Bluffton High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Bluffton, OH)

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HURRYING FOOTSTEPS ECHO DOWN OUR HIGH SCHOOL’S SPACIOUS HALLS; LAUGHING VOICES, HIGH WITH MIRTH, COME BACK FROM NEW, WHITE WALLS. Lessons Never Learned in Books Friendships Dear We Owe to You

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Grade School Faculty A. J. B. Longsdorf.Superintendent of Schools Mrs. Grace Cox.Principal—First Grade Meredith Stepleton.First and Second Grades Ruth Marquart.Second Grade Ladonna Lauby.Third Grade Marjorie Luginbuhl.Third and Fourth Grades Minerva Hilty.Fourth Grade Sylvia Biederman.Fifth Grade Adella Oyer.Fifth and Sixth Grades Margaret Louise Steiner.Sixth Grade Bluffton-Richland Grade School The Bluffton-Richland grade school has an average attendance of approximately four hundred students. This is the first year that the grades were confined to the first six classes as the six-year plan was inaugurated last fall. Overcrowded condi¬ tions in the past always necessitated hampered activities, but during the present term many new introductions were made in the curricular and extra-curricular schedule. Christmas pageants have always been the main achievement of the younger folk of the lower grades. The Nativity, presented the week preceding the Holidays, climaxed a long and tedious preparation. This was one of the finest productions ever staged before a local audience. During Art Week the Monday evening program was rendered by members interested in art. Talks, folk dancing, flag drills, and songs featured the enter¬ tainment. At Harmon Field Day the little lads and lassies enjoyed the supreme outing of the year in company with their parents and friends. Bluffton-Richland Transportation System From 1921 to 1929 the students of the high school were asked to provide their own means of transportation with a substantial reimbursement provided by the Board of Education. However, with the addition of the lower grades to the com¬ bine, it was found necessary to purchase buses. When the fall term opened in 1930, two vehicles were put into service. Later in the year another car was added to the fleet. So efficient and popular was this new mode of travel that two additional buses were put into operation in the fall of 1931. By the final addition the service was sufficient until the present year when Orange township contracted with the Dixie Motor Company for the transportation of the fifty tuition students from that district. Besides the above the average loads per day amount to two hundred and sixty-five pupils. Francis Basinger. Jerome Herr, Jesse Yoakam, Robert Amstutz, Chris Gratz, and Richard Bixcl, absent. School Bus Drivers

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Left to right— Frankhauser, Editor-in-chief; Mr. Stauffer, Advisor; Cookson, Business Manager; Schultz, Literary Editor; Niswand ' er, Associate Editor; Wenger, Advertising Manager; Swank, Literary Editor. The Annual Leaves An Annual In A Crisis Although prosperity seems to be almost around the corner, it is still not near enough to be certain of its coming. As has been the custom for the last two gradu¬ ating classes, the senior class this year had a great discussion concerning the pub¬ lishing of an Annual. The “riot” in class meeting was again due to the low business recession. Last year was the first year that the combination of an Annual and newspaper was attempted. This project seemed to be very successful. After considering the matter once more the seniors decided to publish both again this year. We had many advantages this year due to the completion of our new building. The staff has endeavored to publish as many incidents as possible of school life in our new building in addition to each organization and class functioning in the school. The B-Hi News A Student Journal One of the tasks facing each succeeding senior class is the production of the B-Hi News. The B-Hi News is published by the Press Club of Bluffton High School to express the unbiased opinion of the student body, to establish high standards of conduct, scholarship, and sportsmanship, to encourage greater interest and participa¬ tion in all school activities and to promote stronger cooperation between the students and the administratin. The B-Hi News this year was edited by Christine Miller, and, with a capable staff taking an active interest in producing a better school newspaper, continued to make rapid progress in all departments. Problems of newspaper writing were dis¬ cussed at the meetings under the direction of Mr. Orden Smucker, faculty advisor. The 1933-34 program called for the publication of eight copies of the paper. Left to rigrht— First row—Heckathorn, Hilty, Bixler, C. Miller, Editor; Amstutz, Balmer, Steiner, Kreider. Second row—Criblez, Anderson, Koontz, R. Miller. Cookson, Gratz, Bixel, Klay. Third row—F. Hilty, Yoakam, Differ, Miller, I. Hilty, Kindle, Hauenstein. Back row—Swank, Lora, Steiner, Lape, Stauffer, Mr. Smucker.