Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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' 1' 1 I '--, School House in December x 'his gear'-5 ,BUQZIBBIIII is hehirzlfch tu ex-stuhents anh emmemhers uf the st:-aff of Pickering uufn serving fnitlq the armeh furres. 13

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The Voyageur worthy of the history and traditions of the school. As we approach the new year with all its uncertainties I would like to pass on a word of faith and confidence as expressed by a British poet: le that have faith to look with fearless eyes Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife And know that out of death and night shall rise The dawn of arnpler life: Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart, That God has given you the priceless dower To live in these great times and have your part In Freedomis crowning hour, That ye may tell your sons who see the light High in the heavens-their heritage to take- KI saw the powers of darkness take their flightg I saw the morning brealff, In closing I want first of all to extend greetings to all our Old Boys wherever they may be-and they are in some strange placesg you are very much in our thoughts and prayers during these times. I also want to extend my thanks to the Board of Management and to parents for their continued confidence, and to the staff and student body of the year 1940- 1941, who have given unstintingly of their loyalty and their effort in order that Pickering College might continue to do worthily its part in helping to build a finer Canada in a fairer, happier and a better world. 04. , I2

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The Voyageur i g, 1 f a s eI E It at VOL. 14 - ' 194-1 PUBLISHED BY THE STAFF AND STUDENTS OF PICKEIIING COLLEGE, NEWN'NIARKET ONTARIO, CANADA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - - - BARNABAS APPLE LITERARY EDITOR CHARLES BEER SPORTS EDITOR WARD CORNELL ASSOCIATE EDITORS TERRY BAM1-'ORD PETER ESHELBY PHOTOGRAPHY - WARREN GALE STAFF ASSOCIATES R. IDE, B. W. JACKSON Editorial . . . N A CIVILIZATION so constituted as ours everyman must expect to be the servant of every other man if he would be accepted by his fellows in the community. ln the professions of some men it is easier to note this concept of service than in those of others. The minister, the preacher, the lawyer render a service to their fellows that is obvious to most of us. Not so obvious perhaps, but nevertheless real is the service rendered by men in other walks of life. We must go to the butcher for our meat, to the baker for our bread, our light depends upon many men as does our supply of water and our source of heat in winter. For our laws and their enforce- ment we turn to others, indeed no man can live as a hermit in this day. Consequently, since we turn to others for many services, it is logical that others will turn to us for some service that We may render. It might be well then to cast about for some clue as to what that service may be. ln searching each man must come upon his own solution to the problem for the services to be rendered are many and varied and it is a part of our democratic faith that a man may choose the way in which he will serve. It is one of the dangers of our democratic way of life that too often a man feels that this freedom to choose is actually a license to live his own life selfishly without a thought for the needs and comforts and feelings of his fellow men. Lately, however, we have had a rather rude awakening from that attitude. Of a sudden our whole way of life has been challenged by a rival ideology that has recognized the value of service but has turned that service into slavery by denying men the right to choose their own way of serving. Service that is coerced and not given of manis free will soon loses its vitality and dies. The system that bred it will die too. But in the mean- time the presence of such a system in our world has served the purpose of awakening us to the need for greater service to our own ideals and to our own way of life if we are to preserve them. Had we been more careful to serve in the past the tremendous self-sacrifice which the present demands might not have been necessary. The grim reality of war has called for the total service of the nation to the cause of preserving itself and what it stands 14