H E W Grant Grants Ottawa University Record
Representative Larry Winn announces a 568 553 dollar FIPSE grant to Ottawa University from H E W for improving post secondary education. The two year award is the largest to any four year college and amounts to 5 6 percent of total FIPSE funding to 89 recipients from 1400 applicants. The grant aims to fund innovative programs including a future plan to establish a new initiative at OU.
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Washington
Kansas
Larry Winn
Ottawa University
H.e.w.’S Fund
U.S
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Ottawa University Choir Tour and Fiddler on the Roof
The Ottawa University music department plans a spring choir tour in the Eastern United States. In late April the department will stage Fiddler on the Roof from April 26 to 28. The fall season featured the original opera production as a major highlight.
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U.S
Volunteer Services and Mission Teams Shape Ottawa Outreach
Ottawa students run Volunteer Services as a local social action hub and the Mission Teams program that recruits ecumenical volunteers for church and camp programs. Coordinators Alan Newton Ron Cody and Kathy Stoltz lead ongoing Meals on Wheels work hospital ward tutoring and tutoring. teams perform evangelistic and dramatic programs and tours across the Midwest. A traveling summer team visits camps and churches, with 75 to 90 students signing up yearly. The 57 voice concert choir will tour dozen cities including Sioux Falls Chicago Detroit and Washington National Cathedral while staging a spring production of The Fiddler on the Roof. The Ottawa network expands course options through 200 network faculty and off campus competency based education plans funded by FIPSE.
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Alan Newton
Ron Cody
Kathy Stoltz
Ethan Frome
William Kloster
Sioux Falls
Chicago
Detroit
Washington National Cathedral
American Baptist Headquarters
Boston
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
New York State
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Chorale
Little Symphony
Ottawa
FIPSE
Cunningham recounts Andes survivors cannibalism tale at Ottawa Univ
Richard Cunningham spoke December 12 at Ottawa University about the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team crash in the Chilean Andes. He described how survivors endured cannibalism to stay alive and how two trekkers finally found help. The lecture highlighted the crew’s rescue, media headlines, and the FIPSE award fund boosting Ottawa’s educational program.
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Richard Cunningham
Andes
Ottawa University
Cunningham
Chile
University
Alumni Make News at Ottawa University Leadership Event
Ottawa Lt. Gov Dave Owen, a 1960 OU graduate, told about 100 students and administrators from area high schools that the future is exciting for those who accept its challenges at a Dec. 5 leadership conference. Washington-Wayne Angell of OU and the Council Grove National Bank was named to a Federal Reserve consultant group. The Rev Mar sha Schirer, a 1953 OU and Central Seminary alumnus, was elected President of the Kansas Baptist Convention, succeeding Mary Ruth Schendel. Charlie Angell, class of 1951, was named vice president.
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Ottawa
Dave Owen
Ottawa University
Washington
Wayne Angell
Council Grove National Bank
Federal Reserve System
Hutchinson
Marshall Schirer
Central Seminary
Kansas Baptist Convention
Mary Ruth Schendel
Charlie Angell
Cooperative Education Helps Ottawa Students Earn Credit
Sophomore Jim Chapman and 25 other Ottawa University students gain first job experience through the four year college coop program. Dr. Robert Buchanan places students in six month work tours, pairing them with suitable employers like Haley Abstract. The system helps students test career options while boosting motivation and meeting employer demand for applicants.
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Jim Chapman
Jim
Ottawa University
Cooperative Education
Robert Buchanan
Edward Haley
Haley Abstract
Ottawa
Haley
Buchanan
Armacost to lead American Baptist Convention in 1975
Dr. Peter Armacost, elected at the Lincoln Nebraska convention, will serve as president of the American Baptist Convention from now until January 1976. He emphasizes acting out the gospel of reconciliation in a troubled world and urges enhanced use of educational resources, noting colleges as vital mission fields among youth.
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Ettawa University
Peter Armacost
American Baptist Convention
Lincoln
Nebraska
Armacost
ABC
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Big H.E.W. Grant
Fiddler
Mission Teams Committee
Living Witnesses of Ottawa
Mission Team
Midwest
Noyes Foundation
Danforth Foundation
Ford Foundation
National Endowment For the Humanities
Te Baptist Helm
England
Mexico
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