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Some things never change. We have about 25 different years of this photo. The only change from one photo to the next is the cast of characters.

This 2002 classic Pirate photo serves several purposes.

First, it is part of our Historical Bluffton photo series. The problem is we don't have the the names of these fine young men. We do know that the photo was taken during the 2002 Bluffton HS homecoming parade.

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This Bluffton College men’s basketball team play its games during the 1918 flu epidemic and were not yet called "Beavers."

Front from left, Vernon Ramseyer and Gordon Bixel.

Center, Menno Lehmann, Oliver Kratz (coach) and Donavin Baumgartner, captain

Top, Herbert Gottshall, Ezra  Moser, Harold Guth andAllen Day. Not photographed, the team manager was Wilmer Shelly.

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Did you ride on a Bluffton school bus with one of these bus drivers? These are the drivers during the 1969-70 school year.

There are two photos.

Drivers on the left photo, standing from left, Mr. Habegger, Mrs. Warren and Mr. Zimmerman. Front from left, Mr. Hauenstein and Mr. Powell.

Driver in the right photo, standing from left, Mr. Krautter, Mrs. Cribley and Mr. Williams.

 

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Moving quickly through Bluffton 100 years ago, this Lake Erie and Western Railroad freight train is steaming at a fast clip from Sandusky to Lima and possibly on its way to the end of the line in Peoria, Illinois.

The photo was taken sometime between 1920 and 1924 and is in the collection of  Dick Boehr. The mill on the east side of the track was razed about 15 years ago. The station, seen at the edge on the left side is now located on Spring Street at the Buckeye as the home of the Bluffton Sportmen's Club.

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Bluffton College women's softball team during the 1978 season.

Front from left, Audrey Ervin, Kit Byal, Judy Stutzman, Barb Fiely, Bev Whitaker, Jan Althaus, Sue Cramer andKathy Schroer.

Standing from left, Sherry King, coach, Chris Fraber, Julie Dworetsky, Denise Miller, Pris Funk, Sherry Breilmaier, Linda Heimann, Jean Chamberlin and Matt Creamer, student assistant. Missing, Lori Gratz, manager.

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Here's a view of Bluffton that you've never seen.

Dick Boehr shared with the Icon several Bluffton College photographs from the early 1920 in his collection. This is among that group of photos.

You can't take this photo today because all the trees in the university woods block the view.

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