Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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14 'THE VOTAGEUR A DEIDSDNAI. WUI? ID A ' THESE ARE TRouBLous TIMES. Day after day our newspaper brings us stories of strife in various parts of the world, it reports a ii V- new rising tide of unemployment and economic distress with their attendant human miseryg it carries the story of man's inhuman' ity to man the world o'er. This is not the time or the place to expand at length on these - matters. It is, rather, my pleasure to indicate that in spite of the shadows which hang over us, there is still youth, there is still hope' fulness and optimism and that there is still idealism. It would rather be my purpose to stress the fact that underneath the chaos and turbulence of our present world, there are fundamental and eternal values,-that in the final analysis, might, force and strength are not the ultimate arbiters of human destiny. Those of us who are faced with the task of education in these diilicult days full well realize the responsibility that is ours,Aif preparing young men to enter a world that may probably be a more diflicult one than any that their forefathers have experienced. The following pages carry the record of another year of activity in Pickering College. It has been a year of pleasant associations,-a year with its due proportions of success and failure in a great variety of activities. Through it all, however, we have tried to emphasize the fact that there is a place in the scheme of things for men of goodwill and earnest purpose. Amid the routine of our daily life it has been our endeavour to inculcate in young lives a love of the true, the good and the beautiful, and to develop in them a confidence that these values are supreme and eternal. To those members who have served conscientiously on committees and executives, to all my colleagues on the staif, I offer my very sincere thanks for the year just closed. It is the first year of our second decade since the reopening of the school in 1927. It is my earnest hope that the success of this year may be an augury of further success in the years to come and that the happiness of this year together may be a constant stimulus to renewed effort on behalf of the young manhood of Canada. JOSEPH MCCULLEY

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TH E VOYAGE UR 13 e U XhDL.ll PUBLISHED rn' THE S'r.u-'F AND STUDENTS OF PICKERING COLI.lf:Gl-:, Nl-:w ONTrXRIO, ff.XN.XDA 'UiD O Pa A Personal Word--The Headmaster Editorial-Ed. Mack .................... The Destiny of Democracy-The Heari- Master ............................. Staff in the News .............. ..... Au Revoir to John Holmes ..... .. .. LITERARY Off to the West IndiesME. G. Mack.. Isaac-Charles Beer ................ The Church in the Night-Roger Strouse ......................... . Who Am I ?- E. Onyschuk .......... The Intruder-Albert Dorland ........ Once in the Life of Every Student- E. G. Mack ,....................... Yearning-R. E. Lewis .....,........ Harper Memorial Essay Contest ...... The Secret of Heroism-Gordon Hay.. Highlights and Headlights- Don Charles STUDENT ACTIVITIES School Committee- J. McCrea ........ Chapel. and Special Speakers f- B. Morrison ............ , ..... , . ..... . . Music-Musings--F. Murch and R. E. Lewis ..........,................... Visitors' Day-f-R. E. Lewis .,... .. The Social Whirl--E. G. Mack .... .. Firth House--Charles Beer .,..... .. Blue Curtain-Peter Sloss ..... .. CLUBS Root of Minus One . ,. .. Kosmo-H. Buchanan . . . . . Polikon ............. . . TET fr fat' 14 15 IT 21 09 24 25 26 27 QR 29 32 .31 33 33 3K .w .ni 39 40 Al 42 -H 46 -il' 4K Newtonian . . VVitan. ....,.... . Funnel Club ........ ..,... The Quaker Cracker ............ . Garratt Cane R. E. K. Rourke Valete- G. N. T. wri4ltlI'ill1If,lH'l Z0 years from now ..... ...... ATH LETICS Football First Team . . Juniors . , .. Bantams Hockey A First Team Seconrl Team . Midilets Basketball - First Team ......... Sr. North York Juniors .... , ............ Skiing A. H. Hmlxretts .. Sll0l't'S Day ...,........,.. Badminton H. Buchanan PICKERING COLLEGE STAIVF LIMBERLOST ..........,.,.,.. NEW COLOUR MEN .,.. STUDENT ADDRESS LIST .. OUR ADVERTISERS ..... 3IARliE'l', R 1938 . I9 . 421 . 00 50 .51 .51 .51 an . 54 . SW , eil . 62 ti , .n . .1 . all . 63 . iii hi NN HW ill 1-1 T5 . Hui

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THE VOTAGEUR li o EDITORIAL 0 To the Past, the Present and the Future CARCELY MORE THAN A YEAR Aoo a banquet was held at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto to commemorate the completion of the first ten successful years of a new Pickering College. The ten year experimental period was officially over and Pickering had succeeded in taking a front place with the other, older, well-known, Canadian schools. Last fall was the beginning of a new era in the history of our college but this period had a decidedly different beginning than the first. The task of the charter students and staff members was far from being an easy one. School traditions had to be established with the aid of time and actual experience. From the beginning a new and different system of student government was being developed under the guidance of a young and enthusiastic headmaster. Student ideals and attitudes had to be expressed and brought forth by the various early student committees before they found a permanent place in school life. The first year of this new decade has been a successful one but in some respects not an easy one. During the very early years of the new college the chief concern of its members was to establish not only the Pickering that we have tofday but rather to gain for themselves, and subsequently ourselves, and those that will follow us, the reputation of good sportsmanship together with good fellowship at all times. That reputation was gained hy the students who are our predecessors. Tofday and tofmorrow we, the present students and the students who will fill our places, have a constant duty to perform, not for ourselves but for Pickering, to maintain its standards, its traditions and the liberty for which it stands. During the American War for Independence the revolutionists declared they were In pursuit of happiness. Happiness meant to them much the same as it does to us--liberty, personal freedom and a measure of self expresf sion. To-day that is what we, the past and the present students of Pickering. know it stands for, and it is our hope that as long as it shall stand as a college it will mean the same to every one of its future students. Eowxao G. Mack.