Two months to go and lots of activities are underway in April and May at the Bluffton Elementary. Here's a summary of events from the April elementary newsletter:
TESTING DAYS: Students in grades 3-5 will take the Ohio English Language Arts tests on April 12 and 13. They will take the Ohio Math tests on April 26 and 27. Fifth grade students will take the Ohio Science tests on May 1 and 2.
As chair of the Madison Collaborative at James Madison University, Dr. William Hawk, a 1972 Bluffton graduate and native of Lima, Ohio, is heading up a major effort to revive democracy on the Harrisonburg, Va., campus and beyond. The project, with the goal of putting ethical reasoning into action, is structured around Eight Key Questions (8KQ) developed at JMU for evaluating the ethical dimensions of a situation before making a decision.
The Bluffton High School graduating class of 1968 will hold its 50th reunion on Saturday, Sept. 8, with a evening planned in the Bluffton town hall.
The reunion is from 5 to 9 p.m. and is catered by Henry's Restaurant, Ottawa.
Class members wanting additional information, or who have addresses of missing class members, should contact Carol (Koontz) Heath at [email protected].
A class questionnaire is attached at the bottom of this story.
Author Myrna Grove will be the featured speaker at the Swiss Community Historical Society (SCHS) spring meeting at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 8.
Her talk, "Legacy of One-Room Schools" will be held in the patio room at Maple Crest, 700 Maple Crest Court, Bluffton. The event is free and open to the public; donations are welcome.
As an elementary school teacher for the Bryan City Schools, Grove enjoyed re-enacting the one-room school experience with her students at area one-room schools.
Esther L. Brauen, 87, died April 5, 2018 at Mercy Health - St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima.
Esther was born June 2, 1930, in Findlay, Ohio, to Eldon and Ada (Hilty) Lugibihl who preceded her in death. On Nov. 6, 1947, she married E. Keith Brauen who survives. Esther attended Bluffton High School and Lima Technical College where she received an Associates of Nursing degree.
She worked at Celebration of Health with Dr. Terry Chappell for many years before she retired.
This looks like fun. One of the learning activities at the Bluffton Community Preschool involves pebbles, numbers and thinking about math with a duck of all things. Two additional photo in this series demonstration how a student focuses on learning.
