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Rocket boys basketball leads PCL, notches win vs. Ft. Jennings

Posted by Staff on February 18, 2024 - 6:33am

By Matt M. Stutz

FT. JENNINGS__The Pandora-Gilboa High School boy’s basketball team remains undefeated in Putnam County League following a February 17 victory vs. Fort Jennings 64-46. With the win, P-G remains alone atop the PCL standings with one game to play.

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Winter instrumental concert with theme of hope and joy

Posted by Staff on February 18, 2024 - 6:00am

Bluffton University’s Winter Instrumental Concert will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 25 in Yoder Recital Hall.

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J. Denny Weaver memoir celebrated

Posted by Staff on February 18, 2024 - 6:00am

Dr. J. Denny Weaver, professor emeritus of religion, returned to Bluffton University’s campus to celebrate the release of, “New Moves: A Theological Odyssey.” The theological memoir follows Weaver’s career as a theologian and the development of his nonviolent understanding of Jesus’ atonement.

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Bluffton Middle School girls basketball is tops in NWC

Posted by Paula Scott on February 18, 2024 - 6:00am

By Paula Pyzik Scott

This year the Bluffton Middle School 8th grade girls basketball team had a perfect 19-0 season and is the 2023-2024 NWC conference champion. 

Coach Larry Hermiller told the Icon that the team's accomplishment is all the greater following an 11-8 season the prior year.

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First BHS women to become physicians, take two

Posted by Staff on February 18, 2024 - 6:00am

CORRECTION Missing link at story's end has been added.

By Fred Steiner, Icon founder
www.BlufftonForever.com

Dr. Rosella Louise Biederman Boehm, M.D.
Born: March 12, 1897, Died: Nov. 8, 1955
Bluffton High School class of 1914
Bluffton College class of 1919

Declaring Dr. Mary Alice Howe Thomas as the first female Bluffton High School graduate to become a physician proves that nothing is ever certain.

Last week we stated that Dr. Thomas, BHS 1940, holds this title. Soon after this story was posted, we discovered two earlier female physicians who lived in the Bluffton School district. They are: 

Rosella L. Biederman Boehm, (1897-1955), 1914 Bluffton High School graduate, who became a physician in 1925. 

Ida Eby, (1881-1960), who attended the Diller county school, part of the Bluffton system in Richland Township, who became a physician in 1919. We will focus on Ida in a later feature, as we continue to collect details about her medical career.

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Pirate boys basketball corrals AE, clinches 2nd in NWC

Posted by Staff on February 17, 2024 - 6:23am

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School boys basketball team convincingly defeated visiting backyard rival Allen East 69-47 in a Northwest Conference battle for second place Friday night, February 16.

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