Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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ix THE HEADMASTUQ

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Cgo 07? CSjtQWClI't AN IMAGINATIVE AND EFFECTIVE TEACHER AN INSPIRING AND UNDERSTANDING COUNSELLOR HOUSEMASTER AND ASSISTANT HEADMASTER DURING THE YEARS 1938 - 1958 PRESENTLY RESIIJING IN ROME ITALY This edition of The Voyageur is afectionately dedicated Five

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a personal word to the students ERE IS OUR RECORD of the past school year. Of course it does not report on the individual progress achieved or relate the private struggle and growth towards those things each one of us strives for in his own heart. But it well reflects our life together as a community, those activities where we joined as a group to achieve a common purpose, whether it be as members of a team, of a corridor, of the cast of Macbeth or Pinafore, on the school committee or in a discussion club. In looking back on our year, as you thumb through these pages, it is my hope that you, as an individual, may recall a contribution, great or small, that you made to our school, either as a good leader or as a good follower. If so, you have the privilege of believ- ing, with humility, that Pickering College is a better place because you were with us. It is my hope that our year has given you an insight into the faith of our founders, The Society of Friends, and their basic belief in Hthat of Cod in every manf' Their stress on the importance of the individual is ex- pressed this way by Kahlil Gibran: 'iNo man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Our Voyageur, therefore, is a record of people doing things together. If they do so with skill and devotion, they meet the kind of success which results from thoughtful guidance on the one hand and spirited co-operation on the other. ls not this combination the corner-stone of a good school, a good com- munity, a good country? Since this is a personal word, I may say that I believe that such guidance exists here at Pickering. If our opportunities are to be fulfilled, then, they depend on the co-operation of all of us. ln other words, the development of a good school is based on our allegiance to a com- mon ideal which transcends self-centered motives. It follows that any success we have achieved this year as a group was derived from the co-operation of in- dividuals. The responsibility of the individual must therefore be the fulfilment of himself, the development of his mind and body and spirit, so that he may give of his best to those around him. l wish we could all understand that this is the reason for the existence of our school, and the only one, for everything else springs from it. If so, we shall understand how and why the good things recorded in these pages found their being. My thanks to all of you who during the past year have helped to build Wlihe beloved cornmunityl' on our hill-top. Sei en