Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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-1-rw -V --ifi i - -. ,. ,. . lx A ey . 4-'fpgxw . .. - . , ,-, . , . snr... . 7. A t ' -Q ' - f . ' if '.:' f,,:fi'1i-59415 fffim 4 c Preparatory Department W.H. Jackman, B.A., M.Ed., Director A.H. Jewell, Housemaster R.M. Mucy Eric Ferguson Mike Peet Jim Wright Those of us who were returning to the Prep for a second year were naturally curious to find out who would be in the department this year and where they came from. While most of them were from Toronto, some boys came from places such as Midland, St. Thomas, Windsor, London, Chatham, Montreal, Thornhill, Ottawa and even Newmarket. Later in the year a boy came from Sarnia and another from Martinique in the Caribbean. One ofthe tutors came from Toronto, one from the Lakehead, and one from Geraldton. We made an interesting group and learned much just by living together. We all live in Firth House, along with some grade niners, above Mr. Jewell in his apartment, and Miss Forsyth in her infirmary. Shortly after the term began, on a rainy Thursday, we went on our first trip, to Black Creek Pioneer Village. We arrived there after about an hour's ride. A guide escorted us to the first building which was the barn, where an elderly man talked and explained about the tools the settlers used, such as the harrow, sickle, plough, pitch fork, broad-axe and broadcaster. From here we went to see some houses, the first a three-room cabin, the others becoming larger and better- equipped as we moved along. In one of them we saw a woman using a spinning- wheel. Then we went on to a mill where they grind wheat. Near the mill was a little schoolhouse that had contained eight grades in one room. To us this seemed very small. To end the trip all of us went to the lunch counter where we bought all sorts of things to eat. Twenty- two

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Y, it GRADE 10 Front Row, Second Row, Third Row: Fourth Row: Fifth Row: John McClintock, Frank Yang, Fraser Smith, G-uy Mclaughlin, Gary Crawford, John Shemilt. Danny Cohen, Fred Stonehouse, Sam Charters, Brian Labbett, Peter Upton, Steve Reindorf. Stew MacDonald, Bill Gower, Peter Ampleford, Steve Younker, Don Macintosh, Tony Donaldson. John Riffel, Manfred Rohr, Geof Kinnear, Chuck Barton, Robert Milne. Phil Allan, Nixon Apple, Bill Kostman, Peter Hiscox. G RADE 9 Front Row: Second Row: Third Row: Fourth Row: Fifth Row: Tyler Levitt, Chris Elton, Bradley Brown, Mike Dawson, Rod Lawson, Doug McKenzie. Ralph Olive, Doug Beattie, Frank Anderson, Robert Murray, Chris Jarvis. Charlie Henderson, Robert Dingwall, Derek Houghton, John Foss, Daryl Gurney. Charles Scott, Gordon Downey, Andy Fasken, Pepe Rosillo, Peter Jack. Tim Waterous, Wally Ducharme, Jon Savan, Bill Kenny, Peter Vasoff- Twenty-one

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Our next trip was a hayride. One afternoon Mr. Jackman took us down to the barn and introduced us to Mr. Howarth, the farm manager. Mr. Howarth talked to us about the farm and told us a great deal about raising cattle and operating a farm. Then he took us for a hayride all around the farm, showing us the places we should and should notgo, and telling us of the things we should and should not do, if we were to have the privilege of enjoying our school farm. We all thought it was a good afternoon and we had a lot of fun. Since then we have spent much of our free time down there and most of the time we have kept out of mischief. Every once in awhile theboys put out a little newspaper called the Pickering Prep Press . In it you will find stories about our school its people and what goes on around it. Mr. Jackman tells us that the Press has been published periodically since 1940. Almost every boy writes articles to be published. In fact, this account of the Preparatory Department was written in a similar manner by many boys writing articles on various topics which were then combined. At Christmas time the boys of the Prep had two parties, one given by the Headmaster and the other by Mr. Jackman. At both we had a wonderful time, a good snack and delicious punch. In June we had a party with Mr. Jewell as the chef. We had hot-dogs, potato chips, drinks, cookies and ice cream which we all enjoyed very much. That was the final party of the year. Despite the injuries and suspensions we had a fairly successful hockey season due to good coaching by Mr. Mike Peet and Mr. James Wright. Our team won four games, lost four games and tied two, which is a good record for a small school. We travelled to various cities and towns to play St. Andrews, Upper Canada, The Grove in Lakefield near Peterborough, Appleby College in Oakville, Hillfield in Hamilton, and St. Georges in Toronto. Crescent School and some of the others came to play us in Newmarket. Our regular players were: Lush, Spadafora, Fraser, Zakoor, Lockhart, Grimshaw, Beal, Hammond and Peterson. The goal-tending was done by McWilliams and Westra. The spares who played one or more games were Pottruff, Shipley, Fish, Packham and Aiken. Another winter sportwas skiing. Someofus skied on the farm on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. We made a ski-jump. Gary McWilliams went over the jump and landed on his head. There were some trips to Honey Pot for skiing where we had a lot of fun. On Valentine's Day Leonard Connelly had an accident and broke both his legs. By the first of June he was just learning how to walk again. Early in the fall we began practising soccer. Mr. Mucy and Mr. Leach coached us. We played a number of games with schools such as Appleby and Lakefield which were some distance away, and some with St. Andrews. A team lost all their games except one which they tied, while B team did win one. However, we enjoyed them all and we enjoyed the bus trips. Twenty- three