of Everything"
    • Apr 19: J. Daniel Hess, "Faith, Culture, and Communication: - A Day with Dad"
    • Apr 23: Student Senate
    • Apr 26: Administrative Cabinet report
    • Apr 30: Charles Benjamin, "Spirituality and the Environment"
    • May 3: Raymond Olais, "Cinco de Mayo: The Significance of the Celebration"
    • May 7: Music Dept. performance
    • May 10: Honors Convocation

  • Fall 1998

    • Aug 31: Douglas A. Penner, "A Call to Hospitality," opening convo
    • Sep 4: John Sheriff, "Romans 12:2--or Living Creatively with Chaos"
    • Sep 7: "A Look into Bethel's Future: Capital Campaign/Campus Facilities Task Force"
    • Sep 11: Club Fair
    • Sep 14: Summer science student internship reports
    • Sep 18: Richard Santillán, "Mexican-Americans of the Midwest"
    • Sep 21: Jim Lawing, "Election '98" (candidate for 4th Congresstional District)
    • Sep 25: Student Senate
    • Sep 28: Keith Sprunger, "Sabbatical, Scholarship and Teaching: On the Trail of History in Amsterdam" (honors convo)
    • Oct. 2: Jim Shores and Carol Anderson drama team, "Acts of Renewal" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct. 5: Jim Shores and Carol Anderson drama team, "Acts of Renewal" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 9: Craig Owens and the Bodo Ensemble, jazz concert
    • Oct 12: Summer '98 undergraduate research student reports
    • Oct 16: "Conflict Management Credentials: Value Added to Your Resumé" panel discussion
    • Oct 19: John K. Sheriff, "NCA Report"
    • Oct 23: Raylene Hinz Penner, "Ah Paradise . . . reading Toni Morrison"
    • Oct 30: Rabbi Pinchas Aloof, "The Role of Torah in Judaism"
    • Nov 1: Gayle Gerber Koontz, "Place with God: A Mennonite Perspective on the Sacred" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 2: Gayle Gerber Koontz, "Theology of Space: Mystery and Meetinghouse" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 2: Gayle Gerber Koontz, "Theology of Space: There's No Place Like Home" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 3: Gayle Gerber Koontz, "Holding On, Letting Go: Body and Place with God" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 9: Student Senate
    • Nov 13: Academic Fair
    • Nov 16: International Students
    • Nov 20: Angela Bates-Thompkins, "Black Women in the West"
    • Nov 23: Alcohol Awareness
    • Nov 30: Douglas Todd Shima, G. Joseph Pierron, Jr.; Richard B. Walker, "The Supreme Court in Review"
    • Dec 4: Lines, Bethel College creative writers' journal
    • Dec 7: Richard Kyle, "Countdown to Apocalypse"
    • Dec 11: A Special Christmas Convocation

  • Spring 1998

    • Feb 6: Davis "Buzz" Merritt, "Journalism's Search for Purposefulness"
    • Feb 9: Edward L. Smith, "Bethel and Beyond" (sponsored by Minority Life program)
    • Feb 13: Charles Wiwa, "The Cost of Peace and Human Rights" (Nigeria)
    • Feb. 16: Bethel College students, "Discrimination Firsthand"
    • Feb 20: Indonesian Mennonite Cultural Team, "Sights and Sounds of Indonesia: A Creative Worship Experience"
    • Feb 23: "Racism Awareness: Step One in Dismantling Racism, 'Skin Deep' video" (Damascus Road team)
    • Feb 24: "Racism Awareness: A Student Dialogue" (Damascus Road team)
    • Feb 27: Student Interterm travel reports
    • Mar 2: Multicultural Organization
    • Mar 6: Philip D. Straffin, Jr., "Voting among Several Alternatives" (math lecture)
    • Mar 9: Joseph Harder, "Leadership for the 21st Century" (young alumnus award)
    • Mar 13: Hayward Alker, "Social Science Results from a Comparative Study of Conflict Prevention, Successes and Failures" (peace lecture)
    • Mar 16: Bethel College Forensics
    • Mar 20: Judy Hiebert, "Why Gamble?"
    • Mar 30: Sondra Koontz, "The Academy Award Short Subjects"
    • Apr 3: Loretta Ross, "White Supremacy vs. Human Rights" (peace lecture)
    • Apr 6: Merle J. "Bo" Hodges, "Kansans in the Civil War"
    • Apr 13: Student Senate
    • Apr 17: Albert Goldbarth, poetry reading
    • Apr 20: H. Wayne House, "Biblical Inerrancy"
    • Apr 24: Donald Douglas, "Forest Children" drama
    • Apr 27: Allan van Asselt, "Something I am Excited About"
    • May 1: to be announced
    • May 4: John McCabe-Juhnke, "Reality, Representation and Rhetoric: A Bertold Brecht Birthday Bash"
    • May 8: Music Department Concert
    • May 15: Honors convo

  • Fall 1997

    • Sep 1: Opening convo, Doug Penner
    • Sep 5: John Sheriff, "Untitled: in Two Parts, with a Musical Interlude"
    • Sep 8: Mary Klassen, "Dramatic Monologue of Sister Frieda Kaufman"
    • Sep 12: Summer science student internship participants
    • Sep 15: Steve Meyer, "Recycling and Environmental Stewardship"
    • Sep 19: Gary Sherrer, "Leadership"
    • Sep 22: Bethel students abroad [no tape?]
    • Sep 26: Martha Sanchez, "Contributions and Current Issues of Mexican Americans"
    • Sep 29: Janet Juhnke, "Weaving Excellence" (honors convo)
    • Oct 3: Queen Bey jazz concert (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 6: Jay Bremyer, "Scenes from The Dance of Created Lights" with Bret Boyer, guitarist [no tape?]
    • Oct 10: Eugene Lowry, "Jazz and Christianity" (Staley lectures)
    • Oct 13: Eugene Lowry, "Theology of the Blues" (Staley lectures)
    • Oct 17: Scott E. Chesbro, "When the Grass on the Other Side Really is Greener: The Compelling Allure of Diversity"
    • Oct 24: Mark Frey, "Putting a Face on Domination: Spiritual Activism in the Holy Land"
    • Oct 26: Donald Kraybill, Menno Simons lectures
    • Oct 27 twice: Donald Kraybill, Menno Simons lectures
    • Oct 28: Donald Kraybill, Menno Simons lecture
    • Nov 3: Bethel international students
    • Nov 7: Howard Zehr, "The Meaning of Life"
    • Nov 10: Stanley Green, "From a Covenant of Destruction to a Symbol of Peace: A South African Pilgrimage in Hope"
    • Nov 14: Don Lemons, "Physics and Faith"
    • Nov 17: "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Video for Discriminating Viewers" sponsored by Damascus Road team
    • Nov 21: Alcohol Awareness Week
    • Nov 24: Keith Ratzlaff poetry reading
    • Dec 1: Carla Stovall, "U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Sexually Violent Predators and Registration Laws"
    • Dec 5: Student Senate
    • Dec 8: "One Survivor Remembers" documentary film on the Holocaust

  • Spring 1997

    • Feb 7: Daniel "Nané" Alejandrez, "Healing Our Youth" (peace lecture)
    • Feb 10: Student interterm travel reports
    • Feb 14: James Krabill, "Messy World, Messy Mission" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 16: Daryl Schmidt, "Jesus in the Narrative World of the Gospels: Bible as Text" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 17: Daryl Schmidt, "Jesus in the Social World of Early Christianity: Bible as Canon" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 17: Daryl Schmidt, "Jesus in His Own World: Bible as History" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 18: Daryl Schmidt, "Jesus in Our Own World: Bible as Scripture" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 24: Ruben Eckels, "Black History and Social Responsibility" (Minority Life Program)
    • Feb 28: Dan Holt, "Eisenhower Unbridled--Truth is Better (and Stranger) Than Fiction"
    • Mar 3: Multi-Cultural Organization
    • Mar 7: Dee Gaeddert, "Getting Down to Business"
    • Mar 10: Scott Hiebert, "Understanding Cancer: Is a Cure in Sight?" (young alumnus award)
    • Mar 14: SAPPHO
    • Mar 17: John T. Cacioppo, "The Abyss between Mind and Brain" (science lecture series)
    • Mar 21: Elvera Voth, "A Case for the Changing Career"
    • Mar 24: Jim Kern, "Build the Fort . . . Today!" motivational speaker presented by Student Senate
    • Apr 7: Student Senate
    • Apr 11: Lawrence Hart, "Peace Chiefs of the Cheyenne" (peace lecture)
    • Apr 14: Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 18: Augusta Reed Thomas, "Four Musings for the Next Millenium" (Greer Lecture)
    • Apr 21: Karen Reimer and Ami Regier, "Legendary, Lexical, Loquacious Love"
    • Apr 25: Donald Goering, "I'm Just a Farm Kid: An Odyssey"
    • Apr 28: Donald M. Douglas, "The Reasons behind Holocaust Denial"
    • May 2: Music Department concert
    • May 9: Mike Russell, "Environmental Stewardship and Academia"
    • May 12: Honors convo

  • Fall 1996

    • Sep 9: Wynn Goering, "The Useful and the Good, or Why Are We Here?"
    • Sep 13: Summer science internship student participants
    • Sep 16: Randy Rathbun, "Politics '96" (candidate for US House)
    • Sep 20: Student Senate
    • Sep 23: Ann Stanford, "Relationships of Integrity" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 23: Ann Stanford, "The Season of Reconciliation: A Response to the Race and Gender Problem" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 24: Ann Stanford, "The Consequences of the Age of Irresponsibility" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 27: Karl-Heinz Fröhlich, "Weimar between the Frauenplan and Buchenwald--A Paradox in German History"
    • Sep 30: Daisy Kabagarama, "Breaking the Ice"
    • Oct 4: John Sheriff, ". . . but how simple is 1-2-3?" (honors convo)
    • Oct 7: Wynn Goering, "It Always Pays to Talk to a Clever Man: Some Words on the Brothers Karamazov"
    • Oct 11: Bill Harshbarger jazz concert
    • Oct 14: Gregg Schroeder, " Russia - Land of Change 1993-1996"
    • Oct 18: Bethel Peer Mediation Services
    • Oct 21: Ann and Paul Gingrich, "Tales from the Road: Visions of Shalom"
    • Oct 25: Duane T. Gish, "Scientific Case for Creation"
    • Oct 28: Julie Hart and Miriam Maik, "Christian Peacemaking Teams in Haiti (and other hot spots around the world)"
    • Nov 1: Vicky Henley, "Film Production in Kansas"
    • Nov 8: Patricia Traxler, "The Muse in Traffic: A Writer's Life at the End of the Millenium"
    • Nov 11: John Simmering, "Alcohol and Drugs in America: A Cultural Perspective" (presented by Student Services)
    • Nov 15: Alcohol abuse discussion groups
    • Nov 18: Frank and Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, "Reflections on Colombia"
    • Nov 22: Bethel international students
    • Nov 25: Jim Juhnke and Valerie Ann Schrag, "The Missing Peace: Violence and Non-Violence History"
    • Dec 2: Chuck Waters, "Current Health Care Issues"
    • Dec 6: Brian Bowman, "Peace Enforcement in Bosnia-Herzegovina: One NATO Soldier's (and Bethel Alumnus's) Perspective"
    • Dec 9: to be announced
    • Dec 13: Marike Janzen, "From Kansas to Kühlungsborn: My Year as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant"

  • Spring 1996

    • Feb 2: Student intertern travel reports
    • Feb 5: Minority Life program
    • Feb 9: Daniel Hege, "Podium Perspectives"
    • Feb 12: Nick Mork, "The Kindness of Strangers: The Importance of Mentoring in the Light of the Failing Nuclear Family"
    • Feb 16: William Browning, "Greening the Building and the Bottom Line" (peace lecture)
    • Feb 19: Kristen Epp, Mary Franz, and Ryan Loewer, "We Have a Cause" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 23: J. Christophe Arnold, "Discipleship, Commitment, and Service"
    • Feb 26: Jody Miller Shearer, "It's Not Just about O. J.: Talking about Racism as if it Mattered" (peace lecture)
    • Mar 1: Thomas E. Lovejoy, "Amazonia: A Burning Question" (science lecture series)
    • Mar 4: Multi-Cultural Organization
    • Mar 8: Lori Usher, "Life's Lessons Shape Your Bedrock Values"
    • Mar 11: Vern Preheim, George Rogers, Larry Voth, "In the Trenches: Close Encounters with Civil Rights"
    • Mar 12: Lauren Friesen, "Voices of Reconciliation: Three Contemporary American Playwrights"
    • Mar 15: Racism seminars
    • Mar 25: Sondra Koontz, "Los Angeles, New York City and Wichita: Academy Award Shorts"
    • Mar 29: Jamal Badawi, "Islam: The Religion of Peace"
    • Apr 1: Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 8: Margo Breckbill, "Sexual Orientation and Social Ostracism"
    • Apr 12: "Pastoral Perspectives on the Bible" local pastors
    • Apr 15: Grandparents Day
    • Apr 19: SAPPHO
    • Apr 22: Sexuality seminars
    • Apr 26: Ted Mitchell, "Just-In-Time Mathematics for Decision-Making"
    • Apr 29: Cecilia E. Mascareñas, "How to Have a Really Good Life with a Liberal Arts/Sociology Degree from a Mennonite College"
    • May 6: Music Department convo
    • May 10: Honors convo

  • Fall 1995

    • Sep 4: Wynn Goering, "Everything You Need to Know"
    • Sep 8: Steve Collett, "The USA as World Leader: Myth and Facts" (peace lecture)
    • Sep 11: John Billinsky, Jr., "Education and Mental Health"
    • Sep 15: Reinhild and John Janzen, "Between War and Peace in Rwanda and Burundi"
    • Sep 18: Diana Schunn, "Sexual Assault: Myth vs. Reality"
    • Sep 22: Peer mediation group
    • Sep 25: Ian Scott, "Portraits: Images of God in the Stories of Jesus" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 26: Ian Scott, "And the Word Became Flesh" (Staley lecture)
    • Oct 2: Honors convo
    • Oct 6: Bill Harshbarger jazz concert
    • Oct 9: to be announced
    • Oct 13: Brenda Stoltzfus, "Is My-story Her-story?"
    • Oct 16: John Roe, "Searching for Democracy"
    • Oct 20: Stanley L. Jaki, "Creation and Scientific Cosmology"
    • Oct 23: Peter J. Cassagrande, "Dialogue and Creativity"
    • Oct 27: Mexico internship students
    • Oct 29: Sjouke Voolstra, "The Art of Oblivion: Menno Simons in Dutch Mennonite Historiography" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Oct 30: Sjouke Voolstra, "The Anti-clerical Priest: From Father Confessor to Lay Preacher of True Penitence" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Oct 30: Sjouke Voolstra, "The Real Presence of Christ: The Congregation of True Penitents" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Oct 31: Sjouke Voolstra, "The Longing for Perfection: The Segregation of the Saints of the Last Days" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov 10: Joseph B. Martin, "The Controversy Surrounding Affirmative Action: What is the Right Course for Institutions of Higher Learning?"
    • Nov 13: Earl Hess, "Character: The Bedrock of Our Society"
    • Nov 17: Von Hardesty, "The Smithsonian as the Nation's Attic: Reality and Imagination, History and Memory"
    • Nov 20: Luci Tapahanso, "Blue Horses Rush In: Points and Stories"
    • Nov 22: Alcohol Awareness
    • Dec 1: Student Senate
    • Dec 4: International students

  • Spring 1995

    • Feb 3: Barbara Higdon, "Can We Imagine a World Full of Peace?"
    • Feb 6: Student interterm travel reports
    • Feb 10: Donna M. Bell, "Diversity or Division — What Will It Be?"
    • Feb 13: Donna Harrison Staab, "The Laughter Factor"
    • Feb 17: Campus Community Forum
    • Feb 20: Linda Shelly, "From Bethel to Latin America" (young alumna award)
    • Feb 24: Cookie Wiebe, "Service: I Never Saw a Snake in the Bush . . ."
    • Feb 26: Walter Wink, "The Myth of Redemptive Violence" (Bible lectures)
    • Feb 27: Walter Wink, "Jesus' Answer to the Myth" (Bible lectures)
    • Feb 27: Walter Wink, "Jesus' Turn on Nonviolence" (Bible lectures)
    • Feb 28: Walter Wink, "Beyond Pacifism and Just War Theory" (Bible lectures)
    • Mar 6: Myrna roe, "Politics, Community, and a Free Press"
    • Mar 10: Student Senate
    • Mar 13: Emilie M. Townes, "To Be Called Beloved: Resisting Lynching in These Modern Times"
    • Mar 17: Chuck Neufeld, "Hope to the End"
    • Mar 27: James Wiebe, "Ethical Issues in a Fast-Growth Business"
    • Mar 31: John A. Lapp, "Stories from the Files of MCC"
    • Apr 3: Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 7: Gerrit H. Wormhoudt, "The Once and Future Constitution"
    • Apr 10: "Kauffman Museum Presents: An Outrageous Day in the Life of . . ."
    • Apr 17: Reg Boothe, "A Story of Overcoming Personal Tragedy"
    • Apr 21: Steve and Susan Ortman-Goering, "There are 100,000 in the Naked City: This is One of Them"
    • Apr 24: Multi-Cultural Student Union
    • Apr 28: Residence Life Team
    • May 1: to be announced
    • May 8: Music Department convo
    • May 12: Honors Convo

  • Fall 1994

    • Aug 31: Wynn M. Goering, "Religion and Fly Fishing"
    • Sep 5: Virginia Gambia, "Differences between Peace-keeping, Peace-making, and Peace-enforcing"
    • Sep 9: Roger Verdon, "Deadlines, Headlines and Dead Guys: An Appreciation of the Press"
    • Sep 12: "Strangers No More," Bethel College Mexico Internship students
    • Sep 16: Joe Campbell, "Realities of Ireland Today"
    • Sep 19: Carol Hull, "Living with Dying"
    • Sep 26: Calvin B. DeWitt, "Biblical Principles for Environmental Stewardship" (Staley lecture)
    • Sep 26: Calvin B. DeWitt, "Responding to Environmental Stewardship in Faith and Life" (Staley lecture)
    • Sep 27: Calvin B. DeWitt, "Celebrate Creation" (Staley lecture)
    • Sep 30: Carol Wolfe Konek, "Beyond Perestroika: Russian Women and Grass Roots"
    • Oct 3: Honors convo
    • Oct 7: Gene Chavez, "Understanding Hispanic Diversity with Emphasis on the Chicano Movement of the 60s and 70s"
    • Oct 10: Bryant C. Freeman, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Voodoo, But Were Too Hexed to Ask"
    • Oct 14: "Big River" drama (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 17: Christine Downey, "An Inside Look at Politics"
    • Oct 21: James P. Wiebe, "Ethical Issues in a Fast Growth Business"
    • Oct 24: Jean Janzen, "There Are Days" poetry reading
    • Oct 28: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, "Confessions of a Compulsive Writer"
    • Nov 3: Martin E. Marty, "There is No King: the Fiefdoms of American Religious Life" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov 3: Martin E. Marty, "The One and the Many, Past and Present in American Religion" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov 4: Martin E. Marty, "Can We Celebrate the Common Good in American Christianity?" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov 7: Andrew Rich, "The Golden Ratio"
    • Nov 11: Ron Kronish, "Inter-religious Relations in Israel in Light of the Peace Process"
    • Nov 14: SECRETS (AIDS Peer Education Theater)
    • Nov 18: Mel Goering, "The Professional Fallacy"
    • Nov 21: International students
    • Nov 28: Art Department convo - video about quilt artist Faith Ringgold
    • Dec 2: Cynthia Peacock, "Dependency vs. Partnership: Empowerment and Community"
    • Dec. 5: "Bethel Innocence Abroad: Faculty on Sabbatical"
    • Dec 9: Elizabeth C. Behrman, "The Role of Science in a Liberal Arts Education (Even for Women)"

  • Spring 1994

    • Feb 4: Tim Witsman, "Trade: The Biggest Game in Town"
    • Feb 7: Interterm reports by student participants
    • Feb 11: Lee Elder, "Black History: Why We Celebrate"
    • Feb 14: Steve Smith, "Saving the Little Red Men of the Forest"
    • Feb 18: John B. Cobb, "Oikos, Ecology and Economics"
    • Feb 21: Tim Eisenbeis, "Service: Hope in a Messed-Up World"
    • Feb 25: SAPPHO
    • Feb 28: John Paul Lederach, "The Challenge of Peacemaking in the 1990s"
    • Mar 7: Glen Stassen, "Bonhoeffer and Justice: Human Rights and the Sermon on the Mount"
    • Mar 8: Glen Stassen, "Bonhoeffer's Ethic of Responsibility and the Sermon on the Mount"
    • Mar 21: David Schroeder, "The Church as Community in Contemporary Society"
    • Mar 25: Carol Hunter, "Issues of Racism: Teaching Task of the 90s"
    • Mar 28: Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 4: Jeff Gundy, "Poems, Inquiries, and Mutterings"
    • Apr 8: to be announced
    • Apr 11: Karen Brown, "The Importance of Conserving Genetic Variation"
    • Apr 15: Multi-Cultural Student Union convo
    • Apr 18: Weldon Martens, "Beyond Visiting Old Ladies and Preaching to the Sleepy"
    • Apr 22: Carolyn Holderread Heggen, "Sexual Abuse among Christians"
    • Apr 25: Spring music concert
    • Apr 29: Mathematics Awareness Week
    • May 6: T. Christine Stevens, "Mathematical Ways and Congressional Means"
    • May 9: Honors convo

  • Fall 1993

    • Sep 1: opening convo
    • Sep 6: Jeanine M. Hathaway, "Blurring the Lines"
    • Sep 10: Ken Noftziger, "How in the World Do You Make a Hymnal?"
    • Sep 13: Kenneth Deckert, "Nine Orders of Magnitude: From Punch Cards to Super Computers"
    • Sep 20-21: John G. Fast, "A Christian Perspective" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 24: Barbara Elling, "Germany: An Attempt at Multiculturalism - Successes and Failures"
    • Sep 27: Tony Brown, "Which Way from Here: Civil Rights, Rodney King, and Now What?"
    • Oct 1: Colman McCarthy, "How to be an Effective Peacemaker"
    • Oct 4: Honors convo
    • Oct 8: "100 Years of Teaching" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 15: Fremont Regier, "TEE and Tea in Africa"
    • Oct 18: Campus Forum - Self and Society at Bethel: Lifestyle Issues on Campus
    • Oct 22: to be announced
    • Oct 25: Thor Holmes, "Who's at Home on the Range?"
    • Oct 29: Alan C. Deeter, "Can We Live Together with All Our Differences?"
    • Oct 31-Nov 2: Albert J. Meyer, "The Church and Higher Education" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 5: International students
    • Nov 8: to be announced
    • Nov 12: Richard Harris, "The Psychology of Acquiring a Second Language"
    • Nov 15: Dan Wessner, "Of Rice and Rumors: Present Vietnamese/U. S. Opportunities"
    • Nov 19: Bill Harshbarger jazz concert
    • Nov 22: Student Senate
    • Nov 29: Reinhild Janzen, "Hospital Art: Medicine for the Spirit"
    • Dec 3: to be announced
    • Dec 6: Donna E. Sweet, "AIDS Update"

  • Spring 1993

    • Feb 5: Interterm reports by students
    • Feb 8: Multicultural Organization
    • Feb 12: Mubarak Awad, "What It Means to be a Peacemaker"
    • Feb 15: John Williamson, "Student Involvement in Community Service: An Indonesian Case Study"
    • Feb 19: Steve and Dorothy Wiebe-Johnson, "Channels of Peace"
    • Feb 22: Bible Week Convocation, "How My Views about the Bible Have Changed (or Remained the Same)", Newton area pastors
    • Feb 26: Dallas Wiebe, "Kansas as a Setting for Fiction"
    • Mar 1: Christopher Shuzo Kato, "Japanese-American Experiences in World War II"
    • Mar 5: Mark Ediger, "How Scientific Research Turned Out to be Different Than I Expected"
    • Mar 8: Dean Linsenmeyer, "Just an Old Crab"
    • Mar 12: Jesse Hall, "How Bethel College Laid the Foundation for My Life"
    • Mar 15: film "Unity" from "World of Islam" series
    • Mar 18: "Los Muchachos"
    • Mar 29: Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 2: Robin Crews, "Practicing Peace"
    • Apr 5: Evelyn Rouner, "Did You Ever See a Rainbow Walking?"
    • Apr 12: Robert B. Leuhrs, "The Secret History of the Emerald City (L. Frank Baum and the Wizard of Oz)"
    • Apr 16: Raymond Olais, "Allí en el Rancho Grande: The Mexican Community of Newton since 1905"
    • Apr 19: Julie Vosberg, "Community Journalism"
    • Apr 23: Music convo
    • Apr 26: Gary Goertz, "Explaining Dramatic Change in International Relations"
    • Apr 30: Thomas G. Andrews, "From Hummingbirds to Wolves: The Biodiversity Crisis"
    • May 3: film "Skin"
    • May 14: Awards convo

  • Fall 1992

    • Sep 2: Opening convo
    • Sep 7: Douglas Penner, "Reaching Beyond the Familiar: Personal and Community Growth through Diversity"
    • Sep 11: Mariachi Dorado Band
    • Sep 14-15: Catherine Meeks, "The Beloved Community and the Celebration of Diversity" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 21: Kris Wilshusen, "Relationship Violence"
    • Sep 25: NedRa Bonds, "Quindaro and Quilombo"
    • Sep 28: Joachim Wieler, "Between Two Worlds: Impressions of East German Students"
    • Oct. 2: Lawrence Hart, "A Call for Creative Symbiosis"
    • Oct 9: Patricia Shelly, "Wisdom, Wit and Worship"
    • Oct 12: Judith Menadue, "My Life on Death Row"
    • Oct 16: Charles Benjamin, "Election Preview"
    • Oct 19: National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness convo
    • Oct 23: Nancy Duncan, "What the Boys Did" drama
    • Oct 25-27: Abraham Friesen, "History and Renewal in the Anabaptist/Mennonite Tradition" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 2: Mary Oyer, "The Music of Africa"
    • Nov 6: Student Senate
    • Nov 9: to be announced
    • Nov 13: International students
    • Nov 16: James Juhnke, "Stories from Bethel's Past"
    • Nov 20: "With Hand and Heart" film on Native American art
    • Nov 23: Kathryn Kasper, Annette Thornton, Karen Schlabaugh, "Timbrel in Her Hand" music drama
    • Nov 30: James Copple, "Project Freedom: A Community Responding to Drug Abuse, Violence, and Gangs"
    • Dec 4: Thomas Lehman, Grigory Vagenin, "From the Edge of Siberia to the Plains of Kansas: Adventures of a Young Russian Chemist"

  • Spring 1992

    • Feb 7: Duane Goossen, Paul Ackerman, "Should Kansas Reinstate the Death Penalty?"
    • Feb 10: Janet Wheeler Crowder, "Black History Month: The Importance of Historically Correct Curricula"
    • Feb 14: Philip and Cheryl Young, "American Corrections: A Paradoxical Search for Community"
    • Feb 17: Rhonda Horried, "Service: Essential Elements of Success"
    • Feb 21: MCC Youth Discovery Team, "The Sounds of Southern Africa"
    • Feb 23-24: Wilma Bailey, "Women in Ancient Israel" (Bible lectures)
    • Feb 28: John Zehr, President's Forum
    • Mar 2: Brent Auernheimer, "Computing and Communications in the 90s"
    • Mar 6: Sappho, "The Life Cycles of Women"
    • Mar 9: Curt Goering, "Human Rights in the 1990s"
    • Mar 13: Multi-cultural Organization
    • Mar 16: Junior nursing class, "Some Things You Don't Want to Graduate With"
    • Mar 20: Student Senate
    • Mar 30: Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 3: Janine Wedel, "Eastern Europe Today"
    • Apr 6: Tim Lehman, "Of Rainbows and Rabbit's Tales"
    • Apr 10: William E. Unrau, "The Columbian Heritage: The Varieties of Violence against Native Americans in 19th-Century Kansas"
    • Apr 13: Millard Fuller, "Building Sermons"
    • Apr 20: film "Winds of Change"
    • Apr 24: Music convo
    • Apr 27: "KBCU Retrospect"
    • May 1: to be announced
    • May 15: Awards convo

  • Fall 1991

    • Sep 4: opening convo
    • Sep 9: Claire Casselman, "Being a Rock in a World That Rolls"
    • Sep 13: Marion Deckert, "Myths We Live By: The Logic of Prejudice"
    • Sep 16-17: Robert Detweiler, "Thinking through Fiction" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 23: Student Senate
    • Sep 27: C. Alton Barnhill, "Putting Eating Disorders into Perspective"
    • Sep 30: film "Man Oh Man: Growing Up Male in America", with discussion led by Mark Hicks
    • Oct 4: Mark Jantzen and Doug Yoder, "Stories of Faith in Eastern Europe"
    • Oct 7: Paul Lewis, "On the Nature of Providence", honors convo
    • Oct 11: Tom Fowler, "Crosscurrents" jazz concert (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 14: National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness convo
    • Oct 18: Tom Engelhardt, "Creating the Brand Name Child"
    • Oct 21: Willard Garvey, "The Lunatics are Running the Asylum: Reflections of an Entrepreneur on Government"
    • Oct 25: "Alexander Hamilton and the American Dream," Hamilton impersonator
    • Oct 27-29: Al Reimer, "Mennonite Literature" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 2: Thomas Lehman, Shirley King, Kathryn Kasper, "The Mortal and Immortal Mozart"
    • Nov 8: Student Senate
    • Nov 11: Kathy Obear, "Putting the Pieces Together"
    • Nov 15: Juan Jose Hurtado, "Health Issues in Guatemala"
    • Nov 18: film "Prelude to War"
    • Nov 22: Eugene J. Gerber, "Can There be a Just War Today?"
    • Nov 25: International students
    • Dec 2: Dale Johnson, "Churchill: Man of the Century"
    • Dec 6: to be announced

  • Spring 1991

    • Feb 1: panel discussion "Persian Gulf Crisis: Progress on Campus Dialogue"
    • Feb 4: Wayne Franklin, "Black History Month - A Beginning not an End"
    • Feb 8: Sonia Sanchez, "The Role of Black University Students in American Social Change"
    • Feb 11: Harold J. Schultz, "1971-1991: A Tale of Two Decades"
    • Feb 15: Charles Benjamin, David Farnsworth, "Political Perspectives on the Persian Gulf Crisis"
    • Feb 18: James Krabill, "Welcome to Boot Camp" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 22: Chuck Neufeld, "Ease the Pain" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 25: James Juhnke, John McCabe-Juhnke, "Living Creatively: A One-Man Drama on the Life of Dr. E. G. Kaufman" (Bible lecture)
    • Mar 1: Sappho convo
    • Mar 4: Raul Aristides Haya de la Torre, "Current Social Problems in Peru"
    • Mar 8: Minority Student Union
    • Mar 11: Student Senate
    • Mar 15: Les Tolbert, "Reflections at the Crossroads - Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?"
    • Mar 18: Ballet Kansas
    • Mar 22: Keith Ratzlaff, "Reading and Writing Poetry"
    • Mar 25: M. Randolph Thompson, "Opening Your Hearts and Minds"
    • Apr 8: Forensics Showcase
    • Apr 12: film "Family Gathering"
    • Apr 15: Wynn Goering, "The Trouble Begins at Eight: Mark Twain and Other Bandits"
    • Apr 19: Music convo
    • Apr 23: David McDaniels, "Housing for the Poor"
    • Apr 26: Dennis Sentilles, "Logarithmic Nature of Life"
    • Apr 30: to be announced
    • May 10: Awards convo

  • Fall 1990

    • Aug 29: opening convo
    • Sep 3: R. Bruce Woods, "Mates, Dates and Other Primates: A Few Comments on Human Relationships"
    • Sep 7: Marie Snider, "Blondie, Where's Your Apron? A Serious Look at Sex Roles in the Comics"
    • Sep 10-11: Tom Sine, "Getting Your Act Together and Taking It on the Road" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 17: Jonathan Jantz, "Born Drunk"
    • Sep 21: John Ortiz, Richard Mitchell, "Employment Issues of Native Americans"
    • Sep 24: Student Senate
    • Sep 28: Jean Pouncil, "Ms. Jean . . . The Storyteller"
    • Oct 1: Loren Pennington, "Eisenhower: A Senior Statesman Reminisces" (evening convo)
    • Oct 5: Robert Kreider, "The Discovery of Lost Treasure: The Luyken Etchings"
    • Oct 8: Honors convo
    • Oct 12: film "A Singing Stream"
    • Oct 15: National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week
    • Oct 19: Career planning convo
    • Oct 26: Werner Fornos, "Gaining People, Losing Ground: Can the Balance Be Equalized?"
    • Oct 28-30: Albert Keim, "Civilian Public Service and World War II" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Nov 5: Claudia A. Limbert, "Merged Lives: Fact and Fiction"
    • Nov 9: James Satterwhite, "The End of an Era in Poland: From Communism to ?"
    • Nov 12: Student Senate
    • Nov 16: Walter Sawatsky, "Students and Social Political Change in Eastern Europe"
    • Nov 19: International students
    • Nov 26: Mel Goering, "Praxis and Contemplation: Bethel's Educational Task"
    • Nov 30: to be announced

  • Spring 1990

    • Feb 2: Craig Miner, "Privatization and Liberty"
    • Feb 5: Dorothy Flowers Wilson, "Bethel Past and Present through the Eyes of an Alumnus" (Black History Month)
    • Feb 9: Minority Student Union
    • Feb 12: Harold Schultz, "Bethel College in the 1990s: What Direction? What Cost?" (President's Forum)
    • Feb 16: David Brower, "The Visitor's Guide to Earth Island"
    • Feb 18-20: Jonathan Larson, "Mission Today: Deliverance" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 23: Bruno Bergen, Wanda Derksen Bergen, "Giving Birth to New Harmonies" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 26: Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, "Service and Service to Justice" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Mar 2: Sappho, "We Are Walking: Perspectives on Women's Lives"
    • Mar 5: Student forum on racism, Kansas Peace Institute
    • Mar 9: Lou Gold, "Lessons from the Ancient Forest"
    • Mar 12: Student Senate
    • Mar 16: Albert Klassen, "Sexual Morality and the Sexual Revolution: What Prophets Do We Believe?"
    • Mar 26: Forensics Road Show
    • Mar 30: Jan Gleysteen, "Experiencing World War II in Holland"
    • Apr 2: Steve Ratzlaff, "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?"
    • Apr 6: Nancy Duncan, "Polly!", one-act drama
    • Apr 9: Gene DeGruson, "Saving The Jungle"
    • Apr 16: Campus forum
    • Apr 20: Music convo
    • Apr 23: Wes Jackson, "Building a Sustainable Society"
    • Apr 27: Forum on homosexuality
    • Apr 30: "Golub" film on Leon Golub
    • May 4: to be announced
    • May 11: Awards convo

• 1980-1989

  • Fall 1989

    • Aug 30: opening convo
    • Sep 4: Philip Osborne, "On Leaving Home . . . and Returning"
    • Sep 11-12: Susan Muto, "Christian Commitment" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 18: Dale Schrag, "Toto, I Have a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: On Liberal Education and the Community of Learners"
    • Sep 22: Student Senate
    • Sep 25: D. Stanley Eitzen, "Competition and American Society"
    • Sep 29: Sudendra Bhana and Kastoor Bhana, "Apartheid and Education"
    • Oct 2: Joseph Nagyvary, "Renaissance Chemistry and Violin Making in Cremona, Italy"
    • Oct 6: Kenneth A. Emert, "What is Judaism? Who is a Jew?"
    • Oct 9: Honors convo, Duane Friesen
    • Oct 13: Vada Snider, Eric Street, John McCabe-Juhnke, "Pleasure of Pan", music and drama (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 16: Dona Freeman, "Planting in the Dust," one-act drama sponsored by the Land Institute
    • Oct 20: Chuck Townsend, "Alcohol and Drugs in the Workplace"
    • Oct 27: Nancy Amidei, "Using Government in Behalf of People"
    • Oct 29-31: H. A. Oberman, "The Heritage of the Reformation" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 6: Willard Krabill, "Getting Intimate with the One(s) You Love"
    • Nov 10: Marilyn Klaus, "When Violence Hits Home"
    • Nov 13: Student Senate
    • Nov 17: International students
    • Nov 20: "The Day Care Dilemma: Who Shall Care for Our Children?" panel discussion
    • Nov 27: Chuck Neufeld, "Songs of Freedom and Struggle"
    • Dec 1: to be announced

  • Spring 1989

    • Feb 3: Campus forum: Goering Hall fire
    • Feb 6: Hubert Brown, "Compassionate Action" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 10: Russ and Gail Wiebe Toevs, "Spirits and Electric Church Bells - Reflections on Commitment" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 13: panel on substance abuse with Prairie View staff and Bethel students
    • Feb 17: Ernie Regehr, "The Deadly Business of Military Experts"
    • Feb 20: John C. Gaston, "Race Relations: The Climate in America" (Minority Emphasis Week)
    • Feb. 23: "The Brothers", one-man drama, John C. Gaston (Minority Emphasis Week)
    • Feb. 26-27: Patricia Shelly, Dale Schrag, James Juhnke, Duane Friesen, "The Bible in Congregation and College" (Bible Lectures)
    • Mar 3: F. D. Jabara, "Entrepreneurship/Intrepreneurship"
    • Mar 6: to be announced
    • Mar 10: Raylene Hinz-Penner, "Passion and Vulnerability: Lessons of Literature"
    • Mar 13: Moss Ntlha, "The Evangelical Church in South Africa"
    • Mar 17: Student Senate
    • Mar 20: Shirley King, Thomas Lehman, "A Bach Birthday Party"
    • Apr 3: Forensics Road Show
    • Apr 7: International students
    • Apr 9-10: symposium "Peacemaking in the Middle East" Elias Chacour, Khalid Kishtainy
    • Apr 14: Don Schierling, "Business Ethics: An Ethical Dilemma?"
    • Apr 17: Ray and Brenda Martin Hurst, pastors-in-residence
    • Apr 21: Li Jiao, "Chinese Painting"
    • Apr 24: campus forum
    • Apr 28: Karen Christian, "Contrast and Conflict in Central America"
    • May 1: "America and Lewis Hine" film
    • May 5: to be announced
    • May 12: Awards convo

  • Fall 1988

    • Aug 31: opening convo
    • Sep 5: Anna and James Juhnke, "Children of the Dragon"
    • Sep 12-13: Lyle Dorsett, "C. S. Lewis: A Quarter Century Evaluation"
    • Sep 19: Robin Crews, Marion Deckert, "Pacifism: Divergent Views"
    • Sep 23: Eunice Stallworth, "Images" drama
    • Sep 26: Elise Boulding, "The Politics of Peace"
    • Sep 30: Beverly Barbo, "When AIDS Hits Home"
    • Oct. 3: Wayne Wiens, "Mutant Career Paths and Biologically-tainted Views" (honors convo)
    • Oct 7: Kelly Werts, "Music from Many Lands" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 10: David Haury, "The Castle on the Plains: Celebrating the Ad Building Centennial"
    • Oct 14: Student Senate
    • Oct 17: Thane Chastain, James Juhnke, "Media Perceptions of Vietnam, Part I"
    • Oct 21: Peter Rollins, "Media Perceptions of Vietnam, Part II"
    • Oct 31-Nov 1: Walter Klaassen, "Living at the End of the Ages" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 7: David Awbrey, "Politics: 1968, 1988"
    • Nov 11: Janlee Blosser, "Prolonging Life, Prolonging Death: An Ethical Question" panel discussion?
    • Nov 14: Student Senate
    • Nov 18: John Paul Lederach, "Seeking Truth in Central American Efforts"
    • Nov 21: Clayton Koppes, "The Narrowed Screen: Sex, Politics and Censorship in Hollywood's Golden Age"
    • Nov 28: "American Tongues" film
    • Dec. 2: to be announced

  • Spring 1988

    • Feb 5: Tom Lehman; John McCabe-Juhnke, "Pleasures and Perils of Plagiarism"
    • Feb 8: Thane Chastain, "How Do You Spell Relief?" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 12: Abraham Fiseha, "When Will We Sing Our Own Song?" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 15: Minority Student Union (Minority Emphasis Week)
    • Feb. 19: Erna P. Harris, "Issues in Peace and Race Relations" (Minority Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 22-23: William Klassen, "Living in End Times: The Revelation" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 29: Alan Bohn, "Addictions and Treatment: A Personal Story"
    • Mar 4: J. Michael Shull, "The New Supernova" (Howard Shapley Visiting Lectureship)
    • Mar 7: Miguel Altieri, "Sustainable Agriculture" (Environmental lecturer)
    • Mar 11: Musical and dramatic variety program by "Road Less Traveled," Doug and Jude Krehbiel
    • Mar 21: Keith Sprunger, "Why I Am a Historian"
    • Mar 25: Student Senate
    • Mar 28: Tina Block Ediger, "Katharina of Kuzmitzky," drama
    • Apr 4: Forensics Road Show
    • Apr 8: Robert Jay Lifton, "Toward a Species Self"
    • Apr 11: Ted Dreier, "Take Your Life Off Hold"
    • Apr 15: Paul Albrecht, "A Liberal Arts Education and Your Career: How Well Do They Fit?"
    • Apr 18: Myron Schrag, "The 70 m.p.h. God"
    • Apr 22: Duane Friesen, "Abortion: The Contemporary Debate" panel discusssion?
    • Apr 25: "Abortion: The Contemporary Debate"
    • Apr 29: to be announced
    • May 2: "Song of Survival" film
    • May 9: Elvera Voth, "A Commentary on Mendelssohn's Elijah"
    • May 13: Awards convo

  • Fall 1987

    • Sep 2: opening convo
    • Sep 7: W. Dale Horst, "Humors, Devils, and Neurotransmitters: Man Views His Brain"
    • Sep 14-15: John M. Perkins, "Authentic Christianity" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 21: Ron Bergamo, "What Does It Take to be a Winner?"
    • Sep 25: Clark Owens, Duane Goossen, "Should Kansas Reinstate the Death Penalty?"
    • Sep 28: Student Senate
    • Oct 2: Nancy Banman, Dennis Dailey, "Keeping Coercive Sexuality Out of Dating"
    • Oct 5: Honors convo
    • Oct 12: "Singing in the West" multi-media Centennial convo
    • Oct 16: Marietta Jaeger, "Forgiveness and Reconciliation - a Contemporary Parable"
    • Oct 19: International student convo
    • Oct 23: Ira Sandperl, "Where Are We and Where Are We Going?"
    • Oct 26-27: William R. Estep, Jr., "Religious Freedom: Heritage and Responsibility"
    • Oct 30: Lee Weaver, "Manned Space Flight: The Perspective in 1987"
    • Nov 6: Susan Sylvia Scott, "Storytelling - the Oldest Form of Theater"
    • Nov 13: John Birks, "Nuclear Winter - Ultraviolet Spring"
    • Nov 16: J. Denny Weaver
    • Nov 20: "Drugs, Sex, and AIDS" film
    • Nov 23: Mid-America Dance Theater
    • Nov 30: Harold Schultz, "The Constitution Comes to Life"
    • Dec 4: to be announced

  • Spring 1987

    • Feb 6: Robin Crews, "Anachronistic Alchemy: Making Peace from the Past in the Present for the Future"
    • Feb 9: Arlin Erdahl, director of volunteer recruitment, Peace Corps (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 13: John Lapp, "Nurturing the Seeds of Goodness" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 16: Minority Emphasis Week
    • Feb 20: Minority Emphasis Week
    • Feb 23-24: Leroy Friesen, "Harbingers: Contemporary Images of Resurrection"
    • Mar 2: Jeptha R. Hostetler, "Drink, Drank, Drunk"
    • Mar 6: Samuel A. Hardage, "U.S. - Soviet Relations"
    • Mar 9: Arthur Porter, "The Period of Independence in African Development"
    • Mar 13: Campus forum - women's group
    • Mar 16: Nancy Duncan, "Nebraska '49" drama
    • Mar 20: William Sloane Coffin, "Peace Issues Today: A Perspective"
    • Mar 30: Forensics Road Show
    • Apr 3: Susan Stucky and Dan Flickinger, "Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language - Some Glimpses of the Frontier"
    • Apr 6: Apr 3 lecture continued
    • Apr 10: Rachel Goering, "Rebirthing: Energy Breating and Awareness Consulting"
    • Apr 13: Music Department
    • Apr 20: Campus forum - Student Senate
    • Apr 24: Ayacho Uchiyama, "Japanese Stage Arts"
    • Apr 27: Russell G. Mawby, "The World Stands Out"
    • May 1: Patricia Shelly, Renee Sauder, "Israel and the West Bank: Two Peoples on an Ancient Land"
    • May 4: Bethel students, "The Farm Crisis: A Family Perspective"
    • May 8: "Small Happiness" film on China
    • May 15: Awards convo

  • Fall 1986

    • Sep 3: opening convo
    • Sep 8: Hans Jaffe, "Science and the Modern World: What We Have and What We Are Paying For"
    • Sep 15-16: Dale Brown, "Basic Issues for Christian Peacemakers" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 22: Campus forum - Student Senate
    • Sep 26: Walter Jost, Community song fest
    • Sep 29: Kay Arvin, "Family Law and the Problem of Conflict"
    • Oct 3: "Quilters" musical
    • Oct 6: Honors convo
    • Oct 10: Arthur Porter, "African Development Reconsidered: The Concept and Historical Context"
    • Oct 13: Doug Hostetter, "Vietnam"
    • Oct 17: Campus forum - race relations group
    • Oct 20: Chingiz Aitmatov, Soviet Writers' Union
    • Oct 24: Elsie Steelberg, Deborah Pope, "Toward an Understanding of Homosexuality"
    • Oct 27-28: James Juhnke, "Dialogue with a Heritage: The Early Years of Bethel College"
    • Oct 31: The Great Debate: Britain vs. Bethel
    • Nov 7: International students
    • Nov 10: Elise Boulding
    • Nov 14: Curt Goering, "Torture in the Eighties"
    • Nov 17: to be announced
    • Nov 21: Arthur Porter, "The Colonial Period of African Development"
    • Nov 24: Janine Wedel, "Polish Society: The Ties That Bind"
    • Dec 1: to be announced
    • Dec 5: Campus forum - Student Senate

  • Spring 1986

    • Feb 7: David Ortman, "Progress as if Survival Mattered"
    • Feb 10: Fremont Regier, "Commitment or Skills: Which End of the Shovel to Grab" (Service Emphasis Day)
    • Feb 14: James Lawson, "The Terrible Alternative"
    • Feb 17: Janet Washington, Gospel music group from Omaha (Minority Emphasis Week)
    • Feb 21: Minority Emphasis Week
    • Feb 23-25: Dennis MacDonald, "The Early Church and the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 28: Werner Fransen, "Alcohol - A Board Member Speaks Out"
    • Mar 7: Garry Boldenow, "Satellite Technology"
    • Mar 10: Marilyn Miller, "Choosing a Life-Giving Career"
    • Mar 14: Robert Jefferson, "Nuclear Waste Disposal and Transportation"
    • Mar 17: Lucille Teichert, "Take the B Train"
    • Mar 21: "Race Relations at Bethel", Race Relations Discussion Group
    • Mar 24: film "The Genetic Gamble"
    • Apr 7: Forensics Road Show
    • Apr 11: John Lochs, "Technology and Persons"
    • Apr 14: John de Gruchy, "South Africa Update"
    • Apr 18: Faith and Learning Conference public lecture
    • Apr 21: Carol Konek, "A Global Perspective: International Women's Decade and Beyond"
    • Apr 25: International students
    • Apr 28: film "Burchfield's Vision" about Charles Burchfield, American watercolorist
    • May 2: Music department
    • May 5: film "In Defense of Sacred Land", commentary by Kathleen Leenders
    • May 9: to be announced
    • May 16: Awards convo

  • Fall 1985

    • Sep 6: Harold J. Schultz, "You Only Go Around Once"
    • Sep 9: Robert Carlson, "Nervous in Traffic"
    • Sep 16: James Liu, "My Life in China"
    • Sep 19-20: John Westerhoff, "Acquiring, Sustaining, and Deepening a Radical Faith" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 27: Marles Preheim, community song fest
    • Sep 30: Joseph Bordogna, "Technology as a Liberal Art"
    • Oct 4: Brian Schrag, "Liberal Education, Medical Education, and Outrageous Experiments on Humans"
    • Oct 7: Marilyn Klaus, "When Violence Hits Home"
    • Oct 11: K-State Singers (Fall Fest Convo)
    • Oct 14: Arthur J. Abrams, "Judaism in America Today"
    • Oct 18: Ronald Santoni, "Nuclear Armaments, the Current Situation"
    • Oct 21: Dwight Nesmith, "An Anthology of Insignificant Incidents of International Significance"
    • Oct 25: Keith Henley, "Wolf Creek - Who Pays?"
    • Oct 28-29: Rodney Sawatsky, "Authority and Identity in the General Conference Mennonite Church"
    • Nov 4: film "Unity", commentary by Duane Friesen
    • Nov 8: to be announced
    • Nov 11: film "Man and Nature", commentary by Duane Friesen
    • Nov 15: Doug and Raylene Penner, "China Sojourn"
    • Nov 18: Hanley Jackson, Jack Flouer, "K-State Mix", electronic music
    • Nov 22: Dennis Dailey, "Pacifism is a Feminist Issue"
    • Nov 25: Honors convo
    • Dec 2: Howard Snider, "Understanding Conflict in Central America"
    • Dec 6: film "The Hutterites"

  • Spring 1985

    • Feb 8: Philip C. McKnight, "Dealing with Stereotypes"
    • Feb 11: Dan Friesen, "Bethel to Beirut . . . and Back"
    • Feb 17-19: Gayle Gerber Koontz, "Two Bodies, One Bible: Women, Men, and the Word of God" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 22: Cathy Passmore, "Now Shall the Desert Bloom," multimedia production
    • Feb 25: to be announced, Minority Emphasis Week
    • Mar 1: to be announced, Minority Emphasis Week
    • Mar 4: Leonard Gillman, "Choosing a Wife" (math lecture)
    • Mar 8: Anne Cahn, "Careers in Washington"
    • Mar 11: James Mininger, "Bach: Cultural Counterpoint"
    • Mar 15: film "The Joy of Bach" (Tricentennial Bach Festival)
    • Mar 26: Anthony Campolo
    • Mar 29: Carl Eller, "My Fifth Superbowl"
    • Apr 1: Mid-America Dance Company
    • Apr 8: Forensics Road Show
    • Apr 12: "Building for a Second Century" Celebrating Bethel's Centennial
    • Apr 15: to be announced
    • Apr 19: John Stockwell, "Reflections on Serving in the CIA"
    • Apr 22: Kenneth Ciboski, "Prospects for US-USSR Relations"
    • Apr 26: Kenneth Good, "Taking Risks in Business"
    • Apr 29: "Greg Claassen and His Friends" ventriloquist
    • May 3: International students
    • May 6: film "Poletown Lives"
    • May 10: to be announced [what was it?]
    • May 17: Awards convo

  • Fall 1984

    • Sep 3: Harold J. Schultz, "Out on a Limb"
    • Sep 7: Bruce Woods, "Finding Meaningful Relationships"
    • Sep 10: Richard Harris, "Language and Advertising"
    • Sep 13: Duane Friesen, "Reflections on the Middle East Conflict" (Peace Lecture)
    • Sep 17: Bethel Enery Conservation Task Force, "Meeting Bethel's Energy Needs"
    • Sep 24: Walter Jost, community song fest
    • Sep 28: Mimewock, mime show (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 5: environmental lecturer to be announced
    • Oct 8-9: Ron Sider, "New Ways to be Peacemakers" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 12: "Glimpses from Bethel's Past" Founders Day commemoration
    • Oct 15: Carl Eller, "My Fifth Superbowl"
    • Oct 19: John Sheriff, "Mennonites, Methodists, and Liberal Education"
    • Oct 22: Anna Bowman, "Is Misogyny Too Harsh a Word? How Do You Feel about Women?"
    • Oct 26: Marion Decker, James Juhnke, "Should Christians Participate in Politics" debate
    • Oct 29-30: Vincent Harding, "Black History and the Search for a New America" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 5: Thane Chastain, "Through a Tube Darkly"
    • Nov 9: Marcus Smucker, "Christ and Vocation"
    • Nov 12: Roger Claassen, "World Food Security and the U. S. Farm Policy"
    • Nov 16: "South Africa - the White Laager" film
    • Nov 19: "Generations of Resistance" film (South Africa)
    • Nov 26: Mari Peterson, "A Perspective on Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant"
    • Nov 30: "A Perspective on Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant," KGE representative

  • Spring 1984

    • Feb 3: Paul Ackerman, "The Creationist Challenge: Does It Matter"
    • Feb 6: Robert Kreider, "Famous and Not So Famous Last Words"
    • Feb 10: Marles Preheim, community song fest
    • Feb 13: Tim Lehman, Service Emphasis Day
    • Feb 19-21: Don Kraybill, "Hope in a Nuclear Age"
    • Feb 24: Bert Lobe, "A Perspective on Southeast Asia"
    • Feb 27: Rich Sider, "Central America Today"
    • Feb 27, 8:30pm: George Ritchie, "Bach and the Cosmic Connection: Music, Mathematics and the Mind"
    • Mar 2: Efrian Diaz, "The U. S. and Central America: A Honduran Perspective"
    • Mar 5: John Gaston, "Role of Blacks on Small Predominantly White Campuses"
    • Mar 9: Leroy Garvin, "History of the Negro Spiritual"
    • Mar 12: Bethel College Debate Team, "Resolved: That U. S. Higher Education Has Sacrificed Quality for Institutional Survival"
    • Mar 16: Deborah Hunsberger, Paul McKay, and students, "Interterm Experiences in Germany and India"
    • Mar 26: Bruce Cutler, "Alternate Worlds"
    • Mar 30: Connie Bohannon Roberts, "Sevel Women" drama
    • Apr 2: Felix Moos, "Refugees at Our Doorstep"
    • Apr 5: Roger Fisher, "Alternatives to Military Bluffing in International Disputes"
    • Apr 9: "Running Fence" film
    • Apr 13: Sack and Act Players, "Mother Goose's Cornz-a-poppin' Network"
    • Apr 16: choral concert, Bethel College choral groups
    • Apr 23: Student Council convocation, Tammy Duvanel
    • Apr 27: "Population Issues - 1984," representative of Population Institute, Washington, DC [who was it?]
    • Apr 30: Rachel Waltner, "Main Streets: Preserving Our Cities"
    • May 4: to be announced
    • May 11: Awards convo

  • Fall 1983

    • Sep 5: Harold J. Schultz, "In Pursuit of Excellence"
    • Sep 9: "Nicaragua and Honduras," International Summer Seminar
    • Sep 12: Victor J. Papanek, "Creative Problem Solving"
    • Sep 19: Marles Preheim, community song fest
    • Sep 22: Waldo Wedel, "The Plains and Man: An Archeologist's Perspective" 8pm
    • Sep 23: Waldo Wedel, "Indians and Spaniards in the 16th Century Kansas"
    • Sep 26-27: Myron Augsburger, "Discipleship in the Global Village" (Staley Lectures)
    • Oct 3: Sally Kitch, "The Mother God and Social Structures: The Shaker Example"
    • Oct 7: "Our Neighbors from the South"
    • Oct 10: Fremont and Sara Regier, "Two Years on the Edge of the Kalahari"
    • Oct 17: Robert Christina, Jr., "The Trains We Rode"
    • Oct 21: film "Goya: His Life and Art"
    • Oct 24: Betsy Bergen, "Human Sexuality"
    • Oct 28: Richard MacMaster, "William Penn's Woods"
    • Oct 30-Nov 1: Cynthia Wedel, "Tradition and Traditions" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 7: Naomi Lynn, "Women: The Real Majority"
    • Nov 14: Carolyn Schultz, "Willa Cather - The Prairie"
    • Nov 18: Bethel College Jazz Ensemble
    • Nov 21: John Swomley, "The Devil Theory of International Relations"
    • Nov 28: Forensics Road Show
    • Dec 2: International students
    • Dec 5: Myrna Arceo, "Phillippine Religion: Domesticating or Liberating?"

  • Spring 1983

    • Feb 4: Wallace T. Collett, "Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?"
    • Feb 7: film "La Frontera"
    • Feb 11: Gary Gammon, "The Realist's Approach to Peace"
    • Feb 14: Monita Lank, "Male and Female Comparisons in Strength Development"
    • Feb 16: Service Emphasis Day [who spoke?]
    • Feb 18: Art Simon, "Addressing the Problem of World Hunger"
    • Feb 20-22: Walter Klaassen, "Simplicity and Ambiguity: The Janus of Biblical Faith" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 25: Newton Community Chorale
    • Feb 28: John Ruth, "Paradoxes"
    • Mar 4: Heidi Regier, "Botswana: Encounters in Faith"
    • Mar 7: Emmet C. Burns, "Minority Affairs"
    • Mar 11: Bethel College Gospel Choir
    • Mar 14: MCC Players, "On the Move"
    • Mar 18: June Yoder, "Women and Peace"
    • Mar 28: film "Women Inside"
    • Apr 4: to be announced
    • Apr 8: James Hartman, "American English Variation: E Pluribus Unum"
    • Apr 14: Jonathan Fine, "The Prevention of Nuclear War"
    • Apr 15: John Bergey, "Choosing Health"
    • Apr 18: Bob Edmiston, "Alternative Energy Futures"
    • Apr 22: International Student Organization
    • Apr 25: Paul McKay, "The Plight of Central American Refugees"
    • Apr 29: Frank Tillapaugh, "The Church Unleashed"
    • May 2: Arthur Abrams, "Contemporary Issues from the Jewish Points of View"
    • May 6: Diane Umble, "Diary of a Strasbourg Film Project"
    • May 9: film "Potlatch: A Strict Law Bids Us Dance"
    • May 13: Awards Assembly

  • Fall 1982

    • Sep 3: Harold J. Schultz, "A World of Linkages"
    • Sep 6: Robert Kreider, "Sabbatical Windows"
    • Sep 10: Paul McKay, Juan José Hurtado, "Central American Exiles and Refugees"
    • Sep 13: Prairie View staff, "The View from Within"
    • Sep 17: Paul Myers, C. Nelson Hostetter, "Mennonite Disaster Service"
    • Sep 19-21: Dallas Willard, "The Prospects for a Christian Apologetics in the 1980s" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 27: Kiyoshi Tanimoto, "Hiroshima 37 Years Later"
    • Oct 1: "For the Beauty of the Earth," Fall Fest convo
    • Oct 4: "Please Freeze," an original musical drama, Road Less Travelled
    • Oct 8: Stanley Senner, "Political Action and Environmental Stewardship"
    • Oct 11: Barbara Schmidt, "Victim and Offender Mediation Service"
    • Oct 15: Medard Gable, "The Empty Breadbasket: The Cornucopia Project"; Jack Nelson, "North American Food Patterns"
    • Oct 18: to be announced
    • Oct 22: Elwood Chapman, "Your Attitude is Showing"
    • Oct 25: Harold Moyer, James Juhnke, "Time Will Tell," original operetta, Hesston College Music Department
    • Oct 26: "Die Fledermaus," National Opera Company
    • Nov 1-2: John Howard Yoder, Menno Simons Lectures
    • Nov 5: Warren Bryan Martin, "The Liberal Arts and Career Education"
    • Nov 8: Jerry Karr, "Implications of the 11/2 Elections for State Legislative Priorities"
    • Nov 12: Ken Bauman, "The Marks of an Educated Person"
    • Nov 15: Marvin Dirks, "Hypothesis: That We Are Not All Created Religiously Equal"
    • Nov 19: Huan Xinqu, "My Personal Odyssey"
    • Nov 22: Randal Gunden, "Reflections of an Economist"
    • Nov 29: James Schellenberg, "Is an Objective Standard of Justice Possible?"
    • Dec 3: Forensics Road Show
    • Dec 6: file "Excuse Me, America" Brazilian archbishop Dom Helder Camara

  • Spring 1982

    • Feb 5: Howard Snider and Bethel students, "Experiential Learning and Interterm Off-campus Course Reports"
    • Feb 8: Charles Pace, Freddie Gardner, "Sizwe Bansi is Dead" drama on South Africa
    • Feb 12: Richard Friesen, "An Urban Ministry: A Visual Presentation on Kansas City"
    • Feb 14-16: Robert Bratcher, "The Bible in Today's World" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 22: Jacqui Chagnon, "Indochina Refugees: A View from Inside Indochina"
    • Feb 26: Marles Preheim, Community Chorale
    • Mar 1: Don Joy, "Basic Life Intimacies"
    • Mar 3: Philip Young, "Working with the Criminal Justice System" (Service Emphasis Day)
    • Mar 5: Francis S. Lestingi, "Thermo Nuclear Weapons: Visions and Visuals"
    • Mar 8: Don Liggett, "Seeing Ourselves through Other Cultures"
    • Mar 12: International Students Organization of Bethel College
    • Mar 15: Richard Steele, "South Africa from the Perspective of a South African Conscientious Objector"
    • Mar 19: Forensics Road Show
    • Mar 29: National Shakespeare Company, "The Tempest"
    • Apr 2: Denver Interfaith Children's Choir
    • Apr 5: Gene Stoltzfus, "Hope and Decay in the City: Can White People Help?"
    • Apr 12: film "The Artist as a Woman"
    • Apr 16: Henry Kelly, "Energy, Productivity, and National Energy Demand"
    • Apr 18: Black Heritage Convocation [who spoke?]
    • Apr 23: Jim Yoder, "Southern Africa as Seen Through the Swaziland Window"
    • Apr 26: Anne and Tom Moore, "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons from a Kansan's Perspective"
    • Apr 30: Joachim Wiens, "The Peace Movement in Europe"
    • May 3: Anna Juhnke, "The Exodus in Modern Imagination"
    • May 7: William Stemper, "The Corporation: Its Pitfalls and Promise"
    • May 10: film "Excuse Me America" about Brazilian Dom Helder Camara
    • May 14: Awards Assembly

  • Fall 1981

    • Sep 4: Harold J. Schultz, "The Giraffe Society"
    • Sep 7: Jerry Lichti, "What I Learned in Zambia"
    • Sep 14-15: Mary Cosby, "The Relevance of Christ in a World Like Ours" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 18: Covenant Players, "Business vs. Christianity"
    • Sep 21: Robert Hinshaw, "Natural Disaster Trends and Their Implications"
    • Sep 25: Paul Wehr, "Case Studies in Conflict Management"
    • Sep 28: film "On the Edge of the Forest"
    • Oct 2: Fred Loganbill, "Draft Registration: Considerations and Options"
    • Oct 5: Kirk Alliman, "The Church as a Service Organization"
    • Oct 9: "Finding Joy in Simplicity" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 12: Diane Umble, "Living with Mass Media"
    • Oct 16: Ron Flaming, "The Challenge of the Pastorate"
    • Oct 19: Paul McKay, "Guatemala: The Unnatural Disaster"
    • Oct 23: Harold Turner, "New Religious Movements in the U. S."
    • Oct 26-27: Cornelius J. Dyck, Menno Simons Lectures
    • Nov 2: Keith Harder, "Christian Community"
    • Nov 6: Donna Neufeld, "Anger: Making the Best of It"
    • Nov 9: Reinhild Janzen, "Art, A Matter of Survival"
    • Nov 13: The Micah and Laura Mime Theatre
    • Nov 16: film "Waterloo Farmers"
    • Nov 20: Winfield Fretz, "China Revisited"
    • Nov 23: Foreign student convo
    • Nov 30: to be announced
    • Dec 4: to be announced
    • Dec 7: film "Between Men"

  • Spring 1981

    • Feb 6: Lee Lengel, "The Automobile and American Life"
    • Feb 9: Jeptha Hostetler, "Alcohol and Drugs"
    • Feb 11: film "Alcohol and Drugs: Making a Decision"
    • Feb 13: Alcohol and drug abuse convo
    • Feb 16-17: Pheme Perkins, "Love Commands in the New Testament: Covenant Community and Ethical Obligation" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 23: Andrew Edwards, "Focus on the Contemporary Black Family"
    • Feb 27: Musical-dramatc presentation by the Gospel Choir
    • Mar 2: Peter Ediger, "Three Temptations in the College Wilderness" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Mar 6: Public Affairs Division, McConnell Air Force Base, "Titan II Missiles"
    • Mar 9: Brahms Requiem, The Chorale, Walter Jost
    • Mar 13: Willie Richardson, "Preparation for the Rest of Your Life"
    • Mar 16: Plow Shares, Doug & Jude Krehbiel, "Castles in the Air"
    • Mar 20: John Pilch, "Wellness: Your Invitation to Full Life"
    • Mar 30: John Valusek, "Discipline and Violence"
    • Apr 3: Jay Goering, "Farming - From Africa to Kansas"
    • Apr 6: Lawrence Hart, "Cheyenne Peace Traditions"
    • Apr 10: to be announced
    • Apr 13: Burton Buller, "Making a Film on the Hutterites"
    • Apr 20: John Gaston, "The Ideas and Ideals of Martin Luther King"
    • Apr 24: The Zebras, North Texas State, "From Back to Jazz"
    • Apr 27: Forensics Road Show
    • May 1: Music honors convo
    • May 4: Carl S. Keener, "The Humanizing Imperative: A Process Perspective"
    • May 8: Brigadier General B. K. Gorowitz, peace lecture
    • May 11: film "Between Men"
    • May 15: Awards Assembly

  • Fall 1980

    • Sep 5: Harold J. Schultz, "When You Elect Bethel . . ."
    • Sep 8: Ingram S. Seah, "Church, Conscience and Government"
    • Sep 12: Delton Franz, "Election 1980 - Questions and Answers"
    • Sep 15-16: Bernie Wiebe, "Looking for Myself" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 22: film "The American Woman: Portraits of Courage"
    • Sep 26: Bruno Schottstaedt, "Christians in a Socialist Society"
    • Sep 29: Von Hardesty, "World War II and the Russian Enigma"
    • Oct 6: Jim Bixel, "Of Mountains, Mozart and the Liberal Arts"
    • Oct 10: Marion Deckert, "The Unexpected"
    • Oct 13: Perry Yoder, "Human Plans and Divine Providence or What to do with a Beautiful Wife in Egypt"
    • Oct 17: Perry Yoder, "Human Government and Divine Providence or Love Your IRS Man as Yourself"
    • Oct 20: Dick Wright, "Classic Jazz Musicians" film and commentary
    • Oct 24: film "Broken Treaties at Battle Mountain"
    • Oct 27-28: Samuel Escobar, "Missiology from a Third World Point of View"
    • Oct 31: National Opera Company, "Don Pasquale"
    • Nov 3: Marian Franz, "Pastoring Politicians"
    • Nov 7: Lloyd Smith, "In Business Small is Beautiful"
    • Nov 10: John A. Auxier, "Nuclear Power and Public Concern"
    • Nov 14: James Bertsche, "Lessons Africans Have Taught Me"
    • Nov 17: Richard Foster, "The Celebration of Simplicity"
    • Nov 21: Vincent Persichetti, "On Being a Composer"
    • Nov 24: Tom Isern, "Following the Harvest"
    • Dec 1: William Juhnke, "Anabaptists and Mormons: Would You Believe a Comparison?"
    • Dec 5: George Rogers, Sheldon Bassett, Diane Flickner, "The Olympics and Politics", awards convo
    • Dec 8: film "Manimals"

  • Spring 1980

    • Feb 8: Ronald J. Sider, "Simplifying Our Lives in the 80s"
    • Feb 11: George Dyck, Martin Umansky, Charles Pearson, "Terrorism, Hostages and Keeping Our Cool"
    • Feb 15: Bernd Foerster, "Is There Anything Worth Saving in Kansas?"
    • Feb 17-19: Willard M. Swartley, "Using the Bible for Moral Issues: Case Analyses: Slavery and Role of Women"; "The Thematic Sermonic Use of the Bible: Peacemaking" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 25: Charles Pace, drama "Malcolm X" (Minority Culture Week)
    • Feb 29: Bethel Minority Students, "No Man Stands Alone"
    • Mar 3: Gene Stoltzfus, "A Message of Hope from the Philippines" (Service Emphasis Week)
    • Mar 7: Kenneth Boulding, "Peace and the Moral Economy"
    • Mar 10: Danilo Dolci, "Nonviolence in Violent Sicily"
    • Mar 14: Marles Preheim, Chorale
    • Mar 24: Herman Viola, "Indians and the Great White Father"
    • Mar 28: Betty Reardon, George Kent, Dudley Weeks, "Crisis Intervention - International"
    • Mar 31: Phyllis Bixler, "The Baptized Imagination: Fantasies of George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien"
    • Apr 7: Michael Palmer, "Of Pianists, Composers and Orchestras"
    • Apr 11: Morning with Pete Seeger
    • Apr 14: Harold Schultz, "Journey to the Far East"
    • Apr 18: Mark Hatfield, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Christian Decision-Making in a World of Political Realism" (Faith and Learning Conference)
    • Apr 21: Presidents Peachey, Just, Schultz, "The Hesston-Tabor-Bethel Triangle"
    • Apr 25: Roger Juhnke, "Teas, Tutorials and Trains"
    • Apr 28: to be announced
    • May 2: to be announced
    • May 5: Readers Theater, "Come Laugh with Us"
    • May 9: Goals Study Committee, "Getting to 1987 in Style - Goals for Bethel"
    • May 12: Michael Steinel and band, "Jazz, Rock, Dixieland and Disco"
    • May 16: Jim Harder?, "It All Happened at Bethel: A Visual Story" and awards assembly

• 1972-1979

  • Fall 1979

    • Aug 31: Nancy Kassebaum, "Senator Kassebaum Speaks"
    • Sep 3: Larry Hatteberg, "People Oriented Television"
    • Sep 7: Harold Schultz, "Faith and Learning at Bethel College"
    • Sep 10: An Afghan Village from "Faces of Change" film-essay series
    • Sep 14: Bernard Lafayette, "A Black Perspective on the 1980s"
    • Sep 17-18: T. Grady Spires, "Integration of Faith and Learning: An Introduction to One View" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 24: Russell Schmidt, peace studies internship Indonesia
    • Sep 28: John V. Gillespie, "Critique of the Anti-Science of Conflict" (peace lecture)
    • Oct 1: Dwight Platt, "Snakes, Sabbaticals, and the Liberal Arts"
    • Oct 5: Fall Fest concert, Interfaith Children's Choir of Denver
    • Oct 8: Janet Juhnke, "The Masks of Satire"
    • Oct 12: "From the First People," Alaska Native Heritage film series
    • Oct 15: dance concert, Korean National Folk Ensemble
    • Oct 19: Paulos Mar Gregorius, "Development, Liberation and Transcendence - Three Theological Themes"
    • Oct 22: Andrew Blane, "Human Rights - Case Histories"
    • Oct 26: Cornelius Krahn, "Childhood Memories of War, Revolution, Terror"
    • Oct 29-30: John B. Toews, "War, Anarchy and Russian Mennonites," "The Great Migration - Conscience or Escapism" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Nov 5: Arthur J. Abrams, "What is Judaism?"
    • Nov 9: Richard Walker, "Prisons, Paroles and Pardons"
    • Nov 12: Sister Mary Roger Thibodeaux, "Black People and the Promised Land"
    • Nov 16: Marie Snider, "Sex Roles in the Comic Strips - 1898 to 1978"
    • Nov 19: Jim Converse, "Changes in Kansas Farming and Farm Communities"
    • Nov 26: Richard McSorley, "Kill for Peace?" (peace lecture)
    • Nov 30: film "The Great Dinosaur Discovery"; fall sports award assembly
    • Dec 3: film "Will Rogers' 1920s: A Cowboy's Guide to the Times"

  • Spring 1979

    • Feb 2: Tribal Eye film series, "Sweat of the Sun"
    • Feb 5-6: Richard J. Mouw, "The Coming City (Studies from Isaiah 60)" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 12: Harold Schultz, president's convo
    • Feb 16: Newton Medical Emergency Team, "What to Do in an Emergency"
    • Feb 19: Abraham Davis, Minority Culture Week speaker
    • Feb 23: Bernard Lafayette, Minority Culture Week speaker
    • Feb 26: Walter Jost, Chorale
    • Mar 2: Burns Weston, "Toward Global Consciousness and Planetary Citizenship"
    • Mar 5: General Conference Voluntary Service personnel, "New Call to Service"
    • Mar 9: International student convo
    • Mar 12: Tribal Eye film, "Kingdom of Bronze"
    • Mar 16: David Norman, "On International Development"
    • Mar 26: National Opera Company, "Martha"
    • Mar 30: Mairread Corrigan, peace lecture
    • Apr 2: Scott Chesebro, "A Marxist View of the City"
    • Apr 6: film "The Great Dinosaur Discovery"; spring sports awards assembly
    • Apr 9: film "Renaissance and Resurrection"
    • Apr 16: Congressman Dan Glickman
    • Apr 20: Hugh Sprunger, "Mission and Culture"
    • Apr 23: Tribal Eye film, "Crooked Beak of Heaven"
    • Apr 27: Speech and forensics convo
    • Apr 30: Jim Juhnke, "Point of Disorder: McCarthy in the Context of American History"
    • May 4: Music Department convo
    • May 7: Tribal Eye film, "Across the Frontiers"
    • May 11: Awards assembly

  • Fall 1978

    • Sep 1: Marion Deckert, "What is Bethel"
    • Sep 4: Arlo and Kathryn Kasper, "I Do, I Do," musical excerpts
    • Sep 8: Bill Cosby film, "Black History: Lost, Strayed, or Stolen"
    • Sep 11: Duane Friesen, "A Report on Israel"
    • Sep 15: Tribal Eye film "Man Blong Custom"
    • Sep 18-19: Tom Skinner, Staley Lectures
    • Sep 25: William T. Snyder, "A Postmortem on MCC Involvement in Vietnam"
    • Sep 29: James Juhnke, "Mennonite Missions: Soup, Soap, and Salvation"
    • Oct 2: A. W. Roberson, "When Newton was a Jim Crow Town"
    • Oct 6: Dwight Wiebe, "Hunger: Evolution or Revolution"
    • Oct 9: Bethel College in Germany, Wuppertal and Marburg students
    • Oct 13: Allan Teichroew, "A People of the Land: Myth and Reality" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 16: George E. Riddick, "The Long Road from Selma, Alabama, to PUSH in Chicago"
    • Oct 20: Jan Gleysteen, "The Radical Reformation: Pictures of its Origins"
    • Oct 23: Raymond Johnson Dancy Company concert
    • Oct 27: Tribal Eye film "Woven Gardens"
    • Oct 30-31: Marlin Miller, "Mennonites and Contemporary Theology"
    • Nov 6: film "Union Maids"
    • Nov 10: National Shakespeare Theater, "Hamlet"
    • Nov 13: George Neavoll, "The Press as an Opinion Molder in Today's Society"
    • Nov 17: Colin Jackson, "China on the World Stage"
    • Nov 20: Emerson Wiens, "Solar Energy: The State of the Art"
    • Nov 27: to be announced
    • Dec 1: Buckminster Fuller film "Primer of the World"; fall sports assembly
    • Dec 4: Tribal Eye film "Behind the Mask"

  • Spring 1978

    • Feb 6-7: Lloyd Ogilvie, "The Autobiography of God: A Study of Parables" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 10: Edward Wilson, "Rediscovering the Center"
    • Feb 13: Ascent of Man film #8 "The Drive for Power"
    • Feb 17: Careers panel organized by Eleanor Loewen
    • Feb 20: Sam Love, "Visions of Tomorrow"
    • Feb 24: Marles Preheim, choral concert
    • Feb 27: Joan Finney, "Women and the World of Work"; Fred Ramirez, "Minorities and State Government" (Minority week)
    • Mar 3: Dick Gregory, comedian and social activist (Minority Week)
    • Mar 6: Ascent of Man film #9 "The Ladder of Creation"
    • Mar 10: John Perkins
    • Mar 13: Robert Richardson, "The Moral Uses of Language"
    • Mar 17: film "The Eskimo in Life and Legend"; spring sports awards assembly
    • Mar 20: Ascent of Man film #10 "World within World"
    • Apr 3: Erritt Bishop, "Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Education"
    • Apr 7: Lloyd Dumas, "Increased Armaments and Decreased National Security"
    • Apr 10: Ascent of Man film #11 "Knowledge or Certainty"
    • Apr 14: Ascent of Man film #12 "Generation upon Generation"
    • Apr 17: Russell Johnson, "Diminishing Human Rights in Asia - The Transnational Connection"
    • Apr 21: Donovan Smucker, peace lecture
    • Apr 24: Ron Sider, "Rich Christians in a Hungry World"
    • Apr 28: to be announced
    • May 1: John Raser, "The Body Politic"
    • May 5: John Janzen, "An Anthropologist Looks at the 'Ascent of Man'"
    • May 8: Ascent of Man film #13 "The Long Childhood"
    • May 12: Awards assembly

  • Fall 1977

    • Sep 2: Harold J. Schultz, "What Hath Jerusalem to do with Athens?"
    • Sep 5: Ascent of Man film #1 "Lower than the Angels"
    • Sep 9: Wichita State University Gospel Choir, "Hope, Faith and Charity"
    • Sep 12: Marion Deckert, "A Good God and an Evil World"
    • Sep 19-20: Joseph Bayly, "Jesus Yes - Christianity No"; "Jesus and Emotional Maturity" (Staley Lectures)
    • Sep 23: Bernard Lafayette, peace lecture
    • Sep 26: Ascent of Man film #2 "The Harvest of the Seasons"
    • Sep 30: Orlando Costas, "The Mission of the Church - A Shattering Critique"
    • Oct 3: Russell Johnson, "The United States and Asia"
    • Oct 7: Delbert Wiens, "Fun I've Had on the Way from Corn, Oklahoma, to Fresno, California" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 10: George Britton, folk concert
    • Oct 14: Randy Krehbiel, "Being Male: Searching for a New Understanding of Human Sexuality"
    • Oct 17: Ascent of Man film #3 "The Grain in the Stone"
    • Oct 21: Donna Neufeld, "Family Communication Patterns"
    • Oct 24-25: John DeGruchy, "The Church Struggle in South Africa" (Menno Simons Lectures)
    • Oct 31: Ascent of Man film #4 "The Hidden Structure"
    • Nov 4: to be announced
    • Nov 7: to be announced
    • Nov 11: Hans J. Hillerbrand
    • Nov 14: Ascent of Man film #5 "Music of the Spheres"
    • Nov 18: Sidney Lens, peace lecture on disarmament
    • Nov 21: College forum, college and Student Council presidents
    • Nov 28: Ascent of Man film #6 "The Starry Messenger"
    • Dec 2: film "Run Dick, Run Jane"; fall athletics awards assembly
    • Dec 5: Ascent of Man film #7 "The Majestic Clockwork"

  • Spring 1977

    • Feb 4: film "What If the Dream Came True?"
    • Feb 6-8: Kalyan Dey, "Apocalypse and Kingdom: A Perspective into Christian Beginnings and its Implications for Contemporary Faith and Action"
    • Feb 14: Randy Krehbiel, "Being Male: A Look at Some of Its Potential Hazards"
    • Feb 18: Varden J. Loganbill, "Conditioning for Life"
    • Feb 21: Walter Jost, choral concert
    • Feb 25: James Laue, "Should There Be a U. S. Academy for Peace and Conflict Resolution?"
    • Feb 28: Jesse Jackson, Minority Cultures Week convo
    • Mar 4: Lawrence Hart, Minority Cultures Week convo
    • Mar 7: Kenneth B. Armitage, "Food: The Modern Dilemma"
    • Mar 11: film "Leonardo: To Know How to See"
    • Mar 14: Dennis Barritt, "Living in a Divided Land" (Ireland)
    • Mar 18: Elaine Rich, "Cross-cultural Communication: A Bamboo Perspective"; also athletics awards
    • Mar 28: Peter Ediger, "Mennonite Voluntary Service: A Creative Option"
    • Apr 1: Susan Carpenter, "Creating the Future: The Role of Peace Education in Elementary and Secondary Schools"
    • Apr 4: Ladon Sheets, "Conscience in the Nuclear Age"
    • Apr 11: International students convo
    • Apr 15: Keith and Rusty McNeil, "The Songs of Social Change"
    • Apr 18: Peace studies students, "Peace Studies Internship Reports"
    • Apr 22: William E. Koch, "The Spirit of Adventure in Great Plains Folklore"
    • Apr 25: Edric Sherman, "The Post-Kissinger Middle East"
    • Apr 29: Morris Keeton, "Current Developments in Higher Education and a Look at Bethel College"
    • May 2: Wayne Wiens, "Gene Therapy for Human Disease: The Ambiguous Promise of Recombinant DNA"
    • May 6: "The Bethel Tradition - Scholarship and Service"
    • May 9: Miguel Almanza, "A Chicano Looks at the Question of Identity"
    • May 13: Awards assembly

  • Fall 1976

    • Sep 3: Harold J. Schultz, "The Moving Finger Writes..."
    • Sep 6: Dennis Carper, "Cults and Mind Control"
    • Sep 10: Darrell Wiens and Arlene Cook, "Guatemala Earthquake"
    • Sep 13: Sharon F. Poindexter, "Public School Curriculum Development: A Tool toward the Elimination of Sexism/Racism"
    • Sep 17: Robert Kreider, "800 Million People and Chairman Mao - Pictures and Words"
    • Sep 20: Max Ediger and James Klassen, "Vietnam and Reconciliation"
    • Sep 24: Earl Unruh, "Alaska Energy and Ecology: The Pipeline Story"
    • Sep 27: Howard Snider, "Vignettes of Life in the Caribbean"
    • Oct 1: Robert Kreider, "When You and I Were Young Ed G. . . ." (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 4: Nancy Williams, "Caring for Our Brother: The Developmentally Disabled Person"
    • Oct 8-11: John Ruth, "Mennonite Identity and Aesthetics" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Oct 15: film "Conspiracy of Silence"
    • Oct 18: Melvin Williams, "Community Organization: Problems and Prospects"
    • Oct 22: Melvin Kahn, "The Daley Machine"
    • Oct 25: Study abroad convo
    • Oct 29: Norma Kehrberg, "A Role for Education and Health in Self-Development"
    • Nov 1-2: William Pannell, Staley lectures
    • Nov 5: Letha Scanzoni, "The Family in Today's World"
    • Nov 12: W. H. "Bill" Israel, "Environmental Education as Reality Therapy"
    • Nov 15: to be announced
    • Nov 19: Edgar Epp, "Prisons: What Are the Alternatives?"
    • Nov 22: Janet Juhnke, "The American Eve: Images of Women in Early American Literature"
    • Nov 29: convo on the Middle East, details to be announced
    • Dec. 3: Dwight Murphy, "Doing Your Own Thing - What is Freedom?"
    • Dec 6: Readers Theater convo

  • Spring 1976

    • Feb 6: Tom Graff and Alfred Siemens, "Music as Reconciliation"
    • Feb 8-10: Frank H. Epp, "Christian Peoplehood and the Mennonites" (Bible Lectures)
    • Feb 16: film "Men's Lives"
    • Feb 20: John Adams, "Conflict Resolution: Kent State, Wounded Knee and Other Experiences"
    • Feb 23: Steve Carlson and Mike Raber, "Gitane Odyssey"
    • Feb 27: Jim Juhnke and Warren Friesen, "World War I Viewed through Popular Culture"
    • Mar 1: Minority Cultures Week convo
    • Mar 5: Herman Blake, "Let's Make Christmas"
    • Mar 8: Bill Rich, "Population Growth and Social Justice"
    • Mar 12: Music Dept. convo
    • Mar 15: Lester and Winifred Ewy, "The People's Republic of China Today"
    • Mar 19: Richard Hrdlicka, "America and the Soviet Block - Now and in the Future"
    • Mar 29: George Fooshee, "How to be Financially Free"
    • Apr 2: Gerrit Wormhoudt, "Liberty, Property, and the Law"
    • Apr 5: Tom Lehman and Music Dept., "Easter in Leipzig"
    • Apr 9: to be announced
    • Apr 12: Evelyn Gendel, "Human Sexuality"
    • Apr 19: Wayland Hand, "American Folk Medicine: The Magical Component"
    • Apr 23: Keith and Rusty McNeil, "Two Hundred Years of American Folksongs"
    • Apr 26: Readers Theater convo
    • Apr 30: International students convo
    • May 3: John and Naomi Lederach, "Role Expectation in Marriage"
    • May 7: film "The War Game"
    • May 10: Andrew Nachtigal, "Being Parents"
    • May 14: Lawrence Kohlberg, "On Moral Development"
    • May 17: Honors convo

  • Fall 1975

    • Sep 5: Harold J. Schultz, "Means and Ends, Past and Present"
    • Sep 8: film, Bill Cosby on prejudice
    • Sep 12: Palmer Becker, "Warm Places in a Cold City"
    • Sep 15: Marion Deckert, "Liberal Arts: The Hidden Agenda"
    • Sep 19: Richard J. Baldauf, "Environmental Education in Any Subject for Any Age"
    • Sep 22: Freshman convo
    • Sep 26: Ted Olivier, "Alcohol Education"
    • Sep 29: to be announced
    • Oct 3: Ben Friesen, "Nuclear Power: Golden Opportunity or Final Disaster"
    • Oct 6: John Janzen, "Development with Identity"
    • Oct 10: faculty and students, "Solitary, Singing in the West, I Strike Up for a New World" word, picture, and song
    • Oct 13: David Farnsworth, "International Politics and the Near East"
    • Oct 17: Joseph W. Abileah, "Reconciliation between Arabs and Jews"
    • Oct 19-21: Axel-Ivar Berglund, "Justice and Reconciliation in an African Environment" (Menno Simons lectures)
    • Oct 27: Carson Baird, "True Trade-unionism"
    • Oct 31: Allen A. White, "More and Better Food Production at Less Energy - A Challenge for Industrial Creativity"
    • Nov 3: Donald C. Bakely, "The Church - It Really Does Change Things in the Inner City"
    • Nov 7: Art DeFehr, "Rural Development from a Mennonite Perspective"
    • Nov 10-11: Donald Jacobs, Staley lectures
    • Nov 14: David Brower, "Getting from Here to the 21st Century"
    • Nov 21: K. T. Fann, "China Today"
    • Nov 24: to be announced [what was it?]
    • Dec 1: Cecil Carrier, "Solar and Wind Energy for a Private Home"
    • Dec 5: Atlee Beechy, "Reflection on Vietnam"
    • Dec 8: Wuppertal Bethel student exchange program
    • Dec 12: Tom Lehman and Warren Friesen, "A Sunday in Leipzig"

  • Spring 1975

    • Feb 7: Robert Regier, "Prairie Images"
    • Feb 9-11: John F. Carrington, "Communicating the Good News in Central Africa" (Bible lectures)
    • Feb 17: Gary Clark, "How to Visit a Zoo"
    • Feb 21: Harold Hodgkinson, "An Educational Anthropologist Looks at Bethel"
    • Feb 24: John Gaston, "History of Black America"
    • Feb 28: Hubert L. Brown, "A Black Mennonite Reflects on Anabaptism"
    • Mar 3: Carol Konek, Annette TenElshof, "Human Liberation: Emerging Sex Roles"
    • Mar 7: Uncle Davy Richert centennial convo, Mathematical Sciences Department
    • Mar 10: Marvin Dirks, "Biofeedback: It Matters What You Believe"
    • Mar 14: Jim Lawing, "Church and State in Higher Education"
    • Mar 17: Elise Boulding, "New Careers in Peacemaking" (peace lecture) (809E #17)
    • Mar 21: Bruce Erickson, "Lifestyle Alternatives"
    • Mar 24: Michael Corrigan, "Juvenile Court: Past, Present and Future"
    • Apr 7: Bethel students and William Keeney, "Service Learning Makes a Difference"
    • Apr 11: Bob Morley, "Folk Songs"
    • Apr 14: David Bell, "Justice: Theoretical and Practical Implications" (809E #17)
    • Apr 18: Emil W. Haury, "The Human Chronicle in the American Southwest"
    • Apr 21: John E. Valusek, "Getting Along with People"
    • Apr 25: International student convo
    • Apr 28: Arthur Westing, "Ecocide in Indochina: The Environmental Impact of Modern Warfare"
    • May 2: Garry L. Porter, "City Hall: The Buck Has to Stop Here"
    • May 5: Evelyn Gendel, "Human Sexuality"
    • May 9: Cornelia B. Flora, "Media Images of Women and Social Change: The U. S. and Latin America"
    • May 12: Report of the Committee on the Future of the College
    • May 16: to be announced
    • May 19: Honors Assembly

  • Fall 1974

    • Sep 6: Harold J. Schultz, "Through the Eyes of Lazarus"
    • Sep 12-13: David Augsburger, "The Peacemaker's Innards" (Staley lectures)
    • Sep 16: Stan Senner, "Friends of the Earth"
    • Sep 20: Warren Deckert, senior oral interpretation recital
    • Sep 23: to be announced
    • Sep 27: Widick Schroeder, "America's Public Faith and the Religions of America"
    • Sep 30: Freshman convo
    • Oct 4: Merle Good, Fall Fest convo
    • Oct 7: Art Gish, "The Simple Life in a Complex Age"
    • Oct 11: Elmer Suderman, "With Mennonites"
    • Oct 14: Robert Kreider, "Making Ourselves Vulnerable"
    • Oct 18: Walter Jost, group singing
    • Oct 21: Peter Ediger, "A Mennonite Pastor Speaks"
    • Oct 25: Maynard Shelly, " Bangladesh - All Our Yesterdays Theirs Today"
    • Oct 28-29: Donald F. Durnbaugh, "The Promise and the Peril of Civil Religion" (Menno Simons lecture)
    • Nov 4: Pat Duncan, "The Great American Desert East: The Tallgrass Prairie of Kansas"
    • Nov 8: Ed Springer, "A Mennonite Church in an Urban Setting"
    • Nov 11: film "In Search of Rembrandt"
    • Nov 15: Ed G. Kaufman, "Recollections"
    • Nov 18: peace lecture
    • Nov 22: to be announced
    • Nov 25: film "Population and the American Future"
    • Dec 2: Roger Juhnke, "Regent's Park Report"
    • Dec 6: "Reclamation: An Answer to Strip Mining in Southeast Kansas"
    • Dec 9: Walter Friesen, "Incarnation, 1974"

  • Spring 1974

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  • Fall 1973

    • Sep 7: Harold J. Schultz, opening address
    • Sep 10-11: Stanley D. Walters, "What Is a Christian?"
    • Sep 17: Urban Semester report
    • Sep 21: to be announced
    • Sep 24: Sherry Cruteman, "A Cultural and Political Outlook on Drugs"
    • Sep 28: Dorothy M. Sherman, "Poverty in the White Population: Why? Can We Find a Solution?"
    • Oct 1: film "The Jesus Trip"
    • Oct 5: Robert Kreider, "God, Artists and Weekend Painters" (Fall Fest convo)
    • Oct 8: Mary E. Epp, "Colonial Resettlement in Bolivia"
    • Oct 12: film "Future Shock"
    • Oct 15: Freshman convo
    • Oct 19: Peter J. Dyck, "Service as Reconciliation"
    • Oct 22: Robert Rhodes James, United Nations speaker
    • Oct 26: Titus Bender, "Implications of Experiences in Mississippi"
    • Oct 29-30: William Stringfellow, "Issues of Church and State, Obedience and Conscience in Ethics and Eschatology"
    • Nov 5: Music Dept. concert
    • Nov 9: Gwendolen Carter, "Race and Politics in Africa Today"
    • Nov 12: to be announced
    • Nov 16: Phillip Weber, "Alcoholism Attitudes: Theirs and Yours"
    • Nov 19: Donald Harris, "Alcoholism: The Disease - Its Nature and Progression"
    • Nov 26: James Stucky and Patricia Stucky, Study abroad report
    • Nov 30: film "Population and the American Future"
    • Dec 3: Readers Theater
    • Dec 7: James Juhnke, "Modernizing Racial Domination: A Happy Tour through South Africa"
    • Dec 10: to be announced

  • Spring 1973

    • Feb 2: Wichita State University Theater, "Taming of the Shrew"
    • Feb 5: Vinton R. Anderson, Minority Week speaker
    • Feb 12-13: Krister Stendahl, Bible lectures
    • Feb 16: Cornish R. Rogers, "Family and Marriage in Black Culture"
    • Feb 19: All College Forum
    • Feb 23: Virgilio Elizondo, Minority Culture Week speaker
    • Feb 26: John Swomley, "Is Violent Revolution Justified?"
    • Mar 2: Andrew Blane, "The Church in the Soviet Union Today"
    • Mar 5: Harold J. Schultz, "State of the College" address
    • Mar 9: All College Forum
    • Mar 12: A. W. Kuchler, "The Prairie as an Aesthetic Experience"
    • Mar 16: film "Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary"
    • Mar 19: Tom T. Stonier, "Irenology: The New Academic Venture in Peace Studies"
    • Mar 23: All College Forum
    • Apr 2: Bethel College Chorale concert
    • Apr 6: Student interterm report
    • Apr 9: Rock Castle Jaycees, Kansas State Reformatory, "On Prison Life"
    • Apr 13: Edwin C. Morgenroth, "When Does the Punishment Stop?"
    • Apr 16: George Lakey, "Alternative Life Styles for a New Society"
    • Apr 23: Mark E. Stucky, "View of an Alumnus"
    • Apr 27: All College Forum
    • Apr 30: Sol Yoder, "The Rejection of the Anabaptist Vision"
    • May 4: "The Socialization of Women at Bethel College"
    • May 7: peace seminar, to be announced
    • May 11: film "The Selling of the Pentagon"
    • May 14: Honors assembly

  • Fall 1972

    • Sep 8: Harold J. Schultz, opening address
    • Sep 11: Kevin Shea, "On Protecting the Environment"
    • Sep 15: Gerrit Wormhoudt, "On Using the Environment"
    • Sep 18: Arthur F. Holmes, Staley lectures
    • Sep 22: All College Forum, "This Space Ship Earth"
    • Sep 25: Duane Friesen, "The Christian and Politics"
    • Sep 29: Richard Walker, "On the Political Life"
    • Oct 2: All College Forum, "Mixing Politics and Christianity"
    • Oct 6: Lawrence Hart, "On Being American Indian"
    • Oct 9: Berniece Hutcherson, "On Being Black in America"
    • Oct 13: Miguel Almanza, "On Being Mexican-American"
    • Oct 16: All College Forum, "The Tyranny of the Majority"
    • Oct 20: Walter Klaassen, Fall Fest convo
    • Oct 23: Keith Sprunger, "On Academic Freedom"
    • Oct 27: All College Forum, "The Academic Revolution"
    • Oct 29-31: Heinhold Fast, Menno Simons lectures
    • Nov 6: All College Forum, "The Relevance of a Heritage"
    • Nov 10: drama
    • Nov 13: Owen Gingerich, "Is There Life in Other Worlds?"
    • Nov 17: All College Forum, "The Earth is the Lord's"
    • Nov 20: Music Dept. concert
    • Nov 27: Robert Regier, "Art and the Environment"
    • Dec 1: All College Forum, "Art and Nature"
    • Dec 4: Marion Deckert, "Go to College and See the World"
    • Dec 8: International students, "Culture Shock"
    • Dec 11: All College Forum, "Our Shrinking Planet"