The sweet orphaned Truehart sisters, who don’t realize they’re identical twins until the nearly blind Lyla Sol points it out, were left in a wicker basket on the boarding school steps 17 years ago.
The letter left with them revealed they are the heirs to a fortune in — Wait! That part of the letter is missing!
With tensions ongoing in the Middle East, hatred for fellow neighbors continues to fester. This hatred has led to the loss of many innocent lives. George and Najwa Sa’adeh, from Bethlehem (Palestine) and Rami Elhanan from Jerusalem (Israel) explained to Bluffton University students during an evening Forum on Oct. 27, many Israelis see Palestinians as enemies or terrorists and vice versa. However, Elhanan explained instead he views the Sa’adehs as family.
This plate provides a lot of information with just six letters. It belongs to David Retterer, Ada, mayor. You'll find it on a bright red Ford F150 pickup.
How many other university towns in the U.S. could you pull this off?
Here’s Meredith Stepleton and Grace Cox 1934-1935 Bluffton first graders’ rhythm band. It’s the Bluffton High School class of 1947 as first graders.
Members, front row from left, Morris Groman, Sara Jane Huser, Karlos Moser, Imogene Wenger, Roy Hofer, Jean Ann Burcky, Kent Stonehill and Mary Kay Bauman.
Second row from left, Joan Clark, Bonnie Grismore, Paul Bixel, Peggy Martin, Joanne Hahn, Lyman Hofstetter, Helen Burkholder, Margorie Klay and Patsy Schmidt.
Milt Sprunger graduated from Bluffton College in 1920 and returned to Bluffton during his retirement. During his college years, he became very familiar with Main Street businesses and characters, and experienced the 1916 presidential election as a Blufftonite. Here is his election account, taken from "A Good Place to Miss: Bluffton Stories 1900-1975."
Tickets are available for the Artist Series performance by the Walt Weiskopf Quartet at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made an impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed albums and countless sideman credits. A dynamic player with enormous technical prowess, Weiskopf is equally well-regarded as a composer, with albums containing predominantly original work.
There’s a new pirate in Bluffton. It’s “Robo Pete.”
It will eventually be on the staff of Bluffton Hospital, and was named by the Bluffton second grade class in a school-held name the robot contest. The school has Pirate Pete as its mascot, thus the name Robo Pete makes sense.
Here’s the story.
On Nov. 3 Bluffton elementary, middle school and high school students witnessed a demonstration of The Women’s Center at Bluffton Hospital’s da Vinci Surgical robot.
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Connectibility, safety and community cooperation joined hands as the Lions Way Augsburger Road Pathway opened last week. Here’s what was accomplished at the Oct. 31 ribbon cutting and dedication:
• Distance shortened from Point A to Point B.
Point A being Maple Crest, Willow Ridge, Riverbend, Augsburger Road residents and the Bluffton University Nature Preserve; Point B being Bluffton proper.
Sarah Diller and Brandon Fullenkamp, performers and educators, will lead the Alumni Forum, “Changing the World through Artful Performance,” at 11 a.m. Nov. 15, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The Forum presentation will be preceded by a concert featuring Diller and Fullenkamp at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14, also in Yoder Recital Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.
During Forum, the 2011 Bluffton graduates will explain how theater can be an agent of social change.
