Lancaster Mennonite High School - Laurel Wreath Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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TI-IE MILL STREAM joriiv lVlAYNARD YODE1: Elverson, Pa. Maynard is our worthy Senior class president. He is active in athletics and is recreation news re- porter for the Mill Stream. He hopes to teach. Armed with a ready wit he is not left without an answer. Clczxx P1'CSl'r'l c11l'.s' Message DEAR CLASSLLXTIZS : Have you looked forward to this time? Xlfhen you saw others gradu- ating, did you wish you were one of them? Many of us have. But now we look back over our year at this school. As we leave here. some will go fur- ther in schoolg others will work. Some may be called to do definite service, as relief workers or missionaries. There are many opportunities for the youth of today. One can enter professional iields, as doetoring or nursing. No doubt some of us will be farmers. But whatever Held we enter we will always remember the acquaintances and studies of school years. Youth is a steppingstone into another phase of life. This may not mean so much to some, but it may be the deciding point for others. Discourage- ments arise, temptations come, but you will not be tempted above that you are able to bear. And remember, classmates, every temptation or evil that you resist makes you stronger to resist the next one. At places it may be rough or it may seem impossible to keep on. However, with Christ we can keep going on the upward pathway. 6

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LANCASTER MENNONITE SCHOOL IOURNAL Class Adviser's Message Tnts Claxss of '43 and l have been together so much during the past school year that it seems there is nothing left to say by way of a parting message. lt seems strange to think, too, of a time when we will no longer be together as we have been used to.-each morning before school, at noon, and in some of the classes. ,llut this is what has been happening year after year in schools. One class goes out and another takes its place. The boys become men, the girls become women, some become fathers in homes, or mothers, and others go into some profession. Some certain things are just that Way. and if we kept records and statistics, we would find each class much like the one that went before it. There is a tendency to allow the procession to seem routine and treat it like a mechanical matter or a schedule. , W'e can go to the other extreme and say we are just sure we are going to be so very homesick for school for sometime after leaving that nothing will seem worth while. VV e could sit down and have a good cry about the fact that we are not going to see each other so often, and that possibly we can never have a class reunion with every member present. That would not be unusual, although it is not a pleasant thought. I heard a lecturer say one time, :'The mothers cry if the children grow up and leave home. and they cry if they don't. VVe cannot graduate without that sad part of leaving the school and friends we like to be with. and we cannot think of wanting to miss graduation. All right, Seniors, this is it. It is time for you to leave this school, so we are glad you are going. We hope you will feel like coming back, and We expect you to do that when you have an opportunity. NVe hope you will take something with you that will make you useful to your fellow man. and will bring glory to God. You have done well in schoolg do still better in life. School, as you look back over the years. does not seem very long. Life, too., is very short. How each of us wishes that some opportunity had not been neglected! Many a pupil has come back to me after one or two years in college, to tell me that if he had high school to take over again he would see to it that he would get to college better prepared. Many a father has told me that he wishes he could make his son or daughter see the importance of school opportunities like he does now. But usually they admit they did not see things when they were that age either. VVhat you have done with your high school opportunities cannot be changed now. but you still have most of life before you and the success or failure of your life depends largely on your attitude toward a number of important things in life. Not so. much depends on your abilities as on the willingness to do what you can and ought to do. Not so much depends on the name you were born with as on what you make that name mean to those who deal with you. Not so much depends on the money you have or handle as on the purpose to which you devote your money and ability to earn more. A lot depends on how you deal with other men and women and not so much on how they treat you. Your respect for self as a divinely created being responsible to God for a soul and a life of service. your interest in your fel- low man. and your love for and fellowship with God will bring happiness now and in the life to come. Seniors. let us live close together and near to God. --Noah G. Good.

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LANCASTER MENNDNITE SCHOOL lOLJlxN U DAVID NIARLIN EBERsoLE Elizabethtown, Pa. David displays Christian character in a very quiet Way. I-Ie is a true friend to everyone. You will know him for his promptness and eagerness to witness for Christ. JEAN ELIZABETH lN'VOLGlEMU'l'II Mount joy, Pa. In quietness and in confidence shall be your St1'C11glIh.,, Although Jean is quiet and reserved, those who know her best hnd that she is also fond of fun. She enjoys a pleasant chat with a friend or a shady nook with a good book. We do not know her plans, but feel sure she will succeed he- cause of her faith in God. JOEL KENNIETI-I FISHER Kinzers, Pa. Kenneth is an efficient hall manager. He is a friend of everyone, a consistent Christian, who uses his many talents for the Lord. FANNIE lVLxRTtN F1mN1i11oUsER Lancaster, Pa. Fannie is our story writer. She is jolly and has a pleasant pe1'sonality. She has been with us only the last semester, but her pleasing' disposition has endeared her to all of us. She has the gift of leadership and is always ready to help. 7