She was the first woman on the Bluffton school board
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Judy Augsburger recently became the first woman mayor of Bluffton. Without studying the photo, can you name the first woman elected to the Bluffton school board? It was Lois Rodabaugh. She was president of the school board when this photo was taken.
Here is the Bluffton Exempted Village School board of education during the 1967-68 school year.
Seated in front, James Stratton.
Seated in the second row, from left, Merlin Benroth, Lois Rodabaugh (identifed in the yearbook as Mrs. F.D. Rodabaugh), and Fred Bremer, superintendent.
Standing from left, Robert Ewing, clerk; Ray Wilch and Charles Hankish, Jr.
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