Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 127, Number 50, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 December 2004 — Page 9

Chamber Spotlight

PHOTO PROVIDED Brenda and Homer Miller have opened a Bremen first. Bed and Breakfast joins the chamber The Nappanee Chamber of Commerce welcomed in a Bremen business when Homer and Brenda Miller's Scottish Bed & Breakfast joined the organization. The bed and breakfast is the first of its kind in Bremen, opening over the Labor Day weekend, just in time for the Marshall County Blueberry Festival. "We were full our first week," Brenda said. The bed and breakfast offers four different rooms. There's The Loft, The Green Room, The Antique Room and The King Room, which offers a Jacuzzi. The location is pretty isolated at 2180 Miami Trail, just about a mile south of the Indiana State Police Post, which seems to draw clients who don't even live that far away. "We had a couple stay here that was from South Bend," Brenda said. "That's only about 10 or 15 minutes away, but the lady said that if she would have spent her vacation time at home, she would have just been working around the house." While some may come to the b.ed and breakfast from local locations, the majority of the visitors are businessmen or folks coming to the area for Notre Dame sporting events or visiting other tourist spots, such as Amish Acres. Three rooms have their owns bathrooms, while The Green Room's bathroom is located just across the hall. Each room also has its own television set and DVD player, but the item the Millers are most excited about are the beds. "I believe the most important thing is a comfortable bed," Brenda said about the Select Comfort mattresses the bed and breakfast uses. Once one does get out of bed, he or she, or both, can venture on out to the indoor swimming pool. The pool room has also played host to a Bremen Chamber of Commerce party. "It was surprising, because they were talking and laughing, but you couldn't even hear them inside," Brenda said. The Millers are owners of three Champion Scottish Terriers, fzzy, Lexi atfd Ivee, which is where the name of the business originated. Because they are animal lovers, the Millers intend to set up a fencing area in the backyard, where visitors can leave their dogs when they stay. "A lot of times people have to leave their dogs in the hot car while they go into town to eat or visit," Brenda said. The rooms cost between SB9 and $129 per night, and also include a hot breakfast in the morning. As a special offer, the Millers are also offering a Girls Night Out in January, in which six ladies are able to stay for $249, which includes food. More information and reservations can be made at their web site www.scottishbb.com or by calling 574-220-6672.

North Wood Music Department to present "The Glory of Christmas"

The North Wood High School Music Department will be presenting their annual "Glory of Christmas Spectacular" with two shows this year, Saturday Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 12 at 2:30 p.m. Over 200 musicians will combine to present this annual holiday tradition of great music performed by the North Wood Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Vocal Jazz, Dawning Generation, and the Concert Choir. The first half will include many great secular Christmas selections perfoTmed by all the ensembles and the second half

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Graduates of Amish College reunite

Patricia Hochstetler Special to Advance News The Amish College class of 1957-58 met for their first alumni reunion. After 47 years, fifteen alumni and their spouses met on Nov. 13, at Ura and Miriam Hochstetler's home, just south of Nappanee for a carry-in dinner. Alumni traveled from Florida, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan and South Carolina to attend. Their German teacher, Willis Yoder, now 88 years old, from Middlebury, also joined them. Vee bishy doo? (How are you?) and Vee gehts? (How goes it?) could be heard in the group. After introductions, the group shared family stories, where they had lived and what they do for a living now. More than half of the class are still Amish. "One of the most outstanding things that we openly discussed was that all attending this reunion had accepted Christ as their personal Savior." Ura Hochstetler, an Amish minister, said smiling. "Most attending said how at the age of fifteen and sixteen, they thought their lessons on the bible and German were foolish, but now all appreciate it." Harley Yoder, from Etna Green, attended Amish College one year and found this reunion very interesting. He expressed surprise at the distance alumni came to attend and amazement at all the effort that went into getting this event together. "It was truly rewarding to hear about everybody. One lady that went there (Amish College) moved to Davis County, and I had not seen her since. That was a highlight. It was good to see them all. It was time vvell spent, and it meant a lot to me," Yoder said. "I remember one time in school some students sat around the old coal stove and all' of a sudden we heard this rattle going between the seats and there went a coal flying up

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toward the teacher's desk. I still don't know who did it. That's a little bit of the mischief that took place." Harvey Bowers, a retired schoolteacher from Wakarusa, taught and he had ways to deal with situations that were out of order. Sometimes speaking to the students he said, "We will just let the Lord deal with that." He couldn't speak Dutch/German but he taught the bible, math, reading, English and history. Many years ago, most Amish children went to public schools through the eighth grade, then quit and helped on the family farm. A law passed that children must attend school to age 16, but many Amish parents resisted their children attending high school. In 1927, Adam and Anna Borkholder, from Nappanee, needed help with some wedding plans and kept their twin daughters, Annie and Fannie, both 15, home from school to help. One stayed at home one day, and the other the next day. School officials became displeased and the day before the wedding, they were taken to court for a hearing. That proved

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hard for them to go through as Adam was sickly and had to lie down. Amish College began in the 19505, when school authorities strictly enforced the Indiana state compulsory age requirement that children attend school until age 16. New schools were built and the old one-room schoolhouses abandoned. In an old schoolhouse is where Amish College classes were held for children who had finished the eighth grade but not yet turned 16 years old. Some children attended a few weeks and others one or two years until their sixteenth birthday. The Amish tried to keep their children from starting school until age seven. Back then, the Amish children had little exposure outside their homes and spoke no or very little English when they started school. Ura Hochstetler attended Amish College five days a week from September 1957 to February 1958, when he turned sixteen. Later, school officials allowed the Amish children to attgyj Amish College classes a halfday a week then did what they called vocational school where they worked at home on the

farm. They kept a diary and logged in the time they spent on their vocation be it in the house, barn, or fields, and this relieved the Amish parents. Some years later, the Amish families started private schools. They built schoolhouses on their land and paid for their own teachers. Now, Amish children attend their private schools 1-8 grades. They teach German and have no Amish College or vocational requirements. The schoolhouse these Amish College alumni attended, like all Amish buildings, had no electricity, running water or plumbing, the outside hand pump and outhouse met their needs. This schoolhouse sat on County Road 56 west of Nappanee and closed in 1970. The building reverted to the owner of the land and became a horse stable for several decades until Amish Acres purchased it for preservation and restoration in 2001. This schoolhouse now sits near the pond at Amish Acres, as the historical German Schoolhouse and is open to the public for tours.

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