Students are all too familiar with the roaring alarm clock of the plow on snowy mornings. That alarm clock is called “Big Red,” driver Robert Asquith’s pet-name for the plow. Asquith jokes that “Big Red” belongs at Exeter, although the pair have built a thirteen-year relationship.

Asquith has been a part of the Phillips Academy community for 30 years. His two children were students at PA and Asquith still remembers contentedly the earlier days when “students used to do all the...