Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Seniors Ida Elizabeth Mast Junior College Oley, Pennsylvania Gospel Team 1, 2; M. Cho. 1, 2; Touring Cho. 2; Avian 1; Deovenarian 1, 2, Sec. 1; Social Comm. 2; Zelathean 1, 2; Astral 2; Col. Highlanders 1, 2. Nothing common can seem worthy of you. — Shakespeare. Orval M. Shank Junior College Harrisonburg, Virginia Class Pres. 2; Y.P.B.M. Comm. 2; Smithsonian 1, 2; Deovenarian 1; Astral 1; Col. Hikers 1. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. —Lowell. P. Melville Nafziger, A.B., Th.B. Gap, Pennsylvania V.-Pres. 4; Gospel Team 1, 2, 3, 4; M. Cho. 1, 2, 3, 4; Jail Comm. 1; Chm. of Fri. Morning Dev. Comm. 2; Chm. of I.B.M. Comm. 3; Chm. Evan. Comm. 4; V.-Pres. Y.P.C.A. 3; Smithsonian 1, 2, 3, 4; Deovenarian 2; Avian 3; Cur. Rel. Lit. 3; Col. Hikers 1, 2. 3, 4. Still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow. Neil Turner Junior College Broadway, Virginia Class Bus. Mgr. 2; Zelathean 1, 2; Cur. Rel. Lit. 1; Astral 1; Col. Hikers 1. None preaches louder than the ant and she says nothing. —Franklin. Mary Olive Yoder Junior College Bible Grantsville, Maryland Gospel Team 1; M. Cho. 1; Zelathean 1, 2; Menn. Hist. Society 2; Panel Dis. 2; Astral 1. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. —Tennyson. [28 1

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FOUR-YEAR JUNIORS. First Row -Weldon Martin, Robert Stoltzlus, Mabel Erb, M. T. Brackbill, Sponsor, Rosa Mae Kurtz, Harold Housman, Leon Martin. Second Row -Violet Martin, Elsie Petersheim, Isaac Mast, Richard Detweiler, Pearl Myers, Esther Lehman. Third Row Esther Freed. Edith Gish, Laura Showalter, Miriam Nissley, Lowell Nissley, Anna Mary Weaver, Ruth Brubaker. Fourth Row Elam Hertzler, Alvin Jantzi, Warren Rohrer, Samuel Horst, Paul Glanzer, Dale Basingor, Gordon Shantz. College Juniors It was a hot day in the summer of 1947, and members of the College Junior Class were arriving by bus, taxi, train, and automobile from most of the points of the compass. When the dust of organization had begun to settle, our class adviser, Brother M. T. Brackbill, conducted the election of class officers. Ralph Malin was elected president, Harold Hous- man vice-president, Violet Martin secretary, and Robert Stoltzfus business manager and treasurer. Second semester increased the roll to total seventy-one members. Nearly half the class are from Pennsylvania; but Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, South Dakota, New York, Maryland, Iowa, Kansas, and Illinois are native states to one or more of us. The provinces of Ontario and Alberta have given nine of their sons and daughters to be our classmates. Our personal histories include a vast array of experiences. Nine of us have attended Lancaster Mennonite School. Three of us were students of Goshen College, and two of us have studied at Hesston College. Our half-dozen C.P.S. men have given approximately fifteen years of service. Our nine schoolteachers have presided in various schoolrooms for twenty-two years. Our four missionaries have spent eight and one-half years in rural and city missions. Two members of the class are ministers. Three have been engaged in relief work and two have been overseas for other reasons. We have one airplane pilot and two registered nurses among us. Our eight married class members have a total of eight children. On February 14 we gathered for a very enjoyable evening of companionship and en- tertainment. On another occasion the Seniors were our guests for a day of outdoor rec- reation. These times of fellowship have strengthened comradely ties. Deepening friend- ships among ourselves have resulted in higher spiritual ideals and richer Christian ex- perience. [30] Rosa Mae Kurtz.