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The Picador Volume 7, Issue 11
A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY
April 20, 2012
Holderness Hosts Relay for Life By Steph Symecko ’12 and Haley Mahar ’12 As the night of April 21st draws closer, Holderness School is on the home stretch preparing for the 2012 Relay for Life. So far, the school community has far surpassed its initial goal of $10,000 and is instead working towards $25,000. Relay for Life is a national event sponsored by the American Cancer Society, drawing millions of participants nationwide every year. This is the first Relay for Life put on by Holderness, and the campus is buzzing with excitement.
In preparation for the Relay, the campus split into teams by dorm. Each dorm set a goal for how much money they wanted to raise; students set personal goals as well. Each dorm then came up with a team name, a team theme, and a team color. Additionally, each team is responsible for educating the school about a specific type of cancer that their team color represents. Other members of the community, such as the female faculty (AKA The Venerable Vixens), have created teams for the event as well. The Relay starts at 9PM on Saturday evening with the (Continued on page 2)
White Mountain Art on Display By KJ Sanger ’13 There has been quite a bit of hustle and bustle in the art department in preparation for the biggest art show Holderness has ever held. All of the art, collected by a family friend of our very own Franz Nicolay, is from the White Mountain School. The White Mountain School was a landscape painting school, much like a handful of schools that popped up during the 19th century. There will be 33 pieces in total, two sketches, one watercolor, and 31 oil paintings; the collection is a mix of styles and artists. Some of the paintings are huge, stretching over five feet wide and four feet tall;
others are as small as three inches by eight inches. The dates of these pieces range from 1857-1895. Although that is over 100 years ago, some of the paintings look like they could have been painted within the last year. In incredible condition and impeccably preserved, the art is spectacular. The pieces in the exhibit are only a fraction of the entire collection that Andy and Linda McLane have obtained over the last ten to fifteen years. They are of the Pemigewasset Valley, Lakes Region, Franconia Notch, and North Country. Historically, art from these areas of New (Continued on page 2)