WAR MEMORIAL AT HIGH SCHOOL.

Northern Advocate, 26 February 1944, Page 2

WAR MEMORIAL AT HIGH SCHOOL.

W2 feel that hearty support will be given to a suggestion made by a correspondent in yesterday’s issue of the “Advocate.” The writer expressed the opinion that no more fitting memorial to the boys of this district who have given their lives in the war, or who have served with the forces, could be provided than the'erection of an assembly hall at the High School. The heroes from this district who have made the supreme sacrifice in the nation’s cause were, in most cases, old boys of the High School, and it is fitting that their memory should be cherished by the succeeding generations of boys and girls who will pass through the school. An assembly hall, which is the one thing required above all others to complete the equipment of the school, would not constitute a memorial calculated to promote unworthy boastfulness or blind faith in the power of brute strength, to the denial of the spiritual forces which constitute the only solid foundation for a superstructure of world peace. Rather would it direct attention to those spiritual forces, for it is in the assembly hall of any great school, apart from the chapel, that the souls of students are most intimately brought into contact with their Creator. Looking down the corridor of time, our correspondent very appropriately says that the pupils of the High School are also entitled to know something of the atmosphere of famous schools in England, where traditions of service to the community _ are engendered by daily association with the cloistered and dignified memorials, of the past. This aspect of the question should be given sympathetic consideration when the people of the district take steps to provide a worthy memorial to the old pupils of the High School who offered all in the cause of freedom. The provision of an assembly hall at the High School as a form of war memorial should make strong appeal to all sections of the community.