IN THIS ISSUE

Volume CXXVII, Issue no. 3

Features

32 For the Sustainable Future

Exeter releases its first sustainability and climate action plan.

By Patrick Garrity

38 The Music of Resistance

How Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis ’69 is changing the narrative.

By Sarah Pruitt ’95

42 ¿Cómo se Dice?

Students reclaim the language of home in new courses designed for heritage speakers of Spanish.

By Sarah Pruitt ’95

Departments

6 Around the Table: The etiquette of Harkness, student achievements, farewell to Wetherell

25 Inside the Writing Life: Stephanie Clifford ’96

28 Sports: On track with student-athlete Byron Grevious ’24, winter E/A

46 Connections: Chiara Perotti Correa ’18, Robert Keefe ’64

56 Class Notes

102 Memorial Minute: David Douglas Coffin ’64 (Hon.); P’71

104 Finis Origine Pendet: Nora Sharma ’24

Built To Scale

Exonians are reaching new heights thanks to an indoor climbing wall installed this winter in Love Gym. The brainchild of avid mountaineers Reece Chapman ’22 and Nick Rose ’23, the project came to fruition after two years of planning and with the support of Director of Athletics and Physical Education Jason Baseden and generous donors. “Not everybody’s into team sports,” Baseden says. “The climbing wall provides another physical outlet for not only the students, but the rest of the community.”

Rose and Climbing Club co-head

Deborah Ang ’24 (both pictured left) spent hours fitting the nearly 14-foottall synthetic rock face with movable handholds to create routes for beginners and proficient climbers alike. “Setting each route is like creating a puzzle,” Rose says. “Climbing is 60% mental and 40% physical. Figuring out your route is super fun.”

Although Exeter’s “mountain” is no K2, Baseden hopes the wall might inspire students to follow in the footsteps of famed mountaineer Robert Hicks Bates ’29 and aim high.

— Jennifer Wagner