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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Marshall Lloyd Earns Distinguished Graduate Honors
On Saturday, May 15, St. Margaret's Latin teacher Marshall Davies Lloyd received an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg. Lloyd won both of two high achievement awards given in the school's graduate program and maintained a 3.9 GPA.
Lloyd received The Susan J. Hanna Award for most outstanding work in the M.A.L.S. program. Lloyd's final paper Polybius and the Founding Fathers: The Separation of Powers won the Donald E. Glover Award for most outstanding final project. Polybius… supports the thesis that the writers of the American Constitution derived their ideas about balancing the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government from the writings of the ancient Greek historian Polybius. Lloyd's project can be viewed from the SMS web site [ http://www.sms.org/mdl-indx/polybius/intro.htm ]. Mr. Lloyd will also be listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, which recognizes individual excellence in scholarship, leadership, and service.
Marshall Davies Lloyd receives his second M.A. (Liberal Studies) from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg. He received The Susan J. Hanna Award for most outstanding work in the M.A.L.S. program. His final paper Polybius and the Founding Fathers: The Separation of Powers won the Donald E. Glover Award for most outstanding final project.
In 1995, Lloyd earned his first M.A. (Classics) from The University of Georgia in Athens, where he graduated with distinction and sustained a 4.0 GPA. Lloyd was awarded a Georgia Classics Summer Institute Teacher Scholarship, in 1994, by The University of Georgia Department of Classics and received a University-Wide Scholarship in the same year.
Lloyd earned a B.A. (Classical Studies) in 1979 from The College of William and Mary where he was Eta Sigma Phi Treasurer, Vice President and Chapter Co-founder of the Student's International Meditation Society, and Sigma Phi Epsilon member.
Lloyd, an exuberant and devoted academic scholar, is not new to the Classics or girls' education. Lloyd, a third generation Latin teacher, is the Arts and Foreign Languages Division Head in his seventeenth year at SMS. As a young child, Lloyd traveled with his parents to Italy, visiting classical sites and museums. His father was a professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon Woman's College; his mother taught Latin and served as Dean of Studies at Seven Hills School in Lynchburg.
Now Mr. Lloyd follows his parents' footsteps as he passionately shares the Classics with a new generation of young women at St. Margaret's. In addition, Lloyd trains faculty in technology and computers and helps to coordinate software. Lloyd also enjoys reading, writing, programming, philosophy, genealogy, playing the recorder, and studying the teachings of the Ascended Masters.
"Where we are is a product of how we got here. By understanding our past, we prepare for our future. In the age of information, it is proving even more important for students to analyze, synthesize, and draw conclusions from what they read. There is no better place to learn to read critically than in the Classics," reports Lloyd.
