Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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only restriction which should be placed on Independence of Thought is that we must use common sense and judgment in connection with the expression of our ideas. I have been discussing over-independence and its effects -- no-w let's switch to the other extreme. This is the matter of being too dependent on somebody or something. We all know people who are too dependent. They are always asking for helpg always asking what to do next. They are afraid to make any decisions of their own, no matter how insignificant, for fear that they will be wrong, or for fear other people won't like their ideas. XVe should realize, that when we have finished school and are working, there won't be anyone to make our decisions for us. - Thus the best thing we can do while we are in school is to learn to take the responsibility for our actions, and make our own decisions. It is good training for the future. VVe should never be too dependent in thought. By this I mean that we must always be thinking our own thoughts about something. If we don't, and let other people do our thinking for us, wc will soon find ourselves unable to think independently. In closing, I suggest that we try to avoid over-independence in our actions. We should be independent in our thoughts - but should not express our thoughts in such a way as to cause needless sorrow. XVe should also avoid being too dependent on any one person or thing, and we should always think for ourselves. Thus we must try to create and maintain a balance between Dependence and Over-independence. In this way we can develop the beneficial quality of independence. Don't be a simple fellow who docs what anyone tells him and believes every- thing he hears. Don't be a cock-sure 'know-it-all', who never listens to what anybody says. Be an independent, thinking, human being. ROLPH Davis THE ANNA BELUGIN MEMORIAL PRIZE This prize is awarded each year to a student or students who were considered to have shown a thoughtful approach to academics and lively intellectual curiosity. This year there were four awards made to Jim Beer, Dick Blackstock, Henk Blankestijn and Ron Veale. Twcrtty-five

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Courage: We must be able to stand up for what we believe in and not let other people sway us into doing what we know is wrong. Truth to me is one of the most important things in our lives. We must be able to respect the word of others but above all we must have our word respected by others. Thus we see that such qualities as charity, truth, courage, and helping one's fellow man are found as common factors in all religions. - Do not do as many young people do, turn your back on religions because of certain insignificant peculiarities that you may think absurd. As the opening quotation states - lack of a positive faith or set of beliefs leads to doom. If no one religion appeals to you adopt the common factors. Charity, truth, courage, tolerance, and love of your fellow man. RUSS RADCLIFEE In Bpen GMU!! ' d d HERE wAs A VERY INDEPENDENT boy here a few years ago - perhaps some of of you remember him. He was so independent, in fact, that he would be kicked out of classes two or three times a week. He would be kicked off his athletic team a. couple of times a year. He went to bed when he felt like it, and he was always giving someone a piece of his mind.-In short he did pretty much as he pleased- nntil he was asked to leave Pickering. This boy seemed to feel sure that he was right and the rest of the world was wrong. His counsellor and his friends tried to explain to him why his actions and attitudes were mistaken. However, he would just ignore them and say some- thing to the effect that he was Independent and didn't need help from anyone. I said previously that this boy was independent, but as the example illustrates -Q he was over-independent. If he had thought of his actions, and their effects on other people as well as himself, he might have realized that he was only causing trouble - hurting others and hurting himself. But he was over-independent. - As a result he didn't see the need to correct his ways. All he would have had to do was to think of the damage he was doing to himself and others, and he might have toned down his over-independence. But h-e just didn't think about it. Thinking is the important thing. Here is a field in which we can be as independent as we please. VVe can think about anything and everything we want to. There can be no restriction placed on thought, by anybody, whether it be a person, a committee, or a government. It is a good idea, however, not to express your thoughts in such a way that they will unnecessarily hurt another person or group. - Here is an example: Suppose we disagree with some aspect of our life at Pickering - and we probably do A- just talking and grumbling about it in 'bull-sessions' only causes under- ground discontent 'and distaste - and really accomplishes nothing. This is bad. lt. hurts the school by lowering its morale - and therefore it hurts us all, because we all live here. XVe should bring our complaints out in the open, by bringing them up in assembly, or writing an article for the school paper. This way we get better results and nobody gets hurt because of people who express their thoughts only in the negative ways that cause our morale to be lowered. This example shows that the Twenty-four

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ramatics hanzlet Nivolri'UN.x'1'1ci.Y, llamlet is the most difficult Shakespearean drama. to present. Experience and insight into human attairs are almost absolutely necessary for all who would play Hamlet. lt is a true theatrieal test. It is, therefore, not otten given to youthful actors to portray this magnifieent eharaeter study. And eertainly those who are this fortunate . . . rarely attain the high degree ot sueeess and the thrilling' reward ot' achievement which were witnessed by those who saw the pertormanee of Hamlet. by the Pickering College Dramatic Club. ln reviewing' this produetion one hardly knows where to begin. One could look at some ot' the wondert'ul seenes ot' this play, the grave Yard. the duel at the end, or those fine little Dim-pg of dymmtfif- Imggugt- lmwem lelgmlt-f, Rosenerantz and Guilderstern. The latter were exeeptionally well done by the three ar-tors. But let us be legieal and start with the actual 1ll'l'fO1'lll2ll1C'U ot eaeh of the main characters. 313309 IWGVCIITS 0110 from m9Utl0ning in detail the lesser roles, the soldiers, CR, Ilons, If. V6ll7C, ill. Bcggsj the ghost, CPUMZ Ryflnli the clowns, CJ. Clare, If, Iiurtonl the ambassadors CB- B100WlflC'lfl, lf- 1300985 T119 Plf1Y91'S, CR- Iilrzclfstork, J. Boer, J. Downer and If. Sherryj. They should all be eommended for an excellent. effort, espeeially the ghost and the first player. Ilamlet is a most trying' role, demanding' a sustained and eontinued effort and even more, an attempt to ereate a balance between intelleet and emotion. The player, in a sense, must main- tain and push forward the dramatie sequenee of events, tor everything' depends upon Hamlet. He is a noble person ot' high birth, I Hamlet the Dane. But in spite ot' his breeding, posi- tion, and training he is stained with indeeision, a quality whieh eventually brings about his downfall. Ile is temperamentaI, alternating' his moods almost at will and for a time this delays the eonsummation ol' the awtul task ot revenge which has been plaeed upon him by his father's ghost. Hamlet is a eomplex person. He is Twewz ty-six