The Ohio Northern volleyball team is set to open its 2017 campaign with the 39th Annual ONU Invitational on Sept. 1-2 at the ONU Sports Center under 27th-year head coach Kate Witte.
After opening the season with the two day invitational, the Polar Bears will travel to Bloomington, Ill. to compete in the Illinois Wesleyan Invitational Sept. 8-9.
Northern will then take on area-rival Bluffton on Sept. 13 before traveling to Springfield to compete in the Wittenberg Invitational Sept. 15-16.
ONU returns to the ONU Sports Center on Sept. 20 as they play host to Kenyon.
Ohio Northern has received a $5.38 million bequest from Nellie M. Hoghe who lived in Van Wert and passed away a year ago at the age of 98.
The funds will be used for ONU's emerging opportunities and greatest needs.
Much of the gift is the result of the $4 million sale of 480 acres of land that included farmland, buildings and two wooded areas. The property had been in Hoghe’s family since 1852.
She graduated from ONU in 1939 with a business degree and spent her 37-year professional career in accounting at Continental Can Company in Van Wert. She grew up in a family that valued education, and she was proud that her grandfather also attended Ohio Northern.
FROM ONU DEPARTMENT OF ART AND DESIGN FACEBOOK: Tom Brady and Lady Gaga weren’t the only stars of Super Bowl Sunday.
You met Andrew Steingass (BFA/studio arts ’09), adjunct instructor in art, now meet Leah Casey, an Ohio Northern University student whose appearance in “The Unexpected” television commercial helped make it a hit.
Did you catch the ONU commercial on Super Bowl weekend? Titled Go Somewhere Unexpected!, the video played in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Ft. Wayne, Lima and Toledo. The commercial and full-length versions are now available on the ONU website and social media channels.
The inductees in the 2017 class are Ed Chessar, a 1993 pharmacy graduate and football player from Hudson, Ohio; Kristen Hancock, a 1989 electrical engineering graduate and basketball player from Aurora, Ill.; Dave King, a 1974 health and physical education graduate and baseball as well as cross-country athlete from Sidney, Ohio; and Megan (Earley) Sargent, a 2004 pharmacy graduate and volleyball player from Jamestown, Ohio.
ADA -- Legal scholar and author Stephen B. Presser will discuss “Do Law Professors Really Understand American Law?” at noon on Feb. 16 in the moot courtroom (room 129) in Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law. His talk, which is part of the Dean’s Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by ONU’s student chapter of the Federalist Society, is free and open to the public.
