Since chairs have legs
… why shouldn’t they walk around? They seem to have done a lot of that at Bethel. These dining hall chairs ended up — well, somewhere else, during the 1978-79 school year. Anyone know where?
View ArticleSigns sprout on the Green
On Election Day, Nov. 5, 1996, the Bethel campus awoke to see that a crop of campaign signs had popped up like mushrooms on the Green overnight … or else had migrated mysteriously from every yard in...
View ArticleTake note
Sometime during the 2002-03 school year, President E. LaVerne Epp came into his office one morning to find it blanketed in sticky notes. We’d love to know exactly how many notes it took to make the...
View ArticleWeapon of ice destruction
Perhaps these photos, thought to be from 1960, show someone’s idea of a good way to defend the Ad Building, should it come under attack.
View ArticleHerman and Wilcia sighting
Wonder where the photo is? These snow sculptures from 1997, near the Ad Building, may be the only known physical representation of Herman Bubbert and Wilcia (née Knutz) Bubbert. But where did the...
View Article“Teacher is a Fool”
This photo from 1914 may be the only evidence that Herman Bubbert’s grandfather also went to Bethel. Does anyone remember their own grandfather talking about this prank? Continue reading →
View ArticleAd Building turns into toboggan run
Sometime during the weekend of Jan. 20-21, 2007, following a six-inch snowfall, Herman Bubbert reappeared on campus after a long absence. With the help of some students, he built a toboggan run on the...
View ArticleStuck in the president’s office
How did the Stuco president get trapped inside Doug Penner’s office?
View ArticleEditor’s discretion
In a chemistry class being taught by Professor Ron Rich, around 1953, several students arrived one morning to find that someone had written on the blackboard: “All classes will be dismissed today.”...
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