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Around the Table
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Principal ThomasE.Hassan’56,’66,’70,’06(Hon.);P’11 Director of Communications Julie Quinn Editor Karen Ingraham Staff Writers Mike Catano,Alice Gray, Nicole Pellaton, Famebridge Witherspoon Class Notes Editor Janice M. Reiter Editorial Assistant Susan Goraczkowski Creative Director/Design David Nelson, Nelson Design Contributing Editor Edouard L. Desrochers ’45, ’62 (Hon.) Communications Advisory Committee Daniel G. Brown ’82, Robert C. Burtman ’74, Dorinda Elliott ’76, Alison Freeland ’72, Keith Johnson ’52, Yvonne M. Lopez ’93 TRUSTEES President G.Thompson Hutton ’73 Vice President Eunice Johnson Panetta ’84 David O. Beim ’58, Flobelle Burden Davis ’87, Marc C. de La Bruyère ’77, Walter C. Donovan ’81, Jonathan W. Galassi ’67,Thomas E. Hassan ’56, ’66, ’70, ’06 (Hon.); P’11, Robert A. Ho ’73, David R. Horn ’85,Alan R. Jones ’72, Sally Jutabha Michaels ’82,William K. Rawson ’71, Dr. Nina D. Russell ’82, Robert S. Silberman ’76, J. Douglas Smith ’83, Remy White Trafelet ’88, Morrison DeSoto Webb ’65 The Exeter Bulletin (ISSN No. 01950207) is published four times each year: fall, winter, spring, and summer, by Phillips Exeter Academy, 20 Main Street, Exeter NH 03833-2460, 603-772-4311. Periodicals postage paid at Exeter, NH, and at additional mailing offices. Printed in the USA by The Lane Press. The Exeter Bulletin is printed on recycled paper and sent free of charge to alumni/ae, parents, grandparents, friends, and educational institutions by Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH. Communications may be addressed to the editor; email bulletin@exeter.edu. Copyright 2011 by the Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy. ISSN-0195-0207 Postmasters: Send address changes to: Phillips Exeter Academy, Records Office, 20 Main Street, Exeter, NH 03833-2460.
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Features 20 | PEA’S MLK DAY TURNS 20 How Exeter celebrates one man’s dream By English Instructors Christine Robinson and Mercy Carbonell
26 | THE EVOLUTION OF SPACE A pictorial timeline of campus transformations Compiled by Karen Ingraham and Tom Wharton
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2 Around the Table: Faculty achievements, conga on ice, visiting scholar, Sweeney Todd, and more. 12 Table Talk with John Hutchins, financial aid director 14 Exoniana 16 Exonians in Review: From the Box Marked Some Are Missing by Charles W. Pratt ’52. Reviewed by David Weber
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32 Sports: Sled Hockey Scores at PEA by Mike Catano. Plus, winter sports roundup. 36 Connections: News and Notes from the Alumni/ae Community 39 Profiles: Stewart A. Lyons ’69, James Johnson-Piett ’97 and Alex Manfull ’09 102 In Memoriam: James Wells Griswold ’31 (Hon.) 104 Finis Origine Pendet: For Those Who Never Made It by Ryan Weggler ’01
12 Visit Exeter on the web at www. exeter.edu / Email us at bulletin@ exeter.edu
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COVER: ALEXANDRA FUIKS '10 AND STEPHANIE WU '11 PERFORM DURING MLK DAY 2009. DANCE PHOTO BY XITAI CHEN, MLK PHOTO COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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