The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-06-03
40 Seniors Are
Candidates For
Graduation Monday
Nearly Third OF Class
Are Residents OF
BlufftOn Area


Forty nine seniors, more than
double the number who graduated at
last years commencement, are can
didates for their college diplomas in
exercises to be held in Founders Hall,
Bluffton college, Monday morning at
10 o'clock.
Approximately one third of this
years graduating class list their
home addresses in Bluffton or the
immediate area. Thirteen of the SEN
iors are from Bluffton proper, one
from Pandora and another from Raw
son. The class also includes one
Findlay and one Lima student.
DR.. Samuel B. Marble, president of
Wilmington College, Wilmington,
Ohio, will address the 54th class to
leave Bluffton college. His topic will
be "0bstacle or Opportunity"
Baccalaureate services for the
graduates will be conducted Sunday
afternoon at p. m. in Founders Hall.
The College Vesper Choir with Betsy
Kohl Jackson as soprano soloist, will
sing, and DR.. Lloyd L. Ramseyer,
president of the college, will make
the address. He has chosen as his
subject, 'The Uncommon Man" Prof.
Otto Holtkamp will provide organ
music for the ceremony
Included among the 40 seniors who
will graduate are six who viii not
complete their courses until August.
Last years class numbered %, and in
1852 there were so graduates.
This year 10 will be awarded bach
elor of arts degrees, 10 bachelor of
science degrees, 10 will receive bach
elor of science degrees in elementary
education, five in business admins
tration, three in social work and one
each in music education and home &C.
onomics.
The complete list of candidates fol-
lows:
Bachelor of Arts
John III. Bauman, Button; Kath-
crime Kaufman Bauman, Bluffton;
Mary Anne Bertsehe, Flanagan, H.;
Alden l.. Bohn, Pandora; Clifton Fl.
Chapman, Bluffton; Ronald L. Good
will, Willoughby; Marion L. Hanover,
Rudolph; Ronald A. Krehbiel, Berne,
Ind; Carol Lee McNutt, Findlay; Err
nest w. Neufeld, Chicago, H.; Dick
A. Powell, Oceola; Kathryn Sauder,
Grabill, Ind; Rutherford Shumaker,
Bluffton; James H. Stuckey, West
Liberty; Richard A. Yaussey, Buoy
rus; Joel w. Boehr, Bluffton; Mai
meh S. Mukarkar, Beit-Jala, Jordan;
James NJ Oliver, Youngstown; and
Darnell B. Thomas, Gulfport, Miss.
Bachelor of Science
Elizabeth Ruth Bauman, Bluffton:
Thomas Blackburn, Columbus; Ken
meth N. Bracy, Button; Robert d.
Earl, Uniopolis; Richard A. Slotter,
Souderton, Pa; Charles Z. Springer,
Mukedi, Belgian Congo; Mary Harv-
ella Bauman' Stutzman, Chicago, ILL.,;
Samuel Jon Wilson, Cincinnati; Dor
othy Eileen Young, Saybrook, H.;
Robert c. Landes, Wadley, Ala.
b. S. in Elementary Education
Sara Lee Badertscher, Bluffton;
Joan Lou Clymer, Rawson; Margaret
Ann Groman, Bluffton; Byrna Mae
Horsch, Upland, Calf; ~Mildred d
Holmes King, BlufFton; Martha Clare
Kraft, Birmingham, Ala; Mary Jean
Ramseyer Bluffton; Carol Anne
Sammet, Upper Sandusky; Patricia
Lowenberg Wismer, Bluffton; and
Helen Marlene Clemens, Lima.
b. S. in Business Administration
Paul Barnes Jackson, Vaughns-
vile; Herman Floyd Kear, Wharton;
Eileen June Myers, Quakertown, Pa:
Stanley Fred Naylor, Nappanee, Ind;
and Theda Wollman, Freeman, South
Dakota.
b. s. in Social Work
James H. Phillips, Bluffton: Her
bert t. Rose, oakwood; and r. JoAnn
Yoder, Wawaka, Ind.
b. S. in Musical Education
Ada May Oyer, Blufftoa.
b. S. i'm Home Economies
Iucilla Maria Cbroal- TorLa,. IL