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Attention students: There will be a pep rally at the close of school today

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 4, 2016 - 3:12pm

Some things never change. Only the location.

Here's a Bluffton High School pep rally during the 1955-56 school year. The only difference between this photo and a pep rally today is that today's rallies are in the new gym. 

But, like 1955-56, today friends and classmates sit together. (Maybe boys' sock styles have change over the year.)

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Here's some BHS sophomores you might recognize

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 28, 2015 - 4:40pm

Members of the Bluffton High School class of 1948 posed as sophomores in the 1946 Buccaneer - 70 yearbooks ago.

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Here's Santa's visit to Bluffton in the early 1950s

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 24, 2015 - 9:26am

Here's a photo worth 10,000 Bluffton words. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

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.

In the background is the original Citizens National Bank, prior to two modifications. Next door is Crow's 5 and 10, The Charles Company and Urich's IGA.

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Boy did we goof! You'll love this - wrong town!

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 20, 2015 - 2:34pm

Boy, did we goof!

The photo of the A and P is NOT the Bluffton store. It's the ADA store.

Thanks to a couple hawk-eyed viewers, we've admitted our error. Take for example, this comment from Ken Cookson:

That photo of the A & P store just doesn’t look right.  The adjacent buildings don’t match what was there then or now.  Is that a parking meter in the photo to the right?

And this comment from Sam Diller:

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Was Miss Slusser one of your BHS teachers?

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 15, 2015 - 8:36am

If you attended Bluffton High School...and,

if you are 58 or older, you recognize this person.

It is Miss Theresa "Teddie" Slusser. She was a Bluffton College graduate, held a master's degree from Bowling Green and taught several history and social studies classes for seventh graders through high school students.

After her official retirement in the mid-1960s she returned as a substitute teacher. She also was the village treasurer for several terms, which was an elected postion.

This was a Will Triplett photograph.

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Triplett sales meeting June 1936

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 8, 2015 - 5:09pm

Here's a photo from the Bluffton Public Library archives. Taken in June 1936, it is a group of persons who attended a Triplett Corp. sales meeting. 

Sorry to say, we can only identify the follow:

• R.L. Triplett - front row, white shoes.
• Arden Baker - second row, light suit, dark tie and vest, to the right of R.L. Triplett.
• Norm Triplett - back row, light suit, dark shirt, to the left of Arden Baker.

We welcome other idenfications. Send them to: [email protected].

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