The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1917-05-26
VALEDICTORY.
By Miss Cleo 0soinach, Class II, Bay High
School, Bay St. Louis, Miss.

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your presence indicate an interest in us;
to you, our teachers, who have so care
/ fully guided us in our aims and aspira-
tions through many years that seemed
long and laborious, though they con-
tanned many happy days; to you, fell
low-students and classmates, who have
so many fond recollections of the nu-
merous joys and pleasures of school
days, mingled here and there with dis
couragements and disappointments, it
is my privilege to bid farewell.
This is time filled with both sad
ness and Joy: sadness rises within US
when we think that SO many close rela-
tionships, which are acquired only
through so many years together, must
be severed; but joy replaces sadness
when we consider the great pathway of
! life in which the door OF success is
open wide for all who will enter.
Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees:
I am proud of the honor of bidding you
| farewell. We realize that twas through
your earnest efforts and well-laid plans
that we have been able to secure very
ample benefits from our Alma Mater;
therefore, wish to extend to you our
deepest gratitude in bidding you fare
/ we'll.
To the members of the Faculty.
| teachers at whose feet we have so often
sat, whose patience we have tried re-
peatedly, whose best-laid plans we have
often foiled by our heedlessness, yet
whose kind words and good influences
have deeply impressed us,-how can we
voice our farewell to you?
| AS We have now reached the first
climax of our lives, we know that had
not your guiding hand directed us
through days that seemed to US long
and arduous hours of toll, we would
| possibly have fallen by the wayside,
| never to have reached the goal for which
we have 30 long been striving. Words
cannot express our thanks for your sac
rifces; but we hope that through all
our lives we shall surpass all your ex-
pectations, thereby showing our lasting
gratitude to you. We say farewell with
true promise with an affectionate re-
membrance of each of you.
Members of the Undergraduate Class
es: AS we step out upon the threshold
of life, great responsibility is placed
upon you, who are to - !. cur places
/ for, each class follows in the footsteps
of its predecessor. Therefore, each OF
you must put forth your best endeavol
that each succeeding class may have a
brilliant example upon which it would
be difficult tor them to improve.
All who receive the advice of the
poet, who said, Stitch your wagon
to a STAR" will always attain great
achievements. With a hearty wish that
your journey through life may be pleas
ant, your disappointments few, that eye
ry success may crown your efforts, and
that you will always have fond re-
membrance for the class Of III, we say
goodby.
To you, dear classmates, the parting
word of farewell must be addressed; the
time must come when we must say good
by. Heretofore, this time has seemed
SO distant; year, month, two weeks
Now the moment of separation has ar
rived and we have not said "Goodby.'
The word sounds as a note OF strange
music upon our ears, while it brings
pleasant memories of happy days to.
gether it is also like the tinkle Of a sill
yer bell inviting US to enter into diff.
ferent and higher sphere of life.
l could wish nothing higher or hep
pier for US than. that through all oul
lives not only in days OF sunshine and
Joy, but also in those that are oversha-
dowed by deepest sorrow, as We review
the past, we may see duty we'll perform
ed and suffering nobly endured in a life
crowned with success in its every un-
! dertaking.
i Now, with an unfailing esteem, akin
to reverence, for our Alma Mater,a steady
loyalty for one another, and with noble
aspirations for higher and broader
life-let US bid each other Farewell.