The Lawrentian - Spring 2018

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AT LAWRENCEVILLE, IT MEANS MUCH MORE THAN RIVALRY.

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30 24 THE DNA OF A CAMPUS A frank conversation about Lawrenceville’s master plan, preserving tradition while looking forward.

On the Cover: There’s No Place Like House!

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30 THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOUSE! Lawrenceville’s House System shapes students’ lives in a way that lasts long after Commencement.

4 A THOUSAND WORDS House spirit is instilled before students’ set foot in a classroom.

6 NEWS IN BRIEF A generous Gruss gift, Student skates into Olympics, Mutombo visit is a slam dunk.

12 ON THE ARTS Winterfest takes the stage.

14 SPORTS ROUNDUP

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TAKE THIS JOB AND LOVE IT

16 GO BIG RED! Bobby Sanguinetti ’06 takes the ice for the U.S. Olympic hockey team.

18 TAKE THIS JOB AND LOVE IT Oliver Wharton ’89 sets the table for top dining experiences.

20 TABLE TALK Q&A with mathematics master Charise Hall P’12

22 ASK THE ARCHIVIST Lawrenceville alums who were on the ill-fated Titanic voyage, in their own words.

16 SPORTS ROUNDUP

39 TIME WAS… 40 ALUMNI NEWS 41 CLASS NOTES 84

BY THE NUMBERS 85 STUDENT SNAP

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FROM THE HEAD MASTER HOUSE IS WHERE THE HEART IS

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f anyone was wondering about House spirit, I’d invite them to swing by House Olympics at the start of each year. Last fall, pouring rain could not deter the exuberance even if it put a bit of a damper on the lighting of the Olympic torch by School president Bri Thompson ’18, clad in full toga for the occasion.

Strictly speaking, Cleve prevailed based on a straightup points calculation, but I have to say that the Stephens cheering section drowned out the competition and stole the show. And of course the climactic, nail-biter tricycle race around the Circle brought the house down, so to speak.

As the fall gets going, we award the Chivers Cup for highest House GPA and the Adams Cup for greatest House commitment to community service at Convocation, and the winning Houses erupt when announced.

We see historic rivalries played out with House Football and Ultimate Frisbee on September and October afternoons, and then later in the season, we see the Dickinson boys all cleaned up with coat and tie to greet their guests for the House formal, while Carter House comes together in Alumni Study over hot chocolate

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for a December study break. We see all the Houses getting together to hold a dance to raise more than $1,000 for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. From Hamill’s chipwiches to Kirby’s quesadillas, this was not an event to be missed.

And then there was our Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Teams fanned out all over the region to lend a hand, from serving meals in soup kitchens to visiting with seniors in assisted-living homes. We sent teams from Raymond House into town to shovel snow for our neighbors, and I received this note in response: “The students came to the door, introduced themselves, and politely asked if they could shovel the driveway and sidewalks as part of their day of service for the community. They did a wonderful job – were kind and respectful. You should be proud of them! Kudos to The Lawrenceville School for teaching its students the value of philanthropy and community service.”

So, House spirit is alive and well, and House is indeed where the Lawrenceville “heart” is. Our Admissions viewbook coins the phrase, “There’s no place like House,” as we try to convey to prospective students the fundamental sense of belonging that is so core to our traditions and to the Lawrenceville experience. Of course, you actually have to see it and experience it to really understand this: “There’s no place like House,” and there’s no place like Lawrenceville.

Sincerely,

Stephen S. Murray H’55 ’65 ’16 P’16 ’21 The Shelby Cullom Davis ’26 Head Master

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THE LAWRENTIAN SPRING 2018 VOLUME 82 | NUMBER 2 PUBLISHER Jennifer Szwalek

FROM THE EDITOR

EDITOR Sean Ramsden ART DIRECTOR Phyllis Lerner STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Paloma Torres

PROOFREADERS Rob Reinalda ’76 Linda Hlavacek Silver H’59 ’61 ’62 ’63 ’64 GP’06 ’08

CONTRIBUTORS Tracey Allen Anika Bagaria ’20 Allison Chou ’19 Olalla Duato ’18 Nadiia Dubchak ’19 Andrea Fereshteh Eden Fesseha ’19 Lisa M. Gillard Hanson Jacqueline Haun Barbara Horn Shaezmina Khan ’19 Joel Kimmel Linda Li ’19 Lily Murphy ’20 Biren Reddy ’19

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s most writers or editors can tell you, fun facts frequently arise during the course of an interview, tidbits you cannot wait to include when you finally get down to writing. As the piece begins to take shape, however, you begin to realize that they just don't fit in the narrative. There might be a strict word count that doesn’t leave room, or sometimes the detail simply doesn’t advance your story. It’s disappointing.

It was no different this time around, but I thought I’d use this space to share at least one. Just two days after the thrilling Super Bowl LII, I enjoyed an hour-and-fifteen minute conversation with Oliver Wharton ’89, who was in his hometown of Las Vegas for the game. You’ll read more about Oliver’s food and hospitality acumen in the “Take This Job and Love It” section of this issue, but the gist of it is this: Many of the top restaurants in the city are the products of his imagination.

Right away, Oliver was reflective about the path that led him to Las Vegas, watching the Super Bowl alongside some very fashionable company. It’s not that he’s star-struck – his work in some of the world’s most elegant eateries has seen him chatting up glitterati, literati – maybe even Pavarotti – but this was Oliver’s down time. He was just having fun on a day off.

Now, about the Super Bowl: No matter which team you were rooting for, you probably enjoyed the commercial featuring the New York Giants’ Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. recreating the key scene from the feature film Dirty Dancing. But Oliver was with Odell Beckham Jr. as it aired, no more than twenty feet away, and was able to witness the Pro Bowl receiver’s reaction to the ad when it debuted on the massive television there. More than 103 million people enjoyed the moment on television; not many got to laugh about it in real time with one of the stars.

As we pivoted to discuss his occupation, Oliver wondered with an almost bemused, how-did-I-get-here tone, “What is it that I do? I’m just a lucky guy who gets to do lucky, fun things.” I imagine there are any number of you who can say the same thing. I hope so.

Everyone should know what it’s like to have the time of your life.

All the best,

Sean Ramsden Editor sramsden@lawrenceville.org

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Lawrentians begin learning about House spirit from their very first weekend on campus during House Olympics. That bond with their housemates only grows throughout their days as students, and it typically endures for the rest of their lives. Some of you told The Lawrentian why “there’s no place like House,” as you’ll see starting on page 30.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

THE PUCK STOPS HERE Goalie Genny Knowles ’19 skated into Olympic history with the unified Korean women’s hockey team Much was made in the weeks leading up to the start of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics about the decision made by the host country to combine rosters with neighboring North Korea to form a unified Korean women’s ice hockey team.

But the story, replete with matters of international diplomacy, touched home at Lawrenceville, too.

Genevieve Knowles ’19 was already a member of the South Korean roster when the teams merged, and just days before the opening ceremonies, the

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goaltender was predictably excited to take to the ice.

“I hope that as a team, we can prove to the world that we have a solid hockey program in Korea. Too many times, I have read articles saying that ‘realistically’ this will be the first and final time that we will compete at the Olympics,” said Knowles, who has joint Korean-Canadian citizenship. “We plan to prove them wrong.”

A native of Vancouver, Knowles last played for Big Red until the winter break of her Fourth-Form year, when she temporar-

Genny Knowles ’19 was the fifth-youngest member of the unified Korean women’s hockey team, and its youngest goalie.

ily withdrew from school to compete for a spot on the Olympic roster. It wasn’t an easy choice, but one she felt she needed to pursue.

“I knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I would regret it if I didn’t go for it,” she explained. “I have amazing parents who always support me, and although it was a tough decision, we both knew how huge this could be for me, and it would be silly not to at least try.”

With 35 women on the joint Korean roster, including four goalies, Knowles understood the pressure would not all be on her. As the fifth-youngest member of the squad (and the youngest goalie), she did not expect to start the team’s first game between the pipes, but wouldn't have flinched if

her name was called.

“One of the biggest reasons why I love goaltending is the pressure and responsibilities of the position,” she said. “You are the only one between the posts, the last line of defense. Most people don’t like that kind of pressure, but I love it.”

As if competing in the Olympics for the host country doesn’t produce enough media glare, the unique joint-team dynamic has seen Knowles and her teammates fall under uncommon enquiry.

“As we head into the Olympics, the media has been pretty crazy,” she said, “but I am grateful that our coaches and Korean Ice Hockey Association are keeping them at bay so that we can focus on our main objective.”

Although the Korean team wasn’t considered a

favorite to earn a medal, Knowles said their objective remained clear.

“The girls and coaches have worked hard and have jumped over many hurdles to earn the right to participate as a competitive underdog in the games,” she explained.

“We hope to build on this progress and continue to develop and grow as a hockey program, and to inspire young women in Korea to make hockey their dream.”

No matter the outcome, Knowles was sure to relish the experience while keeping an eye on the future.

“I will be taking everything in, memorizing every detail and thinking I can’t wait to experience this again in four years,” she says.

– From an interview conducted

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FIELD HOCKEY TABBED TEAM OF THE YEAR

Children, such as these from Mott Elementary School in Trenton, enjoyed some extra help from Lawrenceville students on the MLK Day of Service.

Field Hockey was honored as the Team of the Year

by The Times of Trenton in December. The local daily cited Big Red’s tenacity against some of the top area teams and doubledigit goal scoring from five different players as just some of the reasons for honoring the squad. Head coach Lisa Ewanchyna’s team battled back from a 1-4 start to post a sterling 16-5 record on the way to winning the Mercer County Tournament, as well as the Mid-Atlantic League and Prep A State championships.

Big Red went on a tear in its final 13 games, going undefeated outscoring opponents 69-6.

HONORING MLK WITH SERVICE

All current Lawrenceville students and faculty honored the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through volunteer work on community service projects at more than 40 locations throughout New Jersey and Philadelphia on January 17. The School has observed the Martin Luther King Day of Service for more than a decade.

Although projects ranged from stocking shelves at local food banks to performing classical music for nursing home residents. most volunteer efforts came in local daycare centers, pre- and elementary schools. Rachel Cantlay P’07 ’09 ’11, Lawrenceville's director of community service, estimates that nearly 3,000 local children were served by Lawrenceville students.

Lawrenceville’s Martin Luther King Day of Service is part of its commitment to teaching students that a key to becoming an educated citizen means knowing how to contribute to society in order to make the world a better place to live.

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NEWS IN BRIEF LAWRENCEVILLE RECEIVES $17 MILLION GIFT FROM THE AUDREY AND MARTIN GRUSS FOUNDATION

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he Lawrenceville School is pleased to announce that the Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation has made a gift of $17 million to fund an expansion of the Gruss Center of Visual Arts to accommodate a creative design center and maker space. The expanded facility will be renamed the Gruss Center for Art and Design. Martin Gruss ’60 is a trustee emeritus of the School.

The School has been studying best practices for development of a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) facility and related programming since fall 2016, when the Lawrenceville Board of Trustees adopted a new strategic plan, Lawrenceville 20/20, which called for “energizing academic culture”

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through experiential learning.

Onsite surveys of corporate innovation hubs and visits to Stanford University’s d.School (the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) and similar facilities at Yale and MIT helped to shape the School’s thinking for a creative design and maker space.

The expansion will include a clean fabrication lab, digital design rooms, and a large flexible project room for ideation and rapid prototyping. The facility will also feature wood and metal shops equipped with CNC routers, a welding bay, milling machines, and laser cutters, along with traditional manual arts tools. Collaborative workstations will support team projects. These enhancements will be additive to the existing Gruss Center, which will continue to

house gallery, collection, and fine arts studio space.

“We are very excited about this project and extremely grateful to Audrey and Martin Gruss for what is truly a visionary investment,” Head Master Stephen S. Murray H’55 ’65 ’16 P’16 ’21 said. “STEAM education is more than a trend – it is preparation for the way our students will need to think in the 21st century.

“We are graduating students into a world where there are no simple solutions, and they will need to have a range of intellectual and practical skills in their toolbox,” Murray added. “We aim to produce graduates who are inventive, adaptable, and able to attack an issue from multiple perspectives, who see solutions and possibilities when confronting a problem.”

The expansion will transform the facade of the Gruss Center with floor-to-ceiling glass panels, creating a cutting-edge workspace book-ended by the existing art gallery at one end and current studio space at the other (see image above). The transparent design is a deliberate strategy to invite students inside to use the space at will, whether for coursework or personal explorations.

The School expects to break ground on the project in summer 2018 and anticipates construction to continue through the following academic year. A search is underway for a director to lead the Center’s activities. Sasaki Associates, an internationally recognized planning and architectural firm, is the designer for the expansion.

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Photo by Olalla Duato ’18/The Lawrence Alexander Liu ’18, Brett Peskin ’18, and Reilly Koren ’18 were nominated for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.

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SNOW HAS STUDENTS STARING AT STARS Roadster, Starman, Planet Earth, an image captured on February 10, 2018, depicting a mannequin behind the wheel of a Tesla Roadster launched into space earlier that week by a Tesla SpaceX rocket. The image appeared as one of Robert Nemiroff’s Astronomy Pictures of the Day.

Alexander Liu ’18 of New Jersey, Brett Peskin ’18 of New York, and Reilly Koren ’18 of North Carolina were nominated in February for the United States Presidential Scholars Program, with each student selected on behalf of his state.

Established in 1964 by an executive order, the Presidential Scholars program recognizes American high school seniors for superior academic achievement by identifying students who have performed “exceptionally well” on the SAT or ACT, according to the United States Department of Education.

– Eden Fesseha ’19 and Anika Bagaria ’20

Credit: SpaceX

Snow caused the cancellation of classes on January 4, but at Lawrenceville, it takes more than a few inches of the white stuff to stifle learning.

Astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff, the brother of Religion Master and School Rabbi Lauren Levy H’97 ’01 P’01 ’02 ’09, was in town to speak at the Museum of Natural History in New York the next day about the best astronomy and space images of 2017. With a suddenly free schedule, Levy lovingly coerced Nemiroff into an impromptu presentation of his work and pictures that afternoon in the Heely Room, inside Woods Memorial Hall.

Nemiroff holds a doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania, and he is a physics professor at Michigan Tech University. Before teaching, he also worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

While working at NASA, Nemiroff partnered with colleague Jerry T. Bonnell to start a project in 1995 called Astronomy Picture of the Day, or APOD. The two created a website where they posted an image of the universe every day with a caption describing it and have continued to do so to this day. Now, it is NASA’s most popular website, translated into 20 other languages and used by many universities.

Nemiroff’s snow-day presentation was based on the work he has done with APOD, and it included an image of a star cluster bursting out, video simulations of Pluto’s terrain based on images taken by satellite New Horizons, and evidence of other star systems. He also exhibited various photos and videos depicting five of what he termed last year’s most notable events in astronomy.

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THE ALL-FORMS FOURSOME OF MARCIA OJO ’21, MARGAUX TERRASSON ’19, CAROLYN KING ’20, AND JESSE BREWER ’18 SET A

SCHOOL RECORD OF 9:48 IN THE 4X800-METER RELAY ON JANUARY 20 AT THE YALE UNIVERSITY INVITATIONAL. IN BESTING THE PREVIOUS MARK, SET A DOZEN YEARS AGO, THE RELAY TEAM QUALIFIED FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS PENN RELAYS IN THE PROCESS. A WEEK EARLIER, TWO OTHER SCHOOL RECORDS FELL AT THE 47TH ANNUAL LAVINO RELAYS AT LAWRENCEVILLE. THE LONG AND TRIPLE JUMP RELAYS WERE WON BY ALLY STONUM ’18 (LONG JUMP 16-03.75, TRIPLE JUMP 35-08.500) AND KENDALL ONLEY ’19 (LONG JUMP 15-07.25, TRIPLE JUMP 34-04.00), WHO ESTABLISHED NEW LAWRENCEVILLE RECORD IN EACH. THAT SAME DAY, SARAH LONG ’18 AND AMY ARIRIGUZOH ’20 BROKE THE COMBINED SCHOOL RELAY RECORD IN THE HIGH JUMP, WITH LEAPS OF 5 FEET, 2 INCHES, AND 5 FEET, RESPECTIVELY. AS A TEAM, GIRLS TRACK CAPTURED FIRST PLACE IN THE LAVINO RELAYS.

DIAKITE FILLS TROPHY CASE Mohammad Diakite ’18 was named the Mid-Atlantic Prep League and New Jersey Prep A Defensive Player of the Year following the 2017 season.

Diakite, who will continue his education and his football career at the University of Pennsylvania, was also named to the annual All-Area Football Defense team by The Times of Trenton.

FOLLOW L’VILLE ALUMNI ON INSTAGRAM

Pick 6: Defensive back Mohammad Diakite ’18 will ply his craft at Penn in the fall.

Follow the Office of Alumni & Development features on Instagram for news of upcoming alumni events, campus capital projects, and alumni stories and profiles. Launched after winter break, the new account, at instagram.com/lvillealumni, already has more than 1,000 followers and encourages alumni to join in a dialogue using the hashtag #LifelongLawrentian.

MUTOMBO VISIT IS A SLAM DUNK

Standing Tall: NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo wowed a KAC audience during School Meeting in January.

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Basketball hall of famer and humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo thrilled a Lawrenceville audience in the Kirby Arts Center in January when the 7-foot-2 shot swatter spoke at School Meeting. An eight-time NBA all-star who recorded the second-most blocks in league history, Mutombo was such a force on the court that, in his words, “not even Michael Jordan would come [my] way.”

Mutombo’s appearance was made possible by Lawrenceville’s student-run Sports Business Club, led by President Tai Tatum ’19, who conducted a lively interview with the hoops legend on the KAC stage.

Mutombo, who retired from the game in 2009, also established the Dikembe Mutombo

Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the health, education, and quality of life for the people of his native Democratic Republic of the Congo. Explaining to Lawrentians that he “was sick and tired of seeing young people die,” Mutombo built the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, named for his late mother, in his hometown of Kinshasa through the Foundation.

He added that the Foundation also plans to build an elementary school outside Kinshasa, with an emphasis on science and technology.

“Your legacy will be based on your behavior and contributions to human kind,” Mutombo told students. “Leading by example; that is how people will remember you.”

- Biren Reddy ’19

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2018 LAWRENCEVILLE SUMMER SCHOLARS PROGRAM

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PULITZER NOMINEE SZE SHARES POETRY

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ulitzer Prizenominated poet Arthur Sze ’68 presented a reading and discussion for students in the Edith Memorial Chapel in January. Sze spoke about his creative process and what inspires his poetry, noting that he “mainly focuses on the idea of synchronicity” as he enjoys incorporating many different scenes in his poetry; acts occur simultaneously yet in different places around the world.

Sze also spoke about his education in the sciences, and how he often includes scientific imagery and vocabulary in his poems. He shared what he believes are the “four keys to success,” noting that every poet needs discipline, a passion that is “as essential as breathing,” peers on the same intellectual level, and a “beginner’s mind” – a Buddhist philosophy.

Sze graduated from Lawrenceville as one of just a few Asian students on campus. At the time, Sze thought he would mirror his father, a chemical engineer, and pursue a career in math or science. However, during his Fifth-Form year, Sze took an English class in contemporary poetry, which he called an inspiration. Though he went on to study science at MIT, it was during a calculus lecture that a bored Sze started scrawling poems in his notebook.

He continued to write whenever possible, submitting his poetry portfolio to an English professor at Harvard who was looking to take on a select group of students. After being accepted, Sze hitchhiked across the country after leaving MIT and began studying English at UC-Berkeley.

– Shaezmina Khan ’19 and Allison Chou ’19

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he spirit of Periwig took center stage on consecutive weekends in January and February when 15 studentdirected and -acted plays stepped into the spotlight of Winterfest 2018.

“Winterfest is rapidly becoming the biggest thing that we do in Periwig. It involved hundreds of students, so many actors and techies,” Grace Blaxill ’18, head of Winterfest, told reporter Lily Murphy ’20 of L10, Lawrenceville’s weekly studentrun video news digest. “It’s all student-run, so this is a chance for us to really take the lead and show what we can do without the teachers’ involvement.”

That paucity of professional direction is strictly by design, according to Christopher Cull P’20, director of theater.

“The main objective is to give a 2018 student the experience I had in 1972, when teachers had more kids around and couldn’t pay attention to all of them,” Cull said. “[I want students] to be inspired by the genuine, legitimate work of their colleagues, knowing that it is pure and not influenced by adults.”

After co-directing a play last year, Hunter Korn ’19 wanted to challenge herself, so she chose to direct a more abstract production this year on her own.

“My play was kind of a commentary on how people wear different masks to hide who they are,” said Korn of Objective Case, written by Lewis John Carlino. She said that one of her favorite parts about this Winterfest was working with her committed cast.

“They’ve all been extremely dedicated, fun to work with, and since it’s such an odd, abstract play, I focused a lot on making sure that we’re all on the same page about these different characters,” she said.

– Nadiia Dubchak ’19, Linda Li ’19, and Lily Murphy ’20 contributed to this report.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP  BY KARLA GUIDO

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Boys’ Basketball

Record: 13-11 Coach: Ron Kane ’83 P’20 Captain: Ryan Leonard ’18

Girls’ Basketball

Record: 8-11 Coach: Antoine Hart Captains: Julia Baginski ’18 Taylor Thompson ’18

Boys’ Ice Hockey

Record: 6-21-1 Coach: Keith Dupee Captain: Karl Szabo ’18

Girls’ Ice Hockey

For the most current

Record: 6-10-4 Coach: Nicole Uliasz Captains: Malia Leveson ’18 Bailey McKeon ’18

Boys’ Fencing

N.J.I.S.A.A. CHAMPIONS Record: 9-1 Coach: Rich Beischer Captain: Justin Wong ’18

Girls’ Fencing

N.J.I.S.A.A. CHAMPIONS Record: 6-1 Coach: Rich Beischer Captain: Lauren McRae ’18

Girls’ Indoor Track

N.J.I.S.A.A. CHAMPIONS M.A.P.L. CHAMPIONS Record: 4-1 Coach: Katie Chaput Captains: Jesse Brewer ’18 Elle Cooper ’18 Kaeli Huesman ’18 Maddy Matthews ’18

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Boys’ Indoor Track

N.J.I.S.A.A. CHAMPIONS M.A.P.L. CHAMPIONS Record: 3-2 Coach: Erik Chaput Captains: Louis Hosaka ’18 Jeremy Huang ’18 Meinhardt Rentrup ’18

Boys’ Swimming and Diving Record: 4-4 Coach: Stefanie Harrison Captains: Ben Chow ’18 Matthew Gunton ’18

Girls’ Swimming and Diving Record: 1-6 Coach: Stefanie Harrison Captains: Neha Chintamaneni ’18 Kate Liu ’19

Boys’ Squash

M.A.P.L. CHAMPIONS Record: 8-10 Coach: Chad Smith Captains: Henry Howe ’18 Raghav Pemmireddy ’19

Girls’ Squash

M.A.P.L. CHAMPIONS Record: 8-5 Coach: Narelle Krizek Captains: Abby Dichter ’18 Brittany Sun ’19

Wrestling

Record: 9-12 Coach: Johnny Clore Captain: Elijah Thiam ’18

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BOBBY SANGUINETTI ’06 TOOK THE ICE FOR THE U.S. OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM IN PYEONGCHANG.

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obby Sanguinetti ’06 was just 3 years old when he fell in love with ice hockey while watching the New York Rangers play on television.

“It caught my parents off guard a bit because hockey was not played by anybody in our family,” he says.

Similarly, Sanguinetti became the first member of his family to compete in the Olympics when he suited up for the United States in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games in February. A dozen years after he was selected 21st overall by those same Rangers in the 2006 National Hockey League draft, Sanguinetti is now wearing the red, white, and blue of his country. He joined four other players from the Swiss professional league on the U.S. Olympic team and calls representing his country at the Olympics “a dream come true.”

“I don’t know if my words can even describe the feelings I’m having right now,” he said in the days leading up to the opening ceremonies in

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early February. “Incredible is the word that keeps coming up day after day.”

Born in Mercer County, Sanguinetti grew up in Lumberton, New Jersey, where he played for the New Jersey Rockets junior hockey program. He was a member of the Rockets’ Tier 1 team when they won the national championship, just a year before Sanguinetti enrolled at Lawrenceville.

“When we were deciding on which prep school was the best fit for me, Lawrenceville became the easy choice,” he says. “The total package of education, sports, and being 30 minutes from home were the major selling points.

Playing hockey for the Big Red allowed me the opportunity to advance my game at a higher level of competition.”

Sanguinetti says Lawrenceville’s storied rivalry with the Hill School stands out as a favorite memory.

“The energy and emotions around those games made it that much more exciting to be a part of,” he says.

Etienne Bilodeau, a mathematics master who

 By ANDREA FERESHTEH also coached Sanguinetti at Lawrenceville, recalls that the Olympian made the varsity team as a young Second Former.

“He was eager to be on the ice,” Bilodeau says.

“He was very often the first one out there and one of the last ones off the ice. He loved the game and he wanted to get better in every aspect of it.”

Sanguinetti says playing for Bilodeau helped elevate his game.

“He allowed me to be an important part of the team and play in all situations as a freshman,” he says, adding that Bilodeau was a great ambassador for Big Red hockey because of the way he approached each day, both on and off the ice.

“He always stressed the importance of playing a team game and demanded the best out of each and every one of us,” Sanguinetti says. “The memories I have from Etienne were more about how much he cared for us as people first, and with being away from my family at a young age that was very important for my growth.”

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Ontario Hockey League. He went on to play for the Hartford Wolf Pack before being drafted by the Rangers, the team he first watched as a toddler. Traded to the Carolina Hurricanes in 2010, Sanguinetti went on to play for other American and international hockey leagues, most recently HC Lugano in Switzerland during the 2017-18 season.

After being recruited to play for USA Hockey in the Deutschland Cup last November, Sanguinetti’s Olympic dreams started to become a reality.

“Prior to the tournament in Germany, I had

to focus on having a good start with my team in Switzerland,” he says. “Once the team was announced for that tournament, it all started to become real – play well and you could be heading to the Olympics.”

The dream was at his doorstep.

“Getting that phone call that I made the Olympic team in mid-December was an amazing feeling,” he says. “It gives me chills thinking about it.”

Sanguinetti says his advice to other young athletes with Olympic dreams is to enjoy the process of getting better every day.

“If you told me as a freshman at Lawrenceville that I would play in the NHL and have the opportunity to play in the Olympics for the U.S., I wouldn’t have believed you,” he says. “The skills and traits that I developed didn’t happen overnight or in any one place. My career has taken me to many places, and I was able to learn something new from every experience.”

Women’s ice hockey player Genevieve Knowles ’19 also competed in the PyeongChang Olympics in February, playing for the Unified Korean team. Please see Page 6 for her story.

Hockey took Bobby Sanguinetti ’06 from the first round of the NHL Draft to the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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MAKING IT PERFECT

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child who was making Hollandaise sauce at 12 years old is simply likelier than his peers to find himself in the kitchen of the trendy Tribeca Grill a mere decade later. It also stands to reason that within two years, he would be opening the four-star Jean-Georges restaurant in Manhattan before being whisked off to London to become the general manager at the renowned Vong in the oh-so-chic Berkeley. That’s all logical, right?

Perhaps Oliver Wharton ’89 has a point when he says he has benefited from a bit of serendipity along his twenty-five years in the restaurant and hospitality trade, because where we left off in his story, he was just getting started.

These days, the affable Wharton is known in the business as “The Opener” for his uncanny knack for calibrating the delicate balance between fun, food, and authenticity in the restaurants he conceives through his business, A Perfect Bite.

“I don’t want to say I’m like Forrest Gump,” he says, “but I always seem to be in the right spot at the right moment.”

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been well earned. He grew up in the kitchen of the family’s New York eatery, Oliver’s, where he learned to meld his father’s native-British sense of service with an American flair for friendly.

“My oldest memories are kneeling on a bar stool cutting fruit, opening, making soup with my dad in the kitchen,” Wharton recalls. “Really, those were the first impressions.”

Though he was poised to study English following his days at Lawrenceville, Wharton enrolled at Cornell to study hospitality management, at his father’s urging. Soon, it was a trial by fire – literally.

“I figured everybody leaves Cornell thinking they know too much at 22 years old, so I decided to go back to the kitchen, and I cooked for a year in Europe and New York, for Drew Nieporent and Tribeca Grill,” he recalls. “I think that gave me great perspective later on in life, where I’ve found myself only working with world famous chefs.”

Lauded French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten plucked Wharton to run JoJo, his bistro fresh off its 1991 Best New Restaurant of the Year honors from The New York Times. Next, he was tapped to open Jean-Georges, and it wasn’t long before he was off to London to serve Vongerichten at Vong at The Berkeley, London’s luxury, five-star hotel.

“So, I’m in the heart of Knightsbridge, taking care of, all these celebrities, and dignitaries, and

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royalty,” Wharton says. “We had everybody from Salman Rushdie, to Posh Spice, and Simon LeBon from Duran Duran. It was a priceless experience.”

By 2000, Wharton’s acumen was widely recognized, and he was asked by acclaimed chef Michael Mina to become the director of operations for his Aqua Development Corporation.

“He had, arguably, the hottest restaurant in San Francisco at the time, called Aqua,” he recalls.

Before long, though, Mina and his partner in Aqua were beginning to disagree over the direction of the company. Wharton knew the time had come to carve out a space for himself, founding A Perfect Bite in 2002.

“I decided it was best to control my destiny,” he says. “I set it up so I could have the flexibility and the choice to decide what projects I wanted to do, and who I wanted to work with.”

Balancing the sundry elements is the key to making high-end eateries work, Wharton says. His background with world-renowned chefs, understanding the needs of diners, and keeping a keen eye for innovation are all key to synthesizing that input to create the concepts that make A Perfect Bite work.

“A lot of times, people can’t really articulate what they want,” he explains, “but they can feel it, they can smell it, they can sense it.”

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likes and tastes in order to determine the right direction.

“You figure out their subtle nuances. Are they a texture person? Are they a nightlife person? Is it all about the food, and less about the guest?

Are they trying to build a hotel brand?” Wharton explains. “I’m working with Virgin [hotels] right now. They’re a new client, and it’s fascinating to see how the scale might grow, but those needs all fall into similar buckets.”

As that gauge expands, Wharton says his work isn’t always so much as inventing a concept as prescribing the right one for that large space, which might be as expansive as 70,000 square feet.

“It’s on a macro scale of, ‘Hey, this box is underperforming … what would you put here?” he explains. “So I go grab [what became] Zuma for The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. It’s the hottest Japanese concept in the world right now, eclipsing Nobu in terms of scale and hipness, coolness, and exposure.”

Creating a successful model only begins with the menu, Wharton says.

“I can weigh in on the menu. I can weigh in on the lighting, the décor, the design, and those are all important variables,” he says, “because the sum of those parts equals whether the concept’s going to work or not.”

Wharton, who has conceptualized restaurants for such high-profile clientele as Hilton, MGM Resorts, and José Andrés’ Think Food Group, has also mined gold from some rather unexpected sources. He points to the original Eggslut, which began as a food truck in Los Angeles, and is now a celebrated all-day hotel and casino dining destination.

“People were waiting forty-five minutes for a seven-dollar egg sandwich. They were filming and taking pictures of the runny egg, and people were digging it on social media,” he says. “It was one of those scenarios where you say, this could be a home run if we do it right and we honor its original DNA. So, we brought that concept to the Cosmopolitan, and it’s been an absolute home run, serving over a thousand people a day.”

For all the fine points and stylings, however, Wharton says creating the premium experience will always be about the fundamentals.

“Everyone tries to be clever and tries to put their thumbprint on it, but there are just some good, basic rules of hospitality,” he says. “And at the end of the day, people want to have a memorable, fun experience at a reasonable price – usually.”

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TEACHING

‘THE FACTS OF LIFE’ There is nothing unusual about Lawrenceville alumni finding their way to Wall Street, but the financial district doesn’t typically send faculty to the School. Well, meet Charise Hall P’12, who kept books on the Street before becoming bullish on teaching. A native of Brooklyn, New York, the mathematics master told The Lawrentian how great teachers, a bit of family influence, and even an ’80s sitcom moved her to take stock in a classroom career.

What steered you toward mathematics?

Mom! Mom working down on Wall Street always had numbers in my ears when she talked to my dad and me. I also had really good math teachers growing up, especially in high school. My favorite teacher was not only one of my basketball coaches; she was the math department chair, too.

Teachers can be very powerful influences.

I always was interested in science, but her encouragement early on, and seeing another woman who could do math … I decided when I got to college to double major in biology and math and minor in chemistry.

Not exactly the path of least resistance…

Actually, then I applied to medical school – not directly after college because I ended up doing my double major in five years instead of four. But I also got married young, at 23. I was married and then had my first daughter not long after, and we

really didn’t have the support system for medical school.

That would be a lot to take on.

Right, so, I just worked on Wall Street for a little bit with my mom. I was working for a company as the assistant head of biweekly payroll, crunching numbers all day, every day. It was boring, but I was also tutoring and working at Kaplan on the side, doing test prep. That’s when my aunt, who’s a former teacher, said “Why don’t you look into teaching?”

Great suggestion, but how did you know where to start?

Because I went to Catholic school, the first places I started looking were the Catholic schools that were hiring. I was offered a job at Mary Louis Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in Jamaica Estates, Queens, teaching biology as a temporary replacement. They liked me and offered me a

position in the math department. I taught all levels of math for the nine-and-a-half years I was there, but I didn’t see any other areas for me to grow and develop.

You recognized there might be something more you could do as a teacher than “teach”?

I started talking to a few other teachers I knew from my kids’ independent day school who told me about an open math position at the KewForest School in Forest Hills, Queens. I taught math there for four years, as well as AP biology, before I came to Lawrenceville. I was also the academic dean for the 10th grade for three of the four years I was there.

How did you take the leap from Kew-Forest to Lawrenceville?

I had never really lived outside of New York.

I wasn’t tired of teaching, but I wanted to try something totally different. I was now a part of the independent school world, and was looking up and down the East Coast, but boarding school was not on my radar. The only thing I knew about boarding school was [the 1980s NBC sitcom] The Facts of Life!

That’s funny point of reference, but what were your first impressions of Lawrenceville?

I interviewed on a Saturday, and I wondered if students would be dragging their feet a little bit about having to go to school on a weekend … but the number of girls that I saw on campus who were up and talking, especially the girls of color

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– I was already mentoring girls – I was like Wow, if I get this job, the impact that I could make! What I can grow from here!

Ten years later, you don’t seem restless at all.

Boarding school must be your thing.

It’s funny, because when I talk to my friends about what I do, they see how passionate I am.

About two years ago one of my friends said to me, “You really enjoy being in a classroom!” It finally clicked: I do, but I guess other people were able to see it, even other people who aren’t even here.

As a child, mathematics master Charise Hall P’12 saw that women can be just as proficient in math and science as men, and is determined to impart that on her students.

Even at Lawrenceville, not every student has a natural aptitude or affinity for math. Do you ever draw on your experience coaching basketball to coach them up a little bit in class?

All the time! That’s why I teach Math 4. Love that course! Our Math 4 course is kind of a hybrid course that was originally put together for those kids who have some misconceptions about math foundations, or they feel like they can’t do math.

Do you have to take an inventory of where they are and then devise a class to address their needs?

We dispel whatever misconceptions they have through starting all over. Let’s see what you know, and then we’ll build from there, so I’m able to fill in the gaps, correct and build a foundation.

The good thing about our Math 4 class is that every year is different, so the syllabus changes.

I mean the content is the same, but where the content goes depends upon the kids.

A little confidence, built on some solid fundamentals, can go a long way in math.

We have had great success stories where those kids in Math 4 can actually go into a calculus class with some summer work because now they have the confidence and the foundation. Now they see that they don’t have to get knocked around.

You grew up observing that women can be just as proficient in math and science as men. Is the old stereotype something our girls still contend with?

Yeah, they do. Sometimes I’ll get students who will say “Hey, well, you know I’m a girl. I’m not supposed to do math.” Well, what do you call me?

And they’ll say, “Ms. Hall, you’re different.”

How? Are you kidding me? Math doesn’t always come easy!

Positioning yourself as an example must boost your credibility with them.

I’ve always used my own experiences. I also say Look around our department. How many women do we have in our department now? Look around the Science department. Let’s think about this. It’s also helpful for me when I tell the kids that I’ll never lie to you. So, they’ll ask me things like, “When are we going to use this?” And I’ll tell them: “Maybe never. But it’s a way of logical thinking, and when are you going to think logically? All the time.”

That’s an honest approach. How else do you keep them moving forward?

Sometimes, they’ll be on an upward trajectory, but then take a step back. They get bumped down on a quiz they’re like, Oh, well I had a bad day. OK, let’s talk about it. Was it something that happened before, outside of the classroom, or was it a topic that you just didn’t understand?

And sometimes they’ll say, I thought I knew it and I don’t.

How do you work with that?

I have them do what we call TIC-TAQ. I say, “Well go to your TICs,” which stands for Today I Comprehend. “What was it today [that] I comprehend? Let’s look at your comprehension; did you fully understand that?”

So you can diagnose the root of the problem?

Right. We do it at the end of class. What was your takeaway from the class? What did you fully understand? And when you get home, you’re ready for the TAQ – Tomorrow Ask Questions – the questions you have because there was something you didn’t comprehend today. This is part of the writing that I have them do as well.

They do it before they forget what they don’t understand.

They have to confront those issues right away, before their foundation weakens.

As soon as you open up your notes for my class the next time, it’s right there.

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Karl Behr, Class of 1903, lived to earn a place in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

SURVIVING THE TITANIC

JUST MONTHS AFTER LIVING THROUGH THE ILLFATED SOLE VOYAGE OF THE R.M.S. TITANIC, TWO LAWRENCEVILLE ALUMNI SHARED THEIR HARROWING TALES. BY TRACEY ALLEN

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As Chambers was preparing to graduate, Karl Howell Behr, Class of 1903, arrived at Lawrenceville. Behr played baseball, football, tennis, and captained the hockey team. He must have been pleased to witness the construction of a new School gymnasium in 1902.

Chambers and Behr shared much more than their boarding school background and their Houses, having both lived in Griswold and Upper. On a frigid night in April 1912, the two men would also share a lifeboat. Both were on

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the R.M.S. Titanic and lived to tell of a tragedy that haunts America to this day. The following is taken from their first-person accounts, published in the October 1912 issue of The Lawrenceville Alumni Bulletin, and their testimony after the accident before Sen. William Alden Smith, chair of the subcommittee for the American inquiry on the Titanic.

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Mr. Chambers was traveling with his wife, Bertha, on the Aragon, a small ship, when they transferred to the Titanic for the voyage back to the States. Also boarding the brand-new luxury liner was Mr. Behr, on his way home from a European sojourn with his friends, Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Beckwith, and their daughter, Miss Helen Newsom.

On the evening of April 14, Mr. Chambers and his wife returned early to their stateroom. He was reading when the Titanic struck the iceberg.

“It was so slight,” he wrote, “as if we had run into floating timber, that I should not have been disturbed about it at all, even though the shock was immediately followed by jangling as that of

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chains being dragged along the side of the ship.”

The Chamberses dressed and went on deck to see what had happened. The air was frigid.

Mr. Chambers heard the sound of “exhausting steam; this appeared to be coming from the bow of the ship and gave the idea that we had become embedded in an iceberg and were thawing our way out.”

On his way back to the stateroom, Mr. Chambers noticed passengers conversing in the halls, “not at all frightened, but merely interested in what had occurred – even one man who laughingly exhibited a piece of ice which had come [through] the porthole of the stateroom” Then he saw the uniformed men. Mail clerks.

Their trousers were wet up to their knees.

They carried pieces of mail at their sides (the ones they were able to save). He looked into the trunk room below. It was filled with water, almost reaching the deck above – the deck that Mr. Chambers was standing on. Unsaved letters floated. A steward passed by and said, “Everything is all right now, sir; you may turn in.”

But the Chamberses were worried.

Mr. Behr also went to investigate the noise. His traveling companions saw that ice had gathered on the portholes of their starboard cabins. He then ran into the captain and was told to go onto deck with his lifebelt.

The same news was given to Mrs. Chambers a short time later, when she went into the hall for an update. They put on their warmest clothes and Mr. Chambers took with him a pocket compass and a nickel-plated revolver he had retrieved from his steamer trunk. When Mr. and Mrs. Chambers reached the ship’s deck, they saw the crew preparing the lifeboats. Passengers joked about their luggage being soaked and borrowed matches from each other.

Mr. Behr gathered his companions and also went on deck. As he loaded his friends onto the lifeboat, Mrs. Beckwith asked if the men could join them.

“Why certainly, madam,” replied the captain. Mr. Beckwith and Mr. Behr climbed into lifeboat No. 5.

Mrs. Chambers climbed into the same lifeboat, insisting that her husband follow. Shortly after, with no other women in sight, the lifeboat swung away from the ship, preparing to go into the water. Mrs. Chambers continued to threaten that she would not go without her husband. Believing that his wife would not remain in her seat without him, Mr. Chambers dove from the ship into the lifeboat.

Passengers of lifeboat No. 5 took turns rowing away from the Titanic and met up with another lifeboat some four-hundred yards from the ship.

All aboard thought the evacuation was merely a precaution and that they would return to the ship in time for breakfast.

Sometime later, rockets flared up from the Titanic’s deck. According to Mr. Chambers, “A series of explosions commenced; these were dull booms, one following the other in rapid succession accompanied by the slow sinking of the ship by the head. She continued to go down until she was practically in a vertical position, when the explosions ceased for a brief instant.

Then they became more frequent then before, and the Titanic sank out of sight.”

Then came the loud, bellowing cries. The denizens of lifeboat No. 5 thought they came from steerage passengers wanting to get on the larger boats. No one thought the cries came from drowning passengers. No one imagined there were not enough lifeboats. The cries continued for about an hour; then the ocean was silent.

The survivors waited in the lifeboat for help.

Icebergs surrounded them. Mr. Behr rubbed Miss Newsom’s soaking-wet feet in an attempt to keep her warm. He remembered a calm, attractive, middle-aged gentleman (Mr. Chambers) who nudged him and leaned over to speak to him. Mr. Chambers revealed a revolver, which Mr. Behr

could barely see in the darkness.

‘Should the worst come to the worst, you can use this revolver for your wife, after my wife and I have finished with it.”

As the sun began to rise, the steamer Carpathia appeared. The lifeboats rowed for an hour toward their rescue. The children were raised to the deck of the Carpathia in coal bags and the women by ropes tied under their arms. The men climbed ladders that were lowered.

After both Mr. Behr and Mr. Chambers were on board the Carpathia, they would have one more conversation, a reference made by Mr. Chambers about the offering of his revolver. For the rest of their journey, they would not speak. Exhaustion overcame them both, and they rested for the remainder of their voyage. They still did not know each other’s’ names.

The passengers of the Carpathia shared with the survivors their clothing and anything else that was needed. First-class and secondclass passengers and survivors shared rooms (although most of the survivors preferred to stay in staterooms). Women sat up all night in the smoking rooms with the men. Strangers slept head to head on couches, their feet dangling off the ends. At one point, Mr. Chambers spied Mr. Behr under a table, sound asleep.

When the Carpathia reached the New York shore, the survivors were astounded to find that 30,000 people had come to greet them.

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Norman Chambers attended Cornell University, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. His career spanned the globe, from New York to Cuba to Mexico, and eventually back to Russia. He died in 1965 in Portugal.

Karl Behr received his doctorate from Yale and a law degree from Columbia University. He played on the U.S. Davis Cup team from 1907 until 1914, and for many years was ranked as one of the top ten tennis players in the country. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in July 1969. Less than a year after the Titanic accident, he married fellow survivor Helen Newsom. They had one daughter, Sally, and three sons who graduated from Lawrenceville: Peter ’33, Karl ’33, and James ’39. The elder Karl Behr died in 1949 in Morristown, New Jersey.

A version of this story was originally published in the spring 1998 issue of The Lawrentian. School archivist Jacqueline Haun’s regular column will return in the summer.

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SHAPING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE A frank conversation about Lawrenceville’s master plan and the ways it will shape the way students experience the campus.

The master plan Lawrenceville is developing with Sasaki Associates calls for a pedestrian-friendly carless core, allowing current traffic routes to become more park-like gathering spots.

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s detailed in Lawrenceville 20/20: A Vision for the Future, the strategic plan adopted

by The Lawrenceville School in fall 2016, the planned field house and dining center complex are just a part – albeit a central one – of the School’s larger master plan. For the past two years, Lawrenceville has been working with Sasaki Associates Inc. of Boston to craft a plan that carefully considers the importance of design in shaping the student experience.

In January, Head Master Stephen S. Murray H’55 ’65 ’16 P’16 ’21 met with Vinicius Gorgati, AIA, LEED AP, chair of the campus studio at Sasaki and principal-incharge on the Lawrenceville master-plan project, for an informative discussion of the project, moderated by Joanna Chow, Sasaki’s communications manager. Their discussion, originally published at sasaki.com, is presented here. The original post appears in the spring issue of Lawrenceville’s VSV electronic newsletter.

Throughout the course of the field house and dining hall construction project, The Lawrentian will provide updates of its status.

JOANNA CHOW: With the proliferation of new and different modes of teaching, what do you see as the key and differentiating value of a Lawrenceville education? Especially as the digital age defines how students interact, what role does the physical campus play in their experience?

STEVE MURRAY: That’s a very important question, and it’s something that educators like myself are constantly evaluating. The delivery of digital information is useful – it’s obviously had a huge impact on how we learn and engage with one another. There’s no denying that these modes of interaction are here to stay, and they’ll

continue to get better.

That being said, there is a vital aspect of the physical campus that cannot be overlooked, and that’s how it shapes human interaction.

At Lawrenceville, our mission is “to inspire the best in each to seek the best for all.” Our campus plays a crucial role in that mission.

Face to face around a Harkness table, you can teach kids to truly listen to one another; that no voice can be marginalized; and that everyone deserves respect. This is a fertile environment for the most important traits we impart to the next generation of leaders: civility, empathy, respect, and accountability to your community.

Employing digital tools in our teaching allows us to reach broader audiences, but it is no replacement for unmediated, in-person exchange.

CHOW: That close mentorship you mentioned, that’s something of a calling for independent schools, part of the tradition and identity that a lot of schools promote. In your eyes, how do we balance that sense of tradition with the next big things in pedagogy?

MURRAY: Well, sometimes “tradition” comes off as a little stuffy, but that shouldn’t be the intent. If tradition is done right, it shouldn’t communicate “we’ve educated the elite class for centuries” – it should convey that the values of your institution endure. A campus and its buildings should help communicate that continuity. That’s why we build with oak and stone, brass and copper—because these materials endure, just like our values. There’s an old saying, that “great schools don’t stay great standing still.” Schools can improve on their ideas and be more inclusive and broaden their reach. It’s not to say that the previous work is cast out or not worth reflecting on. It just means that we’re constantly improving.

VINICIUS GORGATI: From an architectural standpoint,

Lawrenceville’s campus has a palpable sense of belonging, of invitation. I think of tradition as the DNA of a campus. Pedagogy, administration, and buildings change over time like the traits of children of a new generation, but each still bears a resemblance to what came before.

CHOW: Let’s meditate on the importance of the campus and buildings a little longer.

Lawrenceville’s campus has a historical legacy, as much of its landscape was designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

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or creating something bucolic and pastoral; it’s about connectivity, hydrology, ecology – a 21st-century sense of stewardship. How can the landscape continually reward students with a sense of curiosity and discovery over the course of their years there, or for instructors who work there for decades?

CHOW: Let’s turn towards the specifics of the master plan. How do you reposition existing spaces or design new spaces to create the experiences that you want to foster?

How has that legacy impacted the master planning process?

draw you into more and more knowledge and conversations.

MURRAY: The Olmsted-designed landscape is central to the strong values that we carry on through tradition. Many of Olmsted’s campus plans are defined by large circles at the core, with the buildings placed around the circle, with no individual building towering over the rest. This reinforces the sense of the collective, that no one dominates anyone else.

We have a diversity of buildings and precincts that beckons you and offers glimpses of other portions of the campus. You feel like you want to enter each space because you’re coming around the bend and you’re curious. These spatial qualities are emblematic of our learning model: We’re going to intrigue and entice you,

GORGATI: Olmsted designed the open spaces not only as form, but also living landscapes. His designs are a conversation with the existing environment, creating an intimacy that corresponds with the topography, soil qualities, existing streams, and so on. There is a level of investment and curiosity in designing like that. As we look at how the master plan can help shape the evolution of the landscape, we are considering it through different lenses of time.

For instance, if Olmsted were alive today, how would his mindset translate to 21st-century concerns? It’s not about erasing the last several decades and replacing it with native vegetation

MURRAY: That reminds me of a little anecdote. We had some construction on our campus last year that had a pedestrian detour between the classroom buildings and the dining hall. As a result, I had several teachers tell me that on a normal year they wouldn’t meet all students from the incoming class until March or April of an academic year, but that with the construction they knew each new student by name or face by October – just because of this detour. That’s remarkable, but it’s also just a happy accident. So, how can we intentionally create these spaces?

In my experience that’s where campus planners make a major difference. I really see the value in having someone come in and help you see your space with new eyes. I have faith that opportunities are there, but I have trouble seeing them. What was so thoughtful about Sasaki’s plan for us is that it isn’t just a to-do list – it comes across as a series of opportunities and possible combinations for how to achieve them. It is a very iterative plan – iterative being from the Latin root for journey – to see a series of possible journeys you can take. I think any institution that has a physical campus can drive you together in productive and serendipitous ways. You just have to find a more coherent set of pathways, a more purposeful set of connection points.

CHOW: How do you balance these opportunities that will change and evolve the

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Sasaki Associates' master plan concept considers re-routing vehicular traffic entering and exiting campus away from hubs of student activity, providing them a safer, quieter environment.

feel of the campus with stakeholders, be they students, faculty, or alumni, who hold their memories of campus close to their hearts?

MURRAY: We’ve discussed that a lot over the course of this planning process. It’s true, faculty and graduates often carry a strong sense of connection with their time here. There is nostalgia, as there should be, about the things you care about; the look and feel of buildings and campus; and how you interact with your peers and surroundings. We definitely want our students to have those warm memories. But, as an institution, you don’t want to be necessarily bound by that relationship.

GORGATI: This question became an interesting provocation for our work—how do we design spaces that can resonate with parents who may be alumni themselves, while also ensuring that students 15 years from now will have memories that are just as rich and wonderful?

Implementing the opportunities laid out in this master plan will help Lawrenceville advance their mission, while enabling them to create new traditions and new nostalgias for the students of tomorrow. That’s healthy for any institution. It shows that though core values remain steadfast, the experience of that campus stays relevant with the times.

CHOW: When you look at the two years Lawrenceville has been working with Sasaki, are there any moments that were perhaps unexpected, but became emblematic of our work together in shaping this plan?

MURRAY: You know, we interviewed several good firms for this plan, and the most important element we were looking for was the relationship. That chemistry, how people listen and react to other people in the room. That was one thing that really struck me about Sasaki. It has never felt like you were giving us a lecture – and our workshops have always felt really

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So, the plan that emerged is a product of that collaborative approach. Lawrenceville brings a deep level of knowledge about our school, our values, the ability and willingness to listen.

Sasaki brings ideas about what works for other campuses, and a broad understanding of how campuses of all types operate. The mixing of these items worked really well. I was impressed by how quickly Sasaki could understand how our campus ticks, and how you could inform the plan with data without taking away from the art of what you were doing.

GORGATI: That’s great to hear, Steve. We as a firm, and myself as a professional, tend to approach a campus’ issues not from a place of direction and demonstration, but with an approach that relies more on deduction and intuition. When this works well, as we feel it has at Lawrenceville, then everybody is tuned into the same bandwidth and it’s a great engaging relationship.

CHOW: Last question for you, Steve. What are your hopes for this master plan? What does it mean for Lawrenceville in the near future, and more long-term?

MURRAY: Our strategic plan and this master plan are vital for making sure that our next steps are done right and in the right order. Six or seven years from now, when much of this is finished, the school will be much stronger. But my real hope is that 15 or 20 years from now people will look back and see the things that we were able to do and impact because of the new strategic plan and the campus plan. We’ll be more financially secure, and our campus will have even better environments in which our students will learn and grow.

I said to our students, when we kicked off this year, that we have a lot of construction and disruptions on the horizon, and I asked the students to think about the time and money we’re investing in the campus. Our school sends 200 leaders out into the world every year, and the incremental improvements outlined in the master plan will enrich the education that each of these students receive. That’s a powerful mission, and we couldn’t be more proud to be contributing to changing the world, one graduating class at a time.

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We’d love to thank you.

Please tell us if you have included Lawrenceville in your will or living trust, or as a beneficiary of a retirement account or life insurance policy. We want to welcome you to the John Cleve Green Society – alumni, parents, and friends who have committed to keeping our school great for generations to come.

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 Jerry Muntz at the Lawrenceville Office of Planned Giving at 609-620-6064 or jmuntz@lawrenceville.org, or go to www.lawrenceville.planyourlegacy.org.

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Woodhull House alum Bill Hofmann ’61 was a good sport about helping to hoist the Dawes banner his friend and classmate Frank Schroeder ’61 had tucked away for a half century.

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Inside Cleve House, Andrews found a similar bonhomie with the Chamberses. He mentions the evening coffee Ginnie Chambers would serve to the boys two or three times a week, a time for everyone in the House to gather in the common areas and just talk about how things were going in school.

“You called them House parents,” he says.

“I’m not sure if that term is still in use, but it essentially functions that way. It really does speak to that bond, I think, a family type of bond.”

Twenty years after young Scott Andrews took up residence in Cleve, Sam Washington did the same. The faces were different, but the old House would have been instantly recognizable to Andrews, or those who were there twenty years before him. More important, though, one characteristic was totally unchanged: The Chamberses.

And evening coffee.

“We would all come in and just would talk.

It was just a good way for the House to come together. Ginnie would ask, ‘How was your day?” says Washington, who had spent his first year in Boys’ Lower. Thirty-five years later, he will admit he doesn’t actually care at all for the hot drink.

“I am not a coffee drinker. I hate coffee actually, and the only time in my life I actually drank it was during those Tuesday and Thursday chats where we just sat and had a chance to be boys.”

Evening coffee with the Chamberses became a tradition during their time in Cleve, from 1954 until Marsh’s retirement in 1990. Ginnie still returns every year for Alumni Weekend and hosts a coffee social on Sunday morning.

“Coffee hour was my time with the kids, and I loved it,” Ginnie says. “We chatted about a million things, and you know you could sense if a kid was kind of down in the dumps or something. It was my life, and I loved it, and I shared it with Marsh. It was because of him that I was there.”

Marshall Chambers died in 1999, but Ginnie still actively maintains her ties with the boys of Cleve.

“Ginnie comes back to reunions every year.

She also sends a letter every year to every single person who was ever in Cleve while she and Marshall were there,” says Andrews, who, even at 75, still appreciates the family atmosphere cultivated by her efforts. “I will always look forward to Ginnie Chambers’ letter at Christmas.”

Her holiday correspondence is the stuff of Lawrenceville legend, but it started without any grand intentions.

“The first year we were in the House, Christmas came, and it was Marsh’s, idea,” she recalls. “He said, ‘You know, why don’t we send a Christmas card to the kids who graduated last year?”

What began with sixteen cards saw Chambers pen 837 notes last year to thirtysix years’ worth of “Clevies.” She works with the Alumni Office to keep a list of current addresses, but politely refuses the convenience of labels.

“They send me a printout of it, and then I hand-address the envelopes. Everybody says, ‘Are you crazy?’” Chambers says. “But I won’t send a Christmas letter with a label. I’m going to write it.”

At 90, she’s nowhere near ready to cut back on the yearly ritual, and see no reason to.

“First of all, I have good genes, but most of all, I lived with young people for all those years,” she explains. “Those kids, they keep you going.”

Carving out a Crescent Jeannie Ringo Tarkenton ’88 spent just one year at Lawrenceville, transferring in as a Fifth-Former from her public high school in Cincinnati at her first opportunity – the first year of coeducation at the School. She was steeped in Lawrenceville lore – her father Phil Ringo ’60 spent a postgraduate year in Upper House, and her late uncle, Pete Ringo ’63, spend his secondary school years in Cleve and Upper houses.

“I would hear stories from my father and from my grandfather about Pete and his friends,” Tarkenton says of her uncle, who died from injuries suffered in a 1968 automobile accident. “Lots of wonderful stories about the bonding and the relationships; literally, the Lawrenceville stories.”

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75 YEARS AGO IN THE LAWRENTIAN SPRING 1943 ON SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

Because of the abolishing of the winter prom on account of transportation difficulties, one of the brightest spots for the boys in the social winter calendar has been the innovation of the informal Saturday afternoon dance. […] Already the Dickinson has held two dances and the Cleve, one. They have proved conclusively that for a good time all that is needed is the girl and the boy, and proper atmosphere, which calls for nothing more musically than the Victrola and the record. The girls, living in Princeton and Trenton, come from Miss Fine’s School; the boys, from the House, with a privileged few from the other Houses.

– From a news item by Charles H. Raymond, Class of 1894

50 YEARS AGO IN THE LAWRENTIAN

Esther Ertel and Head Master Bruce McClellan H'57 '60 GP'10

WINTER 1968 MISS ERTEL RETIRES

On February 29, Miss Esther Ertel completed nearly 37 years of service to the School. Length of time is always interesting, but unfortunately we sometimes measure a person’s quality by this criterion alone – the ability to stick it out. Not so with Miss Ertel.

She served as secretary to three head masters of Lawrenceville: Mather Almon Abbott, Allan V. Heely, and Bruce McClellan, three men with marked and distinguishing characteristics. Not only did she perform efficiently in her basic secretarial duties, but she mastered the intricate workings of the School and showed the utmost discretion in her human relations.

– From the “Echoes of the Campus” news roundup

20 YEARS AGO IN THE LAWRENTIAN SPRING 1998 POSTAGE STAMPS GET A LITTLE ‘WILDER’

On the 1997 centennial of his birth, Thornton Wilder was honored by the United States Post Office with this stamp. The author of such classics of American literature as the novel The Eighth Day and the play Our Town, Mr. Wilder also taught at Lawrenceville in the 1920s. The Class of 1926 honored their former master with the plaque now hanging in Bunn Library. It reads, in part: “He served Lawrenceville well as a teacher and housemaster from 1921-1928. He served his country well through the gift of his writing genius and through his courage in two world wars.”

– From the “Around the Campus” news roundup

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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

2017 / 2018 PRESIDENT Ian S. Rice ’95

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Charlie C. Keller ’95

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Heather Elliott Hoover ’91 P’20

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Porter Braswell ’07 Vincent J. “Biff” Cahill, Jr. ’68 P’09 Frederick “Fritz” E. Cammerzell ’68 P’18 Morgan Dever ’06 Kevin Huang ’05 Neil Mehta ’02 Greg G. Melconian ’87 Brockett Muir III ’80

ALUMNI TRUSTEES Leigh Lockwood ’65 P’97 ’02 Heather Woods Rodbell ’91 Jonathan G. Weiss ’75 Tim Wojciechowicz ’78 P’06 ’10 ’12

SELECTORS Patricia Gadsden Hill ’01 Mark Larsen ’72 Martha “Perry” Nelson ’96 John C. Walsh ’99 Bruce L. Hager ’72 Brendan T. O’Reilly ’83 P’16

FACULTY LIAISON Timothy C. Doyle ’69 H’79 P’99

FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

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s I write this, I am cheering on two hockey players, Genny Knowles ’19 and Bobby Sanguinetti ’06, who represented Lawrenceville in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

Win or lose, we are proud of these Lawrentians and the dedication and talent it takes to reach that level of achievement. Just a handful of other alumni have realized the Olympic dream, and they span well over a century, from the Classes of 1900 to 2008.

Mostly, though, my thoughts are on Lawrenceville in the springtime, particularly Alumni Weekend.

Your class volunteers and the tireless staffers in Hogate Hall have put together a terrific program to welcome everyone back to campus. I look forward to seeing many of you on campus.

For those who won’t make it back in person this year, please know that a major focus of the Alumni Association this year is figuring out how best to bring Lawrenceville to you. We are living in a time with more means than ever to send and receive information, and figuring out the optimal ways to reach our alumni “where they are” is a key project. That is not just a geographical consideration, but a multifaceted one that will take into account how different cohorts of the alumni base prefer to communicate. For the first time, the Alumni Association Executive Committee has empaneled a Technology Committee to review the landscapes of communications and social media – as well as the systems and services already being used by the School – to develop recommendations for how to best keep you connected to your alma mater and the people that make it special.

There are already some fun developments to share: A The athletic department now offers both live streaming and on-demand video of sporting events

through a free platform called LocalLive (https://locallive.tv/). There, you can watch many of the varsity, JV, and junior matches, as well as special events such as Hill Weekend contests or the Ice Hockey Tournament, either in real time or after the fact. We are determining which other campus events might be good candidates for streaming as well.

A Having long been on Facebook, Lawrenceville Alumni recently launched an Instagram account run by the Office of Alumni & Development that features news of upcoming alumni events, campus capital projects, and alumni stories and profiles at instagram.com/lvillealumni. The photo-heavy account quickly drew thousands of followers. Alumni are encouraged to join in using the hashtag #LifelongLawrentian. While this may not speak to everyone (much of Instagram’s user base is 19 to 29 years old), it is a milestone in the effort to continually modernize.

A An offering certain to be useful to anyone with a smartphone is the Alumni Community phone app, available for free via the App Store or Google Play. It combines our own alumni database with LinkedIn to connect you with your fellow Lawrentians wherever you go. You can literally push a button and see which Lawrentians live in that area, along with their contact information. I encourage you to download it if you haven’t already. You will be impressed with how easy it is to use.

The Alumni Association is always happy to hear from you. Please don’t hesitate to drop me a line, or to say hello in person at Alumni Weekend. Go Big Red, wherever you are!

With very best regards, Ian Rice ’95 President, Alumni Association ianrice@gmail.com

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The House System is integral to the

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culture and history of Lawrenceville, but whereas Hamill dates nearly to the earliest days of the School, others have yet to stand for a full decade. Whether nestled around the Circle, the Crescent, or the Bowl, these homey residences stir memories and pride in the generations of Lawrentians who have brought them to life.

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Longest length of service by a housemaster, Marshall Chambers H’62 P’77, in Cleve House, 1954-90.

Years the Crutch Game between Kennedy and Hamill has been a staple of Circle House Football.

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Number of holiday cards sent in 2017 to boys who lived in Cleve from 1954-90

by Ginnie Chambers H’59 ’60 ’61 ’62 ’66 ’80 ’89 P’77.

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Number of years Haskell House served as a gymnasium, from 1885 to 1902.

Number of official Inter-House competitions:

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Faculty (housemasters and assistant housemasters) living in student Houses.

$89,250

Cost to construct Upper House for the use of the Fifth Form in 1891-92.

1977 The last year students lived off-campus, in The Lodge and George House.

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