Isaac Newton High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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H. E. Snyder, B.A.

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Bebicatton Newton proudly dedicates this Yearbook to Dr. J. C. PINCOCK upon his retirement as the SUPERINTENDENT OF WINNIPEG SCHOOLS Dr. J. C. Pincock, a native of Newfoundland, began his education at the age of five. His father was an itinerant Minister of the Methodist Church in Newfoundland. Dr. Pincock received his earlier education in a number of seaport towns in Newfoundland. In 1898 his father was moved to St. John’s, the capital of Newfoundland, and he was then able to attend the Methodist College in that city for five years. In 1903, he completed his high school course and matriculated to London University, England. From 1903 to 1905, Dr. Pincock taught school at Twillingate, a large island off the Newfoundland coast, and there had his introduction to the teaching profession. In September 1905, he came to Canada to attend Mt. Allison University, and graduated from that institution in 1908 with the degree of B.A. In 1909, he took his M.A. degree from the same university. In 1908, he also obtained his Grammar School License from the Province of New Brunswick and in the same year was appointed Principal of the high school at Dorchester, N.B. In 1910, he joined the teaching staff of Aberdeen High School, Moncton, N.B. and for two years was teacher of mathematics there. In 1912, he came to Winnipeg, having just married Miss Olive Stothart of Chatham, N.B., who had been a teacher on his staff at Dorchester. In Winnipeg, he taught Mathematics on the staff of the Central Collegiate Institute. In August 1919, he was appointed Secretary to the Department of Superintendence. In 1921, he became Assistant Superintendent and in 1935, Superintendent of Schools. His own university of Mount Allison conferred on him the degree of L.L.D. honoris causa, on his appointment as Superintendent. During his long experience in the Winnipeg schools, Dr. Pincock has seen many changes and a great deal of development. When he came to Winnipeg there were only 18,000 pupils in the schools altogether and of these only 1500 were in high school, grades 9 to 12. Now there are more than 31,000 pupils in the schools and of these well over 6000 are in grades 9 to 12. On his retirement, Dr. Pincock plans to remain in Winnipeg and hopes to continue to serve his city in the many varied activities of community life. Newtonian 3

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• • P ' liHcijicii ' i Mei. ' iaq.e A S I SEEK to express to you my thoughts on this occasion I am aware that our city is struggling to avert disaster and that already a great catastrophe has come to thousands of families. On the dikes, in relief centres, everywhere in the flooded areas, men and women, youth and old age have mingled in a brotherhood whose links have been forged by the common danger and the deepest understanding and sympathy for those who are in distress or those who are threatened with disaster. The keen desire in this crisis to understand others and the voluntary sharing of our strength and our resources is the ideal of citizenship. On recent days the youth of our school have exemplified this ideal, and have stimulated a feeling of pride in all who have dedicated their lives to the great challenge that the educatioh of our youth presents. During the past year our students have participated in all the normal activities that a school provides. Distinction has come in soccer, volleyball and the Musical Festival. Our opera has been a source of pride and satisfaction. The chief aim of our school is training for citizenship and this involves the practice of good citizenship in our daily living. Scholarship, involving a broad knowledge of our world today is the foundation that all must have to fit themselves for the tasks of citizenship which lie ahead. In school life one is apt to consider too frequently the activities that are reported on our bulletin boards and in our newspapers but our school will fail in its chief aim if it does not provide for a balance between the studies in the classroom and the activities. The friendship, the inspiration, and the spirited contests, the victories and the defeats, these are memories that each student will carry throughout life. This book, the Newtonian, and the Nor’Wester will help to preserve those treasured memories. Perhaps, in the days immediately ahead, further trials of our strength will occur, and perhaps too, the closing days of our school year will be shadowed by the emergencies of this month of May but nothing can rob you, our students, of the thrill of having shared as adults in the labor and the trials that have affected a hundred thousand of our people. This summer many of you will engage in the tasks of rehabilitation of our great city. Next autumn some of you will return to our school; others will continue their education in colleges and universities while the remainder will seek life occupations. All of you, I hope, will in humility of heart dedicate your lives not only to the vocation that you seek but also to some of those great projects which enrich and fortify life. H. E. Snyder, Principal. Newtonian 5