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VICE CAPTAIN’S VALEDICTORY ADDRESS TO THE WHOLE SCHOOL
With me as I leave here today are eighty-seven other young 2008 have inished their ime here. We have done our bit
men. We have shared experiences of plays, musicals, senior to help Gonzaga College grow towards its goals. The work is
and junior cup campaigns; we have worked with each other by no means complete; the school is by no means perfect,
and for each other in the compleion of goals. it needs your eforts. I would ask you to remember that it is
I have learned to value the ability to think for myself not the atainment of the goal of perfecion that counts but
and to express those thoughts, but what has given me the our constant and never-ending striving towards that goal.
conidence to stand here before you today are the friendships I Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam. Striving to do everything for the
have made over the six years here. greater glory of God.
I have learned to take pride in my achievements and I have learned how to expand binomial expressions and
yet my proudest moment here was watching the performers how to conjugate the verb to be in ive languages, but the
in our 5th Year musical take their bows from my seat in the desire to serve others and to do my best in all my endeavours
orchestra. Gonzaga has taught me how to appreciate the was insilled in me here in Gonzaga by the example of the
achievements of others so that the achievements of one staf.
are the achievements of all. We are a close-knit group today Henry Adams once said “A teacher afects eternity; he can
because of the experiences we have shared. never tell where his inluence stops.”
Members of the Class of 2008: I ask you, as we move on, To you, the teaching staf: in your perseverance, kind-
to be, as the school moto urges us, Semper et Ubique Fidelis hearted concern and constant willingness to go above and
– always and everywhere faithful to the spirit of openness, beyond the call of duty on so many occasions, whether
honesty and concern for others which has so much deined for clarifying a concept for the hundredth ime or working
me my relaionships here. alongside us in a Village in Zambia, you have been both
To each one of you siing here before me: within you is inspiring and challenging. Many of you have had a huge impact
the potenial to be someone out of the ordinary, someone on my life and on the lives of others in my year and I thank you
extraordinary. Not in the way that puts you above anyone else for that.
but in a way that enriches the whole school and each person’s Gonzaga has deined most of what I am today and deines
experience of it. No man is an island; your acions have most of what I hope to be in the future. I am happy and proud
consequences not just for you, but for the whole community to be a student of this College.
that makes up Gonzaga College.
The choices and the opportuniies are in your hands Eamonn O’Brien
now; what will you choose to do with them? The Class of Vice Captain of the School 2008
VICE CAPTAIN’S VALEDICTORY ADDRESS TO THE WHOLE SCHOOL
With me as I leave here today are eighty-seven other young 2008 have inished their ime here. We have done our bit
men. We have shared experiences of plays, musicals, senior to help Gonzaga College grow towards its goals. The work is
and junior cup campaigns; we have worked with each other by no means complete; the school is by no means perfect,
and for each other in the compleion of goals. it needs your eforts. I would ask you to remember that it is
I have learned to value the ability to think for myself not the atainment of the goal of perfecion that counts but
and to express those thoughts, but what has given me the our constant and never-ending striving towards that goal.
conidence to stand here before you today are the friendships I Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam. Striving to do everything for the
have made over the six years here. greater glory of God.
I have learned to take pride in my achievements and I have learned how to expand binomial expressions and
yet my proudest moment here was watching the performers how to conjugate the verb to be in ive languages, but the
in our 5th Year musical take their bows from my seat in the desire to serve others and to do my best in all my endeavours
orchestra. Gonzaga has taught me how to appreciate the was insilled in me here in Gonzaga by the example of the
achievements of others so that the achievements of one staf.
are the achievements of all. We are a close-knit group today Henry Adams once said “A teacher afects eternity; he can
because of the experiences we have shared. never tell where his inluence stops.”
Members of the Class of 2008: I ask you, as we move on, To you, the teaching staf: in your perseverance, kind-
to be, as the school moto urges us, Semper et Ubique Fidelis hearted concern and constant willingness to go above and
– always and everywhere faithful to the spirit of openness, beyond the call of duty on so many occasions, whether
honesty and concern for others which has so much deined for clarifying a concept for the hundredth ime or working
me my relaionships here. alongside us in a Village in Zambia, you have been both
To each one of you siing here before me: within you is inspiring and challenging. Many of you have had a huge impact
the potenial to be someone out of the ordinary, someone on my life and on the lives of others in my year and I thank you
extraordinary. Not in the way that puts you above anyone else for that.
but in a way that enriches the whole school and each person’s Gonzaga has deined most of what I am today and deines
experience of it. No man is an island; your acions have most of what I hope to be in the future. I am happy and proud
consequences not just for you, but for the whole community to be a student of this College.
that makes up Gonzaga College.
The choices and the opportuniies are in your hands Eamonn O’Brien
now; what will you choose to do with them? The Class of Vice Captain of the School 2008
