The following is a list of notable alumni of Lawrenceville School, a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school located in the historic Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, New Jersey.
A
edit- George Akerlof (born 1940; class of 1958), Nobel laureate for Economics[1]
- Knowlton Ames (1868–1931; class of 1886), All-American football player at Princeton and head football coach at Purdue University[2]
- Garth Ancier (born 1957), president of the WB Network[3]
- A. Piatt Andrew (1873–1936; class of 1889), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1910–1912) and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts[2]
- Walter G. Andrews (1889–1949; class of 1908), United States House of Representatives from New York (1931–1949)[4]
B
edit- David Baird Jr. (1881–1955; class of 1899), U.S. Senator from New Jersey[5]
- Dewey F. Bartlett (1919–1979; class of 1938), former Governor of Oklahoma and member of the United States Senate[6][7]
- Dierks Bentley (born 1975; class of 1993), country music singer[8][9]
- Bill Berkson (1939–2016; class of 1957), poet[2]
- Barton Biggs (1932–2012; class of 1951), former Morgan Stanley Chief Global Strategist; current money manager running Traxis Partners[10]
- C. Ledyard Blair (1867–1949; class of 1886), founder of investment bank Blair & Co., delegate to the Republican National Convention from New Jersey, Governor of the New York Stock Exchange, owner of Blairsden and the C. Ledyard Blair House[11]
- Thomas Pickens Brady (1903–1973; class of 1923), jurist, segregationist, Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court[12]
- Suleiman Braimoh (born 1989), Nigerian-American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League[13]
- George Houston Brown (1810–1865), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, 1853–1855[14]
- Frederick Buechner (1926–2022; class of 1943), novelist[2][15]
- Dennis Bushyhead (1826–1898; class of 1843), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation[2][16]
- Fox Butterfield (born 1939; class of 1957), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times[2]
C
edit- Jay Carney (born 1965; class of 1983), 29th White House Press Secretary; former Time Washington Bureau Chief; former White House correspondent[17][18]
- Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925–1968), actor; son of Charlie Chaplin[citation needed]
- Sydney Chaplin (1926–2009), actor; son of Charlie Chaplin[19]
- Korawad Chearavanont (class of 2012), entrepreneur; grandson of Dhanin Chearavanont
- John Cobb Cooper (1887–1967), jurist and airline executive[20]
- Merian C. Cooper (1893–1973; class of 1911), film director best known for King Kong (1933)[2]
D
edit- Alan D'Andrea (class of 1974), cancer researcher and the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School[2]
- Richard Dean (1956–2006), fashion and advertising photographer, model, and former player in Canadian Football League[21]
- Frederick B. Deknatel (1905–1973; class of 1924), art historian[citation needed]
- William Adams Delano (1874–1960), architect[22]
- Christopher DeMuth (born 1946; class of 1964), president of the American Enterprise Institute[16]
- William T. Doyle (1926–2024), member of the Vermont Senate from the Washington Vermont Senate District, 1969–2017, the longest-serving state legislator in Vermont history[23]
- Barrows Dunham (1905–1995; class of 1922),[24] author and former Head of Philosophy Department at Temple University in Philadelphia
E
edit- Michael Eisner (born 1942; class of 1960), former CEO of The Walt Disney Company[16]
F
edit- Turki bin Faisal Al Saud (born 1945; class of 1963), Saudi Arabia's ambassador to United States[16][25]
- Jane Ferguson (born 1984, class of 2004, journalist[26]
- Maurice Ferré (born 1935; class of 1953), former Mayor of the city of Miami (1973–1985)[16]
- Robert A. Fishman (class of 1965), Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award; 16 Emmy Awards[27]
- Major Sir Hamish Forbes (1916–2007; class of 1934), British Army officer who served in the Welsh Guards during World War II; POW decorated for numerous escape attempts[2][28]
- Malcolm Forbes (1919–1990; class of 1937), publisher of Forbes magazine[2][29]
- Clint Frank (1915–1992; class of 1934), winner of the 1937 Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award; Team Captain and All-American football player at Yale University[30]
- Charles Fried (born 1935; class of 1952), Harvard Law School professor and former United States Solicitor General[2][31]
- N. Howell Furman (1892–1965), professor of analytical chemistry who helped develop the electrochemical uranium separation process as part of the Manhattan Project[32]
G
edit- George Gallup Jr. (1930–2011; class of 1948), pollster and author[2]
- Roy Geronemus (born 1953; class of 1971), physician and chairman of the board of the New York Stem Cell Foundation[33]
- Irving S. Gilmore (1900–1986), musician, retail businessman and philanthropist[34]
- Robert F. Goheen (1919–2008; class of 1936), 16th President of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India[16][35]
- Billy Granville (class of 1992), former Cincinnati Bengals player[2]
- John Cleve Green (1800–1875; class of 1816), merchant[36]
- Samuel D. Gross (1805–1884; attended 1822–1825), academic trauma surgeon[2][16]
- Peter Johnson Gulick (1796–1877; class of 1822), pioneer Protestant missionary to Hawaii (1828–74) with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; patriarch of the missionary-rich (1820s to 1960s) Gulick clan; co-founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall (1825–1930); spiritual parent to today's Princeton Christian Fellowship)
- William Stryker Gummere (class of 1867), captain of the Princeton football team; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey[2]
- John Gutfreund (born 1929; class of 1947), former CEO of Salomon Brothers[37]
H
edit- Richard Halliburton (1900–1939; class of 1917), author, adventurer[2][38]
- Karen Hao (class of 2011), award-winning journalist[39]
- Randolph Apperson Hearst (1915-2000; class of 1934), former chairman of the Hearst Corporation and son of William Randolph Hearst[16][40]
- Lydia Hearst-Shaw (born 1984; class of 2002), model, daughter of Patricia Hearst[16]
- Lars Hernquist (class of 1973), theoretical astrophysicist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics[2]
- Armond Hill (class of 1972), former NBA player and assistant coach [2][41]
- Walter E. Hussman Jr. (class of 1964), newspaper publisher and chief executive officer of WEHCO Media, Inc.[2]
- Glenn Hutchins (class of 1973), co-founder, Silver Lake Partners[2]
I
edit- John N. Irwin II (1913–2000), U.S. diplomat and attorney[42]
J
edit- Owen Johnson (1878–1952; class of 1895), author of Lawrenceville Stories[43]
- Rupert Johnson Jr. (class of 1958), vice chairman of Franklin Resources[2]
K
edit- Joe Kyrillos (born 1960), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, 1988–1992 and the New Jersey Senate, 1992–2018[44]
L
edit- Duke Lacroix (born 1993; class of 2011), professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Indy Eleven in the North American Soccer League[45]
- Butler Lampson (born 1943; class of 1960), computer scientist; 1992 Turing Award winner[2]
- Mort Landsberg (1919–1970), NFL player[46]
- William M. Lanning (class of 1866), U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1903–1904)[2]
- Preston Lea (attended 1859–1860), Governor of Delaware (1905–1909)[2]
- Aldo Leopold (1887–1948; class of 1905), father of ecology; author of A Sand County Almanac[2][47]
- Huey Lewis (born 1950 as Hugh Cregg; class of 1967), musician[16][48]
- Emily Li (class of 2018), musician known as Emei[49]
- Alexander S. Lilley (class of 1888), first football coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes[2]
- Ashley Lyle (class of 1998), Emmy Award-nominated showrunner, creator of Yellowjackets[50]
M
edit- John Van Antwerp MacMurray (born 1881; class of 1898), diplomat[51]
- Ricardo Maduro (born 1946; class of 1963), former President of Honduras[16][52]
- Joseph Moncure March (1899–1977), poet[53]
- Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter[53]
- William H. Masters (1915–2001; class of 1934), human sexuality researcher and co-founder of the Masters & Johnson Institute[2][54]
- Donald C. McGraw (1897–1974; class of 1917), former president of McGraw-Hill Companies[2]
- Harold McGraw Jr. (1918-2010; class of 1936), former CEO of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc[2][55]
- James M. McIntosh (1828–1862; attended 1837–1840), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army[2][16]
- John Baillie McIntosh (1829–1888; attended 1837–1840), brigadier general in the Union Army[2][16]
- James Merrill (1926–1995; class of 1943), poet[15]
- Dennis Michie (1870–1898; class of 1888), first football head coach at Army, namesake of Michie Stadium[2][56]
- Clement Woodnutt Miller (1916–1962), U.S. Representative from California[57]
- Chi Modu (1966-2021), photographer known for his photos of various pioneering hip-hop music entertainers[58]
- Paul Moravec (born 1957), 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning composer[59]
- Roland S. Morris (1874–1945), lawyer and diplomat; co-founded the law firm Duane Morris in 1904; United States Ambassador to Japan 1917–1920[60]
- Geoff Morrell (class of 1987), former Press Secretary of the Department of Defense[2]
- Tinsley Mortimer, socialite and television personality
- Paul Mott (born 1958), retired professional soccer player for the Tampa Bay Rowdies, sports consultant and former professional sports executive[61]
- Patrick Erin Murphy (born 1983; class of 2002), Congressman (D-FL), representing Florida's 18th Congressional District[62]
N
edit- Nikita Nesterenko (born 2001, class of 2020), professional ice hockey center who plays in the National Hockey League for the Anaheim Ducks[63]
- Grant Newsome (born 1997; class of 2015), college football offensive line coach for the Michigan Wolverines[64]
- Joakim Noah (born 1985; class of 2004), basketball player for the Chicago Bulls[65]
O
edit- Jarvis Offutt (1894–1918; class of 1913), World War I aviator, namesake of Offutt Air Force Base[2][16][52]
- Charles Smith Olden (1799–1876; attended 1810–1814), 19th Governor of New Jersey, 1860–1863[2][16]
- A. Dayton Oliphant (1887–1963), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court 1945–1946, and again 1948–1957[66]
P
edit- Arthur W. Page (1883–1960), public relations pioneer[67]
- Joel Parker (1816–1888; attended 1834–1837), 20th Governor of New Jersey, 1863–66 and 1871–74[2][16]
- Stacey Patton (1978–; class of 1996), journalist, author, child advocate
- Horace Porter (1837–1921; class of 1854), Union Army Brigadier General who was awarded the Medal of Honor[2][52]
- Rodman M. Price (1816–1894; attended 1834–1837), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives 1851–1853; 17th Governor of New Jersey 1854–1857[16][68]
Q
editR
edit- Jim Rash (born 1971; class of 1990), actor; winner of the 2012 Oscar for best adapted screenplay (The Descendants); Dean Pelton on NBC's Community[69]
- Andrew Horatio Reeder (attended 1822–1825), first Governor of the Kansas Territory (1854–55)[2]
- Laurence A. Rickels (born 1954), theorist and philosopher, known for his work on vampires, the devil, technology and science fiction[70]
- William P. Ross (1820–1891; attended 1837–40), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation[2][16]
- Bob Ryan (born 1946; class of 1964), sportswriter for The Boston Globe; ESPN analyst and contributor[71]
S
edit- Bobby Sanguinetti (born 1988; class of 2006), professional ice hockey defenseman for HC Lugano in the National League; left school after his sophomore year after being selected in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft[2][72]
- Julian Larcombe Schley (class of 1898), Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1932–1936)[2]
- Paul Schmidtberger (class of 1982), author of Design Flaws of the Human Condition[73]
- Gene Scott (1937–2006; class of 1956), tennis player and founder of Tennis Week magazine
- Hugh L. Scott (1853–1934; class of 1869), Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (West Point)[2]
- Charles Scribner I (attended 1834–1837), publisher and founder of Charles Scribner's Sons[2]
- Chip Smith (class of 1986), businessman, political strategist[74]
- Cotter Smith (born 1949; class of 1968), actor[2]
- Sheridan Snyder (class of 1954), biotechnology entrepreneur and philanthropist[2][75]
- Griffin Spolansky (1996–; class of 2016), chief executive officer of Mezcla; defenseman on University of Virginia's lacrosse team[2]
- Fred Mustard Stewart (1932–2007; class of 1950), novelist[2]
- William H. Stovall (1895–1970; class of 1913), World War I flying ace; World War II veteran; businessman[76]
- Bandar bin Sultan (born 1945), Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States 1983–2005[25]
T
edit- Brandon Tartikoff (1949–1997; class of 1966), former NBC programming chief[16][77]
- Henry J. Taylor (1902–1984; class of 1920), journalist, author, and United States Ambassador to Switzerland 1957–1961[78]
- Buddy Temple (born 1942), lumber magnate and former politician from Lufkin, Texas[79]
- Taki Theodoracopulos (born 1936), international journalist[80]
- Randall Thompson (1899–1984), music composer and director of the Curtis Institute 1939–1941[81]
- Samuel Huston Thompson (1875–1966), chair of the Federal Trade Commission 1919–1927[82]
- Joseph Tsai (born 1964; class of 1982), vice chairman of Alibaba Group[83]
U
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editW
edit- Frederic C. Walcott (1869–1949; class of 1886), U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1929–1935)[2]
- Rawleigh Warner Jr. (1921–2013), former president and CEO of Mobil[84]
- Lowell Weicker (born 1931; class of 1949), former Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator[16][85]
- Alex Westlund (born 1975), retired professional ice hockey goaltender who has since been a coach[86]
- Meredith Whitney (born 1969; class of 1988), former research analyst at Oppenheimer[2][87]
- J. Harvie Wilkinson III (born 1944), United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit[88]
- Brian Willison (born 1977; class of 1995), businessman[citation needed]
- Alfred Alexander Woodhull (class of 1852), brigadier general and Army surgeon[2]
- J. Butler Wright (1877–1939; class of 1895), diplomat; U.S. representative in Hungary, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia and Cuba[16]
X
editY
edit- Welly Yang (class of 1990), actor[16][89]
- Monica Yunus (class of 1995), operatic soprano in the Metropolitan Opera[2]
Z
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edit- ^ George Akerlof: Nobel Prize Autobiography, accessed April 2, 2007. "The Princeton Country Day School ended at grade nine. At that point most of my classmates dispersed among different New England prep schools. Both for financial reasons and also because they preferred that I stay at home, my family sent me down the road to the Lawrenceville School."
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay "NOTABLE ALUMNI". The Lawrenceville School. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ^ Staff. "Princeton Talks, America Listens", The Michigan Daily, March 2, 1984. Accessed January 27, 2011.
- ^ via Associated Press. "Andrews To Quit Congress Career; New York Representative, on Advice of Doctor, Will Not Seek Re-election, He States", The New York Times, June 2, 1948. Accessed January 27, 2011.
- ^ David Baird Jr., Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 26, 2007.
- ^ Slaymaker, S.R. II. Five Miles Away: The Story of The Lawrenceville School. Lawrenceville, NJ: 1985.
- ^ Dewey Follett Bartlett, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed March 14, 2012. "born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, March 28, 1919; educated in Marietta, Ohio, public schools and Lawrenceville Preparatory School, Lawrenceville, N.J."
- ^ Dierks Bentley ’93 Wins CMA Horizon Award[permanent dead link ], Lawrenceville School, November 16, 2005. Accessed September 30, 2007.
- ^ Rasmussen, Tracy. "His life is like a country song", Reading Eagle, March 22, 2007. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Raised in Phoenix, Ariz., his parents sent him across the country to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey to keep him out of trouble."
- ^ Staff. "Judith A. Lund Becomes Bride Of Barton Biggs; Augustana Lutheran in Washington Is Scene of Their Marriage", The New York Times, June 13, 1959. Accessed January 27, 2011.
- ^ "Clinton Ledyard Blair (1867-1949)". House Histree. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
- ^ "Brady, Thomas P., 1903–1973", Civil Rights Digital Library. Accessed July 24, 2014. "He attended the Lawrenceville Preparatory School, New Jersey, and graduated in 1923."
- ^ Halickman, Joshua. "Braimoh leads Jerusalem in Champions League", The Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2020. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Braimoh, who clinched the game for Jerusalem, was born in Nigeria. The 6-foot-8 forward moved to New York with his parents in 2001 and attended the United Nations International High School as well as The Lawrenceville Prep School in New Jersey before heading to Rice University."
- ^ George Houston Brown, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 1, 2007.
- ^ a b Gussow, Mel. "James Merrill Is Dead at 68; Elegant Poet of Love and Loss", The New York Times, February 7, 1995. Accessed March 14, 2012. "He went to Lawrenceville School, where one of his close friends and classmates was the novelist Frederick Buechner."
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Staff. "A brief list of Lawrenceville luminaries", The Times, January 31, 2010. Accessed January 27, 2011.
- ^ Times Topics: Jay Carney, The New York Times, updated March 17, 2011. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Carney grew up in Northern Virginia. He attended the Lawrenceville School, an exclusive boarding school near Princeton, N.J., and then Yale."
- ^ 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."
- ^ 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."
- ^ Homer Edward Moyer, ed. (1935). Who's Who and What to See in Florida. Current Historical Company of Florida. p. 77. Retrieved August 8, 2008.
- ^ 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."
- ^ 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.
- ^ Senator Bill Doyle, Vermont General Assembly. Accessed February 15, 2020. "He was educated at Spring Lake Grammar School, New Jersey; Manasquan High School, New Jersey; Lawrenceville School"
- ^ The Lawrenceville School Yearbook, 1922, p. 51.
- ^ a b Weisman, Steven R. "Saudi Arabia's Longtime Ambassador to the U.S. Is Resigning", The New York Times, July 21, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Like Prince Bandar, Prince Turki was educated in the United States, at the Lawrenceville School and Georgetown University, but is said to be a more cautious, ascetic and intellectual figure unlikely to cut the same swath that his predecessor did, especially in establishing intimate ties with powerful Americans."
- ^ "Jane Ferguson '04 Shares Realities Of Life In The Middle East", Lawrenceville School Alumni News, October 3, 2018. Accessed January 3, 2021.
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- ^ "Major Sir Hamish Forbes, Bt: Champion of Highland and Gaelic culture who as a wartime PoW had been decorated for his numerous escape attempts", The Times, September 20, 2007. Accessed October 24, 2007. "Hamish Stewart Forbes was educated at Eton, at Lawrenceville in the United States and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London."
- ^ 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."
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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."
- ^ "Dr. N. Howell Furman, 73, Dies; Chemist Worked on Atom Bomb; Responsible for Analytical Separation of Uranium-At Princeton 41 Years", The New York Times, August 3, 1965. Accessed July 26, 2020. "Dr. N. Howell Furman, a distinguished analytical chemist and educator who took part in the development of the atomic bomb, died today in Mary Fletcher Hospital at the age of 73.... He was born in Lawrenceville, N. J, and attended the Lawrenceville School, receiving the Master's Prize as the leading scholar of the class of '09."
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 9, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) [Link dead since 2013-07-07] - ^ History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred Twenty-three, Yale College, Volume 1, Yale University Class of 1923, p. 136. Accessed March 22, 2024. "Gilmore received his preparatory training at Kalamazoo High School and at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N. J."
- ^ Robert F. Goheen Papers, 1939-2008 (bulk 1939-2000): Finding Aid Archived July 10, 2012, at archive.today, 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."
- ^ John C. Green, Princetoniana Museum. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Green was born in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and was a member of the first class to enter what became the Lawrenceville School."
- ^ 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."
- ^ 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).
- ^ "2018 Report of Giving - The Lawrenceville School". Issuu. November 26, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
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- ^ Staff. "Owen Johnson", Time, 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."
- ^ Friedman, Matt. "Meet Joe Kyrillos, a nice guy trying to unseat powerful U.S. Sen. Menendez", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 21, 2012, updated March 30, 2019. Accessed January 3, 2021. "And Joe, the oldest of four, went to some of Jersey’s most exclusive schools: the Rumson Country Day School and the Lawrenceville School, before heading off to Hobart College."
- ^ Staff. "Indy Eleven Sign Striker Duke Lacroix; Speedy Univ. of Pennsylvania product brings roster to 23 players" Archived January 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Indy Eleven, May 21, 2015. Accessed October 17, 2015. "The native of New Egypt, N.J., attended The Lawrenceville School, where he played four years of soccer and ran three years of track his high school, his tenure as a runner including a 4x400 relay win at the prestigious Penn Relays."
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- ^ 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."
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- ^ 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)."
- ^ a b c "Celebrating The Bicentennial Of The Lawrenceville School"[permanent dead link ], 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."
- ^ a b Hunter, Jefferson. "Joseph Moncure March: Poem Noir Becomes Prizefight Film" Archived December 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, 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"
- ^ Severo, Richard. "William H. Masters, a Pioneer in Studying and Demystifying Sex, Dies at 85", The New York Times, February 19, 2001. Accessed March 14, 2012. "William Howell Masters was born Dec. 27, 1915, in Cleveland to Francis Wynne Masters and Estabrooks Taylor Masters, who were well off and who saw to it that their son was given an excellent education. He was sent to the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., after which he attended Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y."
- ^ 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."
- ^ 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."
- ^ Clement Woodnutt Miller[permanent dead link ], United States Congress. Accessed June 2, 2007.
- ^ Caramanica, Jon. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/arts/music/chi-modu-dead.html "Chi Modu, Photographer Who Defined 1990s Hip-Hop, Dies at 54"], The New York Times, May 29, 2021. Accessed December 20, 2022. "His parents later returned to Nigeria, but Mr. Modu stayed behind and graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and received a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness economics from Rutgers University’s Cook College in 1989."
- ^ 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."
- ^ Roland S. Morris Papers, 1855-1988 (mostly 1915-1929), Princeton University. Accessed September 11, 2023. "Morris attended the Lawrenceville School before entering Princeton University in September 1892."
- ^ Green, Jim. "Lawrence native made meteoric rise from professional soccer player to president of New Orleans Hornets", CentralJersey.com, August 25, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2021. "When Paul Mott finds himself at meetings with the other 29 NBA team presidents and league commissioner David Stern, the Lawrence native almost has to pinch himself."
- ^ Clark, Kristen M. "Patrick Murphy aims his youthful political exuberance at U.S. Senate seat", Miami Herald, June 3, 2016, updated August 13, 2016. Accessed January 3, 2021. "By his senior year, Murphy said he was in conversations to play baseball at the University of Miami and a few other schools. But instead, he opted to take a “post-graduate year” after graduating from Palmer Trinity. Murphy went to the elite Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 2001-02, where tuition, room and board this year is about $58,000 a year."
- ^ "Lucky Duck: Nikita Nesterenko ’20 makes his NHL debut with the Anaheim Ducks", Lawrenceville School, March 23, 2023. Accessed March 29, 2023. "Four years ago, it wasn’t a staggering leap of imagination to project Nikita Nesterenko ’20 as a future National Hockey League player. As a Fourth Former in 2018-19, Nesterenko scored 30 goals for Big Red on his way to a 59-point season and a selection to the All-U.S.A. Hockey third team."
- ^ Hunt, Todderick. "Grant Newsome, No. 2 recruit in the NJ.com Top 50, discusses his commitment to Michigan". NJ.com. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
- ^ Ryan, Bob. "Noah was prepped to win", The Boston Globe, March 31, 2006. Accessed December 24, 2008. "Because the University of Florida's Joakim Noah exists, Armond Hill's heretofore unquestioned status as the Best Player in the History of The Lawrenceville School is in jeopardy."
- ^ Staff. "Dayton Oliphant, Ex-Judge, 75, Dies; Headed Court of Errors and Appeals in New Jersey", The New York Times, June 27, 1963. Accessed January 3, 2021.
- ^ Block, Edward M. "Historical Perspective: The Legacy of Public Relations Excellence Behind the Name", Arthur W. Page Society. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Arthur Page attended The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and was graduated from Harvard College in 1905."
- ^ Rodman McCamley Price, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 24, 2007.
- ^ Carter, Lance. "Q & A: Community’s Jim Rash", DailyActor.com, November 19, 2010. Accessed January 25, 2012.
- ^ Laurence Arthur Rickels - Biography Archived April 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, European Graduate School. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Very early in his career in 1972, Laurence Rickels received Second Place for the Morton Prize for his work on inhibited mourning as a pathogenic force in Nazi concentration camp survivors. This was the result of an independent study he did just south of Princeton at The Lawrenceville School."
- ^ 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."
- ^ Hageny, John Christian. "Hockey: Where are they now? Call Lawrenceville's Sanguinetti a Hurricane", NJ.com, February 24, 2013. Accessed February 8, 2018. "Bobby Sanguinetti was born in Trenton, grew up a New York Rangers fan and even wore number 22 for a time in his career in honor of his favorite player, Brian Leetch, while skating at Lawrenceville.... The following year he enrolled at The Lawrenceville School in Mercer County where he played his freshman and sophomore seasons amassing six goals, 22 assists and 28 points in 51 games under coach Etienne Bilodeau."
- ^ Lawrenceville, Paul Schmidtberger ’82. September 24, 2007.
- ^ "Chip Smith '86 to Become Top Lobbyist at 21st Century Fox | Private Boarding & Day School | the Lawrenceville School". Archived from the original on September 24, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ^ 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 January 3, 2021. "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."
- ^ Franks, Norman; Dempsey, Harry. American Aces of World War I, p. 76, Osprey Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-84176-375-6. Accessed July 5, 2011. "William H Stovall came from Stovall, Mississippi, born in 1895, on the family cotton plantation, the son of a civil war colonel. Graduating from Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, in 1913 he moved to Yale in 1916."
- ^ Weinraub, Bernard. "The Talk of Hollywood; Anti-Semitism Film Strikes a Chord With Its Producers", The New York Times, September 14, 1992. Accessed July 5, 2011. "'It was such an eerie coincidence that when I got to Paramount, this project that I had nothing to do with in the first place looked like it was a homage to my own experiences at prep school,' said Mr. Tartikoff, who grew up in Freeport, L.I., and attended the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., from 1962 to 1966."
- ^ "Nomination of Henry J. Taylor to be United States Ambassador to Switzerland" (Press release). U.S. Department of State. April 12, 1957. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
Mr. Taylor was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 2, 1902, the son of Henry Noble and Eileen O'Hare Taylor. He was graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1920 and from the University of Virginia in 1924.
- ^ "Advisory Board". ckwri.tamuk.edu. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ "Taki Theodoracopulos", The Guardian. Accessed July 5, 2011. "Taki Theodoracopulos was born on August 11, 1937, in Greece. He was educated in the United States at The Lawrenceville School, New Jersey; at the University of Virginia; and in England at Pentonville Prison, just outside London."
- ^ Stokes, Mary Channing. "Profile: Randall Thompson", The Harvard Crimson, June 5, 1950. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Thompson began his musical career under the auspices of the family cook, who taught him to read and play hymns on an old melodion. His education continued under the mathematics teacher at Lawrenceville School, where Thompson's father taught English."
- ^ "Former Chairman Of FTC, Roosevelt Aide Dies At 90", The York Gazette and Daily (February 19, 1966), p. 2, 15.
- ^ Knapp, Krystal. "Lawrenceville School receives largest gift in 207-year history", Planet Princeton, June 21, 2017. Accessed January 3, 2021. "The Lawrenceville School has received the largest single gift in its 207-year history. Joseph Tsai, a 1982 graduate of the private school in Lawrence Township, and his wife, Clara Tsai, have made a major gift through the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation to support the school’s strategic plan."
- ^ Martin, Douglas. "Rawleigh Warner Jr., Brash Chairman of Mobil, Dies at 92", The New York Times, July 2, 2013. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Rawleigh Warner Jr. was born on Feb. 13, 1921, in Chicago and grew up in the city’s northern suburbs. He followed his father to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and Princeton, from which he graduated in 1943."
- ^ Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr., Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed December 16, 2007.
- ^ Alex Westlund Class of 2010, New Jersey High School Ice Hockey Hall of Fame. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Westlund posted a 2.70 goals against average in his high school career and went on to have a solid collegiate career at Yale.... In 1991-92 he led Lawrenceville to an 18-6 mark, a year in which the Mercer County school had no Post-Graduates on its roster."
- ^ Birger, John. "The woman who called Wall Street's meltdown" Archived October 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, 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."
- ^ 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."
- ^ 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?"