Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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What will you find outside these walls? Many of you are going on to higher learning in University and Business College, some may be starting work. NVill your lives be changed radically? NVhat does the world need?, I believe you will find the same problems, the same temptations, the same possibility of success and happiness. V l You may find drudgery, but through faith and will that drudgery can become stimulating workg you may find frivolity, but with deeper purpose that frivolity can become good fellowshipg you will certainly find hypocrisy - fight it with your own integrityg you are bound to find intolerance - do not accept it and do not remain silent in its presence, you will meet with failure, but never give up, for from that temporary failure a future success may spring, you will meet pessimism: avoid it like the plague and embrace forever hope -pessimism is fruitless, whereas hope allows a solutiong you will find loneliness and sorrow and suffering, something the mind of man cannot understand, but even these the heart of man can envelop through a life of service and of helping othersg you may find hatred in some of your personal dealings: put out the hand of love and friendship and that hatred will melt as surely as the winter's SIIOVVS. ' ' These principles which I have enunciated spring from our faith. These are the added riches you must bear in trust for mankind. Most of you, if not all, believe in them. But you will find the greatest obstacles to their realiza- tion in the forms of selfishness and slothfulncss. Slothfulness-the very,word is ugly. a kind of sickening inertia which dulls good minds, blinds clear vision. No - having these ideals we must state them and fight for them and sacrifice for them. . And so, 111611 of Pickering, thereis mucl1 for you to accomplish. 'We who remain have confidence that you will not cease from mental fight, nor shall your sword sleep in your hand. May this be true, too, of the school whose stamp you bear! l A , . ' Twenty-eight

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on the principles we have learned here - but principles put into practice. What are these principles, what. has Pickering given you, what are these added riches which we ask you to bear in trust? You know them as well as I. They form a faith, a set of values, a set of attitudes. 'That faith is in a God who has given us the right to choose between good and evil. Call it, if you Will, a belief in goodness. In biblical language it means Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might, and thy neighbour as thyself. From it stems our Quaker belief in the value of the individual, in service, in tolerance. Pickering men judge others on their meritsg what matters race, colour, or a difference in the way in which we worship God or our individual concept of the ideal? Pickering, therefore, has given you a faith. But Pickering has given you something else: a freedom in which you may test this faith, a freedom which may turn to license, Whenever your faith fails, a freedom which carries with it a responsibility, for our individual free- dom is limited whenever it trespasses on the rights or freedom of the group as a whole. One must learn to use freedom. At first we act like a litter of new born puppies learning to walk, we waver, totter and fall. But then with strength and practise we learn to walk with firmness and steadiness. Freedom gives self-knowledge. Pickering, therefore, has given you freedom in which to grow. And Pickering has also given you an inner Force, a Strength, a Self-discipline, courage, if you prefer, to work out your faith, your ambitions, in a spirit of freedom. In our first Chapel service I likened our four pillars to Faith, Fun, Friendship and this Inner Force. This latter principle is the one which makes everything else fall into place. Have you ever noticed in a gathering, a bull- session in the corridors, a committee meeting, a staff meeting, when the con- versation has become negative and unconstructive, someone will raise his voice in positive, forceful support of a principle, and the character of that gathering is thereby given heart and hope? Have you ever noticed within yourself, after a period of discouragement and aimlessness in the face of your heavy tasks, that you will suddenly take heart and fight? This is the spirit, born of your faith and sorely needed by it tif faith is to have any meaningl which we call the inner Light or Force. And so, those of you who are ready to graduate, go forth in this month of June, in the year of our Lord 1954, with a Faith, a standard of values, even if you do not think of it in those terms, an under- standing of Freedom and a Force or Will to fight for your beliefs. But, remember, the degree of your responsibility is now and forever greater, for these riches are given to you in trust to be defended, spread and passed on to others. Last year's School Committee Chairman used to raise a question about our school code, these beliefs, he said, are no monopoly of Pickering. Thank God for that! They represent the dreams and hopes and efforts of good men everywhere. Your loyalty now becomes a greater one, as it transfers from this College to the larger community, and I assure you Pickering will lose nothing in that transfer. Twenty-s'cveri

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in itation lub C tlurty club N ENTERTAINING AND 1NFoRM,xT1yE PROGRAMME was carried out this year by the Club members assisted on only two occasions by guest speakers. Mr. Roy Clifton found the members a sympathetic audience for his stimulating and thoughtful talk on spelling reform, and Kenneth Albert made graphically clear the technicalities of applied radio theory. The remaining meetings were en- riched by the personal experiences and ideas of members. Debates and discussions were held, and talks were given on Ethiopia, Honduras and Latin America, Europe, and Florida. The traditional public debate with the Polikon Club took plaee on Visitors' Day. A musical programme was arranged in the Masters' Common Room at the last regular meeting, with masses of food organized by Messrs. Enerson and Stewart. Joseph McCulley, M.A. t0xon.l, former Headinaster and presently Warden of Hart House, was the distinguished guest speaker at the closing banquet. He spoke of the broader implications of the philosophy ot the School, with special reference to his work in prison reform and prisoner rehabilitation while Deputy Commissioner of Penitentiaries. The following had executive responsibilities during the year: Messrs. Branton, Enerson, Farstad, McCann, MeQuarrie, Paterson, Stewart. and Zwaryeh. M. T1ll6lIly-llflll'