A BREAK-UP CEREMONY
Sir,-By chance I lKlstened to the broadcast of the break-up ceremony of the Correspondence School, and found it simple and moving. The ceremony had obviously been planned as a complete programme, in which every part had significance in the whole. The Chairman’s introduction and the Headmaster’s report: were characterised by modesty and sincerity, Professor MacCaskill’s address was most stirring, with its ringing message of the need for harmony between man and man and man and land, and the Rt. Hon. Walter Nash struck what seemed to me a fitting note as a conclusion. The carols that were sung (recordings, I suppose) were appropriate,
"Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," crowning the moving address with a note of hope and joy. Perhaps the most striking feature of the ceremony was that it was free of the humbug and platitudes that have marred most of the school break-ups I have attended.
W.K.
McILROY
(Feilding).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 911, 25 January 1957, Page 5
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154A BREAK-UP CEREMONY New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 911, 25 January 1957, Page 5
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