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

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' in - e ER i Wk K i X L -. v - s ,E ., Q T H jg ,F . i ' ' . - fi N I 122' i,,-K .A g, Z 2 ., 4 , , wi. ,, ,ii A ,M 1 W.. ,ssfgir iw, its Campus Improvement Group - The Campus Improvement group consisted of eight boys with Brother Keener as adviser. Our aim was to make improvements around the Campus. V7e met each Monday at 3:00 p.m. ready to work. We dug a long ditch leading from a cesspool out past the skating pond. Mfe laid concrete blocks in this ditch and then covered them with crushed stones and ground. W7e helped to enlarge the skating pond and dug a channel from the Mill Stream in order to fill it by gravity. We removed the junk pile west of the dining room and boiler room and seeded the ground. We hauled ashes and sawed logs for various purposes, some for use in study hall fireplace. YVe kept the wire fences at the tennis courts in repair and shoveled snow from the courts. We lent a hand in building the new girls' dormitory by moving more than 5000 bricks, which were unloaded at the wrong place. Fifty live

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-fx., . . - - QQ f . , 1- - - Maas' , V' t . .ls n Shop If you ever heard a lot of sawing and hammering the last period on Monday you may as well say it was the shop class. Seventeen of us boys chose shop for our extracurricular activity. VVe want to thank Brother Graybill for his kind advice and help to aid us in our projects. Alter we became acquainted with one another and learned to make ourselves at home in shop, we elected officers: a superintendent and two loremen. These were elected for the purpose of taking charge in case Brother Graybill was absent and to keep tools in their place. Shop seems to be a worth-while hobby, at least from what we have learned this year. W'e have learned many worth-while things which will aid us in con- structing many valuiable pieces of Woodwork. -Chester Kurtz. Fifty-six

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Agriculture Group W'e, as a group of boys, are interested in learning more about farming. Farming is an occupation that deals more directly with God's creation than most other occupations. XfVe also enjoy the freedom and the fresh air one receives in this occupation and the beauties of nature that God has put into His wonderful creation. lNe want to learn better methods of farming, and also dillierent ways olf soil conservation because we feel it our duty to take care of the earth that God has given us to occupy till l-lis return. X'Ve are also interested in the manufacturing of farm equipment and the making of leeds. To get hrsthand information on some of these things we go to the places where they are made. This year we launched a new project, that of raising three small Angus steers. To feed these steers we used the corn harvested from three acres, which was planted and sponsored by the group the preceding year. I hope that this class will help in keeping our Mennonite folk on the farm, away from the turmoil of our large cities. -'Charles E. Shenk. Fifty four