Laurence Gillelan Leavitt

1903 (age 97)

Portsmouth, New Hampshire , United States

A graduate of Quincy High School in Quincy, Massachusetts, and Dartmouth College, where he was a star fullback on the college football team, Leavitt later served as assistant headmaster at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts. In 1934 Dartmouth College president Ernest Martin Hopkins, asked to suggest a candidate for the troubled Vermont Academy, which was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, suggested his fellow Dartmouth graduate Laurence Leavitt. During Leavitt"s 25-year tenure as head of Vermont Academy, he managed to double enrollment, retire the school"s debt and made substantial improvements to the school"s campus. Laurence Leavitt died at age 97 on November 30, 2000. They also helped endow Dartmouth football"s Bennett/Hall Lounge.

Laurence Gillelan Leavitt

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Background

Leavitt was born on April 1, 1903 and lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, until he was fifteen.

Education

Dartmouth College.

Career

A graduate of Quincy High School in Quincy, Massachusetts, and Dartmouth College, where he was a star fullback on the college football team, Leavitt later served as assistant headmaster at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts. In 1934 Dartmouth College president Ernest Martin Hopkins, asked to suggest a candidate for the troubled Vermont Academy, which was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, suggested his fellow Dartmouth graduate Laurence Leavitt. During Leavitt"s 25-year tenure as head of Vermont Academy, he managed to double enrollment, retire the school"s debt and made substantial improvements to the school"s campus.

Laurence Leavitt died at age 97 on November 30, 2000.

They also helped endow Dartmouth football"s Bennett/Hall Lounge.

Achievements

Leavitt received Dartmouth"s Alumni Award in 1925.

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