Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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EDITORIAL STAFF DUNCAN CAMERON Editor-In-Chief LITERARY DEPARTMENT SCHOOL NEWS DEPARTMENT RICKY ARNOLD ALAN ROGERS SPORTS DEPARTMENT SECRETARIAL DEPARTMENT JAMES FARRELL EDXVARD BOND OLD BOYS DEPARTMENT ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT PETER WIDDRINGTON SAUL LUBARSKY ASSISTING STAFF HUGH DAVIDSON STANLEY MORRIS PHILIP ENDICOTT DICK LEE MIKE PRINCE JACK RUTHERFORD NIARCEIL HARVEY BILL RICHARDSON PETER MCMIIRTRY PE-TER FISHER PHOTOGRAPHY COVER AND FORMAT BRUCE PARSONS MIKE MOUNTJOY LAYOUT AND DIVISION PAGES STAFF ADVISOR D. CAMERON F. D. L. STEWART Page VIII

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Some Thoughts from the Headmaster T IS A GREAT HONOUR to be the seventh headmaster of Pickering College. It is also a great responsibility. The closing days of my first year of office have brought me a clearer picture of both aspects of my task. I know something of the fine record of the early school, and I have been privileged to share in the labours of the last twenty years. My memories go back with relish to the enthusiasm of a youthful staff in nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, to the years of trail-blazing under the inspired leadership of Joe, to the final coming-of-age of Pickering. Such memories inspire humility and fear,-humility because the man is so much smaller than the school, and fear lest he halt her onward march. Fortunately, I was from the beginning of this year sustained by the sure and certain knowledge that I was not labouring alone. The untiring efforts of loyal colleagues, old and new, were added to the helpful co-operation of a splendid group of students. The faults of an inexperienced headmaster were not allowed to clog the wheels. And so the year rolled by. Football, hockey, basketball. interest groups, Dramatic Club, Parents' Day, Christmas Banquet, Glee Club, Sports Day, and even classes, fitted into their places in the picture. What a privilege to captain such a team! Many phases of the year's activity have impressed me but I must be ,con- tent to mention only one: The general tone and spirit of the school have been outstanding. The traditions of the past- contribute to the present, the present augurs well for the future. Pickering is indeed 'fthe sound of many voices . Old Boys have written from all over the globe to express their faith in the school, the students continue to demonstrate the worth of its basic principles. Faith with works is indeed a vital combination. I say, therefore, that the future shines bright before us. We face another year with many staunch men of Pickering at their posts, Harry, Don, Blackie. Barney, Dick, and Rudy will team with some capable co-workers, newer to Pickering but lacking nothing in enthusiasm. And the gang at the school will be backed by a revitalized Old Boys' Association. Under the leadership of Ron fPopl Perry, the old guard will soon launch a Memorial Fund Campaign to provide funds for some of the school's pressing needs, thus commemorating the forty-two of their number who lost their lives in the war. I close with the statement of a deep personal conviction. I believe that Pickering College has a great mission in Canadian education, that our philoso- phy of life has within it the sacred ingredients that might transform the nations into one vast society of friends, that we have within ourselves the power to build Jerusalem in this our green and pleasant land . Let us not fail for want of trying. i Page vu

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EDITCRIALS Tolerance ANY YEARS AGO, in Palestine, a great philosopher was murdered for ex- pressing his beliefs. Not so long ago, in our own generation, thousands of people were murdered not only for the expression of their beliefs but also only because they were suspected of entertaining them. Since man could speak, freedom of expession and belief has varied directly with bloodshed. Christ wasnailed to a cross in Jerusalem, and Nero laughed at Christians in their death-throes in the arena, Dachau and Belsen accounted for thousands of European free-thinkers, and Bilbo and Talmadge pronounced negro lynchings as most regrettable , and today if a man is not a conservative he is a communist. Look back at the record of bigotry, violence and stupidity, liberally interspersed with wars designed to make the world a Utopia. Then stop, and look ahead. So what? you ask, and f'What's that got to do with me?l' Here's what. Last week, after a talk in chapel by a man whose views were radically different from most- of ours, some of us displayed narrow and intolerant thinking. The Red Bogey once again came to view. A man who expressed his own beliefs was branded a communist by some of us, because, perhaps, we were too stupid to open our eyes. How many of us listened to all that was said? And how many nudged each other and whispered commie after the first few minutes. and then shut our ears? One of Pickering's basic ideals is tolerance. It seems out of place to entertain such ideas as those displayed last week. This is the first year of Pickeringk new deal. Let's not mar it with another episode of intolerance. Believe what you want to believe and say what you want to say, but don't censure those whose beliefs are different from yours .... Reprilltetl l'l'0Il1 the QlllIA'l'l' l'l'fIl'lx'l'l' Loyalty ANADIAN LOYALTY in the past has been a force for the betterment of Canada. A citizen was considered loyal if he tried to make this a better country to live in. This is still basically so, but there is a danger that this concept will change for the worse. The danger is that loyalty will be based on the concept that it is loyal to desire to maintain Canada exactly as it is, and it will be considered disloyal to advocate any change in our political, social, or economic set-up. In