Ambassador Speaks on Career Fighting Hunger

Ertharin Cousin, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture, gave an Endowed Lecture entitled “Hunger and Humanitarianism: My Journey to Create a Better World” on March 26 in Bridgewater College’s Cole Hall. Cousin’s talk covered the former ambassador’s roots as the granddaughter of sharecroppers in rural Georgia through her time as […]

BC Announces 2025 Founder’s Day Awards

Bridgewater College marked its observance of Founder’s Day on Tuesday, April 1, and presented awards to three faculty members for their excellence in teaching and scholarship, two staff members for dedicated service and one student for academic excellence.  The Founder’s Day observance at Bridgewater commemorates the April 3, 1854, birth of Daniel Christian Flory who, […]

Anabaptist Artifacts to be Displayed in BC Special Collections Exhibition

The Robert R. Newlen ’75 & John C. Bradford Special Collections at Bridgewater College will commemorate the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism with a new exhibition from Friday, April 11 to Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. “A Showcase of Historic Brethren Artifacts: Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Anabaptism” will display more than 20 artifacts selected from the […]

Opening the Library Vault: Autograph Book Hints at BC’s Early Years

Opening the Library Vault: Autograph Book Hints at BC’s Early Years

Among the first women to graduate with a business diploma, as well as a bachelor’s in English, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sanger Johnson (1873-1962) experienced Bridgewater College’s earliest days and left an autograph album filled with memories. Johnson’s father, Samuel F. Sanger, was a Bridgewater pharmacist, an influential Church of the Brethren leader and an original College […]

Students Explore Jobs, Industries at BC Career Fair

Deondre Partridge ’25 and Ed Kunas ’25 are slowly making the rounds of the Bridgewater College Career and Internship Fair on a Wednesday afternoon in March. Dressed in business wear and with resumes in hands, the two senior business administration majors are particularly drawn to the construction companies who are recruiting from tables set around […]