Lucier Family Writing Center Dedicated

 

Hawken trustee Jeff Lucier beamed with pride as his wife Susan, four daughters, extended family, fellow board members, faculty, and students gathered in May to dedicate The Lucier Family Writing Center. Established in 2007, the purpose of the Center is to promote individualized instruction of writing, revision and research; train and maintain a core of student tutors; promote creative writing opportunities; and provide a drop-in lab for one-to-one instruction. Mr. Lucier cited his passion for writing as the reason for his tremendous generosity.

 

As a token of appreciation, Mr. Lucier was presented with a bound book that included student reflections. One student notes, “The environment the Writing Center provides attracts students of varying interests and activities and works to facilitate friendships that may have never come to pass in its absence. In many ways, the Writing Center serves as a kind of core curriculum for our school. No matter what other classes one takes in their high school career, 9th grade humanities and the Writing Center provide us all with a common bond. This common thread grows ever more important as we each matriculate and follow our individual life paths.”

 

Mr. Lucier was elected a Hawken School trustee in 2004. His service to the school is exemplary having volunteered on the development, major gifts, executive, finance, capital campaign, and planned giving committees. In addition, Mr. Lucier has been the guest speaker for the Professional Writing class and has run breakout sessions in the Writing Center. He is also the father of three Hawken graduates, Kathryn Green ’85, Madalyn Lucier ’05, and Caitlin Lucier ’06.

 

He spent most of his career in the publishing business, but devoted the early part of his life to teaching English at Northwestern University. He currently serves as Chairman and Senior Editor of STACK LLC, which publishes a magazine and hosts a website for high school athletes on safe, effective, drug-free performance enhancement.

 

In addition to his leadership roles at Hawken, Mr. Lucier has been active in several non-profit organizations, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Banks-Baldwin Foundation, MOCA Cleveland, The Cleveland Music School Settlement, E City, E Prep, and the Cleveland Botanical Garden.