by June Galle Krehbiel “Everything is business. If you want to be a pastor, a teacher, a lawyer, a CEO or a chef, everything ultimately is business—whether you like it or not.” David LeVan offers this succinct introduction to students in his courses at the start of each semester. The same David LeVan also admits […]
Students in David LeVan’s Entrepreneurship class got a first-hand look at what it takes to start and run your own business this semester. The class was split into two teams, and each one was responsible for conceptualizing, developing and running its own business. Students created The Cookie Jar (an affordable, late-night snack shop) and Hesston […]
by Marathana Prothro Sarah Lederman is a woman with a plan – and it’s not just any plan. Hers is a plan to own and operate her own business. Sarah is goal-oriented and practical. Before the Hesston freshman set foot on campus, Sarah earned her cosmetology license and was prepared to work while she pursued […]
by Susan Miller Balzer Students can make the world a better place for everyone by choosing to purchase gifts and coffee that are fairly traded and by pursuing careers that will open and expand work opportunities for people around the world. This was the message that Doug Dirks, Akron, Pa., public relations director for Ten […]
“The View from Everywhere” will be the theme for A Hesston College Homecoming 2010. The event will be Sept. 24 to 26 and includes a science and math symposium featuring successful alumni experts. Nelson Kilmer, long time faculty member and current science and math division chair noted that “In coordination with the alumni relations office […]
by Carol Duerksen The 137 members of Hesston College’s 100th graduating class walked the stage on May 9, 2010, in a 9 a.m. service at Yost Center, and were addressed by faculty/staff “polar opposites” Tony Brown and Dustin Galyon on the topic “We must be the change.” Brown, who is a social science faculty member […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced April 12 that Hesston College is one of five new colleges and universities that will be part of the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI). This is the third year the FAA has added schools to the AT-CTI program bringing the total number of schools participating to 36. Dan […]
The Hesston College Alumni Office has taken the program Common Threads: Anabaptist and African American Songs and Stories of Suffering and Hope across the United States this semester. Common Threads is a program of story and song that features current Hesston College faculty members Tony Brown and John Sharp. In the program, they give voice […]
Since December, Hesston College has welcomed two new staff, one coach and one faculty member to the college community. Marathana Prothro of North Newton, Kan., began as director of marketing and communications in December. She works closely with the Advancement, Admissions and Alumni teams as well as departments across campus as she leads the college’s […]
by Howard Keim Today, we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us. We have inherited an institution with close ties to the Mennonite Church, with attractive, clean facilities, with a dedicated faculty and staff, with a fine academic and student life program, with stable enrollment, with a student population coming from […]
“Would it advance the cause of Christ to establish a school somewhere in the West in which Bible work is made a specialty?” That was the query, crafted by Anna Smith King, and posed to delegates of the Mennonite Church’s Kansas-Nebraska district conference held in Cheraw, Colorado, on October 18, 1907. The answer to that […]
by Susan Miller Balzar A panel of distinguished historians talked about Hesston College and its relationship to the Mennonite Church throughout the past century at the Friday afternoon forum during the Centennial Homecoming Weekend. Jim Juhnke, Wichita, professor emeritus of history at Bethel College who has also taught at Hesston College and authored several books […]
By Susan Miller Balzar At the dedication of the Freedley Schrock Memorial on Saturday, Sept. 26, family, friends, and former students remembered a Hesston College teacher whose mentoring profoundly affected their lives. A sun-splashed afternoon permitted guests to gather around the memorial, which is located in a shaded area north of Alliman Administration Center, near […]
by Susan Miller Balzar John Sharp, author of A School on the Prairie: A Centennial History of Hesston College 1909-2009, got to write his name many times during the book premiere and reception in Bontrager Student Center Friday evening, Sept. 25. Throughout the Centennial weekend, 400 of the 450 history books ordered by the college […]
