Spartan seniors are in the midst of final preparations for their departure from the Groton campus, but they're also in the middle of the Lawrence Academy Spring Arts Week. So, before they write their final exams and pick up their cap and gown, students like Jillian Thero '13 were putting the finishing touches on One Act productions starring their classmates.

Lawrence Academy's busy month of May hit high gear as the Annual Spring Parents' Association Fundraiser—held on Saturday, May 4, in The Stone Athletic Center—celebrated LA's unique ability to remain firmly rooted in its rich past even as it navigates the world's widening array of technology and the rapidly changing ideas and methods that accompany those upgrades.

Every year on Cum Laude Day, Lawrence Academy recognizes its top students' academic excellence and scholastic achievements and also introduces the alumni recipient of the school's Greater Good Award to the LA community.

For many LA alumni, the roots of their professional careers took hold under the elm trees in Groton, Mass. However, everyone at LA's recent Alumni Career Night said their time on Powderhouse Road really helped them to grow and be prepared for the real world.

Virtually every New England town has history rooted in Native American culture, and Groton is certainly no exception. We are in Massachusetts, after all—Algonquin for "at or about the great hill"—and long before settlers renamed it, the Nashaway knew our town as Petapawag—"swampy place." In case anyone thought that culture was something of the past, only to be seen in museums, Annawon Weeden, a descendant of the Rhode Island Narragansett and Pequot on his father's side and of the Massachusetts Wampanoag on his mother's, visited the LA campus on April 19 and provided living proof that that is not the case.

Emily Field '11, currently a sophomore at Boston College and a member of the Eagles Women's Ice Hockey team, has been invited to compete for a spot on the Team USA squad that will take on the world in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Archeological evidence suggests the ancient Greeks were no strangers to pole vaulting and it doesn't take a leap of faith (pun intended) to imagine antiquity's Spartans using their famous spears to surmount obstacles on the battlefield. However, to our modern Spartans at Lawrence Academy, pole vaulting was a relatively unknown track and field event. "Was" is the key word in that phrase.

WRLA has been figuratively "Rocking the Quad since 1999." However, on Wednesday, April 24, the student-run radio station at Lawrence Academy literally rocked the usually quiet spaces between the academic buildings on Powderhouse Road as WRLA simulcast a short concert during the school's MX period as part of High School Radio Day 2013.

As Mark Wilson says, "Everyone has an owl story..." That's the literal truth for most everyone at Lawrence Academy thanks to 10 years of effort by teacher Jerry Wooding, who has annually invited Mark and his wife Marcia's "Eyes on Owls" to the LA campus.

On Wednesday, April 17, the Lawrence Academy community paused its busy week to recognize LA's honors and high honors students, as well as laud the academic dorm award winners for the 2013 Winter Term. The ceremony, held mid-day in the Richardson-Mees Performing Arts Center (RMPAC) was highlighted by the words of English professor Ned Mitchell and LA's Director of Studies Chris Ellsasser.