Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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why I want to live LL THE woRLn's A STAGE, and each person an actor, but how many really know the part they are to play in this great drama? This is a question that can only only be answered by hard concentration and thought. The grade 11 English class were faced with the problem of deciding why they wanted to live and they came up with some interesting and thought provoking ideas. Printed here are a few excerpts from these essays. I want to live so I can lie on my bed and stare out the Windows when my homework is finishedg so I can wander into another room and sit around and talk with some of my friends! so I can go out and play sports or walk down town and look at the girls, or play a game of poolg so I can go down to supper and after supper go outside and have a cigarette and talk about the exciting summer ahead. Many of the members of the class considered the future and found reasons for living in what they hoped they would accomplish: I want. to live so that I may make a great contribution to mankind and be- come famous. Perhaps I will be a famous scientist and invent a great new rocket, or in the field of medical research, a. cure for cancer. Perhaps I will become a, great statesman, author, lawyer or Nobel prize winner. NVhatever I do in my lifetime I want to be a great success at itf' One student, however, felt there was one thing we didnt want to do: UN home people figure that they would like to get married when they are 19 or 20. But not me. I can't see it. Who would want to be tied down at such an early age in their life? I would like to get married when I am about 28. VVhen I am married I'd like to have a family, a. house and a car. I want to achieve something, but heaven knows what. This sentence summed up the attitude of a large number of students. Life was a challenge in their eyes, but a challenge to what, they were not certain. Everything meets the challenge of life. Plants struggle to get above groundg the animals come out of hiberna- tion after a long winter, and take on new lifeg these are examples of challenges that are met and in most cases, overcome. In my life I want to be happy and contentg I want. to make others happy and contribute something to society: I want to do something a little different and a little better than anybody before meg but most of all, I want to meet the challenges which life offers and overcome them. Some writers sensed that their reason for being alive had nothing to do with their personal desires but rather was involved in the purpose and meaning of all life. It is the belief of every Christian that his God brought him into the world, and that he would not have, if there wasn't a divine reason . To this and many other ideas seine students took strong exception. Did God put me on this earth for a purpose and to do an errand for him? Ridiculous, isn't it? If God wanted something done that bad I'm sure he would do what any human would have done. He would have accomplished it himself and thus been sure of a good result. Even the idea of God came under question, but in a very strange way. There is no God apart from myself. I am God. However, I should have a hard time impressing this on others because they too feel they are divine. A summary for this kind of thing is difficult to find but most of the Writers were in general agreement with the student who wrote: HI happened once. I perhaps could happen again. But since I happened by a freak of nature, let me live out my freakish self to the full, Twen ty-four

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activities the glee club HURSDAY, BIARCH 13TH, was a cold, wet slippery day but not even this could prevent the plamied seige of Pickering College. For three months a hearty band of pirates and beautiful maidens carefully laid plans and trained for the all important roles they would take. All too soon the hour arrived and amid a frenzy of last minute preparations The Pirates of Penzance laid siege and captured Pick- ering College for three nights. t No quickly conceived idea, the production of Gilbert and Sullivan was the 26th for the school and not only lived up to past tradition but raised a high stan- dard for future productions. Under the direction of Digby Peers, and assisted by Bill Dowdell and Mrs. Blosdale, the cast were trained for their parts. Al Jewell, with the assistance of John Palmer and other students, prepared the scenery for the two acts. The first scene was set in a small cove on the coast of England looking out on the sea. The second act took place among the towering pillars, broken windows and crumbling walls of an old chapel in the moonlight. The Newmarket Era and Express had the following to say about the produc- tion: Congratulations have come from all direction to the Pickering College Glee Club for its presentations of the Pirates of Penzance at the college last week . . . lt has been judged as one of the best by many who have not missed a production in vears. No professional singers were included in the cast. All the principal roles and choruses were taken, with one exception, by students at the college and girls from the Newmarket area. The part of Frederic was taken by the resident music director at the college, Digby Peers. M ,,...f-w. nh