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Manchester University conferred undergraduate, professional and graduate degrees to 331 student on Saturday, May 18.

Mariah Fleming, of Bluffton, received her Bachelor of Arts in sociology. 

The mission of Manchester University, with campuses in North Manchester and Fort Wayne, Ind., is to graduate persons of ability and conviction who draw upon their education and faith to lead principled, productive, and compassionate lives that improve the human condition.

Play it forte

The following awards are presented each May by the Bluffton High School Music Department. The 2018-19 awards were presented on May 21.

And, check the all-time winner list, linked to this story

Bluffton High School music department presented 2018-19 awards to seniors during a music banquet on Tuesday, May 21.

For an historic list of BHS music awards, click here.

Here are this year's award winners:
Semper Fi Award - Jesse Montel

Marching Band Award - Noah Adams and Alexis Lehman

Director's Award for Band - Autumn Gesler and Derek Swartzlander

Director's Award for Choir - Mason Ault and Tanner Pinks

Braylon Simon's own experience at Nationwide Children's Hospital is the reason for the toy project

Eight-year-old Braylon Simon’s own experience at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, made him want to do something for other children who are patients there.

In April, 2018, Braylon, son of Jonathan and Kayla Simon of Bluffton, was diagnosed with Stage 3 Nodular Lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

After four rounds of aggressive chemo, he is in his ninth month of remission.

To celebrate his first year of being cancer free – in August – he wants to have a toy drive for the Hematology and Oncology floors at Nationwide hospital, where he was treated.

The S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club of Bluffton announces the winners of its “Service To Humanity” scholarship awards, given to graduating seniors of Bluffton High School.  

The Club (Sharing Hopes And Nourishing Needs Of Neighbors) is an entirely local Bluffton volunteer organization that strives to make the Bluffton area a better place by serving its youth, its elderly and its needy.

Here are this year's $800 scholarship winners:

After taking spring Noetic Math Challenge

Seventeen Blufton sixth graders and nine seventh graders took the spring Noetic Math Challenge in April, according to Dina Tadena, sixth and seventh grade math teacher.

There were 34,055 students who took the challenge from 47 states and  776 schools.

The following Bluffton students received national honorable mention, which means they scored in the top 50% of all of the students. Each grade had a team winner, based on the highest score from those that took the test.

7th grade:
• Team winner and national honorable mention
   Theo Andreas

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