Words About Cardigan (Winter, 1979)

Volume 10 Number 2

Canaan, N.H. 03741

Wiri.teJ" 1979

John H. Hinman

by John L. Tower , President, Board of Trustees In 1945, when Cardigan Mountain School was little more than an idea in the back of founder Harold P. Hinman's mind, he turned for advice and support to three men whose opinion he most respected - the late Ernest Martin Hopkins, then President of Dartmouth College; the late William R .

Brewster, a leading New England educator; and John H. Hinman , soon to be named .President of Interna- - - - tional Paper Company and later Chairman of the ....,;,;,--_ _ _ Board.

For more than 32 years John Hinman served as an active member of the Cardigan Corporation.

His unfailing generosity in support of the School has been one of its greatest sources of strength over the years. A widely known and respected industrialist, many ofJohn Hinman's friends from the paper and other industries became supporters of Cardigan Mountain School. His prestige as the leader of one of New England's most important business firms was of immense help to the School, particularly during the tough, early years.

Last year, after 32 years of distinguished service to Cardigan, John Hinman elected to step down as Chairman of the Corporation, a role he had filled since 1945.

Reluctant to see John Hinman's long and distinguished association with Cardigan terminated, his fellow members of the Corporation at their meeting last October unanimously voted the following resolution : WHEREAS John H. Hinman was one of the original founders of Cardigan Mountain School and has served as Chairman of the Corporation of the School since its founding in 1945; WHEREAS John H. Hinman's service,

devotion and generosity to the School have been without parallel; WHEREAS John H . Hinman has resigned as Chai.ml.an of the Corporation; and WHEREAS the members of the Corporation are unwilling to suffer the loss which is occasioned by his absence as their titular leader; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the Corporation of Cardigan Mountain School hereby establish the position of Chairman Emeritus of the Corporation and hereby elect John H. Hinman to that position to serve for life ; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the undersigned members of the Corporation of Cardigan Mountain School express their appreciation to John H. Hinman by delivering to him a copy of this Resolution.

(Adopted at the annual meeting of the Corporation at Canaan, New Hampshire, October 6, 1978.)

Headmaster Notes

by Norman C. Wakely What a beautiful time of year to be living in New Hampshire, U.S.A.! One can become very nostalgic, poetic; you name it! The snow covered tre es nearly touching the ground, snowballs bouncing here and there - skates propelled by very nimble feet , skis schussing through slalom gates, basketballs swishing through nets and the beauty of our senior olympic speed skater practicing for Lake Placid; and most of all the early morning air split by the sounds of young people

hastening to class, preparing themselves for the years ahead.

Many alumni have dropped in on us some just for a few minutes, some for hours and a few for days. Great to be caught up on what has been happening si_n ce Cardigan!

The winter term is a great event for many students, for they have come to Cardigan for its location - in the foothills of the White Mountains . Snow and ice. We still set a day aside, as we always have, for ski holiday all, but a few die-hard skaters, venture onto the slopes.

The growth of Cardigan Mountain School has been overwhelming during the. past 30 years and we cordially invite you to stop in to see us whenever you are in the Canaan area.

For those of you who have not bf;!en here in recent years I am sure you will find the changes pleasantly surprising.

John Garwood '79, sketching an art composition.

Academic Program: Staying With Basics

by Joseph M. Collins, Assistant Headmaster Sometimes in the process of expanding facilities and developing programs of various types, the ver y heart of the school, the basic academic program, may be taken for granted or even overlooked .

This is to remind alumni, parents, and friends that the academic program is alive and well and to reacquaint you with some of the more important aspects of it at Cardigan Mountain School.

We were amused some three or four years ago when someone rediscovered the word "Basics", and we continue to be amused as the discovery spreads and gains wide acceptance at all levels of education . "Basics" is where Cardigan started and where we have stayed even through the turbulent sixties and early seventies when schools were experimenting with open classrooms, open curricula, open courses, and elective courses in anything to make education "meaningful" and "relevant" to a turned off, tuned out generation.

Standards, traditions, grades and requirements were altered or cast aside. Through all of this, Cardigan stayed with the basics and until there is irrefutable proof that there is a better way to educate this age level, that is where we shall remain.

I suppose the term "basics", like anything else means different things to different people. To us it means basic skills in basic subject areas. The three simple elements in a school program are students, teachers, and subject areas. Perhaps a few words about each will bring our concept of "basics" into focus.

Our "students" still come from widely scattered places in this country and abroad. They learn about Cardigan from alumni and friends; from educational consultants, among whom we enjoy an excellent reputation; from a variety of secondary schools, which our graduates have attended; and from an active, competent admissions office. We are frequ~ntly asked why boys this young come to boarding school and the reason most often given to us is that parents are looking for something more than local schools are able to provide. Many local schools are not providing the standards, discipline, structure, and individual attention that most parents

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seek for their children . In many communities there are social practices and pressures to which some parents do not wish their sons exposed . In selecting our students, we not only seek the intellectually gifted child, but also we consider any applicant of at least average ability whom we feel will benefit from what Cardigan has to offer while also considering what the applicant will contribute to the school community.

It is the mixture of ability, talent, skills, and personalities that make Cardigan an interesting place in which to live -and learn.

Some of our students have had a pretty rocky scholastic background and some have been diagnosed to have mild or moderate r~ading or learning disabilities. Provisions have been made in our staffing and programming to serve a limited number of such students and our experience has been that they make rich contributions t6 school life while correcting their academic weaknesses within a normal school program . Cardigan is not a " Special School" and each year we have to turn away several fine boys whose learning ·problems are more serious than we can or want to become involved with. In most cases we are able to direct these boys and their families to appropriate schools.

The " faculty" is the second major ingredient in the school program - and staffing a junior boardin_g school, particularly one in a rural setting, is a difficult and tricky business. A teacher at Cardigan must be skilled in at least one academic discipline, be a patient and caring dormitory advisor, and be able to lead or coach several extra-class activities. To find people who can and will do all of that with this age level in this location, and who have the personal skills and qualities essential to close community living is difficult and time consuming . Historically, we have been very fortunate to have attracted the many fine people that you know and have known at Cardigan. A teacher at this level is teaching boys first and subject matter second. For a math major to go back to multiplication tables and simple concepts, or for an English major to get down to parts of speech and punctuation , takes a special kind of academic dedication. When you read in your local papers that teacher contracts are tied up over the number of minutes teachers are required to remain after school or over things like cafeteria supervision, and then consider what is required of a boarding school teacher, it is even more remarkable that we have the excellent people that we do. Our teachers realize when they come to us that the most basic skills receive first priority so that our boys will have the tools required to take full advantage of the advanced and varied programs of the secondary schools. The personal qualities of our teachers and their firm belief in the importance of " basics" is, probably the key to our educational program . · The third simple element of our "basic" program is the academic . curriculum . Learning is still largely dependent upon the ability to read and we have made a very strong commitment to this most basic skill. Every boy at Cardigan has three periods of reading per week and boys with special needs in this area have an additional three to five periods per week with a tutor in our Language Training Program. All boys are required to take five periods per week of English, Math, History and Science and one period per week of music and religion. Again, basic skills are emphasized in each subject area and offered in an advanced manner in our upper-level sections. An upper-level ninth grade English class may be doing good creative writing, and reading and discussing ·sophisticated literature, but they are also devoting a lot of time to spelling, vocabu'ary and simple grammar.

At th~ beginning of each school year, each new boy is placed in an evedng study skills program where he is taught to organize a plan book for assignments and appointments, to use time effectively during the day so that assignments and appointments will be met, and various techniques for getting the most from h is efforts . At the

end of two weeks those boys who have demonstrated that they can organize their time and work and to use both effectively are sent to their dormitory for evening study while those who need more practice and supervision are retained in the program for as long as necessary . Those study skills are employed in all courses at all levels throughout the year. So, reading and study skills , two very basic tools, are woven through each boy's program throughout his entire stay at Cardigan .

The usual class size is fifteen students but occasionally one will go to sixteen or seventeen and it is not unusual to have a section of ten or twelve students. One adv.anced eighth grade Spanish section has three students. It is possible with these numbers to call upon each student frequently during class and to observe them carefully while keeping them involved "in the class. Nearly all of our teachers are teaching only three courses so the number of students that any one teacher is working with is relatively small. The one-hour tutorial period four afternoons per week and other available time during the afternoon , evening and weekend provides an opportunity for the extra help that might be needed in various academic areas.

At the end o( the school year, each department reviews the ability and the performance of all students and section-placement recommendations are made. Section placement for new students is made after review of summer school work, available test scores, the academic record of the previous school year, and letters from his former teachers. Students are often placed in upper level sect1ons in their strong subject areas and in lower sections in subject areas where there are demonstrated weaknesses. Even though we are small, we are able to affect a good degree of flexibility in our scheduling. One of our foreign students who is new and chronologically a seventh grader is in seventh grade sections in English and History, eighth grade sections in French and Science, and in a ninth grade Math section . It is possible for a capable ninth grade student

to graduate from Cardigan with two high school math credits and with two years of high school French and Spanish . The Science Department currently has two seniors working on an independent biology course as they have already completed the courses in our regular Science program. · The same stress on basic skills that is the keystone of the so-called major subjects is also evident in-our Art , Religion , Woodworking, and Athletic programs. Our football team learned they could win a football game seven days after school opened using six basic plays that were well executed. Beautiful pieces of work come from the art studio and woodworking shop using simple, basic elements of design, color and craftsmanship. And when these basic skills are presented in an environment where there is beauty, warmth, friendship, and excitement, good things can happen. .

For most boys, the above recipe works - usually well and in many cases dramatically. However, as some of you know all too well, for some boys it does not. There are crucial factors of motivation and attitude that are also basic to academic success and if these are lacking there is a long, hard road ahead. Motivation can be developed and attitudes can be changed but in many cases that is a long process. Motivation is the word that parents and teachers are most concerned about and if there were a simple, easy answer, all parents and teachers would_know it and there would be no problem. Hopefully in our community and program there will be at least one teacher, or one activity or one friend that will provide an incentive or a desire to improve . Often it is not until after a boy leaves Cardigan that the barrage of experiences here fall into place and the letters from those boys and their parents ease our frustration and reaffirm our faith in what we are doing . The three R's plus , are still in vogue at Cardigan Mountain School, and I suspect that if McGuffy's ghost toured our campus for a day, it would be smiling.

Juan Beauchamps '79, Alec Koromilas '79, and Fred Brown '79 listening attentively to a science lecture.

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Looking Ahead!

A Unique Winter Sport

Increasingly these past few years it is through members of the "Cardigan family" that new boys first hear about "the only junior boarding school for boys in Northern New England" . Of the eighty new boys who enrolled this past September, thirty-five initially had been tnld about Cardigan by either an alumnus, by a student currel)tly enrolled, or by Cardigan parents, either past or present.

What better way to have the good news spread than via those who know us best!

This being so, we hope a large number of our WORDS ABOUT CARDIGAN readers will want to submit information to our admissions committee by completing and returning the attached request form, even if your request is to have the Summer Session and School Year information sent to you yourselves:

by James Crowell

Please send the Cardigan D Summer Session 1979 information brochure and D the SchoQl Year 1979-1980 bulletins to: (Check one or both) Name _______________ Address ______________

Zip Code,_ _ __

EDITOR'S NOTE: Cardigan Mountain School boasts fine Basketball and Nordic Ski Teams in addition to the Hockey and Alpine Ski Teams mentioned on page 5 . The Varsity Basketball Captains this season are: Forward, Todd Tenzler (Gig Harbor, Washington) and Center, Tim Byk (Los Angeles, Calif.) Outstanding JV players are: Guard, John Kohn (St. Louis, Mo.) and Guard, Eric Lake (Penacook, N.H.) The Nordic Ski Program includes training, racing, and ski jumping. The Nordic Skiers practice on Cardigan's 7-8 kilometers of tour- . ing trails and its 20 meter s·ki jump. Josiah Miles (Arlington, Vermont), Bob Kenney (Wallaston, Mass .), and Derek Underwood (Concord, New Hampshire) are Cardigan's three top nordic skiers.

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After a long warm rain the wind may blow from the northwest and bring clear, cold air from Hudson Bay and Ontario. The ski trails would be hard and icy (best for racers), but the lake could be gel-coated with hard ice. It might be good enougli for ice sailing, Cardigan's new winter sport.

The ice boat moves like a big red insect skimming over the lake . It slides quickly with a little rumbling sound but there is no exhaust, propeller, wake, or heel to judge its frozen speed . The sail is set close hauled.

This is two dimensional soaring, a thrilling (and chilling) sport which will "hook" a few boys every winter.

Ice sailing, once a popular pastime for well-to-do sportsmen who raced luxurious mahogany, leather and oak" dippers" on the Hudson River, is reviving . Modern ice boats use aluminum, fiberglass and dacron. They have benefited from three decades of exploding tec hnology, and incorporate modern materials and principles of aircraft design.

An ice boat sail "lifts" the craft forward exactly the way a wing lifts an airplane up; so ice boats really do fly!

Cardigan's ice boat started as a summer project by Hugh Covert ('76), Peter Secor ('77), and Joey Bergner ('77). We used plans for the popular "DN" class but widened the craft to a two seater so that an experienced sailor can train a learner . We were given a lot

of help from the Secors, Coverts, and Bergners who contributed money and parts.

Some of the faculty contributed time and money. Finally in December '76, ou_r first ice boat "flew" on perfect, new black ice.

It is surprising how easy ice sailing is. Any boy who has sailed a boat of any kind can learn to ice sail in ten minutes. There is considerably less sail trimming because,the high speeds usually require "close hauled " sails even when "reaching". The steering runner is in the bow so the craft steers like a tricycle and steering reactions are natural and without the reversal problems which frustrate many novice marine helmsmen . Boys who have never sailed at all have easily mastered ice sailing.

Cardigan's ice yacht fleet has doubled since the addition of Mr. Hart's "Skimmer", a smaller modern, commercially made ice boat. With ice and favorable wind we may have 20 to 30 boys waiting for a turn to sail. It can be extremely cold and a good fire of Sheltonwood in the stove of our warming shack provides an alternative to that cold Canadian air.

There are some who blame the iceboaters when there is no snow. They think we have connections with the weathermen which enable us to keep ice at the expense of snow.

We wish they were right!

Alpine Skiing At CMS

by William Farrell

David McCusker '80 battles an Eagle brook player for the puck while Jim Purcell '80 eagerly awaits a pass .

HYVINKA, Finland Hockey Team Visits Cardigan

by Schuyler Peck In mid-February, Ahmat I Team from Hyvinka, Finland traveled to the United States and spent five days at Cardigan Mountain School before departing to the Boston area for the remainder of their trip.

Ahmat I, which numbers 20 players 14 to 15 years of age and five coaches, arrived Feb. 15, and stayed at Cardigan until the 20th of February. While in the Northern New England area, the Finnish Team also played the Junior Varsity teams at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H., Proctor Academy in Andover, and Hanover High School in Hanover, N.H. The visit by the Finns was a,:ranged by Schuyler Peck, who coaches the Hockey Team at Cardigan. Mr. Peck brought the first Cardigan Team to Finland in 1976 and completed a second tour in 1978 . According to Mr. Peck, the opportunity to travel to Finland, stay in the homes of the players, attend their schools and social gatherings, as well as the hockey competition involved, was a fabulous experience for all the boys and coaches.

"I looked forward", says Mr. Peck, "to welcoming the Finnish people here at our school. It provided us a chance to repay them for their wonderful hospitality of our previous trips, and the opportunity for Cardigan students and faculty to learn about a group of young people from another country."

Hockey at Cardigan has become an integral part of the winter sports program over the last five years. Currently we've attracted

45 boys to the program which makes up three competitive teams; Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Third Team for beginners . The three teams provide the opportunity for many boys to participate regardless of ability level.

Each team practices 1 ½ hours, three days per week, and competes every Wednesday and Saturday with neighboring teams.

CMS Varsity Hockey is off to a fine start winning 12 of its first 13 games . Its only loss thus far was in the championship game at the St. Paul's School Invitational Tournament in Concord, N .H. where many of the top Bantam teams from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire were invited.

An abundance of frequent "wet" snowstorms and cold weather has contributed greatly to the Cardigan M<JUntain School skiing programs. The Alpine Ski Team is enjoying a fine season with over twenty students participating in races held on Wedn_esdays and Saturdays, an'd training on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. Each week a starting lineup is selected qy a series of time trials. This provides the less experienced racers with a chance to race, and keeps the better racers on their toes. The discipline of daily Slalom and Giant Slalom training is a major factor in producing excellent skiers.

Several CMS Alpine Team Members have exhibited tremendous progress during the 1978-79 season . Paul Briere (Tamworth, N.H.) and Tim Frost (Montpelier, Vt.) have led the team with excellent individual placings in Lakes League Competitions.

For those skiers not interested in competi tion, a recreational ski program, under the directorship of Mr. Reeves, is available. Daily trips take place to both the Pinnacle (for more advanced skiers) and Clancy (for beginners and intermediates) during the afternoon activity period . Both areas have a very substantial base thanks to the hours of boot packing performed by the skiers earlier in the season.

Recreational skiers benefit from instruction available in their afternoon program provided by capable faculty members.

The ski programs ai Cardigan Mountain School are supplemented each weekend and holidays with trips to nearby ski areas including Whaleback, Killington, Waterville Valley, Pat's Peak, and the Dartmouth SkiWay.

Chris Lufkin '79 racing Giant Slalom for C.M.S. during our first home ski meet against Eaglebrook.

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· Parents' Weekend A busy program was scheduled for the 400 parents, alumni, and friends who joined us February 2-4 for Parents' Weekend, Winter Session. Events began Friday evening with a special music program conducted by Mr. Harold Finkbeiner. Many talents were exhibited by Cardigan students including violin solos by Vernon Alper (Pipersville , PA), and Alec Koromilas (Dover, N.H.); vocal solos by Russell Calise (White Plains , N .Y.), Mrs. Farrell, John Kirk (Steamboat Village, Colo.) , Paul Brierre (Tamworth, N.H.) , Mark Mitchell (Washington D.C.), and Chris Goldfarb (El Cajon , Ca .); a piano solo by Dennis Revere (Beverly Hills, Ca.), and on the Classical Guitar, a solo was performed by Jeremy Crigler (Kigali , Rwanda). The CMS Glee Club entertained the audience with musical renditions from Cardigan's Christmas Program and Camelot. A special attraction was the opening night for Cardigan's own "Rock Group" , Fix .

On Saturday morning, parents and students were able to visit with the faculty in a one-to-one conference arrangement.

Following a buffet lunch in the Hayward Dining Room, parents and friends went their own ways to ski meets (Alpine and Nordic), basketball games, and hockey games. Visiting teams came from Holderness , Hartford, and Manchester Schools.

Before dinner, a play entitled Contact written by Mr. Likshis and directed by Mrs .

Carey, was enacted in the Hinman Auditorium. The play concerned the invention of a time machine. The main character Billy, was played by Jeremy Crigler (Kigali, Rwanda).

On Saturday evening, Cardigan invited the Gymnastics Team from Reading, Massachusetts for a gymnastics exhibition. After the spectacular sports event, a movie was

shown in the Auditorium (The Great Race); Father/Son basketball took place in the gym; and a hockey game among stµdents , faculty and family members took place in the covered hockey arena.

Most students left Cardigan after Chapel

on Sunday for Winter Recess. The twentytwo students that stayed at the School vacationed with faculty members at Killington, Whaleback, Cannon , and Waterville Valley Ski Areas.

Franklin House Opens In February Cardigan Mountain School's latest addition to faculty and student housing, Franklin House, is the new home for faculty members, Mr. and Mrs. James Crowell and children Debbie and Tom, and for Mr. Howard Scherry as well as for eight Cardigan Mountain School students who were previously living in other dormitory rooms.

The new facility is designed to provide separate living quarters for the faculty family and an attached wing for eight boys. In the students wing there are four single and two double rooms along with a single faculty member's apartment. Franklin House will provide a workshop area for ski waxing, bicycle repairs, and other activities as well as a club room.

Cardigan does not plan to increase the present size of the student body even with

the addition of eight new beds in Franklin House. Double rooms in existi~g dormitories will be converted to single rooms in order to improve the quality of living on the Cardigan campus. Students living in Franklin House come from all dormitories and represent all grades except sixth.

Franklin House is the third house to be built in the last five years for faculty and students through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Banks of Bayshore, Long Island, New York. Mr. Banks has been an active Incorporator of Cardigan Mountain School since 1976 and is still involved actively on the Board today. Greenwood House was the first to be built in 1973, then Banks House in 1977 and now Franklin House. The new house is named for Mr. Banks' father , Mr. Franklin Banks of Culver, Indiana.

WORDS FROM CARDIGAN Volume 10, Number 2 Winter 1979 WORDS FROM CARDIGAN newsletter is published four times a year by Cardigan Mountain School and entered as Third Class mail at Canaan, New Hampshire. The newsletter is sent free of charge to all alumni, parents and friends of the School, and is written to inform members of the Cardigan Mountain School community of the work of the School. The newsletter welcomes communications from alumni, parents, and friends. Address all correspondence to : Editor, Words From Cardigan, Cardigan Mountain School, Canaan, New Hampshire 03741.

Editor: Shelly S. Farrell Writers: .J oseph M. Collins, James .Crowell, William Farrell, John L. Tower , Norman C. Wakely Photographs: Harold Wyman Printing: Courier Printing Company, Inc. , Littleton, NH 03561

Franklin House in its earlier stages of construction last fall.

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ALUMNI NEWS- - -- ------'---Alumni Executive Committee Meets At Cardigan In mid-November, Cardigan Mountain School's Alumni Association Executive Committee met at the School to hold its first meeting of the newly formed Executive Committee. The Executive Committee arrived on campus Saturday, November 11 in time to have lunch with the faculty and students in the Hayward Dining Room. Following an extended tour of the campus led by two Cardigan students, the Committee met for the balance of the afternoon in the Hop kins Room of the School's Chapel.

During the meeting, Headmaster Wakely gave a brief history of Cardigan Mountain School's Alumni Association, the alumni Annual Fund, and expressed his enthusiasm for the work the Executive Committee was doing. Wakely also spoke about this year's Annual Fund and the effort that would be made to involve the alumni to a greater extent in the Fund. Such support programs as quarterly newsletters with an alumni section, birthday cards, and other correspondence directed at informing the alumni are indicative of the School's interest in bringing the alumni closer to the School.

Mr. Gerard, President of Cardigan's Alumni Association, discussed last year's Annual Fund , results which showed 102 alumni contributing to the Annual Fund for a total contribution of $2,064. This produced an average gift of$20 and demonstrated a 13% participation of the more than 1,200 alumni on file. The Executive Committee agreed that the 1978-79 goals for the Annual Fund would be to increase the participation from 13 % to 26% of the alumni-therefore realizing an increased percentage. This would also increase the dollar amount contributed to the Fund .

The Executive Committee then divided its m embers into regional groups with the following areas still in need of representatives: Maine, Atlanta , New Orleans, Florida, Southern California/West Coast, New Jersey and W ashington, D.C.

Class Notes CLASS 'OF 1959

CLASS OF 1967

C. Blake Munro writes that on Aug. 16, 1978, he and his wife Phyllis became the parents of a baby girl - named Alexandra. Tyler, her 7 yr. old brother, was as ecstatic as they .

Grove H. Thomas graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He married in 1974, and is currently workin,g as an engineer for a Custom Plastic Molding to. in Denton, Texas.

CLASS OF 1960 Robert E. Fiske, and his wife Linda, live in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Bob spent three years in the U .S. Army and is currently finishing his degree in Business Management at the University of Albuquerque.

Roger P. Rice writes that he and his wife Peggy have two children - Glenn, 3 years old, and Holly, 1 year old. Roger is employed at the family tire business in Manchester, New Hampshire, with his brother.

Richard Bergeson graduated from Atlantic Union College with a B.A. in Religion/History and a minor in Secondary Education. He is presently the Educational Director of a program working with Juvenile Delinquents on a Youth Ranch in Sprague River, Oregon. Richard, his wife, Carol, and his daughter, Amie Sue reside in Sprague River.

CLASS OF 1968

Tom Moran is working with the City of Charleston (S . C.) as an Assistant Engineer and is also playing music jobs occasionally at night while his wife, John Stowe is married and has two sons: Donald, Alice, finishes her DDS degree at the Medical University of South Carolina .

9, and Jeremy, 5 . John is currently employed as President of Gutes Bearings Inc., a National Manufacturer of Ball Bearings.

CLASS OF 1969

CLASS OF 1964 Stephen A. Worcester has been living and working in Salt Lake City, Utah for the past three years.

He has built several residential units, and is now involved in large commercial construction.

Bradford G. West was married to Susan Homs on August 5, 1978. Brad is currently employed at NAED Stamford, Connecticut.

CLASS OF 1965 John H. Pearson, Jr. has recently been elected Treasurer and Executive Officer of the B.F. Butler Cooperative Bank in Chelmsford, Mass . John is a practicing Attorney residing in Lowell. He is married to Barbara Savitt Pearson, also an Attorney who is employed in the legal department of an insurance company. He was recently elected Vice President of the Lowell Association for the Blind.

On August 28, 1978, William E. Seelye became engaged to Ms . Dianna Chen. They will be married in May, 1979.

CLASS OF 1966

William H. Danforth, Jr. graduated from Culinary Inst. of America last year and spent almost a year as a chef at the Ritz Carlton in Boston . "Woody" has just taken over Mary's Restaurant in Bristol, Vermont.

CLASS OF 1970

David L. Donald is currently operating a recording studio in Sudbury, Mass. He also plays guitar, bass, and harmonica in a rock band, and bass in his studio jazz band.

Wilson B . Langworthy graduated · from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. with a BFA. He is currently working in Reading, Pa. on a Commission for "Water Environment" to be completed in the spring of 1979.

Bart Byers is attending Colorado State University as a junior in Business School.

CLASS OF 1971

Storm Roberts graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. in May, 1978 . .

CLASS OF 1973

Jim Taylor, who has been married as of 1976, is working on his master's degree at North Texas State University in music composition.

Vance Brand Katker is currently employed as a salesman for Miami Lincoln~Mercury in Miami, Florida .

Gordon Mcilvain is currently w orking for his family's company in Philadelphia, Penn. H e is marrying Marcia Jordan in March.

Robert V. Chartener is currently a junior concentrating in English at Princeton University. He continues to edit Business Today in his spare time.

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Scott Eliot is majoring in English at Ithaca College .

Nick Bhirombhakdi is an Economics Major, third year, at Boston University. He still finds time to play Lacrosse for B. U., and holds a 2nd degree Brown Belt in Karate.

CLASS OF 1974 Bruce Kelly joined the Navy in November 1977.

He is stationed aboard the aircraft carrier, USS America presently in Norfolk, Va. The carrier is scheduled for a Mediterranean cruise in the spring.

CLASS OF 1977 Scott Klein was recently elected as Captain of Varsity Cross Country at Avon Old Farms School.

David Jennings is attending Hesser Business College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Marc Friedman is spending his Junior year in France at "School Year Abroad", sponsored by Phillips Exeter.

CLASS OF 1975 Tom Mitchell joined the Corps of Cadets and is majoring in Agricultural Economics at Texas A. & M. David H. Bedinger graduated from Trinity Pawling School, Pawling, New York, in May 1978. He is presently a freshman at Winthrop College.

Lost Alumni Where Are You?

Over the last 32 years Cardigan Mountain School has done a good job in keeping track of its over 1,400 alumni . However, because CLASS OF 1976 Hugh Covert is a senior at Martin County High of the movement in today's society it is difSchool. He has been accepted at Purdue, Reed ficult to keep track of all the alumni address College, and University of Washington. Hugh is changes and, as a result, we have lost some of interested in Laser and Computer Technology. our alumni . If you know the address of any of Keith Lomason is an officer in his class at Lovett the Lost Alumni listed below we would ap School in Atlanta, and is very interested in drama preciate your help in locating them. If you do and singing. have a correct address of someone listed

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below please send it to the Alumni Office, Cardigan Mountain School , Canaan, New Hampshire 03741.

1947 John D. Morehouse 1949 Dwight Collins Allan Robinson 1950 W. D. Alexander Jon Rose 1951 Daniel W. Shields William B. Wilson 1954 Frederick Boissevain Thomas Clancy Ralph Jacobs · Jeffrey Knaebel Stephen Knaebel Norman Pierce Raymond Turley 1956 William Camph Jeffrey Milham Richard C. Pierce