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FOREWORD
Once again a year is so well advanced that we may look forward to
receiving the magazine within a few short weeks. I shall address my
remarks to the students in general, but more particularly to those who
haye submitted magazine material or helped in some other major way.
For you an important project for the year is almost complete. You
will soon be entitled to share the satisfaction due to those who have
carried out an important task well. In this, I am sure, you have all felt
that nothing but your best effort will do, for then only might you expect
your best result, improve a little on the fine magazines of previous
years, provide a standard satisfying to yourselves, worthy of your
school and fitting to be emulated by those who will follow.
As the "mag.” is largely a record in brief of what has taken place
during the year let us remember, in addition to those who have written,
all those whose performances in the class room or as students taking
part in other activities have done something worthy of mention. That
means, I feel sure, all our students and so we witness another fine
example of team work and I congratulate all members of the team on
the parts they have played.
On the sporting fields throughout the year we have met in friendly,
stimulating rivalry the chosen representatives of other Metropolitan
State High Schools. It has been a pleasant experience; we know their
• ttle, we respect their prowess and we rejoice in their progress. We
e proud, indeed, to be of the great and growing company of Queensland
State Secondary Schools. But I feel that with this splendid development
our responsibilities are increasing. This we welcome, but by diligence
alone will we maintain in the ranks a position of which we shall justly
be proud.
Might I then stress that all our students—I am thinking of any who
have not already done so—should form a clear mental picture of what
the school has a right to expect of them. Keeping this clearly in mind
they should strive at all times to live up to it, thus helping to build up
our school tradition. We are still a young school and there is much to
do in this regard. Tradition comes slowly with the years but most surely
as the result of earnest endeavour by all,‘and the rewarding success
which follows.
Finally, what we do in the future will depend largely on the
inspiration we derive from the goals of former days. Herein we see a
challenge which no earnest and able student will deny, for worth-while
achievement in the present becomes an incentive and in no small way
an assurance of success in the days to come.

THE PRINCIPA1