A future engineer? Dr. Bryan Boulanger, chair of environmental engineering, with daughter Eala, 2, at the groundbreaking of the new ONU engineering building.
Bruce Burton (left), retired dean of engineering who came to ONU in 1958, chats with Kevin Freese of Cleveland, an ONU graduate who is chairman and CEO of Groovy Candies. Freese serves as Campaign for Engineering co-chair, helping to raise millions of dollars for the new building and its furnishings.
Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
Today (Friday) was a momentous day in the history of Ohio Northern when about 300 people gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site which will become a $30 million College of Engineering building located just east of pharmacy.
The ONU Wind Orchestra will perform at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22 in the Freed Center..
Thomas Hunt, professor of music, will conduct this opening concert. The first half of the program will feature “Vision Fanfare” by American composer Eric Knechtges, “Musica Boema” by Czech composer Zdenek Lukas, “Overture for Band” by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, “October” by American composer Eric Whitacre, and “March of the Belgian Parachutists” by Belgian composer Pierre Leemans.
The second half of the program will feature “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.
Members of "Polaris," ONU's literary magazine, learned about moveable type printing presses and assembled letters to each spell out a favorite quote. Prof. Melissa Eddings-Mancuso showed the students different types of prints: regular, ghost, reverse, and shadow. Today's printed material is all prepared with the help of computers, whether actually printed on paper or presented to readers online, like the Ada Icon.
The ONU Symphony will perform at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15 in the Freed Center. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for ONU faculty and staff, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students. The Freed Center box office is open Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Phone orders are accepted with American Express, MasterCard, VISA or Discover by calling 419-772-1900. Tickets also are available online at ticketing.onu.edu.
