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, […]
BC Students Help Local Business with Marketing Plans
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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

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 to Conduct Songs During BC Jazz Concert
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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 […]
World Hunger Expert to Speak at BC
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BC Alumna is Regional Teacher of the Year
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A Lifetime of Memories at BC: Emmert Bittinger ’45 and Esther Landis Bittinger ’48
Emmert Bittinger ’45 met his future wife, Esther Landis ’48, when they were students at Bridgewater College in the 1940s. When they attended BC, the student population was fewer than 300 students, and coed groups of students were required to have a chaperone to leave campus. The couple met on a hike around campus, and […]
BC’s Jazz Bands to Perform on March 23
Bridgewater College’s Jazz Band and Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Associate Professor of Music Dr. Christine Carrillo, will perform at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 23, in Cole Hall on the College’s campus. The concert is free and open to the public. The event will open with a captivating performance by the Jazz Band, treating […]