A Bluffton University master's graduate, Gregory Phipp of Lima, recently earned a doctorate in management of technology and digital communications from the Indiana State University.
The assistant professor of communication at Ohio Northern University is a graduate from Lima Technical College and the University of Toledo’s electronic engineering programs. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Bluffton in organizational management.
His research topics include broadcast television communications and the adoption of bonded-cellular transmission technology.
Remember Bill Marchal, former owner of the Bluffton Dari Freeze? Always inventing something new, Bill's latest patent pending invention, a quick change battery clamp is now on Kickstarter. Click here to view his product. Here's Bill's story:
How often have you struggled to remove the clamp attached to your car battery?
You know, that clamp first designed for under-the-hood use in vehicles invented 80 car models ago?
We each know that 2020 isn’t exactly a year to come home to. And, because there was no massive elementary holiday music concert with standing room only in the BHS gym, The Icon dug out its time machine.
After all December holiday elementary concerts are among each Icon viewer’s highlights of the year, right?
We set the dial to five of our favorite Bluffton December’s past. Like 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and even a rare 2011 vintage.
Bluffton residents know her as Lucinda Stratton Guthrie. She writes mystery books under the pen name Bluette Matthey.
Today she lives in Béziers in the south of France with her husband and, as she puts it, two demanding cats. (As an additional Bluffton connection, her brother is Rodney Stratton.)
The former Blufftonite and BHS grad says she grew up reading mysteries and being frightened to death as a child watching Alfred Hitchcock on Friday nights. The result: “Two Murders Too Many,” Bluette’s latest mystery.
15 minutes with Lily Shadle
Interviewed by Derek Swartzlander Icon: You graduated from Bluffton in 2019. What have you been doing since then? Lily: I have been attending Ohio Northern University for pharmacy.
What are your goals after you graduate? Lily: Right now my only real goal is to make my way through pharmacy school. Eventually, after that I would like to get married one day and start my own family.
