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Start my subscription to The FREEMAN for the first 13 Weeks for just $30! When sending a check, send it with this form to: The FREEMAN 801 N. Barstow P.O. Box 7 Waukesha, WI 53187 For faster service, call 262/542-2500 or visit www.gmtoday.com/wfpromo SC:housead RC:3M30 By Lauren Anderson Freeman Staff DELAFIELD — As a min- strel heralded the arrival of a boar's head being carried on a stretcher by a group of monks, the dining hall of St. John's Northwestern Military Academy could easily have been mistaken for a medieval banquet Dec. 18. It was the annual Boar's Head Banquet, a tradition the school has preserved for more than a century. The dinner, which emulates a medieval castle feast, serves as an end-of-the- semester celebration, award ceremony and send- off for students before win- ter break. "The purpose of this ban- quet is to provide an oppor- tunity for the scholars, you gentlemen, and their tutors, faculty and staff, to say fare thee well," President Jack Albert said. "It is a well- deserved holiday and we recognize that." The pomp and circum- stance concluded a semester of hard work for students, many of whom come from across the coun- try and around the world to attend the school. The young men follow a strict rule of order. They wake up every morning at 6 a.m. to attend breakfast, followed by chapel, classes and chores. The feast serves as an out- let for the cadets to unwind and have fun before going home for the holidays. St. John's is among sever- al schools, most of which are in England, to carry on the tradition of the boar's head feast. The ceremony is inspired by a 16th century English legend in which a schoolboy was attacked by a wild boar while studying in the mid- dle of the woods. Using the only resource he had, the student shoved a Greek textbook into the boar's mouth, choking it to death. As the story goes, the boy went on to solicit his friends' help to bring the beast back to the college kitchen and prepare it for roasting. This was St. John's 107th banquet. "This ceremony has remained virtually unchanged in the long his- tory of this academy," Albert said. The evening began with a procession, prayer and opening remarks by Albert, all of which served as a preamble to the main event: the "Boar's Head Carol" performed by a group of students dressed as medieval characters. As a jester, minstrel, stan- dard bearer, cook, monks, pages and foresters marched the pig down the long dining hall, they chant- ed the 15th century carol. "The boar's head, as I understand is the rarest dish in all this land, which thus bedecked with a gay garland," the group sang, carrying a boar bedecked in a Santa hat, garland and ornaments. After the cast presented the pig to the head table, Albert declared, "Let the feast begin." While the pig was not actually served at the meal, the tables throughout Welles Dining Hall — a fieldstone building with lofty ceilings and arch- ways -— were filled with era-appropriate food. Following the meal, for- mer St. John's student Austin Welch, who now serves as first captain at West Point, addressed the dining hall. Welch spoke fondly of his time at the academy. "I am beyond convinced that St. John's Northwest- ern Military Academy is one of the best young leader development institutions in the world," he told the 225 cadets and guests. "I have St. John's to thank for many of the skills I have found useful throughout my life so far. I have a lot I owe St. John's for." Welch encouraged the stu- dents to consider them- selves as being part of a "brotherhood" with their classmates, noting the loss of his "brother" and fellow St. John's cadet Michael Metcalf, who died in Afghanistan in 2012. "That was my brother and he was your brother by association by being cadets here at St. John's," he said. On that note, Albert implored all of his students to return to school safely after the new year. Albert then lit the recess candle, which represents a vigil for the students while they are away and memorial to alumni. As part of the tra- dition, the candle is sup- posed to remain lit until the final cadet returns to school after winter break. "This is one of the most emotional parts of this whole ceremony," Albert said. "After we separate, it gets quiet around here. I will sometimes walk around campus and it's quiet. And that's unsettling to me because after a while I don't want it to be quiet. I want to hear you. So we lit this candle, it's a vigil — it's a watch over the cadets and staff." Concluding the ceremony, cadets stood around the long banquet tables, sang Christmas hymns, prayed a final prayer, and recessed in unison with their compa- nies. And then the banquet hall was quiet. Email: landerson@conleynet.com St. John's Northwestern Military Academy hosts Boar's Head Banquet Plunge From Page 1A Fellow friend Kaylee Habeck of Ixonia said it was her seventh time jumping and even though it had been as cold as 5 degrees in years past, she couldn't really tell the dif- ference. Habeck said the Jan. 1 event was the perfect Ice Bucket Challenge because it also raised money for the ALS Association. "It's nice recognition of the cause," she said. Bruce Lesniak of the Oconomowoc Rugby Club was breaking up the ice on the edges of the channel Jan. 1 in preparation for the 2 p.m. plunge. He said about eight to 10 team members were going to jump. "It's a dual role where you can do something and do good doing it," Lesniak said. By jumping into the water for charity on New Year's Day, Lesniak said, it causes people to start the year out right. The coldest New Year's Day Lesniak remembers doing the Polar Bear Plunge was minus- 5 degrees with 20 mph winds. "This is like a heat wave compared to that," Lesniak said of the Jan. 1 temperature of 24 degrees. Father and daughter jumpers Kyle Timmer and Maya Timmer, 14, of Oconomowoc, eyed up the water before waiting in the heated food and beverage tent. "It's been worse," Timmer, whose seventh jump was this year. "At least there's no snow on the ground." He said he intended to get out of the water fast and change into dry clothes quick- ly. When people were dis- cussing the ALS Association Ice Bucket Challenge this past summer, Kyle Timmer said, he liked to remind people that he is a polar bear so he was not daunted by the challenge. DELAFIELD — A Department of Natural Resources war- den from Waukesha responded to an odd call on Dec. 12: A doe had fallen through a swimming pool cover and become trapped, according to a feature on the DNR website. Warden Rick Reed responded to the Delafield home to find the deer had pushed her head through the cover. "It was kind of going crazy underneath there," he said. Working with the homeowner, Reed began to loosen the straps on the cover at the shallow end. "I think we had five or six off and when I went to shake the ice off, she came charging out — about a foot from the homeowner and me," Reed said. After looking at Reed and the homeowner for a few min- utes, the doe took off. — Freeman Staff Charles Auer/Freeman Staff Cadets proceed in with the boar's head during the start of the annual St. John's Northwestern Military Academy Boar's Head Banquet on Dec. 18. Submitted photo This photo taken by DNR Warden Rick Reed shows a doe trapped in a Delafield swimming pool. Reed said the doe, located just beyond the slide, almost looked like a lawn ornament with her head sticking out from the cover. Deer gets stuck in Delafield swimming pool

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