The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-09-19
Former Bluffton
College Students In
Postwar Relief
Concluded from page u

1t carries on a vast relief enter
prise, surpassed only by the Amer
lean Friends (Quaker) Service COM
mittee.
Bluffton college men and women
serving in the various humanitarian
projects include the following:
Robert Pannabecker, who has en-
listed with a tractor unit under
UNRRA and the Brethren Service
committee He is to spend Is
months in China teaching the Chin
ese the use of American tractors in
rehabilitating areas which were
flooded during the war.
He is a graduate of Bluffton high
school and the son of DR.. S. F.
Pannabecker who has recently re-
turned after two years with the
Mennonite Central committee in
Egypt, India, and China.
Erwin GRADER, who left Bluffton
college in 1943, now in France with
the American Friends Service COM
mittee transport unit which carries
food and medical supplies to the
French people.
In Vienna
Bert Smucker Of the class of 1912
and son of Mrs. B. D. Smucker of
Bluffton, sailed on the Queen Mary
three weeks ago for Vienna, Austria,
via London, Paris and Basel. He
will open the work of the Mennon-
lite Central committee in Vienna.
Word has come that Lois Som
mer Kreider, as, will soon join hel
husband, Robert Kreider in the
Mennonite relief work in the Ameri.
can zone of Germany. This work is
under a united church relief agency
known as Cralog.
Henry Detwiler, ex-34, will soor
complete three years service il
Egypt and Italy with war refugees
His wife, the former Neva Bader
fischer of Bluffton, will fly to Europ,
in the near future and accompan,
him on his return to the states an'
his home in Souderton, Pa.
In Jungles of Paraguay
Betty Keeney of the class of 1914
is doing a pioneering work in Para
quay, South America, developing
feeding project to improve tn
dietary habits of the natives in tn
Chaco jungles of this small Sout
! American nation. This work is unde
the Mennonite Central committee.
Ellwyn Hartzler, IA, and Arthu
! Thiessen, ex-'44, are both workin
in the NJ. C. C. project in Puert
Rico, primarily devoted to medics
s-d clinical work. Carl Lehman
now business manager of Blufftol
was formerly connected with thi
y same unit.
Viola Amstutz, graduate {
Pandora high school and Bluffto
: college has sailed for China whel
; she will join the large Mennonit
i relief unit.
II Delmar Stahly, '33, is connecte
: with the Mennonite work in Ital
Much of this work clears throue
i UNRRA.
II To Work In India
: Mary Elizabeth Amstutz, also
- graduate of Pandora high school al
Bluffton college, sailed July f
e Bombay, India to work in t
&c Indian famine area under the Me
II MONTE Central committee. She w
Is granted a two-year leave of absen
a. from Ashland high school for tl
u work.
N Ruth Burkhard, '43, was mel
Der of the Mennonite public heal
unit in Gulfport, Miss, which W
ne working with impoverished Neg
and white population.
i'd In addition to these former Blu1
:" tonians in foreign relief, six Bluff
= college students spent their SUI
mers working in the mental hospits
of Howard, r. L., Norristown, P
and Cleveland. This work was ope
ed by the Civilian Public Servi
units. Included in this group we
Esther Berky, Eleanor Rosenberg
Helen Bohn. Janice Welty. Oh
Klassen, Ella Mae Myers and Ora