Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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'W x it F-.lid enjoging the outdoors and receiving instruction from officers of the eoartment of Lands and Forests as well as from Blackie himsel. With the exception of .two years spent at McCall University in 1946-48, Blackie continued his service to,Pickering College in these two roles until 1959 when he was invited to supervise the Water Safety Program of the Canadian Red Cross Society. ln the following year we dedicated The Voyageur to Blackie As one who asks much of his students and gave much to his school as Director of Firth House and the Department of Physical Education . ln 1955 Blackie became Executive Director of the Canadian Assqciationlfor Health, Physical Education. and Recreation and in this position became well known in physical education circles from coast to coast. Of course the core of his interest in physical education stemmed .from his love of the out of doors and of camping. This devotion to nature started in his youth in Barrie, continued at a YMCA camp at Honey Harbour on Georgian Bay, at Taylor Statten camgs in Algonquin Park, at Camo Pine Crest in Muskoka and from 1 44 on was concentrated on amp Mazinaw some.65 miles north of Belleville. ln recognition of his out- standing contribution to physical education in Canada, Blackie was given an honorary Ll.D. by York University in Toronto in 1974. Those of us who were.close to Blackie throughout his long years of service at Pickering College remember him as an idealist who always strove to put his ideals into practice. His practical side found ekpression in his ability to organize and to administer effectively, his idealism reflected the poetic and sensitive nature of his heart and both as a man of action and as a dreamer his 4 Saturday. May 13th, 1979 The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Quaker Relays. Blackie presents to Pickering College the Tiat McKenzie medallion The Joy of Effort mounted in an original wooden plaque sculpted by former Pickering teacher of art, Fred Hagan. L to R. Sheldon Clark, Harry Beer and Blackie. concern was not for himself but for those in his charge, for the other fellow . U lt is good to remember Blackie in words familiar to him written by 'Bayne Cummer a student at Pickering College whom he knew we 1 Night falls on all yet our high thought, our holy devotions, and our steadfast loves shall live from age to age, from eternity to eternity. They shall not die, though all else sink into decay and oblivion. for they are woven of an immortal texture, that the breath of forgetfulness may never mar. - Bayne Cummer. Student, 1927-29. 15

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OFFICE STAFF, Left to Right. Front: Doreen LaBrash. Reta Clark, Mary Londry. Back: Pat Donnell, Doug Clark. Margery Wright. KITCHEN STAFF. Left to Right, Front: Keith Carter, Joe Reddy, Glen Longhurst. Middle: Ruby Crit- tenden, Robert Agnew, Ruby St. Jean. John Cassar. Back: Aida Azzopardi, Mary Langlois. Maxine Robinson. HOUSEKEEPING, Left to Right. Front: Madeline Cummer, Thelma Hockey. Back: Mary Gibbons. Shirley Walker, Isobel Mercer. MAINTENANCE, Left to Right, Front: Walter Moswiak. Doug Webster, Jim Irwin. Back: Bob Tegleczki, Jim Tausney, John Baine, AI Kellington. Frank Maggs.