Historical Bluffton

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Bluffton College had an "Illinois Club" in the 1925-26 school year. The qualifications for membership were simple: You had to be from Illinois. This photo is from the college yearbook.

Members, first row, from left: Nafziger, E. Stahly

Second row: Burcky, Springer, O. Augsburger, V. Conrad, Salzman, Eichelberger.

Third row: Stucky, J. Augsburger, M. Leaman, Chase, C. Leaman, Shelly.

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Here's a photograph from the 1926 Bluffton College Ista. Cheering for the Beavers during the 1925-26 school year were, from left, Edna Van der Smissen, Ralph Page (cheermaster) and Lloyd Beechy.

Beechy's home town was Sugarcreek and Page's was Goshen. The hometown of Edna Van der Smissen was not listed.

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Before there was Community Market there was Urich's IGA Market. This advertisement is from the Bluffton High School 1959 yearbook. At that time Urich's was on Main Street in a storefront now occupied by the expanded Citizens National Bank building.

The IGA eventually moved to Vance Street to become Urich's IGA Foodliner. It has had one renovation, which doubled its buildling size and today the business is owned by Community Market.

In this photo are Ramon Lewis (left) and Owen Ziessler. Icon viewer comments are welcome.

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Here's members of the Bluffton High School Varsity B in the 1958-59 school year.

Front from left, Ronald Habegger, Larry Mumma, Ramon Lewis, Owen Ziessler, Rudi Steiner, Michael Diller.

Second row from left, Donald Zimmerman, James Jordan, James Lubinbuhl, Gordon Mathewson, Edward Niswander.

Third row from left, Jerry Hilty, Larry Smucker, David Little, Dale Schiffke, Dennis Smith.

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From the 1967 Bluffton High School yearbook, here is a photo of the Varsity B.

Front from left, Gerald Moser, Steve Sutter, Bob Yant, Steve Stratton, Bob Holt, Ken Amstutz, Dave Burkholder, Steve Yant, Dick Mast, Ron Benroth.

Second row from left, Rex Reichenbach, Jim Steiner, Mark Spalllinger, Max Eastman, Henry Burkholder, Ron Suter, John Herron, Don Cochran.

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Here's a photo from the 1966 Bluffton High School yearbook. It was taken from above the entrance way to the old gym - yes, once upon a time there was only one gym.

We'll attempt an idenficiation. (Icon viewers are alway smarter than we are in these ID projects. We welcome viewer corrections.)

Bottom from left, Pat Benroth, Steph McCune, Terry Strahm, Becky Lehman and Carol Steiner.

Next row, James Augsburger, Jim Hilty, Sue Marshall, John Pannabecker, John Skelly and Ron Niswander.

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