Last year, this year and I suppose every year this is a time of happiness, excitement and sadness. This is the time of year for students to graduate and leave. This is a time of parting, a time of ending and a beginning. Nancy and I know that this coming week will be the last time we will see many if not all of the wonderful young people we have come to know and love during our stay here. These young people who will scatter to such far distant places, Siberia, Serbia, Hungary, the Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Israel, Macedonia, Estonia, Moldavia and other far distant places. We also know that we may never have the opportunity to live here again. If anything the future is an unknown and nothing, regardless of our wishes, is assured.
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