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VALEDICTORY Mr. Partridge, Mrs. Joyce, Honoured Guests, Parents, Members of the Teaching Staff, and Fellow Graduates. Today marks an important milestone for the graduating class, for we are formally bidding farewell to Edmund Partridge Junior High, our second home for the past three years. I deeply appreciate the honour of having been chosen to speak on behalf of my classmates on this significant occasion. To some of us, “graduating” simply means a new school to look forward to after a two month summer vacation. This, in a sense, is true but the real meaning of graduation lies deeper. It means that we have finished a challenge that was before us and now we must again walk another mile on the highway of life and face but another challenge. We will be expected to accept newer and greater responsibilities and we must be prepared to throw off our sometimes childish ways and become mature young adults able to meet the never ceasing demands of the modern world. If I may, I would like to quote a few lines from a poem wri tten by a great American poet, the late Robert Frost. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep.” We, too, have promises to keep and miles to go before our sleep. Our journey has just begun. We will be entering high school — a very important step in our education. Our success at this level can determine what our next steps will be. For some it will be the end of their formal education. Others, however, will continue on to higher forms of education, such as university or college. Then, we must enter some field where we are able to prove ourselves and bring honour to those who helped us. Canada, as well as other countries of the world, is growing in population. With the decreasing demand for employ¬ ment, only the best educated and well trained will get the jobs. Fellow graduates, it is important for us to realize right now that the world we shall control demands quality — quality brought about through education. Only when we have completed our schooling will we be able to say that we have walked a few more miles on that rough and some¬ times rocky highway of life. Today we are graduating from junior high school. Yesterday it was elementary and tomorrow senior high school. Let this be a beginning to better work habits and even higher marks. Let us set our future goals high and aim for the stars. As this progression through life is occurring we will have to leave many things which have become a part of us. It is very difficult to say good-bye to something of which we have become fond. But as we do say farewell to Edmund Partridge it is with deep gratitude. We will be forever greatful to our parents, teachers, counsellors and our principals — Mr. Dwyer and Mr. Partridge for their guidance and never ending patience during this very impressionable part of our lives. We hope that we, the graduating class of 1964-65 will never be forgotten here, just as we, too, will always treasure the fond memories of Edmund Partridge and be a credit to it. In closing, I would like to say to my fellow graduates: Amor Doctrinae Floreat — Let the love of learning flourish.
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