Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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Putting P. C. V. S. On ice Championship crests bearing the insignia of the C.O.S.S.A., the Central Ontario Secondary Schools Association, have been presented to football and bas- ketball teams in P.C.V.S. for many years now. As yet, however no such crests have ever been awarded to a C.O.S.S.A. championship hockey team in the old Alma Mater. Why?-because hockey has not been encouraged in P.C. V.S. Why has it not?-we do not know. Hockey is known as Canada's National Sport and yet it is not encouraged in one of the top ranking collegiates in Ontario -yes, in Canada. Our winters here are ideal for out-door sport. After a day's work in school there is nothing more invigorating or healthful than a game of good, clean, fast, and organized hockey. The best way to have organ- ized hockey is to sponsor it in the school. The majority of the men teachers in P.C.V.S. are athletes and good organizers. Co-operation on their part would do much toward de- veloping hockey. While a C.O.S.S.A. team would be a great step forward, those who are unable to qualify should not be forgotten. Here is a suggestion from one hockey-minded teacher. He suggests that a well balanc- ed league of six or eight teams be featured in P.C.V.S. Each team would have a playing captain and manager and the captain of the winning team would pick a team consisting of the best players of the other groups. This team would then enter the C.O.S.S.A. round robin series held in the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in March. This is just a suggestion but it sounds feasible. At the banquet tendered to the Senior Rugby team in 1937 by the city fathers on the occas- ion of P.C.V.S. winning the Ontario Rugby Football Union Championship Dr. Kenner, speaking after dinner said: t'We have always encouraged athletics at the Collegiate ln- stitute and we feel it pays worthwhile dividends. Sports are a great character builder and an important part of youth training. There are lessons taught on the playing Held which can never be learned in the class rooms. True, the Garnet and Grey is renowned and respected on the playing field but why not on the ice as well'? Peterborough has schooled many great hockey players. Ace Bailey, one-time Toronto Maple Leaf player and Dit Clapper, now with the Boston Bruins learned their hockey in Peterborough district, and many a time skated down the ice in our Brock Street Rink. P.C.V.S. lacks neither the spirit nor the players neces- sary to put a good hockey team on the ice. What we have in spirit and players is counter- acted by our lack of enthus- iasm. Why should the C.O.S. S.A. hockey championship be awarded to Oshawa, Norwood, Campbellford or any other centre in Ontario when we are capable of producing as good players as we have in the past? P. H. TURNER. B. A. A. Executive D. Ri-:ers 4Sec1'etaryb. ll. Dunca entb. Mr. Vollingwood mHonora1 eiitj. H. Johnston t'X'ice l'1'es lYiZll'll6l' 4Ti'easu1'e1'J. Fencing P.C.V.S. has adopted a new sport, the thrilling. dramatic art of fencing with all its skill and heart beats. This year, under the firm support of the B.A.A. four sets of equipment were bought. A dozen boys meet every Wednesday to learn to think quickly, and acquire a subtlety to be found in no other activity. Fencing has a noble tradition and al- though it has lost its power it still retains that tense excite- ment, that speed and daring that is only acquired after long years of constant practice. For a brand new organiza- tion the club is highly success- ful, and we are looking for- ward to the day when duels can be witnessed as morning entertainment.-R.B. Junior Rugby Team Front Row: C. McVViI1iams, L. Routly, G. Mackay. C. Gillespie, T. Mattuc D. Ackford. H. Hallihan. Middle Row: T. Craig, J. Ainslie, D. Board, A. 'Woodgate. R. Horton, R Joplin W C M H D 'd . uppy, r. . avi . Back Row: N. Hopgood, F. Fowler, L. Graham, YV. Hall, K. Sproule. R. Hatton I

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193.9 Valeclictory by ROBERT GRAHAM, McMASTER UNIVERSITY Madam Chairman, Dr. Kenner, Honoured Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my privilege to-day to say a few words of farewell on b e h a l f of the graduating students. This is a day of parting. We of the class of 1939 make our formal adieu to P.C.V.S. with mixed emotions. We regret to leave a school which has given us so many fond memories, a school whose teachers have given us of their best, both in the classroom and in the var- ious extracurricular activities, a school which has engendered in us a thirst for knowledge that will remain with us through life. It is hard to leave an institution where we have made so many friends and learned so many lessons. Yet we are happier because we have wandered through its corridors, we are richer be- cause of what we have learned in its classrooms. But the merits of our school are well known to all of you. It has established itself high in the esteem of our own com- munity and ranks among the best in the province. This is due, in no small part, to the many years of outstanding leadership given by our belov- ed principal, Dr. Kenner, sup- ported, as he is, by a competent staff and backed up by a sym- pathetic board of trustees. The main purpose of this meeting to-day is the presenta- tion of diplomas and prizes, which is, in reality, the formal the many hours getting what is education. The reward for spent here termed an word, education, immediate- ly brings to mind text books, pens and pencils, classrooms, teachers, and a host of associat- ed ideas, To the casual mind, education means the act of passing through the various grades of primary and second- Senior Boys' Basketball Team t w: D. MacPherson fFOl'WB.l'dJ, E. Taylor QLeft Forwardb, A. Scott lL ft Guardj, R. Johnston CRight Guardb. N F C t B M h cl R' ht Fo a dl, T. Clarke Second Row: X. oster L en rel, . oor ea 4 ig rw r LCent1'eJ, A. Marshall QCentreJ, Mr. Bamforth QCoachJ. ary schools and, perhaps, on to university. Then with the final diploma, education stops. But is the purpose of educa- tion merely to absorb informa- tion, to soak in facts like a sponge and to be able to squeeze them out for an ex- amination? ls this not, rather, the superficial part of educua- tion? Education should do more than this. It should broaden the outlook, expand the mind. Still more, it should teach us how to learn. Anna Jameson summed it up admirably when she wrote, The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us: to de- velop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us endowed us. For some of us school days are not yet over. Sometimes when one is tired from study, or is in the heat of examina- tions, it is well to relax for a moment and consider the un- derlying reason for all the toil and endeavour. Many, many years ago, Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, made the wise comment, The bitterness is most apparent to us all at certain times. But in later years, as our intellect broadens and deepens, we will reap the harvest in a strengthened and ennobled life. To reach its fullest attain- ment, education must teach us how to think. The importance of this is most aptly illustrated by the unfortunate condition of learning in the totalitarian states where colleges are clos- ing and schools are but chan- nels for the promulgation of perverted knowledge. We in Canada may well rejoice that our sources of education are among the highest and purest in the world. Great opportuni- ties and privileges are ours. Let us make the best use of them.