Fall 2024 Noteworthy A Hub of Campus Life Lawrenceville celebrated the long-awaited completion of Tsai Field House, its united dining and athletics facility, with its chief benefactors, Joe Tsai ’82 and Clara Wu Tsai.
Fall 2024 Noteworthy Our Newest Fan: Larrie the Bulldog! Lawrentians were introduced to Larrie the bulldog, the School’s first-ever mascot, in April.
Spring 2024 On the Side Lawrenceville’s Summer Olympians: Philip Riker III, Class of 1964, P’90 The ink was barely dry on Philip Riker III’s Lawrenceville diploma when he competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the 200-meter butterfly.
Spring 2024 On the Side Lawrenceville’s Summer Olympians: H. Boyce Budd, Class of 1957 Even as Boyce Budd was rowing toward gold in the men’s eight with coxswain during the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, his path to the finish line was anything but a straight line.
Spring 2024 On the Side Lawrenceville’s Summer Olympians: Michael Schoettle, Class of 1954 Mike Schoettle stands alone among his fellow Lawrenceville Olympians as the only one who had yet to graduate from the School when he competed.
Spring 2024 On the Side Lawrenceville’s Summer Olympians: John Edwin Brown Wofford, Class of 1949 Alongside John E.B. “Jeb” Wofford’s senior portrait in the 1949 Olla Podrida is printed a quote from Shakespeare’s Richard III that foretold his Olympic future: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” He rode one to a bronze medal in the team eventing competition at at the 1952 Helsinki Games.
Spring 2024 On the Side Lawrenceville’s Summer Olympians: George Bissland Moore, Class of 1937, P’69 ’71 George Bissland “Biss” Moore ended Lawrenceville's four-decade Olympic drought with a silver-medal performance in the modern pentathlon in 1948.