Grandparent Days 2011

Printable schedule , registration form

Thursday, March 24

10 to 11 a.m. Registration/Break 

Bontrager Student Center (BSC) Sauder Rooms

11 a.m. Welcome, Introductions and Hesston Update 

BSC Sauder Rooms

Dallas Stutzman, Director of Alumni & Church Relations

Howard Keim, Hesston College President

Noon Lunch 

Bontrager Student Center (BSC) Dining Hall

on your own and with your grandchild, $7.00

12:45 p.m. Campus Tour with Student Ambassadors (Optional) 

BSC Entrance

1 p.m. Travel to Hesston Area Senior Center 

108 E. Randall, 620-327-5099

1:30 p.m. Session-“Yesteryear’s Farm Life” 

Hesston Area Senior Center

Panel Discussion (Grandparents, Hesston community, College faculty and staff) on Domestic Arts: Cooking, Cleaning, Laundry, Garden, Canning

Grandchildren are invited to the Thursday afternoon sessions and coffee break at Hesston Area Senior Center.

2:30 p.m. Farmers Coffee Break 

Hesston Area Senior Center

View outside displays of farm machinery and inside antiques, photos.

3:15 p.m. Session- “Yesteryear’s Farm Life” 

Hesston Area Senior Center

Panel Discussion Farm and Shop: Animals, Fields, Crops, Machinery

Dwight Roth, LEAD

6:30 p.m. Banquet (meet your grandchild at BSC entrance) 

BSC Dining Hall

Memories of grandparents shared by students and student entertainment.

Friday, March 25

8 a.m. Breakfast (on your own) 

BSC Dining Hall , $4.25

9 a.m. Devotions 

BSC Sauder Rooms

Ron Moyo, Pastoral Ministries Student

9:30 a.m. Session- “Student Life at HC” 

BSC Sauder Rooms

Gospel Music with Lamar and Carla Roth

Lamar Roth, Vice President of Student Life

10:30 a.m. Break
11 a.m. Music Department Forum-Student Performers 

Hesston Mennonite Church

Noon Lunch and Session-“Adolescence of Yesterday & Today” 

BSC Dining Hall

Developmental Psychology Class with faculty member Kevin Wilder and current students-interviews over meal together

Formal Grandparent Days Program Ends. The following activity is optional:
Afternoon Self-Guided Tour of The Dyck Arboretum of the Plains and Visitor and Education Center