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

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Noah G. Good Lancaster, R. 4, Pa. Daring Physicsq Germang Problems of Domocmcy. Learning by study must be won, 'twas ne'er entailid from son to son. . -Gay. Dear Seniors: For many of you this is the termination of formal education, at least for a while. Some of you want to and can go on with your schoolwork, and that is fine. But for those who cannot take more courses and go on to college the outlook is not discouraging. As you look back over your school days, what did you get that you can use? Do you feel that you have some valuable tools that you can use in any kind of work the future has for you? Much that you have learned will be of daily use, some you will use only now and then. You will write letters, speak in public, Hgure cost of pur- chases and earnings, take trips into places you have learned of in school, you are going to use these tools often. Then there are the values that have come to you that cannot be said to be tools that you use daily, and yet they inliuence your usefulness and eltectiveness. There are some things that you did and learned in school that influence your judgment or your attitudes. Your experiences in school have developed and increased certain tastes and desires. They help you to see more beauty or to iind hidden qualities in others that you would otherwise miss. To attend a school where there are Bible classes and where religious and spiritual experiences are constantly stressed makes you aware of these realities as you would not otherwise he. lt should build in you a desire for those more lasting things that will serve as a source of strength. If you have sought after these better things and will continue to seek after them and to exercise yourself in them to the point of yielding your life fully, you will have achieved the highest purpose of education. You will then have the fullest possible joy and bring the greatest possible good to others. -NOAH G. Coon. Clyde B. Stoner Lancaster, R. 4, Pa. Secretczry-Treasurerg Commercial Subiectsg Music. When griping griefs the heart doth wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress, Then music, with her silver sound, WVith speedy help doeth kind redress. -Shakespeare. To the Graduating Class of 1953: Before you lies an open door to new opportunities and experi- ences. I am certain that you have noble purposes for meeting these new experiences in order that your life may be rich and complete. We recognize that the most important experience in a rnan's life is the relationship of his soul to God. We must also recognize the fact that God has a claim on our entire life. Godis Word not only tells us how to obtain salvation but also how to conduct ourselves after we have received it. We cannot separate our lives into compartments and exclude God from some of them. The human tendency of man is to resent being told how to conduct himself. He tries to evade the guidance of parents, teachers, ministers, and even God Himself and eventually his life ends in disaster. The true follower of Christ welcomes divine guidance and finds his answers to the problems of life in Godis VVOrd which sets the pattern of standards in his moral, spiritual, and ethical conduct. My desire is that you will give your life completely to the will of Cod and that your life may be governed not by the standards of the crowd but by the eternal Word of God. -CLYDE B. STONER. 15

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J. Paul Graybill East Earl, Pa. Principal. Free men freely work: whoever fears Cod fears to sit at ease.- Browning. Dear M em-bers of the 1953 Gracluatinff Class: VVith the Lordas blessing upon you, you have been able to finish your high-school days and have been granted a diploma as a token of the work accomplished. As you leave this institution and continue in other pursuits of life you will need to make many choices. Ycu have already made many choices. You have chosen Christ as your personal Saviour, the wisest choice anyone can make. Looking forward into the years ahead I can see many choices you will need to make. You will need to decide whether you will continue in further schooling. You will D need to choose wisely in selecting a vocation because of its influence upon your own life and upon the lives of others. A serious choice you will need to make in a few years, choosing a life partner. Choose wisely, choose seriously, look beyond surface considerations, look for foundational reasons for making your decisions. The VVord of Cod will give you noble purposes and wise counsels, the Holy Spirit will direct you if you are fully committed to Codls Willg the church will help you with encouragement and fellowship. You need not fail in life. You are perfectly safe as you follow God's unerring counsel. We Wish you a successful life with every detail of it chosen after Godls will, a life chosen by God for you. 14. I. PAUL GRAY1a1LL. Amos W. Weaver Ronks, R. 1, Pa. Assi.sta'n.t Principal, Bible. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, the rest of it is all but leather and prunella.-Pope. Dear Seniors: Those four long years you faced in the fall of 319 look much shorter now from this end. So life, as it stretches out before you in prospect, seems almost endless. But it is not. The years will continue to Hy no less swiftlyg and with them, golden opportunities, which, if you do not use as they come, will be lost forever. Here at school you have had a life filled with many activities, varied interests and opportunities for mental and spiritual development. With it all was also the constant temptation to take the easier road, to spend time in personal enjoyment of momentary pleasures These conditions will continue in much the same fashion in the few short years of life which are ahead of you. You have set a pat- tern of habits in these four years of high school which you are likely to follow in the future. Only by strong determination and major effort will you be able to make any appreciable improvement in that pattern. The fact that you have persevered until you reached the goal of graduation is in itself commendable and gives promise of future successes. The degree to which you have succeeded in giving the right proportion of time, interest, and energy to Work, play, study, prayer and devotion, and consideration to those about you, may well determine the manner of life ahead of you. lf you have not made any mistakes and have no regrets, you are most unusual. We learn by our mistakes. You learned much in that way in school, and now as you leave the schoolroom and look back, you can continue to learn. I hope that you will continue to profit by past failures and mistakes and constantly grow more proficient in the art of living. Never cease to be a student but continue in the School of God till you grow more and more like the Master Teacher, jesus. AMOS W. WEAVER.

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Harvey W. Bauman Lititz, R. 1, Pa. Agricultureg Shop. ' The Lord helps those who help themselves.-Franklin. To the class of '53, High school days are over. So are formal studies for many of you. May you never cease your diligent study of the Bible. The more profoundly youstudy this wonderful Book, the more closely you observe its divine precepts, the better citizens you will become, the higher will be our destiny as a nation, and the larger will be our influence as a church. -HARVEY WV. BAUMAN. J. Lester Brubaker Lancaster, R. 1, Pa. Englislzg Public Speak-ing. Fate made me what I am-may make me nothing- But either that or nothing must I beg I will not live degraded.-Byron. Message to the Seniors: Who best bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best fMilton -I. LESTER BRUBAKER. Richard Culp Lancaster, R. 4, Pa. Ciuicsg Matlzematics. Q Nature ever yields reward to him who seeks, and loves her best.- Cornwall. To the Seniors: May this occasion in your life mark the beginning of an enriched usefulness in the kingdom of God. Fear not to yield yourselves in complete and constant surrender to the will of Christ and His Holy Word, that He may be able to- bless you with joy unspeakable and full of gloryf, and that you may stand ustedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lordf' -RICHARD CULP. Doris A. Good Lancaster, R. 4, Pa. Home Economicsg Girls' Health. A place for everything: everything in its place.-Franklin. Dear S eniors: Read noble men's words, think noble thoughts, do noble deeds, and your life will be Worth copying. -Doms Coon.