Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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The Disciplined Will DUCATION IS NOT SIMPLY AN ACCUMULATION or FACTSQ education is a pro- cess of learning how to ask the right questions in the right language so that we may reach the right answers. VVe must learn 'to frame our questions in the right way if we are to be educa.ted in the religious life as well. NVe make errors when we read the Bible without an understanding of the literary language in which it is written. Fundamentalists and Confununists also make errors. Fun- damentalists insist upon reading poetry as history and turn the Book of Jonah's great fish into a literal whale. The Communist Ghermann Titov makes the fatuous statement that he didnt meet God in space, as though God were a celestial pedes- trian. The Christian God is the only God who offers man freedom, and that is why he so frightens us. For most of us prefer slavery to external forces, to our lusts and desires, to respectability, or to laziness fthe traditional sin of studentsb. Why do we fear freedom? Surely because freedom is impossible without discipline. The only free pianist is the pianist who is not at liberty to strike a wrong note. Similarly, the free man is the one who disciplines his ego-centred self so that the Christ deep within him may appear, so that he may indeed become as the sons of God. As Berdyaev puts it t'God is more deeply within me than I am myself . When we push aside our panic-stricken desires, we become what God has made us. We have surrendered our wills to obedience to God and have become priests in fthe body of all believers. Now you may be rebelling against your childhood image of God as an old man with whiskers in a long night gown, and this rebellion is all to the good. But you lIaven't got very far at this point, because Christians have never believed in that tyrant God either. Christians believe in a God who is Love, who is a Spirit who must be worshipped in the spirit. The competence of such a God is not in question, but our competence is in question. It is we who must make pos- sible the expression of this God in our hearts so that evil and wars may cease. The coming of this God into our hearts is a searing experience, for He convicts us of sin and reveals the evil about us. Obedience to God delivers us from the panic of our own fear. Obedience gives us freedom. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free is the Christian comfort. This does not mean that we may avoid difficulties. Freedom gives us the detachment which comes from being able to live in two worlds at the same time, to live in a fallen world of bewildering 'time and space, but to be of the Community of the Body of Christ. Man is either assumed into the body of Christ, or he is swallowed by the great fish of the world and his own desires, he is either with the powers of light or the powers of darkness. The fishing up of the whale, the slaying of the dragon, is a constant renewal of light in the darkness of time and space. And it is a struggle being waged constantly by us within our own souls. The sha.pe of the battlefield is determined by the vocation to which God has called us, in your case, the vocation of students, and in our vocation we must strive to subdue the Old Adam so that Christ the New Adam may appear. From a Chapel Talk by RICHARD S'rINeI,I+t, B.A., lVl.A. Seventeen Q

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Sixteen PAUL SCHUTZ Durham, Ont. - C1 yearj - Senior Football - First Hockey - Blue Team - Other Interests - t'30 Club - planning how to waste time - Glee Club - Nickname - Schutzy', - Ambition - Road contractor - Probable Destination - Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island. DAVE SEIBERT Kitchener, Ont. - C4 yearsl - Junior Football - Senior Football C3 yrs.j - Senior Basketball C4 yrsj, Track Team C3 yrs.j - Silver Team - Other Interests - f'30 Club - Polikon Club - School Committee CChairmanj - Year Captain - Ambition - Salesman - Nickname - Seibs - Favourite Saying - XVhat's her name? ED SOYKO Sarnia, Ont. - C-1 yearsj - Junior and Senior Football - Junior and Senior Basketball - Gold Team - Other II1t61'6StS - Dramaties - Glee Club - Polikon Club - School Committee - Senior Club - Nick- name - Jap - Ambition Hotel Owner - Probable Destination - Bell-hop HFavourite Saying - 'tYou're on, Fizzer Pop! JAMES XVATT Oshawa, Ont. - Q22 yearsb - Senior Soccer Q2 yrs.j -A Senior Basketball - Red Team - Other Interests - Rooters Club C2 yrs.j - Quantum Club - Jazz - bugging Ed - Ambition - Will the Triple Crown - Probable Destination - Glue Factory - Nickname - Horse - Fa.vourite Saying - Flinch in there, Ed!

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O O O k O Pllgrlmage and Plc erlng T smiius THAT PILGRIMAGE MEANS T0 MOST or Us, a specific goal, hardship, and trial, and a spirit convinced of the worth of the goal - convinced that some great good is achieved by such self-denial. These factors, I believe, go together to 1nake up one of the major elements in our personalities - a major thread in the fabric that becomes an individual. Pilgrimage is a part of our very being and personality. Our ability to make use of this factor in our personalities, this factor of self-denial and suffering for some future good, determines to some extent our abilities to find purpose and satisfaction in life. But only few spirits are so convinced of the worth of the goal thalt it becomes something absolute, for which everything unrelated to the goal is to be swept aside and ignored. For the rest of us, our quest is made far more difficult because we are prone to be tempted to follow other courses, to seek other goals when the going gets rough. Now you are all pilgrims in a sense. Some of you have chosen the search for truth already, or if you have not you have within you the potential which will soon blossom into dedication. Some of you may have what We might call inftermediate goals - to find a. solution to life's problems which is satisfactory enough to live by. Others are going to be leaving here with nothing in their hearts or minds but a yeaining to have a good time. Pickering speaks to you all. VVe can pick out three separate voices if we Search carefully the experience we are having here. First of all, as in every school, one of the greatest influences is your teachers. They have their own quests, and that may be the reason they are here. Many of these men have given their lives to teaching, and that means that they have given at least a part of them to you. You will look back on the work these men have done for you with thankfulness and gratitude as I do. Most of you will never forget these men, and you will carry with you the influence of their dedication and their per- sonalities for the rest of your lives. Then of course there are the friends you have here. How powerful this voice is, and how often mistaken. You have heard repeated warnings to beware of the induence of this voice, to be strong and loyal to what you believe to be right in the face of this very powerful force. Lastly there is the voice of Pickering herself - a blending of philosophy, and of the action of Headmaster and staff. Being so much a part of the wonderful Quaker tradition, foiuided is put into force by the with the most distinctive not direct you - it does heights as some voices do. on the sound Quaker philosophy of education, which Headmaster and the teachers - she speaks to you voice of all. Oddly enough this voice of hers does not by itself carry you along to greater and greater Rather it speaks to you for a very short time and then is still. The only time she will speak to you after you leave this place is the time you stop to think about her, and you hear the echo of her voice in your heart. While you are here you must listen to the voices of your teachers and friends, and Pickering understands this, and for this reason her voice is gentle and quiet. You can only hear her if you listen. But always her voice is there, and she knows that sooner or later, if only through that echo in your heart she will be heard. From a Chapel Talk by PETER NEWBERY, B.A. Eighteen