63 years after graduating from Bluffton High School
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Members of the Bluffton High School graduating class of 1951 held its 63rd reunion on July 12 in Bluffton.
Members attending were: front row from left, Ruth Anna (Lee) Bixel, Joan (Montgomery) Basinger, Carole (Sechler) Vermillion, Jenny (Burkholder) Schroeder.
Second row from left, Margaret (Stratton) Mueller, Leland Garmatter, Jim Badertscher, Richard Jordan, Louise (Reichenbach) Schwieterman.
According to the 1951 Bluffton High School yearbook, here are graduating members of the class:
Ruth Anna Lee, president
John Frederick Triplehorn, vice-president
Ann Basinger Dunifon, secretary
Howard Nolan Miller, business manager
Lynn Ellsworth Carmack, assistant business manager
Bill Augsburger
Genevieve A. Burkholder
James Badertscher
Marylyn F. Holtkamp
Frederick Edward Brunn
Dorothy Jean Leiber
Paul Herbert Cramer
James Frick
Barbara Jean Lewis
Leland R. Garmatter
Eilene Mathewson
Joan Marie Montgomery
David M. Hofstetter
Louise A. Reichenbach
Richard Henry Jordan
Carol Jean Sechler
Melvin Evan Marquart
Margaret Louise Stratton
William Don Oats
Mildred Lee Tenney
Dale E. Risser
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