Melanie Zuercher is the writer and editor for Bethel College's Office of Institutional Communications.
Contributed Articles:
December 2016
- Revelations in wood—65 years of the sculpture of John Gaeddert
- Preheim finds culture, service and ministry during summer in the city
- Hall-of-Fame volleyball team had chemistry and competitiveness
- Bridging the generation gap
- The woman at the center of the story
- Summer in the lab yields personal, research results
- Exhibit raises money, and more, for refugee artists
- Professor goes back to high school
- New books examine Mennonite engagement with society in Europe, Kansas
August 2016
- Kreider’s spirit present at biennial Mennonite faculty conference
- To find your path, follow your passion, commencement speaker says
- Longtime alumni director bids Bethel farewell
- A chorus of voices
- Nursing crosses the technology bridge
- How to drum up school spirit
- Zerger has seen KIPCOR through big changes over more than two decades
- The search to create something useful
- Financial aid director got to use ‘love of numbers’ over his 22 years
April 2016
- An investment in values
- Sparring countries connect through music
- MLK speaker: To change unjust systems, choose a life that matters
- Legacy in bloom
- Symposium devoted to practices that sustain the worshiping community
- Sister Care seminar focuses on particular issues of college women
December 2015
- Summer ministry experiences affirm students’ pastoral calls
- Hasan named to presidential advisory council
- Class helps transfer students make the college transition
- A New Class of Threshers
- “Root for the Home Team: Building Community Through Sports”
- A Fulbright year teaches McCabe-Juhnke value of living as resident alien
- School year starts with food packaging service project
- Exhibit, grant show how sports build community
- Campus mourns loss of student known for spirit, friendship
- Bethel tradition of prison ministry
- The Friesen Family Legacy
April 2015
- Writing class helps an unheard population find a voice
- YAWP! calls out literary culture from all corners of campus
- Young Alumnus holds and sets high standards in science teaching
- Not in Kansas any more
- A place at the table
- Alumni choir takes shape in Newton
- New look, features make tuning in to KBCU easier
- Distinguished Achievement awardee made math history at Bethel
- Stories build bridges between Bethel students and elders
- Ken Deckert was devoted to family, career and alma mater
- Artist on the spot proves popular with visitors to Regier Gallery
- MLK speaker: Conflict co-conspirators create the beloved community
- Alumnus: How
crime-fighting
can alienate minority communities
December 2014
July 2014
- Peace Oration Contest Winner Looks at Social Violence in Tradition
- Nothing but nets: 500 free throws raise funds to fight malaria
April 2014
December 2013
- Almost Like Winning the Lottery
- Platt Reflects on Historic March, 50 Years Later
- Sharing the Power of Prayer
- What the Journey Serves
- Sochi Bound
- First-Time Counselors
Find The Passion
Through Camp Experience - New Student Numbers Up Significantly for Fall 2013
- Garden’s Giving Widens to Community, Cafeteria
Summer 2013
- A
BC
ABC - Service trip gives students a chance to see, feel results of their work
- Speaker tells grads how Bethel has equipped them to
move the world
- A place for everything
- The Ringing in Our Ears
- Bethel keeps working to expand China connections
- Wedel Series volume opens history to wider audience after 150 years
March 2013
- Lytle tells listeners:
Speak out, or be part of the problem
- Students spend weekend networking, learning at MEDA
- Stewards of the Land
- The Bethel bump
Bodies in our cellar
- Dick spent a career with NASA, space research
- Reimer puts her
dream of peace
into special stage production - Mental health care, writing have been Neufeld’s vocations
- Art professor assembles exhibit on workers and work at Wichita museum
- Arts, farming, sustainability important to Ortmans
- Advisor works to bridge Bethel cultures with music, dance and relationship
December 2012
- In lectures, Sprunger looks at writing a college history for the 21st century
Generations
- Wheat From Chaff
- Check presentations continue Bethel service emphasis from Pittsburgh 2011
- Musical collaboration was the name of the game this fall at Bethel
- Donor’s generosity leads to naming Bethel’s new Academic Center
- Delaying college for service can yield multiple benefits, students say
July 2012
- Open Wide the Doors
- Graphic design major, two minors to launch in fall 2012
- Student literary journal invites alumni submissions
- Leaders for church and society
- Awards given on
common ground
in final two convocations of school year - Professor organizes exhibit to show
art lives
in Kansas - Students laugh, learn and serve on New Mexico spring break trip
- Nursing students learn as much as they give during spring break trip to Haiti