February 2017

I’m a Cleveland Indians lifer, having followed the team since I was a boy in the 1960s. My sister and I used to sit by the family stereo in Hartville Ohio on a Saturday night with a bowl of popcorn and listen to an Indians game for entertainment. More recently, I watched every game of…

Bible instruction has been a central part of the EMS curriculum and influential in the lives of many students. Through study, classroom instruction and chapel programming, students learn to interpret, understand, and apply the Bible and its lessons within a supportive community of believers. The EMS Bible department is one of the school’s core departments,…

Born in 1914, Martha Whissen graduated from Eastern Mennonite School in 1931, and she is likely our oldest living graduate. Martha will turn 103 on February 26, 2017. She was born three years before EMS started, even before the beginning of World War I. Martha Shank’s grandparents suffered the loss of their barn and house…