Virtue-Driven Athletics
As an NCAA DIII school, Bluffton coaches and student-athletes not only perform well in competition but focus their team culture around Bluffton’s four enduring values of community, discovery, respect and service. Through our Virtue-Driven Athletics program, we lift up habits of excellence through a shared framework which all Bluffton athletes encounter.
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To celebrate Bluffton’s 125th anniversary in 2024, the university is producing an enduring collection of oral histories and interview transcriptions.
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From May 12-23, 2022, a group of Bluffton University alumni and friends took part in a tour of the Rhine River with a focus on Mennonite migrations in Europe.
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On Oct. 15, 2022 Ed Smoker ’63, Denny Phillips ’79 and Allison (Lange ’05) Bentley were inducted into the Bluffton University Athletics Hall of Fame.
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![M'Della Moon M'Della Moon](/images/Magazine/Fall22/103122MDellaMoonl.jpg)
President Wood announced the establishment of the M’Della Moon Endowed Chair in Botany and Environmental Science thanks to generous funding from anonymous donors.
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![Melissa Friesen Melissa Friesen](/images/Magazine/Fall22/110222MelissaFriesen.jpg)
Dr. Melissa Friesen is the Mary Nord and Joseph Ignat endowed chair in theatre.
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![Kathy Carr Kathy Carr](/images/Magazine/Fall22/110222KathyCarr.jpg)
Over the course of her 40-plus-year career in education, Kathy (Gaines ’78) Carr estimates she touched the lives of roughly 6,000 children.
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