Feb 12, 2024
When Calvin Coolidge was president
Bluffton eighth graders in 1928-29 school year Meet the Bluffton High School class of 1933 taken in the fall of the 1928-29 school year...
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Feb 11, 2024
This BHS athlete has 5 Super Bowl rings
Watch this video of Purdue defeating Notre Dame and remember that Neil Schmidt's cleat marks are all over Bluffton High School's Harmon...
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Feb 10, 2024
BHS class of '71 in 1st grade
Many familiar last names including DeVier, Diller, Hauenstein, Hicks, Amstutz, Dailey, Augsburger, Fett & others Members of the Bluffton...
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Feb 9, 2024
It's the 1961-62 school year
Here are students in Ruby Murray's first grade Meet members of the Bluffton High School class of 1973 when they were first graders in...
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Feb 8, 2024
Dr. Mary Alice Howe Thomas
5th in our series of famous Bluffton High School alumni; Served 37 years on medical staff of Huron Road Hospital, Cleveland The word...
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Feb 8, 2024
Blame this class on street painting
BHS class of 1965 in the first grade during 1953-54 Meet members of the Bluffton High School class of 1965 in Ruby Murray’s first grade...
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Feb 7, 2024
How did a hospital come to Bluffton?
It's beginning goes back to 1908 in a location on Main Street Dr. J.J. Sutter standing on the porch of the Bluffton Sanatorium - now the...
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Feb 6, 2024
It's 1944-45 and here is Mrs. Murray's first grade
Lots of familiar names like: Mathewson, Zimmerman, Herr, Moser, Hilty, Scoles and others Meet students in Ruby Murray’s first grade in...
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Feb 5, 2024
It's the 1943-44 school year
Meet the BHS class of 1955 in Meredith Stepleton's first grade It’s the 1943-44 school year in Bluffton. Here’s Meredith Stepleton’s...
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Feb 4, 2024
A 400-ton monster passing through Bluffton
Right out of the Lima Locomotive Works shops in 1941 From the Oct. 16, 1941, Bluffton News - A giant, 400-ton locomotive built by the...
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Feb 2, 2024
Col. Rene Studler - Bluffton's professional soldier
4th in our series of famous Bluffton High School alumni Call him Bluffton’s professional soldier. Recipient of the Legion of Merit, the...
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Feb 1, 2024
130 winters ago ice was 9 inches thick in local quarries
And a thriving ice business was born Imagine a Bluffton winter with nine inches of ice covering a water-filled quarry. The following...
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Jan 31, 2024
WWII was the only team to beat these Pirates
80 basketball seasons ago Bluffton's boys' basketball team was the top Class B Ohio team Eighty high school basketball seasons ago, the...
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Jan 30, 2024
When icicles hang by the wall in Bluffton
And thermometers reach 25 below - plus, lots of snow photos below M. Twain wrote: “Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand...
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Jan 29, 2024
The story of mad dogs here in 1890s
and one hog owned by Rudolph Miller Hydrophobia. The word may sound foreign to today’s resident, but in the 1890s in Bluffton, it was...
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Jan 26, 2024
R.L. Triplett created more jobs than any person in Bluffton's history
Third is our series of famous Bluffton High School alumni Call it small-town ingenuity. Bluffton’s favorite entrepreneurial son became a...
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Jan 26, 2024
Mixed grade of first and second graders
Ruby Murray's pupils during the 1951-52 school year were member of the BHS graduating classes of 1962 and 1963 Ruby Murray taught a mixed...
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