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from Cardigan Cardigan Mountain School R.F.D. 2, Box 58 Canaan, New Hampshire 03741 603-523-4321 November 1986 There's a dark wintry sky over the campus this morning. Thick Grey-blue clouds are being pushed across the heavens by high winds aloft. We've had our third snowfall of the season and more predicted for later today. Early morning temperatures have been in the .single numbers, and there is a skim of ice now over the whole lake. No doubt about it, Winter is on the way. /
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everyone's mind as the 1st term draws to a close: "What did test? How much will it count toward my grade? Does my have to be in by ·tomorrow?" Faculty, too, are looking at _· a llows only three days from tha end of the term for grades completed. We're. all looking forward to the Thanksgiving
Athletic seasons, school calendar and the weather don't always coincide, and there's a two-week hiatus between the end of Fall athletics and the start of Winter sports. The Athletic Department uses this time to gather up the uniforms and equipment, sign up boys .for Winter sports, organize materials and teams . for skiing, wrestling, hockey, basketball, etc. so that they can be off to ·a running start when boys return from Thanksgiving. The time normally used for athletics during these two weeks is filled by the academic departments who have designed some very special afternoon programs entitled this year "Beyond the Classroom". Would you believe your son would sit spellbound for an hour lecture on the history of the trumpet? Visiting trumpeter extraordinnaire Walter Chestnut is a master teacher, natural showman and can make music from anything he can put a trumpet mouthpiece to. Such as? Well, a ten foot piece of .flexible plastic tubing makes no s _o und when you just blow into one end. Put a mouthpiece on it (if you have a trumpeteers lip) and it makes a musical tone. Put a dime store tin funnel in the end, and the tone is amplified many times. curl it up so it looks like a Fr.ench Horn, and real music comes out. Hard to be.lieve until you see it; and he makes it look so easy.! By means of his showmanship, Walter Chestnut really did ta,ke us through the history _of the trumpet with an ex~raordinary collection of instruments . including a piccolo trumpet, cornetto, 4 valve flugelhorn and a 1896 pocket cornet. He started the program with a concert performance of iJerimiah Clark's "Prince of Denmark March" accompanied by- Mr. Finkbeiner on the organ, and concluded with Purcell's "Trumpet TUne'' whi.ch he played with a hand-puppet on his fingering hand. No wonder he held their attention! Do you worry that your Cardigan son spends all his time getting two A's academics and athletics? Based on the princip~.e of a,dults sharing their interest and hobbies with boys, · the club program this fall included a total o f 17 activit i es no t a bad number of choices for a school of 180 boys1 Some were indoor activities (conditioning in the weight room, customized T-shirts in the art room, photography in the da-rkroom, magic and movie); some were outdoor (cabin restora tion, canoeing, mode.I . rocketry, _recreatioi:al , tennis, _street hockey and trap shooting); others •
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