Jón Bjarnason Academy - 01.05.1931, Blaðsíða 19

pare and develop the young for lives of useful service in the
country where they now live and where nearly all of them
were born.
It is, as yet, too early to make a statement regarding the
influence of our pupils in the larger and more important school
of life. We have been sowing. God will take care of the har-
vest. And we, who have followed the career of a number of
our graduates have noticed, with pride and thankfulness,
many evidences that our humble efforts have not been in vain.
We have had the satisfaction of seeing that the ideals incul-
cated in the Jon Bjarnason Academy have been a lasting guide.
We hope for still more abundant evidences of this in the future.
“Our echoes roll from soul to soul and grow forever and
forever.” I cannot find any quotation that expresses more fitt-
ingly what we wish to accomplish. If our aims and aspirations
outlined above contain, in public estimation, some practical
and cultural values, may we hope for the moral and economic
support of the Canadian public, in order that our “echoes”
may grow and we be enabled to extend our sphere of activity
for a greater service to our fellow men.