Margery (Lecrone) Gregg has a simple answer to the question of what keeps bringing her back to the Bluffton campus where she graduated from college in 1940.
“It’s home,” says the Amsterdam, Ohio, resident, 96, who returned again with her daughter and son-in-law, Carol (Gregg ’66) and Jan ’69 Benroth, for Bluffton University’s annual May Day events on May 2.
The April student of the month at Bluffton High School is Emma Burkholder, daughter of Steve and Laurel Burkholder.
Emma is a senior at Bluffton high school and has a 3.561 GPA.
She is involved in many activities including Chamber Choir, Show Choir, District 3 Honors Choir, National Honor Society, Drama Club, Latin Club, Academic Team, Teens for Christ, Ebenezer Mennonite Youth Group and Campus Life. Other interests include dancing, acting, singing and traveling.
Durand S. Dudley, 89 of Bluffton and formerly of Findlay passed away May 4, 2015 at Willow Ridge - Frieda House, Bluffton. He was born February 28, 1926 in Cleveland to the late George and Corinne (Durand) Dudley. On July 3, 1954 he married Dorothy Woolworth Dudley who preceded him in death on April 26, 1997.
The S.H.A.N.N.O.N. (Sharing Hopes And Nourishing Needs Of Neighbors) Service Club of Bluffton invites Icon viewers decorate Main Street of Bluffton with American flags flying in the wind, according to Duane Bollenbacher of the club.
Silver Threads among the Gold, a group of Bluffton-area musicians, will perform at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 12, in the next Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.
The Bluffton Cultural Affairs Committee sponsors the series. The program is free and open to the public.
Musicians include Jan Wiebe, Steve and Monica Harnish, Teri Friesen, Betty Sommer, Bruce Chesser, Ray Person, Jason Frisch and Chappell-Dick.
Do you remember Bluffton before a farmers' market existed?
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce started the farmers' market in 2003 when Wendy Chappell-dick was CEO.
The first committee included Chappell-Dick, Alan Comesky, Pete Fleming and Jon Sommer.
"Our first vendors were TR Steiner, Bread Kneads, The Kitchen Co-Op (Linda Suter, Becky Kreider and myself) and Heather Theis. It took us two years to recruit the seven vendors we needed to start the market," she said.
