The Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra will perform “Setting the Standard: British Wind Band Music” in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m.
The Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Hunt, chair of the Department of Music, will perform the music of Percy Grainger, Gustav Holst, Philip Sparkes and Guy Woolfenden. The performance will feature a clarinet solo by Elizabeth Druesedow, a sophomore accounting major from Sharon Center, Ohio, and student conducting from Jeffrey Martin, a senior music education major from Cincinnati, Ohio, and Samantha Riedlinger, a senior music education major from Sycamore, Ohio.
Ohio Northern University has named Ronda K. Lehman, a 1998 graduate of ONU’s Raabe College of Pharmacy and current vice president of operations at St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima, Ohio, as the 2012 recipient of the William L. Robinson Young Alumni of the Year Award.
Lehman was honored prior to Ohio Northern’s Homecoming football game on Oct. 6.
Note: This is the first of two features introducing Ada Icon viewers to our two fall Icon interns. Alli Walbolt is a feature writer and Joelle George is a graphic artist.
Ada Icon viewers will see Alli Walbolt’s byline frequently this fall.
Alli, a sophomore at ONU, is from Rossford, near Toledo. She says that she first learned about Ohio Northern and Ada when her brother enrolled at ONU. He graduated in 2010 as an accounting major and today works in the finance department of Chrysler in Toledo.
Kevin Ernst, Ohio Northern University, tells members of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce about the new community economic development program. Click for a video.
The growing season has yet to end - it almost ended on Oct. 11 when the low temperature reached 33 degees. Here are the high temperatures, low temperatures and precipitation recorded in the past seven days.