The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-18
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Students will use the Christmas
theme for their regular weekly
broadcast, Thursday evening from
station WL0K in Lima at $3.50 p. m.
Miss Dorothy Burner, senior from
Findlay, will sing music from Han
del's Messiah, and will also sing
two Christmas carols arranged for
trio work, with Miss Virginia Hadsel,
freshman from Lima, and Miss Mar
cille Steiner, senior from Bluffton.
Miss Ruth Zuiderhoek, junior from
Lima, will play several arrangements
of Christmas music on the piano;
and Miss Betty Steinman, Bluffton
freshman, will furnish a cello solo.
Mrs. Paul w. Stauffer, wife of Pro-
fessor P. w. Stauffer, instructor of
speech at the college, will read sew
eral Christmas poems.
Members Of the second women's
Gospel team quartet provided the
evening worship service at the De-
fenseless Mennonite church last Sum
day evening.
This group of girls will be on
tour in Indiana and Illinois from De-
cember 81 through January 5.
Services will be held in Topeka,
Nappanee, Goshen, and Chicago.
Members of the quartet are Viola
Amstutz, soprano from Pandora; !;
Frances Beckenbach, second soprano
from Garfield; Ruth Soldner, alto
from Berne, Ind; and Helen Ha-
begger, second alto from Busby, Mon
tana. They will be accompanied by
Miss Edna Ramseyer, Dean of Wo-
men at the college; and Miss Thelma
Daley, president of the Gospel team,
on their trip.
Members of the Y. ". C. A. will
hold their annual Christmas party
this Wednesday evening, at 7:15 p. m.
in the Ropp hall lobby. A Christmas
program will be provided by the de-
votionaa committee headed by Miss
Lora Schultz, chairman; and wrap
ping gifts for needy children will be
conducted by the social action COM
mittee headed by Miss Frances Beck
enbach, chairman.
Organ, piano, and voice student of
the Bluffton College Department of
Music will be presented in recital
this Wednesday night, Dec. II, at
$3.50 p. m. in the College chapel.
Included on the program will be
Arthur Thiessen, organ; Laurence
Burkhalter, Robert Neuenschwander,
Carts Basinger, and Bill Mitchell,
piano; and Earl Lehman, Viola Am
stutz, Pauline Springer, and Eugene
Weed, vocal.
Women of Ropp hall dormitory
will hold their annual Christmas
party and gift exchange this We'd
nesday evening at 10 p. m. in their
lobby.
Students and faculty members will
hold their annual formal Christmas
banquet, Thursday evening at 600
p. m. in the Ropp hall dining room.
Miss Lee Boyer, junior from Gettys-
burg, Pa, heads the program COM
mittee; and Miss Ruth Henderson,
senior from Columbus Grove, heads
the decorating committee. Following
the banquet proper, will be the pre-
sentation of two Thespian plays,
"When You're Twenty-One" and
"White Dresses, in the College
chapel. The annual carolling party
will be conducted by the college So
cial committee, headed by Miss Fran
ces Ramseyer, after the plays.
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Students and faculty members will
observe their annual Christmas re-
cess, beginning at p. M, Friday.
School will be commenced again at
8 a. m. on Tuesday, January 6.
Mrs. S. X. Mosiman, wife of the
former President Mosiman, enter
tanned the College Faculty club in
her home last Friday evening. She
was assisted by Miss Kathryn Moy-
er in serving.
Professor Paul w. Stauffer, in
structor of speech at both Bluffton
high school and Bluffton college, di-
rected members of the high school
Thespian organization in a Christ
mas play for the occasion.
Robert Elliott, young violinist,
will be presented in concert, Thurs
day evening, January 8, at $3.50
p. m. in the Bluffton College chapel.
His appearance will make the second
concert of series of four, sponsored
throughout the year by the depart
ment of music.
Elliot played at Bluffton last year