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December 5, 2017
Story by Micah Oelze

The Barton Planetarium will host three showings of the annual holiday show “Star of Bethlehem” at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. December 10 in the Barton Community College Planetarium in the Science Building.

The show will teach audiences about the origin of the star and how it played into the story of the “Christ Child.” The presentation will answer questions like: ‘Who were the wise men? Were there just three? Did they come from Persia, Babylon or Ethiopia? Did they follow a visible star to Jerusalem?’ and more.

 
December 4, 2017
Story by Micah Oelze
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Two works by Steve Dudek, “Canna” and “Summer”, were accepted into the Kansas Watercolor Society National Watercolor Exhibition. Art student and Director of Student Life Diane Engle also has a piece in the exhibition titled, “The Black Pearl”. The exhibition runs until December 17 at the Wichita Center for Arts on 912 E. Central in Wichita. The judge for the show is Soon Y. Warren.

 
December 1, 2017
Story by Micah Oelze

Barton Community College Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) graduates had a 100 percent pass rate in 2017 on their National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and the Registered Nurse (RN) graduates had an 88.89 percent pass rate on their licensure exams, a 44 percent increase from last year.

“My hat goes off to both the faculty and students for working hard to accomplish this,” Executive Director of Nursing and Healthcare Education Dr. Kathleen Kottas said.

 
December 1, 2017
Story by Micah Oelze

Barton Community College is offering woodworking courses from 6-9:45 p.m. on Mondays from January 8 to March 5 at Ellsworth High School, 211 W. 11th St. in Ellsworth.

The instructor will be David Weeks. Classes of various levels will be available including Woodworking I, Woodworking II and Individual Woodworking Projects. Each course will count for three credit-hours. The cost is $324 per class and fees for materials used.

 
November 29, 2017
Story and photos by Micah Oelze

Academics Month 2017

This story is the last of four in a series focused on some of Barton’s popular traditional academic offerings. The series was inspired by the inaugural Barton Academics Month through November.

Theatre was never a part of the plan for Jared Steele, a freshman at Barton majoring in theatre who plans on graduating Barton in May.

Great Bend Tribune

For more information, please contact Brandon Steinert at steinertb@bartonccc.edu or (620) 792-9395.

November 21, 2017
Story by Brandon Steinert
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Academics Month 2017

This story is the third of four in a series focused on some of Barton’s popular traditional academic offerings. The series was inspired by the inaugural Barton Academics Month through November. A new story will be released each week.

Great Bend Tribune
Published November 19, 2017

 
November 17, 2017
Story by Micah Oelze

The Barton Community College Music Department is excited to announce the spring 2018 musical, “Curtains,” a mystery comedy with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb who wrote music for the highly acclaimed shows “Cabaret” and “Chicago”.

The musical is set during 1959 in Boston, Mass. at a theatre where police detective Frank Cioffi attends the opening night of a musical when during the curtain call the star of the show, Jessica Cranshaw, is murdered. It is up to Cioffi to solve the case and save the show.

 
November 17, 2017
Story by Micah Oelze
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Barton Community College Voice Instructor Glenna Gaunt entered eight of her voice students in the Tabor Voice Festival Saturday, October 28 in Hillsboro. The vocal competition included the divisions of high school freshmen and sophomores, high school juniors and seniors, and college freshmen and sophomores, with the category of either classical or musical theatre. Students were required to perform one memorized song in either of the disciplines.