European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine making Itas a Yuppie by Tabassum Zakaria associated Pressw hat do you Call a mennonite who left Iho farm Wen to College and got a Job in inc City a Yuppie not 1o be confused with a Yuppie. Yuppies drive bows. Puppies drive Saab and audis yuppies vacation in Bermuda. Puppies visit Ihor siblings who Are missionaries in Hail. Yuppies Bathe in a Cutris puppies prefer claw loot bathtubs. And Allbaugh puppies May spend heir Money like yuppies they usually feel More guilty Aboul it. Their Story is told in the Yuppie manual the mennonite Urban professional s handbook Tor humility and Success which lakes a humorous look a i serious changes in the mennonite Community. Symbolic o1 the conflict is thai puppies often hold sojourners asocial conscience Magazine in one hand and Money Magazine in the other the manual says. Descended from centuries of Farmers who believe in a simple peaceful Lite separate from tha rest of the world the puppies evolved As they Gol More and More education and moved into cities As professionals Tho mennonite Urban Profe clonal has a new set of conflicts to Deal with. I see ii As an internal conflict of values not something played out Between people in he  says Ron Kraybill 32, a mennonite who left his family s Arm for a renovated town House in Lancaster a. He lives in a Gray area sandwiched Between a ghetto and a wealthy neighbourhood typical of he Way puppies jus Lily their increasing wealth. We live in a Section of Lown that keeps us in touch with people who have less than we  says his wife Uei Belh. 31. There is sort of a pull to a lifestyle that s upwardly  that conflicts with the teachings of a Church that has stressed simplicity since i was formed in 1525 during the Prol slant reformat in in Europe. Kraybill grew up on a farm in Elizabethtown a without television. He had Only a Lew non mennonite friends and saw his first movie at age 16. He remembers feeling embarrassed during family trips 10 Lancaster. I Felt like we were a Bunch of people coming from the country into a world where we did t belong he says. Mrs. Kraybill grew up in Taiwan where her parents were missionaries. Both Kray balls work at the mennonite Central Kan Kraybill and his wife Meribeth at an Amish Market in pen Obanio. Come Willce which provides Relief Oversea am advices in the Community Kra Blu a tweak jacket a neck sweater and Oxford shirt and her Crew neck sweater Turtleneck and Short hair Aren t very different irom the dross 0 a Yuppie or a p serve the Community. A upper lend to do a lot of soul searching about their reasons Lor entering a pro Ossion once on the Campus. Mannoni Efi Are exposed to different people arid ideas some of the old Ortto Mennom Tes Don t approve of education born us they fear it brings about a ids of Lailah. As mennonites become better educated More Urb a and More wealthy it still remains to be seen in puppies can retain certain values says Emerton Lesher author of the Yuppie Book. A lot of puppies Leel proud that somehow they made it out of the Menn Onilo Community he says they be survived mennonite culture and gone on to do better things in the outside world so they beat the  Yuppie should explore the Basic question. How am i different from a Yuppie he says. One of the main differences is the Way puppies need to justify material possessions. Lasher says he and his Wile. Ruth both with doctorates in psychology struggled for years Over the que Salon of whether hey should buy an answering machine. They finally justified the Purchase by thinking of it As a Way of keeping in touch with the Community because their friends might be in Yang to reach them. You can buy 3 Var if you re willing to share in with Oil if  he says. That s How we play mind games Bishop James Shank of the Lancaster mennonite conference said the most Radical differences he has seen is in dress and the greater interest of women in becoming pastors. The mennonite Church one of Many sects within the Overall mennonite Community is in transition and has become More flexible he says. As puppies we re m a better position la share our values because we re a bit More  says Meribeth Kraybill. But puppies must hang on to some very important traditions like Mutual Aid. Barn raising on the atm Lesher says but How do you do that in you re a stockbroker or a psychologist or a lawyer he asks puppies need to discuss How they can continue in the City what the barn raising symbolizes Lesher says Lesher Hopes puppies can keep in touch with their values. But he says sometimes i m afraid that i m just a  tuesday Juna 3, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 13