Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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nv Msnvm use E Ding dong. There goes the very first bell of the day. I squint at my watch and it is only 7:30. I think I will sleep for another fifteen minutes. but Mr. McClymont breaks heavily into my room. turns on the lights and pulls me out of the bed. I pretend to be getting out of bed so that he will leave and I can go back to sleep again. Today is quite different. He stays until I really get out of my bed. So I drowsily get into my clothes. make my bed up and start off to the dining hall. When I walk from Firth House to Rogers. I take a deep breath of the spring breeze. After the cold winter, I long for a nice warm summer. In Singapore. we don't get winter snows so I can imagine how my friends back home would like to experience a winter in Canada, I greet some of the guys whom I see on the way to breakfast. What could be for breakfast this morning? Yes it is pancakes, made just the way I like them. I think I will play frisbee this morning with my friend after breakfast, so long as the teachers don't catch me leaving the dining hall with them. The line up for burnt toast is as usual long. After getting my breakfast ready, I sit with the usuals. Mike Heslop, Jade Minors, Winston Lau and Mark Johnston. After breakfast, I go straight to my room and do a little tidying up. I expect that the 8:00 bell will have gone when I get back to my room. This bell means no breaky for latecomers. Before the bell goes at 8:30. signalling the commencement of classes. I am in the computer room loading space invaders. Computer Science is my very first class of the day and I expect Mr. Pape to be smiling and joking as usual. I really don't mind him doing this at all. In fact, he makes my day bright and gay fhappyl. At 10:30. after the third period. another bell will be sounded and this means that there is a fifteen minute recess. At this time, I blast off my Akai cassette recorder and start reading some really far out magazines. Penthouse, Priuate. Gallery. Club International and Hustler. I think. in doing this, I may increase my knowledge about sex education. which is what Mr. Menard is teaching in Health this year. IO Ding-a-ling-a-ling. That sounds very familiar. It is 10:45 and I am back to classes again. I don't feel like studying at all ths morning because I am stiff! Before the lunch bell goes at 12:05, my stomach growls. As soon as the bell goes I rush back to my room and chuck all my books on the bed and head straight for the dining hall. I wonder what is for lunch. Oh yes! It is Shepherd's Pie, everyone's favorite. I can sense that there will be a mud, uh, foot fight today. Today I sit at my counsellor, Mr. Kane's table. He is very decent and a very nice guy. I make my usual stop at my friend's after lunch and make some funny jokes at the teachers. Jingle-jingle. there goes the one thirty bell, time to attend periods 6, 7 and 8 until three-thirty. At three- thirty. I do as much homework as possible so I can take a nap during study time. At 4:00 there is a sports bell. I have always liked badminton. My teammate is Bertram Poon. After sports I make my way to the blue shower room. I always dirty my ears listening to dirty jokes while getting myself cleaned. Pang-pang. There goes that beautiful melodic sound again. This means come and get your dinner boys. I think its ham for your dinner tonight. The ham tastes as good as Mr. Seretis jokes. Tonight I sit at Mrs. Zavitz's table, listening to her chit- chat. Sometimes I wonder if she ever runs out of things to say. After dinner, Pat Clark and I walk once around the track, in order to digest our food. We usually talk about our past and sometimes about girls. The subject of girls makes me hungry again. Later I go over to Michael Yik's alias Yoda and we talk about school work and holidays. I only like the holiday part. Whenever Peter Marsh is in the room, I bug him until the fun stops. Pete was my roommate during the Sudbury trip. He is okay! Rinnng. It is study time. I go straight to my room and organize myself. I take a five minute break as soon as I am tired. I talk to Mark about the things he is going to do in Saudi Arabia this summer. After a half hour discussion I get back to my work until the 9:30 bell goes. After study, I make my way down to Mahmoud Katirai's room. As usual, John Lee has turned on his Marantz cassette recorder, which fl must sayl is one of the largest around the school. Bertram Poon and Dave Listandaru, who are car lovers, talk about their dream cars tsuch as Toyota, Corollas and Celicasl, as usual, showing each other the cars which they like in Car Driver. Bang bang. The 10:30 bell, the beddy-bye bell and the final bell of the day. I walk back to my room, get my toothbrush and toothpaste. After brushing my teeth I get into my pyjamas. If ever this school was to win an award, I am quite sure that it would not be a No-bell prize.

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THE INFIRMARY The infirmary of Pickering College is normally where boys tend to go to look for excuses so as to be exempted from certain activities, eg. sports. The Nurse, Mrs. Joyce Farquharson was asked what she thought about boys giving excuses for off-activity slips and replied Most boys find it difficult to help them- selves and depend on others to help them. The Infirmary hours in the morning are between 8:00 and 8:30, in the afternoon 1:00 to 1:30. and in the evening between 5:00 and 5:30. While quite a few boys have valid reasons to be in the infirmary, others go there to be exempted from classes or sports. Others, especially during exams, just want to get some sleep and therefore turn to the infirmary. One would think here that the nurse would be getting hypertension with all this going on, - with another nurse probably but with Mrs. Farquharson it's something she is familiar with. The nurse worked in a boys Camp for about ten years thereby gaining a lot of experience. Mrs. Farquharson graduated as a nurse from the Toronto Western Hospital and then began nursing in Windsor, Ontario in the maternity department of the General Hospital. She moved on to where she worked in a private doctors clinic and then in a boys camp, in Ontario, where she worked for about ten years. Later, Mrs. Farquharson worked in Ontario hospitals including the York County Hospital. One daily routine the nurse has to undergo is seeing that each person gets his medication prescribed by Dr. Schofield the school doctor, who comes every .Thursday morning. Lx' How You Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm or in the Infirmary? THE FARM Freeman King and Cyril Howarth, the manager of the Pickering 250 acre farm, work tirelessly on the Pickering farm. Cyril Howarth has been working on the farm for twenty years and enjoys his work. The farm produces one thousand pounds of fluid milk per day which is sold in Toronto. The history of the farm dates back to 1802 when Timothy Rogers. a Quaker, received a crown grant for a large acreage of land. In the early years, when the school was on the farm, the students helped operate it. Today the farm is too specialized in what it produces and does, and little can be done by the student of Pickering College to help operate the farm, The students are not stopped by this from going to the farm. In their spare time they will go to the farm but instead of helping those who work there, they have a lot of fun on the farm. ll