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Spirit Week 2024
During the week of November 3, students dressed up in a variety of outfits in celebration of Lawrenceville’s annual Spirit Week, which uses a new theme each day to build...
Cheers, Chants, and Champions: L'ville Pep Rally
On this past Friday, November 8, Lawrenceville students gathered at the Keuffel Stadium for the annual pep rally. The event featured several traditional activities, such as the pie-eating contest, the...
Fantastic Fall Academic Showcase
On the evening of November 6, Lawrentians presented their research at the Fall Academic Showcase in Kirby Math and Science Center and Woods Memorial Hall. Their research covered a variety...
Lawrenceville Beats Hill Once Again
This past Saturday night, the Keuffel Stadium transformed into a sea of red, as Lawrenceville students celebrated the School’s victory over its biggest rival, the Hill School. One point was...
Grisfest 2024
This past Saturday evening, the Griswold House hosted Grisfest, their annual school-wide event, in the Circle. Griswold President Joao Abrahao ’26 and Social Representative Holden Pettinelli ’26 planned the event...
SusCo's First Event: Harvest Festival
Sophie Liu ’27 and Leila Khabbaz ’28
This past Saturday, the Sustainability Council and the Big Red Farm hosted their first Harvest Festival outside of the Tsai Field House. Aside from showcasing the Farm’s crops, the fall...
Production! L10 Introduces "L1 Shorts"
Ellen Jordan ’26 and Ethan Zhu ’26
As Fall Term continues to progress, many of Lawrenceville’s various publications continue to unveil new initiatives for the 2024-25 school year. Among them is the School’s student-led video news program,...
Flying Colors: Holi 2024
Shloka Chodhari ’26 and Ethan Zhu ’26
This past Thursday, the Hindu Student Organization (HSO) hosted its annual Holi celebration. Holi is a Hindu Festival of Colors which marks the arrival of...
Introducing the 2024-25 Crescent and Circle House Presidents
As the 2023-24 academic year comes to an end, the 2024-25 Circle and Crescent House Presidents have been elected. Over the past weeks, the election...
Move Aside Gryffindor: Puffs Takes the Stage
May 10 and May 11 marked the Periwig Club’s final theatrical productions of the year, as audience members shuffled into seats in the Kirby Arts...
Tsai Field House Dedication
On Friday, May 18, students, faculty, alumni, and Trustees from Lawrenceville’s Board,gathered in front of the Tsai Field House to celebrate its grand opening and...
Big Red Race Raises Funds in Stride
This past Sunday, May 5, the College Counseling Office hosted the 21st Annual Big Red Race, where students, faculty, and other community members, walk or...
Kirby Spices Campus Up with Music Festival
Angel Xin ’26 and Sienna Soemitro ’26
This past Saturday, May 4, the Kirby House hosted its annual Kirby Music Festival, an event celebrating the many talented student musicians on campus. Although...
TEDxLawrenceville Makes a Return
Last Friday, on May 3, Lawrenceville hosted its first TEDxLawrenceville event since the Covid-19 pandemic. The return of TEDxLawrenceville was pioneered by Vice President of...
NPR White House Correspondent Asma Khalid Speaks on the Media in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Lawrenceville’s sixth Capstone seminar of the school year was held on Monday, April 6 in the Heely Room. The event featured National Public Radio (NPR)...
Hosting Hun: A White-Out Celebration
Louis Park ’26 and Dorothy Lee ’26
As Lawrenceville prepared to host its first official inter-school dance, music and excitement filled up the Clark Music Center this pastSaturday, April 27, welcoming students...
Lawrenceville Hosts Chapin and Hailebury Students for Stan-X Conference
This Saturday, the Stephens House hosted 11 students visiting from the Haileybury School, a boarding and day school nestled in Hertford, England, a small town...
Spinning into Spring: Final Dance Series
This Saturday, April 27, in the Kirby Arts Center, various student dance groups performed in the Spring Dance Series. Encorps Groups, led by student-captains in...
Shopping Sustainably: Rocky’s Boutique and the Flea Market
Last Wednesday, April 24, marked the grand opening of Rocky’s Boutique, which was held in the Bathhouse Café in collaboration with McClellan Milkshakes. The Boutique, founded by the McClellan House...
Alumni Give Students Advice at Career Fair
On Wednesday, April 24, Student Council hosted an Alumni Career Fair for the IV and V Forms. Led by Bryce Langdon ’24 and Conan Chen...
IV Form Explores College Fairs
On the evenings of April 16 and 17, the Office of College Counseling held its annual college fair, hosting representatives from 150 colleges in the...
House Hunger Games
Ellen Jordan ’26 and Sienna Soemitro ’26
On April 20, students from various Circle and Crescent Houses gathered to meet in the Kirby Arts Center (KAC) to prepare for the return of...
Diving into SPLASH Week 1!
Mia Kincade ’25, Angel Xin ’26, and Clare Reif ’26
The 2024 Splash season is officially upon Lawrenceville. Each year, Lawrenceville students and teachers register for Splash, the greatly anticipated school-wide game of water tag....
“The Taking of Hostages is an Act of War”: Guest Speaker Hugh Dugan
Last Thursday, Lawrentians had the opportunity to attend a seminar hosted by Hugh Dugan P’20 ’21 that focused on hostage-taking. Dugan, an international affairs practitioner, served as the Special Presidential...
Telling the Story of Tonight: Reach Out to the Arts Trip to Hamilton
This past Sunday, April 14, the Reach Out to the Arts (ROTTA) program hosted a trip for students to see the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre...
Festivities for Arab American Heritage Month
As the hollow beat of a drum echoed throughout the auditorium of the Kirby Arts Center, a quartet of dancers, sporting traditional Arabic dress, emerged onto the stage. Members of...
Introducing the 2024-25 VPs of Student Council
This past Tuesday, on April 9, 2023-2024 Student Body President Bryce Langdon ’24 announced the newly elected Vice Presidents of the Student Council for the 2024-25 school year—IV Formers Sophia...
Discovery Days 2024
The Admission Office hosted Discovery Days for prospective students last Wednesday, Friday, and this past Monday on April 3, 5, and 8. During the events, newly admitted students were paired...
Community Iftar in the Bathhouse
Last Wednesday, April 3, the Muslim Student Organization (MSO) collaborated with the Religious Life Council (RLC) to host a Community Iftar in the Bathhouse in celebration of Ramadan. Ramadan is...
Eli Lacey '25: Let's Drive it Home
On Friday, March 29, L10 News premiered the Election Special for the newly elected student body president: Eli Lacey ’25. Lacey will succeed current School President Bryce Langdon ’24. Lacey...
Earthquake Strikes Campus
Last Friday, April 5, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey and reached the Lawrenceville campus. This was a first-time experience for most local students, as an earthquake of this...
Parnell Named Faculty Speaker
The V Form has voted History Teacher Jennifer Parnell to be their Faculty Speaker, an honored role given annually to a teacher who has deeply...
Claire Jiang ’24 and Gordon Gruber ’24 Named Aurelian Speakers
The Lawrenceville Class of 2024 has chosen Claire Jiang ’24 and Gordon Gruber ’24 to be its Aurelian Speakers. Annually, the V Form elects the...
Capstone Speaker Visits Lawrenceville to Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy
“The world matters…Yet few Americans pay close attention to it or understand the many connections, some favorable, some anything but, between what goes on in...
Student Spotlight: Jack Rice ’24 Receives Scholar-Leader-Athlete Award
On March 10, Jack Rice ’24 received the George Wah Scholar-Leader-Athlete award from the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, Delaware Valley Chapter....
Emily Pan '24 Named Valedictorian
Emily Pan ’24 has been selected as the Valedictorian of the Class of 2024. Each year, a committee of faculty members chooses the Valedictorian from...
The Entrepreneurs of Lawrenceville
The Lawrenceville School boasts an impressive roster of alumni who have excelled in their own fields, especially when considering those who founded their own businesses....
Wrestling Bouts and Bubble Battles: Rumble in the Arena
Varsity Wrestling Head Coach Johnny Clore H ’02 and the Boys’ and Girls’ Varsity Wrestling Team hosted the annual Rumble in the Arena event in the...
Time to Git Down: This Year’s Winter Jazz Concert
This past Sunday, Lawrenceville’s student jazz groups—the Little Big Band and the 8 O’Clock Jazz Combo—performed in the Clark Music Center as part of the annual...
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month at Lawrenceville
November marked the arrival of Native American Heritage Month, also known as American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month, commemorating the rich history, culture, and...
A Deeper Dive into the Hutchins Scholars in Social Justice Presentations
This summer, as part of the Hutchins Scholars in Social Justice Program, led by Zaheer Ali Lawrenceville offered a group of rising V Formers the opportunity...
A Deeper Dive into the Hutchins Scholars in Social Justice Presentations
Hutchins Scholars Profiles: This summer, as part of the Hutchins Scholars in Social Justice Program , Lawrenceville offered a group of rising V Formers the opportunity to stay on campus...
Changing the Future of Medicine: Megan Kumar
Megan Kumar ’24 and Ellen Jordan ’26
In a world where the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming far more prevalent, many fields are looking for areas in which AI can serve...
Patrick McHenry and GOP Chaos
On Thursday, October 19, House Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC)—who took over as temporary speaker of the GOP after Kevin McCarthy’s removal on October 3— threatened to resign from his position...
Travis Kelce Spills on His NYC Weekend With Taylor Swift
On October 15, award-winning singer Taylor Swift and football star Travis Kelce made separate appearances on a Sunday Night Live (SNL) episode before arriving, hand-in-hand, at Catch Steakhouse in downtown...
President Biden Supports Ukriane and Israel
On October 19, President Joe Biden announced his 100 billion dollar bipartisan plan to fund Israel and Ukraine in their respective war efforts. The plan dedicates a total of 85.7...
What Matters to Me and Why: Deb Miliaresis
Last Wednesday, Deb Miliaresis H’22 P’27 of the Bath House Café shared some of her most meaningful experiences and important advice for students at a “What...
House Speaker-hopeful Jim Jordan Unsuccessful in Wrestling Votes
On October 17, the United States House of Representatives convened to vote on the next Speaker of the House following Republican Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) abrupt removal two weeks earlier. The...
Anti-Muslim Attack Kills 6-Year-Old Boy
This past Sunday, a six-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by his family’s landlord in Chicago, Illinois. The boy, along with his mother, was allegedly targeted “due to them being Muslim...
France Heightens Security Measures Against Terrorist Attack
On October 14, the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles were immediately evacuated after written bomb threats were discovered on site. Both the museum and the former royal palace...
Revamping Fall Parents’ Weekend
Last Friday, on October 13, Lawrenceville families were invited to join their children on campus and experience life at Lawrenceville. In preparation for the arrival of...
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Mooncake Making
Last Friday, on September 29, the Tea Club, run by Aki Li ’25 and Gwyneth Deng ’25, hosted a mooncake making event to celebrate the...
Introducing the Northern Irish PGs
This year, through the Protégé for Peace program, Lawrenceville is hosting two Post-Graduates from Northern Ireland—Victoria Maguire ’24 and Lucy Browne ’24. Irish Scholars is...
Hopping Across Houses: Lawrenceville’s First House-Hopping Event
This past Saturday, the first Circle and Crescent house-hopping event was organized by the Student Council and the Social Council. Each House hosted their own...
Hearing Student Voices at Open StuCo
Mia Kincade ’25 and Ethan Zhu ’26
This past Tuesday, September 26, Student Council (StuCo) led their first Open StuCo meeting to hear from the student body about pressing issues and relevant...
Rosh Hashanah Celebrations
Last Friday, September 15 marked the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. This non-working holiday was celebrated on campus with religious services, meals,...
Club Leadership Training in Heely Room
Angel Xin ’26 and Celine Fong ’25
Director of Student Life Ian August held two mandatory club leadership training sessions in the Heely Room of Woods Memorial Hall last Friday, September 8....
Introducing the 2023-24 Penn Fellows
Sydney Wang ’25 and Jenny Zhao ’25
This August, Lawrenceville welcomed four new Fellows from the University of Pennsylvania Independent School Teaching Residency Fellowship Program: History Department Fellow Ansley Keane, Science Department...
New Exhibition at the Hutchins Gallery by Artist ShinYoung An
This past Thursday, September 14, the Hutchins Gallery hosted a reception for artist ShinYoung An, whose paintings have been showcased at the Hutchins Gallery since...
Taking a Peak into the Future of Campus Wellness
Dr. Rae Chresfield, the newly appointed Dean of Campus Wellbeing, was officially welcomed into the Lawrenceville community in July of this year. Chresfield will be working closely with Student Council...
Taking a Peak into the Future of Campus Wellness
Dr. Rae Chresfield, the newly appointed Dean of Campus Wellbeing, was officially welcomed into the Lawrenceville community in July of this year. Chresfield will be working closely with Student Council...
And the Winner of the 2023 House Olympics is...
Mia Kincade ’25 and Charles Potter ’25
This Saturday, students from the Circle and Crescent gathered in the Bowl for the 20th annual House Olympics—an opportunity for Houses to compete for house points through various activities and...
The Case For American Communism
It’s fair to say that communism is not popular in the United States. The official United States Communist Party has just 5000 members—a miniscule figure compared to the 80 million...
Go Big Green?
Each year, Lawrenceville emits a total of 7,600 metric tons of CO2, uses 11,882 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity, and demands 70,000 MMBtu (million British thermal units) of natural gas....
Satvik Dasariraju ’ 23 Delivers Valedictorian Address
It’s truly a great joy to be here together one more time. I want to start with gratitude. To teachers and coaches for encouraging us to be better than yesterday....
Announcing Our New Wellness Representative
This past week, Assistant Dean of Students Douglas Davis announced an upcoming addition to the Student Council (StuCo) for the 2023-24 school year: the Wellness Representative position. The primary purpose...
A Year in Review
As the school year comes to a close, we students tend to reflect on the experiences we’ve had both as individuals and as a community over the past nine months....
Announcing the 2023-24 Student Council
Mia Kincade ’25 and Sophie Cheng ’24
After a thorough review of applications and a number of interviews conducted by president-elect Bryce Langdon ’24, Honor and Discipline Representative Daphne Volpp ’24, Academic Representative Conan Chen ’24, and...
Celebrating AAPI Month With Cathy Hong
On Thursday, May 4, 2022, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Cathy Park Hong spoke at School Meeting, where she presented her book Minor Feelings and her experience as an Asian-American author. Following...
Visiting Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil
On May 1 and 2, Lawrenceville hosted Aimee Nezhukumatathil, this year’s Thornton Wilder Visiting Writer, who presented to all IV Formers in the Edith Memorial Chapel. Nezhukumatathil has published four...
Kirby Music Festival
Celine Fong ’25 and Charles Potter ’25
Last Saturday on May 6, the Kirby House hosted the Kirby Music Festival, an annual spring event, to celebrate talented musicians on campus. Members of the Lawrenceville community gathered around...
The 2023 Big Red Race
This past Saturday, on May 7, members of the Lawrenceville community gathered outside the Bowl for The Big Red Race. The race is an annual 5K held on campus to...
Peyton Cosover: Lawrenceville's Football Captain
Sienna Mora ’25 and Charles Potter ’25
Earlier this year, Peyton Cosover ’23, quarterback for the Boys’ Varsity Football Team, won the Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Football Foundation’s Scholar-Athlete-Leader Award. The award commends excellence in...
April Dance Series: Dancing the Night Away
The April Dance Series, which took place on April 26, featured performances from all of the dance groups on campus, including Suave, Tour De Force, the Lawrenceville Dance Team (LDT),...
Earth Month: April Showers and Earth Day Flowers!
April marks the beginning of Earth Month, a Sustainability Council initiative focused on encouraging students and faculty to lead more sustainable lifestyles. The program kicked off with the 2023 National...
St. Baldrick's Day: Time for a New Haircut
This past Saturday, on April 29, Lawrenceville hosted its eighth annual St. Baldrick’s event in Dresdner Hall, where students signed up to have their heads shaved or hair cut in...
Lawrenceville Entrepreneur Workshop
On April 22, Constance Victory Small ’01 presented to Lawrenceville students on entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Her talk focused on the different components of a successful business plan and the...
Welcoming Our New VPs for 2023-2024
Congratulations to the 2023-2024 VP of Academics Conan Chen ’24, VP of Honor and Discipline Daphne Volpp ’24, and VP of Social Life Grace Chu ’24. Chu was motivated to...
What's Trending?
It's finally time for blue skies and green grass here on campus! The beautiful trees and flowers blooming carry an array of colors, letting us know that spring has sprung....
Flying Kites and Building Terrarium: Earth Day Fair
Lawrenceville’s annual Earth Day Fair was hosted on Saturday, April 22, inside the Bathhouse Cafe. The event, organized by the Sustainability Council, aimed to help Lawrenceville students and faculty explore...
Spring Choral Concert Featuring The Lawrentians and The Lawrenceville Singers
Mira Ponnambalam ’26 and Charles Potter ’25
Last Friday, April 21, The Lawrentians and The Lawrenceville Singers performed in the Edith Memorial Chapel for the Spring Choral Concert. The performance included a variety of songs ranging from...
Welcoming The Inaugural Wellness Day
Sophie Cheng ’24 and Celine Fong ’25
On Wednesday, April 12, Lawrenceville hosted its first ever Wellness Day. Starting at 9:00 AM, keynote speakers from DBT of South Jersey—a community of therapists specializing in dialectical behavioral therapy—spoke...
Capstone Speaker: Elizabeth Bagley
This past Monday, Capstone speaker Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown hosted a virtual webinar for Lawrenceville students and faculty. Project Drawdown is a global organization that aims to take...
Spring Orchestra Concert
Charles Potter ’25 and Emily Lee ’26
This past Friday, the Lawrenceville Philharmonic and Collegium Orchestra performed the Spring Orchestra Concert in the Kirby Arts Center. The orchestra performed pieces from a variety of composers, including a...
Stuart Robertson: The Man, The Myth, and The Artist
Nichole Jin ’24 and Louis Park ’26
Artist-in-Residence Stuart Robertson ’11 H ’18 graduated from Lawrenceville in 2011 and recently returned to the School as a visual arts teacher. Robertson had collaborated with the NBA G League...
V Form Pinning Ceremony
As part of a new tradition, the Office of Alumni and Development is combining the Pinning Ceremony this year with the V Form dinner. The event will take place on...
Oceans and Climate Change: Capstone Speaker Craig McLean
On Monday, April 3, Lawrenceville invited Craig McLean–the recently retired Director of Research of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—as the second Capstone speaker of this term. NOAA focuses...
Latinos Unidos Lunch Table
Sydney Wang ’25 and Ketan Singh ’24
Every Friday at 12:15 PM, Lawrenceville’s Latinos Unidos affinity club hosts “Almuerzo en Español” in the Abbott Dining Room, where all students and faculty—regardless of their proficiency—can enjoy lunch while...
Bryce Langdon: Leaving a Legacy Worth Remembering
Last Friday, April 7, the 6:00 PM L10 News premier announced the newly elected student body president: Bryce Langdon ’24. Langdon will succeed Andrew Boanoh ’23 as Student Council President...
Alumni Panel #3
Last Friday, Lawrenceville held its third Alumni and Development Career Panel, a new event occurring once a term where alumni working in particular fields visit campus to give students guidance...
Jack Patel ’23 & Jaelyn Bennett ’23 Named Aurelian Speakers
Jack Patel ’23 and Jaelyn Bennett ’23 have been chosen as this year’s Aurelian Speakers by the V Form. The Aurelian Speaker is a class-voted student who best demonstrates sterling...
Discovery Day: Say L-Yeah to Lville!
Angel Xin ’26 and Sydney Wang ’25
One early morning of March 29, members of the Lawrenceville community gathered in front of the Kirby Arts Center (KAC) to form the official Hype Squad, welcoming prospective new students...
Dasariraju ’23 Named Valedictorian
Satvik Dasariraju ’23 has been selected as the Valedictorian of the Class of 2023. Each year, Heads and Assistant Heads of Houses choose the Valedictorian from a group of V...
Martin Named Faculty Speaker
English Teacher Nick Martin was chosen by the current V Form students to address the Class of 2023 on May 27 as this year’s honorary faculty speaker. Martin first started...
Sean Dory and His 60 Day Bike Adventure
On this past Thursday, March 30, the Religious Life Council (RLC) hosted science teacher Sean Dory’s “What Matters to Me and Why” in the Bunn Library. All students were welcome...
Philadelphia Ballet and Big Red Dance: A New Partnership
On Thursday, April 27, the Philadelphia Ballet performed at the Kirby Arts Center (KAC) during School Meeting. Lyrical, Contemporary, and Jazz Dance Instructor Kristin Devine-Jones ’10 described the performance as...
Faculty Profile: Katherine O’Malley
Sophie Cheng ’24 and Charles Potter ’25
20 years ago, Lawrenceville welcomed Katherine O’Malley H’07 onto its campus, and she has made an impact on hundreds of students since. O’Malley teaches II Form English, multiple V Form...