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

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Class Will In order that we might be more easily remembered, each member ol the senior class of 1949 wills his peculiar ability to a junior class member, hoping that his successor may profit thereby. Leota Brunk wills her knowledge of chemistry to Mary Jane Breneman with best wishes. Galen Buckwalter bestows on james Krady his pleasing manner and his abundance of curly hair. ' Naomi Burkholder mixes a bit olf mischievousness with her cheerfulness and wills it to Charles Longenecker. Martha Denlinger kindly wills her good expression when telling a story to Miriam Clymer. Nyla Ebersole leaves her pleasant smile and athletic ability to Mary Alice Denlinger. john Fisher contributes his quietness and brilliancy to Kenton Brubaker. Donald Gchman wills the cards for driving the Gehman Transportation Bus Service to Pearl Stoltzfus with compliments. Ray Glick wills his interest in reading to Leon Mast. Doris Good wills her ability as an artist to Doris Risser. Miriam Groflf gives her quiet and reserved manner to Mildred Miller. David Harnish willingly bestows his jolly and good-natured ways on James Herr. Paul Hartz wills his interest in having a good tussle with a boy his size or even bigger to Olleck Forry. Anna Ruth Hess wills her interest in missions and Christian service to Carol Mast. Lena Histand regretfully gives her beautiful penmanship and shorthand ability to jay Landis. Arlene Hollinger leaves her sense of humor and pep to Ruth Ressler. Ma-bel Horst honors Norman Shenk by giving him her good marks. Jeanette Hostetter wills to Grace Bender her firmness in standing up for her own viewpoints. Shirley Kauffman wills l1er ability in public speaking to Ethel Petre. Laurence King gives his kindness plus the quali-ty ol being a good sport to Betty Blank. John Kraybill leaves his ability to compose music to Lois Ruth. Martha Kurtz wills what it takes to make friends easily to Martha Myers. janet Leaman bestows her good marks in English on Marian I-lostet-ter. Marian M. Leaman gives her high voice and friendly manner to Christian Peifer. Harry Lefever wills a portion of his excessive stature to Mildred Myer. Martha Lutz leaves her German tongue to Merrill Derstine. Eunice Martin leaves her seat in the typing room to Helen Keener. Donald Mast wills l1is interest in sports to Allen Beiler. Oliver Mast wills his ability in imitating a rooster to Elvin Martin. Norma Metzler leaves her l1CatI1CSS in character to june Denlinger. 'Ioyce Miller gives her dark, wavy hair and pleasant personality to Mildred Clymer. Eugene Peifer wills 11is habit of cracking his fingers to Carl Mellinger. Ellen Petre gives joan Bergey the honored seat of being editor. Ruth Ranck gives Merle Herr the quality of being a good commercial student. Dorothy Reifsnyder leaves her dormitory room to Alta Bomberger. Harold Rohrer wills his rich bass voice to W' alter Miller. Clarence Rutt leaves his position as president to Ivan Leaman. Glenn Rutt bestows his interest in photography on Edwin Landis. Esther Sanderson gives her knowledge of ge-tting around in the big city of Philadelphia to any junior who may need it. Seventy-seven

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1 Erma Sensenig leaves her clear, ringing soprano voice plus a pinch of mischievousness to Hilda Bender. Charles Shenk gives Milton Good some methods of arguing in P.O.D. class. Helen Shenk leaves her duty as waitress to Ada King. Romaine Shenk wills her manners, energy, and enthusiasm to Benjamin Martin. VVarren Shenk leaves his quietness and sincerity to Melvin Weaver. Norman Shirk unwillingly- .bestows his alertness and quick activeness on john Hostetter. Alma Stoltzfus wills her forgiving spirit and willing attitude to Helen Herr. Esther Stolftzfus wishes her broad vivid imagination to be in the class by giving it to Paul Landis. Irene Stoltzfus wills to Almeda Grofl what it takes to have a poem accepted. Gladys Swartz leaves her 'talkativeness to Ann Marie Olesh. Carolyn Swartzentruber wills her convictions in Bible Doctrine to Helen Ranck. Mabel W7eaver gives her all-around neaitness and intelligence to Jean Kraybill. Ralph Mfeavcr gives Virgil Stoltzfus firsthand instructions on how to take five majors and ge-t on the first Honor Roll. Victor Weaxfeis Wills his left-handedness to the juniors who desire it. Ruth VVestenberger leaves her thoughtfulness and kindness to Arlene Eshleman. Robert Zehr wills the characteristic of a deep thinker to john Denlinger. Naomi Brubaker gives her cheerful disposition to Thelma Hershey. Ruth Brubaker wills her attenitiveness and the characteristic of a tl'l1C Christian to Thel-ma Eby. -Donald Mast , ,fdulfogralo A Seventy-eight

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Class History Do you remember when the school year of 1945-46 opened at L.M.S. on September ll? Prob-a-bly you don't, but to about 28 of us, or half of the graduating class, that marked the beginning of our L.M.S. career. The freshman class was large, as always, with 74 members, with the rest of the class dropping out somewhere along the way to graduatio-n. A varied group it was with one from Florida, another from Maryland, and the rest from our native state. Brother Mahlon Hess, a former L.M.S. teacher, had the opening address and two days later we learned to know our classmates and school at a get-acquainted social. The fa-ll revival meetings were in charge of Brother J. Irvin Lehman and the spring meetings were held by Brother Martin Kraybill. On November 27, we had our annual Thanksgiving Program and social along with open house. Before we knew it the year was over and our sophomore year had begun on September 10 with 35 of the present seniors in the class of 46 sophomores. Brother Ira Landis delivered to us the opening address with the theme, I would not have you ignorant, brethren. Brother Milton Brackbill conducted the fall revival meetings and Brother Harvey E. Shank was the evangelist in the spring. During our sophomore year the junior business training class visited the Paradise State Bank and its vault with the ven-tilating system and burglar alarm. In biol- ogy we dissected craylish and sponges midst the odor of formaldehyde. Mrs. Nelson Kauffman was present for conjoint prayer circle one evening and held our attention with her life-testi- mony and storytelling. Norman Shirk had a close call when he was hit by a car while -walking along the Lincoln Highway at night. After a few days in the hospital he was with us again. We enjoyed a talfy pull on February ll very much. . The next year our junior year began with Brother Harold Breneman giving the opening address on Making Use of Our Time. After a get-acquainted social we found ten more persons had joined our class and with a few leaving we numbered 49 with only four of them not with us now to graduate. IVe found our junior year probably the easiest as far as lessons were concerned because each year we were getting more skillful with our lessons and we had not yet taken up the activities of seniors. Our revival meetings were held by Brother Jacob Rittenhouse in the fall and Brother Amos Weaver in the spring. A trip to the Franklin In- stitute at Philadelphia on March 6 was a feature of the physics class besides building toy electric motors. On April 2 the American history class visited Wheatland near Lancaster, the home of the only president from Pennsylvania, Buchanan. After entertaining the seniors as our guests at the annual junior-senior outing we left school to rest for the last and biggest year. During the summer we had a class reunion at Charles Shenk's home. When school began for the last time for us as seniors, we welcomed seven new students. Among them is Leota Brunk representing California. With the addition of two Bible students, another joining us in the middle of the year, and three more to receive their diplomas with us we became the largest graduating class of L.M.S. so far, fifty-nine. Early in the year we started preparing for graduation. We finally decided upon the election of the Laurel Wreath staff. We became accustomed to many dinnertime class meetings as that was our only time available. On December 9 and 10 we tested our intelligence by the Iowa Educational Test. We had a class party at the home of Glenn and Clarence Rutt on November 13 and another on March 12 at the home of Irene Stoltzfus. A trip to the state capitol at Harrisburg was part of our P.O.D. class. As a class we spent a day in Washington visiting the many places of interest there. The Mother-Daughter social came and went as did the Father-Son social. The fall revival meetings were in charge of Brother AI. Irvin Lehman and the spring meetings were held by Brother Raymond Charles. These ac-tivities as well as many others are among the many pleasant memories we have of L.M.S. All this is interesting, but is the past where We center our attention? No, youth lives in the future. Lead On, O King Eternal! -Clarence Rutt Seventy-six