have a special place in our hearts and in the history of the School.” With that, Blake Eldridge ’96 H’12, dean of students, then read the names of the graduates, beginning with Student Council President Tayari Gachegua. Each of the 219 members of the class was pictured on a still slide, accompanied by their full name and hometown. Murray then introduced the class valedictorian, Ashley Duraiswamy, who delivered her address to the class backed, appropriately, by stacks of shelved books.
“We’ve watched your impressive achievements over the past four years with great pride, and never more so than during the past three months.” — Michael Chae ’86 President, Lawrenceville Board of Trustees
She spoke of returning from spring break to learn at home, via Zoom, and the skepticism she initially battled. “It was just morning after morning of watching many of your faces pop up on my screen; morning after morning of thinking this wouldn’t work, but watching you make it work anyway,” Duraiswamy said. “You showed me that every organization — every company, every government, every school — is just people, a group of people and everything they’re brilliant and daring enough to create.” Rabbi Lauren Levy H’97 ’01 P’01 ’02 ’09 closed the proceedings with ta benediction that urged the Class of 2020 to “grow, reach, bloom, and explore,” as they go forth as Lawrentians. “And as you move to your next destinations, your next adventures,” Levy said, “go slow and grow slow — slow and full.”
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Fifth Form Prizes
The John W. Gartner Prize Alannah Nathan The John P. Phelps Jr. Prize Emily Shapcott The Benjamin H. Trask Classics Prize Ashley Duraiswamy
The Robert Mammano Frezza Memorial Award Anika Bagaria The Nick Gusz Best Male Athlete Award C.J. Vilfort
The Chinese Language Prize Kate Partridge
The Melissa Magee Speidel Best Female Athlete Award Ashley Warren
Valedictorian Ashley Duraiswamy
Independence Foundation Prize Catherine Levy
The Tommy Sullivan Award Grace Faircloth
Edward Sutliffe Brainard Prize Makayla Boxley
The William Mayhew Dickey ’64 Prize Xavier Lacoste
The John H. Thompson Jr. Prize Lizzie Huesman
Trustees’ Cup Samika Hariharan
The Sterling Morton Prize Oliva Sieler
The Aurelian Honor Society Award Andrew Tokarski
Free Enterprise Award Jeffrey Cai
The Adam and Mackellar Violich Award Amy Aririguzoh Andrew Tokarski
The James E. Blake Prize Alexandra Mary Elizabeth Stach Max Wong
Walker W. Stevenson Jr. Prize Johnny Nguyen
Performing Arts Department Prize Anushka Agarwala
The Wendell Hertig Taylor Prize Emily Matcham
N.J.I.S.A.A. Female Scholar Athlete nominee Miranda Cai N.J.I.S.A.A. Male Scholar Athlete nominee T.J. Semptimphelter
Jean S. Stephens Performing Arts Department Prize Tasan Smith-Gandy
The Benjamin F. Howell Jr. Science Prize Fund Andrew Zheng
The Peter Candler Periwig Award Emily Matcham
The Lever F. Stewart Prize Tri Giao Vu Dinh
The Music Department Prize/ Instrumental Samika Hariharan
Aldo Leopold Ecology Prize Simon Cull Sidharth Sharma
The Music Department Prize/Vocal Isabelle Monaghan The Addison H. Gery Jr. Jazz Prize Santiago Parra-Vargas
Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Niblock Award Harrison Wang The Henry and Janie Woods Prize for Research Science Merrin Foltz
The Matthew Dominy Prize Tri Giao Vu Dinh
The Paul L. Marrow Award Samika Hariharan
Major L Blankets C.J. Vilfort Jake Simpson Heaven Figueroa Nicholas Clark Sydney Cornell Ellie Vogel Tait Mott Lizzie Huesman Ashley Warren Maggie Ross Isabelle Monaghan Alexander Pesendorfer Olivia Koch Grace Faircloth
The R. Jack Garver Visual Arts Department Prize Oona Pierre
Hubert M. Alyea Award Christopher Conyers
L12 Award Carolyn King
The Mathematics Faculty Award C.J. Vilfort
The Kathleen Wallace Award Beata Fylkner
Visual Art Department Prize Carolyn King The Visual Art Department Faculty Award Hazel Schaus
The Howard Hill Mathematics Award Liana Raguso
The Director’s Award: Tay Gachegua
The John T. O’Neil III Mathematics Team Award Harrison Wang
The Boczkowski Award Maggie Ross
The Herman Hollerith Prize Nicholas Healy
The Deans’ Award Andrew Tokarski
The English Department Prize for Achievement in Creative Writing Ashley Duraiswamy
The Lawther O. Smith Computer Science Prize Elizabeth Chou
The Elizabeth Louise Gray Prize Maxima Molgat
The Henry C. Woods Jr. Critical Writing Award Elyssa Chou
The Thomas F. Sharp Interdisciplinary Award Carolyn McLaughlin
The Owen C. Smith Poetry Prize Tri Giao Vu Dinh
The Richard H. Robinson Prize Makayla Boxley Carolyn King
The English Department Prize for General Excellence Catherine Levy
The Religious Life Prize Anika Bagaria Areeq Hasan Catherine Levy The Religion & Philosophy Department Prize Maryellen Vogel The James Sipple Award Areeq Hasan
The Class of 1995 Journalism Award Deven Kinney The Megna-Schonheiter Award Jack Collins
The Andrew T. Goodyear Class of 1983 Award Olivia Sieler The Max Maxwell Award Jax Floyd The Phi Beta Kappa Award Liana Raguso Masters’ Prize Tri Giao Vu Dinh
Parents at Lawrenceville Community Service Award Lauren Recto
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