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Here comes the class of 2017

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Photos by Rae Staton
Each Bluffton High School graduating class has its own personality. Each carries its own identity.

Take number 136 -  the 2017 graduating class. Born in an earlier century; graduating in another.

They carry familiar Bluffton surnames of Basinger, Burkholder, Geiser, Huber, Klingler, Koontz, Schmutz, Schumacher, Steiner, Stratton and others.

They carry names that join the Bluffton cannon of surnames, including Tatarkov, Talwar, Spiridigliozzi, Kirkendall, Hill, Chancey, Bicknell and others.

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The 2017 Bluffton High School graduates celebrated at the conclusion of Saturday's commencement in a festive style. Rae Staton caught the action with this photo. CLICK HERE for additional graduation photos by Staton.

Here's the list

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What are the next plans for members of the Bluffton High School graduating class of 2017?

Some answers include: computer programming, nursing, business, education, communication/media studies and fine arts.

Here's the list of plans provided by class members that was published in the 2017 commencement program.

Open the attachment below -

They created everything from windmills to early automobile tools

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Note: The Icon acquired a manuscript titled “A Brief History of Bluffton’s Industrial Developments.” This publication was prepared by the classes in Marketing and Small Business Administration from Bluffton College, under the director of Dr. Howard Raid. Publication date is May 1959. We’ve updated some current addresses so viewers may identify locations.

A homemade muzzleloader rifle is a lone reminder of a once well-known foundry and inventor’s shop operated in Bluffton by the Benroth brothers, Albert, Jule and Ferdinand.

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Members of the Bluffton High School yearbook staff during the 1963-64 school year.

Front from left, Karen Schmidt, Gayle Gerber, Larry Grant, sports editor, Karen Diller, typist; Joyce Eikenbary, typist.

Back from left, Garth Gerber, photographer, Jane Herr, copy editor; Jayne Barnett, Kay Motter, Sue Marshall, Jeanne Waidmann, Karen Mericle, typist, Mr. Kauffman, advisor.

Missing: Beth Balmer, layout editor, Susan Lehman, Jim Sheets, Anne Bucher, senior editor.

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This can only mean that there's a Hemi engine under the hood. The Icon spotted this plate in a Bluffton University parking lot on a dark blue Dodge Magnum RT.

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