Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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CLASSES Our purpose in coming here has been to learn. As Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, the hours we have spent in classes and in preparation for classes have been profitable ones. We have grown in wisdom. We have formed friendships which will last. We have worked together and en- joyed many class activities in our years at E.M.C. We have grown in wisdom. But we are thankful that we can testify to more than that. Classes have meant not merely the acquisition of knowledge but also the understanding which comes from a Chris- tian interpretation of facts. We have grown spirit- ually in our classes. We have been led to know God better. We have been challenged to go out to live lives that testify to our head and heart knowledge that THY WORD IS TRUTH.

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Standing—Stanley Shenk, Class Adviser; Melville Nafziger, Vico president; Orval Shank, President; Neil Turner, Business Manciger. Seated Elizabeth Good, Treasurer; Mary Kathryn King, Secretary. College Seniors Friday, September 5, 1947, found the College Senior Class in a sad state of affairs. You’ll not be surprised at this description when you learn that only one of our former executives had come back and that he asked to be released from his office because of his many other duties. However, we soon elected officers and were on our way rejoicing. We have had great pleasure in having in our class Ivan Magal, the first student to come to Eastern Mennonite College from across the seas. Along with our other minister class member, Ivan has given us much inspiration. As we approach graduation, we remember many past opportunities we have had for service, but we realize that our greatest opportunities are before us. Our class has shown a good spirit, zeal, strength, sincerity, and consecration which will be constantly enlarged and deepened as we carry them forth. The many experiences of deliverance of the children of Israel caused the Psalmist to say, “Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.” We have not had the striking experiences of the Israelites, but we know that apart from Christ we can do nothing. When we are hid with Christ in God we know that nothing in this world can overcome us; therefore, with this experimental knowledge of Christ, we, representatives of God and soldiers of the cross, go forth under our motto, “Valiantly through Christ,” to proclaim that THY WORD IS TRUTH. —Mary Kathryn King.