Shekinah Painting Finds new Home

By Andrea Wenger | October 22, 2022 |

Eastern Mennonite School celebrated the contributions of Esther K. ’49 Augsburger in Chapel October 12, 2022 with a visit from the teacher who founded the EMS art program, her husband Myron, and former co-workers. Esther launched the art program at EMHS in 1971, after graduating as the first art major from Eastern Mennonite College (now…

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See and Celebrate “Our Town” at EMS

By Andrea Wenger | October 19, 2022 |

The Eastern Mennonite School Theater Department welcomes the public to its production of Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, October 28 and 29 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, October 30 at 3 p.m. The show features high school actors (list below), as well as Thaddeus Jackson, class of ’20, in the role of Stage Manager, and…

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Local Foods Class Benefit from Parent Expertise

By Andrea Wenger | October 11, 2022 |

Parents of EMS students shared their expertise this fall in the “local foods” class, part of the Family Consumer Science curriculum developed by Anna Haarer. Grapes Mark and Wendy (Wenger) Hochstedler, both members of the class of ’95 and EMS parents, came to to the school in early October bearing the literal fruits of their…

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