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Overview
James R. Lawrence (Class of 1943) was a Hamilton College student in the early 1940s who served in an athletic management role during his undergraduate years. He appears in the college’s records from the 1942–43 academic year as Varsity Manager of the fencing team, a recognized leadership position in Hamilton’s athletic program at the time.
Relevance to Research
Lawrence appears in the April 1942 Hamilton Life as the appointed Varsity Manager of the fencing team for the 1942–43 season, listed alongside the members of the Class of 1943 squad. The corpus record is limited to this single reference, placing him as a junior (Class of 1943) taking on an administrative-managerial role within college athletics during World War II-era Hamilton.
Notes
- Class of 1943
- Named Varsity Manager of the Hamilton fencing team for the 1942–43 season (Hamilton Life, April 1, 1942)
- Listed among Class of 1943 fencing participants alongside Gilbert Grout (Captain-elect), Robert Colby, George Overhiser, and others
- Matthew B. McCullough Jr. (‘44) served as Assistant Manager under Lawrence
- The corpus yields only this single reference; no additional student activities or later career details are recorded in the surveyed files
Related Sources
- hamilton-life-1942-04-01 — fencing awards and team rosters listing Lawrence as Varsity Manager for 1942–43
Related Topics
- athletics-and-sports — Lawrence served as Varsity Manager of the fencing team
- early-student-life-pre-1940 — context of student athletic management roles in the early 1940s
- wwii-and-hamilton-college — Hamilton during the wartime years when Lawrence was enrolled