Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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people subjects, we elect not to give in to the temptation to teach subjects incidentally to people. We are as concerned with process as we are with results. We seek improvement and excellence as expressions of the workings of Divine Providence, not as reactionary cant fostering an improved market position. The consequence is a happy meeting between our late 20th century school and its mid'19th century ancestor. The spiritual, emotional. physical and mental health of people are our first concern. The ap- plication of a wide variety of talents in the service of others is our second one. The survival of this orientation to education, alone, is worth the effort to underwrite the renewal of our school. Simultaneously, with the turning of the Wheel of Fortune of Pickering College, many other smaller personalized Wheels of Fortune are turning. ln our struggle to survive as an educational community, we can never forget the survival of each individual. We, too, must be aware that the con- stellation of Wheels of Fate that go round may or may not be in harmony at any give time. Struggle. discord. extinction or survival may appear to be remote concepts because of apparent material cushions. However, within these con- cepts the crucible of character formation lives. As individuals attached to an enterprise larger than any one we must guard against either merging our separate identities with the ins stitution or becoming so distinguishable that our ef- fectiveness is underminded. ln other words. the interwacting Wheels of Fortune, surrealistic as that may sound, necessarily have to harmonize for the creative learning community to survive, Individual wheels may have to seek other constellations in order to remain effective. Students about to graduate know this best. for their wheels have enlarged, their re-gearing process anticipates new constellations, their identities are about to separate into new heavens, their fortunes are about to discover other fates. The figure of the Little Tramp caught up in the gears of Modern Times 119363 exemplifies ourselves and our in- stitution as we tend to our respective and corporate wheels with our oil cans. Charlie Chaplin's metaphoric film of an earlier era speaks to our condition today. Our survival, like the Little Tramps , is dependent on not letting the gears grind us down. We, too. can learn to ride with the times and survive. both as individuals and as members of a great school. Sheldon H. Clark Q ,,., I ', .V . 'fff,i5+ -322 T Nw., , I f l nl v . - lg Hwy . y U. 8 'mm5 ann? , ' F ' - mm 4 IIIII' EHBF5 UNI f . Q if l PII ---- HT! V Tv' - I l . I ll 3 3 X Q ii nn use - 3153 M lm Ill! - cl v...-.541

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