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Princeton Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve a bond ordinance improving the sewer main along portions of Snowden Lane and Van Dyke Road. The measure appropriates $775,000 but requires residents to contribute $34,000 each. The issue had been previously brought before residents at a neighborhood meeting. One person spoke at the Monday meeting against the proposal, which he felt was asking too high a cost of homeowners. But others urged Council to approve the project, which they said was needed for sanitary and health reasons. The governing body also voted in favor of an ordinance to charge $750 for land use application fees. The measure will help cover the cost of engineering reviews and inspections for single family and two-family dwellings. Princeton’s Planning Board previously reviewed the proposed ordinance and found it was consistent with the town’s master plan. Kristin Appelget, Princeton University’s director of Community and Regional Affairs, reported on a project to replace the green roof on Firestone Library, a project that will take five to six months to finish. Work is scheduled to begin on or about June 2. The roof is on a building that was added to the library in 1988. Replacing it will involve removing vegetation and soils, Ms. Appelget said. A sculpture by Louise Nevelson that is near the building will be temporarily removed during the project. Vehicles will take the soil to a site in West Windsor, and then bring it back to the building once the roof is repaired. The hauling will only take place during the beginning and end of the project. Sidewalks will remain open. The replacement is part of an ongoing renovation of Firestone Library. Phase Two, if approved, will begin next summer and involve the green roof of a 1971 addition to the complex. “Firestone is the largest building on campus and an overall refurbishment has been going on for years,” said Ms. Appelget. “We want it to be more inviting and make it a welcoming area near Nassau Street.” Councilman Bernie Miller commented, “This might be a good time to remind people that what they can see of Firestone is really the tip of the iceberg.” Continued on Page 4

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As Princeton University alumni return for Reunions this weekend, many will remember an institution very different from the Princeton of 2016. It was 1909 when Princeton President Woodrow Wilson wrote to an African American applicant that it would be “altogether inadvisable for a colored man to enter,” but more recently, alumni from 70 years ago will recall a college that would not graduate an African American student until 1948. And 60 years ago, the Princeton faculty included just one African American professor, appointed in 1955. Only 50 years ago, it was still an all-male undergraduate body. There was not a single tenured female faculty member until 1968, and not until 1969 were women admitted as undergraduates. Now, in 2016, “We have made important progress this year, but our work is ongoing,” stated vice provost for institutional equity and diversity Michelle Minter. “Ensuring an inclusive campus climate requires a sustained and long-term commitment. New activities and ideas will emerge, and we want to continue to engage students, faculty and staff in these efforts.” But has Princeton kept up with the rap-

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idly changing times, in terms of diversity, inclusion, equity? Has it moved into the 21st century in reflecting the transforming spirit and complexion of our nation? Has it successfully cast off the image of elitism and exclusive privilege evoked by its often proud — sometimes not so proud — heritage? One year after a University task force presented their proposals to make the campus more inclusive, just six months after Black Justice League members occupied Nassau Hall to demand action to

improve campus climate and inclusion, and less than two months after the University trustees’ called for expanded commitment to diversity and inclusion in support of proposals from a special Woodrow Wilson Legacy Committee, Princeton University recently announced that it has made significant progress during the past year to foster a more inclusive campus climate, and continues to implement new programs and practices to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion. More and more widely accepted as Continued on Page 15

Turning Tides and Changing Paradigms; Public Schools’ Chief Looks to the Future As the 2015-16 school year winds down in Princeton Public Schools (PPS), many students and their teachers are working hard to keep their focus on the June 20 finish line, students’ last-day-of school and graduation day for Princeton High School seniors. But Superintendent Steve Cochrane has a vision of the future that might mean dramatic changes for PPS.

In his Superintendent’s Messages on the district website in recent months, Mr. Cochrane has called for nothing less than “turning the tide” (in transforming the college admissions process) and “shifting the paradigm” (in getting beyond debates about standardized testing to focusing instead on innovation). In his March column, Mr. Cochrane confronted the conflict of competitive Continued on Page 15

A CONCERT UNDER THE STARS AT UPDIKE FARMSTEAD: The Historical Society of Princeton (HSP) will host its fifth annual Concert Under the Stars fundraiser on Saturday, June 4 from 6:30 – 10 p .m . This year’s event will feature a 90-minute live performance by “reggae-influenced rock/pop” band, The Samples . Concert Committee Co-Chairs Tracy Sipprelle and Debora Haines describe the event as “a unique kick-off-to-summer party, with a casual blue jeans and boots flair .” Tickets are available online at www .princetonhistory .org, or by phone: (609) 921-6748 x 105 .

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The town’s engineering director Bob Kiser reported on the playground that will be on the grounds of the Avalon Princeton rental complex under construction at the site of the old Princeton Hospital. The area is less than half an acre in size and will be located at Franklin and Witherspoon streets. It will have benches and play equipment, and be open to the public, not just residents of the development. The playground is expected to be finished prior to when AvalonBay starts welcoming renters in the middle of August, Mr. Kiser said. The next Council meeting is June 13. —Anne Levin

Police Blotter On May 17, at 8:01 a.m., between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m., someone stole two vehicles from a driveway on the first block of Elm Lane. The vehicles were a 2015 Mercedes Benz GL 450 and a 2015 Dodge Durango with a total value of about $110,000. It was believed that both vehicles were left unlocked with the key fobs inside. This incident is similar to other vehicle thefts that have occurred across New Jersey and Pennsylvania when high-end vehicles are targeted during the early morning hours. The majority of the vehicles stolen have a push button start. On May 18, at 7:05 p.m., a 45-year-old male and 37-year-old male, both from Delaware, were charged with possession of CDS and drug paraphernalia and hindering apprehension, subsequent to a motor vehicle stop on Witherspoon Street for having a cracked windshield and having unclear license plates. On May 18, at 12:45 a.m., a 19-year-old male from Kendall Park and a 19-year-old male from Cranbury were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, subsequent to a motor vehicle stop on Nassau Street for operating a vehicle without headlights on. Unless otherwise noted, individuals arrested were later released.

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A Community Bulletin The Town Topics website now includes video postings of municipal meetings by Princeton Council, Planning Board, and Zoning Board. Visit www.towntopics.com. Rally and Candlelight Vigil: The Coalition for Peace Action sponsors this event Thursday, May 26, 7:30-8:30 p.m. at Hinds Plaza outside Princeton Public Library, on the eve of President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima. The rally is to convey appreciation for Obama’s decision to make the visit and urge him to announce concrete steps toward a world without nuclear weapons. Princeton Farmers Market: The weekly market is back at Hinds Plaza outside Princeton Public Library every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year, 25 vendors are selling local organic produce, free-range beef, poultry, pork, eggs and cheese, baked goods, flowers, and much more. Meet the Mayor: Mayor Liz Lempert holds open office hours on Friday, May 27, 8:30-110 a.m., in the lobby of Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Spirit of Princeton Memorial Day Parade: On Saturday, May 28 starting at 10 a.m., the annual march down Nassau street begins at Princeton Avenue and ends at Monument Plaza, where Superintendent of Schools Steve Cochrane will speak. All current active duty or veteran service men and women are encouraged to walk in the parade. www.spiritofprinceton.org. Take a Hike: Friends of Princeton Open Space celebrates National Trails Day Saturday, June 4 by encouraging hikes on the system of trails in the Greater Mountain Lakes natural area and along the Stony Brook. Trail maps are available at www. FOPOS.org. Red Cross Youth Leadership Conferences: Students entering grades 9-12 can sign up for four-day conferences this summer, earning a certificate for 24 hours of community service. The Princeton conference is August 1-4 (others are in Summit and Ocean). The cost is $150. Visit redcross.org/NJ. First Baptist Church of Princeton in partnership with Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) invites members of the community to share a supper every Tuesday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Church, located at the corner of John Street and Paul Robeson Place. Meals can either be taken home or eaten at the Church. The Crisis Ministry of Mercer County holds a food pantry in the lower level of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Tuesday, 1:30 to 7 p.m.; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 1:30 to 4 p.m. For more information, call (609) 3965327, or visit thecrisisministry.org. Cornerstone Community Kitchen in partnership with the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen serves free hot meals Wednesdays, 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Princeton United Methodist Church, Nassau at Vandeventer street. For more information, call (609) 924-2613, or visit: www.princetonumc.org.

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She got up at 5:30, swam, came home, got breakfast, cleaned all six bathrooms, took us to school, and did it like clockwork. She maintained baby books for every one of us and they are bursting at the seams. Every detail is in there, and it’s such a treasure to us. She wasn’t so driven that we never hung out with her, but she had the energy of 100 people.” When the children brought friends over, Mrs. Bolster took the time to get to know them. “She had this curiosity about people. She wanted to sit down with someone and learn what they were like. And she was never bored,” her daughter said. “She always wanted to learn about a new place, a new skill. She never lost the desire to meet new people, experience new things, and learn new facts.” Continued on Next Page

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Karin Rebecca Reiss and Lawrence David Peters were married May 14 at Alderbrook Resort and Spa in Union, Wash. Rabbi Daniel Weiner officiated. The bride, 31, and the groom, 32, met in 2007 at Columbia University, from which they received law degrees. Ms. Reiss, who is keeping her name, is a compliance lawyer at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., who helps the company adhere to ethical practices and regulations. She graduated from McGill University. She is the daughter of Dorothy David of Lawrenceville, and Milton H. Reiss of Becket, Mass. Mr. Peters is a director of corporate strategy at T-Mobile in Bellevue, Wash. He graduated from Yale, from which he also received an MBA. He is a son of Nancy Freedman Peters and Steven M. Peters of Greenwich, Conn.

Of the Town The couple lived at Princeton University’s Butler Tract housing for graduate students until just before the bir th of their fifth child (Joe Bolster is a graduate of Princeton University’s class of 1952). They met on a ship bound for Britain in 1951. “She was going over to study art history, and he was on the Princeton track team,” Ms. Bolster said. “She knew all these other men on the team and they introduced her to him.” The Bolsters remained devoted to each other throughout their 63-year marriage. “I used to see them out on their morning walk when I’d be on my way to work at Princeton High School,” said Marc Anderson, who is now the assistant track coach at Princeton University and knew the family well. “They weren’t walking fast — just taking their time, enjoying the day. The thing that would strike you is that they were always holding hands. To this day, my wife comments on that. It’s just one of the ways that they were a great couple.” J u g g l i n g 14 c h i l d r e n with a busy life outside the home was an art at which Mrs. Bolster excelled. “My mother was unbelievably organized,” said Ms. Bolster. “She was driven and indomitable, an unstoppable force.

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The family’s annual holiday card was famous because it expanded as the 20 grandchildren were born. “She kept in touch with all of us all the time,” Ms. Bolster said. “Not only birthday cards, but holiday cards, too — and we all got them. She remembered every grandchild’s birthday.” Mr. Anderson was chairm a n of P r i n ce ton H ig h School’s Athletic Hall of Fame when the Bolster parents were inducted in 2010. “The family had so many great athletes, and I think there was a time when they had someone in almost every grade in the Princeton Regional School system,” he said. “We thought about which of them might be the most deser ving of going in. We didn’t want to leave anybody out, so we decided the way to go was to induct the Mom and Dad for doing an incredible job of raising great young people and turning out amazing athletes in the process.” Ms. Bolster remembers that her parents got a standing ovation when they were given the award. “We were all there,” she recalled. “It was a wonderful moment for her and for our family.” Mrs. Bolster loved Princeton. “She was a passionate supporter of everything related to the town,” she said. “She was very involved in the recreation department and the Community Pool, as well as in the public school system, the University swimming program, and the Nassau Swim Club. She gave a lot of money as well as her time.” Sandy Thatcher, of the University’s class of ’65, got to know Mrs. Bolster when he was secretary of the Friends of Princeton Swimming and a member of Princeton Area Masters. Upon hearing of her passing last week, he sent an email to other colleagues. He last saw her at an alumni swim meet last year. “She seemed her normal peppy self, though she admitted that physical injuries had been taking a toll on her body,” he wrote. “But we all came to think of Tink as virtually indestructible, capable of withstanding all kinds of physical challenges that would have felled us lesser mortals. She came to be so used to having babies that she would work out until almost time to go to the hospital for the next delivery, and within a week she’d be back at the pool …. She is one of a kind, and she will be sorely missed.” —Anne Levin

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Attitudes in Reverse Event Combats Suicide, Celebrates Dogs’ Contributions to Mental Health Dogs, butterflies, and a large contingent of celebrants of all ages gathered at the East Picnic Area in Mercer County Park last Saturday to celebrate dogs’ contributions to people’s quality of life and to promote education about

mental health and suicide. Featured events included a 5K walk/run, music (acoustic guitar and bagpipe), fun dog demos, and a butterfly release to honor loved ones who had passed away. Organized by Attitudes

in Reverse (AIR), this event “was a fun family event that gave us the opportunity to communicate our message about mental health to a much broader audience,” explained Tricia Baker, who established AIR with her husband Kurt and daughter Katelyn six years ago after losing their son (Katelyn’s brother) to suicide following a long battle against severe depression and anxiety. Throughout the year, AIR presents educational programs to students — as well as parents and teachers — in middle and high schools, colleges, and universities. Speakers at Saturday’s event included Celina Levy, acting executive director of the Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; Mental Health Advocate Sean Campbell; and Nicole Lorenzetti from Heavenly Hounds, who led an agility demonstration. Under a tent, local performer John Wilkey played acoustic guitar and sang as participants viewed posted photos of lost loved ones. A moving display of 233 pairs of shoes, “In Their Shoes,” represented the number of New Jersey youths who died through drug overdose, alcohol abuse, or suicide over a recent three-year period. “It’s all about remembering them,” Ms. Baker said. “We learn from them. It’s so important that we talk about it.” Ms. Baker emphasized the importance of helping people understand “what a young

STAR OF THE SHOW: Miki, an 8-year-old Pomeranian, received the American Kennel Club Award of Canine Excellence in 2011 for the therapy work he does with Attitudes in Reverse. His award inspired the AIR Dog: Paws for Minds program, where dogs improve the mental well being of humans and the Miki and Friends Walk/Run for AIR. (Photo Courtesy of Tricia Baker) person might be struggling with, to encourage people to feel compassion, kindness, empathy for others who are suffering from depression or other mental illnesses. How do we educate the general population on this issue? We’re losing too many children. We have to decrease suicides.” When people pet dogs, they experience biochemical reactions, releases of “feel good” brain chemicals called serotonin, oxytocin, and dopamine, and a reduction in a stress hormone called cortisol. The health benefits of having dogs are even greater if the dogs are trained to serve as emotional support animals, therapy dogs, or service dogs.

Saving lives by educating students about mental health and suicide prevention since 2011, AIR has presented to more than 25,000 students in middle and high schools and colleges in New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. AIR initiatives include AIR Dogs: Paws for Minds program, bringing dogs into schools to help students de-stress and engage in the conversation about mental health, and matching displaced dogs, trained as Emotional Support Dogs, with individuals who have mental health disorders or developmental disabilities. On two successive Saturdays, June 18 and June 25, AIR will be conducting a special Youth Mental Health First

Aid course designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help adolescents who are experiencing mental health or addictions challenges or are in crisis. See airtraining.org for further information. This year’s event was sponsored by Bee Fit with Tracy, PerformCare New Jersey, Twin Rivers Animal Hospital, and Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein & Blader, P.C.. The Knights of Columbus supplied the breakfast and barbecue lunch, and McCaffrey’s donated three large sheet cakes for the celebration. —Donald Gilpin

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To the editor: The question of whether or not Communiversity ArtsFest should be a ticketed event has recently been in the spotlight. Given that the Arts Council of Princeton has been the prime organizer of the annual event for more than 40 years — with the support of the town, the University, merchants, and houses of worship — we would like to weigh in. Communiversity is a very special day in Princeton each year, both for local residents and the greater Princeton community. In addition to providing a rich array of food and entertainment, it provides an important platform for local arts, nonprofit groups and merchants to promote their offerings to an audience of tens of thousands. The fact that exhibitors come back each year, and pay for space, underscores the value of the event. Meanwhile, it is true the event has gotten so popular that the crowds have created some challenges. To clear up any misconceptions, Communiversity ArtsFest is not a major fundraiser for the Arts Council. We raise about $70,000 per year from exhibitors and sponsors, which exceeds our hard costs. But when considering the hundreds of staff and volunteers hours involved with orchestrating the event, Communiversity is much more a service we love to provide to the community than a fundraiser for the Arts Council. We presume the University and town have similar motivations in dedicating significant resources. Their in-kind and hard costs are critical to the success of this community day. There is a strong argument to keep the event free. So many of the cultural activities in Princeton and throughout the nation these days are expensive and out of reach for many members of the community. Communiversity, by definition, is an inclusive event and welcomes everyone, making it one of largest and most diverse events every year. Whether a nominal fee would keep people away, or reduce the number of attendees or cars, is hard to say. Common sense suggests that the people who would choose not to attend based on price are those who have the lowest incomes, so adding a mandatory fee might make it a less inclusive cultural festival. Is it possible to raise more funds to offset both town and Arts Council costs? Logistically it wouldn’t be easy. Communiversity is not a “gated” event. It would be impossible, or very costly, to control and ticket every one who enters the event area, which can be accessed via several streets. But certain options — such as selling wristbands, which entitle the bearer to discounts or extra benefits — are worth exploring. We also recommend that a fiscal impact study be conducted so that we can understand the true value, and expense, of the event. Is the town’s $30,000 expenditure a solid investment? Let’s more closely assess its full value to our community to help the town determine if it wishes to support and invest in this annual cultural festival. Armed with such information, we are ready and willing to explore ideas that help both the town and the Arts Council recoup more of our costs. We encourage gathering this information and discussing all options — but are committed to keeping this community treasure as accessible and inclusive as possible. TED DEUTSCH President, Board of Trustees JEFF NATHANSoN Executive Director

Charging Fee for Communiversity Will Lead To More Government Regulation and Expense

To the Editor: To those interested in the future of Communiversity and whether to impose a fee on those attending, here’s some advice: go back to the event’s original purpose, keep it simple, and keep it free. Communiversity was conceived as a celebration of University/community relations, fueled in particular by an appreciation of the arts and the spirit of non-profit community enterprises. Today, it’s increasingly becoming a marketing tool for car dealers, banks, and realtors, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to downtown Princeton, threatening to turn a special local day into merely another regional commercial platform. While Council candidates might consider charging an attendance fee to offset Communiversity’s cost to local taxpayers, such a fee will lead to more government regulation and expense and continue to drive away local participation and eclipse of the underlying purpose of the event. Charging visitors to Communiversity is not only impractical; it would speed the unfortunate commercial tilt that the event has taken. It would be wiser to simply pare down the effort to something closer to its earlier conception — a celebration of the arts and non-profits — and keep it free. roGEr MArTINDELL Patton Avenue

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To the Editor: We support Tim Quinn for Princeton Council because of his exceptional public service to Princeton in several critical areas. In addition to his service with distinction on the Board of Education for nearly seven years, Tim has been serving on the Planning Board for the last three years. Because of his work ethic and consensus building leadership abilities, he has become chair of the Planning Board’s Zoning Amendment review Committee as well as being appointed to the newly formed Neighborhood Study Zoning Group. As a member of the Planning Board’s Subdivision Committee, Tim pushed for greater public transparency and better notification to neighbors of changes that will affect them. one of Tim’s issues of concern is housing “teardowns” and the type of replacement housing which can substantially change the character of neighborhoods and could ultimately price out current and future residents of moderate income. In these roles, Tim has demonstrated a firm commitment to manage change while preserving neighborhood character to keep middle class residents at the forefront of his decisions. His work will help to determine the future of Princeton’s housing, demographics, and character for decades. Tim was selected for these positions for his good judgment, community values, good listening skills, and the ability to work well with a variety of people and organizations with different viewpoints to build consensus, which is no small thing in our current world. Tim got his early political experience working for George McGovern as a 14-year-old canvassing in the mill towns outside Philadelphia. He has shown through his public service to this community that he is an outstanding candidate to represent and work hard for all in Princeton. We support Tim Quinn for Princeton Council and urge others to do likewise when they vote on June 7, or earlier by absentee ballot. GrACE, FrANK SINDEN ridgeview Circle

Leticia Fraga’s Ability to Build Bridges Would Be Invaluable Asset for Council

To the Editor: I am excited to support Leticia Fraga in the Democratic primary for Princeton Council. I have known Leticia for years, since our two sets of twins went to pre-school together. For over 15 years, Leticia has immersed herself in bettering our Princeton community, in all neighborhoods, on all levels. She has dedicated her time to tackling critical issues facing us today — affordable housing, child hunger and educational opportunity, and public safety, to name a few. Leticia has gained a deep knowledge of the needs of all Princetonians through her service to both municipal and non-profit organizations, including Send Hunger Packing, the YWCA, Princeton Community Housing, and the Princeton Human Services Commission. Her ability to build bridges across communities, and her practical approach to problem solving, would be an invaluable, and unique, asset to the Princeton Council. I admire and respect Leticia and her contributions to our town, and I urge you to vote for her on June 7. KATHY TAYLor Jefferson road

Princeton Environmental Commission Concerned About Quality of Safe Water Available to Residents

To the Editor: Water supply and safety issues are in the news more and more frequently. As members of the Princeton Environmental Commission, we are concerned about the quality and

quantity of safe water available to the citizens of Princeton. The Water Supply Management Act was passed in 1981 to ensure that New Jersey could cope with all foreseeable water needs and droughts. It requires that a Statewide Water Supply Plan be released every five years. The last such plan to be released was in 1996 and it included data that gave cause for concern about the state’s long-term ability to meet the growing water demand due to population growth. We are now 20 years overdue for a plan that would give us information about New Jersey’s levels of surface and ground water supplies. The Princeton Environmental Commission passed a resolution calling for the release of a new Statewide Water Supply Plan at our April meeting and Princeton Council will be considering a similar resolution later this month. Citizens can support our efforts by contacting the office of Governor Christie at www.state.nj.us/governor/contact/. HEIDI FICHTENBAUM Chair, Princeton Environmental Commission, Carnahan Place SoPHIE GLovIEr vice Chair, Princeton Environmental Commission, Drakes Corner road

Give Credit to Our Town Administration, Council For Doing the Best Job Keeping Taxes in Check

To the Editor: I’m surprised by all the commotion over the municipal budget this year. Sure, I don’t like a tax increase any more than anyone else. However, I have to give our Town Councilors and staff a lot of credit for keeping 2016 expenses to a 1.2 percent increase. Meanwhile school taxes will be up 2.8 percent for the 2016-17 school year, according to the district’s website. My 2015 tax bill indicates that municipal taxes including library and sewer charges were only 22.2 percent of the total. School taxes were 47.4 percent, and Mercer County 28.3 percent. open space accounted for the other 2.0 percent. Looking back at older bills, I see that the municipal tax rate for 2015, including the library, was up just 0.2 percent from 2010/2011, the first tax year after property revaluations. The school tax rate was up 11.2 percent, and the County was up 11.8 percent. I live in the former Borough so these percent changes may not be the same as for former Township residents — who since consolidation have received free garbage pickup that they did not have before. Both jurisdictions held municipal tax rates flat for the last few years before consolidation. In 2013 and 2014, consolidation resulted in lower municipal taxes versus 2012. The point is — since at least 2010, apples to apples, municipal taxes have increased much less than school and County taxes. As in Lake Woebegone, our “children are all above average.” We love them and want them to get a great education. But let’s focus on the drivers that have the most impact on our tax bills — school and County budgets. rather than a process which uses percentage increases from last year, I would like to see a “zero based budget” similar to that used by the most successful corporations and non-profit groups. What services are truly necessary? Which positions result from this analysis, and which positions may no longer be necessary? Are we purchasing goods and services as efficiently as possible? When was the last time large budget items like insurance, maintenance, technology, supplies, and major outsourced services were put out for bid? Let’s give credit to our Town administration and Council who have done the best job keeping our taxes in check. JoHN HEILNEr Library Place

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To the Editor: As a candidate for Princeton Council, let me answer T. J. Elliott [“Asking Candidates How They Would Change System of Variances Favoring Developers,” Mailbox, May 18]. Stopping Princeton’s current pattern of teardowns and disproportionate McMansions is a plank in my platform. But can we stop this pattern thoughtfully? And can we stop it quickly? Residents of Princeton’s affected neighborhoods want something done now before those neighborhoods are irrevocably changed. Thanks to Governor Christie, applications for development in New Jersey are governed by ordinances in effect when they’re filed, not when they’re decided on. It might take Council and the consultant they’ve hired several years to develop a neighborhood-specific McMansion ordinance using form-based zoning, which codifies a new home’s appearance — or form — to reflect nearby homes. Meanwhile, builders will build. A moratorium sounds tempting. But moratoriums on new construction are illegal in New Jersey except in emergencies. Two weeks after the fire at AvalonBay’s Edgewater apartments, a bill was introduced to stop light frame construction for multiple dwellings until its safety was studied. The bill died in committee. A quick solution — which both T. J. Elliott and, in a May 11 letter, Jon Drezner call for — would be sliding fees for construction permits: the more builders exceed the house they tore down, the more they must pay. Council should consider what fee would be a sufficient disincentive. I myself favor a quick-to-pass mathematical zoning ordinance based on bulk requirements rather than form. For example, Austin, Texas, limits new homes in central neighborhoods to the greater of either 2,300 square feet or a 0.4 Floor-to-Area-Ratio (FAR). That is, no new Austin home may have usable floor space on all floors larger than 40 percent of lot size. The option I prefer would vary the new FAR from neighborhood to neighborhood. The limit could be a block’s average FAR plus one standard deviation plus a small percentage. This would allow new homes at the upper end of average for each neighborhood but prevent any existing McMansions from influencing the average unduly. I trust my support for such solutions will win Mr. Elliott’s vote in the June 7 Democratic primary. ANNE WALDRON NEUMANN Alexander Street

Planning Board’s Teardown Task Force’s First Step Should Be to Interview Residents

To the Editor: In response to residents’ urging and the near universal dismay at teardowns, the Planning Board has formed a task force to determine and protect the defining characteristics of Princeton’s various neighborhoods. Urban planner Mark Keener has been hired to work with the task force and “existing neighborhood groups” to establish criteria for post-consolidation rewriting of zoning ordinances. We can be glad that the governing body is finally addressing these issues. We note two points: the task force itself includes the mayor and standing members of the Planning Board and Council, but no other residents. And the stakeholders listed at the first meeting by staff Planner Lee Solow and Ad-

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ministrator Marc Dashield included only realtors, builders, and developers, no residents. Roman Barsky, the builder of so many big new houses, once told me that Mt. Lucas Road between Jefferson and Ewing is “underdeveloped.” Lee Solow himself has called Princeton’s smaller homes “obsolete,” adding that families now want bigger houses. Yet realtors report that young families cannot buy in Princeton because the stock of smaller houses is disappearing. What kind of housing will be “affordable” here? Wanda Gunning, chair of the Planning Board and a member of the task force, stated at a public meeting I attended that ever since consolidation, the board has been “too busy” to review architectural drawings from builders who appear before them requesting permits. The result is that no town official, including those responsible for granting variances, or exceptions to existing zoning ordinances, knows quite what a new house will look like, how it will compare with existing houses or affect the streetscape. Will it block the light to its neighbors? Will windows look into a neighbor’s bath or bedroom? Will two garage doors face the street? Will there be no windows on the street side? No ordinance can prevent all problems, but previously a neighbor could see the drawings, assess details, and get the builder to address them. Without this kind of detail, such questions are not asked. I live here because I want to live in a town with a sense of community, varied architecture, lots of trees, and an enlightened citizenry. How about you? Keener, the consultant, suggested that his first step might be to interview residents. Let’s hope that will happen before the town slips out from under us. MARY CLURMAN Harris Road

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If You Believe in Maintaining Princeton’s Quality of Life, Vote for Jenny Crumiller

To the Editor: I am writing to endorse Jenny Crumiller for re-election to the Princeton Town Council. In the past few years there has been significant development in my neighborhood that concerns me. Being new to an understanding of Princeton politics, I asked my neighbors for advice. They all told me that I should contact Jenny Crumiller as she would be able to offer me practical advice on how to respond. When I reached out to Jenny, I found her responsive and helpful in addressing my concerns. Going forward, I believe Princeton has serious issues we need to address. One of these that we see all around us is the ubiquitous teardowns of small houses with replacement mansions that are changing the charming small town feel of Princeton. Others that concern me are the increasing traffic with its impact on walkability, and the ever increasing property taxes and reduced affordability of houses. I know there aren’t easy solutions to these problems, but with Jenny’s record on the Town Council I am confident that we have a candidate with the experience to address them. If you believe in maintaining the quality of life in Princeton that makes this a great place to live, vote for Jenny Crumiller in the upcoming Democratic Primary on June 7. BILL HARE Jefferson Road

Voters Who Vote Provisionally Should Be Able To Ascertain Whether Their Vote Was Counted

To the Editor: In spite of New Jersey’s late, June 7, primary, voters may still influence the selection of the Democratic nominee for president. Locally, Princeton Democrats and unaffiliated voters who declare themselves Democrat at the polls will be choosing the next two members of Princeton Council. A video of the League’s forum among the four candidates for Council is available at www.lwvprinceton.org and at www.princetontv.org. A Voters’ Guide for the contested Democratic primary for Mercer County Freeholder is also posted on the League’s website. Voters are reminded that they are entitled to vote provisionally for a number of reasons: the poll book indicates they vote-by-mail; they moved within the county; their name is not in the poll book; or they did not show ID if required. During the November, 2015 election, League members who were poll watchers noticed that some boardworkers did not offer provisional ballots as required. The League sent a letter to Paula Sollami-Covello, Mercer County Clerk, and to the four members of the Mercer County Board of Elections alerting them to the problem. Ms. Sollami-Covello replied that she was disappointed but was not responsible for training and that she had forwarded our letter and her response to the Mercer County Board of Elections. The League has not heard from them. Since it is known that board workers who were trained before the November 2015 election have not been re-trained, the League is concerned that voters’ rights be honored. Voters who vote provisionally should expect to be given information about how to ascertain whether their vote was counted. CHRYSTAL SCHIVELL Voter Service Chair, League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area, Monroe Lane

AUTHOR WILL BE AT BATTLEFIELD: Jack Kelly, Author of “Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence,” will be giving talks about the men and battles of the American Revolution at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 28, during the Battlefield Society’s “Washington Returns to the Battlefield” Memorial Day event. The author will also sign copies of his book, with proceeds from book sales to benefit educational programming for the Princeton Battlefield Society.

Eduardo C. Corral Wins Poetry Prize

Eduardo C. Corral is the latest recipient of the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. The Holmes National Poetry Prize was established in memory of Princeton 1951 alumnus Theodore H. Holmes and is presented each year to a poet of special merit as selected by the faculty of the Creative Writing Program, which includes writers Jeffrey Eugenides, Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Muldoon, James Richardson, Tracy K. Smith, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Susan Wheeler, and Edmund White. The award currently carries a prize of $5,000 and was first made to Mark Doty in 2011 and has since also been awarded to Evie Shockley, Natalie Diaz, and Matt Rasmussen. Mr. Corral is the author of Slow Lightning, which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012, Beloit Poetry Journal, Huizache, Jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and Quarterly West. “Eduardo C. Corral is a poet of astonishing craft and huge consciousness,” notes Tracy K. Smith, director of the Program in Creative Writing. “His growing body of work fashions a moving lyric portrait of masculinity, legacy, and justice. We are delighted that the Holmes Prize allows us to honor and support the work of such a promising young poet.” To learn more about the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Program in Creative Writing, visit arts.princeton. edu.

“Crazy Jewish Mom” Reading on Saturday

Kate Siegel, the author of Mother, Can You NOT? ( And you thought your mom was nuts …) will be at Labyrinth Books on Saturday, May 28 at 11 a.m. to read from and talk about the essay collection based on her Instagram account @ CrazyJewishMom. “No one understands the delicate mother-daughter dynamic better than Kate Siegel — her own mother drove her so cra z y t hat she decided to broadcast their uproarious conversations on Instagram. Soon, hundreds of thousands of people were following their daily text exchanges, eager to see what outrageous t hing Kate’s mom wou ld do nex t. Now, in Mother, Can You NOT ?, Kate pays tr ibute to the woman who invented the concept of drone parenting.” K ate S i e g e l h a s b e e n f e a t u r e d o n B u z z Fe e d , Elite Daily, The Huffington Post, Cosmo, Today.com, Vo g u e . c o m , i n P e o p l e Magazine, and on Nightline and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She previously served as an associate producer for Condé Nast E nter tain ment, overs ee ing digital video for Teen Vogue, Bon Appétit, The New Yorker Festival, Self, and more. Prior to joining Condé Nast, Kate studied English, creative writing, and theater at Princeton University.

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Theatricals and Time Travel on the Princeton Battlefield Ever since Einstein revealed his special theory of relativity, we’ve known that time travel — at least moving forward through time — is possible. Einstein didn’t pull this theory, or even the notion that time travel is possible, out of thin air. Rather, he took the knowledge of the day, saw an inconsistency — a piece of a puzzle that didn’t fit, so to speak — and thought about possible explanations. —PBS, Nova Online iewers immersed in the Starz series Outlander, where a feisty English nurse is transported from 1945 to the mid-18th-century Scottish Highlands, will know why I’m time-travelling back to January 3, 1777, and Brigadier General Hugh Mercer. The most sympathetic figure to emerge from the Battle of Princeton, Mercer might as well have been a timetraveller himself, given the shape-shifting sweep of his story. Born in 1726 in Scotland, a graduate in medicine from the University of Aberdeen, assistant surgeon in the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie, he survived the bloody Battle of Culloden, fled Scotland to America after months in hiding from the likes of Outlander’s Redcoatfrom-Hell Black Jack Randall, practiced medicine for eight years before becoming a Redcoat himself in 1755, joining a Pennsylvania regiment in the French and Indian War, rising to the rank of colonel and becoming friends with fellow officer George Washington. Two decades later, after crossing the Delaware (some say the plan was his idea) and playing a key role in the Battle of Trenton, he met his fate at Princeton by refusing to stand down to British soldiers who at first mistook him for Washington, calling him out in language (“you damned rebel!”) that may well have sent his mind back to Culloden, moving him to draw his sword in what seemed at that moment a lost cause. After being savagely beaten and bayonetted, he died nine days later, January 12, 1777, at the Clarke house. According to legend, he refused to leave his men and was taken to a resting place under the white oak tree that would become known as “the Mercer Oak.” By that time, he’d have heard in one form or another Washington’s cry of victory, “The day is ours!” The portrait of Mercer online has a timeless quality. Too often military portraits resemble busts, faces locked into noble or triumphant attitudes. Mercer seems to be listening to music or poetry, his eyes thoughtful and sensitive, suggestive of a man who sees beyond the battlefield, perhaps beyond the age. Washington the Actor Now that Broadway and the American Revolution have come together in LinManuel Miranda’s hit Hamilton, it seems a fitting time to consider the Battle of Princeton’s theatrical potential. Discussing the theater of war and political theater in George Washington’s Journey (Simon & Schuster $28), T.H. Breen says that Washington’s lifelong enthusiasm for the

stage had “deep personal roots” involving “an almost excessive concern with appearances” and the conviction that he was “always an actor onstage,” which in turn made him “highly sensitive to the expectations of the different audiences that he encountered through his long career.” There are frequent references to “the stage of human action” throughout his correspondence, where he compares the drafting of the Constitution to an “unprecedented theatrical production,” writing to one friend “that a greater Drama is now acting on this Theater than has heretofore been brought on the American Stage, or any other in the World.” Comparing his political performances as commander in chief to “dramatic exhibitions,” John Adams saw him “crafting the role of president.” Onstage at Princeton The qualities Adams numbers among Washington’s “talents,” notably his handsome face and impressive height, were on display at the Battle of Princeton, where

the book Hamilton makes good use of the cannon as British refugees from the lost battle holed up in Nassau Hall knock the glass out of the windows and open fire — until Hamilton starts “blasting away at the walls,” one shot blazing through the prayer hall, “decapitating the portrait of King George II inside,” another bouncing off the building and nearly killing someone’s horse. Hamilton’s earlier connection with Princeton is noted in the second number of Miranda’s musical, “Aaron Burr, Sir,” when Hamilton tells Burr “I heard your name at Princeton … I wanted to do what you did. Graduate in two, then join the Revolution.” Comic Relief Among the scenes that might be material for a comic subplot in a musical or opera based on The Battle of Princeton, there’s a British soldier’s account of the Nassau Hall aftermath in William M. Dwyer’s The Day Is Ours! (Viking 1983): “It was a warm, foggy morning. We had eaten our breakfast and were in the col-

he appeared on a white horse, rallying his embattled troops as he rode to “within 30 paces of the British lines, presenting a tempting target to the Redcoats,” according to Patrick K. O’Donnell’s Washington’s Immortals (Grove Atlantic $28). One of Washington’s aides is said to have covered his eyes with his hat when British marksmen fired “a tremendous volley” at the general, but when the smoke cleared, Washington was still on his horse, “calling on his men to join him” in words that are essentially the same in every account of the scene, “Parade with us, my brave fellows! There is but a handful of the enemy and we will have them directly!” Hamilton Has a Blast While Ron Chernow’s best-selling biography is the source and inspiration for Miranda’s musical, Alexander Hamilton makes an interesting entrance in Richard Ketchum’s The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton (Holt 1973) as “a small, delicate youth not quite twenty years old” riding “along beside the guns, lending his horse now and then to help pull a cannon over a rough spot while he walked alongside, patting the gun’s barrel from time to time as if it were a personal acquaintance.” Later in

lege yard, stripped, with our coats and hats off, playing ball.” At the sound of “men’s feet tramping,” there was no time “to look for our coats and hats,” nothing to do but climb over a fence: “I sprung and threw my breast across the top rail. At that instant, a ball from a field piece struck in the middle of the rail … took the rail in two … and I was cast to the ground swift, [it] gave me such a jar, I thought myself mortally wounded.” In The Winter Soldiers, the ever resourceful Sergeant White of the victorious Americans, “always one to see what he could scrounge in the wake of the fighting” slipped into old Nassau, locked himself into a room where a table had been set with a plate of toast, a teapot, everything ready for breakfast, all his and why not, he’d been marching through the night and fighting in the morning. Looking around the room, he spotted “a brand new silklined British officer’s coat, so fresh that the paper was still on the plated buttons, an elegant silk skirt, a pair of silk shoes, and a small gilt Bible.” As there were also some huge barrels of flour among the supplies abandoned by the Brits, White bargained with a woman from the town. Would she be willing to bake him a few

cakes if he paid for them in flour? Yes, she would. And did she by the way have any daughters? Learning that there were two girls, White presented one with the silk skirt and the other with the silk shoes and later on “went away happily, with the cakes stuffed in his knapsack.” The Missing Map The optimum view of the battlefield is with the Clarke House and the Institute Woods at your back and the expanse of the field stretching out before you like a vast green stage extending to Mercer Road and beyond to the four columns of the memorial to soldiers from both sides. A visitor to that viewpoint in August 2012 commented on the Princeton Battlefield Society blog, “unfortunately when I visited this past weekend the old tile map that showed the American and British movements had been removed (hopefully for restoration and not the result of vandalism).” Almost four years later the map is still missing, nothing in its place but a scarred vacancy of raw stone, in contrast to the other attractively posted informational signposts. Around half a year before the map was removed, the Society began its campaign to discredit the Institute for Advanced Study’s plan to build a group of faculty townhomes and single family residences on a hitherto untended, overgrown parcel of land known as Maxwell Field. None of the various maps in the books I’ve consulted indicates anything of significance occurring on the proposed housing site where the Battlefield Society claims Washington “launched the famous charge that decided the Battle of Princeton.” Relativity The Princeton Battle Monument adjacent to Monument Hall was dedicated in 1922, the year Albert Einstein received the Nobel prize for physics and some 11 years before he joined the Institute for Advanced Study and made Princeton his residence. Atop the massive sculpture, George Washington stares toward downtown Princeton. In his line of sight at the other end of Monument Drive, a bronze bust of Einstein mounted on a granite pedestal appears to be gazing in the same direction. It was Einstein who once said “I feel so much part of every living thing that I am not in the least concerned with where the individual begins and ends.” Or where one portion of land or time begins and ends, whether at the Battle of Culloden or the Battle of Princeton, in the Clarke House or Fuld Hall, in the thinking feeling faces of men like Mercer and Einstein, who lived at 112 Mercer Street until his death. In the end, it’s all about relativity, and we’re all outlanders. ——— eople interested in finding out more about what happened on January 3, 1777, might want to do as I did and pay a visit to the collection of books and documents in the Princeton Room at the Princeton Public Library. —Stuart Mitchner

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ART THAT “WOWS”: This artwork by Princeton artist Priscilla Snow Algava exemplifies the talented work by local artists that are included in her new Pop-Up Art Gallery, “Wondrous on Witherspoon” (WOW).

“THE NEWCOMB POTTERY ENTERPRISE”: This 1904 ceramic plate was made by Joseph Meyer and decorated with cactus flower designs by Esther Huger Elliot. It is on display at the Princeton Art Museum until July 10, 2016 as part of the exhibit, “Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.” The Newcomb Pot ter y forged a distinctly Southern brand of the American Arts and Crafts movement and is considered one of the most significant makers of American art pottery of the 20th century. Established in 1895, Newcomb Pottery (housed

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“GARDEN OF THE GODS”: This watercolor by Lisa Walsh will be on view at the Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury from June 5-24 as part of the “Places Traveled” exhibit.

“Places Traveled” At Gourgaud Gallery

A new exhibit at the Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury titled, “Places Traveled by Watercolorists Unlimited,” will be on display from June 5-24. For the past 25 years, a group of New Jersey artists have been meeting to discuss and critique their paintings on different subjects. The 12 artists show their work throughout the state and annually at the Gourgaud Gallery. The exhibiting artists will be available to share and discuss their work with visitors at the reception on Sunday, June 5 from 1-3 p.m. There will be light refreshments. The artwork is for sale with 20 percent of each sale going to support the Cranbury Arts Council and its programs. A cash or check made out to the Cranbury Arts Council is accepted as payment. Visit www.cranburyartscouncil.org for more information. The Gourgaud Gallery is located in Town H a l l, 23 - A Nor t h Ma i n Street in Cranbury. Hours are Sundays, June 5-19, 1-3 p.m. and Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Area Exhibits A nne Reid ’72 A r t Gallery at Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, has the “Senior Projects in the Visual Arts,” May 31- June 10. w w w.pds. org. Arts Council of Pr inceton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has the “Neighborhood Portrait Quilt” on permanent exhibition. “Start Fresh,” a group show by Polly Apfelbaum, Lindsay Feuer, Susan Hockaday, Natalie Jeremijenko, Melissa Marks, and Scott Wright, runs through June 24. www.artscouncilofprince ton.org. Artworks, Everett Alley ( Sto ck ton St reet ) , Trenton, has “TRASHED

Upcycle Exhibition, “MIT (Made in Trenton): The Art of the Block,” and “Sit i ” by Ron Powell, through June 11. www. artworkstrenton.com. B e r n ste i n G a l l e r y, Robertson Hall, Princeton University, has “In t h e Nat ion’s S e r v i ce ? Woodrow Wilson Revisited” through October 28. RevisitWilson@princeton. edu. D & R G r e e n w a y, 1 Preservation Place, has “D e c oy s — T i m e l i n e : From Craft to Art,” from the Jay Vaw ter collection, through November. “Wild Designs : Animal Constructions” is on view through June 17. www. drgreenway.org. E l l a r s l i e , Tre nton’s Cit y Mu s eu m i n C ad walader Park, Parkside Ave nu e, Tre nton, h as “The Ellarslie Open 33” through June 26. (609) 989-3632. H i s to r i c a l S o c i e t y of Pr inceton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “The Einstein Salon and Innovators Gallery,” and a show on John von Neumann, as well as a permanent exhibit of historic photographs. $4 admission WednesdaySunday, 12-4 p.m. Thursday extended hours till 7 p.m. and free admission 4-7 p.m. www.princeton history.org. The James A. Michener Art Museum at 138 South Pine Street in Doylestown, Pa., has “Holly Trostle Brigham: Sisters and Goddesses” through May 29, “Garber in Spring” through August 7, and “Philadelphia in Style: A Century of Fashion” through June 26. Visit www.michener artmuseum.org. L a kef ront G a l l er y, Rober t Wood Johnson Universit y Hospital, 1 Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton, has “The TAWA Invitational Art Exhibit” through June 24. (609) 775-5360. Lucas Gallery, Lewis Center for the Arts,

Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, has the “Senior All-Star Show” of recent work in a range of media through May 31. Mor ven Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has docentled tours of the historic house and its gardens, furnishings, and artifacts. “Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Couple of an Age” runs through October 2016. www.mor ven.org. The Princeton Universit y A r t Museum has “By Daw n’s E arly Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the National’s Fou nd ing to t he Civ il War” through June 12. “Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pot ter y E nter pr ise” is on view through July 10. (609) 258-3788. S ilva G a l ler y, Penn i n g t o n S c h o o l , 112 West Delaware Avenue, Pennington, has “Trenton Makes: Tom Malloy Remembered and Celebrated” through June 17. A reception is May 20, 6-8 p.m. pennington.org. Tigerlabs, 252 Nassau Street, has nature photography by Linda Park on display through June 1. Open weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. info@tigerlabs.co. West Windsor Ar ts Counc il, 952 A lexander Road, West Winds o r, h a s “G e n e r a t i o n Next,” works by up-andcoming artists, through J u l y 9. w e s t w i n d s o r arts.org.

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Music and Theater West Windsor Teen Wins Top Scholarship From American Ballet Theatre School Max Azaro was already studying gymnastics when he first took his place at the ballet barre at Princeton Dance and Theater Studio in Forrestal Village. For the energetic 10-year-old, there was something about this different way of movement that grabbed his attention. He has never looked back. “Max is one of the ‘hungriest’ students I have ever had,” said Risa Kaplowitz, director of the school and its affiliated Princeton Youth Ballet. “He

really wanted to be a professional ballet dancer from a young age.” Seven years and two full scholarships to American Ballet Theatre’s Jackie Kennedy Onassis School later, the West Windsor teenager is clearly on his way. At the gala opening of the ballet company’s spring season May 16 at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, Max was presented with the coveted Northern Trust Scholarship — an honor reserved for just

one student. “It’s sort of special, because the directors choose a student from the whole school, and this year it’s me,” Max said a few hours before attending the gala with his mother, Kathy Azaro. “Aside from a full ride, one of the ‘perks’ is that I get to go to the gala tonight and attend the preshow reception, the show, and the after-party dinner, which is when they present the award. And the honorary chair is Michelle Obama.”

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Despite his busy schedule of classes at the JKO School in Lower Manhattan, Max made time to come home and take on the role of the Prince in Ms. Kaplowitz’s production of Cinderella, on May 14 and 15 at the Princeton High School Performing Art Center. Dancing opposite Princeton Youth Ballet’s Abby Jorgenson, he was a gallant partner and performed his solos with calm assurance. Max credits Ms. Kaplowitz with recognizing his talent and giving him a strong foundation from a young age. “She practically taught me everything I know about ballet, and she gave me so many opportunities to perform,” he said. “And with her connections, she has helped me with getting scholarships to ABT.” Students at the JKO School share studios with ABT and sometimes perform with the professional dancers. “We get to be ‘supers’ [supernumeraries, taking extra character roles] in different shows,” Max said. “The kids at the school get first dibs on these roles. And also, last year we performed our own piece by [Alexei] Ratmansky in the fall gala.” Like many ballet students on track for a career, Max

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studies at the Professional Children’s School, where he will be a senior next fall. He lives with his grandparents in Short Hills to make the commute easier. Studying at ABT’s school has been “an amazing experience,” he said. “I get to learn from so many great teachers. Franco de Vita, my director, is retiring this year. He has been a mentor for me over the past few years. I’m in the second highest level this year, but he has let me take classes at the highest level as well.” Max dances, he said, “because I love moving. I’m a person who needs to move. I did gymnastics first, but once I started dancing I liked it more. There is always room to improve. It’s never perfect. Ballet has very classical roots in history, but I love the way contemporary works are reinvigorating the art form.” A particular favorite of Max’s is ABT’s resident choreographer Ratmansky, whose trilogy of works to music by Shostakovich has been winning rave reviews. “I have developed a great fondness for classical music,” Max said. “Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorite ballets because of the score by Prokofiev. I also love Shostakovich and Ratmansky does ballets to his music. I love listening to that music and dancing to it.” Over the years, Ms. Kaplowitz has entered Max in ballet competitions. “When I

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rinceton Pro Musica closed its 201516 season with a concert of Americana this past weekend. In this election year, Pro Musica Music Director Ryan James Brandau chose to program Sunday afternoon’s performance at Richardson Auditorium in the hope that the spirit of American classical music might effectively ground people amidst the political flurry. With a sampling of 20th and 21st-century choral works, the 100-voice Pro Musica ended their season in uplifting fashion. Sunday afternoon’s concert moved from the musically unassuming to the complex. Arrangers Alice Parker and Robert Shaw set a number of early American tunes in styles which both brought out the best in four-part choral singing and have served as good performance warm-ups over the past half-century. The men of Pro Musica began Wondrous Love with a wellblended sound, albeit a bit light from the tenors. As with all the selections on the program, diction was clear throughout the chorus. Pro Musica ventured into more complicated repertoire with Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst and John Corigliano Fern Hill. Pro Musica’s 30-voice Chamber Chorus presented the Whitacre piece, with a blend that was at its best in the softer dynamics. The soloists from within the chorus were strong, but the overall choral sound lacked some of the bite suggested by the dissonances. Accompanied by percussion and piano, the fragmented rhythmics were well executed. Corigliano’s Fern Hill was accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble, which despite its size, spoke well in the hall. This piece had a broad and peaceful feel, with a sextet of soloists from within the chorus creating a clean vocal ensemble among themselves. The featured mezzosoprano soloist in this piece was Margaret Lias, who possessed a free and relaxed voice well-suited to Dylan Thomas’s text. Ms. Lias easily maneuvered the lower pas-

sages of Corigliano’s melodic passages, gently accompanied by the horn and winds of the orchestra. Most refreshing on the afternoon’s program was the presentation by 13 members of the orchestra of Aaron Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring. Usually heard by full symphonic orchestra, this piece showed its sweet sonorities and delicate instrumentation performed by a chamber ensemble. Dr. Brandau allowed the suite to unfold, creating a broad musical palette. Transitions among tempi were well handled, and with so few players, the rhythmic syncopations were crisp and well-emphasized. Bassoonist Edward Burns had a prominent role, and there was gentle interplay between flutist Mary Schmidt and clarinetist Pascal Archer. A high point of the work was the familiar “Simple Gifts” theme, which Dr. Brandau kept light and airy. Princeton Pro Musica closed the concert with a selection of Copland’s Old American Songs, which set great American tunes in Copland’s unique choral arrangements. Accompanied by the full ensemble of instrumentalists, Pro Musica’s selection of five pieces replicated well an early 19th-century revival meeting atmosphere and the pioneering spirit of America moving westward. The members of Pro Musica were able to really sing out in these pieces, while emphasizing the crisp rhythms of “Ching-a-ring Chaw” and the long lines of “Zion’s Walls.” Dr. Brandau brought out in particular a grand feeling to “At the River,” further celebrating the American Spirit. rinceton Pro Musica will open its 38th concert season on Sunday, October 30, 2016 with a performance in Richardson Auditorium of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Polydora Ensemble. Information about tickets for next season can be obtained by calling (609) 683-5122 or by visiting www. princetonpromusica.org. —Nancy Plum

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Thursday, May 26 ALL DAY: The Alumni Association of Princeton University welcomes back generations of graduates for Reunions Weekend. Nearly 20,000 former Tigers descend on Princeton for this nostalgia-filled celebration. The event culminates with a parade through downtown Princeton (runs through Sunday, May 29). 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Outdoor Princeton Farmers Market at Hinds Plaza in downtown Princeton (repeats weekly). 4 to 5:30 p.m.: Meet the Curators at the Princeton University Art Museum. Enjoy conversation with curators from the Art Museum while exploring regional craft beer in the Museum’s Reunions tent. 7 p.m.: Screening of Rear Window (1954) at Princeton Garden Theatre. Friday, May 27 8:30 a.m.: Meet the Mayor at Princeton Public Library. Princeton residents are invited to discuss concerns with Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert. 2 p.m.: The Art Report: A Panel at the Princeton University Art Museum. Join Princeton alumni who are active in the arts for a lively discussion of some of the most compelling issues confronting museums today. 8 p.m.: Comedy All the Days directed by Emily Mann at McCarter Theatre (through May 29). Saturday, May 28 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Annual pancake breakfast hosted by the Rotary Club of Princeton on Palmer Square Green. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: West

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PLACEMENT CLASS SCHEDULE AT PRINCETON BALLET SCHOOL: Many dance schools place students in classes based solely on age. At Princeton Ballet School, age is only one factor in determining a student’s placement. Entering students with prior dance training for 1st through 5th grades, and grades 6 and up are welcome to audition. Open enrollment for all other students is underway, as well. For more information, visit www. americanrepertoryballet.org. (Photo Credit: Theresa Wood)

LaShir Performs Free Concert, “Halleluyah!”

LaShir, the Jewish Choir of Princeton, will present its 34 th annual concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 5 at the Princeton Jewish Center, 435 Nassau Street. This year’s concert is titled “Halleluyah” and features settings of that text spanning the breadth of the Jewish choral experience. The program will also include selections in Ladino and Yiddish, and music by Israeli and North American composers. L aSh ir, es tablished in 1981, is an independent, volunteer non-profit Jewish community choir comprised of members drawn primarily from the Princeton area. The choir is the oldest source of Jewish choral music in this area of New Jersey that does not serve the liturgical needs of a synagogue. Serving as a cultural representative of the Jewish community, LaShir is dedicated to preserving, promoting, and transmitting the Jewish cultural heritage with repertoire in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino. “This is really a fun program,” enthused LaShir’s conductor, Dr. Marsha Bryan Edelman. “While we are

including some music that will be new to our audiences, they will also hear some familiar texts and tunes. There’s going to be something for everyone at this concert.” Admission to the concert is free; light refreshments will be served following the performance. For more information, contact Dr. Edelman at Director@LaShir.org.

Marc Uys Princeton Symphony Partners With 2016 Princeton Festival

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is pleased to be partnering with the P r i n c e to n Fe s t i v a l a n d Princeton Garden Theatre to present Voices of Light, an oratorio by Richard Einhorn with the 1928 silent film classic The Passion of Joan of Arc, on Thursday, June 9 at 8:30 p.m. at the Princeton University Chapel. It is a first collaboration of the orchestra with the festival, made possible through the generous support of longterm PSO patrons Enea and Dave Tierno. PSO Executive Director Marc Uys elaborated on the

benefits of the new partnership, “The PSO is always looking for opportunities to work with other arts organizations in the community. This partnership with the Princeton Festival is ideal as it provides patrons and new audiences the chance to experience the excellence of PSO musicians in a unique setting, accompanying beautiful vocals with the added element of a classic film.” The Princeton Festival’s General and Ar tistic Director Richard Tang Yuk is equally pleased with the collaboration. He said, “We are thrilled to be collaborating with the PSO on this very engaging and moving multimedia project” While the partnership with the festival marks a new community relationship for the PSO, the orchestra has previously partnered with Princeton Garden Theatre to market its holiday and Saturday Evening POPS ! movie concerts. The theatre will host a free pre-concert event at 5 p.m. on June 9, A Conversation on Voices of Light/The Passion of Joan of Arc with composer Richard Einhorn, Princeton University’s Andrew Lovett, and University of Notre Dame’s Daniel Hobbins. The Voices of Light concert will be conducted by Carmen Helena Tellez, and feature soloists Jessica Beebe, Eve Gigliotto, Casey Finnigan, Christopher Job, the Notre Dame Vocale from the University of Notre Dame and The Princeton Festival Chorus. Tickets to Voices of Light are available at two general admission levels, $50 and $35, through McCarter Theatre.

PDS Awarded NJ Theater And Paper Mill Nominations

Princeton Day School (PDS) Director in Residence Stan Cahill announced that Austin Phares ’16, star of the fall production of Our Town, was named Outstanding Actor in a Drama at the 2016 New Jersey Theatre Awards held at Montclair State University on May 16, 2016. The cast of Our Town was also named Outstanding Acting Ensemble. Productions from 57 schools across New Jersey were eligible. Cahill noted, “This is the third time in four years that PDS has earned this distinction, including last year’s win for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.” The cast and crew of the spring musical The Boy Friend earned 3 Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Nominations. The Paper Mill Rising Star Awards recognize outstanding achievement in musical theater across the state. PDS was also nominated for the following awards: The Educational Impact Award; Outstanding Hair and Makeup Achievement (Hope Ammidon, Riley Gudgel, Helen Healey, Nishita Naga, Matthew Kuenne); Outstanding Costume Achievement (Deb Sugarman), Outstanding Choreography (Ann Robideaux), and Outstanding Performance by a Chorus (The Boy Friend chorus). To learn more about PDS’s educational offerings, visit www.pds.org.

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SPN has made a commitment to the NCAA softball tournament, providing wall-to-wall coverage of the event, starting by broadcasting hours of regional action in the first weekend of the event. In recent years, members of the Princeton University softball team have been among the interested viewers of the tourney. Last weekend, however, Princeton got to take the field in the NCAAs as it competed in the Harrisonburg (Va.) regional on the heels of beating Harvard in the Ivy League Championship Series earlier this month. “A lot of them were really excited to experience that for the first time,” said Van Ackeren. “They were looking forward to seeing what the environment was going to be like. Everyone was really looking forward to a competitive regional. I think they felt like they belonged there, they were just looking forward to getting on the field and showing them what we can do.” With 11 players taking exams on the morning of the opener against host James Madison University last Friday, Princeton faced an extra hurdle before competing on the diamond in the double-elimination event. “It was not ideal by any means but we are student athletes and that is what we do,” said Van Ackeren. “They handle it so incredibly well. I am always impressed with the way that our kids balance their lives. They did their best to take it in stride and this is the situation and we can do it. It was just put our nose to the grindstone and get it done.” The Tigers fought hard to get it done against JMU but a five-run outburst powered

by a grand slam in the third inning proved to be decisive as the Dukes posted a 7-0 victory. “They came out excited to play, they came out with some fire,” said Van Ackeren. “JMU is a really tough team; their pitching is phenomenal and we knew that coming in. They threw Megan Good against us, their ace, which i think showed a great deal of respect to our hitters. They had a big inning but ultimately I thought it was competitive early on. It was just a couple of walks and a big hit that came back to bite us.” A day later in an elimination game against Longwood, Princeton competed hard, taking a 1-0 lead on a fourth inning homer by freshman Keeley Walsh before ultimately succumbing 2-1. “I think the team feels that we should win that game, which is very encouraging,” said Van Ackeren, whose squad ended the season with a 23-28 record. “You never want to walk away from a regional, thinking no one expected us to win and we didn’t so no harm no foul. I think a lot of them felt as though we should have won that game. Many were appropriately disappointed by not winning that game which I think is evidence of good things to come. The young guys got a taste of what it is like to be in a region and they want some more. Having that experience so early in their career, they are going to be committed to getting back there and committed to doing whatever it takes, not just to get there but to compete even better than we did this year.” The commitment and talent of Princeton’s younger players was exemplified by Walsh’s homer.

KEY HIT: Princeton University softball player Keeley Walsh follows through on a swing in recent action. Last Saturday, freshman Walsh slugged a homer to account for Princeton’s only run in a 2-1 loss to Longwood in an elimination game at Harrisonburg (Va.) regional in the NCAA tournament. The loss left the Tigers with a final record of 23-28. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

“No one deserves it more than that kid; she has worked so hard and overcome a lot this season,” said Van Ackeren. “She had a significant ankle injury that kept her out of the lineup for the vast majority of our pre-Ivy season. Then she came in and got an honorable mention All-Ivy for her performance. She had the highlight of our offensive performance of the weekend at the NCAAs. That kid is so humble, she has a heart of gold. We were excited for her for a number of reasons.” It was exciting for Van Ackeren to see her seniors culminate their careers with an NCAA appearance. “They were a huge reason we got there in the first place,” said Van Ackeren, noting that two seniors, Emily Viggers and Kayla Bose, took part in a final rally in the Longwood loss. “Emily leads off the last inning with a pinch hit single up the middle on a really well struck ball and then we have second and third with no outs. We couldn’t score the run with our first two outs and, of course, Kayla comes up with two outs and two on and the go ahead run on second. She smiled before she walked out for her at bat because she knew the game had called her to be in that moment. Whatever happens, you are meant to be in this spot so just have a good at-bat. She has worked hard and that opportunity for her to be in that moment was very cool even though the outcome wasn’t what she wanted. It was a very dramatic ending.” Senior pitcher Shanna Christian ended things on a high note, going four and two-thirds innings in the finale with three strikeouts and two earned runs on five hits. “Shanna started both games in the regional for a reason,” said Van Ackeren. “She has battled so many injuries, that kid is as tough as nails and she feels proud finishing her career in a regional like that, doing well against those teams.” In Van Ackeren’s view, her returning players will be putting in extra work over the offseason to get back to the regionals. “For some of them it starts over the summer,” said Van Ackeren. “It starts with what did I do well this season and what do I need to do in order to improve. I think the workout packet, with our lifting and conditioning, some of them are going to attack even harder, just understanding what is required to be successful in the league next year and beyond.” —Bill Alden

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Stellar Group of Accomplished Senior Athletes Named as Finalists for PU’s Top Sports Awards With commencement fast approaching, it is awards season for the Princeton University athletes and the finalists for the two top senior sports honors were revealed last week. Mar tin Barakso, Adam Bragg, Teo D’Alessandro, Danny Hoy, and Thomas Sanner were named as the five finalists for the William Winston Roper Trophy, given to Princeton’s top senior male athlete. The winner of the award will be announced at the Gary Walters ’67 Princeton Varsity Club Awards Banquet on May 26. Barakso, histor y major from Nanaimo, British Columbia, is the captain of the third-ranked Princeton heavyweights, and he is a three-year star ter in the first varsity 8. Barakso has medaled in every Eastern Sprints competition he has been in, and he led the first varsity to its first IRA medal in nine years at the 2015 championships. This season, Barakso led the Tigers to an

8-1 record, with its lone loss coming by two seconds to the top-ranked boat in the country. Princeton finished second in the 2016 Eastern Sprints. Within the last 12 months, Barakso helped the heavyweights win their first Rowe Cup title since 2005, and was part of the first varsity boat that competed at the Henley Royal Regatta. He earned gold with the M8+ for Canada at the 2015 PanAm Games, and went on to compete for Canada at the 2015 Senior World Championships, the top rowing competition in a non-Olympic year. Bragg, a histor y major from El Toro, Calif., will leave Princeton as the best pole vaulter in school history, if not the Ivy League. At the 2016 Outdoor Heps Bragg cleared an Ivy League record of 5.53 (18-1.75) to win his second consecutive outdoor title and break a league record that stood for 23 years. Bragg also owns the school indoor pole vault

ON THE SHORTLIST: Princeton University baseball player Danny Hoy takes a swing in recent action. Senior infielder Hoy, who helped Princeton go from last to first in the Ivy League this spring, was one of five seniors named as a finalist for the William Winston Roper Trophy, given to Princeton’s top senior male athlete. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

record of 5.41 (17-9), which ranks him second all-time in the league. Bragg owns a personal best of 5.65 (186.50) which was set at the Fasttrack National Invitational this past February. A second-team All-America in the pole vault, Bragg finished 12th at the 2014 NCAAs and has qualified for the NCAA Regionals in both 2014 and 2015 and again this year. A threetime Ivy League champion in the event, he was second outdoors in 2012 and fourth indoors in 2012. D’Alessandro, a history major from Stuar t, Fla., ser ved as tri-captain for the Princeton men’s swimming team, which completed a dramatic final-session comeback this season to repeat as Ivy League champion. D’Alessandro leaves Princeton as both a threetime Ivy League individual and team champion; he won the 2014, 2015, and 2016 Ivy titles in the 200 IM, and he finished second to the Ivy record-holder during his 2013 freshman season. He also helped Princeton win the 2013, 2015, and 2016 team championships. T h e P r i n c e to n r e c or d h ol d e r i n t h e 20 0 I M , D’Alessandro holds all-time Top 10 times in six of the 14 individual events in program history. He also completed his career by qualifying for the 2016 NCAA Championships, where he posted Top35 finishes in three events, including 28th in the 200 IM. He will compete this summer at the Olympic Trials in both the 100 fly and 200 IM. Hoy, a politics major from Sellersville, Penn., was a key cog of a Princeton baseball team that improved its win total by 15 games from last year, as the Tigers went from last place in its division in 2015 to the 2016 Ivy League champion. The senior infielder was a firstteam All-Ivy selection and

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ranked in the league’s top ten r u ns, hits, doubles, home runs, RBI, total bases, steals, batting average, and slugging percentage. Hoy was a first-team AllIvy League selection as a junior after leading the Tigers in batting averages, home runs, triples, doubles, slugging percentage, RBI and multi-RBI games. Hoy also led the team in doubles, home runs, and runs as a sophomore. T he second baseman will finish his career ranked in the program’s all-time top five in doubles, extra base hits; and in the top ten in total bases, runs, hits, and steals. Sanner, a politics major from Indianapolis, Ind., was the unanimous selection for 2015 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year. The 2012 Ivy League Rookie of Year earned three All-Ivy League honors during this career, including two on the first team. He is just the second Tiger to have earned Rookie of the Year honors and Player of the Year honors in his career. The only other Princeton player to do so is Princeton head coach Jim Barlow. A first-team allregion selection in 2015, Sanner led the Ivy League in both points, with 31, and goals with 13. Sanner ranked fourth in the NCAA in points per game (1.82), fourth in goals per game (0.76) and was 10th nationally in shots per game (4.06). He finished his Princeton career with 32 goals, 13 of which were game-winning goals, and 15 assists for 79 points in 64 games. He ranks third in scoring alltime at Princeton, ahead of former assistant coach and MLS Head Coach of the Year Jesse Marsch ’96 and current Montreal Impact player Cameron Porter ’15 who finished with 75 points apiece. Sanner is fourth alltime in goals and tied for fifth in assists. In January he was invited to the MLS Player Combine in Florida and was later selected by Vancouver as 16th pick in round 2 by the Whitecaps in the MLS SuperDraft. As for the women, Liz Bannantine, Cecilia Barowski, Michelle Miller, Kendall Peterkin, Gracie Stone, and Alex Wheatley have been named the finalists for the C. Otto von Kienbusch Award, given annually to the top senior female athlete. The winner of the award will also be announced at the May 26 banquet. Bannantine, a history major from Baltimore, Md., is a two-year captain and four-year starter on defense for Princeton’s women’s lacrosse team. She will leave Princeton having earned AllIvy League honors all four years of her career. Bannantine earned two first-team All-Ivy and two second-team All-Ivy honors, and she was an ILWCA first-team all-region selection this year and a second-team All-Region selection last year. A member of the 2016 Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List, Bannantine was on the 2014 Ivy League all-tournament team. During her career, Bannantine started in 68 games and played in 70. She has three assists, 86 ground balls, 40 draw controls, and 77 caused turnovers. The Tigers reached the NCAA Tournament in all of her four years, reaching the

first round during her freshman and senior years, second round her sophomore year, and quarterfinal round her junior year while winning six NCAA tournament games. Princeton won three Ivy League titles and in four years has posted a 49-24 overall record and a 25-3 record in the Ivy League. Though her days at Princeton are coming to an end, Barowski, a molecular biology major from Amherst, N.H., has plenty to look forward to in her track career. In April she ran the Olympic qualifying time in the 800 at 2:02.62 and will run to make Team USA in July. She has competed in two NCAA Championships, finishing sixth to earn first-team AllAmerica honors in the 800 this past indoor season. Last spring she finished 19th to earn honorable mention AllAmerica honors. Barowski has twice earned her way to the NCAA Regionals in the 800 and will do so again this spring as she owns the fourth best 800 time in the country. She is a six-time Ivy League Heps champion, winning the indoor 500 and 800 and the outdoor 800, 4x400 and the 400 twice. Barowski has been a runner-up four times in 400 and 4x400 relays and has scored in an incredible six other events. In all, she has scored 118 total points for her team at Heps, including relays, and 68 singlehandedly. Barowski holds 11 Princeton records, including both the indoor and outdoor 400, indoor 500, indoor and outdoor 800, indoor 1000, indoor and outdoor 4x400 relay, outdoor distance medley and sprint medley relay and the 4x800 relay, also an Ivy League record at 8:27.26. She has personal bests of 52.97 in the 400 and a 2:02.14 in the 800. Miller, a chemistry major from Pasadena, Calif., was a major factor in helping the women’s basketball team go 97-23 (.808) overall and 50-6 (.892) in Ivy League play in her four seasons as a Tiger. During her time at Princeton, Miller helped the Tigers win two Ivy League championships and become the first team in Ivy League history to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Miller is also a quality academic student as she has back-to-back CoSIDA Academic All-American honors, the Princeton Shapiro for Academic Excellence Award, and was named a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Miller finished her career with 1,314 points, the eighth highest among all Princeton players. She is the team’s all-time leader in free throw percentage (.831), ranks second in three-point field goal percentage (.419) and third in three-pointers made (213). She also was the team’s leading scorer (13.7 points per game) and was named first-team All-Ivy League as a senior. Peterkin, an ecology and evolutionary biology major from San Diego, Calif. is a three-time first-team All-Ivy League honoree, as well as a member of the AVCA All-Region team, and she helped Princeton to an unprecedented Ivy League championship during her senior season. The Tigers became the first team in any sport in Ivy history to win

the title after losing their first three matches, and Peterkin led them as both captain and one of the league’s top hitters. She ranked in the Ivy League top three in kills every year of her career, and she finished ninth in Princeton history with 1,255 kills. A unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection in both 2014 and 2015, Peterkin recorded more than 700 kills and 450 digs over her final two seasons. She earned All-ECAC honors during her senior season, and she ranked in the Top 15 in the NCAA as a junior in both kills and points. Stone, a politics major from Lisle, Ill., is a four-time first-team All-America in saber, the women’s fencing program’s second four-time All-America in her weapon alongside her sister, Eliza Stone, from the Class of 2013. In three of her four trips to the NCAA Championships, she advanced to the individual national championship semifinals, making the final this year for a second-place finish, her highest of four top-eight finishes at the NCAA finals. Stone is also an NCAA Mid-Atlantic/ South Regional champion, winning that honor as a sophomore. While her individual accomplishments are outstanding, she has also helped the fencing program bring home an NCAA topfour trophy in each of her four seasons, including a national title in 2013, the program’s first in the combined men’s/women’s title era. Within the Iv y League, Stone is a two-time firstteam All-Ivy honoree, with one of those coming in her freshman year when she earned Most Outstanding Rookie honors at the Ivy League round-robin, and she earned Academic AllIvy League recognition this year. Wheatley, an ecology and evolutionary biology major from Upper Holland, Pa., was part of a senior class that was one of the most successful in Ivy women’s basketball history. She helped the program go 97-23 (.808) overall and 50-6 (.892) in Ivy League play. During her time at Princeton, the Tigers won two Ivy League championships and became the first team in conference history to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Off the court, Wheatley was instrumental in orchestrating Athletes Helping Athletes events, a non-profit organization used to connect local special needs athletes with mainstream student-athletes in a spirit of friendship for their mutual benefit and inspiration. After a stellar senior season, Wheatley became just one of six players in program history to be named to the All-Ivy first team in back-to-back years. She also nabbed All-Ivy League honorable mention as a sophomore. The senior became a 1,000-point scorer, finishing with 1,137 in her career, the 24th player all-time to reach the mark. Wheatley boasts the third highest field goal percentage (56.1) in women’s basketball history and also showed off a great allaround game as well, finishing with over 500 rebounds, 100 assists, 100 blocks, and 100 steals in her career. —Bill Alden

Former NBA Star Kittles Joining PU Men’s Hoops

Former NBA standout Kerry Kittles will be joining the Princeton University men’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach, the program announced this week. Sharp-shooting guard Kittles graduated from Villanova in 1996 as the program’s all-time leading scorer with 2,243 points, a program record that stands 20 years later as he returns to the college game at Princeton. Kittles went on to a nineyear career in the NBA, playing eight seasons for the New Jersey Nets and one with the Los Angeles Clippers. He scored 7,165 points in his career, averaging 14.1 points a game. Since finishing his NBA

The United States posted two shutouts en route to outscoring Chile, 6-1, over the three-game set. Sharkey scored a goal in the team’s 2-0 victory in game two. Julia Reinprecht was honored as the Player of the Series. Nate Franks ’07, a former assistant coach, is also a performance analyst for the women’s national squad. ———

junior Lizzie Bird, and junior Ally Markovich. Senior Kathryn Fluehr makes her second consecutive appearance in the NCAA regional. She qualified in the 5,000 last year, and will compete in the 10,000 this year. The Ivy League pole vault record holder Allison Harris will make her regional debut in that event. Sophomore Kennedy O’Dell will also make her first appearance in PU Women’s Track the NCAA regional, competSending 9 to Regional ing in the hammer throw. Nine members of the Princ——— eton women’s track team will participate in the 2015 Princeton Men’s Track NCAA East Regional, which Sending 12 to Regionals is taking place in JacksonTwelve members of the ville, Fla., on the campus Princeton University men’s of the University of North track team will participate Florida from May 26-28. in the 2016 NCAA East ReB o t h s e n i o r C e c i l i a gional, which is being held in Barowski and sophomore Jacksonville, Fla., on the camAshley Forte qualified in pus of the University of North 800. Junior Katie Hanss Florida from May 26-28. makes her first appearance Sophomore Mitchel in the NCAA regional as she Charles will double in the qualified in the 1500. discus and shot put while Three Tigers will race in junior Chris Cook will comthe steeplechase, including pete in the shot put. Freshsenior Emily de La Bruyere, man Adam Kelly joins the

uphold a tradition of athletic and academic excellence, to help players win both on and off the court, to succeed in their endeavors, to build character of mind and body.” ———

PU Hoops Player Weledji Named to Cameroon Squad

Sophomore Tia Weledji of the Princeton University women’s basketball team was named to the preliminary squad of the Cameroon national team in preparation for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Weledji will join her sister, Nelly, as the team participates in the tournament that takes places from June 13-19 in Nantes, France. Should Cameroon advance to the quarterfinals, it would clinch a berth to the 2016 Rio Olympics. “Being able to play the sport I love while representing my country with a chance of participating in the 2016 summer Olympics is something I would have never dreamed of,” said Weledji. “International basketball is so much different from college basketball and it is so exciting to be learning from so many great coaches and players.” The Cameroon national team finished second at FIBA Africa Women’s Championship last year to qualify for the tournament this June. Cameroon’s second place tally was its best finish ever in the Africa Women’s Championship and marks the first time that the country made the qualifying tournament since 1984. ———

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throwers and will take part in the hammer throw. For the third consecutive season, senior Adam Bragg will compete in the pole vault. Joining him in the event will be teammate sophomore August Kiles. Junior Xavier Bledsoe will compete in the Regionals for the first time in the high jump. Sophomore Greg Caldwell makes his regional debut in the 110-meter hurdles while classmate Noah Kauppila will race in both the 1,500 and the 5,000. He will be joined by sophomore Garrett O’Toole in the 1,500. Senior Michael Sublette will be competing in the 10,000. Freshman Josh Ingalls will race in the 800 while senior Eddie O wens makes his third appearance in the regionals in the steeplechase. Making his NCAA regional debut, junior Ray Mennin will compete in the 400. Another first-time qualifier is junior Greg Leeper, who will be taking part in the 400 hurdles.

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career with the Clippers in 2005, Kittles, now 41, returned to Villanova, to earn his MBA, which he completed in 2009. Since 2010, he has served on Villanova’s President’s Advisory Council as an ambassador for the university, developing opportunities for students and alumni by engaging with the school’s corporate relationships, mentoring students and alums, and promoting academic success and career development. Kittles is set to make his coaching debut next season with a Princeton team that returns all five starters and more than 99 percent of its scoring from the 2015-16 campaign, which saw the Tigers go 22-7 and earn an NIT berth. “I look for ward to the challenges of being a college coach,” said Kittles. “I am excited about sharing my experiences as they relate to the goals and aspirations of the players. My desire is to

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Starring for PHS Baseball Over the Last 4 Years, Senior Infielder Reyes Reaches 100-Hit Milestone When Hayden Reyes got called up to the Princeton High varsity baseball team as a freshman in 2013, it didn’t take long for him to make an impact. “They put me in one game and I wasn’t doing well,” said Reyes. “Then they moved me up to second in the lineup and I went 2-for-5 that game and ever since then I have never looked back.” Over the last four seasons, Reyes has been a fixture in the PHS lineup, playing shortstop and batting leadoff. Earlier this month, Reyes achieved something he never imagined was possible when he made his varsity debut, collecting the 100th hit of his high school career. “It was exciting, it was somet hing I never even thought about until my junior year,” said Reyes, who got the milestone hit on May 12 in an 8-2 loss to WW/PN. “It was a relief to get it, I was thinking about it since my 95th hit.” With the PHS coaching staff believing that no player

has previously reached the 100-hit mark in program histor y, the achievement has special significance for Reyes. “It is exciting to be the first one to ever do it and record it,” said Reyes. “It is something I will remember forever.” While accumulating 100 hits is an individual achievem e n t , Re y e s k n o w s h e couldn’t have done it alone. “I had a lot of help from my teammates, winning games and getting around the order,” said Reyes. “I have been getting four or five at bats in a lot of games.” For Reyes, helping the Little Tigers win more games has been the main highlight of his PHS experience. “Tur n ing t he prog ram around is the thing that will come to my mind,” said Reyes, reflecting on his career. “Before I was here, I think the team was 3-21 previously. In my freshman year they were 1-8 and called me up and I think we ended 9-14. We won 10 games last year. We have improved a lot.”

While PHS ended the 2016 campaign at 9-14 as it fell 2-0 to Monroe last Monday in the opening round of the Central Jersey Group 4 sectional, Reyes was excited to wrap things up with a tournament appearance. “We have had a lot of injuries, our ace (Joaquin Hernandez-Burt) got hurt,” said Reyes, who had 104 career hits through an 11-1 regular season loss at Nottingham last Friday. “We qualified for a state game. It is our second time in eight years; we did it my sophomore year. It is exciting to end in a state game.” Reyes’ career will not be ending any time soon as he will be attending Montclair State and playing for its baseball program. “I had an on campus tour with their coach; I really liked the campus and two weeks later, I decided I was going to go there,” said Reyes. “I think it is a good fit for me. I am looking forward to playing there. It has been a dream for a while and it is great to get it all accomplished. Looking back, I have worked hard and it has paid off.” —Bill Alden

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With Helstrom Determined to Extend Career, PHS Boys’ Lax Advances to Sectional Semis Rory Helstrom has enjoyed some great moments on the Princeton High turf field, starring as an all-county running back in football and a hard-charging midfielder in lacrosse. Last Wednesday, as the fifth-seeded PHS boys’ lax team hosted 11th-seeded Wayne Valley in the opening round of the North Group 3 tournament, Helstrom hit that field with some extra emotion. “This was my last home game here so it meant something more to me,” said Helstrom. The game also meant a lot to Wayne Valley and it jumped out to a 4-2 lead with 4:50 remaining in the first quarter. “They came out well, they knew what to do against us,” said Helstrom. “We kind of sat back with them scoring in the beginning.” PHS, though, responded, with a 5-0 run to end the half and then held on for an 11-8 victory. “We came back, which was good,” said Helstrom, who ended the day with three goals and an assist. “We were moving the ball on offense and not making bad passes. On defense we were pressuring them and taking the ball away.” Helstrom’s first tally came with 1:25 left in the first half, giving the Little Tigers a 7-4 lead heading into intermission. “I just saw the guy sliding off and I was open,” said Helstrom, reflecting on the goal. “I saw net so I shot it.” PHS kept shooting in the third quarter as it increased the lead to 10-6. “We kind of figured out their defense and what they were going to do,” said Helstrom. “We started to work our offense according to them.” Things got a little dicey in the fourth quarter as Wayne Valley cut the lead to 10-8 with 8:10 left in regulation. “We were just tired but we held on; they came to make it a two-goal game,” said Helstrom. “They are a good team; it is better than the first round wins have had in previous years.” Helstrom helped PHS get another win in the quarterfinal round as the Little Tigers rallied for a 10-9 victory over fourth-seeded Scotch Plains-Fanwood last Saturday. “We need to come out strong because the whole season, we have been down in the beginning of a lot of

games,” said Helstrom, who got a goal and three assists in the victory and will look to have another big game when PHS, now 12-4, plays at top - s ee de d Nor t her n Highlands in the sectional semis on May 25. “So if we came out strong, starting in the warmups we can do well.” PHS head coach Chip Casto expected Helstrom to do well in his home finale. “Rory had some big goals, some big ground balls,” said Casto. “This is his last home game ever in any sport at PHS so I think that affected him a little. He was very fired up in the locker room too. It is funny; it slaps them in the face, they start to see how things change.” Casto knew that Wayne Valley had the potential to slap PHS in the face. “North Jersey teams are tested, they had nine losses but they play hard up there,” said Casto. “They came down and did what they do well.” The Lit tle Tigers finetuned their play on defense in order to turn the tide of the contest. “We made an adjustment to double pole their attackers, “ said Casto. “It seemed to calm them down a little and we got a couple of transition things.” Down the stretch, PHS got

an insurance goal from Eamonn McDonald and some key stops from goalie Leo Godefroy to hold off Wayne Valley. “It was holding on tight,” said Casto with a nervous chuckle as he reflected on the closing moments of the contest. “Rory was patient enough to see a secondary cut so that was a nice finish by Eamonn. Leo looked a little shaky in the beginning but he is a competitor and he turned it around and he made some real big saves.” In Casto’s view, surviving the challenge posed by Wayne Valley could propel PHS to a nice run in states. “We are glad to get out of it and in a way it is good, we got a test and we have got some things we can chew on our team about in practices so they don’t just relax,” said Casto. “We need to finish those opportunities that we didn’t finish today. We have to capitalize on the opportunities given to us and just tighten up that defense a little.” Helstrom and classmate Nick Halliday, the team’s lone seniors, are hoping to guide PHS to a big finish. “We are trying to keep everyone positive,” said Helstrom. “The younger kids get confused sometimes and don’t know what to do and get angry so Nick and I try keep them in line.” —Bill Alden

STILL ROARING: Princeton High boys’ lacrosse star Rory Helstrom heads to goal last Saturday against Scotch PlainsFanwood in the North Group 3 state tournament quarterfinals. Helstrom chipped in a goal and three assists as PHS rallied for a 10-9 victory over the fourth-seeded Raiders. The Little Tigers, now 12-4, play at top-seeded Northern Highlands on May 25 in the semis. (Photo by John Dowers)

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James Fragale realized t hat t he P r i nce ton Day School boys’ lacrosse team faced a challenge in containing Montclair Kimberley Academy in the state Prep B title game last Wednesday. “We couldn’t overlook them, the coaches brought in six films for us to watch,” said senior defender Fragale. “We got prepared for it, we knew what we were facing. No. 17 (Joe Strain) is definitely a huge guy, he is just big and aggressive and we don’t have too much size on our defense so that was a tough matchup for us.” With PDS clinging to a 6-5 lead in the waning seconds of the contest, Fragale found himself matched against Strain as he barreled towards the crease, looking to tie up the game. Fragale came up big, utilizing a stick check to knock the ball away and preserve the title for the Panthers. “I saw a stick go up and I just went after it, there was no thinking in that situation,” recalled Fragale. Fragale was ready to do whatever was necessary to help the defensive unit hold the fort. “Our defense is all about working together and playing as one,” said Fragale. “That is where we play our best.” In reflecting on a remarkable spring for the Panthers which saw them post a 15-1 record and win the pro gram’s first Mercer County Tournament title to go with the Prep B crown, Fragale said unity among the players was the key to success. “It’s the word ‘together’ and it is how much we love each other,” asserted Fragale. “I love every guy on this team. That has made the difference, that is what put us on top of everybody we played this year.” The team’s core of seniors has become particularly close over their time at PDS. “We spent four years together so we have a bond,” said Fragale. “I don’t think I will ever forget those guys. I

will keep in touch with them my whole life; the chemistry there is undeniable.” Fragale has worked closely together with classmate Amir Melvin to spearhead a stingy Panther defensive unit. “It has always been a balance between me and Amir running the defense,” said Fragale, who is headed to RPI where he will be playing for its men’s lacrosse program. “When I have an off day, Amir picks it up. At the end of the first half, Amir had a bad day and I had to pick up his slack to get the team going. The balance with me and Amir working together controls the defense.” The defense picked up the slack to keep the game from slipping away in a frantic fourth quarter as the Cougars repeatedly pressed forward, trailing by one goal. “The tempo got up and it started moving fast; we were kind of losing control,” recalled Fragale. “Our mindset was slow it down to take control of the game.” PDS head coach R ich D’Andrea believed his team w a s p r e p a r e d to c o m e through in a pressure cooker game. “You look at the types of games that we have been fortunate enough to win this year; we have been talking about the big game resume all year,” said D’Andrea. “The one goalers are the ones that are the tough ones. I think that these boys want themselves in that situation whereas a few years ago it was something where we were still learning that experience.” In D’Andrea’s view, playing a series of tough foes helped pave the way for the program’s second Prep B title in the last three years. “I am a one at a time guy; for us, the target has been the Mercer County Tournament and the Prep Bs,” said D’Andrea, who got two goals apiece from the Tuckman brothers, Jonah and Elon, in the title contest with Coby Auslander chipping in a goal and an assist and Connor

GALE FORCE: Princeton Day School senior defender James Fragale pressures a foe in recent action. Last Wednesday, he made some big plays down the stretch to help top-seeded PDS edge second-seeded Montclair Kimberley Academy 6-5 in the state Prep B title game. The triumph gave the Panthers a final record of 15-1 and marked its second championship of the spring as the program had won its first-ever Mercer County Tournament title earlier this month. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Fletcher and Justin Herrup each picking up an assist. “We play a really competitive schedule. We play all the Prep A teams; we play a lot of the competitive independent schools. So for us it has been about getting here and luckily we were able to get one today.” D’Andrea knows he was lucky to have such a strong group of seniors this season. “I remember seeing these guys when they were in 8th grade with coach Peter Higgins at practice,” said D’Andrea of the team’s Class of 2016 which included cocaptains Fletcher and Jonah Tuckman along with Joey Levine, Noam Yakoby, and Aiden Jones, in addition to Fragale and Melvin. “It was one of the most talented 8th grade classes. It was my first year here and I remember being really excited for when these guys would be seniors. They lived up to the hype. They are humble, hard working and they really go to bat for each others. I think what most impresses me is through the years here the classes continue to push each other and with this group, they really, really set the bar high, not even in terms of wins but just in terms of being a good teammate and what they have done for each other. It is something that makes me love coming to work every day.” The work of Fragale along the back line has impressed D’Andrea. “James has been invaluable in terms of senior leadership and on field play,” said D’Andrea. “He is one of the best on ball defenders that we have and one of the best clearing defenders that we have had since I have been here. Between him and Amir down low, they lead the defense. They give us really strong senior leadership. It has been great because we have some other guys like Jack Amaral, who have really grown.” With MK A put ting the heat on down the stretch, the PDS defense had to come up big. “We knew this was going to be another close one, a one goaler coming in, but our defense held strong,” said D’Andrea. “Strain has a big body. We watched a lot of film of him, he is a big boy and he is one of their senior leaders. He has got that big righty release and when he dodges downhill, that is something that gets your attention for sure. We were lucky that our guys stopped him at the end.” Coming through in a close one to end the season with a second title put a smile on the face of a relieved D’Andrea. “T his is special,” said D’Andrea. “I haven’t gotten a whole lot of sleep the last few weeks here. It is the first time in our history that we have won both MCT and Prep in the same year.” Fragale, for his part, won’t soon forget being part of history this spring. “It is unbelievable,” said Fragale. “We won this once in my sophomore year but I didn’t really play so it didn’t mean as much to me. To come back my senior year and win, it meant the world to me.” —Bill Alden

Sparked by Gasparro’s Hard-Nosed Play, Production PDS Baseball Exceeds Expectations With 12-8 Season Dom Gasparro found himself in the middle of the action as he played in his Senior Day for the Princeton Day School baseball team against visiting Hopewell Valley last Friday. The third baseman and tri-captain got hit by two pitches to reach base, drew a walk, slammed a double, scoring three runs and getting an RBI in the process. “I was excited to come out and play,” said Gasparro. “I am a senior captain of the team and I was hoping to get one big win against these guys. Last year we ended the season with them and they beat us.” PDS played hard against the Bulldogs, overcoming an early 2-0 deficit to take a 4-2 lead and rallying for two runs in the sixth inning after falling behind 8-4 but came up short in a 9-6 defeat. “I t h ou g ht we playe d pretty well, that is a pretty good team,” said Gasparro. “I think they were top 20 in the state, they probably were going to make a good run in the states. For a while we were really there with them. Towards the end, we just didn’t capitalize on a few opportunities.” In reflecting on the season, Gasparro believes the Panthers have played well this spring. “This is a really good year for us, this is the most wins I have had in my four years here,” said Gasparro, who helped PDS get a win in its finale, going 2-for-4 with a double as the Panthers defeated New Hope-Solebury (Pa.) 8-1 last Monday to end the spring at 12-8. “It would have been nicer if we had a championship but we got a lot of wins. We did win some tournament games.” While PDS head coach Ray O’Brien was hoping for a win against HoVal, he was proud of the effort he got from his players. “Both teams battled, it has been indicative of the season for the guys,” said O’Brien. “They keep fighting. We are outgunned, we are outnumbered. We have nine or 10 guys. It is always David against Goliath for us with our numbers but the guys relish it. They each take a role, everybody gets to participate, everyone is into it because we have to be. It is all hands on deck.” That fighting spirit helped the Panthers enjoy a fine campaign as they improved on the 10 -14 mark they posted in 2015. “They took a big step forward when you start looking back at the season,” said O’Brien. “Pe ople d id n’t e xp e c t much from us at all this year but I did. I thought we could be good this year. The pitching has been great. Chase Fleming has been pitching great the whole season and the same thing with Russell Kirczow. They go in and pound the zone and do what they are supposed to do.”

O’Brien credits Gasparro with doing what he was supposed to do from day one of his PDS career. “Dom has been a star since his freshman year when he came in,” said O’Brien. “He hasn’t said much over the years but he didn’t have to, Dom has done all of his talking on the field. He always does the right thing. Since his freshman year he has been like that, he has been hard-nosed. He plays tough and hard. I wish I had nine more like him, he is a coach’s dream.” The team’s other seniors, shortstop Sam Guarino and left fielder Ryan Augustus, emerged as stars in their final campaign. “Sam has slid over and played really well at short for us this year; he seems to be putting it all together this year,” added O’Brien. “He really went out on a good note with a really solid year. Ryan Augustus is probably the most improved player, he worked so hard, changing his swing. He has become a complete player. Defensively, he has been great. This year in the four hole, he has become a force. He has had one of the better seasons a kid has had in

a while. I am really proud of how hard he worked. He kept sticking to it, he has had a really great season.” O’Brien sees good seasons ahead for his gritty club. “We lose three solid seniors but that will leave us with seven starting players coming back,” said O’Brien. “The guys battled real hard this year. They worked hard, practiced hard, and it has paid off. With 12 wins, you eclipse last year’s win total. I am real happy with it. The younger guys, like Ryan Bremer and Matt Nyce that haven’t played as much will be ready to play so we will be able to run nine guys out there that have varsity experience.” Gasparro, for his part, relished his experience of assuming a leadership role this year along with classmates Guarino and Augustus. “It was nice, we had big shoes to fill and I think we did that pretty well,” said Gasparro. “We had more wins than we had last year. We would work a lot on days in the offseason when we had no practice. We would schedule on-field hitting. We just had a really good team chemistry this year, a lot of us really bonded because we also returned a lot of guys.” —Bill Alden

HITTING THE GAS: Princeton Day School baseball player Dom Gasparro takes a big swing in a game this season. Last Friday, senior third baseman Gasparro had a double, three runs, and an RBI in a losing cause as PDS fell 9-6 to visiting Hopewell Valley on its annual Senior Day celebration. On Monday, Gasparro and his classmates ended things on a high note as the Panthers defeated New Hope-Solebury (Pa.) 8-1 in its season finale. The win gave PDS a final record of 12-8. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Hun Baseball Rallies for Prep A Championship, As Coach McQuade Ends 46-Year Run in Glory

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runs in the second game against Blair was very similar to when we played them in our first game up there (a 5-2 win in eight innings on April 5). We jumped out to a three run lead and we sat back on it, we didn’t add on and we had to go extra innings to get the win there. It was along those lines. Hun had trouble getting back to Blair on Sunday as one of its vans broke down on Interstate 80 some 20 minutes away from the field. Once the Raiders arrived, they jumped on Peddie, winning 3-1 and 4-1 to earn the title. Coming into the finals, McQuade sensed that his team was going to get it done. “We had a really great practice the day before; we had a good workout,” said McQuade. “The kids come in Sunday and had a good batting practice 30-45 minutes before we went up there so the spirits were terrific. It came down to our pitching and defense because we knew that the games would be close.” Hun executed terrifically on the mound and in the field all day on Sunday. “Our pitching was outstanding,” said McQuade, who got a fine mound effort from senior Robby Huselid in the opener with James Werosta going five innings in the decisive game and E.J. Locascio coming on in relief. “Our defense throughout the four-game stretch was the best it has been all year long. It was really what propelled us. We could not have done it without the guidance from our pitching coach Stevie Garrison; he called pitches that I would have never have called.” In the title decider, another key hit from Moore proved to be pivotal. “In our final game we are nursing a 2-1 lead and Matty Moore comes up with a shot to right center field for a two-run double,” recalled McQuade, whose team ended the spring with a 16-7 record.

“That gave us the cushion then so we could exhale. We had a little bit of leeway to work with. It was just incredible.” Winning the title in his finale left McQuade with an incredible feeling. “I was overwhelmed; it was special and I know they were trying extra hard for me,” said McQuade, who was doused with a water bucket shower in the celebration. “I knew it was on their minds. I appreciated it when I saw past parents there, that made me feel really good. This year just caps off a great career.” Seeing his team battle back from the brink of elimination made the championship even sweeter. “We were on the ropes, if s om e on e had la n d e d a k nockout pu nch, t hat would have been it,” said McQuade. “We bounced back and got up off the mat. I think Tommy’s inspirational words ‘don’t let us get to Sunday’ was a key. That was our slogan.” Acting on those words, the Raiders honed in on delivering the proper sendoff for their beloved coach. “When we got to that last game, they settled down and they just focused on what they needed to do,” said McQuade. “They didn’t let the bigger picture get in the way. The kids literally fought inning by inning. You have to do that. It is amazing, in doing that, they realize in the future that is what they have to do in whatever it is they get into. You have to focus on the task at hand, you can’t change anything that has already happened. They did that, they pulled for each other. Those guys were great.” And in pulling out the title, the Hun players produced a fitting finale to an amazing career. —Bill Alden

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For the Hun School softball team, starting the spring with an 11-10 victory over nemesis Peddie gave it a heavy dose of self belief. “The win against Peddie, the first game of the season, set the tone for us,” said Hun head coach Kathy Quirk. “We had been so close to them for years and have just not been able to beat them. I think that gave us a lot of confidence.” Building on that triumph, Hun went on to post a 12-2

regular season mark, winning the MAPL title in the process as it defeated Peddie a second time, prevailing 9-5 on April 19. After rolling past Kent Place 10-0 in the state Prep A quarterfinals, Hun faced Peddie again last Wednesday in semis and Quirk was sensing a third triumph over the Falcons. “In the first inning, we shut them down 1-2-3 and I thought this was going to be a great game,” said Quirk.

MIGHTY KACEY: Hun School softball player Kacey Abitz takes a cut in the state Prep A semifinals against Peddie last Wednesday. Senior third baseman/pitcher Abitz and the Raiders went down to a 7-0 defeat to the Falcons in the contest. Hun finished the spring with a 13-3 record, winning the Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) title along the way. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

But after giving up four runs in the top of the second, Hun’s season came to an end as Peddie went on to a 7-0 victory as the Raiders were held to five hits by Falcons pitcher Sydney Hixenbaugh. “That did put us in a hole and we couldn’t get out of it,” said Quirk, referring to Peddie’s second inning outburst. “I thought we were ready to play. Things didn’t go our way. It is not like we made tons of errors, they just had a couple of key hits. We gave them a couple of walks and you can’t defend a walk. T hey scored w it h t hose walks on base. We struggled a little with their pitcher and her change up. We just couldn’t connect with the ball.” While Quirk was disappointed with the finale, she will look back fondly on this spring. “I was very proud of them, the way we won the MAPL,” said Quirk. “We went undefeated in that league which I don’t think has ever been done by anyone. I don’t think anyone has won it as clean as we have. They worked hard.” Hun got good work from s en ior stalwar ts, A lex is Goeke (.617 batting average in 2016 with 16 RBIs), Kacey Abitz (.444,15 RBIs), Alyssa Hampton (.205, 5 R BIs ) , Sier ra Hessinger (9.385, 12 RBIs), and Shannon Dargan (.286, 2 RBIs), who were four-year members of the squad.

“They have done a lot for the program with their leadership and what they bring to the team,” said Quirk. “That is going to be missed, being there for four years is a long time.” In Quirk’s view, there are good times ahead for the program, with such returning stars as junior catcher Julie Fassl (.579, 25 runs scored), freshman first baseman Megan Donahue (.569, 21 RBIs), sophomore second baseman Keelan Ryan (.222, 3 RBIs ), and sophomore pitcher/first baseman Julia Revock (.345, 14 RBIs). “We have a good core of underclassmen coming back,” asserted Quirk. “Julie is just a natural softball player; she is fun to coach, she is fun to watch. She puts her heart and soul into the game and never gives up. Donahue had a good season and she is still so young. Never in a million years did I think Keelan would have been our starting second baseman but she did such a nice job there. Whether Julia Revock is pitching, or playing first, or hitting, she did a great job.” In order to keep contending for titles, the Hun players have to keep showing heart. “I think it was a great season and I think we have to build on this for next year,” said Quirk. “I have confidence that as long as they work hard, we will be right there again. As long as you believe in yourself and continue to work hard, you can achieve things that you want to from day one.” —Bill Alden

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Hun Boys’ Lacrosse: Luke Prybylski had a big game in a losing cause as Hun fell 12-10 to Lawrenceville last Wednesday in the Inter-Ac Challenge quar ter f inals. Post-graduate and Villanova-bound Prybylski tallied three goals and an assist for the Raiders. The defeat left Hun with a final record of 11-7. ——— Girls’ Lacrosse: Kate Davis triggered the offense as Hun defeated WW/P-N 9-7 in its season finale. Junior midfielder and William Smith-bound Davis scored three goals for the Raiders as they ended the season with a 9-8 record.

Pennnington Boys’ Lacrosse: Thomas Horsley had a huge game to lead Pennington to a 17-6 win over Steinert last week. Horsley tallied nine points on four goals and five assists in the May 17 contest. The win gave the Red Raiders a final record of 9-9. ——— G irls’ L acrosse : Maddi Seibel starred as Pennington topped Stuart Country Day 18-8 to wrap up the spring. Seibel had seven goals and three assists in the May 17 victory as the Red Raiders ended the season at 10-7.

Lawrenceville Baseball : Nick Silber pitched well in a losing cause as Lawrenceville lost 3-2 to Hun in an elimination game in the state Prep A tournament last Friday at Blair. Senior ace and Ricebound Silber struck out 10 and gave up six hits for the Big Red. The loss left Lawrenceville a record of 6-12 in its final campaign under legendary head coach Champ Atlee, who is stepping down

after 40 seasons at the helm of the program. ——— B o y s’ L a c r o s s e : Ru n ning into a buzz-saw, Lawrenceville fell 14-3 to Culver Military Academy (Ind.) in the Inter-Ac Challenge semifinals last Friday at Villanova. Senior star and Virginia-bound goalie Griffin Thompson made 16 saves in a losing cause for the Big Red. The defeat gave Lawrenceville with a 12-9 final record. ——— Girls’ Lacrosse: Meg Hillman had a big day as Lawrenceville defeated Germantown Academy 19-9 in its season finale last Wednesday. Hillman fired in six goals for the Big Red in the victory. Lawrenceville ended the spring with a 19-3 record.

PHS Sof tball : Kayla Volante played well in a losing cause as 11th-seeded PHS fell 3-2 to No. 6 Monroe in the first round of the Central Group 4 sectional. Junior pitcher Volante only gave up five hits in the circle and went 3-for-4 herself at the plate for the Little Tigers. The defeat left PHS with a final record of 9-14. ——— Boys’ Tennis: Posting a 4-1 win over Robbinsville last Monday, PHS improved to 12-2. The Little Tigers wrap up the spring with matches at WW/P-N on May 25 and at WW/P-S on May 26

PDS Boys’ Tennis: Continuing its dominance of the state Prep B tournament, PDS clinched its fourth straight title with a big performance on Sunday in the opening rounds of the competition. The Panthers advanced to the finals in four of the five flights of the competition to sew up the crown. PDS racked up eight points over the tournament’s first two

rounds. Three other teams, Gill St. Bernard’s, Montclair Kimberley Academy, and Rutgers Prep are tied for second place with five points apiece, but do not have enough players in the tournament finals to catch PDS. Panthers who will play in the finals include Scott Altmeyer at first singles, Lex Decker at second singles, the pair of Jacob Chan and Vivek Sharma at first doubles and the duo of Leo Nye and Noah Liao at second doubles. The championship round is slated for May 25 at Wardlaw-Hartridge. ——— Softball: Ending the spring on a high note, PDS defeated Trenton 9-7 last Wednesday in its season finale. The win improved the Panthers to 2-7.

Stuart Lacrosse: Senior standouts Julia Maser and Tori Hannah played well in their final appearance as Stuart lost 18-8 to Pennington last week. Maser had four goals and an assist while Hannah chipped in two goals and three assists in the May 17 contest. The Tartans ended the spring with a 5-12 record.

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Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics and Division of Particle Beams, and has participated in numerous national and international advisory and review committees on plasma physics and fusion research. Among his many recognitions and honors, Ron was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics, the highest honor in plasma physics awarded by the American Physical Society. Despite these accolades and his towering influence within the scientific community, Ron was consistently a humble and unassuming man who placed respect, family, and friends above all else. He was a natural leader, generous mentor, and kind soul. Ron is sur vived by his wife of 53 years, Jean Davidson; daughter, Cynthia Premru and her husband, Greg Premru, of Groton, Mass.; son, Ronald Crosby Davidson, Jr. and his wife, Soo Mee Kwon, of Princeton Junction; four grandchildren, Will and Maddy Premr u and Crosby and Cayley Davidson; nieces, Arlene Steele of Cambridge and Nyla Jayne Kooman of Virginiatown, Ontario; and nephews, Robert Davidson of Petersberg and Bill Davidson of Toronto, Ontario. V i s i t at i o n for f r i e n d s and family will be held on Wednesday, May 25th 2016, from 4 — 6:30 p.m. at the Saul Colonial Home, 3795

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