Top Ten

The Phillips Exeter Academy Mock Trial Team, of which I am the proud coach, just  won tenth place at the 2013 National High School Mock Trial Championship.  At the awards banquet Saturday night, the top ten teams are “called out” and honored, starting with tenth and proceeding to first.  We knew that we had a…

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Mock Trial

Phillips Exeter Academy has once again won the New Hampshire state mock trial championship.  What is more amazing, three of the top four teams in the state were Exeter teams.  I wanted to write, while it is still fresh in mind, about how this happened. We knew, a year ago, that our first team would…

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on the road again

I am in Boston airport this morning, heading down to DC, for more than a week of events. First up is an interview with CSPAN.  I had assumed when this was first set up that it would be a few minutes; I find that it will be almost an hour of questions about my life…

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Exeter Event

I spoke last night to an enthusiastic audience at the Exeter Historical Society.  It meant so much to speak both to a few of those who taught me, years ago at Exeter, and those whom I am teaching now, in the mock trial club.  I hope that my presentation lived up to the mock trial…

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End of Term, Part 2

We are now in our last few days of school here at Exeter:  tomorrow most of the students other than the seniors will depart; graduation is Sunday; I am leaving for Virginia early Tuesday. Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting in my wife’s math class as the students presented their projects.  This was multivariable…

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Mock Trial Nationals

I am just back this evening from Albequerque, where Phillips Exeter competed for the first time in the national high school mock trial championship.  Essentially every state in the nation was represented, along with a few other places:  Guam, Korea, Australia, etc.  Since each team consists of at least eight, and more often about twelve…

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Mock Trial Appeal

Last Saturday, in the break after the final mock trial of the NH state championships, while we were waiting for the judges’ decision, one of the coaches from the other team told me that she believed the Exeter kids had cheated.  They had cheated, she said, by taping her team’s Friday evening trial and then…

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Gifts

In 1972, I was fortunate enough to enter what I believe was and is the best high school in the world:  the Phillips Exeter Academy.  I was graduated in 1975, and went on to other things and other places. Four years ago, Exeter hired my wife Masami to teach mathematics.  We moved here to Exeter…

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Mock Trial Victory

The Phillips Exeter mock trial team, for which I serve as adviser, won the New Hampshire state championship this past weekend.  It was an amazing experience, for the kids and for me, and I wanted to write a bit about it. Mock trial, as the name suggests, is a form of debate in which kids…

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