(Dear President -
Oct 21/Dec 4/65)

I thank you all for inviting me to share from afar, in your celebration today, and only wish I could be with you. I have cherished the memories of my seven years in Canada, ever since I left it in 1911.

I have always loved your country, and many Canadian friends who enriched my life. Sixty years ago, when this school was born, I was 19, and had the honour of having two things named after roe, as a tribute, of-course, to my father, Lord Grey, then Governor-General. One was a School; the other a broad-beamed, busy little tug-boat on the St. Lawrence river.

You might have thought that no two things could have 80 little in common. But I wonder.
Is it not a tug-boat's job to lead, partly by pulling and partly by pushing, a great ship to its anchorage?' And is it not a Junior School's business to lead, again by alternately pulling and pushing, a cargo of young minds into the main stream that will float them to a civilised maturity? We know that the word "Education" means, not "a pulling into"', but a "leading out from." A school is, or should be, a, place", where the capacities lying dormant in all young creatures ,are gradually drawn out and developed for use. And for what use? To think; to distinguish good from bad;' to detect what is false and faked; to make .the best of every talent; to be aware of the beauty of the world to be active, cheerful, amused and, if possible, amusing; to make and keep friends; to enjoy things; to grumble as little as possible; to keep an open mind, and, as a consequence, to be happy, even in the difficult, if exciting, world of today.

It is a lot to ask from a School, but nothing less will really do, and it is with this warmest hope that my Namesake may accomplish- this. that I am

(Your well wisher and Friend

Evelyn Jones)

(Hand writing is in brackets)