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SALUTATORY ADDRESS A REAL AMERICAN Eileen Barbara Merrick
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IN behalf of the Class of 1936 I cordially welcome all of our friends who are gathered here this morning to help us celebrate our Graduation Day. Mr. Hilton, to you and the memljcrs of the faculty we gratefully extend our thanks and appreciation lor your uniiring efforts in helping us through the difficulties of these last four ears, and in training us to meet courageously the problems of life. Mr. Pearson and members of the School Commiitee, we are deeply indebted to you for the splendid system ol education that your interest and enthusiasm have worked out for us. Fathers and mothers, to )oti we express our keenest appreciation and most sincere gratitude for )our many words of encouragement, your understanding, sympathy, and help, and, above all, your countless acts of sacrifice that have made jjossible for us this day. Last N() einbci inaiked tiie centennial oi the birth of .America ' s best loved auilior and greaiesi humorist. Samuel Langlujrne Clemens, belter known by the name of Mark Twain. Alilunigh this famous ciiaracter died twenty-six years ago, his fame as a man of letters is still glowing, until to-day he is perhaps more re- nowned than he e er was during the se ent -ri e years of his life. The celeijiation of liis one hundredth birthday was centred at Hannibal, Missouri, the boyhood home of his best-known characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. And it is here that, most ap[M-opriately, the ' aliei Russell Memorial of Mark Twain and his ciiaracters is to be erected. ' ] lie Clemens lamih was one of the thousands that in the early ])ioneer days could not resist tlie lure of the West: always hoping to Ijctler their h)rtunes by mo ing on, they first veiil bom X ' irginia to Tennessee, and then to Missouri. Here in the little illage of Florida, Missouri. Mark was born on the thirtietii of November. iS;}-,. W ' lieii lie Avas al)out Umr years old. !iis family mo ed again, this time to Haiiiiiijal. Missouri, on the Ijanks of the .Mississippi. It was this town with its hills, dills, boatmen, raftsmen, and deckhands, turbulent and reck- less, fighting, drinking, roistering, and ad eiituiing. that ga e him the haiij)iest moments of his life, that inllueiiced most ol the bac kground of his literary achieve- ments and that gave him the cliarac iers of Tt)in Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. As a youth Mark as ah a s iiu hided in the ac ti ities of the rascally neigh- borhood boys; so his mother reluclamly allowed him to leave school when he as t elye years old, on Iiis promise that he would slop running away from home, and gi e up tlie company ol his rough friends. For the next few years the boy worked as typesetter on his brcjther ' s news- pai)cr in Hannibal. Later he went east to Philadelphia and New York, to engage in journalisiic wnk. But his Irjve for the .gieat river, which later played such an imponam part in his liteiarv works, brought him tjack to the Mississippi Valley. ' ' During the next few years he became a ri er pilot, served for a brief period m the Civil ' ar, caught the mining fever, and became a newspaper reporter and editor. It was in his last capacity, as an editor, that he found the gold mine of his genius as a WTiter. In 1867 he added to his purely American knowledge an abundance of in- formation gained b) a tourist trip to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land. The [•4]
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