Here’s Meredith Stepleton and Grace Cox 1934-1935 Bluffton first graders’ rhythm band. It’s the Bluffton High School class of 1947 as first graders.
Members, front row from left, Morris Groman, Sara Jane Huser, Karlos Moser, Imogene Wenger, Roy Hofer, Jean Ann Burcky, Kent Stonehill and Mary Kay Bauman.
Second row from left, Joan Clark, Bonnie Grismore, Paul Bixel, Peggy Martin, Joanne Hahn, Lyman Hofstetter, Helen Burkholder, Margorie Klay and Patsy Schmidt.
Milt Sprunger graduated from Bluffton College in 1920 and returned to Bluffton during his retirement. During his college years, he became very familiar with Main Street businesses and characters, and experienced the 1916 presidential election as a Blufftonite. Here is his election account, taken from "A Good Place to Miss: Bluffton Stories 1900-1975."
Tickets are available for the Artist Series performance by the Walt Weiskopf Quartet at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made an impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed albums and countless sideman credits. A dynamic player with enormous technical prowess, Weiskopf is equally well-regarded as a composer, with albums containing predominantly original work.
There’s a new pirate in Bluffton. It’s “Robo Pete.”
It will eventually be on the staff of Bluffton Hospital, and was named by the Bluffton second grade class in a school-held name the robot contest. The school has Pirate Pete as its mascot, thus the name Robo Pete makes sense.
Here’s the story.
On Nov. 3 Bluffton elementary, middle school and high school students witnessed a demonstration of The Women’s Center at Bluffton Hospital’s da Vinci Surgical robot.
Members of the Bluffton University cross country team just happened to be running within a minute after the Augsburger Road pathway ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 31. They were the first official users of the path.
