Sterling College journalism garnered state-wide recognition recently by securing victories in the 2024 Kansas Collegiate Media Contest.

Senior Shaylee Gibbs, of Amarillo, Texas, came away as an individual winner.

Also, the Sterling College Observer, which is in its fifth year as the campus student media outlet, received second place in the overall category. In that category, publications can earn one or none of three overall honors within their classifications, which are based on the type of publication and institution. 

The Sterling College Education Department has been approved as a participant in the Kansas Registered Teacher Apprentice Model, beginning in the 2024-25 academic year. The program is a “four-year competency-based teacher registered apprenticeship that offers a comprehensive approach to teacher training, combining on-the-job learning, related technical instruction, mentorship, and a structured wage scale.”

She’s been Serena the Sorority Girl in Legally Blonde: the musical, Katherine in Newsies, Martha in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and, most recently, Cinderella in Into the Woods. In addition to her roles onstage, Sterling College senior Keeley Coon has been active in choir, Highland Singers, band, learned the sax for Jazz Band and also been a Resident Assistant in her dorm. She will present her Senior Music Recital next Thursday, April 25, at 6 p.m. at the Sterling United Methodist Church.

For the summer of 2024, Sterling College is offering all general education courses for the low price of $145 per credit hour. The list of classes has been released with classes beginning May 13 and July 1. Visit online.sterling.edu/summer-discount-class-offerings for information.

To paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein – “The halls are alive with the sound of music!” That is certainly the case in the Sterling College Music Department these days as no less than five graduating seniors are busy preparing for their senior music recitals. 

“We believe this is a record for us,” said Arts Director Dennis Dutton. “With five recitals, two concerts, one musical, and five school matinees the last few weeks of the academic year, Wilson and Spencer Halls have certainly been ‘alive’ with the sounds of music and activity,” he said.

The final mainstage show of the Sterling College Theatre season, Stephen Sondheim’s popular musical Into the Woods, comes with extra weight and significance for eight seniors. This is largest group of graduating music and theatre students in the college’s known history. Their final show will be presented on Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 15 in Culbertson Auditorium on the College campus.