Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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ramatics In ll cboth iixeiaxifzss, violenee, the supernatural, blood, revenge. vaunted ambition, these are the .ingredients ot Maebeth. Like all Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is the story ot exeeptional ealamity leading to the death ot' a. man in high estate. This is the atmosphere whieh must be gradually developed from the opening seene ol' the three witehes to the final tight and death of Maebeth. It is the leading eharaeters who nmst develop this feeling of greatness offset by infirmity of purpose and impending doom. Therefore we must look to the portrayal of the plays chief eharaeters to diseover whether the essenee of the play has been expressed. The play is great l1ut it needs sympathetie players to express its greatness. Maebetlrs personality is a Complex one and difficult to play. However, Charles Bew, in a superb pertorinanee, showed us a Macbeth who was at onee a noble, vietoi-ions general, something ot' a poet, imaginative, superstitious and exeeedingly ambitions. The aetor earried us along the terrible road to his final disaster, ehang- ing from a happy husband to a tyrannous despot. The soliloquies, those openings into the eliaraeters mind, were carried off splendidly with a spirit of nobility and pathos. t'an we ever forget, She should have died hereafter ? Lady Mac.-beth, 6.1111111110 f,Il.llllfCI' from H.S..qj has been ealled the most awe- inspiring figure that Shakespeare ever 'ereated. She is appalling and sublime, eourageons and t'oreet'nl. 'lllle latter traits aid her in overriding her husbands' moral timidity. Yet l, for one, tear that Lady Maebeths personality was not always so evident to ns. There was not always the passion and determination of a woman bent. upon aehieving the highest position in the Country for her husband. The role was well played, but, one desired a little more fire and spirit, the spirit of de- termination and an indieation of Lady Maebeths laek of ethieal standards. Tzue11fy-fozw