It’s time for another installment of our This week in EMU history series. This week, we discovered stories about global tensions, political distrust, and concerns about emerging technology, showing just how much things have changed and how much they’ve stayed the same.
The late Sadie A. Hartzler, who was appointed a faculty member in 1926 and part-time librarian in 1928 and then served as full-time librarian from 1945-61, “was the lone exception to the male dominance of administrative roles in the school’s early decades,” writes Donald B. Kraybill ’67 in his centennial saga, Eastern Mennonite University: A Century of Countercultural Education (Penn State Univ. Press, 2017). EMU’s Sadie Hartzler Library was officially named for her in 1985. Dorothy Kemrer, who penned this selection in the Eastern Mennonite School Journal, was hired on the faculty in 1918.
Back then, it was the Suez Canal. These days, it’s the Strait of Hormuz. I guess they weren’t kidding when they said history often rhymes.
I wonder what those percentages would look like these days?
From later on in the article: “Boredom and a new sense of freedom are some causes mentioned. One person said that a lot of students are repressed at home by strict parents, which fuels their rebellion and addiction to computers.”
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