With the Major League Baseball playoffs underway here's the Bluffton High School boys of summer one-half century ago.
Names of the players on the 1968 team are above the photo. This team went 9-9. Bob Everett pitched a no-hitter game, only to lose on an error to Hicksville, 1-0.
This photos contains some Bluffton viewers' great and possibly great-great-"relatives."
Nearly 10 decades ago, these youngsters performed as the Sunbeam Band under the sponsorship of the Bluffton Lutheran Church.
Although members of the band were drawn from all denominations, the Lutherans sponsored the band because leader Turley Rupright was a member of that congregation.
Sunbeam Band members were:
Front from left, W.A. “Hap” Stratton and Harold Beals.
We know this is the Bluffton High School class of 1976. We also know Esther Emmert is the teacher when this class was in the elementary. We welcome class members to send us identification of the students.
Here are two photos, circa 1912, with Agnes Amstutz standing and Hallie Thut (seated). The second photo is Hazel Boothby (left) and Agnes Amstutz (right). Agnes graduated from Bluffton High School in 1913 and Hallie Thut Althaus graduated from BHS in 1912.
These two photos were provided to the Icon by Alan Eaton.
