September 2013

15 minutes with Sarah MacMaster Blount

What year did you graduate Bluffton High School?
1992

What are you doing presently? 
I went to Miami University. After college, I moved to Paris, France for a year.  While I was there, I met a Marine who was stationed at the American Embassy.  He wanted to get married, but he was on his way to posts in Syria and South Africa and I went home to go to law school at Ohio State. 

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs recently held its 2013 reorganization meeting and elected officers for 2013-14.

Board officers elected are Brendon Matthews, president; Dick McGarrity, vice president; Ryan Lowry, secretary and Dave Steiner, treasurer.

Board members whose terms were renewed are Laura Voth, Dick McGarrity, Dave Steiner and George Lehman.

Two new board members joined the board. They are Katie Keifer and Dennis Gallant.

Other board members are Mitch Kingsley, Steve Ritter, Hans Houshower, Jeff Sprague and Cameron Warner.

Carol A. Bogart , 77 died Sept. 22, 2013 at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay.  She was born Oct. 25, 1935, in Delphos to the late Cloyd and Naomi (Krugh) Best. On July 25, 1955 she married Gene Bogart and he died Oct. 1, 2000.

She retired from the business office at Bluffton Hospital. She was a member of Emmanuel United Church of Christ, Bluffton. She was a 1953 graduate of Delphos St. John’s.

Here are births reported from Bluffton Hospital from Aug. 7 to Sept. 16:

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The winner of Week 4 of The Icon Football Contest is Adelyn Althaus. Adelyn and David Glick both correctly picked 14 games this week. They both predicted the same tie-breakers as well. Adelyn was declared the winner because her picks were entered first.  

Other contestants:

13 correct - Chris Boisvert, Mark Delisle, Tater Hooker and Todd Fleharty.

12 correct - Brandon Huber, Duane Bollenbacher, Jared Lehman, Mary Glick and Nathan Davis.

Bluffton University will host an exhibition of ceramic sculpture by award-winning 1956 graduate Jack Earl, beginning Sept. 30 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of the Sauder Visual Arts Center.

The exhibit is free and open to the public through Oct. 27; gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A reception will be held for Earl from 9:30-11 a.m. on Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 12—the day after the artist receives this year’s Professional Achievement Award at Bluffton’s Alumni Awards banquet.

Tickets are available for the next performance in the 2013-14 Bluffton University Artist Series, by pianist Hyperion Knight at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Yoder Recital Hall.

 

Dr. Perry Bush will trace the history of “Race and Ethnicity at Bluffton University” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, in Founders Hall. Six student presenters will also participate in the campus forum, which is free and open to the public.

Children of all ages are invited to stop in and read to Tango on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 11 a.m.   No advance registration is required.  Tango plans to return to the library on the first Saturday of the month for the remainder of 2013.

Tango is certified by Therapy Dogs International. Studies show that reading to furry friends like Tango can help children improve their reading skills.

This special program is made possible by the generosity of Angela Schimmel. She is volunteering to come from Findlay to share Tango with the Bluffton community.

At Girl Scouts, girls are always counting down to the next adventure they will go on together.  Maybe it is artistic.  Maybe it's an experiment.  Maybe it's getting outside or helping the community. 

With Girl Scouting, girls make new friends and have a ton of new experiences that show how exciting the world is, and how awesome girls are. When girls just can't wait for what they'll do next, they can do anything they set their mind to! This is what Girl Scouts call the “I can’t wait to” feeling.

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