The Chronicle (July, 1973) by Cardigan Mountain School

CARDIGAN CHRONICLE Canaan, N.H •

July, 1973

• . • • . '' Students are commonly -troubled with cacexia1 , bradiopepsia2, bad eyes, stone and collicke, crudities, oppilations,3, vertigo, windes, consumptions, and all such diseases as come by ovemuch sitting, they are most part leane, dry, ill-colored spend their fortunes, lose their wits, and many times, their lives, and all through immoderate paines and extraordinary studies. 11 Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) : 1. Condition of general bad health 2. Slow digestio~ 3. Constipations '

back into our rooms and pretended to be asleep. After she left, Fungus came to the doorway and began basking. Finally someone kicked him out and we went to sleep at last. Greg Causey HAYWARD HALL

If you ask me, our dorm, Hayward · Hall, is inc~edible. There are girls from all over the world. Lolo Beaty is from Brazil and speaks Portugese fluently. Jeanette McKenna also speaks Welcome to Cardigan Mountain SWiiiller French very well and is from SwitzerSchool! Little did the students realize land. B.B. Conger and her family are that they had an advocate who lived in the Hawaiian. You can hear showers and 17th century. Although the first letters crying all at the same time. We do home might have indicated sympathy for every thing from cartwheels in the hall Robert Burton ' s description of their to flashlight fights after dark. You plight, the students by now seem cheerfully might say it ' s sometimes hard to sleep resigned to their fate. Miss Howe, the before the bell rings in the morning! school nurse, has reported only one Only five out of thirteen girls are in serious case of cacexia, and two mild the Polar Bear Club but that is enough cases of oppilations. It seems that the Thanks to Mr. and . Mrs. McNeish, Mr. and teen-ager here is less prone to the disease Mrs. Hicks and Mrs. Schmanska, our or "over-much sittingn than he once was! dorm is tops. Tracy Bean DORM LIFE It has been said that we in French Hall are the best students the hall has ever had, but they don't know the truth about the real French Hall, Really, we ' re a bunch of adventure-loving kids. Sometimes at night we get up at 10:00 p.m. One night I ' ll never forget--but of course I won't mention names. Well, I was peacefully sleeping in bed when I heard a big "boom". I looked out my door and saw a boy sliding down the hall. Then crash! Someone ran into a door and cut his knee. Just then a cat came in and jUI!lped on a boy's bed. It crawled all over his face . The boy thought he was having a nightmare, and started yelling, "Help me! Help me!" Mrs. Peck appeared .and said. "Why aren't ya'll in bed? 11 She turned on a light but no one was in the hall. We had all snuck

BREWSTER HALL Brewster Hall is the home of about twenty boys, four faculty members, and their wives and children. Brewster has three floors. The masters' apartments are at the end of each floor. There are four dogs, seven cats and one gerbil who also live in Brewster. Most of the boys ' rooms are neat and clean. In each room ·there ' s a desk, a bed, a dresser and a closet. A lot of the rooms have posters and pictures on the wall. We have a good time. We have fights sometimes and get into trouble, but we get along. David Winters Brewster Hall is a place where excitement never stops. All kinds of

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at this time to put you on work detail for not doing your job. Sometimes, things happen. Competition, ping pong though, he does it just as a joke. games and Mr. Anderson's Aggie jokes. Sometimes, people put cellephane over 3rewster's full of animals and children. the water glasses, which is a nasty Every master has a dog. If you like dogs thing to do for you discover the trick and children, then Brewster is the place only after you've poured the milk. to be. It's just 1 ike home -- well almost. Bruce Kelly Jasper !!eath THE FIVE DAY TRIP He left the ninth of July with Mr. Hicks and ~r. Coll ins, for a five day hike into the White Mountains. The first day was very hot. We finally got to a shelter a~d a nice cool -- or should I say freezing river. The next day we stayed there because we had a very hard time the day before. The third day we pushed on to Mt. Isolation. It was very cold. I vJas wearing four shirts, two windbreakers, a jacket and two pairs of pants and yet I was still cold. The next day it got even colder because we were on top of Boot Spur. The wind was blowing about 45 miles per hour. Since I was the smallest of the group I got blown down more than anyone. The last day we hiked back to the highway and were picked up and brought back to schoo 1 . Frankly, I admit I was glad to be back! Hl:HER

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Mr. Allen is my Math teacher. t~r. Allen lets us go at our own pace, but we have to have certain pages done by a specific date. Mr. Allen teaches us better short cuts than we have been taught before. We get to help people in our class that need help with their Math. These are some of the reasons why I 1 ike Math. Erich Fahrner MOVIE TI Vi E The movies at Cardigan Mountain vary in many ways, although they are usually directed at the same age group. The kids seem to enjoy most of the movies , though the vocal complaints are many. The kinds of movies we get here at school range in quality. Some of them can be boring, but then the resulting clamor and comments from the audience usually make up for the film 1 s failure. The funny ones are enjoyed by all. The boys 1 ike the war movies, but the girls generally don't as much. We all enjoy the movies if they are neither too childish or too difficult to understand. Students find it hard to understand why attendance at the movies has to be mandatory. Movies can be profitable: acquaintances can be made while sitting in the audience ignoring what's happening on the screen. Also, it gives a person so inclined plenty. of time for re fl ec ti on ! Mary Wakely

The dining room is a very dangerous place to eat, because people are always tripping over the tray stands, and dropCURTAl i'! TI HE ping the main course. Some people spill and drop place settings, which other This year, Mr. Finkbeiner intends people slip on. There are other activities to do another Gilbert and Sullivan. The in the dining room which you have to watch play is "Trial by Juryi1, and is about out for. Vi r. Shel ton loves to go around a young man who is sued for Breach of

Page 3 CURTAIN TIME (continued) ~romise by his former fiancee when he wants to marry someone else. The musical comedy becomes hilarious at the end when everything is all mixed up. The Grand Finale is great. Starring are: Raleigh Johnson, B.B. Conger, Andy Finkbeiner, Danny Hazen, John Smith, Chuck Klutz, Ken Bentsen, and many jurymen and bridesmaids. The play will be performed on the tenth of August in the chapel. So do come and see a great performance put on by Mr . Finkbeiner 1 s drama group. Ken Bentsen TALENT SHO\-J -

Saturday, July 22nd, was talent night. Each dorm floor put on a little skit. Everybody had fun. The nursery was first. Everybody thought it was cute. Then . came Hi nmas 11 • They did the T. V. Show, 11io Tell The Truth. 11 We focussed on l'1 r. :: .·: Shelton. It was very funny, but we messed up the ending a 1 ittle. Still, everyone seemed to like it. Then came Brewster 11. They sang about C.M.S.and Ken Chiang did a funny skit. People liked it a lot. then came Hinman I. They did a scene from Rowan and Martin's 11 Laugh-ln 11 , and a few ski ts. It was the best performance of the night. Everyone was enthusiastic about it. Then came Hayward. The girls did a dance and got the usual whistles. They did a high-jackir.g comedy. It went over well. Danny Hazen was dressed as a stewardess. Then came the best two-man performance of the night--Clay Grubman and Charlie Smith did a cereal commercial They combined hands and one of them looked like a midget. Everyone laughed. I would say Talent. Night was a great success. Robert Morgenstern

WORK DETAIL Hork detail is great - until you get on it! Once you get on work detail you don't think it's so great any more -- I ought to know. Before I was on it I saw all the kids who had done someth in g wrong working 1n the woods. They had to carry logs about a hundred yards, then cut them up into eighteen inch fire wood. See, the whole idea is to make you work so hard that you won't ever do any-

thing wrong again. By the end of the afternoon, you're so tired and so sore that you feel like you're dead. Mark Riley ROSEY BOA ON CAMPUS A main attraction at Cardigan Mountain School is Rosey. She is a type of Boa. She 1 ives in the science room at Hopkins. You can see her during recess, and you can see her eat every week and a half. If you don't like seeing her eat a mouse. You'd better not come. Sometimes I take her around campus once a week so people can see her. Also, I 1 ike to scare some girls. Then I put her back in the cage. Archie Pearson

THE FIGHTING COLORS Every Tuesday and Thursday, we have Green and White activities. Since it i s still the beginning of the year, the new kids aren't used to the rules of the game. When we played capture the flag, some people took the game too seriously, and started to fight. Other kids say "The heck with sports, who needs it." Everybody needs some kind of sport or he would be. a fat, lazy, lump. Everybody should get to like some sport. Clay Grubman ACTiVI Tl ES I like soccer because there is always something happening. Soccer is not like baseball, where you have to wait forever to get up to bat. In soccer, you are always on the field, without having to wait your turn. Soccer is an easy sport to get involved in, because it's not as comp I icated as other sports. I have learned a lot this summer about soccer. I've l earned how to pas and kick the ball. If you put all these aspects together, and add some common sense, with a lot of yelling from the other Kids on the team, you will see how one learns how to defense. Mary Stetson

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positions: running, beating, or reaching. If you are beating, you heel over. Soccer is a great sport -- once you To get better leverage, you use hiking learn how to play the game! And moS t of straps and get on the gunnel and lean the kids are learning with the help of way out over the side. When you tack, you our two great coaches, Mr. Hicks a nd Mr. you can go back and forth, or in other Pirmann. Mr. Pir~ann ~oesn't m~~n to.show words, you change sides of the wind. off but he does with his great ,.igh kicks I like sailing very much because Mr. Hicks tries his special fake out !ricks.you get the spray in your face. I These tricks help us to learn and we 1m1 ike feeling the water going by fast. prove our style as a result. When Mr. Charlie Smith Hicks and Mr. Pirmann get bored watching us, they enter in and go at it one-to-one. The kids improve and so do the coaches.... TRAP SHOOTING but not much! Kevin \-Jalsh Trap shooting is my favorite activity at Cardigan, because it tests my ability to hit a small moving target. The clay For the past several weeks I have disks are flung off a machJne and go been involved in what is one of the best out over a field while you try to hit it. activities we have -- which is soccer. I There is a house in front of the shooters think it is the best activity because the with two people in it, who set the traps two coaches we have are Mr. I-licks and on the machine. We shoot at the traps Mr. Pi rmann. \!e 1earn many plays, 1 i ke with a 12 gauge automatic shotguns, and how to head the ball, how to give different the ammunition is 12 gauge A.A. trap types of passes and moves and how to shoot loads. at the goal. My ability has gotten much better Scott Westlake this week. I was getting 11 out of 25 but now I am getting 16 out of 25. Edgar Reed TENHIS ANYONE? Every afternoon, first period, I have tennis. Mr. Pirmann ( 11 the pro 11 ) and t1r. Hicks are the teachers. Mr. Hicks and Mr. Pirmann also teach soccer, and so they have a hard time deciding whether to kick the ball over the net. Some of the better players are Jimmy Grubman and Frank Generazio. If you're truly interested in tennis or just feel like having fun, sign up. See Mr. Pirmann kick the ba11 over the net! Join up! You'll have a ball! Tracy Bean SA I LI 1,JG Sailing is one of my favorite sports, here at Cardigan. There are a lot of different things you have to do in order to get ready for sailing, rigging the sails, unrigging, hanging sails (if they are wet) or if they are dry, putting them into a bag. When you sail, you "catch the wirid. 11 You can catch it on three different

SWIMMING When I go swimming I do a lot. have been learning different strokes. Sometimes my teacher, Mrs. Taylor will let us have a free swim. I am also learning how to dive. Beth Marrion ARTS

CRAFTS AT CARDIGAN

This is the first time that I have made jewelry, but I enjoyed it a great deal. I Jike to draw pictures too. Before coming to Arner i ca,. I was taking art lessons in Japan for six years. I don't know why I 1 ike Arts and Crafts so much. I think it's because in this field one can use the imagination as much as one l .i kes. I made a ring and necklace for my mother's birthday. I especially enjoyed doing this. This ability has been a good ex~ perience for me, because next year I am going to take art lessons every day in

Page 5 ARTS AND CRAFTS (Continued) the High School of Mus i c and Art. I hope that I will have as good an experience there as I have had at Cardigan Mountain School. · Naoko Yamashiro SOFTBALL I picked softba ll for my activity. Every day we pick captains and the captains pick teams. Hr. McNeish always pitches. Most of the time he walks the girls, or if they hit the balls he sometimes throws the ball too l ate. He also strikes a l ot of people out. He makes up a lot of weird pitches and weird rules. We've got good fielders. Charley Reid is out best first baseman. He hardly ever misses the ball unless it's a bad throw. Mr. Fahrner i s the umpire. Me makes a l ot of weird noises and gets hit by the ball every once in while. Peter Starnes

WHY I LI KE CANOE I NG Paddling a canoe is a wonderful experience. I enjoy this activity because my instrwctors have shown me how to handle a canoe properly. You learn how to do many things in a canoe; also, you get to go on trips. The one I went on was a lot of fun. We canoed for an hour and a half down the Connecticut River, a distance of e ight miles. Richard Rivera AN EVENING ON CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN The top of Cardigan Mountain i s a1most all ledge. There are littl e craters in the rock. On the top, the wind was so strong that it a lmost picked me off my feet. Some kids threw sand up in the air. The wind carried it about twenty feet. One person l ost his hat. From the top you could see many miles all around. The school looked like a doll 1 s house, and the football field just a littl e patch of green grass. Gary Wa l sh

SILVER SMITHING Richard Clancy teaches silversmithing July 12th, 1973, was the first time Si lver smithing is a l ot of fun. We make in my life that I ever c limbed a mounjewelry out of si lver, like earrings, ringstain. It was so beautiful to me because and bracelets. Mr . Schmanska helps too. I have never seen such a grand sight. Deborah Blunt Mark Sobo l ewski A GOOD START FOR SAILING

..•.•..• After we got out of the tree line it was beautiful. The wind wai Sai ling was off to a good start when blowing, the air was clean and fresh. Evan Mar sha ll pulled his jib halyard . all felt like I was on top of the world. We through the block. The same day, a kid l ooked at all the mountains and those in from Fort Worth, Texas, hit the shore in the distance l ooked as if they were . a Teck. What really livened up the period painted. however, was Mr. Anderson's supp ly of Kyle Stark Aggie jokes. Of course, there was Mr. Coes , who was trying to take pictures of a good sai lor, but each time he was about ...••.•• hie came to the rocky part and the to take a picture of a boy heeling, the trees got smal l er. He finally got to kid sa ilin g l ost the wind (as I did) the top and there were some beautiful Everything 1 s really all right, though, as rocks and crysta l s. The sun was just no sailboat has turned over---- yet! about to set. On one side there was a . Raleigh Johnson very steep s l ope that was covered with pine trees. It too was beautiful. The moon came out, and the wind was fantastic. We started down the sun was orange. Nathan Anable

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Page 6 JAPANESE SCHOOL The Japanese school is different from the American School. At lunch time, we have to bring lunch and we have to eat lunch in the c l assroom. We can't eat outside. hie can't drink a soda or a Juice. When we finish the lunch, we have to go out, but we can't go off from the school or stay in the classroom. The report card is much different from American report cards. One is the l owest mark, five is the highest mark. If you got one, it's a bad mark. If you get five, it's very good. We have to buy a school uniform and we have to wear it. The school uniform is dark bl ue or black for boys and light gray for girls. \-/hen we hear period one warning bel I, vie have to go to homeroom. We stay the whole period in the homeroom. The students don't move from the homeroom. The teacher comes in to our classroom. We study about the Japanese people, Japanese history, Math, Science, Engljsh and Sewing for gir l s. Japanese schools are very strict. Takashi Yamashiro PHO NING HOME You come from your room, wi th a pen and a pad. You race to the phone , to call Mom and Dad. You pick up the receiver And the·n you dial 0. You let it ring then hear the word hello 1 'm calling co l lect,' 1 Says the boy phoning home To Port Hope, Ontario The land where I roam. 11

The number is this. Please hurry fast. I only have five minutes And that time doesn't l ast. She says, 1. 1\~hat' s your name? 11 r te11 her quickly You can hear her start dialing As I wait very sick l y.

Finally you hear the other phone's tone And you say, 11 0 please God Let them be home 11 • You finally hear a voice That sounds like your brother's The operator lets you through And you find it's you mother's You sit there and talk And plug up one ear. Because of the noise It is often hard to hear. You You You And

hear what they're saying take their advice. listen very quietly boy, Es it nice.

You give them your info They take it all down. They solve my problems As smooth as a gown. Then comes the time You dread the most The time to say good by To your superior folks. You You You And

hear it go click hear funny noises hear the operator you hear other voices.

They you hang up!!!!!! David W. Sculthorpe THE MYSTERY OF THE l·JH I RLPOOL BATH Very early on the morning of Friday, July 13th, Mr. Pirmann was enjoying a whirlpool bath and singing to himself. The singing stopped. At 5:02 that same morning 9 Bob Pulitzer and Doug Pennington had snuck down to the lockerroom to take an early swim. They were getting their suits out of the lockers when suddenly Pulitzer saw a hand dangling over the side of the whirlpool bath. The boys ran over and saw Mr. Pirmann floating in the water. There was no blood marks on his body 9 just some mysterious lacerations on the sides of his neck.

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was no breeze! Pennington began to rummage around the box of life preservers "Go wake Mr. Wakely!" cried looking for more clues, and Jeff leaned Pulitzer. 11 1 1 11 stay and look for clues." up against paddle number 13 on the padPennington rushed from the gym to Mr. dle rack, to think things over. As he Wakely's house)) and ran inside without touched the paddle with his shoulder, a knocking. hole opened instantly beneath his feet, "What are you doing here?" demanded and he fell through the floor so quickly Mr. Wakely who was coming downstairs in he had no time to cry out in alarm. 11 his pajamas. "Go back to your dormitory 1 don't see anything," said at once." Pennington turning around to Jeff, but "But ...• but .•... but," stammered the other boy was gone! Just then the Pennington. boat door squeeked. Pennington whirled " No buts," said Mr. Wakely and went around. In strolled Evan Marshall, back upstairs. yawning. Pennington ran back to Hinman Hall "Why aren't you swimming?" asked and found Jeff Charone, who was brushing Evan. his teeth in the bathroom. "Mr. Pirmann 1 s dead, Pulitzer's 11 Come quickly/' yelled Pennington. unconscious and now Jeff has disappeared!" "Pulitzer and I have discovered Mr. "Don't jive me, man, 11 said Evan as Pirmann floating in the whirlpool bath." he leaned up against paddle 13. Jeff choked on his toothbrush, but he "But I'm not!" exc l aimed Pennington, ran with Pennington back to the locker turning to prop open the swinging boat room. house door. 11 1 was standing here just At. exactly 5:19 Pennington and Jeff as I am now, and when I turned around, burst into the lockerroom and saw Jeff was gone." He turned around, and Pulitzer hiding behind his loker door, Evan was gone! •.•...• glassy-eyed and gibbering. Gripped in his hand was a piece of paper with three Bobbi Morgenstern, David Sculthorpe words on it: 11 ROSIE BAND WHISTLE." and Jay Beirne were walking down the hill "Pulitzer, Pulitzer, 11 Jeff said, for Polar Bear Club. shaking his friend's arm, but Pulitzer "I bet the water I s co 1d this mornsank to the floor in a coma. ing /1 said David. "Let's wait in the "What do you think this means? 11 boat house. Someone has left the door a£.ked Pennington, nervously. Just then open." The three boys went inside and the boys heard a high whistling noise in were astonished to find Pennington recitthe distance, and felt something slither ing Mother Goose rhymes to an old life by their feet. preserver. His face was pale and his "Let's get out of here!" yelled hair was standing straight up on end. Jeff, and without thinking they ran "What's wrong?" asked Bobby. "You down to the lakefront. It was a very look funny. Didn't you comb your hair foggy)) misty morning and they could this morn i ng? 11 only see a few feet ahead of them. Pen"Mary had a 1 i t t 1e 1amb •.. 1amb ... nington tripped and fell into the soft lamb, 11 stuttered Pennington, "and it's ground. In front of his eyes was a dead. They a re a 11 dead. 11 huge, flipper footprint! The two boys "Who's dead? 11 asked Jay. 11 1 don't followed the footprints to the boathouse, see anyone dead." He leaned up against where they stopped. The boathoµse lock paddle 13. The other boys watched as was open and the door was swinging back Jay simply disappeared from their sight. and forth on its old hinges. "Did you see what I saw?" said nThat's funny," said Jeff. "Mr. Coes David. "There was Jay leaning up here, must have left the door open last night just the way I am ••.• hey! 11 This time all by mistake. Let's go inside, I'm getting the boys had crowded together,and when cold." Inside the boathouse it was still the floor opened, they all fe11 in a dark. Jeff switched on the light, but tumble. immediately it flickered and went out. "Holy Hole in the floor!" cried The sail sheets hanging from the rafters Bobby, as they landed in a heap on to dry were swaying slightly, but there top of Jay.

Page 8 Underneath the boathouse it was dark and slimy. There was water everywhere, and the light reflected green and murky on the surface. Snakes were curled up around posts, and rats' eyes glinted red~ from the dim corners. Jeff and Evan were slumped in the middle of the wate!"'J floor their hands tied together by steel ropes. Pennington, shivering all over and still reciting ·'Mary has a little lamb, ,: puiled out his key chain which was in the shape of a miniature pen knife. He began sawi11g at the steel bonds tying Jeff 1 s hands, while the snakes uncurled themselves and began sliding across the wet floor, the largest one in the lead. A high whistle was heard and the lead snake began sliding faster and faster. Just as Pennington sawed through the last string of the steel rope, the head of the snake touched his foot. Suddenly there was another sharp whistle, a..11d the snake pulled back. A man with a black wet suit on appeared in the dimness, holding a dark, pointed object . in his hand. The boys leaped across the floor and toppled him to the ground, knocking the object into a nearby pool of water. 11 CUT ! 1. yelled the angry voice of Michael Moore. ,;TAKE TWO. WHAT THE

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