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50 years ago this week Bluffton experienced the sound of "a thousand freight trains" - the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 12, 2015 - 8:40pm

Fifty years ago this week Bluffton experienced the sound of “a thousand freight trains.”

That sound was the Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965, tornado.

At 9:45 p.m., it ripped across the rural Richland and Orange Township landscape. It was like no other natural disaster experienced prior or since then in this community.

Had the tornado’s path been one mile north it would have struck the Village of Bluffton. Had it been 600 feet farther north it would have hit 32 planes parked at the Bluffton Airport.

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April 17 colloquium to explore education of foster children

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 12, 2015 - 5:24pm

Dr. Diana Kleman, an assistant professor of social work at Bluffton University, will address elementary teachers’ perceptions of working with children in foster care during a campus colloquium on Friday, April 17.

Free and open to the public, her talk will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton’s Centennial Hall.

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Parker and Everett claim titles at All-Ohio

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 12, 2015 - 5:10pm

April 11, 2015

Results

DELAWARE, Ohio - In the first meet-day good weather conditions experienced yet this outdoor season, the Bluffton University men’s and women’s track and field team sent representatives to Ohio Wesleyan University to compete in the All-Ohio Championship. The day produced champions, school records and a number of personal-best performances.

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