Here's this year's musician award winners • And check out the all-time winner list going back to 1967

Bluffton High School music students were recognized during the 45th annual Bluffton High School academic awards program last week. This year’s student honorees follow.

To view the all-time list of BHS music award winners, going back to 1967, click here.

Marching Band Award 
Given to student outstanding in Marching Band
Isabella Angel

Director’s Award for Band
Tre’ Bender

She is a 2017 Allen East HS graduate

Leah Erin Casey, a 2017 Allen East High School graduate, will graduate from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, on June 13, earning a B.A. in English with Honors.

Ms. Casey graduates summa cum laude and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

She will attend The Queen’s College at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, in the fall, pursuing an MPhil in English Studies (Medieval Period).

What are the odds of two Bluffton couples running into each other at the Belvidere Oasis, near the Illinois-Wisconsin border on Interstate 90?

It’s over 300 miles from Bluffton and nearly 6 hours from Bluffton – in a different time zone.

Well, Paula and Rob Scott got out of town last week to visit relatives in Madison, Wisconsin.

And Mary and Fred Steiner did the same, heading to La Crosse, Wisconsin. Both couples took a pit stop at the same time last Saturday at the Belvidere Oasis, just outside Rockford, Illinois.

Scholarships, special awards and individual class awards presented

Bluffton High School students participated in a student-only 41st annual BHS annual academic awards program May 14.

The ceremony included college and university awards and scholarships, plus individual scholarships including the following:

High school, junior high and 6th grade orchestras

The Bluffton School orchestras recently participated in a re-imagined large group contest held on May 6. 

Dave Stein, Lima Senior Orchestra director, was invited to adjudicate the Bluffton orchestras. The orchestras are under the direction of Rachael E. Lewis. 

Bluffton HS Orchestra performed in class "C" playing "Measured Tones" by Alan Lee Silva and "Concertino in G" by Elliot del Borgo. Rating 'Superior."

The Icon took this photo during the senior breakfast on Friday. It shows Marvin Diller, Charles Amstutz and Richard Boehr.

The Icon invites persons to write a caption for this photo. The best two captions will win the following prizes:

• First prize is a 1-item, 14-inch Padrone's Pizza
• Second prize is a $10 gift certificate from Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn

Send entries to: CAPTION CONTEST via email at [email protected].

No entries will be accepted from Facebook.

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