Notes from Cardigan (Midwinter, 1984)

Notes from

Cardigan Cardigan Mountain School Canaan, New Hampshire 03741

Ml DW I NTER 1984

Six inches of sticky snow has fallen since the McBee boys opened the Chape l c urtains last Sunday at the end of Parents' Weekend, and now, Wednesday, with the bare branches of the hardwoods still covered, it's sunny, clear, and 5 below.

PARENTS ' WINTER WEEKEND --274 parents were here, the largest group of parents in the history of the Schoo l . The faculty, staff, students, and trustees at Cardigan thank all of you for the considerab le effort you made to v isit, to inspire us, to be convivial, to support our efforts, and to honor us and your sons by coming here.

--You came (thank you, Chap lain Harry Mahoney) from the four corners of the world: Columbia, South America; St. Louis; the French Antilles; Altoona, Kansas; Atlanta; Montreal; Lyme, New Hampshire; Uruguay; Chicago; Newport Beach; Houston; Mexico City; the Seychelles Is lands; and Boston, to name a few.

--With co ld feet and wet coats, you cheered our athletes on to success in nine ever,\ts: four hockey games, two basketball games, nordic and a lpin e skiing' meets, and a wrestlin g match.

--You stuck to your parent/teacher/student conference marathon events well worth the effort. Thank you.

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GRANDPARENTS' WEEKEND On the weekend of May 5th and 6th, grandparents of our current students are invited to campus. If you have not done so al ready, please send the Schoo l the names and addresses of a ll student grandparents so that we can send them invitations and schedu les.

THE ARTS AT CARDIGAN --On March 2nd and 3rd, evening performances of Arsenic and Old Lace wil I be held at the theater in the Stoddard Learning Center.

Anyone interested is invited and encouraged to attend this student production.

--Nela and Gary Marks, a CMS faculty couple, are presenting their oi l paintings and decorative decoys in the Stoddard Ga ll ery through mid-March.

--Events which have already taken place in the Stoddard Learning Center this fall and winter include performances by the New Hampshire Youth Orchestra; the American Boychoir of Princeton, New Jersey; a presentation on the history of skiing; a performance of Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker by the St. Paul's School Ballet Company; a talk by David Rappaport of Greenpeace in Boston about whales and the environment; and a lecture on Medieval weaponry given by a representative of the Armory Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.

SUMMER SESSION DI RECTORS NAMED Stephen Heath, a member of the CMS science faculty, and Robert Small, Chairman of the English Department, have been appointed co-directors of Cardigan's 1984 Summer Session which begins on June 20th and ends on August 4th.

Please contact the Admissions Office if you are interested in making an application.

FOUNDATIONS MAKE TWO MAJOR GRANTS --The fourth challenge grant from the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation of New York City has been won by CMS. According to the terms of this generous gift, the School will be given $200,000 each year for five years if it can raise at least $400,000 during each of those years.

Cardigan's Today/Tomorrow Capital Funds Campaign is benefitting from this grant, and in order to meet the five million dollar goal, the School must raise $1.2 million before June of 1985.

--Another welcomed and generous gift has been received from the Caro Sewall Holmes Smith Charitable Foundation of St. Louis.

The $25,000 grant is being used for athletic scoreboards and renovation of ClarkMorgan Hal I. GLASSCOCK

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85 WINS SPELLING BEE

Eighth grader Robert Glasscock of Houston, in competition student body, has won the winter spelling contest.

Since has had a winter and spring spelling champion whose name a plaque in the Hayward Dining Room.

Second place this Bodhi Amos of Canaan, New Hampshire.

with the entire 1972, Cardigan is inscribed on winter went to

AREA GATHERING IN NEW YORK CITY ON FEBRUARY 29th The Wakely, Hicks, and Crittenden families of the CMS staff will be in New York to host a gathering of people interested in the School.

Details and invitations will soon be sent to families who live close by; please let us know if you don't live close to New York but would like to attend.

ANNUAL FUND APPROACHES GOAL Our $90,000 goal is indeed within reach, and credit and thanks.

A third letter from your will go to you in mid-March.

All of us at participate and consider a gift of any size. what makes us thrive.

all of our supporters deserve class agent or representative Cardigan hope that you will Our broad base of support is