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Princeton University last week announced that it was joining 12 other universities and three academic associations in a lawsuit against National Science Foundation (NSF) cuts to critical research. This was only the latest of a number of initiatives the University has taken, including statements made by its President Christopher L. Eisgruber and others, in responding to threats of federal funding curtailment and encroachments on academic freedom.
Adding to the budgetary threats facing the University is the possibility of a major increase in taxes on college and university endowments, which is part of a proposed Republican tax bill to be debated in Congress this week.
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The lawsuit came in response to the NSF’s attempt to cut the rate at which it reimburses research universities for indirect costs, known as facilities and administrative costs, capping reimbursements at 15 percent of total direct costs.
“If NSF’s policy is allowed to stand, it will badly undermine scientific research at America’s universities and erode our nation’s enviable status as a global leader in scientific research and innovation,” the lawsuit states.
“The effects will be immediate and irreparable,” it continues. “If indirect cost rates are cut to15 percent, the amount and scope of future research by universities will decline precipitously. Vital scientific work will come to a halt, training will be stifled, and the pace of scientific discoveries will slow. Progress on national security objectives, such as maintaining strategic advantages in areas like AI and quantum computing, will falter. And because of all this, America’s standing as a world leader in scientific discovery will decline.”
The academic associations participating in the lawsuit, which include the Association of American Universities of which Eisgruber is chairman of the board of directors, claimed, “These reimbursements help cover the real and necessary costs associated with performing groundbreaking research on behalf of the American people.”
On another front, Princeton University has launched a new campaign called Stand Up for Princeton and Higher Education, which is calling on alumni, faculty,
At its regular meeting on Monday evening, May 12, Princeton Council voted unanimously to approve a resolution for a shared services agreement in which the town gives 100 percent of the surplus from the annual PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) agreement with the Avalon Thanet Circle 55-plus housing complex to the Princeton Public Schools.
Nearly all members of the School Board, including Interim Superintendent Kathie Foster, were in attendance, applauding the resolution once the vote was passed.
According to information in the agenda packet, the funds will go toward maintaining certain public facilities within the municipality “that are utilized for the School District’s educational needs as well as by the municipality and its residents for civic and club activities, athletic and recreational activities, election polling, and other public needs.”
The issue of PILOTs has been controversial in recent years, with some local residents claiming they cheat the schools out of their share of property taxes.
“This agreement is a culmination of years of thoughtful dialogue and collaboration,” School Board President Dafna
Kendal said before the vote was taken. She thanked members of the Board and Council who worked on the agreement, specifically mentioning School Board members Jean Durbin and Betsy Baglio, Council President Mia Sacks, and Councilman Brian McDonald.
“As the town continues to grow,” Kendal added, “we deeply appreciate the innovation and collaboration that made this shared services agreement possible. It is a thoughtful and equitable step forward.”
McDonald, who is a former School Board member, expressed his gratitude for the work done to hammer out the agreement. “There is no question that our local schools and schools throughout the country are facing tremendous challenges right now,” he said. “One of the challenges our local schools face is a financial one. This is an important way of acknowledging the schools, providing them with critical resources that help educate our town’s children and do so in a manner consistent
With less than a month to go before the June 10 New Jersey Primary, there’s a field of 11 candidates — six Democrats and five Republicans — in the closelywatched contest to win each party’s nomination for governor, and New Jersey voters are mostly unaware of who the candidates are and when the election will be taking place, according to the RutgersEagleton Poll.
For Princeton voters, the only other competitive primary contest besides the race for governor will be the competition among three Democrats, incumbents Roy
Freiman and Michelle Drulis and challenger Mahmoud Desouky, for two seats in the general assembly. Two Princeton Council seats are on the ballot with incumbent Democrats Mia Sacks and Michelle Pirone Lambert running unopposed for reelection and no Republicans in the race. On the Republican side are Catherine Payne and Scott Sipos seeking the nomination for two seats in the general assembly, Shaolin Brown running for county clerk, and Daniel J. Hanley, Jr. and Alexander DiFalco for Mercer County Board
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YingHua International School Hosts second annual Fundraiser
On Saturday, May 3, YingHua International School hosted its second annual Spring Night Market fundraiser in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. The courtyard at Princeton Shopping Center was transformed for the evening, with the scent of sizzling street food in the air,
sights of traditional and contemporary arts on display, sounds of live performances echoing through the courtyard, and glowing lanterns lining the walkways.
Hundreds of guests from across the greater Princeton area came together for this gathering, which featured stage performances, interactive games, cultural vendors, and immersive experiences honoring the richness and
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Leighton Listens: Councilman Leighton Newlin holds one-on-one conversations about issues impacting Princeton from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. May 14 at Deliziosos Bakery and Kitchen, 205 Witherspoon Street; May 21 at Ficus Restaurant, 235 Nassau Street; and May 28 at Hinds Plaza.
Bike Rodeo 2025 : Saturday, May 17 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Lawrence High School, 2525 Princeton Avenue. Kids can bring and ride their own tricycles and bikes through a free “course” set up by the Lawrence Police Department; safety tips, help with mechanical issues, free helmets, and emergency vehicles to explore. Sponsored by Sustainable Lawrence. Sustainablelawrence.org.
Community Yard Sale : Saturday, May 17 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at YWCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place. Vendors are needed. Clothing, household goods, toys, and more. Visit ywcaprinceton.org/yardsale.
Food Pantry: Arm in Arm’s mobile food pantry is at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System, 2751 Brunswick Pike, on Monday afternoons from 2-4 p.m. Fresh produce, eggs, milk, frozen proteins, and quality baked goods as well as canned and boxed items and personal care items are available for those in need, and different social services agencies are on site. Mcl.org.
Sustainable Princeton “Lending Library”: Sustainable Princeton offers residents and nonprofits in Princeton the opportunity to borrow sustainable home items such as electric landscape equipment, induction cooktops, and repair tools, for free, for up to two weeks. Visit sustainableprinceton.org for more information.
Scholarship Opportunity: The Dr. Esther Wollin Memorial Scholarship Fund is available to Jewish female, full-time students who will be or are already attending Rutgers University and raised by their Jewish mother in a single-parent household in the Princeton Mercer Bucks Community. Eligibility is based on financial need. Submission deadline is June 2. Visit jfcsonline.org or call Joyce at (609) 987-8100.
Election Board Workers Needed: The Mercer County Board of Elections is recruiting new workers, who must be registered Mercer County voters or students 16-17 years old. Bilingual residents are especially needed. The pay is $300. Apply at mercercounty.org.
Summer Registration for Community Pool and More: To sign up for pool membership, camp offerings, and summer programs, visit register.communitypass. net/Princeton.
by the Blawenburg Band, at Kendall Hall on the campus of The College of New Jersey, celebrates the ensemble’s 135th birthday and conductor Jerry Rife’s 40th year on the podium.
One day back in 1890, a big box of musical instruments arrived at the post office at Route 518 and the Great Road. The box was opened and the instruments were doled out to a group of fledging musicians, who went behind the building and learned how to play.
“That’s how the story goes,” said Jerry Rife, music director and conductor of The Blawenburg Band, comparing it to a scene right out of The Music Man. “We started on the second floor of the old blacksmith shop on Route 518. When we got too big, we moved to the Blawenburg Church across the street.”
That’s where the historic ensemble was rehearsing when Rife took over four decades ago. The band counted 18 members then, but soon outgrew the space and moved its Monday evening sessions to the Princeton Montessori School nearby. Today, 70 players count themselves as members. Some 35 of them will be performing on Sunday, May 18 at The College of New Jersey’s (TCNJ) Kendall Hall, in a 3 p.m. concert celebrating Rife’s 40th year on the podium and the band’s 135th anniversary.
Rife, who is professor emeritus of music at Rider University, figures he has conducted more than 1,200 concerts by the band. He strives to make each of them different.
“I like music that is approachable and has a little bit of a story to it,” he said. “It’s the history teacher in me. I like to tell the audience what to listen for. What was Scott Joplin thinking when he wrote this ragtime piece? Or, what was John Philip Sousa’s life like after he fell off a horse in Willow Grove Park? Then, people know what they’re listening to. They love it. I had a woman come up to me and say, ‘I like what you say better than what you play.’ I thought that was great.”
Each performance, the upcoming one included, has some Sousa on the program. “But there’s a lot of diversity,” Rife said. “I love Sousa, of course. But there are hundreds of other marches that are really great. I like to bring music that no one else plays. I’m a teacher from the podium.”
A clarinetist, Rife was an entomology major at Kansas State University when a D grade in botany made him decide to alter his path and switch to music. He taught
in the public schools before he decided to go back to college, where he earned a doctorate in music history. Rider hired him in 1984; the band a year later, when they were in between conductors. Community bands were common when the Blawenburg ensemble was formed in 1890. “There were thousands of them, or hundreds of thousands,” Rife said. “Every town had their own. They were the main entertainment for the community. Princeton and Trenton had some. There are far less of them today, but there is still a rich group on the East Coast. There’s one in Allentown, and another in Reading (Pa.).
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Rife’s wife plays piccolo in the band. Players, who range from amateurs to professionals, are like family.
“They just want to play. They want to make music,” Rife said. “That makes the band my family. I’ve got longtime friends in the band. We rehearse every Monday night. They don’t want to hear me talk, they want to play.”
While some bands play a few professional concerts a year, Blawenburg’ makes a point of performing in nursing homes and retirement centers as well as theaters and gazebos. “We consider that our most important work,” Rife said. “We take our band to them. That has always been the goal.”
Rife chooses music that challenges the players — “but not too much,” he said. “We have a wide range of abilities. Also, I want to pick music that’s fun to play, and entertaining to the audience. I always pick short pieces, contrasting in tempo and key. A Sousa march, a folk song, a standard classical piece, something from opera — there is a whole lot of music out there.”
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“Because I’m an author, I always come to support the authors. I bought a book for a friend’s birthday; she works at The Cat Cottage and loves cats, so I found this book by Eileen Watkins, who writes a series of mysteries with a cat groomer as the protagonist.”
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Despite the four-decade milestone, Rife has no plans to retire.
“Music is a way to live longer,” he said. “It engages your full brain. It makes you in touch with your art. It takes the pain away, especially if you’re in an ensemble for a long time. This is an elixir of life.”
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Mercedes: “One favorite, Donald Proffit, had an incredible background: he was against the Vietnam War and wrote a book about his time in Alaska. Another, Tomika Reid, has two children, both of whom lost their fathers, and one of her books is to inspire children to recognize their own beauty. I found her works very touching.”
Koshi: “I’m always interested in the backstory of what inspired these authors to move past just writing for pleasure and into publishing their work, since it’s such a crowded industry.”
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Frontier Airlines has announced nonstop service from Trenton-Mercer Airport (TTN) to Myrtle Beach International in South Carolina (MYR) this summer. The service, operating twice per week, will begin on July 10, bringing Frontier to six destinations served nonstop from TTN.
“We are thrilled to begin offering ultra-low fare travel between Trenton and Myrtle Beach, increasing the affordable options available to Trenton-area consumers looking for a sunny beach excursion this summer as well as to South Carolinians heading to the Mid-Atlantic,” said Josh Flyr, vice president of Network and Operations Design, Frontier Airlines. “This new service supports our mission to bring The New Frontier to more travelers in more destinations, proving that affordable air travel can also offer unmatched comfort and convenience.”
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students, and allies to support and advocate for Princeton and other American colleges and universities that are facing the Trump administration’s attacks.
“Funding cuts, threats to academic freedom, and endowment taxes” jeopardize the benefits derived from colleges and universities that “help strengthen America’s economy, enhance its security, and ensure that our nation stays competitive and healthy,” wrote Princeton University Deputy Vice President for Alumni Engagement Jennifer L. Caputo in an April 30 email to alumni announcing the launch of Stand Up, which includes a website and newsletter.
The Stand Up newsletters have urged readers to speak up and to contact their representatives in Congress in support of academic freedom and freedom of speech, against cuts in federal funding to research and financial aid to students, and against taxes on university endowments.
The Stand Up campaign, according to Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW), grew out of Eisgruber’s many encounters with alumni who have asked how they can help to push back against the criticisms and threats being leveled at Princeton and other universities.
“My answer — in addition, of course, to mentioning Annual Giving — is to say, look, please help us to tell the University’s story,” said Eisgruber, as quoted in PAW. “We need people to understand
higher education, and we need people to understand Princeton, and we need people to understand why it matters.”
On April 1 Princeton received notice from government agencies including the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Defense Department, that they were suspending a number of research grants, apparently totaling about $210 million, and apparently in response to an ongoing investigation of antisemitism on campus involving complaints over alleged antisemitism during last spring’s pro-Palestine demonstrations.
In an April 1 email to the University community Eisgruber wrote, “Princeton will comply with the law. We are committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of discrimination, and we will cooperate with the government in combating antisemitism. Princeton will also vigorously defend academic freedom and the due process rights of this University.”
Unlike Harvard University and Columbia University, Princeton has not yet received any demands from the government or explanation for the suspension of funding.
On April 9 the Department of Commerce curtailed an additional $4 million in funding for climate research at Princeton, claiming that the research “exaggerated climate threats,” exposed students to “climate anxiety,” and was “no longer in keeping with the Trump administration’s priorities.” Eisgruber continues to be
a leading voice in advocating for the value of universities and their need for academic freedom. In voicing his support for Harvard and its President Alan Garber’s resistance to intrusive federal initiatives, Eisgruber quoted Garber, in an April 14 post on LinkedIn: “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
In a number of recent media appearances — including an essay in The Atlantic, interviews with Bloomberg, NPR, The New York Times, and others — Eisgruber has been outspoken in his support for universities and for the partnership of federal government and the universities, as well as for freedom of speech and academic freedom.
“These are extraordinarily difficult circumstances, but we’re going to stand strong for our values at Princeton, and I think we have a community that is united behind those values,” Eisgruber said in an April 6 NPR interview.
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The Value of Wetlands Is Topic of Discussion
New Jersey Watershed Ambassador Jessie Lisanti will speak on Sunday, May 18 at 2 p.m. at the D&R Greenway’s Discovery Center at Point Breeze, 101 East Park Street, Bordentown, about the value of wetlands and how they impact our quality of life.
Wetlands are areas that are saturated by water, either permanently or seasonally. They play a critical ecological role by providing habitat for a variety of animals and are impactful on the water we drink. May is American Wetlands Month. This annual celebration, initiated in 1991, aims to educate the public about the importance of wetlands as a natural resource and inspires efforts to protect, preserve, and expand these valuable ecosystems.
The program will explore wetland habitats and ecosystems, discuss their importance to drinking water, and highlight what can be
done to protect these critical environmental resources.
Lisanti will talk about local watersheds and the wetlands that provide the link between a watershed and a body of water.
Watershed ambassadors are free community resources who can provide educational presentations in schools and for community groups as well as host environmental stewardship events such as clean ups, rain barrel workshops, tree/rain garden plantings, stewardship training events, and more! The AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program is an environmental AmeriCorps program.
“Being a Watershed ambassador means being a part of a group of likeminded individuals who protect and care about our streams and the critters in them like no other! Being an AmeriCorps member means serving my community, which involves learning everything I can about
it and making meaningful connections,” she said.
The Discovery Center at Point Breeze will be open for tours, with exhibits highlighting the Delaware River watershed.
“Protecting the Delaware River resources, including its wetlands, provides habitat for birds and fish, and ensures clean water for people,” said Linda Mead, CEO of D&R Greenway. “Through programs like this, and our summer kayak program, we encourage good stewardship behaviors that benefit all of us. The Discovery Center at Point Breeze is among the important historic resources situated along the Delaware and its waterways, along with places like Andalusia and Pennsbury Manor.”
The admission cost of $10 supports the Discovery Center. Seating is limited to 30 guests. RSVP in advance at drgreenway.org.
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Kendal and Sacks released a joint statement about the agreement:
“Princeton’s Municipal government and Board of Education share one town,” it reads. “We also share a strong commitment to the value of public education as the cornerstone of a functioning democracy. As Princeton wraps up the Third Round of state-mandated affordable housing and embarks on the Fourth Round, it is essential that both public bodies work closely together to plan responsibly for anticipated growth. This PILOT revenuesharing agreement is a good start, and we look forward to ongoing collaboration on a variety of issues to provide maximum benefit to Princeton taxpayers.”
The next public meeting of Princeton Council is on Tuesday, May 27 at 7 p.m.
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Spirit of Princeton Memorial Day Parade
The annual Memorial Day Parade held by Spirit of Princeton will be held Saturday, May 24 at 10 a.m.
The community parade celebrates members of the military services on the same day as the Princeton University Alumni P-rade, which begins at 2 p.m.
The parade’s grand marshal and featured speaker is USMC Sgt. Ret. Alfred Brennan, a former Marine K9 handler. When on deployment in 2010, he was severely injured by an improvised explosive device (IED) and lost his K9 partner Grief.
All residents are encouraged to wave their miniature American flags (provided at no cost by Spirit of Princeton) and greet the veterans and active members of the United States military services as they march down Nassau Street to Monument Plaza, rain or shine.
The parade begins at the staging area of Nassau Street and Princeton Avenue. Those who are marching should arrive at 9:15. a.m. at the Monument Hall parking lot and take the shuttle bus to the parade staging area.
Aid and Rescue Squad, Princeton Fire Department, Mayor Mark Freda and members of Princeton Council, the MacGregor Pipe Band, American Legion Post 218, the Princeton Cranbury Chapter Sons of the American Revolution, the Princeton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and several others Princeton Battlefield Society invites all participants and viewers to continue the commemoration with A Day of Remembrance Program, 1 p.m., at Princeton Battlefield State Park, 500 Mercer Street.
Residents then are welcomed back to the center of Princeton to watch Princeton University’s alumni parade (the P-rade) that kicks off at 2 p.m. at Princeton University’s FitzRandolph Gate and then wends its way through the campus.
For more information, visit spiritofprinceton.org or call (609) 430-0144.
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The parade route is one mile on Nassau Street ending at Monument Plaza, where a brief ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. on the steps of Monument Hall. The celebration ends by 12 p.m. All veterans are encouraged to march.
Among the community groups participating are The Princeton Police Department, Princeton First
Employees of Church & Dwight recently joined forces with the Sourland Conservancy to help protect Curlis Woods from the growing threat of beech leaf disease. The disease, which has rapidly spread across the region, poses a serious risk to the area’s mature beech tree population.
To mitigate the damage and build long-term forest resilience, volunteers planted 225 native trees — a mix of oaks and hickories — species well-suited to thrive as the forest canopy changes. These proactive efforts will
“This work is about more than planting trees — it’s about stewardship,” said Robert Aluck, director of stewardship at the Sourland Conservancy. “Without intervention, the forest understory in places like Curlis Woods is at serious risk due to high deer populations and invasive plants. We are incredibly grateful to Church & Dwight for stepping up and setting an example of environmental leadership.”
As if to offer a sign of encouragement, a pair of pileated woodpeckers made a
timely appearance during the planting — a reminder of nature’s presence and resilience. The Sourland Conservancy continues to rely on the support of volunteers and community partners to preserve and restore the Sourland Mountain Region. Visit sourland.org for more information.
On Wednesday, June 11 from 6-8 p.m., Housing Initiatives of Princeton will hold a “Hip Night” at the Ivy Inn, 248 Nassau Street. Music will be by East Coast Ambush. Donations will be accepted to help neighbors
experiencing a housing crisis. Participating are local real estate agents Beatrice Bloom, Ingela Kostenbader, Heidi Hartmann, Ira Lackey, Linda Twining, Josh Wilton, and Vanessa Shives.
Housing Initiatives of Princeton assists local individuals and families experiencing housing insecurity build toward a sustainable future via stable housing, better employment, and a network of support services. RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. Visit housinginitiativesofprinceton.org.
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The first week in June will see a historic moment in the chronicle of the First Baptist Church of Princeton (FBCP) with the formal installation and celebration of the Rev. Maureen Gerald as pastor, the 12th pastor in the Church’s 147-year history.
“She has a new vision, a new way of doing things, working with new ideas,” said Lance Liverman, the chair of the trustee board of the church and a member of the search committee that selected Gerald. “She’s a change agent.”
Liverman went on, “Churches today have difficulty attracting young people, and she has programming that can attract young people. We wanted someone who could bring in young people and also bring us a message we can all relate to.”
The Installation schedule, June 4-8, provides some hints as to what that new vision for FBCP might entail, as Gerald, who has been leading services at FBCP since mid-February, takes charge at the church on John Street in the heart of Princeton.
“This installation and the formation of this relationship between pastor and people is not just for me, nor is it just for FBCP,” she said. “It is a moment for the entire Princeton community to witness and participate in something really awesome. And it’s not just for that day, but to be a part of a continuation of history, almost 150 years of presence there in Princeton.”
She continued, “It comes with a rich history, and I want to honor that history and make sure that the entire community of Princeton, the Mercer County area, and beyond becomes a part of that with us. And that we continue to support the larger community. That’s really important. We’re ready to go. We’re ready to move.”
Gerald, in partnership with FBCP, decided to organize an installation experience that would “encompass and reflect my own spiritual and pastoral formation,” she said. “The people and the churches that will participate in this will be a part of my past and also the future and a renewal.”
Because a large congregation is anticipated and also because of Gerald’s affinity for partnership and a spirit of openness and welcome, the initial installation event on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 p.m. and the official pastor installation service on Saturday, June 7 at 12 p.m.
will take place at the Stone Hill Church on Bunn Drive.
The Thursday, June 5 “Ignite” Youth and Young Adult Takeover at 6 p.m. and the Sunday, June 8 regular morning worship at 10:30 a.m. will take place at the First Baptist Church. There will also be a Friday night installation gala at the Nassau Inn for FBCP members only.
The Wednesday evening kick-off event, titled “New Things,” will be led by Pastor Dharius Daniels of Change Church. Gerald has known Daniels since their days together at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS). “I was drawn to some of his ideas about ministry and he and I wound up launching, through his vision, Kingdom Church [now Change Church] in Ewing.”
She continued, “He is very instrumental in how I see ministry, how I see community, coming from one point of view, growing so they won’t become extinct.”
Thursday’s youth service will include a visiting pastor from Plainfield, where FBCP is building a partnership, and also visitors from another partner church, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset. “Partnerships are central to me,” said Gerald. “The gospel is all about community.”
Theologian and therapist, Gerald has extensive experience in both professions, and the synergy between the two roles amplifies her work in both fields. In addition to her work as former executive pastor at Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton and as a spiritual director at PTS and elsewhere, she is the founder and CEO of Momentum Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting LLC based at the Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, and she serves as a mental health counselor at Proper Health in Bordentown.
She discussed the complementary nature of her two career roles. “Mental health is really intertwined with your spiritual health
and spiritual beliefs,” she said. “Women having conversations at some point are going to bring up how emotions meet exhaustion, whether there’s despair or frustration, talking about spiritual capacity, spiritual bandwidth. There’s a real connection, a complementary thread that runs through mental health and theological conversations, so as a theologian I think I get the therapeutic insight to see and discuss things like grace and sin, and eventually talking about compassion, making sure that we always humanize and not judge people.”
She added, “In both of my professions I’ve taken an oath to not judge, to hold things confidentially. It’s really about seeing people, affirming people, acknowledging where they are, walking with them no matter where they come from and where they are, and knowing how, with their permission, to carry them on in their journey, and let them follow me where I’m going, which is a place of love and renewal and hope.”
She emphasized the importance of storytelling and listening to others’ stories. In the past three months at FBCP she has been meeting and talking with many groups and individuals. “Listening to them and being present with them, hearing their stories,” she said. “Listening to people’s stories is a huge way to let them know that I see them, that they are valued, that they and what they’ve experienced are affirmed.”
Gerald, who became acquainted with FBCP when she was invited to deliver sermons several times over the past years during which the church was without a permanent pastor, described how she developed a growing affinity for the church and its parishioners. ”I was feeling such a warmth in the community, and I started to have a real heart for the space,” she said. “I really felt this draw.”
She wasn’t looking to become the Church’s pastor. She had many other opportunities, but she described “a tugging at my heartstrings,” and when she was invited to send in an application, she decided to do it. “It was one of those moments,” she said. “Sounds romantic, but that’s what happened.”
On Instagram, Gerald describes herself as “lead pastor, compassionate listener, dancing queen, and friend.” She explained, “That speaks to the pastoral wholeness that I like to bring with head, heart, soul, and spirit all engaged, fully activated, hoping that people can see why I have this vision, this intention to move the gospel forward. I’m doing that as a listener and someone who wants to lean into the joy and authenticity of life.”
—Donald Gilpin
To the Editor:
“History, education, and beautiful old buildings are intrinsic parts of Princeton,” wrote Bobbie and Laura Bennett in a letter to the Editor of Town Topics [“Proposed Development would Degrade Area Well-Known and Beloved for its Historical Value,” Mailbox, May 7]. They continued, “(they are) distinguishing and irreplaceable features that make this town so special, so desirable. Who wouldn’t want to live here?” Exactly. But Princeton cannot be home to everyone; the infrastructure is indeed already overloaded. And to build a huge residential project on land partially within the Mercer Hill Historic District would be a travesty.
It has been pointed out often that the 238 apartments and 250+ vehicle garage would only provide the bare minimum of affordable housing units mandated by law. Other plans, more appropriate to the site, offering more lower-income housing were hopefully presented and rejected. The chosen project, to which the municipality has committed a $40 million tax break for the developer, begs the simple question: “Why?”
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“Why this one?” is being asked by many Princetonians, in all of our neighborhoods, who oppose this choice. It is the wrong project in the wrong place at the wrong time or anytime.
Our family arrived in Princeton in 1965, with two toddler daughters, and financially stretched to purchase the most modest home in town. We knew we were investing wisely in a life in a community offering not only enormous academic and cultural resources, but a life to be spent amidst amazing history and beauty. We were eager to become involved and we did … ultimately living in three houses very close to the proposed project.
Our last home, built around 1700, from stones carried from the “brook” of the same name, had stood for almost a century before witnessing the important nearby battles of the American Revolution. We were thrilled to own a piece of history, to become its most recent stewards.
“We cannot be sentimental about old buildings,” one municipal planner remarked not long ago. As stewards in this amazing town, we all must be! Princeton’s old architecture and neighborhoods must be respected, protected and preserved. Past Princetonians carefully maintained what can never be replaced.
We must slow down and carefully think through before deciding in what ways we may wisely alter forever a whole town, unique in its universally-recognized historical significance and beauty.
“Will you look over there!,” my awed Uber driver from Jersey City said, pointing to a row of old houses we were passing. “I bet these places have been around a couple hundred years!” “Actually more,” I replied proudly. (He’s bringing his wife down for a look around.)
PAMELA POPPE GOOD Hulfish Street
To the Editor:
This is a rebuttal to a paid advertisement “Historians In Defense Of Historic Princeton,” published in Town Topics on April 23 by the Ad Hoc Committee of Historians in Defense of Historic Princeton.
I write as a citizen and resident of Princeton to express deep concern with the severe decline in housing affordability, an attendant decline in socio-economic diversity, the absence of constructive discourse, and the acutely polarizing politics these have all helped to engender throughout our nation.
Our historians’ plea in defending historic Princeton describes the targeted development as “destructive,” inciting fear. I believe otherwise: Nothing is to be eliminated or even obscured. Indeed, the project is additive, even palliative, as I describe further below.
Further, the authors divert and agitate with “privately built” and “luxury” descriptives.
Fundamental laws of economics require some balance between supply and demand to ensure probity in pricing. When demand exceeds supply, scarcity drives prices higher. Housing demand across the U.S., New Jersey, Mercer County, and Princeton, have all risen. The requisite supply of housing has not. Affordability has suffered greatly. Our school teachers, police officers, health care workers, store clerks, inter
alia, can no longer afford to live in our town.
As a longstanding resident of Princeton, I observe how trends in rents and housing prices have led to a sharp decline in affordability, echoing and augmenting a problem endemic to our nation. The socio-economic diversity that once characterized our community has given way to an increasingly atomized homogeneity. To my mind, this is poisonous to our culture and our democratic heritage.
Preserving history is but one dimension of a problem we must address. The defense of our democratic institutions is another, more pressing, one. I view the current challenges to those institutions as grounded in a backlash against gaping disparities in living standards. Housing is a key element of those imbalances.
What restrains us from providing more, desperately needed, housing along with preserving the better parts of our history? How else, economically, can we incentivize provision of more and affordable housing absent the indirect subsidy provided by market-rate units?
“Few if any American towns are as distinguished as Princeton, connected as it is to the breadth of our history. Its landmarks, beloved by tourists as well as townspeople, are many.” I agree. Yet I also note that, as part of that same history, certain cohorts of our citizenry were once restricted to specific parts of town and unwelcome on campus.
While our nation’s laws have corrected for these moral transgressions, our economy, misguided policies, and learned behaviors secure their repetition by other means.
I appeal to our community to look beyond parochial, singleissue concerns and reflect more deeply upon our mutual and collective needs as a nation.
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Integrative rheumatologist Dr. Aly Cohen gives a presentation based on her recently released book, Detoxify: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them, on Monday, May 19, at 7 p.m., at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. A book signing will follow the presentation . Immune conditions and autoimmune diseases are on a meteoric rise today, with triggers existing all around us. With an environment laden with untested and unregulated chemicals, radiation, and light and noise pollution, these immunedisrupting chemicals (IDCs) can trigger our bodies to go haywire and develop chronic conditions. And while variables like age, medication use, and overall health status factor in, doctors are struggling to help
their patients find livable solutions for their chronic illness. In Detoxify, (S&S/ Simon Element, $29.99), Cohen, with over 20 years practicing on the front lines of clinical medicine, proposes a life-saving solution to minimizing disrupting immune system triggers and activating the body’s natural detoxification systems, linking specific symptoms and illnesses to everyday exposures.
Cohen is a board-certified physician practicing in rheumatology and integrative medicine, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton. When not seeing patients, Cohen is dedicated to informing as many people as possible of the lurking toxins in our lives, their impacts on health, and how to reduce exposures. She is the founder of The Smart Human brand and podcast.
Step Back into Time with “Gilded Age Cookbook” Author at Morven Program
Take a step back in time to the Gilded Age and immerse yourself in the entertaining, dining, and cooking experienced by former residents of Morven. Author Becky Libourel Diamond will discuss her latest book, The Gilded Age Cookbook, on Thursday, May 22 at Morven Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Registration is at morven.org/upcoming/gildedagecookbook. General admission is $20: $15 for Morven members. Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author following the talk. Light refreshments will be provided.
The American Gilded Age (1868 to 1900) and its extravagance continue to be a source of wonder for history and food enthusiasts alike. The Gilded Age Cookbook transports readers to this time, offering stories, photographs, and Gilded Age details and celebrity stories with historic menus and recipes updated for modern kitchens.
This program is offered as part of the museum’s current exhibition, “Morven Revealed: Untold Stories from New Jersey’s Most Historic Home.” Attendees can visit the exhibition from 5 to 6 p.m., as part of their program ticket.
Diamond is a food writer, librarian, and research historian. As a follow-up, she wrote the holiday-themed Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook , slated for a September 2025 launch. She is also the author of The Thousand Dollar Dinner and Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School . Her next book project will be a history of the City Tavern in Philadelphia. She works as a business librarian at Rutgers University and resides in Yardley, Pa.
Brown Discusses “Arrested Mobility” At Princeton Public Library Event Presented in partnership with Sustainable Princeton and Not in Our Town Princeton, author Charles T. Brown, founder and CEO of Equitable Cities, will discuss his recently published book, Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to
Black Movement , at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, on Wednesday, May 21 at 7 p.m. The event is in person and will be livestreamed to the library’s YouTube channel.
In Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement , Brown examines why mobility is not afforded in the same way to everyone. He argues that the legacy of structural racism and White supremacy has led to disinvestment and over-policing in Black communities and communities of color, thwarting opportunity, as physical mobility and social mobility are intrinsically linked. This experience for Black people around the world is what Brown refers to as arrested mobility. For Black Americans, exercising freedom of mobility continues to mean confronting the harsh reality of White fear, fragility, and violence. Understanding the causes of arrested mobility, will help us to develop solutions to increase mobility for Black people and other marginalized groups.
In Arrested Mobility, (Island Press, $34) Brown shows how un-arresting mobility creates an opportunity not just for a better society for Black people, but for all people.
Brown is the founder and CEO of Equitable Cities, a transportation consulting firm. Equitable Cities is a minority and veteran owned urban planning, public policy, and research firm focused at the intersection of transportation, health, and equity. He is also an adjunct professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
Teacher and prolific writer John McPhee is the subject of a new book that presents McPhee’s vast body of work in an annotated guide. Author Noel Rubinton speaks at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 15, in a program co-presented by Labyrinth Books about his recently published Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee.
Joining Rubinton as moderator will be writer and journalist John Timpane, and also local artist Diana Weymar, a former student of McPhee’s. A pop-up exhibit of McPhee’s writings, stitched by Weymar, will be on display.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorke r since 1965 and has written more than 30 acclaimed books that began on the magazine’s pages. But, according to Rubinton, few readers know or fully appreciate the true breadth of his writing. Looking for a Story is a complete reader’s guide to McPhee’s published work, documenting work rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including early writing for Time magazine published without his name.
In chronicling McPhee’s career, where he broke ground
applying devices long associated with fiction to the literature of fact, Rubinton gives insights into McPhee’s techniques, choice of subjects, and research methods, shedding light on how McPhee turns complicated subjects like geology into compelling stories. Beyond detailing more than 70 years of McPhee’s writing, Rubinton recounts McPhee’s half century as a Princeton University writing professor, where he inspired generations of students who wrote hundreds of books of their own, also catalogued. Looking for a Story includes extensive annotated listings of articles about McPhee, reviews of his books, and interviews, readings, and speeches.
The book (Princeton University Press, $29.95) has a foreword by New Yorker staff writer and former McPhee student Peter Hessler, who wrote Other Rivers: A Chinese Education.
Rubinton is a journalist and strategic communications consultant whose writing has appeared in leading publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. He was a reporter and editor for Newsday for many years.
The program is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
On the night of October 15, 1956, viewers of I Love Lucy, the nation’s most popular television show, saw Lucille Ball and Orson Welles doing a scene from Romeo and Juliet . Welles has his doubts, but she’s been showering him with compliments, telling him he’s better than John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, Sir Ralph Richardson, and, after he prompts her, Laurence Olivier. Looking like an adult parody of her Peanuts namesake, Lucy delivers her jawbreaker of a line with outstretched arms, “What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel?”
“I know not how to tell you how I am,” the huge, cigar-smoking Romeo tells the hapless Juliet. “My name is hateful to myself. Had I it written, I would tear the word.” When Lucy forgets her next line, he sweeps grandly on to his “favorite scene,” Romeo’s discovery of Juliet’s body, which is when he pulls out the proverbial stops and takes Shakespeare to the sitcom max: “Here, here will I set up my everlasting rest. And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace. And lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death.”
At this point, after flirting with hamactor mockery, Welles shifts gears, lowers his voice, and as the camera comes in for a close-up, creates a special moment and inhabits it as though all by himself on another stage in another world: “Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here’s to my love. O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”
Welles’s inspired, half-whispered reading softens the sitcom glare, Ricky is moved, Lucy, too — until she breaks the spell, bellowing a line scripted for a big laugh: “Boy, you’re sure a lot better than Herman Schlup !”
Lucy’s crude, played-for-laughs remark destroys the moment, reducing both Shakespeare and the director of Citizen Kane to a laugh line shared with “Herman Schlup.”
The “Boy Wonder”
the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois, where he co-edited with headmaster Roger Hill Everybody’s Shakespeare editions of The Merchant of Venice , Julius Caesar, and Twelfth Night, providing set designs and commentaries. Also largely forgotten by then was the triumph of Citizen Kane , the acclaimed 1941 debut of the washed-up “boy wonder” whose latest film Touch of Evil will arrive in 1958, masterfully deranged, reckless, overwrought, and spectacularly directed, with Welles himself as the mountain of corruption at the center, to whom Marlene Dietrich’s gypsy fortune teller says, after telling him he’s had too many candy bars, “You a mess, honey.”
Any lover of literature offended by what happened to the Bard that night on I Love Lucy would surely have forgiven Welles after viewing Chimes at Midnight (1966) a decade later, in which he plays Falstaff, magnificently, and with the approval of Harold Bloom, the author of Falstaff: Give Me Life , who calls the film “a neglected masterpiece.”
Of Welles’s Falstaff, Pauline Kael writes in Shakespeare in America (Library of America 2014), he “seems to have grown into his voice; he’s not too young for it anymore, and he’s certainly big enough....He has the eyes for the role. Though his Falstaff is short on comedy, it’s very rich, very full.”
of a dance step in an exchange of letters between the novel’s hero Tyrone Slothrop, from a London hospital in 1944 (“Did I ever bother you, ever, for anything, in your life?”) and The Kenosha Kid, General Delivery, Kenosha, Wisconsin (“You never did”). The exchange is followed by comments from a “Smartass youth” (“I did all them old-fashioned dances”) and an “Old veteran hoofer” (“Bet you never did the “Kenosha,” kid!”). The broken, sing-song jingle — “You never did the Kenosha Kid. Maybe you did the Philadelphia, rag the Rochester, josh the Joliet. But you never did the Kenosha kid— follows an injection of Sodium Amytal into Slothrop’s brain leading to his voyage to the excremental depths of a toilet in the Roseland Ballroom and a cameo by “Red,” the shoeshine boy who grows up to be Malcolm X. Creative Paranoia
Welles and Pynchon
The man who brought Shakespeare to I Love Lucy was born 110 years ago on
In his landmark review of Gravity’s Rainbow , Richard Poirier discusses the way the “persistent paranoia of all the important characters invests any chance detail with the power of an omen, a clue, to which, momentarily, all other details might adhere.” Among “the scores of submerged details” playing on the “creative paranoia” of the reader, Poirier singles out The Kenosha Kid, which he finds to be “a most apt allusion, if one thinks of the hero of Citizen Kane and of how his last word, ‘Rosebud,’ is taken as some clue to the lavish assemblage of his wealth and power, when it is instead the name of a little sled, at the end consigned to junk and fire, that he loved as a boy.
When I googled the Kenosha Kid I came up with Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot three men, two fatally, during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. Soon to become a hero of the Maga Right, the shooter was actually born in Antioch, near Kenosha. Forty-six miles south along Lake Michigan is the Todd School, where Welles bonded with Shakespeare.
For more than a week now, my study has been a bombsite, really as if the cluttered nightmare of the closet archive had taken a direct hit, stacks of manuscripts, novels finished and unfinished, family letters dating back to the 1930s, memorabilia like the 1934 Playbill I wrote about a few weeks ago, photographs of cats, cousins, and ancestors as wild-west funny as a group shot from the Last Chance saloon in Dodge City.
Among the things I just finished tearing up was the 400-plus-page novel I was still working on when I began writing for this newspaper and came to realize that more people would read these weekly columns than would ever have read that book — as one reader in effect reminded me in last week’s Mailbox. She says that sometimes she wished she knew my wife’s name, which I would gladly mention whenever I refer to a film or series or anything else that Leslie and I share, if it didn’t seem awkward and perhaps even indiscreet. Writing about Welles this week reminds me that in our almost six decades of marriage she and I often find ourselves echoing Falstaff and Justice Shallow in the film’s wonderfully Wellesian opening scene: “The days that we have seen, Master Shallow! we have heard the chimes at midnight.”
The Poetry Trail
Leslie and I have also shared many walks on the Scott and Helen McVay Poetry Trail in Green Meadows (not the D&R Greenway Poetry Trail, as I mistakenly referred to it in a recent column). Last week I received a letter from the McVays that also contained some interesting background information about C.K. Williams, whose poem “The Garden” is one I make sure to read every word of every
Princeton Symphony Orchestra closed its 2024-25 classical series this past weekend with a journey to Russia and 19th-century Europe, featuring a superstar piano soloist and a local choral ensemble. The performances in Richardson Auditorium on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon brought together instrumentalists, dynamic pianist Natasha Paremski, and the Westminster Symphonic Choir of Rider University for a program of reverent choral music and one of the most demanding piano concerti in the repertory.
The 1868 Schicksalslied of Johannes Brahms combined orchestra and fourpart chorus in a powerful statement of faith and hope through long melodic lines and rich orchestration. Inspired by the writings of German philosopher and poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Schicksalslied ( Song of Fate ) depicts both divine beings and suffering mankind. The Westminster Symphonic Choir, at one time up to 200 members, has suffered from the Rider/Westminster Choir College turmoil of the past years, but now under the direction of noted conductor Donald Nally is getting back on its choral feet. In Saturday night’s performance, the singers showed solid musicianship and tuning with a capability to sustain long phrases and chord streams—all hallmarks of Nally’s choral pedagogy.
Conducted by Princeton Symphony Music Director Rossen Milanov, Schicksalslied began with a lush orchestral introduction, with dynamic swells leading to a gentle and clear entrance of the chorus. The Symphonic Choir well observed the ebbs and flows of the phrasing and a cappella passages were well blended. Decisive rhythms, word emphases, and diction were precise. Although forceful choral passages against the Orchestra could have had more bite, this will no doubt come as the ensemble builds its membership in the coming years.
The Symphonic Choir had a chance to stand on its own as Milanov led the unaccompanied chorus in an excerpt of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, a setting of one of the principal services of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Little can compare in choral performance with the dramatic basso profundo sound of Russian liturgical music. Influenced by the acoustic of cavernous cathedral spaces, Russian choral pieces of the 19th century became instantly
recognizable by their rich vocal writing and dense textures, especially from the lower voices. “Hymn of the Cherubim” joined the Russian church tradition with Tchaikovsky’s lush harmonies in a musical tribute to what the composer called “one of the greatest productions of art.” Throughout the work, the Choir sang with uniform vibrato, changing chords well. The tenors sang with a light sound and the women’s voices were well matched. Princeton Symphony remained in Russia for the program’s closing work, which linked the iconic Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff with the United States. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor had its roots in the composer’s early 1900s American tour as a piano soloist, for which he had agreed to create a piano concerto to perform with American orchestras. An early review of this piece claimed that its “extreme difficulties bar it from performance by any but pianists of exceptional technical powers,” but guest soloist Natasha Paremski immediately showed her superb command of the technical challenges. The three movements were full of intensity and drama, frequently changing moods and using the full range of the keyboard while requiring nimbleness of fingers.
Often seemingly in a world of her own yet always connected to the instrumentalists, Paremski shifted easily between fire and brimstone passages and fluid scales and arpeggios with hands that moved like the wind. The piano lines were often paired with solo instruments, creating elegant duets with flutist Sooyun Kim, clarinetist Pascal Archer, bassoonist Jensen Bocco and horn player Colby Kleven. Oboist Gilles Cheng played an especially haunting melody in the second movement “Intermezzo.” Milanov frequently conducted with sweeping gestures, well capturing the soaring and expansive palette.
This past weekend’s performances by Princeton Symphony Orchestra brought a challenging season to a close and showed both Milanov’s connections to performing luminaries and the ensemble’s commitment to the local musical community. Not to rest on its accomplishments, the organization has but a short rest before launching into the 2025 Princeton Festival, showcasing musical stars from a variety of genres.
—Nancy Plum
Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s Princeton Festival opens on Friday, June 6 with “ICON: The Voices That Changed Music,” featuring vocalists Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw in a program of music by iconic popular music stars. Information about all Princeton Festival events can be found at princetonsymphony.org/festival/events/2025-princeton-festival.
10 A.M. Parade Route: Nassau Street (All active and former members of the military are invited to participate)
11 A.M. Ceremony at Monument Hall (formerly Princeton Borough Hall)
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At American Repertory Ballet/Princeton Ballet School’s (ARB/PBS) “Dancing Through Life” gala at McCarter Theatre Center on April 11, it was announced that a donor has pledged to match every gift the organization receives this spring.
Donations help provide funds for new artistic work; pointe shoes; health and wellness support for dancers, faculty, and staff; scholarships; live music in the studios; the Dance for Parkinson’s program; Audrey’s Class for dancers with differing abilities; and more.
In conjunction, the organization has launched its annual spring appeal as the season and school year come to a close.
“None of the work that we do and love would be pos sible without your support,” said Nanako Yamamoto, ARB dancer and assistant rehearsal director. “ARB/ PBS as a nonprofit orga nization creates a sense of community for so many peo ple, in addition to providing dance classes, world class performances, and impact ful social services.”
ARB’s newly created Dancer Sponsorship pro gram is a matching gift opportunity designed to uplift the company’s professional artists while raising critical funds to support their salaries and benefits, physical therapy, pointe shoes, international employment visa expenses if applicable, and more Sponsors are recognized in performance programs, on the ARB website, and also receive invitations to special receptions, rehearsals, backstage meetand-greets, autographed photos, and lunch or coffee with the dancers.
“Shanghai Nights Princeton” Comes to Arts Council
The Arts Council of Princeton presents Shanghai Nights Princeton , an immersive jazz experience held in collaboration with Princeton Active Circle, on Saturday, May 17 from 7-9 p.m. The event takes place in the Solley Theatre.
Featured performers include Xiaoqing Zhang and Vince di Mura, alongside Sean Decker (bass), Alex Laurenzi (alto sax), Jared Decker (drums), Joshua Roberts (drums), Wesley Rast (percussion), Kurt Coble (violin), and Rachel Massey (violin/viola).
Tickets include the live performance, small bites, and beer and wine. Proceeds support these two nonprofits and their community programs.
making jazz an integral part of Shanghai’s pop culture.
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, jazz temporarily faded from the scene. However, with China’s reform and opening-up, jazz experienced a revival in Shanghai. The 1990s saw the renovation of Shanghai Concert Hall and the emergence of jazz festivals, bringing new energy to the jazz scene. Today, Shanghai is home to jazz bars like JZ Club and hosts major events such as the Shanghai Jazz Festival, ensuring that the city continues to live up to its reputation as the “Jazz Capital of the East.”
The Arts Council is at 102 Witherspoon Street. Visit artscouncilofprinceton.org or call (609) 924-8777 for tickets.
Shanghai has a long history of jazz, dating back to the early 20th century. In the 1920s, the establishment of ECO, Shanghai’s first and China’s first radio station, allowed jazz music to spread through the airwaves into the villas and alleyways of old Shanghai. By the 1930s, venues like the Paramount Ballroom became hotspots for jazz, with American and Filipino jazz bands playing an active role in the city’s vibrant nightlife.
In addition to being married to Andrew Skitko, she is the great granddaughter of Ukrainian composer Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko, whose work will be performed at the event.
A $5 donation is requested to support the artists. For more information or reservations, visit ellarslie.org/cultural or call (609) 989-1191.
Musician and Songwriter Appear in New Brunswick State Theatre New Jersey presents “An Intimate Evening with David Foster & Katharine McPhee” on Saturday, May 17 at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $59-$179.
Sixteen-time Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter, and producer Foster and singer, television, and Broadway star McPhee are bringing their live show on the road. This intimate performance will be packed with Foster’s hits from Chicago, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Michael Bublé, etc. and McPhee’s biggest songs from American Idol, Smash, and Waitress Foster has created hit songs for artists including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, Chicago, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind Fire, Tony Braxton, Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton, Seal, Chaka Khan, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Hall & Oates, Brandy, ’N Sync, Boz Scaggs, and Gloria Estefan. In 2008 and 2011, Foster stepped out as a performer in his own right with Hitman, David Foster and Friends PBS specials.
In 2018-19 Foster started touring with his show ‘An Intimate Evening with David Foster’’ and he now devotes his time to selling out concerts worldwide.
McPhee’s career includes film, television, Broadway, recording and concert tours. She arrived on the scene in 2006, during a successful run on Season 5 of American Idol, which made her a household name.
As an actress, she includes the CBS spy drama Scorpion, Smash, Country Comfort, CSI: NY, Community, Family Guy, and Ugly Betty
The State Theatre is at 15 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Visit Stnj.org for tickets.
Capital Philharmonic Plays
Chamber Music Concert
Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey (CPNJ) Presents “Wind and Wood: Music for
Flute, Strings, Piano, and Percussion” on Sunday, May 18 at the 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road in Ewing. Led by flutist Lish Lindsay, the concert will showcase a selection of pieces performed by musicians including pianist Artem Tenkeli, cellist Alan Amira, and percussionist Randall Rudolph. The program highlights the rich textures and expressive capabilities of this eclectic ensemble, including a special composition by former CPNJ Music Director Dan Spalding.
Dedicated to enriching the cultural landscape of New Jersey through performances and community engagement, the Capital Philharmonic continues to foster a love of classical music across all generations.
Tickets are available at capitalphilharmonic.org or (800) 514-3849.
Current sponsors include Jane Leslie Burgin in honor of Seth Koffler, Dorothea’s House in honor of Andrea Marini, Ken Fredeen and Jane Silverman in honor of Lily Krisko, Catherine Granzow and Lisa Patterson in honor of Erikka Reenstierna-Cates, Nancy and Duncan MacMillan in honor of Aldeir Monteiro, and Princeton Spine & Joint Center in honor of all the dancers.
Visit arballet.org for more information.
At that time, Shanghai was one of the most international cities in Asia, attracting many foreign musicians, especially from the United States and the Philippines. These jazz bands performed in the Bund and the French Concession’s many nightclubs and dance halls, bringing the latest jazz trends to both social elites and ordinary citizens. Chinese singers like Li Lili also began incorporating jazz elements into Chinese music,
Ukrainian Classical Music
At Trenton City Museum
An exploration of Ukrainian classical music is the focus of the concert “Sorrow and Joy,” set for Saturday, May 17, 2 p.m., at the Trenton City Museum.
The event was designed to bring attention to the current plight of the people of Ukraine and to recognize the Ukrainian presence in the region. It also complements the current Trenton City Museum exhibition, “Cultural Connections: Eastern European Artists of Greater Trenton.”
The concert includes music by Mykola Lysenko, known as the father of Ukrainian classical music; Kyrylo Stetsenko, one of Ukraine’s most prolific and important 20th century artists; Vasyl Barvinsky, Ukraine’s first internationally known composer; and Stefania Turkewich, Ukraine’s first female composer.
Tenor Andrew Skitko, the Westminster Collegetrained cantor at St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Trenton and director of the Ukrainian Art Song Project, performs along with pianist Alina Rabchuk, who is worship leader at Grace Ukrainian Baptist Church in Warminster, Pa.; and violinist Ksenia Stetsenko-Skitko, a Ukrainian composer who merges Western classical music tradition with Eastern-European folk music.
Two New Exhibits at Gallery 14 in Hopewell Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography in Hopewell presents member exhibitions
“John Stritzinger: How Trees See The World” and “Dutch Bagley: The Creative Tool” on weekends May 17 to June 15, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed Memorial Day Weekend).
A meet the artists reception is on Saturday, May 17 from 1 to 3 p.m.
“‘How Trees See The World’ is a must-see series using pairs of photographs printed on fine art paper, cut into strips and woven together,” said Stritzinger. “These works are my take on how trees see the world. I was inspired to make this work after seeing solargraphy prints made from weeks-long exposures that slowly absorbed light. I wondered what trees might see
as they stand in place for many years, observing who and what comes and goes. I combine images of the same scene or ones from nearby locations; the images are made using a mix of techniques such as intentional camera movement, long exposures on windy days, and in-focus photographs. Doing so with strips made of tree stuff (paper) and the physical process of weaving together makes the creation of these pieces a satisfying experience different from using my computer mouse and layering in Photoshop. Perhaps viewers will be inspired to use their imagination of how they see trees seeing the world.”
Bagley said, “‘The Creative Tool’: you decide. Can cell phone images rise to the level of creating fine art photography? Current
gallery fine art images are typically printed with color ink on archival paper, from a file captured by a digital camera and processed with computer software. The artist is the one who selects the tools and processes to create the final work of art, and these tools vary widely with each artist. The task I set for myself was to photograph the architecture of New York City, in one day, with a cell phone capable of producing high resolution DNG files for processing in my customary style. With this exhibition, the final images are printed in color, not my typical black and white versions, and with limited image processing.”
Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography is located at 14 Mercer Street in Hopewell. For more information, visit gallery14.org.
Freeman’s | Hindman Exhibit at Phillips’ Mill May 19–21
The Phillips’ Mill Community Association has partnered once again with Freeman’s | Hindman auction house of Philadelphia on an exhibition of important Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings. The three-day event May 19-21 will offer collectors and art lovers an opportunity to admire the works of many of Phillips’ Mill’s founding artists including fresh-to-market examples by Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber, Fern Coppedge, George Sotter, and Robert Spencer.
Works exhibited at this event represent highlights from two upcoming auctions, American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists on June 8, and on September 21, Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds, a collection with strong local ties. A longtime Bucks County resident and garden and event designer, Reynolds is perhaps best known as the creator of Hortulus Farm along with late garden writer, Jack Staub, a property Reynolds sold not long ago.
In addition to the exhibition, a special valuation day with a focus on jewelry and fine art will be held on May 21. Specialists from Freeman’s | Hindman will be on hand to provide complimentary valuations and discuss consignment opportunities for the 2025 auction season.
Those with questions about this event can email Adam Veil, senior vice president, head of department — American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists, at aveil@freemansauction.com or call (267) 414-1221 or (215) 485-0704.
This special highlights exhibition is free and open to the public for three days only, May 19 to 21 from 12 to 5 p.m.
Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Roberto Lugo: Orange and Black” through July 6. Artmuseum.princeton.edu.
Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Still & Wild” through June 1. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Lambertvillearts.com.
Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Instant Gratificationz” through June 14. “Being Present: Exploration of Abstraction” is on view May 17 through June 14 and “Hours of Homecoming” is on view May 17 to June 12. Artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, has “John Stritzinger: How Trees See the World” and “Dutch Bagley: The Creative Tool” May 17 through June 15. A meet the artists reception is on Saturday, May 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. Gallery14.og.
Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library, Princeton University, has
“The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection & the Age of Reason” through June 8. Library.princeton.edu/ lapidus2025.
Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Historic Morven: A Window Into America’s Past” (ongoing). Morven.org.
The Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, has “Held Together” through June 5. Catherinejmartzloff.com.
Silva Gallery of Art, Pennington School, 113 West Delaware Avenue, Pennington, has “The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America” through June 6. Pennington.org.
Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has works by Karen Stolper through June 3. Works by Sophie Dennehy are at the 254 Nassau Street location through June 3. Smallworldcoffee.com.
Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Princeton Reflected: Stories from HSP’s Collection” and “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery.” Museum hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m. Princetonhistory.org
Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, 299 Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “Cultural Connections: Eastern European Artists from the Greater Trenton Area” through June 8. Ellarslie.org.
West Windsor Arts, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Member Show: Your visual Story Through Art” through May 31. Westwindsorarts.org.
Phillips’ Mill Community Association is located at 2619 River Road in New Hope, Pa., For more information, visit phillipsmill.org or call (215) 862-0582. Call or email to reserve your space today: Angela Lorenz (609) 924-2200 ext. 34
It turned out to be a bit of a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at the Class of 1952 Stadium last Saturday when the Princeton University men’s lacrosse team hosted Towson in the opening round of the NCAA tournament.
With the loudspeaker blasting the Skynyrd classic “Free Bird” to serenade Princeton goals, the tune was ringing in the fans’ ears as the third-seeded Tigers rolled to a 22-12 win over Towson before a crowd of 1,736.
The onslaught tied the program’s highest goal total in an NCAA game (matching a 22-6 win over Towson in the 1996 NCAA quarters) and it marked the first time that two Princeton players scored five goals in the same NCAA contest as Nate Kabiri and Tucker Wade both had a five-spot. Senior star attacker Coulter Mackesy scored only one goal but it was historic as his tally marked the 164th of his career and broke Jesse Hubbard’s alltime program record.
The Tigers, now 13-3, will face sixth-seeded Syracuse (12-5) in the NCAA quarterfinals on May 17 at Hempstead, N.Y.
Princeton head coach Matt Madalon enjoyed seeing the avalanche of goals.
“In the first half we saw both man and zone and we were successful against both,” said Madalon. “It was
just those guys settling in. Obviously getting to 22, that is an outstanding, productive day.”
Junior face-off specialist Andrew McMeekin played a key role in the offensive production, going 20-of-32 on face-offs with 10 ground balls and one goal.
“Meek has been a warrior for us all year,” said Madalon whose team was tied 5-5 with Towson in the second quarter and went on a 7-2 run to break the game open.
“As happy as I am with the goals, I am most happy with ground ball possessions and turning the ball upfield and keeping it simple in that part of the game. Any time you get goals off of that, it is an awesome reward for a guy that works so hard.”
Madalon did acknowledged that the Tigers were plagued by some sloppy play even as the attack had an awesome day.
“We unfortunately made too many mistakes,” said Madalon.“We made mistakes on face-off winning violations, offsides, seven failed clears, jogging off the field, and allowing double teams at the end. There is still a ton to work on. For such a mature group to make the mistakes we made today, that is the frustrating part. This is a fine line at this point. May lacrosse has to be really clean. For the most part, we did play
a clean game outside the clearing game. We just have to clean that up.”
Mackesy, for his part, has matured into a Tiger lax legend.
“Coming in as a freshman, I didn’t know much about the program and how special it really is and all of the great players that have come before us,” said Mackesy, a 5’10, 185-pound native of Bronxville, N.Y., who now has 41 goals and 19 assists this year and and has piled up 244 points in his career, three points away from tying Kevin Lowe for second place all-time at Princeton.
“Over my time here, I have had the chance to meet all of these amazing legends and call them my friends and mentors. I think that is just the beauty of our program that legends like Jesse Hubbard and all of these other guys stick around and really root for us more than anyone else.”
In a week that saw him get drafted fourth overall in the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) draft by the Boston Cannons and named as one of five finalists for the Tewaaraton Award, given to the top college player in the country, Mackesy was still able to keep his focus on the clash with Towson.
“It has definitely been a little overwhelming,” said Mackesy. “It was a lot of texts from people who I
hadn’t talked to in a while so it has been great to catch up with alumni and friends. I was just focused on this game and now turn the page to next week. It was a great performance all around.”
The record-breaking goal came late in the first quar ter on a feed from sopho more attacker Nate Kabiri.
“I could not have drawn it up better, getting a pass from Nate on ’52 in the last game here,” said Mackesy, who ended up with four as sists in the win over Towson.
“Not that I planned that, it is a good way to do it.”
Kabiri, who tallied five goals and two assists in the win, liked the way the Ti gers moved the ball against a scrappy Towson defense.
“Towson was a super dis ruptive team that had a lot of ball pressures and switched between man and zone a lot,” said Kabiri, whose five goals tied his career high.
“We knew going into that it was definitely going to be a challenge. Coach [Jim] Mitchell prepared our attack and our middles really well with what we were going to see. It was just sharing the ball today, it just felt great
Sophomore midfielder
end, that is the way the of fense and the team overall has been and why we have been so connected,” said Wade. “A lot of those goals, maybe all of them, were off of feeds. It is just that one more mentality. We are just working to get the best op portunity and put ourselves in the best spot; trying to look a little bit away from ourselves and work towards those goals.”
Madalon credited Mackesy with focusing on team rather than individual goals.
“We try to keep our guys under the visor and he does it better than anybody else,” said Madalon of Mackesy. “He has been consistent since he walked on this cam pus. It has never been about breaking records, it has nev er been about winning the Tewaaraton. Nothing has changed moving forward. If he gets it, awesome. If not, it is all about the team.”
With Princeton renewing its storied rivalry against Syracuse, which saw the foes meet three straight years (2000-02) in the NCAA championship game, Madalon is looking forward to getting another week with his squad.
“I am just pumped about
program record. The Tigers, now 13-3, will face sixth-seeded Syracuse (12-5) in the NCAA quarterfinals on May 17 at Hempstead, N.Y.
“That is why these guys make the decision to come to school at Princeton. We are really thrilled, we are just pumped to get back to work with this group. It is a special crew.”
In Madalon’s view, this group has what it takes to win it all this spring.
“That is what we have been telling this crew all season — we have to bring our best and you can beat anyone in the country,” said Madalon. “At this point it doesn’t matter, 13-3, AllAmericans, Tewaaraton; we tell our guys it is about the best 60 minutes you can play so that is our goal moving forward.”
—Bill Alden
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After her Princeton University women’s lacrosse team got routed 17-6 by Yale in the Ivy League tournament final earlier this month, Jenn Cook acknowledged that the Tigers needed to do some soul searching as it headed into the NCAA tournament as an at-large selection.
“It is a tough lesson to learn right now but it is a new season next weekend,” said Princeton head coach Cook after that loss. “The focus is growing and being better and really understanding that we are stronger together when we are playing our systems both offensively and defensively and executing the pieces we know we are going to see.”
Facing Massachusetts last Friday in the opening round of the NCAA tourney in Baltimore, Md., the
Tigers produced a strong performance at both ends of the field as they rolled to a 19-10 win over the Minutewomen.
Princeton reeled off an early 6-0 run to build a 9-3 lead in the second quarter and never looked back. The Princeton attack trio of McKenzie Blake (5 goals, 2 assists), Haven Dora (2 goals, 3 assists) and Jami MacDonald (4 goals, 1 assist) triggered the offensive onslaught.
Senior Blake and junior Dora made history in the process. Blake’s five goals gave her 78 this season, breaking Princeton’s single-season scoring record of 75 which was set by Olivia Hompe in 2017 while Dora’s three helpers gave her 101 assists for her career to achieve a new program record, breaking the previous mark of 98 set by Kyla Sears.
MORE TO COME: Princeton University women’s lacrosse player Haven Dora heads upfield in recent action. Last Friday, junior attacker Dora tallied two goals and three assists to help Princeton defeat Massachusetts 19-10 in the opening round of the NCAA tourney in Baltimore, Md. Dora’s three helpers gave her 101 assists for her career, to set a new program record, breaking the previous mark of 98 set by Kyla Sears. On Sunday, Dora chipped in one goal and four assists as the Tigers topped eighth-seeded and host Johns Hopkins 18-12 in a second round contest. The Tigers, now 16-3, play at top-seeded and undefeated North Carolina (19-0) in a quarterfinal contest on May 15 in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
In the wake of the setback to Yale, Blake had sensed that the Tigers would rise to the occasion when they got to into the NCAAs.
“We just weren’t stringing things together like we normally do,” said Blake. “It is definitely a very late point in the season to be having this lesson. It sucks but I think people will be hungry after this.”
That hunger was displayed again last Sunday as Princeton topped eighth-seeded and host Johns Hopkins 1812 to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals.
With the Tigers clinging to a 7-5 lead early in the third quarter, they tallied six straight goals to break the game open in improving to 16-3.
Blake scored eight goals in another historic performance as she reached 86 goals to break the Ivy League’s single-season goals record that stood since Francesca DenHartog of Harvard had 83 in 1981. In addition, her eight goals tied the program record for a single game and are the most ever by a Tiger in a NCAA Tournament game.
In addition to Blake’s output, Meg Morrisroe tallied four goals and one assist while Dora chipped in one goal and four assists and MacDonald contributed one goal and five assists.
Now the Tigers, who are making their first trip to the NCAA quarterfinals since 2019, will head further south to face top-seeded and undefeated North Carolina (19-0) on May 15 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
—Bill Alden
As the Princeton University softball team started play in the Ivy League postseason tournament last Thursday morning, it was excited to be hosting the event at its gleaming new Cynthia Lynn Paul ’94 Field.
“It is really good to be at the stadium, it is privilege to host what we have had,” said Princeton head coach Lisa Van Ackeren, whose program was hosting its third straight Ivy tourney. “A lot of our kids don’t know anything different, they don’t even know that there is another option.”
Van Ackeren acknowledged that being at home could also lead to a subconscious sense of complacency.
“Sometimes that can cause you to sit back a little bit,” said Van Ackeren. “We can just assume.”
Facing fourth-seeded Brown in the opener of the doubleelimination competition, the top-seeded Tigers experienced a tough setback, falling 4-0.
“I think we played a little hesitant and that is not us,” said Van Ackeren. “We are definitely not at our best. This game is too hard mentally to be hesitant.”
The Tigers generated six hits against the Bears but couldn’t get anyone home.
“We just aren’t executing the little things either when we need to get a bunt down we need to put the ball on the ground to advance the runner,” said Van Ackeren. “We just need to be able to execute what is being asked of us. For some of our kids, they made the moment too big. You are not going to get a big hit if the moment feels more important than it is.”
Van Ackeren credited Brown pitcher Alexis Guevara with coming up big in the circle for the Bears.
“She is not just a thrower, she moves the ball around,” said Van Ackeren. “She did a good job of adjusting from last weekend to what we saw from her today. We pressed a little bit and she took advantage of that.”
In the wake of the defeat, Van Ackeren was confident her players would adjust their approach.
“When nothing is guaranteed and you are one loss away from the end of the
for some of them that is incredibly motivating. Tapping into that there can be a lot of energy and momentum that you can build from that backagainst-the wall feeling. We will see what they do with it. I think if the right voices are loud and demanding in the circle, in the dugout and in the locker room, good things will happen.”
The Tigers did make good things happen on Friday as they defeated Harvard 5-1 in a loser’s bracket game, sparked by a sixth inning three-run homer by Sonia Zhang. On Saturday, Princeton stayed alive by rolling to a 10-1 win in five innings over Columbia to reach the final round of the tournament against Brown. Julia Dumais, Braeden Hale, Karis Ford, and Graciela Dominguez each had two RBIs to lead the offense while Cassidy Shaw was sharp in the circle, giving up just two hits in going the distance.
But needing to beat Brown twice to win the title, the Tigers couldn’t solve Guevara on Saturday afternoon as they managed just five hits in losing 4-1 to end their season. The defeat left Princeton, the Ivy regular season champion, with a final record of 28-18.
As the Princeton University women’s open crew has gone through the 2025 season, it has been tested on a weekly basis.
“We have a really fast league, it is something that is exceptional,” said Princeton head coach Lori Dauphiny. “We have the most competitive league. It used to be the Pac 12 or Big 10; this year, it is the Ivy League.”
In order to deal with that competition, Dauphiny has relied on a stellar senior group that included returning All-Americans Katherine George , Zoe Scheske , Margot LeRoux, Sara Covin, and Katharine Kalap . “All senior classes are fabulous but this senior class has really made an impact in this
program,” said Dauphiny, whose senior captains are Ella Barry and George. “In many ways, I think they have really strengthened the team culture; one in which you are very supportive of one another. Each group of women that came before them has strengthened our program in some way but I really feel that this senior class has made a significant impact on the team culture.”
The Tiger varsity eight looked strong in its first two outings this season, topping Brown in its opening regatta on March 29 and then defeating Harvard and Cornell two weeks later.
“I like the way we started,” said Dauphiny. “We struggled a little bit racing
Harvard and Cornell. We had to make some adjustments after that. It was a tough race. Harvard is fast this year.”
On April 19, the Tiger top boat had a tough time as it fell to Yale by 3.5 seconds
“Yale is fast, we knew they would be fast,” said Dauphiny.
“They are very good, they are very strong. I think it was good racing experience for us. It was an opportunity to be down and talk about what do you do when you are down in a race because we have had so many races where we are leading. I think the crew took something from it.”
A week later, Princeton
faced non-conference foes Tennessee, Syracuse and Ohio State and took second behind the Volunteers.
“We knew we had our conference races set but we didn’t have anything out of conference,” explained Dauphiny. “Tennessee had beat us at the national championship last year. They came in third, we came in fourth in the varsity eight. The rowers said we really need to see some of these teams before we go to the national championships. I was really pleased that Tennessee agreed to come here and it gave us the opportunity for our team to see one of the top out of conference boats. It was nice to have a four-boat race too because we have had a lot of duals this year. It was good for the team and the coxswains to experience that.”
Ending the regular season
on a high note, the Tiger varsity eight cried to a 16.7 win over Penn on May 3.
“It was a good day for the team,” said Dauphiny. “We had solid racing. I thought that was some of our best racing.”
With the Ivy League Championship slated for May 17-18 on Cooper River in Pennsauken, the Princeton rowers have been juggling exams and training over the last two weeks.
“The goal is to really try to balance the academic demands of reading period and final exams with the work that we were doing as a team on the water and they have done a nice job of that,” said Dauphiny. “During that time, we wanted to stay healthy and continue to work on some of our race strategies which would be our moves, our sprint and other parts of the race to prepare for this coming weekend. It is a break from exams and they are very focused. They have this schedule that they have to stick to.”
Looking ahead to the Ivy regatta, Dauphiny knows that the Tigers, ranked No. 6 nationally in the College Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) poll, face an uphill battle.
“We are the underdogs; Yale is very strong and fast but I am not discounting the others,” said Dauphiny, noting that Yale is ranked fifth
with Brown at eight and Harvard at 11. “Brown has made some nice strides as well and Harvard has really come along too. I would say that we are ready and we expect that is will be a very close battle throughout the league. It looks like Yale is the favorite crew. They have beat everyone by big margins. I am expecting that it will be a real brawl out there.”
Dauphiny believes her seniors will be ready to fight to the end.
“I always say I get another shot at this as a coach but this is yours,” said Dauphiny. “I think they are both nervous and excited. It is a really cool time in their life when they are focused on what we want to do and also their life is about to leap in a different direction.”
With Princeton having qualified for the NCAA Championships each year it has been contested, Dauphiny is hoping that Tigers will get another another shot at that regatta which is being held on nearby Mercer Lake from May 30-June 1.
“If we make qualification we would be right next door, it is close to home,” said Dauphiny. “There would be a lot of family and friends that are local and that doesn’t always happen for us. The team is doing well and is excited for the championship season.”
—Bill Alden
Tiger Women’s Golf Places 9th at NCAA Regional
Catherine Rao led the way as the Princeton University women’s golf team placed ninth last week at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional held at the Birdwood Golf Club in Charlottesville, Va.
Junior Rao finished ninth individually, carding a twoover 215 for the three-round event that took place from May 5-7.
The Tigers had a team score of +40 892 to take ninth in the event won by South Carolina at -2 850.
Princeton capped a season that included its eighth Ivy League championship with its second-best team finish at a NCAA Regional in program history.
Princeton Baseball Falls to Harvard in Finale
Justin Kim pitched well in a losing cause as the Princeton University baseball team fell 5-3 at Harvard last Wednesday to wrap up its 2025 campaign.
Junior Kim had a careerhigh eight strikeouts in 6.1 innings of relief for the Tigers who ended the spring at 12-31 overall and 8-13 Ivy League.
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Tiger Men’s Hoops Adds Brennan ’94 to Staff
Former Princeton University men’s basketball star and assistant coach Mike Brennan ’94 is returning to his alma mater as he was named last week as the associate head coach of the Tiger program.
Brennan joins the Tigers’ staff from Cornell, where he served as an assistant coach during the 2024-25 season.
Brennan served as head coach at American University from 2013-23, finishing his time there ranked second in program history in Patriot League victories (75) and third in overall victories (125). He was honored as the Patriot League Coach of the Year and named a finalist for both the Hugh Durham (mid-major head coach) and Joe B. Hall (firstyear head coach) awards in 2013-14, after leading the Eagles to a Patriot League title. The 2014-15 season saw American return to the Patriot League championship game under Brennan.
From 2009-13, Brennan spent four years at Georgetown as an assistant coach under John Thompson III.
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In each of his four seasons with the Hoyas, Georgetown earned an NCAA Tournament bid and twice earned a top three seed along with a share of the 2013 Big East regular season title. Georgetown won 95 games during Brennan’s four-year tenure on staff.
Prior to Georgetown, Brennan was an assistant coach at American during a historic two-year stretch from 2007-09. The Eagles earned their first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history in 2008 and won back-to-back Patriot League regular season and tournament titles.
At Princeton from 200007, where he also worked under Thompson III as an assistant, Brennan helped lead the Tigers to three Ivy Championships (2001, 2002, 2004), a pair of NCAA Tournaments (2001, 2004) and an NIT bid (2002).
As a player at Princeton, Brennan was a four-year starter under Hall of Fame coach Pete Carril. He helped the Tigers to NCAA Tournament appearances and Ivy titles in 1991 and 1992, earning second-team All-Ivy League as a senior. After graduating in 1994 with a degree in English, Brennan played professionally in Germany, Belgium and Portugal. Brennan is excited to be returning to his alma mater. “I am thrilled to be back at Princeton, a place that has meant so much to me both as a player and as a coach,” said Brennan. “The University has been an integral part of my life, and it is truly an honor and privilege to represent such a distinguished institution and basketball program. I am grateful to Director of Athletics John Mack and coach [Mitch] Henderson for this opportunity, and I look forward to contributing in every way I can to help carry on Princeton’s tradition of excellence.”
Members of the Princeton University men’s track team celebrate after they placed first in the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track Championships last weekend in New Haven, Conn. Princeton piled up 212.5 points in taking first with Harvard coming in second at 128. The win gave the program its second straight Triple Crown (Ivy cross country title, Ivy indoor track title, and Ivy outdoor track title in one school year) and 12th overall. The Tigers earned five individual titles at the meet as Greg Foster won the long jump and the 110 hurdles, while Jackson Clarke won the 200, Harrison Witt won the 1500, and Casey Helm won the discus. The track athletes return to action by hosting their Princeton Elite meet on May 17 and then competing in the
HEP, HEP HURRAY: Members of the Princeton University women’s track are all smiles after they placed first at the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track Championships last weekend in New Haven, Conn. Princeton had a winning score of 202.5 points as Harvard finished second at 178.5 points. The triumph gave the program a Triple Crown (Ivy cross country title, Ivy indoor track title, and Ivy outdoor track title in one school year) for the first time since 2011. The Tigers won six individual championships at the meet as Georgina Scoot won the long jump and the triple jump while Shea Greene claimed the javelin title and Siniru Iheoma won the shot put. Mena Scatchard won the 1,500 meters and Julia Jongejeugd won the heptathlon. The track athletes are next in action when they host their Princeton Elite meet on May 17 and will then take part in the NCAA First Round meet in Jacksonville, Fla. from May 28-31. (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics)
Ishaq Inayat took on a couple of challenges at the Colonial Valley Conference (CVC) Track & Field Championships last Saturday at Robbinsville High.
First there was the seen –a strong group of long and triple jumpers from CVC schools.
And there was the felt – a headwind coming directly up the runway.
“When we arrived there in the morning and kind of looked at the weather and saw it’s going to be windy all day, we kind of knew that maybe we weren’t going to jump our best marks today,” said Princeton High senior Inayat. “But it’s the county championships and we want to score as many points as possible so we kind of have to make do and just tough it out and get the furthest we can. And I’d say we’re pretty happy with the marks we performed and we scored some good points in the battle for the county championship.”
Inayat came through for the Tigers. He placed second in the boys’ long jump with a distance of 20’ 3.75 and third place in the boys triple jump with a mark of 39’5. Those marks helped score significant points for Princeton, which placed second in the boys team standings behind Notre Dame.
“The boys we really felt like we had a shot,” said PHS head coach Ben Samara. “The girls more so next year. We’re building for next year. I think the boys did well. I think for a lot of our kids, it might have been the first time that they’re experiencing a big meet with a chance to win. And I think we fought really hard, we competed really hard in a lot of different events. But we just kind of ran out of gas at the end and I feel
like Notre Dame performed really, really well.”
The boys scored 77 points. Notre Dame had 104. On the girls’ side, PHS finished fifth with 45 points, five points behind fourth-place Allentown. Inayat was just one of the boys’ big scorers Saturday. Fellow senior Sean Wilton won both the shot put and the discus. He wasn’t up to his own lofty standards in shot put but had a 156’1 best in discus.
“What does happen is when he has not such a great shot put he always unleashes one in discus,” said Samara.
“He has been focusing a lot more on shot and not as much on discus, and rightfully so, and so there was a question coming in of how was he going to throw with some of these guys in the in the conference catching up. He made no mistake about it, that he was the top discus thrower too, and went out and got three separate PRs during his six throws. So I think that just shows the kind of gamer he is.”
PHS also was encouraged by Yi-Tian Xiong. The sophomore was second in the boys 110-meter hurdles and fourth in the 400 hurdles.
“He’s getting really, really close to breaking 14 seconds, which is unheard of,” said Samara.
“That record by the great Stephen Fletcher is one that we never thought would go down. He’s right there and he’s just been working a lot with Coach Tom Harrington on just very, very minor tweaks to his technique., and things that he’s doing, it’s really paying off for him at the right time.”
PHS was second in the boys 4x800 relay. The Tiger boys also excelled in the high jump as Sullivan Spagnoli took fourth, Ellington
Hinds was fifth and Zachary Nelson claimed sixth. Spagnoli was also third in the long jump behind Inayat.
“I was very pleased with the team personally,” said Inayat. “Especially from some of the underclassmen. I think the team has a great future ahead of them, so I’m very pleased with the team.”
The girls’ team was highlighted by a second place finish in the 1,600 from Kajol Karra, third place in the 3,200 from Grace Hegedus and a third-place finish in the 800 from Lena Murray. Ngozi Okeke-Agulu was fourth in the long jump and Nishika Singh placed fifth in discus.
“Our incredible distance runners were great,” said Samara in assessing the performance of his girls’ squad. “We had Lena Murray breaking 2:20 in the 800 for the first time. We had a top three scorer in the 800, the mile and the twomile – all different girls. So these girls have still a lot of room to grow, even though they’re already at the upper echelon of the county.”
The team competition for boys and girls will be even stiffer this weekend when PHS competes in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 4 sectional at Hillsborough from May 16-17. Inayat feels best about his chances in the long jump. He’s performed well in the event in big meets this year. He won the boys long jump title at the Indoor CVC Championships.
“I’m actually really happy with this senior season,” said Inayat.
“A lot of things have been coming together that I’ve been working on for the past couple of years and I got that county championship in the winter that I’ve
been kind of aiming for. I’m pretty happy with the way things turned out.”
Inayat has experienced some ups and downs through his career. He did mostly sprints in middle school before finding his way to the jumps when he joined the high school team as a freshman.
“He’s one of those guys that you watch him develop over the four years and I’m just so proud of the competitor he’s become,” said Samara. “And the mindset that he brings now and to see where he’s come as a freshman and a sophomore who would come and do the work but to see him learn how to kind of evolve as an athlete, both physically and mentally, has been a lot of fun to watch. And I’m glad that he was able to get his county title indoors, and I’m glad that he’s been able to crack 21 feet in the long jump. I think he’s still got a ways to go if we can get some good weather.”
Inayat had continued to progress into a leader in the jump. Last year he placed sixth in the triple jump and eighth in the long jump at the county meet — the predecessor to the CVC Championship. This year, he needed his experience and smarts to manage the windy conditions.
“When the wind is blowing in your face, running down the runway it’s kind of pushing you back,” said Inayat. “And oftentimes it’ll mess up your mark a lot so it’s pretty difficult to hit the board without fouling. Personally, I had quite a few fouls at the meet and then just generally it’s just hard to run against
But we kind of had a little system going at the meet where we tried to catch a little window where the wind wasn’t blowing as hard and we kind of waited our one minute we have on the runway till we have to jump and tried to time it perfectly to get the optimal wind.”
Samara stood nearby and tried to signal when he felt the wind would die down. The jumpers did their best to focus on then hitting the board and getting as much distance into the pit.
“Ishaq specifically really held down that jump crew,” said Samara. “They were very professional about the way they went about their work. The wind was really, really bad in the long jump and they were waiting for me to literally motion them to go when the wind stopped by me. And they just stayed calm. they kept their composure, they realized it wasn’t an ideal date to jump and that we just had to hit the board. And so their patience and their maturity was incredible.”
Inayat has tried to share everything that he has learned during his career at PHS with the less experienced jumpers. It’s a group that he enjoys working with every day in practice or when they’re competing together in meets.
“It feels like I’m a little more of kind of a leader and more of I guess somebody that the underclassmen
could go to and stuff like that,” said Inayat. “But honestly, I’ve just been enjoying my last season of a track, trying to just enjoy it, especially with the underclassmen and the whole team and the coaches.”
Inayat has been open to suggestions and for advice. He shares his experience, but also listens to others, which has helped the entire group of jumpers develop.
“We try to help each other,” said Inayat. “I wouldn’t say it’s just me helping them. I think we kind of share our knowledge and our takeaways and stuff like that so we can all improve together.”
Inayat is looking forward to sectionals and the next chance to compete. The top six finishers advance to the Group 4 state meet, something that would be a first for Inayat. It would add to what’s been an important experience in his high school career.
“That feature has been a big part of my high school experience,” said Inayat. “If I hadn’t come out for the track team, I don’t really know what I would think of my high school experience because coming out and just running, having fun, just being with these people and competing, just the whole thing. It’s just been a great part of my high school experience and definitely something I’ll remember.”
—Justin Feil
Wyatt Ewanchyna was fired up to hit the field for the Princeton Day School boys’ lacrosse team as it hosted WW/P-North last Thursday in the opening round of the Colonial Valley Conference (CVC) tournament.
“All of these kids are hockey kids and we have already been through a heartbreaker this year,” said senior defender Ewanchyna, referring to a 2-1 overtime loss to Don Bosco this winter in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public quarterfinal round. “We were really pumped to get into another tournament together.”
With Ewanchyna spearheading a stifling defense, the sixth-seeded Panthers held 11th-seeded WW/PNorth scoreless for the first 32 minutes of the contest on the way to a 14-3 triumph.
“Our defense has really been solid, we have a lot of juniors and seniors who have been together for a while,” said Ewanchyna. “Everybody has each other’s backs. It is solid.”
As one of the squad’s most battle-tested players, Ewanchyna has shouldered more responsibility this spring.
“I try to be a leader as much as I can,” said Ewanchyna. “I think we are all leaders in our own ways. Every single part of the
defense is key.”
In the win over North, Ewanchyna, who was the top scorer for the PDS boys’ hockey team, got into the offense for the Panthers as he scored a fourth quarter goal.
“It is like in hockey, you screen the goalie and get in front,” said Ewanchyna.
“I will take it, you don’t get many of those.”
Facing an Allentown team in the CVC quarters who had edged PDS 8-7 in overtime in a regular season contest, the Panthers built on the win over North as they edged the third-seeded Redbirds 5-3 last Saturday.
“We needed a little momentum going into Allentown,” said Ewanchyna.
“We had an upsetting loss against them. We know we can play with anybody but we have to be at our best and dialed in. We have to take care of the ball. I feel like we are always reliable on defense. We can always take it a step up. We gave up eight goals last time, we can get that down to four or five.”
While PDS lost 10-5 to Montclair Kimberley Academy in the Prep Tournament semis last Monday to move to 6-7, Ewanchyna and his teammates are enjoying the postseason grind.
“We are rolling into that, we are used to that from hockey season, it is non-
SOUNDING OFF: Princeton Day School boys’ lacrosse head coach Sam Kosoff, center, makes a point to his players in a game earlier this season. Last Saturday, sixth-seeded PDS edged third-seeded Allentown 5-3 in the quarterfinal round of the Colonial Valley Conference (CVC) tournament. The Panthers, who moved to 6-7 with a 10-5 loss to Montclair Kimberley Academy in the Prep Tournament semis last Monday, were slated to face second-seeded Notre Dame in the CVC semis on May 13 with the victor advancing to the final on May 15 at Hopewell Valley. In addition, the Panthers will be hosting Northern Burlington on May 16 in a regular season contest.
(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
stop,” said Ewanchyna of the Panthers, who were slated to face second-seeded Notre Dame in the CVC semis on May 13 with the victor advancing to the final on May 15 at Hopewell Valley. “We just can’t wait to keep playing. I think everyone is having a blast.”
While Ewanchyna is planning to focus on hockey after graduation as he is looking to play juniors, he is open to the option of also playing lacrosse at the next level.
“I love hockey, so we will see with I can do with it,” said Ewanchyna. “If I can bring lacrosse with it that would be great. One of my things is that I want to play both sports in college. I am not sure what I am going to do. I think it will be fun no matter what I do.”
PDS head coach Sam Kosoff loved the way his team took care of business against North. “It feels great, it is a great spring day,” said Kosoff. “You can’t ask for better conditions and a great field. It was fun to come out here, run around, and get a win.”
Kosoff had a lot of fun watching the Panther defense stymie the Northern Knights.
“We have really been focused on defense,” said Kosoff. “We are trying to do a better job on offense, trying to create better possessions and more motion. Because we haven’t, our defense has gotten a lot of work. They are doing a good job, we have implemented a couple of different looks and they have responded really well. We rely heavily on those guys.”
The Panthers rely heavily on Ewanchyna to spearhead that unit.
“He is just a gamer,” said Kosoff of Ewanchyna. “His hockey skills come into play, he can goose balls to himself.”
At the other end of the field, senior Hart Nowakoski and the Lewis brothers, senior Asher and sophomore Landon, triggered the offense.
Nowakoski tallied six goals and five assists while Asher Lewis chipped in one goal and two assists and went 14of-14 on face-offs and Landon Lewis contributed five goals and one assist.
“Hart played well today,” said Kosoff. “Lucky for him, Asher at the X two times just immediately fed him. Asher is a little nicked up, kudos to him. Landon has developed well, he is good around the cage. He had some good head fakes and he gets goal side.”
Kosoff had a good feeling going into the CVS rematch with Allentown.
“I hope we can right the ship on that one,” said Kosoff. “We need to finish, we need to play a full game. We have struggled with that. I said to them you learn the most when the struggle is real, not when it is easy. We are excited to head into the stretch here and do our best.”
Ewanchyna, for his part, is looking to make the most of his final stretch with PDS.
“I am with all of my friends I have known for years, some of them I have known since I was in pre-K,” said Ewanchyna. “We have played lacrosse together forever. We don’t waste a second out here.”
—Bill Alden
In 2024, the Princeton Day School baseball team started 0-9 but produced a late surge, winning four of its last five games, including the program’s first-ever victory in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public tournament.
History is repeating itself this spring as the Panthers lost their first nine games only to respond with a 7-3 run, earning a spot in the Prep B state semis along the way.
PDS head coach Eric Schnepf is proud of the resilience displayed by his squad for a second straight year.
“It is really easy when that happens to check out,” said Schnepf. “We talk about overcoming adversity and battling though those tough times and the kids have shown that. The kids are not willing to just throw in the towel, they want to go out and compete. They want to win. They want to play hard for each other and for themselves.”
A 1-0 win over a strong Hightstown team on April 30 gave the Panthers a big lift. Sophomore Mason Roitburg produced a mound gem in the triumph, striking out four and giving up just three hits as he went the distance. Freshman AJ Doran belted a homer to provide the Panthers with the margin of victory.
“The kids played really well; Mason threw a great game for us and the defense played really well behind him, it was a nice, clean game,” said Schnepf. “AJ hit that homer which was real nice. He is big, strong kid — the ball comes off his bat real hard. We are relatively young and there were some growing pains and it was just going to take some time. I think a win like that against a really strong team just boosts the kids’ confidence. That win did a lot for our guys for the locker room and for our confidence. It was really good to see.”
Last Thursday, PDS built on that win in the Prep B quarterfinal round as the eighth-seeded Panthers edged top-seeded Montclair Kimberly Academy 2-1.
“We had some good chances offensively — it took a lot longer than we would have liked to break through,” said Schnepf. “We scored in the top of the first. AJ Doran hit another homer later in that game. Mason came out and threw six great innings. We brought Keegan [Fullman] in to shut the door. They are a very strong team, they had a chance in the seventh. They had the bases loaded with one out with tying run on third and the winning run on second. They put the ball in play and our third baseman Vince [Filis] made a really nice play on it to dive and keep it in front of him. He had a fielder’s choice, throwing the guy out at home. Not only did that save a run but if the ball gets through they probably win the game. Keegan got the next batter to fly out to right to win it.”
The win earned PDS a matchup at Pennington in the Prep B semis slated for May 13 with the victor advancing to the final on May 15 at Diamond Nation in Flemington.
“Going into any game, I don’t think the goals change,” said Schnepf, looking ahead to the clash with the Red Hawks. “You want to come out and compete and you want to be able to handle adversity. It should be a good game. They are having a great year, they are a well-coached team. The chips are going to fall where they may and we will see what happens.”
In reflecting on his team’s recent surge, Schnepf believes it is due to a combination of growth in his freshmen and sophomores along with veteran leadership.
“Our younger guys are getting comfortable and confident with the speed of the game but also our upperclassmen are stepping up,” said Schnepf. “They are leading these guys. It is not just what happens physically in the field, it is the mental battles, the competitiveness and the ability to overcome adversity. We have a really good mix of our older guys pulling the wagon and our
younger guys are starting to feel comfortable pushing the wagon It is all of them working together to elevate the standard and the level of play.”
Senior Santino Cignarella has given PHS a high level of play at the bat and on the mound.
“Santino is swinging a good bat, he can get on base and is really a table-setter for our guys,” said Schnepf of Cignarella, who is batting .339 with 20 hits and 13 runs and has pitched to a 3.05 ERA with 16 strikeouts in 18.1 innings “He has been throwing the ball really well. He is competitive and is around the zone. He can throw two pitches for strikes. He relies and trusts the guys behind him to make plays.”
As PDS, now 7-12, heads into the final weeks of the season, Schnepf is confident that his players will keep playing well.
“I think from top to bottom we are really happy with what they are doing,” said Schnepf. “We hope to continue to see more growth out of them.”
—Bill Alden
Princeton Day School baseball player Santino Cignarella takes a swing in a 2024 game. Last Thursday, senior shortstop Cignarella went 1 for 2 with a run as eighth-seeded PDS edged top-seeded Montclair Kimberley Academy 2-1 in the Prep B state quarterfinals. The Panthers, who fell 17-0 to Notre Dame last Saturday in the first round of the Colonial Valley Conference (CVC) tournament to move to 7-12, were slated to play at fourth-seeded Pennington in the Prep B semis on May 13 with the victor advancing to the final on May 15 at Diamond Nation in Flemington.
Baseball : Tuning up for the Prep A state tournament, Hun defeated the Blair Academy 5-2 last Monday. The Raiders, now 15-6, are seeded No. 1 in the Prep A tourney and will host fourthseeded Peddie School on May 14 in the first round of the double-elimination competition.
Softball : Payton Poandl helped trigger the batting attack as Hun defeated the Germantown Academy (Pa.) 14-0 last Saturday. Freshman Poandl went 3-for-4 with four runs and one RBI for the Raiders, now 14-1. Hun is next in action when it competes in the Prep A state tournament where it is seeded second and was slated to host third-seeded Lawrenceville in a semifinal contest on May 13 with victor advancing to the final on May 15.
Boys’ Lacrosse : Rolling into the Prep Tournament semis, sixth-seeded Hun defeated third-seeded Pennington 12-5 in the quarterfinal round of the competition last Thursday. The Raiders, who lost 11-1 to St. Augustine last Saturday in a regular season game to move to 5-13, were scheduled to play at second-seeded Blair in the Prep semis on May 13 with the victor advancing to the final on May 15.
Girls’ Lacrosse : Wrapping up its 2025 campaign, Hun lost 12-2 to the Perkiomen School (Pa.) last Thursday. The Raider ended the spring with a 1-12 record.
Baseball : Matei Vasiliu went 1-for-3 with a double and two RBIs to help Lawrenceville defeat WW/PNorth 6-4 last Monday. The Big Red, now 9-10, will be competing in the Prep A state tournament this week where they are seeded second and will host third-seeded Blair on May 14 in the first round of the doubleelimination competition.
Softball : Emma Sung starred with her arm and bat as Lawrenceville defeated South Hunterdon 10-0 last Saturday. Sung pitched a five-inning shutout and went 2-for-3 with one run and two RBIs at the plate as the Big Red improved to 14-5.
Lawrenceville will be competing in the Prep A tournament this week where it is seeded third and was slated to play at second-seeded Hun on May 13 in a semifinal contest with the victor advancing to the final on May 15.
May 15 at Diamond Nation in Flemington.
Boys’ Lacrosse : Losing its 10th straight game, Pennington fell 9-8 to Cinnaminson last Monday. The Red Hawks, who moved to 4-12 with the defeat, were slated to wrap up their 2025 campaign by hosting Oratory Prep on May 13.
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1st Princeton Triathlon
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Girls’ Lacrosse : Sparked by Shelby Ruf, PDS defeated Hamilton 17-7 last Thursday in Colonial Valley Conference (CVC) tournament consolation game. Senior star and Merrimack College commit Ruf tallied five goals and one assist to help the Panthers improve 5-8. PDS will be hosting Pennington on May 15 before playing at Lawrence High on May 19. Boys’ Tennis : Abhishek Srinivasan provided a highlight for PDS as it lost 4-1 to Princeton High last Monday. Sophomore Srinivasan defeated Andrew Kuo 2-6, 7-6 (7-2), 10-6 at second singles for the Panthers, now 6-5. In upcoming action, PDS will be competing in the Prep B state tournament starting on May 15.
Lacrosse : Allison Lee tallied four goals but it wasn’t nearly enough as Stuart fell 18-5 to Mount St. Mary last Monday. The Tartans, now 3-9, will be playing at Immaculata on May 15 before hosting Lawrence High on May 20.
Baseball : Joe Lifsted starred as fourth-seeded Pennington edged fifthseeded Rutgers Prep 4-3 last Thursday in the quarterfinal round of the Prep B state tournament. Lifsted went 3 for 4 with one run in the win for the Red Hawks. Pennington, which lost 12-0 to Hun last Saturday to move to 15-5, was slated to host eighth-seeded Princeton Day School on May 13 in the Prep B semis with the victor advancing to the final on
Baseball : Travis Petrone had a big game as PHS defeated South Hunterdon 8-3 last Monday. Senior star Petrone went 3 for 4 with a homer and three runs for the Tigers, who improved to 7-11 with the win. PHS plays at Iselin Kennedy on May 16 before hosting New Egypt on May 17.
Girls’ Lacrosse: Leah Bornstein scored three goals in a losing cause as PHS fell 20-6 to Lawrenceville last Monday. The Tigers, now 10-8, play at Peddie on May 14 and at Hillsborough on May 20.
Boys’ Tennis : Garrett Mathewson helped lead the way for PHS as it defeated Princeton Day School 4-1 last Monday. Mathewson posted a straight-set win at first singles for the Tigers, now 7-2. PHS hosts Robbinsville on May 14.
Princeton Post 218 Baseball Holding Player Workout
The Princeton American Legion Post 218 baseball team is holding an additional player evaluation/workout at Smoyer Park in Princeton on May 18 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The program is open to all interested high school players from Princeton High, Princeton Day School, Hun School, WW/P-South High, WW/P-North High, and Notre Dame High, or any
The Mercer County American Legion League (MCALL) season runs from late May through mid-July and involves playing approximately 20 games with teams from around the Greater Mercer County Area. The competition level is high and all players will receive adequate playing time to develop their game.
The summer fee is $645. Scholarships are available. For more information on the program and to RSVP for the tryouts, contact Jon
The first-ever Princeton Triathlon is being held on June 7 and will include a super sprint triathlon, super sprint triathlon relay, duathlon, and aquabike which are for all ages 13-and-above along with a youth triathlon event for those ages 7-12.
All events start and finish at the Community Park Pool at 380 Witherspoon Street in Princeton with primary parking at the Community Park School at 372 Witherspoon Street.
Packet pickup, check-in
and transition opens at 5:30 a.m. on June 7 with warmup opening and pre-race briefing beginning at 6:45 a.m. The triathlon swim start and duathlon run start are slated to start at 7 a.m.
For race information and to register, log onto runsignup.com/Race/NJ/Princeton/PrincetonTriathlon.
All participants will receive a shirt upon checking in on race day along with a medal upon finishing.
Beneficiaries of the event are Dare2Tri (a national nonprofit organization that aids disabled athletes), Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad, and the Princeton High Triathlon Club.
William Kennedy Wakefield, of Princeton, died at home, surrounded by his family, on May 5. Bill is survived by Pam, his wife of 63 years, their children Wendy Davis, JB Wakefield, and Liza Peck, and Wendy’s husband, Steve Heaps. He leaves 13 grandchildren: Kylie, Dana, and Will Davis; Will, Tess, Gray, and Drew Wakefield; Griffin, Kirby, Merritt, and Sawyer Peck; and Owen and Emma Heaps; three grandsons-inlaw Doug Shapiro, Jason Yanowitz, Kevin Halliday; and a great-grandchild, Adair Shapiro-Davis. He also leaves a sister Roxanne White and her husband David as well as many cherished nieces and nephews. Bill was born on June 8, 1939 to Harold “Wake” Wakefield and Nancy Kennedy Wakefield in Montclair,
NJ. A graduate of Montclair High School, he earned a degree in engineering from Cornell University. Bill started his business career with General Motors in Ohio, then moved on to Exxon and overseeing major projects worldwide, including an assignment with his family for three years in Exxon’s London office.
He continued his international work with FMC Corporation, leaving FMC as Director of Engineering and Construction. Bill completed his business career with Wakefield Consulting which he established in 1999 to provide training and management consulting to construction and engineering firms. In addition to industrial work, he managed a number of local projects, including the renovated Springdale Golf Club and the headquarters for Music Together.
Throughout his career, Bill served in leadership roles with industry associations such as The Business Roundtable Construction Committee and the Design-Build Institute of America. Bill’s partners in every endeavor respected his guidance and practical wisdom. He was also a reliable problem solver for family and friends, meeting challenges ranging from furniture assembly and overworked plumbing to managing the inevitable issues in timing and scope that are the hallmark of any building project.
As a Princeton resident, Bill engaged in a rich array of volunteer activities He was a member of the Site Plan Review Advisory Board and the Regional Planning
Board of Princeton, as well as serving on the Boards of The Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, First Friends (which serves immigrant detainees at the Elizabeth Detention Center), The Paul Robeson House of Princeton, and the Trenton Children’s Chorus. Bill was also an active member of The Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, served as a mentor to at-risk youth for Corner House and the YMCA, and, most recently, assisted asylum seekers through Solidaridad.
Additionally, Bill was an Elder and Deacon of Nassau Presbyterian Church, where he was a leader in the church’s outreach efforts for social justice and, specifically, advocacy for immigration reform and immigrant rights. He chaired the Presbytery of New Brunswick’s task forces on Immigration and Mass Incarceration and led major renovations of Nassau Church. In 2016, Bill was awarded the “Bud” Vivian award by the Princeton Area Community Foundation in recognition of his advocacy and work on social justice issues. Bill was deeply loved and respected by the Nassau Church community. Their faith, care and support lightened his last months.
At heart, Bill was an adventurer who chose a career that allowed him to travel widely. He never said no to an exotic dish, sometimes to the dismay of his family, and took every opportunity to explore the sea under sail or while decked out in scuba gear or both. He was pleased that he shares his birthday with World Oceans
Day. His intellectual, spiritual and physical strengths sustained his family through times of despair while his generous spirit buoyed the family’s joyous moments. In his final days, Bill was grateful for an ‘exit ramp’ which allowed him time for visits with family and dear friends. He loved hearing the hubbub of a large family downstairs while he rested upstairs with his wife Pam who was his cherished companion on every journey including his final battle with cancer.
A service is planned for Sunday, June 8, at 2 p.m. at the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel with a reception to follow at Nassau Presbyterian Church.
To honor Bill’s memory, gifts may be directed to Mission and Outreach/ Wakefield Memorial Fund at Nassau Presbyterian Church (nassauchurch.org) or sent to the church office at 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542. The fund will be used to ensure the equitable and compassionate treatment of immigrants.
Arrangements are under the direction of MatherHodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
John D. Wallace (“Jack”)
John D. Wallace (“Jack”), 92, beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle, and friend, died peacefully at home in Princeton on May 1, 2025, with his wife, Happy, and children, Chris and Margie by his side. He was predeceased by his parents Margaret Cook Wallace and John H. Wallace, his younger siblings Bill and Penny Wallace, and his son John who died from AIDS in 1990. In addition to his wife and children, Jack is survived by his son-in-law, Peter; six grandchildren: Chris Gibson
(Katie Kwon-Gibson), Katie Gibson, Cordy Gibson, Coby Gibson, John Wallace, and Lila Wallace; and his greatgranddaughter Lucie KwonGibson.
Jack was born in Trenton on February 12, 1933. He grew up in Princeton, attended Princeton Country Day, and graduated from The Hotchkiss School in 1951 where he enjoyed drama, debate, and soccer. He attended Princeton in the Naval ROTC program, and, after graduating in 1955 with a degree in international and public affairs, served in the United States Navy, eventually becoming Admiral’s Aide to the Vice Admiral in command of the Atlantic amphibious fleet.
After the Navy, Jack started a financial career with Hanover Bank and then Morgan Stanley in New York. In the fall of 1958, he met Happy Goebel. They enjoyed their first date at the Princeton-Dartmouth football game at Palmer Stadium and were engaged just six weeks later and married at Fort Myer Chapel, Arlington, Virginia, on September 12, 1959.
Jack’s career in banking took root close to home in Trenton. After early years on Wall Street, he joined First Trenton National Bank, a predecessor of New Jersey National Bank and eventually Corestates. He started as an assistant cashier and ended his career as CEO. After guiding the bank during the early years of interstate banking, he retired in 1993 so that he could focus on his family, a little bit of tennis and golf, and favorite community institutions.
While Jack loved advising and lending to businesses to help them grow, he took special pride in the town of Princeton and its vibrancy. Like his father who was mayor, Jack served on the Princeton Township Committee and as mayor, in 1969–1970, and again in 1972. In politics, his inspirations included George Washington — “who could not tell a lie” — and Abraham Lincoln with whom he shared the February 12 birthdate.
Many local nonprofit and educational organizations benefited from Jack’s leadership including McCarter
Theatre, the Princeton Area Community Foundation, Princeton Day School (PDS), Princeton Senior Resource Center, Trinity Counseling, the University Medical Center at Princeton, and the Watershed Institute. At PDS, with 23 years on the board, Jack was exceedingly generous with his strategic guidance and financial support. Indeed, he was the School’s longest-serving trustee. In 1993, for his impact, Jack earned the school’s highest volunteer and career service award, which was subsequently renamed the John D. Wallace ’48 Alumni Service Award. After the profound loss of their son John, Jack and Happy decided to memorialize John’s creativity and spirit by establishing the John D. Wallace Jr ’78 Memorial Guest Artist Series. This fund established Imagine the Possibilities, a schoolwide program, which brings renowned authors, poets, and illustrators to the PDS community. Happy and Jack returned every year to PDS to enjoy these guests and just this past April, Jack’s last outings were attending the 29th year of this remarkable Imagine the Possibilities program.
Throughout 2024 and into 2025, Jack remained active with the Bedens Brook Club and the Nassau Club, at Princeton Day School, Princeton Investors Group, and the Princeton Class of 1955. He regularly attended book club gatherings and lunches with a group of friends who playfully called themselves “Malaprop.” In all of his activities, Jack gracefully blended a wry sense of humor, practical vision, and steady optimism to bring people together and make good things happen. While his presence in the community was profound, his devotion to his family was boundless and his love for his beloved Happy unwavering.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Trinity Church, Princeton, NJ, on Tuesday, June 17 at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Princeton First Aid and Rescue, the Princeton Area Community Foundation, or any other cause meaningful to Jack’s legacy.
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