The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-02

" from graves of men who battled
for democracy at Gettysburg
! and San Juan Hill Belleau
Wood and Tarawa and the
myriad of other spots enshrined by
the memory of those who gave their
last full measure Of devotion s..
wraiths of them there were who
marched unseen with the Memorial
day procession Monday to Maple
Grove-the boys who answered Lin
coins call in '61 Spanish war
veterans of '9S when Remember
the Maine" was the rallying cry and
Dewey became overnight nations
idol and those of World war
some thirty years ago who marched
to the lifting measures of Upper
ary and the second World con-
fict when Pearl Harbor was grimly
significant. :.
Advice to graduating classes is
plentiful at commencement time
and this year was no exception.
However, what the high school
graduates heard last Thursday night
and what the college seniors heard
Monday morning was, on the sur
face at least, vastly different.
Speaking at the high school COM
mencement, DR.. Clyde Hissong, state
director of education said: Re
member, you are judged by what
you accomplish and how we'll you
do it."
At the college commencement, DR..
Bernard Clausen, pastor of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist church, of
Cleveland, said: Remember, you are
judged, not by what you aecomp-
lish, but by what you failed to do"
Bluffton baton twirling Youngsters
with a yen for a drum majors ca
reer will have an opportunity for a
weeks instruction at the college this
summer under direction Of Victor
Faber Of Findlay who was awarded
a gold medal as the best twirling
drum major in a contest held at the
University of Michigan last week for
70 high school and college leaders
from eight states.
Never know whom you'll meet
or when you will meet them-that's s
what happened the other day when
Howard Tripplehorn, for several
months a patient in the Veterans
hospital at Dearborn, Mich, ran
across Bob Schaublin in charge of
the hospitals physical training. Both
were on teams which made basket
ball history for Bluffton high school
and neither knew of the others
whereabouts. AS a result for the
chance meeting there was time-out
for lot of reminiscing and reviv-
ing of athletic affairs Of twenty
years ago.
Hans Friedstadt, storm center ot
communist charges involving tht
| Atomic Energy commission, was (;
roommate of Vincent Schumacher
| formerly employed at the Triplet
| plant here, while the two were stu
dents in Virginia Polytechnic insti
tute, October 1944-45 under the A
| S. T. P.
More recently Friedstadt has beer
continuing his studies in the Uni
versity of North Carolina under 1:
scholarship from the Atomic Energ,
commission which has since beer
withdrawn. Schumacher, son of Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. Schumacher of Pan
dora is studying electrical engineer
ing.
One of those unusual coincidence
which add flavor to life, affecting
DR.. l.. l.. Ramseyer Bluffton col
lege president, and Milt Olander
personnel director Of Iibbey- Owens
Ford Glass Co, Toledo, who wa!
speaker at the BIuffton Colleg'
| Varsity b breakfast Saturda!
morning, was mentioned by Olandel
in his talk.
Seated next to each other at th'
| breakfast table, Dr.. Ramseyer ant
Olander fell to reminiscing, ant
suddenly discovered they had PLAYED
against each other as opposing
| tackles in a Thanksgiving Day foot
ball game between Rockford ant
Bloomington, H., High school team
bck in 1917. Olander played 70
Rockford, DR.. Ramseyer for Uni
versity High of Bloomington. Olan
der then went on to the Universit,
of Illinois, where he was an All