Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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The moment the kick-off whistle blew, the pent-up tension was re- leased and our nerves calmed as we concentrated on the game with all abstract thoughts discarded. Our confidence was gained on the first play, when we went for a first down. Although we fought hard throughout the first quarter, St. Andrew's managed to capitalize on two of our mistakes, with a touch- down. We fought back dauntlessly, however, and were soon rewarded with a touchdown, thus ending the quarter with a tie score. The second quarter saw more of a wide open ball game. St. Andrewls struck for two consecutive touchdowns, but we held the fort and retaliated with two touchdowns to balance the score. Had it not been for a case of butter fingers , which resulted in a safety touch, putting them ahead by two points, we wouldnit have had an even score at half-time. The Goliaths'i were quite surprised that we Davids should hold them in an even tussle. This was probably the turning point in the game, because even though we had a deficit of two points our spirit and morale were at that same un- surpassed height, while the 'tSaints began to crumble under the pressure. In previous years our teams were usually so far behind that their spirit was killed and the '4Saints rolled on to victory without too much opposition. But not so this year. The two teams returned well rested, but the Saints were uneasy in their minds for their tempers began to flare up resulting in their bickering among themselves, thus driving the thorn in deeper. The quarter ended with us deep in their zone, bruised but still fighting. On the first or second play of the final quarter we plunged over for a touchdown and a convert to end the scoring for the game. The rest of the game continued with our spirit mounting, and our anxiety to maintain the lead probably prevented us fr-om making any serious mistakes, when a Saint was ejected for fighting the game was more or less placed in our hands for sure. The final whistle found us deep in their territory, pressing for another touchdown. This game climaxed for me the best football season in my career. Above all, in my final year of participating for Pickering, I was a member of a team which had the best win-loss record since 1939, and this team, after following in the footsteps of teams from the last nine years, picked up the standard, carried it into enemy territory, planted it there and in doing so ended their supremacy in this annual event. It had been my ambition to conquer those red-men , since first wearing a senior uniform four years ago and at last we did, but it took four years of patience and a rekindling of the desire each fall. -BOB KING Verentecn

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BARRY CART VARTWRIHHT C215 yearsj - North Bay - II football - Blue Team - Il Colours - Trial by Jury - Softball - league-leading pitcher. Ut her interests -4 Hainey . Future - Retail merchandising at Ryerson. Ambition-Mayor of North Bay. MIKE MAKOVVSKI Grand Rapids, Michigan - Ill soeeer - dramaties Silver Salts - skiing - tennis. l+'uture: Business Administration at College in the United States. Ambition - To make bedposts for four posters . WAl,'l'lCR I'lil+1'l'TNl4lR from Mexieo City, for two years - Second Colours - First Soeeer - Rooter - Blue Team - Skilled and enthusiastic- skier S a seholar and a gentleman. Ambition: the good life. Future: University of Mexico. the highlight of the year HE i11GH1,1GH'1' or' 'i'H1s YEAR onli: Poi: Air: in the fall term. After having an exeellent season in football and suffering only one defeat, We had to meet our friendly foes from Aurora in our annual clash. It was decided a few years baek that our games with St, Andrew 's were to be limited to one, the last of the season. ln an effort to bring about at more peaceful and m01'e friendly attitude between the sehools, it was also decided that the two schools would be hosts in alternate years and the visiting team would be guests for dinner. For this game we had been vigorously eonditioned, while our morale and spirit, as a team, had soared to an almost insurmountable level. Everyone had been thinking of this game for a week or two before the scheduled date. The day before the game we had a light workout and a brief eha.lk-talkw. That night everyone retired early. Hn the day of judgment , everyone arose for breakfast and the usual elasses, but there was a tension in the air unlike that before any other game. As we ran on to the field we reeeived a heartvwarming ovation from the ardent fans of both sehools. Sixteen

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ctivities TIII4: e.xs'l' Ixxn I'll0lll'l l'ION Ml-:N or' Brother Orclricl tho llrlunatic club N eoxsseriox wI'I'II Yisrroics' Div, the Club presented a revival of Leo Brady's lirnilzer Urclvifl, which had been previously presented at the School in 1942. This play lends itself admirably to the aspirations of the Dramatic fllubg its theme is deeply significant, involving' ideas of repentance, dedication, and sell'-sacrifieeg and these ideas are conveyed by highlv dramatic action per- liUI'Ill0lQl by l,'ilZll'ill'll'l'S whose interplay is richly comic. The play is about a ruthless gangster named Ilittle John Sarto who returns to his old haunts i'l'01ll ten years in prison to find that his throne has been usurped and that hc is slated to be taken for a ride . He escapes his would-be murderers and finds I-et'ug'e in the monastery of the Little Brothers of the Flowers who, as he puts it, do nothing but pray and herd posiesu. The Brothers show him a kindness and a wav of life which ne had never encountered before, and he begins his reg'eneration by cliangiiigg' his name to Brother Orchid. BI-otln-r Orchids language and graiigster gauclzierie contrast eornicallv with the gentle innocence of the brothers and their Father Abbotg but what Brother Orchid had sought as a mere hide-out becomes Inore important for hiIn than life itself, and when his former rival threatens the brothers' sole means of livelihood and charity, the erowiiig' and marketing' ol' flowers, he Qives his life to break up the gang' and save the monastery. Eighfeerz