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43 on fgoofriofa 4 H EAD MASTED 'S MESSAGE YEAR ago, when I addressed my valedictory remarks to your predecessors of the Class of 1942, we were approaching the end of a still fairly normal year. With the fact of war we were familiar. We read about it in the newspapers, listened to the radio pundits deliver the last word about it Qtill the contradictions of the mor- rowj, and talked about it in season and out. But it did not touch us much as an insti- tution. We could only guess what the war might mean to us. You of the Class of 1943 have begun to find out. With the lowering of the draft age last November, the war entered the gates of Lawrenceville, to stay until the fight- ing stops. And part of Lawrenceville went out to make the war our own. Members of the faculty laid down the tools of their trade and joined the services. Letters from all the fighting fronts spoke of Laurentians wherever our cause was being fought for, and we knew that their allegiance to the cause had been forged partly in the corridors and classrooms which we were still inhabiting. As the numbers on the service flag increased and the gold stars began to multiply, it sometimes seemed to us as if the war were a Lawrenceville war. Everything we have done here this year has been done in the daily consciousness of war and in the atmosphere with which war has sur- rounded us. A You knew no precedent for most of it. The Work Program burst upon you full- armed, but almost at once you b-egan to wield your tools like veterans, after you had recovered from your early impression that they were dueling weapons. Your excite- ment at seeing members of the faculty also work fan activity with which-you had never associated them in your various thoughts about themj lent zest to your-labors. In Carter Stovall you produced the Program's chief public expositor, whose 'remarks treated the faculty more indulgently than they could reasonably have expected. . After the first of the year you caused the Head Master to abandon his usual occu- pation and become Lawrenceville's chief war information centre, a position made difficult by the Navy's extraordinary gift for changing its mind, so that the certainties of today became the lost opportunities of tomorrow. At times your reactions indicated your suspicion that this was basically MY FAULT. But we managed to swear in a number of you as members of V-1, though the needs of the service required Iohn Confort to wear mittens for several days in order to qualify. Since then the Marines, the Army and Navy Air Forces, and the Mountain Troops have received the benefit of your attention, not to mention such nebulous and uncertain organizations as V-I2 and A-12. It is my suspicion Cand I am rather proud of itj that a larger proportion of your membership have arranged their military future than in any other similar school. By way of more conventional distinction your class has produced the mad race be- tween Bill Umstattd and lim Hawthorne for top scholastic honors, the Shakespearean prowess of Fred Buechner, Bill Umstattd, and Barry Doig ffull name on requestjg a quite extraordinary Literary Magazine under Pete Forcey, with the exceptional poetic Nine
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43 on fgoofricfa 43 talent of Buechner and jim Merrill to distinguish it, and the able Lawrence editor- ship of Bill Patten. You provided most of the talent of a great football team, sparked by Iohn Grymes, who could see where he was going even without his glasses, and captained by Mike Decker, conceded to be Lawrenceville's best leader in many years. You have been led with firmness and discretion by Prince DeBardeleben, whose manner of speech has become intelligible even to foreigners from outside Alabama. I-Ie and his fellow officers and councilmen have made my lot unusually easy. They have bothered me little, and I hope my feeling toward them is reciprocated. It was hard to part company with those of your number who moved on in Febru- ary to college: an unprecedented event in the history of Lawrenceville. Stress and strain preceded their departure, but we were proud of their achievement and glad to help them on. Americans ordinarily don't like being joggled and you have been joggled more since last November than any Lawrenceville class in twenty-hve years. It will gratify you to know that I think you have worked harder and had more to do than any other class in Lawrenceville's history. I have remarked before but wish to repeat myself in print that you have kept your poise and your perspective to a quite extraordinary de- gree. Your midyear record in scholarship topped your predecessors by nearly four points. At the third quarterly rating just past as I write, your scholarship has set an all-time record: the full permitted quota of Cum Laude has been filled, which has never happened before till the end of the academic year. You have attended to your business when your country needed most your industry and application, and you have a right to feel that the admiration your masters have for you is well merited. We are too close to the events of the past year to venture a final evaluation. I am ready to say, however, that in my opinion there has been more sense of reality, more solid strength, a clearer perception of values at Lawrenceville this year than I have ever known. You and we have lived together through a year of disaster and destruc- tion. I hope we have learned something from it. The School is devoted to the task of cultivating men, of giving them the foundation and a citizenship based on service rather than on gain. You are about to be asked to pledge your service to your country at the risk of paying the highest price that men can pay for liberty and honor. As you leave us to carry on the work which you have helped us to do I could wish your harsh duty to be in no worthier hands. You have done credit to your school and to your- selves and you will do credit to your country. We shall watch your progress anxiously, hopefully, and affectionately. With a depth of emotion which I shall always feel for you particularly, I wish you Godspeed. ALLAN V. I-IEELY Head Master Ten
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