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today tomorrow Special Pre-Holiday Issue
Fall 1984
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN MOVES TOWARD $5,000,000 by John L. Tower Cardigan Trustee
Five years ago this October a nervous Board of Cardigan Trustees authorized the official kickoff of our ambitious $5,000,000 capital funds campaign . The end of the campaign next June is now in sight and with more than $4,000,000 received in gifts and pledges, so is our goal. Five years ago we had two major objectives - to build a new Learning Center which would become the focal point of the academic, cultural and social life of our campus, and to raise our endowment from $650,000 to a total of $3,000,000 by the end of the campaign. We said then that our goals were high, as they should be-but attainable. As we move into the last months of the campaign a brief look at where we stand seems appropriate . First, the Stoddard Center. It's hard to imagine how the School functioned before we had this View of the campus and Mt. Cardigan. magnificent building. In every way it has become the focal point of our campus life that our TrusJees envisioned five years ago. We have received gifts totaling just over $2,000,000 towards its construction and there are additional pledges outstanding. So one of the two major objectives of our ambitious program is a firm, productive accomplishment and a major contribution to the Cardigan experience . · To meet our other objective is a more difficult task. The good news is that the total of all our endowment funds plus pledges of future gifts to endowment now totals $1,915,430. This is a magnificent achievement, but the bad news is we are still far short of the essential goal of $3,000,000 established by the Board . A breakdown of this total might be of interest and will indicate where added support is needed to meet our original goals. Various Scholarship Funds established over the years and during our drive now total $572,311. Restricted Funds, including endowments for the Gymnasium and Learning Center and a Library Fund, total $235,259. Unrestricted Funds providing income to be used at the discretion of the Trustees, now total $485,129 plus an additional $104,903 in the form of Life Income Trusts, which will eventually be added to the Unrestricted Endowment. And finally, there is an additional $517,828 in pledges to various segments of our Endowment. Once again the challenge and the opportunity are clear. Scholarship Funds have always been popular and nothing has enhanced our School more or been more rewarding than our ability to provide assistance to worthy, often outstanding, youngsters who otherwise would not have been able to come to Cardigan. We have 16 different funds ranging in size from $154,000 to $1,384. Gifts to such funds provide perhaps the most enduring and rewarding way of supporting Cardigan. Restricted Endowments to provide support for a particular building or activity offer a way of expressing a special interest in a particular aspect of Cardigan's overall program. And finally, Unrestricted Endowments provide the greatest flexibility to the Trustees to move quickly to meet perceived needs as they may arise. · The months ahead will be critically important to our final success in meeting our 5-year goal. We will have further reports to make to the Cardigan Family as we move toward this goal.
CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL I CANAAN, NEW HAMPSIIlRE 03741 / (603) 523-4321
Fund-raising events held by senior classes during the school year produce valuable contributions to our school: - from the Class of '83, a Panasonic Video Cassette Recorder with a portable camera for use in the classroom, theater, and .for sports. - from the Class of '84, a Micrographic Microfiche readerprinter designed for use in the reference library.
Faculry enrichment programs are supported by Cardigan's Annual Fund. Two consultants conducted training sessions during the September faculry pre-week. - Dr. Melvin D. Levine, Associate prefessor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; and Chief, Division of General Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Boston, MA . - Mrs. Katherine DeBlois, founder and director <if an Orton-Gillingham teacher training clinic in Galway, Ireland. She is shown above with Science Department Chairman Donald Blunt. New Orleans Gathering Date On Thursday, December 6th, 1984, members of the Cardigan Family are invited to attend a buffet supper from 6 to 8 p.m. at the home of Mr . and Mrs. R. Cunliffe McBee III 4624 Prytania St. New Orleans, Louisiana ltospective students as well as alumni, parents, former parents, and .friends of Cardigan are en<XJuraged to attend. ·
. A hearry thanks goes to those who helped drill new wells to imp rove Cardigan's water supply. Here, HEADMASTER WAKELY monitors this fall 's progress.
A performance by the New Hampshire Youth Orchestra was part _of the Humanities Pro-
gram at Cardigan. Ranging from ballet to Medieval weaponry, from ARSENIC AND OLD LACE to MACBETH, from the American Boychoir to Greenpeace New England, the Program has met with huge success and is possible only through the gifts <if the Cardigan family.
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The Stoddard Learning Center has become the focal point of Cardigan's academic, cultural, and social activities. Sketch by Richard Clancy '67.
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'TIS THE SEASON Suggestions For Year-End Giving
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Make a gift to the Today/Tomorrow Capital Campaign or to the Cardigan Annual Fund- for a tax deduction this fiscal year.
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Double or triple your gift if you or a member of your family works for a matching company.
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Make a memorial gift to the Cardigan fund, remembering a member of your family, a fr iend, or classmate.
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Reduce your taxable income this year by making payments on your pledge.
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Make a leadership gift and join the Cardigan 1945 Club (annual gifts of $1,000 or more).
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Keep track of expenses you incur in your volunteer work for the School. Don 't forget to deduct them.
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Make a gift to the fund for installing artificial ice.
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Name Cardigan Mountain School the owner of a new or existing life insurance policy. Future premiums are tax deductible .
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Look at your mature U.S. Savings Bonds. It may be advantageous to cash them in and make a contribution to Cardigan , resulting in a charitable deduction which more than offsets _your tax obligation on those bonds.
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Have an up -to-date will. Consider naming Cardigan as one of your beneficiaries.
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Examine carefully your stock holdings - securities which have decreased in value can be sold , with the proceeds given to Cardigan for deductions of both the loss and the gift .
Some reminders -
- All cash gifts to Cardigan are tax deducti ble. - Gifts of stocks, bonds, life insurance, and real estate can all have immediate tax savings.
- securities which have appreciated over the long term can be given to Cardigan, allowing you to de11uct full market value and avoid capital gains tax .
- Cardigan depends on gifts and grants to meet current needs and to undertake capital projects such as - the Stoddard Learning Center, an increased general endowment , named scholarships, faculty • enrichment programs, and new athletic programs.
- securities now paying low dividends which have appreciated over the long term can be used to establish a life-income trust for you or for individuals you designate. The result will be a substantial charitable deduction, an increased current income, and the elimination of capital gains tax.
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- With your gift, you can help Cardigan maintain a margin of excellence which -has become the trademark of the School.
Consider the benefi.ts of establishing a trust which would provide income for life for yourself and/or a designated individual and ultimately benefit Cardigan. Such trusts can result in · increased current income and decreased capital gains, income, and estate taxes. Cardigan's Pooled Income Fund is in place and growing.
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An Invitation To The Cardigan Family
Please attend Cardigan's Christmas Pageant on Wednesday, December 12th at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel .
This student production of Gilbert and Sullivan's YEOMAN OF THE GUARD was held at Cardigan during the summer of 1984. This and other events are now possible, thanks to our new theater, the showpiece and pride of the Today/Tomorrow Campaign.
Non-Profit Organization U.S . POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 2 Canaan , N.H.
Cardigan Mountain School Canaan, N.H. 03741 (603) 523-4321
<;;ardigan receives gift of land and cabin on Clark Pond; Outing Club established. &e pg. 2 for details of other gifts.
Cardigan's Volunteers: The Class Agents and Representatives 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 6th grade 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade Past Parent Grandparent Friends & Ne ighbors
Stuart R. Kaplan Alan C . Herzig Frederick G . Lippert Richard D. Morrison Theodore N. Goddard David Cheever George E. Harris David R . Helmstadter Douglas McLean Anthony R. Russo Charles I. Kaplan James O. Bovaird C. Blake Munro T. Rumsey Young Karl J. Borden Paul B. Gardent Daniel S . Burack Morgan D. Douglas, III Wade W. Knowles Robert L. Pipes Kurt A. Knowles C. Correll Durling Geoffrey Turner Peter R. Garrison Daniel O. Barry John H. Barry Albert J. Mitchell Robert Pulitzer Thomas E . Mitchell Terry R. Mitchell Stanley B. Smith Edward J. Gibbons Christopher J. King Nicholas C. Kobusch David J. Dobrowski P. Edward Krayer P. Andrew Georgescu Paul Bartalini William M. Wendt Charles A. Steward Forres ter A. Clark, Jr. Abraham B. Rosenberg Finn M . W. Caspersen Mrs. H. J. Mossien
Greenwich, CT Woodside, CA Seattle, WA Essex Junction, VT Perkinsville, VT Honolulu, HI Unionville, CT Brookline, MA Middleboro, MA Andover, MA Dallas, TX Eastlake, OH Boulder, CO Barrington, RI Cleves, OH Etna, NH East Longmeadow, MA Vail, CO West Orange, NJ C incinnati, OH West Orange, NJ Whitehouse, NJ New York, NY Del Mar, CA Key Largo , FL South Miami, FL Albuquerque, NM Houston, TX Albert, NM Alb_ert, NM Lake Forest, IL Alston, MA Princeton, NJ St. Louis, MO Brunswick, ME Acton, MA Groton, MA Medford, MA Chatham, NJ South Hamilton, MA South Hamilton, MA Locust Valley, "NY
Mrs. Radcliff G. Edmonds
Canaan, NH
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Peapack, NJ Rochester, NY
Cardigan's Volunteers: The Trustees and Incorporators Charles O. Banks
Bayshore, NY
Daniel 0. Barry
Miami, FL
David H. Bradley
Hanover, NH
Finn M.W. Caspersen
Peapack, NJ
John B. Coffin
Woods Hole, MA
Charles E. Cotting
Boston, MA
Savage C . Frieze, Jr. President
Englewood, NJ
Robert S. Gillette
Montpelier, VT
Chairman
Crawford H. Himan
Exeter, NH
Richard H. Hinman
Amherst, NH
Charles H. Hood
Brookline, MA
Edgar Humann
New York, NY
David M. Johnson
Houston , TX
John B. Kenerson
Wellesley , MA
Robert F. Kenerson
Winchester, MA
F . Corning Kenly, Jr.
Manchester, MA
J. Michael McGean
Hanover, NH
Albert J. Mitchell, Sr.
Albert, NM
Richard D. Morrison
Essex Jct, VT
Jerald B. Newton
West Lebanon, NH
Robert H. Reeve
New York, NY
Donald J. Ross
Charlotte, VT
Fred C. Scribner , Jr.
Portland, ME
Halsey Smith, Jr.
Portland, ME
Robert W. Stoddard
Worcester, MA
John L. Tower
Ridgefield, CT
Fred A. White
Hanover, NH
J. Walker Wiggin
Sarasota, FL
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