1930: Headmaster & Founder William Haegarty

His Opening Speech

Education. It allows students to open doors and have golden opportunities; it can save you from poverty, bad reputation - it can save you from yourself, if need be. There is nothing more important to our youth. 

And I am proud, and I am honored to be of service to such a beneficial and most worthwhile field. With that, I present to you 'The Haegarty Academy of Gifted Students'. 

I hope, and I believe that with your sons and daughters, this will be a place where we can nurture the young minds and use your children's gifts to help them be the top in all that they do. We can even one day become England's best! 

And that is not an easy task. Therefore we tell our students beforehand to strive even when it gets difficult. Nothing good comes of giving up and everything can be improved with studying! Children's brains are in better form than mine, so I'm sure that won't be a problem (laugh).

So with enthusiasm, motivation, good discipline and proper use of your children's gifts, this academy can become the most prestigious of them all, and our students the most successful. This is what we aim for, and this is our dream. So strive and study Haegarty students, strive and study!

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Author guidance for This story

Heylo First thing's first: NAME: The Haegarty Academy of Gifted Students FOUNDER & 1st HEADMASTER: William Haegarty FOUNDED: 1930, England One branch should have a name of a weird incident/event, etc., the second could be another, or a peculiar student, or an aspect of the Academy. The third branch should have a year (doesn't always have to have the same 5-year interval) and state a headmaster or headmistress' name. As shown in the first installment. The branch of a new headmaster/mistress does not always have to be in speech form. Can be written in present tense (like a journal entry), or past tense (like a reflective piece after retiring, or the like). Try and put some comical elements in this. The students, in general, should be giving them a very hard time and abnormal incidents should occur (solved/unsolved). BRANCHES: E.g. If I write in the branch 'Licorice Incident', the next two "incident branches" should also be in William Haegarty's perspective. Hope you got that whole thing about branches! Rather confusing... Thank you and write away!

updated Jan 8 '09 by jdxx