Cardigan Mountain School
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Cardigan Mountain School (also called Cardigan or CMS) is a boys-only independent boarding school
located on 62 Alumni Drive, Canaan, New Hampshire
, USA
. It was founded in 1945 on land provided by Dartmouth College
.
It is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools
(NAIS) and The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS). It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
(NEASC).
years. The founders were prominent New England
educators, businessmen, and civic leaders, including Ernest Martin Hopkins
(president of Dartmouth College), William R. Brewster (headmaster of Kimball Union Academy
), and Ralph Flanders
(a U.S. Senator
from Vermont
). Land for the school’s campus
had originally been donated to Dartmouth College by the Haffenreffer
family. The founders believed the location to be ideal for a boys’ school: the land and Haffenreffer mansion
, which initially housed classroom
s and a dormitory
, are situated on an arcadian peninsula
in Canaan Street Lake
with views of Mount Cardigan
and the White Mountains
to the east and the Green Mountains
to the west. The school opened on September 19, 1946 with an enrollment of 24 boys, and its growth was fueled by the merger of the Clark School
of Hanover, New Hampshire
into Cardigan in 1953.
, Phillips Exeter
, Phillips Andover
, Avon Old Farms
, Loomis Chaffee
, Taft School, Groton
, Peddie School
, Blair Academy
, Salisbury School
, Lawrenceville School
and many more. The school itself has a rigorous academic and athletic program. The varsity teams compete against high school junior varsity teams.
(where science labs are located) and Stoddard (which houses the school's library
and the Humann Theatre as well as classrooms). Other facilities include the school's chapel
, the Hamilton Health Center, the Hayward Dining Room, the Kenerson Athletic Center, the Charles C. Gates
I.D.E.A. Shop (which includes a woodshop), a sledding slope on Clancy Hill, and a boat house with a fleet of boats on Canaan Street Lake
. The school used to maintain and run a ski slope on property known as The Pinnacle, but it is no longer in use. The school has an indoor hockey rink known as Turner Arena, located in the Wakely Center, which converts to four tennis courts in the spring.
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
located on 62 Alumni Drive, Canaan, New Hampshire
Canaan, New Hampshire
Canaan is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,909 at the 2010 census. It is the location of Mascoma State Forest...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It was founded in 1945 on land provided by Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
.
It is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools
National Association of Independent Schools
The National Association of Independent Schools is a U.S.-based membership organization for private, nonprofit, K-12 schools. Founded in 1963, NAIS represents independent schools and associations in the United States, including day, boarding, and day/boarding schools; elementary and secondary...
(NAIS) and The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS). It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. is the U.S. regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation for all levels of education, from pre-kindergarten to the doctoral level, in the six-state New England region. It also provides accreditation for some...
(NEASC).
History
Cardigan Mountain School was founded in 1945 by a group of men who saw a void in educational programs tailored to the needs of boys in the pre-preparatory schoolUniversity-preparatory school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...
years. The founders were prominent New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
educators, businessmen, and civic leaders, including Ernest Martin Hopkins
Ernest Martin Hopkins
Ernest Martin Hopkins served as the 11th President of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945.- Dartmouth Presidency :...
(president of Dartmouth College), William R. Brewster (headmaster of Kimball Union Academy
Kimball Union Academy
Kimball Union Academy is a private boarding school located in New Hampshire. Founded in 1813, it is the 22nd oldest boarding school in the United States...
), and Ralph Flanders
Ralph Flanders
Ralph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer...
(a U.S. Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
from Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
). Land for the school’s campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
had originally been donated to Dartmouth College by the Haffenreffer
Rudolf F. Haffenreffer
Rudolf F. Haffenreffer III was a Rhode Island industrialist and philanthropist. Among his numerous family enterprises he was best known for his role as president and chairman of the Narragansett Brewing Company. He also received the Mount Hope Bridge in receivership in 1931...
family. The founders believed the location to be ideal for a boys’ school: the land and Haffenreffer mansion
Mansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
, which initially housed classroom
Classroom
A classroom is a room in which teaching or learning activities can take place. Classrooms are found in educational institutions of all kinds, including public and private schools, corporations, and religious and humanitarian organizations...
s and a dormitory
Dormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
, are situated on an arcadian peninsula
Peninsula
A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....
in Canaan Street Lake
Canaan Street Lake
Canaan Street Lake is a water body located in Grafton County in western New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Canaan. It is part of the Mascoma River watershed, a tributary of the Connecticut River....
with views of Mount Cardigan
Mount Cardigan
Mount Cardigan is a prominent bare-rock summit in the towns of Orange and Alexandria in western New Hampshire. While its peak is only above sea level, it has extensive areas of bare granite ledges and alpine scrub, giving it the feel to hikers of a much higher mountain...
and the White Mountains
White Mountains (New Hampshire)
The White Mountains are a mountain range covering about a quarter of the state of New Hampshire and a small portion of western Maine in the United States. Part of the Appalachian Mountains, they are considered the most rugged mountains in New England...
to the east and the Green Mountains
Green Mountains
The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont. The range extends approximately .-Peaks:The most notable mountains in the range include:*Mount Mansfield, , the highest point in Vermont*Killington Peak, *Mount Ellen,...
to the west. The school opened on September 19, 1946 with an enrollment of 24 boys, and its growth was fueled by the merger of the Clark School
Clark Preparatory School
Clark Preparatory School was a boys-only independent boarding school located in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. It was founded in 1919 by Dr. Clifford Pease Clark, and its headmaster was Dr. Frank Millett Morgan, both of whom were former members of the faculty of nearby Dartmouth College...
of Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2010 census. CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007....
into Cardigan in 1953.
Philosophy
Cardigan was built upon an educational experience that emphasized rigorous academics and study habits, as well as spiritual guidance, physical training, and social orientation. In order to accomplish this purpose, Cardigan’s program was tailored to each boy so that he made the best possible use of his potential in these areas. Thus, every boy had a balanced and well-rounded life: physically, mentally, and spiritually. This philosophy is the same today as it was in 1945. It sends many of its seniors to prestigious secondary schools such as St. Paul'sSt. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)
St. Paul's School is a highly selective college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The school is one of only six remaining 100% residential boarding schools in the U.S. The New Hampshire campus currently serves 533 students,...
, Phillips Exeter
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...
, Phillips Andover
Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...
, Avon Old Farms
Avon Old Farms
Avon Old Farms is a single-sex boarding school for boys located in Avon, Connecticut. It was founded by Theodate Pope Riddle, an RMS Lusitania survivor and a master architect. It opened in 1927 and closed for a period during World War II to serve as a convalescent hospital for blind veterans. The...
, Loomis Chaffee
Loomis Chaffee
The Loomis Chaffee School is a premier coeducational boarding school for grades 9–12 and postgraduates located on a 300-plus acre campus in the Connecticut River Valley in Windsor, Connecticut, six miles north of Hartford...
, Taft School, Groton
Groton School
Groton School is a private, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, U.S. It enrolls approximately 375 boys and girls, from the eighth through twelfth grades...
, Peddie School
Peddie School
The Peddie School is a college preparatory school in Hightstown, New Jersey, United States. It is a nondenominational, coeducational boarding school located on a 280‑acre campus, and serves students in the ninth through twelfth grades, plus a small post-graduate class...
, Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Blair Academy is a private, coeducational, secondary boarding high school with an enrollment of about 448 students for grades nine through twelve. The school has 78 faculty members...
, Salisbury School
Salisbury School
Salisbury School is an all-boys, private college-preparatory boarding school founded in 1901 and located in Salisbury, Connecticut. Its school newspaper is The Cupola. Its mascot is the Crimson Knight. The School's motto is Esse quam videri, which translates to To be rather than to seem to...
, Lawrenceville School
Lawrenceville School
The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent preparatory boarding school for grades 9–12 located on in the historic community of Lawrenceville, in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, U.S., five miles southwest of Princeton....
and many more. The school itself has a rigorous academic and athletic program. The varsity teams compete against high school junior varsity teams.
Dormitories
- Hayward
- Clark Morgan II
- Clark Morgan III
- Brewster I
- Brewster II
- Hinman I
- Hinman II
- French I
- French II
Other buildings and facilities
The school's principal academic buildings are Hopkins, BronfmanBronfman family
The Bronfman family is a Canadian Jewish family. It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman , who made a fortune in the alcoholic distilled beverage business during the 20th century through the family's Seagram Company. The family is of Russian Jewish and Romanian Jewish ancestry...
(where science labs are located) and Stoddard (which houses the school's library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
and the Humann Theatre as well as classrooms). Other facilities include the school's chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
, the Hamilton Health Center, the Hayward Dining Room, the Kenerson Athletic Center, the Charles C. Gates
Charles Gates, Jr.
Charles Cassius Gates, Jr. was a businessman and philanthropist. His father, Charles Gates Sr., bought Colorado Tire & Leather for $3,500 in 1911. The company was renamed The Gates Rubber Company in 1919. It became world's largest non-tire rubber manufacturer. Charles Gates Jr. took over in 1961,...
I.D.E.A. Shop (which includes a woodshop), a sledding slope on Clancy Hill, and a boat house with a fleet of boats on Canaan Street Lake
Canaan Street Lake
Canaan Street Lake is a water body located in Grafton County in western New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Canaan. It is part of the Mascoma River watershed, a tributary of the Connecticut River....
. The school used to maintain and run a ski slope on property known as The Pinnacle, but it is no longer in use. The school has an indoor hockey rink known as Turner Arena, located in the Wakely Center, which converts to four tennis courts in the spring.
Notable alumni
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, president of the American Geological InstituteAmerican Geological InstituteThe American Geosciences Institute is a nonprofit federation of 45 geoscientific and professional associations that represents more than 100,000 geologists, geophysicists, and other earth scientists...
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Further reading
- "Bring a Broom" Time magazine article, Dec. 30, 1946
External links
- School website
- Profile at Privateschoolreview.com
- Profile at Boardingschoolreview.com