The NJHOF Induction Ceremony 2021

CLASS OF 2021

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October 12, 2021 As the lead sponsor of the New Jersey Hall of Fame, I would like to congratulate all of the 2021 inductees who continue to exemplify the best of our great state.

Each person has made a remarkable contribution and deserves the recognition of being voted into the Hall. This amazing roster showcases the depth and variety of talent in New Jersey, ranging from founding father Alexander Hamilton to Val Ackerman, the first president of the Women’s National Basketball Association.

The motto of the hall is “Everyone needs a hero,’’ and there is no question that this year’s inductees are genuine heroes, who inspire us and honor the spirit and determination of New Jersey.

This year, we have honored a whole new set of heroes – those in the arts, the greatest minds in business and sports and those who have left their mark through extraordinary public service.

We salute those brilliant minds including Madeline McWhinney Dale, first female officer/vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank and the late Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. We honor the late Sarah Dash, cofounder of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, as well as George Benson, recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master.

At Hackensack Meridian Health, we continue to support these exceptional state residents. And we recognize our contribution to continually deliver for the communities we are privileged to serve.

Congratulations to everyone and a big shout out to the New Jersey Hall of Fame which again produced a memorable evening for all of New Jersey.

Sincerely,

Bob Garrett, CEO Hackensack Meridian Health

Dear Friends of the New Jersey Hall of Fame: On behalf of the New Jersey Hall of Fame Board of Trustees, we extend our congratulations to the 2021 class of inductees.

New Jersey, once again, pauses to showcase our legends who make us proud: the men and woman who reached the pinnacle of their respective professions and whose contributions have left an indelible mark on our society and the world beyond. We celebrate our home state’s greatest on October 16th with a world-class virtual induction ceremony in their honor.

We would also like to keep you apprised on some of the latest NJHOF projects: We announced with Governor and First Lady Murphy and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority the renaming of nine service areas on the Garden State Parkway after New Jersey Hall of Famers. These service areas will celebrate all of our Hall of Famers, with the Jon Bon Jovi Service Area (formerly Cheesequake) scheduled to open later this month and Frank Sinatra and Judy Blume Service Areas, formerly known as the Atlantic City and Monmouth Service Areas, respectively, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2022.

Construction on our museum at the American Dream in East Rutherford, NJ will begin in the following months, and we’re looking forward to a 2022 opening. When it is safe to do so, our mobile museum will go back on the road as well, hopefully in the spring or fall of 2022.

Our statewide poster display program, with hundreds of posters displayed at high-impact locations from the Battleship New Jersey to rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike, is inspiring Garden State residents up and down our highways and waterways. Watch for our new locations at Penn Station New York City, Penn Station Newark and the Secaucus Transfer Station through our partnership with New Jersey Transit! And watch for a world-class display at the new Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport coming soon!

Our educational programs, from our essay contest to the Arete Scholarship, remind our children to reach their highest and best sense of selves, with a moral excellence of character.

The NJHOF is now poised for an exciting journey for years to come, thanks to all of you!

On behalf of all of us at the New Jersey Hall of Fame, we thank and salute the New Jersey leaders who have made this moment possible, including this year’s class of inductees!

Congratulations and warmest regards, Jon F. Hanson Chairman

Steve Edwards President

Jim Roberts Executive Director

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T rustees Tony Armlin, Triple Five Group Tom Bracken, President/CEO, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce J. Fletcher Creamer Jr, CEO, J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc. Terry Frassetto, President, Saddleback Real Estate Developers Robert Garrett, Chief Executive Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health Angelo Burns, Chairman and Managing Partner, Genova Burns, LLC John Keegan, President and Chairman, Charles Edison Fund and Edison Innovation Foundation Ted Knauss, Senior Vice President, PNC Bank Amy Mansue, CEO, Inspira Health Kevin McCabe, Chairman, River Crossing Strategy Group David Munshine, President, The Munshine Group David Smith, Partner, PPAG Sean Spiller, President, NJEA Tom Sullivan, CEO, Princeton Partners Gary Taffet, Division President, Acrisure Finn Wentworth, Founder and Partner, Senlac Partners

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ARTS AND LETTERS

DOROTHEA LANGE

Documentary Photographer If you have a picture in your mind of what the Great Depression looked like, you can probably thank Dorothea Lange. Armed only with her camera, Lange traveled California, the Southwest and the South throughout the 1930s, capturing powerful black-and-white images of a forlorn people battered by economic hardship. That Lange made some of the Depression-era’s most widely viewed and influential photos of rural despair is all the more remarkable because of her middle-class urban roots. During World War II, Lange continued to capture the human condition with her photos of Japanese Americans in West Coast internment camps.

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Author and Aviator

As one of America’s first female aviators, it seems fitting that Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s life should be marked by a series of extreme ups and downs.

Although the fame of her husband, aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, obscured her own achievements, Anne was herself an accomplished flyer and successful author. Charles taught Anne to fly; she became the first American woman to earn a first-class glider pilot’s license as well as her private pilot’s license. In 1935, Anne’s first book, “North to the Orient,” chronicled the survey flights the couple took across Canada, Alaska and Asia. Anne served as co-pilot, radio operator and navigator on the flights; her book was an immediate success. A second book, “Listen! The Wind,” documented the duo’s survey of North and South Atlantic air routes.

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ENTERPRISE

MADELINE MCWHINNEY DALE

First Female Officer/Vice-President, Federal Reserve Bank Madeline McWhinney Dale lived a life of firsts. She was the first female officer of the Federal Reserve Bank and later the bank’s first female vicepresident. She was the first female to win a seat on the board of trustees of the Federal Reserve Retirement System, and the first president of the First Woman’s Bank. Like her mother, she attended Smith, where she earned a degree in finance. She went to work for the Federal Reserve Bank in 1943, when most young men were away at war. When the men returned, she climbed through the ranks by taking on tasks that men felt were beneath them, such as mastering computer technology. That led to her groundbreaking appointment in 1960 as the chief officer of the Fed’s new Market Research department. By 1967, the Fed made McWhinney Dale an assistant vice president; she was the first woman to reach that level. Earlier, she had the distinction of being the first female candidate to seek election to the board of trustees of the Federal Reserve Retirement System.

MADAME LOUISE SCOTT

Founder, Scott School of Beauty Culture & Chain of Beauty Salons From the circular tower atop her castle-like brick Victorian mansion, Louise Scott could enjoy a 360-degree view of Newark. But Scott did not have to climb five stories to her tower for people to look up to her. She was respected for all she achieved as a businesswoman—she is believed to be the city’s first black female millionaire—and for all she gave back to her beloved Newark.

Scott grew up in South Carolina. Coming to New Jersey in the 1930s, she worked as a maid, cleaning homes and caring for employers’ babies. She launched her first business, a beauty salon, on Barclay Street in 1944.

Over the next decade, she opened more salons and a training school for beauticians, and launched her own line of beauty products. Branching out, she added a 50-room hotel and a restaurant to her portfolio. By the late 1950s, Scott had become a leading figure in Newark civic life.

PAUL VOLCKER

12th Chair, Federal Reserve A big man in both stature (he stood 6-foot-7) and influence, Paul Volcker helped shape American monetary policy for more than six decades. Best remembered for his efforts to reel in inflation, Volcker served two terms under two presidents as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank from 1979-1987.

Volcker received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s from Harvard. In 1952, he took a job as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank In New York. Five years later, he left for a position at Chase Manhattan Bank. This began a career-long pattern of shuttling between government jobs and the private sector, including a period starting in 1974 when he was a visiting fellow at Princeton.

SARA SPENCER WASHINGTON

Founder, Apex News and Hair Company What started as a one-room beauty salon in Atlantic City blossomed into a global cosmetics empire, making its founder, Sara Spencer Washington, one of the first African-American millionaires. The future entrepreneur grew up in West Virginia coal country. Her parents sent her to prep school in Philadelphia and to Norfolk Mission College in Norfolk, Virginia. She also studied advanced chemistry at Columbia University, which later would help her in the development of beauty products. Washington first came to Atlantic City for the sake of her mother; it was believed the sea air would be beneficial for the older woman’s health. Initially earning a living as a dressmaker, Washington opened her first beauty salon in Atlantic City in 1913. Six years later, she founded the Apex News and Hair Company, a name that hinted at the scope of the business she envisioned.

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SPORTS

VAL ACKERMAN

First President, Women’s National Basketball Association Some professional basketball players have stood taller than Val Ackerman, but few have reached the heights she has achieved as an athlete and sports executive.

Currently the commissioner of the Big East Conference, Ackerman was the founding President of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and is a past President of USA Basketball, which oversees the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic basketball program. Following her academic years, Ackerman started her legal career with a firm in New York, then joined the National Basketball Association as a staff attorney in 1988. She was as an executive at the NBA for eight years, serving as special assistant to NBA Commissioner David Stern and eventually VP of business affairs.

MONTE IRVIN

Left and Right Fielder in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles, New York Giants and Chicago Cubs One of the first African-Americans to play in baseball’s major leagues, Monte Irvin became an All-Star and a World Champion with the New York Giants after first attracting attention for his stellar play with the Newark Eagles in the Negro National League. He moved as a child with his family from Alabama to Orange, New Jersey.

Irvin lead the team to the World Series in 1951 and finished third in the voting for Most Valuable Player. The same year, he served as a mentor to a promising Giants’ rookie also from Alabama named Willie Mays. Irvin was named to the National League’s All-Star team in 1952 and again reached the World Series with the Giants in 1954, and won over the Cleveland Indians. Irvin was Major League Baseball’s first AfricanAmerican executive and served from 1968-1984. Irvin was respected for his skills on the field, as a pioneer, a gentleman and a loyal teammate.

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PUBLIC SERVICE

MARGARET BANCROFT

Founder, Bancroft, Nonprofit Serving Individuals with Disabilities Margaret Bancroft was just 25 when, defying convention, she left her teaching job in Philadelphia to start a school for children with developmental disabilities.

The school, located in a rented house in Haddonfield, New Jersey, started with just one student. It would endure to serve generations of special-needs children.

When Bancroft founded her school, children with special needs were typically institutionalized or isolated from mainstream children. Bancroft believed that with individualized attention, special-needs children could learn skills and gain a degree of independence. Her program also emphasized proper nutrition, personal hygiene, exercise, daily prayers, and sensory and artistic development.

Recreational activities included trips to the circus and the theater.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Founding Father and First Secretary of the Treasury More than 200 years after his death, a Broadway musical turned Alexander Hamilton into a 21st-century superstar. Given his enduring impact on American society, Hamilton was deserving of the recognition. Remarkably, many of the key acts in his scene-stealing life took place in New Jersey. In an effort to diversify the new nation’s economy, Hamilton helped form the Society for Establishment of Useful Manufactures, which chose Paterson as the site for its first industrial development. Years earlier, Hamilton had observed the Great Falls of the Passaic River during a wartime picnic in Paterson with General Washington. The visionary Hamilton recognized that the energy of the falls could be harnessed to power factories.

DAVID MIXNER

Political Activist and Author David Mixner was just a teenager when he got his first taste of activism. Over the course of the next 60 years he never stopped fighting for the social causes and political candidates he believed in. After dropping out of college, Mixner worked for the presidential campaign of anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy.

He eventually worked for the presidential candidacies of George McGovern, Gary Hart and Bill Clinton. In 1969, he helped organize the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a national day of protest that drew the support of millions around the country. In 1976, Mixner came out as gay and worked to defeat a highly publicized California proposition that would have banned homosexuals from teaching in the state. He even met with the state’s conservative governor, Ronald Reagan, and convinced him to oppose the proposition.

WILLIAM PATERSON

Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and 2nd Governor of New Jersey Few individuals did as much to shape the legal framework of both the nation and the state of New Jersey as William Paterson. Paterson studied law under Richard Stockton, a future signer of the Declaration of Independence. He began practicing law in 1769 in New Bromley (Hunterdon County), later moving the practice to Raritan and ultimately New Brunswick. When the American Revolution broke out, Paterson served in New Jersey’s provincial congress, where as secretary he recorded the state’s first constitution. He was New Jersey’s first attorney general from 1776 to 1783, when he returned to private practice in New Brunswick.

GUSTAVE F. PERNA

U.S. Army Four-Star General/COO, Federal COVID-19 Response Early in his long military career, Gustave F. Perna assumed combat was his calling. When a mentor recognized Perna’s knack for logistics, a hero of a different stripe was born—one who would serve his nation not just against foreign enemies, but against the Covid-19 pandemic. As a logistics officer, Perna was charged with keeping supplies flowing to American soldiers, civilians and military contractors on missions around the world. “All soldiers need food, fuel, boots and bullets,” Perna explained in an interview. He was given several key command assignments, setting high standards for supporting troops abroad not just with military equipment, but with food, clothing, medicine, medical supplies and construction materials. As commander of the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia from July 2008 through October 2009, he led the center’s innovative effort to position building materials in Afghanistan ahead of increased troop levels during Operation Enduring Freedom.

ANTONIN SCALIA

Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court from 1986 until his death in 2016 As a member of the U.S. Supreme Court for 29 years, Antonin Scalia had a huge influence on the course of the nation, articulating the conservative point of view and supporting an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. As the Supreme Court’s conservative anchor, Scalia ruled against gun control and in favor of states’ rights. He loudly dissented against court rulings reaffirming abortion rights and legalizing same-sex marriage. In 2000, he concurred with the court’s decision to shut down a Florida vote recount, assuring George W. Bush’s defeat of Al Gore for the presidency. And in 2015, he dissented from the court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. At the same time, he sometimes surprised conservatives with his consistent support for free speech, even in a flag-burning case.

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PERFORMING ARTS

GEORGE BENSON

Jazz Guitarist, Singer, and Songwriter A 10-time Grammy winner, George Benson is one of the most successful pop/ jazz crossover artists ever. Widely respected as a jazz guitarist, his crossover success came largely thanks to his smooth, engaging vocal performances on such late 1970s hits as “This Masquerade” and “On Broadway.” Benson initially became a star in the jazz world, but broke through to pop success with the 1976 album “Breezin.” The record reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Albums chart and became the first jazz album to sell more than a million copies—thanks to its one vocal track, “This Masquerade,” a top-10 hit on Billboard’s pop singles chart. The album eventually was certified for U.S. sales of 3 million copies.

SARAH DASH

Co-Founder, Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles Blessed with a four-and-a-half octave voice, Sarah Dash could take on any musical challenge. R&B, funk, disco, rock, rap—Dash wowed audiences in a variety of genres, whether performing as a headliner, group member or backup singer. As the music scene changed, so did Dash and company. They moved to England for a period and then came roaring back with an edgier image, a funkier sound and a new name: Labelle. The formula worked and in January 1975 Labelle reached No. 1 on the pop chart with an instant classic, “Lady Marmalade.” Suddenly Labelle was everywhere, the three women performing in space-age suits and feathery head-dresses.

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Singer / Songwriter

With hits like “Passionate Kisses” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards (with 15 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards and is one of only fifteen female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has sold over 15 million records.

In 2020, Carpenter released two albums - “The Dirt And The Stars” in August, and “One Night Lonely,” recorded live without an audience at the legendary Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Virginia during the COVID-19 shut down - in addition to sharing “Songs From Home,” a virtual concert series which has been viewed over 10 million times. Of the new album “The Dirt And The Stars,” produced by Ethan Johns (Ray LaMontagne, Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon) and recorded entirely live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath in southwest England, Carpenter quotes the writer Margaret Renkl, “ ‘We are all in the process of becoming.’ That doesn’t stop at a certain age. To be always a student of art and music and life, as she says, that, to me, is what makes life worth living. The songs are very personal and they’re difficult in some ways, and definitely come from places of pain and self-illumination, but also places of joy, discovery and the rewards of self- knowledge. They arrived from looking outward as much as inward, speaking to life changes, growing older, politics, compassion, #metoo, heartbreak, empathy, the power of memory, time and place. So, I suppose I could say there are many themes, but they all come back to that initial truth that we are all constantly ‘becoming’ through art and expression.”

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9/11 F irst R esponders We Honor September 11 First Responders Who Have Sickened and Passed Away as 2021 Unsung Heroes and as the nation marked 20 years since the devastating September 11 attacks, the Hall of Fame is proud to announce that this year’s Unsung Heroes are the thousands of first responders who have suffered complications and passed away due to their service.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS M ajor F unding P rovided B y Hackensack Meridian Health Edison Innovation Foundation The Charles Edison Fund Inserra Supermarkets

A dditional F unding P rovided B y BGIA, Business Governmental Insurance Agency Clinton Honda Jaguar Land Rover Princeton Flemington Car & Truck Country Somerset Patroits E&Y Insurance Group Finn and Kim Wentworth GroupOne, LLC Inspira Health NAI James E. Hanson Commercial Real Estate Services, Worldwide

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