DOUG DAVIS TAPPED TO LEAD BOYS’ HOOPS Former Princeton Tigers standout Doug Davis was named head coach of the Big Red boys’ basketball team for the 2020-21 season. Davis comes to Lawrenceville from Princeton Day School, where he was the boys’ varsity basketball coach and a member of the history department for the past two years. This past year he led Princeton Day to the N.J.I.S.A.A. Prep B State Championship and was honored by The Trentonian and Town Topics as the Boys’ Prep Coach of the Year. Previously, Davis was head coach of the boys’ varsity basketball team at Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Davis, who earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology, will serve as an assistant dean of admission and teach in the History Department. Davis succeeds Ron Kane ’83 P’20, who had led the team since 1991. Kane will continue his duties as an English teacher. “The tradition of excellence in academics and athletics at Lawrenceville makes joining the community a tremendous privilege,” said Davis, a graduate of The Hun School who became a four-year starter and team captain at Princeton. “I am excited about the basketball program here at Lawrenceville and eager to continue to build off of Coach Kane’s success.” As a standout point guard for the Tigers, Davis led Princeton to the 2011 Ivy League Championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament. Twice he was the team’s season leading scorer, and his 1,550 career points landed him at No. 3 among the program’s scoring leaders.
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GLADWELL ’CASTS LAWRENTIANS Acclaimed Tipping Point author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell visited Lawrenceville in February, speaking with a group of students around a Harkness table about the concept of changing student government. They discussed whether traditional student council elections could be replaced by a simple lottery system and how that might that work at the college and national levels, and their conversation was recorded and adapted for Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast. Revisionist History looks back to reinterpret something from the past: an event, a person, an idea, things overlooked or misunderstood. You can hear their conversation on either Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or at revisionisthistory.com/seasons. The episode, “The Powerball Revolution,” is part of Season Five. Gladwell is the author of bestsellers The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, and, most recently, Talking to Strangers. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy Top Global Thinkers.
Author Malcolm Gladwell included a conversation with Lawrentians in an episode of his Revisionist History podcast.
BIG RED RACE TOPS $36K FOR SCHOOL CAMP Participants in Big Red Race XVII: Virtual Semper Viridis raised more than $36,500 to benefit School Camp, Lawrenceville’s Asbury, N.J., summer camp that has served underprivileged youth for over a century.
Support for this year’s Big Red Race came from the mountaintops.
With COVID-19 restrictions in place, participants were unable to complete the usual 5K campus course, so the Race went virtual. A total of 629 Big Red Racers took part in 27 U.S. states (plus the District of Columbia) as well as in Bahrain, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand. The pandemic prevented this summer’s “Scamp” from happening, but hopes remain high for 2021.
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