The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-06-04
DR.. Coffrnan
Delivers Fine
Talk to Class
50th Annual Commencement
of Sank Centre Schools
Held Tuesday Evening
HONOR GRADS DO WELL
Supt. H. A. Falk Makes Fare
we'll Talk Concluding Nine
Years of Service

With a modest setting the 46
young men and women of the Sem
ior Glass of 1881 of the Sank Cen
tire High School were graduated
Tuesday evening before an aud
fence which practically filled the
large auditorium of the Junior
High School.
The class wearing gray caps and
gowns entered the auditorium to
the strains of Mendelssohn's Pre-
sist's March from alfalfa" with
Miss Hammond at the piano. Fol-
lowing the class were DR.. Lotus
Coffman, president of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, Commencement
speaker, Supt. H. A. Falk and ]. F.
Cooper, president of the Board of
Education.
The program opened with the
singing of Daniels June Rhap-
sody" by the Girls Glee Club.
Jane Strebel, with excellent poise,
rerfect enunciaion and splendid
emphasis, delivered strong Salut-
atory message to her classmates
and audience. The great experience
of the class, the speaker said, was
the ending of their High School
lives. Service to man is more impor-
tant than the ability to earn and
accumulate money. AS one gives to
others he receives freely and be-
comes a real friend of the people.
1t should be ones purpose to de-
1as,
increase their service to man and
make the world better for having
lived in it, Miss Strebel said.
Miss James Salutatory was one
of the most finished ever delivered
in the Sank Centre Schools.
The Girls Glee Club then sang
Bright May Morning" This or
ganization has been very efficient
ly trained by Miss Hammond.
Harold Rogers opened his Vale
dictory address with a beautiful
poem. He expressed the thanks of
the class to the Board of educa-
ton, to the faculty, parents, and all
patriotic citizens who had made
the privilege of the Sank Centre
High School possible.
Mr.. Rogers said the manner in
which the class lived in the next
ten years would have a marked in
fluence on their lives. He said they
had all been slackers because they
had not seriously faced the prob
lens of life. If they do not do their
best to solve these problems they
will become derelicts. In solving
life's problems each one have a
purpose. He is continually, uncon-
sciously striving for something, al
though at first he may not know
what it is. He said with love, truth
and understanding, to work out,
initiative to develop, obedience to
the state and natures laws one can
attain happiness and make others
happy. He said much unhappiness
was caused by endeavoring to gain
happiness and success through
material things.
Harold acquitted himself with
distinct credit as a student of the
class.
Supt II. A. Falk said that, be-
cause of the Importance of the
50th annual Commencement of the
Sank Centre Schools it was highly
important that man of outstanding
ability, able to deliver distinctive
address should be selected for the
Commencement speaker. He said
DR.. Lotus Coffman, president Of
the University of Minnesota, was
such man.
In his opening remarks Mr.. Cof-
man stated that he had graduated
from High School 20 years ago.
In the class there were IL girls and
two boys. In 1916, Mr.. Coffman
said, he delivered the Commence
ment address for Mr.. Falk at
Mountain Lake. Their friendship
extended farther back than 1916.
The speaker said the occasion
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