Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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THE VOYAGEUR 21 A Personal Word Education is the creation of attitudes. This is one of my favorite definitions and in a word it sums up what we have been and are endeavouring to do at Pickering College. When the opportunity was offered to me of having a part in carrying on the fine traditions of an old school it was with a feeling of real pleasure that 1 approached the task of making the new institution one that might embody the best features of home and school life. My previous contacts with boys had all been of a personal and informal character, in camps and clubs, and I was most anxious that this attitude of tcamaraderie' and intimate friendship between old and young should be at the very basis of our community life. Boys respond to trust and friendship, a confidence reposed is never betrayed, these axioms are basic to the Pickering idea and during this, our first year, my confidence has been more than amply justified. Of the material equipment so generously provided by our enthusiastic Board it is not necessary for me to speak. Suffice it to say that throughout the renovation of the building and in the addition of new equipment it was our constant aim to provide an environment as comfortable and artistic was prac- ticable, wherein boys might get an education that would fit, them as Christian citizens to take their places in the larger world outside. I For the loyalty and devotion of the staff in this first, strenuous, year I want to make frank acknowledgment of my indebtedness. IVithout their con- stant co-operation and their enthusiastic acceptance of our ideal it would have been impossible to have even approached a realization of our dream. Boys are boys the world over, but it has been a real privilege to have been associated this year with that group of some seventy-five whose parents had sufficient faith in our ideal to entrust the task of educating their sons to us. I, personally, am the richer for many friendships and confidences and it is with real pride that I look back over the associations of the past months. May I thank every member of the school for his part in the successes that we have already met. Permit me also to extend to those who are going up to examina- tions, and who will leave us after this one all-too-short year, my very best wishes for true success. The latch-string is out. We will welcome your frequent return to Pickering College, where we hope that you will find worthy successors in carrying on the fine traditions that have already been established. It would be a grave omission if I did not say how grateful all the members of the school are to the members of the staff of The Voyageurf' In a school with a limited registration it takes no little effort to produce a work of this character, and the bulk of the labour has fallen on a few willing workers. Any merits possessed by this volume are due entirely to the indefatigable labours of the editor and his associates who accepted their responsibilities willingly and cheerfully and who have faithfully endeavoured to reproduce in this volume something of the atmosphere that pervades our life here. 0-12.