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F e at u r e s 26 Commencement 2012 Former fifth formers move out.

30 A lumni Weekend 2012 Alumni return and recollect.

34 F our Under 40 To celebrate Coeducation’s 25th, The Lawrentian profiles a quartet of impressive alumnae.

Departments 2 From the Head Master 3 Editor’s Note 4 1,000 Words Solar in the City that Never Sleeps.

6 News in Brief Tsuo proves to be wellversed, Stonyfield reveals its corporate yogurt culture, and The Lawrentian finds the silver lining.

10 S ports Roundup Spring sports stats. On the Cover: Lily Rafii Band ’93, the co-founder of Felix Rey, shows off her wares. Back cover: Rebecca Blackwell ’93 gets the shot.

14 On the Arts Jones returns to her artistic roots and dancers celebrate Day.

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18 C over to Cover Wilkinson makes a plea for judicial restraint.

20 Ask the Archivist Our alumnae in athletics.

23 How to Do Everything (Part 3) Kampmann hits the dusty trail.

24 Take This Job and Love It Ryan picks up the spare.

84 Photo Finish ho are these people? Write W the caption and win a prize.

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84 Alumni 44 Alumni News

45 Board Bits

Trustee news in a nutshell.

47 Class Notes

9 From the Head Master “This decision will both strengthen and ensure Lawrenceville’s position in the forefront of American secondary education.”

hose were the words on the cover of the July 1985 Lawrentian announcing the School’s decision to admit girls. Looking back 25 years after the first girls entered Lawrenceville in the fall of 1987, those words very much ring true as Lawrenceville remains one of the leading secondary schools in the country. The decision to become coeducational was not a simple one, as evidenced by the dozen or so studies that the School undertook to explore the issue over a period of nearly two decades, beginning with a 1967 study commissioned by Andover, Exeter, Lawrenceville, and Hill, supported by the Carnegie Corporation. Although that socalled “Four School Study” and many of the subsequent reports argued for the merits of coeducation, many trustees and other alumni saw the value in single-sex education and wanted to preserve the School’s all-male status. Lawrenceville may have taken a long time to decide to become coeducational, but once the board voted to admit girls, the School embraced the change by building four new girls’ houses with support from trustees, adding girls’ sports, recruiting new faculty, and, perhaps most important, admitting a strong group of girls to all four forms. What was perhaps most remarkable about the transition was how smoothly it went. As Julie Taitsman ’88 reported in a summer 1988 Lawrentian essay titled “The Year of Living Coeducationally,” “Alumni may be relieved to understand the ease with which coeducation has become a ‘non-issue’ for current students.” Similarly, in the November 1987 Lawrentian, in a column titled “Echoes of the Campus,” History Master Tim Doyle ’69 H’79 P’99 wrote: “The girls, more than 160 of them, are indeed here – in our classes, at our meal tables, and on our playing fields – and yet, somehow, it all seems so, well, normal.” To corroborate his impression, Doyle, who was then housemaster of Upper, asked a couple of Fifth Form boys about life at “Lawrenceville Before and After Girls.” I was amused 25 years later to read their responses: “It really hasn’t changed as much as I thought it would.” “The attitude has changed. The guys are more self-conscious about what they say, what they wear, and how they act.” “People are actually getting up and taking showers before first period class. And everyone is in a better mood.” Much of the credit for the School’s seamless conversion to coeducation goes to the students as well as to the faculty and staff. Strikingly, four of the first five girls’ housemasters – Leita Hamill H’65 ’88 ’99 P’96 ’99, Kris Schulte P’15, Tim Brown H’84 ’04 P’04 ’08, and Barbara Elkins P’04 ’08 – are still involved with Lawrenceville today, as are some of the trustees who were strong champions for coeducation, including emeriti board presidents Bert Getz Sr. ’55 and Art Joukowsky ’50. My heartfelt thanks to the many champions and pioneers who helped the School transition so smoothly to coeducation and, in so doing, secured a bright future for Lawrenceville. Virtus Semper Viridis,

Elizabeth A. Duffy H’43 The Shelby Cullom Davis ’26 Head Master

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Fall 2012

Volume 76 Number 4

publisher Jennifer Szwalek editor Mike Allegra art director Phyllis Lerner proofreaders Paul Mott, Jr. ’47 Rob Reinalda ’76 Linda Hlavacek Silver H’59 ’61 ’62 ’64 GP’06 ’08 Jean Stephens H’50 ’61 ’64 ’68 ’89 GP’06 contributors Wes Brooks ’71 P’03 ’05 Lisa M. Gillard Hanson Jacqueline Haun Eric Kampmann ’62 Madeleine Matsui ’12 Selena Smith Paloma Torres Nicole Uliasz Zoe Vybiral-Bauske

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My first thought was, “Where do I begin?”

he 2012-13 school year marks the 25th anniversary of Lawrenceville’s adoption of coeducation, and here I was with the same problem I had back in 2007. That year marked the 20th anniversary, and I was forced to wrestle with a long list of wonderful candidates to profile for the magazine. Now I had to do it again. It was an embarrassment of riches. I wanted a nice variety of people, that I knew, but that was the easy part; our alumnae can be found in a seemingly infinite number of careers and are situated in many fascinating places around the globe. I needed to narrow things down. So, for this issue’s cover story, “Four Under 40” (page 34), as they say in editorial circles, “decisions needed to be made,” and I made them. It is entirely my fault if your favorite alumna isn’t here. (But shame on you for not telling me about her! It’s not too late, by the way; the School’s Coeducation Celebration will be going on all year long.) That said, I am delighted to report that Felix Rey co-founder Lily Rafii Band ’93, AP’s Africa photographer Rebecca Blackwell ’93, dog sled veterinarian Emi Berger ’95, and Hope for Haiti President Tiffany Kuehner ’03 all agreed to be a part of this issue’s cover story. Also in this issue is Jacqueline Haun’s “Ask the Archivist” column (page 20), which beautifully explains how the School modified its athletic programs to accommodate the first pioneering classes of young women. Far more thought went into these changes than you might imagine. It is my most sincere hope that you enjoy this issue, and, as always, I encourage you to write. Share with me your own experiences when the School switched to coeducation. Your story may end up in a future issue of the magazine. Warmest wishes, Mike Allegra Editor mallegra@lawrenceville.org

Oops… One of our sharp-eyed readers reported that the summer 2012 “On the Arts” article about Thomas Buechner ’44 P’73 contained an error. Luis Muñoz Marín’s name was misspelled. Among other things, we neglected to include the diacritical tilde over the “n.” (We looked it up so you wouldn’t have to.) The Editor regrets the error.

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9 1000 Words

Going the

Great

Green Way

The May dedication of Lawrencevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new solar field was not just seen by a Heely Room full of sustainability supporters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New Yorkers caught a glimpse of the event, too. Courtesy of KDC, the owner and operator of the field, the ceremony was on full display in Times Square.

Photograph by Michael Mancuso

9 News in Brief

Tsuo is Well Versed I n May, Kristin Tsuo ’13, earned a top spot in the national Poetry Out Loud competition, an annual poetry recitation program sponsored by the NEA and the Poetry Foundation. She was declared by the judges to be one of the top 12 competitors in the nation. The national event was the culmination of a lengthy and rigorous competition that began last fall among more than 19,000 New Jersey student competitors from 108 high schools. Thanks to Tsuo’s stellar recitations of “The Meaning of the Shovel” by Martín Espada, “Pastoral Dialogue” by Anne Killigrew, and “Slant” by Suji Kwok Kim, she edged out all competitors at the state finals in March and was sent on an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, DC, to compete against 52 other champions representing every other state and U.S. territory. Speakers were judged on a wide spectrum of factors, Tsuo says. “You have to be accurate. The judges look for clarity in your voice. They’re looking to see that you really understand your poem. They look at your

stage presence. Do you captivate the audience? Is the audience engaged in what you’re doing? There are many different categories they’re grading you on.” This was the second year in a row Tsuo represented Lawrenceville in the competition.

As a third former, she was the runner up in the New Jersey state finals. “I definitely didn’t know what I was doing my sophomore year,” she says, reflecting on the experience. “I was pretty much ‘Oh, here’s a poem! Let me recite it.’” This year she was more par-

ticular about what poems to choose and was more rigorous in her preparation. “It is a ton of work,” Tsuo explains. “When you get to the state and national level, you need to know exactly how you want to say every single word and how you want to use every pause between the words. I spent a lot of time in front of the mirror. [English Master and Dean of Faculty Chris] Cunningham coached me and gave me feedback.” At the national competition, Tsuo was impressed by the skills of her fellow competitors. More significant, she was delighted by how supportive the environment was. “This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life,” she says. “The people I met made it so very special.” With the competition over, Tsuo will begin her Fifth Form year continuing to speak in front of crowds as the new president of the School’s Speech and Debate Club. As for next year’s Poetry Out Loud competition, Tsuo is not yet sure if she’ll compete again. “But if I do,” she says, “next time I won’t move my hands so much.”

Fine and Dandelion Lawrenceville’s crop of dandelions this year may have raised an eyebrow or two over Alumni Weekend. Fear not. This landscape is by no means permanent; it is a logical progression of a focused, multiyear plan to eliminate chemical pesticides, cultivate fertile soil, and grow heartier grasses with longer root systems to better survive summer droughts. The School, working with Osborne Organics, a natural turf management company based out of

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Marblehead, MA, will soon turn those bad patches into a greener, less expensive–to-maintain lawn that coincides with Lawrenceville’s aggressive and ongoing sustainability initiatives. The first large-scale effort took place in March when the first application of organic fertilizer (containing 0% phosphates) was applied to all the School’s green spaces. Be sure to check future issues of The Lawrentian to get more information and updates as they happen.

Capstone Covers the Election

Stonyfield’s Yogurt Culture

G Joan Biskupic

Stonyfield Yogurt Co-Founder, former President and “CE-Yo” Gary Hirshberg addressed Lawrentians this

For nearly two decades, Lawrence-

spring, bringing his message that business can be

ville Fifth Formers have had the

both profitable and environmentally responsible.

opportunity to take the School’s

Stonyfield’s certified organic yogurt, smoothies,

Capstone course, highlighted by

milk, cultured soy, frozen yogurt, and ice cream are

lectures from nationally known

distributed around the country.

experts who present diverse points

“Making money doesn’t have to mean exploita-

of view on topics of contemporary

tion,” he said to the students. “The history of commerce is based on the idea that something has to be cheap to be profitable. Not true.” Stonyfield finds “cheap, free, and environmentally friendly ways to do everything.” As an example, he described how

relevance. From global warming, to post-Katrina New Orleans, to Religion and Politics, Capstone’s goal is to encourage students to look

Stonyfield’s anaerobic waste treatment method pro-

at complex problems from multiple

duces energy to help run the production line. The

perspectives.

initial investment was high, he admits, but paid for itself within 14 months. He also described the company’s many creative marketing initiatives, including the use of social media, sample giveaways, and Stonyfield’s popular “Have a Cow” program. “We have extremely intelligent organic cows,” he explained with a smile. “They email, blog, tweet, and even have their own 'Yo-Tube' videos.” Hirshberg spent a good portion of his talk linking rising health challenges to increased pesticide use, chemical exposures, refined sugar, and genetically modified crops. “Our food is making us sick. It’s finally time to take note: We’ve got a problem here.” He encouraged students to become politically active and support causes in large and small ways. “Every time you run an item through a supermarket scanner, you vote in support of the manufacturer of that product and its practices,” he noted. “You’ve inherited some challenges, but impossible is just a state of mind. You have the power to make a difference.”

Always popular with students, this past year’s Capstone topic on the presidential election broke all records for enrollment. More than 100 students – half of the senior class – signed up for the course to delve into every aspect of the upcoming election. “The course had three parts,” explained Capstone Director and History Master Jason Robinson H’09 P’15. “Since the course was called ‘The Presidential Election,’ we explained to the kids that they first had to understand the presidency as an institution. That was part one. “Part two was an extensive examination of electoral politics. We looked at the process we have in place in this country for choosing a president. Then we ask big questions like ‘Now that you know what the institution of the presidency is and the

responsibilities the president exercises, do we have a selection process that is set up to identify the individual who is most capable of fulfilling the responsibilities of that office?’ “The third and final phase of the course was public policy oriented. What are the major issues? Economic issues? Foreign policy issues? Social and cultural issues? We had a lot of interesting discussions on those topics in the final third of the course.” But the keystone to Capstone is the selection of the speakers, and, as in past years, there was an impressive lineup. This year’s guests were Ross Douthat, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, the youngest individual to hold that position in the history of the newspaper; Joan Biskupic, a journalist, author, and lawyer who has covered the United States Supreme Court since 1989; Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at The American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for Roll Call, and an election analyst for CBS News; E.J. Dionne, a columnist for The Washington Post and the author of Why Americans Hate Politics (1991) and They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era (1996); Trevor Potter, one of the country’s best-known and most experienced campaign and election lawyers, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and the man who set up Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC; and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, one of the nation’s leading experts on politics and the media and the author or co-author of 15 books including Presidents Creating the Presidency, Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment, and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation. FA L L 2 0 1 2

Big Red Race Raises Big Bucks Lawrenceville’s Big Red Race, a community and campuswide fun run for all ages, now in its ninth year, raised a record-breaking $20,000. All the proceeds went to The Lawrenceville School Camp in Warren

The Lawrentian’s Silver Streak The Lawrentian isn’t just a good read, it’s an award-winning good read; the magazine

County, NJ, a residential summer camp for underprivileged youth.

recently earned three silver medals for excel-

Campers are recruited through after-school programs, churches, and

lence in design and writing.

neighborhood centers in Lawrence Township, Trenton, Newark, and New York City.

In May, The Lawrentian was presented two Communicator Awards of Distinction, honors sponsored by the International

Facilities include four cabins for campers and counselors, a lodge

Academy of Visual Arts. The magazine was

for meals and indoor activities, a basketball court, soccer field,

recognized for Cover Design, for the spring

kickball/softball field, and a pond for swimming and fishing. The camp is a separate nonprofit entity led by School faculty, staff, and

2011 technology-themed issue, and for Interior Design, for the fall 2011 feature story “Topping the Table.”

administrators. Although the School does offer some logistical support,

The Council for the Advancement and

the Camp’s operating budget is supported through Lawrenceville

Support of Education’s (CASE) Circle of

student fundraising initiatives and donations from alumni and parents.

Excellence Awards, a national competition that honors educational professionals, also singled out The Lawrentian’s technology issue, this time for writing. The issue’s cover story, “The Digital Distraction,” was given a silver award for Best Article of the Year.

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A Supreme Opportunity Make no mistake, finding a seat dur-

group saw the high court in action

ing Supreme Court oral arguments

as lawyers argued whether the Fair

is no easy feat. The courtroom is

Sentencing Act of 2010 should af-

notoriously small, and thousands of

fect the punishment of a prisoner

requests to reserve some of those

whose crime was committed before

chairs come in from every remote

the act was in place but was sen-

corner of the country. So it is noth-

tenced afterward.

ing short of amazing that, for the

In addition to the prime seating

fourth straight year, History Master

arrangements, for the third straight

dents spoke with the polarizing yet

Kennedy. This year Robinson ar-

Jason Robinson H’09 P’15 was able

year the Lawrenceville students

gregarious Antonin Scalia. The fol-

ranged, with the help of a Law-

to secure 30 spots for his Honors

were granted a private meeting with

lowing year, they had an hourlong

renceville parent, a meeting with

Government students. There the

a justice on the court. In 2010, stu-

sitdown with the mannerly Anthony

Samuel Alito.

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app The Big 2-0-0! On May 7, Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Coach Allen Fitzpatrick ’73 H’85 ’89 P’99 ’04 earned his 200th career victory in grand style as Lawrenceville annihilated Blair, 17-5, in the first round of the N.J.I.S.A.A. Tournament. Not content with mere milestones, the team went on to win the state title – its 11th in a row – ending its 2012 season with a 17-4 record. Fitzpatrick, the School’s Art Department chair, joined the faculty in 1979 after graduating from Middlebury College in 1978. (He spent the year in between playing professional ice hockey.) During his tenure at Lawrenceville, he coached the boys’ varsity hockey team (1979-1993) and has been the head coach of boys’ varsity lacrosse since 2000. He was named Pitt Division Coach of the Year in 2008 and The Trenton Times Prep Coach of the Year in 2010.

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9 Sports Roundup By Nicole uliasz

Spring Season STATS

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Boys’ Baseball Record: 6-14 Coach: Champ Atlee ’62 H’79 P’92 hris Harwood ’12 Captains: C Eric Speidel ’12

Boys’ Crew M.A.P.L. Champions Coach: Ben Wright Captain: J osh Fram ’12

Girls’ Crew M.A.P.L. Champions Coach: C orinne Hagen Captains: Annelies Paine ’12

Julia Peters ’12

Boys’ Golf Record: 5-5-1 Coach: Tim Doyle ’69 H’79 P’99 Captains: Matt Kasten ’12

Sam Lytle ’12

Girls’ Golf M.A.P.L. Champions Record: 4-2 Coach: Gus Hedberg H’03 P’96 ’00 Captain: K elly Kung ’12

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Boys’ Lacrosse M.A.P.L. and N.J.I.S.A.A. Champions Record: 17-4 Coach: A llen Fitzpatrick ’73 H’85 ’89 P’99 ’04 alker Kirby ’12 Captains: W Brendan Newman ’12 Mark Leonhard ’12 Matt O’Connor ’12

Girls’ Lacrosse Record: 10-3 Coach: Lisa Ewanchyna Captains: E liza Becker ’12 Sam Krieg ’12

Girls’ Softball Record: 8-11 Coach: John Schiel Captains: B rianna Cook ’12 Liza Keller ’12

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Boys’ Tennis M.A.P.L. and N.J.I.S.A.A. Champions Record: 10-3 Coach: Dave Cantlay aniel Harris ’13 Captain: D

Boys’ Track M.A.P.L. and N.J.I.S.A.A. Champions Record: 4-0 Coach: John Shilts yall Islam ’12 Captains: N Charlie Kerr ’12 Elwood Taylor ’12

Girls’ Track M.A.P.L. and N.J.I.S.A.A. Champions Record: 4-1 Coach: Bill Schroeder Captains: Tara Dosunmu ’12

Abbey Murphy ’12 Teri Tillman ’12 For the most current athletic news visit www.lawrenceville.org/athletics.

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9 On the Arts

Dancers

Honor Day With 30 unique routines, more than 100 student performers and choreographers, and accompanied by musical selections that ranged from Brahms to Beyonce, Lawrenceville’s annual Spring Dance Concert once again took the campus by storm. The show, which is widely considered to be a must-see annual School event, played to an appreciative, standing room only crowd of hooting and cheering students, faculty, and staff. It was, as in past years, a joyous occasion, but the event was also dedicated to mark a solemn one. Colin Day, a professional ballet dancer and a former Lawrenceville math master, was one of the pioneers behind the now thriving School dance program. He passed away earlier this year. “Colin and I shared a common philosophy on dance,” noted Dance Master Derrick Wilder. “Students need to have the strong rigor of ballet in order to understand the truth behind dance and to grow as dancers. During the initial structuring of the dance program, Colin was instrumental in establishing the ballet portion of the program. “Martha Graham once said, ‘Great Dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.’ Not only was Colin passionate in the classroom, in the House, and on the playing field, but also he wanted every young person to experience the true passion, the sheer joy, and the absolute freedom that dance gives.”

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Jones Revisits

Artistic Roots In May, Cassie Jones’s ’97 abstract designs and low relief painting of upholstered panels were on display in the Gruss Gallery. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Rhode Island School of Design, she has shown her work in solo exhibitions at StaceGallery and the Coleman Burke Gallery in New York and in group exhibitions at Art Chicago, Gallery 808 in Boston, and the Portland Museum of Art. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony. The exhibit in Gruss, however, was especially gratifying for Jones as it was at Lawrenceville that she first discovered her passion for art. “I always knew I liked making things – signs, letters, drawings, but I wasn’t really ‘the art kid,’” she recalls. “It wasn’t until I took Art I Foundation with [Brian] Daniell H’06 and Drawing with [Allen] Fitzpatrick ’73 H’85 ’89 P’99 ’04 that I even started to open up to it. I remember doing a drawing of the interior of the Bath House (where the art studio used to be) with bamboo and ink and Mr. Fitzpatrick chose it to be in the yearbook. I was shocked. I wasn’t able to recognize when something was good yet, certainly not something of my own, so it meant a lot to me when he did. “I credit Lawrenceville with a lot of things, but what was perhaps the most important was that I really learned how to work. I spent a lot of time really ‘inside’ my learning there – the kind of space where you lose time and when you finish it feels like a dream – being in the studio is like that for me.” - Madeleine Matsui ’12 FA L L 2 0 1 2

9 Cover to Cover

In Defense of

RESTRAINT

According to J. Harvie Wilkinson ’63, the best constitutional theory is no theory at all.

ot too long ago, The Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson’s ’63 nightstand was piled high with books exploring various constitutional theories. Some of them advocated Living Constitutionalism, the idea that the Constitution is an evolving document that needs to eagerly adapt to the changing mores of society. Other volumes embraced Originalism, the idea of turning justices into makeshift historians who ask themselves the question, “What would the Founding Fathers do?” Still other books discussed the more academic theories of Political Process Theory and Pragmatism which, in their own unique ways, advocate caution – with significant exceptions. The sheer number of books on this one subject all seemed a little obsessive, really – at least to Wilkinson’s wife. “She said, ‘You need to put some of those constitutional theories away and pick up a good novel or two.’” Wilkinson recalls with a chuckle. “But I couldn’t do it. I was just too fascinated. Whether you’re talking about Justice Brennan or Justice Scalia or Judge Posner or Judge Bork… these are very brilliant people, and their theories were so luminous they just lit up the constitutional sky.” But the more Wilkinson read, the more clear it became that each and every one of those beautifully articulated theories suffered from a common flaw. “They were all taking more and more responsibility

G J. Harvie Wilkinson accepts the 2008 Aldo Leopold Award.

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away from our democratic system and placing more and more responsibility in the courts,” he says. “Whether the theories advertise themselves as conservative or liberal, they all allow judges a respectable way to forward their own personal political philosophies.” Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance, is Wilkinson’s response to this trend. In the book, Wilkinson analyzes four of the most popular constitutional theories and how they all, in their own unique ways, lead to judicial activism. “What we need to do is return to the great tradition of the court as exemplified by Oliver Wendell Holmes and others who exercised good judgment and understood that wisdom often involved deferring to the experience of other branches of government,” says Wilkinson. “They didn’t seek to impose their views on the most volatile issues that affect the entire country.” In short, the book supports jettisoning constitutional theories altogether, checking political opinions at the door, and exercising judicial restraint. If his tenure as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is any indication, Wilkinson certainly practices what he preaches. He can point to a number of decisions he has

handed down from the bench that went against his own political philosophy in order to support his narrow definition of what is unconstitutional. “There have been times I have voted to uphold firearms regulations that I didn’t necessarily agree with because I didn’t think they were unconstitutional,” he says. “There have been times I have upheld very strong environmental laws that I thought might have gone a little too far because I didn’t think they were unconstitutional. Many of these laws require a political solution, rather than a judicial one. I remind myself that I am not a legislator. I wasn’t elected to anything. It’s my duty to interpret

the law and apply the law, but not to remake the law.” Wilkinson’s book, not surprisingly, has prompted attacks from both the left and right. Perhaps the most noteworthy critique came from columnist George Will; in 2005, Will stridently advocated for Wilkinson’s appointment to the Supreme Court; his 2012 column on the other hand, was sharply critical of Wilkinson’s call for restraint, which, Will asserted, was too deferential to the legislative branch. Wilkinson, always genial and diplomatic, can only shrug off such comments. “People are really passionate about the Constitution. They care. I’ve received lots of criticism from liberals on the section on Living Constitutionalism. Conservatives have gone at me hard about the things I write on Originalism. I respond to all of that by saying, ‘Can we try to see the forest for the trees, here? Can we look to see how much we can gain as Americans by not trying to constitutionalize everything?’” He adds, “You may think a law is bad policy – and that’s fine – but bad policy is not necessarily unconstitutional. There are two legitimate sides to these volatile political debates. The political process decided to take one of them. Unless the Constitution explicitly forbids it, that is good enough for me – even if I disagree.”

From Our Staff As a young woman, Sarah Josepha Hale was prepared to play the role of housewife and mother. But then, in the fall of 1822, things changed. Her husband of nine years died, leaving her to raise five small children on her own. At that time, women had few rights and even fewer opportunities to support such a large family, but Sarah, as she said grace at her Thanksgiving table, found the strength to carry on. As she thanked her Maker for what she had, she vowed to find success in a man’s world. Sarah Gives Thanks, the new picture book by Lawrentian Editor Mike Allegra, shows how Sarah, through raw intelligence and sheer determination, became a lauded editor, author, patriot, philanthropist, and advocate for women’s education. By the 1850s and ’60s she was one of the most influential women in America. One way she used that influence was to wage what would become a 36-year, grassroots campaign to turn Thanksgiving into a national holiday. Learn more at www.mikeallegra.com. “Amusing and perfectly chosen anecdotes highlight the qualities that made Hale such a success— curiosity, thirst for knowledge and determination… Readers will look forward to more from this talented author, who has penned a perfectly paced, rousing biography.” – Kirkus (Starred Review)

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Ask the Archivist By Jacqueline Haun

Our

Athletic Alumnae

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“Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare.” The source of the quote is unknown, but the philosophy is one that was embraced by The Lawrenceville School even before female athletes came to its campus, and the promise was fulfilled as early as the fall of 1987 when the very first Lawrenceville girls’ field hockey team was named a co-winner of that year’s Mercer County Championship. The following year – and for several years after that – the team became dominant on the state level, annually winning the N.J.I.S.A.A. Championship. Was it pure luck that this neophyte team would become winners right from the start? Not at all; the girls’ field hockey team was emblematic of the way The Lawrenceville School chose to implement coeducation: with preparation and a commitment to excellence. According to then-Interim Head Master Graham Cole H’87 P’91 ’95, the only luck involved was that Lawrenceville had the opportunity to study other independent schools’ experiences in bringing coeducation to their campuses and learn from their successes and failures. Following the Board of Trustees’ vote

for coeducation in June 1985, numerous transition committees were established to plan the smooth introduction of girls to Lawrenceville’s community. The Transition Committee for Athletics, chaired by then-Director of Athletics Art Schonheiter ’52 P’90, was asked to make recommendations for changes to both facilities and programming. The physical changes to facilities, while necessary, turned out to be among the less challenging aspects of coeducation for the committee. New locker rooms and bathrooms were added to the Field House (including wall hairdryers,

the subject of many Lawrence headlines at the time), the tennis courts were reconfigured to accommodate the placement of the Crescent Houses, and new sports fields were added to support the increased number of athletic teams. More challenging was the need to support girls’ sports in a way that visibly demonstrated the School’s commitment to gender equality. The first year of coeducation brought more than 100 girls to campus, 29 of them seniors. Concerned that there wouldn’t be enough girls to fill team rosters, the Athletic Department com-

F Opposite: The 1988 field hockey champs. G The first Lawrenceville girls' softball team.

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mitted to starting off with a strong varsity program, rather than build the girls’ teams slowly by beginning with junior varsity. To Schonheiter’s joy, despite the relatively small number of female athletes on campus, enough of them tried out to fill all the teams’ slots. An effort was made to ensure equality between the boys’ and girls’ teams. The current Associate Director of Athletics Melissa Speidel P’10 ’12 (then Magee), who came to the School in the fall of 1987 from the world of college coaching, credits Schonheiter’s conscientious commitment to shaping a first-class girls’ program. Schonheiter in turn attributes Speidel’s experience-based knowledge of what the girls would need, want, and expect with informing his decision-making. The result was a department collaboration that Speidel remembers as a vibrant, exciting time for the School’s athletic program, one in which many new opportunities for student athleticism were introduced. The School attempted to provide both physical and intangible support even-handedly in such areas as team budgets, quality of uniforms, assignment of experienced coaches, shared use of spaces, and flexible schedules. Although the results were not always greeted with enthusiasm, particularly among some male students who were accustomed to The Way Things Were, the new policies were effective. With the exception of the football field, all sports fields, old and new, were rotated among different teams so that there was no perception of various venues “belonging to the boys” or “belonging to the girls.” Two of the most successful School practices were the hiring of experienced women coaches to mentor the new girls’ teams, and the admission of strong athletes among the incoming girls. Though many had predicted that the fledgling girls’ teams would take a while to reach their full potential, the fortuitous selection of skilled athletes in such sports as field hockey and tennis ensured quick success. The girls who entered Lawrenceville that first year are invariably described today as exceptionally strong and dynamic young women, appropriate for the first “pioneers” of the new way of doing things. While the interscholastic girls’ teams flourished, Crescent House sports, how-

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ever, did present some difficulties. In the first year of coeducation, only Stanley and Stephens houses were finished, making the inter-House competitions somewhat less than riveting. The sport of choice that year was flag football, played with modified rules. As popular as that experiment proved to be, subsequent years featured a variety of changing sports such as House basketball and volleyball. With the addition of McClellan and Kirby houses, the inter-House competitive

field broadened somewhat. One element that especially improved competition between the Houses was the introduction of the Dresdner Cup – the Crescent equivalent of the Foresman Trophy – in the 1988-89 School year. By 1990-91, Stanley Housemaster Tim Brown H’84 ’04 P’04 ’08 recalls that Crescent House pride was in full evidence, with all four Houses vying for Dresdner bragging rights. The influence of girls’ athletics could soon be felt campuswide. Not only was a culture of mutual support built up between male and female teams, with both choosing to cheer one another on, but also Schonheiter credits the girls’ teams’ interscholastic successes with “lighting a fire” under the existing boys’ teams, pushing them even harder. Schonheiter believes the success of the introduction of women athletes to Lawrenceville’s campus can be summed up in a picture that appeared in the summer 1988 issue of The Lawrentian. In it, Schonheiter poses surrounded by four state prep championship trophies – one of which was won by the new 1988 Lawrenceville field hockey team. It would be the first of many such moments in which the female athletes of Lawrenceville have contributed to the School’s stellar reputation as a place where athletes of either gender can flourish.

9 How to Do Everything (Part 3)

How To Tackle

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I first stepped onto the Appalachian Trail in June 1967, a year after graduating from Brown. I had no idea what I was doing and at one point almost walked off a cliff. But the experience stayed with me long after I married and entered the world of work. In 1996, I returned to the trail to finish the section I had started 29 years earlier. It was that brief four-day effort that hooked me. There was something renewing about walking along ridges, befriending complete strangers, and sleeping under the stars. From that point forward, I was determined to keep on trekking. Here are a few tips to ensure your own success on the trail.

A Evaluate your own physical strengths and weaknesses. If your range is around 15 miles a day, don’t try to stretch it to 20. Last year, as I was ascending toward the summit of a steep rocky mountain in Virginia, a sudden lightning storm broke immediately above me. I had put in a lot of effort climbing that mountain and didn’t want to give it up, but the storm grew more vicious so I turned and descended as fast as I could. In earlier years I might have stayed put, but here strategic retreat was called for; I was wise enough to know that the mountain and the trail would be there for another attempt later on.

Illustration by Zara Picken

By Eric Kampmann ’62

A Bring a head lamp with plenty of extra battery power. You do not know what darkness is until you have spent a night in the woods wandering around without a light. A head lamp could be a lifesaver.

A Live in the moment. The trail takes effort, but the benefits in terms of memories and experience are incalculable. The trail renews our youthful sense of wonder and awakens us to the joy that living in the present tense permits.

A Learn from your experience. The trail is an amazing teacher; every time I returned home from this wooded classroom, I brought with me lessons I could apply to many aspects of my business and home life. Hiking also served as a counterpoint to the normal patterns, a breather, allowing for reflection and restoration while offering challenges not usually encountered on a commuter train or in the glass towers of a puzzling city. Consider putting aside the urgencies of daily life and finding a trail to walk. Along with the incomparable Lawrenceville experience, it is one of the best educations you will ever acquire.

A Know your itinerary. Carry a map and compass at all times, because even though the trail is marked, it is easy to wander off the path.

A K eep your carry weight light, but do not discard essentials for convenience. Once I became disoriented on a mountain ridge and ended up stranded for the night in the rain without a tent. I had decided to leave it behind because it weighed a few extra pounds.

Eric Kampmann ’62 is a husband, father, businessman, teacher, author, speaker, photographer, and, of course, hiker. He completed the Appalachian Trail in 2011 and has gone by the trail names “Trailthoughts” and more recently “Pilgrim 67.” He plans to keep on hiking. Know how to do something? Write the editor a note at mallegra@lawrenceville.org, and your pearls of wisdom may appear in a future issue. FA L L 2 0 1 2

9 Take This Job & Love It

Bowled OVER

bout 12 years ago, Charley Ryan ’70 and his business partner, Peter Shapiro, decided to throw a company party for the staff of Wetlands, the hip, Tribeca nightclub they co-owned. “So we took the staff to a bowling alley,” Ryan says. “Our staff was young and tattooed and pierced, and were, in many ways, too cool for school. But every one of them dropped all their pretenses and had a blast. At the end of the day, when Peter and I looked at the bill and reflected on the experience, we thought, ‘That was really expensive, and the food was terrible, and the service was bad, and it wasn’t even clean. Yet everyone had a great time.’ “Then we thought, ‘What if we take what we know about booking music, combine it with bowling, and also provide great food and great service?’” Right then and there, the germ of a new and exciting business idea was born. Ever since Brooklyn Bowl opened its doors in 2009, it has been a huge hit, garnering both national and international buzz as one of the most fun places to go in New York. The place has thrown company parties for Bill Clinton and Martha Stewart; and celebrities such as Janet Jackson, Drew Barrymore, and Rachael Ray regularly stop by to bowl a few frames. And these bowling lanes are gorgeous. All the equipment is brand new and top of the line. Each lane is outfitted with a large television in case you want to check out pro athletes in action while you feebly attempt to avoid the gutter. Even the seating is wonderful; instead of cheap, molded, plastic chairs, between frames bowlers can recline on large, leather Chesterfield sofas.

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Tired of bad food and

dirty facilities, Charley Ryan ’70 finds success in the fast lane.

Who knew bowling could be so – dare we say – opulent? Within both literal and figurative striking distance of those lanes is a 600-personcapacity music venue that often hosts arena-size acts such as Adele, John Legend, and (for a change of pace) polka star Jimmy Sturr. “Jimmy Sturr wasn’t as popular as Adele,” Ryan notes with a laugh. And the Brooklyn Bowl food selection goes above and beyond the buffalo wing. Its menu was featured on The Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever Ate, and the bar serves six beers on tap from its next-door neighbor, Brooklyn Brewery (which, by the way, is owned by two other Lawrentians, brothers Robin ’91 and Eric Ottaway ’86). But to create this dream night spot was no easy feat, notes Ryan. He and Shapiro didn’t bother looking for an existing bowling alley to renovate, instead they were intent on finding a location that had what Ryan described as a “certain feeling in the air.” They weren’t sure what that feeling would be, but they were certain they’d know it when they found it. That feeling led them to a long-defunct, dirty, and dilapidated 1882 iron foundry in Brooklyn. It would require a phenomenal amount of work and money to develop this location, but it was in a great neighborhood, and the foundry, though a dump, had character. There was some beautiful brickwork under all the grime. Better still, it was large enough to accommodate bowling, a giant kitchen, and a performance stage with an incredible sound system. It wouldn’t be easy, but it would certainly do.

forts a step further. Instead of using those industrial looking metal racks to reset pins between frames, Brooklyn Bowl uses strings to pull the pins back into position. The string pinspotters use one-fourth the energy of the traditional machines. Another company policy is that they sell nothing that comes in cans or bottles. “We could’ve made a fortune selling bottled water, but we didn’t think it was the right way to go,” Ryan says.

The gamble has paid off in a big way. Now that the Brooklyn Bowl is firmly established, Ryan is looking to open a new location in the Garden State. “I am certain it will be something the people in New Jersey will be proud of,” he says, hardly able to contain his enthusiasm. “The key to our success, I think, is that a lot of ‘entertainment’ out there isn’t all that entertaining. We always are making sure that Brooklyn Bowl is.”

Photograph by Michael Branscom

Ryan and Shapiro added to their burden by deciding to make Brooklyn Bowl LEED certified. All their appliances and plumbing fixtures conserve energy and water. The wood for the lanes are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, meaning that it came from a lumber operations that focus on sustainable harvesting practices. All sealants and adhesives used in the construction were non-toxic. Then they took their conservation ef-

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FIFTH FORM PRIZES Trustees’ Cup Eliza Becker The Edward Sutliffe Brainard Prize Walker Kirby Valedictorian Sung Won Chang Top Scholars Eliza Becker Manik Bhatia Sung Won Chang Luka Klimaviciute Max Matukhin Rujul Zaparde The Max Maxwell H’74 ’81 Award Chika Oparaji

The Kathleen Wallace Award Maen Owda

The MegnaSchonheiter Award Eliza Becker

The Elizabeth Louise Gray ’90 Prize Samantha Krieg

The Phi Beta Kappa Award Manik Bhatia

The Catherine Boczkowski H’80 Award Luke Klimaviciute

The Aurellian Honor Society Award Jake Cooper

The Robert Mammano Frezza ’88 Memorial Scholarship Jeong Woo Ha The Directors’ Award Kearney McDonnell

The Masters’ Prize Max Matukhin The John R. Thompson Jr. Prize Sarah Bryant The Andrew T. Goodyear ’83 Award Hannah Taggart

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U N D E R F O R M AWARDS The Jeremy K. Mario ’88 Award Nick Fenton ’13 Julia Minnetian ’13 Semans Family Merit Scholarship Daniel Harris ’13 Erica Lee ’13 Sachin Smart ’13 The Rutgers University Book Award Denise Chan ’13 Wellesley Club of Central Jersey Katharine Toll ’13 Dartmouth Club of Princeton Book Award Shubham Chattopadhyay ’13 The Williams College Book Award Kristin Tsuo ’13 Harvard Club of Boston Prize Book Award Nora Etienne ’13 The Yale Club Book Award Tina Liu ’13 The Brown University Alumni Book Award Program Benjamin Marrow ’13 The Reuben T. Carlson Scholarship Peter Beer ’14 Catherine Hahn ’14 The Beverly Whiting Anderson Prize Cal Fullerton ’15 Emma Wilcox ’15 The Marcus D. French Memorial Prize Sebastien Pierre-Louis ’15 Lisa Zhu ’15 The Katherine W. Dresdner Cup Stephens House

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The Foresman Trophy Cleve House

COLLEGE MATRICULATION Nineteen to Princeton University Ten to Duke University Nine to Georgetown University Eight to Brown University Seven to University of Virginia Six to George Washington University University of Chicago Five to College of William and Mary Columbia University Dartmouth College Harvard University New York University Four to Cornell University Stanford University Williams College Three to Barnard College Bucknell University Emory University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Johns Hopkins University Middlebury College Northwestern University University of Southern California Wesleyan University Two to Amherst College

Bowdoin College Brandeis University Colby College Colgate University Hamilton College - NY Lafayette College Rhode Island School of Design Rice University Tufts University University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign University of Michigan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Pennsylvania University of Richmond University of Saint Andrews (Scotland) University of Texas, Austin Wake Forest University Yale University

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One Each to Boston College Bryn Mawr College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Claremont McKenna College College of New Jersey College of the Holy Cross Colorado College Connecticut College Elon University Fairfield University Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College Franklin College Switzerland Grinnell College Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey Kenyon College Lehigh University Manhattanville College

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G Members of the Class of 1957

Meritorious Service Awards Presented annually by the Alumni Association

the

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School, this award acknowledges and recognizes extraordinary volunteerism and/or service to the Lawrenceville Community. Candidates may be alumni, honorary class members, faculty and family, or School employees and family. A Mike Boylan ’50 A John “Jock” Hannum ’62 P’88 ’94 A Gregg Miller ’62 A John Tassie ’62 A Tom Gallagher ’67 P’07 ’12 A Martin Matsui ’76 P’12 ’14 A Mike “G” Goldenberg P’05 ’10 A Elaine Mills P’05

New Alumni Selectors A Meghan Hall Donaldson ’90 A Paul T. Sweeney ’82

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New Honorary Alumni/ae

G Class of 1952ers, including Art Schonheiter ’52 P’90 GP’01 ’03 and Seymour Preston ’52

The Class of 1952 A Edith Baird Eglin H’52 ’65 A Mary Elizabeth McClellan H’50 ’52 ’57 ’59 ’79 GP’10 A Julian Thompson ’45 H’52 ’57

The Class of 1962 A Linda Hlavacek Silver H’59 ’61 ’62 ’64 GP’06 ’08

The Class of 1967 A Peter C. Candler H’67 ’76

The Class of 1972 A Ted & Barbara Graham H’66 ’72 P’85

The Class of 1977 A W. Graham Cole H’77 ’87 P’91 ’95

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The Class of 1982 A John “Marty” Doggett H’82 ’86 ’87 ’92 ’98 P’00

The Class of 1987 A John “Marty” Doggett H’82 ’86 ’87 ’92 ’98 P’00 A Bernard P. Loux H’71 ’87

The Class of 1992 A Martha Gracey H’92 ’07

The Class of 1997 A Col. David E. Schorr H’97 ’02 P’80 ’82 ’88 GP’97 ’09 ’12

The Class of 2002 A Mark Schoeffel H’97 ’02 ’05 ’06

The Class of 2007 A Dominic A.A. Randolph ’80 H’04 ’07 P’06

The Class of 2012 A Joaquin Gonzalez H’12 A The Reverend Sue Anne Steffey Morrow H’12

H Ted Lyons ’62 P’86 and Joe Matthews ’62

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Hall of Famers Honored Three alumni athletes, Cal Benedict ’42, Kevin Kunkel ’82, and Sophie Caronello ’92 were inducted into The Lawrenceville School’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Cal Benedict ’42 was an outstanding athlete and leader at Lawrenceville. He played baseball at the School, but stood out in soccer, captaining the 1941 team. At West Point, Benedict played football, basketball, and baseball. In his last two years at the academy he switched back to soccer where he played center halfback, captained the team in his senior year, beat Navy 1-0, and earned All-American honors. While serving as a lieutenant after graduation, he was invited to try out for the 1948 Olympics but declined, choosing to stay with the troops. He eventually retired as a major general in the U.S. Army, having served in combat in both Korea and Vietnam. As a battalion commander in Vietnam, he earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest honor for valor. Kevin Kunkel ’82 played three years of soccer, basketball, and baseball at Lawrenceville and earned three Major L’s in soccer and baseball. He captained the baseball team his senior year and had a three-year batting average of .354. His pitching records in both his Third Form and Fifth Form years was 7-1 and his ERA was 1.31 as a fifth former. Kunkel was a four-year scholarship athlete at Stanford University, where he pitched in the College World Series in his freshman year. He had 35 starts in 67 games, 271 innings pitched, 140 strikeouts, and only 107 walks. He was 16-18 for his career with a 4.88 ERA. After Stanford he played in the Oakland Athletics organization from 1986 through 1988. Today Kunkel is the founder and owner of the Flagler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Palm Beach, FL, and an assistant professor at Nova Southeastern University. Sophie Caronello ’92 is among the few Lawrentians who have earned 12 Major L’s in varsity athletics. Caronello played soccer, ice hockey, and lacrosse, and captained the hockey and lacrosse teams her senior year. She earned All-State honors in soccer and lacrosse and the Coach’s Award and MVP in ice hockey. At graduation she was presented the Marcus D. French Award and the Melissa Magee Best Female Athlete Award. At Princeton, Caronello continued to excel. In soccer she earned four varsity letters, captained the team in her senior year, earned All-Ivy and Regional All-American honors, was awarded the Don Betterton Award in soccer in 1993, and the Soccer MVP Award in 1995. In ice hockey she earned three varsity letters and, in 1994-1995, the team won the Ivy League Championship. 32

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admirable achievement Awards Inspired by the over 40 years of exceptional service, achievement, G Left: Gregg Miller ’62 and David Schlossberg ’62 ; Middle: Rebecca Wojciechowicz ’10 and Carolyn Wojciechowicz P’06 ’10 ’12; Right: Alumni Association President Tim Wojciechowicz ’78 P’06 ’10 ’12

Cutting Named Distinguished Alumnus Over Alumni Weekend, Timothy R. Cutting ’47 was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Presented annually by the School’s Alumni Association, the award is given to a Lawrentian who “has contributed significantly to the welfare of Lawrenceville and who has exemplified the highest standards of the School.” Cutting first came to Lawrenceville in September 1944. He resided in Dawes (when the legendary Fred Eichelberger H’24 ’71 was housemaster and Bob Wallace H’47 was the assistant) and proved himself to be a talented athlete. Cutting played House baseball and football and, when he was a member of the varsity swim team, the School won the Eastern Interscholastic Championship three years in a row. Cutting was also the team captain in his senior year. He spent the next four years at Trinity College, where his swim team won the New England Championship. Upon graduation (with honors in history), Cutting enlisted in the Army and served in

Korea as an infantry platoon leader during the last six months of the war. He spent the next 25 years with Marsh & McLennan, a commercial insurance brokerage in New York City, before moving to a firm in Princeton, NJ, as vice president in 1978. He retired in 1993. A longtime resident of Essex Fells, NJ, Cutting remains active in the community and serves on the boards of local charities. He was chairman of the town Planning Board for 20 years and a member of the Borough Council for nine, the last three as president. He served as a volunteer fireman in the borough for 25 years and is a warden and member of the vestry at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. Cutting sits on the boards of Offender Aid & Restoration of Essex County, which provides a support system for men and women being released from prison, and its PATCH program, assisting children whose parents are incarcerated. In addition, he also volunteers at Habitat for Humanity (Newark, NJ) and The Seeing Eye (Morristown, NJ).

and

demonstrated

affection

for

Lawrenceville provided by Arthur Hailand Jr. H’34 P’69 ’70 GP’91, this award is presented by the Alumni Association

non-alumnus.

Candidates for this award must have long-term dedication to the School and have a substantial history of significant volunteer efforts over many years. A Edith Baird Eglin H’52 ’65 A Mary Elizabeth McClellan H’50 ’52 ’57 ’59 ’79 GP’10

H Members of the class of 1967: Tom Carroll, Spencer Tandy, Rolf Reinalda, George Dittmar, Virginia (guest of Tom Carroll), Bill Ehret, Alane Ehret, Alex Mc Naughton, and Don Lovelace

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By mike allegra

Over the years, Lawrenceville has graduated a number of remarkable young women.

To celebrate Coeducation's 25th anniversary, The Lawrentian is honored to introduce a few of them to you.

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Rebecca’93 Blackwell

er poignant and powerful images can be found just about everywhere. As a photographer for the Associated Press, Rebecca Blackwell ’93 has covered brutal massacres in the Ivory Coast, joyous election celebrations in Senegal, a crippling drought in Kenya, and the World Cup match in South Africa. To put it another way, if it happens on the African continent, chances are Blackwell is there to capture the moment through her lens. Considering her prominence as a photojournalist, it may be surprising to learn that Blackwell had zero interest in photography early in life. No yearbook, no school newspaper, no Photo Club. She didn’t even own anything better than a point-and-shoot camera until well into her 20s. Instead, Blackwell was stumbling down a

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very different career path. After college she found herself at a strategy consulting firm – a very good job, Blackwell notes, which assured her a promising future in the industry. But that’s what scared her. “One day I just realized that everything was now laid out for me. I could see my whole life mapped out 20 years in advance, and I realized that it was not the kind of life I wanted for myself,” she says. The problem was she couldn’t figure out what kind of life she did want. So she cast herself adrift. Blackwell always liked to travel so, going it alone without a plan, armed with little savings but an eagerness to hitch rides and stay in onedollar-a-night hotels, she embarked on two solid years of travel through West Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, China, and Mongolia.

Despite the unfamiliar surroundings, Blackwell found herself surprisingly adept at connecting with people across cultures and extracting herself from any dangers. On one occasion, for example, two Syrians attempted to menace her with a shotgun, but she quickly cowed them by loudly scolding them in broken Arabic. “I was lucky they were just opportunistic rather than hardened criminals,” she says. During these travels Blackwell began to think seriously about becoming a photographer. “In Pakistan, at a cheap backpackers’ hotel, one of the other guests shared his pictures with me,” she remembers. “I was just amazed. I wanted to take pictures like those to convey what I was seeing and to share my experiences with people at home.” Upon her return back to the States, Blackwell, now focused in a way she had never been before, pursued photography with something akin to a passion. She got a job writing and shooting for Town Topics, the Princeton-Area newspaper, while taking photography classes in New York. After two years at the paper, her skills had improved to the point where she felt ready enough to go back overseas in an attempt to build a career. Eventually she settled in Senegal, which turned out to be serendipitous as several prominent wire services were based in the capital, Dakar. She quickly found work as a freelancer before landing a staff job at AP in 2009. Working in the often tumultuous continent of Africa does have its share of risks. For example, as the post-election crisis in the Ivory Coast escalated in 2011 with the defeated president clinging violently to power, Abidjan – the city Blackwell was sent to cover – became a battleground. Rival militias controlled different neighborhoods, erecting numerous roadblocks, and executing people suspected of supporting the opposing side. Approaching the wrong roadblock was nothing short of a life-threatening proposition. Working in such violent settings necessitates reliable allies. In Blackwell’s case, she often travels with a local driver and what is called a “fixer,” an individual who helps with logistics, knows how to navigate the cultural terrain, and keeps an eye out for danger. “I’m usually so busy looking at what’s going on through my lens that I’m not so able to see what’s going on

Considering her prominence as a photojournalist, it may be surprising to learn that Blackwell had zero interest in photography early in life.

in the crowd. So they watch and they tell me, ‘Time to go. Things are turning here.’” Sometimes, however, the dangers are so obvious a fixer’s warnings can seem comically redundant, like when someone starts

shooting a gun, which, in a place like Abidjan, happened just about everywhere. And the adventures continue. This summer Blackwell’s assignment was arguably her biggest yet. As in the Ivory Coast

and elsewhere, it was a job that also promised a lot of gunfire. But she didn’t need a fixer this time; she was in London to cover the shooting competition at the Summer Olympics.

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ometimes success is all in the timing. When Lily Rafii Band â&#x20AC;&#x2122;93 and her business partner, Sulaika Zarrouk, decided to start a fashion accessory line in 2001, the retail landscape was not quite as jam-packed-to-smothering

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She produced five pieces to show buyers. A few months later, those items were flying off the shelves at Barneys. as it is today. In fact, the duo found a rather significant market segment whose needs were not being addressed at all. “Eleven years ago there was the very high-end product – the Louis Vuittons of the world – and there was very low-end product. But there were hardly any brands in-between,” Band

says. “Coach was there, but Coach was not what Coach is today. It used to be plain and matronly.” Where was a fashionista on a budget supposed to go? Felix Rey soon answered that question, and the company’s rise was nothing short of meteoric. Less than six months after Band quit her job as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley, she produced five pieces to show to buyers. A few months later, those items were flying off the shelves at Barneys. The concept of the hip and fashionable mid-range accessory took off so quickly that Band and Zarrouk had their distribution deal with Barneys in place before they could even settle on a company name. They scrambled a bit (both agreeing on the fact that neither of them wanted to use their own names) before coming up with Felix Rey, the doctor who patched up Vincent Van Gogh’s ear and whose name loosely translates to “Happy King.” Soon Felix Rey handbags were seen draped over the tanned shoulders of trendsetters such as Paris Hilton, Penelope Cruz, Brooke Shields, and the entire cast of Sex and the City. Felix Rey produces far more than handbags, of course; it sells hats, gloves, headbands, jewelry, belts, umbrellas, and more. Even new moms can look fabulous while changing a toddler’s stinky Huggies with a Felix Rey diaper bag in tow. More than 120 new products are created every year, and the Felix Rey name has made considerable inroads worldwide – Asia, the Middle East, and even the high-end department stores of Europe. Band met Zarrouk in 2000. Almost immediately each noticed how the other’s unique skill set complimented her own. Zarrouk had a strong design background; Band had the business knowhow. But their compatibility went well beyond the nuts and bolts of running a company; the future partners were creatively in sync, too. “I tend to err on the more feminine and whimsical side,” Band explains. “And Sulaika errs on the bohemian, pragmatic side. What makes our product interesting, I think, is the combination of these two elements. Our design

preferences make the line fun and unique.” The Felix Rey brand does have a joyously whimsical side, to be sure. Currently for sale is a jewelry case blinged out as a happy face; a silk scarf that unfurls to reveal a snarky “Dear John” letter (“I regret to inform you that you have been eliminated from further consideration as Mr. Right…”); and a tote that looks like a giant slice of watermelon. Although Felix Rey has garnered almost uninterrupted praise over the years, the “we have arrived” moment, Band says, was in 2009, when the company joined Target’s designer line. As part of an in-store promotion, Target partnered with fresh, high-end designers to offer exciting new products at a reasonable price. “We designed the accessories, and Target produced it at a cost for their audience and created the marketing campaign. They keep it in stores for a limited amount of time so when customers come in they feel like they have to buy it at that moment.” Suddenly Felix Rey, courtesy of Target’s crackerjack marketing department, was the object of a national ad campaign that resulted in increased sales for the company, not just for the limited edition Target brands, but everywhere. These days, Band looks to broaden the company’s appeal; everything from T-shirts to shoes has been seriously contemplated. But Band has no plans to jump into something new until she can study the market and find the right niche – much as she did in 2001. Timing, after all, is everything. In the meantime she and her partner continue to work to develop fun, fashionable accessory lines, helping those with good taste to look even better.

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he cabin was for mushers; everyone else was directed to the tent. This would be no big deal if the weather wasn’t 60 below zero, but it was. It was so cold, Emi Berger ’95 remembered, that icicles formed on her eyelashes. “I looked like a fairy princess,” she says with a laugh. But she learned to make due in the harsh, Alaskan climate; she practiced the art of layering, learned how to thaw out her stethoscope, and never lost sight of why she was there: the sled dogs needed her. Berger was serving as a veterinarian on the Iditarod, the arduous 1,100-mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, and it was her job to make sure that the dogs were healthy and uninjured as they entered the various checkpoints along the route. She found it to be a sort of nomadic existence.

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With little notice, the Iditarod’s organizers would send Berger to different points along the trail via unnervingly small, rattling bush planes. She also had to pack light in order to make room for her seatmates, the dogs that were too sick to race. This was quite a change from her prior comfortable position at the Old Town Animal Hospital in Southampton, NY, the job she quit so she could take on this once-in-alifetime assignment. Her motivation for giving up steady work for this three-week position was twofold. First, Berger wanted to personally see whether sled racing is cruel to the dogs. (It isn’t, she stridently asserts.) Second, she wanted to take part in a grand adventure. “After years of doing what was expected of me, going down the predictable path with school and a career, I figured, if I don’t do this now, then when?” Aside from braving the cold and the occasional argument with the exhausted and dehydrated mushers who didn’t want their dogs pulled from their sled teams, Berger suffered from tendinitis so severely she needed a makeshift cast for her wrist. Furthermore, on the day before she was to fly out to the finish line in Nome, she got food poisoning and was, instead, sent to Anchorage – a place where she could get proper care. It was a bit more than Berger bargained for, but, after she put all that adventure behind her, she signed up to work the Iditarod the following year. “I must have been suffering from an early midlife crisis,” she says, by way of explanation. That pre-midlife crisis may also be responsible for her decision to bicycle across the country this past fall. Berger, who regularly takes part in triathlons and mountain bike races, came up with the idea when chatting with a friend and fellow athlete named Kevin Harrington about what was

on their respective athletic “Bucket Lists.” The cross-country journey was near the top of both of them. Again adopting her “If not now, when?” philosophy, Berger and Harrington, with the aid of the Adventure Cycling Association, mapped out a bicyclefriendly route that avoided dangerous interstate traffic but was quite a bit longer than a straight line down the freeway. The journey

“After years of doing what was expected of me, going down the predictable path with school and a career, I figured, if I don’t do this now, then when?”

was over 3,900 miles. Starting in September at Montauk Point (with their back tires in the Atlantic Ocean), the duo set off, averaging 75 miles a day. Both athletes were biking for a cause, Harrington for the Wounded Warrior Project and Berger for MentorCONNECT, a support group for those who suffer from eating disorders. Through online promo-

tion (Berger blogged about her journey daily from the road) and other outreach methods, she raised $11,000 for the organization. Less than two months after they began, Berger and Harrington, exhausted but delighted, dipped their bike tires into the Pacific at San Diego. These days Berger’s thirst for adventure

appears to be quenched – at least for the time being. She is now happily practicing small animal medicine and surgery, this time in Colorado. She considers the last two years the most unusual yet rewarding chapter in her life. “I’m so glad I had that chance to try some of these things,” she gushes. “I can’t begin to emphasize just how lucky I am.”

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Tiffany ’03 Kuehner

iffany Kuehner ’03 first traveled to Haiti when she was 15. It was not a typical vacation. Accompanied by her grandmother, Kuehner slept each night in an orphanage up in the mountains of Port au Prince, which, she notes, was a wonderful and welcoming experience. The third day of her journey, however, was a bit more sobering. They visited a Mother Teresa Missionary of Charity hospice and, upon arrival, Kuehner and her grandmother were each assigned to comfort a patient. Both had been given last rites and both were expected to die within hours. Led into a room with 60 cots, Kuehner tended to a woman racked with HIV/AIDS. “She was 35 and she looked like she was 12; she was

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so little and frail,” she remembered. “I did what I could. I remember her lips were so cracked and bloody and I could only feed her one grain of rice at a time.” The woman died while Kuehner watched over her. “I didn’t speak much for the rest of the trip. I just had to process what I had seen and what I was feeling.” Upon returning to the States, however, Kuehner was motivated by the haunting experience; she wanted desperately to go back and help out in any way she could. As it turns out, Kuehner and her grandmother, JoAnne, were cut from the same cloth. The first time JoAnne visited Haiti, in 1989 as a board member of AmeriCares, she had a similar visceral reaction to the place. Soon thereafter she founded Hope for Haiti, an organization that provides health care and educational opportunities in the country. Now, some 12 years later, Tiffany is the Hope for Haiti president and CEO. This would come as a surprise to no one who knows Kuehner. It was almost as if she was groomed for the role. “When I was very young, my mom and grandparents would always bring me to the soup kitchen on weekends; at five years old, I ladled the soup. Getting involved with Hope for Haiti just seemed like a natural progression.” Upon graduating from college, however, Kuehner had her eye on helping a different part of the world. After finishing her thesis work in Tanzania, Kuehner had planned to return to East Africa and work with a women’s microfinance institution when JoAnne asked her granddaughter to hire a Hope for Haiti program director to be stationed in the country. (Prior to 2007 all Hope for Haiti efforts were done remotely from Florida.) Kuehner agreed to help and, in no time, fell in love with the country all over again. Kuehner wrote the program director job de-

scription, then applied for the job. She suspects this was all part of JoAnne’s master plan. “My grandmother probably foresaw that this would happen,” she notes with a laugh. “She is very smart.” So Kuehner lived in the country, set up shop in the city of Les Cayes, and discovered a new appreciation for all of the things she took for granted in America. “The first thing you say when you wake up in the

morning is ‘Do I have water? Do I have electricity? Do I have internet?’ And if you don’t, you have to figure a way to get it up and functioning. We had to manage our own water and power source.” After two years in the country, Kuehner, looking for a change, took a position with a nonprofit charity in New York. She was there for four months before she was pulled back, this time by the devastating 2010

earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left over a million others homeless. She threw herself into her new role. While orchestrating the Hope for Haiti relief effort, the organization secured over $30 million worth of supplies and $6 million in cash within six months. As the Hope for Haiti CEO since May 2011, she continues to look for aid for a country that is still very much in need.

“The progress is hopeful,” Kuehner says. “Spirits are improving. The roads have been cleared. New construction is under way. There are new schools, new health care facilities, new hotels, and new private investments. But there are still 500,000 people living in tents. The country has a long way to go. Even two years after the disaster, we all need to come together as a community. We all need to help.”

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9 Alumni News

Dear Lawrentians,

The Alumni Association Executive Committee 2012/2013 President

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

Jennifer Ridley Staikos ’91 Vice President

Ian Rice ’95 Executive Committee

Mark M. Larsen ’72 P’01 ’04 ’06 John C. Walsh ’99 Catherine Bramhall ’88 Charlie Keller ’95 Dallas Heterhington ’80 P’12 Scott Belair ’65 P’08 ’09 David Stephens ’78 P’06 Cahill Zoeller ’00 Alumni Trustees

David J. Ballard ’74 Greg W. Hausler ’81 Hyman J. Brody ’75 P’07 ’08 ’11 Joseph B. Frumkin ’76 P’11 selectors

Frederick Cammerzell III ’68 Victoria Y. Wei ’89 Charles M. Fleischman ’76 Shannon Halleran McIntosh ’93 Paul T. Sweeney ’82 Meghan Hall Donaldson ’90 faculty liaison

Timothy C. Doyle ’69 H’79 P’99

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Fall is upon us. The Great Class of 2016 has arrived on campus, and classes are well under way. The positive, invigorating energy that resonates throughout the School during this time reminds me of what a special place Lawrenceville is. The Alumni Association Executive Committee is also hard at work. One of our most prestigious traditions is the annual selection of the Lawrenceville Medal recipient. The Lawrenceville Medal honors an alumnus or alumna who has achieved a significant level of distinction in his or her field of work. The Medal also celebrates the life of Lawrentian Aldo Leopold, Class of 1905, who started the environmental movement in the United States. The recipient of the Lawrenceville Medal is selected by the Nominating Committee, chaired by First Vice President Jennifer Ridley Staikos ’91. Past recipients represent notable leaders in education, medicine, public service, economics, publishing, religion, finance, and the arts. They include captains of industry, philanthropists, college and university presidents, Pulitzer Prize winners, Nobel Laureates, a chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals, and the former President of Honduras. This year’s Lawrenceville Medal recipient is Hugh A. Cregg III ’67, better known worldwide as Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News. Mr. Lewis is one of the most commercially accomplished Lawrentians in the entertainment industry. We are excited to welcome him to campus to honor his incredible career. This year, the Aldo Leopold award presentation will take place on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 6 p.m. in the Kirby G Huey Lewis Arts Center on the Lawrenceville campus. I write to you also with a request for nominations for future Lawrenceville Metal recipients. The Alumni Association Executive Committee welcomes input from all Lawrentians, and it is with your help that we will look forward to conducting the search for the 2013 award winner. Please email your nominations to Jen Staikos at jenniferstaikos@yahoo.com. When I write to you next, we will be in the middle of winter, but please feel free to contact me before that time should you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to another productive and exciting academic year at Lawrenceville! With warm regards from campus, Tim Wojciechowicz ’78 P’06 ’10 ’12 President, Alumni Association mtwoj@wojie.com

Board Bits

ur 33-member Board of Trustees gathered on campus on May 3 and 4 for their third and final meeting of the School year. Work began with a joint meeting of the Ad Hoc Sustainability and Property committees. Leading the Sustainability Committee’s agenda were follow-ups to the January meeting in Eleuthera: the completion of the Solar Farm and the approval of Jake and Emma Morrow’s proposal to start an organic farm on the land next to the solar array. The Property Committee approved the summer’s major infrastructure program, consisting primarily of maintenance in the Kirby Arts Center and Kennedy House. The Board also approved the School administration’s request to raise funds to renovate the Lavino Field House, convert the Bath House into a café, and re-landscape the area surrounding the Crescent Houses. Over lunch, the Student Affairs Committee focused on coeducation and gender relations at Lawrenceville, while the Admissions & Financial Aid

Committee continued to develop plans to raise funds to support deserving students. The Academic & Faculty Affairs Committee continued to dig into the role of technology in our Harkness classrooms. The Alumni & Development Committee considered the funding needs of key post-campaign priorities – including financial aid, faculty support, and renovations to the Field House. The Finance and Audit Committees approved the School’s 2012-13 budget, with a small increase allowed to accommodate our multi-year infrastructure budget. Our tax return was submitted to the trustees for their review, and our audit for this year was previewed. The second day brought a 7 a.m. start for the Investment Committee, which meets five to six times a year with our endowment advisors from Cambridge Associates. This was followed by a meeting of the Board convening as a committee of the whole. Head Master Duffy led the Board through a review of our current strate-

gic plan – which has been successfully implemented – and through several exercises to frame our next plan which will be developed over the course of the next year. The Trustees Committee met over lunch to finalize the departures and nominations of trustees and to review the annual self-evaluation that trustees provide about their experiences on the Board. At the end of the day’s agenda, the trustees honored the retirement of Mort Fuller ’60 from the Board and the end of Peter Schweinfurth’s term as Alumni Trustee. The Board then elected new members: Sandra Allen P’14 ’16 and Alexandra Buckley Vores ’96. Joseph Frumkin ’76 P’11 ’16 will serve as Alumni Trustee. With the Solar Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony and Alumni Weekend to follow immediately, the Board adjourned at 3:30 p.m. to join in the festivities.

Wes Brooks ’71 P’03 ’05 Chief Financial & Operating Officer

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BequestsO Major Gifts

G Mike '72 and Lisa Kasperzak

Mike Kasperzak ’72 is a lawyer, professional mediator, and public servant. He is a longtime city council member in the Bay area city of Mountain View, CA, and currently serves as mayor. He is also very active in the philanthropic community and serves on many non-profit boards. “I owe the blossoming of my public service activism not only to the encouragement of the remarkable

teachers at Lawrenceville but also to the opportunities to participate and lead in so many different ways,” says Mike. “For me, a percentage bequest is the perfect way for me to give back to the School that gave me so much. I'm delighted that through my gift young people today, and in the future, will have the same, or better opportunities. It’s a great way for me to make a major gift.”

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, contact Steve Cushmore, J.D. at the Lawrenceville Office of Planned Giving at 609-620-6064, or go to www.lawrenceville.org/plannedgiving.

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FINISH by Zoe Vybiral-Bauske

If at first you don’t succeed, print, print again. All of what’s here appeared in past “Photo Finish” columns, but failed to generate much of a response. Please give these mystery photos a second glance and send your best guesses to mallegra@ lawrenceville.org. The first correct responders will be credited in a future issue of The Lawrentian and receive some spiffy Lawrenceville swag.

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1. We originally found this cowboy in a box of unidentified faculty photographs. We’re guessing that the picture wasn’t taken on the wild plains of Lawrenceville, NJ, but we’re confident that someone out there recognizes the man in the saddle.

2. The consensus on this photo is that this outdoor concert in the Bowl probably occurred in connection with a prom (owing to the presence of young ladies and the fine weather). Guesses place it somewhere in the early 1960s, but we’ve yet to pinpoint a date or identify any of the spectators or performers. See what you can do!

3. We heard from several writers that, over a few summers in the early 1960s, a combination of drought and construction work left the pond empty, revealing a hearty

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FINDINGS

Congratulations to the Lawrenceville community on its amazing response to the winter issue’s “Photo Finish!” Apparently you all need more of a challenge for future columns. Though responses were numerous, there are a few individuals who deserve to be singled out.

We love it when alumni spot themselves! Anders Gustafson ’04 owned up to being the young man in the fez. According to Anders, “The fez and smoking jacket were actually dorm room heirlooms from my brother, Erik ’01, but the racing stripe Lawrenceville tee is a dead giveaway; that was my favorite shirt for several years.” He blames Elliot Robinson ’03 and/or Ryan Lockwood ’02 for the frosting treatment.

Victoria Wei ’89 was the first to provide a speedy identification of this Periwig pic. According to Wei, the boy in this picture is Darren Postel ’89, and the girl is Kristen Condon – an “imported” actress from one of the last Periwig productions before coeducation. Although Condon did not attend Lawrenceville, Wei knew her from a girls’ choir. The duo, says Wei, co-starred in Mr. Roberts during the 19861987 school year.

population of large snapping turtles. While this information may provide some useful background, we’d still love to know something more about the boys who caught this beast.

4. This sharply-dressed pair could be parents or staff members. We’d love to know who they are.

5. With a face this cute, we can’t believe no one remembers this baby or his (or her) proud parents. Any ideas?

Addendum: This picture of the arcade caused a bit of a kerfuffle. The original theory, as posited by Dave Hayden ’81, was that the photo was taken in 1981 in a section of Irwin Dining center then known as “Jigger East.” Several respondents, however, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that, while Hayden was right about the location, he was wrong about the date. The most conclusive evidence is the fact that the game Tron pictured here did not debut until 1982. Robert Paci ’87 took a long second look and realized that he was one of the boys in the picture. His best guess, based on fashion choices, is that the photo was taken sometime in 1985.

We got a lot of replies about this one. The general consensus is that this space was in Irwin, the nowhome of The Jigger Shop. There is, however no word on who the boy might be or when the photo was taken. Apparently the space was a furnished lounge area popular with day boys seeking to relax during lulls in their busy schedules. If anyone has any further insights, it’s never too late!

Congratulations to Wei, Gustafson, and Paci for their fast responses and steel-trap memories. Be sure to watch your mailboxes for a piece of Lawrentiana that will make you the envy of your friends and family!

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