President --------------------------------------------------- ROBERT WESTERMAN

Vice President ---------------------------------------------------- BEVERLY RYAN

Secretary ------------------------------------------------------ SHARON MEIXNER

Treasurer --------------------------------------------------- HENRY PAWLOWSKI

FACULTY ADVISERS

MELVYN R. JOHNSON, Chairman

JAMES C. ANDERSON                                  Ross E. PECK

DOROTHY H. DANIELS                                EDWARD W. RALPH

LORINE K. GROSZ                                         OMER V. SCHOMMER

MRS. DOROTHY F. HAWKER                     MRS. MARIE M. SELLERS

MRS. ELEANORE E. Koop                    FREDERICK A. SUTER

FRANCES KORISTA                                       LEOLA C. WOLD

JOHN E. MULLIGAN

AWARDS

Minneapolis Star and Tribune ------------------------------------- JUDY JOHNSON

First National Bank ------------------------------------------ NANCY GILBERTSON

WILLIAM ROVICK

Daughters of the American Revolution - - ---------------------- SHARON MEIXNER

Sons of the American Revolution - - - - ------------------------- BRUCE BIRNBERG

Rose Rees ----------------------------------------------------------- JOY STEPHENS

Gale Essay ---------------------------------------------------- ELIZABETH WIDELL

Clarence and Lelia Blume Music -                    -        -       - JAMES LELAND

SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE

This year, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, the Minneapolis Public Schools will award a high school diploma to almost four thousand young men and women. In no other country has so much been done, in education, for so many-and we know that this is good.

As a graduating senior, your diploma, and what you have done to earn it, can mean much to you. If you have discovered a talent for mathematics, science, or literature, it will open the doors to further education in institutions of higher learning. If yours is a liking for the mechanical, clerical, or agricultural, a better starting job and possibilities of more rapid advancement should be your reward. But whatever your choice, the lessons taught you in school, of honesty, integrity, tolerance, democracy, social justice and ethical values can, if followed, enable each of you to make a profound impact on the future well-being of this World.

You can be justly proud of the attainment you have reached tonight. Your school, its teachers and other staff members, the Board of Education, your parents and friends all congratulate you and share in your justifiable pleasure on this important occasion.

Yours will be remembered as a generation faced with history's greatest opportunities, but also the greatest threats to our demo­cratic way of life. It is my hope that your education will help you realize these opportunities to their fullest, and to also successfully face the challenges to democracy that lie ahead.

Congratulations and best wishes for the future.

Rufus A. Putnam

Superintendent of Schools

CAROLINE K. BARRON

Principal

Board of Education

FRANK E. ADAMS                                                         CARL R. MILLER
MRS. SAM GALE                                                          ANDERS R. THOMPSON
FLORENCE LEHMANN                                                    EINAR T. PETTERSEN
ARNETT W. LESLIE

COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

"Too low they build who build beneath the stars."

-Young

"Pomp and Circumstance"-Elgar - Organist, CHARLES LUEDTKE

INVOCATION -------------------------------------------------- THE REVEREND J. 0. EKSTEDT

Fifth Avenue Temple Church

"America, the Beautiful" - - - - CLASS AND AUDIENCE

GREETINGS - - - Class President, ROBERT WESTERMAN

"Building Firm Foundations" - - - CAROL MAGNUSON

"Pointing Toward the Stars" - - - - STEPHEN SUTTER

"Aiming Beyond the Stars" ------------------------------------------ DIANE LOGAN

"Rondo Capriccioso"-Mendelssohn -                      -         - JAMES M. LELAND

Gale Essay --------------------------------------------------------- ELIZABETH WIDELL

"Were My Song with Wings Provided"-Hahn - JOYCE DAHLBERG

NANCY GILBERTSON

SHARON MEIXNER
Accompanist, MARY ANNE LIEN

AWARDS ------------------------------------------- Counselor, H. EDWARD NAGEL

PRESENTATIONS­

Class of 1958 -          -                MISS CAROLINE K. BARRON, Principal

Diplomas-------                           MR. EINAR T. PETTERSEN Member o f the Board o f Education

RECESSIONAL-"War March of the Priests"-Mendelssohn – ORGAN

The audience is asked to remain seated until all graduates have received
their diplomas.