Spring/Summer 2023

NEW SCHOOL RECORD Our 4×800 relay team won the state championship this spring for the second time. Earlier in the season at the Dogwood Track Classic, hosted at UVA, the four ran a 8:11.12 to top the 48-year-old record by 13 seconds! EMS runners from L-R are Jakob Gerlach ’23, Adam Rhodes ’25, Luga Samson…

Students in this spring’s Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) class constructed 10 exterior and 18 interior walls that will be transported to Hurley, Virginia, for a new home in a community still recovering from an August 2021 flood. Some of those students also participated in an April MDS E-term to Hurley, the second year EMS has…

The school’s 105th commencement ceremony celebrating 33 graduating seniors took place Saturday, June 3 at Eastern Mennonite University’s Lehman Auditorium. Kevin King, executive director of Mennonite Disaster Service, brought the address. He is pictured below with his son Justin King, high school principal, and Paul Leaman, head of school. See a photo gallery and video…

Emily Hess and Andrew Lantz described their class as “diversely cohesive” in the final chapel of the year. Covid-19 shaped their class of 33, which spent much of their high school career online, masked, and socially distanced. “We had to rely entirely on each of our own personal wills to interact and socialize with each…