Tom Reichenbach ’58

Tom Reichenbach

Tom Reichenbach

Tom Reichenbach quarterbacked the 1956 and 1957 football teams to Mid-Ohio League championships and earned two all-league selections. As a freshman, he earned varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball and track. In his collegiate career, he was a four-year letter winner in football and baseball and a two-year letter winner in basketball, along with his one letter in track.

He led the 1956 football team to an outstanding season, for which the team is already enshrined in the Athletics Hall of Fame. His most memorable Bluffton sports moment was defeating Findlay, 34-13, in 1956 in front of 6,500 fans at Findlay’s Donnell Stadium.

During his time at Bluffton, Reichenbach was also involved in choir. During his junior and senior years, he sang in an octet that performed at many events in the Bluffton area.

He has been employed with Lincoln National Life as a regional manager, and has also been general manager for the employee benefits division of the Washington, D.C., office.

Reichenbach, of Bethesda, Md., has been an active Lions Club member and officer, as well as a member, choir member and finance committee chair at a local Methodist church.