Barton Community College students named to Dean’s List for fall 2018

Barton Community College has named 266 students to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester. To qualify for this honor, students must have been enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintained a grade point average of 3.5 to 3.99 on a 4.0 or "A" letter scale.

Abilene
Bobbie Holland
Sabrina Walsh

Andale
Harrison Denk

Assaria
Allie Beaumont

Auburn
Jason Shump

Augusta
Clay Wesbrooks

Barton Community College students named to President’s List for fall 2018

Barton Community College has named 272 students to the President’s List for the fall 2018 semester. To qualify for this honor, students must have been enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintained a grade point average of 4.0 on a 4.0 or "A" letter scale.

Abilene
Joshua Abbott

Albert
Taylor Regan

Augusta
Nolan Riley

Bazine
Kerri Bruntz

Bennington
Dylan Kaiser

Bison
Lacey Mitchell

Internationally acclaimed musician and photographer to perform at Shafer Gallery

July 1, 2019
Story by Joe Vinduska
Courtesy photos submitted

The Shafer Gallery at Barton Community College will host a reception and free concert of electro-acoustic improvisational music by award-winning composer and musician Dr. Paul Rudy at 6:30 p.m. on July 19. He will perform with longtime collaborator Jim Pisano.

Barton Theatre to perform Summer Production series in three locations

July 3, 2019
Story and photos by Joe Vinduska

The Barton Community College Theatre Department will present “The Flowering of Chastity or Chaste across the Stage (An Old-Fashioned Melodrama)” by Dutton Foster in Great Bend, Larned and St. John at 7:30 p.m. on July 23, 24 and 25 respectively. The Larned performance will be west of the Haas Building at Jordan Park, the St. John performance will be in the city square, and the Great Bend performance will be in the band shell.

Barton Community College to give away free hot dogs and chips at Great Bend City Band Concert

July 1, 2019
Story by Joe Vinduska

The Great Bend City Band will be playing in honor of Barton Community College at their concert at 8:15 p.m. on July 16 at the band shell in Jack Kilby Square to commemorate Barton’s 50-year anniversary. Barton administrators will be handing out free hot dogs, chips and water from 7:30-8:30 p.m. 

Barton’s 50-year anniversary celebration will span the 2019-2020 school year and will feature multiple events, which will kick off with a campus-wide celebration on September 28.

20-year-old Hoisington paramedic credits Barton Community College’s program as key to her success

June 27, 2019

When Andrea Aguilera was a student at Chase High School, she knew she wanted a career in the medical field. Then, she learned about the Emergency Medical Technician course at Barton Community College.

“I completed the class and then Hoisington EMS hired me,” Aguilera recalled. “I was hooked. They roped me in from the beginning.”

That experience encouraged Aguilera to take the next step and today she is a paramedic at Hoisington and in Rice County at only 20 years old.

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