Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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Editorial Night falls on all, and so it does on this present school year of 1965-66. To some, it has been a long year, to others a short one, to most, I think, it was a happy one. During this past year, we have witnessed a physical improvement of our school, as well as a more obscure inner strengthening of Pickering. For with each passing year, young blood enters the school and Pickering's final products, often one or more years in the making, return to their homes and thus are spread over the country as excellent proofs of Pickering's work. These will probably retain their ideals or responsibility, honesty, and spirit which were impressed indelibly on them here. Within the past few years, more and more responsibility has been given to the students. I know we have succeeded gloriously in our duties this year by electing and obeying a fine student committee, supporting charity drives, producing a number of Quaker Cracker issues and hosting several pleasant social events. This past year will some day mean a lot to you, I know it will to me. For we must remember that the basic qualities of good character which we have learned here at Pickering are woven of an immortal texture that the breath of forgetfulness may never mar. -B. Russel Eleven

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Remember When Pickering College was imbued with an excellent school spirit in 1965-1966, a school spirit brightened by small humorous events which served to lighten one's attitude towards the tediousness of study. Over the years it is these occurrences one seems to remember when thinking back over his school experiences, and so the Voyageur presents a number of these happenings under the retrospective heading Remember When . Remember when: -the ever-thirsty Mr. Boulton took a drink out of the coke can above Jim Leslie's bed-a coke can that turned out to be a three-week-old liquid ash tray, half water, half cigar ash? Oh, well, just proves the boys from up north will drink anything. -a certain lad from Massachusetts took it into his head to experiment with store-bought explosives in one of the H13 corridor conveniences ? We're sure his father was pleased with the addition of that item on his personal , account bill. -The Upper South Corridor awoke the Upper North boys for laughs, and succeeded not only in destroying the sandman's work but also in losing a good part of their long weekend leave? But they didnft mind. Could Latin explain their feelings better? Audax aut fidelis-bold but loyal. -The ever-troublesome Lower North Corridor pillow-fought their way into one of the greatest collections of feathers since Fidel Castro invaded New York? Dr. Purdy was pleasedll? -spring brought on the onset of open windows, water-bombs, and ball-shoe passing marathons along the ledges? A shoe still hangs as a lone monu- ment from a nearby maple tree-our shoe-tree -on a gray, eerie night, with semblance to safe-crackers of old, the lock was torched and blown off the door to Mr. Ferris's water-closet? It was obvious he didn't have the right guard . -a certain young chap named Wilson decided to try body surfing in the South House bathtub, to the dismay of Mr. Schaus and his wet bed- clothes below? -Bob Crawford told the tree surgeons to cut all the trees in front of South House down, and they got two of them before being stopped? -they decided to celebrate Minnow Morgan's December 19th birthday in May? Though he tried to correct everyone, his was one of the school's more popular showerings. -the allowance was cut for a dance that the school never had? -that ever-clumsy Yank, Andy Asher, while checking over the new dining hall, knocked over a large number of pipes in the dark cellar room? And finally, remember when a certain teacher's name was hung out over the pool-room window in two-foot letters to the delight of many-a sight which could be seen for miles. Yes, P.C. was not without its humorous occasions, and we hope that the few reported will stimulate the reader's mind to remember many more. -Alan Leitch Thirteen