Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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editorial LL THE woRL.D's .x srlxon, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances: and one man in his time plays many parts. To some extent all of us have played parts at Pickering this year. Some of us have played them better than others because of special qualities that we possess, but all have contributed in some way to the success of the play. The School Code provided us with our script and, although we never seemed to get our lines perfect because of natural human failings, the constant striving for perfection was the most important aspect of the school year. Those of us who are leaving the ivy-covered walls this year, may not realize the true value of all that we have learned, not specifically academically but rather, socially. This last statement may seem strange to some. should they think they came to Pickering for academic reasons only, but we have to live in harmony with other people whether we are educated or not and that is as much a part of the Pickering system as academic subjects are. At a certain camp for boys operated by the Department of Education of Ontario they advocate that each boy take a little bit of the camp with him when he goes. This does not reter to anything tangible but something that he has gained from his experiences there. This is a beautiful thought and it is to be hoped that some of us leaving Pickering this year have a little bit of Pickering with us. Living for a time in this melting pot of society we are exposed to the many facets of human character and it is inevitable that we should benefit from this by certain changes in our own character during these our plastic vears . Some people gauge a year at Pickering by the number of corridor raids they took part in. This year we have had a few corridor raids but in looking hack are there not many other highlights that provided as much fun and from which you gained something ot' more value than could be supplied by a corridor raid? lt was a good year. much progress was made in many of the areas of our way of lite at Pickering and, as Mr. Stewart so aptly put it in a chapel address, it was truly an experience of life . Eight

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HARRY M. BEER, B.A HEADMASTER

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Tilly: SCI-Ioor, Co1t1Mr'r'1'l-11-3 Sl-I.X'l'lill, l,l'IF'l' 'ro lcnaxlr: Hrolzwlee, .llue1.eun. Jrnzstruny, I'l-ive ft'lnrirmr.n. .spring TPVIIIQ. llrs-Ssf'r', U'ilIi.s', Frzrer. S'r.xNl11Nu: Mr. Nfezrurf, .lftlt'17llff?F, Cutlllnerf, Himlx, Ugrlmz, The fIPllflHItlSf11'. Alzslaxrz King fclltfiflllflll, T: mporrrry Conimitlee, and itulumn and Winter 7'er1u.vJ. school committee HP: SCHOOL C'0Mi11'1 1'r:1c or l'It'lilCRINti ll0I,l,l'1tllC is l-1I,lCt l'l'Ili in a fashion that differs greatly from most, other High St-hools. Nominations are reeeiyed. then the halloting' takes plat-e. There is no t'2llIlliillQ'IllIl2' whatever. The eantlidates are eleetetl through their nierits in flaily life. This year I believe that the tfoinnifttt-e was a eo-operatiiie' working instru- inent in hanishing- so many of the tlaily prohlems that appear when 135 students live together for approximately ten months of the year. I want to thank the students for standing hehind the t'onnnittee at tiines when the majority thought that the lfoniniittee was using the wrong' methods in reaehine a solution. Beeause ot' the eo-operation ot' the stuclents these evasive solutions were reaehetl. The soeial life at the Vollege on the hilltop was a very lull one. Numerous flanees were staged hy the Vonmnittee. A hig' step was taken this year in the form of an 'All-Teen' llanee, in whieh the torees ot' Aurora High Sr-hool, Newmarket High Sc-hool antl Piekeriiig' C'-ilIIllJilll'tl in the hantlling of the tlanee. I heartily 1'l't'0lHI1lt'llll to future eonnnittees that they eontinue this tlanee. The fl0lllllllTtf'C also eontlueteml two of the t'hapel seryiees this year :mtl the opinion is that they tlitl very well. The Voittlxiittee huilt higher yet on the strengthenetl tountlati-ms let't hy past lfolninittees. May future Voniinittees eontinue To show leaelership, eourage antl untlerstantlingy Xine