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Cardigan
Canaan, N.H. Permit No. 1
Cardigan Mountain School Canaan, New Hampshire 03741
Issue No. 3
November 1973
Classrooms are cooler, storm windows are almost always closed, and we're all more careful not to turn on 1 ights unless it's necessary. Living with 150 active teen-age boys is an experience calculated to warm not only the cockles of the heart - so how can we be cold with so many shining sons around us. The so-called energy crisis has made us much more aware of the amounts of energy of all forms we consume. Our supplier has been unable to fill our gasoline storage tank for about a month. Everytime a school vehicle leaves campus now, the driver is armed with credit cards and instructions to bring it back with a full tank. We're 1 imiting medical and shopping trips to once a week, and faculty are sharing rides everytime they go out. It all lends an air of excitement to our 1 ives as if we really needed any more - and we are confident that with careful utilization of the resources available to us, we will survive this crisis too. More ingenuity in planning, buying and preparation of our meals is required of Chef Clancy in order to maintain a balanced and nutritious menu within reasonable cost. We're seeing some new items on the dinner table and this is fun and interesting. Baked stuffed pork chops were featured at our Fall Sports Banquet just before the Thanksgiving recess. This is not the traditional menu for this traditional affair - but they certainly looked good and were a treat much enjoyed. The real feast was to rejoice with a varsity soccer team finishing their season with an 11-3 record and varsity football with an 8-3 season. Two excellent teams who displayed a lot of skill, enthusiasm and good sportsmanship worked hard to earn these records. Varsity soccer coaches voted to divide the Most Valuable Player award between veteran goalie Tom Rice and a one-term student from Guatemala - Willy Springm~hl. Varsity football's fine record was aided by their Most Valuable Players - Tony Santilli {known chiefly for his prowess as a hockey goalie) and Dave Bedinger - an 8th grade boy from South Carolina in his first year at Cardigan. So many boys wanted to play soccer this Fall that two reserve teams were formed. What backup material for next year's varsity! The Drama Club swung into operation early this Fall and mounted their first one-act play 11 Heads He Burns 11 on October 20th - just before Long Weekend. A second play was already in rehersal and provided entertainment Sunday night before Thanksgiving. Called 11 Crime Conscious 11 it was a suspense thriller in which the villain almost got away with the perfect crime, but was foiled at the last minute by trusty Sheriff Haskins. Don't miss their next show on Parent's Weekend, February 2, 1974. An event of noteon campus this month was the retirement of Mrs. Rachel Hill after 17½ years of faithful service on our housekeeping staff. For the past 10 years, Rachel was on duty at the Headmaster's House where she was frequently called upon to take care of all the Wakely children at various times while their parents were occupied with school affairs. In her own quiet way, she has earned a lasting place in Cardigan's history. Hobgoblins have crawled back into their holes until next All Saint's Eve, but they were out in force on our campus this year. Little ones and big ones and fat ones and skinny ones - they all came to dinner on October 30th. The biggest was the Headmaster as a Mexican Indian, and the smallest was Nicole Peck as Little Bo Peep -sheep. We had ghosts, a mendicant beggar in a loin cloth traveling by wheelbarrow, one poor fellow with his head and face all bandaged, a white-whiskered sailor dressed for the worst in yellow oilskins and complete with corncob pipe; a red-nosed representative of the Boston mafia; girls in bikinis and one lovely looking doll in a white skirt; a Mandarin pricne and a balloon merchant complete with balloons and a tank of helium. Mr. Shelton fooled no one by dressing