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SPEECH 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