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• Bethel College has been named to the 2008 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service, recognizing the college’s “commitment to service and civic engagement on your campus and in our nation.” Bethel also received the honor in 2006.


• For the second year in a row, a Bethel College jazz group successfully auditioned to perform at the annual meeting of the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA). Bethel’s Jazz Combo played at the event in Wichita Feb. 28.


• The National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education of the Council on Social Work Education recently awarded Bethel a grant of $5,000, to be matched with in-kind and other sources from the social work program for a total of $7,500 for curriculum to prepare graduates for work with an aging population.


• Christy Weems, junior from Topeka, has been chosen as a Student Associate by Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADNet) for 2008-09. Weems, an elementary education major, is carrying out a project in cooperation with the Western District Conference Resource Library, North Newton, to include among the library’s resources materials to aid in teaching Sunday school students with developmental disabilities.


• Omar Hasan, senior chemistry and pre-medicine major from Halstead, a guard on the offensive line for Thresher football, and student body president, was named the fifth recipient of the Dr. Ted Kessinger Champion of Character Award from the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC).


• Thresher defensive lineman James McCartney, junior from Hesston, received Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors from the KCAC.


• Sixteen Bethel nursing students have been inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, which recognizes superior achievement, leadership qualities, high professional standards and commitment to the profession of nursing. See a list of the students.


• The world premiere of The Dockum Sit-In: A Legacy of Courage, a documentary produced by KPTS-Channel 8, Wichita’s public television station, on the successful 1958 sit-in in Wichita, capped a day-long observation at Bethel College of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Monday, Jan. 19. The documentary producers and two sit-in participants, Joan Hughes and Rosie Williams, were on hand for a question-and-answer period after the film, along with Jesse Huxman ’80, KPTS director of content.


• Sierra Pryce, sophomore from Newton, went to the final round in the Sophomore Women category and placed fifth at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) West Central Regional Conference and Student Auditions, held this year at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, Oct. 31-Nov. 2. The West Central Region covers Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming, in addition to Kansas.


• A grant of nearly $15,000 from Kan-ed, a statewide information network administered by the Kansas Board of Regents, has enabled Bethel College to improve its ability to offer distance learning. Bethel used a significant part of its grant to upgrade and improve the interactive TV (ITV) capabilities of the distance-learning classroom in Krehbiel Science Center.