Cardigan Commentary (December, 1979)

CARDIGAN

CARDIGAN COMMENTARY Vo l. I, No.

COMMENTARY

December 1979 CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL Canaan, New Hamps hire 03741

CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL

Ca rven Da lgli s h, Edit or Caro l Shelton, Associate Editor

Vol. 1, No. 1

Canaan, NH 03 741

December 1979

Published at regular interval s throughout th e school yea r

Views from the Plateau

In the Classes

"The Muscle of Conscience"

Sum.mer School: An extension of the Summer School program at Cardigan is in Teaching English as a Foreign Language ITEFLI, a program now under way for selected winter school students. Mr. and Mrs. Carey, of the faculty, having had 14 years experience at Cardigan and at Robert College, Istanbul, while with the Peace Corps, are coordinating efforts to fit tutorial classes into the schedules of those of our foreign students who need this extra help.

Planning has already begun for the 1980 Summer School, with applications already arriving, in the hopes of another full enrollment, 145, as with last summer. Core subject enrichment is planned -English, Math, and Reading, and electives in typing and French, class sizes at a maximum of 7 to permit more individualized attention. Afternoon activit ies include sailing, swimming, trapshooting and gymnastics or other areas in response to student interes t. Faculty ha s been 43, all dedicated teachers, men and women, for enrollment on a co-educational principle.

many people are really honest? With others1 With H OW themselves? In their beliefs In choosing jobs, friends , or in 1

how they vote or support, or fail to support, a cause? How many sustain a real integrity in the face of challenges that may undermine their security, threaten their social position or cause them the loss of a friend? How many are ready ever to stand fast on a principle once they have seen its truth? How many wheedle, or compromise, settle for half-truths, endorse for a gain, the cheap and tawdry? .Or how many excuse all our foibles on the fashionable premise that everyone must "do his own thing"? How many students would report a wrong even if it involved a peer'>r a close

New Foreign Language Opportunities: A fully-phased two-level, two-track program in Spanish and French ha s been established at Cardigan. Now an Eighth Grade student may opt for one of two tracks: Level I, fas ti 1 year; or moderate Level I spread out over Grades 8 and 9, thus a lowing 9th Graders on fast track to complete Level II of a language. The program includes continued use of current language laboratory individualized audio-active cassette faciliti es.

CARDIG AN COMMENTARY is a new publicatio n fo r ideas and news about the School. It will appea r at regu lar intervals in th e yea r, probably a total of eight issues. It will be distributed to fac ulty, staff, alumni, tru stees and friends. We intend that it will in spire yo u to se nd in news, ideas. and you r academic, athletic and extra cu rricular items of interest. Well into an exciting sc hool yea r now, we welcome this publication as a forum to stimulate and exchange creative and constructive ideas for ge neral professional enrichment.

Norman C. Wakely,

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friend or even a roommate, if to do so risked the stigma of"ratting", that ultimate black spot in the immutable code of our young1 Copying a paper, taking notes to a test, peering at another's answers, whispering behind the teacher's back to pass along a solution I If history is the lengthened shadow of a man, how tall will your children stand unless they are fearlessly honest in these formative years in the crucible of learning? In a world where terrible - and many wonderful - things are happening, will they cherish truth, beauty and all that is good 1Or seek the shortcut, the easy way1 Here at Cardigan where often enough the sun sets in beauty along the mountains and the lake glitters in a silver dance we try these days on our plateau in New Hampshire to relate our world here to that world you know outside. In the play, A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More, 16th Cent,,ry Lord Chancell or of England; contested with his king, Henry VIII, until finall y he was beheaded for standing fast on his principles in a corrupt court. He said, this magnificently brave scholar, lawyer, statesman and man of strong faith, speaking to his wife and daughter and future son-in-law, who · would all have him sign a paper to please his king and thus save his neck: "God made the angels to show him splendor - as he made the animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man he made to serve him wittily, in the tangle of his mind 1 If he suffers

Merry Christmas Happy New Yea:r:

taring as he subdues chaos for those two hours of study from 7 to 9 eac h evening, a period of concentration not likely to be found in most hom es. Hea r th e counsel the students seek over personal matters, or from a classmate through the thickets of math perplexities. Teac hers willingly pick up a dut y for another teacher who must be absent or about some personal busin ess of a da y, eve ning or even weekend. The orchestration of attendance upon the wayward impulse to "goof off" is always so unded and usuall y with good result. Be gratified to notice how the shy one, hanging back, is eventually drawn in. "He drew a circle, that shuts me out," said poet, Edwin Markham, in those famous lines, "heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him in."

The "muscle of conscience" is the strengthening sinew that surely must support our days.

Garven Dalglish, Edirnr

us to fall in such a case that there is no escaping, then we may stand to our tackle as best we can, and yes, then we may clamor like champions .... if we have the spittle for it." He was bound by this to try to win in defense of truth, to survive evil, to beat the devil.

So here we try, of course, as you may expect, to forge with your young that strong moral fiber that will sustain them as they go forth . The child is the father of the man, as Wordsworth told us.

And the strength to be one's self, to hold fast to that which is true, must be encouraged, nurtured early on, teacher for teacher, student for student, and by all who lead, in the dormitories, on the playing fields, in the classrooms.

And the young under peer pressure find it a scary business, this moral fiber imperative, this need to develop self-discipline, correctly to judge and make wise choices to sustain them for long years afterward. As surrogate parents we all cherish the trust you place in us to uphold the collective will towards virtue that is really the bedrock of human progress. A scary business this assertion of self. Emily Dickinson ventured to distill its essence when she wrote: 'Tm nobody' Who are you 1/ Are you nobody, too?/ Then there's a pair of us.·.. don't tell'/ They'd banish us, you know." And Robert Frost framed it in ominous terms when he wrote: "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces/ Between stars where no human race is/ I have it in me much nearer home/ To scare myself with my own desert places."

The challenge from within, nevertheless, can inspire, and it means for the student some hard thinking, some mistakes, some hard knocks, too. But answering the challenge with courage and a creative spirit can make for higher standards, for reaching full potential, a strength within cultivated as armor against the easyfound weakness, the soft yield, the false step for comfort. Those desert places, so bleak, wind-driven in the turmoil of mixed emotions and mistaken loyalties, can be a torment. But the green can be made to grow and the flowers of achievement to bloom.

It is not too far fetched to assert that boys are drawn to Cardigan because they see-and their parents and advisors have guided them to acknowledge-that opportunities for fulfillment exist in almost everything they do - in the classes, in clubs, athletics, in their chores in the kitchen, in their rooms, on the campus clean-ups or wood gathering that even as they are discipline measures for infraction of the rules, can be an insight journey to selfhood. In these yearning years of our grades at Cardigan, personal bulwarks are slowly built against being afraid to be honest. As boys come - 20 percent of them from foreign lands and the others crisscross from Maine to Texas and the Northwest to Florida - they are each a complex of hope, promise, fear, doubt, joy-you name it - but each striving, as don't we all, for that self-image that will gratify the ego, reward the effort and lead to success and personal happiness.

All of us have been reminded often enough of the surfacing of ethics in our time, in high - too high - places, and in the sweeping pollution along our meanest streets. Says John V. Sawhill, President of New York University: "To prepare for the future: that is the essential challenge of our colleges. Unless we teach our students to focus on the enduring values of civilization, our achievements will fall short of our goals." Another commentator, writer Marya Mannes, urges the development of the "muscle of conscience, the inward monitor to distinguish between what is good and bad: how to recognize and honor certain immutable standards and traditions in conduct and creation ... " On the same subject, columnist Max Lerner exco riates and exaults with sharp and inspired words for our times, to point out that our challenging present is pitted with the "erosion of work, the breaking of connections, the moral relativism, the ethics of 'a nything goes,' the refusal to see anything in life as sacred." But urges us all to become "possibilities, not cynics 9r pessimists ."

I like that "possibilities." I like to think of Caridgan as a community bejeweled with futures. To win the games with pride, or defeat with valiant spirit. Watch upcoming JV soccer soar to runner-up in an annual contest unique for our level of school. Share with a teacher the moment of discovery when the class comes alive to an inspired lesson. Follow the teacher to his dormitory proc-

On and Off Campus New Chapel Organ "It's probabl y the most exciting thing that has happened around here since the gym was built," said music teacher Harold Finkbeiner when the truck arrived from Pennsylvania bea ring the new digital computer organ for the chapel. Kids r~n out to •·. cheer its arrival and two da ys later th e ,,,,,,,,;r $41,210 instrument was full y install ed, a w ta sk pushed along with th e help of two 9th hobbyists in electronics, Tim Bright and Kevin Rimel. Other Grade hobbyists in electronics, Tim Bright and Kevin Rimel.

Other students and faculty joined in the celebration, organized by Mrs. Shelton, with Mrs. Dalglish, Mr. Hart and 7th Grader John Fura on trumpets. Balloons were released to the mountain tops to declare what Hal Finkbeiner calls "the most important thing in my life since my children were born ... and with a 5-year warranty it's fully paid for, too, most of it coming from grandparents.' His classes marvel at its automated computerized works: three keyboards, and th e equivalent of 62 ranks of pipes, a considerable amount, yet unlik e the old organ, does not have to be warmed up over a 45-minute period before u se: and uses less electricity. Mr. Finkbeiner plans a recital of dedication in February for Parents' Weekend, 'There's a great wealth of organ litera ture I couldn't play with th e previous instrument which thi s one makes possible."

The long hospitalization of Eighth Grader Jodi Dodi from Ghana was of deep concern to the entire student body. The unique response united Cardigan as never before. His return, bearing the wounds of perilous battle, stirred a warm welcome, all being thankful to see his smiling face once again. The sight of a student taking him to and fro in his wheelchair was an answered prayer and a warm symbol of affection for this brave warrior.

Emissaries:

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AT the N.H. Association of Teachers· of Mathematics, Nov. 2-3: six math department members: Ed Ramos, Chairman; Ed Cooper, Jim Marrion, Joe Collins, Bill Farrell, Ben Coffin. In Springfield, Ma. Also the same weekend at the conference: Carol Shelton at Keene, N.H. in annual fall meeting of the N.H. Educational Media Association.

Earner, Garven Dalglish, English Department chairman, and Carol Shelton, librarian, attended a workshop Sept. 23-24 at.

Byfield, Ma., held by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, as part of their training in coordinating the school evaluation due in the spring.

The entire Eighth Grade visited the Shelburne, Vt. Museum in an annual trek sponsored by Cardigan's Social Studies Department. This year the Sixth Grade also went to view the exhibits of early American_history featured.

Members of the Cardigan Language Department visited Hotchkiss School, Lakeside, Ct, Nov. 8, reviewing Hotchkiss language programming: Jeff HicKs , chairman, Jeff Sawyer and Craig Howland. Following this, Jeff Sawyer went on to NYC to take part in an invitational Squ,ish Tourney, playing well enough to compete against the finalist.

Peripatetic Norman Wakely, Headmaster, meanwhile filled a recent week with: Rotary Club luncheon; trip with Mrs. Wakely, Mr. and Mrs . Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Peck, Mrs. Rocke, Alumni Secretary, and Mr. Finkbeiner to a gathering of alumni friends and . parents at the Sheraton Rolling Green, Andover, Ma. At his usual pace, Headmaster Wakely returned to Cardigan to be seen at 5:20 a.m. with eight student regulars on dawn weight-lifting exercise, followed swiftly by a campus-wide dorm inspection and a brief "sit-in" in a class. That afternoon, a fast trip to Lakeville, Ct., to watch CMS alumnus, Skipper Willauer, play the lead in Hotchkiss School's "Oliver," followed by a conference with development and fund raising officers of that school and the next day a 2-day conference held at Simon's Rock of Bard College in Barrington, Ma., including a visit to alumnus John Hart, in Stockbridge, Ma. _ Stewart Dixon, senior, and Mark Mitchell, Junior, who entered a State media festival last year, may d_o it agam for 1980, m May, hopmg to match the excellence of their last year's "Cardigan Alive!" super-8 film or do something in video tape. Students should be inspired to follow by entering in those fields or in still photography, slide-tape programs or 16 mm. film .

"Autumn", a program of original haiku poetry and prose compositions by students of the 6th and 7th grades was held on Sunday, Nov. 18 in the Seminar Room of the Chapel. Works programmed were by 6th Grader Paul Riihiluoma and 7th Graders Sam Miller, Rob Lusk, Peter Hadlock, Andrew Glazier, Russell Calise, Eddie Collins, Bruce Schmidt, John Haynes, Mike Denby, Alex Mendoza, Kevin Powers, Tom Taliadoros, Geo£ Noyes. Assistants in preparation were 7th Graders Wm. Rice, Peter Hadlock, Robert Lusk and Tomas Saldarriaga, 8th Grade. Beautiful slides of flowers and autumn foliage by Mrs. Debby Crowell accompanied readings by Carven Dalglish, to background music suggested by Mr. Harold Finkbeiner. Emphasizing the aesthetic, the readings from classroom work included the novel Lies My Father Told Me and from haiku translated from the Japanese with accompanying slides of the verses in characters of that language. Mrs. Carol Shelton and Mrs. Garven Dalglish assisted in the production, with special thanks to Mr. Ed Cooper, Mrs. Beverly Wakely and Mrs. Sue Rives. Kenji Matsushita, 8th Grader, provided Haiku characters painted for the occasion and used in the display of the scripts now on exhibit at the Cardigan School library. Further such enrichment programs will be planned. This one was followed up by writing assignments in the 7th Grade English classes to extend the benefits of the program through homework assignments.

On the fields: Athletics enjoyed a good start, with much enthusiasm and spirit. Varsity Football: highlighted with victory over arch rival Eagle brook, ending the season with 2 wins, 7 losses; Jim Purcell, Mike Stevens most valuable players IMV), Brad Forcier, most improved (MIi; Reserve FB: highlighted defeating Eagle brook, W3, 3L, 1T; Bob Bruni, Kevin Powers MV; Ted Drummond MI; V.Soccer: 4th in invitational field of 16 Junior Preps of NE, Wl 1, lL; Dan Moody and Kari Kontu, MV, Danny Babcok MI; Wl 1, Ll; Soccer: W6, L9, reg. season; also 2nd of 5 teams in Hanover Rec. League and by defeating Hanover1 on! y team all season to score against them; Ron Hill, MV; Jim Coob,MI; 3rd Soccer: OW-7L (young, learning, against bigger schools) MI, Bruce Schmidt; Cardigan intramurals: non-competitive except self-improvement, included learning team sports, sailing, riflery, quarry trips, basketball, volley ball, flag football, 35 boys, 2nd largest activity group. Athletic season highlight was Awards Night at Thanksgiving Dinner, speaker Andy Johnson from the Patriots.

A unique and outstanding cycling group of 14 at Cardigan, rare for this age group, began in the Spring '79 and into the summer to develop in daily runs (in which the aesthetic wa s nevertheless much noticed by these helmeted speeders) of 20 mi., 80 on weekends, highlighting the competitive aspect with the team placing 6 of its racing riders in the top spots during the Haverhill, Ma. criterium on Oct. 14, winning bicycles for their

exceptional prowess. Coach Bill Farrell, himself a champion rider, and his wife, Shelly, train in maintenance and ride along on their practice.

Mountain Day: A cold, snowy Oct. 8th, vacated the school for intrepid climbers bent on reaching the summit of Mt. Moosilauki, barely making it before wind and snow turned them back. Great adventure for young and old. Each packed a lunch but eager to rush down over slippery trails for Bob Stevens' hamburgers and hot dogs waiting at the base, and busses to campus.

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Cardigan's Fifth Biennial Educational Tour of the Mediterranean, March 10-April 1st. Under direction of Mr. John Rich, Greece and R,o me will be center of this exploration of historical beginnings of the Western World, combining educational with recreational. Cost $24951 9th Graders ur&ed specifically to register, 8th Graders accepted on ' space-available ' basis. Address inquiries to Mr. Rich, Admissions Director.

The Humanities Committee, under direction of Mr. David Shelton, produced two interesting evenings to date: White Moun- , tain String Band, a group of young musicians in bluegrass, gospel and folk; a discussion of extra-sensory perception by Mr. R.J. Newton from New London, N.H., entitled "Sense and Nonsense".

More programs, beginning in January, are planned.

Journey to new Kennedy Library in Boston, during the long weekend in October, 25th-28th, for nearly 30 students otherwise "stuck" on campus, included Fanieul Hall Marketplace, Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus, this the Headmaster's favorite spectacle.

Yearbook innovation: This year, according to Mrs. Carey, advisor, photo crew will process and print their own film for Blaze pix. The Brewster Hall darkroom will no doubt produce for other campus publications too. Team photos of fall sports now available on order basis.

Annual Fund Progress Report: The 1979-1980 Annual Fund is off to a great start! To date, 177 donors have contributed $33,320.00 in cash and pledges. Trustee goal: $85,000, which they are confident will be reached.

The Model Club: According to its advisors, this group islargest club on campus with 37 boys running the gamut from radiocontrolled planes to model cars, ordering models, paints and accessories each week. Messers Hart, Rives, Madar and Carey, in charge, see that the program is fulfilling its goal: to develop student pride in original handicraft work.

The starving Cambodians are being helped in measure to student response at Cardigan through donations into a receptacle on the school counter so labelled. This move on the Fart of the school originated with two reading class students who became aware of the situation in that beleaguered country through class reading assignments: Tomas Saldarriaga and Mike Seatter, Eighth Graders. The funds will be sent to Cambodian Relief Headquarters in Dayton, Ohio.

Alumni News \ Bob Vickers '68 now an entertainer with his own group in San Francisco, "Hubba Love and the Hi-Balls".

Bob Chartener '73, senior at Princeton, publishes Business Today in his spare time, and spent most of the summer organizing conference in which he expects 400 students and business leaders to participate, to be held at Sheraton Atlanta in November, featuring such speakers as Michael Blumenthal and Irving Kristo!.

Robert Whaland '68, now at 98 West Merrimack St., Manchester, NH, 03101 , just received his Juris Doctor degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Kirby Whyte '63 is working for Jack Morton Productions in Washington, D.C. producing convention music, films , audio-visual and industrial shows all over the country.

Mark Guarino '70 graduated in 1977 from Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Ct. with a BA in Biology and at once began working for Sleeping Giant Films Video Inc. in Hamden, Ct~ producing film and video productions for industry, education ana television. .

John Milliken '65 is engaged to be married to a Durham, N.C. girl. June 23, 1980.

Steven Gallagher '68, who joined the Marine Corps in 1977, is as of October a corporal and scheduled soon to be a sergeant.

Hugh Covert '76 reports he is in Freshman Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, having graduated from prep school with a 3.93 average, 21st in a class of 510.

E. Givens Goodspeed '67 sends news of his marriage recently to Susan Louise Ryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ryan, Natick, Conn.

Harry Whittelsey '58 now has a son, Eric Cerra, born July 10, 1979.

C.G. Gallagher '65, Captain in the U.S. Air Force, has recentl y been chosen to fl y the McDonnel Douglas F-15 Eagle, its most advanced supersonic air-to-air fig~ter, capable of speeds twice the speed of sound. He is assigned as a fighter pilot at the 18 Tactical Fighting Wing at Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan. After Cardigan he went to Valley Forge Military Academy Jr. College for 6 yearsf where he was an honor studem, first Captain and Regimenta Commander of the Corps of Cadets when he graduated, winning all the awards and honors that VFMA had to offer, and was top cadet in the ARMY ROTC Programs. He went to Purdue from Valley Forge, graduating in 2 years with honors in Computer Science.

Admissions Director John Rich recently returned from a trip Europe, where he saw Christopher Heidrich '78, star in a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at Aiglon College in Switzerland. Chris is studying pre-med and is on varsity basketball.

Mr. Rich also met, in the junior school at Aiglon, Dennis Torri, former Cardigan student.

P.W. Ellis '65 is an architect for Texas Parks and Wildlife in Austin, Texas.

Robert Whaland '68 graduated from law school in Ma y, passed the N.H. Bar exam in July and admitted to the Bar in October, and is presently employed by the N.H. Supreme Court as law clerk for Judge David Brock. He lives with his wife, Jeannette, in Manchester, N.H. Morgan Paul Dickerman, III '71 graduated from Atlantic Christian College in Wilson, N.C. with a B.S. Degree in Political Science arid works for the family business, The Wilson Daily Times. He is planning to marry Miss Lori Magers at Atlantic Christian College in August .

Pete Abbott '68 who works for a landscape garden firm in Hingham, Ma., was picked for his garden to appear on PBS Crockett's Victory Garden, representing New England in competition with gardens from Wisconsin and New York.

Jeff Aquilla '79 is at the St. James School in St. James, Md., playing varsity football; he warns Cardigan Seniors to pay attention in French classes since in his case he now takes a difficult course where the teacher speaks only French in the class!

Bradford Haywood '72, graduated from the University of Colorado in June 1979 with a BS degree cum laude. He~ now continues at the University for his Masters in Business Administration .

David Sharp '51 recently accepted a position as Language Editor with Random House, publishers in New York City.

Philip Sharp '55 is Mental Health Counselor, Orange County, Bradford, Vt. William Sharp '57 is in advertising, in Normal, Ill. Nick Bhirombhakdi '73 is enrolled in economics at Boston University Graduate School. He reports he is also President of the New England Collegiate Kara ti Conference in charge of 15 colleges, including Dartmouth and Columbia.

Ken Klaus '73 has been living in Maine since 1977, working at the New England Music Company in Portland as a salesman.

Kim Kenly '68 works as an account executive for Travelers Insurance Co. in Chicago, as a pension investment consultant. He is to be married in May. Corey Durling '68 has been married for three years, has one child and is in the family business as V.P. and Gen. Mgr. of Durling Farms, engaged in process, packaging and distributing milk-40,000 gallons a day.

Charles Morrison '76 is attending Northeastern University in Boston, Ma., for his BS in Criminal Justice.

Keith Lomason '76 is enjoying Denison University as drama major.

Pers pee ti ves Cardigan Academics Now

T the HE academic flavor of a school changes some each year with influx of new teachers and new students . The first term !trimester) will ha·ve ended by the time this goes to press and the early signs for this academic year are very encouraging. Often the best indicators of an academic program are from what is happening outside the classrooms rather than in them . At table during meals there is much more di scussion than usual about assignments, what . is being read or discus sed in class, grades, projects, course topics and other related items. The number of boys reque sting late lights in the evening and getting up a bit early in the morning to work on assignments is up as is the number of boys using the Resourci: Center and attending afternoon conferences. These are all positive signs of an increased concern about academic responsibilities that is reflected in many of the classes. Unfortunately, this is not true of every student - it nev er is - and there are still many boys who need to be closely supervised, directed and otherwise worked with.

That is why they are here and they constitute a challenge and an obligation to everyone on the Cardigan faculty. Midterm grades revealed the good news that several more boys were on th e honor roll for high grades than on the supervi sed study list for low grades.

Some interesting conditions in the various grades further indicate the academic strength of the school: the individual attention given to the smaller-than-usual Sixth Grade; the ability of the students in the larger-than-usual Seventh Grade; the number of upper-level sections in the Eighth Grade; and the number of boys in the Ninth Grade accelerating in math and language.

More than one-third of the Seventh Grade students are doing pre-algebra math and they and others in the grade will qu alify for an algebra section next year. Nearly one-third of the Seventh Grade has voluntarily enrolled in the introductory foreign language program. In Grade Eight, three of the four sections are doing algebra at some level and the same situation exists in other subjects in that grade. In the past there have been more lower-level sections than upper-level. A good number of Ninth Grade students are in courses usually offered at Grade Ten level. These courses are second-year French and Spanish and second-year algebra.

Paradoxicall y, we also have a slightly larger-than-u sual number of boys enrolled in the Language Training Program for remedial help in Language and study skills. Some of these boys are also in upper-level sections in some or all of their courses . The coexistence of the accelerated and remedial programs attest to the flexibility of our academic program and the ability of the facult y to work with a good range of student abilit y.

The very full enrollment we are enjoying this year has not resu lted in crowded classes. We have added a third section of Grade Seven to the two sections that we usually have and additiona l sections have been formed in courses in other grades as well. The larger number of students has made it necessary slightl y to enlarge the size of the faculty and to add to the course load of some teachers. The greatest impact has been upon an already strained space problem, so the need for the proposed Learning Center becomes even more acute. At this time we are very pleased with the calibre of our students and faculty and when our good facilities become better, the academic situation at Cardigan will be in top shape! Our emphasis will alwa ys be on people rather than facilities but th e facilities surely do help.

The first term has passed too quickly. There is still a lot of the school year ahead and a lot of hard work for everyone. As the year progresses, new strengths will emerge and new weaknesses will be uncovered. As parents, teachers and students work on these new developments, the platform will be built from which the next academic year will be launched. .

-Joseph M. Collins, A ssistant Headma~ ter