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Bluffton University has appointed Bluffton alumnus Daryl Dowdy as interim director of multicultural affairs at the university.

Dowdy is a 1990 Bluffton graduate, with a bachelor's degree in recreation management. He was also a member of the basketball team and, since 2003, has been an adjunct faculty member. He is teaching two courses this fall, including one section of the first-year seminar course.

This much is a guess, but a good one. The initials of two people are proclaimed on this plate. The Icon spotted CYS DMA in the parking lot near the university baseball field.

Here's an Ohio plate that is becoming more and more common. It belongs to a veteran of the Vietnam conflict. The Icon spotted this on Main Street.

Jerry Lewis will present more than $15,000 to 42 local teachers from more than 20 different local school systems to benefit thousands of students.

The 2010 MAC Grant check presentation and $100,000 MAC Grant Celebration dinner and program will take place on Monday, Sept.20, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at The Centre 601 N Main St., Bluffton.

Here is an artist's rendition of the Bluffton University Health and Fitness Education Center

More than 75% of $16 million goal for 60,000-square-foot building already raised

Bluffton University has raised more than 75 percent of its $16 million fundraising goal for construction of a Health and Fitness Education Center (HFEC).

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