A. Lawrence Barr ’58

Lawrie died Oct. 29, 2017, in Francestown, N.H., from prostate cancer.

He was a graduate of the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass. His father, George, was in the Class of 1924 and head of the French department at Princeton. Lawrie’s roommates while at Princeton were Marty Ballantine and Charlie Chapin. He left Princeton in January 1956, spent two years on active duty in the Army, then graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

In 1970, he moved to Peterborough, N.H., and taught sixth grade at a public high school for 16 years. While there he started an “Adopted Grandparent Program.” Each week he would take his class to a local nursing home, where each student would be matched up with one of the residents. They would play checkers and chess, and read to them. Lawrie wanted his students to learn about compassion, love, and caring for older people.

For the past 34 years he worked in real estate in Peterborough and Francestown. When his brother died, Lawrie married his widow, Ann, and adopted her daughter, Elizabeth. The marriage ended in divorce, and in 1979 he married Carol Prest, who survives him. Lawrie is also survived by his daughters Elizabeth, Susan, and Janie Goldschmidt and her husband, Josh, and their children Tanner, Ann Riley, and Finley; and mother-in law Frances Prest. To them all the class extends its sympathy.