Selections by Bel Canto Singers were highlights several times during Homecoming Weekend.

Hannah Eastin, artist-in-resident for the Art Department, works on raku firing of ceramics outside the new Friesen Center for the Visual Arts.

The main worship team comprised of alumni and students leads the Sunday morning worship service.

Lisa (Swartzendruber) ’97 Yoder, Hesston, Kan., and Larisa Miller ’93, college faculty member, sing a bluegrass duet during the alumni worship service Sunday, September 28.

Jim Yoder, chemistry professor at Hesston College, and a 1962 Hesston graduate, was the featured speaker at the alumni banquet. Jim and his wife Phyllis spent ten months during the past school year in Swaziland on a Fulbright grant.

Lois Misegadis (left), chair of the Art Department, provides a department update Friday afternoon in the new Friesen Center for the Visual Arts.

Dave Foncannon, a 1980 Hesston College grad and pastor of Pueblo (Colo.) Mennonite Church, shared a message about Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 during Friday morning chapel.

Sophomore guard/forward Joey Atkinson, a captain for the upcoming season, gave the crowd at “Midnight Madness” plenty to cheer about.

At the Tokyo reunion, Howard Keim, president, and Dave Osborne, international student director, posed for a photo with a group of Japanese alumni who were all at Hesston College in 1996. This group of eight meet occasionally, and continued their conversations at a local restaurant after the Hesston alumni reunion. In the front row (with the time period each attended Hesston in parentheses) are Yutaka Sato (Spring 1996-1998), Veronica Santana Sato (1995-1997), Naoki Hosoda (1996-1997), Sayaka Takei (Fall 1995-Fall 1996), and Yukari Shirai (1995-1997). Back row (left to right) are Dave Osborne, Howard Keim, Yoshimasa Shiraishi (Spring 1995-Spring 1997), Sumi Owada Shiraishi (1995-1997), and Eisuke Sugiyama (1994-1996).

During the Tokyo reunion, Vonnie Sieber (center), vice president of development at Hesston College, visits with Akinori “Charlie” Kishi (left), who graduated from Hesston in 1991, and Jay Kabira, a 1984 graduate of Hesston. Kishi and Kabira played on Larks soccer teams coached by Vonnie’s husband Gerry Sieber.

Osaka reunion Front row: Nozomi Suzuki (2006-07); Erica Shinya, Takeshi Futamase with Aiko Futamase (born Oct 2007); Takako (Murata) Futamase (1993-95), and Chiaki Kawauchi (Spring 2000–Spring 2002). Back row: Yuko Hirose (2002-04), Tony Brown (1967-69), Takehisa Fukumoto (2000-01), Hayato Matano (1995-96), Howard Keim (1970-72), Kensuke Kaga (Spring 2000-Spring 2002), Dave Osborne (1964-66), and Vonnie Sieber (1969-71).

Hesston College alumni reunion in Tokyo