The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1955, Qupperneq 24

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Winter 1955
thought you tried to hide. I can hear
him tell the class—“Blessed is the man
who gets an education, but twice bless-
ed is the man who earns his educa-
tion”.—I wonder why he is the most
intellectual man in the whole com-
munity; then come to the conclusion
that it must be because he studies the
Book of Divine laws. I find myself
looking, as I enter a church, for a
Minister like him, big of body, soul
and mind.
Yet I cannot leave this scene with-
out looking across the street and greet-
ing with highest respect a very fat
lady with a heavy step who mothers a
house full of little children. She is
never without a wide friendly smile
on her beloved face. I am sure she
taught me the shame of complaining.
I reach the old school house and
long for a scene I love the best, a
hushed room listening to Tales from
Dickens, but the church music keeps
resounding in my ears, drawing me
back, for my father is the soul of the
music and returns to me when old
melodies cradle my heart and I find
my mother when I quote this couplet
I read somewhere long ago:
“Richer than I you cannot be,
For I have a mother who reads to me”.
We all have a hometown. It is the
roots of our minds and flowers forever
in our thinking!
MY FATHER’S SINGING HEART
I find him when I see an open field
Of curving meadows fragrant with
the dew.
As rising vapors let their shadows yield
The mystic shades that border on
the blue;
And often in the stillness of the night
As stars are paving their high silver
way,
I feel his presence like the beam of
light
That lifts the darkness to unfold
the day.
Yet when I hear soft tones of music
blend
Their rhythmic melodies into the air,
His ever-present spirit seems to send
Its harmony, and I become aware
Of echoes, where his voice is deep and
strong
As if his soul were cradled in a song.
—Freda Bjorn, Seattle
Tacoma News Tribune
March 12, 1955
Third Time
Sharon Johnson, eleven year old dau-
ghter of Dr. and Mrs. A. V. Johnson
of 217 Hertford boulevard, Tuxedo,
was for the third time in three years
awarded a silver medal and Frederick
Harris scholarship by the Royal Con-
servatory of Music of Toronto. The
Medallist
awards are given to the student receiv-
ing the highest marks in the province
in each grade of the conservatory’s
practical examinations. This year’s
award was for grade four piano exam-
inations. Sharon was previously win-
ner in grade two and three.