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Name the school year and organization

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 21, 2016 - 9:18am

Here are members of the Bluffton High School Hi-Y Club from the 1959-60 school year.

The Hi-Y club was affiliated with the YMCA. The club's purpose was “to create, maintain and extend, throughout the home, school, and community, high standards of Christian character.”

 

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Could be BHS class of 1919 as second graders

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 17, 2016 - 6:49am

This class photo has volumes and volumes of stories.

The Icon believes that it is the Bluffton High School of 1919 as second graders. We state this because that young man on the far right of the second row resembles William Hahn, uncle of the Icon owner. Add to that, the photo was in a chest of Hahn family photos.

That places this photo in the 1908-09 school year. Depending upon when the photo was taken, either Theodore Roosevelt or William Howard Taft was president.

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1919 Bluffton fire

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2016 - 5:30pm

When it comes to fires in Bluffton, this one was one of the most tragic.

This was the Russell Hotel that was destroyed in a 1919 fire. The building stood at the corner of Main and Church (see the Mennonite Church steeple in the background).

The fire destroyed the holtel, the Lugibihl Hardware and the Bluffton telephone exchange.

Today Citizens National Bank is located on this site.

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August 1963 - downtown Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 16, 2016 - 5:26pm

It's August 1963 - a warm summer day in downtown Bluffton. Dick Boehr took this photo and let's name the businesses from right to left:

• Basinger Furniture - today The Black Lab
• Western Auto - today Diller's Flooring
• Swank's Meat Market - today The Dough Hook
• Walter Gratz's shoe store - today Fortman Insurance
• Waltermire's - today Sielschott, Keifer, Walsh, Regula CPAs
* Hauenstein Bakery - today The Sports Warehouse
• Greding Hardware - today Family True Value Hardware

 

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Your probably know someone in this picture

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 9, 2016 - 7:48pm

Here's the Bluffton High School class of 1956 during the 1953-54 school year when they were sophomores. This year the class celebrates its 60th reunion.

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1948 Bluffton school board members

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 29, 2016 - 12:31pm

Members of the Bluffton school board in 1948 are from left, Paul Diller, Norman Triplett, Carl Derringer (standing), James West, clerk; Levi Althaus (standing), and Leland Diller, board president. 

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