the lawrentian - fall 2013

LawrentianTHE fall 2013

Departments

2 From the head master

3 editor’s Note

4 1,000 Words�A road (temporarily) less traveled.

6 ��NeWs iN BrieF�O’Connor visits campus, dancers find new footing, and a Big Red farm reaps what it sows.

10��Go BiG red!�Dethlefs boats to Brazil.

On the Cover: Sean�Flynn�’60�by�Sean�Flynn.

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18��CommenCement 2013 � The Fifth Form heads out.

24��alumni WeekenD 2013� Alumni head back.

30 FinDing Flynn�A new documentary about Sean Flynn chronicles the intrepid

photographer’s life, legacy, and sudden disappearance.

G Kristen Rainey ’93, Bhutan, 2006, Photograph.

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12 On the Arts�Artistic alumnae assemble.

14 COver tO COver�Little chronicles America’s most painted mountain.

16 tAke this JOb And LOve it�Brewster tows the line.

76 CAptiOn this��Think you’re funny? Prove it and win a prize.

77 student shOt�England is in the pink.

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36 ALumni news

37 CLAss nOtes

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G David Little ’69, Katahdin, 2006, Oil on canvas.

In April 2007, the Board of Trustees adopted Strategic Directions, a five-year plan to build on Lawrence-ville’s core strengths and ensure that we prepare students to become responsible leaders in the 21st century. That plan solidified Lawrenceville’s position as a leading boarding school and developed our reputation

as a school that educates students well by balancing many dichotomies – most notably, we’re both large and small, both challenging and supportive, and both traditional and modern. With the imminent completion of that plan, we launched a new strategic planning process during the winter and spring of 2012, which we called Strategic Directions II, to emphasize that the new plan is an extension of – not a significant departure from – our current priorities. Indeed, the guiding question that governed Stra-tegic Directions I has also driven the current process: How do we continue to build on our core strengths and preserve our traditions while responding to emerging trends and new opportunities? We began the process with a review and re-adoption of our mission statement and with a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats). Strengths and weaknesses represent the internal features of Lawrenceville, those aspects of the School we can control and manage. Opportunities and threats are exter-nal trends that affect the School. We can’t control them, because they’re external to the School, but we must decide how to respond to them in ways that make the most sense for Lawrenceville given our past history and traditions, our current strengths, and our future aspirations. The SWOT analysis confirmed the core strengths that we had identified in Strategic Directions I. Those features include our unique House system, our collaborative Harkness approach to teaching and learning, our abundant co-curricular programs and many opportunities for student leadership, our multicultural community, our commitment to faculty and staff professional development, our efforts to achieve financial sustainability, and our educational and environmental leadership. Through the SWOT analysis, we also identified five external trends that we believe will require our con-sidered and intentional response in the coming years: globalization, specialization, the ubiquity of mobile technology, financial uncertainty, and economic inequality and political polarization. Below are the overall approaches that trustees, faculty, and other School constituents have advocated we take in responding to each trend. It is striking that the recommended responses balance key dichotomies, just as Strategic Directions I did:

• We aspire to prepare Lawrenceville students for the increasingly global world in which they will live and work, while reaffirming our identity as an American boarding school.

• We are committed to maintaining at our core a generalist philosophy, a strong sense of commu-nity, and students’ broad engagement in school life, while at the same time continuing to accom-modate the increased pressure for students to specialize by deeply pursuing an area of interest to a high level of expertise and excellence.

• We aim to harness the power and ubiquity of information technology to enhance student learning, strengthen Harkness teaching, and foster strong relationships, while at the same time minimizing the downsides of technology by educating students, faculty, and staff to be responsible consum-ers and creators of digital content.

• In order to ensure our long-term financial health and fulfill our responsibility to be good stewards of all the School’s resources, we must maintain our financial discipline; extend our fundraising capacity; and balance our personnel, facility, and programmatic priorities, as well as our current and future needs.

• We seek to broaden and deepen the engagement of students, faculty, and staff in the community in order to cultivate positive, mutually beneficial relationships; inspire and prepare Lawrenceville students to be responsible leaders; strengthen our brand; and increase our institutional impact.

Given the uncertainty and rapid pace of change that characterizes modern life, I’m encouraged that Strategic Directions II, like Strategic Directions I, represents a balanced approach to the future.

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I ’ve always been a big fan of swashbuckling epics, and the first and last word in swashed buckles is Errol Flynn. By the time I entered my teens, I had seen the bulk of the Flynn filmography and was always ready and

eager to watch the dashing fellow brandish a sword and run someone through. A number of years ago, when first I learned that Errol Flynn’s son was a Lawrenceville alumnus, however, my first instinct was to shrug. I had plenty of practice with this shrug; I used it when I also learned that Charlie Chaplin’s son and Woodrow Wilson’s brother-in-law went here. I’m sure they were fine fellows, but none of these people were going to get me excited from an editorial standpoint. Oh, what an ignoramus I was. My shrug was much, much too hasty. Sean Flynn ’60 was a swashbuckler of the first order. Armed with a camera instead of a rapier, the younger Flynn journeyed to Southeast Asia to chronicle the horrors of the Vietnam War on film. Not one to shy away from the action, he was known to speed into disputed areas behind the wheel of a bright red, rented motorcycle. Unfortunately, in 1970 he was captured in Cambodia and was never heard from again. Now Flynn is about to get some well-deserved recognition as Mythic Films is producing a documentary about the Lawrentian. The film’s objective is twofold. First and foremost the filmmakers are on the hunt to discover what happened to Flynn after he disappeared into a Cambodian jungle. Second, and perhaps more intriguingly, the filmmakers want to get a sense of who Sean Flynn really was. That’s where Lawrenceville comes in. Angela Krass, a producer of the film, spent many days perusing our archives to get a sense of the “real” Sean Flynn, a man many knew but few knew well, one who spent most of his life both running from and reaping the benefits of his father’s fame. In this issue’s cover story, “Finding Flynn” (page 30), Lawrenceville’s crackerjack archivist, Jacqueline Haun, chronicles both the documentary and the life of this amazing fellow. It’s a great story. Or, to put it another way, my shrugging days are over.

Warmest wishes,

Mike [email protected]

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There could scarcely be a more fitting way to close out Law-renceville’s Coeducation Cel-

ebration, and everyone in the Kirby Arts Center knew it. The place was abuzz with anticipation. Special agents scanned the building for (nonexistent) security lapses as students, faculty, staff, and invited guests kept pouring into the auditorium until they were shoulder to shoulder. As the activity swirled around her, Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, frail but formidable, took it all in. The first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, O’Connor, appointed in 1981 by Ronald Reagan, earned a reputation as a fair-minded swing voter – one who shied away from making sweeping judgments from the bench. Although she usually sided with the conservative branch of the court, she also demonstrated time and again that she was not beholden to a rigid political philosophy, often leaning left on issues such as affirmative action and abortion rights. When she retired from the court in 2005, it was taken for granted that her narrow and balanced de-cisions would be sorely missed. Her visit was arranged by Bert Getz ’55 H’56 P’85, a close friend of O’Connor’s and the School’s trustee

president during the historic 1985 vote that transformed Lawrenceville into a coed school. He felt – and the School agreed – that an appearance by the justice would be an ideal finale to the year-long series of events that marked the 25th anniversary of School’s first coeduca-tional graduating class. After brief introductions by Head Mas-ter Liz Duffy H’43 and Getz, O’Connor

wasted little time getting down to brass tacks, demonstrating through her own life experiences just how far women had come. “It’s almost impossible to find the ‘first woman’ in anything these days,” O’Connor observed. “More and more women are distinguishing themselves as people, not as women, and that is a great source of pride and joy for me.” Nevertheless, she pointed out, “It’s

Here’s Comes the Judge!

D O'connor at her 1981 confirmation hearing.


worth remembering that not so long ago, it was radically different.” By way of example, O’Connor recounted a 1955 speech by Adali Stevenson. Speaking at Smith College, the presidential hopeful outlined his views for a woman’s place in society, one that revolved around “the humble role of housewife.” In that role “women, especially educated women, have a unique opportunity to influence us, man and boy.” “Now, how about that?” O’Connor ex-claimed over a robust round of student groans. “No one today would dare sug-gest that women should influence public affairs through their husbands and sons.” Then she added, “I failed to take Mr. Stevenson’s advice.” Because she was a woman, O’Connor had difficulty finding her first job as a lawyer, initially working for no pay at the San Mateo, CA, district attorney’s office. A short time thereafter, she set up a mod-est law practice in a shopping mall. “I quickly rose to the bottom of the totem pole,” she quipped, “but I always did the best I could in every job I had, no matter how insignificant that job may have seemed.” Before long, the jobs O’Connor held did not seem insignificant anymore. Unlike her contemporaries on the high

court, O’Connor’s career included jobs in all three branches of state govern-ment; she worked as the Assistant At-torney General of Arizona, was elected to the State Senate (becoming the state’s first female majority leader), and was a judge in the Arizona State Court of Ap-peals. While working in the Court of Ap-peals, Ronald Reagan, making good on a presidential campaign promise to nomi-nate a woman to the Supreme Court, asked O’Connor to succeed Justice Pot-ter Stewart, who was about to retire.

O’Connor’s speech for the students garnered a standing ovation, but it was the Q&A that followed that brought down the house. She exhibited her signature charm, along with a dash of bluntness. At one point she objected to a stu-dent’s assertion that the Supreme Court has grown “more politicized” in recent years. “I don’t believe it has,” she noted, creating a buzz in the room among the many who thought otherwise.

Her toughest case? “If I told you the details of it, you’d be bored to tears.” Does she have any regrets? “Sure I do,” she replied, “but I’m not going to sit here and tell you what they are!” The dialogue between O’Connor and Lawrenceville students continued the next morning, but this time the conver-sation took place in the more intimate setting of The Heely Room. Sitting in on History Master Jason Robinson’s H’09 P’15 ’16 government class, the jus-tice had the opportunity to discuss law in a Harkness-style setting. Here the judicial process was dis-cussed in more detail as O’Connor ex-plained how the Supreme Court decides which cases to hear. The students, a number of whom plan to pursue law as a career, also plied O’Connor for informa-tion about what a Supreme Court justice looks for in a law clerk. O’Connor’s suc-cinct answer? “Brains.” By the end of the discussion, the jus-tice was impressed with both what she heard from the students and the manner in which the discussion was held. “You are lucky to have classes this way, around a table like this,” she said, referring to the Harkness in front of her. “This is the same way the Supreme Court discusses cases.”

“More and more women are distinguish-

ing themselves as people, not as women,

and that is a great source of pride and

joy for me.” – Sandra Day O’Connor


Lawrenceville’s Big Red Farm showed off the fruits (or, rath-er, veggies) of its labor this

past summer, offering up a wide va-riety of home-grown produce includ-ing basil, beets, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, potatoes, radishes, shelling peas, summer squash, tomatoes, and many other tasty comestibles. The farm’s small stock of laying hens have also been putting in a good day’s work as their eggs have been selling as fast as they can be plucked from nests. The half-dozen sheep on the farm property, on the other hand, aren’t working nearly as hard, and are content to just fertilize the soil and look adorable. The Big Red Farm is managed by Emma Morrow and Latin Master Jake Morrow, who have turned a small patch of land adjacent to the Law-

renceville solar farm into a bustling School business with the goal of pay-ing for itself in the near future. The majority of Big Red farm stand sales are through a Farm Share pro-gram, where people pay a lump sum up front and that account is debited each time they take produce home. The Big Red Farm also makes sales to local restaurants, notably Cham-bers Walk and the Wildflour Bakery. The primary wholesale customer, buying up approximately 40 percent of Big Red Farm produce each week, however, is Sustainable Fare, which provides all food and dining services at the School. The Big Red Farm also supports the School’s mission of sustainability and serves as an educational tool for Law-renceville’s students, who occasion-ally can be found cultivating the soil.

To get updates on weekly harvest lists or to get some inspired recipe ideas, check out the farm blog at http:// bigredfarmproject.blogspot.com.

Big Red Farm Reaps What it Sows

The farm’s small stock of laying hens have also been putting in a good day’s work as their eggs have been selling as fast as they can be plucked from nests.

Lawrenceville is pleased to an-nounce the election of Joon Mo Kwon P’15, Kathleen w. McMahon ’92 and Steffen Parratt P’09 ’14 to the School’s board of trustees. Joon Mo Kwon, an innovator in the field of apps and games for iPhones and other smartphones, is the ceO of 4:33 creative Lab, a company that creates apps and games that can be downloaded from the itunes app Store, or equivalent stores in South Korea. the movie rights to one of these games, a mystery/thriller iPhone adventure called Secret of cha-teau de Moreau, has been optioned by eK Films. another popular new app, Secret box, in-volves unearthing virtual boxes

buried around a city, discovering the pictures and messages lying therein (left by fellow gamers), and making online connections. Prior to 4:33 creative Lab, Kwon was the ceO of nexon and nexon Mobile. after graduating from Law-renceville in 1992, Kathleen w. McMahon returned to the School in 1997 to teach history and coach girls’ soccer and lacrosse. She later moved to Japan to found westport communications inc., a tokyo-based company selling wireless internet access and, in so doing, earned the distinction of being the first western woman to launch a technology company in that coun-try. now living in northern califor-

nia, McMahon is vice president of sales and marketing at Sound-hound. McMahon’s ties to Law-renceville have always been strong; when she was living in Lon-don, McMahon was president of the Lawrenceville club of europe and was an inaugural volunteer for the crescent coast-to-coast celebrations. She also serves as the founder and director of Lawrenceville’s northern ireland Scholarship Program. Steffen Parratt is an entrepre-neur with extensive strategic ex-perience in the financial field. he recently founded Organization Simplification inc. (OSi), a private software services company locat-ed in Princeton. the company

provides software that enables companies to assess their man-agement organizations. before OSi, Parratt was the special assis-tant to the ceO of citigroup. his previous assignments included leading citi’s Planning, analysis and capital allocation Division; head of strategy and planning for its corporate & investment bank; global head of planning and analysis for citigroup internation-al; and director of strategy and business development. Over the years Parratt has demonstrated his commitment to Lawrenceville through his volunteerism and support as a co-chair of the Lawrenceville Parents Fund.


Dancers Get New Springs in Their Steps

Lawrenceville Welcomes New Board Members

Law r e n c ev i l l e dance students are soaring ever

higher thanks to reno-vations to the School’s dance studio, located in the Kirby Arts Center. A sprung floor, which absorbs shock to re-duce injury and enhance performance, has been installed, along with a new sound system and mirrors. Funding was provided by the family of Allan P. Kirby 1913 H’63 and the F.M. Kirby Foundation. The modifications were crucial, said Di-rector of Dance Der-rick Wilder, to provide dancers with the proper equipment and space to

do their work. The new floor, for example, al-lows Wilder to safely expand his teaching of high impact petit and grand allegro move-ments. “There were sev-eral things I was leaving out of my curriculum for fear of injury,” he explained. “There are things you just can’t do

without a sprung floor that we now can. Now I wish I had a two-hour class!” Dance has become so popular at the School that rehearsal and per-formance spaces are at a premium. Drama, music, and fine art stu-dents have the expansive resources of Lawrence-

ville’s Kirby Arts Cen-ter, Clark Music Center, and Gruss Center of Vi-sual Arts (respectively), and Wilder hopes his dancers will someday have a similar, dedi-cated pavilion space. “The renovated studio is a wonderful start, and I couldn’t be happier,” he said.

G head Master Liz Duffy cuts the ribbon for the new floor as Dance Master Derrick wilder looks on.

Tom Dethlefs ’08 looks to the future. 2016 to be exact.

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Tom Dethlefs ’08 saw his first crew

meet when he was 12 years old and

it was very much a Lawrenceville

affair; he was with his father, for-

mer Director of Academic Support

David Dethlefs P’08, to watch the rowing

skills of Jesse Oberst ’00, the son of

Director of Educational Support Marti

Richmond P’99 ’00.

What he saw left quite an impression.

Fast forward a dozen years. Dethlefs’ life

now follows a familiar pattern. Six days a

week he gets up early and heads to a train-

ing facility in Princeton to row on an erg

machine. Under the supervision of a team

of crack coaches and trainers, he rows for

two hours in the morning. In the afternoon

he rows for another three. Then, when six

o’clock rolls around, he gets in another

two hours before heading home under eve-

ning skies. This is the workday of a Senior

National Team member who is serious

about earning a seat on the boat for the 2016

Olympics in Rio, which Dethlefs most cer-

tainly is.

Whether he gets on that rowing team or

not, Dethlefs has come a long, long way

from his early days at Lawrenceville. He

tried out for crew as a freshman and, though

he made the team, Dethlefs qualifies this

fact with a “just barely.”

Fortunately, his coach, Math Master Ben

Wright P’10, turned out to be a major influ-

ence. “He’s fantastic for high school-level

rowing, because he knows how to take boys

and turn them into real athletes,” Dethlefs

asserts. “He understands the psychological

side of the sport and helps athletes to push

their limits.”

By the time Dethlefs’ junior year rolled


around, Wright had helped the young

rower to find his stride, so to speak. His

skills had improved so dramatically that

upon graduation, Dethlefs was accepted

as a member of the Junior National Team.

In his first international meet, he did his

country proud by winning a bronze medal.

“It was amazing. I was 18 years old and

able to race for my country. It was really

exciting to have that chance.”

In addition to rowing for his college,

Yale, Dethlefs was accepted to the

Under 23 Team where he started attract-

ing attention, earning a silver medal in

2010 and back-to-back golds at World

Rowing Championships in Amsterdam

(2011) and in Lithuania (2012).

Dethlefs is still adding to his trophy

case. Last year, in his first World Cup

competition on the Senior National Team,

the American squad picked up a silver

medal. In July, the Men’s Eight nabbed

the gold in Lucerne, Switzerland. More

races are on the horizon, of course. Many

more. In between races, Dethlefs trains.

After all, 2016 is just around the corner.

When it arrives, Dethlefs will be ready.

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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Lawrenceville’s first coeducational

graduating class, the Gruss Center of Visual Arts played host to a wide-

ranging exhibition of alumnae art. Twenty-three artists were represented

in the show, which featured work that included paintings, sculpture, pho-

tography, beaded scarves, jewelry, and a short animated film.

In addition to the many works on display, the gallery walls contained

several printed statements by the artists themselves.

“In all my favorite memories of Lawrenceville, I am surrounded by

creative people engaged in play,” wrote Diana Sanderson ’01. “Now, as an

art educator for students of all ages, I focus on creating environments and

opportunities for others to engage in creative play. I draw inspiration from

the sense of freedom I felt wandering around the Lawrenceville campus

with peers who taught me how to explore and imagine.”

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whitney Kreb '95, town harbor, Oil on panel.

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Jane hamill '99, Pirate Jenny, Oil on canvas.

M ount Katahdin has been de-

scribed as perhaps the most

painted mountain on record.

Though the statement can-

not be definitively confirmed,

David Little’s ’69 illustrated history, Art of

Katahdin, proves that it has served as inspi-

ration for some of America’s finest artists.

Over the past century and a half, notables

such as Frederic Church, Marsden Hartley,

and John Marin produced spectacular work

there. For another artist, Maurice Day, the

Katahdin region became the unofficial set-

ting for Disney’s Bambi. Writers from the

celebrated Henry David Thoreau to the

long-forgotten scribes of juvenile adventure

novels set their stories in this expansive

wilderness.

Each work, in its own way, encouraged

the work of succeeding generations.

“Many artists have been inspired by writ-

ings about the area,” Little says. “Artists

read Thoreau’s travel-narrative trilogy, In

the Maine Woods, and said, ‘I have to go

there and see for myself!’ Then the artists

brought home sketches that opened peo-

ple’s eyes. These private studies, like those

of Frederic Church, became souvenirs of

exotic places beyond civilization, and in-

spired a movement of tourists to the area

that would then attract more artists.”

When they arrived, what those artists

found, as Church and others had, was a

mountain that looked different from every

point on the compass and had multiple pro-

files, each more exciting than the last.

“If you look at the mountain from the

south it looks like a huge wall in front of

you,” Little explains. “If you look at the

mountain from Katahdin Lake on the east,

you see these incredible basins. And there

are so many places you can get to by car,

canoe, on foot, and by float plane to set up

your easel and work. I’ve done lots of ex-

ploring there and found many, many beauti-

ful scenes to paint.”

Art of Katahdin is chock full of many

A Mountain David Little ’69 shows how a Maine mountain spawned a centuries-long artistic movement.MuSe

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“Many artists have been inspired by

writings about the area. Artists read

Thoreau’s travel-narrative trilogy, In

the Maine Woods, and said, ‘I have to

go there and see for myself!’”


r. Scott baltz, the great One, 2003, Oil on linen.

such beautiful scenes. The book show-

cases 250 works from dozens of diverse

artists over the past two centuries that

range in expression from photorealistic

renderings to bold conceptual paintings

that seek to mimic the emotional reactions

the mountain evokes.

The genesis for Art of Katahdin began

in 2006 when Little, along with 18 other

artists, was asked to paint views from Ka-

tahdin Lake to be auctioned off as part

of a Trust for Public Land fundraiser to

protect the region from developers. After

the money was raised and the purchased

land was donated to Baxter State Park,

Little decided to reassemble the Katahdin

Lake artists for a 2008 gallery exhibition

at Bates College in Lewiston. The exhibi-

tion, titled “Taking Different Trails: The

Artist’s Journey to Katahdin Lake,” curat-

ed by Little, was accompanied by original

documents that provided historical con-

text and highlighted the artistic tradition

and significance of the region.

“My goal was to put the contemporary

work on display in a historical context,”

the author explains. “Before I knew it, it

was developing into a large research proj-

ect, and it made me realize I had to learn a

lot in a short period of time.”

In fact, his research uncovered so much

interesting material that it lent itself natu-

rally to a book. Little, however, was not a

natural writer and, after the book proposal

was approved by Maine’s own Down East

Books, his brother, Carl, a celebrated

Maine author of 15 art books, provided

assistance as editor.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better per-

son to help me,” Little asserts.

Early buzz – including a glowing re-

view from the Boston Globe – has been

universally positive and has spurred dis-

cussions at Down East about whether

Little would like to get started on another

book. His answer is a “probably,” – but

not right away.

“I need to get back out of doors and

paint,” Little explains. “I haven’t painted

seriously in two years. I’ve done nothing

but work on this book!”

Frederic e. church, Mt. Katahdin from upper togue Lake, ca. 1878-79, Oil on academy board.

From Surf to Tugboat captain Chris Brewster ’71 gets the ships to shore.TuRF


“I took the road less traveled as far as Law-rentians go,” Chris Brewster ’71 says with a laugh. Indeed he has. Working one week on, one week off behind the wheel of a tugboat, he assists tankers, automobile carriers, and bulkships navigate the tight squeeze of Rhode Island’s bustling Narragansett Bay. It’s heavy lifting with a delicate touch. Ships are connected by thick lines in chop-py, uncooperative waters. The cargo on the larger vessels is always of great value (and, in the case of the many gasoline tankers that come into port, explosive). Maneuver-ing such behemoths into the narrow berths always comes down to inches. One false move can result in property damage, in-jury, or even death. “It can be hairy,” Brewster admits. “You have to make sure you’re in control at all times.” So the work is not for the impulsive or faint-hearted. Piloting a tug requires pa-tience, attention to detail, and profession-alism – attributes that more than describe the work habits of Brewster, a man who has spent nearly four decades on the water. As well suited as he is to the work, how-ever, Brewster needed time to discover his calling. His original plan upon graduating from Lawrenceville was to take a gap year, after which he would go the traditional university route. So, while many of his classmates spent the fall adjusting to col-lege life, Brewster worked at what was to become a “series of menial jobs” – includ-ing a stint as a laborer in a sheet metal factory. The work wasn’t particularly reward-ing, he notes, but it suited him more than

the prospect of college. It wasn’t long be-fore Brewster’s gap year soon became gap years and then became a way of life. If Brewster’s decision to forgo college was a source of some consternation for Chris’s father, longtime Lawrenceville Classics Master Lewis Brewster P’71, the elder Brewster never showed it. “My father was very supportive, even though I didn’t have that much direction in my life,” he recalls. “He wished bigger things for me, I think. Unfortunately he didn’t live to see that.” Lewis Brewster passed away in 1974, so Brewster, who still lived with his parents on Lawrenceville’s campus, moved to Massa-chusetts. It was his relocation there, near the sea, which provided the direction that had so persistently eluded him in New Jersey. Before long Brewster was a deckhand on a fishing boat. “It was tough. It was a sort of a boot camp experience. The physi-cal demands of the job and the harshness of the environment were very intense.” The hours were long as well. At sea for a week at a time, the crew would regularly put in 20-hour days working with crab pots. Baiting them. Setting them. Hauling them. Over and over and over again with-out a break. The moment one line of traps was lowered into the sea, the boat would set sail to haul in the traps that were set somewhere else. “It was repetitive, but I enjoyed it im-mensely,” Brewster explains. When asked to clarify what about the work was so en-joyable, he replies, “Being on the water…” And Brewster trails off as if no more explanation is required – and perhaps

none is. Over the years, Brewster moved up the ranks, from deckhand to captain – but dis-illusion eventually began to set in. “The job wasn’t as financially rewarding as it had been,” he says. “We worked strictly on a share basis, so what I would earn at the end of the week was always uncertain.” When the hauls were smaller than ex-pected, which, in the overfished waters of New England, soon became the rule rather than the exception, Brewster was forced to supplement his income with landscaping work. This was quite a burden for a fellow who had just wrapped up a 140-hour work-week. “I was getting to be around 50 years old and, as tough as I like to think I am, the life began to wear on me.” So in 2000, Brewster gave it up to work on a tugboat. “Once I got into the tugboat industry it was as if a weight had been lifted,” he says. “Here was a company that offered me a regular salary, paid my health insurance, gave me a 401(k) – none of the things I got on a fishing boat. It was a good change.” Piloting a tugboat takes a different set of maritime skills from that of a fishing boat, so Brewster had to begin as a deckhand once again. It wasn’t long, however, before he accumulated the hours and experience needed to get his captain’s license – which he received in 2006. Now working for McAllister Towing and Transportation of Narragansett Bay, Brewster can’t imagine doing anything else. The water is, and al-ways will be, his life.

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trustees’ cup nick fenton

the edward Sutliffe Brainard Prize kristin tsuo

valedictorian shubham chattopadhyay

Parents at lawrenceville community Service award Justin kim

the Max Maxwell h’74 ’81 award flora morgan

the Kathleen wallace award lucy Duganabe meisel

the elizabeth louise gray ’90 Prize eliza rockefeller

the catherine Boczkowski h’80 award helen chenDara ferguson

the robert Mammano Frezza ’88 Memorial Scholarship Jonathan tang

the Directors’ award callie Zacks

the Deans’ award kit Gardner

the Megna-Schonheiter award tlaloc ayala

the Phi Beta Kappa awardZach izzo

the aurellian honor Society award Julia Bretz

the Masters’ Prize tina liu

the John r. thompson Jr. Prizealistair Berven

the andrew t. goodyear ’83 awardkerry Jenkins

FiFth Form Prizes

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Semans Family Merit Scholarship shubhankar chhokra ’14 tresa Joseph ’14 michael klotz ’14

the rutgers university Book award tresa Joseph ’14

wellesley club of central Jersey marina hyson ’14

Dartmouth club of Princeton Book award David lee ’14

the williams college Book award manik Bhatia '12

harvard club of Boston Prize Book award shubhankar chhokra ’14

the Yale club Book award Peter Beer ’14

the Brown university alumni Book award Program libby cunningham ’14

the Beverly whiting anderson Prize inayah Bashir ’16 eric hyson ’16

the Marcus D. French Memorial Prize andrew Damian ’16 wade maloney ’16 sarah milby ’16

the Katherine w. Dresdner cup stanley house

the Foresman trophy hamill house

underForm awards

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Like many people, Brian Breuel’s ’62 wealth will increase at the time of his death – life insurance policies

mature, real estate becomes liquid, capital gains taxes are eliminated, etc. He has concerns about recent

trends in the stock market and the need to reinvest in his business and preserve assets for lifetime financial

security and gifts to his children. Substantial gifts to charity now don't fit his needs.

“My belief in Lawrenceville and what it does for its

community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni has

created a powerful desire to give something meaningful

back. It drives my participation in the Alumni Association

and in The Lawrenceville Fund. But I want to leave a

major gift to the School as well. With a growing financial

planning firm, much of my discretionary income is being

reinvested in the business. And while I hope to be able to

fund a major gift during my lifetime, my current estate plan

includes that gift at the death of the survivor of my wife

and me. Lawrenceville deserves my estate gift – for all it

has afforded me and for all it will offer future generations.

The School and the education it provides to tomorrow’s

leaders has never been better nor more essential.”

brian breuel ’62wealth strategies, Lawrenceville, nJ

Former president, executive Committee, Lawrenceville Alumni Association

For more information on leaving a bequest to Lawrenceville or for other planned giving opportunities, or if you’ve included Lawrenceville in your will but not yet informed

the school, please contact the Lawrenceville Office of planned Giving, at 609-620-6064, or go to www.lawrenceville.org/plannedgiving.

Bequests SimplE & REVOCAblE

a l u m n i w e e k e n d

2013


Meritorious Service AwardsPresented annually by the Alumni Associa-tion of The Lawrenceville School, this award acknowledges and recognizes extraordinary volunteerism and/or service to the Lawrence-ville community. Candidates may be alumni, honorary class members, faculty and family, or School employees and family.

A charles m. Dickson ’58

A stephen h. lockton ’58 P’84 ’87

A allen k. shenk Jr. ’58

A hrh Prince turki al-faisal ’63 P’94 ’07

A albert h. hunker Jr. ’63 P’96

A frederick r. mccord ’63 P’92 ’93 ’95

A robert r. mcGrath Jr. ’63

A ronald s. rolfe ’63

A raymond G. viault ’63 P’96

A Gregg maloberti h’67 P’06 ’09

A henry Jingoli

Admirable Achievement AwardInspired by the over 40 years of exceptional ser-vice, achievement, and demonstrated affection for Lawrenceville provided by Arthur Hailand Jr. H’34 P’69 ’70, this award is presented by the Alumni Association to a non-alumnus. Candi-dates for this award must have long term dedica-tion to the School and have a substantial history of significant volunteer efforts over many years.

A Judith-ann corrente h’01 P’98 ’01

New Alumni SelectorsA elizabeth m. Gough ’03

A John c. hover ii ’61 P'91

New Honorary Alumni/aethe class of 1948

A andrea schweidel h’48

the class of 1963

A edward J. Poreda h’61 ’63 ’70 ’89 P’77 GP’07 ’08

A linda hlavacek silver h’59 ’61 ’62 ’63 ’64 GP ’06 ’08

the class of 1968

A theodore k. Graham h’66 ’68 ’72 P’85

A John J. reydel h’60 ’62 ’65 ’68 ’06

the class of 1978

A alvin m. Philpet Jr. h’78

A carolyn wojciechowicz h’78 P’06 ’10 ’12

the class of 1983

A Benjamin c. “champ” atlee ’62 h’79 ’83 P’92

A w. Graham cole Jr. h’77 ’83 ’87 P’91 ’95

the class of 1988

A John “marty” Doggett h’82 ’86 ’87 ’88 ’92 ’98 P’00

A shannon m. Duffy h’88

A armond G. hill ’72 h’88

A linda (self) mccall h’88

A James Zimmerman h’88 ’90

the class of 1993

A martha Gracey h’92 ’93 ’07

A John shilts h’93 ’13

the class of 1998

A J. regan kerney h’49 ’95 ’98 ’03

the class of 2003

A thomas m. cangiano h’00 ’03 ’06

A Jason larson h’03

the class of 2008

A Peter w.e. Becker h’08

A sandra B. rabin h’08 P’00

the class of 2013

A Joel Greenberg h’77 ’13 P’93

A John shilts h’93 ’13

Over Alumni Weekend, Brooke N. Williams ’63

P’90 ’93 ’95 was honored with the Distin-

guished Alumnus Award. Presented annually

by the School’s Alumni Association, the award is given

to an alumus who has “contributed significantly to the

welfare of Lawrenceville and who has exemplified the

highest standards of the School.”

Having entered Lawrenceville in 1958 as a first for-

mer, Williams lived in Thomas House (where he served

as president), Woodhull, and Upper. He was a member

of The Lawrence, Glee Club, Chapel Board, and the

Open Door Society, and served as a cheerleader. He was

also elected president of his class.

Upon graduation, he spent a year at Saint Lawrence

College in England as an English Speaking Union

Scholar before earning a BA from the University of

North Carolina in 1968. He enlisted in the U.S. Army

and served as a first lieutenant from 1969-71, receiving

a Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam.

Following his discharge, he joined Johnson & Hig-

gins, a privately owned insurance and financial services

firm. He was named a David A. Rockefeller Fellow in

1990-91. He retired in 2007.

Over the years Williams has been an active alumni

volunteer. He was an alumni trustee, and a member

of the Alumni Association Executive Committee, The

Lawrenceville Fund Advisory Committee, and the Re-

union Committee. He also was a long-serving class

secretary for the Class of 1963. His classmates have

described him as the prototypical class agent and class

secretary; he knew everyone in the class and reached out

to them often on behalf of the annual fund and to secure

class notes, motivated by his affection for his class and

school.

Williams passed away in September 2012. His wife,

Nonie Williams P’90 ’93 ’95 accepted the Distinguished

Alumnus Award on his behalf.

Williams Named Distinguished Alumnus


Five alumni athletes

– four of whom are

siblings – were in-

ducted into the Lawrence-

ville School’s Athletic Hall of

Fame.

Scottie King ’88 (the only

inductee not related to the oth-

ers) was a member of Law-

renceville’s historic first co-

educational graduating class.

On the playing field she was a

force to be reckoned with. In

the words of classmate Jen-

nifer Rose Savino ’88, “You

couldn’t play…with Scottie

and not play your best because

you knew she was always play-

ing hers.” King was a three-

sport athlete and she captained

all of them: field hockey, ice

hockey, and lacrosse. After

graduation she went to the

University of New Hampshire

where she played field hockey

and lacrosse. She later trans-

fered to Colby College where

she played three seasons of ice

hockey, captaining the team

in her senior season, and re-

ceiving the Norman R. White

Award for “inspirational lead-

ership and sportsmanship.”

At Lawrenceville, Ryan

Goldman ’94 was a two sport

athlete who excelled in ice

hockey and lacrosse. In la-

crosse he was awarded the

Christian Prince Award, pre-

sented to that player who has

made a significant contribu-

tion to the team without ask-

ing for or expecting major

recognition. As a Big Red ice

hockey player, he played var-

sity for three years, captained

the team in his senior year,

and was an All New Jersey

Prep selection. At Middlebury

College, Ryan was a four-year

ice hockey player, team cap-

tain, All American, and an All

NESCAC. His teams won na-

tional championships all four

years.

Following in his brother’s

footsteps, Curt Goldman ’96

also played ice hockey and

lacrosse at Lawrenceville. He

captained both teams in his se-

nior year and earned All New

Jersey Prep honors in lacrosse.

Other athletic honors include

the Christian Prince Lacrosse

Award and the Adam Violich

Award, given annually to the

male athlete who attains the

highest standards of athletic

performance, leadership, and

academic achievement. Fol-

lowing Ryan to Middlebury

College, Curt was captain and

All American in ice hockey

and, as a senior, was named

the NESCAC player of the

year. His teams won two na-

tional championships. He

was also an All American in

lacrosse and captained the team

to a national championship

his senior year. Curt capped

off his college career by earn-

ing the A. Bayard Russ ’66

Memorial Athletic Award at

graduation.

Scott Goldman ’97 also

excelled in ice hockey and

lacrosse for Big Red and cap-

tained both teams his senior

year. Also going to Middle-

bury College, Scott, of course,

joined the ice hockey and la-

crosse squads. He captained

the ice hockey team in his

senior year and earned All

American honors. During his

time on the ice, the team won

two national championships

and was twice named NES-

CAC champions. Scott’s last

two lacrosse teams also won

national championships and a

senior year NESCAC champi-

onship. Scott went on to play

professional ice hockey in

Europe for a year before pur-

suing a career in business.

Billie Goldman Buck ’98

was a standout in Big Red field

hockey and lacrosse. She cap-

tained the field hockey team

in her senior year and earned

the prestigious Melissa Ma-

gee Award at graduation as

the top female athlete in her

class. She went to Middlebury,

too, where she played on the

varsity field hockey team as

a freshmen when Middlebury

won the national champion-

ship. She captained the team

her senior year. In her four

years at Middlebury, the field

hockey team had a win/loss re-

cord of 42-21. She played 59

career games, with seven goals

and nine assists for 23 points.

Billie was named to a national

level All Academic team, cap-

ping off an impressive athletic

career.

Hall of Famers Honored

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FlynnFINDING

On April 6, 1970, War Correspondent Sean

Flynn ’60 wheeled his rented motorcycle

toward the Cambodian front lines in search

of a story.

He was never seen again.

BY JACQUELINE HAUN

The grainy black-and-white footage shows an aban-doned car about 100 yards in the distance. The vehi-cle is spun sideways so as to block the narrow Cam-bodian highway. Its hood

stands open, and its body is riddled with bullet holes. An off-camera voice speaking in French explains that the car is believed to have con-tained three journalists, now missing. The men behind the camera, a French news crew, are attempting to investigate the disappearance, but as the voice off camera explains, they are hesitant to examine the car more closely as they, too, might be in danger. As the team debates whether to proceed, a dark-haired young man on a motorcycle en-ters the scene. The man, immediately recog-nized as a fellow war correspondent, engages the news crew in conversation, gesturing as he explains in fluent French that Viet Cong troops are everywhere. As this discourag-ing information is relayed, the camera pans among the young man, the French reporter to whom he is speaking, and the isolated white car. Briefly emboldened by this new presence, the Frenchmen decide to venture closer to the car in an attempt to see if there are any clues. The mission, however, is aborted once the crew spots a large group of crouching figures running through some nearby bushes. Per-haps, they decide, it is best to err on the side of caution. As the French newsmen hastily depart the scene, the handheld camera’s jittery eye again focuses on the lone journalist straddling his motorcycle. The young man revs the engine, makes a U-turn close to the abandoned car, and takes off down the narrow road, escorting the news van to the relative safety of the near-by village of Chi Pou. The man on the motorcycle was photojour-nalist Sean Flynn ’60. This footage, recently discovered, is the last known sighting of the 28-year-old. On April 6, 1970, Flynn and photojournal-ist Dana Stone of CBS News left the Cambo-dian capital of Phnom Penh on motorcycles, heading toward Chi Pou, reputedly to search for the front lines and enemy combatants. There is some speculation that the two pho-tographers were trying to show the war from

a perspective that had never been seen be-fore – from that of the Communist forces – or perhaps to document rumored American bombings in Cambodia that the United States government was then vigorously denying were taking place. The two must have found the troops they were looking for, but the details of that en-counter as well as the ultimate fate of the photojournalists have remained a mystery. It is taken for granted that Flynn and Stone were captured, although who their captors were – Viet Cong or Khmer Rouge or some other combination of Communist rebels – has never been established. Several years of official government inqui-ry and repeated private searches have given remaining friends and family periodic hope that the two – or at least their remains – might be located, but nothing conclusive has ever been found. Flynn’s mother had him declared legally dead in 1984, and though there were rumors in the early years that Flynn and Stone may have survived as prisoners, it is now be-lieved that they were either executed or died after a short time. As the anniversary of their disappearance nears the 45-year mark, and as those who might have first-hand knowledge of what hap-pened age and die, Angela Krass, a film pro-ducer for Mythic Films Inc. in Los Angeles, has made it her mission to complete the film One of the Missing before those witnesses are gone. Several years ago, Ralph Hemecker, owner of Mythic Films and the director of Krass’s film project, had purchased the film rights to Two of the Missing, Perry Deane Young’s 1975 memoir about his colleagues Flynn and Stone.

Hemecker had written a screenplay based on the book with the intention of making a dra-matic feature film, but Krass realized in the process of conducting research that there was a documentary story “aching to be told.” With Hemecker’s support, she set out to do just that. Challenged with putting together the pieces of the puzzle of what happened to Flynn and Stone, Krass began to contact surviving par-ticipants in the events surrounding their dis-appearance, including newsman Peter Arnett and photographer Tim Page. Because so much of the information about Flynn and Stone’s situation involved intelli-gence and diplomatic information gathered during the war, many people had been reluc-

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tant to speak openly about what they knew. However, just as the passage of time has made it more difficult to find eyewitnesses, it has also given Krass an advantage, as many of those who remain have begun to realize that if they don’t share what they know, that knowledge might die with them. Krass and Hemecker have also benefitted from the de-classification of numerous CIA documents that have given them new insight into what happened. Krauss’ search began as a focus on finding out what happened to the two photojournal-ists. As she began to delve into her research, however, Krass became intrigued by an even deeper mystery: Who was Sean Flynn?

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Everyone she spoke with seemed to have a different – and often dramatically conflicting – view of the young adventurer. “A wild man,” said one friend. “A thoughtful, spiritual guy,” said another. The only definitive conclusion Krass was able to reach was that Flynn was a very guarded person whose true personality would have been known to only a few. “Sean

only let people in to very specific sections of his life. No one ever got the full picture,” she says. As the son of actor Errol Flynn, Sean Flynn had good reason to be cautious about who was in his inner circle. Errol, wildly popular for his roles in such adventure films of the 1930s as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood, was notorious for his hedonistic life-

style, especially in regard to his relationships with women. Sean Flynn’s mother, actress Lili Damita, had divorced his hard-living father in 1942 when Sean was only a year old, and over the course of his life, Flynn reportedly saw his father only 15 times. But even though the father and son were not personally close, Errol Flynn’s popularity and reputation were impossible to escape. Well into his adulthood, Sean Flynn was identified as “Errol Flynn’s son” everywhere he went. Even while at Lawrenceville from 1957 to 1960, Sean Flynn was unable to entirely ig-nore the drama surrounding his father. In Oc-tober 1959, when he was a senior living in Up-per, Errol Flynn suffered a heart attack while on his yacht with a 15-year-old girlfriend named Beverly Aadland – a girl whom Sean Flynn himself had dated and brought to tea dances at Lawrenceville. Woodhull House-master Larry Hlavacek H’55 ’61 had escort-ed his former House member to the funeral in New York, and assisted the young man in dealing with the media circus surrounding his father’s death. Shortly afterward, Errol Fly-nn’s autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was published posthumously, and the young-er Flynn, as a consequence, had to cope with the publicity surrounding a scandalous tell-all book. Researching this early stage of Sean Flynn’s life brought Krass to Lawrenceville, and she states that what she found here proved pivot-al in shaping her understanding of who Sean Flynn was. Not only was she able to interview various people who knew Flynn during those formative years, such as former House Moth-er Linda Hlavacek Silver H’59 ’61 ’62 ’63 ’64 and roommate Bill Chapin ’60, but in the Stephan Archives, she found a unique per-spective that had been missing until that point: Flynn’s letters to his mother, including some written just before his disappearance. For Krass, the letters were a revelation. The produc-er had determined that Flynn and his mother had been close, and it was in his letters that she felt she finally began to see the “Real Sean.” “If you can’t be real with your mother,” Krass explained, “who can you be real with? The letters finally gave us Flynn’s own voice rather than only others’ perspectives on him.” Krass believes she found the key to Flynn’s personality in his struggles to emerge from the shadow of his father’s fame. Following his career at Lawrenceville, Flynn spent six months at Duke University, only to with-

F this pamphlet, produced by the american Committee to Free Journalists held in Southeast asia, was printed to increase awareness of the 17 journalists who disappeared in the Cambodian war theater.

Before Flynn found his calling as a photojournalist he dabbled in both fashion photography and film acting.

draw and pursue a series of adventures. He began by following in his father’s footsteps by acting, playing the lead role at age 19 in Son of Captain Blood, a sequel to one of his father’s most popular movies, as well as appearing in several spaghetti Westerns. Although Flynn sought to overcome his father’s legacy, he was not above using it as a tool to achieve his own goals. According to Krass, the younger Flynn’s pursuit of acting was a means to an end; he wasn’t particularly interested in the field, but he knew he could make money on the basis of his father’s name. He intended to use that money to do the things he really wanted to do. What those things were, at first, was un-clear. In addition to acting, he tried his hand at singing, cutting a 45 (“Stay in My Heart,” b/w “Secret Love”) that is now a rare collectors’ item. He spent time as a game warden in Afri-ca, as a matador in Spain, and finally as a fash-ion photographer in Paris, where his mother was then living. All of these were edgy, risky ventures that suited Flynn’s curiosity and his daring nature, but it wasn’t until he discovered photography that he finally found his passion in life. And what better way to combine his love of photography with his desire for exciting adventure than to become a photojournalist? In January 1966, he went to South Vietnam to cover the war as a freelance photographer for the French magazine Paris-Match. Be-fore long, he went to work for Time-Life and then United Press International (UPI), and his striking photos began to draw global atten-tion. Thus, while covering the Vietnam War, Flynn finally began to make a name for him-self as himself rather than as his father’s son, and he did it by being a photographer who was willing to put himself at risk to document ma-jor events, even going into combat personally. Flynn was wounded twice on assignment, and yet he always insisted on going to where the danger was. Though Krass feels she has gained insight into the mystery of Flynn’s character, she is continuing to put together the pieces of the puzzles concerning his fate. One of the most intriguing pieces is the newly found film foot-age of Flynn and that bullet-riddled car. For many decades, the last known sighting of Sean Flynn and Dana Stone was an iconic photo, taken by ABC cameraman Terry Khoo, of the two men mounted on their motorbikes as they prepare to leave Phnom Penh on their mission. This film, however, appears to have been re-corded later that same day and is now the last known image of the missing journalist.

Krass discovered the new footage accident-ly in the summer of 2012, while searching for French news coverage of Flynn and Stone’s disappearance on the archives website of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), the French public television service from 1964-1974. Since making the discov-ery, Krass has determined that the car in the footage was one that had contained three other journalists, all of whom were captured earlier that day. Throughout the war, a total of 17 journalists would disappear just as Flynn

and Stone had. Fewer than half ever returned home. Krass believes she has identified the French news correspondent speaking with Flynn in the piece, but the journalist has been reluc-tant to speak about what he may have seen that day. The footage, while providing new avenues to explore, also raises new questions. Only Flynn is seen in the film. Where is Dana Stone? Could he have already been captured? A mysterious figure – or is it merely a trick of the light? – is glimpsed for a mere moment, appearing to run into the trees just beyond the wrecked automobile. Who is that person? Most surprisingly, Flynn is last seen leading the French camera crew back to Chi Pou. (The footage is shot from inside the French van as the two vehicles drive down the road.) What happened that prevented Flynn’s safe return to the village? Krass has a theory about what really hap-pened to Flynn, but she is reluctant to share it at this time. Though many on the documen-tary team are very eager to solve the mystery once and for all, Krass takes a slightly more metaphysical view. “I’m not a fan of disturb-ing people’s graves,” she admits. “I think Sean and Dana should be allowed to rest in peace. But I do hope we can bring some closure to the story and present Sean as he really was.”

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Alumni News9

Dear lawrentians,

Fall greetings from lawrenceville!

the year is well underway here on campus and the Class of 2017 has joined our

community. Did you know that these young men and women will be the last

lawrentians born in the 20th century? that’s right; most of next year’s incoming

second formers will have been born in the year 2000.

On behalf of the alumni association, i offer my thanks to Sally Fitzpatrick h’85

P’99 ’04, who served as interim dean of admissions this past school year. we

had a great admissions season, with over 1,700 applications received and about

20 percent of applicants admitted. it was also a great year for legacy applicants;

about 70 percent of those young men and women who applied were accepted.

while it is true that the campus has changed a great deal since my graduation in

1978 (and even more so since my dad, alex ’57, graduated), i am proud to state

that many of our campus traditions hold true. harkness teaching and the house

system remain key facets of life at lawrenceville, shaping our students intellectu-

ally and socially to serve as leaders in an ever-changing world.

But for lawrenceville to continue to thrive, there are ways in which it must grow

and change. Students have their choice of a wide variety of classes, which stretch

their thinking in new and novel ways. (Some examples from the 2013-2014 year

are “From Freud to the Void” and “Statistical reasoning in Sports.”) they can

choose to take part in more than 100 clubs (such as environmental Service Club

and Model Un) and more than 30 varsity sports. additionally, our students are

learning to handle new technology in order to advance their academic pursuits –

for example, a new “green screen” installed in the newly renovated Pop hall allows

film students virtually unlimited creativity in their projects.

if you haven’t been back to campus lately, there is no better time to visit. why

don’t you join us for this year’s hill Game on november 9? it promises to be an

exciting game – as it is every year!

My next letter will follow in the spring. in the meantime, please feel free to contact

me if you have any suggestions or questions.

Sincerely,

tim wojciechowicz ’78 P’06 ’10 ’12

President, alumni association

[email protected]

President

Michael T. Wojciechowicz ’78 P’06 ’10 ’12

Vice President

Jennifer Ridley Staikos ’91

Vice President

Ian Rice ’95

executiVe committee

Catherine Bramhall ’88

Charlie Keller ’95

Scott Belair ’65 P’08 ’09

David Stephens ’78 P’06

Cahill Zoeller ’00

J. Gregg Miller ’62

Alumni trustees

Greg W. Hausler ’81

Hyman J. Brody ’75 P’07 ’08 ’11

Joseph B. Frumkin ’76 P’11

Kathleen W. McMahon ’92

selectors

Charles M. Fleischman ’76

Shannon Halleran McIntosh ’93

Paul T. Sweeney ’82

Meghan Hall Donaldson ’90

Elizabeth M. Gough ’03

John C. Hover II ’61 P’91

fAculty liAison

Timothy C. Doyle ’69 H’79 P’99

the

alUMni aSSOCiatiOn

exeCUtiVe COMMittee

2013/2014

Think you’re funny? Then this department is for

you.

“Caption This” allows you to put your comedy

writing skills to good use. The Lawrentian who

writes the best humorous caption for the image at

right (as determined by a secret panel of judges)

will be credited in the next issue of The Lawren-

tian, earn a valuable piece of Lawrentiana, and, of

course, be the envy of his friends and frenemies.

Rules: 1. Amuse us.

Note: Captions do NOT need to be Lawrenceville- centric. Send entries to [email protected] and please enter “Banquet” in the subject line. Good luck!

CAPTIONThis!

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We are delighted to report that the last issue’s “Caption This” photo prompted a plethora of excellent responses.

And the winner is: Peter Gerbron ’02! Congratulations

gerbron! Be sure to check your mailbox for a well-earned piece of Lawrentiana.

G “I really thought more people would show up for graduation.”

CAPTION

9 Student Shot

“While I was wandering through the Phila-

delphia Zoo last summer with a group of

student photographers, admiring all the

animals and snapping a few photographs

here and there, an open field with multitudes

of bright flamingos caught my attention. I

scanned groups of the pink birds, but I held

my sights on one flamingo, its beautiful

color contrasting with the shade behind.”

AlexANder eNglANd ’15

usps no. 306-700the Lawrenceville SchoolLawrenceville, New Jersey 08648

Parents of alumni:If this magazine is addressed to a son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please email us at [email protected] with his or her new address. Thank you!

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