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

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I Class Prophecy That is the second truck I saw with that name, I said to Ray as we were coming home from Philadelphia, where I had gone with him to see how the things Ray raises in his green- houses sold at market. Hartz and VVCZIVCY, Long Distance Hauling, who is that, Ray? That's Paul Hartz and Victor YVeaver., Victor supervises the bookkeeping, while Paul sees to the trucks. Martha Kurtz and Irene Stoltzfus are the 'office force.' Before he went into the greenhouse business himself, Harry Lefever was one o-f his best drivers, answered Ray. Do you remember the time in English Class when Paul Hartz applied for a job as truck driver? You know we all had to apply for some job to give us experience for doing it in earnest later. He certainly illustrated the wrong way very aptly. Why, he didn't even have his driver's license with him! I wonder just what the other members of our class are doing. That accounts for several, but what about the rest? I asked. y lNhy don't we try to see or find some definite inlformation about the l'CSt tomorrow? Do you have time, Ray? I'l1 take time for that, he replied. I Fine, I'll be around early then, and with this in mind I went home to wait for to- morrow, more eagerly than usual. Early the next morning, I called for Ray. WVe didn't have too far to go to talk to some of our old classmates. Lawrence King, Galen Buekwalter, and Donald Mast were all living on adjoining farms. Lawrence was raising potatoes, which Hartz and Weaver were hauling to Philadelphia for him every winter. Galen had a large dairy, and was supplying milk to all neighboring towns. Donald raised wheat and also many peas. He had built a large pea huller and was supplying many of the peas for the near-by cannery. I'Vhen they found out what we were going to do, they all would have liked to go along but Donald was the only one who felt he could spare the time. His peas were already -harvest- ed. As we drove along Donald told us that Hartz and Weaver also hauled most of O-liver Mast's large crop of potatoes, and, what may have been more surprising, Clarence Rutt's sprayers were spraying both Oliver's and Lawrence's potatoes. VVe came to a large implement shop, and when we saw David Harnish's name, we stopped right away. David was selling farm machinery and Farmall tractors for the 'International Harvester Company. Vllhen we told him of our interest in locating old classmates he led the way into the office, where Norma Metzler was bookkeeper and Rrut-h Ranck the stenographer. While we were talking, in walked Eugene Peifer. After some necessary explaining was over, it turned out that Eugene was a salesman for Glenn Rutt, who owned the Chevrolet and Oldsmobile garage in New Holland. Eugene, we found, had come to talk to Norman Shirk, who was shop foreman in Harnish's shop. He had just bought a 1960 new Chevie, and Eugene wanted to make sure Norman was satisfied. Eugene told us that Erma Sensenig and Arlene Hollinger had worked for Glenn, but were now keeping house in their own homes. Ruth told us some of our classmates were too far away to see. Leota Brunk was living in California, a very good state, W-hile Jeanette I-Iostetter and Mabel Horst were nurses at our Mennonite Hospital at La Junta, Colorado. However, it seems that Gladys Swartz didn't Want to go that far from home, for she, with Carolyn Swartzentruber, was a nurse at Lancaster Gen- eral Hospital. .Iohn Fisher was a prominent heart specialist in Lancaster also. l'Ve coruldn't stay here longg so after exchanging information, we set out again. Soon, in the distance we saw many large greenhouses. VVe stopped at a near-by store, where books and mottoes and other things which make up a well-equipped gift shop were sold. Here we found Martha Denlinger to be the owner and Alma Stoltzfus and Nyla Ebersole the clerks. We talk- Seventy-four

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ed a short while, and then went to visit the owners of the greenhouses, who, the girls told us, were Ralph Weaver and .l-larry Lefever. They were raising many carnations and other things in partnership. Much as we hated to go, we felt we had to be going on, so we decided to visit L.M.S. yet before lunch. Here we found Esther Stoltzfus in the infnrmary, not as a patient, but as the nurse. VVhile we talked, in walked Martha Lutz, who was teaching some of the commercial courses there, and Doris Good, who had charge of the girls' health classes, and was also teaching the art classes and conducting the Stylus group. Here we were told that Helen Shenk was teaching in one of our Christian elementary day schools, but Anna Ruth Hess, who had traveled farthest in our class, was teaching in the girls' school in Africa. We hated to leave the scene of our school days, but we felt we must be moving along, and as it was almost noon, we decided to stop at a restaurant and eat. Mfe soon came to a neat- looking restaurant and here we found Harold Rohrer the proprietor, and Mabel Weaver and Marian Leaman the waitresses. After a most enjoyable lunch hour during which we spent the time recalling our school days, we had to leave. VVe went to visit John Henry Kraybill, who was farming a large farm near by. We were very much surprised to Hnd that Charles Shenk, who was living on the next farm, had volunteered for mission work in New York, and was selling the farm to Warren Shenk, who had been his hired man. When we talked with Charles, he told us that Esther Sanderson and Dorothy Reifsnyder were going to New York also as mission workers. Charles told us of some more classmates we wouldn't see. Ellen Petre and Naomi Burk- holder were both at E.M.C. finishing an extensive course in Bible. However, he said we could easily see some othersg Miriam Groff and Joyce Miller were living on near-by farms. From them we learned that the Brubaker girls were also living close by, as was Romaine Shenk. Here too we learned that Janet Leaman had continued her study in music, and was now giving piano lessons when she was not busy in her own home. On the way home we stopped at Mellinger's Church, where a large crowd of people had gathered to hear Shirley Kauffman give a talk on mission work in the mountains of Kentucky. Ruth Westenberger conducted a children's meeting and, though we were not little children any more, I am sure we all enjoyed i't. Also we were glad to see so many of our former class- mates present. Lena Histand told us she was now a busy farmer's wife. Robert Zehr, who was farming in Delaware, was also there. His friends told us he had won state recognition of his farm which was equipped with every electrical labor-saving device practical. V70 also talked to Eunice Martin, who, as you might expect, was keeping books for Martin's Meat Packing Co. However, she was going to start housekeeping soon also. How we former classmates hated to leave! So many of our class were present, but all had to go. Nevertheless, we made arrangements for a reunion later, which we would all want to attend. As I took Donald and Ray home, none of us said much, but each of us was thinking plenty. Regardless of how tired we might have been, none of us complained of that. Hadn't we seen or found out what all our classmates were doing? I know the trip was worth any trouble it might have caused. -Donald Gehman Seventy-five

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