Mary Lou Roush earned 11 Varsity B letters as a Bluffton student and was named Outstanding Senior Woman Athlete. During here college career she played volleyball, basketball, softball and tennis.
It was in tennis that she excelled. She held an undefeated match record during her entire playing career and led the women’s tennis team to an undefeated record. In 1970 she went against women from all of Ohio’s colleges and universities and proved her excellence in tennis by placing as runner-up in the consolation match.
As a student she was a member of Pi Delta, an honorary society at Bluffton. Traveling was part of her busy schedule at Bluffton. “As a student I was fortunate to participate in two Mennonite Study Tours of several foreign countries including Bogota, Colombia, Kinshasa and Zaire. I was with the A Cappella choir tour of Europe during the summer of 1970. Attending Bluffton provided the opportunity not only for me to meet most all students on campus, but also to develop lasting friendships with classmates, faculty and staff.”
After earning a degree in elementary education in 1970, she served as an admissions counselor for Bluffton. Roush was a lecturer and director of the Professional Introduction to Education Program at Ohio State University’s Lima campus. She has been a developmental reading teacher for Owen’s Technical College, Toledo, Ohio, and an elementary reading specialist in the Washington Local School System, Toledo.
