By Mary Pannabecker Steiner
As a nurse anesthetist for the past 30 years, Bill Swartley of Bluffton, has spent countless hours as a member of surgical teams in sterile environments, backed up by the latest in medical equipment and supplies.
Clearly, he has a passion for his career, which he describes somewhat tongue-in-cheek as "putting people to sleep for surgery and waking them up."
Look very closely. Our man from the construction crew is in the nose-bleed section of the Bluffton University health and fitness center under construction this winter.
What year did you graduate from Bluffton High School?
2005.
Where did you go to college and what was your major?
I spent four great years at Duke University, majoring in Philosophy and Political Science...and playing my clarinet in the pep band at basketball games.
Jackie Short of Findlay is the new executive director of Richland Manor, 7400 Swaney Road, Bluffton.
Short assumed the position on Jan. 28. She comes to Richland Manor after serving as director of Briar Hill Health Campus, North Baltimore. Both are part of the Trilogy Health Services.
Prior to joining Trilogy, she served as assistant administrator of Shawnee Manor.
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Airman 1st Class Tabetha Clark, a .50-caliber machine gun gunner and driver with the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, recently deployed from the 4th SFS, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.
Clark, a 2007 Bluffton High School graduate, deployed to work with an elite group of security forces airmen with the 455th ESFS, a quick reaction team known as the "Reapers."
Working with her hands seems to be second nature to Bluffton resident and wood worker Jackie Frey.
Maybe it's in her family genes. She owns a wooden ball massager that her great-grandfather carved. Also in her collection are several items created from metal that her maternal grandfather created to prove that he could do the job of a machinist.
Frey, a former staff member at Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Bluffton, shared many of her own pieces and talked about her hobby during a Feb. 10 program attended by nearly two dozen persons, mostly residents, at Maple Crest.
