Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Richard Mary Jane Detweiler Joseph L. Lapp Chairman, EMC Board of Trustees Inaugural Sestina This cornfield where we stand contains the past. When Wise Men in the East were led to believe A school should rise, this farm they found to train The rising church (protective hills for free Tradition's seed to grow behind) and gift The future in whose wind today we plant Our saplings — wet — wept costly seed. O plant With joy! Some root that Witmarsum had passed, From Zurich sprung, the fecund Word's grace gift Of Broken Corn embedded. Who believe This heritage of vision rise to free Their sons and daughters, sacrifice to train Confessors with confessors. They who train, Too, favored tendrils of some earlier plant, Command the present, subtilize the free And liberating disciplines. Our past Instructs us. We now write what we believe Will counsel those who follow. Fair that gift Exchange and requisite. The learner gifts The teacher. Masters plan as if the train Whose name's Discovery shoots past Make-believe, Its freight of graduates destined to transplant A blighted universe. This unleashed past Thus eyes a Telos where all life is free To celebrate the new creation —• free To taste the Garden's rich delights and gifts That Holy City shadowless the past Came home in annual a cappella train To contemplate. Her sixty-fourth will plant This year their feet toward peace, with faith to believe The Kingdom grows like mustard seed, and believe Before they go they help update a free, Unfettered place. With watered promise plant We trees of hope: the church's proffered gift Will be fulfilled. A leader joins a train Of presidents: the now renews the past. Believe as earth receives the tree, the past Holds us. Secure and free the future train. For God will plant his own inaugural gift. — Jay B. Landis THE YEAR 19

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Inauguration The inauguration of President Richard Detweiler was held on April 25, 1981, in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend. The weekend came after extensive plan- ning and included many special events besides the inauguration ceremony itself. Throughout the weekend a multimedia presenta- tion entitled EMC: Building For Tomorrow — The Word and The Towel was shown in the chapel. Other events included a fellowship and prayer breakfast with the Detweilers, an Inaugural Buffet lun- cheon, an Inaugural Concert and tree planting. I i

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Scott Landes john Landes Jeff Bourne New Student Orientation 20 Freshman and New Student Orientation gave newcomers the chance to meet new friends and be- come acquainted with the EMC campus and community. After group leaders helped everyone move in, activities for the weekend included mixers in the gym and competitions among cluster groups. The highlight of orientation was an overnight meeting with small groups. Hone's Quarry had an abundance of mud and rattle- snakes so instead the groups went to different locations, such as faculty homes, area churches or different sites on campus. After the initial orientation weekend, small groups met once a week for six weeks for the year further input and fellowship. Sherri Bolen Orientation Coordinator