October 2016

Golf is a hobby and passion for alumnus Sam Weaver ’52. In the 2016 EMS Fore the Flames golf benefit tournament, Sam golfed with his Eastern Mennonite High School friend (and former Philomathean basketball teammate) Ed Collins ’53. Sixty-plus years after they graduated, Sam and Ed formed a tournament foursome with Sam’s son-in-law Steve Leaman…

When LuAnn Miller Bender ’81 began teaching Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) at EMS in 2001, Principal J. David Yoder told her that “we grow teachers.” Mrs. Bender says this became “super clear” to her, in that teachers could develop professionally while using their full range of gifts in the school. For fifteen years Mrs.…