Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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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. A person who has disciplined himself is to be admired. How often have you wished you had the will power to settle down and study for exams. Is this really will power or self discipline? No matter what it is, the person who has this is much further ahead of the person who has not got it. You may complain of your life here at Pickering - that it does not have all the comforts and freedom of home. Pickering however is attempting to mould you into a being with a purpose and one of its ways is by applying discipline. The value of discipline need not be explained as most of us realize the importance it has in our lives. In order to mould a successful future for ourselves, the present must contain discipline. BARRY IWUNCASTER. look ing forward HEsE YEARS which we are in right now are our formative years. How we conduct ourselves in eveiything we do now is the manner in which we will conduct ourselves in the future. Are We making use of the materials which we have and the previous skills which we have attained? NVe must concentrate on learning all we can at the present time to make ourselves useful citizens in the future. If we are able to attain a good education and a. basic grounding in the im- portant matters now, it will be a guarantee of prosperity for us in the future, and also a guarantee of our Democratic System. Everything that we do now in the line of education and of learning should be of some consequence to our future. Because of the chaotic state of world affairs, people nowadays seem to be living only for the present. The future holds surprises and chances for advancement for anyone who is prepared to cope with them. Have we at Pickering got the forward look? I don't think so, not yet anyway. For the boys in the graduating class, this is a year of decision. For if we do not produce when we must, our chance of a bright future is at stake. We have had good fellowship at school in the past months and we shall continue to have in the future. However, we must get the vision and work together to reach our goal of a good education in order to deserve a good position in the business world or if we are planning on furthering our education. This country of which we are a part is to have a great future. To have such, Canada will require the same calibre of leadership which she has been used to over the years. Of course, everyone knows the importance of what I have been talking about. But we cannot reach our goal of a good education unless we plan and work ob- jectively. We must remember our task now and our future will look after itself. MIKE MITCHELL a high way and a low VERY MAN IS GIVEN oPPoE'rUNI'rIEs - he can make the best of these opportunities by taking the high way which leads to self improvement and a better future. Twenty-two

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courage to stand beside a friend or belief in a time when he or it has been challenged. And prayer is courage - courage to accept and ask for forgiveness of one s sins. I would now like to talk of a. different kind of courage - The courage of Pickering. In the years I have been at Pickering, I have seen this courage many times. The courage to accept a man no matter what his race, colour, or religion - All we have to do is look around us to see this phase of Pickering. Pickering also has a. courage of patience and understanding for each in- dividual. At times, when a. boy has come into some difficulties his problem is discuwed and thought out, rather than immediate punishment. This method has often been criticized by other schools but it certainly leaves a better under- standing between staff and students. Another type of courage is when a boy who has left Pickering praises his old school. XVe often are accustomed to hearing the same type of boy speak badly of the school when he is he1'e. It is heart warming to hear this new man now speak in praise of the things Pickering has given him. In conclusion, the things at Pickering which demand our courage must be in academics - to come out at the top of the ladder in Jtme, - also sports require our courage and we witnessed a good example this year in our Senior Football team. The final courage is in the need to trust, to be honest and to be faithful to our fellow men. - If you have these ideas in your mind and try to use them Well you will be a courageous man. DAVE BEER. C C lf dlsclp une HERE ARE Two TYPES OF DISCIPLINE - external and internal. External dis- cipline is the discipline we experience as children or in some eases as adults. This type of discipline is exerted upon a person who cannot control himself inwardly. It may take the form of a bawling out or in most extremes cases a jail sentence. Internal discipline is the discipline We experience within ourselves. It is the direct result of the external discipline we experience as children. This means that we are disciplining ourselves instead of having other people, discipline us. This is most important as it is the sign of a person maturing and able to conduct himself in the society around him. Examples of persons not being able to control themselves are evident all around us. The Newspapers are full of stories concerning people who have taken the wrong turn. This wrong turn may have started when they were young and had no one to discipline them. Last year in Pickering a student had trouble himself. The staff tried various methods of external discipline upon this unhappy soul for a long time. He was given a. number of chances but he continued on in his actions. As a result of these actions a few studentsvlives were made so miserable that they left Pickering. This forced the College to enforce more external discipline and the particular student was asked to leave. Had this person only learned to give himself a bit of internal discipline he would probably be here today. He had the intelligence to make a. successful career out of the rest. of his life but because of his unwillingness to grow up he ruined his hopes for success, in Pickering. Twenty-one

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Or he can take the low way, by yielding to temptation and spending all his time having fun, and trying to get all he can out of life without putting anything into it, or he can drift aimlessly doing nothing and getting nowhere. This time we are spending at Pickering is a vital part of our life. This is the time when we decide which way we are to go. There are three aspects of life at Pickering. The first is the social aspect where at Pickering we have the opportunities to make valuable friendshipsg true friendships which we will remember all of our life. But we don't have to make friends. We can play the role of a hard rock or a bully and make enemies instead. Or we can just waste our time, waste our chances and make no effort at all. The second aspect is athletics - this is a wonderful opportunity to learn to play various games and learn to enjoy working with others as a. team. You will benefit greatly by taking the high road in athletics for athletics will build a strong healthy body and will leave pleasant memories embedded in your mind. But here again you can waste the opportunity and avoid the athletics. If you take time out to look around, you will see that it is usually the poor student who avoids athletics. The third aspect is academics - here more than in any other area you have the opportunity to better yourself. The only way to learn is through work. We as students of Pickering are fortunate in that we are given lots of work and time in which to do it. We are also blessed with a well trained staff which is ready at almost any time to help us with our problems. Here again we have three choices - We can throw the opportunity away by sleeping, playing cards or reading pocket books, etc. during study. Or as a few people do they waste their own time - but they aren't satisfied with this, they have to disturb others and waste their time too. Or we can take the high road, and by learning have a brighter and more rewarding future. Think for a minute - VVhich way are you going? This is a. turning point in your life. - be sure you turn in the right direction. RUSS RADCLIEFE. , THE ANNA BELUGIN MEMORIAL PRIZE His PRIZE was established in 1956 by Mr. A. N. Belngin of Newmarket in mem- ory of his wife. It is awarded to a grade 11 student in recognition of thought- ful scholarship and lively intellectual curiosity. This year there was a double award made to Jack Bates and Roger Veale. Twenty-three