Marge Piercy, a poet and novelist whose 1991 book, “He, She and It” was this year’s summer reading for first-year Bluffton University students, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Sept. 1, as Bluffton welcomes the class of 2019 at its annual opening convocation.
With faculty in regalia looking on, about 240 new first-year and transfer students will be introduced during the ceremony, which begins at 10:45 a.m. in the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education.
Two ducks took advantage of the final day of the season for the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool yesterday. The pair landed in the pool area without paying, waddled over to one side, dived in, swam to the other side, got out and flew off. (Mary Pannabecker Steiner photo).
Pages of Piety, an exhibit of rare books reflecting the Swiss Mennonite spiritual heritage, is part of the Sunday Aug. 30, events celebrating the 175th anniversary of the founding of the first Mennonite church in the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement.
Curated by Carrie Phillips, the exhibit is open to the public at Ebenezer Mennonite Church on Sunday from noon to 7 p.m.
Bluffton University will welcome leaders, teachers and scholars to campus Oct. 16-18 for a conference on “Mennonite Education: Past, Present and Future.”
Bluffton Legion Post 382 passed out donations to 12 local organizations on Aug. 17 from the money that was made from its 6th annual golf outing.
From left are Darrell Groman, Brad Dailey and Shawn Rayle, Sam Reineke and Fred Arnold co-chairman for the golf outing, Ed Yeager, Bill McClain, William Van Dyke, Gary Crawfis, Jim McClain, Marjorie Bryan, Betty Warton and Kay Sellers.
(Dennis Morrison photo)
Ruth O. Bartles, 88, of Columbus Grove died 12:40 p.m., Aug. 22, 2015, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Ruth was born Sept. 11, 1926, in Rockport to Charles and Anna Ross Van Meter. On May 5, 1947 she married Leland Bartles and he preceded her in death on Aug. 21, 1990.
Ruth retired from Konalrad Products, Pandora. She was a member of Rockport United Methodist Church, Bluffton Senior Citizens and the Cairo Widows Group. She was a volunteer at Our Daily Bread, Lima. Ruth graduated from Beaverdam High School.
