By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com
This feature is the first in a series of famous Bluffton High School alumni. The feature will eventually be posted on the Bluffton school website.
Ivan “Ike” J. Geiger
Aug. 10, 1909 – Jan. 12, 1955
- Bluffton High School class of 1927
- Bluffton College class of 1932
Through his example as an educator believing that educating the “whole person” involved blending education and athletics, Ivan “Ike” J. Geiger promoted this idea with great success.
Described in the Bluffton News in the 1940s as one of the Bluffton community’s all-time athletic luminaries – excelling in sports at Bluffton High School and Bluffton College – he became the first-ever director of athletics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, holding that post from 1947 to until his untimely death in 1955.
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