Some descriptions of Bluffton elementary teachers by their students
Posted by Fred Steiner on May 4, 2020 - 2:27pm
Bluff’ ton eləˈment(ə)r ˈtēCHər – Bluffton elementary teacher (noun) – a person who teaches in Bluffton schools and is described by students as kind, smart, funny, really funny, cool, good teacher, hard-working, nice, great, amazing, awesome, good at explaining things, and good at teaching.
Winning entries are posted at the bottom of this story.
If Bluffton elementary teachers were listed in the dictionary, the words above would help describe them.
In honor of the lives of those killed and injured and those whose lives were forever altered by the tragedy of May 4, 1970, at Kent State University, Governor DeWine ordered that all United States and Ohio flags be flown at half-staff upon all state-owned buildings throughout the state and at the Ohio Statehouse, Vern Riffe Center, and Rhodes Tower, at 12:24 p.m, until sunset.
Treva Margaret Helena (Marquart) Shafer, 94, a resident of Bluffton, Ohio, and died on May 4, 2020, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
Treva was born on June 14, 1925, near Bluffton to the late Albert and Emma Marquart. On Oct. 20, 1946, she married Wayne Shafer and he preceded her in death on Dec. 5, 2019, after 73 years of marriage.
BHS CLASS OF 1950 - celebrating its 70th graduation year – Class members as first graders in the 1938-39 school.
Front for left, unidentified, unidentified, Sara Badertscher, Rosella Moser, Jane Damon, Marilyn Amstutz, Peggy Young and Donald Schumacher.
Second row from left, Elwood Brauen, Donald Burkholder, unidentified, Roger Lehman, Carolyn Matter, Richard Steiner, Josephine Augsburger, Edgar Wenger and Micky unidentified.