12 years ago, as I stood under duress on the other side of the school gate, little was I to know that 12 glorious years later, the time would finally come to bid adieu to my alma mater. Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand here on behalf of the outgoing batch of 2008-09 to express our deepest gratitude towards our teachers, who have moulded us into what we are today and what we will be tomorrow.
We were indeed an electric lot. We had our share of those with super intelligent brains, the incorrigible back benchers whose jokes and one liners enlivened a particularly dull class, the superstars of the basketball court, the quiet reserved ones and those who were the heart and soul of every function.
Today, we stand on the brink of adulthood, where the skies of success beckon us. Words seem sparse to describe our feelings towards our teachers but the words of Nicholas Rowe come to mind: “Your bounty is without my speaking but though my mouth be dumb my heart shall rank thee true.”
To conclude, I’d like to like to read out a verse from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”:
“The road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can.
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet,
And wither then? I cannot say....”
Thank you.
Monday, July 13, 2009
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