In this, our third summer of academic programs for the alumni/ae community, you may enroll in one of seven course offerings:

The Inklings: J.R.R.Tolkien and his Fellowship
Instructor: Ty Tingley

D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
Instructor: Jack Herney

Literature and the Land
Instructor: Peter Greer

Moby Dick
Instructor: Harvard Knowles

Natural History of New England
Instructors: Rich Aaronian
and Chris Matlack

Gettysburg and the American Civil War
Instructor: Rick Schubart

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Instructor: Nita Pettigrew

You have known the joy of collaborative discourse, the joy of sitting round an oval table with a dozen of your peers and a Harkness teacher, the group wholly engaged in the give-and-take of raising questions, sharing ideas, expanding concepts, making insights. You know first-hand the rewards of participatory education, the rush of exploration and discovery, the excitement of delving deeper into a Shakespearean play or investigating the nuances of a moment in history or wrestling with the ethics of scientific inquiry.

In the summer of 2008, we invite you to come home to Exeter, to return to the Harkness table. As an Academy graduate or an adult friend of the Academy, you will once again take your place in seminar discussion. You will be a student again, reading, writing and engaging in intellectual conversation.

Our third summer of ON BEYOND EXETER offers a choice of seven course offerings, listed to your left. Note: Registration is Sunday, July 27. Classes will meet daily from Monday, July 28, through Friday, August 1, 2008. All but Rick Schubart’s class will meet on campus; Rick’s students will gather in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Courses will be limited to one section each. We anticipate that courses will fill quickly. Please act now to reserve your seat at the table. For further information, please contact the Summer School Office via email (on_beyond_exeter@exeter.edu) or by phone (800-828-4325, ext. 3488).

On behalf of the Academy’s faculty, Summer School, and the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs, I look forward to welcoming you back home to Exeter in the summer of 2008.

Cordially,

Ethan W. Shapiro
Director of the Summer School