community purpose There's no time to waste As David Chen '23 heads into his senior year, the lesson he hopes to impart to younger Exonians is to seize every moment on campus. Meet David '23 “It’s dining on a bigger scale. You have to think out of the box a lot of the time, but I like that we can do different styles of cooking.” Executive Chef Pierre Gignac Join me for a day in my life at Exeter. Corinne Blaise '24 "My goal is to figure out how this library can continue with and increase its ability to partner with the rest of the institution, and to meet needs that maybe people haven’t even recognized yet." Laura Wood “When we grow up with privilege, it’s incumbent upon us to change the world we live in.” Beth Schmidt '82 "When we all have access to the basic things we need to thrive, we all benefit." Philip Alberti '93 "My first year, almost all my evaluations included: ‘She has really good ideas; she just needs to let others hear them.’ Well, I don’t have a problem with that anymore." Candace Bacchus Hollingsworth '99 “I’ve never had so many kids hungry to do stuff. I was like, ‘Wow, I gotta keep up.’” Marcus Rabb "The school is always striving to be better, to pursue ever more successfully its mission of gathering “youth from every quarter” and instilling in them “goodness and knowledge.” Sam Maruca '73 "Not long after I returned to teaching, my husband commented ‘I don’t know if I’ve seen you this happy in a long time.’ It’s true. Teaching makes me happy. It’s my life.” Science Instructor Melissa Mischke “It’s very nostalgic, and there are a lot of powerful memories here.” Trevor Marrero ’12 "I was knocked out by the sheer power of that sound, transported really I thought the only kind of music that had that kind of genius, virtuosity and earthy directness was Beethoven and Chopin." John Davis '75 "I love taking inklings of ideas that resonate, rolling up my sleeves, and trying to figure out how to make it happen." Diana Zhang '02 More
community purpose There's no time to waste As David Chen '23 heads into his senior year, the lesson he hopes to impart to younger Exonians is to seize every moment on campus. Meet David '23
