Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Mrs. Ruth M. Brackbill “Women sit or move to and fro some old, some young, the young are beautiful— but the old are more beautiful than the young.” These are the words of Walt Whitman, but the thoughts of your students. Your silver hair and liquid laughter and the poems you teach us in class are beautiful. But the life you live is more beautiful than they. Your life is a volume of poetry. You have given us of your life-poetry and we cannot fully repay. As an attempt to express our appreciation the Shenandoah staff dedicates this 1957 volume to you, Mrs. Ruth M. Brackbill. Dedication

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FOREWORD “There it is . . . E.M.C.!” Remember when you exclaimed that on the first glimpse of the school some long, long days ago. And you said it again and again. Driving dowTn through the valley on Route 11 you probably exclaimed it when you saw the green roofs, or at night when the hundred yellow windows made patterns on the dark hill. Those were your first glimpses of E.M.C. . . . from that high spot on Route 11 just north of the city limit sign. “There it is . . . E.M.C.!” As you catch your first glimpse of it in the Shenandoah and remember those days, long, long ago, you say it again. And you say it again and again. Leaf slowly through the valley of these pages and exclaim at the freshness of activities, and the deep gaze of thoughts, weaving patterns of life. And then, take many glimpses in the tomorrow years of life and say it again . . . “There it is . . . E.M.C.!” 6