Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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A PERSONAL NXXGRD ll ODERN MAN, by his technical progress, has made the world one living organ' ism. Whether we like it or not, we must recognize this fact,-we must become worldfminded or perish. Worldffellowship is no longer the idealist's dreamg it is the stern demand of reality. But fellowship cannot be enforced or superfimposed. It presupposes free' dom of choice and action in all relations of man with his fellowfmen. A fellow' ship is, in essence, a society of freefmen. At a time when stormfclouds, black as night, hover over the field of interf national relations,-at a time when democratic government is being challenged all over the world,-in a period in which the only freedom of millions is the freedom to eke out the most miserable existence in a world of plenty, it may seem naive to hold aloft the banner of liberalism, democracy and the humanist traf dition. But the very conditions only make it the more necessary that those who believe in the essentially religious doctrine of the worth of human personality should shout their convictions from the houseftops. All proposals for change must be judged by this standard. It is the superfimportant task of education, and particularly of Christian education, in this, our changing world. For this purpose Pickering College was founded. To this cause it is still dedicated. With the shining vision of a social and economic order in which man to man the world o'er shall brothers be, our graduates go out from these halls year by year. That all of them may play their parts worthily and courf ageously is our most sincere hope. Pk Pk Dk Pk bk The pages that follow form a record of another year, In days to come those who have participated in this year's activities, will undoubtedly unpack the scented store of song and flower and sky and face and count and touch and turn them o'er. To them these pages will recall happy memories. To the out' sider, they may provide some glimpse of the variety of activities that hll our lives and the spirit that permeates our labours. Once again I close with an expression of deep gratitude to a loyal and enf thusiastic staff for their unstinted devotion to their tasks,-to students and parents for their cooperation throughout another happy year,-and to the editor and staff of The Voyageurv for the worthy manner in which they have brought together and presented for your approval this record of the year l934f3'i.

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THE VOYAGE UR 19 VOYAGEUR STAFF BACK ROW-Mr. Widdrington l0ld Boysb, Clarke 4AdvertisingD. Moore lPhotofzrHDhyb. Buchanan lFirth Housej. FRONT ROW-Pollard fAthleticsj, B. A. VVallace fljterary Editory. Mr. Perry tliditorb, Kyle 4School Activitiesj. ABSENT-Mr. Mcfulley Uleadnlasterb, Rennie lAd-fertisingb. Edit0l'i2ll . . B. A. Vtfalltice THESE BRICKS and wood, this steel and glass, these grounds and fields and wooled lands, this school? The huilding, comhination of its materials according to the architects conception, has stood for twentyfseven years: the grounds and trees have existed through the always of time: hut the school itself has seen only eight winters since its rehirth in 1927. Yet these material things are known as Pickering College and indeed they are the part of the school that the passing, stranger would carry away in memory. But we, who live within, know that these buildings are not the school hecause of their structure and their materials, hut hecause their corridors and their rooms are pervaded hy some intangihle thing left there hy the passions and desires, the laughter and the cries, the sorrow and joy of the youth that has lived here during the past eight years, We know these houses to he more than residences hecause they are haunted with the spirit of friendships past and present: hecause, too, they are the concrete part of an educaf tional scheme hased on ideals and the working of that scheme fills them with some' thing of the spirit of the ideals themselves. This school, then, is not merely the sum total of the suhstances that go to make up its physical appearance, hut, in its eight years, an association of ideas and personal feelings that creates in the minds of its students an impression of tolerance and idealism already strong and destined to gain vitality as the time and place that contrived it cloud into the mists of memory.