Chronicle (February 19, 1957) by Cardigan Mountain School

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·Hinman · Hall boys grf=w ~ 'l'he last wee'k of --Anew type of floodsick and tired of talk•·· January, I think .. the ing, was just discovering about whether 0r ski i ng at Cardigan ed f0r ho0key, si~ce · not eng.ineer · b _oe:~s· was .the be-st . si.nc:.e ~he · v1Je· moved the- r'i·rik from ·should be worn, and first winter snow<> near the middle· ·of the such nonsensical things The rope tow on the cove t0 the edge of _. S'~ they decided after slope behind the Bur ,the cove., Ther::e w·ere much .discussion that bank : s new hou.s e was many rea:sons (\"iijy we •it .might not be a bad -cl.urning alm-:st e very. moved the rink., Ftrst idea to have a lounge ,.da J; Tb.A snow was ex- I ~fall the wind was Bill Cushman was put in, ,:P J 1".':pt for the skiersc · too great and U1.e . ·. charge of a . committee i ~:he-! slope had ,an icy , , b0ards did not haye a .t0 · requisition. the nee:..., l (;~ver ing -?~ snow just . -chance t,:, free'ze-o ;An. lessary space and furni-,·a1ter a . rain and then other r -eason was that _ · ture. As a final house , we had a fe w · inches of the little gas putrip warming the boys of snow which made the was not wor.king right • ·the first floor had a skiing just perfectQ and it kep·t on freez1 . · party in the loungeo·. Bill Dyer '58 i:ng up"· . · -.- !Everyone had plenty (con't from colo- 1) After we knew that., -1t0 eat. i which you saw in the we had to move it. We I At ' the dcirm meeting movie "'l'he Town That had td' find .out 1after that it was deCame Backn .: 'l'hey ranwhere t~ move it. cided that the · f6llo ~ • i ge~ .. from 3 months old After a ·•Tew minute::! of in@• rules would be , to G or 3 yenrs a -thinking we - decid~d enf arced in the lounge " 1 A g0od bull will tha;t the ice near the 1 No ' Smoking, .. c •1 st up to. $500 arn'l a pump ho1·se was good .. 2 Only boys ir0m Hin- t good cow will 1 cost , I So we moved it _ove_r ~ I $ d~ · mah Hall allow-ed. frc,m :i200 to 41125() and ·!' there ~ Putting it · 3,. No molesting of UP c ~he· chenPest c~lthere was a ~ g 0od idea · ·property ·o· ves you coul9- get cost for many reasons• '.The Tliecge will have · their .$5 1.:0 ice wa~ good and also 1 just punishments if Cn th~ ,~ole once we could get the water · there is· ariy infracyou get out in the from the pump in the ti'on., • •', · · fields driving · the pump h0use Ins te~d of · ·-Jeff Dorrance 1 57 tractOJi.s anJ ,trucks using the-• old -pump and he·l ping t,o plant :- with about or1;_1 ~ 1 10. or MY FJl.THER '.S FARM c,.rops yciu 1 11 find tha.t . 15 lbs a pressur·e, we -My--father has , a working on a farm i$ ,:, now have 85 lbs. ,,f .. farm -up in North Bridg-· an :a wful 1·ot ::: f ·•fu_n o ,pre.ssure -~ Using the .·- ton, Maine." .. · .·- By the way: if you ·.• J ·neW'· -l~c·a ti on· w c now -. We· have . 165 acres in :ar,:e . ever in ·the · ·d bn"if have t () wcr,r.y . ll, with -~bout 55 acre,s. i '.t y :of. Bridgton;- Me -, about the pump fr~ez' · in "';oodland,,_· · · ., · :dr:r.;:p _by and. see -:-.-s·o~e .; . ihg up ~n us, because Fir.st -we s tart.ed: out of ·out :c rops that .l it has, a :heater in the by: ·buying 25 head of guar.anddteA. ar~ g .oscdc . ... __P.1:1!!!-P. . ?.o_u se .. '-'.'1,hi_c 9 __keeps · White . faced- Her,e_ford Cur a . ress is.: unny- _ it abou,t 50 0 _ . · • beef cattle,, s;cme :of brook Farm,- Highland • - ., .R ald Ma' lI·i , 5 ( C on, t C ~ 1 • ' 2 ) . Rd, . ': . on in e . • __ ,John.~--~~.li"ga · ! 5~ :.. ~·-r - ~ - - - -·

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1 Mn ~ ·ROBERTS THE GOOD SHEPHERD I ;~?I-P ! r; ADV:·rnT·CJ;{'.l:S T,_-, .. · . b1· C. S. Forester Ey Thorr,as Heg ge n , · The Go o d Sh'ephead ,is So · f&r · our: int:i:-· e~~-d 'T he USS Reluctant l ~ -fiction nov~l. jh e r J has R(c ~mJ~is~ed wa s s o far in the rear Commander Krause wa s 1thr e e th:.. ng::, 0 ! ' (· c::f ;-.:na·t 'it'was pitifuiG I in. charge of a · missi on jwhich -he '.12d no t hi,,.~ Yet it was far en ::rngh ;- ·to ·g e _t four escort 1t@) d ,') with , tiie ·1irst in t he front · so that :~· ve s s·els c onvoyipg 37 1 1and most ir:::.po_,--L- E,n c; 'i.$ 1n1~:; r·ty was out of the Allied~ merchantmen a- . that be r.as gr .M n ·,J.p qu.estion 0 Knowing this cro-ss th.e _ icy North and mat ;r1=.:'. c; ,:!:r ~,-:_u2:0·, _r the crew and the off· Atle,ntic fr91tAmerica abl:r , Sec_mt .. }'i,., :1<.1:s •_ie,e.r's c.a rried on a con to Englancl ., I:t · W9. s in ! a cq U i r s=- a. a c..i. <' ;_! :f. ~ te..r.. t war with the the most cri ~ical days I f,.>: 115.::: pu::.; :'_1.:.1.0n ·f.i:c eF.pta. in, fil,st ~c kee ,' )f VVorld :,vva·r · rr, when ! 1:i:re Pr..d ]:-i: :' l!l.'.3. ',) ,_ - ~!1(':'il3e lves - busy and U' . . . ' . · the Gerrr:an subs ,had ; b nal :_El t c, b<? r:hc:?' it ,; 3 e·e: o:1 d be c-a use th ey the . upper hand and · 1TttL."d 'Gf: !.:83 bee n hated the captain. ' Allied shipping was ! l colred. u pon ½y &, mys· ·· Cur hero is Mr 0 ·• ~ufferirii~eavy losses l teri ous benefact :~ wb Roberts~ You will en ·1 ,.-·The plot was when ; has c;iven him the joy reading about how Gorhman9-i=:d~' Kra :use was : chance to b e come an he rec e ive_d the · Royal called to the bridge ' English Gentle~an· in Order of the Palm. just after he had ta, g_o od standing .. Further · And sci _with our · dirty i ken a sh6wer which I , adventures of Pip in dunger e es, l e t's go I feel he deserved. The : approximately tr.tree : aboard the USS fl,Eluctant! so called wolf-pack ! days-. and take . ~: gander . at 1 vvas forming and . he had I Jeff Dorrance t57 _your Navy 1 s fi gh ting ~ no tim~ eYen, to put on ALEXf-;,NDER THE ' GREJ'..T •· · force on . the .Re luc tan warm · outer garments. :. BY J ohn Gu ther Excuse me, did I say . F0r ·:ehe next forty, Alexander the Great fighting force? . 1 eight h6urs he stayed iwritten by John Guther Jeff Dorrance 157 on the bridge of his '-answers ques'tions by ship exhausted, beyond ; givin_g _vividpic~ures (Co n 1 t from Col. 2) measur'e of Alexander Is life O • '· I am going to build As thci~e fcirty-ei ~ht iAlexander w~s ~trorig a~· ~ffice ~1th a d~sk 1· . t ,oy ,ne .11.a . • • and a table . fer a" . : in mind a:s we 11 as . h ours wen ~ hard task trying to :body~ He inf luenced radto that I can lisgive orders in order :many pe0ple and thi s _ ten to Vl.' hile I VID r.k, to keep the sh ips ;was hew b e came t o and for my broadcastfro~ sinking. Many men )fam e ~ He wa s a l e ader i~g, set. rhe office were lost ~to the U-b (atsi among men and far awill be six feet but they still kept up : head c f his time. square. the figh _t and many of ' Charles Kaplan -1 58 I am· going' to have U-b;:i·a ts wwre sunk,, !THE REMODELED ChBIN · a radio where I can Bcb Leighton r57 _ . At h~m~ I am plari, l 0ck my self up and ILLINOIS PA& .;R BCX CO., \ning .to build more on . the boys can't di sturb! AND ' Ito my cabin. I am goihg me• I am going to · jl NORTH s·HORE PRINTING to -bu:Llrd a kitchen _ build different things) 1 · 'C HARLES T. BOYNTON [w:l_ th :: a st ove and a · _ that I .need. The radio.I President ltablec The kitchen will rn cm wi ll be five feetf Charles. H. Blume & C:),,\b~ six fe_e~ long and Rong and three feett. t :NSURANCE -~ BEAL ESTl,;':i'El' sJ.x feetr wide() wide. r. Jacksonville, Florida _.______________ (Con t 011 Co~,.3) """'-_._________ Linwood.Gamage 159 -Ij ,__ ...,...____________

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.ECluDEP 1:JSSS H~}f_r~N . Ro.bert Leighton 1 57 ·~ ~ye·an-e-~ta1.j-rJ-- F'ebruary Bre wster and Hinman 1 '.ASS ISTAI'-TT EDITOR '.6, : 195? was- ·a. no t;he rj had a battle one afte:rl ,,Paui Snyder 1 57 ·hi~tory making day here n oo n . to test their hcci AD.VER'I'ISING MANAGER a.t i CMS as ·· c a rdigan wins k,ey skills• In the . l ., Charles SchCrtt, ,.158 - ~ its first hoc k e y game 0 t. .f .i rf!t -pe.ri o d no goals r S~T. ADVERTIS I l\D MG~ ·, . . ,After having an unwere s c Gre_d. VJ hen the j • Charles K~pla1;:1· 1 58 ., -I _lucky lo_sing st r .eak on . · second period came a- 1 · i FEAT.URE _ED_;TOR . ; l'tb,e gridiron With five . · long, :Baul . Buckley . I:;_; Jeffrey Dorrance 1 57 1 0 ;s s es .. a'n d one tie; · sc o~e d .. a goEl l _for Bin SPORTS EDITOR · Ca~di g an lost -its first man. No : other goals · Robert Page 1 57 four hockey games, but were scored until the ST ,\FF -~HOTOGRAPHER . .f:i,nally came thr ough first part of the Donald Boynton ! 58 with its first victory third p eriod when CIRClJLATION MANAGER defeati rig Holderness, · George Blume f:rom Willet Cobb. 160 1 3-2., This victory is Brewster made spec. REPORTERS __ · · : just wl;lat Cardigan tacular goal a p.;ainst Scott Smith 1 57 ·I need'S to b·oo~t its . John Bell wh_ich tied ., FAC·ULTY ASSIST-JNO,......_.. _ m'.)rale eho'ugh to .win the g.a me· up. Af'ter Miss norothy Emers~n · Isome more games, and that - there _were ~o Mrs. Millicent Jenness that she '11 do. The . more · goals scored • . . hockey team, . bitter Hugb Mosher -. 1 58 ,...;.,_~ -· .. ,~:.l!t:X\'."X.\":£ at its fir•st defeats, THE ·WINT"2:R SPORTS ~IIERICA STEEL &. WIRE - - began to come· ~part VJ e have skiing, Divii!~~ cf Os Steel '. around the edges, and skat~ng and hockey for ' Wor:cester .,- Mass. . several or ·the players'. our winter sportS'. Mr. See Howard W. Ramse'y left for '"other ac t 'i vi- • f Kennard is •in charge Purchasing Agent· . . tie··s •· B11°t thanks to l. _ _ ·of the ·'ska ting · and Mr. ;· ~•,..:,,;:!r,---~ -the ste ,,, dfast persis·Jenries' s has the . hockey! THE "s·0}fIMER vAcNrlON . ·tanc'lB' of Coach Jeri.ness· 1 Mr,' Houghton is . in ! - About in the . mic.ale . there ·was a ·hockey . . :charge of the s kiirs of ·· the summer is :- wha:h , team down on the ice · and is trying t c, I have the . most fun. . when. Holderness came:, · teach us how to ski. ' My ._ cf'lUSip aha.°I get - and that hockey team ... Trey Armstrong 159 u'p at Six O 1. Clock a:nd ~as . :trQmendo d ly in'~ . , · · · [ d.o all the chores. ~pired by their first ·-:::q:-~~'S.~E:f:&~ . Af'ter Breakfast we yicto;ry.· Jt ·d say that · RUSSELL DORRANCE s:tart the · tractor· ' and this won't be the · ,Tax Accounti-ng Agen~Y , g_et ready to get . in only gt3-me . Cardig'a n . Fen:-- Sma.lJ. Btii=d.J>eS:3 1· hay. When .we ge·t in . will' win:, Won't yo-ii? : · . Weston~ Ma -s s:. hay, ~e pltches i t ' ori · John Rutledge r57 and I put it in place (Can't from Ccl. 1) ' H!ST"ORY IS ' MADE .. , and trample it arid _ . . choris: and ~o fn the January 23, 1957 when we get into the ·. jhous~. _ · · · · _ Car6igan Mt~ School 1 s barn I pitch it off ! After 1upper we • hcckey · team played for and he puts it away. 1~a~ch 1. v. and ge to the f:i.rst time inside . Then we eat lunch · bed about ~en o1clo~k. boards on Canaan ·strEx and de the same thing William . Talbert 159 · Lake. This is only in the af ternQon ~ Whon.. .,. ,c•~-....,_._ ,._...: _ _ .,. ~ -...---.....-· -- one historical event, . - " ~ ~ -~....:>...~'l.--•-- ~ . for Cardi g an also enmy father gets h~me ' · ~iAW1it;jf:-To'NER -CO. - ·· he mows.some mpre. . -~i i n Wear tertaineGi New Hampton ~ Charles Kaplan · ., 58 After tna t . we _do th e ·. .r.ACOB SALIBA, PRES• ' ( Con 1 _t _Co 1 2 ) · _g_s t Ofu Mas s •

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ON TIKI ' T:i:-IB PI-RATE LAFITTE AND I ~1 YY,'~··:\ GE FOOTBALL by Thor Hyerdahl THE BATTLE OF NEW , I S'I. O.HI~S In apri'l 1947, five ORLEANS --Teen::_a_g_e__-f=--0-0.....,.,tb,--all oung men and the BY Robert F8.llant Stories edited by author stepped onto a The Pir a te Lafitte Frank Owen has sixtee~ 45 foot raft and _set a.nd the Battle of New different short foot_. forth, at the mercy of Orl e ans is a story aball stories by famou , ind and current, on bout a fl a ther and son aut.hors from the grea drifting trins-pac~ who have some bµsiness spvrts world. The ic jo'urney, that was with Jean Lafitte 1t stories,• show the grea te / consume more than Jean was aw%y so they spirit and grim deter7 four months and cover talked with his bromination to win the · ore than 4300 ' miles. ther, Pi e rre. The game for their school his is the beeinning . story goes on to tell The stories are based 3f a veri iriterest ~ng how the father takes upon the rules of !account of travel and a boat and g oes lookfootbali {n high 'adventure. , ing for Jean. When he school. Most of the .The six m·e n lived m finally fin d s whem stories are very exthe small raft ,f or i they have a big fig ,1t citing and intere-st:ing -i four months' , drifting I and Lafitte 1 s men win. Gregory Moss 157 ; in the Pacific Oc e an I Hugh Mosher• T58 with onli a long steer-! THE REX CORPORATION ing t>~r tn the stern ! EDITORIAL Wire and Plastics to prevent their 'As editor of the CarAc t on, Ma s s • drifting off cotrse, d'igan Chronicle • . I Pres:' I G. E. Bell radio equipment and a would like to take this small sail. !moment to give my feel(con 1 t from col. 1) One of the most inings on r smoking. l white dots. The huge I teresting parts of the . I o.on 1 t see why the head, with tiny eyes story was the time • j boys 0ith their parents converged all the way lwhen Totstein, one of consent could not to its tail that was I , l •the radio operators, smoke if they w~re fully 20 feet away. was wakened from his over fifteen years of The tail had fins esleep by scmethiq~ a g e. merging from the splashing at the ~ide I also wee a good face of the sea and a of the 1raft. He reach- reas oni n g fer stopping , large dorsal fin ran ed over a~d grasped ' a I it for it would pr oba- , ;1 a.long its back that snakelike fish over I bly give the ~chool a •as six feet long. Th fo1r feet long, with , bad name for there are monste~ was not a men 1 lcng knife-sha1·p teeth · not many other schools ster £it all but a whal with huge eyes, anc, a that allow it. s;hark, one of the lar ' snout some two inches Bcb Leighton 157 gest and ugliest of ?,l thick shaped like a sea creatur e s. beak. Another was when 'l' h"E VENGEFUL SEA These are just tw.~ Knut Haugland , was By EdwarEl Rowe Sn:iw i of t;he rr.anyi interestsquatting aft washing This is a very in.ing and exci tir.1g par~tc some clothes and all teresting book of 1how of the story and ther of a sudden he looked many ships were l"ast ar·e many .more· that . yo linto the face of a and how they met their 1 would enjoy as much. huge monster with a l doom. This book also I Scott Smith 157 head stuo idly ugly and tells 0f the terrible storms which have hit lA. KENJijETH HAMBLETON 1a froglike mouth some Itwo feet wide. The the Ee s t erB Coast. For Best in Insurance !ster's body was spotJere Sullivan r57 Goffstown, •ted with brown and New Hampshire L_ig_on 1 t col. 3) .. _ _____ . _ _______ .

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