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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS M:■ J 30,1952. s Mr .Chairman, Honored Quests, Fellow Graduates, L .dies and Gentlemen: We, a very small part of the students, who, this year, will he graduating from all over Canada, must now make our final farewell to our schooldays, and especially to E.K.C. with all its past events, happy or otherwise. Like drips loosing from their moorings in the calm harbour where they have been safe and sheltered, we are going out into the world, as individuals, and where we do not expect to have all clear sailings. Wo must be ready to face the gales with the calms, the rain-squalls with the sunshine, and we will likely have many a long voyage swabbing decks and hoisting sails before we finally get our papers as Captain. We feel with Frederick Watt who has said, Ships to have souls must mostly win them, A few are born with spirit in them. And it is only a ana 11 minority of people who are born with some or all of the qualities of cleverness, a brilliant personality, and ease in making friends, The most of us have to work hard to achieve these characteristics but we value far more what we earn by v orking than what is given us for nothing. And this is where our teachers have so greatly helped us in the past. The benefits they have provided for us could never be valued in dollars and cents, for they have, by various methods tried to instil into us sufficient knowledge to pass in June. This is most important to us, for when we have our Grade XI diplomas, we will be able,to get a good job where there are oppor- tunit!as to work our y ay up, or better still, go on to University. Our horizon has been greatly widened, and we realize there is much more to b e accomplished than we had ever imagined before. But just getting a j ob and making good is not the only aspect from which we view the values of our education. For our minds are being developed to enjoy so many more pastimes, and wc will be able to live a richer and more fully rounded life. Although they do not come in books, and often had to be learned the hard way, we have been learning courtesy, honesty and obedience. .Without these qualities we would probably have to go to the under-world to get our friends, and it would be impossible to get or keep a job. We have been made to realize what a wonderful country is this our Canada, with all its privileges, as the freedom of speech the right to vote and the freedom of worship, but though we are filled with pride, at the same time we are saddened when we recall how much our forefathers had to pay by blood, sweat, and tears that we might have these rights.
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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS CONT’D. With the threat of war like an ominous thundercloud on our horizon there is a ringing challenge to the youth of today. It lies in our hands what will happen to the wo rid of tomorrow. Will man eventually destroy life with his great scientific advances or will he discover some means by .which to live in peace? The Bible states that there will be wars and rumors of wars. What good would we do if we ran and hid our heads under our pillows as we did when we were children, saying, I’m afraid? No. The only way we can be unafraid is to face the storm and have faith in God. tfe have been looking forward. In contrast, let us glance back and see what has been accomplished. How much praise goes to our teachers for helping to mould our characters. Their example has often been an inspiration to us to go on to bigger and better things. Their conversations have often cleared away a fog of misunderstanding and presented our troubles in such a different light that we found it comparatively easy to overcome them. They have taught us to steer in a right course and warned us of rocks ahead. For our cargoes are important, whether they be sandalwood peacocks and ivory, or road-rails, pig-lead, and cheap tin trays all are necessary, and no one want s a wreck. On life’s broad sea, we won’t likely meet our old school chums unless when we pull into port at Greenland, we find one of them selling hotdogs to the Eskimos, or run across an old friend whaling off Madagascar. But it saddens us as we feel that we are now leaving behind us the friendships formed in school, that meant so much to us through the past years. We have associated closely with students of different races, different up-bringings, and with different ways of living. In work and play together, we have enjoyed each others’ society, and learned much of the value of friends. Nov; as we are finishing our training at sohool, we would like to give a grateful thank you ’ to our parents, who have sac¬ rificed much that we might have the education denied to some of them. May we bring honour to them that their pride in us mav be justified. - - In closing, Masefield, I would like to quote our poet laureate, John A Valediction. We’re bound for blue water, where the great winds blow. It’s time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to go. The crod ' s at the capstan, the tune’s in the shout A long pull, a strong pull, and warp the hooker out. Yonder round and ruddy is the mellow old moon. The red-funnelled tug is gone, and now, sonny, soon We’ll be clear of the channel, so watch how you steer Ease her when she pitches, and so-long, my dear. Eleanor Harris.
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