Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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The Voyageur Sir William Dines ' E tgTS -slr p. Sir William W I ham Presents The Muloclc Dinner RECENTLY Sir William Mulock dined at the school and, on that occasion presented each of the members of Pickering College with a metal plaque on which was inscribed the following passage, attributed to Etienne de Grellet, l773'l855. sion rm 1 nu n OI' I shall pass through this World but once 5 : : any good thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that Ican show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not deter it, or neg- ' lect it, for I shall not pass this way again . .ig u un nu :nie 21 4

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The Voyageur F light-Lieutenant Wallace Barton awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in the battle of France and the evacuation of Dunkirk COLOUR HOLDERS ONGRATULATIONS to the following, who won their first colour letters thls year James Frosst Charles Graham Duncan Haskell Alan MacNeill Terry Barnford Franz Brandt Ward Cornell Donald Dewar One half of honour is the strong endeavour, Success the other. But when both conspire Youth has her perfect crown, and age her old desiref, -G. Santayana 20

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The Voyageur CHAPEL URING THE CURRENT YEAR members of the staj addressed the school at the Sunday evening services. All of them made significant contributions to the group thinking. At the request of a consider- able number of students the article which follows herewith, being the address by Mr. .lac-kson, editor, is printed so that it may thereby be available in permanent form. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all the members of the staff who contributed during the year to our Chapel Services. J. MCCULLEY What ls Your Heritage? by B. W. JACKSON WUNC IN AMONG THE STARS and planets, there is another planet which we ' call earth. Many things grow there, flowers and trees of all kinds, weeds and bushes in variety. Four-footed creatures walk there, insects and worms creep about the earth and burrow into its soil. Some of these creatures have wings which give them temporary release for a while from the earth proper and carry them through the air. Others swim in the deep waters of the earth, spending their lives beneath the surface of the rivers and lakes and oceans. So there is an infinite variety of beings on the earth, creatures of numberless differences but all subject to the government of a great common denominator. 'lt is this, they are born, they live, they die, for a little while they partake of that intangible commonality, life, of the stuff of the earth they are made and into that same essence they disintegrate in death. Strange creatures all-but they have a fellow, stranger than they. True this being also partakes of their common fare. He is born, he lives, he dies. The stuff from which he is made is the same,-the chemical components of his body are worth no more in hard cash than are theirs, not as much as some of them. He produces no ambergris as does the whale. But he does strange things, he utters a variety of extraordinary sounds, he makes peculiar marks and hangs them up on walls. This creature has been known to starve himself for days when his body cried out for food, and food was near at hand. He has been known to build efiigies of himself and others of his kind, he has been heard to shout exhortations to his fellows to come and do likewise as he went willingly to his death, his life's end, for something he calls a faith, he has been known to pass up his chance at earthly and human pleasures for a business he calls truth, he has been known to yearn his body away to a shell for something he has named beauty, and furthermore he sets up altars and worships beings he has never seen. This creature walks on two legs and calls himself-for there is no one else to name him-man. He is you and I and every one of us and he has a history. 22