The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-06-04

The Annual Class Day program OF
the Senior Glass of the Sank Centre
Public Schools held at the Assembly
room of the Senior High building
Thursday, May Fl was one of the
events of the finals of this enterpr's-
ing group of SO young people. Their
essaVs on the various activities OF
the class from the beginning OF their
school life to High School graduation
and concluding with the Glass Song
are published herewith:
"THE HISTORY OF THE
CLASS OF 1925"
It was in the year of 1917 tha5 the
number of AZ youngsters embarked up
SHighest Fame in the High School Of
Sank Centre. Those who are now with
us to tell the tale of the thirteen years
of experience are: Alto LeSeur f., Paarl
Thornton, Sophie Hillerud, Harry
Palmer. Leonard Brown, ana Lyle
Veeder. u
Miss Clara Able was our first teach
.er. in the old brick school mouse Ina Ina
mary can be contrasted greatly tr4 ON
what the primary is no"a nonsic va
little arithmetic. language, ana OF
course all kinds Of games. Thus we
left the primary and were promoIea
door. Here we came under the super
vision of Miss Theodore Gllbertson:
HOW we adored standing in front OF
standing in the corner with our backs
turned! Leonard can tell you most
about that. And then our dear teach
er was found of carrying ropes 70
school to faSten some on to hign
Chair or fasten one end around her
waist and the other around that OF the
mischievous child, so that whenever
I wonder how many of you have for
gotten the little cloak room at the
left! Not only the cloak room-but
or teacher would pick up ruler and
says, Lets have it quiee, I'll be back
In a few minutes" and then take some
unruly child by the hand and escortlng
the boys. If we didn't learn anything
else, think we learned a little disci-
pline, which I'm sure you all notice
now.
From this department we entered
the Second Grade. Here Miss Larson
now Mrs. H. S. Halverson of this city
took us into her hands. In this grade
teacher A more kind hearted teacher
can never be found. She evidently was
not in favor of the rod as it was never
used. .".- -
janitor often rang the bell twice in
order that we little tots who came
later than the rest could climb those
long winding stairs rs and and get tn to our ps
saved us the shaky feeling of facing
our professor. then M. D. Aygarn.
In the Third Grade. Geneva Schaub
entered school. We learned how to
aIa nd 70 int oil en-
learned grammar-or as we called it
then language and the three RS.
Thus we left this grade not with joy,
come back again so that we could be
once more with the teacher we thought
SO much of.
The following summer the dear old
school burned. Wonder how it hap
,pened? And of course we thought we
were going, to have nice long vaca-
tion-but oh move didn't, for they
provided school rooms in every nook
and corner that they could find and we.
as Third Graders were situated in the
Gym of the Senior High School, now
occupied by Miss Eich. Here we came
Hagen. Nothing of marked importance
happened in this grade except that we
ell tried to win the blue card, SYM
-er fell in love with Mr. Stephel, the
manager of the Agricultural Depart
mend and so divided her time between
fh6r classes WITH MIN.
We entered the Fourth Grade in the
grand new building. My but we did
feel proud when we came in our room.
Everything was so nice and new, we
just didn't like to touch them Miss
Mildred Severinson was our teacher.
We did love to tease her. Whenever
we pronounced her name all one could
hear was the SIS sound. 1t did, "get
remember the nice big cloak room
where we used to eat all of our candy
and talk over the happenings Of the
night before-when we were supposed
Fifth Grade and we find MERGED Bishop
Joining us. Miss Elsie Palm, the little
blonde teacher taught us some of the
more difficult subjects of the Fifth
Grade. How well we all remember the
get 100 in spelling. Then marching
over to the Senior High and singing
for the Seniors-how proud we were.
In the Sixth Grade we had the time
OF our life getting rid of and getting
started the year with Miss Weigh, who
was very strict and wanted discipline
but didn't succeed in getting it. AS a
result of our misbehavior she myster-
iously disappeared at least that is the
Sudden departure. Then Lillian Han
SON. one OF the Normal Lights took us
in hand for several weeks until Mrs.
Gflleg became our teacher, who stayed
By us for some time. Under her super
vision marked Improvement in conduct
was shown on our report cards. We
wonder now how many pair. OF stock
ings MERGED wore out, crawling down
the isles to hand note to the per-
son way back in the room Then MISS