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PHOTO from the Bluffton Public Library Digital archive: https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p15005coll28/id/1936 By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Name the top Bluffton controversies of all time. Is dancing at the high school on your list? Probably not. However in 1939 this issue was so divisive that one school board member threatened to resign and the First
April 2, 2024 Press Release from the Hancock Historical Museum: Findlay, OH – Pack a lunch and head to the Hancock Historical Museum for its monthly Brown Bag Lecture Series
By Fred Steiner Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon founder www.BlufftonForever.com Adella Steiner Oyer Dec. 6, 1900 – Nov. 27, 1964 Bluffton High School class of 1920 Adella Steiner Oyer’s teaching career begin at age 21 in a one-room rural Richland Township school, driving a horse and buggy to school each day. By the end of her career she had attained an impressive 37½ years of
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Roscoe Evans April 21, 1889-Sept. 13, 1968 Bluffton has a long history of persons with outstanding musical talents. But only one, Roscoe Evans, can claim he tamed the king of instruments, the organ. He spent 23 years of his career as caretaker of the world's largest organ. Born in Delphos, Roscoe Evans' family moved to Bluffton where
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Ralph Sidney Locher July 24, 1915 – June 18, 2004 1932 Bluffton High School graduate 1936 Bluffton College graduate Using politic jargon, he’s Bluffton’s Favorite Son. Ralph S. Locher, a 1932 Bluffton High School and 1936 Bluffton College graduate, as a Democrat, earned this title by becoming mayor of Cleveland and later a member of the