St Thomas Military Academy - Kaydet Yearbook (Mendota Heights, MN)

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3n jHemortam Behold, O Lord, Thou has known all things, the last and the things of old: Thou has formed me, and hast laid Thy hand upon me . . . And I heard a voice saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow them. Apocalypse.

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OFFICE Father Flynn, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Lloyd Rogge keep the financial wheels of the school running . . . Mr. Murphy's Assistants: Mr. Wm. Freebury, Mr. George Dixon, Mrs. Harvey Buron, Miss McMullen. The most thankless task of any administrator on the campus falls to the lot of equable Mr. Lloyd Rogge, the purchasing agent for the College and the Academy. For the high stan- dard of meals served in our dining hall, the boarder cadets wish to assure Mr. Rogge and Mr. Camille Kirmser of their hearty grat- itude. Poge Twenty-three

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CAPTAIN CHARLES SCHOEPPNER Died June 25, 1947 As the day of our graduation approaches, we seniors have but one regret: that our beloved friend Captain Charles Schoeppner was not with us during our last year. We will al- ways remember and cherish his classes and, among other things, his famous ring of learning which over a long period of years awakened many lazy students. Captain Schoeppner was born May 22, 1908, in Bavaria, Germany. He studied at the University of Salzburg and in northern Italy. In 1934 he left Germany for political reasons and came to the United States where he entered St. John's University at Collegeville. However, he received his B.A. from St. Thomas College and his M.A. from the University of Minnesota. In 1937 the Acad- emy was fortunate in engaging Captain Schoeppner as pro- fessor of Latin and German. At the time of his death he was research assistant in neurology at the University of Minnesota and was to have received his Ph.D. in July of 1947. All of us who knew him will long remember him, for he was the friend and guiding light of every troubled cadet. REQUIESCANT IN PACE Born in Erin, Wisconsin, Miss Alma Heffron filled the import- ant position of typing instructor at the Academy for many years. The only woman instructor we met along the way, she was a master in the technique of typing and developed ability in her students to such an extent that her department became synonymous with the word efficiency. Miss Heffron always held a warm place in the hearts of both faculty and students who will remember her for her admirable personable qualities of friendliness, patience, and an altruistic interest in those under her tutelage. We are, as it were, pedestrians in a city, hurrying toward our firesides, eager, preoccupied, mundane. But often we will pause as we recall the hours spent in Miss Heffron's classroom, and we will breathe a prayer for her that God, if He has not al- ready done so, will soon clothe her soul with inexhaustible felicity. MISS ALMA HEFFRON Died September 7, 1947 Pago twenty-five