Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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Pickering ollege 25th Anniversary Edition of Voyageur NE OF THE THINGS that has impressed me most. about my years at Pickering is that I have never really been away from the place. I suppose that sounds rather far-fetched when one considers I have been gone for three years. VVell, of course I have been gone from everything of Pickering that meets the eye. But, to me and to lots of others, those old bricks and the North and South Fields and the Gym aren't all there is of Pickering. To us she is a living thing - someone we know very well and want to keep on knowing. For Pickering is the sound of many voices, and thc footsteps of many people, the stillness of many hours. She has a, long ancestry. She is Jew, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Canadian, English, Ame- rican, German, Spanish and Indian. That is why Pickering is a liye thing, for the people are Pickering. -From an Old Boyfs lmfter' Five

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the headnaasterfs' message OT 1,,oNo .uso I was given a Copy of an essay from whieh General MacArthur derived great strength. This essay is titled Hou' to Stay Young. I believe that all of us can get help from it. Let me quote the essay, in part. Youth is not a time of life . . . it is a state of mind: it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a rigor of the emotions, a predomiiuznee of eourage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over lore of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years: people grou' old only by deserting their ideals. Years uirinlfle the shin, but to give up enthusiasm u'rinl.'les the soul. l'Vorry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long, long years that bon' the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt: as young as your .self-eonhdenee, as old as your fear: as young as your hope, as old as your despair. So long as your heart receives messages of beafuty, Cheer, Courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man and from the infinite, so long you are young. W'hen the wires are all down and the eentral place of your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the iee of eynieixm, then, you are grown old indeed and ma!! God have merey on your soul. I could wish for the graduates of Piekering' College no finer future than one that is eontrollecl by a youthful state of mind. As you go forth to find your places, may your faith and your ideals glow brightly to light your path. Robert E. K. Itourhe. Seven