Why does the sign read: Bluffton Richland High School above the school building as it faces Main Street?
Isn’t it just “Bluffton High School?”
Here’s the background: From 1921 to 1929 Bluffton High School was maintained as a joint high school of the Village of Bluffton and Richland Township, under the charter name of the Bluffton-Richland High School.
Now it gets rather complicated, and this is the short version:
In 1943, the Ohio legislature passed legislation “providing for recodification and revision of the laws of Ohio pertaining to public schools.”
She convinced me to go out for the eighth grade girls' basketball team. Let me be blunt, this was not a good fit...one game we were winning something lilke 86 to 6. We ran one play in the fourth quarter.
I was to get to the top of the key, someone would pass me the ball, and I would try - try is the optimal word here - to shoot a basket.
John Bösiger was born in Alsace, France. When he was 23 a close friend, Johannes Steiner – both living in the community of Belfort, France – were conscripted into Napoleon’s army in 1815.
Participating in warfare were against their convictions and they decided to run away.
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Have you ever stood in line for stamps at the Bluffton post office and wondered why there is a mural on the lobby’s north wall?
Who was the artist and what does the mural portray? And, who paid for the mural?
In 1935, the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts sponsored an artist juried contest to help find artists for federal jobs. The Section of Fine Arts was all a part of the Work Progress Administration, better known as the WPA.
The Bluffton post office mural artist’s name is Sante Graziani. He painted the mural in 1941. It is an oil on canvas painting.
Note the variation spellings
of “Lugibuhl” in this family.
Two Lugibuhl brothers came to our community from Wayne County, Ohio, after arriving in America in 1825.
Their parents were Christian and Anna (Steiner) Lugibuhl. No record is available to reveal if the parents came over from Switzerland.
