Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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THE VOTAGEUR Since faith without works is deadi' it is perhaps appropriate to record that Chapel offerings, amounting to over five hundred dollars during the Year, enabled us to make donations to a wide variety of charitable and phil- anthropic causes. including the Star Santa Claus and Fresh Air Funds, the Society for Crippled Children, the British Flood Victims Fund, the Creek War Belief Fund, the Toronto Y.lVI.C.A. Extension Fund, the Can- adian National lnstitute for the Blind and the Belmont Boys, Club. A one hundred dollar bond was added to the School War lVlemorial Fund. ln the winter term the school decided to carry on the relief meal pro- ject once a week and two hundred and fifty dollars was donated to the Save The Children Fund. For two years now the school has been sponsor- ing two French children. ln additicn to this the staff overseas relief fund provided forty pounds sterling to the International New Education Fellow- ship for its rehabilitation work in Europe. Part of this goes specifically 'to the Pestalozzi Childrenls Village lfor war orphansl in Switzerland. The following bit of verse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox does not express a complete religious philosophy but its application in every area of our life would certainly help! MSO many faiths, so many creeclsg S0 many paths that wind and wina' While just the art of being kind Is all this old world needsw. The Library EADING IS A PROCESS of developing and building, and is as much a part of education as formal and ethical trainingf' The beauty of language, the philosophy, truth, and imagery found in good books keep the mind alert and sensitive to the essentials in the art of good living. So, a well-equipped library is of vast importance in a college. and Pickering has one of no mean repute. It contains over four thousand books, three-quarters of which are aclassedn, in the fields of history, biography, literature, science, art, and so on, the remainder are fiction. Two hundred and sixty-two books were added this year, not including a number of scientific books donated by the Booters, Club. We also subscribe to fifty periodicals. Three thousand and eighty-three books were borrowed, an average of twenty books per student. Unfortunately there are a few boys who dislike reading, and our greatest endeavour is to change that dislike to pure en- joyment. Wle have not accomplished all we planned, perhaps we never shall. But it may be good that our objective is always a little ahead of us, never quite achieved, for, as Browning writes: mAh, but a manis reach should exceed his grasp, Or whatas a heaven for? -HC. Twenty-n ine

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Chapel ' 0 MANY FAITHS, so many creedsw Thus did the poet comment on the variety of religious belief and observance. But on each Sunday evening throughout the school year the representatives of many forms of Christian faith and, of others than Christian, join in a weekly assembly service of worship and inspiration. Since students have the opportunity of attending their own churches on Sunday mornings the school services are interdenominational in character. During the year the Headmaster took the majority of the services. Mem- bers of the staff who also spoke were Messrs. Rourke, Beer, Stewart, Jackson, Mather, Maclxleill and Mc-Cowan. Visiting speakers were lVlr. L. S. Beattie of the Department of Education. Toronto,-Dr. C. H. Johnson formerly of Newmarket, now of St. Chad's Church, Toronto,-Dr. Robert lVlcClure of China and lVlr. Jack Holmes of Canada House, London, England. A number of special services were held: on September 22, a service of affectionate tribute and commemorationw for the life and work of Miss Ancient, a dramatization of Norman Corwinis MOn A Note Of Triumphn directed by Ceorge McCowan marked the Remembrance Day Service, appropriate and effective services noted the festivals of Thanksgiving, Christ- mas and Easter. The Christmas Carol and Candle Light Service held on the last Sunday of the autumn term continues to attract an overflow crowd of parents, and visitors from town. T1lAf l1ljf-Giglll

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TH E VOYAGE UR Bevelry By Night VERYONE LIKES A PARTY, and we manage from time to time to break the even and energetic tenor of our ways to have some rather special fun. Halloweien, for instance, was celebrated in the traditional Pickering fashion with a bang-up dinner served to a motley throng dressed in costumes ranging from the austere simplicity of a bed-sheet to a most beautiful sleeping- garment imported directly from Japan by a student's brother who had busi- ness there. Tony Humphrey won a prize for that, as did Miss Kemp and Miss Lee, who unsellishly concealed their charms by appearing as uncouth and fearful witches. Peter Green, Larry Jopson, and Pat Brown gained similar recognition for their originality, while our crockery-smashing Head- master, Mr. Rourke, and Mr. MacNeill carried off the honours for the teach- ing staff. Alan MacNeill was obviously in training for a later and greater costume skit. As a genial Santa Claus, who did it Hsouthernii, he contributed mightily to the success of the Christmas Banquet. Good singing and good cheer did much to make us all aware of the beauty of the Christmas idea, quite aside from Santals more material contributionsg in this heartwarming atmosphere, it was most suitable that Miss Richardson should have been presented, by the Board of Management represented by the Headmaster, with a pair of silver candle-sticks, meet symbols of that ladyis gracious way of life and her long years of service to the School. At the Football Dance in the Fall Term, Don Force was a most suave and witty master of ceremonies. He established a noble standard for a de- manding task, which was measured up to at the Formal Dance by the omnipresent Mr. MacNeill. It is perhaps this Ball which gives particular point to our title: 'cbright the lamps shone o'er fair women and brave menf' and the Collegeis second postwar Formal was gay and colourful to a de- gree. The Tea Dance on Sports Day was no less gay, and was characterized by a happy informality and enthusiasm which were doubtless carry-overs of the rigorous goings-on of the afternoon. HAH that we know is that we lack a tongue that could reveal . . . the thing, the word, the joy we know so well, and cannot speak, writes Thomas Wolfe, quoted in the Athletic Dinner progranig it is indeed some inexpress- ible combination of joy and solemnity, laughter and sentiment, which, under uBlackie7s,' sensitive direction, makes our final school celebration so 'cun- forgetting, unforgettablew. Mr. Victor Obeck of McGill University spoke with wit, humour, and inspiration and, together with other friends of the College, and of athletics in Canada, made the presentations of awards deeply significant. Essential to all these patterns of pleasure have been the organization and efforts of our dietitian, Miss Kemp, and her Staff. To them all we suggest now something of our grateful appreciation. Thirty