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November 25, 2025

Amelia Earhart on Geneva's Campus

"Miss Earhart made the listener feel, too, the joy of seeing a steamer at dawn, and of knowing that she was on the exact course. The thrill of seeing land and all the people assembled there to greet her were the listener’s experiences as she described them...” 

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November 11, 2025

A Brief History of Old Main’s Stairs and Doors

Did you know there used to be a six-foot gap in John White Chapel's stage? Or that the Old Main door facing towards the Student Center had no outdoor stairs for its first 65 years?

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October 14, 2025

Geneva's History in Astronomy

Did you know that over 132 years before the College erected the John Paul Schaefer Memorial Observatory at the 33rd Street field (2013), Geneva students were fascinated by the subject of astronomy?

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September 16, 2025

Turbo’s Twists: The Wild History of Geneva’s Mascots

We love Turbo at Geneva College! But our beloved Golden Tornado hasn’t always been the friendly-yet-fierce action-figure mascot he is today...

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July 12, 2022

The Geneva Identity

We can learn much from those who came before us. In 1923, President of Geneva College Archibald A. Johnston wrote a forward for the college yearbook highlighting the history, purpose, and doctrine of Geneva. Only 75 years from the founding of the college at Northwood, Ohio, Johnston had a clear understanding of not only the how behind Geneva’s establishment but the why.

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May 29, 2020

Meet Kae Kirkwood Geneva's Archival Librarian

Our God puts great importance on valuing the history of His work through the ages. For example, if I could sum up the Old Testament in one word, it would be “Remember!”