A room with a point of view

“Initially I drew this conversation diagram — and its partner that reads ‘Everyone a Listener, Everyone a Speaker’ — for teachers in the Exeter Humanities Institute. For the last several years I have kept the diagrams propped up on the board all the time; I hope that they cue students and help visitors understand more fully how Harkness teaching differs from typical American classrooms where teachers speak 70% of the time.”

“When he retired, David Swift ’61 —instructor in math and crew coach — gave me this rowing print that had hung in his classroom. I plan to pass it on to Tyler Caldwell, fellow English teacher and rowing coach. Tyler’s mother and I both taught English and shared dorm duty at Choate in the 1980s.”

"My first spring season as a crew coach — biology teacher Anne Rankin ’92 was in the third boat — I received a varsity letter from the athletic director. Later, Anne’s daughter Catherine Webber ’21 would become my advisee and also rowed for Exeter.”

To honor their teacher, Meredith Hitchcock ’06 and Sarah Odell ’06 established the M. Rebecca Moore Fund for Women’s Leadership. It will be used at the discretion of the Dean of Faculty to support female-identifying individuals who are interested in professional development and training opportunities for leadership roles.