LMH 1977 class trivia

Take the trivia quiz from our 2022 Class reunion:

  1. What was the name of the school before it changed to Lancaster Mennonite?
  2. In what year did Lancaster Mennonite school start? 
  3. What item in the old gym was considered too worldly and was covered up?
  4. What body of water flows through the LMS campus?
  5. How many students were in the LMH Class of 1977 (#s from alumni association):
    1. Freshmen year:
    2. Sophomore year:  
    3. Junior year:
    4. Senior graduating class: 
  6. How many faculty members taught us in 1977?

  7. LMS has had multiple campuses: Lancaster, New Danville, Locust Grove, Kraybilll, Hershey Christian. How many campuses are there today?

  8. What vintage item was listed for sale at a very low price in the newspaper, with a phone number to call Lester at the principal’s office?

  9. What creatures were schemed to be released during a chapel service (but never actually were)?

  10. On a regional level, the boys' soccer team has been the most successful athletic program. Since 1986, how many soccer titles have they won in at each level:

    1. Lancaster-Lebanon League titles

    2. PIAA District 3 titles

    3. PIAA State Championship:

  11. What are the names of LMS publications:

    1. Student newspaper:

    2. Yearbook:

    3. Alumni magazine

    4. Student literary/art magazine

  12. What are the names of well-known LMH alumni (not in our class):

    1. Actor who was star of Chicago Fire, and dated Lady Gaga:

    2. Professional soccer player currently with Colorado Rapids

    3. Current PA state rep. for 11th congressional district (Lancaster Co & southern York Co):

  13. What percentage of the class of 1977 listed attendance at a church with “Mennonite” in the name in the yearbook?

  14. What theatrical performance (play) occurred during the 1976-77 school year?

  15. What were the names of the 6 formal school singing groups in 1977?

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  16. Tie breaker/bonus question: What year was the iron bridge over the Mill Creek built?

 

Trivia quiz answers

  1. What was the name of the school before it changed to Lancaster Mennonite?
    1. Name: Yeates School
  2. And what year did that happen?
    • Year: 1943
  3. What item in the old gym was considered too worldly and was covered up?
    • A swimming pool
  4. What body of water flows through the LMS campus? Mill Creek
    • What river does it flow into? Conestoga River
  5. How many students were in the graduating LMH Class of 1977 (#s from alumni association):
    • Freshmen year: 84
    • Sophomore year: 123
    • Junior year: 168
    • Senior graduating class: 168
  6. How many faculty members taught us in 1977? 42
  7. LMS has had multiple campuses: New Danville, Locust Grove, Kraybilll, Hershey Christian. How many campuses are there today? What grades are now enrolled?
    • One unified campus at 2167 Lincoln Highway, preK to HS
  8. What vintage item was listed for sale at a very low price in the newspaper, with a phone number to the principal’s office?
    • Corvette
  9. What creatures were schemed to be released during a chapel service (but never actually were)?
    • Mice
  10. On a regional level, the boys' soccer team has been the most successful athletic program. Since 1986, how many soccer titles have they won in at each level:
    • Lancaster-Lebanon League titles:8
    • PIAA District 3 titles: 8
    • PIAA State Championship:1
  11. What are the names of LMS publications:
    • Student newspaper: Millstream
    • Yearbook: Laurel Wreath
    • Alumni magazine: Bridges
    • Student literary/art magazine: Wandering II (thanks Marcia Benner Pusey for this info, see a photo of the cover in Marcia's pictures. (There is also a publication called "Silhouette", but not sure when that was published)
  12. What are the names of well-known LMH alumni (not in our class):
    • Actor who was star of Chicago Fire, and dated Lada Gaga: Taylor Kinney, class of 2000
    • Professional soccer player currently with Colorado Rapids: Keegan Rosenberrry, 2012
    • Current PA state representative for 11th congressional district (Lancaster Co & southern York Co):  Lloyd Smucker, 1981
  13. What percentage of the class of 1977 listed attendance at a church with “Mennonite” in the name in the yearbook? 173 people in yearbook:
    • 153 (88%) listed a Mennonite church (credit if within 5%)
    • 16 (9%) listed a non-Mennonite church
    • 4 did not list a church
  14. What theatrical performances occurred during the 1976-77 school year? We could not resolve this question at the reunion! Some suggested Our Town or Gift of the Magi, but no one was sure.
  15. What were the names of the 6 school singing groups in 1977?
    1. Campus Chorale
    2. Ladies Chorus
    3. Men's Chorus
    4. Senior Chorus
    5. Junior Chorus
    6. Junior Chorale
  16. Tie breaker: When was the iron bridge over the Mill Creek built?
    1. 1890 By Builder/Contractor: Variety Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio. This bridge is one of the best preserved and few surviving examples of the Variety Iron Works of Cleveland Ohio. This bridge displays design details typical for the company including the pedimented struts, lattice instead of cover plate on the top chord, lattice portal bracing, built-up fishbelly floor beams, and gas pipe railings that pass through the vertical members.

 

Class officers:

Ina Sue Housman, Dean Martin, Carol Burkhart, Carol Hess

Class advisors:

Charlotte Holsopple Glick (deceased 1999), Ernest Hess

Class motto:

Something of ourselves remains wherever we have been

Class Poem:

IMPRINTS (by Rhonda Hostetter)

We meet people, go places, touch things.

Thinking they are all in the past, we journey on,

But, buried deep in the sand lie our imprints,

Hunted and found by a few people passing by.

Little do we know that,

Each person we met, each thing we touched,

We left with something of ourselves remaining.

 

Class song:

(words & music by Lucinda Weaver, music arrangement assistance by Lauren Good)

As we turn and reflect on our childhood

As we see the memories clearly in our minds

We come to see each moment had its purpose

Making us the people that we are.

Refrain:

Bits and pieces seem to fall together

Forming a unique creation of God's people

Knowing up above He holds a master plan

Holding us each in his hand.

 

We can see throughout our lives many people

Laughing, caring, loving, sharing yet some hating

Come and gone yet their touch has been implanted

Making us the people that we are.

 

We can recall the many various places

Where we've gone and experienced something new

Each place shed its' own light on our pathway

Making us the people that we are.

 

As we look ahead into the future

We remember our past with grateful hearts

For without a know God who gave our history

We wouldn't be the people that we are.

 

Class reunions:

15th, 6/20/1992:

  • Committee: Dan Mast, Mary Yunginger Rittenhouse, Bill Buckwalter, Carol Burkhart Spicher, Dave Mast, Beth Sensenig

25th, 8/3/2002

  • LMS dining hall
  • Guests: Del Glick, Mark & Marty Kelley, Janet Gehman, Myron Dietz
  • Committee: Audrey Augburger Groff, Leon Kraybill, Tim Lapp, Carol Burkhart Spicher

35th, 11/16/12

  • Buffet dinner at LMS Rutt Academic building
  • Committee: ?

40th, 10/2017

  • Informal gathering at LMS, in walkway between the (old) chapel & classroom building
  • 21 classmates
  • Committee: Sandra Frey Thomas, ?

45th, 9/25/2022

  • childhood home of Mary Yunginger Rittenhouse in Marietta
  • 45 classmates, 70 attendees
  • Committee: Daryl Groff, Marty Fisher Smucker, Mary Yunginger Rittenhouse, Leon Kraybill, Ivan Blank

50th, 2027

  • Committee: Beth Sensenig ....volunteers needed


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