Lawrence Academy at Groton is a private,
nonsectarian
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Academic sphere
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,
coeducational
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college
preparatory boarding school located in
Groton, Massachusetts
Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The population was 11,315 at the 2020 census. It is home to two prep schools: Lawrence Academy at Groton, founded in 1 ...
, in the United States. Founded in 1792 by a group of fifty residents of Groton and
Pepperell, Massachusetts
Pepperell is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,604 at the 2020 census. It includes the village of East Pepperell.
History
Pepperell was first settled in 1720 as a part of Groton, and was offic ...
as Groton Academy, and chartered in 1793 by Governor
John Hancock
John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of t ...
, Lawrence is the tenth oldest boarding school in the United States, and the third in Massachusetts, following
Governor Dummer Academy
The Governor's Academy is an independent school north of Boston located on in the village of Byfield, Massachusetts, United States (town of Newbury), north of Boston. The Academy enrolls approximately 412 students in grades nine through twelve ...
(1763) and
Phillips Academy
("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness
, address = 180 Main Street
, city = Andover
, state = M ...
at Andover (1778).
Boarding Schools with the Oldest Founding Date – All Schools
. Retrieved February 20, 2009. The phrase on Lawrence Academy's seal is ''"Omnibus Lucet"'': in Latin
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, "Let light shine upon all."
History
On April 27, 1792, residents of the towns of Groton and Pepperell, Massachusetts
Pepperell is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,604 at the 2020 census. It includes the village of East Pepperell.
History
Pepperell was first settled in 1720 as a part of Groton, and was offic ...
,[''The Jubilee of Lawrence Academy at Groton'', Standard Steam Presses, 1855.] influenced by the growing "academy movement" in the young republic
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, which sought to provide a broader and more practical education than that available in the traditional Latin Grammar Schools,[Inglis, Alexander. ''Principles of Secondary Education''. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918] formed an association "for the purpose of erecting a suitable building, and supporting an Academy for superior educational purposes at Groton, Massachusetts."[Sanderson, George A., ed. ''A General Catalogue of the trustees, teachers, and students of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts, from the time of its Incorporation, 1793-1893''. Lawrence Academy, 1893] The association received its charter from Governor John Hancock on September 28, 1793.[''Acts Relating to Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts''. University Press, 1894] Originally, the school was called Groton Academy, but was later changed to honor the Lawrence family.
For the academy's first schoolmaster, the trustees selected Samuel Holyoke
Samuel Adams Holyoke (15 October 1762 – 7 February 1820) was an American composer and teacher of vocal and instrumental music.
Biography
Holyoke was the son of Rev. Elizur Holyoke and Hannah Peabody. He was born 15 October 1762 in Boxford, Mass ...
, a prominent composer. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy and Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher l ...
college.
The trustees announced the opening of their academy with an advertisement in the May 25, 1793 edition of the '' Columbian Centinel'', a Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most p ...
newspaper; this was somewhat premature, as the charter was not secured for another four months.
The advertisement expressed the values of the academy movement, reading in part:
This is to give notice, that a Public School is now opened in Groton, for the education of youth, of both sexes—in which School are taught the English, Latin and Greek Languages, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, the Art of Speaking and Writing, with Practical Geometry, and Logic.
Classes commenced in 1794, with an enrollment of seventy-three students, primarily from Groton and the surrounding towns. Some, such as Thomas and Wyriott Alderson of Bath, North Carolina
Bath is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. Located on the Pamlico River, it developed a trade in naval stores, furs, and tobacco. The population was 249 as of 2010. North Carolina’s first town and port of entry, it was ...
, came from farther afield.
In 1838, alumnus Amos Lawrence, a son of founder Samuel Lawrence and a prominent Boston merchant and industrialist, began his patronage of the Academy with a gift of "books and philosophical apparatus," followed in 1839 by "a telescope and Bowditch's translation of '' Mécanique Céleste'' by Laplace
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," and $2,000 for enlarging the schoolhouse in 1842.[''Financial History of Lawrence Academy'', John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, Mass., 1895.] In 1844, Amos's brother William
William is a male
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A male organism cannot reproduce sex ...
donated $10,000 to the school's endowment "for the advancement of education for all coming time."
By 1850, the school's library, established with a purchase of 86 new books in 1828, comprised 2,650 volumes, of which 2,400 were gifts of Amos Lawrence.[''Catalogue of the Library of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. 1850'', S.J. Varney, Lowell, Mass., 1850]
Over the course of their lives, Amos and William Lawrence donated a total of nearly $65,000 in cash, scholarships, and property to the school (roughly equivalent to $1.83 million in 2013 dollars). In recognition of their significant generosity, Groton Academy petitioned the Massachusetts legislature in 1845 to change the school's name to honor their benefactors. On February 28, 1846, Governor George N. Briggs
George Nixon Briggs (April 12, 1796 – September 12, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Whig, Briggs served for twelve years in the United States House of Representatives, and served seven one-year terms as the ...
signed into law an act formally changing the corporate name of "The Trustees of the Groton Academy" to "The Trustees of the Lawrence Academy at Groton."
Between 1801 and 1870, Lawrence Academy contributed fifty students to Harvard College and placed among the dozen schools which supplied the greatest number of students to Cambridge. As the 19th century progressed and more schools catering to the children of the elite ranks of Boston merchants and industrialists were established closer to Boston, that position gradually waned.["Story, Ronald, ]
Harvard Students, the Boston Elite, and the New England Preparatory System
', ''History of Education Quarterly'', Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn 1975). Accessed March 4, 2014 The Academy also enjoyed close ties to other New England liberal arts colleges — particularly Dartmouth and Williams College
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed i ...
— which themselves catered to the region's "older
provincial elite". The gifts of the Lawrence brothers established four scholarships each for students to attend Williams College
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed i ...
, Bowdoin College in Maine, and Wabash College
Wabash College is a private liberal arts men's college in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, it enrolls nearly 900 students. The college offers an undergraduate liberal arts cur ...
in Indiana. Franklin Carter, president of Williams College
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed i ...
, was the guest speaker at the academy's 90th anniversary celebration in 1883.
In 1868, during a Fourth of July
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celebration, an errantly tossed firecracker
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burned Lawrence Academy's main schoolhouse to the ground. By soliciting "subscriptions," the building was replaced in 1869 at a cost of $24,000 (more than $406,874 in 2013).
In 1956, amidst commencement exercises, fire once again destroyed Lawrence Academy's academic and administrative buildings. Following both fires, Lawrence Academy rebuilt; however, because of these incidents, it encountered financial difficulties through parts of the twentieth century, until the late 1970s. Lawrence was coeducational until 1898, when it switched to a boys-only student body. It remained single sex until 1971.
Student life
Campus
Lawrence Academy is seated upon of rolling countryside, in Groton, Massachusetts, thirty-one miles northwest of Boston, eight miles south of New Hampshire
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. Architecturally, Lawrence's campus features a mix of historic Federalist-Era houses and Neo-Georgian academic buildings. From Lawrence's central quadrangle, one can see the outline of Mount Wachusett
Mount Wachusett is a mountain in Massachusetts. It straddles towns of Princeton and Westminster, in Worcester County. It is the highest point in Massachusetts east of the Connecticut River. The mountain is named after a Native American term me ...
to the west, the pastures of Gibbet Hill Farm, (the site of colonial gallows
A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended (i.e., hung) or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks ...
and ''The Castle''), to the north, and the fairways of the Groton Country Club to the east.
Traditions
Annually, new students travel to Windsor, New Hampshire to a summer camp at the beginning of orientation for icebreaking and team building activities. Shortly following the start of classes, the entire student body hikes up Mount Monadnock
Mount Monadnock, or Grand Monadnock, is a mountain in the towns of Jaffrey and Dublin, New Hampshire. It is the most prominent mountain peak in southern New Hampshire and is the highest point in Cheshire County. It lies southwest of Concord ...
in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, carrying on a 150-year old Lawrence tradition. Toward the end of the fall trimester, the student body and the faculty engages in a campus-wide game of tag called "Spoonhunt" for roughly a week in between classes. Students are given the names of their "targets" on the inside of a spoon, and they must catch this individual outside of an academic building during school hours. Lawrence Academy continues a half-century tradition of the annual Winterim, an experiential learning course in the first two weeks of March. Students travel domestically and internationally on service trips or research studies, to the Galapagos, the Dominican Republic
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, and the Orlando-based Give Kids The World Village for two weeks.
Facilities
There are nine dorms on Lawrence Academy's campus, four for boys and five for girls. Dorms range in size from eight to forty-six students. There is also a dining hall and student center for all students, boarding and day. The admissions department, administrative offices, science laboratories, and school store are located in the Schoolhouse Building at the center of campus. A majority of classes (English, History, Mathematics, Foreign Languages) are held in the Ansin Academic Building, off of the central quadrangle. The library is centrally located also along the quadrangle, and it connects to the Gray Building (dining hall) through the Williams Art Center which houses the 500 seat performing arts venue, multiple classrooms, and two blackbox theatres. Across campus, the Stone Athletic Center and the Grant Rink serve as venues for athletic events and practices throughout the year.
Affiliations
Lawrence Academy is directed by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees. It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
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and the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council
The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) is an organization that serves as the governing body for sports in preparatory schools and leagues in New England. The organization has 169 full member schools as well as 24 associate ...
. Lawrence Academy has over 3,800 active alumni. The school competes within the Independent School League, with seventeen other academically rigorous and athletically competitive boarding and day schools throughout New England.
Enrollment
Each year Lawrence Academy enrolls approximately one hundred new students, approximately fifty of whom are boarding students. As of 2019, students hail from fifteen U.S. States and nineteen countries. The student-to-teacher ratio at Lawrence is approximately 5:1, with an average class size of 14 students. Tuition for the 2019-2020 academic year was $65,925 for boarders, $52,450 for day students. Thirty percent of students receive financial aid to attend. Lawrence accepts approximately 30% of applicants.
Athletics
Lawrence Academy's athletic teams compete in the Independent School League.
Notable alumni
* Tim Armstrong
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, class of 1989, chairman and CEO of AOL
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...
LLC
* Laurie Baker
Lawrence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker (2 March 1917 – 1 April 2007) was a British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and designs that maximized space, ventilation and light and mainta ...
, class of 1995, 1998 Olympic gold medalist in women's hockey and 1992 silver medalist
* William Bancroft, 1st President of the Boston Elevated Railway
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, member of Massachusetts House of Representatives
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and mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
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* Jonah Bayliss, relief pitcher
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for Kansas City Royals
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2005 and Pittsburgh Pirates
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2006 and '07.
* Charles Beecher
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, minister, composer of hymns, and author.
* Tyler Beede, 2014 College World Series champion Vanderbilt University
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; drafted twice as pitcher in the MLB draft first round, and pitches for the San Francisco Giants
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* Henry Adams Bullard, U.S. Representative from Louisiana 1831-1834 and 1850-1851
* Richard Burgin, author, editor of ''Boulevard
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''
* Karyn Bryant
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Early life
Bryant was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Massachusetts, she completed secondary school at Lawrence Academy ...
, television personality; MTV VJ, CNN
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anchor.
* Guillermo Cantú, former professional footballer and football executive
* Bruce Crane
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, businessman and politician who was president and chairman of Crane & Co. and a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council
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* Greg Crozier, Two-time NCAA hockey champion from Michigan (1996 and 1998)
* James Dana, 5th mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
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* A. J. Dillon, American football
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running back
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and block. Ther ...
for the Green Bay Packers
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, second round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft
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.
* Doug Friedman, professional
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ice hockey
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player
* Eric Gaskins, fashion designer based in New York City
* Samuel Abbott Green, physician, librarian, historian, and 28th Mayor of Boston
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* Donald L. Harlow, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
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* Edward D. Hayden, U.S. Representative from
* Steve Heinze, '88 Olympian in men's hockey and former NHL player for Boston Bruins and LA Kings
* Frederick "Moose" Heyliger, World War II paratrooper featured in ''Band of Brothers''
* Vic Heyliger
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Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he attended the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Ma ...
, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame inductee; University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
All-American and later coach of six NCAA champions at Michigan
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; also coached Illinois
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, Air Force Academy and the U.S. National Hockey Team
* Chase Hoyt, film, television, and stage actor
* David Jensen
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, class of 1984, '84 Olympian in hockey and former NHL player with Hartford Whalers
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and Washington Capitals
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* Amos Kendall
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, 8th Postmaster General
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and founder of Gallaudet College
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for the deaf
* Abbott Lawrence
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, Member of Congress
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; Minister to Great Britain; founder of Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
* Amos Adams Lawrence
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, abolitionist; politician; founder of the University of Kansas
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, Lawrence University
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, and co-founder of the Groton School
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* Amos Lawrence, industrialist; philanthropist
* Charles H. Mansur, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
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from Missouri
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* Cat Marnell, writer
* Julie Mason, newspaper and radio journalist
* Page McConnell
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, musician Phish
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* Audrey A. McNiff, managing director at Goldman Sachs
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* Shabazz Napier
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, NBA basketball player
* Albert E. Pillsbury, President of the Massachusetts State Senate and Massachusetts Attorney General
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* William Adams Richardson, 29th Secretary of the Treasury
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and Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims
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* Richard Roby
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, professional basketball player
* Maria Rodale
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, publisher; Chairman and CEO of Rodale, Inc.
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* Cynthia Ryder, 1992 Olympic sculler
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* Ether Shepley
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, politician; Senator from Maine
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from 1833-1835, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
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1848-1855
* Jim Sokolove, television attorney
* Huntley N. Spaulding, philanthropist; Governor of New Hampshire
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from 1927 to 1929
* Charles Warren Stone, politician; Congressman and Lieutenant Governor from Pennsylvania
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* Frank Bigelow Tarbell, historian, archeologist and professor at University of Chicago
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* George Makepeace Towle, lawyer, politician, and author
* Dr. James Walker, Unitarian minister and 21st president of Harvard University
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* William B. Washburn, Governor of from 1872-1874, U.S. Representative from 1863-1871, U.S. Senator from 1874-1875
* Fritz Wetherbee, Emmy
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Award-winning television personality
* William Channing Whitney, architect
* Antoine Wright, NBA
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athlete
Notable faculty
* Samuel Adams Holyoke, first headmaster
* Robert V. Bruce, 1988 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
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* Brian Feigenbaum, founder of Food Not Bombs
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* Paul Zukauskas, former Boston College
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football and Cleveland Browns
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player who coached at Lawrence Academy, leading the team to four consecutive ISL and two additional NEPSAC championships
References
Further reading
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External links
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The Association of Boarding Schools profile
Lawrence Academy
profile at Petersons.
Gibbet Hill
history.
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Lawrence Academy on Instagram
Archived fro
the original
on ghostarchive.org
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