In 2012 we will be celebrating the Sesquicentennial of Lakeland College. To us, there is no better time than now to put the spotlight on 150 years of the achievements and memories of our graduates. The way we see it, your story is the celebration. If you would like to read the stories of others, click on the names below.

Shared Stories, 1940s:

• Joan (Leschensky) Grosshuesch '46
  The Unglued Chair In 1944-45, the coeds living on the second floor of the old President's home were Mary Rusch, Mary Whiffen, Leah Vande Zante, Lois Parks, Gladys Krautkramer and Helen Worthman. I transferred to Mission House/Lakeland College in January and lived in the maid's room on the... Read more
• Leone (Neuhaus) Schroer '40
  I am Leone's daughter. My mother is pictured on the steps in the top left picture of the brochure you sent out. She is in the front on the left in the dark jacket. Mom was in the first class at Mission House that included women. She had wanted to learn about interior design, but because that... Read more
• Paul Aultman '41
  The following is an excerpt from SNIPPETS, a publication of the Southwest Ohio Northern Kentucky Association, part of the United Church of Christ--Ohio Conference: In December 1941 when first-year seminary student Paul Aultman delivered his very first sermon, he had no idea that he would... Read more
• In Memory of Carl Serr '49
  Almost a Streaker I hate to reveal this story, since it involves a really good friend and a man who turned out to be a wonderful minister. He wrote a statement about why he was a UCC minister that was theologically sophisticated and truly eloquent. I'm talking about Carl Serr '49, who came... Read more
• Bossard Hall Memories from Carroll J. Olm '46
  Remembering Bossard Hall Bossard Hall was constructed 130 years ago. Hence, Bossard Hall was built 17 years after Mission House/Lakeland was established. Today, there is a grassed area where Bossard Hall, the Girls' Dormitory in our era, stood. It was located about halfway between Jubilee... Read more
• Rev. Glenn Coleman '49
  It was in the 1940's that we had the radio program on Sheboygan station WHBL with various weekly half-hour programs titled “The Voice of the Campus." The speech department under Professor Kraus did drama reports, sports and a Barbershop-type quartet. Eugene Jaberg had contact with... Read more
• Richard Crusius '47
  One of my long-standing memories of Lakeland was the day FDR died. In my third floor room on the west side of the dorm, I heard a car stop and doors opening. Down below, Dean Ley was busy, but I told him the news and he heard me. Now there was a man who could hear at the right time. Read more
• Memories from the 1940s from Carroll J. Olm '46
  Here are a few random thoughts embraced in the history of the 1940s: In the 1940s, the college only sponsored teams in men's intercollegiate conference football, basketball and track. There were no women's athletic activities. During the World War II years, male enrollment was so low that... Read more
• Football Memories from Paul Olm-Stoelting '43
  Adapting a Football Helmet It was a Saturday morning in the fall of 1941. Before a crucial MH Homecoming football game, two of our All-Star tackles tangled. Matt and Jeremy, ficticious names, had been competing all season for the most tackles, but now their passions became personally... Read more
• Mission House College Student Costs in 1941 from Paul Olm-Stoelting '43
  How amazing! Can you believe what is printed below? Most younger folks today cannot conceive of what is shared here. Recently I unearthed a March 26, 1941 copy of the Mission House Mirror and came across student costs per semester, data that President Paul Grosshuesch had written. Here it... Read more
• Freshman Antics in the '40s from Vernon Jaberg '44
  I recall a Homecoming when our class prepared for a big fire. We collected wood and paper for the fire. At midnight, someone knocked on my door and said, "Get up a take a look!" The fire was burning and had been set by the sophomores. Prof. Schweitzer excused us from English and we... Read more
• Fraternity Memories from George Thilking '47
  Were any of you members of Zeta Chi frat? One semester I received the Zeta Chi scholarship in the amount of $50. Sounds like peanuts in this day and age, but it was quite meaningful to me at that time. I wish I could remember more about Zeta Chi. I do recall that we had a pool table in our... Read more
• Basketball Memories from Ruben Grosshuesch '43
  During the 1944-45 year at Mission House, Tony Rusch, the athletic director, made all of the basketball schedule arrangements for the college team. One of the teams on our schedule was Thiensville Seminary of the Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Church. This was a team made up of former players who had... Read more
• Cal Grosshuesch '48
  High Scorer I have a good story to tell you about Linny (Linus Wierwill '46). We were playing a game with some team, and my brother Ruben Grosshuesch '43 told me that the only way we could beat them was to make sure that Linny got the ball. That night, Linny scored 46 points, an... Read more
• Judy Grosshuesch '46
  Pushing Over Outhouses in Franklin With such a bunch of livewires as lived on Mission House/Lakeland College's campus, Halloween could not go uncelebrated. A bunch of guys decided to pay a visit to Franklin, where some outhouses just waited to be tipped over. They piled into an old fliver... Read more
• Ruben Grosshuesch '43
  One of the many stories about early Mission House athletics before the college became involved in intercollegiate athletics took place during the early 1920's. An outstanding independent basketball team from Milwaukee heard about the success of the Mission House varsity team, who was playing... Read more
• Rev. Henry Heinbuch '46
  After the Farm, the Pulpit My late husband, Rev. Henry Heinbuch '46, was a student at the Mission House Seminary in the late 1940's. Henry came to serve my home church in Scotland, South Dakota as an intern student between his last 2 years of seminary. To earn some additional money that... Read more
• Campus Player Antics from Eugene Jaberg '48
  Paul H. Olm-Stoelting '43 was directing a mystery play and I was cast as the “bad guy" (type casting!) But, to all appearances, I was the good guy. In any event, the moment of truth arrived and pulled out a gun to afford me an escape from capture. No one knew I had loaded the gun... Read more
• Eugene Jaberg '48
  Ultimately a Hero One of my sports memories of Mission House days is a homecoming football game against Milwaukee Extension, now a really big school of course. We were behind 6-0 in the waning moments of the game and Coach Kregel sent me in as a substitute quarterback, along with Bill... Read more
• Vernon Jaberg '44
  My memory serves me to tell of the fact that my father, Rev. Elmer C. Jaberg, came to the campus of MH Academy-College-Seminary in the Fall of 1914 from Salem Reformed Church in Magley, Indiana. He had an 8th-grade diploma, $100, and a new set of clothes. He spent 9 years on the campus of what... Read more
• In Memory of Delbert Kauffman '46
  Haircuts Thanks to Del Kauffman for all those haircuts! I had a lot of sandy/reddish hair in those days. It has been solid white for many years! What did we pay you, Del? If at all! - Carroll J. Olm '46 Someone sold his used single head electric razor to me for $1.00. I think he was a... Read more
• Ernest Klaudt '40
  My memorable moment: Around 6pm, a fellow seminarian came to our dormitory room in Jubilee Hall and informed me and my roommate that we were at war. The Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor. We immediately turned on our radio. All stations were filled with hysterical broadcasts. Around... Read more
• Ernie Lauer '44
  A Woman in the Men's Dorm? It was winter time. A light coating of snow covered the ground. It was cold, a crisp, clear night for a walk. It was a weekend to be enjoyed by the skeleton student body. A few (I think 3 men and three women), after a walk through Profville, got the idea of going... Read more
• Dorothy Mohr '42
  The United States was involved in World War II throughout my college years. So, the number of students attending college was very low. I think there were only 20 some girls attending Lakeland at that time. I attended Mission House College 1938-1940. After two years I transferred to Milwaukee... Read more
• Rev. Carl Mohr '49
  Carl's Great Chance Our coaches really had a lot of confidence in our varsity basketball bench. When Coach Kregel would put me into a game, he would say, "Mohr, under no conditions should you take a shot. DO NOT TAKE A SHOT!" One time, when we were beating Milton by 25 points with... Read more
• Basketball Memories from Carroll J. Olm '46
  Basketball Team Sleeping in Jail Coach Kregel was special. We never did figure out why we called him "Schnapsie!" But riding with Coach in his Studebaker car was scary many times. Sometimes we wondered if we would get to the game on time or not. Gosh, but those were different days... Read more
• Carroll J. Olm '46
  One Never Knows: A College Memory Mathematics was never my forte. At Port Washington High School we endured an algebra teacher who was an excellent debate coach, but an abomination as a teacher of algebra. (The debate team won the national debate championship and my brother, Paul... Read more
• Greek Class Memories from Carroll J. Olm '46
  Skipping Greek Class I will never forget the special times that happened on the Mission House College campus during the month of May. The May Day weekend was always eventful and got our energies flowing. Who would be King? Who would be Queen? Who are you taking to the dance? Lots of great... Read more
• Paul Olm-Stoelting '43
  Swooping Sparrow and One Tennis Court More reminiscing about Founder's Gym. When was a freshman in 1939, we had chapel service in the gym. I volunteered, as did other students, to lead the weekly event. A sparrow had found its way into the gym and, as I was doing my thing, the bird swooped... Read more
• Flashbacks from Paul Olm-Stoelting '43
  1921 - Elmer Jaberg, father of Gene (class of 1948) and Vernon (class of 1944), and Paul A. Olm, father of Paul (class of 1943) and Carroll (class of 1946) graduated in the same MH Seminary class. Paul A. Olm also graduated from the MH Academy. 1918 - Paul and Carroll's dad told this... Read more
• Campus Memories from Fred Reineking '46
  I'm getting to the point where I'm probably in the class of "Old Timer," since I graduated from Mission House Academy in 1939. Five buildings were on campus at that time. The newest building was the gym (built in 1932). The new gym replaced the former building, which was really a... Read more
• Fred Reineking '46
  I was born and raised on a farm bordering the Lakeland campus in the shadow of Mission House Academy and College. I attended a two-room elementary school located, at that time, a half-mile west of the Immanuel Church. I cut the walking distance by taking a shortcut through the fields, which... Read more
• The Reineking Memoirs from Fred Reineking '46
  Back in the early thirties, most high schools in Sheboygan County were small and understaffed (to say the least) and many rural kids never went to school beyond the eighth grade. I was fortunate in that my parents insisted that I continue my education. So they enrolled me in the Mission House... Read more
• Clever Remarks from Cal Schmidt & Henry Heinbuch '46
  Clever Remarks from Cal Schmid '46 and Henry Heinbuch '46 Cal Schmid '46 made some extra money by being the dry cleaning agent for a Sheboygan firm. He put an ad in the Mission House Mirror as follows: ARE YOUR CLOTHES BECOMING TO YOU--OR SHOULD THEY BE COMING TO US? Henry Heinbuch '46... Read more
• Orville Schroer '43
  I am Orville's daughter, Ann De Francis. My father, Rev. Orville Schroer, spent 7 years at Mission House, four in his undergraduate years and three more as a seminary student. He graduated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1943, and married my mother, Leone (Neuhaus) Schroer on the same afternoon. ... Read more
• A Note from Carl Serr '49
  It's so fascinating to read about the alums of so many years ago, but, as one of my albums states, "No day is over if it makes a memory" and what mystical memories are rooted on that Mission House/Lakeland campus, tying us to each other more and more with the passing of the years. Read more
• Dr. George Thilking '47
  Toes Pointed Straight Ahead: A Lesson Memories are strange sometimes. Rev. Ruben Grosshuesch '43 coached the track team, which I tried out for. Ruben, you told me I could run the hurdles faster if I kept my toes pointed forward/straight ahead! Good advice, even for running hurdles in life... Read more
• Eleanor Woldt Skatrud Zoerb '48
  Having gone to the University of Wisconsin extension in Manitowoc, I came to Mission House as a sophomore. Bossard Hall was the underclass dorm. Room 12 was my assigned room. It was so slanted I had to be careful how I placed things on my desk since they would roll off onto the floor. ... Read more