Lawrenceville School Funding Increases International Education Opportunities
Thanks to generous gifts from alumni and parents, The Lawrenceville School is significantly increasing the already impressive number of opportunities it provides to its students for meaningful international experiences during the high school years.
While Lawrenceville has provided scholarship funding in the past to open these educational trips to interested students regardless of financial status, this new funding will enable the School to increase the menu of options for international experiences integrated into classes, programs, and activities. Recent support from Lawrenceville alumni and parents, most notably the families of John N. Irwin III and Jane Irwin Droppa, Bill and Patty Snyder, and Jaime and Lizzie Zobel de Ayala II, has underscored the importance of granting these types of opportunities to Lawrenceville students.
“Providing talented students with the very best education available includes teaching them how to look at the world from a variety of perspectives,” said Jamie Zobel de Ayala, chairman/chief executive officer of the Philippines-based Ayala Corporation and class of 2008 parent. “These students are destined to be the leaders of tomorrow, and if they know how their international neighbors think and why, the world will surely be a better place for it,” added his wife, Lizzie.
In just the last year, Lawrenceville students have enjoyed a variety of international educational experiences, ranging from spring break community service work in South America and an outdoor leadership program in South Africa, to semester-long environmental studies in the Bahamas. An increasing number of classes in all academic disciplines now culminate with study abroad. A course on the Serengeti for example, concludes with a two-week trip to Tanzania, where students have a first-hand opportunity to investigate what they studied in their classroom. History students travel to England and France to learn more about World War I by conducting research in British museums and touring French battlefields.
“Lawrenceville graduates must be prepared to live and work in a global environment. Many of our current students will spend significant time outside the United States as adults, and even those who remain stateside will interact with colleagues from around the world,” said Lawrenceville Head Master Liz Duffy. “I am particularly grateful to the parents and alumni whose generosity has gotten us off to such a strong start.”
Founded in 1810, The Lawrenceville School offers a comprehensive, coeducational program for 795 boarding and day students in grades nine through post-graduate, who come from 39 states and 27 countries. The School is located on 700 acres in the historic village of Lawrenceville, N.J. For additional information, please visit www.lawrenceville.org.