Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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mecficcztion Q70 CSDCZIIXOFC! -Wlllflg, n recognition of his invaluable service to Pickering as Superintendent of the College Farms, 1928-1957, this volume of The Voyageur is gratefully dedicated. .v:.'Z : ,. 95.3 , :-,.. . .. . -'N 'Q , 3 1.9 , , f - V ,,- . A-,,3,g , 295 ' ' u ,V if fx 1,6120 i, by M . A I 4 4 ' 1, ,V YAf?,,,.Y u i 14.

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Salim! and ghbfished 551 Jim cfmff and Students of Qickef-ing Goflege, Newmarket, C9nfario Staff R61Jl'6.S'P7lfllffI'f' CRAEGE BICQUARRIFZ Three

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a personal worfl to the students HE FOLLOWING PAGES will bring back a flood of memories to you, the students of 1957-58. As your Headmaster, I hope that these memories will be happy ones, as you scan the pictures and read the accounts I of the varied activities that filled our days during the past year. It is my personal hope that you will take some time to follow the train of thought thus provoked by memory, before starting your next year's experience, wherever il may be. In examining your own past year, you THE HEADMASTER will find it a mixture of success and failure. Some of your goals were not attained, whereas others approximated the high ideals you set for yourself, whether they were intellectual, physical or spiritual. These latter, mark well and identify the elements which brought their succcess. Perhaps you belonged to a team impelled by a cohesive spirit, to a class stirred by the joy of learning, to a group bound together by a vital interest in a common pursuit, such as drama, music, discussion or school affairs, perhaps you felt the thrill of mastering an academic subject, perhaps you began to apperciate the value of quiet meditation and prayerg perhaps you found out how to learn from your mistakesg perhaps your corridor. your school, or even just one other person. was made better because of your presence at Pickering last year. It is my personal belief that these good things in life take place. only if we as individuals bring into our lives a self-discipline which places the good of the group above selfish interests or, in private matters, our highest long-range ideals above super- ficial, short-term pleasures. Discipline need not be a cold, unfeeling concept, if we appreciate it as part of wisdom along with courage, forgiveness and unselfishness. Indeed. these other qualities may not exist, without it. Elton Trueblood, a Quaker philosopher. has said that, 'fthe heart of discipline is the constant vision of greatnessw. In this view, greatness does not mean public acclaim on the world stage. It is the attainment of all men who struggle to fullil their own inner potential, however small the measure, in the service of their fellow men. Thus, if we keep the vision of our own possibilities constantly in mind. discipline, far from being a begrudging obedience to authority, springs fully from the heart. That is why it is closely allied with love as a basic requisite of uthe good life . This personal word is therefore addressed to you in the hope that our past year together. here recorded, has brought us all closer to an understanding of the need for this kind of discipline in our lives. If so, our memories of this year will remain rich, indeed- -HARRY M. BEER. RA. Five