Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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A Personal Word from the Headmaster L '... I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS . . . We tend to believe that which we perceive with our senses. If you can see, touch, hear, smell, andfor taste it, then it must be real. We also believe that which effects us personallyg love, pain, joy, sadness: those emotional realities we feelfor real, or imagine, for real. Finally, we honour those qualities of Truthfulness, Reliability, Consistency, Integrity, Acceptance, Responsibility, Awareness, Catholicity, and Capacity to Forgive we perceive in those we admire and look up to as heroes for a variety of reasons. In the context of the quotation for the title of this address, ' '... I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS . . Jesus, teacher, friend, counsellor, Divine, indeed, the Son of God, in speaking to His Disciples is anticipating His Death. He is elevating His servants, to the status of equals by calling them L'friends . He is trying to help them understand that the value of friendship lives in the lives of the living and is a quality that is transcendent of the grave. Perception in the tactile sense, in the emotional sense, and in the qualitative sense is fleeting unless that perception is bound by the Spirit of Eternal Love. There are two words which lead us to a deeper un- derstanding of what the Spirit of Eternal Love is: REDEMPTION and RECONCILIATION. Redemption means deliverance from sin and dam- nation wrought by Christ's atonement. Reconciliation means to make friendly after estrangement. Usually, we do not think of our petty grievances as in need of Redemption, especially in the religious sense. And, we find the concept of Reconciliation is a bit high- toned for just learning to get along with others. As for the Spirit of Eternal Love, that notion is regarded as airy-fairy religious idealism with no practical ap- plication in our day-to-day lives. It is amazing to me that words we find strange to our ear, and concepts foreign to our every day thought patterns, tend to turn us off, rather than challenge us to learn their meaning and value. 4 i

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Wit wld.. THE GYGGEUR Vol. 57 June 1984 'XE CQ TABLE OF CGNTENTS Dedication Headmaster's Message ..... .... 4 The Way We Were ...... .... 6 Graduates ....... . . . 12 Grade 9 .... . . . 22 Grade10... ...24 Grade 11 ........ . . . 26 Grade 12 .......... . . . 30 Student Committee . . . . . . 34 Faculty ........... . . . 35 Staff ........... . . .42 Charley's Aunt ........... . . . 50 Fall Sports ............... . . , 53 International Baccalaureate .... . . .60 Clubs ................... . . .62 Junior School ........... . . . 65 The Houses ...... . . . 68 Doggls Hamlet .... . . . 72 Winter Sports. . . . , . 80 Arts World ....... . . . 87 Winter Carnival . . . . . . 90 The Cookout. . . , . .98 Leaving Class . . .... 100 Spring Sports. . . . . . . 103 Awards ................................... .... 1 13 Front Cover by Pickering's Art Master Jamie MacRae Editorial Board: Tom Everson fEditorJ, Charlie Brovvn, Jim Penrose, Adrian Betts, Reza Mottiar, Eric Breton, Jack Bahl, Jonathan Knaul, Raymond Ng, Antonio Wong, Dominic Talalla Staff Advisers: Charles Beer, Lu Taskey, Monique Cattet, Reta Clark, Barb White

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The hard emotions of love and hate, anger and joy, or the hard qualities of tough and soft, strong and weak we can relate to because we have been carefully taught by the hard sell of Madison Avenue and the glitter of Hollywood to identify and to accept in- volvement in life as a series of unending soap operas punctuated by spicy advertisements. Polarized conflict between people with a winner and a loser is shockingly accepted as matter-of-fact, as what is normal. No Wonder there is no room for a Spirit Godson to even be considered to be a participant in the fray, let alone to have a Redemptive Power based on Love, not big bucks and almighty fwith a small a l strength. The soap opera conflict between Dick and Jane is never truly resolved even though laundry detergents, after- shave conflicts, and car ads run together the segments. In life there are rarely winners and losers as stgch because most people are able to balance their strengths and weaknesses as they mature in order to obtain a mental and an emotional stability. No wonder our life at Pickering appears devoid of real world status. We have to study, to think, to write, to reflect, to produce assignments, to challenge ourselves to use time wisely, and to deal with conflicts as they arise without the benefit of a commercial break. We have to give meaning to those things we perceive with our senses, feel with our emotions and admire as heroic. We are not permitted to become blah or mindless in dealing with others, for at any given moment we can effect the sleep of another by turning up a stereo, interrupt the study of another by slamming a door, destroy the serenity of others by pulling a fire alarm, or cheapen the experience of another by trivializing it fputting that experience downj. I wonder if the MOD's have thought of the study check when opening and closing the doors as interrupting penitents in prayer? No. I wonder if the waiters have considered that they are disturbing Communion when they rush through the doors fractionally ahead of the Amen to lunch and supper grace? No. I wonder if as we prepare our lessons, either teachers or students, we imagine ourselves to be participating in a sacred trust handed down to us by thinking people since Adam and Eve truly to explore TRUTH as our part in a Divine Plan to illuminate God's world? No. I wonder if we act in our relationships with others as brothers and sisters, all children of God, equally possessed of the potential for revelation? No. I wonder if when we go to sleep at night we purposely commit our bodies, minds and spirits into the Hands of God seeking peace and spiritual restoration in order to be even greater examples of a child of God on the next day? NO, There is no doubt in my mind that any relationship most of our lives have to the disciplined life of the religious is by accident, not by design. I know that when the mentality sets in to any person to put: mme first'g 'to get away with it if I cang 'not to worry because the consequence, although a hassel, does not really mean anything 'g then, the chance for any kind of critical sense perception, emotional perception, quality perception to have meaning is severly limited. The chance for any sense of the Power of a Spirit of Love to be Redemptive and to permit Reconciliation becomes positively remote. You are capable of becoming more childlike. You are capable of using your childlike attitude fin the spirit of innocence intendedl to treat each other as brothers and sisters. You are capable of letting go of the tight control you impose on yourselves and which you think is imposed upon you to find an acceptable Inner Light of discipline. You are capable of putting into practice what you have learned is right and what you believe to be right, right now. At least tonight when you go to bed and are ready to fall asleep see what peace Divine Providence can give you. If A ,palri -A ,A ,gl-' :4 -. Qt' :l,, it , iii X ' 1 l f I ' . If ' 1 Q 3 - Y , .., ,v wr A L+ --A-qP ' ' ? tr . f.