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the ElmTreefor the alumni, friends, and parents of Lawrence Academy Spring 2010 First Word Brewing Success on Cape Cod In reading the featured by Andrew J. Brescia, director of communications profiles in this issue of The Elm Tree, I take In reflecting upon his education, Todd Marcus ’85, who exceptional pride in was born in Malden and grew up in Ashland, says that he knowing that each could in- has learned most from the School of Hard Knocks. As clude the following with most clichés, however, this observation falls subheading: “Demonstrating desperately short in accounting for the adventures that once again that the mission have shaped him into the successful entrepreneur he is of Lawrence Academy today as the owner and operator of Cape Cod Beer. continues to come alive in For example, he did not learn in any classroom about the the pursuits of our students Head of School D. Scott Wiggins derivation of “porter” as it is used in naming a beer. At a and our graduates!” moment’s notice, however, Todd, like a soft-spoken Guided by its mission, Lawrence Academy seeks to imbue docent, explains matter-of-factly that a dark, chocolaty its students with the creativity and passion necessary to brew was originally the drink of the common man of define their own goals and the resourcefulness and East London, dockworkers who were called porters. You discipline necessary to achieve those goals. The first 20 can learn about Prohibition in U.S. History class, but, words of Lawrence Academy’s mission statement capture odds are, not about the recipe for “small beer”—written succinctly what the entrepreneurs—social and economic in a diary in 1754 by George Washington—that now —whose achievements are chronicled in this Elm Tree are resides at the New York Public Library.
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