Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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THE VOYAGEUR Chapel Speakers DURING THE YEAR we have been very fortunate in having such a stimu- lating series of addresses at our Chapel services. Special services such as that at Christmas and Easter were especially enjoyable. Mention should also be made of the impressive service in remembrance of the late Lord Tweedsmuir. Those who have spoken at Chapel include the headmaster fseriesl and Messrs. Rourke, Statten, Perry, Holmes, Blackstock, Beer, Hodgetts, Colgrove, Stewart and Chipman of the staff. One service was conducted by the student committee under the leadership of Stan Harris, Creed, Hall and Laughtong another was directed by the remaining members of the committee,-MacDonald, Bruce Taylor, lVlyers and Henderson. Other speakers included Dr. George Patterson, lVIr. Donald Graham and Judge Mott. Anti-Nazi IN OUR ISSUE last year we were able to report the arrival in our school community of Dr. li. A. lVlaresch, his wife and young son, Bill. During the past year Dr. Maresch has been associated with our school Work, but has been left free of detailed responsibilities so that he would have time to carry out a very extensive lecture programme. During the past year Dr. Maresch has spoken to some hundred and twenty-five different clubs and organizations in all parts of Untario and Quebec. His most popular address was, unquestionably, the one entitled uNazi Germany from the ln- sidef, The outstanding engagement of his year was his address to the Women's Canadian Club of Toronto, when he spoke to an overflow meeting of some two thousand people at the Eaton Auditorium. ln order to fulfil many of his engagements Dr. Maresch had to arise with the birds and, in many cases, did not get back until the Hwee small hours of the next day. At times he was only able to complete a very full calendar of engagements at the risk of his own health. We are glad to say that he has survived and that he is still carrying on his good work. A number of engagements are already booked for the coming season. It has been an inspiration this year to have in our midst this family, who, having lost everything owing to the Nazi persecution in Austria, are now becoming adjusted to their new home, and who are intent on making the maximum contribution they can to our common cause. Bill is taking his place as a regular member of the student-body, and is rapidly acquiring a facile knowledge of his new language and adjusting himself to the new conditions of his life. We are glad to extend this additional welcome to the Maresch family from old Vienna, and hope that they will long be spared to enjoy their new home and to make a worthwhile contribution to the development of our Canadian culture and citizenry. 25

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THE VOYAGEUR in the life of man that will outlast any war, no matter how long or how destructive. lrwin Edman has well expressed this in his recently published essay entitled MA Candle in the Dark. Civilizations do not die. They may change. One of the outstanding qualities of all living organisms is the tenacity with which they hold on to life. We should recognize and impress upon our students that the greater the losses are, the heavier the responsibility of those who remain to carry aloft through changing circumstances and dark days, those ideals, those qualities, and those attitudes to life which mark man as a civilized human being. Even a young school child will wish to do something in response to the appeal that is made to his idealism and to his sense of adventure. Our governments have indicated that participation in active military service under the age of 19 is not desirable and that, in fact, it is a greater liability than it is an asset. During the last war students in our schools participated in practical projects of various kinds. The usoldiers of the soilw provided an outlet for adolescent boys who wished to contribute some measure of practical personal service. Various forms of Red Cross work were avail- able for both boys and girls and will undoubtedly be increasingly available during the present war. In recent times educators have stressed the value both from the point of view of personal and social development, of the project method in education. Here is a very real opportunity for teachers to develop projects which are of definite value to the community at large and which also provide scope for the idealism and the desire of the adoles- cent to be of some specific service. Asked during the last war when he thought the war would be won, Baden Powell-international youth leader-replied that it would be won in 1935. He implied that we would know by then what type of leadership would be in control of world affairs. The way things have developed, one must now question whether that war was won at all. lt is the heavy responsibility and the fine opportunity of the teachers of this generation to prove that they are equal to the task that is now laid upon them. The substance of this article appeared in TI-IE SCHOOL, Vol. XXVIII, No. 6. February, 1940. and is reprinted by pernzission. 24

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THE VOYAGEUR The Garratt Cane THIS YEAR the graduating class considered two, instead of one, of their fellow students to be outstanding enough in school life to win the coveted Carratt Cane. This award has been given for the past nine years to the student who is thought to have made the finest contribution to the school in every phase of its life. During their three years at college both Van Laughton and John Hall have distinguished themselves in practically every sphere of our life here at Pickering, and it was only fitting that upon their graduation the school should bestow upon them the highest honour it could give. fohn Hall Van Laughton Musical Programmes 'IWC OUR MUSICAL umaestrof, Clifford Poole, we extend our congratulations for his own fine performances at several musicales and for bringing to us such enjoyable talent as Nliss Phyllis Parker Miss Helen Guy GQ1'd0U Hallett . Bill Ross lstudenti Xllfiulghggitgivles Miss Margaret Parsons Gerald Rutledge Miss Nellye S1n1th Elizabeth Beer Miss Peggy Moreland George Haddad Mr- Jack Cash Mary McKinnon Shore Alice Strong Rourke On one occasion the well-known two piano team of Scott Malcolm and Reginald Godden gave a line performance at an open musicale, prior to their North American tour. 26