Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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school awards HE GARHAT CANE is an award inade by inemhers of the graduating class to one of their number who, in their opinion, best exempli- fies in his actions and attitude the ideals -of the college. We are happy to congratulate David llilnc whom his fellow students honoured with the award this year. i i I rl Jlr. CIl'Hlf'l'Ult HE RHGERS CANE is a, Firth House award made for the best practical expression of the house motto All for one, one for all. This year the award was given to Tom Taggart and David W agne. Mr. Beer, Torn Taggart and David Wayne Ten .1111 :sv A . f ijj-.. it iff JI r. Beer and David Milne HI!! WHJDRINGTON AWARD is made to members of the graduating class who have con- tributed notahlv to the well being of the connnun- itv in leadership and personal relations and in extra,-curricular activities. There were two awards this year to John Palmer and David Milne.

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outh and Cynicism ANY TIMES DURING OUR LIFE we will rtui into an attitude or situation which I will seem insoluble. Vile will perhaps become exasperated or fed up. We will wonder what use there is iII continually striving for solutions and just answers. XVhy should we be upstanding citizens . This is where cynicism develops. This attitude is scorned by Inost of the wiser people. It is unchiistian, un- democratic, un-Canadian and bad. This argument, of course, oIIly adds to the cynicism. Rather than trying to explore the mind of a cynical youth, society tends to push him aside. It is almost impossible for a person to go through adolescence without being cynical for some part of it. However this is not bad, it is good. It shows that the person is thinking, that he has partly travelled the road of truth. But once the adolescent has started his journey it is then that society should aid lIiIn. Society should show him that no matter how corrupt aspects of life are, becoming cynical without being constructive is not helping change the wrong. The cynics must see that the only way to continue their journey is to fight the evil that they dislike. To-day there is a great challenge facing youth. Many ideologies are present. Libetralism, conservatism, communism, christianity, lIiIIduisIn and a score of others. Out -of the demagogeijv and propaganda the young mind IHUST seek the truth. There are Inany conflicting ideas in all the great religions aIId ways of livingg some can be seen on the road of life. A young man becomes confused, 1lI1C'E'I'l3l11. A 'hasty conclusion to that life is useless, and means nothing. Here the adolescent stops his search. Het concludes too soon that he has come to the end of the road. It is he1'e that the cynic must look at himself, and see what worth he is to the rest of society by stopping. He should see that he is useless and not live. Only man can make life goody it is in his power to do so. lt is at this point that the cynic should begin to fight for what he believes is good and right. Then he is being honest with himself and others. The cynic is an integral part of life. ln Inany ways ho is socielys con- science. However he Inust never stop searching, for if he does he becomes hypo- critical. The challenge for the adolescent is to find the right road on which he caII wage his battle for the rights of man. Une of the paths leading to this I'oad is the cynical one. C. Bnnn N I n c

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