The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-20
3. H. s. NOTES
By IDA CLARE

morning about noon they would have readily noticed that there was some thing doing that was out of the usual course of affairs two days before the reports are given out This look had not appeared all morning but just about d:30 <Ie great change took place and the mysterious, happy light came. What was all the mystery? Everywhere there was a. buzz, Did you see him?'', or Who d'yAeu sup pose l saw in the lower hall?'' About 12 o'clock appeared a white slip and pupils were told to go to their session rooms. Something surely was wrong; an assembly at 12 o'clock! There was a chosen few who knew about the whole proceeding but in the majority of pupils, it was a mixed feeling of awe and delight which struck them when they befesd Arthur Lee, our former principal, coming down the aisle, aceonRJanied by ME. Moore. Most of the pupils were so dunn stricken that they could no say word, but gave vent to their feelings in the piauddts which lasted for fully five minutes.
 MT. Moore said a few words and then MT Lee arose to speak. Again the pupils started app1audizag. stSchol ars," he said, SI am de4zghed to be back here with you again. even if it is only for one day. You make me think of the very many happy days I spent with you, and let me say here that although I have spent 9 years of my life in teaching in various Echools, I can trtIthfuIly say that the happiest of all those years were the T very few short ones which spent with you. You, scholars, meant so much to me while I was here, you were my whole thought, you made f17Jl happy"
 How good it was to hear Mir Lee again and hear his quiet but appeal ing way of addressing us. Let me say right here that I believe if the girls and boys had closed their eyes 7 to guess who was speaking they would have known right away when they heard the title scholars
 Many speakers, oh yes, very many speakers have come to address us since MT. Lee went away They have l called us "tyoung men and young women," ~fboys and girls,'' future citizens and so forth but none of these titles can reach so deeply into | our hearts as can that simple noun scholars by which Mr. Lee has al ways addressed us-
 Do you rem en1ber those days when we were doing So much war work here in the schooI2'' asked MT Lee. When we used to have thrift stamp contests and poster contests and sub 2 scription coI4ests2s 2s Do you remem- ber when the room representatives used to corre to the platform and put the peach pits in a large barrel, and one time one boy dumped a large basketfuI in. and on returning to his | seat found another pit in his vest EJ11 ,.aJ- t3N the platform to drop the extra one into the nass2 Weren't those happy days? Those were the days that seemed to be too full for school work We were all keyed up to a high pitch and couFd not settle roHr minds on study- That was an exciting period, scholars You may live to be as old as Methaselah but you win never for get that period for it is one of the greatest in the history of the whole world
 When I left this school about a year and a half ago, l remember say ing to you, T look forward to a high degree of success and prosperity for Bridgeport High school Now I say the same timing again. Bridgeport High school will one day be the model of the High schools 1n New England l have taught in New Hampshire, Massa chusetts, Conn ec1icut and Rhode Island, I have judged then pretty closely and I trufhfmI1y say that B H. S. is second to nome
 T talk now, mot as a teacher or principal, but as a. lbd1SiI9ess u1an-s The finest years of my life were spent In teaching and I will say of inc pro fession that teaching is the grandest, biggest and nobaestzof work Teaching brings out inc best that is in a man or woman They work harder than does the business Irlan- their hours are longer than Q business mans; they do not get the same financial reward as edfUes tzhe business man, but their work is the finest of all NoWa here is a. funny thing, scholars, per haps you newer realized ii 4sefore, but the teacher who makes you work the hardest and the longest is the teach CT who is heapEmg you the most anG who is most interested in you. There may be teachers 7v8aOEn you like be cause they let you off easy, as yoT say, but they faxe mot so 1nmch y0azs success at heart as has the teacher who makes you work steady
 MG. Lee asswe Ot3aeT fine sugges- tions and also toa1 US some of has splendid jokes
 +'Tn closing I Eonad say again t11aa it gives me the SBea4sst of pleasure to be with you and to yfew ~TE1t1 you the odd times we used to have I am always thinking of you, scholars you, yOa7F splendid facultg and grea1 High school, and inc memory of fhs precious proud and happy days had with yohs has made a deep i'm. pressiom on my 1nigads irng9neasfoE that will never leave me as long aa ! 1 lfxe,s' said MT. Lee.
 It was not only a pleasure for Bd1; Lee to be with us but it was a grea; pleasure for the pupils to have AE4; Lee with them, and if the rnstN~3r5 of the happy days we .seseI 1ogethes has made an impression on his 1aai1t 1T has made A5 deeper one on oalrs NIf. Lee and his work. while in th4 school is ohe Of the shining eNa5nples which will lead the ffsehoIars'' of E H. s. on to success.
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