Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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a personal word Harry M. Beer ERE AT PICKERING it is not very often that we look back into the past, for life with youth is marked by the strength and force and turbulence of a mount-ain stream rushing towards its destiny ahead. Keen vision for wlraft lies beyond and skilful attention to the shoals at hand demand our full concentra- taion, wif our craft is 'to complete its journey withou-t loss or serious damage. Youth provides the unharnessed power, experience it-he indispensable iguridance. What a combinaition they form when Working in full harmony! Those of you who know Pickering will well understand the simile as y-ou recialil the ceaseless actliviity, mental, physi-carl and, to be sure, spiritual, of our inoving' round -of seasons. And yet, although we may not look back consciously in our daily course, we derive from our origiins both purpose land direction. The Quake-r poet, Ken- neth Boulding, -in one of this Nayler Sonnets, says this about the source of goodness : Ask the sweet spring upon the mountain top What makes his sinless water flow so free,- Is it the call of some for-distant sea, Of the fleep pressure that no crust can stop? No conscious end can drag ns out of sin, Unless clear goodness wells up from within. XVe alt Pickering igo b-ack one hundred and fifteen years to 18-12 to seek our first source. In 'chant far-off year, a quarter of a. century 'before the Confederation of our Dominion, fthe Society of Friends established ftrhe Friends' Boarding School at Ytlest Lake in Prince Edward County. Tthe 'ideals and principles that moved them to this act are fthose very ones which motiivaite our school to-day and justify its eXistence,qin simplest terms fthe belief in th+a't of 'God in every man . Those six words represent our lheritage 'from fthe past and their sptirit must be alive in our school to-day,-oltiherwfise our passage throufgth life is With- out significance. Another milestone in our corporate history is but thirty years back, the year 1927, from which we date 'tfhe modern era. of our College. Under Joseph McCullcy and Taylor Statten, the same streams of thought and spirit were evident in the stress on 'the importance ot' the individual and his place in the connnuniity. The spiritual concept of itlra't of God in every man was expressed educationally in ltlhe belief in fd young man 's responsibility for this own decisions and ac-tions. Mistakes would be made, but wisdom would win out! How many of us in those days grew towards maturity with somewhialt greater insiglnt and understanding. as we listened Ito Taylor Sttatftenls favourite quoltation from John OXQI1'llElIT1Z Eight

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TAYLOR STATTEN Seven

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HARRY M. BEER, BA. HE.xm1,xsTER Nine