The Harper Legacy @ LCC

Independent schools are nurtured and supported by many different groups: current students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, board members, volunteers and members of the local community. However, one of the most important constituent groups is legacy families whose contribution over several generations is one of the strongest ties that bind us together. Perhaps the [...]

Living Non Nobis Solum Post LCC

In recent years, service learning opportunities have evolved exponentially at LCC. The ethos of “Non Nobis Solum – Not for Ourselves Alone” is a founding principle of our school. In early years, school service was largely seen as an extension of commitment to king and country through participation in mandatory cadets. Indeed, boys [...]

Community Pride

I was recently at an education conference in New York City and had the opportunity to meet with two LCC graduates from the class of 1982. Along with two other classmates, two years ago they initiated a significant fundraising drive with members of their graduating class for the creation of an endowed student bursary [...]

Hardships Make You Realize Your Good Fortune

The drama of the real world came crashing into our living rooms this past week with the earthquake that occurred in Haiti. The human calamity we have all witnessed on our TV’s as people have desperately tried to cope with the aftermath of such a devastating natural disaster hardly seems believable.

The scenes of devastation [...]

Starting the New Year on the Right Foot

It’s a new year, a new decade and the beginning of LCC’s second century.

The past year was notable for a number of developments: the capacity of a Canadian minority government to maintain power, our ongoing war with insurgents in Afghanistan, the election of Obama in the USA, the global economic recession, the threat of [...]