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May 12th, 2020
As with so many things, the pandemic put an abrupt end to a special mentoring program involving Bethel College students, but they won’t forget it any time soon. Seven young African-American men volunteered at Chisholm Middle School in Newton during the 2019-20 school year (two are repeats from the previous year). They found out about the program… Read More
May 11th, 2020
The Awards Committee of the Bethel College Alumni Association has announced its selections for the college’s three annual alumni awards. Todd Flory, Wichita, will receive the 2020 Young Alumnus Award, which recognizes character and citizenship, achievement or service rendered, and honors and recognition received. The recipient must be 39 years of… Read More
May 11th, 2020
As with almost every other activity normally held in the spring semester, the internet was the venue for presenting the Thresher Awards, which went to five graduating seniors. May 8 was the scheduled date for the convocation at which they would normally have learned they had received the highest academic honor given each year. Instead, at 11 a.m… Read More
April 28th, 2020
No commencement in Bethel College’s history has ever looked like the 127th will. Ninety-nine seniors are scheduled to take part in virtual commencement exercises necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent local and state prohibitions on large gatherings. The various pieces of the commencement ceremony will be recorded on film in… Read More
April 28th, 2020
Professor of Social Work Ada Schmidt-Tieszen was named a Newton Area Woman of the Year for 2020. She will retire from Bethel at the end of the 2019-20 school year, after 35 years on the Bethel faculty. Schmidt-Tieszen graduated from Bethel in 1974 as a member of the first class of social work graduates. She spent most of the next decade in… Read More
April 28th, 2020
Like most boards across the country, Bethel College’s Board of Directors held its spring 2020 meetings via videoconference, April 2-4. One significant decision was approval of a new major, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, pending subsequent approval by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), Bethel’s accrediting body, which it did in mid-April… Read More