Lawrenceville School

Lawrenceville School

Virtus Semper Viridi
"Virtue Always Green"
Location
Lawrenceville, NJ

USA
Coordinates 40°17′38″N 74°43′37″W / 40.294°N 74.727°WCoordinates: 40°17′38″N 74°43′37″W / 40.294°N 74.727°W
Information
Type Private, Day & Boarding, College-prep
Religious affiliation(s) None
Established 1810
Head Master Elizabeth A. Duffy
Faculty 101 (on FTE basis)[1]
Gender Coeducational
Enrollment 816 [1] (2014-15)
Student to teacher ratio 8.4:1[1]
Campus 700 acres (2.8 km2)
Color(s) Red/Black
Athletics conference Mid-Atlantic Prep League, New Jersey Independent Schools Athletic Association
Sports 21 sports teams
Mascot Big Red
Rival The Hill School
Accreditation MSA
Average SAT scores 670 critical reading
700 math
690 writing
Affiliations NJAIS
ESA
TSAO
G20 Schools
Website www.lawrenceville.org

Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school for students in ninth through twelfth grades, located on 700 acres (2.8 km2) in the historic Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Trenton.

Lawrenceville is a member of the Eight Schools Association, begun informally in 1973–74 and formalized in 2006. Lawrenceville is also a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, founded in 1966. There is a seven-school overlap of membership between the two groups.[2] Lawrenceville is additionally a member of the G20 Schools group. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.[3]

As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 816 students and 101 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.4:1.[1] Students came from 34 states and 40 countries. As of June 2014, its endowment stood at $374 million.[4]

Lawrenceville received 2,368 formal applications for entrance in fall 2014, of which 237 were enrolled.[5]

In 2013 Business Insider ranked the school's tuition as the most expensive private high school tuition in the United States. This tuition is above the tuition of several universities in the United States.[6]

History

One of the oldest prep schools in the United States, Lawrenceville was founded in 1810 as the Maidenhead Academy by Presbyterian clergyman Isaac Van Arsdale Brown. As early as 1828, the school attracted students from Cuba and England, as well as from the Cherokee Nations. It went by several subsequent names, including the Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial High School, the Lawrenceville Academy, and the Lawrenceville Classical Academy, before the school's current name, "The Lawrenceville School", was set during its refounding in 1883. An 18-acre (7.3 ha) area of the campus built then, including numerous buildings, has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark District, known as Lawrenceville School National Historic Landmark.[7] A newer portion of the campus, not intruding into that district, was built in the 1920s.

In 1951, a group of educators from three of the premier prep schools in the United States (Lawrenceville, Phillips Academy, and Phillips Exeter Academy) and three of the country's most prestigious colleges (Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University) convened to examine the best use of the final two years of high school and the first two years of college. This committee published a final report, General Education in School and College, through Harvard University Press in 1952, which subsequently led to the establishment of the Advanced Placement program.

Lawrenceville was featured in a number of novels by Owen Johnson, class of 1895, notably The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, and The Varmint (1910). The Varmint, which recounts the school years of the fictional character Dink Stover, was made into the 1950 motion picture The Happy Years starring Leo G. Carroll and Dean Stockwell and was filmed on the Lawrenceville campus. A 1986 PBS miniseries was based on his Lawrenceville tales.[8]

In 1959, Fidel Castro spoke at the school in the Edith Memorial Chapel.[9] Other speakers have included boxer Muhammad Ali, former president of Honduras and alumnus Ricardo Maduro, first female President of Ireland Mary Robinson, playwright Edward Albee, legal scholar Derrick Bell, poet Billy Collins, playwright Christopher Durang, historians Niall Ferguson and David Hackett Fischer, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, poet Seamus Heaney, political analyst Arianna Huffington, novelist Chang-rae Lee, photographer Andres Serrano, poet Mark Strand, writer Andrew Sullivan, politician Lowell Weicker, ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, philosopher Cornel West, physicist Brian Greene, actor Chevy Chase, TV show host Jon Stewart, singer Jimmy Buffett, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus and Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Jacobs.

Among Lawrenceville's prominent teachers over the years have been Thornton Wilder, a three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author, who taught French at the School in the 1920s; R. Inslee Clark, Jr., who revolutionized Ivy League admissions at Yale in the 1960s; and Thomas H. Johnson, a widely published authority on Emily Dickinson and the modern discoverer of the now celebrated Colonial poet Edward Taylor, whose previously unpublished works he salvaged from oblivion in 1937.[10] Faculty members have gone on to head institutions such as the Horace Mann School, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Groton School, Pacific Ridge School, Milton Academy, Westminster School, the Peddie School, Riverdale Country School, the Hill School, Governor Dummer Academy, and the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria.

Lawrenceville was all-male for much of its nearly 200-year history, until the board of trustees voted to make the school coeducational in 1985. The first girls were admitted in 1987, and 178 of the 725 students were female during the 1987-88 school year.[11] In 1999, the student body elected a female president, Alexandra Petrone; in 2003, Elizabeth Duffy was appointed the School's first female head master; and in 2005, Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Lawrenceville Class of 2002 and Brown University Class of 2006, became Lawrenceville's first alumna to win a Rhodes Scholarship.

The school's weekly, student-run newspaper, The Lawrence, is the third oldest secondary school newspaper in the United States, after the Phillippian and The Exonian, Phillips Exeter Academy's and Phillips Academy Andover's weeklies, respectively. The Lawrence has been published regularly since 1881. Students comprise the editorial board and make all decisions for the paper, consulting with two faculty advisors at their own discretion.[12]

Other student run publications include The First Amendment, a monthly political magazine founded in 2010, LMAG a semesterly fashion magazine, and the Lit, an award winning literary magazine published three times a year. The Lit was founded in 1895 by author Owen Johnson, who went on to write the Lawrenceville Stories.[13] Also published annually are the Olla Pod, the yearbook, and Prize Papers, a compilation of the best academic work in the English Department by that year's IVth Form class.

Historic Landmark

Lawrenceville School
Memorial Hall at Lawrenceville School
Location in Mercer County, New Jersey
Location Main Street, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°17′42″N 74°43′45″W / 40.29500°N 74.72917°W
Area 17.7 acres (7.2 ha)
Architect Peabody & Stearns; Frederick Law Olmsted
Architectural style Queen Anne, Romanesque
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 86000158[14]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 24, 1986
Designated NHLD February 24, 1986[15]

The Lawrenceville School National Historic Landmark is a 17.74-acre (7.18 ha) historic district on the campus of the Lawrenceville School. This portion, the old campus area built in 1894–1895, was designed in a collaboration between the landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and the architects Peabody & Stearns.[16][17] A new campus area, built in the 1920s, does not intrude and is not included in the district.[18]

The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986.[18][15] It is included in the Lawrence Township Historic District, created in 1972.

School Heads

Geography and setting

The Lawrenceville School sits across U.S. Route 206 or Main Street, from the center of Lawrenceville. The village has historically been active as a commercial center for students. The Jigger Shop was for decades one of the most popular student hang-outs, with a soda fountain and the school bookstore. The school assumed ownership of the store in the 1970s and after a 1990 fire, the Jigger shop moved from Main Street to an on-campus location. The village's pizza parlor TJ's remains a popular on-campus spot for students. The cafe Fedora's and the Maidenhead bagel shop also serve as popular hang out locations for students.

The school includes a golf course, and owns much of the land to its east, which is covenanted as Green Space under New Jersey state law.

Lawrenceville sits midway between Trenton and Princeton, and has a strong historical connection to Princeton University.

Residential life

Among Lawrenceville's most distinctive features is its house system common to British boarding schools. Students reside in three distinct groups of houses (or dorms), where they live with faculty members in a family-like setting: the Lower School, the Circle and Crescent Houses, and the Upper School. The Second Form, ninth grade,[20] resides in two buildings, one for boys (Raymond) [which is split into Davidson and Thomas houses] and one for girls (Dawes) [which is split into Perry Ross and Cromwell houses.] The Third and Fourth Forms, tenth and eleventh-grade, live in either the Circle (for boys) or the Crescent (for girls) Houses. The "Circle Houses" are named for their location on a landscaped circle designed by the 19th-century landscape designer ('he was not a degree-holding architect) Frederick Law Olmsted, who is most famous for co-designing New York City's Central Park; Olmstead, partnered with Englishman, degree-certified, often egregiously forgotten in print today, master-architect Calvert Vaux). The Circle is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark. The "Crescent Houses" are named after the crescent-shaped lane on which they are situated. Circle/Crescent houses, which field intramural sports teams, have their own traditions, and participate in friendly competition for inter-house awards.

The Circle houses are Kennedy House, Hamill House, Dickinson House, Woodhull House, Griswold House and Cleve House. The Crescent houses are McClellan, Stanley, Stephens, Kirby, and Carter. The Fifth Form (twelfth grade) lives in separate dormitories off the Circle. These houses are : Upper (divided into Upper West and Upper East) and Kinnan (for boys) and McPherson and Reynolds (for the girls). Haskell, originally a fifth form boys house has been repurposed as of the 2012–2013 school year to house 7 rising senior girls. Fifth Formers also have the opportunity to apply to be a prefect in their Circle, Crescent, or Lower House, serving a role similar to resident assistants in colleges in helping to plan events, mentor incoming students, and serve as an advisor in certain times as well.

Unique to Lawrenceville is also the Honor System in place at the school. Each House selects its own Honor Representative, who, in addition to the Vice President of Honor and Discipline and the Dean of Students, form the Honor Council of the School. If a student is found to have lied, cheated, stolen, or to have broken two of the School's Major rules, he will be subject to a Discipline Committee hearing, which will recommend a course of action to the Headmaster.

Academics

The Harkness table is a hallmark of the School. In the Harkness method, teachers and students engage in Socratic, give-and-take discussions around large, wooden oval tables, which take the place of individual desks. Classes meet four times per week in one 50-minute and three 55-minute blocks. Most classes also meet for an additional period of time following one of the 55-minute slots: either an "X" period (an additional 45 minutes) which is used by lab courses (such as science or art) or a "Y" period (an additional 25 minutes).

Additionally, the school incorporates "consultation" periods into its schedule. During these periods, students have the option to consult with their teachers regarding their individual course questions. During an academic week, there are four "consultation" periods (on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings) of 40 minutes.

Upon graduation, seniors have the opportunity to be inducted into the Cum Laude Society based on academic achievement in the Fourth and Fifth Form years, with roughly 20% of seniors being awarded the honor.

Each year awards are given to members of each form for their unique contributions to Lawrenceville, including but not limited to the Beverly Anderson Prize for Excellence and Scholarship (II Form), the Reuben T. Carlson Scholarship (III Form), the Semans Family Merit Scholarship (IV Form), and the Trustees Cup, Brainard Prize, and the School Valedictorian (V Form).

Athletics

House Football: Kennedy vs. Woodhull

Lawrenceville's rival in the Mid-Atlantic Prep League is The Hill School of Pottstown, Pennsylvania. On the first or second weekend of November during "Hill Weekend," the two schools celebrate the nation's third oldest high school football rivalry and fifth oldest school rivalry in the nation, dating back to 1887.[21] Also famous is the annual golf competition for the Crooked Stick, similar in format to the Ryder Cup.

Lawrenceville competes with other schools in baseball, basketball, crew, cross-country, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, hockey, indoor and outdoor track, lacrosse, soccer, softball, squash, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. In addition, the School offers a variety of intramural sports, including ultimate for the girls' Crescent Houses and 8-man tackle football for boys' Circle Houses. The athletic directors of Lawrenceville and the other members of the Eight Schools Association compose the Eight Schools Athletic Council, which organizes sports events and tournaments among ESA schools.[22][23][24]

Lawrenceville's House Football League is the oldest active football league in America. Teams compete against each other to battle for the pride of their house. Traditions abound, including the yearly rivalry game between the Hamill and Kennedy houses referred to as "The Crutch Game", first played in 1947. The game is fought for the possession of a historical crutch made of wood. The games also include Woodhull against Griswold for a broken muffler ("The Muffler",) and Dickinson versus Cleve for the "Pride of the Circle". In September 2013, Headmaster Elizabeth Duffy announced that House tackle football will be replaced with flag football, citing injuries and a lack of participation for the change, however after major campaigning, the house football system was reinstated as tackle, 6-man football.

A bit of Lawrenceville football lore is recounted in the book Football Days, Memories of the Game and of the Men Behind the Ball by William H. Edwards, a graduate of Lawrenceville. The book describes the author's time as a member of the Lawrenceville football team, and paints a vivid picture of "the vital power of the collegial spirit."

Athletic achievements

In the Spring of 2010, the Lawrenceville Boy's Varsity Crew won the MAPL league by beating out Peddie, Hun, and Blair,[25] placed first at the USRowing Mid-atlantic youth championship,[26] then went on to place 13th at the USRowing Youth Nationals held at Lake Harsha, Ohio by winning the C Level Final;[27] multiple members of this crew either went on to race for the United States Jr. National Team[28] or the United States Jr. National development team. In the Fall of 2010, the Lawrenceville Boy's Varsity Crew won the Head of the Christina Regatta in Delaware [29] then later in the season placed 14th in a field of 75 at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Massachusetts.[30]

In the spring of 2008, the Lawrenceville Boy's and Girl's Varsity Track & Field team completed its season undefeated, placing first in the NJISSAA and MAPL leagues. In winter 2011, the 4x200 team was the fastest in the nation, earning each one of them the status of All-American.[31] By January 2014, the Lawrenceville Boy's Varsity Track team won 103 dual meets in a row (consisting of both indoor and outdoor meets)and won Mercer County Championships, competing for the first time in 10 years.The boys team has not lost a dual meet, a Prep State A championship, or a MAPL league championship since 2006.[32] In winter 2014, the 4x55 Shuttle Hurdle Relay team ranked #2 in New Jersey and #3 in the Nation.[31]

On November 6, 2005, the Lawrenceville Varsity Field Hockey team defeated Stuart Country Day School 2-1 to capture their third straight Prep A State Championship. On November 5, 2006, the Field Hockey team defeated Stuart Country Day School 1-0 to capture their fourth straight Prep A State Championship. In 2007 they tied rival Stuart Country Day School for a shared victory in their 5th straight Prep A State Championship with a 2-2 tie on a late Lawrenceville goal.[33]

On February 12, 2006, the Lawrenceville Varsity Boys' Squash team won the National Championship for the third year in a row.[34]

On May 18, 2006, the Lawrenceville Varsity Baseball Team won the New Jersey State Prep A Championship over Peddie School in a double header (14-0 and 6-1), marking their second state championship in three years. Lawrenceville defeated Peddie again in the 2010 finals to win its second consecutive Prep A title.[35]

In 2006, Lawrenceville graduate Joakim Noah competed as a member of the University of Florida Gators' back-to-back NCAA-championship winning basketball team in 2006 and 2007. Noah was voted the most outstanding player of the Final Four in 2006. Noah now plays for the NBA's Chicago Bulls, where he won the defensive player of the year award for the 2013-14 NBA season.[36]

Facilities

Edith Memorial Chapel

On Lawrenceville's 700-acre (2.8 km2) campus are thirty-four major buildings, including the Bunn Library (with space for 100,000 volumes). Peabody and Stearns designed the original campus of the school, which included Memorial Hall (renamed Woods Memorial Hall in January 2010), a gymnasium, the headmaster’s house and five cottage-style residences, and provided future plans for the chapel.[37][38]

The Bunn Library offers more than 60,000 books, computer research facilities, an electronic classroom, study areas and an archives. Other campus highlights include a 56,000-square-foot (0.52 ha) science building (opened in spring 1998), a visual arts center (opened in fall 1998), a history center (reopened in fall 1999), and a music center (opened in fall 2000).

In the main arena of the Edward J. Lavino Field House is a permanent banked 200-meter track and three tennis/basketball/volleyball courts. Two additional hardwood basketball courts, a six-lane swimming pool, an indoor ice-hockey rink, a wrestling room, two fitness centers with full-time strength and conditioning coaches, and a training-wellness facility are housed in the wings of the building as well as a new squash court facility, hosting ten new internationally zoned courts, which opened in 2003.

The four Crescent House Dorms, Stanley, McClellan, Stephens, and Kirby, designed by Short and Ford Architects, of Princeton, NJ, were opened in 1986, with a 5th house, Carter, opening in 2010. The Circle, declared a national historic landmark by the U.S. government, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Lawrenceville has eighteen athletics fields, a nine-hole golf course, twelve outdoor tennis courts, a 1⁄4-mile (400 m) all-weather track, a boathouse, and a ropes and mountaineering course. During the summer, Lawrenceville is a popular site for sports-specific camps for youths, as well as several academic programs for students and teachers, including the prestigious New Jersey Scholars Program.

In the spring of 2012 the School began to draw its energy needs from its Solar Farm, which consists of a nearly 30-acre, net metered, 6.1 megawatt solar facility, and honey-producing bee hives, which ring the perimerter of the array.[39]

Affiliations

Lawrenceville athletics compete in the Mid-Atlantic Prep League.

Lawrenceville is a member of a group of leading American secondary schools, the Eight Schools Association, begun informally in 1973–74 and formalized at a 2006 meeting at Lawrenceville. At that meeting, Choate headmaster Edward Shanahan was appointed first president, Lawrenceville's Elizabeth Duffy was named first vice president, and former Lawrenceville chief financial officer William Bardel was hired as executive assistant. Shanahan was succeeded in 2009 by Duffy, and Bardel was succeeded by former Hotchkiss head Robert Mattoon. The member schools are Lawrenceville, Choate Rosemary Hall, Deerfield Academy, Hotchkiss School, Northfield Mount Hermon, Phillips Academy (known as Andover), Phillips Exeter Academy (known as Exeter), and St. Paul's School.[40]

Lawrenceville is also a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, established in 1966 and comprising Lawrenceville, Choate, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Taft School, Loomis Chaffee, and The Hill School.

Lawrenceville is affiliated with The Island School in Cape Eleuthera, The Bahamas

Gallery

Notable alumni

The following are some notable alumni of the Lawrenceville School.

Notable faculty

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    2    , and provide a setting to teach sustainable energy and the use of materials, land, and water in ways that promote ecological literacy and sustainability. The natural slope of the 30-acre site, currently part of a 268-acre (1.08 km2) farm that is a part of Lawrenceville's 700-acre campus, will make the solar farm invisible from Route 206 and only partially visible from Lewisville Road."
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  57. ↑ Peters, Jeremy W. "Tests for a New White House Spokesman", The New York Times, March 16, 2011. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Carney grew up in Northern Virginia. He attended the Lawrenceville School, an exclusive boarding school near Princeton, and then Yale. But he did not have the blue-blood, silver-spoon-in-mouth pedigree of many of his peers."
  58. ↑ Hischak, Thomas S. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television, p. 142. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-19-533533-3. Accessed march 14, 2012. "Chaplin was born in Los Angeles, son of the celebrated filmmaker Charles Chaplin, and educated at Lawrenceville Academy before joining the army."
  59. ↑ Homer Edward Moyer, ed. (1935). Who's Who and What to See in Florida. Current Historical Company of Florida. p. 77. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  60. ↑ Lamb, Yvonee Shinhoster. "Richard Dean; Model and Photographer Appeared on TV's 'Cover Shot'", The Washington Post, January 17, 2007. Accessed January 27, 2011. "Mr. Dean graduated from Winston Churchill High School in Potomac and the Lawrenceville School in Princeton, N.J."
  61. ↑ via Associated Press. "IOWA FARMERS RESUME PICKETING ON ROADS; Small Groups Patrol Several High- ways as Leader Orders Spread of Movement for Higher Prices.", The New York Times, September 28, 1932. Accessed January 27, 2011.
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  63. ↑ James, George. "Malcolm Forbes, Publisher, Dies at 70", The New York Times, February 26, 1990. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Young Forbes attended the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, where he majored in politics and economics."
  64. ↑ "Frank Is Unanimous Selection As Yale's 1937 Football Leader; Star Halfback, Kelley and Pond Are Among Speakers at Dinner, After Which Eli Gridiron Squad Disbands – Williams Wins the Managerial Competition, With Wickwire Next.", The New York Times, November 24, 1936.
  65. ↑ Taylor, Jr., Stuart. "MAN IN THE NEWS: CHARLES FRIED; COURT VOICE OF REAGANISM", The New York Times, October 24, 1985. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Fried attended public schools in New York City, the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey ('where I think the most important things I learned were Latin and Greek') and Princeton University, where he studied comparative literature and philosophy."
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  67. ↑ Robert F. Goheen Papers, 1939-2008 (bulk 1939-2000): Finding Aid, Princeton University Library. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Robert (Bob) Francis Goheen was born on August 15, 1919, in Vengurla, India, where his father, Robert H.H. Goheen, a doctor, and his mother Anne Goheen-Ewing, a teacher, were Presbyterian missionaries. In 1934, Goheen moved to the United States to finish his high school education at the Lawrenceville School, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Graduating with honors after two years, he entered Princeton University as member of the class of 1940."
  68. ↑ Truell, Peter. "A Fallen King In Search of a Lesser Throne", The New York Times, May 3, 1998. Accessed April 15, 2012. "Mr. Gutfreund attended high school in Scarsdale and then transferred to the Lawrenceville School, a prep school in New Jersey."
  69. ↑ Richard Halliburton Papers, 1916-1975: Finding Aid , Princeton University Library. Accessed April 15, 2012. "The papers span Halliburton's short but adventurist life: from his telling fifth form, Lawrenceville School essay Disillusioned, through his Princeton University years (Princeton class of 1921), his years of worldwide travel, lecturing, and writing, to his posthumously-published autobiography of letters to his parents (1940).
  70. ↑ Turner, Wallace. "Father Under Pressure; Randolph Apperson Hearst Ironical Circumstance", The New York Times, February 16, 1974. Accessed April 15, 2012. "After attending Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, he spent a semester at Harvard, where his father also had left without taking a degree."
  71. ↑ http://www.lawrenceville.org/bicentennial/history/archives_athletics.html
  72. ↑ Staff. "Owen Johnson", Time (magazine), March 31, 1924. Accessed April 15, 2012. "When Owen Johnson was a boy at Lawrenceville, he must have played the part of a boy for all it was worth; likewise when he was at Yale, where it is known that he entered into undergraduate activity and argument with heat."
  73. ↑ Warsh, David vis The Boston Globe. "Ecology and economics are coming together in theory and in practice", Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1992. Accessed April 15, 2012. "Leopold was a well-born Iowa youth, a Lawrenceville School preppie and a Yale Forest School graduate who joined the U.S. Forest Service in 1909."
  74. ↑ Huey Lewis profile, Back to the Future, accessed December 26, 2006.
  75. ↑ Hall M. Lyons obituary, The Shreveport Times, July 26, 1998
  76. ↑ John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers, 1715-1988 (bulk 1913-1942): Finding Aid, Princeton University Library. Accessed September 3, 2012. "The correspondence with both his parents documents MacMurray's life at boarding school in New Jersey (Captain Wilson’s Collegiate Institute at Newton 1891-1895 and Lawrenceville School 1895-1898), which is supplemented by Junius Wilson’s correspondence with the headmasters of both institutes (Subseries 2A)."
  77. ↑ 77.0 77.1 Hunter, Jefferson. "Joseph Moncure March: Poem Noir Becomes Prizefight Film", The Hudson Review, Summer 2008. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Never a particularly good student, March was sent to the Lawrenceville School for finishing.... In its handsome hardbound volume, with illustrations by March’s Lawrenceville classmate Reginald Marsh, The Wild Party was a success"
  78. ↑ 78.0 78.1 78.2 "CELEBRATING THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL", Rush D. Holt in the Congressional Record - Extensions of Remarks, September 29, 2010. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Lawrenceville has a proud history of public service. Graduates include three New Jersey Governors, Charles Olden, Joel Parker and Rodman Price, who also served as a Member of Congress; Lowell P. Weicker, who served as both Senator and Governor of Connecticut; Charles Fried, who was appointed by President Reagan as Solicitor General of the United States; J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, who sits on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; Ricardo Maduro, who was President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006; Brigadier General Horace Porter, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union Army; and World War I Aviator, Jarvis Offutt for whom Offutt Air Force Base is named."
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  80. ↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Harold W. McGraw Jr., Publisher, Dies at 92", The New York Times, March 24, 2010. Accessed March 14, 2012. "After attending the Lawrenceville School and nearby Princeton University, graduating in 1940, Mr. McGraw was a captain in the Army Air Forces during World War II."
  81. ↑ Army Football: From Michie to the New Millennium, CSTV. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Yet, little of this history would be possible without the efforts of Dennis Mahan Michie, who was born at West Point on April 10, 1870. Michie attended Lawrenceville Prep when of high school age and learned to play the game of football quite well."
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  83. ↑ Staff. "Institute Announces Appointment of Paul Moravec as Artist-in-Residence", Institute for Advanced Study, May 26, 2007. Accessed April 15, 2012. "Born in Buffalo, New York, Moravec attended the Lawrenceville School and received his B.A. in music composition from Harvard University in 1980."
  84. ↑ Konigsberg, Eric. "Why Is the Blond Smiling?", The New York Times, October 21, 2007. Accessed December 24, 2008. "The Mortimers have been a couple since their days at Lawrenceville, the New Jersey boarding school."
  85. ↑ Rodman McCamley Price, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 24, 2007.
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  88. ↑ Ryan, Bob. "Noah was prepped to win", The Boston Globe, March 31, 2006. accessed March 14, 2012. "The Lawrenceville School is a distinguished prep school located in Lawrenceville, N.J., a small community equidistant from Trenton and Princeton.... A wealthy alum named Edwin Lavino, Class of 1905, provided a way-ahead-of-its-time Field House in 1950 (colleges would crave it today) and it was inside that building that Hill, Class of 1972 and Noah, Class of 2004, took Lawrenceville basketball to its greatest heights; yes, sadly, even higher than when Yours Truly performed for the varsity more than 40 years ago."
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  90. ↑ Staff. "SALLY J. FERGUSON MANHASSET BRIDE; She Is Escorted by Father at Marriage to Sheridan G. Snyder, Virginia Senior", The New York Times, August 17, 1957. Accessed November 7, 2011. "The Congregational Church of Manhasset was the scene this afternoon of the marriage of Miss Sally Jayne Ferguson to Sheridan Gray Snyder.... The bridegroom, a senior at the University of Virginia, where he and his bride will continue their studies, attended the Lawrenceville (N.J.) School and was graduated from Friends Academy in Locust Valley."
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  96. ↑ Birger, John. "The woman who called Wall Street's meltdown", CNNMoney, August 6, 2008. Accessed July 5, 2011. "Whitney, 38, grew up in Bethesda, Md., one of three daughters born to Richard Whitney, a venture capitalist and onetime official in Richard Nixon's Department of Commerce (but not part of the famous Whitney clan that includes Eli and John Hay Whitney), and Barbara Gentry, an executive recruiter. She prepped at Lawrenceville, graduated from Brown University in 1992 (Whitney and I overlapped at Brown but didn't know each other), and has been working in Wall Street research pretty much ever since."
  97. ↑ Sontag, Deborah. "The Power of the Fourth", The New York Times, March 9, 2003. Accessed November 7, 2011. "A warm, gracious and patrician Virginian, Wilkinson, 58, appears slight and owlish in his civilian clothes -- blue blazer, gold buttons -- yet commanding in his robes. The son of a banker, the future judge attended boarding school at Lawrenceville and college at Yale before returning to Virginia to study law."
  98. ↑ Kim, Suki. "Q&A: The Meaning of Asian-American", Newsweek, July 10, 2003. Accessed November 7, 2011. "Once, I showed up at an audition for an all-American role, and they said, oh, you are not exactly what we are looking for, and I said, what do you mean?, I went to Lawrenceville boarding school [in New Jersey] and Columbia University, why am I not all-American?"
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