Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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A PERSONAL WORD FROM THE HEAONIASTER Km 1 2 'haf' 1- 2 Pkyiff TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1977 One of the most significant dates in the history of our school is Tuesday, September 13th, 1927. On that day there was great excitement on the Hilltop as our school re-opened its doors to a new staff and student body. It had been turned over to the Government in 1916 for use as a hospital for the sick and wounded of the First World War. Now, it was to be restored once again to its original purpose of helping young people grow towards maturity. Of course, there had been other important dates since the beginning of our first school at West Lake in Prince Edward County in 1842, notably 1878 when the school moved to the Village of Pickering and assumed its present name and 1909 when the Town of Newmarket became our home. That beautiful September afternoon in 1927 was also a date of significance in my own life for I arrived with my family to walk up the steps between the pillars to become part of this new beginning. The dominant person in our school on that day and for many, many days thereafter was the young Headmaster, Joseph McCulley, who greeted us with goodwill and great hope. In re-opening Pickering College he had received a special heritage from the Society of Friends who, under the guidance of Joseph John Gurney, had founded our first school at West Lake. Paramount in this heritage was the goal to give each student the opportunity to achieve his full growth, - physical, intellectual and spiritual, - and to cherish a desire to place his talents at the service of his fellowman. These aims are surely the ones espoused by all good educators. Joseph McCulley was unique in the way in which he implemented this philosophy. He did so in a manner that was very natural to him, that of offering his help and guidance in a warm and friendly spirit. He held great expectations of the students and schoolmasters within his school. To each of them he gave an insight into themselves which gradually led to self-confidence and an inspiration which brought them closer to their full potential. When dealing with those who had done less than their best Joseph lVlcCulley was magnanimous in his understanding of human nature. At the same time his guidance gave his students the ambition to do better. During the fifty years since that first September day I have been fortunate to be a close observer of our school. ln the students and masters of today I still see the same spirit which stirred the young Headmaster, his colleagues and students fifty years ago. Indeed, I believe that they in turn were true descendants of those Friends of 1842 and 1878 and 1909. They were motivated by a faith that there is that of God in every man. Joseph McCulley expressed these thoughts this way: It is my profound conviction that this universe of ours, vaster than our wildest dreams, more complex than the most complicated machinery that ever could be devised by the mind of man. is a universe of law and of purpose I am sure that in all ages and in all countries those who have achieved greatly for their fellows have somehow or another sensed this fact - even though they haven't always agreed on the name. Work, play, love and worship are held together by the cement of faith. Work without faith is drudgery. Play without faith is frivolity. Love without faith is sentimentality. Worship without faith is hypocrisy. 'As you go out from school don't let the cynics and the hard-boiled realists tell you that the age of mans glory is over. that the period of his accomplishment is finished. Let your faith be a burning torch. Let your faith be an overmastering passion, an over-powering ideal. Only for those who greatly believe and who greatly venture can great dreams come true. At this point in time it is important for Pickering College to rededicate itself to our basic belief in a respect for human dignity and our continuing dream to make of this Hilltop a beloved community. HARRY M. BEER, Headmaster. THE VOYAGEUR 13

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TUTORSQ David 0'Donnell, left and Roger McMechan, right. OFFICE STAFF, Left to Right: Mrs. Donnell, Mrs. Londry. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Lewis. KITCHEN STAFF, Left to Righlz Mary Clark, Maxine Robinson, John Cassar, Ruby Cittenden, Aida Az- zopardi. MAINTENANCE, Left to Right, BACK ROW: Pat Fitzimmons, lohn Baine, Len Edwards, William Coffey, Pat Russell, Charley McDowell. FRONT ROW: lim Tausney, Kaihleen McDowell, Mary Gibbons, Lois Griffin, Francis Burns. ' n i,F .i- gi 1 5 'F - is A J C k ff g, sf? , l, l ill 'I All ,r i X? i is if v 'Q i 1 'Q dvhau 'N TA STAFF 1 .M-.Q ,-4 Jug' ?? .N o