Article: School daze; Students and teachers are leaving summer behind and making that dizzying transition back to the classroom. With most of the county's public schools ready to open early next week, the newly merged Lancaster Mennonite School kicked off the season today. [Corrected 08/22/02]

In recent weeks, it seemed like all kinds of people were asking him, as his school was getting set for the first day of classes, "You are going to read that again, aren't you?"

Fear not, oh curious ones.

This morning, as Lancaster Mennonite High School kicked off its first school year under its new name -- Lancaster Mennonite School -- its top official, Richard Thomas, indeed kept up a 20-year tradition.

At the end of the first-morning chapel service, Thomas again read from the famous children's book, "The Little Engine That Could," exhorting his students to do their best this new school year.

"That has to be a first-day tradition for us. It's just kind of a neat thing, a positive thing, to ...

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