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=== Mascot === The mascot is a threshing stone, based on a piece of farm equipment that the Mennonites who moved to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada in the late 1800s used briefly (just before the invention and near-universal adoption of the mechanical threshing machine) for threshing their wheat crops. In 2022, a new mascot, "Threshy," was revealed during the college's Fall Festival homecoming game. The mascot incorporated Bethel's threshing stone logos and styles on the character's head, arms, and shoulder, and was covered in the college's iconic maroon and gray.
=== Facilities === The newest facilities on campus are both athletics-related, the Ward Tennis Center (2010) and the Allen Wedel Softball Field (2017; clubhouse completed summer 2021).
== Notable people == Faculty
Jacob Ewert, Mennonite socialist, pacifist and publisher Joseph Kesselring, voice instructor, writer and playwright Alumni
Daniel Hege (B.A., 1987), music director, Wichita Symphony Orchestra John Janzen (B.A., 1961), professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas Gordon D. Kaufman (B.A., 1947), theologian and professor, Harvard Divinity School Susan Loepp (B.A., 1989), mathematician Polingaysi Qöyawayma (Bethel Academy, 1915), Hopi educator, writer and potter; Outstanding Alumnus, 1979 Travis Schlenk, NBA front office executive Jacob A. Schowalter, philanthropist Waldo R. Wedel (Bethel Academy, 1926), archaeologist, central figure in the study of the prehistory of the Great Plains Dallas Wiebe, writer
== See also == Threshing stone Newton, Kansas Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway
== References ==
== Further reading == Kaufman, Edmund G. (1973), General Conference Mennonite Pioneers, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. Pannabecker, Samuel Floyd (1975), Open Doors: A History of the General Conference Mennonite Church, Faith and Life Press. ISBN 0-87303-636-0
== External links ==
Official website Bethel Athletics website Bethel College in Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online