Lake Forest Native Helps Build Bus Running On Vegetable Oil
Nick Devonshire and his Dartmouth classmates made a stop in Lake Forest.
When Lake Forest's Nick Devonshire saw a field of tree stumps as a 9-year-old, little did he realize then that it would shape the course of his life and career path. “It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen,” the recent Dartmouth College graduate said of the clear-cut forest he saw as a young boy. By the time he was in high school, he turned his feelings into action, and he has not been the same since. After an education at Lake Forest Country Day School and two years at Lake Forest High School, Devonshire headed to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. As a junior, he had an idea to help the environment in his school community. “I wrote a proposal at Phillips Exeter to burn bio-diesel fuel in the tractors and lawn mowers,” said …
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