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Happiness – Good By-Product, Bad Goal (Pt. 1)

July 05, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

Entering my third decade as a high school teacher in the late 90s, I wasn’t sure why I cringed when I would hear teenagers refer to Mom or Dad as “My Best Friend.”  Everyone in the room would beam with warmth.  It sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Maybe that’s why my heart [...]

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    Jason Dunbar ’95 (1976-2011)

    June 09, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

    I began teaching when I got out of college.  I’ve spent most of the following 35 years at Hyde School in Bath, Maine where Jason graduated in 1995.  A fair amount of time has passed since those days.  My daughters were babies then . . . now they’re in college… but the longer I do [...]

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      Summer Reading

      June 04, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

      Pretty cool list of books for your summer reading from The Atlantic Magazine by way of The Bowdoin Sun: http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/05/10-essential-books-for-thought-provoking-summer-reading/239657/ Onward,  Malcolm Gauld Share this: Tweet

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        3 Book Stores

        June 01, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

        In my travels this spring, I had the chance to duck in to three great book stores for some browsing: – The Strand in NYC (Broadway & 12th) – City Lights in SF (261 Columbus Ave. in North Beach) – Bookshop Santa Cruz (CA) These are one-of-a-kind independents that are presumably getting a surge in business due to the financial [...]

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          Let Us Remember

          May 30, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog, Uncategorized

          I grew up in a home where my sisters and I were taught a special appreciation for the sacrifices that American military men and women have made so that we might enjoy the freedoms that are commonly underappreciated.  That is because my mother lost her father and two brothers in World War II.  (One, an Air Force pilot, was shot at [...]

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            On Being Unconsciously Competent

            May 13, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

            As my Bowdoin College class prepares for its 35th reunion — Yikes!!! — the gradual re-gathering of the clan is yielding some interesting things that classmates are up to.  I am especially intrigued by a program called American Hero Training that begins operation on June 1 in Colorado.  Established by a classmate named Bob Smallwood, the program seeks to [...]

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              Evals #6: Evals Go International

              May 11, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

              Four years ago, Hyde cautiously stuck its proverbial toe in the waters of international student recruitment.  Whereas New England boarding schools have been enrolling large numbers of international students for a number of years now, we at Hyde were slow to do likewise for a variety of reasons.  One big one was our uncertainty over how [...]

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                Evals #5: Document Declarations

                May 09, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                As with all the designations, the definition and consequences of the Document have evolved.  “Back in the day,” it meant that you sat in the audience during commencement exercises and watched the proceedings.  In more recent years, Document recipients have delivered speeches.  (In any case, no one in the audience is aware of the various graduation designations.)  Historically, the [...]

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                  Evals #4: More Certificate Declarations

                  May 05, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                  More Certificate declarations:  Things in personal leadership and how I hold myself around campus are my strong areas but I do still feel academically I am not reaching my potential and this is an issue that I feel is holding me back.  Now none of this means that I am not striving to be at diploma, because [...]

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                    Evals #3: Certificate Declarations

                    May 04, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                    This year at Hyde-Bath, Certificate declarations outnumber Diploma declarations.  This is typical and especially true with classes with a high number of tw0-year students (i.e., students who entered as  juniors).  Many Hyde old-timers will say, “It takes three years to really get this place.”  While I don’t necessarily agree, I certainly understand the sentiment.  In any case, here is [...]

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                      Evals #2 – Diploma Declarations

                      May 02, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                      Each Hyde-Bath senior has begun the 2011 Evals process with a written statement to the faculty as a declaration of where he or she sees him/herself in terms of Diploma, Certificate, or Document.  While these declarations can and often do change over the course of the Evals, they provide a starting point.  Here are some comments from those students who [...]

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                        Evals #1

                        April 29, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                        At high schools across the country, seniors are settling into “Senioritis.”  They’ve got the credits necessary for graduation.  Maybe they’ve decided on a college for next year.  Time to chillax. Not so at Hyde.  In fact, Hyde seniors are now engaged in the most intense period of their whole time at the school: Senior Evaluations, [...]

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                          Wimpification

                          April 21, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                          At the just completed Spring Family Weekends at Bath and Woodstock we benefited from the wisdom of Hara Marano, author of Nation of Wimps.  Speaking to both sets of parents in two separate talks, Hara gave us a lot to think about.  Perhaps it is poetic justice that the New York Daily News published an [...]

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                            Musicians Who Reference Musicians

                            April 01, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                            The other day my mind got stuck on a jag of thinking about songs where one recording artist refers to another.  Why?  Ah… well… I’ll have to get back to you on that.  (And no, this is not some weird April Fools joke.)  Anyway, here are 20 good ones (alphabetical by artist) and a bonus: “There’ll [...]

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                              Still Surprised #4: Parents & Mentors

                              March 30, 2011 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog

                              One of the things I like so much about this book are the pearls of wisdom which regularly appear on a variety of topics.  Here are observations about parents and mentors.  On mentoring: “A mentor does so much more than share his or her wisdom with the mentored.  The mentor allows the protégé to share [...]

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