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What is it about Bluffton HS girls' basketball teams that play in a year ending in 9?

Here's the 1998-99 BHS girls' team that advanced to the state final four.

On the floor, Ashley August and Mollie McCullough.

Seated from left, Abbie Fett, Giorgi Thomann, Caity Matter, Rachel Holt.

Standing from left, Cindy Lee, assistant coach, Carrie Kindred, Tara Buroker, Abbey Schaaf, Dennis Lee, coach. Missing, Kelly Worthington.

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Here's the 1988-89 Bluffton High School girls' basketball team. They were regional runners-up.

Standing from left, Tasha Arnold, Cindy Moser, Jan Pearch, Angie Butler, Julie Friesen, Dennis Lee, coach.

Front from left, Rachel Hefner, Carmen McClain, Jana Mathewson, Kathy Core and Aimee Bennett.

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Here's the Bluffton High School girls' varsity basketball team from 1978-79 season. Front from left, Jodi Diller, Linda Bracy, Amy Bixel, Mary Herrmann.

Standing from left, Sue Badertscher, Juleen Matter, Venessa Beach, Beth Barth, Julie Pogue, Ken Bostdorff, coach. The team went 7-3 in the Northwest Conference, finishing in third place. Overall, the team was 12-5.

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Christmas in downtown Bluffton in the early 1950s. There's Santa with a Santa Halloween mask. Our guess is that Bob Crow and Paul Steiner on working the PA system.

We're pretty certain that Al McCluer is Santa, and we are going to make a stab on the ID of the kids on the platform. On the far left, it looks like Dan Lehman, then Francis Harkness, Judy Harness and Donna McClure. That's as far as we can go.

This scene must have been from a Bluffton Business Men's holiday promotion.

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Here are members of the Bluffton College Social Work Club during the 1968-69 school year.

Seated from left, clockwise, Dave Chen, Dave Zook, Rosemary Kopp, Anita Lehman, Bill Koppel, Bob Hewitt, advisor Joe Steiner (standing), Stephanie Thomas, Greg Clemens, Phyllis Meyer, Marshal Barlett and Dave MacLachlan.

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Note: The Icon posted this photo three years ago, but it's worthy of a re-post. Dennis Morrison shared the photo with us.

Here's a photo worth 10,000 Bluffton words.

Santa Claus (portrayed by Al McCluer) in an early 1950s Bluffton Santa Claus visit approaches a farm wagon stage on the Prebsyterian Church lawn. He arrived by fire truck. Can anyone please identify the fire truck in the photo? The Ford on Main heading north is a 1951 model.

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