Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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This college flashes its senior citizen card Pause, please, and hold the door — Such a past, God knows What memories and traditions The grass whispers it over the founders’ graves. Travail and pain of the years always birthing People young, new older, and altering Place stone on stone, brick on brick another keystone above another window towers, walkways, trees Programs asking Orwellian questions reinterpreting the past for changing futures Purpose always neatly catalogued: to heighten awareness to enrich learning to prepare for service to reach for a vision This college births us Introduction 3

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2. Introduction From the old is coming a new tthing: Now in Christ you’re newly made, Paul wrote. Flesh for stone, promised Jeremiah. Stars and sand dimly in Abraham’s eyes. Brooding Dove, the Voice, the outstretched Hand. Well, things have been coming new forever No wonder the grass on the hill Told it to our feet up there in September Get ready Get ready for the new ta oy fer

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Birthday parties this year recount the past From nine generations of Virginia-limestone Ladies and gentlemen Harry Anthony Brunk, Historian at 80, And hearty Ohio transplant John R. Mumaw, Emeritus — everything at 80. The younger ask, What’s new, Brother Brunk? What lies ahead, Brother Mumaw? 4 Introduction