Although Alpha Omicron Pi social sorority left campus 23 years ago, members still gather for an annual reunion. From Friday through Sunday, 101 ONU sorority sisters enjoyed each other’s company with many staying at The Inn. A luncheon was held on Saturday and that evening many dined together at Viva Maria’s.
This was the local sorority’s fifth annual reunion at ONU, according to Anita Cook, one of the organizers. Anita, formerly on the Freed Center staff, now lives in Columbus. She said the women who returned to campus last weekend came from across the United States.
While here, the women also donated several thousand dollars to two charities.
"Opposition of Mars" is the program title of a 9:30 to 11 p.m. Monday, July 30, event at the ONU Observatory, according to Dr. Jason Pinkey, observatory manager.
Pinkey said: "Mars will be just three days passed opposition.'Opposition' is the planetary configuration in which the planet appears in the opposite direction as the Sun from the Earth's perspective.
"It is also the time of closest approach to the Earth, making Mars look bigger and brighter than usual. This will be the closest we've come to Mars since the 2003 opposition (but that was the closest in about 60,000 years).
Blake Moore, a recent graduate of Manchester University in Indiana, has been named assistant sports information director at Ohio Northern effective July 9. He graduated with summa cum laude honors.
At Manchester, he served as sports director of the campus radio station and interned with a baseball organization, and the Indiana Tech sports information department.
He is a native of Hagerstown, Ind., and plans to pursue a master’s degree from BGSU. He now lives in Ada.
FROM ONU DEPARTMENT OF ART AND DESIGN FACEBOOK - Last week, Ohio Northern University Professor Luke Sheets was part of an international team of sculptors in Denmark working on the vision of Sten Lykke Madsen.
Luke reports, “We spent about five days building the two-meter, 500 kg sculpture. It dried for several days and was fired with gas for two additional days before switching to wood. [Last Friday, we brought] the final temperature to around 1280 degrees C.
“One, two pick up sticks.” There are no sticks to pick up any longer. The wrecking ball has done its job on Clark Hall. Only a few pieces of cement foundation need to be broken apart, dropped into a truck and hauled away, then the earth grassed.
The first section of Clark was built 69 years ago as Ohio Northern’s first residence hall. In more recent years, the two-story structure stood empty or housed a variety of office. Here is a story about Clark’s history, which we posted earlier, but will repeat for those who may have missed it the first time. The article was researched and written by Paul Logsdon, retired head librarian of Heterick Memorial Library.
By Monty Siekerman
More dirt is being turned at Ohio Northern, this time for an IT (Information Technology) Building.
The new structure will be located south of the Business Services/Public Safety Building on Union Street. Next door, work continues on a new home for the College of Engineering, slated to open in the fall of 2019. Presently,
IT services are scattered throughout campus. This new building will consolidate the IT employees and equipment into one location.
Photo: Graders turn more dirt to prepare the land for construction of an IT building.
