News

by Melanie Zuercher Renee Reimer will take the one-woman play, My Name is Rachel Corrie, on tour to several Mennonite churches in Kansas, California and South Dakota, as well as the Mennonite convention in Phoenix in July. …

The fourth annual online issue of Mennonite Life, now live, focuses on Bethel College’s 125th-anniversary celebration (view at mennonitelife.bethelks.edu). …

by Melanie Zuercher Bethel's Rachel Epp Buller and Kerry Fast of Toronto have compiled the first scholarly treatment of various experiences of motherhood in a Mennonite context that includes essays from two other Bethel faculty. …

Bethel College's Wedel Series has released "The Military Service Exemption of the Mennonites in Provincial Prussia," the English translation of a groundbreaking history by Wilhelm Mannhardt. …

The annual celebration of a national recreational trails day is Saturday, June 1, with members of the Sand Creek Trail Committee at the Memorial Grove trailhead that day between dawn and dusk (6 a.m.-8 p.m.). …

Bethel College associate registrar Kay Schmidt has announced the names of Bethel College students whose spring 2013 semester grades have earned academic distinction. …

Rachel Epp Buller, assistant professor of art, received the David H. Richert Distinguished Scholar Award and Sarah Masem, assistant professor of nursing, the Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teaching Award. …

by Melanie Zuercher Former Bethel president Doug Penner addressed Bethel College's Class of 2013 at commencement, held in newly air-conditioned Mem Hall on account of stormy weather May 19. …

by Melanie Zuercher Women's tennis team co-captains and only seniors Shayne Runnion and Miranda Weaver look back on four years going to Mobile, Ala., for the NAIA tennis championships. …

by Melanie Zuercher Four Bethel students did senior seminar research involving companion animals, including dogs, cats and horses. …

Bethel College admissions staff recently celebrated an unusual signing -- Abby Christensen of Gardner, for double performance awards. …

Seniors Leah Clark, Lauren Franz, John Regier and Grady Stultz are displaying ceramics, and Andrew Unruh is showing photography, in the annual Senior Art Exhibit through May 19 in the FAC Gallery. …

Bob Regier's exhibit of digital photography, "Consider the commonplace," has a return engagement at Kauffman Museum through Sunday, May 19, and includes six new images. …

Halstead High School senior Shelby Howard, a member of Bethel's Class of 2017, will receive the first Will Family Scholarship, established earlier this year. …

Bethel's last two convocations of the year were awards ceremonies that recognized students for excellence in academics, athletics and campus service. …