‘Learning from the land’

Students pause, step outside and connect with nature during Exeter’s annual Climate Action Day.

Byran Huang ’25 is happy to share

Senior documents laptop build for all the world to see.

Word of mouth: Exeter siblings spread awareness with documentary

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The Exeter Experience

This year’s new students, who come from 31 countries and 35 states, are here to meet their fellow Exonians and get a dose of life on campus before they come back in the fall.

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Heard in Assembly Hall

"My story is not a pretty story, it is not a pleasant story, but it is American history. Is it OK for us to talk about history today?" — Rev. Wheeler Parker: the cousin and last surviving eyewitness of Emmett Till

I felt awe, I felt pride and I felt sadness. Hot tears started running down my cheeks. I was trying to furiously wipe them away. I didn’t want my dad to see, but he did notice and he placed a hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Let the tears fall. The day that you stop crying, or at least don’t feel like crying when you take an animal’s life, is the day that you should stop hunting.’
— Tia Shoemaker, Registered Alaskan Hunting Guide

"The difference between good writers and bad writers is that good writers know when they are bad." — Dan Brown '82, addressing Exeter's ninth-graders

"I think one of the things that’s so essential at this moment in time is that we recognize that history is part of a continuum" — Julia Mintz, documentary filmmaker

It's a very good lesson, a lesson I always took to heart: Things can change very quickly. In politics. In society. In culture. And in life.
— William Kristol, political commentator

"We all want to have a purpose in life; that there’s something we’re doing on this planet beyond how much money we’re making or what size house we live in." — Tom Steyer '75, Climate investor and activist