Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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an editorial OST or THE STUDENTS who graduate from Pickering College will never know anything about life. Materially, they will probably all be considered successful and they will beget children who will follow in their footsteps. But spiritually they will taste and know an emptiness in life. Why, you might ask, will this be?', I can see but one answer-because the students concerned will have security. There will always be something or someone to provide for them. They will never know true life because they will never know dirt - the kind of dirt that you eat, and smell, and touch, and never seem to leave. Dirt with squalor breeds strong emotions and sensitivity. Without knowing filth, how can a man know purity. They will never know life because they will never know sweat-the kind of sweat that comes from the hard work in the dirty places where the material returns are little enough for the toil spent. They will never know the frus- tration that comes from useless struggle to rise above squalor and sweat. But if they do not know sweat and frustration, how can they speak of living , They cannot know life because they will not know poverty-the hand-to- mouth, day-to-day poverty that breeds terror, despair, hatred, love, and age. And because they will never know these things, they will never know real ambition, that drive towards heaven which must reap a real reward. Someone once said that the poor are with us always. and they are a constant example of people living to the utmost of their capacities. Emancipate yourself, then, oh you graduates. Throw oft' the shackles that tie you to the material success and the humdrum in life. Search out the spiritual life that makes you successful as a man instead of an automaton. You talk of going to universities, to places of higher learning, but what good can they give you, if you have not learned the basic knowledge of life. It is like polishing tin, when you could be polishing gold, to seek after higher knowledge without the foundation in life to appreciate it. If I could give a formula for happiness in life I would say, f'Seek out poverty, live poverty, and be alive! If you do not know poverty, how can you appreciate security? school committee HE SCHOOL COMMITTEE this year again demonstrated the effectiveness of a school government. Student activities, business and relations were well handled by the competent group, nominated and elected by the student body. There appeared to be some doubt, in the minds of many students. as to the Eight

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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

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SCHOOL COMMITTEE 1951-52 actual accomplishments of the committee, but now that it is a fait accompli, these accomplislnnents speak for themselves, The introduction of a new method of collecting student fees, which is a major step in furthering' activities also eliminates much bookwork and discomfort for the students. The management of dances was more efficiently done this year than in many past years. Very many gifts were sent to staff, domestic staff and people who were ill. These, along with very many supposedly trivial matters were taken in hand and managed by the committee. In all, the committee this year showed sound judg- ment in school affairs. But let this article not be devoted only to praise. Mistakes were made, they always have been and always will be made. The mistakes of the committee were made by the members individually and not as a group. These were remedied in due time and again a situation was taken well into hand. I believe that during the time I have been on the committee, I have benefited by the experience of being' an active member in solving' school prob- lems. The many different complications involved and the situations en- countered have broadened my view regarding' school government. I should like to say also that it has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with the members of the committee in school life as well as in committee meetings. I think I speak for the whole school when I say to Bill Maguire, Bill Purves- Smith, John Luck, -lohn Allen, Barry Moffatt, Bo Barter, Burt Kelloek, lion MacMillan and Carl Odney . . . thanks for a good job! Win e