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By DiCCon Hyatt Despite all the advances in smartphone technology since 2008, the actual shape of an antique first generation iPhone doesn’t look remarkably different from today’s advanced models, aside from being a bit smaller and squatter. Every phone is still a slim, glassy rectangle just like it has been for the last decade. But Universal Display Corporation, the Ewing-based company that developed the phosphorescent organic LED technology that is used in high-end cell phone screens, is paving the way to what some believe will be a new era in wild electronics screen designs: foldable, rollable and flexible models that will soon hit the market. Designers can now realistically dream of creating a tablet computer that rolls up to the size of a pen. Among those who have dreamed of having a single device that combined the portability and pocketability of a phone with the large screen of a tablet is Michael Hack, vice president and general manager of OLED lighting and custom displays at UDC. Hack, who has worked with the company for 20 years, is a scientist who earned his doctorate at Cambridge University in England and has helped UDC create the tiny, extremely bright and See UDC, Page 8
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Chloe Williams (left) as Paulette Buonafonte and Leah Mickolas as Elle Woods in the Ewing High School production “Legally Blonde: The Musical” performed March 6-9, 2019. For more photos from the musical, go to Page 26. (Photo by Suzette J. Lucas.)
Dearden to retire after 32 years By Justin Feil Shelly Dearden was still a star athlete at Ewing High School when she decided what she wanted to do. “I know in high school a lot of kids don’t know what they want, but I knew I wanted to be a teacher,” Dearden said. “I wanted to help kids and be there for kids from high school on. I
guess I’m one of the lucky ones.” Others will say the lucky ones are those that were taught or played for Dearden, who announced that she is retiring from coaching and teaching after more than three decades— the last 32 years with her alma mater EHS— before her Blue Devils boys basketball team headed into the Central Jersey Group III state tournament.
“I just feel that I’m ready,” Dearden said. “It’s time. You know when you’re ready. You know when it’s time. It’s hard to explain. You just know. I put in all these years, so I’m ready.” Dearden was a winner as a player and coach. She is already in the Ewing High School Hall of Fame as a three-sport athlete, The College of New Jersey See DEARDEN Page 6
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If you were to call the Ewing Township Police Department and ask for Officer Arnold, you’d be asked which one. And if you said “The new one,” you’d be asked the same question again. While it might not be exactly uncommon for siblings to be police officers or even serve in the same police department, it is a little less common that they graduate the academy together and start work the same day. “We’ve had a lot of family members here,” said Police Chief John Stemler. “Uncles and nephews. My father was a lieutenant here. But as far as I know, this is the first time I’m aware of two siblings going through the academy together.” That, by the way, only refers to officers entering the Ewing Police Department. The 20th class of the Mercer County Police Academy had 59 graduates, including the brother and sister team of Stephen and Chelsea Arnold and a second set of siblings—twin brothers George and Christian Suarez, who are now serving in the Trenton Police Department. Chelsea and Stephen Arnold. were half of the new Ewing recruits who started work in See POLICE, Page 10
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