Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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1 11 . 'lllllll ilt . it This year has proved really prolific in that respect. Following the trail blazed by the famous Hooters have come the Jaousi and the Research Clubs, instead of one, two full evenings of dramatics and music have been produced, there has been a tremendous increase in the interest and scope of our Sunday programs of speakers and musicians, as witness the Sunday when we heard a German officer in the morning, a Danish singer at lunch, an Indian speaker after lunch, and an address at chapel service by a Russian! And meanwhile our routine programs of academics and athletics have progressed, we feel, along their two paths of wisdom and stature, marching to the muftied but steady thrum of the lathes in the workshop, and lowing of tl1e cattle on the farm as the juniors pi-offer their novitiate services. 1 In very truth, an activity school. Though not illumined by the bright scholastic high-lights of the previous year, our academic achievements in the year 1929-1930 produced the steady glow of a high average satisfactorily maintained. No scholarship candidates were entered. The upper school class was smaller than the previous year, but our middle school entrieswere the most numerous of our history. They are far out-distanced, however, by this year's numbers when some tive hundred middle school papers will be written, accompanied by an even greater pro- portional increase in the upper school candidates. At least three of our mem- bers are hopeful of something in the line of scholarships, and here's wishing them luck. In athletics this has been without doubt our most successful year. Dwarfing the other accomlmlishments is that of the basketball team in winning the Eastern tfanada Inter-Scholastic Title, and to these players and their coaches we offer our hearty congratulations. Their fighting spirit and unfailing good sports- manship has tremendously enhanced the reputation of the College in the world of sport. The achievement of the football and hockey teams in winning their first league games pales into relative insignificance, but it marks an advance all along the line and they are both worthy of congratulation. The track and field team swept the field at Barrie both in 1930 and 1931 and each time qualified several athletes to take part in the Provincial meet. To both this and last year 's team and coaches we offer congratulations. In conclusion a word of commendation should be offered to those who encouraged and took part in the minor sports, such as soccer, softball, tennis, badminton, or archery, which did so much to while away the tedium of the seasons in between seasons. Elsewhere in this issue mention is made of our regret in losing the services of Mr. T. C. Shore. VVe would like to express here our editorial appreciation ot lnm as an unexcelled teacher, and to wish him all success in his work at Harvard. NVQ- would also like to express a welcome to Messrs. Nettleton, Safford and liouden, the new members of our staff. In their first year here they have made themselves part and parcel of our community, and we feel that in all of their cases we have made valuable acquisitions. 24

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f WHY? XZX The Staff Editor'-in-C11iff--HARRY M. BEER - Assoc-into Edif0l'.9-HPIRBER'F I . Mn,1,i:R, li. EMi:Rsox lt',xt'i.Ds Sporting Ed?:f0l'--XNAl.LAL'E McN1t'Htn. Art Editors-LAWRRN HARRIS, JR., BILL timxosn z4dl'0l'fiSi7lg-ERIC XYEALE, RICHARD .JRFFRRY Advisory Ii0lII'd-JOSEPH 3It'CI'I,I,ltIY. tl. N. T. XVIIJIPRIXQVIWDN Editorial HIS volume is dedieated to the memory of Ur. XVt-hh. All tit' ns who had known him during the first three years of our life here were det-ply shoeked when we heard of his death. The sight ot' his ear drawing up at the end of the first period, so regularly that the period hell might well have been rung by it, and his unfailingly eheerful ministratitins were an integral part of the common suhstant-e of our living. The health rt-tttird tit' tht- selititil alone bears testimony to the soundness of his shrewd diagnosis and advit-e. -X thread of endearing personality has been torn from the pattern tit' our t-tim- munal existent-e. To him, an oltl boy of this t'ollege. and our lieltwt-tl physit-ian for years, we pay this last htnnage. VVhen, eeasing for the moment to strain torwartl to our next tihjt-t'tivt', we sit baek in our editorial ehair and attempt to take sttwk tit' the year gone hy we are almost lost in the tangled growth of retrospetttitmz the t-tinst-ittusness both of goals sut-eessfully at-hieved and ot hright hopes that faded fittully, liiekered, and then fled jostle eaeh other for preeedent-e in our rt-eognititni. l'ppe1'most from this welter of retleetion, l10XYt'Vl'l', emerges a startling realization of the amazing many-sidedness of our activities. Stnnetnit- has recently bestowed upon us the title of An At-tivity Sehool . The truth ot' that title strikes with full foree as we prepare to edit the wide variety of t-ontrilnitions whieh The Voyageur t-ontains. In our first year we had a big idea: it was suflieit-iitly lmig to ahsorh the whole of our energies as we struggled with the prtmhlenis whieh that tlietiry raised as we put it into prat-tiee. The year sped hy with little time to devote to the aeeessories and emhellishments of our mat-hine. but we had a g'ltiritmus time keeping the engine running. In our seeond and third years we lit-gan gradually to initiate and develop further aetivities. 23

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1- VVhile on the subject of staff, hearty congratulations are in order to Mr. Blaekstoek upon his promotion to the post of director of physical edueation. Some of us know at the cost of aching museles how eminently qualified he is for the promotion. There is as inuc-li religion in a game of rugby, in a game of hoekey or in a game of basketball as in a whole ehureh service. How often have we at Pickering heard these words spoken and yet how well we realize their true significance as we go about our tasks here from day to day. For Pickering this has been a particularly successful year in athleties and for this reason we have been able to observe the truth of the above statement. To us the boy who can go through a game and keep his head, the boy who can modestly win and eheerfully lose is showing more religion than the boy who like clockwork goes to ehureh onee a week and then stores his religion in a dusty Compartment of his brain for another seven days. No, we are satisfied that athletics is a means by whit-li the sterling qualities ot' manhood and sports- manship may be produeed. Regarding Exchanges The editors of The Yoyageur wish to aeknowledge with thanks the ninn- erous exehange eopies whit-li we have reeeived and to eoinpliinent all the authors on the universally high standard of sehool journalism whieh they display. Following our enstom, however, we refrain from voieing any individual praise or eritieism, whit-li, eoining from a inueh younger organization, might seem to verge upon the impertinent! 25