Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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ff l?z'v'-'VZ f-4Z'FjZi5'b'1 fa-wif! A2752 2'-A-7 2 of' 372'-ff-L. J Af ,QJZZ4 chapel URING THE XVINTER TERM two Sunday Chapel services are conducted by members of the School Committee. Below are reproduced the talks given by the Com- mittee at these two services. friendship RE You VVORTHY or YOUR FRIENDS? Ask yourself this question and what answer do you get? Some may think this is rather a simple question to ask because, of course, they think they are worthy of their friends. But in all reality are they? Would they go the ,extra mile or turn the other cheek? Would they be willing to share the sorrows as well as the joys and still have strong fellow-feeling. One begins to wonder if all this respect, understanding and unselfishness is really worth it. Most people know that it is worth it. Everybody, sometime in his or her life has felt insecure and lonely and has wanted somebody to turn to. This is where friendship is one of the most valuable and most enduring relationships in life as it gives you the security and feeling of being wanted, or belonging. There is a saying A mere chance brings people together. NVe have that chalice right here, but are we making the most of it. You may think so? You have your own circle of friends but have you ever gone outside this circle? In a school of this size every- body pretty well knows everybody else but how many of you can get along well with Johnny Jones who lives down the hall. Maybe some boys here don't like John, so they persecute him both physically and worst of all mentally. VVhy? Because he doesn't come up to the standards of the boys. The guys with much muscle and little brain, if they have to find amusement for themselves by bullying other fellow students who are not big or strong enough to defend themselves against overwhelming odds. Just because a. fellow docsn't have a. build like Charles Atlas or doesnt know all the angles, he probably has something on the ball and if only given the chance he could prove himself. Since we all have this chance to live here it is up to us to make this a better place in which to live both alone and with many. It is also up to us to live together in this school of ours, as friends whose friendship will be carried far beyond these walls. Let's all try to be a little more understanding, sympathetic, tolerant. TONY ALLEN to strive, to seek, not to yield o Us IN THE PRESENT DAY this means a world quite unlike the one we live in. A world of peace without Weapons, without slander, without evil. Noble words you might say. Vtfords which have been said before, and in all probability will be said again. tflranted. But we are the next generation that people talked about at the end of NVorld NVar H. The war that was to end wars. We were to live in peace and harmony. Obviously we do not. Therefore we must strive, must seek, must never yield and some day we must find that newer world. The world of peace, of love, of harmony. We must do this so that our children and theirs will live a better life. The question is where do we begin. The answer - with ourselves, then with our friends, then with our community and so on. You might ask yourself how Eighteen

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GIL PLAXV Kingston, Ontario - C1 yearj - Glce Club - Secret Society - Senior Football - Orfun Basketball - Baseball - Member of Gatehouse Elite- Other Interests - Swimming - Water skiing - folk music - sailing - Nickname - Gilaboo - Ambition - Chemical Engineering at Lowell Technical Institute - Probable Destination - Invent Youth Serum Favourite Saying - Think .--- I can't . JOHN RENNVICK Toronto - C5 yearsj - Polikon Club - Senior Football - Orfun Basketball - Track - Red Team - School Committee - Grade IX Overloads - Other Interests - Cars - stamps - coins - Pool - Nickname - Honest John - Ambition - Staff of General Motors or Running a Used Car Lot - Probable Destination - Public Relations for Ford - Favourite Saying - Listen Fatheadn. DAVID RIVERS Thornhill, Ontario - Q-I yearsj - Rooters Club - Senior Football, 2 years - Senior Hockey - Track - Baseball - Corridor Committee - Other Interests - The Three Star Club Nickname - Riv - Ambition - Airforce - Probable Destination - Continental Road Runner Favourite Saying - Les, What are we doing Sunday? O.L.C.?l' TOM THOMSON Wloodstock, Ontario - C3 yearsj - Thirty Club - Silver Team - Football Manager - Corridor Committee - Craft Shop - Other Interests - Pool - Donna - Nickname - Timber Tom - Ambition - To beat Honest -Iolin Renwick in a smart deal -- Probable Destination - Stock broker - Favourite Saying - 'tHoi . .IIM NVALDIE St. Thomas, Ontario - C3 yearsj - Polikon Club - Silver Salts Club - Senior Football - Baseball - Silver Team - Grade IX Overloads - Three Star Club - Holder of Sacred Shovel 58-59 - Other Interests - Cars, Pool, Annoying Renwick - Nickname - Diamond -lim - , Ambition - Financial NVorld - Millionaire of W, Car Industry - 1 jff U I Probable Destination - Gatekeeper at Little Africa. .,',, 4 O S . ' U.s.A. - it 3155 9, Favourite Saying - filet Real . I Sewefzleen

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can I possibly do anything that will change the world. To expalin this point I would like to make a comparison between the human body and the world. If you break your wrist, you are in pain and your body is the less for it. If a group of people or a person kill or cause destruction the world is in pain and is the less for it. Thus we must strive for excellence in all we do. In this way our life will become better and if we become better we will probably affect our friends. In our academics, in our athletics and in our relations with others we must always strive for peace, harmony and understanding. We all know what things about us are not good, are not as they should be. But do we ever do anything about our bad ways. Tennyson says in his poem It may be that the gulfs will wash us down . The gulf for our purposes is that we will cease to strive, to seek for excellence, and will fall by the wayside. No longer will we be useful. We will be like a ship without a crew floating, aimlessly in never ending sea, until at the end we sink into a. dark abyss, our life a waste. But Tennyson also says: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles . The happy isles that we must seek are those of peace and understanding. If we find these Isles in ourselves surely we can help others find them. Therefore take a long look at yourself, a critical one, and when you see that all is not well try to change. At times we all are prone to slip gently along on life's stream not striving or seeking but always yielding. If we do this too often we will never find any- thing of consequence. In future years we will pay for our lack of courage, of inner fortitude. NVe will be cowards. We will not wish to face the obstacles which lie on the path to success in academics, athletics, or relations with others. We will be people who hinder the community. And in these days we must not produce people of this character. But we all can help to make our community and the world we live in a better place. If we strive always for a goal, seeking it with courage we will no matter what odds. But if we yield for too long a time the task will e t at much grea.ter. Therefore, lift your head up, smite the sounding furrows and become a man. When this is done the world will become the better for it. CHARLES BEER. loyalty NVOULD LIKE T0 TELL YoU A s'roRY which I hope will illustrate for you, one of life's most important virtues - Loyalty. Loyalty to your friends, parents and country. If every one could practice this, the school, and the world for that matter, would be a much better place in which to live. The story starts in the city of Syracuse in Sicily. The King of Syracuse who was a hard and wicked ruler, heard of a plot by the people to overthrow the throne. The King then commanded that all leaders should be put to death. Une of these leaders, named Damon, lived far from Syracuse. He asked the King if he would grant permission for him to go and say to his parents and family, promising to return within the appointed time of execution. The King did not think he would keep his word and said I will let you go under one condition, if you find a friend to stand in your place until you return. If you don't retum your friend will die. The King thought to himself, surely no one will ever take the place of a man condemned to death. Now Damon had a very dear friend named Pythias, who at once came Nineteen