1953 PEAN- PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY YEARBOOK

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?Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.? - Francis Bacon DESCRIPTION - ONE OF SEVERAL PHILLIPS EXETER YEARBOOKS I'M CURRENTLY LISTING BOOK TITLE - PEAN - PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY YEARBOOK ILLUSTRATED - W/ PHOTOS PUBLISHED IN - 1953 OVERALL CONDITION - GOOD+...SOME FADING TO BOARDS, BINDING SOLID, PGS CLEAN Hardcover Bookseller Inv #345 C Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9?12 and postgraduates, located on 619 acres (2.51 km2) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, 50 miles (80 km) north of Boston. Early alumni of Exeter include US Senator Daniel Webster (1796); US President Franklin Pierce (1820); Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Lincoln (1860); Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. (1870), Richard and Francis Cleveland; "grandfather of football" Amos Alonzo Stagg (1880); and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington (1889). John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace and Peace Breaks Out, was a 1945 graduate; both novels are set at the fictional Devon School, a reference to PEA. Exeter students and alumni call themselves "Exonians?. Exeter is noted for its Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking questions and creating discussions. The school's traditional rival is Phillips Academy (Andover), and the annual Exeter-Andover Football game has been played since 1878. The school is a member of the G20 Schools Group. SOME NOTABLE ALUMNI FROM THE 1950s Charles H. Stevens III (1951)- Officer in the US Army, Vietnam Veteran Edward S. Gleason (1951) ? PEA Chaplain, President Forward Movement Inc. Pierre S. du Pont, IV (1952) ? former Governor of Delaware, Republican John Loengard (1952) ? photographer, picture editor, Life Magazine David Mumford (1952) ? Mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal Stanford Phelps (1952) ? Former President and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Life Advisors and U.S. Life Income Fund Richard S. Arnold (1953) ? former judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courthouse in Little Rock bears his name Christopher Jencks (1954) ? Harvard professor, writer, author of "The Exeter Syndrome: Dissatisfaction, Delinquency, Despair, and Departure" Joseph Nadeau (1955) ? Senior Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) ? Democratic Senator from West Virginia, Stephen C. Rose (1955) writer, composer, author of the online novel "The Complete History of Adam Panflick" which includes chapters on Exeter. Stewart Brand (1956) ? Editor, author, Internet pioneer H. John Heinz III (1956) ? Senator from Pennsylvania John Negroponte (1956) ? The first Director of National Intelligence Peter Benchley (1957)- Journalist, Presidential Speech Writer, Author and Screenwriter (Jaws). Tim Wirth (1957) ? U.S. Representative and Senator from Colorado, current head of the United Nations Foundation David Lamb (1958) ? Author, foreign correspondent The Los Angeles Times. Robert Thurman (1958) ? First American to be ordained a Buddhist priest in 1964, current leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism John M. Walker, Jr. (1958) ? Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit August Zemo (1958) ? Educator David Rockefeller, Jr. (1959) ? Philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller Morris S. Arnold (1959) ? United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Guy B. Darst (1959) ? Journalist Daniel Dennett (1959) ? Philosopher Hayford Peirce (1959) ? Writer Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1959) ? Educator, former President, Yale University. Names of individually photographed seniors include: ken asher (san antoinio), richard allen (miami), larz anderson (easton, md), max ansbacher (burlington, vt), john appleton (greenwich, ct), tom armstrong (sheffiel... read more

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