Bluffton University — Attraction in Bluffton

Each summer, I travel to Bluffton University to attend the Annual Sessions of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting [LEYM], a regional association of Quaker Meetings and Worship Groups in Ohio, Michigan, and western Pennsylvania.

Bluffton University is always very welcoming and attentive to LEYM's needs. We had first met at Bluffton in 1988 and have met there each year since 1993.

While we are in Bluffton, LEYM usually shares the Bluffton University campus with other conferences or camps that may include marching bands or football teams from northwest Ohio and beyond.

This year [2018], construction in the Marbeck Center had initially required that LEYM participants walk up and down two different flights of stairs [in two different sections of that building] in order to be able to travel between the two halves of the basement where many of our events were being held.

Recognizing the inconvenience that that temporary construction-related detour had been creating for many of LEYM's participants, the Bluffton University staff quickly opened up a special temporary path through the "no trespassing" section of the basement of Marbeck that had allowed us to travel more efficiently between the two halves of the basement.

I am certain that LEYM will meet at Bluffton University for many years into the future.

I want to mention here that there is a Quaker Worship Group in Bluffton that meets in a private home on or near the Bluffton...

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