Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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GRADE I3 GRADUATES . . . LEAVING CLASS The Grade I 3 class at the beginning of the year. Most stayed the course and graduated with the Leaving Class. A few didn't. Front Row. Left to Right: Tim Jones. Jonas Lelliott, Mr. Hans Pape, Headmaster Sheldon H. Clark. Mr. John Lockyer, Mr. Don McCuaig. David White. Second Row: Tony Rinomato. Feda Karkour. Nigel Noone, Ken Mineault, Noel McCahon, Dave Wolder, Adrian Melnick, Graham Scott. Miguel Man- silla, John Coppa, Tom Tvedt. Third Row: Rob Harmer. Paul Cuthbert, James Bond. Sergio Gyalui. Mike Carty. Linden Achen, Mike Bolt, Ian Witherspoon, Chris Dushinski, Frank Nardi, Clement Lam, Rob Wiss. Back Row: Kelson Yang. Eric Tse. Mark Fung, Mike Haritsis. Dave Howard. Paul Hinder. Mark Lipfeld, Douglas Leung, Kevin Allen. Justin Pocock. Owen Sirrs. Matt Gordon.

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A ies lhathunity. This occasion is special too for the grade 8's here today Jmefvho will be moving into the grade 9 and the upper school. You've :omilit the big time, boys and its your turn to make Pickering your amuwn place in which to live and learn. You will see the school uve row and change and you too will be growing and maturing si light along with it. Demand the most of yourselves just as those ln the leaving class sitting among you did this year. And in four ltmlor five years you will be sitting in the same place listening to leclone of you give this speech. rusll To the leaving class: We did it, Guys! Congratulate I ourselves. You put in the time. did the work, pulled off those an yll-nighters. You did what you knew you had to do and have ik amed the right to sit here today. ii When you think of your time at P.C. and consider what it gg: mounts to, do not think of what you gave the school as much l s you might want to, but realize what the school gave you. h hink of what you take from P.C. as you leave today: U1 sense of responsibility to others and yourselves. lll onfidence in yourself and your abilities. N ompanionship in the friends you have met and lived with. firm academic base provided by your teachers. The bell from the dining hall. l l 'T Of course, you have given the school your time, dedication, 'T ard work and in more cases than one, your sanity. 'H' Pickering creates the ability of people to act and co-exist with thers. Pickering provided us with a chance to unite the world Il eyond Canada. Trinidad, Africa, China, Japan, Britain, Hong n ong, Malaysia, Spain, Mexico, France, Italy, United States, even yCalgary and Woodbridge! f Whether or not you realize it now, this class is a class that We will never bring disgrace to this our city, by any act of dishonesty or coward- ice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone i l and with many: we will revere and observe the city's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at nought: we will strive unceasingly to is very much together, is very much one. A closely knit unit in which everyone knows everyone. Every one is a friend, there are no strangers here, nor shall there ever be. Pickering is a common bond between all of us and it will re- main with us for the rest of our days. Your life ahead is one that will be filled with happiness and success. lt is a long and winding road whose secrets will only be revealed as you travel along it. But do not cease to question life. As Socrates said, Life without inquiry is not worth living. Or, as one of our more philosophical graduates put it - Why can't life be an endless beer commer- cial? Perhaps it can and will be for some of you. It can only be found in the future. Today is the end of one phase of our lives and the beginning of another and together we approach the future as one. Ready to accept what life has in store for us. Today we part in body, not in spirit. In spirit we will live as the Class of '87 and that fact will draw us together in the future. lt is unavoidable. My friends of the leaving class and others who are leaving. will you please stand now. Turn to the dedication page in the program and, on our last time together, say with me the familiar words of the Athenian Youth: quicken the public's sense of civic duty. Thus in all these ways, we will transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmit- ted to us.

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Grade IO Grade 9 GRADES 9- I 2 Grade I I Grade I 2