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Rick Emmert: "In the midst of that halftime show suddenly my right hand drumstick broke"

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 10, 2021 - 9:29pm

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Rick Emmert writes: 
In the fall of 1964, I was a lowly freshman in high school playing saxophone in Miss Souder’s marching band, the product of her initiative from the previous year, which we affectionately called “sax lessons” to train some of the clarinet players to play saxophone during the fall marching band season to give the band a stronger sound.

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Ruth Naylor: My story on killing and dressing a chicken

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 9, 2021 - 12:42pm

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Ruth Naylor writes: 

This vivid memory illustrates quite well how times have changed since the early Fifties.

Miss Edna Ramseyer, Bluffton College professor,  required all members of the Foods Class to KILL, dress, and cook a chicken. At home, we raised chickens and marketed them (fresh dressed, cut-up or whole) every weekend.

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David Rempel Smucker: "We had been out in the country setting off firecrackers"

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 7, 2021 - 9:19pm

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Written by David Rempel Smucker: "One memorable teenage experience pertained to a July 4 night, when a group of us were celebrating in a car. We had been out in the country setting off firecrackers and decided to drive through Bluffton to the country on the other side of town.

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Clarence Kooker: "When I started teaching in 1951-52 there were 41 students in my classroom"

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 28, 2020 - 4:22pm

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"I started teaching in Bluffton schools in 1951-52. I taught fourth grade and in my first class there were 41 children. The room I had in the old grade school had only windows in the back. With 41 children, the room was crammed full. The rest rooms were in the basement.

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My 45-minute Zoom session with Old Man Bluffton

Told me he wasn't coming to town this year because of covid-19 • ˙He asked me if the Democrats in Bluffton were going to demand a Nov. 3 recount
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 23, 2020 - 6:43am

Old Man Bluffton Zoomed in with me the other night. He was wearing a Bluffton University sweatshirt.

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Are you going to reschedule the solar eclipse party?

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 17, 2020 - 2:56pm

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"On Aug. 17, 2017, the Bluffton Public Library held a “Great American Solar Eclipse” watch party.

"We passed out special sunglasses for people to watch the eclipse. Dozens of patrons participated in this one-in-a-lifetime event on the library lawn.

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