Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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THE VOYACIEUR jack Rayner, spent part of the winter with his family travelling in the southern states. Ron. lVIcFeeters, spent several weeks in Florida for his health. Court. Baker, working with General Seafoods in Halifax. Fred. Toller, is with the Royal Insurance Co., Ottawa, while hrother Harry works with the Bell Telephone Co. The Old Boys' Association Executive this year were asked to pick from the Association an Old Boy to represent them on the Board of Management of theschool. Gordon Kernohan was chosen to represent the Old Boys. The Executive feel that this is an important step forward for the Associaf tion and we hope that we may he of further service in the future. Garratt Came W1'H716T Gordon C. Hay . Gut of little West Hill, in 1937, came Gordon Hay, younger hrother of Qld Boy Alec, to build up an outstanding record of achievement. Last year Gordon broke into print hy winning Sir Williani Mulock's Harper Memorial Essay Contest. Then in order came the Bayne Cummer Scholarship, Foothall captaincy, and a threeftime election as President of the Student Committee. To climax the parade the staff selected him as on-e of three students to he recognized for his uunselfish contribution to the life of the School .and the graduation class voted him the winner of the Garratt Cane, symholie of the most representative student. Carry on Gordon. 31

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THE 'VOYAGEUR Harry Carter, Ric. McMahon, Bud Little, Herb. Ditchburn, Hap. McKee, are in Engineering at Queens University. Doug. Tickner, Bill Dafoe, Terry Dorland, Terry McKee, joe Brown, Thor Stephenson, Taylor Statten, Page Statten, Jack Denne, Jack Milliken, Eric Moore, Ron. Moore, Bill Buscombe, at University of Toronto. Barney Wallace jackson, Lyman Orr, at Mc' Master University. Morris Wearing, Bruce Morrison, Fraser Thompson, Jack Babb, John Hunt, Barry Hunt, at Western University, London, Cntf ario. Peter Sloss at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Engineering. Bob Shanhouse, Purdue University, engineering. Bob Herdegen at University of Wisconsin, engineering. Wendell Holmes with the Michigan State Medical Society. jack Smith working in father's store, Windsor. Jack is being married soon. Wilson Harris and Fred Harris working in father's coal business, Toronto. George Charlton married and has a family. He is teaching in Kitchener. Doug. Bagg, graduates from Dalhousie this year, in law. Jim Candler, insurance business in Detroit. Art Dyer with Silverwood's Dairy. jay Hatch in Peoria, Illinois. Dick Jeffrey, insurance business in London, Dnt. Charles King, working in Whitby in father's tanning factory. Campbell f'Cam,, Lane, mining engineer with International Nickel. Reg Lewis working in Toronto. Jack Meredith working for his father in Toronto. Russell Morland, in real estate business, North Bay. Cam. McDowell, working Ford Motor Co. Canada in Windsor. Dr. Roy McGilvray, mar' ried and has business in Toronto. Harry and jim Norrie at the Michigan School of Mines, Houghton, Mich. Murray Smith, has a children's shoe store in Toronto. Married and has a family. Fred. Turfus with the Cunard White Star Ltd., Halifax. jim Hall graduated from McGill in mining engineering, completed extra year from scholarship obtained in previous work. Has optional position with Kimberley Mines, Kimberley, B.C. Alex. Sim, working with the ex' tension division of McGill University. john Coulson has a large farm near Aurora and still maintains an interest in his rowing ability, and is going to England with Argonaut Eight. Ed. .Mack, attending the University of Syracuse, New York. Pete,' Johnston, in New York City at the School of Dramatic Art. He expects to travel with a Stock company this summer. Dr. Wallace McNichol, resident house doctor at Sick Children's Hosf pital. Ken Weldon, travelling with Quaker Cats Co. Doug. Hutchins, completed course at Qntario Agricultural College and is working on a model farm near Goderich. John Young, completed his first of a twofyear course at Qntario Agriculture school. Frank Graham, travelling with the Maple Leaf 1Milling Co. in the Maritime Provinces. Ted. Rising has started and is successfully operating a swimming class for the blind in St. john, N.B. Hugh Clarke, grain brokers office, Calgary. Bill Davidson, graduated in law from the University of Alberta. Working in his father's law firm, Lethf bridge. 30

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THE VOYAGEUR EDUCATION Fon WHAT? qcommuea from page 233 Well might the question be asked, Education for what? Education for a workers Utopia, in which the outstanding characteristic is a mediocre standf ardization in all departments of life? Education for the service of the state in the propagation of suprafnationalistic and racialistic doctrines? Education for the development of free persons in a free society ? Which of these shall it be? For Canadians, the heirs and the beneficiaries of a long tradition of personal and social freedom, there can be only one answer: we must recogf nize fully wherein we have failed in the past, we must not underestimate the strength of those forces in the world tofday that are opposed to that type of education, that form of society and those values in which we believe. Educa' tion today must, more than ever before, be education for the defence and strengthening of democracy. This cannot be done by any temporary expedif ents or palliatives nor any purely negative or passive attitudes. It can only be done by a conscious formulation of our own educational philosophy and objectives, followed by a modification of educational techniques and practices so that democracy becomes, not merely a catchfword for demagogues, but an actual way of life. There must, furthermore, be an active participation by teachers in the direction of the affairs of our society. For too long the teacher has remained cloistered and apart. In an earlier society the teacher was a servant or a slave-little better in status than a nursemaid. For too long this tradition persisted. By reason, however, of their training and background, teachers as a group, should be able to make a most vital contribution to that task which is major in the world today, the defence and strengthening of democracy. ' It would be possible to discuss at some length the failures of our traditional educational procedures. There is no doubt that in this country education has followed too largely the pattern of the secondary school curriculum designed to lead young people toward training for the learned professions. It is only comparatively recently that education has shown much consciousness of its responsibilities for training young people for business, commerce and industry. Furthermore, education has failed to make effective provision for great masses of our young people who, by reason of their specific individual differences and variations have not adjusted easily to ordinary school processes. Education has also tended to be formalized within the four walls of the school building. Too much of it has been concerned with a glorification of the history of Greece and Rome, and has failed to provide young people with the shining vision of the world that can be, and which by their hands and brains they can assist in creating. Unconsciously, perhaps, but nevertheless very truly, educaf tion has stressed the competitive ideal in life. This is true not merely of many of our classroom techniques but also in our attitude toward athletics and other extrafcurricular activities. Education has failed to give to pupils in our schools any effective understanding of the trends and processes operative in our modern life. Lacking this knowledge our young people are the gullible prey of agif tators and the too ready victims of the tabloid press and the radio propagandist. There is much hope for the future in changes that are at present taking place in the educational programmes of the various Provinces of this Dominion. 32