Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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I N BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF PICKERING COLLEGE 1974-75 Ima: 5 mae V .. . ..1..-. -.-.--vo , , . m14,wnf.f,w Head UI Chairman - David P. Allan m . A ADVISORY ,qnnuDl?lU aster Harry M - Roger W Rogers l Arthur G. Dorland, Joseph McCuIley, Samuel Rogers 6 CORPORATION OF PICKERING COLLEGE

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A PERSONAL WORD FROM THE HEADMASTER TO THE STUDENTS OF 1974-1975: Those of you who have experienced our life together this past year would eagerly accept the words of Donald Stewart in whose memory we held our Meeting for Worship on Sunday, March Znd. On that occasion he was quoted as saying: Life at Pickering is wonderful and frightening and complex and fascinating and rewarding. lt is all of those things. Each of us, staff and students, is asked to give of himself: firstly, to the fellowship of our school as we live together, secondly, to the ideals of our school as expressed through our Meeting for Wor- ship and thirdly, to his own growth towards maturity so that he may better give service to others. These three aims of Quaker education are aptly expressed by George Walton in this paragraph: Life in a Friends' school must become an experience of fellowship derived from honest and mutual consideration in all personal dealings. lt must teach the art of worship, to purify and strengthen the link which binds the creative energy of God with human society. The third objective is the enduring basis of all human happiness - the capacity for growth, growth of the body in childhood, growth of the mind carrying on from childhood through- out adult life, growth of the spirit continuing long after the body is in decline and the mind static. First of all, the experience of fellowship in the old Quaker boarding school accompanies us into every aspect of our life here. Positively or negatively, we must relate to our fellows, from the moment we get up in the morn- ing and begin our peopled way to breakfast, back to the corridors, to classes, to lunch, to games, to dinner, to evening study and so to bed. How hard is such a life when we continually strive to put ourselves first. How sweet it is when we see ourselves as members of a group working and living for the improvement of our fellow- ship. - The development of the art of worship is a revolutionary process within the adolescent. lt begins with the breaking of idols, the turning away from established thought and the eventual return to transmitting our com- munity greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us . Our school must provide a whole- some environment for this spiritual evolution which releases great energies for youth to use in building 'fthe beloved community . Let us hope that we do so through our mid-week and Sunday evening Meetings for Wor- ship as well as through our countless daily contacts. Both the experience of fellowship and the art of worship lead us into the third element of a Friends' school, the capacity for growth. A static lack of growth brings both to individuals and to institutions a restive frustra- tion, for as human beings it is our nature to press on to better and higher conditions. We must therefore look to our school to help us grow physically through our programme in physical education, mentally through our academic courses and discussions and spiritually through compassionate expectations that we give our best effort in all pursuits. Such demands lead to the growth of our spirit which thus enhances the school as a whole. In the quotation above it is stated that a Friends' school must provide opportunities for fellowship and worship and growth. The word must reminds me of a talk I gave last autumn entitled The Loving lmpera- tive. It is challenging to accept the demands of life, but acceptance is less difficult when we help one another make and receive such demands in a spirit of goodwill. A bald imperative may produce confrontation, a loving imperative may result in the acceptance of what is good for the group as a whole. In another Sunday evening talk I suggested that the growth of the spirit is found in giving your Self to the ideals of Service, Effort, Love, Fellowship. This is surely the way in which we must use the Self within each one of us as we strive to make our school a society of friends. HARRY M. BEER. Headmaster. HEADMASTER'S MESSAGE5

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