Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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iral- N 5 :mi - f'3'-ai .-aliilfi Y :P 'Mamie' '- I ll ll ll ll el ll ll ll ll ll IX ll Us B 'I n n n n n u ,, IEJTHW A DEIQSUNAI. WDIQ ID CC l REEDCM is a part we have to act. It is not a state that we rest in and enjoy. Your freedom lies, not in what you reject, but in what you accept, in what you affirm, in what you assert, and above all in what you create. The free man is first and foremost a creative man. He is a man whose best is always leading him on to a better. The above words from the pen of Principal jacks of Ivianchester Col' lege, Cxford, form a noble ideal for any educator. Particularly so in these days when freedom has been misinterpreted by many to mean absolute license to participate in the jungle behaviour of our very individualistic and highly competitive society. ' Creation is a continuing process in which we can all have a part. To do his part worthily should be the aim of every wellfeducated citizen. Cul' ture is more than a mere veneer or an ability to carry on a sophisticated dinner table conversation. The truly cultured man has developed all his own talents so that he has a large power of adjustment to changing conditions. He will, however, always consider not only his own welfare, but the welfare of that group or community of which he forms a part. To educate in such terms, to produce cultured men who will so highly regard their civic responsibilities that they will wish to have a part in directf ing the changes of the future, is a fundamental objective of Pickering College. Certain facts can be learned in the classfroom, but much of this process goes on outside the classfroom. Examination results speak adequately for classfroom eiliciency, but the more intangible activity which goes on in the dayftofday associations in this school can only be suggested within the pages of some such volume as this. Those of us in the school know that a printed account is of necessity incomplete, but I do hope that outsiders reading these pages will be able to gather something of the atmos' phere of the school, and the spirit of friendship and the idealism that perf meate our thinking. That sooner or later it may find expression in worthy citizenship and lives of high endeavour on the part of our graduates is my sincere hope. In conclusion may I thank parents for their continued loyalty and their many helpful suggestions. May I thank the students of the school, and the staff, who have contributed to making this the happiest year in our school life together. That we have had a full school throughout this diflicult period has been a very real satisfaction, but it is that much greater responsibility to discharge our task worthily. Cn behalf of all the readers of this volume, may I extend our gratitude to the Editor and the Stall of The Voyageurf' WLZWCT. Setenteen

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I . 74-gl ' 1 ll 'Jll l l el u I ll I ll ll : l i i ii Q E E3 E3 El 'I ii n in n an u zz ljggggg EIDITDIQIAL HE war that would end war. And so from 1914 to 1918 the battlehelds of Europe were strewn with the bodies of men who had put aside their dreams and ambitions to die for a cause that seemed worthy of their sacrifice. Despairing of their own lives, they fought on, No More War that the coming generation might live and create, in a world where war would be a word whose horrible mean' ing was forgotten forever. Twenty years later we Hnd a world situation so uncertain and fraught with the danger of approaching war that it has been often and aptly likened to a keg of gunfpowder that wants only a spark to set it off. In Europe we find a group of little iron men who bargain and negotiate, make and break alliances, talk of disarmament, but always with their finger on the national trigger, ready to open fire on each other at the first hint of danger to their state. Since its foundation Pickering College has stood for the principles of pacifism. Never more than tofday has there been a need for men whose minds are impregnated with those principles. There is a hopeevand it must not be a forlorn one-that from somewhere strong men will arise who will instil in their fellows the spirit of that paciiism which means a rational approach Hred by a selffsacrilicing idealism which cannot admit defeat. se as :r ac ac Nearly every boy, however varied his interests, has a hobby of some sort or description to occupy his spare time. With some it is woodwork, with others stamps, coins or many other diverse fields, but there are few whose favourite hobby is athletics. True, the majority of lads participate in one game or another, but how many really delve Athletics as a Hobby into the aft of their own particular branch of sport? By the study of stamps one may learn to classify one's varieties, to sort the authentic from the imitation and by so doing build up a valuable collection. This same principle may be applied to any form of athletic recreation with invaluable results, at the same time prof Nziietftiz