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Centennial Celebration Schedule
September 25-27, 2009

Numerous events may be planned to commemorate the centennial in 2009. The main event will be homecoming weekend, September 25-27. Mark your calendars now! Stay tuned for additional events.

 

Previous celebrations:

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Celebrating 75 years, November 22-25, 1984

Read "The Case for Hesston College" by George Neavoll, op-ed editor, The Wichita Eagle-Beacon, November 25, 1985.
 


Mabel Kauffman Mary Miller

Celebrating 50 years: Mable Erb Kauffman, class of 1912 and daughter of founder, T. M. Erb, and Mary Miller, author of A Pillar of Cloud, speak of Hesston's early years on the weekend of May 22-25, 1959.

50th Anniversary Celebration, 1959

Celebrating 50 years: Melvin D. Landis, Mary Miller, Mabel Erb Kauffman, Joe Byler, May 22-25, 1959. Landis taught 1911-28; Miller taught 1924-32, 1937-45, 1947-61: Kauffman attended the meeting in 1908 where Hesston was chosen as the future school's location; Byler was chief builder for Green Gables.

 

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