Volume 10 Number 1
Canaan, N.H. 03741
fall 1978
Headmaster Notes by Norman C. Wakely
We are now well into Cardigan Mountain School's 33rd year with an enrollment that includes 80 new boys. This year we have added 8 new faculty members to our staff and are planning to open a new faculty-student house in early December. As I reflect on what has happened since the corporation founded Cardigan in 1945, I realize to what great extent it is the fruition of a man's dream. During Parents' Weekend , we. had the pleasure of hearing John Reardon sing " The Impossible Dream ", and it brought back vivid memories of the dreams of many who gave hard work and heartache to make Cardigan Mountain School the reality it is today and a viable school for tomorrow. Boys are boys, regardless whether one is discussing 1945 or 1978, and working with boys is what Cardigan is all about. Our students continue to come from various walks of life, and from this country as well as many others. However, only the modern facilities of today vary from the Cardigan Mountain School experience of yesterday. The warmth and the care by adults, the small and individualized classes, the personal attention in the classroom and on the athletic field , are still of utmost importance. This year we have added to our staff an Alumni Development Director, and we are hopeful of improving the communication between the school and various constituencies of the Cardigan family , in particular the alumni. One 9f our first priorities is the reorganization of the Alumni Association, and if you have an interest in becoming more involved with the association, please let us know. This is your school, and we are very anxious for you to be part of what has happened, is happening, and what is being planned for the future. Come see us.
Cardigan Mountain School students Sam Morgan '81, Blake Delany '80, John McGrath '80 and Joh n Russell '80 on their way to chapel services held during the opening of School this year.
Cardigan Starts 33rd Year With 80 N~w Boys by John 0. Rich , Director of Admissions
" How's Cardigan this year? How do the new guys look?" Familiar questions, these and similar questions, because many of our alumni have been phoning and writing this fall, wanting to know how things are going. Great! It's good to know that they are interested. It's good, too, to give a happy report, for we are enjoying a booming school year, made interestingly so by a remarkable geographic spread in our enrollment. Many boys travel far to come to Cardigan, yet an increasing percentage this year are from our own Northern New England states of New Hampshire and Vermont . These two long-time friendly rivals have tied in sending us nine new students from each . This brings our total from New Hampshire to twenty-five, as large a number as from any one state this year. Only Massachusetts is
'. represented equally as well. In fact, this may be the first year in the history of Cardigan that the New Hamp.shire contingent has led the enrollment roster, sharing honors only with Massachusetts, which prior to this year has had the highest number of boys at Cardigan for at least the past ten years·. Interesting to note is that only one of the ten boys from Vermont (Josiah Miles , a senior) is a returning student from last year. The other nine Vermonters are new boys, seven of them in the eighth grade, with one each in seventh and sixth. With such good representation from New Hampshire and Vermont, . what has hap pened to the third Northern New England State of Maine!? We .have not one boy from Maine this year. (Will appreciate hearing the reactions of our Maine readers in regard to this.) (continued on pg. 5)