65 years later...here's the BHS class of 1951
They graduated from Bluffton High Schol 65 years ago. They are members of the Bluffton HS class of 1951, the smallest class in modern history to graduate. According to the 1951 Buccaneer 26 members were in the graduating class.
The reunion was July 23 at Maple Crest.
Front from left, Ruth Ann (Lee) Bixel, Louise (Reichenbach) Schwieterman, Carol (Sechler) Vermillion.
Standing from left, Margaret (Stratton) Mueller, John Triplehorn, Richard Jordan, Eileen (Mathewson) Hubbard, Genevieve (Burkholder) Schroeder.
Class of 1951 - from the 1950-51 Buccaneer
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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