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

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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

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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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wvfw LI The Laurel Wreath Staff . SCHOOL PUBLICATION Those of us who attend Lancaster Mennonite School and have come to love and appreciate it are concerned that our parents and friends should know more about our school. To represent our activities as a church school we publish The Mill Slwfmn monthly. We enjoy Writing and preparing this material for publication and find 'that it is a very worth-while addition to our curriculum. We are concerned that this be a true representation of our school and that it will help you to understand and apppreci-ate it. Fifty-three