The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1951-05-31
81 SENIORS WILL.
BE GRADUATED IN
EXERCISES MONDAY
President L. L. Ramseyer to
Address Baccalauureate
Service Sunday
Rose Maiden Concert Friday
Night; Dramatic Society
Play Saturday

Bluffton college commencement
exercises honoring a class of 81
seniors will be held next Monday
morning at 10 o'clock in the First
Mennonite church to conclude annual
graduation week ceremonies.
This will conclude commencement
week end festivities which will open
with Swiss Day on the campus on
Fridayand presentation of Cowan's
"Rose Maiden" by the College Yes
per choir in the high school gymnas-
ium. Friday evening at o'clock.
Prof. Russell Lantz is director of
the choir and Mary Anne Nunemaker
acompanist. Soloists are Onnolee
McClintock, soprano; Margaret Salz-
man, contralto; Gerald Miller, tenor;
Donald Cooper and Ronald Kirkwood,
baritone.
Saturday will see the traditional
May day activities including the
Alumni-Varsity baseball game at 10
a. M; box ceremonies for classes of
81, Al and 81 at 1:30 p. m. fol-
lowed by class reunions.
The alumni dinner at $50 p. m.
will be followed by presentation of
Booth Tarkington's Beauty and the
Jacobin" by Alpha Psi Omega, hon
orary dramatic society in the high
school auditorium at $3.50 p. m.
President L. L. Ramseyer will de
liver the baccalaureate address at
services in Ramseyer chapel, Sunday
afternoon at o'clock. His subject
will be Faith, Courage and Vision.
The Vesper choir will present its
final concert in the First Mennonite
church in the evening at s o'clock.
OF the graduating class of So
seniors, 38 will receive diplomas
next Monday and the remaining Id
will get their degrees at the close OF
summer term in August.
Class speaker for the commence
ment program will be DR.. Rufus
Bowman, president of Bethany Bibli-
cal Seminary, in Chicago. Subject
of the class address is "The House
Not Made With Hands," Degrees
will be conferred upon the graduates
by DR.. L. L. Ramseyer, president
assisted by Dean ]. S. Schultz.
In this years senior class q
seniors will receive bachelor Of
science degrees; 2f will get bachelor
of arts degrees and bachelor OF
school music degrees will be confer.
red on a group of four.
Bachelor of Science
Receiving bachelor of science de.
grees will be Ralph w. Bauer, Wind.
ham, O.; Paul Don Bixel, Bluffton
James William Harmon, Bluffton
Herman j. Hershberger, Walnut
Greek, o.; Sara Jane Huser, Bluff
ton; Magrita Freie Klassen, Nortl
Robinson, o.; Richard A. Minck
Bluffton; Harriet Jane Neufer
Topeka, Ind; Arden d. Ramseyer
Smithville, o.
Carlton Joseph Sauder, Grabill
Ind; Dorothy Helen Schertz, Meta
mora, H.; Patricia Ann Schmidt
Bluffton; Richard Fisher Simcox
Cincinnati; jeanne Buhler Voth
Bluffton; Max David Waring
Sawyerwood, o.; Aldine Weiss Jr.
Rluffton; Dona Marie Yoder, Topeka
Ind.
Additional B. S. degrees will b,
awarded in August to Betty AM
Bixel, Bluffton; Diana Diaz, Canales
Puerto Rico; Charles Earl Couch
Akron; Hugh Albert Frost, Youngs
town, o.; Donald L. Gingrich, Over
peck, O.; Morris j. Groman, Bluff
ton; Esther Leona Guthrie, Lafayet
te, O.; Robert Harold Rosenbergel
Ouakertown, Pa; Paul John Singh
Roy, New York City; and Ruth Ann
Steiner, Pandora.
Bachelor of Arts
Receiving bachelor of arts degree
will be Herbert Allison, Youngstown
Phyllis Elaine Buckles, Youngstown
Nina Mae Crabtree, Morrall, O.
Marvin B. Dress, Cleveland; Wi
liam F. Gleason, Elyria, o.; DAME
]. Graber, Charlottesville, Iowa
Joanne Vercler Niswander, Blufftor
Beverly Vincent Morgan, FL Pas
ILL.,; Alice Ruth Pannabecker, Chics
go, Ill.
James Roger Reusser, Williams
port, Pa; Muriel Irene Ross, Greens
boro, Md; Patricia Ann Shant
Kitchener, Ont; Kenneth Myel
Shelly, East Greenville, Pa; job
Waldo Siemens, Altoona, Manitob'
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