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14 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK ant teachers we wish to express our sincere appreciation and thanks for their kindness and consideration to us all on every occasion. Their kindly inter- est soon made us feel at home here, and we felt we could go to them at all times with our difficulties. In the future we shall gratefully remember their efficient instruction and the fine spirit of cooperation such as exists between teacher and pupil in this school. But to-night we must part, and to my fellow-graduates I should like to say a last word. Paris High School will occupy a lasting place in our hearts. Here friendships were formed which have meant so much to us and our as- sociations at this school will never be forgotten. But to-night we leave Paris High School-each of us to pursue his own course. We realize now that school days are carefree days, and it is with very deep regret mingled with anticipation for the future that we say good-bye to them to-night. To the younger students we pass on the grand old traditions of this school and wish them every success in any undertaking whether as civilians on farm, in foundry or factory they provide the sinews of war or whether they serve country and Empire on land, or sea, or in the air. In saying good-bye we extend our best wishes for the continued success of this school in the future. In other and happier days graduates looked forward to the future with fond anticipation and glowing hopes. With us it is vastly different. We are liv- ing in strenuous times. The horrors of war haunt us daily. We know not what the future may bring forth. As the British Prime Minister said, long dark months of trial lie before us with constancy and valour our only shield. May we all be imbued with the same heroic and magnificent courage as he displays. Never in the world's long history have graduates stood on the threshold of life looking out upon a world so grim and threatening. The fear that our freedom, that our country is in danger of invasion, is of more mo- ment than the mere choice of a profession or gaining a livelihood. Let us face the future unflinchingly with heads high and chins up, doing faith- fully our daily tasks whether duty or danger calls us togfollow the arts of peace or the arts of war. The poet has said: We must be free or die who speak the tongue of England. Many students from this schoolalready have shown that they have the same high ideals. I'm sure the Graduates would like special attention drawn to them to-night. Our hearts are thrilled with patriotic pride when we hear or read the names of former fellow students who have joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, or the Royal Canadian Navy, or who have enlisted in the Cana- dian Divisions that now have the honour of protecting the island fortress of Britain, or who serve in the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force overseas, or who serve in the Red Cross to minister to the needs ofthe stricken civilians of the Old Land. As Graduates, we pay our grateful and loyal tribute to them. May their sacrifices and service for the democratic ideals of Liberty and Freedom, which we prize so highly, not be in vain, and may we all show the same courage and determination as they have shown so that we may con- tinue to live as free citizens, when this war is over, in this free land of Can- ada, which we all love so well. Donna M. Cowan.
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