Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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EMC is — including students and all staff members from custodian to secretary, class president to college president — over a thousand people. It takes genuine effort for a thousand people to achieve a total community. But in the total community are other smaller communities. Isn’t it possible that, for some, this year at EMC did mean genuine community? For others it meant lack of community. And it all depended on what you were looking for — and found or didn’t find. — faculty John King, Janice Weber 19

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Gaye Berkshire Community is working together at resolving differences, recognizing that some differences cannot be completely resolved but that they can be neutral- ized so that they no longer corrode relationships . Marcella Tams Community is being personally involved with other people, yet never violating their most private selves — ready to share when that is wanted, simply to stand by in supportive silence when to question would be to intrude . Community is being realistic enough to accept the fact that nothing is ever totally ideal or acceptable to everyone in the group, yet optimistic enough to keep on trying to resolve as many difficulties or differences as possible .

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TRUSTEES and PRESIDENT 20