"There's no Place Like Home: Dunbar Hall at 100" from The Exeter Bulletin, Summer 2008

Dunbarites gather for a photo at the anniversary celebration

On May 10, scores of Exonians turned out to help a beloved member of the Academy community mark a very special anniversary.

Dunbar Hall—a four-story brick dormitory designed by the Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram and named for Academy trustee Charles Franklin Dunbar, class of 1844—turns 100 this year, and the 63 students who currently call it home threw a party to celebrate, welcoming back former residents, both students and faculty.

And while Charles Dunbar himself was unable to attend, he was more than ably represented by his great-grandson, also named Charles Dunbar, who gave a biographical sketch of the dorm’s “founding father.” 

Despite its august age, Dunbar Hall remains perennially youthful, thanks to the generations of young men and women who have grown up there and made it their own—a fact borne out by the testimonials of past Dunbarites, which the dorm’s current residents are compiling into a history of Dunbar’s first hundred years.  Read more...

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