1989 School Magazine

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His Excellency, Sir Walter Campbell, presenting Speech Day Awards

ADDRESS TO END OF YEAR ASSEMBLY AN D S PE ECH DAY BY HIS EXCELLENCY SIR WALTER CAMPBELL 18th November, 19BB Chairman of the Board of Trustees - Dr Crassie, Principal - Mrs Hancock, Members of the Board of Trustees, Members of Staff, Students, Ladies and Centlemen, Thank you, Dr Crassie, for your kind words of introduction. I am pleased to be here this afternoon in order to present the prizes to those students who have excelled in their studies and in other aspects of school life. One of the benefits of having been invited to present the prizes is that I am also able to speak to you, a large group of young women who are going through some of the most important and formative years of your lives. Those students who are completing Crade 12 are on the threshold of that stage in life when they will elect to go on to further studies or training for their chosen career or to enter the workforce for the first time. The final days at school are at the one time excitlng and sad. I know that they bring very mixed feelings: relief that examinations and assignments are over; pleasurable