<p>It is funny how a world renown author announces a day off PEA, for Principal’s Day, using code. Looks like the kids have the day off.</p>
<p>See video and link: </p>
<p>[Phillips</a> Exeter Academy | For Lovers of Codes and Symbols](<a href=“http://exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_11431.aspx]Phillips”>http://exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_11431.aspx)</p>
<p>[Dan</a> Brown | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook”>Dan Brown)</p>
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<p>Well, a day off for the kids who don’t have APs tomorrow, that is…</p>
<p>Hmm. My alma mater is trying to catch up with my D’s school. What did PEA do for the day off last year? (or is this the first time they’ve done this?)</p>
<p>they should have Mark Zuckerberg announce it on Facebook. :)</p>
<p>exie, are you showing your age? i think principal’s day has been an exeter tradition for a fair while.</p>
<p>^I think she is referring to the means in which the day off was announced. Taft has had Will Smith and Robert Pattinson record a video for headmaster’s holiday in the past while I’m assuming this is the first year in which Exeter used someone famous to deliver the message. I know that in the past Exeter has announced the day off with banners, bottles of soda, and M&Ms. </p>
<p>Well, in whatever means the students learn of the news, I’m sure they are really thankful with all of the AP tests lately!</p>
<p>@JayPeeh.</p>
<p>I was always studying because I took full loads. Probably never noticed the day off. Then again - I did go back in the stone ages. Wilma Flintstone was my roommate :)</p>
<p>@2010Hopeful - yep, that’s what I meant. There has been some viral attention to Taft’s last two announcements. Dan Brown was good but he’s an alum, he taught, and his dad was a teacher and he’s been on a campus for events so it doesn’t have the same surprise element. But mostly I don’t think they should copy the Taft format, but come up with their own unique way of surprising the students.</p>
<p>I think it would have been more fun to have Zuckerberg do it on Facebook too. Or have Google change their masthead, etc.</p>
<p>exie, that’s neat. wilma flintstone was my daughter! such a small, small world,</p>
<p>@Exie</p>
<p>How’s Google related to Exeter?</p>
<p>Prep2011 - it’s not. I’m just being facetious about that part given the ongoing Facebook/Google feud.</p>
<p>exie, that would be really cool. Either with google or facebook. It would be so visible but in a place no one would expect!</p>
<p>I’m with Exie on this one. Although exeter.edu says that the principle’s day was started by William Saltonstall (before my time), we had no such thing in my days there (68-71). On return from winter break of '69 we were literally knee deep in a snow storm of historical magnitude. During Sunday night check-in I asked the legendary Dean Robert Kesler if classes would be suspended the following day. He looked up at me incredulously and trumpeted “You’re living in dream world friend.” It’s now over forty years later and just thinking about the guy almost gives me a panic attack. And he really did trumpet.</p>
<p>Tom, what are you trying to imply? That exonians do not deserve a day off? We dont have Advanced placement courses, but we do have College level ones that are pretty much the same. Get your facts straight.</p>
<p>I believe Tom was implying the poor timing of principal’s day. Because AP exams were looming close to Principal’s day, even if students were relieved of PEA-related work, they still probably spent a great deal of their free time on studying for exams than relaxing.</p>
<p>Ohh now i see, haha Im sorry i thought he meant that “the kids” were all the exonians and since they did not had “APs” like phillipians but college level courses, which are basically the same, they really did not need a day off. I missunderstood thanks for clearing that out Piccalacha i agree with tom now…</p>