Cardigan Today/Tomorrow (Fall, 1987)

PARENTS' WEEKEND OCTOBER 10-11, 1987

Don't

miss

Weekend!

Fall

Parents'

Go to classes

in

the morning; eat lunch with the

boys;

see

exciting

football and soccer games in the afternoon.

There's time

to take your son off campus for a good visit and a meal.

Greeting in Hopkins Hall.

And the Fall foliage will be

Cardigan Opens With Full Enrollment At the opening of school this year, Cardigan welccmed a total of 182 students - 9 day and 173 boarding - coming fran 23 states, the District of Columbia, and fran 8 foreign countries. Fifty-seven percent of these come from neighboring states in New England and New York with the rest fran all across the country. Ten boys are from Mexico, and homes of the other eight foreign students are as far east as Bahrain and as far west as Japan.

Cardigan has a strong financial aid program designed to assist qualified and able students who might not otherwise be able to attend the school. A total of $280,000 has been awarded this year; twentythree percent of the current student body will be receiving fiancial aid .

Director of Admissions, Jeffrey Hicks, travelled the length and breadth of the land last year visiting more than 14 cities to talk about Cardigan with prospective parents, school guidance counselors and educational consultants. His travel plans for the caning year will include cities in Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.

An important part of the Cardigan experience is learning to live with schedules, to keep conmitments, to budget time properly. This process starts the moment boys arrive on campus. Parents who brought their sons will remember the registration process as efficient and orderly. Dormitory faculty and student floor leaders were on hand to welcome new and old students and help them get unpacke:I and settled in quickly. The hours of 2:00 to 5:00 µnon Saturday were allocated for this.

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spectacular!

HuiNeng Amos '8 7 worked for the food service this summer.

View From The Headmaster's Window

by Norman C . Wakely

"We are climbing. "

For most

c,f you readers the next two words

could oosily be "Jacob's Ladder."

But this time I am referring to Cardigan Mountain School. I don't know of any year that we h?-ven' t in some small way "climbed." This year is no exception.

First, the grounds around campus are being disturbed, ditches being dug, trees being cut and roads being tom apart. At last the water and sewage problems on campus are being eliminated.

New wells, new storage tanks, new leaching fields - all spell out a much healthier, cleaner campus.

Also, oil tanks over 30 years old are being removed. Needless to say we have been in a cloud of dust, but "We are climbing."

Plans are on the drawing board tb construct a Science Center, to install artificial ice and · to increase the endowment. All will enrich Cardigan in many ways.

Raising funds, asking for gifts, has been one of my roles for many years. To reach the top of the "ladder" before Bev and I retire on June 30, 1989, I would love to see all three projects become realities. We need $635,000 before we can start construction of the Science Center; we have raised $250,000 of the $450,000 cost to install artificial ice; and $1,500,000 is needed to bring the endowment to five million.

We have been climbing the "ladder" for many years; now we much reach the top rung. With everyone's help we will be able to do so.

Glorious Fall foliage has come, snow will soon be on its way, and all's right with the world on top of our hill.

SUMMER SESSION 1987 The Smer Sessicn opened on a lovely June Saturday, three weeks after Canmencement, with capacity enrollment of 114 boys and 37 girls who came fran 23 states and ·6 foreign countries. For those familiar with the Winter School, the Summer Session schedule seems quite relaxed - ainost casual; f<;>r incoming students, however, 1 t must have been quite a shock to read a schedule listing four hours of classes every morning, sixdays a week, as well as evening study hall six nights a wee~! .

With a faculty of 45, it is possible to develop an individualized program to · meet the needs of each student. Teachers in each subject area work with students to define a goal to be achieved by the end of the session.

This might be review of a portion of subject matter from the previous school year, work on study skills, preparation for an acceleraterl academic program in the Fall, or learning how to budget time and how to study. Work with each teacher thereafter is directerl toward reaching that goal.

Effort grades are given at mid-term and at the end of the session. There were only 7 students on the effort honor roll at the half-way point, but this increaserl to 26 who eamerl honors status by the end of the session.

Life should not be all work and no play, especially in the summer.

After lunch there were activity periods. Students selected ~ree different activities for the first two weeks, and then had an opportunity to try something different for each of the next twoweek periods. Boys and girls were encouragerl to try new things. In a two-week period they could learn enough about the basics of soccer or of tennis to knew whether they wanted to pursue this in the future. There were team sports: baseball, lacrosse, roccer, basketball and tennis; individual sports: swimming, ropes course, weight training, sailing and canoeing; and other activities: art, trap shooting, riflery, rocketry and drama.

Not all evenings were devoted to studying • . Once a week the

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whole school joined in Green and White activities - mass games such as Capture the Flag - in which everyone took part. Saturdays there were movies and occasionally a mid-week special evening such as roller skating, a performance by the National Marionette Theatre Company, a trip to the New London Playhouse to see "Oklahoma," and a huge fireworks display on _ the Fourth of July. ' The Polar Bear Club always attracts a group of adventuresome souls willing to meet at the waterfront at 6: 30 am EVERY DAY for a pre-breakfast swim.

Diplomas were awarderl only to those who met this commitment every day - only eight students and eight faculty earned this distinction.

Kayaks on the Lake

Three-day off-campus canoe trips down the Saco River in Maine and trail camping trips to the White Mountains of New Hampshire offered new experiences to some of the students.

During the first days of the session there was homesickness and some frantic telephone ·calls: "Come and get me, I don' t like it here," but by the end of six weeks there were tears at leaving newlyfound friends and several requests to sign up right no.v for next summer.

The session concluded with an outstanding performance of Gilbert & Sullivan' s "Creatures of Impulse" directed by Music Department Head Har~ld Finkbeiner. Then off to enJoy well-earned vacations for the rest of the summer.

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NEW FACULTY, SEPT. 1987: E . Marston Jones, W illiam Ojala, Alexander Strain, Anthony McHale, Randolph Macdonald, Christopher Morse, Nicholas Ly nch

NEW FACULTY MEMBERS Seven young men joined the Cardigan faculty this September adding a diversity of educational skills and outside interests to the teaching staff.

E. Marston Jones, IV received his BS in Environmental Science in June fran HampdenSydney College in Virginia and this is his first teaching position. Marston's interests include: hunting, fishing, golf and skiing . He is teaching Science and math this year .

Nicholas S. Lynch earned a BS in government fran St. John's University in Minnesota. After two years as a Program Director for Big Brother/Big Sisters of Cape Cod, he started his teaching career at the New Hampton School where he also coached football, basketball and baseball. Nick lives with his wife and two children in New Hampton and is teaching History.

Randolph A. Macdonald attended the University of New Hampshire where he has received the following degrees: Minor in Wildlife Biology, BS in Forest Management, MEd, and MPA. Mr. Macdonald holds an Experienced Teaching Certificate for the State of New Hampshire and comes to Cardigan with six years of teaching and curriculum developnent experience. He taught fourth grade in Chester, NH. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies, he taught Fifth Form math, science, ecology and adult education causes. I-bst recently, Mr. Macdonald has been the Peace

Corps Recruiter, and SCUBA Instructor at UNH. He was also the supervisor for the N.E./UNH Hyperbaric Chamber. Randy has numerous interests, a love for the out of doors and likes to travel.

He is teaching math at Cardigan.

Anthony M. McHale graduated this year fran the University of Colorado with a BA in history . He has been. a summer camp counselor and has extensive experience with ranch work in Colorado and British Columbia.

At the University of Colorado he played lacrosse and rugby. He is teaching Spanish at Cardigan.

Christopher H. Morse is a talented artist with a BS in Art Education from Plymouth State College (NH) and a MFA in Printmaking fran North Texas State University. He taught art in the elementary schools in Andover, NH and at the Selwyn School in Texas where he was active in theatrical set design and coached swimming and M?ight lifting. · His work has been exhibited in art shows in Texas, Oklahana, North Carolina, Washington, D.C. and Rhcde Island.

An exhibit opening this fall in the Currier Gallery in Manchester, N.H. will include some of his works. He and his wife Denise are living on campus, superv.1.s.1.ng a dormitory, and Chris is teaching Art. William W. Ojala received his BS and M Ed fran Norwich University (vr). Last year he taught in Central Vermont area schools and coached soccer and track. His interests embrace a wide ra,nge of .athletic

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Parents were urged to help with the unloading, say gocd-byes and leave their sons to get established on their own. By 5:30 boys had to be ready for their first appointment which was activity sign-up, followed by a sit-down dinner (coat and tie) in the dining roan at 6:30. An. allschool meeting and dormitory meetings filled the evening hours until bedtime.

Sleei:r-in en Sunday? Not on your life! Rising bell rang at 7:30 am with breakfast at 8 o'clock .

This was actually a late morning; the traditional activity for ·the first Sunday on campus is rising at 5 am to climb Mt. Cardigan in the dark getting to the top in time to see the sunrise. This year the weather didn't oooperate; it rained hard and constantly on Sunday, so the sunrise experience was postponed until Wednesday.

The rest of Sunday's program ran along right on schedule.

After breakfast, there were Glee Club auditions' for everyone , room inspection (may have been a startling surprise for new boys), Chapel, lunch and jobs following in short order, and in the afternoon regular fall athletic activities began. After dinner, another dorm meeting and lights out to get prepared for the first day of school starting with breakfast at 6:50.

Thus began Cardigan's 42nd year.

activities. He and his wife Regina, who is a nurse, are .living in Clancy House. Bill is teaching Science.

Alexander Stra~n comes to Cardigan fran Canada where he earned a B. Ed., a graduate certificate in Art and Drama, and a certificate in French language Proficiency, all fran McGill University in Montreal. He taught at several independent s~hools in Canada and coached football and soccer. At Cardigan he is teaching French.

existing water lines to the buildings. Large volume lines were installed running to hydrants on campus for fire protection: also large pumps to power the complete system. At the start of scoool this September, final connections were still being made.

Chlorination of the system will follow and then the lengthy process of filling these large storage tanks will get underway.

Old oil tank comes out of the ground.

Dig We Must When Consolidated Edison had to tear up pavement in New York City to repair their electric lines, they stood a warning sign near the construction that read: "Dig we must for a better New York." That has been the status of the Cardigan campus since the beginning of summer.

There are two major construction projects currently in the works; they both involve digging and are for a better Cardigan.

The first project has been underway for a long time. Early in the 1970' s the State of New Hampshire enacted legislation prohibiting institutions from using an open water source for drinking water. Since moving to its present location, Cardigan has, like the town of Canaan, used Canaan Street Lake as its water supply. Water was pumped into a storage tank and run through a chlorinating system before being fed onto the campus.

The first step towards canpliance with State regulations was construction of an infiltration well designed to filter the lake water through a sand and gravel system prior to chlorination. While this system looked good on paper, in practice 'fine sand and clay fran the lake continuously clogged the filter bed requiring frequent backflushing and interruption of the water supply.

Subsequently, after further engineering studies, two artesian wells were dug at the point of land south of the lower playing fields. These now are a constant source of pure drinking water. 'As the school population and year-round use of the campus increased over the years, the existing water distribution system - for danes tic uses as well as fire protection became inadequate for current needs.

Engineering studies were done, proposals made and evaluated, fire protectim systems appraised and discussed, and ultimately decisions were made about constructing a new system.

Work started at the end of the 1987 Summer Session to install water lines fran the wells into two 100,000 gallm storage tanks and fran there to connect into

100, 000 gallon water storage tanks under construction.

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Mr. LaPointe inspects excavation for new oil tank.

The serond digging project is relatively simple although costly.

State regulations require that all existing underground storage tanks for oil and gasoline be replaced after 30 years of service. At the start of school three old tanks were being removed and replaced with two new ones. It's not resy to take out a 10,000 gallon oil tank tha. t' s been in the ground for thirty years or more. Oil has to be pumped out and transferred to another tank. Oil lines to and fran the tank have to be disconnected and _capped.

After the tank has been exc;avated, a crane is needed to lift it out and to install the replacement. There is at - least one large tank for every building on campus, so the replacement process will c;ontinue for several years. Perhaps that will be the only digging on campus for the next few summers.

Mrs. Alley and Mrs. Armstrong at work on the Development Office computer system.

Additions to Staff Returning faculty and students found two new people in the school offices this fall : Mrs. Barbara Wheeler joined CMS this surrnner as receptionist and secretary.

When you call the school , hers is the friendly voice you hear first. School is a familiar setting for Barbara as she did substitute teaching for two years. Most of her working experience has been in the travel business. She was an airline reservation and ticket agent and also a travel agent .

Barbara lives in Orange , N. H. with her husband, two teen-age:1 children , a dog and a horse.

Mrs. Rebecca Alley, Development and Alumni Office secretary, moved to Lebanon from Presque Isle, Maine , this surrnner and , with her fiance , has just bought a home in Enfield . She is not unacquainted with children , having raise:1 eleven of her own in Maine. Before coming to Cardigan , she operated a canputer system for the Aroostook County Action Program and has been busy this summer putting the new canputers in the Development Office into operation.

COMPUTERS,

COMPUTERS,

COMPUTERS Upgrading computer equipment was high on the Headmaster's wish list , and was the first project to be completed as a result of last year ' s successful Annual Fund . This surrnner 12 APPLE I le canputers were installed in the computer classroan in Hayward . Custan designed work tables were built and installe:1 by the school's maintenance staff.

Buying new hardware was the easy part; more difficult was finding · additional time in an already packed academic schedule for canputer instruction. It's simple to say now that the scoool has a new class schedule for 198788 ; but Mr . Joseph Collins , Assistant Headmaster, spent rrost of his summer revising the schedule and fitting academic programs into it. The schedule does provide the time so that every student will have computer

APPLE computers waiting for students.

instruction for a full term every year. Mr. Ramos and his staff in the math department have been gathering new software this summer , not only for mathematics , but for other disciplines as well.

Administrative canputer systems have also been upgrade:1 .

Last spring the Development and Alumni Office replaced an IBM word processing system with a ·COMPAQ 286 computer . Using a program written for school and college alumni and development ,offices with Concurrent DOS as the operating system, two terminals and two printers can operate at the same time. The system holds names and addresses of all alumni , parents and other members of the Cardigan "family."

A word processing package interfaces with the data files enabling personalized letters to be written to any selected list of people fran the file . Camera-ready copy for newsleters and other publications is now produced by computer eliminating the necessity for typesetting. Three months have been spent transferring data fran the old system and adding additional information. During the summer members of the Development Office staff have been busy learning the fine points of operating this system.

The Admissions Office has been canputerized for five years , and this summer they updated their software and hardware . The new two-terminal system will enable them to manage more efficiently the flow of inquiries and applications to the scoool and to maintain more personalized contact with the many educators and consultants around the country who have an interest in Cardigan's programs.

Mrs. Lester with new computer in the Admissions Office.

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Xaverian Football Camp's 17th Year At CMS Every August for the last seventeen year s George McCabe , Head Football Coach at Xaverian Brothers High School in West~ , Massachusetts , has run a football camp at Cardigan. For the past eight years , he has al~o brought the cross country team here for pre-season training . It ' s a wonderful time of year to be outside . Days · are warm and comfortable , but not hot. The air is clear and clean ; evenings and mornings are cool and crisp.

Leaves on some of the maple trees are already turning rErl and yellow hinting at the glorious fall color to come .

This year 89 football players and 9 coaches devotErl the week before Labor Day to intensive training and conditioning . Every morning they were on the fields for three hours of exercises and training : drills by position , sessions for linemen , backfielders and defensemen .

Showers , change , lunch , rest and then back into uniforms for more drills and scrimmage in the afternoon . There ' s time to relax before dinner , but then out for passing practice as long as daylight lasts . At the end of the day , these boys are tired and ready for bed . As one of the coaches said , " I never told you it would be easy - only that it would be worth it !"

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Lacrosse Camp in action.

Lacrosse Camp Less than a week after the end of the 1987 summer session , 168 boys and 16 coaches arri vErl for Cardigan Mountain Lacrosse Camp .

Operated by Dudley Hendrick and now in its 10th year , this camp has grown steadily in reputation , quality and attendance . Lacrosse as an interscholastic sport is very popular on the East Coast , and interest is now spreading to other parts of the country . This summer there were boys at the camp from Virginia , West Virginia , Michigan and Colorado , mixing with those from New England and the Middle Atlantic states .

The camp is rot for beginners : it ' s dedicatErl to the improvement Coach McCabe said this annual camp has r esulted in a big improvement in the performance of Xaverian ' s football teams and from his point of view it really is worth it .

of skills and the schedule is rigorous . Mornings are devoted to classes in individual · skill work by position. Coaches from colleges , high schools , jUhior high schools , as well as varsity college athletes work with the campers on the fine points of each position and on offensive and defensive tactics . After lunch , boys are divided into teams by age groups for team practice; team games take place after dinner until dark . This regimen begins on the Sunday they arrive and culminates with final team games on Friday morning when parents arrive to pick up their sons .

Dudley Hendrick coached lacrosse at Dartmouth College fran 1970 until 1983 when he "retired" to become an innkeeper . He a nd his wife , Jean , own and operate the Pilgrim ' s Inn in Deer Isle , Maine , from May through October . During of £-season months they are busy making repairs and improvements and planning for the next year both lacrosse and innkeeping .

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