THE GOLDONIAN 1927

The Following letter and Editorial are reprints from the first Goldonian published. It was then a monthly magazine, and although for many years it has only been terminal, it has always served the School well, and has been instrumental in keeping 'the family' in touch.

N.T.P Editor

The letter below was sent to the then Editor Mr. J. B. Dempster and was published in the very first monthly school magazine The Goldonian in 1927.

1st March 1927

Dear Mr. Editor.

It is with much pleasure I have heard of your project to produce a Monthly Magazine for the School. I have been very proud of the Supplement for which you and your Committee have been responsible in the "Guild Messenger," and, judging from the quality of that, I am certain this bigger venture will prove successful. It will be a great gain for us to have an organ of mutual communication in our School life. First of all, I think it will be a bond of comradeship, for it will be a tangible expression of our common life and interests. It will, therefore, make for solidarity, for your readers will realize they are not merely isolated units, but members of a family, all striving for the same end.

Secondly, the Magazine will be a record of achievement. Month by month, by means of the printed page, we shall be able to visualize the varied activities of our community in work and play. Outstanding events will he more than of passing interest; they will become permanent impressions. In this respect the Magazine should have a most stimulating effect. It will prevent the tendency to regard sectional interests as of paramount importance, and will provide a balanced review of the activities of our corporate life as a whole.

Lastly, the Magazine will give scope for the development of self‑expression, in the form of writing, to a large number of boys who have had little opportunity for such work. The Night School Classes have revealed how great is our need in this respect. Thoughts are continually passing in the minds of all, but many boys lack the power to express them. The articles and letters which you will receive will be efforts to reproduce thought in concrete terms, and your contributors will find by practice that facility of expression, though seemingly impossible at first, is attainable in some measure by all, and when obtained, is one of the most useful gifts bestowed to man.

With all my heart I wish your venture every success. Your motto suggests that the end crowns the work. You are at the beginning of your effort; the end is in the mists of the future, but there is no doubt whatever that in this particular work, its ultimate completion, both to readers and contributors, will be realized as a coronet of success.

Yours faithfully,

F. C. Suckling. Governor

Reproduced from the Goldonian Summer 1959
Also reprinted in the last edition of the Goldonian Spring 1967

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