Mennonite World Conference president-elect to headline 2013 commencement

Hesston College will celebrate the class of 2013 during Commencement Weekend May 3 to 5. The commencement ceremony will be at 9 a.m., Sunday, May 5, in Yost Center. Mennonite World Conference President-elect, J. Nelson Kraybill, will present the commencement address. Kraybill of Elkhart, Ind., serves as lead pastor of Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart) […]

Hesston College Bel Canto Singers, spring 2013

Bel Canto Singers to celebrate 30 years with east coast tour

The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will celebrate 30 years of making music with a May tour to the east coast May 6 to 16, highlighted by a four-day New York City excursion. While in New York, the choir will participate in a Carnegie Hall performance and perform solo concerts at Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship and […]

Hesston College to host church leader in residence

Longtime Mennonite Mission Network employee and recent retiree John Powell of Elkhart, Ind., will serve as Hesston College church leader in residence April 7 to 10. He will share about his experiences working for inclusion and overcoming racial oppression in the Mennonite church and broader social systems during Hesston College chapel services at 11 a.m., […]

Scholarship supports journey toward inclusion

The changing profile of race and ethnicity within Mennonite Church USA is the inspiration for the newly established Hesston College Inclusion Scholarship in support of the college’s ongoing work with inclusion and diversity. As membership and participation within Mennonite Church USA continues to expand beyond traditional Swiss-German and Russian Mennonites, it is important for Hesston […]

Endowed scholarship to benefit education majors

Students who want to start their education studies at Hesston College can benefit from the newly established Carole King Jefferson Endowed Education Scholarship. Carole King Jefferson graduated from Hesston College in 1963. She eventually earned a degree in education and library science and spent 34 years working as an educator at Valley City (N.D.) State […]

Hesston College and local churches to present program in honor of Black History Month

Hesston College will partner with Mennonite churches in Inman and Buhler – Bethel, Hoffnungsau and Inman Mennonite churches (Inman) and Buhler Mennonite Church to present “Common Threads: Anabaptist and African-American Songs and Stories of Suffering and Hope” at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 24, at Bethel Mennonite Church in Inman. The event is free and open […]

Kenneth Steider Memorial Scholarship to benefit Hesston College international students

A passion for learning and relationships are the foundation of Hesston College’s newly established Kenneth Steider Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship, which will benefit international students, is a tribute to Steider’s life work and interests. Steider, who passed away Sept. 15, 2011, was a 1949 Hesston College graduate and served the college as librarian and part-time […]

Tony Brown performs in “I Go On Singing,” his tribute to Paul Robeson

Brown to perform “I Go On Singing” in Harrisonburg, Va.

Tony Brown will perform the original musical autobiography “I Go On Singing” at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9 at Lehman Auditorium on the Eastern Mennonite University campus, Harrisonburg, Va.. “I Go On Singing” is Brown’s original tribute to Paul Robeson, all-American athlete, scholar, champion orator, international recording artist and star of the stage and screen […]

Choirs to present collaborative concert in historic prairie cathedral

For a singer, few things compare to hearing the reverberation of a choir ring through vaulted cathedral ceilings. But in Kansas, cathedrals are hard to come by. The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers and the Goessel High School Elbiata Singers managed to find one of the few scattered on the Kansas prairie – St. Fidelis […]

Hesston College Aviation program director Dan Miller (right) and flight instructor Travis Pickerill (center) get maintenance tips about the college’s new Redbird MCX C182 G1000 GFC700 flight simulator.

Hesston College Aviation receives full-motion simulator

Hesston College Aviation and Air Traffic Control students will fly high while planted firmly on the ground when they return from Christmas break in January. As part of the college’s Delivering the Promise capital campaign, Hesston College received a generous anonymous gift which helped to fund a Redbird MCX C182 G1000 GFC700 flight simulator. The […]

Hesston College and Goessel High School to present collaborative concert

The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers and the Goessel High School Elbiata Singers will collaborate to present a concert at St. Fidelis Church: The Cathedral of the Plains in Victoria, Kan., at 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. The concert is free and open to the public, though a free-will offering will be collected to cover […]

Student soloists perform during the masterworks concert Thanksgiving evening.

A weekend to be thankful

More than 300 people, including about 40 prospective students, were guests at Hesston College during the 45th annual Thanksgiving Weekend Nov. 22 to 24. Guests traveled from 22 states for the weekend activities, which included Hesston College traditions of the Thanksgiving evening buffet, choral masterworks concert, talent show, Howard Hustle Two-Mile Run/Walk, music department concert […]

Dwight Roth and Sharon Cranford

Former instructors write unexpected family history

It is not uncommon for people to discover new relatives at Hesston College. With ties to the Mennonite faith tradition and many of the students, faculty and staff coming from the same faith background, the branches of many family trees run all across campus. Sharon Cranford, however, did not expect to find any cousins at […]