What's Assembly?

Assembly is the time when the entire campus community meets to share a cultural experience—often an outside speaker or performer, sometimes an Exeter performance, sometimes an Exeter tradition, like the Fall Pep Rally.

It’s fun, relaxing, stimulating and mind-changing all at the same time, and you’ll find, when you get to college, you’ll have a hard time matching this experience or the roster of visitors you’ll encounter.

Here’s a sampling of recent presenters:

• M. Kamal Ahmad ’83, president and CEO of Asian University for Women Support Foundation
• Maria Cabildo ’85, executive director of the East Los Angeles Community Corporation 
• Lincoln Caplan '68, managing partner of SeaChange Capital Partners, former journalist and White House Fellow
• Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra '82, art collector
• Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm
• Edward M. "Ned" Lamont '72, president and chairman of Lamont Digital Systems, former Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate
• Sarah Lyall ’81, reporter and editor in the London bureau of The New York Times
• David Mumford '53, recipient of the Fields Medal and MacArthur Fellow
• Awadagin Pratt, international concert pianist 
• Honorable Tim Wirth ’57, President, United Nations Foundation, Former U.S. Senator, Congressman, and Undersecretary for Global Affairs