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Column about Don Schweingruber – How can a guy from a place called Zelienople have so many friends in a place called Bluffton?

That guy, let’s call him “The Donald” – he would have thought it funny – showed up here about the time Nixon was in the White House.

He never left. Imagine – he was hired to serve as the disciplinarian to rowdy Bluffton College students. A thankless job. But somebody had to do it.

Enrollment exploded once the institution implemented his many plans. And the Schweingruber era exceeded the tenure of maybe four Bluffton College/University presidents and even more Bluffton school superintendents, police chiefs and mayors.

In between handling student bad guys (and girls), he taught a Sunday school class in the English Lutheran Church to folks his parents’ age. He also parented three of the wildest kids ever to graduate from Bluffton High School.

Point in fact: One spray-painted a cutout image of a runner on the southwest corner of the Jackson-College intersection.

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