{"id":36129,"date":"2017-12-15T11:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=36129"},"modified":"2017-12-16T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T11:56:08","slug":"school-name-ongoing-considerations-institutional-nomenclature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/school-name-ongoing-considerations-institutional-nomenclature\/","title":{"rendered":"A school by any other name? The (ongoing) considerations of institutional nomenclature"},"content":{"rendered":"

EMU Archivist Simone Horst ’12<\/strong> published this article Dec. 15, 2017, on the Anabaptist Historians<\/a> website.<\/em><\/p>\n

Names are funny things. Once they\u2019re assigned to people, places, or things it can be hard to imagine anything else fitting. Though 100 years on it seems almost inconceivable for Eastern Mennonite University to be anything other than Eastern Mennonite, it took the founders a few tries to find a name that stuck.<\/p>\n

Many of the early suggestions were informed by the locations they would inhabit. Warwick Mennonite Institute, Warwick Mennonite Academy, and Alexandria Mennonite Institute clearly didn\u2019t fit anymore once Harrisonburg became the settled-upon location.<\/p>\n

But what about another suggestion: The Mennonite Student\u2019s Safeguard and Industrial School? Certainly this conveyed in plain language the goals of the school, but it was a bit wordy and perhaps a bit too <\/i>on the nose.<\/p>\n

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In the end, they settled on Eastern Mennonite School. Not as conspicuous as The Mennonite Student\u2019s Safeguard and Industrial School, but it was decidedly less of a mouthful and still contained a key indication of their core identity: Mennonite.<\/p>\n

In Eastern Mennonite University: A Century of Countercultural Education <\/i>Don Kraybill writes that \u201cThe records do not say how the final name was determined\u201d but that \u201ceven in the twenty-first century, Eastern Mennonite University remains the only Mennonite-related college or university of eight in the United States that carries the denominational name.\u201d<\/sup><\/p>\n

It must be stated that having the word Mennonite in the name certainly doesn\u2019t make EMU more Mennonite than other colleges. Some of the founders even made the case for leaving Mennonite out. Kraybill writes of a letter that chair of the local board C.H. Brunk wrote to the General Board stating \u201cit is not customary to give a school a denominational name\u2026some people are more or less prejudiced against denominational institutions . . . [the school] can be just as truly denominational without the name\u201d A small group including Brunk agreed \u201cunanimously\u201d that it should be named simply \u201cEastern Institute and Bible School.\u201d<\/sup><\/p>\n

To read more discussion of the implications of the word Mennonite<\/em> in EMU\u2019s name, visit the Anabaptist Historians<\/a> website<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information about the history of Eastern Mennonite University, check out Don Kraybill\u2019s 100-year history: Eastern Mennonite University: a Century of Countercultural Education. <\/i>Available from EMU<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, and Penn State University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Author Simone Horst ’12<\/strong> is the archivist at EMU.
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