Phillips Exeter Academy Class of 1980

From the Alumni Office:

Reminder! Homecoming 2005
Saturday, November 12

The Academy’s fourth Homecoming is coming up on Saturday, November 12, 2005. We hope you’ll come home to Exeter and participate in the day’s activities. (Pre-register to attend online and double your chances of winning an Exeter chair.)
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A little food for thought:

This year has seen many notable calls for donations — for the Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the recent earthquake in Pakistan and India. This comes in addition to the ongoing needs of other worthy causes doing good works at home and abroad.

As an individual and as a class agent, I sometimes find myself wondering about the priority and impact of contributions to Exeter versus other philanthropic projects. This also comes up as a topic of conversation among classmates. I always encourage classmates to participate, but respect their interest and support for other causes as well.
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I had wondered (but not too much) about where Ty Tingley went. Mystery solved.

Hi, I found your site on Google because I too was wondering what was with the “Acting Principal Tom Hassan.” I couldn’t imagine how Tingley could disappear without a letter being sent to the alumni. But the full text of Hassan’s opening assembly remarks explains that nothing is amiss; Tingley is just on sabbatical until March:

http://www.exeter.edu/opening_assembly_05.htm

I hope this helps.
-Jonathan Elgart ‘87

I just found a list of “missing persons” from our class that don’t have current contact info listed at the alumni office. If you’re on this list, the good news is you’re not getting junk mail from Exeter. The bad news is you’re missing out on staying in touch with old friends. You can send updates to “records at exeter.edu” (remove the spaces and replace “at” with “@”). If you find this, you might also want to post a reply here, even if you don’t want to hear from the alumni office…

Mr. John G. Arnason
Mr. Leonard Arone
Mr. Robert E. Barber
Ms. Gretchen E. Booma
Mr. Adam M. Brufsky
Ms. Judith A. Chiarito
Mr. Jeffrey D. Flint
Mr. Robert H. Kitchen
Ms Isabel C Ladd
Mr. David G. Martin
Mr. Michael P. McDiarmid
Mr. Peter S. Nicholas
Mr. Christopher Nielsen
Mr. Kaveh Parsi
Mr. David Rivera
Ms. Alice A. Smith
Mrs. Theresa Wood Thompson
Mr. Ching-Ming Tseng

You can try a quick Google search to see where some of your classmates might be now…

One of the highlights of the 25th reunion was the great video that Jane Melvin put together for the reunion banquet in the Science Center.

A number of people have asked about getting a copy of the DVD or putting the video on the web, especially for those who weren’t able to attend last May. That sounded like a reasonable idea, it’s just taken a while to make it happen.

A few technical notes:

• This is a large download. Don’t try this if you’re on a dialup connection.
• This is presently Windows-only. If I get a usable QuickTime version together I’ll put it here as well. (If you’re a Mac user with video authoring tools and a fast connection, feel free to volunteer.)
• If you have an older Windows PC, this may not work for you, or you might need to upgrade the Windows Media Player. This uses the WM9 codecs. If you don’t understand this, don’t worry about it.

And now — here’s the online version of

Exeter 199 - the video (14 minutes, 34MB, Windows Media 9)