History

Spring 2024

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

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

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.

Spring 2024

Lawrenceville’s Summer Olympians: James Alcorn Rector, Class of 1906

James Alcorn Rector entered the 1908 London Olympics poised to win his event in the eyes of many. Touted as “America’s Greatest Amateur Sprinter,” Rector had the record to back the claim.

Spring 2024

Lawrenceville’s Summer Olympians: John Riegel DeWitt, Class of 1900

As the reigning collegiate champion in the 16-pound hammer-throw for Princeton University, John R. DeWitt entered the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis as a favorite to capture the gold medal.

Spring 2024

Inside the Gates: Spring 2024

Spring 2024

A Curtain Rises

Although the Allan P. Kirby Arts Center celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2023, its roots actually go back a full century, to November 1923.

Spring 2024

Saving Sequoia

Michael Cantor ’79 is returning the century-old ‘Floating White House’ to its grandeur of long ago, creating a mobile museum of presidential history.

Fall/Winter 2023

Windows to the Soul

After nearly 130 years, the historic and beautiful Tiffany windows of Edith Memorial Chapel are in need of conservation.