Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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The Voyageur E have all received a heritage from the past. Our bodies and our minds, our knowledge and our skills, our comforts and our pleasures, these are a free gift to us. Our school community with all it possesses of faith and friendship, of love and loyalty, is equally our debt to our grand- parents. ln return for this it is surely our responsibility to decide on a worthy gift from ourselves to those who will follow us. It cannot be done in ways that are cheap, trivial, superficial or selfish, it can only be done as each of us loses his own individual life in something greater than himselffi HA Gift from Grandfather. HE Christmas season bids us look up and behold the stars still shining. Perhaps that is what is wrong with our generation-we have forgotten to look up. But the star of human decency is still shining, the star of Christian fellowship shines on throughout the whole world. Faith in God and faith in man is still possible. It is being proven today that no sacrifice is too great to preserve the sanctities of human existence. The good, the true and the beautiful-these things are eternal, immortal and changeless. The light of these stars will lead us to the beginning of a new and nobler life for ourselves and our fellowmenfi 'The Stars Still Shine. '4 OTHING in this world is ever achieved without struggle-without 'dust and heata. The value of that struggle, however, is determined by the ideal, the goal, the particular Grail to which we have committed ourselves. The great failure of education in our time has been that it did not provide young men with great convictions. This school has no business to exist unless it continues to send out a succession of graduates whose lives are on fire for some great causefl 'Wot Without Dust and Heatf, ITLER has mesmerized his young people with his beliefs. We can- not win the war, much less win the peace, unless we believe firmly, ardently and passionately in another kind of new order-4The New Jeru- salem', The Beloved Communitya, that our efforts can help to createf, Marching Orders for Youth. OME of you, my friends of the staff and of the student body are leaving. We will miss you, but you will be among our cloud of unseen wit- nesses. We know you will not let us down. And as we believe that life is good and that it can and will be better, we will not let you down. Remember 'they only are loyal to this school, who, departing, bear their added riches in trust for mankindfw So Great a Cloud of Witnesses. The above five quotations are from addresses by the Headmaster. 241

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The Voyageur activity on the rugby field and in the gymnasium, on the hills and rinks, -on the stage and in the shop, in the dining-room and in the Headmasteris kitchen, learning from contemporaries and from those older and those younger. But education is not an end in itself, even in this larger defini- tion. The education of a young man should enable him to take his place as a citizen of Canada. If that seems a commonplace idea, it is because you have not thought deeply enough about just what Canada is, that land in which you have a stake by reason of your presence here. It is half of a vast continent containing many millions of people, containing mountains and rivers and lakes and plains the grandeur and glory of which are some- thing which at best you can only imagine. ln Canada is your home, in Canada is your favourite place of trees and blue water, the river you like best to paddle, the gleaming white hill on which you have lik-ed best to ski, the woods which in younger days you liked to explore, the familiar street, the fields which you have watched in springtime and again in August and October, your friends and your family. A citizen of Canada will know these things, and appreciate them to their full. But there is a bigger con- cept of citizenship than the national. I am fond of the phrase ua citizen of the worldw. By that I mean a man who is aware of his kinship with all humanity, who recognizes that his fate is bound up with that of all human beings, who knows that a starving child in France is part of our common shame just as the heroism of a mother in London is part of our common glory. That is the ultimate in sense of community and citizenship. uDem0cracy and the Individual. F. D. L. SEWART. HAT YOU ARE CAPABLE of time alone will show, providing you make the best use of that time in growing. But at the end of your days let it be said of you that you have grown so completely that to your life may be applied that fine standard of classic Greece: sito this nothing can be added, nor from it anything taken away without destroying the perfect unity of the whole. I Let your growth not be stunted by sloth or withered by the eating blight of boredom, may it not be emaciated by too little of living or bloated by too much of sensual pleasure, let it not nourish the parasitic fungae of greed and fraud and ignorance, may it not bring forth the bitter fruit of mockery and cynicism, for cheap mockery and hollow cynicism are the last resort and ultimate futility of the mediocre mind striving for false recog- nition. Rather may your growth be positive and purposeful. May your body be straight and your eye clear, may both your heart and your hand be warm, your anger just, your mercy swift, and your passion full-flowered. Having eyes to see, may you see, and ears to hear, may you hear, with a heart to feel andia mind to know and a soul to serve, may you feel and know and serve, and always may you grow-until, in the fullness of time, you reach your true stature and full fruition under God's heaven. uWhat is the Measure of a Man?v B. A. W. JACKSON. 23

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The Voyageur R. E. K. ROURKE, M.A. R. R. E. K. ROURKE was this year appointed a member of the Board of Management of Pickering College. Besides this distinction, he was made Associate Headmaster. The Voyageur would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the staff and students of the school to congratulate 'gBob on these new suc- cesses. That they were well earned goes without saying, that they were justified has already been proven. Mr. Rourke is spending the summer as Camp Director at Camp Mazinaw. There he will have on the staff along with him several of the senior students of this year as assistants. 25