Published Monthly During the School Year by Cardigan Mountain School CANAAN. N. H., SATUR/JAl", IJ '· CP.MBER JO. 195.5 5 Cents Number 3 4 Pages Volume VI ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cardigan Breaks With Traditions Dance Tonight Opens Completes Four Years for Cardigan Christmas Activities by ·Larry Moore
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Traditional carol- sing ing a l o n g Canaa n Street an d the pageant at the Me thodist Church, features of past Christm_ases at Ca rdi ga n Mountain School, w ill b·e omitted this year. The usual Y ul e dance, dinner and party w ilJ be h eld at th e a uditorium o n th e new camp us bef ore vacation, however. Santa Claus w ill visit Cardigari Wednesday nig ht, December 14, following th e Christmas dinn er which Dick Clancy will prepare as usual with all the fixings. Gifts will be exchanged at that time. Any parents who mig ht be at sc ho ol at that tim e will be invited, Mr. Wil!iam R. Brewster , acting headmaster announced . No longer situated on Canaari. Street, th e school is believed to be t oo far away fr om th e Street now t o warrant the hous·e-to-house ca-ro lling of previous holiday seasons . 'A pageant was discussed for th e new auditorium, inste ad o f at th e church, but m a ny f el t it was too 111uc h
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Mr. ,and Mrs. Burbank To Arrive wednesday
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Exams Start Monday; Vacation Plans made by Charles Scheffreen
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Mr. a nd Mrs. Rol a nd W. Bur • ba nk w ill g ree t parents of Cardiga n Mountain School students who vis it th e campus nex t week to pick up their so ns for the trip home for Christmas vacation .
last minut e sc hed ul e, w hat with . exa ms, p•a rt ies, a nd ot her activities. The Yu le dance w ill be held thi s evening in the Hinman Hall aud.it orium. Chris.t m as d~ co rations have been put up by th e co mmittee, com p osed of J ohn Ro ss and Add iso n Armstrong from the first floo r of Hinman Hall, Thomas Dunn and -Photo by Poblenz Studio•s Peter Albee from the second floor, When P aul Moriarty, so n of Mr. and Mrs. James . E. Moriarty of Ronald Mainelli and Stephen Hanl ey from the first floor of Brewster Cohasset, Mass ., turned in hi s football uniform at the end of the sea: Hall, and R obert Morris and Paul son thi s fall, he had completed four ·years o,f se r vice to Ca rdiga n Mountain School on the g ridiro-n. Moriarty from the s-econd. Paul!s r eco rd in sports with various Mountaineer teams is matched In th e dining hall there is anonly by hi s sportsmanship . It is a mark that coming students her e wi ll o th er Christmas tre e with lights find hard to equal, let alone surpass. (Continued on page 3.) Paul ha s bee n a leader and an essential figure in the social life «t Cardi gan sin ce he first arrived. Baseball and hock ey teams have been g rat e ful for hi s help. One of the most popula r studen ts her e, his spirits have done much to keep the morale of his tea mm ates high.
Examinations at Cardigan Mountain School begin Monday morning a t 8 :15. All students will be g iven their first t erm t es ts in English at that time, follo•w e d at 10 :45 by th e history exams. English will be a two-hou r te st for the upper gr'ades. The !'m a iler boys will be given one-hour quizzes, as has b ee n the custom in previous years . Some of the exams for older students will be cut to one-hour, however, this ye ar. Tu e s d a y, geography, science, Lat in will be taken . Wednesday, the final day will be devoted to mathe matics and ethics. Thursday morning, th e boys will have a thorough inspection of their quarters and themselve s, pack and leave for vacation . Grades wi]] be a,vailable to students after the last of the examinations is concluded. Reports and comments will be sent to parents during the vacation, Mrs. Ruth Talbert believes. Plans for the departure for the Christmas vacation begin Thursday, December 15. (Continued on page 4)
Coats and Ties _No io,q ger _ Required at Most Me~ls·:,__ .
Pearl Harbor Day Observance is Held
Cfoment Comtois Co es to Cardhtan
Recordings of th e Pearl Harb or attack:, .Decemb er 7, 1941 , a nd the subsequent declara tion of war and battles in th e Philippines, Midway and other points was pla yed as th e eve ning activity for th e stud en ts of Cardigan Mountain School on the fourt ee nth an nive rsary of t he hostile a ct.
Clement Comtois of Hampstead, N . H ., joine d the student body of Cardigan Mountain School when classes resumed after th e Thanksg ivin g vacation . Clem is the grandson of Mr. and. Mrs. Ricker of Rochester, N . H. H e is in the ninth g rad e a nd is stayin g at Stevens Hou se for the time being.
The r ecordings were from the colle ction of Mr. Clifton T. Holman, Jr., of the E nglish department . They were heard 1ast year, and repeated again this season for tho se w ho had not heard the ma teri al or who mig ht lik.e to hear it again. Mr . Holman made the recordin gs in 1942 with the sanction of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a first anniversary broadcast over radio stations with which he was connected. Dramatic scripts with Alfred Lunt, Jane Cowl, and others was produced in the radio studio to supplement actual off-the-air recordings of President Roosevelt, Congressman Joseph Martin and Hamilton Fish and others.
The new headmaster and his wife are moving into the house on Canaa n Street, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred W. Clark, · o pposite The Lodge . They will be at Cardigan permanently aft er D ece mber 15, the date th ey termin a tt their work at Proc tor Academ y. Mr. and Mrs. Burbank expec t to spend th e Christmas vacation period at Cardigan ge tting acquainted w ith the place and any of th e faculty members • or students who a re not leaving for th e holidays. They will be ge ttin g settled in their new home th en, too. Many parents will drive to Ca naa n for their boys Th ursday, D ecembe r IS, an d the Burba uks pidn to be at school bright and early !' hat mo rnin g to be able to meet a ny pa r ent s or gues ts w ho call here. Mr. Burbank visited the school \,Ved nesday af ternoo n , De cemb er 7.
Clancy and Four Boys Try Ice-Fishing Today Ice-fishing was th e ob ject o f an expedition led by Mr. Richard Clancy, Cardigan Mountain Scho ol's stewar d and chef, this afternoon o n Canaan Street Lake. William Byrnes, Robert Morris, Bu ste r Blomerth and J ohn Ben so n accompa nied Clancy. At press time , no word had been r eceived as to the outcome of this attempt to lure pickerel to th e holes chopp ed in th e ice on th e surfa ce of th e lake. Mr. George A. LaPointe of Mancheste r, N. H., stopped at Cardigan Mount a in School D ece mb er 6 to visit hi s son P eter. Mr. LaPointe was returning home fr om a me etin g in White Riv er J ct. Ri cha rd Pier ce has r eturn ed to cl asses after being confined with a cold in th e Cardigan Mountain School infirmar y.
by Jeffrey . Dorra~c~
Cardi ga n Mount~in Scho~I broke
with tradition T hursday noon wheq Mr. William R. Brewste r, a cting headmaster, announced that ties and jackets would no longer be .r equir ed in th e dining hall at breakfast and lun cheon. Flannel sports shirts . without ties and with khaki or gray cottor, trousers will be the accepted attire henceforth , it was announced . Both faculty ·and students are included in the new ruling. At dinner in the evening, jackets may be worn, but ties ar e not nec es sar y, unless a dress shirt is worn instead of a sports shirt. Sunday dinn ers will require the same . dre;s as has been worn in th e pa st. Dunga rees will not he acceptablt in the dining room .. at a ny . time in the future, either by wa iters or by o ther s. These denim jeans will be r eser ve d for activities or other wor k or play tim es. It is expec ted that both ma ster s and stud ents w ill be m ore . comfortab l e 111 t h e le ss iorrna l att ire. A savi ng in clothing costs will h elp many parents cut down on b ills for seve ra l coats and pa irs of slacks for th eir boys. · No compromise w ill be m ade with carefully shin ed shoes at me als and well-g roomed, clean clothes and students. Inspections will continue to be made of hands, ears, n eck s and hair at nearly all meals. The new ruling is a de parture from the custom at Cardigan in pr-e vious years . · Mr. Brewste r announced the plan as an experiment to be tried until Christmas vacation. Aft er the boys· return in January, the decision will be left to the new headmaster, Mr. R oland Burbank, as to whether it is to be continued. Mr. Brewster told the • boys that eventuali'y, it mig ht be a good plan to have a sort of Cardigan "uniform" . H e sugges ted a combination of gray washable slacks and green flannel shirts as a · possible attire for a ll students and facult y mem bers. The n ew informal attire will b e acceptable at classes, too .. "After all", Mr. Brewster comment ed. "Cardiga n is an outdoor k ind of (Co11•inued on page 4)
Grandfather's Farm Isn't What it Used to Be A lon g, sleek, black convertible drove slowly throu g h the main gat,, of Cardigan Mountain School one Sunday m orning not too lon g ago . In it we re a disting ui shed-lookin g man and woman. The c.ar bore Rhode Island registration plate~. It g lided down p•a st Clark-Morga n Hall and to the end of the drive beyond Brewster Hall. Overlooking the athletic field, then in the process of excavation, it paused briefly to permit the occupants to take in the beauty-of the spot. The driver .then backed the automobile .
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As the car reached the path leading to Brewster Hall, a master stepped out to inquire if he mig ht be of any help . He was th en told t hat the _couple just looking over the campus and the site of the school. "I was in Hanover for the Harvard-Dartmouth game yesterday," the gentleman at the wheel ell. plained. "We remained ther e over night, and, on our way back home this morn ing, we thought as we .passed through Canaan that we would see what' }Vas being <lone up
here", he continued. "It certainly loo ks like a fine school", his wife ventured. Her husband and the master both agreed that it was a perfect site. "It has changed a lot since I saw the spot last", the man added. "The building that you tell me is now your classroom and office building used to be my grandfather's summer home!" A few moments later, Mr. and Mrs. Haffenreffer drove away or. their return to their home at Mt. Hope in Bristol. R. I.