Columbia Preparatory School - Columbiad Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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VALEDICTORV Reverend Fathersg Honored Guests: Fellow Studenlsg Fellow Graduates: IT IS INDEED HARD to realize that for us, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty, today is graduation day. ln former years we took our particular part in these exercises secure in the thought and anticipation of the one or more years that remained for us at Columbia Preparatory. Today we reach the concluding chapter of our autobiography of high school days. Our story here is drawing to its inevitable close. A few more pages, a few more hastily sketched scenes and actions-a few more final cherished minutes-and our life as students of Columbia Preparatory will be a matter of record, a part of Columbia's history. Today is graduation day. If graduation meant to end or to complete the sketching of our life's history, today would indeed be a sorrowful day. But graduation really means to take a step for- ward, a step higher in that pursuit of knowledge which death alone can halt. That sorrow overshadows our joy of accomplishment is due to the memories of four happy years. We recognize and we respect this reluctance to say goodbye, but we must not let the sorrow of parting dominate our joy of progress onward. To the two splendid men and reverend Fathers who have been principal at Colum- bia during our four years here, we owe the deepest appreciation and thanks for their continuous efforts to set us on the right track and to make men of the small boys who first gazed upon the campus four years ago. In the name of the graduating class 1 wish to express that appreciation and gratitude. We have learned to respect the members of the faculty, not vaguely because of their authority, but 'heartily because of our having known them in different lights, in the classroom, at play, and when, seeking advice, we have come to them with our prob- lems. We have felt their interest in our school affairs, we have sensed their deep con- cern for our success, for our future. We are grateful that the spirit of Columbia Preparatory makes for such companionship between student and teacher. To you, our fellow students, a few words: Throughout our four years we have had many opportunties to better ourselves and to advance the best interests of Colum- bia. No doubt we have failed to realize a considerable number of' theser opportunities. To you, therefore, we confide the future of our school, knowing that you are wozthy of the trust, and that your enthusiasm and loyalty is no less than ours. Seize every opportunity to advance Columbia's interests for to you, too, graduation will come all too soon. Fellow graduates: in these past four years we have learned to know and to value one anotherg we have shared our pleasures and our sorrows, we have formed the unrivalled friendships of school life. For some of us the education that we have obtained here will be our greatest capital in beginning life. That capital and our future in the world we owe in great part to the influence of Columbia Preparatory. So, then, let us make the most of our splendid Christian- education. Let us hold dear the memory of our school, its traditions, its teachings, its ideals. To Columbia Preparatory, to the Faculty and Student Body, we bid a reluctant farewell.