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Page 21 text:
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A Heritage of the Past ' wwtHw Twenty-five years — each different, yet each the same. For LMS is a heritage— a heritage of twenty- five years of growth and change, t%venty-five years of foresight and wisdom. Most of ail it is twenty- five years of tradition, tradition that makes every senior of LMS proud to say, I went to Lancaster Mennonite School. iZ.
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The first graduating class The first faculty The debate ran on. When a vote was finally called, it carried by 51 to 49 per cent. Those visionary leaders with an eye to the future mentally sighed. By far the greatest work lay ahead. The start certainly was not very spectacular, but a start it was. A Board of Trustees, incorporated and given purchasing power, first proceeded to look for prop- erty. A piece of land called Hess Estate and an empty lot near Landisvilie were considered. Samuel Wenger, a Mennonite attorney, strongly advocated at that time the purchasing of a rather unexciting piece of property between the Lincoln Highway East and the Mill Stream. Al- though the land and buildings on it A School Noah G. Good, 25 years ago The Bishop Board had sent a recommendation to the semi-annual Lancaster Conference of 1940 to establish a high school, and now the conference was discussing it for the final vote. The Bishop Board at that time never sent recommendations to Conference unless the members agreed unanimously, but here at Mellinger ' s Mennonite Church the feelings were not so unifomi. The more pro- gressive leaders looking to the future saw Lancaster Mennonite School as a vital part of the growing educa- tion of the youth of the church; members opposed to the proposal cited it as part of a worldly trend. After all, what does higher education do but lead youth astray? 15
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