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Cardigan Chronicle

Published twice each year, the Chronicle is the school’s signature print publication that provides feature articles, updates on academic programs and campus projects, and photographs from events that happen throughout the year.

Cardigan Summer Session celebrated its 75th anniversary this past summer, and we are commemorating this amazing program in the pages of this edition of the Chronicle. A mixture of academic enrichment and summer fun, Cardigan Summer Session has made lasting memories for boys and girls since it began only five years after Cardigan Mountain School’s founding in 1945. It’s one of the oldest summer programs in the country—and the best summer a kid could have.

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Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Feature: Seventy-Five Summers

They Know They’re Home

Head of School Chris Day P’12,’13 writes about how Cardigan Summer Session is and has been a summer destination for students since 1951. Their splashes on the waterfront, songs at the campfire, and encouraging cheers during the Green vs. White competitions—these are the sounds of summer in Canaan.

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Seventy-Five Summers

Cardigan’s Summer Session has long offered young people the best of summer—adventure, community, and the simple magic of life by the lake. But as we celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary, it is worth reflecting on what has made the program endure. Since its earliest days, Summer Session has been a place of transformation, where students discover new interests, new confidence, and a lasting connection to the program’s guiding ethos: Try Something New.

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Alan Goodrow with Summer Session students

Why I Teach: It’s a Vocation, Not a Job

For Alan Goodrow, teaching is about providing a space for students in which they feel welcome to learn, to grow, to make mistakes, to figure out who they are, and to be challenged.

The Start of Something Great

Join us in reading stories from Summer Session alumni from every decade for the past 75 years, and counting!

Letters from the Boys

School Leader Sosuke Imaizumi ’26 shares his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom.

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A Legacy of Growth: One Family’s 16-Year Journey with Cardigan

Cardigan was many miles away from their beautiful home in Monterrey, Mexico, but it would come to define a chapter in their family’s story that lasted for nearly two decades.

Living a Deliberate Life By Design

Braelin Thornton P’29 believes in giving life everything she has; there’s no time allotted for coasting or doom scrolling.

A Lifelong Cardigan Journey

Whether in the classroom, on the soccer field, or with students in an advisory meeting, Zach Wennik embodies the new generation of outstanding teachers at Cardigan.