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OCR Page 1 of 7SPEECH OF HARRY S. TRUMAN BEFORE THE
CENTIENNIAL PROGRAM, KEMPER MILITARY
SCHOOL, BOONVILLE, MISSOURI, ON MONDAY
MAY 8, 1944,AT 6:00 IN THE EVENING.
RELEASE ON delivery
Colonel Hitch, members of the faculty, cadets of Kemper Military
School, and distinguished guests:
I am indeed privileged to have the opportunity to speak to you
during this momentous celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Kemper
Military School.
Kemper has come to be known throughout our nation as an institution
of which we in Missouri can well be proud. From its humble beginning in a
small frame structure, it has grown to the magnificent school we know today.
Kemper Military School, as the oldest boys* school in the West,
has developed through the years the highest traditions. It has built up a
reputation as a seat of learning - and more important - as a maker of men.
Graduates of Kemper have gone forward into all walks of life and
have acquitted themselves with distinction. Their success is the real tribute
to the wisdom and the ideals of their teachers conveyed to them in the class-
rooms - on the drill fields - and in the dormitories of Kemper. During
undergraduate years they learned to live in comradeship. They learned to
know and to understand their fellow students. These lessons they carried
with them into the world, and by their example, others have learned the
principles by which men can live one with the other in peace and security.
I feel that I should like to address my remarks this evening
particularly to the cadets of Kemper Military School. I believe that you,
as military students, are most vitally concerned with the present war conflict,
its meaning, and its aftermath. From the halls of your great school, many
have answered the call to the colors, and it may well be that many of you
;
here this evening will hear that call and respond as did your brothers.
C NARA
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