The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-06-04
81 Students
Leave Local
High School
George Selke, President of
State Teachers College,
Delivered Address
IS LARGELY ATTENDED
Exercises Held In Junior
High Auditorium On
Thursday Evening

With kindly admonition, sound
advice and hearty congratulations
the graduating class of 1886, con-
sisting of 81 members, who have
just passed through the portals Of
the Sank Centre High School, were
ushered out of the institution into
world of their own making.
Relatives and friends in large
numbers gathered in the Junior
High School auditorium Thursday
evening, May 28th, to honor these
young people, who have completed
their course of preparatory educa-
ton. Some of them will now enter
schools of higher learning to COM
plete their education for use in lat
err life, while others will take up
work, if possible, in preparation
for business careers.
Helen Minette and Wanda Car
penter, bearing salutatory and val
edictory honors, acquitted them
selves splendidly, having prepared
weighty, yet sensible thesis and
delivered them admirably. Their
offerings were as follows:
SalutatOry
To the Board of Education, our
superintendent and faculty, and to
our parents and friends the class
OF 1896 extends it's appreciation.
Everything that you have done for
us has helped us immeasureably in
gaining our goal. Tonight marks
the climax of our High School car
eer. We are very glad to have you
share this evening with us.
conference.-the full Of
meaning is that work for all of us
who are gathered here tonight,
probably for the last time that we,
as a class, will be assembled to-
gether. For some of us commence
ment means obtaining a position
and earning a livelihood, for 9TH
ers of us it may mean the contin-
uance of education at higher school
of learning. But it matters not
what we do or where we go, after
ferent course. 1t does not matter
what profession we may choose to
follow, whether it be teaching,
banking, medicine, law or politics,
but whatever it may be, we should
put our whole hearts into it in Or
der to be successful. BY success I
do not mean amassing great rich
es or power or glory but to build
noble character, to be honest, kind
and loyal; to be faithful in the per-
Torrance of our duty. 1t doesn't
make any difference if our place
In society Is high or low. If we
build strong character and if we
are honored and respected by our
fellow workers, we are successful.
Each one of us has been given
the task of painting a picture Of
life as he sees 1t. The background
of that picture has been painted
with the aid of our teachers,
friends and parents, throughout
our school life. Now we must set
out and paint the central figure,
the integral part of that picture,
and this most important work can
be done only by ourselves. The way
we live will determine the outcome
of our picture.
Tonight, at Commencement, we
must start thinking about what
type of picture we are going to
paint, what type of life we are go
ing to lead. Is it going to be a SIM
pie picture; an elaborate, compli-
Gated picture, difficult to paint; an
evil picture, showing hardness and
cruelty; or is it going to be a good
beautiful picture? Every kind
word that we speak, and every
thoughtful deed that we do will
make our picture a little better;
every despicable and cowardly act
that we commit will make it more
dreary and loathsome. We should
live our life so that when it comes
to an end we can leave in the art
gallery of the world a beautiful
painting representing our life.
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