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CARDIGAN CHRONICLE Canaan, N.H.

August 1972

Everytime we stopped, people from all over would stare at our This is the second and last unusual-looking bus. issue of the 1972 Cardigan ChronWe arrived at the circus at icle. Many of the pl~asant memories 7:15. We unloaded, got our tic6f tha summer of '72 will warm your kets and went in all different winter months as you turn the pages directions. of this paper, We then got 25¢ tickets and Come with us now to those thril-went in and saw the zoo. We ling days of yesteryear. From out walked in and saw tigers and . of the past come the thundering elephants, and then fed them 1·,, ,J ~steps of the old dorm masters. peanuts. When we got into the Hi-ho Cnrdjean! Who was that kid circus, there were hardly any with the bandanna Rround his neck? seats vacant. But we finally He's gone, and I wanted to thank found enough seats for 3 near him. Oh look, he left a silver the third ring. A few minutes dining room tray. He must be the later, the circus started. lone waiter! There were various performances. There were jugglers, and CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HONOR monkeys performing, and there were ROLE BOYS AND GIRLS dogs jumping over hoops. Now and then, a man would Barnett, Bixby, Bollert, Church, scream "Popcorn, Cotton Candy." S. Conger (High Honor Role), W. and he would stand right in our Conger, B. Day, Engelman, Fitzway while we were trying to watch patrick, T. Gardner, Gervais (High the circus. He would scream in Honor Role), Herndon, Hinmans, J. our ears and make it really hard and M., (the dynamic Duo!!!!!) John- to watch the performance, son, Landman, McBain, Merizalde The show ended at 9:30, and (Que?!?!?)~ Mishaan, Nolan, and we then made our way to the bus. Schmanska. We took our seats and sat there Honor Role is achieved by for 1 hour, wondering what was consistantly earning A and B going on. We were then told average or better. that the engine had broken down High Honor Ro le is achieved and we were waiting for some cars by maintaining an A average or from c.M.S. to pick us up. We higher. sat in the bus from 9:30-11:30 How do they do it? For all eating pistachio nuts and cracking the answers, send for my free jokes. booklet "Free Booklet", along with Finally, at 11:30, a few cars $20.00 to cover postage and handling.arrived, and everyone piled inside, Paul · Chamberlain Everyone was exhausted and we Hinman Hall were glad to be back, even though Canaan, N.H. we didn't get to bed until 12:39. -Amy Fitzpatrick At 6:35, on July 31, a bus prepared to leave for the Sells CAMPING TRIP and Grey Circus in Hanover . . The passengers consisted of kids. who We, the hikers, left school had made the Honor Role. The bus at about 7:15 ~nd got to Lincoln ride was a long, but exciting ride, Gap in the Green Mountains at

Page 2 CAMPING TRIP (Cont'd) about 8:45. It took us about 2 hours to reach the first shelter. The one part about the trip none of us will forget are the grubbers. The grubbers were a pack of kids from another camp. They had been hiking for one day but looked like they had been hikirg for two months. They also midly implied that -they should use the shelter and not us because their camp built it, 4 years ago. Mr, Rearick picked us up at 2:00, August 4th. On the way back we stopped and got ice cream. We got back to school around 3:30. -Jim Hinman NEWS OF HAYWARD HALL Nancy Brox has been painting lions, and Robin Bagley has been drawing. Five girls from the floor went to the circus Monday night. Some of the girls have been on work detail~ but not all of them. One night when there was no electricity we went into the common room, just as we were studying the lights in there went out. Finally, we went to the dining room, there we could study good just then Mr. Wakely came and said to go to bed. _-Suzy Schmanska FRENCH I

Garbageman, 11 Mutt 11 now us es his fre~ time constructively, (A-hem) Bill Dumke - This is the poor guy who has to live with Bbllert, the Butterfly Breeder. Brice Bollert - Our ever-faithful naturalist has now started raising Butterflies. Matt White - Our beloved Bell Ringer continues to "Ring his Chimes." Tom Gardner - He's still got a love affair going with Conger's hair- brush. Bruce Kelly - He'a still the quiet one, But now he's competing with Bollert as top naturalist. Mr. Peck - He's the guy you all are suppose to pity .... He has to put up with this awful bunch. -Steve Conger GREEN-WHITE

August 1 was a date of an evening of fun, bruises pushing and shoving. Several hundred students were jailed and flags were tossed about. A riot? An upr~sing? No, it was just another "friendly" meeting of the Green and White Teams, engaged in combat on the "Capture-the-Flag" field. Scores were as follows: Capt. Flag

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Green 0 57 57 Steve Berlack-He's still our carrot-white 0 61 61 top giant. Neal Pond - Mr. Pond is still our As is shown by the scores, "Mister Ordinary", But you've got White defeated Green. This • was to admit he's getting weirder. the second "Capture-the-Flay" game. Luke Gardner - He's our specialist between the two teams. After six on messy rooms and lifetime meetings, the score stands at: sentences on work detail. 316 White to 263 Green. Scott Buss - He almost decided to run away. Anyone wanting to learn '?'?'?'? WORK DETAIL ? ......... how to get to California, contact Buss. Well, Here I am back on work Stu Engleman - As the dorm's detail again. This time for an scholar, stu has been busy these undetermined amount of hours. I last few weeks. wonder how many blisters will pop Steve Conger - Is just as healthy up this time. Last time I only and nutty as before (maybe even got two but that was only from . more so). two hours. This time I could end "Mutt" Bronfman - No longer our up ~ith a blister on every finger.

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Page 3 WORK DETAit ~ (Cont'd) There's one thing you can be sure of that's Mr. Shelton watching you work and give you a little push to work harder. You either hand rocks along a chain, load and push a wheel barrow full of rocks. The best thing you can do is not get work detail, but if you can't stay out of trouble like me and you get work detail, ~ork with Mr. Jenness. He's a lot easier on you. Stay out of trouble and you won't get blisters. - Luke Gardner GREEN AND WHITE

Acts ranging from card tricks to comedies and from puppet sh~ws to singers led the way. The night was found to be a million laughs. First prize contest winners were the girls of Hayward dormitory, while Clark-Morgan ran a close runner up. Many of the acts were very original (but the actors realized they bad: scooby dooby doo -- Talent!) It turned out very well and the attraction drew a full auditorium. -Paul Chamberlain THE HISTORY OF ARCHERY

Archery is a sport probably C.M.S.'s fifth Green-White invented by the Indians. The Activity Night was on Tuesday . indians were people who ran around evening July 25. Six different in there underwear with concauction activities were the basis of the said to be bows and arrows. What competition: Tennis, Archery, they were, were bone from a buf~ Kickball, Trapshooting, Riflery, falo and some stringy fiber from and Gator-Ball. It was White's some tree. Then they sharpened night. The team won five of the a stick and tied a sharp rock at six activities, capturing 42 points.the end. Then they went and killed Green scored only 3 points . for . the Custer. evening, but was a tough competitor. Then in the land of FoodarackThe closest competition was at the osockie on the shore of Seafood trap shooting range: White won by lived Robin Hood and his Merry Men. ' a mere one hit. The totals after People like the cook, you know, five meetings are: 255 (White) to Frier Tuck, Little John alias Mr. 206 (Green). America and the rest of them. -Steve Conger As years fly by, we look into a school called Cardigan Mountain. TENNIS INSTRUCTION Talk about archery . . If you think its good your right. You go to The last 4 weeks of Tennis the archery field then Miss Nettles Instruction were found t6 be highly says stradle the line, then you enjoyable and worthwhile. knock an arrow with the cock Forehand, backhand and other feather faceing outwards and shoot. shots, and procedures taught by · -Scott Buss Mr. Peck. Mr. Peck did a great job of SOFTBALL instruction and deserves thanks . for molding .inexperienced tennis players ''He was safe!" is the cry. into stars, and other inexp!rLenced ''Argue! Argue!" is the motto. tennis players into inexperienced Sounds like a realistic ball game, _tennis players. doesn't it? Please pity our poor -Paul Chamberlain supervisor, Mr. Gettens, who has called some very close plays. TALENT SHOW NIGHT AT C.M.S. This first week ~e decided to . continue the same game for four The C.M.S. Talent Show rtight; days. held several weeks ago, was found to be a terrific success. (1i???)

Page SOFTBALi (C-0nt'd) Our main stars are: Bart Auer . - good pitche~, lousy infielder

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Steve "Wheat Germ" Conger great outfielder horrible hitter John "Gone" Going - RBI leader for his team John Bartlett - The RBI leader of the league Noah "Smasher" Herndon - Leader in doubles and triples. · Frank Generazio - A great clutch hitter

The following selections are forms of Japanese poetry called haiku and tanka. A haiku has thr~e lines and the syllable count for . the lines must be five , seven , f ive ~ · .•For a -tank a the five.. lines have a syllable eount of five , seven, five, seven~ seven. Why am I here now? Why can't I be home asleep, Instead of studying? -Luk_e Gardner Morning has broken; The sun shines in my window. Soft breeze conforts me. -Amy Fitzpatrick

Here are the scores for the . Yellow are flowers, first four days: How beautiful they look there Mon. - Jeff Plaisted starred in this In the garden new. first chapter of the game for -Suzy Schmanska Going's team, · and the score was 8-5, Barlett's team The brown sand is hot losing. Then~ when the sun went away Tues.- 11-9, Going's team over The sand became cool. Bartlett's team. Bartlett's -Haney Brox team out scored them today, 4-3, on Bart Auer's pitching The sun comforts me; and some great fielding by The waves are reaching their arms. T. Gardner, Wheat Germ and Sand buries my feet. Bartlett. -Amy Fitzpatrick Thurs.-Although John Bartlett's team made 4 double plays, My shirt is bright yellow, Going's team out scored I put it in the laundry; Bartlett's team, 8-3; the Now it is bright orange. totals after three days were -Nancy Brox Going's team 19 to John Bartlett's team 12. THE FORGOTTEN MISTRESS Fri. - Noah Herndon made some great (Abridged) hits, driving in 4 runs, and Bartlett's team outscored One beautiful hot day between Going's team, 4-1, but, at the coast of Hawaii and Chicatick the end of the week, Going a man swiftly ra~ along the endless team won, 20-16. beach into the colorful horizon. Well, better luck next time! Suddenly he stopped and looked P.S. the second week will be into the morning mist, "could it mainly hardball play ... · Hooray! ...• could it really be his o~ce -John Bartlett forgotten mistress"? He ran . closer and looked passionately at her. He took a closer look at her. She was bright-eyed with a smooth face and a pleasant smile. She stared at him for a minute. She talked quietly and slowly and asked "Is .that you, . Rob?" ·

Page FORGOTTEN MISTRESS (Cont'd) "Yes" I

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Friends, I am here to talk about underwater basketweaving. I Well you dirty old man," she know that most of you think it is replied. pretty stupid but I think it would I went to kiss Betty savagely be a good experience for most of She turned around, slapped, and you. foolishly screamed. I started to My first two times down I . run, like a coward, then stumbled seemed to be pretty unlucky. When on the ground•, Quickly I tried I got five feet below the surface t .o get. away, but Betty was just of the water, the pressure of it barely behind me. I tried to lift made my face turn blue. I immedia-,, my foot. I kicked her in the face tly got out of the water! After ·a by accident of course. Rapidly little rest I said to myself "I'll she went for a rock! She lifted do it again," so 1 jumped back in. the rock and threw it at me. Lt This time I got down fifty feet ~Lruck my forehead! I could hArd1y and started to weave. In a matter see bcc~ugo of the bl oo d dripping of moments 8 big sharks quickly into my eye·s. They Betty turned moved in. I tugged anxiously three .and whispered, "You·' ve had it now times on the rescue rope~ but there Rob." was no response. My lungs were I didn't know what she w~s bursting·tor air. Just then I talking about until she aimlessly felt a strange tingling sensation came toward me and pushed. I fell as the rope started upwards. On about ten feet and landed on my the way up I had a feeling of back. I had fallen into a dirt weightlessness. When I had come · pit. I waited in the pit for at within 5 feet of the surface, all least an hour until a hairy beardof the air in my lungs came out. ed man appeared . . He threw down I watched the bubbles rising t o t some rope and hoisted me brutally the surface of the water. Minutes to the top of the pit. I told later I was in the boat. My the huge man how grateful I was to breath came in short gasps, I was him, but ~till the man didn't · bruised but happy. smile .. He looked very sad and . his And so friends after that eyes were misty as it something experience I now have enough courhad happened. I asked if anything age to go through anything. was wrong, but he just smiled and -Noah Herndon . turned away from me and walked under and through the hanging A STORY INVOLVING limbs like they weren't even there. 29 C . M.S. STUDENTS I watched as the gentle and supposedly happy man walked away. I One Day a Gardner named Bart turned to the open sea, watching went out into his fields to work the wild like waves and the great on his special project. He raised blue sky, thinking of how that strawberries, yet he wasn't satkind man saved my life and how the isfied. He wanted to develop a woman ruined my day. New Berry, one with no seeds, and -Chris Cohen toadd to the problem he wanted a ~ -'\·\ . - - ( ~ " \ " \ ~ -- r ~ ' " ' , .,.JI ' White berry. . ,,.... < , r .. _ l-1 ~ ,,, , ~ ~ -0 1.. There was Haze'n fog covering ....----~- ~ - ~~ , .. the fields, but Bart was a Hardy ~~-_,.., _ P, ,S?,fzs ~ soul, and he carried a full Brox of berry plants. He also had his lunch with him, a lettuce and Tomaino sandwich in a brown paper · · Bagley. me".

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FRENCH II'S GANG

After working for neatly an This is an interesting account Auer, Bart pulled off h i s ~ to of a visit to French II. Reporting wipe his brow. He gazed at the on the scene of the action is me, clock on the village Church steeple.Bixby. Well, let's start the tour 9:15. Nearly time for the Buss to with: Victor Nieves -- our friendly arrive with his new helper on it. Puerto Rican and his roommate, Soon he saw a figure walking Dave Marks •.. oh, uh, say Marks ..• across the field. The first thing uh, I won't say anything nasty the long legged arrival said was {he's our inspector!) " I need some Grub, Man!" So Bart , Well, see you Dave and Vic. shared his sandwich-.Next are "Bixll {that's dumb Trying to interest the person ole me!) and Garwood. Cal Garwood in his crops, Bart said, "This is is our neighborhood mess {he's · great berry land." still wearing the same shirt as "May be. great Land,~," last week). And there's also good replied the visitor between munches old Gouchoe {so weird, I don't but there seems to be a Berry Lack'know where to start). this year!" -- · - Now, let's go to the Common "They'll do better when we dig Room, now permanently made into ditches from that Pond to irrigate a Ping-Pong room. Oh, here's the bus hes with Poole s of water II Brian Hardy, our Chinese Ping' explained Bart. Pong expert. His opponent? . "I'm not Going to dig any Mr. Hanslin???? Yes, pity Hanslin ditches! I'll be in my Coffin Hardy's the best Ping-Pong guy first!" here, not to mention the worst 11 ~ said!" yelled Bart, and guy, Will Neff. But Willy's a he grabbed the man by the throat. real great guy. He's Mr. Four He pulled out a Blunt knife from his Eyes. Oh, hi, McClellan ... he's . pocket and was about to Liff it td our champion sweeper, and last strike, when he heard, "Bart, Lett Sunday, he got to sweep the whole go of him?" -- -floor {wasn't he lucky? UGH) It was Bart's father ' and I hear laughter .. yep, just . Bart let go. Old Mr. Bart Tethe~ed as I tbought .••. this way, folks, his watchdog as the ex-visitor ran for the world's oldest and sickest off. "Let's make . some Marks in the jokes on earth from Mr. Kippen. ground and get those ditches dug 11 Finally we have Mitchell and said the old man. "It's not far' Mishaan. Tom Mitchell's been going after Brigit Bardo, last we ' ·Maa ~ - " heard, and Steve Mishaan just If you could Reid this far swiped another bag of Frito Corn you'll probably be happy to stop. Chips. Well, see you. - Jon Bixby Letters that were written {But never sent): Dear Mom: Please send 300 gallons of honey and 45 btishels of Wheatgerm, Because I've decided to stay for Winter School. Love and Kisses, Wheatgerm

CANOEING Canoeing is so much fun, you want to cry for joy, cause of all the fun you're having. The object of the activity is to help you • learn how to paddle a two-pointed boat forwards, backwards and side ways. Also, your're supposed to know what to do when you tip over, but who wants to get wet? Besides being able to soak in a lot of sun you · get to look at the bottom of

Page 7 CANOEING (Cont'd) the lake, and ••. (this sure is boring!) Well, I'll see you •••• (paddle, swish, paddle, swish, paddle, swish, paddle •.•••.• ) -Steve Conger BREWSTER I NEWS Well, as the summer comes to an close so does our dorm's fun. No more pillow fights, no action at all. Andrew Bryans did break . one of the Bathroom doors, maki~g it difficult to open. It's aiso quiet in Brewst~r, except for a bike chattering down the stairs. Oh, yes, we also have a dare wolf (a prehistoric animal) who howls during study hall and after lights out. On Sunday Qodzilla came and said, quote: "I am the assistant floor leader!" Well, everybody on the floor burst into his room and said, "You are not!" unquote. Well, that closes the summer. Until next we meet, Shalom. -Archie Ackerman

different. As the person crept quietly by his door, the doctor awoke and moved quickly, with a trained hand to the Colt .45 revolver that he kept lashed se~ curly to the underside of th oaken bed post. He stealthly moved out into the hallway and attacked the intruder from the rear. The stranger turned swiftly and Adolfus fired twice. The once strong but now limp body of his son slumped to the floor and as he died he uttered these words "I only went · for a piece of Water-melon." -Peter Jakobson Dear folks: The weather is terrific! Send my scuba gear, my snorkel, and the upstairs maid. Love, Rotzy P.S. The rain flooded my room and I failed inspection HINMAN I

We in Hinman I are having a ball playing Ping-Pong. · Now, for our occupants: , Nathaniel Church has lost Dear Mom: The food here has been just his incompatible roommate ... But terrific! Last night we had creamednow poor "'fex" DeMontrond has him. - Camillo is our "Man on Campus ;, chipped stuff, Green beans and and my sister and 5 other girls potato lumps. This noon we had are having secret affairs with creamed chipped Beans, Green beef, him. and potatoe lumps. Tonite we'll Kapp just loves the toys that have creamed chipped Potatoe, are floating around campus, but Bean Lumps, and Green Beef. he (unfortunately) has an uncanny Love, knack for breaking them! Schnookums Did you know Newberry is P.S. Send Alka-Seltzer accident Prone? (Yes, we all did) Noah is still playing his VISIONS OF A BLOOD-RED songs on the wall. (Don't you WATERMELON pity the poor wall???) Three cheers for Mark Alvord, He crawled cautiously on his Jeff Reid, and Jeff Plaisted for hands and knees for fear that the getting off their Life Sentences slightest noise would wake the on work detail! Rah! Rah! Rah! ' sleeping members of the Hawthorne Breck Miller is, well, is, Family. As a rule they were Huh ... Awful Weird .. ~Well, he's extremely heavy sleepers except getting better (Three cheers for for the famous Doctor Adolfus him too! Ray! Ray! Ray!) Frederick Jonathan Hawthorne wh o Andy Finkbeiner is our Piano was reputed to awake at th~ siightGenius, but boy, is it ever hard est noise and this night was no to read his articles. -Andy Finkbeiner

Page 8 · DRAMA Our beloved Director, Mr. Finkbeiner, is the only reason this play ever got off the Ground! The title of our production is "The Pirates of Penzance", a comedy of the nineteenth Century, by Gilbert and Sullivan. The main actors are: Danny Hazen, who refuses to embra~e the lovely Susie Schmanska is our star! Co-Starring ar~: Andy Finkbeiner (The Pirate King) is brave and strong (except in the face of Danger!) To Mary . Wakely (an ugly----) Danuy Hazen is the perfect bait. Susie Schmanska wins Danny's heart (I wonder how he fell for her!) Our hero-the- Major General - is a real hypocrite. If you want to know why he is, come to the play! To our friendly Police (pigs to those who don't understand that work), the whole play is, ... very perplexing! ~o come to the fun on August 11, 1972 at 1:30 P.M. -Andy Finkbeiner Deer Parrens, This are mi rekwird Englis leter . Luv, Fredy

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PUZZLE TIME See if you can find the names of the masters on C.M.S. campus this summer. Most should be here. - Karen Sinclair

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Page 10 HINMA!~ II REPORT Hinman II continues to be the most boring dorm o~ campus. No waterfights, pillow fights, fist fights or even gun fights add to the excitement of the building. No nothing exciting, huh? The only source of excitement in the dorm is Brooks Parriot. I recently interviewed Brooks on this angle. "Hey, Brooks," I said. "Who's your best friend on campus, I mean who do you get the most thrills out of?" II Batman, II he sa1• d "Y up, _y up II "or maybe superman." "Once Matt White hit me with a book and he wasn't kidding." _ "Dig it," I said. "Yup, Yup, Yup," he said. Thus endeth our conversation. On one of our many exciting Sunday afternoons, a visitor strolling through the halls _is thrilled and excited. All sorts of things are happening. Boys are sleeping, reading, cleaning rooms all these add to the thrilling afternoon. -Paul Chamberlain THE BRAIN Over in Hopkins Hall, there exists a mechani~al brain under . the control of the Math students. It is C.M.S. 's beloved computerteletype system and we students have a ball playing games on the computer, figuririg out the radius of a circle with an area of 315.679 square inches. But we also hate the machine when it goes "on strike". In actuality, the brain gets fed up with being fed so much stuff that it "gets stuck." When this happens, our hero Mr. Sobolewski charges in, feeds some more stuff in the machine and -- Zap! BAAM! TRAT-TRAT-TRAT! then ....• "READY" And, once again, our dear compu·t er starts thinking straight. If you get a chance to get acquainted with your neighborhood computer system, don't pass

it up. It's really a terrific experience, for both boys and girls. -Steve Conger CRAFTS The first day we had crafts was last Monday the first. We went over the different things we could make. There are such things as rings, moccasins, belts, watchbands, earrings etc . . There are four people making moccasins and four people making belts. It is really fun but we all wish that the period was longer than just 45 minutes so we could make more. -Karen Sinclair