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Penelope Adams Moon, associate professor of history, is pictured on the cover of the Feb. 2, 2010, issue of The Mennonite. Inside is Penny’s story of how “a dyed-in-the-wool Catholic came to feel comfortable and welcomed in a Mennonite community.”
Chuck Regier ’81, Kauffman Museum curator of exhibits, received the 2009 Kansas Museums Association Distinguished Service Award, recognizing his contributions to the Kansas museum community over the past 25 years. Regier and Joel Gaeddert ’06 received the Mountain-Plains Museums Association’s inaugural Technology Award for their collaboration on developing the StoryTablet, an audio program exhibit interpretation system.
The final Bethel football game of the 2009 season will long be memorable – not just because the Threshers won 30-0 or because it was Mike Moore’s last game as head coach but because it turned Bethel briefly into a YouTube sensation. With Bethel leading Sterling College 20-0, quarterback Garrett Hiebert, junior from Goessel, made a no-look, over-the-shoulder throwback at the goal line to Joel Maple, senior defensive back from Umatilla, Fla., who caught it in the end zone for the score. The “bouquet toss,” captured on video, attracted 3 million views and counting, and got Bethel onto ESPN and into Sports Illustrated. (You can still see it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMdIHuzJRbw.)
The Bethel College Concert Choir joined the Wichita Symphony Orchestra for its annual free family holiday concert, “The Spirit of Christmas,” Dec. 8 in the Century II Convention Hall in Wichita.
Eight Bethel voice students sang in 11 events at the annual regional competition for the National Teachers of Singing (NATS) held this year at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Oct. 30-Nov. 1. Kelly Reed, junior from Edinburg, Texas, took third in Classical Junior Women. Kelsey Easterday, senior from Manhattan, was fifth in Classical Senior Women. Julia Miller, freshman from Hesston, tied for fifth in Freshman Women.
The 2009 AFCA National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Coaches’ All-America Team includes Bethel defensive lineman James McCartney, senior business major from Hesston. Jason Dannelly, the NAIA’s “Sports Guru,” included defensive back Brandon Kaufman ’08 in his NAIA All-Decade Team, which comprises the best small college football players from 2000-09. Kaufman played for the Threshers from 2004-07.
Hannah Blackburn, senior athletic training and physical education major from Kingman, is the new all-time leading rebounder for Bethel women’s basketball. Despite dislocated rib cartilage, Blackburn pulled down 13 rebounds Jan. 14 against Sterling College to make her total 770, surpassing the previous record of 758 set by Bonnie Welty ’89.
The Mid-Kansas Jazz Ensemble, an honor group consisting of students from high schools throughout the region, started at Bethel in the 1970s under Mike Steinel before moving to Wichita State University. In 2009, it came back to Bethel under the direction of James Pisano, Bethel College assistant professor of music and director of jazz studies. The group performed in Krehbiel Auditorium Dec. 14.

Photo at top: One of several special events during Bethel College’s celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on campus Jan. 18 was dedication of a plaque in Memorial Hall commemorating King’s speech there Jan. 21, 1960. Special guest Vincent Harding, Denver (left), unveiled the plaque after some brief remarks by Duane Friesen ’62 (right), Edmund G. Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Bible and Religion, who was a student in the audience when King gave the speech and who went on to teach King’s writings during a three-decades plus academic career.