Victor Edwards -- A tribute

Dear Editor,

I would like to add my tribute at the passing of a great headmaster and educator, Victor Edwards, formerly of Cornwall College and St Jago High School.

I had the chance to work with him as a member of staff at St Jago High School 1975-81 and found him committed to discipline, character and the pursuit of academic excellence.

When he was appointed headmaster we had a function to honour him and I wrote a song for the occasion, part of which is set out below, and it gives a glimpse of an old school headmaster:

"I see standards going down and the schoolroom has become a place where idlers waste their time and young thugs practise their crime. I'll be strict, I'll be strong, I will bend them to my will. Let them say I'm wicked then, but I will make them into men. If my colleagues stand with me we will end this mockery. Teach them pride and scholarship, discipline and sportsmanship. Parents, teachers children know that I'll except friend nor foe. And by these standards here set down I am twice as firmly bound."

Orville Brown

Bronx, NY

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Victor Edwards

-- A tribute

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