Chronicle (December, 1959)

CARDIGAN ·CHRONICLE VOL. 9 NO. 2

CARDIGAN MOUNTAI~ SCHOOL, CANAAN, N. H.

DECEMBER, 1959

New Improvement On Our Campus

Seniors Hold First Meeting

New Ski Trail To Open

If you have looke.d about the campus when you were going to or from a class or to a regular activity, you might have noticed the numerous improvements that make our living here a little easier. One big improvement on our campus is the new flag pole that was donated by the class of '59. It has been erected on the lawn between Hinman and Brewster Halls.

The new dorm that has been named French Hall has been completed on the outside.

A new Chevrolet station wagon has been purchased for school use.

Most of the buildings here have received a new coat of paint. All the entrances for the .dorms were painted. The Headmaster's House was painted, and the barn near the infirmary was painted red. The foundation of the barn was reinforced to help to preserve the old barn and make it more useful for storage.

The new asphalt driveways have helped to curb the muddy shoes this fall. The driveways that were paved run from the gate south towar.d the dorms. The big area between the dorms has also been paved.

A new step was placed at the north end of Hopkins Hall so the snow and ice would not jam the door.

A metal railing has been placed along the sidewalk north of Hopkins Hall to aid those people who are afraid of falling on the slippery walk.

This summer a new walk was laid from Clark Morgan Hall eastward to the classroom building. The macadam walk replaces the old boards that were used.

Are you staggered by the amount of work that has been done on our campus? Well, that isn't all. All the dormitories now have new common rooms for boys to lounge in. There have been new .drapes placed in the

The Senior Class of 1960 held their first class meeting during November 1959. The business of choosing class officers and a class advisor was taken care of.

The following officers. were elected: Gib Suitor, President; Sandy Harris, Treasurer; Ramsey Young, Secretary.

Mr. Thompson was elected the class . advisor. This is the largest senior class ever at Cardigan. Best wishes for the coming year.

From the slopes of the Pinnacle can be heard the crashing trees and furious chopping. All this noise is for a wonderful new ski trail for our school. Everyone is hoping that the new ski trail will be finished for the coming ski season.

The new trail is wide · and steep and should prove to be a challenge to any skier.

Many boys have put in many hours of work to get the new trail in shape. The boys of campcraft and ski improvement have worked just about every day since the project started. Their first job was to ~ut a small elbow type trail on the old slope and from there they went to the top of the Pinnacle and started the new trail. It would be .difficult to say just who worked ·on the slope, because just about every boy on the campus has participated at one time or another.

Mr. Leavitt, Mr. Hulbert and · Mr. Minnier are probably the most frequent visitors to the work area.

Some of the boys have given up their free afternoons to help get the area ready when the snow flies. If everyone -c ould see . the work that has been done, you could see the dedicated skiers that are here.

To everyone that helped on the Pinnacle, we extend our sincere thanks and congratulations on a job well done.

- J . Oliver..

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-D. Jenks '60

Library We would like the books listed below for the Library. Possibly you have a copy of one or more that you no longer want. May we have it?

Occasionally when such a request as this has been made in the past, people have gone to a bookstore and bought them for us. We can buy more acivantageously as a library.

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway Jamaica Inn - DuMaurier Up from Slavery - B. T. Washington The Day Christ Died - Bishop Auk-Auk - Heyerdahl They Fought for the Sky - Reynolds Peter Thomasina - Gallico A Stillness at Appomatox - Catton The Cruel Sea - Monserrat The Big Fisherman - Douglas Desperate Hours - Hayes Spanish Short Stories - deOnis Giant - Ferber The Nun's Story - Hulme Diary of Anne Frank On the Beach - Shute Have Tux, Will Travel - Hope Short Stories of de Maupassant Famous Chinese Short Stories Yutang Letter from Peking - Buck This Life I've Le.d - Zaharias

Student Host Committee The host committee this year .consists of six boys headed by '.['om Hamilton. These boys are the official hosts of the school. They greet all visiting teams and make them welcome to our campus. They also welcome ·other visitors to our campus and greet the girls who are invited to attend the dances here at school.

T. Hamilton

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The Cardigan Chronicle THE CHRONICLE STAFF EDITOR-IN CHIEF Tony Harris ADVERTISING MANAGER Chip Lackey REPORTERS D . J.enks T. Harris J. Oliver N. Wilson T. Hamilton R. Cheney F . Johnson B. Wurs1ter K. Borden W. Dickson R. Rice FACULTY ADVISOR Mr. F. Minnier

The Hill Top Hop The fall dance "Hill Top Hop" was by far one of the best dances the school has ever seen. This dance was a combination of round and square dancing. Mr. and Mrs. Christy, parents of John Christy, were in charge of the square dancing.

The beginning of the dance was devoted to a type of square dancing_ It was fun. At first it looked very complicated that we were all left feet, but as soon as we tried to do the steps several times, the dance was fine. It was a wonderful way to meet the girls and have the girls meet us.

Bill Wurster was chairman of the aance. Decorations were under the guidance of Rumsey Young and refreshments were .directed by Willet Cobb.

For an intermission, Freddy Filios and Bodie Thompson gave us an interpretation of Homer and Jethro singing "How much is that dog in the window."

The dance lasted about 3 hours and everyone had a wonderful time.

F. Johnson

Baker's Service Station Canaan, N. H.

McN eill's Drug Store Lebanon, N. H.

Improvements (Continued from page 1.) rooms of Brewste;· and Hinman Hall. New bells were installed in Clark Morgan, . and bells in other buildings h av e b e e.n improved Som e of the rooms have been repainted. New signs directing parents and visitors to the office have been made and ar e now mounted.

In front of the office door you will see that a new compass rose has been mounted in the tile.

We have had many improvements, but we cannot stop here. We have new back boards at the tennis court and a new tackling dummy for football practice. To quench the thirst of our active boys, a fountain has been placed down at the end of Cotting field near the tennis courts.

We can stop now if we mention one more thing. Mr. Brayman is the master responsible for the beginning work that has been done to our cabin on top of Tug Mountain.

You see, if you look around just a little, you will see the new improvements that have been done on campus. So many of us have seen new things or improvements made on our campus but fail to notice the little important things that mean so much. Better keep your eyes open from now on. You never can tell what might be added next.

Fall Activities Are Over Now that Ole' Man Winter has descended upon our hill, the fall activities must make way for winter sports. For those people· that have a true love for snow and . ice it wasn't hard to say good-by to the old and hello to the new. We do, of course, have some fond memories.

In campcraft we had a chance to learn expert use of the ax. We learned more about the compass and trail marking. The big project of moving the winter shelter has · · not been completed, and certainly not forgotten. Bob Weber was our student manager. Mr. Hulbert, · our supervisor, made sure we added to our knowledge and love ·of the outof-doors.

The football season was good. We had a 500 season, winning 3 and losing 3. Those days of practice were hard but enjoyable. Those (Continued on page ·3)

Alumni Directory To Be Published The s~1ggestion that we publish an Alumni Directory has met with such enthusiastic response that it will be don e as soon as arrangem : nts can be made with the publisher. It is hoped that this will be a real service to the Alumni, as the expense is not inc-onsiderable. In ord er that the Directory b J really effective, it is extremely importa.n t that all addresses be correct. Early in November a copy of the new cata- . logu e was sent to all the Alumni.

This included a flyer asking if adciresses were up-to-date, and for any news of interest for this copy of the Chronicle. Please return that flyer whether the address on it was right or not. The deadline for such material to go to the publishers of the Alumni Directory is January 20.

Let's hear fr.om each one.

If anyone knows the current address of any of the following boys, will he please be kind enough to tell us, in order to bring our address files up to date before publication of the Alumni Directory?

Michael Bowman Gregory Cronis William Farrin Barry Harlow Alan Herzig Harold Hewett Walter Howell Stuart Kaplan Lawrence Kelley Donald Lawson Douglas Peirce Harold Randall Peter Randall David Rees Joseph Ranger Daniel Shields Timothy Stevens Donald Waterman Bradford Wheelock Hugh Wheelock

'54 ·•57 '49 '52 '48 '54 '57 '47 '58 '48 '50 '56 '56 '53 '50 '51 '60.

'50 '50 '50

Summer School William Holmes George James Colton Ryan

?54 '.54 '51

Compliments of

Eddie's General Store CANAAN

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Fall Activities (Continued from page 2) laps around the field also helped get our ski legs in shape.

Campus improvement, b e t t e r known as C.I., under the direction of Mr. Noldt, was a very busy crew.

It was their job to fill in all the odds and ends here on campus.

They were all over· the hill from cleaning the shop, to fixing the rope tow; from putting up goal posts to working on the lake road. We burned brush and prepared the hockey cages for the coming season. C. I. is a good name for us, because we do try hard to improve our campus in many ways.

Waterfront, the biggest of all activities, was as busy as beavers.

With three masters, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Linn and Mr. Wood to guide us, we had plenty to do.

Sometimes the weather was against us for sailing, but when this happened we worked on the dock, readied the boats for winter storage and cleaned the boathouse. Our one sailing race was with Proctor. Sorry to say they won by a score of 41-34.

In tennis we saw some promising young tennis players coming on.

The student manager was R. Young, who by the way swings a mean racket. Mr. Wakely, our supervisor, made sure we didn't get bored. Besides playing tennis we helped work on the Pinnacle, cleaned the dam burned brush al1d even played soc~ cer. Come around in the spring. we will accept all challengers.

Ski improvements, ·or S.I., could be found .almost any place on our campus. Our main purpose was to work on all the ski areas which we did. I'm sure if you look around this winter, you'll see the work of S.I. Mr. Leavitt, our supervisor, is an avid skier and he wouldn't settle for a sloppy job anyplace. What we did, we did right.

Forestry, under Mr. Brayman, had a busy fall. Our main project was the lake road, but we also worked on our plots and did a lot to help cut up the logs on the Pinnacle and cut down stumps. We have fun. It isn't all work. When we do work, we put in a good period of work.

Now that winter is here, we can look forward to many hours of fun work and play on the ice and o~

Announce Committee Chairmen For Fund Drive Summer School 1959's Summer School commenced on June 28 1 when 65 boys started their summer activities here.

Besides Mr. Norman Wakely and Mr. John Lucy, ,o f Vermont Academy, co-directors of S um m er School, there were 17 other faculty families on campus. Our summer school classes are such that the instruction the boys receive in English and Math, the two subjects that are stressed, almost amounts to a tutorial program.

Classes were held mornings in 45 minute periods, with study periods for the boys who had no recitations at any given class period, in which they could do added work. After noon activities included softball touch football, tennis, basketball: sailing, canoeing, camper.aft and forestry, shop, riflery and archery, with a daily swim period for all.

Evening programs consisted of team games. There was .a reading period twice a week from 7:45 to 8:45.

The boys enjoyed some good trips several Fridays during the summer, and every Saturday evening there was a movie.

1960's summer school is scheduled to begin 26 June and run until 20 August. the slopes. When spring comes, we will be able to look back and have even more and perhaps fonder memories.

·Dartmouth

CO-OP HANOVER, N. H.

This year's Committee for Cardi- . gan's Fourth Annual Fund drive are - Alumni: Toby Kravet '56 of Newton Center, Mass; Alumni Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bergeson O'f Lancaster, Mass., parents of David W. Bergeson '59 (now at Vermont Academy); Parents of Students, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Ball, parents of Ed Ball, CMS '60; and Friends and Neighbors, Mrs. Goodhue Crocker of Canaan Street and Wellesley, Mass.

The first year Cardigan had a Fund drive the appeal letters went straight from the office.

The second year the committee system was set up, and the results were definitely so very much better that we have asked people to help us work with this system since.

In 1957-58 the committee were: Alumni, Warren Huse '52; Par,e nts of Alumni, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Duksta; Parents of Students, Mrs. T. F. Sigman, III; Friends and Neighbors Col. P. M. Whitney. The chairmen for 1959-60 were: Alumni, Charles Margeson '51; Parents of Alumni, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dyer; Parents of Students Mr. ,a nd Mrs. William Barker; and Friends and Neighbors, Mrs. Martha C. Stevens.

Mr. Burbank is always a member of this committee.

This is an appropriate time to thank all the people, again, for giving their time in composing and writing appeal letters to be sent to their particular groups .... and to thank you all fo,r your generous support of our Annual Fund Drives.

The many things they have been able to supply that could not possibly have been planned for in the school budget, at this time, has made a tremendous difference here.

There's a long list of these . . .last year's furnishing and decor,a ting of three Common Rooms in the dormitories one of the most n'oteworthy.

By this time you have all received a letter from this year's c-ommittee explaining what some of this year's immediate needs are. Again, ' we thank you all, for eyerything you have done, and we hope you are still with us.

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from the headmaster's desk ...

Cardigan's largest Senior class, thirty-six boys, will graduate on 4 June 1960 ~t 11 o'clock. At just about the same time construction on French Hall, designed to increase our enr-ollment by 20, will be complete. Simple addition, then, shows that fifty-s_ix new boys will walk on to the campus next September.

To meet Cardigan's standards it is important that these boys be well chosen. They must be capable of being good scholars and they must be goo.ct citizens who will add to the ca:tnpus life. The selection of well qualified students can be greatly :.. facilitated by readers of the .Chronicle. If you know boys whom y,ou- can , enthusiastically recommend will you: (a) Tell them about -.CMS? (b) Tell us so we can send them .a catalogue and invite them to visit?

Facts About the Citizenry of Cardigan The citizens of Cardigan are wide spread. They come from sixteen states, four foreign countries outside the continental United States, and the District of Columbia. Out of the 104 boys here, 64% are from New England. Below are the sixteen states, the four countries and the District of Columbia represented. Below is .a breakdown to show where the boys are from.

Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Connecticut Maine New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia District of Columbia Delaware Illinois Louisiana Michigan Rhode Island Vermont Washington Cuba Liberia Puerto Rico P.aris, France

35 14 11 11 5 5

5 3

3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 Total 104

Cardigan 1s Road Builders This fall the boys on forestry have partially turned into engineers. They have worked on a road that goes through the woods behind Brewster Hall to the lake . It is now finished and ready for use.

This road will be for the tractor, so it can get' to the waterfront in the winter to plow off snow for recreational skiing and hockey.

In previous years, the tractor went behind Hopkins Hall and plowed its way down to the lake.

This proved difficult because of high snow drifts .and ice.

During the few days left before the winter's snow flies, we are all going to trim and clean up the road so it will be easier for the tractor to do our bidding.

R. Rice

Boston Brainchild Norm Wakely and Roland Burbank were in Boston attending meetings of the New England Camping Association (Cardigan is a fully .accredited member because of the Summer School) and so it seemed the most natural thing in the world for President Chuck Margeson '51, to come into the hotel for a chat.

One result was the appointment of a nominating committee for the Alumni Association: Anthony Russo, 2 Austin Street, Somerville, Mass., John Bell, Westford Road, Concord, Mass.; and John White, 6 Sheridan Road, Stoneham, Mass .

Officers to be elected in May are President, Vice-president and Secretary - Treasurer. The value of the Alumni Association will depend in a large measure on the quality of leadership. Please make sugestions to the above committee.

A favorite daughter of a wealthy Texas oilman had just married a young man that Papa approved of heartily. He wanted to do something nice for the young man, so he asked what he wanted for Christmas.

The young man said he could use some golf clubs.

Christmas arrived. Under the tree was an envelope which when opeiie.d revealed the deeds to four golf clubs, two of which had swimming pools.

New Common Rooms For the Dorms The new Common Rooms, one in each dorm, have been completed.

The plans for such rooms b egan to take shape in the fall of 1958. Carpentry had to be done in all the rooms, so furniture and drapes and color schemEs could not b e put into operation un til ,all this work was finished. Brewster Hall has a new snack bar and built in bench to separate the lounge from the recreation area. Th e old ski room in Hinman Hall had to be divided with a knotty pine wall and a new ceiling had to be installed. After all the carpentry work was completed, Mrs. Burbank , and the masters' wives of each .dorm, got together to decide on furniture and what accessories were n ecessary to dress up the rooms properly.

Brewster Common Room has Early American drapes, walnut furniture and the predominent colors are blue .and orange. A beautiful rug graces the floor and it is the only common room that has a telev1s1on set. This was donated by Tony Harris' parents.

Clark-Morgan Common Room is furnished in tones of browns and green. The leather upholstery of the furniture is green. Mrs. Burbank .and Mrs. Linn spent a great deal of time choosing the necessary accessories to go with the room.

Brass lamps were placed on end tables ,at each end of the sofa. A hanging lamp was placed over a table that can be used for studying · if anyone desires to do so. The· drapes and rug complete the common room and make it a very nice lounge for us in this dorm.

The Hinman Common Room posed the most problems. Before anything was done, a decision had to be made as to where the room was to be located. After deliberation, 1t was deci.ded on a portion of the ski room in the basement floor of the building. The carpentry work was started but that too posed many problems. Finally, in · order to have .a nice c-ommon room, ·silent transformers had to be installed and then a sitting bench and work area had to be constructed around them. Early American print drapes were hung on the windows, and .a brown and black tweed rug was laid on the floor. The furniture (Continued on page 8)

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C.. M. S. Alu.mni News Faculty Jesse Morgan was awarded a United States Education Exchange Grant from the State Department last spring. He spent the summer studying at a summer session for teachers of History _at the Institute of European Studies at Turin, Italy.

A letter just received from him says "The Morgans had a wonderful summer in Western Europe.

Young Jay is .a real trouper, but Cheryl, the big blond two-year-old, is a demon." Jack has been offered a fellowship to help him through getting a Doctorate at Princeton.

Charles and Sara Grey (summer school 1959) toured to the University of Montana, after summer school, in a new Lark Station Wagon, using it for camping out on the ·w ay. Their baby son, Stuart, was no problem, they report ... but that bears kept them awake on a couple of occasions. They are both enrolled in the U. of Mont., and Charlie is teaching there, and playing bassoon in the Missoula Civic Orchestra.

Mr. and Mrs. George Black are living in Concord, N.H., where Mr. Black teaches music in the Jr. High School. He has a full schedule of outside activities: Teaches private pupils trombone, saxophone, clarinet, baritone and drum; sings in the South Congregational choir, plays once in two weeks in a dance band; and was in the Concord J. C. Music Club presentation of "Call Me Madam" this fall. He is also singing in a group putting on "The Messiah ." Mrs. Black is making hand-wrought jewelry for sale through New Hampshire Arts and Crafts.

The College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., announces the publication of the "Outset and Other Poems" by Arnold E. Grade, a former member of Cardigan's faculty.

Mr. Grade is an instructor in English and a lecturer in creative writing in the adult evening division of the college. The chapbook is $1.00, available after December 12.

Duty is a task we look forward to with distaste, perform with reluctance, and brag about .afterwards.

- Dean Johnson

1948 Thomas Dodge's wife's name is Elizabeth, and they have a baby daughter, Jocelyn. Tom finished 3 years with the Navy Air Corps in April. He was a Lt. J.G., and was on the usual 9 month tour of duty on the Mediterranean on board the carrier, Essex_. He was off the island of Formosa at the time of the crisis there. He has started work for his Master's at B.U. Hopes to go on and get a PhD and teach.

Lowell Prince, who was the first student to enroll at Cardigan School went from here to K .U.A. and then graduated from the University of Maine. He sells real estate at Orr's Island, Me., and says he eats so many lobsters and clams that his stomach undulates with the tide.

1949 John Oddy graduated from Norwich University in 1947. He taught in the Abington, Mass., Jr. High for one year. He was married that December. In Sept. '58 he began work for his Master's at Bridgewater Teachers College. After completing that in August of 1959, he took a teaching position in Rock,. port, Mass. The Oddy's have a son, J·ohn G., III, 15 mos. old and are waiting for quote, a second ·bundle of joy, due in December, unquote .

Harry Metz is in the Air Force, stationed at Bainbridge Air Base, Ga. He is married and has 2 sons, 3½ and 1½ years ,old, who keep them very busy in their house trailer. Harry went to VA from here, then took his last two years at Cho.ate. He then had two years at the University of Michigan before he was married and joined the Air Force.

1951 Thomas Colt enlisted in the Army in July. After basic training at Fort Ord, Cal., he went to Fort Slocum, Special Service School, studying the production of Radio.

He was a 1954 graduate of the Hanover, N.H. High School and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1959.

Chuck Margeson is working in his father's business. He is married and lives in Brighton, Mass.

·Last year he went to B.U., majoring in Chemistry. He is president of the Alumni Association, and would be very glad to hear from any alumnus.

Warren Kendall, was attending Stetson College of Law at St. Petersburg, Fla., when last heard from, and working in the Trust Dept. of the Union Trust Co., there.

He received a degree in Banking and Finance from Stetson College in Deland, Fla. , before going into the St. Petersburg law school.

Last communication from Theodore Goddard in February said he was still at Cornell.

Alan Brown went to Brown and Nichols School from Cardigan, then to Manter Hall, from which he graduated in 1954. He was in the UASFSS until "day before yesterday."

1952 David Cheever married Cynthia Glasgow, Aug. 28, 1959 in Newport, Cal. She is from Balboa, Cal., and is a senior, majoring in Art, at the University of Colorado. David is also a senior there, majoring in Advertising. David plans to attend graduate school in Business at the U . of Col. and go into business for himself in Boulder, advertising and marketing. No -c hildren, no dogs . .. yet.

Jon Colt is at the University of Minnesota this fall . . . a graduate student in Architecture.

Sam Adams has been appointed a teaching fellow in Geology (Fall '59) at Dartmouth. He and his wife live in Wigwam Village.

Tony Metz is .a 4th year student in the School of Architecture at the University of California. Tony is married and has a son two years old. In addition to schoQl work, Tony runs his own drafting business.

Graham Balfour is a Senior .at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He has majored in Romance Languag·e s and is now working on a m;:ijor in Eng. Lit. Last summer he had a job on a Colorado horse ranch . .. the two summers before that he was riding counselor .at a boys' camp in Maine. He plans to spend the summer of '60 in Europe 'and get back to England where he lived his first 11 years. He plans to attend Alumni weekend in the sprin~.

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1952 Duncan Mcinnes has been selling Hospitalzation Insurance for Manhattan Casualty Co. and likes it.

He hasn't told us what territory he works, but his home address is in Marblehead.

John M. Byrnes has been in the Air Force since last February. His present address is A.F.11 301 330, 100 F.M.S., Pease Air Force Base, Portsmouth, N .H. Warren D. Huse graduated from Dartmouth in '59. He was commissioned 2nd Lt. (Army) U . S . A. R. June, 1959. He begins active duty with Army at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, in January, 1960. He is ' employed, m eantime, as composition and linotype operator at the Canaan (N.H.) Reporter. He was Director of Public Relations for N.H. Music Festival, summer 1959.

1956 Robert Yoffee has been going to the Manter Hall School in Cambridge, Mass. He is in his Senior year, but has not decided upon college, yet.

1954 Allan Ellis went to Rogers High School in Newport, R.I., and had a year at Bryant College. He is now working for his father at the City Brass Foundry in Tiverton, R. I. He expects to go into service. Visited campus 17 Oct. 1959 on his way to see his sister at the University of Vermont.

Norman Pierce is at ProvidenceBarrington Bible College studying to be a church musician. He is studying both piano and organ. He was at Cardigan in August, right after spending the summer at a sailing camp, Quonset, at Orleans, Mass.

Alan Butler went to New Canaan, Conn., High School 1958-1959, and qualified for a special Science course at Columbia, which took place Saturday mornings.

1955 Dana Stone is in the Navy, stationed at Glynco, Brunswick, Ga. Richard Hayes visited campus in September of '58. At that time he was in Naval Reserves for four years, after having served in the Navy for two• years. He worked in California for four months driving a truck for Mayflower Van Lines.

He expected to go back to school in Boston, majoring in Engineering.

David Fayles, who was in the 8th grade at Eaglebrook School at the time, visited campus last November.

G erald Gordon is a Junior at Brookline, Mass ., High School.

Manuel-Robert-John Barbers for Cardigan Mountain School Visit our shop in HANOVER, N. H.

Nicholas Sten·z el is in the Army - since Sept. 30, 1959.

Toby Kravat graduated from Tilton last year and is a Freshman at Brandeis, living at home in Newton Centre and commuting. He is secretary of the Alumni Association, and chairman of Cardigan Alumni for its Fourth Annual Fund. Toby would be delighted t-0 hear from any Cardigan alumnus · with news.

Address: Toby Kr~vet, 15 Burr Rd., Newton Centre, Mass.

Jeff Harris, Summer School '55 and '56 is attending the University of Arizona this fall.

Eugene Cenci went to KUA after Cardigan. He is now a Freshman at Nichols College in Dudley, Mass.

Jeff Milham visited CMS this summer. He spent the day swimming and browsing around. He and the boy with him, a friend from California, slept overnight in the boat . house.

1957 Mr. and Mrs. Burbank saw Charles Kaplan when they visited the Dublin School, Nov. 11.

Tommy Dunn has been working for a contract farmer this summer, and is waiting to go into the Marines. James Hamilton enlisted in the Marine Corps on Feb. 17, 1959.

He is stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif. where he is attached to the Marine Band.

Frank Hardy received a letter for football at a Charleston, West Virginia, school in the fall of '58.

He wrestles during the winter, and expected to work at a lumber camp this summer.

Charles Duksta is attending Harmon Hall School, York Harbor, Me .

Mr. and Mrs. Burbank enjoyed having dinner with Charlie last June when they were vacationing near the Dukstas.

1958 Following is a list of the schools . that these members of '58 at Cardigan are now attending: Peacham Academy, P eacham, Vt., William Rowe. Peter Moore is at Hebron Academy, where his headmaster reports he is doing very well in his studies. "Chip" Schutt went to Tabor; Bill Dyer played Soccer for Kents Hill this fall; Oren Anderson and Jack Woods are at Procto'r; Harry Whittelsey at KUA; Joseph Skibiski (summer school) went ~o Eagle brook School, and Chuch Woodward '58 summer school came back to Cardigan for 1959's summer session.

1959 A letter from Glen Campbell's father tells us Glen is at White Plains High School, White Plains, N.Y. Dean Hart is at the Shattuck School in Faribault, Minn., solidly sold ,o n its entire set up, which includes an ROTC program. In a letter to Mr. Burbank Dean writes "you aren't given the help that a student at Cardigan gets and unless one has learned to take advantage of extra time it can be very difficult getting all the important work done."

At a Proctor-Cardigan football game, Dave Freeman, Freddy Pearce and Ron Dudley reported "getting along O.K." From Vermont Academy comes the news that Dave Bergeson was a fullback on the J. V. squad, and Dick Weeks made the Third Team, first string, tackle. He's doing well in .his subjects ,a nd quote mostly working on them unquote.

Bill Seely played football, in a defensive back positio.n, at TrinityPawling School, this fall, and Norman Schreuder played center for the Brooks School, North Andover, Mass. Bill Barker plays soccer for Holderness, and Dick Preistly was on one of the Kent's Hill football teams.

Ben Stevenson, after a year at Fryeburgh is at the Jack Yates High School in Houston, Texas, this year.

The Cobb House Since 1868 Dan & Betty Fleetham LA 3-4401 A Home Away from H ome

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3-for-3 Season

Newcomers ~o C. M. S. Faculty The new faculty family this year is .-the . Hulberts. The members of Mr_ .· Hulbert's family includes his wife Judy, who teaches language training; Duddy, who is attending Kindergarten d o w n o n Canaan Street; Lynn who is in the second grade down in the town of Canaan; and Cubby, a four-footed German Shep.herd_that is very f?mous here on the campus. Mr. Hulbert is teaching science and history.

Before coming to Cardigan, the Hulberts lived in many places from coast to coast. Just prior to moving to New Hampshire, they lived in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Hulbert has known the Burbanks for many years . He first met them at a camp in Vermont, and later was a student under each one.

He had Mr. Burbank for science and Mrs. Burbank taught him typing.

The Hulbert family is a very interesting family to know. They all are very good with a bow and arrow, and you might find them anytime shooting arrows at targets that mother nature provides. Mr. Hulbert and Duddy are very active in camping and -campcraft. He also makes and repairs . his own arrows.

This winter the Hulbert family plans to be on the i'-ki slopes with everyone else. Since Mr. Hulbert was in the ski troopers in Europe,

This year's football team got off to a rousing start with 36 huskies interested in the game.

When we ran onto Cotting Field that first day, we knew it would take a lot of calisthenics and running to put us back into football shape. Mr. Thompson and Mr. Lary worked us hard so we would be ready when the season opened. The training was hard but worth the struggle. We learned the art of passing and had scrimmages between the players.

Our first game, we journeyed to Proctor Academy and racked up our first victory. W. Cobb was our hero of the day by scoring the two touchdowns. G. Suitor made extra points, and everyone on the team played a good game.

We weren't as lucky against Vermont Academy. We put up a barµ fight, but lost to them by a score of 8-6. Ed Ball scored bis first Cardigan touchdown in that game.

In the third game, Hanover proved to be too strong for us, and we were defeated 6-0. In this game- we had a good chance to see what. we were doing wrong, but we were unable to move the ball consistently for any score. We tried to make up ~for this when we played Stevens High from Claremont. We 'Yere back on home ground and had to protect our record of never being

we are hoping he will show us a few tricks of the trade.

We are enjoying them very much and sincerely hope they are enjoying us here at Cardigan.

N. Wilson Mr. Herbert Wexler, the · new head of our language training department, comes from Milford, New Hampshire.

He attended a New Hampshire State Teachers College where he received his B.S. degree and did graduate work at Temple University, Northeastern, Villanova and Brooklyn College. His previous teaching experience was in . Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He served 2 years in the U. S . Army from 1953 to 1955.

Mr. Wexler is a very versatile person. He is an avid student of archery, he is taking flying lessons at the Lebanon airport, and he is making a thorough study of the Russian language. His favorite hobby is jazz. · He likes Cardigan and our beautiful countryside, but he feels it is too cold already.

Mr. Wexler's apartment, which is located in Hinman Hall, is the scene of many interesting chats with the added feature of popcorn that is made by the boys .

Welcome, Mr. Wexler. We hope ·you enjoy us as much as we enjoy_ you.

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Skiing

Hockey

New Common ·Rooms

For winter activities, skiing has the largest · turnout. The total number of boys who are going to participate in our ski program is uncertain. We all hope that with the help of mother nature that it will be a very successful season.

The first meeting of the ski instructors was held in the recreation room of the headmaster's house. All of the instructors were present to discuss the requirements for passing the classes of skiing, ski safety, and role the ski instructor will play in our program. This meeting was headed by Mrs. Burbank and Mr. Wakely who are the directors of the entire program over the winter months.

A general meeting of the students was held in the auditorium.

They discussed skiing from the students point of view. Mr. Wakely who was in charge of this meeting, told us of the changes that had been made in the program by the instructors. He also went over a list of items necessary to participate in the program.

Needless to say, we are all hoping for a good winter of skiing.

-F. Johnson

The Cardigan Hockey Team held its first meeting on November .30, and uniforms were issued to some of the players. The team is small, but it is expecting a strong season.

Names of the · boys who turned out for the team are: Corney, F . Harris, Irwin, Jenks, Oliver, Stevens, Weeks, J. White, M. White and Wojtul.

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Football

The coaches this year will be Mr. Noldt and Mr. Wexler. Student managers are Knudson and J. Miller.

We haven't had any practice this year, but .are waiting patiently for the lake to freeze over thick enough for the team to use.

After Christmas vacation we will meet our first competitors, Proctor Academy at Proctor. We all wish the hockey team the best of luck for the coming season.

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We here at Cardigan certainly appreciate these new rooms, and find them a definite asset on a rainy afternoon. We would like to thank those people who donated their money to make such rooms av.ailable, to us. As we go to press, no pictures of the rooms are available, but we hope to have one of each ro-om when. ,w e publish our paper the next time. Whenever you are on the campus, please take .a minute or two to inspect the new rooms.

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(Continued from page 7) defeated at home. Claremont lost to us by a score of 14-0. Suitor, Jenks and J. Rafferty racked up our score for us in this game.

Our next game with Newport saw us defeated again by 12-0. After they scored in the first quarter, we were .determined to win, but we just couldn't make any progress.

Our last game was a good closing for the season. Suitor, Jenks and Hinman proved too much for the New Hampton team, and we won by .a score of 20-8. To climax our season, refreshments were served to both the teams in the recreation room of the headmaster's house.

This in a nutshell gives you a brief idea of what our team did last fall.

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