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FOLIAGE DAY
On Thursday, November 4, we ran a special schedule and cancelled afternoon classes, sports, and activities. It was sunny, clear, and even a little chilly, the perfect day for a brisk hike through the woods with friends. Students and faculty arrived at school dressed in outdoor attire. Around noon, the entire school headed off by class down Main Street. Small packs of hikers spread out behind the church and up the road toward the elementary school where a path behind the playground leads into the woods and eventually all the way to Burleigh Mountain.
At the top of the mountain, the dining hall staff hosted a cookout, while music played in the background. This year marked the debut of the 50-foot climbing tower, which attracted numerous onlookers and only the most courageous teachers and students. One-by-one, harnessed climbers scaled the poles and crawled all the way up to the platform. Whatever you do, don’t look down! Congratulations to everyone who made it to the top.
Most students walked off their lunch and headed up to the top of the mountain to take in the breathtaking view that includes the White Mountains, New Hampton village, and, of course, our very own campus. The sophomore class won the class competition to the top of the mountain, eking past the freshman with an impressive 83 percent of the class checking in at the top. Good job, 2007, for showing the most outdoor adventure and winning $300 toward your class funds! As always, we look forward to this annual tradition again next fall.
RED SOX WIN
Who would have known when I stood up at School Meeting in September and said: “If the Red Sox win it all, you can have the day off.” Well, after we beat the Yankees, some of our students thought that should qualify as “win it all.” It did not, so the anticipation level rose a notch as we headed into battle with St. Louis. With the Red Sox win in game four on Wednesday, the 27th of October, my time of postponing the day off was over. During the midst of Trustee Meetings and Halloween costume day, I stood at School Meeting and told the community we would all sleep in on Saturday and enjoy the day, compliments of our World Series Champs.
HALLOWEEN
From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
— Traditional Scottish prayer
On Friday, October 29, much creativity was in evidence as students, faculty, and staff pulled out all the stops to out-costume one another. At School Meeting, characters in attendance ranged from Snow White to cows to a tennis ball to punk rockers to campers in sleeping bags to Goth vampires to hunters to belly dancers to Hawaiian surfers! The residents of Lindsay were particularly hilarious in a short skit they performed based on a Six Flags television commercial.
DRACULA
The New Hampton School Theatre Season opened Thursday, November 4, with a performance of “Dracula.” Performances continued on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 5 and 6, in the McEvoy Theater.
This production of “Dracula” presented a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel. While casting a contemporary eye on one of fiction’s most notorious predators, the play is not a “gloom and doom” drama. The action moves quickly through rapid dialogue, dances, singing, incidental music, and a swordfight.
The play was directed by Rob Wright, Director of Theatre Arts, with choreography and costumes by Leah White ’07, lighting design by Will Eurich ’05, musical direction by Christine Melanson, and sword combat arranged by Morgan Murphy. The cast included Neal Murphy ’05, Stephanie Grumbacher ’05, Alexander C. Albert ’05, Alle Karol ’08, Warren Chao ’07, Ashley Marren ’05, Nathanial Schultz ’07, Katy Polimeno ’07, Rachel Elkin ’07, Livia Kingan ’05, Cassidy Torrey ’06, Ashley Conner ’08, Katie Gillis ’07, Brittanie Hillman ’05, Olivia Van Buskirk ’07, Sarah McLean ’07, Leah White ’07, and Allison Swift ’06. The technical crew included Will Eurich ’05, Helene Aufranc ’07, Zach Stoppe ’06, Allison Swift ’06, Allyson Clodfelter ’06, and Bill Green ’06.
The theatre season will continue with “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” directed by senior Stephanie Grumbacher, on January 21 and 22; “The Glass Menagerie,” directed by Matthew Cheney ’94, on February 3, 4, and 5; and a spring production, directed by Rob Wright, scheduled for May 12, 13, and 14.
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
NHS varsity football will host the Smith-Sorota Game/Class “A” Championship game at Palazzi Field on Saturday, November 20th at 1 p.m. The NHS Huskies will take on the Hilltoppers of Worcester Academy. Deerfield and Canterbury will play for the Class “B” Championship and Governor Dummer and Brunswick will play for the Class “C” Championship. The New Hampton Varsity Football team finished the regular season undefeated with a record of 7-0. The team averaged 43 points per game and allowed only 14 per game.
The Huskies played their hardest schedule in nearly 20 years, which meant playing Blair Academy (N.J.), Rutland High School (Vt.), Worcester Academy (Mass.), Brooklyn Poly Prep (N.Y.), and Phillips Exeter Academy (N.H.). With their win against Exeter, the Huskies earned a bid to their third consecutive Superbowl on November 20th. Leading the Huskies are captains Brendan Smith ’05, Scott Szpyrka ’06 , and Colin Lynch ’05. The team consistently plays together and for each other; each player has a definitive role and fulfills that responsibility on a daily basis.
The Huskies are currently ranked 79th in the country among all high schools and 10th in the East. Among prep schools, New Hampton School ranked #1 in the nation! The school takes great pride in the players and coaches and what they have accomplished this fall.
SKI TEAM DEPARTS FOR COPPER MOUNTAIN
On Friday, November 19, at 4:00 a.m., 14 of our USSA skiers will travel to Boston for the start of their ski season. Thanksgiving Break means something very different to these New Hampton students and their four coaches. Some of our top alpine racers head to Copper Mountain where they will spend the next eight days running gates in the high altitude Rockies. It is quite a sight to see training lanes roped off across the mountainside for teams from all over the world. Racers break in new equipment, work on perfecting their technique, and begin bonding for their more than four-month-long season. Ask any one of them and they will tell you the sacrifice of missing Thanksgiving with their families is worth the opportunity to jump-start their season. Missing Thanksgiving is just the beginning for this dedicated group which spends the school’s next three breaks training and racing. Their first race of the season, a GS at Attitash, is a mere two weeks after they return to New Hampton.
NHS AT THE BOSTON CELTICS
Join us on Sunday, February 13, 2005, when the Celtics take on the Sacramento Kings (with our own Darius Songaila ’98). A pre-game reception will be held at 4:00 p.m. at Anthem, with the game to begin 6:00 p.m. Information will be in the mail to you after Thanksgiving Break. For tickets and details, contact Cindy Buck at 603-677-3414 or email cbuck@newhampton.org.
WE MOURN THE LOSS OF KIM CRAFT
At School Meeting, on Monday the 15th, I informed the School Community about the death of Kim Craft, NHS Class of 2002. Kim was a passenger in a car involved in a head-on collision in Milton, Massachusetts, on November 14; she died at the scene. A junior at Curry College, the 21-year-old Craft was a star on the basketball team. Kimberly came to New Hampton from Falmouth, Massachusetts. During her post-graduate year at New Hampton School, Kimberly contributed her considerable talent to the Lady Huskies in basketball and in soccer. She was a hard worker who was well liked by her peers and her teachers.
SHARING ST. PAULS SCHOOL’S LOSS
On Sunday, November 7, Clifford Nyquist, a 15-year-old sophomore at Saint Paul’s School in Concord, died in an accident at the school’s new pool. Clifford grew up ski racing with the Gunstock Ski Club and was a good friend of some of our students.
After School Meeting on Monday, I met with our students and informed them of Clifford’s death. I was accompanied by our Ski Coach Bill Cramton, Senior Master Jennifer Berry and School Counselor Stacey Redman. Those who knew Clifford spent much of the rest of the day together and were joined by two Holderness students who shared our loss.
On behalf of the New Hampton School Community, I expressed condolences to Craig Anderson, the Rector at Saint Paul’s School, passing along our thoughts and prayers to their community. I also expressed condolences to the Nyquist family and we sent a donation in memory of Clifford to the Gunstock Ski Club.
In an email to our community, I said: “The tragic loss of Clifford is a sadness that will never totally fade away. His loss must make each of us stronger and must force us to cherish our relationships with loved ones more than ever. We need to count our blessings everyday and take care of one another.”
YOUR INFORMATION ONLINE
In an attempt to streamline our internal management of information from parents relative to contact information changes or updates, we ask that parents send all such corrections to: parents@newhampton.org rather than making the changes yourselves in the profile portion of the Parent Community Page on our website.
Please log into the website next week for the online release of Fall Final report cards! If you need help logging in, please email parents@newhampton.org.
COLLEGE NEWS
PSAT/MNSQT results for the Class of 2006 should arrive here in the next four weeks. As soon as they arrive, they will be distributed to the members of the Class of 2006, and I will send all the parents of the Class of 2006 a letter concerning the results.
College applications for the Class of 2005 that have deadlines before January 15th must be turned in to my office before December 1st. Applications with deadlines between January 15th and February 1st must be turned in to our office before December 15th. The only way a college receives the SDAT or ACT results is by the student requesting those be sent directly from the testing agency. If you are applying for Financial Aid, make sure you follow the guidelines in our Financial Aid Newsletter sent home in October. The information is always available on our college advising website as well; visit http://www.newhampton.org/programs/advise
FACULTY PROFILE: MEGAN GARCIA
BY Cara Parker
Quiet and poised, new faculty member Megan Garcia brings an interesting background in world issues to the New Hampton School campus.
Megan holds a B.S. in Political Science from U.C. Davis. Strong in her political beliefs, she worked on the Howard Dean for President campaign as a volunteer. She also worked for the California State Treasurer as an advance person, coordinating events for that office.
After college, Megan wanted to do something adventurous and something that would give back. "The Peace Corps offered me a chance to see and live in a part of the world I had never seen before." She served in a small village in Senegal, West Africa, where she was a rural health care volunteer. For almost three years, she educated the community about AIDS, Malaria, and nutrition.
"Through my Peace Corps experience, I discovered that I liked teaching," Megan explains. At NHS, Megan draws upon her overseas experience to teach students about other parts of the world. "My service gave me a strength and perseverance that I hope I can nurture in my kids," she says.
On campus, Megan is a tutor, Spanish II teacher, dorm parent in Berry Hall, and a Recreational Ski Coach and JV Tennis coach. "I like being able to live with and teach the NHS kids," she comments. "It gives me an opportunity to really know them. This community is amazing! There is such a support system in place for both faculty and students."
Originally from Sacramento, California, Megan's entire family still resides on the West Coast, with the exception of her sister, who is studying in Boston. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, running, hiking, reading, traveling, and following politics.
TRUSTEE PROFILE: DAVID GIARDINO
by Bob Pollock
Dave Giardino is a member of New Hampton School’s Class of 1949. During his four years at NHS, he played football, hockey, and baseball and was a manager for the basketball team. He was a member of the Outing Club, worked on staff of both The Manitou and The Belfry (yearbook), and he was involved in public speaking. After graduating from New Hampton School, he entered Princeton University, where he received his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1953. From 1953 through 1958 Dave served in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant in the Civil Engineering Corps.
Following his discharge from the Navy, Dave began a 33-year career as president of EQUIPCO Sales and Rental Corp., of Somerville, New Jersey. In 1962 he also became the owner of Benchmark Real Estate of Princeton, N.J. From 1975-1985 he was the President of EQUIPEX International of Brussels, Belgium.
Elected to the NHS Board of Trustees in 2001, Dave is a very dedicated and active addition to the board. A well-respected spokesperson for New Hampton School, he is articulate and outspoken on many issues. He currently sits on the Finance and Mission Assessment committees.
Dave also is a Policy Board Member of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, and he served on the Board of Directors of Associated Equipment Distributors from 1982-1992. His memberships include the New York Athletic Club, the Springdale Golf Club, and the Nassau Club.
Dave lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife Lorraine. In his leisure hours, he spends time with his grandchildren, making sure that each day with them is a learning experience, and traveling with them to destinations around the globe.
ENJOY THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY!
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On Thursday, November 4, we ran a special schedule and cancelled afternoon classes, sports, and activities. It was sunny, clear, and even a little chilly, the perfect day for a brisk hike through the woods with friends. Students and faculty arrived at school dressed in outdoor attire. Around noon, the entire school headed off by class down Main Street. Small packs of hikers spread out behind the church and up the road toward the elementary school where a path behind the playground leads into the woods and eventually all the way to Burleigh Mountain.
At the top of the mountain, the dining hall staff hosted a cookout, while music played in the background. This year marked the debut of the 50-foot climbing tower, which attracted numerous onlookers and only the most courageous teachers and students. One-by-one, harnessed climbers scaled the poles and crawled all the way up to the platform. Whatever you do, don’t look down! Congratulations to everyone who made it to the top.
Most students walked off their lunch and headed up to the top of the mountain to take in the breathtaking view that includes the White Mountains, New Hampton village, and, of course, our very own campus. The sophomore class won the class competition to the top of the mountain, eking past the freshman with an impressive 83 percent of the class checking in at the top. Good job, 2007, for showing the most outdoor adventure and winning $300 toward your class funds! As always, we look forward to this annual tradition again next fall.
RED SOX WIN
Who would have known when I stood up at School Meeting in September and said: “If the Red Sox win it all, you can have the day off.” Well, after we beat the Yankees, some of our students thought that should qualify as “win it all.” It did not, so the anticipation level rose a notch as we headed into battle with St. Louis. With the Red Sox win in game four on Wednesday, the 27th of October, my time of postponing the day off was over. During the midst of Trustee Meetings and Halloween costume day, I stood at School Meeting and told the community we would all sleep in on Saturday and enjoy the day, compliments of our World Series Champs.
HALLOWEEN
From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
— Traditional Scottish prayer
On Friday, October 29, much creativity was in evidence as students, faculty, and staff pulled out all the stops to out-costume one another. At School Meeting, characters in attendance ranged from Snow White to cows to a tennis ball to punk rockers to campers in sleeping bags to Goth vampires to hunters to belly dancers to Hawaiian surfers! The residents of Lindsay were particularly hilarious in a short skit they performed based on a Six Flags television commercial.
DRACULA
The New Hampton School Theatre Season opened Thursday, November 4, with a performance of “Dracula.” Performances continued on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 5 and 6, in the McEvoy Theater.
This production of “Dracula” presented a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel. While casting a contemporary eye on one of fiction’s most notorious predators, the play is not a “gloom and doom” drama. The action moves quickly through rapid dialogue, dances, singing, incidental music, and a swordfight.
The play was directed by Rob Wright, Director of Theatre Arts, with choreography and costumes by Leah White ’07, lighting design by Will Eurich ’05, musical direction by Christine Melanson, and sword combat arranged by Morgan Murphy. The cast included Neal Murphy ’05, Stephanie Grumbacher ’05, Alexander C. Albert ’05, Alle Karol ’08, Warren Chao ’07, Ashley Marren ’05, Nathanial Schultz ’07, Katy Polimeno ’07, Rachel Elkin ’07, Livia Kingan ’05, Cassidy Torrey ’06, Ashley Conner ’08, Katie Gillis ’07, Brittanie Hillman ’05, Olivia Van Buskirk ’07, Sarah McLean ’07, Leah White ’07, and Allison Swift ’06. The technical crew included Will Eurich ’05, Helene Aufranc ’07, Zach Stoppe ’06, Allison Swift ’06, Allyson Clodfelter ’06, and Bill Green ’06.
The theatre season will continue with “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” directed by senior Stephanie Grumbacher, on January 21 and 22; “The Glass Menagerie,” directed by Matthew Cheney ’94, on February 3, 4, and 5; and a spring production, directed by Rob Wright, scheduled for May 12, 13, and 14.
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
NHS varsity football will host the Smith-Sorota Game/Class “A” Championship game at Palazzi Field on Saturday, November 20th at 1 p.m. The NHS Huskies will take on the Hilltoppers of Worcester Academy. Deerfield and Canterbury will play for the Class “B” Championship and Governor Dummer and Brunswick will play for the Class “C” Championship. The New Hampton Varsity Football team finished the regular season undefeated with a record of 7-0. The team averaged 43 points per game and allowed only 14 per game.
The Huskies played their hardest schedule in nearly 20 years, which meant playing Blair Academy (N.J.), Rutland High School (Vt.), Worcester Academy (Mass.), Brooklyn Poly Prep (N.Y.), and Phillips Exeter Academy (N.H.). With their win against Exeter, the Huskies earned a bid to their third consecutive Superbowl on November 20th. Leading the Huskies are captains Brendan Smith ’05, Scott Szpyrka ’06 , and Colin Lynch ’05. The team consistently plays together and for each other; each player has a definitive role and fulfills that responsibility on a daily basis.
The Huskies are currently ranked 79th in the country among all high schools and 10th in the East. Among prep schools, New Hampton School ranked #1 in the nation! The school takes great pride in the players and coaches and what they have accomplished this fall.
SKI TEAM DEPARTS FOR COPPER MOUNTAIN
On Friday, November 19, at 4:00 a.m., 14 of our USSA skiers will travel to Boston for the start of their ski season. Thanksgiving Break means something very different to these New Hampton students and their four coaches. Some of our top alpine racers head to Copper Mountain where they will spend the next eight days running gates in the high altitude Rockies. It is quite a sight to see training lanes roped off across the mountainside for teams from all over the world. Racers break in new equipment, work on perfecting their technique, and begin bonding for their more than four-month-long season. Ask any one of them and they will tell you the sacrifice of missing Thanksgiving with their families is worth the opportunity to jump-start their season. Missing Thanksgiving is just the beginning for this dedicated group which spends the school’s next three breaks training and racing. Their first race of the season, a GS at Attitash, is a mere two weeks after they return to New Hampton.
NHS AT THE BOSTON CELTICS
Join us on Sunday, February 13, 2005, when the Celtics take on the Sacramento Kings (with our own Darius Songaila ’98). A pre-game reception will be held at 4:00 p.m. at Anthem, with the game to begin 6:00 p.m. Information will be in the mail to you after Thanksgiving Break. For tickets and details, contact Cindy Buck at 603-677-3414 or email cbuck@newhampton.org.
WE MOURN THE LOSS OF KIM CRAFT
At School Meeting, on Monday the 15th, I informed the School Community about the death of Kim Craft, NHS Class of 2002. Kim was a passenger in a car involved in a head-on collision in Milton, Massachusetts, on November 14; she died at the scene. A junior at Curry College, the 21-year-old Craft was a star on the basketball team. Kimberly came to New Hampton from Falmouth, Massachusetts. During her post-graduate year at New Hampton School, Kimberly contributed her considerable talent to the Lady Huskies in basketball and in soccer. She was a hard worker who was well liked by her peers and her teachers.
SHARING ST. PAULS SCHOOL’S LOSS
On Sunday, November 7, Clifford Nyquist, a 15-year-old sophomore at Saint Paul’s School in Concord, died in an accident at the school’s new pool. Clifford grew up ski racing with the Gunstock Ski Club and was a good friend of some of our students.
After School Meeting on Monday, I met with our students and informed them of Clifford’s death. I was accompanied by our Ski Coach Bill Cramton, Senior Master Jennifer Berry and School Counselor Stacey Redman. Those who knew Clifford spent much of the rest of the day together and were joined by two Holderness students who shared our loss.
On behalf of the New Hampton School Community, I expressed condolences to Craig Anderson, the Rector at Saint Paul’s School, passing along our thoughts and prayers to their community. I also expressed condolences to the Nyquist family and we sent a donation in memory of Clifford to the Gunstock Ski Club.
In an email to our community, I said: “The tragic loss of Clifford is a sadness that will never totally fade away. His loss must make each of us stronger and must force us to cherish our relationships with loved ones more than ever. We need to count our blessings everyday and take care of one another.”
YOUR INFORMATION ONLINE
In an attempt to streamline our internal management of information from parents relative to contact information changes or updates, we ask that parents send all such corrections to: parents@newhampton.org rather than making the changes yourselves in the profile portion of the Parent Community Page on our website.
Please log into the website next week for the online release of Fall Final report cards! If you need help logging in, please email parents@newhampton.org.
COLLEGE NEWS
PSAT/MNSQT results for the Class of 2006 should arrive here in the next four weeks. As soon as they arrive, they will be distributed to the members of the Class of 2006, and I will send all the parents of the Class of 2006 a letter concerning the results.
College applications for the Class of 2005 that have deadlines before January 15th must be turned in to my office before December 1st. Applications with deadlines between January 15th and February 1st must be turned in to our office before December 15th. The only way a college receives the SDAT or ACT results is by the student requesting those be sent directly from the testing agency. If you are applying for Financial Aid, make sure you follow the guidelines in our Financial Aid Newsletter sent home in October. The information is always available on our college advising website as well; visit http://www.newhampton.org/programs/advise
FACULTY PROFILE: MEGAN GARCIA
BY Cara Parker
Quiet and poised, new faculty member Megan Garcia brings an interesting background in world issues to the New Hampton School campus.
Megan holds a B.S. in Political Science from U.C. Davis. Strong in her political beliefs, she worked on the Howard Dean for President campaign as a volunteer. She also worked for the California State Treasurer as an advance person, coordinating events for that office.
After college, Megan wanted to do something adventurous and something that would give back. "The Peace Corps offered me a chance to see and live in a part of the world I had never seen before." She served in a small village in Senegal, West Africa, where she was a rural health care volunteer. For almost three years, she educated the community about AIDS, Malaria, and nutrition.
"Through my Peace Corps experience, I discovered that I liked teaching," Megan explains. At NHS, Megan draws upon her overseas experience to teach students about other parts of the world. "My service gave me a strength and perseverance that I hope I can nurture in my kids," she says.
On campus, Megan is a tutor, Spanish II teacher, dorm parent in Berry Hall, and a Recreational Ski Coach and JV Tennis coach. "I like being able to live with and teach the NHS kids," she comments. "It gives me an opportunity to really know them. This community is amazing! There is such a support system in place for both faculty and students."
Originally from Sacramento, California, Megan's entire family still resides on the West Coast, with the exception of her sister, who is studying in Boston. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, running, hiking, reading, traveling, and following politics.
TRUSTEE PROFILE: DAVID GIARDINO
by Bob Pollock
Dave Giardino is a member of New Hampton School’s Class of 1949. During his four years at NHS, he played football, hockey, and baseball and was a manager for the basketball team. He was a member of the Outing Club, worked on staff of both The Manitou and The Belfry (yearbook), and he was involved in public speaking. After graduating from New Hampton School, he entered Princeton University, where he received his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1953. From 1953 through 1958 Dave served in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant in the Civil Engineering Corps.
Following his discharge from the Navy, Dave began a 33-year career as president of EQUIPCO Sales and Rental Corp., of Somerville, New Jersey. In 1962 he also became the owner of Benchmark Real Estate of Princeton, N.J. From 1975-1985 he was the President of EQUIPEX International of Brussels, Belgium.
Elected to the NHS Board of Trustees in 2001, Dave is a very dedicated and active addition to the board. A well-respected spokesperson for New Hampton School, he is articulate and outspoken on many issues. He currently sits on the Finance and Mission Assessment committees.
Dave also is a Policy Board Member of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, and he served on the Board of Directors of Associated Equipment Distributors from 1982-1992. His memberships include the New York Athletic Club, the Springdale Golf Club, and the Nassau Club.
Dave lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife Lorraine. In his leisure hours, he spends time with his grandchildren, making sure that each day with them is a learning experience, and traveling with them to destinations around the globe.
ENJOY THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY!
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