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ready and willing to help us. I refer to the members of the staff of the C. C. I. without whose help we could not have become graduates.
I would also like to express our gratitude to our school board for all they have done for us. They are always looking out for the welfare of the students and are always willing to make them comfortable and give them the best education pos- sible. As an example of this there now stands the new Collegiate Institute with all modern facilities and improvements. Although we graduates will r.•d enjoy the privileges of the new school we thank the school board for its generous gift to the town for the betterment of education.
And so we thank our dear Alma Mater for her gift to us for the future- the future which shall definitely start when the word "farewell" falls from my lips. The brief respite comes to a close and we, the graduates, pass from her halls of learning. We are proud of the Collingwood Collegiate Institute; we reio;cP.cl in her present, we are confident of her future in her new build- ing. With grateful hearts, where sorrow and joy are mingled, and with a realization of our obligation to her, we, the graduat- ing class of the C. C. I. of the year nineteen hundred and twenty- five say, "Farewell".
A Radio Detective
Gerry Honeyford had got a radio at last. After weeks of persuasion Mr. Honeyford had finally consented to the building of the set. That is, he dug into his trousers pockets. The radio had been two weeks in the building but now it was complete. The aerial was up and all was ready.
The evening arrived. Of course Gerry had been trying all afternoon to get London, England and New Zealand whom, he had figured were to be on the air about that time and he was disappointed that he could not get these mythical stations. Well as I said, the evening arrived. About seven p.m. Gerry got th~ first squeak of the set. The family, that is Mr. and Mrs. Honey- ford and Louise, his sister, gathered around the radio with various questions.
"Do you hear anything?" inquired Mr. H.
"Are you getting KDKA ?" asked Mrs. H.
"How's it coming through?" was Louise's anxious inquiry.
"Oh, for crying out loud, how do you ever exoect me to hear with all that row?" Gerry burst out. -
After that the family kept fairly quiet with only a few whispered conversations.
"Sh-h-h, I got something," Gerry informed them. Then as he turned a little knob it came through the headphones loud and clear. Gerry laid the phones on the table so that the family
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