CARDIGAN CHRONICLE VOL. 10 NO. 3
CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL, CANAAN, N. H.
MARCH, 1961
Fifth Annual Fund
Tuition Increase
Music Appreciation
Each year many things are needed for Cardigan's rapid growth and expansion. Thanks to the many people having to do with Cardigan these things have been taken care of by what is known as our Annual Fund. This being the fifth year that the fund has been in existence, i,t will be known as the Fifth Annual Fund.
Beginning with the school year 1961-62 the tuition at Cardigan will b e $2,100. This increase of $100 over the previous fee was voted by the Trustees to help cover the steadily mounting costs of operation. Through Yankee thrift and good management the tuition is below the median of that charged by boys' boarding schools .
Not new here ait Cardigan, but an activity which has won the approval of many •of the boys thi:S year, is Music Appreciation. It began three years ago, when the Electronics Club launched it-.. After the disbanding of the club, Music Appreciation was retained. Only classical recordings are played. The boys who want to listen come into the Recreation Room in Clark - Morgan at seven o'clock Thursday evenings, .find s eats quietly (a good many sit on -the floor), and listen for half an hour to excerpts from the _ great symphonies, concertos, and operas. Many have books with them. The objective of Music Appreciation, as 1ts name implies, is to promote among students an understanding and liking of the works •Of the leading composers, and a recognition of their different styles. This half-hour has won the enthusiastic support of s tudents, and will probably be continued for years to come.
Mr. Burbank heads the committee, which consists ·o f four other persons working with him. Usually the four committee members change each year but this year two are volunteering for a second time. They are Toby Kravet, a '56 graduate, who is in charge of the Alumni group, numbering around 500; and Mrs. Goodhue Crocker who is in charge -of a group of friends and neighbors of the school which numbers 100. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Rafferty, Jr. head the parents of the 124 students this year. Mr. and Mrs. T . Rumsey Young, Jr., are the Parents of Alumni committee chairmen. This year the goals of the Fifth Annual Fund are new equipment for the shop, which is being rebuilt, a public address system for the auditorium, a slide projector Jor audio-visual teaching, money for scholarship expansion and curriculum research (including the possibility of using new teaching machines), and paying a professional forester for advice concerning proper conservation of our campus woods. Last year's donations went for various things such as French Hall's game-room, redecorating and furnishing a basement room in ClarkMorgan for the use of the senior class, kitchen equipment, laboratory and adio-visual esuipment. Mike Bixler '62
Ski Holiday At eight-fifteen on the evening of February 12, all schoolwork came ,t o a standstill. It was then that the announcement was made that Ski Holiday would be next day. On Monday morning we hurriedly policed our rooms and raced over to a speedy but hearty breakfast. Shortly after, three buses arrived to take us to our destination, which was as yet unknown. On the way we soon found that we were headed for Mount Sunapee State Park. Once there, ·we quickly unloaded our equipment, collected our tickets, and headed for the slopes. We were asked to ski on the lesser slopes until 11:30 so ,t hat we would become used to snow conditions. After that time, we made about one run down from the chairlift, and stopped for a while for lunch . In the afternoon most of us used the chairlifts, since there were trails at the top for all degrees of skiing ability. After three o'clock we loaded our skis on ,t he buses and some of us went over to the souvenir shop , where we bought ski patches and other items by which we would remember Sunapee. Back at School, we learned that a total of six boys had broken their skis during the day's outing. Outside of that, we had the time of our lives! We'd like to thank the Faculty for their help in making this one of the best of the Ski Holidays. R. Lackey '61
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J. Hunter '62
Summer School 1961 The Cardigan Mountain Summer School of 1961 marks the ninth year of summer school for boys from 9-15 who may profit by extended courses in corrective English and Mathematics. If Mathematics isn't necessarily the weak· spot of the boy's scholastic program, then, instead of Mathematics, the boy would participate in an extended reading program along with the language arts . The classes of the summer school are split into five forty-five minute periods with a ten minute recess after the third period. Class-es are from Monday to Saturday. Two periods will be devot• ed to Math (if the boy needs help in this course) , two to English, and one to a study hall. (Continued on Page 2)