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• Alumnae and friends of the Bethel Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing celebrated the 100th anniversary of the program’s founding in 1908 Oct. 3 during Fall Festival.


• Senior elementary education major Josh Chittum, Demorest, Ga., who placed first in the 2008 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on campus last May, also took first in the bi-national competition among seven participating Mennonite and Brethren in Christ colleges and universities.


• Bethel College tennis player Paige McKinney, senior from Newton, won the women’s singles title at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association-National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Central-West Regional, Sept. 26-28 in Topeka. She advanced to the ITA-NAIA Small College National Tennis Championships Oct. 16-19 in Mobile, Ala., where she upset the #2 seed before finishing fourth.


• Four Bethel College teams made the NAIA roster of 2007-08 scholar teams: women’s basketball, coached by Mark Fox; women’s cross-country (Gerry Sieber); women’s tennis (Lonnie Isaac ’93); and volleyball (Chad Schilling ’96).


• Kari Thimm, senior from Beatrice, Neb., was one of 10 students named to the 1st Team by the Kansas Athletic Trainers Society (KATS), and Emily Kliewer, senior from Lenexa, was one of 15 students named to the 2nd Team. Thimm plays volleyball and Kliewer plays soccer and both are majoring in athletic training.


• Jon Piper, chair of the biology department, and Dwight Krehbiel ’69, chair of the psychology department, successfully wrote a $257,600 grant to the National Science Foundation to be used for scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) with the aim of attracting academically qualified students to study astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, mathematics, neuroscience or physics, and targeting Hispanic, African-American and female students.


• Bethel was the only private college in Kansas and one of only three institutions of higher education in the state to be ranked in a new survey by Forbes.com, which looked at 569 U.S. colleges and universities. Bethel was one of only two Mennonite Church USA colleges to be ranked by Forbes.com and was also one of two colleges in Kansas listed in Colleges of Distinction 2008-09.


• The Bethel College volleyball team finished the regular season in sole possession of first place in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference before winning the KCAC tournament to advance to nationals for the first time since 1983. Kristen Schrag, senior from Moundridge, was named Defensive Specialist-Libero of the Year for the second straight year, and Chad Schilling was named Coach of the Year.


• An $8,100 grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation will help preserve the only known copy of The Call of the Cheyenne, (first movie made on a Mennonite theme, by William Zehr ’32) housed in Bethel’s Mennonite Library and Archives.


• At the North Central Region of the International Collegiate Programming Contest regional site at Emporia State University, the Bethel College team of juniors Kyle Claassen, Andover, and Matthew Hershberger, Clay Center, and senior, Paul Regier, Newton, finished first – 37th out of 202 teams region-wide – solving six of nine problems.