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5/8/2008
It was "standing room only" at Kirby Arts Center April 25 and 26 when more than 100 Lawrenceville students performed in the annual Spring Dance Concert.
5/7/2008
In a match with The Peddie School Tuesday, May 6, Lawrenceville's boys' varsity lacrosse won its seventh consecutive NJSIAA Prep A title.
5/7/2008
Lawrenceville's fifth annual Big Red Race was yet another huge success, raising over $8,000 in funds and goods for the Lawrenceville School Camp.
5/7/2008
All members of the School community are invited to attend a lecture on May 8 by Heather J. Baer '93, who will give a general overview of the fields of public health and epidemiology, including major principles of study design and current ?hot? issues in epidemiologic research.
5/6/2008
Congratulations to Kristie Liao '09, who has been chosen to attend the New Jersey Governor's School of the Arts at the College of New Jersey in Ewing this summer.
5/5/2008
Lawrentians Jared Barchus '08, Matthew Gonzalez '09, Leonard Hayes '09, and Elisha Paramore '08 finished first in the 2008 Penn Relays' 4 x 400 relay on April 26 with a time of 3:24:10.
5/5/2008
Congratulations to the newest members of Lawrenceville's OVAL Society.
4/30/2008
Congratulations to Prateek Bajaj '09, who has been given a William Bouton Welles '71 grant and will use it to study tabla, a percussion instrument from North India, this summer. Prateek plans to spend the month of July at a tabla school in Delhi, India, followed by two weeks at a camp in California studying with Zakhir Hussain, famed tabla virtuoso.
4/29/2008
At the annual Electronic Music Art Show, everything is a debut. In fact, some of the works that will be played at 7 p.m. Friday, May 2 in Dresdner Hall of Clark Music Center aren't even finished — they are works in progress. The show is open to the public.
4/25/2008
Do you need your garden weeded? Your room cleaned? Your car washed? If you are a member of the Lawrenceville School community, have $10 to pay for these or various other services, and want to support Down syndrome research in the process, contact the residents of Kennedy House and take advantage of its third annual Rent-a-Friend project, underway until the end of the School term.
4/25/2008
Lawrentians rolled up their sleeves and pulled on their hip waders to mark Earth Day a little early.
4/23/2008
Derrick Wilder, director of Lawrenceville's dance program, likes to call the annual Spring Dance Concert "Lawrenceville's pep rally."
4/23/2008
The six Japanese students who have been part of the Lawrenceville community during four weeks this spring ended their visit with a lighthearted multi-media presentation at the school meeting in Kirby Arts Center earlier this month.
4/23/2008
Lawrentians Phoebe Blessing '10 and Bianca Okolie '10 teamed up for a truly sweet fundraiser in support of breast cancer research: Cakes for the Cure.
4/22/2008
On April 12, Lawrenceville's Cross Culture Club held its annual Culture Fest in the Irwin Dining Center. All School clubs associated with a particular culture participated, with organizations representing countries from around the globe.
4/22/2008
The Lawrenceville School's Community Service Program has been selected as a recipient of a 2008 Cherish the Children Award.
4/22/2008
Congratulations to the newly elected student council vice presidents.
4/17/2008
When Ben Leibowitz takes part in a sailing competition, the rest of the world falls away. "It's unbelievable," says the Lawrenceville Fourth Former.
4/16/2008
During the balmy months of spring, Lawrentians grow accustomed to hearing strains of music emanating from open windows of Clark Music Center and other buildings on campus. But the drone of bagpipes is something new.
4/16/2008
Brandon Rolnick '10 won nine wrestling matches last weekend to capture the 69 kg (152 lbs.) title at the prestigious FILA Cadet Freestyle Nationals in Akron, Ohio.
4/16/2008
The April 18 Spring Instrumental Concert in the School's Edith Memorial Chapel will feature The Lawrenceville Community Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Collegium Lawrenceville performing with several student soloists. The performance begins at 7:00 p.m.
4/16/2008
An original composition by a Lawrenceville student is just one highlight of the next Midday Music concert, being held on April 17 at 12:30 p.m. in the atrium of Clark Music Center.
4/16/2008
Five faculty members from the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa, Kenya recently spent a week at Lawrenceville observing classes, talking to students and faculty members, and soaking up as much information as they could about boarding school life.
4/16/2008
Just one night after taking part in a Cable News Network interview of presidential primary candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, author and visionary Eboo Patel delivered a talk to the Lawrenceville community.
4/15/2008
A series of House teas comprised the latest round in a schedule of events that began in February and culminate during Alumni Weekend in May to commemorate the 20th anniversary of coeducation at Lawrenceville.
4/15/2008
Golfers: Mark your calendars and get ready to hit the fairways at the Sixth Annual James T. Adams '65 Memorial Golf Tournament. The event will take place at the Pine Hill Golf Club in Pine Hill, N.J. on Sunday, June 8.
4/14/2008
Curtis Schickner '08, co-captain of Lawrenceville's varsity baseball squad, has signed a National Letter of Intent to attend the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) in the fall.
4/10/2008
The smells of ethnic food from far corners of the globe will intermingle in Irwin Dining Hall Saturday night as the annual Culture Fest gets underway
4/10/2008
Lawrentians with artistic talent and a sweet tooth collaborated during the past week on a candy mandala, which took shape in the foyer of Bunn Library.
4/9/2008
In a year when Lawrenceville's Capstone program focuses on the ins and outs of presidential politics, who better to deliver a Capstone lecture than Time magazine's Washington Bureau Chief, especially when it's alumnus Jay Carney '83.
4/9/2008
Nearly one half of Lawrenceville's Class of 2008 registered to vote last Thursday during a lunchtime registration drive sponsored by the School's Young Democrats. The new voters hail from 20 states and the District of Columbia.
4/9/2008
Lawrenceville's select choir, The Lawrentians, will perform on April 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the School's Edith Memorial Chapel.
3/26/2008
American prints, drawings, and photographs from the period spanning the Spanish-American War to the outbreak of World War II are currently on view in the Hutchins Galleries of Lawrenceville's Gruss Center for Visual Arts.
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