Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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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'

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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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routers' club on 'Vina ifmsr 'riniz IN 'rwo decades the Root of Minus One Club operated without the services ot' their founder R. E. K. Rourke. 'The spade Work had been well done, however, for the Hooters enjoyed an-other fine year. Mem- bership this year was its highest since conception with six staff members and thirteen students. The progrannne was under the direction of Ward Cornell, Keith Mellaren and Rudy Renzius. lflmphasis was still on the sciences and the programmes were varied, in- forniatiye and interesting. Keith enlarged on the story of the earth as presented in Life niagazineg tlorliy told ot' his visit to the Morehouse Planetary in Chapel Hill, North Varolinag Rudy delighted the Club with his own particular type of inagie in the pewter shop ot' the craft shopg a liigliliglit was a trip to the Ford plant in tlakyilleg there were lectures on mathematical fallacies, the mathematics ot' chanceg tihns on aireratt production from the Bell Corporation in Buffalo. tluest speaker at the final banquet was Byng XVhitteker of the CBC who spoke on actuality broadeasting'. His presentation was as easy and as pleasant as his many radio progrannnes with which all club members seemed to be familiar. -lohn Zehethoter was the suckertary and did not abse-ond with any of the funds. Returning' nienibers are looking' forward to next year's activities with great anticipation. 7'lii1!v