List of Lawrenceville School alumni explained

The following is a list of notable alumni of Lawrenceville School, a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school located in the historic Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, New Jersey.

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Notes and References

  1. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof-autobio.html George Akerlof: Nobel Prize Autobiography
  2. Staff. "Princeton Talks, America Listens", The Michigan Daily, March 2, 1984. Accessed January 27, 2011.
  3. via Associated Press. "Andrews To Quit Congress Career; New York Representative, on Advice of Doctor, Will Not Seek Re-election, He States", The New York Times, June 2, 1948. Accessed January 27, 2011.
  4. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000053 David Baird Jr.
  5. Slaymaker, S.R. II. Five Miles Away: The Story of The Lawrenceville School. Lawrenceville, NJ: 1985.
  6. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000200 Dewey Follett Bartlett
  7. http://www2.lawrenceville.org/alumni/welcome/detail.asp?newsid=213089&archives=1&bhcp=1 Dierks Bentley ’93 Wins CMA Horizon Award
  8. Rasmussen, Tracy. "His life is like a country song", Reading Eagle, March 22, 2007. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Raised in Phoenix, Ariz., his parents sent him across the country to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey to keep him out of trouble."
  9. Staff. "Judith A. Lund Becomes Bride Of Barton Biggs; Augustana Lutheran in Washington Is Scene of Their Marriage", The New York Times, June 13, 1959. Accessed January 27, 2011.
  10. Web site: Clinton Ledyard Blair (1867-1949) . House Histree . October 18, 2023.
  11. http://crdl.usg.edu/people/b/brady_thomas_p_1903_1973/?Welcome "Brady, Thomas P., 1903–1973"
  12. Halickman, Joshua. "Braimoh leads Jerusalem in Champions League", The Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2020. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Braimoh, who clinched the game for Jerusalem, was born in Nigeria. The 6-foot-8 forward moved to New York with his parents in 2001 and attended the United Nations International High School as well as The Lawrenceville Prep School in New Jersey before heading to Rice University."
  13. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000920 George Houston Brown
  14. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jay_carney/index.html Times Topics: Jay Carney
  15. Peters, Jeremy W. "Tests for a New White House Spokesman", The New York Times, March 16, 2011. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Carney grew up in Northern Virginia. He attended the Lawrenceville School, an exclusive boarding school near Princeton, and then Yale. But he did not have the blue-blood, silver-spoon-in-mouth pedigree of many of his peers."
  16. Hischak, Thomas S. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television, p. 142. Oxford University Press, 2008. . Accessed March 14, 2012. "Chaplin was born in Los Angeles, son of the celebrated filmmaker Charles Chaplin, and educated at Lawrenceville Academy before joining the army."
  17. Book: Homer Edward Moyer . 1935 . Who's Who and What to See in Florida . 77 . Current Historical Company of Florida . August 8, 2008 .
  18. Lamb, Yvonee Shinhoster. "Richard Dean; Model and Photographer Appeared on TV's 'Cover Shot'", The Washington Post, January 17, 2007. Accessed January 27, 2011. "Mr. Dean graduated from Winston Churchill High School in Potomac and the Lawrenceville School in Princeton, N.J."
  19. via Associated Press. "Iowa Farmers Resume Picketing On Roads; Small Groups Patrol Several High- ways as Leader Orders Spread of Movement for Higher Prices.", The New York Times, September 28, 1932. Accessed January 27, 2011.
  20. Staff. "A brief list of Lawrenceville luminaries", The Times, January 31, 2010. Accessed January 27, 2011.
  21. https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/single/2016/14605 Senator Bill Doyle
  22. https://www.classmates.com/siteui/yearbooks/4182815275 The Lawrenceville School Yearbook
  23. Weisman, Steven R. "Saudi Arabia's Longtime Ambassador to the U.S. Is Resigning", The New York Times, July 21, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Like Prince Bandar, Prince Turki was educated in the United States, at the Lawrenceville School and Georgetown University, but is said to be a more cautious, ascetic and intellectual figure unlikely to cut the same swath that his predecessor did, especially in establishing intimate ties with powerful Americans."
  24. https://www.lawrenceville.org/alumni-news?pk=974629 "Jane Ferguson '04 Shares Realities Of Life In The Middle East"
  25. https://www.dga.org/News/PressReleases/2022/221220_ROBERT_FISHMAN_DGA_Lifetime_Achievement_Award.aspx
  26. https://web.archive.org/web/20110524040516/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2491134.ece "Major Sir Hamish Forbes, Bt: Champion of Highland and Gaelic culture who as a wartime PoW had been decorated for his numerous escape attempts"
  27. James, George. "Malcolm Forbes, Publisher, Dies at 70", The New York Times, February 26, 1990. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Young Forbes attended the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, where he majored in politics and economics."
  28. "Frank Is Unanimous Selection As Yale's 1937 Football Leader; Star Halfback, Kelley and Pond Are Among Speakers at Dinner, After Which Eli Gridiron Squad Disbands – Williams Wins the Managerial Competition, With Wickwire Next.", The New York Times, November 24, 1936.
  29. Taylor Jr., Stuart. "Man In The News: Charles Fried; Court Voice Of Reaganism", The New York Times, October 24, 1985. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Fried attended public schools in New York City, the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey ('where I think the most important things I learned were Latin and Greek') and Princeton University, where he studied comparative literature and philosophy."
  30. https://www.nytimes.com/1965/08/03/archives/dr-n-howell-furman-73-dies-chemist-worked-on-a-tom-bomb-responsible.html "Dr. N. Howell Furman, 73, Dies; Chemist Worked on Atom Bomb; Responsible for Analytical Separation of Uranium-At Princeton 41 Years"
  31. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-05-09 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120909164605/http://lawrenceville.org/downloads/alumni/lawrentian/spring_2010/spring_2010_class_notes.pdf . September 9, 2012 . mdy-all . [''Link dead since 2013-07-07'']
  32. https://books.google.com/books?id=SHpCYy5Nq34C&dq=irving+samuel.gilmore&pg=PA136 History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred Twenty-three, Yale College, Volume 1
  33. http://findingaids.princeton.edu/getEad?eadid=MC204&kw= Robert F. Goheen Papers, 1939-2008 (bulk 1939-2000): Finding Aid
  34. https://www.princetonianamuseum.org/reference/b5388d91-1efc-4e01-ace3-3b5d7a6e3774 John C. Green
  35. Truell, Peter. "A Fallen King In Search of a Lesser Throne", The New York Times, May 3, 1998. Accessed April 15, 2012. "Mr. Gutfreund attended high school in Scarsdale and then transferred to the Lawrenceville School, a prep school in New Jersey."
  36. https://archive.today/20120710090110/http://findingaids.princeton.edu/getEad?eadid=C0247&kw= Richard Halliburton Papers, 1916–1975: Finding Aid
  37. Web site: 2018-11-26. 2018 Report of Giving - The Lawrenceville School. 2021-03-22. Issuu. en.
  38. Turner, Wallace. "Father Under Pressure; Randolph Apperson Hearst Ironical Circumstance", The New York Times, February 16, 1974. Accessed April 15, 2012. "After attending Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, he spent a semester at Harvard, where his father also had left without taking a degree."
  39. Web site: http://www.lawrenceville.org/bicentennial/history/archives_athletics.html . 2015-05-09 . mdy-all .
  40. Ravo, Nick. "John N. Irwin II, 86, Diplomat And Ex-Aide to MacArthur", The New York Times, February 29, 2000. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Mr. Irwin was born in Keokuk, Iowa, on Dec. 31, 1913 and graduated from the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University."
  41. Staff. "Owen Johnson", Time, March 31, 1924. Accessed April 15, 2012. "When Owen Johnson was a boy at Lawrenceville, he must have played the part of a boy for all it was worth; likewise when he was at Yale, where it is known that he entered into undergraduate activity and argument with heat."
  42. Friedman, Matt. "Meet Joe Kyrillos, a nice guy trying to unseat powerful U.S. Sen. Menendez", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 21, 2012, updated March 30, 2019. Accessed January 3, 2021. "And Joe, the oldest of four, went to some of Jersey’s most exclusive schools: the Rumson Country Day School and the Lawrenceville School, before heading off to Hobart College."
  43. Staff. "Indy Eleven Sign Striker Duke Lacroix; Speedy Univ. of Pennsylvania product brings roster to 23 players", Indy Eleven, May 21, 2015. Accessed October 17, 2015. "The native of New Egypt, N.J., attended The Lawrenceville School, where he played four years of soccer and ran three years of track his high school, his tenure as a runner including a 4x400 relay win at the prestigious Penn Relays."
  44. Web site: Mort Landsberg Stats. Pro-Football-Reference.com.
  45. [David Warsh|Warsh, David]
  46. http://www.bttf.com/lewis.htm Huey Lewis profile
  47. Web site: 2020-05-15 . May 17: Humanitarian Aid Society Showcases Lawrentian Artists . 2024-07-17 . www.lawrenceville.org . en-US.
  48. Web site: NJ.com . Amy Kuperinsky NJ Advance Media for . 2021-11-12 . Showtime's 'Yellowjackets' is the survival drama you need to see. N.J.'s Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress tell us why. . 2023-01-17 . nj . en.
  49. https://archive.today/20121212155344/http://findingaids.princeton.edu/getEad?eadid=MC094 John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers, 1715–1988 (bulk 1913–1942): Finding Aid
  50. Hunter, Jefferson. "Joseph Moncure March: Poem Noir Becomes Prizefight Film", The Hudson Review, Summer 2008. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Never a particularly good student, March was sent to the Lawrenceville School for finishing.... In its handsome hardbound volume, with illustrations by March’s Lawrenceville classmate Reginald Marsh, The Wild Party was a success"
  51. Severo, Richard. "William H. Masters, a Pioneer in Studying and Demystifying Sex, Dies at 85", The New York Times, February 19, 2001. Accessed March 14, 2012. "William Howell Masters was born Dec. 27, 1915, in Cleveland to Francis Wynne Masters and Estabrooks Taylor Masters, who were well off and who saw to it that their son was given an excellent education. He was sent to the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., after which he attended Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y."
  52. [Christopher Lehmann-Haupt|Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher]
  53. Gussow, Mel. "James Merrill Is Dead at 68; Elegant Poet of Love and Loss", The New York Times, February 7, 1995. Accessed March 14, 2012. "He went to Lawrenceville School, where one of his close friends and classmates was the novelist Frederick Buechner."
  54. http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/army/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/03history.pdf Army Football: From Michie to the New Millennium
  55. http://bioguide.congress.govscripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000719 Clement Woodnutt Miller
  56. [Jon Caramanica|Caramanica, Jon]
  57. Staff. "Institute Announces Appointment of Paul Moravec as Artist-in-Residence", Institute for Advanced Study, May 26, 2007. Accessed April 15, 2012. "Born in Buffalo, New York, Moravec attended the Lawrenceville School and received his B.A. in music composition from Harvard University in 1980."
  58. https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/MC214 Roland S. Morris Papers, 1855-1988 (mostly 1915-1929)
  59. Green, Jim. "Lawrence native made meteoric rise from professional soccer player to president of New Orleans Hornets", CentralJersey.com, August 25, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2021. "When Paul Mott finds himself at meetings with the other 29 NBA team presidents and league commissioner David Stern, the Lawrence native almost has to pinch himself."
  60. Clark, Kristen M. "Patrick Murphy aims his youthful political exuberance at U.S. Senate seat", Miami Herald, June 3, 2016, updated August 13, 2016. Accessed January 3, 2021. "By his senior year, Murphy said he was in conversations to play baseball at the University of Miami and a few other schools. But instead, he opted to take a “post-graduate year” after graduating from Palmer Trinity. Murphy went to the elite Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 2001-02, where tuition, room and board this year is about $58,000 a year."
  61. https://www.lawrenceville.org/life-at-lawrenceville/news-events/news-detail/~board/athletics-news/post/lucky-duck-nikita-nesterenko-20-makes-his-nhl-debut-with-the-anaheim-ducks "Lucky Duck: Nikita Nesterenko ’20 makes his NHL debut with the Anaheim Ducks"
  62. Web site: Hunt . Todderick . Grant Newsome, No. 2 recruit in the NJ.com Top 50, discusses his commitment to Michigan . NJ.com . 1 February 2024.
  63. Ryan, Bob. "Noah was prepped to win", The Boston Globe, March 31, 2006. Accessed December 24, 2008. "Because the University of Florida's Joakim Noah exists, Armond Hill's heretofore unquestioned status as the Best Player in the History of The Lawrenceville School is in jeopardy."
  64. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2010-09-29/pdf/CREC-2010-09-29-PT2-PgE1804.pdf "Celebrating The Bicentennial Of The Lawrenceville School"
  65. Web site: NOTABLE ALUMNI . The Lawrenceville School . April 4, 2014 .
  66. Staff. "Dayton Oliphant, Ex-Judge, 75, Dies; Headed Court of Errors and Appeals in New Jersey", The New York Times, June 27, 1963. Accessed January 3, 2021.
  67. Block, Edward M. "Historical Perspective: The Legacy of Public Relations Excellence Behind the Name", Arthur W. Page Society. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Arthur Page attended The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and was graduated from Harvard College in 1905."
  68. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000529 Rodman McCamley Price
  69. Carter, Lance. "Q & A: Community’s Jim Rash", DailyActor.com, November 19, 2010. Accessed January 25, 2012.
  70. http://www.egs.edu/faculty/laurence-arthur-rickels/biography/ Laurence Arthur Rickels - Biography
  71. Ryan, Bob. "Noah was prepped to win", The Boston Globe, March 31, 2006. accessed March 14, 2012. "The Lawrenceville School is a distinguished prep school located in Lawrenceville, N.J., a small community equidistant from Trenton and Princeton.... A wealthy alum named Edwin Lavino, Class of 1905, provided a way-ahead-of-its-time Field House in 1950 (colleges would crave it today) and it was inside that building that Hill, Class of 1972 and Noah, Class of 2004, took Lawrenceville basketball to its greatest heights; yes, sadly, even higher than when Yours Truly performed for the varsity more than 40 years ago."
  72. Hageny, John Christian. "Hockey: Where are they now? Call Lawrenceville's Sanguinetti a Hurricane", NJ.com, February 24, 2013. Accessed February 8, 2018. "Bobby Sanguinetti was born in Trenton, grew up a New York Rangers fan and even wore number 22 for a time in his career in honor of his favorite player, Brian Leetch, while skating at Lawrenceville.... The following year he enrolled at The Lawrenceville School in Mercer County where he played his freshman and sophomore seasons amassing six goals, 22 assists and 28 points in 51 games under coach Etienne Bilodeau."
  73. http://www2.lawrenceville.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=409476 Lawrenceville, Paul Schmidtberger ’82
  74. Web site: Chip Smith '86 to Become Top Lobbyist at 21st Century Fox | Private Boarding & Day School | the Lawrenceville School . December 11, 2017 . September 24, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180924115537/https://www.lawrenceville.org/page/news-detail?pk=855404 . dead .
  75. Staff. "Sally J. Ferguson Manhasset Bride; She Is Escorted by Father at Marriage to Sheridan G. Snyder, Virginia Senior", The New York Times, August 17, 1957. Accessed January 3, 2021. "The Congregational Church of Manhasset was the scene this afternoon of the marriage of Miss Sally Jayne Ferguson to Sheridan Gray Snyder.... The bridegroom, a senior at the University of Virginia, where he and his bride will continue their studies, attended the Lawrenceville (N.J.) School and was graduated from Friends Academy in Locust Valley."
  76. Franks, Norman; Dempsey, Harry. American Aces of World War I, p. 76, Osprey Publishing, 2001. . Accessed July 5, 2011. "William H Stovall came from Stovall, Mississippi, born in 1895, on the family cotton plantation, the son of a civil war colonel. Graduating from Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, in 1913 he moved to Yale in 1916."
  77. Weinraub, Bernard. "The Talk of Hollywood; Anti-Semitism Film Strikes a Chord With Its Producers", The New York Times, September 14, 1992. Accessed July 5, 2011. "'It was such an eerie coincidence that when I got to Paramount, this project that I had nothing to do with in the first place looked like it was a homage to my own experiences at prep school,' said Mr. Tartikoff, who grew up in Freeport, L.I., and attended the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., from 1962 to 1966."
  78. Nomination of Henry J. Taylor to be United States Ambassador to Switzerland. U.S. Department of State. April 12, 1957. August 3, 2022. Mr. Taylor was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 2, 1902, the son of Henry Noble and Eileen O'Hare Taylor. He was graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1920 and from the University of Virginia in 1924..
  79. Web site: Advisory Board. ckwri.tamuk.edu. May 16, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120714092036/http://ckwri.tamuk.edu/who-we-are/advisors/advisory-board-members/. July 14, 2012. mdy-all.
  80. https://www.theguardian.com/books/data/author/taki-theodoracopulos "Taki Theodoracopulos"
  81. Stokes, Mary Channing. "Profile: Randall Thompson", The Harvard Crimson, June 5, 1950. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Thompson began his musical career under the auspices of the family cook, who taught him to read and play hymns on an old melodion. His education continued under the mathematics teacher at Lawrenceville School, where Thompson's father taught English."
  82. "Former Chairman Of FTC, Roosevelt Aide Dies At 90", The York Gazette and Daily (February 19, 1966), p. 2, 15.
  83. Knapp, Krystal. "Lawrenceville School receives largest gift in 207-year history", Planet Princeton, June 21, 2017. Accessed January 3, 2021. "The Lawrenceville School has received the largest single gift in its 207-year history. Joseph Tsai, a 1982 graduate of the private school in Lawrence Township, and his wife, Clara Tsai, have made a major gift through the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation to support the school’s strategic plan."
  84. Martin, Douglas. "Rawleigh Warner Jr., Brash Chairman of Mobil, Dies at 92", The New York Times, July 2, 2013. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Rawleigh Warner Jr. was born on Feb. 13, 1921, in Chicago and grew up in the city’s northern suburbs. He followed his father to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and Princeton, from which he graduated in 1943."
  85. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w000253 Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
  86. https://njhshockeyhof.com/alex-westlund/ Alex Westlund Class of 2010
  87. Birger, John. "The woman who called Wall Street's meltdown", CNNMoney, August 6, 2008. Accessed July 5, 2011. "Whitney, 38, grew up in Bethesda, Md., one of three daughters born to Richard Whitney, a venture capitalist and onetime official in Richard Nixon's Department of Commerce (but not part of the famous Whitney clan that includes Eli and John Hay Whitney), and Barbara Gentry, an executive recruiter. She prepped at Lawrenceville, graduated from Brown University in 1992 (Whitney and I overlapped at Brown but didn't know each other), and has been working in Wall Street research pretty much ever since."
  88. Sontag, Deborah. "The Power of the Fourth", The New York Times, March 9, 2003. Accessed November 7, 2011. "A warm, gracious and patrician Virginian, Wilkinson, 58, appears slight and owlish in his civilian clothes -- blue blazer, gold buttons -- yet commanding in his robes. The son of a banker, the future judge attended boarding school at Lawrenceville and college at Yale before returning to Virginia to study law."
  89. Kim, Suki. "Q&A: The Meaning of Asian-American", Newsweek, July 10, 2003. Accessed November 7, 2011. "Once, I showed up at an audition for an all-American role, and they said, oh, you are not exactly what we are looking for, and I said, what do you mean?, I went to Lawrenceville boarding school [in New Jersey] and Columbia University, why am I not all-American?"

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