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They played basketball during the 1918 flu epidemic

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 6, 2020 - 3:23pm

This Bluffton College men’s basketball team play its games during the 1918 flu epidemic and were not yet called "Beavers."

Front from left, Vernon Ramseyer and Gordon Bixel.

Center, Menno Lehmann, Oliver Kratz (coach) and Donavin Baumgartner, captain

Top, Herbert Gottshall, Ezra  Moser, Harold Guth andAllen Day. Not photographed, the team manager was Wilmer Shelly.

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They drove Bluffton school buses

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 29, 2020 - 2:11pm

Did you ride on a Bluffton school bus with one of these bus drivers? These are the drivers during the 1969-70 school year.

There are two photos.

Drivers on the left photo, standing from left, Mr. Habegger, Mrs. Warren and Mr. Zimmerman. Front from left, Mr. Hauenstein and Mr. Powell.

Driver in the right photo, standing from left, Mr. Krautter, Mrs. Cribley and Mr. Williams.

 

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A century ago in Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 22, 2020 - 10:51am

Moving quickly through Bluffton 100 years ago, this Lake Erie and Western Railroad freight train is steaming at a fast clip from Sandusky to Lima and possibly on its way to the end of the line in Peoria, Illinois.

The photo was taken sometime between 1920 and 1924 and is in the collection of  Dick Boehr. The mill on the east side of the track was razed about 15 years ago. The station, seen at the edge on the left side is now located on Spring Street at the Buckeye as the home of the Bluffton Sportmen's Club.

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1978 Bluffton College softball team

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 15, 2020 - 1:36pm

Bluffton College women's softball team during the 1978 season.

Front from left, Audrey Ervin, Kit Byal, Judy Stutzman, Barb Fiely, Bev Whitaker, Jan Althaus, Sue Cramer andKathy Schroer.

Standing from left, Sherry King, coach, Chris Fraber, Julie Dworetsky, Denise Miller, Pris Funk, Sherry Breilmaier, Linda Heimann, Jean Chamberlin and Matt Creamer, student assistant. Missing, Lori Gratz, manager.

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A view of Bluffton you've never seen

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 9, 2020 - 10:57am

Here's a view of Bluffton that you've never seen.

Dick Boehr shared with the Icon several Bluffton College photographs from the early 1920 in his collection. This is among that group of photos.

You can't take this photo today because all the trees in the university woods block the view.

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Bluffton women in 1906

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 26, 2020 - 11:20am

Here is a group of young women in Bluffton taken in 1906.

From left, Hulda Schaublin, Clara Wilson, Verba Ronston Ulch, Ora Kimmel, Elvina Hover, Florence Wilson Hilty, Bessie Bonnell and Blanche Williams Triplett.

The identification are thanks to someone taking the time to write the names on the back of the photo.

Some of the local relationships in this photo include Florence Wilson Hilty (sixth from left). She is the paternal great-grandmother of Cara Young Davies and Brandt Young.

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