Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Community is encounter. To encounter one another is to take off the masks and reveal what lies inside. It means I need not be defensive, because the other accepts. It means I can express my anger and disappointment without the other turning away. It means working it out instead of pretending it's not there, because it otherwise would be there all the time influencing our interaction. Dennis Maust, Lois Ropp Community as encounter is still in the womb at EMC. We don't trust each other enough, because we don't know each other enough. To encounter is to trust, and to trust is to know. It takes two to encounter. If we want to encounter at EMC, we must take time to be together. — faculty 6

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Herb Hoover Community is knowing you are an essential piece to complete a great puzzle. Each piece is small but is a very necessary link to form a whole. — student Steve Hostetler, Mel Janzen 5

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EMC is dead! There are those who would argue with me, but they have been fooled into accepting the cordial facade that disguises the inner artificialities. Each ideologically segregated group meticulously conforms to their supposed roles in our Christian society. Their socially engineered standards and insepa- rable convictions mutely condemn each other while they each so brilliantly defend our contrived wilderness of pretended oblivion. We have created an elite society of dignified snobs who sadly look down on their less privileged brothers and continue on their merry way. I have heard many this year proclaiming the joy of their new-found experiences, but they continue to avoid associating with those people who have not felt such joy. In essence, they have formed a new religious clique in the community. In my two years here, I have become doubtful as to the specific benefits of an EMC education; but I am not yet despairing hope for the fragile paradox of Christian education. — student Marlin Yoder 7