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Bluffton's boys of summer in '68

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 15, 2018 - 1:34pm

With the Major League Baseball playoffs underway here's the Bluffton High School boys of summer one-half century ago.

Names of the players  on the 1968 team are above the photo. This team went 9-9. Bob Everett pitched a no-hitter game, only to lose on an error to Hicksville, 1-0.

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Bluffton Sunbeam Band circa 1910-15

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 8, 2018 - 3:06pm

This photos contains some Bluffton viewers' great and possibly great-great-"relatives."

Nearly 10 decades ago, these youngsters performed as the Sunbeam Band under the sponsorship of the Bluffton Lutheran Church.

Although members of the band were drawn from all denominations, the Lutherans sponsored the band because leader Turley Rupright was a member of that congregation.

Sunbeam Band members were:
Front from left, W.A. “Hap” Stratton and Harold Beals.

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Mrs. Emmert with class of 1976

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 1, 2018 - 10:39am

We know this is the Bluffton High School class of 1976. We also know Esther Emmert is the teacher when this class was in the elementary. We welcome class members to send us identification of the students.

Send to: [email protected]

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Bluffton school mates photos

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 17, 2018 - 2:37pm

Here are two photos, circa 1912, with Agnes Amstutz standing and Hallie Thut (seated). The second photo is Hazel Boothby (left) and Agnes Amstutz (right). Agnes graduated from Bluffton High School in 1913 and Hallie Thut Althaus graduated from BHS in 1912.

These two photos were provided to the Icon by Alan Eaton.

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Geneva Shetler's elementary class

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 10, 2018 - 2:15pm

Two students in the second row of this class, taught by Geneva Shetler, well, they were distracted at the moment Leland Gerber snapped the photo.

The Icon asks anyone who can idenify this class and put names to the picture to email us at: [email protected]

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Was Mrs. Emmert your teacher?

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 5, 2018 - 1:35pm

Here's a Bluffton elementary class photo of Esther Emmert's class. We don't know the grade level or the graduating year of the class, or even the member names.

Anyone with assistance, please e-mail: [email protected]

VIEWER COMMENTS:

From Amy Jordan King: Class if 1983. My brother Tim Jordan is one of them. I think Nancy Badertscher and Deron Geiser possibly Kurt Badertscher also.

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