Notes
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Cardigan
Canaan, N.H .
Cardigan Mountain School Canaan, New Hampshire 03747
PAID Permit No. 1
FIRST ISSUE - November 1972
There are many times we would 1 ike to share with you news of what 1 s going on at Cardigan - 1 ittle day-to-day things we think you 1 ll be interested in. As we talk with some of you on the phone, we are able to pass along a bit of our daily activities - but this is just hit or miss. So, we 1 re going to try to send these Notes from Cardigan once a month in the hope that by this method you 1 l 1 feel more a part of the School. This Fal 1 we decided to give every boy some experience with competitive sports and centered our whole athletic program on football and soccer. Boys who were not on varsity and reserve teams played in intramural groups learning the rules and fundamentals of the game as well as daily lessons in good sportsmanship. Boys who had never before participated in competitive athletics were out on the playing fields - and enjoying it. The varsity football team ended their season with a record of two wins, two ties and three losses, while varsity soccer won two, tied one and lost eight. We wish you could have been in the dining hall with us one noontime last month when our new green school bus was delivered. It came up the back driveway with 1 ights blazing and horn blowing and stopped just outside the dining room windows. In an instant, every window was filled with faces anxious to see the fact of what had been so long hoped for. Then 11 May we go out and look at it, Mr. Wakely? 11 from a dozen boys - and the exodus started. They climbed aboard, tooted the horn, sat in the seats, cheered, and left by the back door - almost the whole school joined the parade. Then, with as much decorum as it was possible to muster under the circumstances, lunch was resumed. One of the most delightful aspects of this whole event was knowing that the bus is paid for in full - through the generosity of parents, Trustees and friends. Is Halloween an old-fashioned tradition no longer relevant to today 1 s youth? You wouldn 1 t think so if you could have seen our 2nd annual pumpkin contest. At noon on a Wednesday (free afternoon) we sold pumpkins for carving @ 10¢ each. After dinner the carved jack-a-lanterns were displayed on the back steps of Clark-Morgan - all suitably 1 ighted with candles. At least two dozen were entered in the contest and 11 edible prizes 11 were awarded for the most original, most scary and funniest pumpkins. The degree of originality and the variety of ideas was amazing. Hopefully we 1 ll have some good pictures for the yearbook. On Halloween night itself, boys were allowed to come to dinner in costume. Although some boys concocted a 11 costu'nie 11 just to avoid wearing coat and tie, most of them displayed evidence of considerable thought and work and originality. Probably 3/4 of our student body was dressed up in some fashion for the occasion. Special mention has to be made of Jimmy Douglass who was a 1 iving pine tree completely enveloped in pine boughs from head to toe. He could barely see thru the branches and could move his feet just enough to wa l k. There was no way he could sit down nor feed himself, so he stood in a corner until the judging was done after dinner and had a late supper that night. A number of boys commented that we should do things 1 ike this more often.