Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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l ' ' STAFF Back Row: J.R. Leach, B.N. Forhan, Ewald Bode, Allen Shully, E.M Veale, S.K. Fraser. Middle Row: Dennis Keenan, W.H. Jackman, K.G. McLaren, A. Advokaat Harry Huriy, John Cook, Kevin Tunney. Front Row: Raja Gopal, J.D. Purdy, Rory MacDiarmid, Harry M. Beer J.D. Jefferson, A.H. Jewell, D.J. Menard. Eight

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Thoughts On Our One Hundred and Twenty-Fylh Anniversary In Canada's Centennial Year our people are taking time to look back to the beginning of our nation and the course it has followed in its first hundred years. Today Canada has many problems, but we cannot help but feel a pride in our country and a hope that the goals of our founders will be reached. If you share this feeling of pride and hope, your generation must work towards a strong spirit of national unity based on economic stability. This year those of us associated with Pickering College have also been looking back to our beginning, the founding of our school one hundred and twenty-five years ago in 1842. We too have a feeling of pride in our Quaker founders and in the faith and philosophy which have produced our school as we know it today. Just as our national task is far from being completed, so too our educational goals present challenging demands to all Pickering people, masters, students and graduates. To understand these demands we must remain sensitive to the concerns felt by the Society of Friends during the past three hundred years. These include the conviction that man should not destroy his fellow man, that man should not enslave his fellow man, that man must devote his energies to the social and economic welfare of his fellow man. Underlying these practical concerns is the belief that violence and force produce no lasting good. Surely, therefore, the task of your generation must be to work towards these same goals, peace for all, freedom for all, justice for all. This is indeed a tall order, but our Quaker founders and their successors did not flinch when faced by insuperable odds. Nor shall we. What does this mean to you as students of Pickering College? Surely it means that you must develop yourselves in every possible way so that you will be able to help mankind attain a peaceful way of life amid conditions of good health and food and shelter. Your part in this endeavour falls into two steps. The first stage is the development of an attitude which reflects concern for your neighbour and this must be done in your adolescent years. That is why your school must stress the importance of an unselfish attitude towards the other fellow , that is why at Pickering you must work not just for yourself but for the good of the group. With this realization that the only purpose of existence is to be of some use to others, then you are ready for the second stage, the training of whatever talents you may possess. In this way I hope that you will see yourself as part of a noble scheme wherein your every action does have a bearing, no matter how insignifi- cant, on man's destiny. If you understand this, you will also understand why so many of our daily routines at Pickering take on such significance, for example, your attitude towards academic assignments, your attitude towards leave contracts, your attitude towards your neighbour. Our thoughts on our history and on our heritage open up great possibilities for you in the future. Make sure that you are prepared to make your contribution to that future. -Harry M. Beer, Headmasler. Semen

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Editorial An experience often does not take on any vital meaning until viewed in retrospect. This may be true of our lives at Pickering College during its 125th anniversary. Many, if not most, of us may have been too deeply involved in daily routine to be fully aware of what our being here on the Hilltop was all about. It seems that it is only by looking back that our perceptions are made more acute in observing the values derived from being a part of the brotherhood that is Pickering. It is then that we realize more completely that we have achieved greater respect for learning, greater respect for athletics, greater respect for our- selves. I like to think that The Voyageur is a vessel by which our memories may make the return journey to those formative years of our lives we spent at Pickering. - Paul Maurice School Committee The work of the School Committee during Centennial Year continued to reflect the spirit of mutual trust and cooperation which has always characterized this unique aspect of life at Pickering College. The Committee was inaugurated to safeguard student morale. It is elected by the student body to promote a closer understanding between staff and students, and has been instrumental in developing harmony and helpfulness. The work of the School Committee varies greatly. It organizes school dances and social functions, but its most important aspect has traditionally been to assist both students and Headmaster to overcome the problems which inevitably arise in any community. It has often been asked to counsel boys who had problems or were in some difficulty. It, too, is often consulted regarding the rules and regula- tions which school life requires. This has been a good year for Pickering College and the School Committee. Cooperation and mutual understanding between staff and student have made our work easier, and our role in student government more rewarding. -David Crook Nine