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

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The world you are entering is complex and evilg but you need not fear. A life wholly yielded to Christ will find a way. The true and eternal greatness lies in serv- ing even the least of these. I pray that each of you truly and sincerely are Embarking with Christ! -John S. Wenger. And to you who are Embarking with Christ -may God grant you a successful voyage under His guidance. Steer by God's stars and at long last He will bring you home to port where you may indeed see your Pilot face to face. -Edna K. Wenger. Life itself should be a great challenge to you becaus.e it gives you the chance to be happy and noble and true, the chance to lift burdens, to give blessings, to know God, and to experience God's divine purposes in your own lives. Accept life's great challenge with hand and heart strong in the grace of our Lord Jesus.. -Lois N. Garber. To the Seniors: There is One who is altogether lovely. He alone is able to make life rich for you, rich not necessarily in material wealth, but in those things which give a deep heart satisfaction. My wish for you, as. you go out into new experiences and new responsibilities, is that you may walk with Him, Not overrunning His sweet will, nor lagging far behindf' -Myra E. Hess. 8

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longer than the rest of us. Even you, Seniors, will in a few years pack some of these pictures and mottoes and eomtnencetnent treasures in trunks and drawers where they gradually fade out in memory. It is a fact, I know, for I have some old trunks in which the children find things of my school days. Once I would have considered it terrible to so ignore these precious things. It is only when the importance of these events takes its proper place in your thinking in the larger picture of your life that this graduation can have the significance that belongs to it. It is important now, you want it to be, but it is neither the dawn nor the sunset of any great epochg maybe not even in your life, although it seems to be that now. Recently I heard of a man who cattle back frotn the service with a lot of rank and credit. He had been getting big pay and great satisfaction out of his position. He came strut- ting into the ofhce of one of my acquaintances who is a County Superintendent of schools. I came to find out about my rights. he said in a dignified manner. Sit down, Charlie,-at ease now. not so stiff and formal, XVhat is it you wanted? said my friend. I'm Lieutenant ---- . I came to find out about my rights. Come, now, Charlie. I was that way once, too. I know your father and your grand- father. Then he went on to tell him his rights, named his prospective salary and the posi- tion he could expect.. Charlie had a few months at home that were 1101 pleasant. He could not understand why people considered so lightly what seemed so important to him. He is happy now, very happy. I sat in his rootn several days ago and saw how well he got along with his teach- ing. I asked him, after a long, pleasant conversation, IVhere is your service button? He smiled. I had a hard time with those things, but I consider them doodads nowf' This school experience has changed you. It is a part of you. You have a right to ap- preciate the good things you have received from your home training. school, and work ex- perience. The sooner you forget about rank. diplomas. being a high school graduate, or a member of this or that family, the better you will be able to make yourself useful to others. Do 1101. hesitate long to see il a job is equal to your social standing. Is the job necessary? Do it. You have before you the prospects of a life of usefulness and happiness, especially if you practice literally what your tnotto stands for. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to go into your hotne community and accept ordinary duties and do them in an extra- ordinary way. Time and tide wait for no manf' While they do not determine our fate or destiny, nor decide the goals we may reach in life, they do describe definite limits with- in which we must work out our destiny. All the ele- ments, with which we work are God giveng given for us to shape and fashion into usefulness. Also ours is the decision for whose use we shape and fashion. Some decide to devote their all to God after they have used it first for themselves. Then God gets it second- hand and outworn when the tide is nearly in. May every member of this class dedicate his life to God, beginning with this Commencement Day. -Amos W. Weaver. 7

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Around the world reverberates the cry of human mis- ery and despair. There was for one brief moment a holy calm broken suddenly, impiously, by the rasping blast of Peace! from throats made hoarse by barking War! There is no peaceg there never will be peace except as it is the result of hearts united with the great heart of God, To you, Graduates, comes the greatest challenge of the agesfthe challenge to speak His perfect peace to a World that is restless, illusioned, sin-sick, and weary. J. Lester Brubaker. May the melodies and messages of the songs we sang together keep ringing in your hearts, inspiring you and better preparing you to mingle your voices with all the redeemed in the Glory World singing the songs of Moses and the Lamb to the praise of His glory who washed us in His precious blood. He hath made us kings and priests in His glorious Kingdom. -Christian K. Lehman. Beautiful lives are the fruit of beautiful hearts. Beautiful hearts are the fruit of a new birth experience. May you be used of God in s.howing the beauty of Jesus to the world because He lives in you. -Martha F. Mosemann. The Master of our lives is the same today as He was on that far-off Galilean day when He said, t'Peace be still, to the wind and the waves. He places His. nail- pierced hand on the helm of your crafts, and His touch is sure and strong. With Him life's calms are times of joyous fellowship, and its storms are grand adventures in comradeship with One whose presence forever com- mands peace. -Leah Kauffman. V