Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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5 Editoricil An Invitation: You are cordially invited to a banquet — please bring all the house guests you never wish to see again. We were reflecting that the next three hundred and fifty years of local history got off to a pretty quiet start a decade or so ago in the libraries of Bermudian schools. 1959, we thought, was a good year to take account of it, and we pro- ceeded to thrash the matter out on the Editorial — or Groaning — Board. With examinations full upon us it was hardly wise. An impression, it seemed, was somehow current that a library was a place where the young take shelter from the rain. We had formerly supposed it was not so passive a thing; our opinion was that far from being an expendable appendix the library was an indispensable organ of much wider func- tion, storing nourishment, feeding mind and spirit, and en- marrowing the bones of that sturdy structure that a good school, in good times, can help to produce. We recognised, of course, that it needs a square meal now and then. At that point we conceived the idea of holding a banquet — a special feast that should be several generations in the partaking, and one whose guests of honour (universality pre- serve them!) should come to us from as far afield as two millennia. It is — you will perceive — your house guests we are after. We went into the Library and took a look about us. Sir, as Doctor Johnson said, more or less, to be sure, there was food upon the table, but it wasn ' t a dinner to invite a man to. We had hoped to see something more sumptuous. Discussion passed to the bill of fare, and the arrange- ment of the company. A crust, we agreed, will do for a hungry man, though sometimes, we had to admit, the over-televised

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Few men in their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. BAKERY Pitt ' s Bay Road

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6 palate needs tempting with an especially succulent array of titbits. Glumly we gazed about us on the shelves. Then suddenly the news came through. As you will see elsewhere, we are indebted to the Old Boys ' Association for some very generous activity behind the scenes on our behalf. And again, thanks to the Chellaram Foundation, a Library Fund is now handsomely in being. We are most grateful for all of this. Now we can begin, we see, to select our volumes, matching to familiar needs, new resources. But generously though we have been set on the way, we shall make short work of the Library Fund. Unless, that is, it keeps on growing. We should appreciate exceedingly the gift of all the books you can spare to us. And, of course, we can put to good use any money you may care — for this purpose — to donate. We have recognised, and hope we are not alone among our readers, that it is a fortunate boy whose education really begins at school. Sooner, or later, we know, teaching must give place to learning, or the whole experience has been profit- less. This transition, we are aware, occurs in a library, of some sort, somewhere, or not at all. That is why we are con- cerned that the school shall be in a position to offer more, and still more, and always more again. Invitations are out, tables prepared, guests begin to arrive. We look forward to seeing you. BOOKS: any subject any condition CHEQUES any amount R.S.V.P. to the Headmaster.