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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 08:14:23 -0500</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[One Act: A Different Direction]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:59:11 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[In the Transformation Business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Academy's busy month of May hit high gear as the Annual Spring Parents' Association Fundraiser&#8212;held on Saturday, May 4, in The Stone Athletic Center&#8212;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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:52:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Cum Laude Day 2013]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:05:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Dreams Take Root at LA]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:36:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Anza Seeks to Include Everyone]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Junior Salyna Anza noticed that there was something missing from LA's diversity celebration during the school's observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January&#8212;so she did something about it. "Martin Luther King Day inspired me, because we had lots of different people come from different ethnic groups&#8212;except for the indigenous people in our country," she said, not blaming anyone, but noting that "there's no one in the school, really, that represents those people."]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:43:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[LA Students Introduced to Native American Culture]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtually every New England town has history rooted in Native American culture, and Groton is certainly no exception. We are in Massachusetts, after all&#8212;Algonquin for "at or about the great hill"&#8212;and long before settlers renamed it, the Nashaway knew our town as Petapawag&#8212;"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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:41:42 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Field to Compete for Olympic Berth]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:50:39 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[LA Achieves New Heights in Pole Vault Debut]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:04:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Radio Day a "Victory" for WRLA]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:02:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[What a Hoot!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.lacademy.edu/page.cfm?p=675&amp;newsid=415</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:03:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Determination & Fearless Curiosity]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:49:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Red, White, Blue & Purple]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, in a show of solidarity with the people affected by the twin bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the young women on LA's varsity teams donned purple and took a three-team picture prior to putting on their red, white, and blue Academy uniforms.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:15:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Relay for Life at LA]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Academy's first-ever Relay for Life fundraiser took place on the LA campus on April 6, 2013, inspiring over $10,000 in contributions to the American Cancer Society. The school had 26 teams registered to walk or raise funds, and over 230 members of the community were present to participate in a variety of activities that took place throughout the afternoon and evening.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:33:00 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[Faces Lifted in MacNeil Lounge]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MacNeil Lounge just plain feels better this year&#8212;that's what happens when somebody pays very close attention to you. And when you feel good, it rubs off on those who come to visit you. The loving touch came from the duo that tends to the keeping of Lawrence Academy's history, volunteers Paul Husted '64 and Dick Jeffers.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:23:10 -0000</pubDate>

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		<title><![CDATA[An Autotelic Term]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the occasion of the new Spring term's intersecting with the return of the National Pastime, LA's head of school Dan Scheibe used the late A. Bartlett Giamatti's words to remind students that this week wasn't simply the start of a new baseball season, or the end of a harrowing winter. Instead, the start of the new term marks another opportunity to turn the page.]]></description>
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:04:18 -0000</pubDate>

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