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May 11, 2012 | By Kirstie Truluck | Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

I must borrow this title line from Malcolm Gauld so I can tell you a story that makes me smile. Not many students these days know my favorite old band, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Fewer still know the melancholy and romantic melody of the band’s tune Helplessly Hoping. However, this spring a student chose this [...]

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May 07, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Guest Bloggers, Malcolm's Blog

I was recently reading an opinion piece on the back cover of the Sports Illustrated May 2012 edition, written by Phil Taylor, a mainstay columnist to the magazine. This piece, a sarcastic muse stemming from the NFL draft, asked readers to consider Andrew Rodriguez, a linebacker at Army. Taylor asks the reader to consider the [...]

H-Bomb @ 18

May 03, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

My son is now a man. I guess that means that his old man is now, well, an old man. During my headmaster days (1987-98) I wrote a 4-page newsletter called Malcolm’s Monthly. Here’s an excerpt from the piece I wrote 18 years ago on the occasion of his birth: ….While it may be less [...]

Humility & True Teaching

May 01, 2012 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

This piece is a reflection by rookie Hyde teacher Alex Smith. Read on to enjoy a teaching moment he experienced during his Algebra II class.

Know Thy Kryptonite

April 25, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

I spoke last night at Freeport (ME) High School. It was the first in a series of five talks I will be giving this spring at Greater Portland high schools on behalf of Casco Bay Can, an organization of parents committed to curbing substance abuse among teenagers. (Upcoming dates will include Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Greely, and [...]

Levon Helm (1940-2012)

April 20, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

“Why do the best things always disappear?” Levon Helm employs his signature vocals to ask that question in “Ophelia.” He was thinking about lost love. Listening to it right now, I’m thinking about him. In fact, right now my iTunes collection is firing off a run of evocative songs: – “Any day now, any day [...]

Central Park

April 19, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

Is there an urban run in America better than Central Park? I managed to sneak in a couple of them this week. With the leaves beginning to show and the temps in the 80s, it was glorious. (Favorite scene this time: a presumably just-married tuxedoed groom and bride in white walking off together…alone.) While Central Park has inspired many [...]

Keep Going

April 13, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

This week I’ve been doing some hand-holding with players and coaches from the Hyde-Bath lacrosse teams. Both the men and women have gotten off to rough starts with some discouraging lopsided defeats. As far as offering advice, I don’t think I can improve upon a quote attributed to Winston Churchill: “If you’re going though hell, [...]

Radio WMAL

April 10, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Current Events & Issues, Malcolm's Blog

Last week while the Hyde-Bath seniors were beginning their senior evaluation process with the faculty, I got to do some teaching with the underclasspeople. Given three hour-long sessions, I decided to go musical with my own theme-time radio hour: Radio WMAL. At first, I figured I’d present a history of protest music, but then thought of all [...]

Wit & Wisdom from The Week Magazine

April 04, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Malcolm's Blog, Yup!

From the 4/5/12 issue: “The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.” – Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” – Winston Churchill “The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.” – [...]

The Cardinal Virtues

April 02, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Malcolm's Blog, Yup!

If you’ve read this blog before, you probably know that I’m a fan of The Art of Manliness website. (See www.artofmanliness.com) Expecting the April 1 entry to be booby-trapped with jokes, I clicked with caution. My eyes lit up when they came upon a piece on William De Witt Hyde and a small book he [...]

Sandy McDonnell #2

March 28, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

A few days ago I paid tribute to Sandy McDonnell, describing our brief exchange of greetings in San Francisco in September. After that meeting, I sent him a copy of my book, College Success Guaranteed, as well as a few pieces I have written on Brother’s Keeper at Hyde. Despite what had to be a period of considerable discomfort for [...]

Wayback Machine #1 – Feb 1991

March 26, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

Back in my headmaster days (1987-98), I used to write a newsletter called Malcolm’s Monthly. For me, if offers a historical record of life at Hyde reaching back to days when I could never have envisioned something like a blog. So, from time to time, I might offer up a few excerpts in hopes of shedding light on [...]

Sanford McDonnell (1922-2012)

March 21, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

I am deeply saddened to learn that Sandy McDonnell died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at age 89. While he was perhaps best known as a business giant (CEO of McDonnell Douglas Aircraft), we educators will remember him as the founder of the Character Education Partnership (CEP), the organization he founded in 1993 to promote character education in our nation’s schools. At [...]

App Faves

March 20, 2012 | By Malcolm Gauld | Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

Speaking of Apps, I thought I’d toss out a few of my favorites in hopes that I might get a few good reccs back from some of you. Setting aside the usual suspects – magazine subscriptions, apps that automatically come with the iPad, obvious ones like Facebook or YouTube – here are some of my favorites: - Find [...]

Song #459: "Blue Monk" from Thelonious Monk Quartet w/John Coltrane @ Carnegie Hall (1957). "So tell me, How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" 12:34:51 PM May 15, 2012 from web
Song #458: "Chicago" by Tom Waits. Off Bad As Me '11. "... brave for us to stay, even braver to go. Maybe things will be better in Chicago." 01:20:01 PM May 12, 2012 from web
Song #457: "Ohio" by C,S,N&Y (1970) 42 years ago today: Kent State Massacre... "How can you run when you know?" 12:24:32 PM May 04, 2012 from Twitter for iPad
Know Thy Kryptonite - http://t.co/OpdGw1hX (via #sociablesite) http://t.co/OpdGw1hX 12:42:28 PM April 25, 2012 from Tweet Button
Levon Helm (1940-2012) - http://t.co/5NLz7cAm (via #sociablesite) http://t.co/5NLz7cAm 11:23:01 AM April 20, 2012 from Tweet Button

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