Cardigan Today/Tomorrow (May, 1982)

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CARDIGAN toda½omorrow Canaan, N.H.

Special Progress Report May 1982

Vol. 2 No. 3

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Corporation member Robert W. Stoddard,for whom our new Center is named, and Headmaster Wakely admire the magnificent view from the future Reading Center Office during the initial tour ofthe building by our Boards. Our view, incidentally, has been finished for 50,000 years.

(Above) Folding chairs, a dirt floor and an open rooffailed to detract from the group's enjoyment of the first student production in our new auditorium.

(Right) Headmaster Wakely explains, with gestures, the specialfeatures that will be incorporated in the finished auditorium next October.

ith completion of Cardigan's new Stoddard Center now in sight, a jubilant group of Incorporators and Trustees took time out from their joint business meeting on May 14th for their first tour of the new facility.

Even in its unfinished state, the shape of great things to come was evid~nt. To add a special flavor to the tour, a group of the boys working with Carol Shelton, our Librarian and Nela Marks, head of the Art Department, had prepared special panels and displays suggesting, in broad design, the ultimate use of each of the major sections.

The Library, with its spectacular view over the lake to the Mountain, clearly indicated the stacks, tables, chairs and study units that next fall will make it a going operation. Even more realistically, the auditorium had been prepared so that a brief sketch from the production, Snoopy, presented so effectively for Parents' Weekend, was performed on the bare stage to the delight of both Boards.

(Left) Bare walls and stacks of construction material will soon give way to the modern, full-equipped Beverly Bradford Wakely Reading Center - a gift to Cardigan by David and Sally Johnson of Houston, Texas. (Below) Richard Lemieux doesn't need to simulate concentration as he studies in what will be the stack area of our new library. Corporation member Charles H . Hood and wife Judy are amused by the dummy book shelves prepared by a group of students for the occasion.

There is much to be done before we formally dedicate Cardigan's newest building at our next joint meeting on October 8th, but Norm Wakely assured both boards that work is on schedule and the Stoddard Center at Cardigan will be ready to serve our student body early in the next school year.

Until then the pressure will be on all of us to provide the means to bring to full completion this most impressive new addition to the Cardigan campus.

Special thanks are expressed to Bob Stoddard by Robert S . Gillette, Chairman of the Cardigan Corporation , as they stand at the future main entrance of the building. One of the earliest members of the Cardigan family, Bob Stoddard has been unfailingly generous in his moral and financia l support of the School through all the years ofits growth. We are all honored that he has agreed to let our new Center carry his name in recognition of his years of service and generosity to Cardigan .

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A STORY OF SUCCESS -

AND A PROBLEM

It's not easy to conduct two major campaigns simultaneously. We have learned that. But the Trustees all agree that our original decision, when the Cardigan Today/Tomorrow capital campaign was authorized, to conduct it in parallel with our regular Annual Giving campaign, was correct. Nothing must inteifere with the cqntinuing growth and strength of Annual Giving.

The results have been mixed. Cardigan Today/Tomorrow has achieved unparalleled success in the first eighteen months of our planned five-year capital campaign to raise $5,000,000. However, Annual Giving this year has been difficult. With only one month to go we are still $23,400 short of our 1981-1982 goal of$90,000. Below is a summary by major giving groups of the interim results of both campaigns.

CARDIGAN TODAY/TOMORROW

Incorporators & Trustees Current Parents Past Parents Grandparents Friends of Cardigan Alumni

$1,337,286 147,046 308,473 88,801 1,194,195 2,645

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_:__ TOTAL TO DATE .$.:........:_ 3,078,446

ANNUAL GIVING 1981-1982 Incorporators & Trustees Current Parents Past Parents Grandparents Friends of Cardigan Alumni

TOTAL TO DATE

$66,591

$12,000 24,520 11,883 7,253 3,610 7,325

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