Historical Bluffton

Here's the Bluffton High School jazz band from the 2003-04 school year.

• Front row: Eric Blevins, Tyler Baderstcher, Cara Gudakunst

• Middle row: Anne Steiner, Joy Savage, Alan Way, Jessica Ramey, Mary Miller

• Back row: Aaron Yoder, Joel Gundy, Adam Phillips, Matt Mummert, Dan Stratton, Joel Reichenbach, Annalisa Harder

Thanks to Joel Groman, who put names on faces! Here's the Bluffton sixth grade academic team from 2003-04 school year. Chad Matthewson was the team coach.

Here's the Bluffton High School alumni jazz band in a 2004 performance with Dave Sycks directing.

• Saxes from left, Jesse Henry '96, David Stratton '01, Peter Bixel '98, Andy Eddinger '00, Ben Hohenbrink '98

• Trombones from left, Brian Barry '96, Jacob Boehr '01, Amanda (Doty) Morrison '02

• Trumpets from left, Travis Unterbrink '96, Ben Harmon '01, Katie (Fultz) Ochoa '96

Twenty-one-year-old Stanton Steiner poses with his first, and probably the family’s first motor car.

It’s  a 1924 or ’25 Ford Model T “Doctors” Coupe. The picture was taken in a barnyard on his parent’s farm on Columbus Grove Road midway between Pandora Road and State Route 696. His parents were Sam and Sarah (Neuenschwander) Steiner.

Here's a Bluffton photo from what is believed to be a 1915 Fourth of July parade.

We base that upon the year of the vehicles in the photo, the bricked Church Street and the Russell Hotel on the left. The hotel burned to the ground in 1919. A very close examination of the license plates shows a "5."  We also take into consideration the style of the dresses worn by the women walking toward Main Street.

Here are the Bluffton school bus drivers in the 1963-64 school year. From left, Raymond Powell, Emil White (also the BHS art teacher), Wayne Zimmerman,  ______ Hicks, Rev. ________ Warren.

Viewers: Help us out with filling in missing first names.

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