Word: reimers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bishop Henry Reimer, the Mennonites' spiritual leader, visited farm land in Missouri and Oklahoma before deciding on west Texas?in part because someone in Texas apparently assured him that his people would automatically receive U.S. citizenship if they bought land there. Settlers from both Canada and Mexico then sold their homes, pooled their savings and paid $455,000 down ($264 an acre, about $70 more per acre than the going price) on the $1.7 million, 6,400-acre Seven-O Ranch outside of Seminole, a town that calls itself "the city with a future." They drew lots for the land...
...just doesn't make sense to me that a group of law-abiding people like the Mennonites would come in here on tourist visas and settle down and start farming," says Seminole Mayor Bob Clark. "They were just getting some bad advice?or someone was deceiving them." Says Reimer: "Rumors, rumors, all is rumors. But I cannot explain to them myself how it happened." Says Seth Woltz, a real estate appraiser who helped sell the Mennonites the land: "They had very few questions about the deal when we closed it. As far as their immigrant rights?what do I know...
Lawyers have advised the Mennonites that no laws were broken and that they must live with their mistake. But the group has deposed Reimer, a drastic step for their communal church. Many Mennonites, disillusioned with their church hierarchy, have also stopped attending Sunday services. "I'll tell you the truth," says Klassen. "Us Mennonites are not true Christians any more because of all this trouble. There's no love between...
...Seth Reimer's Lovers Not is an original play; Reimer's directed Shakespeare and Beckett at the Ex, I think. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; this weekend only...
...clear (from a questionnaire on first-year grading) that there is strong support among first-year students for a mandatory pass-fail system. Now we may have to pick up the idea of changing the present system by getting people to elect the pass-fail reporting option in mass," Reimer said...