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Plans for Expansion Of Airport Terminal Proceeding on Schedule

To those who use Trenton-Mercer Airport for business or leisure travel, the announcement last spring of a planned expansion and modernization was welcome news. The Ewing Township airport’s 28,000-square-foot terminal, built in the 1970s, is to be replaced with a new 125,000-square-foot terminal built next to the existing facility, with gates to accommodate four aircrafts.

A 1,000-space parking garage is also part of the plan. Design of the project is targeted for completion late this year or early in 2024.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave Mercer County the go-ahead in March to proceed with phase 2 of the new terminal’s design. There is continued opposition to the plan by a group called Trenton Threatened Skies, citing noise, traffic, and threats to the environment including chemical contamination owing into the Delaware River.

The FAA’s “Finding of No Signi cant Impacts and Record of Decision” for the Environmental Assessment says the expansion does not have the potential for signi cant environmental impacts. Trenton Threatened Skies has challenged that assessment, ling a legal petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Trenton-Mercer Airport was officially opened in 1929, with aviation pioneers Amelia Earhart and James Doolittle in attendance at the ceremony. Currently served by Frontier Airlines, the airport has been used by commercial airlines as well as the aviation departments of several Fortune 100 companies as well as the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, the New Jersey Army National Guard, the Civil Air Patrol, and the Mercer County Community College Flight School, according to information from the county.

“Since at least 2015, Mercer County has been looking to design and build a new passenger terminal that would meet our current and future needs,” said County Executive Brian Hughes when the FAA’s approval was announced. “We want to ensure that our airport takes ad-

New Trash Carts to Be Delivered Soon

With new 64-gallon carts scheduled to be delivered to Princeton residents over the next few weeks in preparation for the town’s revamped trash collection program, homeowners have the choice of tossing their old containers or holding on to them for other uses. Sustainability advocates and municipal staff are hoping people opt for the latter.

Turning the old carts into composters, rain barrels, or containers to store leaves for compost are a few of the suggestions on offer. “We know this is not going to work for every person. But we want to extend the useful life of whatever bins or carts people have,” said Christine Symington, executive director of Sustainable Princeton. “Part of the waste reduction hierarchy is that you want to reuse things. Our team, in coordination with [municipal engineer] Deanna Stockton, has come up with a bunch of different ideas.”

The goal was to find creative options that are not overly complicated. “There are several things you can do,” said Symington. “And we’re planning on holding some workshops in the spring, and perhaps later in the year, where folks can bring their old containers in

and we can help facilitate turning them into other uses.”

The new trash collection system is scheduled to begin February 1. Bulk waste will no longer be collected with regular trash after that date. Pickup of bulk items will be on Wednesdays, by reservation (email wasteinfo@princeotnnj.gov). Collection of organics is still being explored.

The new carts, which save labor by the use of robotic arms, are being assembled

on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary, and will be delivered to residents by the hauler. Each cart is equipped with a chip linking it to a speci c address. Residents who feel they need more than one cart can order one, which may require a fee. Those who want a smaller receptacle can request a 32-gallon model, and swaps will be done in March.

In addition to the suggestions for converting old carts into composters, rain barrels, and storage containers for leaves,

Paul Robeson Tomato is Basis for A Multifaceted Princeton Project

The Paul Robeson Tomato, named after the Princeton-born African American singer, actor, and activist, is an heirloom tomato of the beefsteak variety known for its versatility and its rich, tangy, smoky avor.

If you’re not familiar with the Robeson Tomato, you will be soon if Joy BarnesJohnson, Princeton Public Schools science supervisor and Paul Robeson House of Princeton board member, has anything to say about it.

Barnes-Johnson is leading The Paul Robeson House of Princeton Robeson Freedom Garden Campaign, “a wonderful way for us as a community to honor Robeson, whom we are calling Princeton’s native son,” she said. Robeson, whose birth house on Witherspoon Street is currently under renovation, would have been 125 years old in April 2023.

“The Paul Robeson House of Princeton is going to be distributing tomato seeds to students in schools

Friends of Princeton Open Space hosted volunteers at the Mountain Lakes

for nature projects, including removing invasive species, in honor of Martin Luther King

share why they chose the event as their MLK Day of Service project in this week’s Town

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series is currently underway at the farm, and continues through spring. The educational series includes handson programs to get young minds thinking about nature and the world around them. Designed to cure cabin fever, the program is for kids from preschool through age 8.

The children participate in educational activities, interactive story-time, and make

a craft relating to the topic of the day to take home. That may include decorating a big gingerbread cookie, building a bird feeder, creating a compost container, or planting seeds in the greenhouse. Sessions are held on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10 a.m. Each session lasts about an hour.

Topics are The Gingerbread Man on January 21; Animal Tracks on January 31 and February 4; Fur, Feathers & Fluff: Keeping Warm in Winter on February

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21 and 25; Birds and Birdhouses on March 7 and 11; Getting Ready for Spring on March 21 and 25, and Composting on April 11 and 15. The cost is $12 per child and includes the craft activity. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Online registration is required at terhuneorchards.com.

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In the story titled “Council Begins the New Year with Reorganization and Reports” [January 11, page 8] it was reported that new trash carts will be available for pickup at Princeton Theological Seminary. The carts will be assembled at the seminary, but residents should not go there to pick them up. The carts will be delivered to Princeton residences by the hauler in the next few weeks.

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Community Bulletin

Warm Clothing Drive : Through January 31, Princeton Human Services is collecting warm gloves, scarves, hats, and socks for families in need, at 1 Monument Drive. Email humanservices@princetonnj.gov or call (609) 688-2055 for more information.

Ice Skating on the Square : On Hulfish Street behind the Nassau Inn, skate on the outdoor synthetic rink through February 26. Tickets are $10, sold at the door. Visit palmersquare.com.

Join Boards, Commissions, or Committees : The municipality is looking to fill vacancies with residents of Princeton who are willing to attend regularly scheduled meetings. Visit princetonnj.gov for more information.

Princeton Farmers Market Winter Market : Most Thursdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Dinky train station lot, 172 Alexander Street. Local farms, baked goods, artisan foods, unique gifts, and more. Princetonfarmersmarket.com.

Christmas Tree and Brush Collection : Continues weekly through January 31. Remove all lights, garlands, ornaments, and other objects before placing tree curbside. Princetonnj.gov.

Princeton Community Works Conference : The annual virtual conference for those interested in building community nonprofit boards, staff, and volunteers, is January 30-February 1. Admission is $20; group rates and scholarships are available. Keynote speech, workshops, self-care sessions, and more. Princetoncommunityworks.org.

Princeton Environmental Film Festival Deadline : To enter the annual festival March 24-31 at Princeton Public Library, submissions must be in by January 23. Visit princetonlibrary.org/peff for details.

Blood Donors Needed: The American Red Cross needs blood and platelets to keep supplies from dropping. All types are needed, especially type O. Visit RedCrossBlood. org or call (800) 733-2767 for more information.

Speak Up for a Child : Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children seeks volunteers to speak up in Family Court for the best interests of Mercer County children removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect, and placed in the foster care system. Volunteers advocate for the educational, emotional and physical well-being of these children. Upcoming one-hour information sessions are on February 6 and 15 and March 1 at 1450 Parkside Avenue, Ewing. Casamb.org.

Free COVID-19 Test Kits: Available at Princeton Health Department, 1 Monument Drive, Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. There is limit of four per household; you must reside in Princeton to get the kits.

Free Vision and Dental Services for Low Income Residents : The municipality is offering these services for low-income Princeton residents impacted by the pandemic. For application information, visit Princetonnj.gov.

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Princeton Battlefield Society Event Attracts Unprecedented Number of Participants

Having mounted a vigorous effort to publicize its signature educational event, “Experience the Battle of Princeton,” at Princeton Battlefield on January 8, members of the Princeton Battlefield Society (PBS) had a feeling it might be well attended.

But when more than 800 people from nine states and as far away as the United Kingdom showed up for the event, which was followed by a commemorative wreath-laying at the Memorial Grove on the battlefield, they were pleasantly surprised.

“Building on the dedication and enthusiasm of the folks on the reenacting side is a wonderful resource,” said Todd Quackenbush, PBS communications chair, a few days after the event. “I think they were attracted by the opportunity to do the reenactment on the original battlefield. We had a little time separation from the [Christmas Day reenactment] events at Washington Crossing, so we had a really big turnout — 270 on the Continental side, 80 or 90 on the British side.”

Following the reenactment, there was a commemorative wreath-laying at the Memorial Grove on the battlefield, just behind the Colonnade, to honor the soldiers who died during all the battles of the Ten Crucial Days, including the American and British dead buried nearby. The commemoration was organized by the New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution, in conjunction with other organizations as well as legacy units of the American and British armed forces whose ancestors had fought at the battle. Participants came from several “hereditary societies and Continued on Next Page

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The original Battle of Princeton “marked the capstone of the ‘Ten Crucial Days’ of 1776-77 that began with the crossing of the Delaware by Washington’s forces, and ended with a complete reversal of the series of defeats that American forces had suffered in New York and New Jersey since July 1776,” Quackenbush wrote in a release about the event.

The Ten Crucial Days is considered to be one of the most pivotal campaigns of the Revolution. “It’s a fascinating study in military strategy and tactics, arguably George Washington’s finest moment,” Quackenbush said. “It’s the issue of surprise — picking your enemy’s weak spots, and finding ways to do things the other party isn’t expecting, and getting into their heads about what happens. The British had pushed the Americans out of New York, and they thought it was just about mopping up at this point; squashing the last resistance.”

The Battle of Princeton “was the first time the Americans had beaten the British in the field,” he continued. “It was an enormous confidence boost, and an enormous morale-destroyer for the British.”

RELIVING A PIVOTAL DAY: The January 8 reenactment of the Battle of Princeton at Princeton Battlefield was followed by a commemorative wreath-laying at the Colonnade to honor those soldiers, on both sides, who died during all the battles of the Ten Crucial Days. (Photo by Al Pochok)

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service organizations as well as representatives of legacy units of the American and British armed forces whose antecedents fought at the battle,” reads the PBS release.

All of these activities are leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Revolution, which will begin in 2026. The PBS is gearing up for a significant celebration.

“It’s going to be very interesting in the next few years,” Quackenbush said. “We’re hoping to re-create at least some of the excitement of the bicentennial. New Jersey was a center of gravity, and we’re sitting right on top of one of the real historical hot spots. It’s a blessing for all concerned to actually walk on the ground where these things happened.”

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YWCA Princeton Seeks New Board Members

“Serving on YWCA Princeton’s Board of Directors is an opportunity to join a legacy — now 100 years strong — of empowering women and families,” said YWCA Princeton CEO Tay L. Walker.

Board members provide guidance, support, and expertise to strengthen the YWCA’s impact and ensure it is meeting its strategic goals. Members can serve on committees that suit their interests and skills, including Mission, Nominating, Facilities, Development, or Executive.

“After recently completing a community needs assessment and reinstating a full-time director of advocacy, this is an integral time at YWCA Princeton,” said Walker. “We are also in the final phase of our capital campaign, which will result in the construction of a new building fitted to meet the needs of women and families through mission-based programming that creates opportunities for personal and professional empowerment. The YWCA is committed to creating a more equitable future, and we want you to be part of it.

“We welcome professionals and activists of all backgrounds, and are particularly seeking those with skills and experience related to fundraising, finance, architecture or engineering, law, and social justice.”

Board members serve terms of three years and are expected to attend meetings every other month, September through June. Supporting major YWCA Princeton events and fundraising efforts is also an expectation.

“As an organization that focuses on empowering women, our board leadership is comprised entirely of female-identifying members of the community,” said Walker.” We encourage men and male-identifying members of our community to serve on committees or join us as volunteers.”

Those who are interested in joining the YWCA Princeton Board of Directors can contact Walker at twalker@ywcaprinceton. org or (609) 497-2100 ext. 302 to learn more, submit an inquiry, or request a nomination form.

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Question of the Week:

“Why did you choose this as your MLK Day of Service project?”

(Asked Monday at A Day of Service in Nature at Mountain Lakes Preserve, hosted by Friends of Princeton Open Space) (Photos by Weronika A. Plohn)

“I found about this event online. It seemed like the perfect way to spend a day off work doing something useful and enjoying being outside.”

“We found out about the event in a newsletter that we received. We have been here a few times; we walk our dog here also, so we thought it would be nice to try to improve this area and remove invasive species.”

Leslie: “For me Martin Luther King Day is a day of service to try to give back to the community, so it’s lovely to be outside and do this and have a place we all can enjoy together.”

Penelope: “I wanted to help cut the invasive plants and help the environment.”

Rob: “Keeping this area beautiful takes a lot of work, so it is the least we can do. If we want to enjoy it sometimes, we have to put a little bit of work toward it.”

Aria: “In my class we learned about things that we can do to be helpful to the community on special days, and how MLK Jr. did things for the community as well. Today is about helping out.”

Harris: “I came here because my dad made me, but I am actually having fun cutting some plants.”

—Rob, Aria, and Harris Sloan, Princeton

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—Leslie Fabello and Penelope Sloan, Princeton

—Wenqing Huan, Princeton

—Rob Oldham and Mollie Simon, both of Princeton

Betty: “We chose this event because my husband and I wanted to do something together with our 3-year-old daughter. It is a great way for our family to be outside, introduce Jane to nature, and remove invasive plant species as well.”

—Betty and Jane Sears, Lawrenceville

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Prete of Luigi’s Shoe Repair: “A Little Bit of Patience and A Lot of Skill”

For the past 32 years, Luigi Prete has presided at Luigi’s Shoe Repair, his 600-square-foot domain behind a storefront in the Montgomery Shopping Cen ter. Thousands of soles and heels, many miles of stitch ing, and acres of polishing and stretching, sometimes pocketbooks or belts, some times zippers — for 10 hours a day, six days a week he’s been welcoming a wide va riety of customers with their shoes and leather goods.

“I like my job,” said Prete, who had already been in the shoe repair business for 23 years, first working for his uncle in the Princeton Shop ping Center, then in his own shop in Twin Rivers, before coming to his present loca tion. “If you don’t like what you’re doing, don’t do it. I’ve been doing it for 55 years, and it’s the only thing I know how to do.”

He continued, “I’m relaxed when I come over here. You know why? I deal with the customers. I’ve seen most of them before. I talk to the customers. Time goes by. I’m busy.”

When he’s not interacting with customers in the front of his compact store, with its counter and shelves covered with shoe boxes and shoe polish and a wall of family photos, he’s operating the stretching, or sewing, or trimming, or polishing, or finishing, or nailing machines in the workroom behind.

“I do whatever comes first, whenever I get a chance,” he explained. “You know, the shoes for Monday or Tuesday first. You’ve got to break it up. I don’t want to be working on work that has to be done for next week and get behind on work that needs to be done for tomorrow. You’ve got to stay on top of things.”

The pace of activity and the challenges of the job vary greatly at Luigi’s. “It’s not a heavy duty job,” he said. “Shoes don’t weigh too much, but you’ve got to know what to do. You’ve got to know how to operate the machines. You’ve got to know how to put on the soles and the heels. And you’ve got to know when to put the glue on and how to finish them up. You have to have a little bit of patience and a lot of skill.”

He pointed out a couple of demanding jobs. “People think, ‘He’s got to know what he’s doing,’ so they bring in stuff — like I just got a pair of dancing shoes. I have to put the rubber sole on. You’ve got to know how to do it. And there are some $300 shoes here. I don’t want to mess that up. And stuff like this new sole. It has to be the right length, the right color.”

Prete was born in Italy and moved with his parents to Germany in 1963 when he was 15. For the next five years he worked in a Mercedes-Benz factory in Germany — in the company office for two years until he was old enough to work at a higher-paying job on the production line.

In 1968 he came to the United States to live and work with his uncle Pat Romano, who owned Center

Shoe Repair in the Princeton Shopping Center. “At first I didn’t want to look at shoes,” Prete said. I applied for work at General Motors on Olden Avenue. I had worked at Mercedes-Benz in Germany, but if you don’t speak English you don’t go too far. My uncle was happy that I stayed with him. Whatever he was doing, I worked with him, and I learned the trade. That’s the way I started in the shoe repair business. I had no intention to become a shoe repair guy. I had no other choice, so I learned the trade.”

During the next three years he worked for his uncle before opening his own shoe repair in Twin Rivers, which he ran for about 20 years. Soon after he arrived in the U.S. Prete met a girl who lived just across the street from the Princeton Shopping Center. In 1971 they got married, and 52 years later they’re still together, living in Princeton near the shopping center. They have a son and three grandchildren.

Prete reflected on his 55 years in the shoe repair business. “You know, you keep doing it,” he said. “You bring the family up and you make a living. You don’t make millions at this business.”

He described a business in decline. “It’s a dying art,” he said, noting how many area shoe repair shops had shut down over the past 20 years.

“The shoe repair business is not the way it used to be. People used to get dressed up. They put on a nice pair of shoes to go to the office. First of all, people don’t do that anymore. Second of all, they work from home. And third, there are too many cheap shoes.”

He explained the problem with shoes that are not worth the trouble to repair. “When somebody comes in, I tell them the truth: ‘Look, these

shoes are not worth being repaired. Get rid of them and get a new pair of shoes. You’ll be better off.’ But a lot of people say, ‘Oh, they’re so comfortable.’ They get upset when you tell them the truth, so what are you going to do? I tell them anyway, and then it’s up to them what they want to do.”

He continued, “It makes sense to pay a higher price for a good pair of shoes. You pay a little bit more, but it’s worth it. Today, to put on new soles and heels will cost you 60-65 bucks. These shoes aren’t worth it. Go out and buy a new pair and buy something a little bit better. But if you insist, it’s your money. Do whatever you want. And at least I’m honest. I can go to bed and not worry about it.”

Prete has many customers who have been bringing shoes to him regularly over the years since he started in Montgomery, and a lot of new customers too from the new homes being built and others who have moved into the area.

“This is like a family operation after 32 years,” he said. “Some have passed away, but there are a lot of longtime customers.” He showed me $10 worth of lottery tickets that had been given to him by one of those grateful longtime customers just before I came in.

Outside of work, there’s not much spare time for Prete, but family is the center of his life: shopping with his wife, watching the grandchildren play baseball or hockey, or just getting together in the backyard on Grover Avenue.

Succession or retirement at Luigi’s Shoe Repair? Not in the foreseeable future. “How long am I going to keep on doing this?” he wondered. “As long as God keeps me here.”

—Donald Gilpin

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and families in our community and to anyone who requests them,” said BarnesJohnson. “The point is to create what we are hoping will be nationwide or global, these freedom gardens in honor of Paul Robeson.”

She continued, “The point of the freedom garden is not only to provide a harvest for individuals, but to do what in Indigenous cultures is called an honorable harvest, where you take what you need but make available to anyone what they may need to eat for that day or to be free for that day.”

Barnes-Johnson launched the project at Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Princeton Middle School, and she plans other Robeson Tomato events throughout the year. Robeson Freedom Gardeners will gather in September 2023 to celebrate Robeson Tomato gardens planted during the year.

“We invite every citizen of the planet to join us in this campaign of dignity and freedom that celebrates community and collective action toward reaching the goal of making Robeson a household name,” states the Robeson Freedom Garden Campaign flyer.

“We hope to have a cultural impact, an historical reference point, and also to bring together various organizations and entities from different communities,” said Barnes-Johnson.

The Robeson Tomato originated in Siberia, Russia, and the seeds were brought to the United States by a Moscow seed seller and botanist named Marina Danilenko in 1992, though it is not known who originally developed or named this tomato.

Robeson gained early recognition as a football player at Rutgers University, then became a famous actor and singer. He was increasingly active politically during his lifetime, supporting unions and civil rights causes and criticizing discrimination and violence against African Americans. He became a target for the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the 1950s and suffered ongoing government surveillance and constraints. He died in 1977.

Barnes-Johnson pointed out that Danilenko was “celebrating the work of Robeson to embrace human dignity, and for me that’s it.” She noted that Robeson spoke and sang in multiple languages. “He is an icon of American global thinking, a new idealism as he described it, a way of humanizing every person everywhere on the planet. He can be found singing in Yiddish, for example, and he can be heard or found in a Welsh coal mine.”

Even though Robeson wouldn’t have known about the tomato named after him, Barnes-Johnson emphasized the appropriateness of the connection. “The most human thing we do regardless of any other identity markers is to eat and to eat together,” she said. “That fellowship around food is beautiful.”

Barnes-Johnson, who is the Paul Robeson House of Princeton program chair, started imagining and

began developing the Robeson Freedom Garden Campaign last year as the Robeson House board members were exchanging ideas for celebrating Robeson’s 125th birthday.

Barnes-Johnson decided to try tomato gardening herself last summer, and the experiment was a success. “I had such a bountiful harvest that I thought, ‘I can see this turning into something,’” she said. She went on to read about Ron Finley and his urban garden project in Los Angeles, and she read Princeton University Professor Ruha Benjamin’s book Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want.

“She referenced the various ways that urban gardening has evolved and addressed the challenges of making the world we want to see,” said Barnes-Johnson.

“I knew I was in the right ballpark. It’s really something that grew out of my own thoughts, but it’s beautifully affirmed by all the projects that are happening around the world to address the issues of history and culture and gratitude.”

Barnes-Johnson pointed out that for Black History Month in February Kim Dorman at the Princeton Public Library is developing a program where participants see a TV series, High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, followed by conversations about the historical and cultural values of Black garden spaces and the contributions of diverse gardening techniques.

In addition to the Princeton Public Schools and the Paul Robeson House of Princeton, the Freedom Garden Project is looking to team up with other organizations, including Send Hunger Packing Princeton, which has donated four raised garden beds on Houghton Road near Princeton High School; the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative; Bountiful Boxes, which creates raised garden beds; and other Robeson organizations throughout the country.

“All of this is in part to have Robeson become a household name,” said BarnesJohnson. “It’s a beautiful way for us to pull together all of these individual efforts.”

“Honoring the contributions of Paul Robeson as an American hero who was willing to use his life as a model for others to follow in the work of humanizing every person, in every nation, in every category as valuable and worthy of dignity and respect is an imperative we must embrace,” states the Robeson Freedom Garden Campaign flyer.

—Donald Gilpin

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Reynolds-Jackson is currently serving her third term in the New Jersey Assembly, where she serves as constituent outreach chair and vice chairwoman of the Assembly commerce and economic development committee. She is also the vice chair of the New Jersey Legislative Black

Mercer County,” said Reynolds-Jackson. “Our mission is to improve access and to close the health, education, and financial equity gaps that are essential for us to thrive. With my passion and UWGMC leadership, we can achieve sustainable and resilient community partnerships. I look forward to working at UWGMC to improve outcomes and the quality of life for all. Thank you for entrusting me with this opportunity.”

“Verlina embodies UWGMC’s mission and is a champion for equity and

access in our community,” said Rita Ribeiro, UWGMC board chair. “Her work in inclusion, engagement, and economic development as well as public education aligns strategically with the UWGMC’s mission. No doubt, Verlina’s in-depth understanding of the issues faced by our greater Trenton communities will result in key contributions to this board’s deliverables.”

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Fletcher is the chief of staff and director, administration at SEEDS – Access Changes Everything and is also the founder & CEO of the Ely Prospect Consulting Group. He serves as an executive committee member and past president of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a certificate in African American Studies from Princeton University, and a master’s degree in education leadership, policy, and management from Seton Hall University.

Born and raised in Trenton, Stephens is a first-generation college graduate. A graduate of the now Trenton Catholic High School, he was a student-athlete at Hofstra University. He earned a Master of Science in organizational leadership from Cairn University, and serves as a business relationship manager for the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA).

Reynolds-Jackson’s career as a social worker and commitment to public service led her to the elected position of east ward councilwoman, where she became the first Black female to serve in that position, and Trenton Council vice president. She served seven and a half years on Council before the start of her first term in the New Jersey Assembly. She attended the Trenton Public Schools, and earned advanced degrees from Trenton State College (The College of New Jersey) and Central Michigan University.

“I am excited to join The United Way of Greater

PBC’s President and CEO Pam Gregory said, “PBC is grateful to have these two highly skilled professionals join our board. Both have significant experiences which will help guide and inform our work to provide equitable access to high quality, transformative outdoor experiences to young people, particularly those from historically marginalized communities.”

Princeton-Blairstown Center serves young people, primarily from historically marginalized communities, by nurturing their socialemotional skills through experiential, environmental, and adventure-based programming.

Michael S. Fletcher II

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Heat Pumps Might Be Wise Options

For Energy, Air Quality, Health Benefits

New Trash Carts

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“Heat

aren’t magic, just efficient,” reads a headline in last month’s The Charge, Princeton University’s online newsletter reporting on some of the University’s energy and environmental research.

The short article about heat pumps goes on to describe how efficiently they work and how new government incentives can help to make them an attractive alternative for homeowners with traditional air conditioner and furnace systems.

In her research, in both rural China and in her own home in Princeton, Denise Mauzerall, Princeton University professor of civil and environmental engineering and international affairs, has taken a close look at the heat pump option. “Heat pumps do seem like magic,” she says, as quoted in The Charge article.

In a January 13 email she explained, “Heat pumps are highly efficient and provide a great way to cost-effectively heat and cool homes. The added benefit for the environment is that as the power grid moves away from electricity generated with fossil fuels and towards power from renewable energy, heating and cooling our homes with heat pumps will be even more beneficial for air quality and climate.”

Mauzerall’s family converted their gas furnace and conventional A/C to a heat pump last year. “The HVAC company that maintained our conventional gas furnace and A/C were unfamiliar with heat pumps and quoted extremely high prices,” she said. “The company we went with that had previously installed heat pumps for others sold us the air source heat pump for a price that was approximately the same as what the other company had quoted us to replace our gas furnace and A/C with a comparable new gas furnace and A/C.”

She continued, “In New Jersey heat pumps are a great option. The upfront costs for heat pumps, when purchased from a contractor accustomed to installing them, is highly competitive with conventional gas heaters plus air conditioners (a heat pump replaces both). For new construction, or for replacing heaters and air conditioners at the end of their lifetime, a heat pump is the obvious best choice as it is both super-efficient and highly cost effective.”

Heat pumps work by moving the heat, absorbing it from inside and moving it outdoors in the summer for air conditioning or absorbing it from outside and moving it indoors for heating in the winter, even when the temperature is below freezing.

Mauzerall noted that she has a resistance heater for extra heat on the coldest days, but she has seldom needed to use it. Up-to-date technology upgrades have made heat pumps more effective for heating and cooling at extreme tempera-

tures. Though heat pumps might not work in every house and every situation, they have become increasingly popular.

“We need more contractors who are knowledgeable about heat pumps,” she added. “It’s a great opportunity for them, but the expertise is not yet widely available.”

In a paper published in Nature Sustainability in December 2021 and supported by Princeton University and partners in China, Mauzerall and her research team showed that heat pumps are environmentally the best option to maximize climate, air quality, economic, and health benefits. Small coalbased stoves in China have created very high pollution levels in rural areas and in nearby urban areas where the polluted air has been transported by wind.

The researchers’ policy guidance emphasized that heat pumps, which run on electricity, are more energy efficient than other options and cheaper to operate in the long term, though they come with higher upfront costs.

“We found that replacing coal stoves in urban and rural residences with clean heaters dramatically improves air quality throughout northern China in winter while also decreasing premature deaths,” said Mauzerall in a Princeton University press release. She added that out of all clean heaters, heat pumps provide the largest reductions in air pollution and carbon emissions.

While other types of heaters burn fuel to generate heat, Mauzerall explained, heat pumps just move the heat, with a piston compressing and expanding a fluid to make it heat up or cool down. They can be more than twice as energyefficient as traditional heaters that burn fuel, she said.

In a January 14 New York Times op-ed focused on the recent controversy over the potentially dangerous use of gas stoves, Farhad Manjoo transitioned from the subject of stoves to the subject of heat pumps as a consideration for homeowners. “Instead of getting an induction stove, then, it might make a lot more sense for you to spend your money on a heat pump, an underappreciated and kind of magical electric device that can replace both a gas-powered furnace and an air conditioner,” he wrote.

Both Manjoo and Mauzerall also strongly recommend increased insulation.

The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act includes a number of incentives to lower the cost of homeowners’ energy-saving measures, including up to 100 percent of the cost of a heat pump for low-income households. There are also additional new tax credits, as well as different rebate programs available for higher income homeowners.

—Donald Gilpin

continued from page one a link on the municipal website from Waste Free Edmonton advocates using the carts to store empty beverage containers, keep firewood dry and accessible, provide additional storage in a garage or garden shed, create a cat shelter, blend soil, and even grow produce, among other possibilities.

Those residents who opt to get rid of their old receptacles instead of reusing them can label them as “trash,” and they will be picked up starting Monday, February 13. Due to the high cost of dissembling their wheels, the carts will not be recycled, Princeton’s Assistant Municipal E ngineer Jim Purcell told Princeton Council at a meeting last week. “Unfortunately, sending them to a landfill appears to be the most efficient way of disposing them,” he said.

Municipal staff members say the new trash collection system will be more efficient and save the town money.

“In the Climate Action Plan, the town is to come up with a more effi cient, costeffective way of managing the waste stream,” Symington said. “This has so many benefits. For one thing, it will help reduce litter, because the new carts have lids — the old ones do not. The system should encourage folks to fi nd alternatives for what they are putting in the trash. It sets the stage for, hopefully, a curbside organics collection. And it gives an opportunity for folks to understand the importance of recycling overall.”

—Anne Levin

Mercer County made $7 million in terminal improvements and parking lots in 2013. The new design is projected to meet forecasted demands for air travel in the area through 2035. Baggage handling, screening, concessions, and waiting areas will be improved. The overall size of the airport will not change, and there are no plans for new or longer runways. The airport currently has two runways.

“The FAA recommends a facility at least twice the size of our existing terminal based on current use,” Hughes said. “By comparison, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport had almost 220,000 enplanements in 2015 — a little more than half the number at TTN — yet its 11-year-old terminal is five times larger.”

The FAA’s approvals last spring included relocation of the building designated for aircraft rescue and firefighting, and stormwater management.

For more information, visit ttnterminal.com.

—Anne Levin

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Bordentown Poetry Project Features 5 New Jersey Writers

The FP Poetry Project returns on Sunday, February 5, 2 p.m., at Old City Hall, 11 Crosswicks Street, Bordentown.

The project honors Frances “Fanny” Parnell (FP), the 19th century Irish poet and nationalist who died at her ancestral home in Bordentown in 1882.

The February reading features five noted regional and state writers: Roberta Clipper, a nationally published writer, Rider University instructor, and Bordentown resident; Ellen Foos, Princeton-based

poet, past Princeton University Press editor, and founder of Ragged Sky Press; Luray Gross, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship recipient, Geraldine R. Dodge Poet, and past Bucks County Poet Laureate; and Todd Evans, Trenton-born poet and poetry and theater event coordinator.

Bordentown-based writer, U.S. 1 Newspaper editor, and arts coordinator Dan Aubrey will host.

The event is free and a limited open reading will follow the presentation. For more information, contact coworksprojects@gmail.com.

IN HER HONOR: Frances “Fanny” Parnell, Irish poet and Bordentown resident, will be paid tribute at a poetry reading on February 5.

Wondering Why Princeton Public Schools’ Valley Road Building Has Been Neglected

To the Editor:

For a community that prides itself on its public school system, the Valley Road building is a mystery. A painful eyesore that was, years ago, already reputed to be a “sick” building, it remains the home of the school district’s offices to this day.

With construction (and destruction) in the name of improving the municipality’s good looks and way of life going on all around town, why has this particular location been so badly neglected?

ELLEN GILBERT Stuart Road East

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Patrick McDonnell to Appear At Bayard Rustin Center Event

The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, 12 Stockton Street, will host a special event with “MUTTS” creator Patrick McDonnell on Saturday, January 21at 1 p.m. The author and artist will celebrate the release of his new book Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet, created with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

McDonnell will be signing bookplates in support of the LGBTQIA safe-space and community activist center. The book focuses on how to heal our relationship with the planet and each other,

with a message about the future. Text by the Dalai Lama is coupled with illustrations from McDonnell.

This is the first public preview of the book. McDonnell will share his journey of creation, and discuss his comic strip “MUTTS,” which now appears in over 700 newspapers in 20 countries. McDonnell has received numerous awards for the strip’s focus on environmental and animal advocacy, and a constant call for global harmony.

Visit rustinCenter.org for registration information. The event is free.

Mandela’s Friend Christo Brand

Featured in Library Virtual Event

Christo Brand will talk about his friendship with Nelson Mandela and his book Doing Life with Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend (Blue Ear Books, with Barbara Jones) on Sunday, January 22, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. To register for the Zoom event, visit princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event.

Afrikaner farm boy Christo Brand joined the South African prison service at age 17 to avoid having to serve in the military, as all white males were required to do under the apartheid regime. He found himself guarding one of the country’s most notorious terrorists: Nelson Mandela. Brand’s lifelong friendship with Mandela is the subject of his memoir, first published in 2014 and now updated and republished by Blue Ear Books, with a special section of freshly commissioned writings by 16 people who knew both men well — including fellow political prisoners,

family members, European and North American activists and educators, and a member of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The virtual event, the North American launch of the new edition, will feature Brand and former prisoner Igshaan Amlay in conversation with Andrew Russell, author of the forthcoming book The Leadership We Need: Lessons for Today from Nelson Mandela

According to John Carlin, author of Playing the Enemy (made into the film Invictus ) and Knowing Mandela , “Brand had the bigness of heart to see beyond Mandela ‘the terrorist,’ ‘the communist,’ the convicted prisoner. Seeing that Mandela treated him with kindness and respect, he responded in kind. Brand may be seen as a milestone in Mandela’s political mission: his first white convert.”

ARTIST TALK SERIES

Join us at 12:15 PM for in-gallery chats with artists featured in the exhibition.

SERIES

Join us at 12:15 PM for in-gallery chats with artists featured in the exhibition.

UPCOMING: JAN. 25

Mashell Black & George Taylor

UPCOMING: JAN. 25

Mashell Black & George Taylor

FEB. 22

Megan Klim & Katrina Bello

FEB. 22

Megan Klim & Katrina Bello

Visit Statemuseum.nj.gov for additional dates.

Visit Statemuseum.nj.gov for additional dates.

New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence is a project of the New Jersey State Museum and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the New Jersey State Museum Foundation through the Lucille M. Paris Fund.

New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence is a project of the New Jersey State Museum and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the New Jersey State Museum Foundation through the Lucille M. Paris Fund.

Dylan is beyond music and lyrics, he has something else. It’s that indefinable something else that makes him special.

—P.J. Harvey, in The Guardian, March 25, 2001

Bob Dylan’s “indefinable something else” is why I’m writing about him again this week. I’m also still walking around with, haunted by, “Where or When,” the last of the 66 songs in his new book The Philosophy of Modern Song Dylan is not only still part of the where or when of life, he’s even farther “beyond music and lyrics” than he was when singer songwriter P.J Harvey said as much in March 2001. At that time he had yet to write Chronicles: Volume One (2004), record Modern Times (2006), and win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

As numerous reviewers have observed, The Philosophy of Modern Song is marred by some of Dylan’s sloppiest writing. Last week I suggested that in spite of the scant coverage of female songwriters and performers and the offensive language inspired by songs like the Eagles’ “Witchy Woman” and Santana’s “Black Magic Woman,” the new book could be read as a coda to his tour de force Chronicles . Having returned to that extraordinary work, which I’ve lived in for almost 20 years, thanks in part to its evocation of New York’s Greenwich Village in the winter of 1961, I’m thinking the only “coda” worthy of the name may be the music of Modern Times and 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways.

“63 Going On 20”

In Bob Dylan in America (Doubleday 2010), Sean Wilentz recounts how Chronicles became a “focus of controversy” two years after it was published, as bloggers began reporting on its unattributed borrowings from authors ranging from Mark Twain to Marcel Proust. My detour from The Philosophy of Modern Song to Chronicles was also prompted by complaints from reviewers about “old man rants” and eccentric “elderly uncles” and “crusty old curmudgeons,” not to mention otherwise positive notices scolding the old guy for occasional obscenely sexist caricatures of “evil women.”

In the where or when of his memory, Dylan was technically “elderly” at 63 when Chronicles was published, but he’s 63 going on 20 when he writes about Chloe, the other half of Ray and Chloe, who put him up when he arrived in New York in late January 1961. After referring to the “somewhat mysterious couple,” Wilentz

Bob Dylan in the Land of Where or When

suggests that they are “almost certainly a fabrication,” a composite based on several real-life couples.

In the context of one of the most resonant phrases in Dylan’s music, “how does it feel” when you first see Chloe in the winter 1961 moment, with her “red-gold hair, hazel eyes, an illegible smile, face like a doll and an even better figure, fingernails painted black”? She works “as a hatcheck girl at the Egyptian Gardens, a belly-dancing dinner place on 8th Avenue” and she’s “also posed as a model for Cavalier magazine.” She has her own “primitive way of looking at things,” always saying “mad stuff that clicked in a cryptic way, told me once that I should wear eyeshadow because it keeps away the evil eye.” Later in the book, Chloe becomes more of a presence, a Dylan female like the one in “Tangled Up in Blue” who “bent down to tie the laces of my shoe”; she’s “cool as pie, hip from head to toe, a Maltese kitten, a solid viper — always hit the nail on the head.” She also has “her own ideas about the nature of things, told me that death was an impersonator, that birth is an invasion of privacy.”

Does it really matter whether Dylan is composing or fabricating or simply remembering a vision of Chloe half a century after the fact “wearing a Japanese kimono over a red flannel shirt” as she cooks up some steak and onions? Then there’s her hobby of putting fancy buckles on old shoes and how she wanted to “do” Dylan’s shoes (“those clodhoppers could use some buckles”), he says no thanks, and she tells him “You got forty-eight hours to change your mind.” Whoever, whatever she is, she’s alive on the page, never mind where or when and she’s not to be messed with.

Another version of Chloe soon shows up in the person of a waitress at a lunch counter wearing “a close-fitting suede blouse” that “outlined the well-rounded lines of her body. She had blue-black hair covered with a kerchief and piercing blue eyes.” Says Dylan: “I was wishing she’d pin a rose on me.” It’s surprising that that line has yet to surface in a Dylan lyric, but one day maybe it will, or maybe it already has in some song that “it seems we’ve heard before.” The New York chapter (“The Lost Land”) ends with the waitress

pouring Dylan a cup of “steaming coffee” as he turns back toward the street window: “The whole city was dangling in front of my nose. I had a vivid idea of where everything was. The future was nothing to worry about. It was awfully close.”

The Girl on the Cover Other Chronicles women include Susie Rotolo, known as Suze, the girl snuggling up to Dylan as they walk down a Greenwich Village street on the cover of the Freewheeling album. She’s 17, “fair skinned and golden haired, full-blood Italian,” raised in a left-wing family and “involved in the New York art scene.” In love “for the first time in my life,” Dylan goes from wanting “her body next to mine” to “Times Square movie theaters, the ones like oriental temples.” No wonder, since meeting Suze “was like stepping into the tales of 1,001 Arabian nights,” she who had a smile “that could light up a street full of people.” Although we know for a fact that Suze is a real person, in that passage she sounds more like a fabrication than Chloe.

In Dylan’s evolution as a writer, the most important female in the New York chapter may be the one Suze introduced him to when she was helping out backstage at an offBroadway production of Brecht on Brecht According to Wilentz, it was while waiting for Suze that Dylan caught the show and heard the Black actress Micki Grant sing Brecht and Weill’s number “Pirate Jenny.” At this point, Wilentz quotes from Chronicles : “it was a nasty song, sung by an evil fiend,” but it was also, in Wilentz’s words, “a revelation” that in time would lead Dylan to write “the strong but imitative song of prophecy ‘When the Ship Comes In,’ “ which later led to “the imagined twilight world of ‘Visions of Johanna’ and the rest of Blonde on Blonde .”

“Dark Eyes”

I found a woman and a song in the “Oh Mercy” chapter of Chronicle s, along with a back story so haunting, so where or when, that I need to pass it along. Dylan was back in New York from the New Orleans recording sessions for Oh Mercy (1989) in time to wrap up the Empire Burlesque LP (1985), for which “all the songs were mixed and finalized” except

for an as-yet-unwritten acoustic number that made sense to Dylan because the rest of the album was so “heavily produced.”

A seldom sung line from “Where or When” is “Things come back to you as if they knew the way,” like the moment in a corridor of the Plaza Hotel, best known in the lore of rock as the place the Beatles stayed during their first visit to the city in February 1964. The woman of the moment seemingly comes from the same world as the women in the pieces Dylan has been chided and derided for in reviews of The Philosophy of Modern Song :

“As I stepped out of the elevator, a call girl was coming toward me in the hallway — pale yellow hair wearing a fox coat — high heeled shoes that could pierce your heart. She had blue circles around her eyes, black eyeliner, dark eyes. She looked like she’d been beaten up and was afraid that she’d get beat up again. In her hand, crimson purple wine in a glass. ‘I’m just dying for a drink,’ she said as she passed me in the hall. She had a beautifulness, but not for this kind of world. Poor wretch, doomed to walk this hallway for a thousand years.”

That’s an odd yet perfectly, clumsily Dylanesque piece of writing. Does it really matter that some lines may be borrowed or patched together from anonymous sources? Can you hear Dylan saying “Poor wretch”? Well, yes, maybe so, and yet he’s clearly/unclearly moving at his own pace and in his own deceptively slapdash style.

Later that night, Dylan sits at a window overlooking Central Park and writes the song “Dark Eyes.” He records it the next night “with only an acoustic guitar and it was the right thing to do.”

And it’s one of the best, most moving things he ever wrote, a standout promising better things on an album that has since been deemed one of his weakest.

How Does It Feel?

Listen to the song Dylan drew from that hotel corridor moment. How does it feel? The slow, singsong tune is as easy to sing quietly along with as a child’s lullaby or a bedtime prayer: you don’t need to be a singer to say the words with Dylan, preferably at 2 or 3 a.m. in a hushed YouTube corner of the night. From the first line — “Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside” to “A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes” — it feels right. In that special place he occupies in the where or when of American music, it’s like P.J. Harvey said: “He’s beyond music and lyrics, he has something else.”

—Stuart Mitchner

Princeton Symphony Orchestra Presents Acclaimed Metropolitan Opera Soprano

Each year, Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) recognizes musicologist and philanthropist Edward T. Cone with a performance including a bit of star power, honoring the longtime friend of the orchestra and major supporter of cultural life in Princeton. This past weekend’s PSO Edward T. Cone concerts were scheduled to feature South African soprano Pretty Yende, who is well on her way up in the opera world. Unfortunately, Yende was unable to perform because of illness, but Princeton Symphony Orchestra shifted gears well by bringing in another operatic superstar. Fresh off celebrated performances with the Metropolitan Opera and receipt of the 2022 Richard Tucker Foundation award, soprano Angel Blue filled in as soloist in an entertaining evening of opera highlights and American music.

Saturday night’s performance at Richardson Auditorium (the concert was repeated Sunday afternoon) featured a lean and precise Princeton Symphony both on their own and accompanying Blue in arias showing the soprano’s dramatic and technical range. Music Director Rossen Milanov opened the concert with two works depicting the great American landscape. Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber were two of this country’s leading composers in the mid-20th century, and Copland’s Appalachian Spring suite and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 showed remarkable similarities in their depictions of the United States in a simpler time.

As a composer, Copland was dedicated to creating a distinctive American musical voice. His 1944 Appalachian Spring suite began as a ballet set in a 19th-century Pennsylvania farmhouse telling the story of a young couple. The condensed orchestral suite followed the same storyline, scored for an ensemble of thirteen instruments. In Saturday night’s performance, clarinetist Pascal Archer set the stage with Copland’s simple intervals, answered by a handful of strings. The second segment in particular showed the sound traveling through the orchestral ensemble, with a solid brass underpinning and dance-like flutes. Copland used percussion very sparingly in this work, with a variety of percussive effects accenting the precise rhythms from the players. Wind solos — including from Archer, oboist Gilles Cheng, and flutist Anthony Trionfo — were elegant, as was a solo melody from concertmaster Basia

Danilow. The well-known “Simple Gifts” passages were played in a leisurely tempo, with a lyrical introduction from the winds, rich sectional sound from the violas, and quick and clean brass rendition. Throughout this work, Milanov maintained a spacious texture, well capturing 19th-century American pioneer spirit.

Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 also evoked 19th-century Americana through Barber’s setting of texts by James Agee. Milanov conducted an easy flow to the music, as Angel Blue conveyed Agee’s words well with a rich and clean sound. Throughout the piece, she was always communicating with all members of the audience, as if telling a story to an intimate circle of friends and family. Wind solos reinforced the musical portrait, including especially graceful playing by oboist Cheng.

The second half of Saturday night’s concert was an orchestral and vocal showcase of operatic repertoire. The PSO musicians played Gioachino Rossini’s “Overture” to Il barbiere di Siviglia with a crisp texture and attention to the humor in the music. The “Overture” also served as a teaser for this summer’s Princeton Festival, at which Rossini’s full opera will be a marquee event.

Angel Blue showcased her full operatic force in arias by Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Blue had the characters well in hand, especially in Verdi’s “Sempre Libera” from La Traviata , in which she depicted a woman determined to live a free life but slowly falling under the spell of a new man. Blue spun off Verdi’s coloratura passages with ease, singing to the whole hall as Milanov and the PSO maintained a quick tempo.

In an unusual closing twist, Blue began a concert encore by asking from the stage if there were any other sopranos in the house, piquing audience interest in what might happen next. Recent Westminster Choir College master’s degree graduate Yasmine Swanson bravely answered the call, and the two sopranos joined together for Giacomo Puccini’s popular aria “O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi. Blue’s willingness to share the stage and create a memorable experience for a young singer showed her fun side and seemed to demonstrate her appreciation for her own luck and hard work and motivation to pay it forward.

—Nancy Plum

Princeton Symphony Orchestra will present its next Classical Series concerts on Saturday, February 4 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 5 at 4 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium. Conducted by Rossen Milanov, these performances will feature pianist Inon Barnatan in Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as music of Beethoven and Carlos Simon. Ticket information about these performances can be obtained by visiting princetonsymphony.org.

Performing Arts

fund these arts organizations and programs in this city that means so much to us,” said John Hatch, who created the Trenton Arts Fund in 2018 with his husband, David Henderson. “Trenton has a rich cultural history, and the arts are flourishing in Trenton. With this round of grants, we are supporting Trenton’s tradition of creativity, and especially programs that support our young residents.”

Grants were made at the recommendation of the Trenton Arts Fund Grants Committee, whose members are local residents with a background in the arts.

Grants, which are subject to final review, were awarded to Artworks Trenton Inc., Capital Harmony Works, New Jersey Capital Philharmonic, Passage Theatre Company, Trenton Circus Squad, Trenton Museum Society, and Trenton United Family Foundation.

Works of Schumann, Others By Conservatory Faculty

On Sunday, January 22 at 3 p.m., Westminster Conservatory will present “Of Foreign Lands and People,” a recital of music by Robert Schumann and others for solo piano and piano fourhands. The performers are Conservatory faculty members Galina Prilutskaya and Inessa Gleyzerova Shindel.

The concert will take place in Bristol Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane. Admission is free and masking is recommended.

“Freestyle Flashback” Stars

Musicians from Decades Past State Theatre New Jersey and Fever Records present Freestyle Flashback, featuring freestyle artists from the ’80s and’90s on Saturday, January 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $39-$134.

This special concert event includes such dancepop and freestyle artists as TKA (“Maria,” “Come Baby Come”), George LaMond (“Bad Of The Heart,” “Without You”), Judy Torres (“No Reason To Cry,” “Come Into My Arms”), Noel (“Silent Morning,” “The Question”), Betty D Of Sweet Sensation (“Hooked On You,” “Love Child”), The Cover Girls (“Show Me,” “Wishing On A Star”), Cynthia (“Change On Me,” “Dreamboy Dreamgirl”), Lisette Melendez (“Together Forever,”

“A Day In My Life”), C-Bank (“Won’t Stop Loving You,” “One More Shot”), Pretty Poison (“Catch Me I’m Falling”), David of Nice N’ Wild (“Diamond Girl”), and Sammy Zone (“Running”).

Freestyle Flashback is hosted by Sal Abbatiello from Fever Records and Speedy, with music by DJ Whiteboy KYS.

The State Theatre is at 15 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Visit STNJ.org.

Trenton Arts Fund Awards Grants to Local Nonprofits

The Trenton Arts Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation has awarded $29,550 in grants to seven local arts, culture, and history nonprofits, in particular their programs that support Trenton’s young people.

“We are thrilled to help

The Artworks grant of $5,000 is for its Youth Art League, an affordable afterschool program for children 9-16 years old. The $2,500 to Capital Harmony Works supports its ensemble music education program, while the $5,000 to the Capital Philharmonic goes toward expanding its Educational Outreach Program offering discounted and free tickets to performances, free concerts in Trenton parks, and pre-concert lectures.

Passage Theatre Company’s $5,000 supports Foundations for Our Future, offering student matinees and in-class postscript sessions to educate students on dramatic themes. The Trenton Circus Squad will use its $4,000 grant to provide operating support for the program’s after-school and summer programs as well as free programming. The Trenton Museum Society’s $3,850 is for the Trenton Forward: Youth and Arts Together program to expand its Saturday family art and museum exploration initiatives, while the Trenton United Family Foundation’s $4,200 is for its TUFF

The program includes movements from Schumann’s opus 85 collection Zwölf Klavierstücke für kleine und grosse Kinder ; movements from his opus 21 Novelletten for solo piano; a four-hand arrangement of Haydn’s String Quartet in F opus 72, no. 2 ; and fourhand settings of The Last Rose of Summer, Irish Tune from County Derry, and Edward Elgar’s Salut d’amour Prilutskaya has performed extensively as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Germany, and Russia, including special appearances in Richardson Auditorium, Moscow Conservatory, and the Liszt School of Music. Gleyzerova Shindel received a master’s degree in music from the Belorussian Academy of Music, Minsk. Her performances in the United States include solo recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Kosciuszko Foundation, and chamber music recitals at Merkin Concert Hall. Gleyzerova Shindel was the first-prize winner of the Metlife Music Competition. She is one of the artistic directors of the Music-Fest Rising Talents Festival. Visit rider.edu for information.

Capital Philharmonic Presents First of Four Chamber Concerts

“Music from Venice to New Orleans” is the theme of a chamber concert being held Sunday, January 22 at 3 p.m. at Trenton’s Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 East Front Street, featuring a brass quartet playing music by Mozart, Scott Joplin, and from the film Cinema Paradiso, among other selections.

This is the first of four chamber concerts, which feature members of the Capital Philharmonic Orchestra in locations throughout the Trenton area. The Capital Philharmonic is the resident orchestra of Patriots Theater at the War Memorial.

Upcoming concerts include “Classics in Color,” with music for flute, oboe, and piano by composers of African American and Hispanic heritage, at St. Bartholomew’s Lutheran Church on February 12; “Musical Fusion” on March 5 at Trinity Cathedral, with classical to Latin American rhythms and jazz; and “Cellisimo,” a quintet of three cellos, piano, and clarinet playing Bach, Shostakovich, and Joplin at 1867 Sanctuary in Ewing on May 7.

For ticket information, visit capitalphilharmonic. org/chamber.

A Comedy of Manners Comes to Kelsey Theatre

Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey Theatre kicks off 2023 with Shakespeare 70’s production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband on weekends January 20 through 29. Kelsey Theatre is located on the Mercer County Community College campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road in West Windsor.

One of Wilde’s final plays, An Ideal Husband was first produced in 1895 and combines wit, philosophy, and drama in a way that is still relevant today. Government minister Sir Robert Chiltem is respectable and well-off, with a loving wife. When the conniving Mrs. Cheveley appears with evidence of a past misdeed and threatens to blackmail him, his best friend tries, through a number of comedic entanglements, to lead Sir Robert and his family out of harm. But there are others who have desires and ambitions all their own.

The play touches on feminism, blackmail, political corruption, morality and mistrust, love and forgiveness, all with Wilde’s wit.

Performances are January 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 8 p.m.; and January 22 and 29 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20-$22. Visit KelseyTheatre.org or call (609) 570-3333.

WILD ABOUT WILDE: Ray Fallon of Lawrenceville, left, and Hannah Rapaport-Stein of West Windsor star in Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” at Kelsey Theatre on weekends January 20 through 29.

BRASSY: Trumpeter Bob Gravener is part of the brass quartet appearing at Trenton’s Mill Hill Playhouse on January 22 at 3 p.m.

BACK IN THE DAY: George LaMond is among the artists singing songs from the’80s and ’90s at State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick on January 21.

Digital Arts Program, a series of lectures and workshops for eighth and ninth grade students.

The Trenton Arts Fund is one of more than 450 charitable funds of the Community Foundation. To learn more, visit pacf.org.

accruing additional meanings in relationship to Morrison’s writings,” said Mitra Abbaspour, the Museum’s Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Through their practices which span materials, media, and forms of engagement, Saar and Morrison reveal the ways in which they have each innovated and explored; now with this exhibition, we invite the wider public into this conversation.”

“Cycle

of Creativity”

Coming To Art@Bainbridge Gallery

As part of a campus-w ide celebration of the life’s work of Toni Morrison (1931–2019) — acclaimed author, essayist, Nobel laureate, and Princeton professor — the Princeton University Art Museum will present an exhibition bringing together selections from the Toni Morrison Papers with sculptures, prints, and textiles by the artist Alison Saar (born 1956). Morrison and Saar both draw inspiration from artistic techniques, cultural beliefs, and historical truths of the African American experience for their work, and both speak about the importance of using their work to foster the creativity of future generations of Black artists.

This exhibition takes its title from Saar’s term “cycle of creativity,” used to describe the process of intergenerational exchange. “Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers,” will be on view at the museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery from February 25 through July 9, 2023.

“Toni Morrison and her legacy are inseparable from Princeton University, and her work, in its extraordinary fecundity and breadth, resonates far beyond our institution,” said James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director of the museum.

“By placing selections from Morrison’s papers alongside Saar’s potent artworks in various media, we will have the rare opportunity to see the overlaps between two brilliant minds at work.”

Organized around themes of musicality, labor, and ancestors, the exhibition underscores how those ideas are woven into the work of both Saar and Morrison — in their subject matter and in their working processes

through composition, voice, and audience. Saar is well represented in the Princeton University Art Museum’s collections, and the exhibition brings a selection of her prints — on paper and textile — into conversation with selections from the vast trove of Morrison’s papers held in the Princeton University Library. The Princeton University Art Museum owns 13 works by Saar, 11 of which will be included in the exhibition.

Alongside these works drawn from across the University’s collections, important loans from Saar and from private collections expand and enrich our understanding of the artist’s practice. Among the loans is Torch Song (2020), a sixfoot-tall sculpture of a jazz singer enrobed in a necklace of piano keys and holding a burning flame. The sculpture is made of tin ceiling tiles, which have been a signature of Saar’s practice since she began collecting them

around Harlem during her residency at the Studio Museum in the early 1980s. Additional significant loans include a bronze study for the full-scale sculpture of Harriet Tubman that was permanently installed in Harlem in 2008, at which time it was the first public memorial to an African American woman in the city; and the striking sculpture Cotton, whose subject finds echoes in the museum’s textile work Reapers and the large-scale print White Guise, each invoking the historical intertwining of cotton picking and identity in the American South.

“In shaping her papers, Morrison saw the collection not only as an archive of documents from the past but also as a springboard for future creative possibilities. In accepting our invitation to join the campus-wide conversations about Toni Morrison’s practice, Alison Saar has embraced the opportunity for her works to remain open-ended,

“Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers” accompanies a series of related initiatives, including “Sites of Memory:

The Archival World of Toni Morrison,” an exhibition of the author’s papers at the University’s Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library, opening on February 22; “Sites of Memory: Practice, Performance, Perception,” a symposium taking place from March 23 to 25; and a suite of new performance commissions at the McCarter Theatre Center, also scheduled for spring 2023. Altogether, the project aims to assert the vital legacy of Morrison’s work and explore the ways in which it continues to ground American culture.

Art@Bainbridge is housed

in the carefully restored colonial-era Bainbridge House at 158 Nassau Street in downtown Princeton. Admission is free. For more information, visit artmuseum. princeton.edu.

panel discussion

Samuel Fosso and African Postcolonial History Friday, January 27, 6 p.m.

Moving beyond the scope of art history, this panel considers Samuel Fosso’s photographic self-portraits through the lens of history, politics, and religion. Reception to follow.

Panelists: Afe Adogame, Professor, Religion and Society, Princeton Theological Seminary Lina Benabdallah, Assistant Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University

Jacob Dlamini, Associate Professor, History, Princeton University

Yoon Jung Park, Executive Director, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network

Moderated by Iheanyi Onwuegbucha, doctoral student, Art and Archeology, Princeton University

Aaron Burr 219

Hosted by the Princeton African Graduate Students’ Association and cosponsored by the Program in African Studies and the Africa World Initiative.

“JITTERBUG”: This work by Alison Saar is featured in “Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers,” on view at Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery on Nassau Street February 25 through July 9.

“BULL’S ISLAND AFTERNOON”: This painting by artist Joe Kazimierczyk is featured in “Local Landscapes,” on view through February 28 at the Bell’s Tavern Dining Room, 183 North Union Street, Lambertville. Kazimierczyk, a member artist at Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville, said he is drawn to the beauty of nature that he observes on hiking and bicycling trips throughout Hunterdon County and beyond.

New Princeton Makes Talk Series Features

On Thursday, January 19, at 7 p.m., visual artist Adriana Groza will be the featured speaker for the “Inside the Artist’s Studio” talk series at Princeton Makes in the Princeton Shopping Center. Groza, a studio member of the Princeton Makes artist cooperative, specializes in creating fluid acrylic abstract art. She will share insights about her practice and demonstrate her techniques and process.

Groza, a Hamilton resident, was born and raised in Transylvania, Romania. She manipulates fluid acrylics directly on deep edge canvas by various means, without a brush. Art, for Groza, is a means for self-healing and renewal, and a way to reach an understanding of time and matter. Her style has drawn the attention of the New Jersey and Romanian press, and her original artworks are currently found in private and public collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

“I step inside my studio, shedding the constraints of daily schedule and routine, with a deep confidence and

trust in my process,” said Groza. “A blank stretched canvas, different color paints that I dilute with mediums to the right viscosity, and several unconventional instruments and techniques for moving the paint around — these are my tools. I apply my foundation color, and then allow my feelings and imagination to wander free with the fluid pigments. I might capture the split and irreplicable moment of a foamy wave splashing the sands, or a snapshot in the fleeting existence of a flower or a creature.”

This month, Groza is the featured artist at Princeton Makes; her work is highlighted in the retail and studio space. The “Inside the Artist’s Studio” talk series, part of the cooperative’s new programming initiatives, offers the public a monthly opportunity, every third Thursday, to learn about and from its creatives.

The event will begin with a reception, with light refreshments, at 6:30 p.m. Artwork by all cooperative artists will be available for purchase.

Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 34 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture,

textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able to support local artists by visiting their in-store studios and by shopping for a wide variety of art including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more.

For more information, visit princetonmakes.com.

TAWA, Trenton Library Host “Art from Art News Writers”

The Trenton Artists Workshop Association (TAWA) and the Trenton Free Public Library will present the exhibition “Art from Art News Writers and Photojournalists” at the Trenton Free Public Library February 8 through March 25. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 9, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The artists featured in the exhibition include Ricardo Barros, a contributing writer to ICON magazine, Bucks County, Pa., and an internationally known photographer who has had artwork commissioned by Fortune 500 companies. Barros has work in the permanent collections of several museums including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art,

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. He lives in Princeton.

Ilene Dube is a producer for the PBS series State of the Arts and a contributor to media including Princeton Magazine, JerseyArts Features, and Hyperallergic. Her independently produced short documentaries have been screened at the New Jersey Film Festival, Nassau Film Festival, Trenton Film Festival, Princeton Environmental Film Festival, and at arts centers and libraries. Her art, which she considers play, has been exhibited at the Hopewell Tour des Arts, Phillips’ Mill, Hobart Art in the Native Landscape, Ellarslie Open, Salon des Refuses, West Windsor Arts Council, and others. She lives in West Windsor.

John Gummere is an arts reviewer for The Trenton Journal. He is an award-winning artist and has exhibited at d’Art Centre in Norfolk, Va.; Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick; Marblehead Art Association in Marblehead, Mass.; and is currently exhibiting in several venues in the greater Trenton area. His oil paintings on canvas use a representational style, with an emphasis on city scenes, landscapes, and interior compositions. Some of his favorite painters include Edward Hopper, John Sloan, and landscape painters of the 1800s. Gummere lives in Morrisville, Pa.

Aubrey Kauffman writes photography reviews for the Community News Service in Mercer County. He is a New Jersey-based photographer and video journalist. His photos focus on the urban landscape and man’s impact on the environment. He was president of TAWA from 1987-1996. His work is included in the collections of the New Jersey State Museum, Rider University, and Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Headquarters in New Brunswick. Kauffman lives in Ewing.

Thomas Kelly writes reviews for the Community News Service in Mercer County. He is an awardwinning, New Jersey-based painter. Widely collected, his work has a signature style which has its roots in Expressionism. His colorful, narrative, acrylic paintings on canvas often create a dialogue with the viewer. Kelly’s work can be seen at the Walter Wickiser Gallery in New York City; Bethlehem House Gallery in Bethlehem, Pa; The Artful Deposit Gallery in Bordentown; and Beauregard Fine Art in Rumson. Kelly lives in Hamilton Township.

Janet Purcell has been the arts writer for The Times of Trenton for over 25 years, contributes to Woman’s Day and Design NJ Magazine, and freelances for various magazine publications. She has written several fiction publications, including Singer Lane, The Long Way Home, and Rooster Street — Legacy of a Runaway Slave. She works primarily in oils and pastels. Purcell has shown her work in several venues, including Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie in Trenton; Brodsky Gallery, Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton; RF Gallery at Prallsville Mill, Stockton; and the Jewish Community Center, Trenton. She lives in Hopewell Township.

TAWA is a Greater Trenton nonprofit organization and has a 40-year history organizing exhibits in such venues as the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton City Museum, Artworks Trenton, Prince Street Gallery in New York City, and more.

The Trenton Free Public Library is located at 120 Academy Street and is located in the Creek2Canal Trenton Arts District. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on the library, call (609) 392-7188. More information on the Trenton Artists Workshop Association can be found on the organization’s Facebook page.

WWA to Host Storytelling Event, Chocolate Tasting

West Windsor Arts invites members of the community to share their true stories of how sweet life can be at a special event, led by storyteller Maureen Connolly and hosted at the arts center on Friday, January 27, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. (Doors open at 7 p.m.)

At “How Sweet: A Storytelling Event,” a total of eight, five-minute stories will be told, following a presentation and chocolate tasting by Kelly McCarron-Schwing of Cocoa Beau, featuring David Bradley Chocolates.

There is no pressure for anyone who attends to share a story. “This is a fun event, planned just ahead of Valentine’s Day, that promises to warm the heart,” said Connolly, a West Windsor Arts board member and professor at The College of New Jersey. “You’ll be entertained, hear stories from real life, enjoy delicious chocolate, and support the arts council.”

The first four people to register as storytellers will be guaranteed a spot in the “spotlight,” which will allow them to save seats for friends and family. After that, names are selected randomly from a bucket at the event.

“We are looking for your best stories about a time you experienced sweetness, be it emotional, taste or any other form you can think of,” said Connolly. “It could be your couple origin story, a tale of two desserts — anything you think might be sweet, even if it turned out to be salty!”

Every storyteller will get a prize. All participants will have a chance to purchase chocolates at the event, with 10 percent of the sales benefiting the arts center.

“West Windsor Arts is one of those special places in our community that draws people together,” adds Connolly. “That’s what this is all about. Community.”

West Windsor Arts is at 952 Alexander Road. Registration is $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Seating is limited. For more information and registration, visit westwindsorarts.org.

Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Colony / Dor Geuz” through February 12. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Metamorphosis” through March 31. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com.

Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts” through January 29. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “What Remains” and “Painting Women: Variations on a Theme” through February 4. artscouncilofprinceton.org.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, Realtors, 253 Nassau Street, has “Intersection: Four Voices in Abstraction” through January 28. A closing reception is on Saturday, January 28 from 2 to 4 p.m.

D&R Greenway Land Trust Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place, has “Land, Light, Spirit” through March 10 in the Marie L. Matthews Gallery. drgreenway.org.

Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, has “Curated by Trenton” through January 22. ellarslie.org.

Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, has “2023 Juried Exhibit” through February 5. Gallery14.org.

Gourgaud Gallery, 23AA North Main Street, Cranbury, has “Monica Sebald Kennedy” through January 31. cranburyartscouncil. org.

Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Nightforms: Infinite Wave” by Kip Collective through April 2, among other exhibits. Timed tickets required. groundsforsculpture.org.

Lambertville Free Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, has “ANEW Artists Alliance” through January 27. lambertvillelibrary.org.

Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Ma Bell: The Mother of Invention in New Jersey” through March 5 and the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898,” and others. morven.org.

Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has “Princeton Makes: Artist Collective” through February 7. “Zarina Morgan” is at the 254 Nassau Street location through February 7. smallworldcoffee.com.

Songbird Capital, 14 Nassau Street, has “Shirankala” through January 31. On view Saturdays from 1 to 6 p.m. or by appointment (609) 331-2624.

West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Manifesting Beloved Community” through March 4. westwindsorarts.org.

“UNDER THE BRIDGE”: This painting by John Gummere is part of “Art from Art News Writers and Photojournalists,” on view at the Trenton Free Public Library February 8 through March 25. An opening reception is on Thursday, February 9, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Ariana Groza

“INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO”: Visual artist Adriana Groza, a studio member of the Princeton Makes artist cooperative in the Princeton Shopping Center, will share insights about her practice and demonstrate her techniques and process in a talk on January 19 at 7 p.m. The event will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m.

TOWN TOPICS

Wednesday, January 18

12 p.m.: Workshop, “Tea Blending with Mood-Boosting Herbs,” by herbalist Tish Streeten, at the West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road. $45. Westwindsorarts. org.

1 p.m.: Mayor’s Wellness Book Discussion at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. The book Anxious People by Fredrik Backman will be discussed; also available virtually. Princetonlibrary.org.

6:15 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, in the Community Room unless otherwise noted. Princetonlibrary.org.

7 p.m.: “Our Shared Waters —A History of Improving Water Quality through Partnership,” virtual lecture by Elizabeth Koniers Brown, presented by Delaware River Greenway Partnership. Register at bit.ly/sharedwaters.

8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers presents a contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Donna Hunt with Clark Mills. Free. Princetoncountrydancers.org.

Thursday, January 19

10 a.m.: Meeting of the 55Plus Club via Zoom. David Stasavage, dean for the social sciences at New York University’s School of Law and Department of History, speaks on “Sustaining Democracy: When and Why it Survives and Prospers.” $5 donation suggested. Princetonol.com/ groups/55plus.

5-7 p.m.: Business After Business, sponsored by Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber at the Hyatt Regency Princeton, 102 Carnegie Center Drive. Networking; light fare, beer and wine. Princetonmercer.org.

6:30 p.m.: Historian Linda Barth discusses “The Garden State: Where Ideas Grow,” hybrid event about inventions with New Jersey roots; in person at Morven, 55 Stockton

Street; and virtually. $5-$10. Morven.org.

7 p.m.: In a virtual discussion from Princeton Public Library, staffer Cassie Smith talks to Yolonda Jordan about dolls made from her patterns, which will be on display. Attendees can meet others who crochet. Register at princetonlibrary.org.

7 p.m.: Visual artist Adriana Groza is the featured speaker for the “Inside the Artist’s Studio” talk series at Princeton Makes in the Princeton Shopping Center. The event begins with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Princetonmakes.com.

Friday, January 20

8 p.m.: The Princeton Folk Music Society presents Diana Jones in concert at Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane. $5-$25. Princetonfolk.org.

8 p.m.: Oscar Wilde’s Ideal Husband is presented at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. $20-$22. KelseyTheatre.org.

Saturday, January 21

9 a.m.-12 p.m.: Princeton Future meets at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. The topic is housing justice; open to all. Princetonfuture.org.

10 a.m.: Read and Explore program at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Kids read the story The Gingerbread Man decorate a big cookie to take home. $12. Register at terhuneorchards.com.

12-5 p.m.: Winery Week-

Coalition for Peace Action. Pre-registration required. Peacecoalition.org.

1 p.m.: Patrick McDonnell appears at the Bayard Rustin Center, 12 Stockton Street, to discuss his new book written with the Dalai Lama, Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet . Free. Registration information at RustinCenter.org.

5 p.m.: Dan and Claudia Zanes perform a familyfriendly concert at Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street. In lieu of tickets, bring one canned food item to support Arm in Arm. Monetary donations also accepted. Nassauchurch.org.

7-11 p.m.: ART of Salsa and Bachata at the Arts Council of Princeton, 105 Witherspoon Street, with Mike Andino and DJ Poli. Fundraiser for smART kids program. Artscouncilofprinceton.org.

8-11 p.m.: Central Jersey Dance Society presents the No Name Dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination required. $10-$15. Centraljerseydance.org.

8 p.m.: Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is presented at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. $20$22. KelseyTheatre.org. Sunday, January 22

12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Jerry Steele per-

2 p.m.: Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is presented at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. $20-$22. KelseyTheatre.org.

3 p.m.: Open Sing with the Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road. Sing Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers Vocal scores provided $10 (free for students and nonsinging guests). Musicalamateurs.org.

3 p.m.: Westminster Conservatory faculty members Galina Prilutskaya and Inessa Gleyzerova Shindel perform “Of Foreign Lands and People,” music by Schumann and others for piano, at Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane. Rider.edu.

3 p.m.: “Music from Venice to New Orleans,” chamber concert by a brass quartet from the Capital Philharmonic, at Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 East Front Street, Trenton. Capitalphilharmonic.org/chamber.

7 p.m.: Broadway actress/ singer Linda Eder performs at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $29-$69. Stnj.org. Tuesday, January 24

7 p.m.: “Wednesday” night out: Sophie Labelle’s Trans Agenda Speaking Tour at Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell. She will answer questions from the audience and sign copies of Assigned Male at the end.

1 Monument Drive. Open Mic led by Bob Isaacs. $15 (free for 35 and younger).

Princetoncountrydancers. org.

Thursday, January 26

10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market at the Dinky train station lot. Local farms, baked goods, artisan foods, gifts, and more. Free parking.

Friday, January 27

8-11 a.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber’s 2023 Real Estate Forecast, Princeton Marriott Hotel at Forrestal, 100 College Road East. Speakers are Lawrence Yun, Karly Iacono, Judson Henderson, and George Gnad. Princetonmercer.org.

10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Friends of the Lawrence Library January Book Sale, at 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence Township. Early admission; free for current members; $5 for public. After 12 p.m., the sale is free and open to the public. No scanning devices permitted after 12 p.m. Cash or checks only.

7:30-9:30 p.m.: “How Sweet: A Storytelling Event,” at West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road. Hosted by Maureen Connolly-Hersh, presentation by Kelly of Cocoa Beau featuring David Bradley Chocolates. $20-$25. Benefits arts and education program of West Windsor Arts. Westwindsorarts.org.

8 p.m.: Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is presented at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West

Library January Book Sale, at 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence Township. Free. Cash or checks only.

12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Chris P performs. Indoor seating in the wine barn; outdoor with firepits. Wine by the glass, cocoa for kids, and more. Terhune orchards.com.

8 p.m.: Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is presented at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. $20-$22. KelseyTheatre.org.

Sunday, January 29

12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Spiced Punch performs. Indoor seating in the wine barn; outdoor with firepits. Wine by the glass, cocoa for kids, and more. Terhuneorchards.com.

12:30-4:30 p.m.: Friends of the Lawrence Library January Book Sale, at 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence Township. Free. Cash or checks only.

1 p.m.: Wassailing the Apple Trees at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Singing, dancing, playing primitive instruments, toasts of hot cider, and more, with Handsome Molly Dancers and Kingsessing Morris Dancers. Free. Terhuneorchards.com.

2 p.m.: Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is presented at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200

Evbuomwan Produces Finest Performance of Season, Helping PU Men’s Hoops Pull Away to Win at Penn

Tosan Evbuomwan delivered his finest game of the season to help the Princeton University men’s basketball team remain in first place in the Ivy League.

After a painful 72-70 loss at Brown last Saturday in which the Tigers struggled to make plays down the stretch, senior forward Evbuomwan had a season-high 26 points, seven rebounds, and three assists in a 72-60 win over the University of Pennsylvania at The Palestra on Monday.

“I thought he was awesome,” said Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson, reflecting on Evbuomwan’s effort which helped Princeton improve to 13-5 overall and 4-1 in Ivy League play.

At Brown, Evbuomwan had 10 points on 4-for-11 shooting, eight assists, and four rebounds, and two missed free throws late were costly in the loss. Against Penn, he returned to the dominant form that earned him Ivy League Player of the Year.

“I’ve been appreciative of Tosan on a lot of levels,” said Henderson. “But mostly as a person. I challenged him directly in front of the group on Saturday and he always takes it and always responds. Always. And I’m so thankful to be able to coach somebody like that. That’s the No. 1 thing I’m happy for. This game is always in there — what he did. But mostly I appreciate the fact that he allows himself to be coached so the rest of the team has to fall in line. When he does that, we’re hard to beat.”

When Penn covered him closely – and even sometimes when he didn’t – he drove by them for a variety of finishes at the basket. He was fouled nine times and attempted 11 free throws – the most since shooting 11 in the season opener. More importantly, he made seven of those shots from the charity stripe. When Penn backed off, he found cutters for shots, and he even made his fifth 3-pointer of the season, a shot that he has been working on and Princeton wants him to take when he’s open.

“I was able to be aggressive and pick my spots, keep my teammate involved obviously and look for them,” said Evbuomwan, a 6’8, 219-pound native of Newcastle, England who is now averaging a team-high 13.2 points and 6.2 rebounds and also leads the Tigers in assists with 80. “They’ve been knocking shots down like crazy, the past however many games.”

Tiger freshman forward Caden Pierce quietly impressed with his second double-double of the season, contributing 12 points and 10 rebounds in his debut in the storied rivalry with Penn. Princeton had two other players score double figures to give them four total. Senior guard Ryan Langborg finished with 13 points and junior guard Matt Allocco scored 10 points while hounding Penn’s leading scorer, Jordan Dingle, into a 6-for-22 shooting night.

“I think if you’re a competitor like everyone on our team is, you embrace those challenges,” said Allocco, reflecting on his defensive effort. “I think our team understood too that it’s team defense

especially with great scorers like that. Hopefully my guys know by now that I’m just going to compete and I’m going to play hard but I know that I have a ton of support behind me. I’d say my teammates support me and make that a lot easier on me.”

Princeton held Penn without a 3-pointer, the first time the Quakers had been shut out from beyond the arc since November 24, 2009. It was a key to winning for the seventh straight time in the series. It furthermore snapped a trend for the Tigers in which they had followed a loss with a second one, losing to Navy after falling to Hofstra and then losing to Delaware after dropping a game to Iona. This time they bounced back from the Brown loss.

“Obviously it was super frustrating,” said Evbuomwan. “We try to approach every game the same way. You don’t want to drop two in a row. Our mindset is to go 1-0 every game. It’s what we did tonight. It was a tough loss on the weekend and so it was important for us to get this one.”

The win keeps Princeton tied atop the Ivy League standings with Cornell, whom the Tigers defeated 75-68 on January 7, at 4-1. Princeton could add further separation from the trailing pack with a win over surprising Dartmouth who the Tigers host on January 21. The status of Deven Austin, who left the Penn game in the first half with a head injury, is up in the air with the freshman being evaluated after Monday’s game. Princeton has played four of its first five Ivy games away from home.

“I would have taken 4-1 looking at the schedule,” said Henderson. “I would have thought that would have been great. We’re coming home

finally. Us and Penn have been on the road non-stop and now we’re coming home finally this weekend.”

Dartmouth, at 3-2 in the league after a last-minute win over Penn on Saturday, is the only other Ivy team without at least three losses. The top four teams at the end of the regular season will meet in Princeton for the Ivy League Tournament to determine the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Princeton still has significant road games at Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard ahead, but can take confidence from its win at Penn.

“We’re always up for this game,” said Evbuomwan. “We’re always up for every game, but the history with our two programs and The Palestra and winning, people before us have set great examples of getting ready for this place and making big plays. Coach reminded us of that today and previously. It’s just kind of trying to follow and keep the legacy of Princeton basketball.”

Princeton never trailed by more than four in a tight first half despite nine turnovers. Princeton also took better care of the ball in the second half with just two turnovers in the final 20 minutes. That factor was important in a night when shooting was tough. Henderson pointed out that both teams struggled from 3, with Penn going 0-for-12 and Princeton finishing 4-for-25, their second worst percentage of the season, after their challenging turnarounds.

“It has something to do with the physicality of the game and the fact that both teams had a really long trip back and got back in late Saturday night,” said Henderson. “It looked to me like both teams were playing like that. It was a really physical game.”

The Tigers were down, 2625, at halftime. Evbuomwan’s

3-pointer and a shot from Langborg gave the Tigers a 30-28 lead early in the second half and they would never trail again, though it remained tight until just over 10 minutes remained.

With Princeton leading 4038, Langborg made a 3-pointer and a Penn foul on a box

out gave Pierce a 1-and-1 that he completed for a 45-38 lead. Two minutes later, the lead was 52-42, and Princeton kept Penn at bay from there to remain in first place in the Ivies.

“I thought that was the deciding factor in the game, that play right there,” said Henderson. “Once we got it to eight,

I think with the physicality of the game, it was going to be hard for one team to come back.”

PHILLY SPECIAL: Princeton University men’s basketball player Tosan Evbuomwan drives to the basket in recent action. Last Monday, senior forward Evbuomwan tallied a season-high 26 points along with seven rebounds and three assists as Princeton defeated Penn 72-60 at The Palestra in Philadelphia. The Tigers, now 13-5 overall and 4-1 Ivy League, host Dartmouth on January 21. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

—Justin Feil

PU Women’s Hockey Loses at Colgate

Maggie Connors and Katherine Khramtsov each scored goals but it wasn’t enough as the Princeton University women’s hockey team lost 6-2 at No. 5 Colgate last Saturday.

The Tigers, now 9-8-1 overall and 5-7 ECAC Hockey, host Yale on January 20 and Brown on January 21.

Princeton Wrestling Tops No. 8 Arizona State

Earning its first dual meet win of the season, the Princeton University wrestling team topped No. 8 Arizona State 24-12 last Sunday in Tempe, Ariz.

The Tigers jumped out to 21-0 lead in topping the Sun Devils and improving to 1-5.

Princeton got wins in the match from Patrick Glory at 125 pounds, Ty Whalen at 157, Quincy Monday at 164, Kole Mulhauser at 174, Nate Dugan at 184, Luke Stout at 197, and Travis Stefanik at 285.

The Tigers wrestle at Columbia on January 20 in their

Ivy League opener and then host Rider on January 21.

PU Men’s Volleyball Falls at Pepperdine

Brady Wedbush starred in a losing cause as the Princeton University men’s volleyball team fell 3-0 at No. 5 Pepperdine last Monday.

Senior Wedbush had a team-high eight kills but it wasn’t enough as Pepperdine prevailed 25-17, 25-23, 25-19.

Princeton, now 1-3, plays at Concordia on January 18.

PU Men’s Squash Defeats Cornell 8-1

Producing a dominant performance, the No. 3 Princeton University men’s squash team defeated Cornell 8-1 last Sunday.

The Tigers posted 3-0 wins in six of their matches.

Princeton, now 3-0, plays at Harvard on January 21 and at Dartmouth on January 22.

Tiger Women’s Squash Tops Cornell 7-2

Showing its depth, the No. 4 Princeton University women’s squash team defeated Cornell 7-2 last Sunday.

The Tigers fell at No. 1 and 2 but swept all the matches from No. 3-9.

Princeton, now 3-0, plays at Harvard on January 21

and at Dartmouth on January 22.

PU Women’s Swimming Defeats Navy, Notre Dame

Highlighted by a 1-2-3 sweep in the 200-yard backstroke, the Princeton University women’s swimming team edged Notre Dame 188-165 and Navy 278-75 last weekend in Annapolis, Md.

Tiger freshman Meg Wheeler took first in the 200 back followed by sophomore Isabella Kirby in second with junior Liza Whitmire taking third. Princeton got a 1-2 finish in the 100 free as senior Nikki Venema placed first with freshman Sabrina Johnston coming in second.

Princeton has a meet at Columbia on January 20.

Men’s Lax Has 5 Named Preseason All-Americans

With the Princeton University men’s lacrosse team looking forward to starting its 2023 campaign by hosting Monmouth on February 18, five Tiger lax standouts have been named USA Lacrosse Magazine Preseason All-Americans.

The five honored include senior midfielder Jake Stevens, a second-team selection, senior midfielder Sam English, a third-team selection, and honorable mention choices junior Pace Billings at longstick midfielder/defense, senior Beau Pederson as shortstick defensive midfielder, and senior Alex Slusher at attack.

Stevens scored 22 goals in 2022 as he helped the Tigers go 11-5 and advance to the NCAA Final 4 for the first time since 2004. He also had 65 ground balls and seven caused turnovers

as a key member of the faceoff unit. English finished his season with 30 goals and 18 assists, with 27 ground balls and eight caused turnovers.

Billings had a goal (in the NCAA tournament win over Boston University), two assists, 15 ground balls, and 16 caused turnovers in his first season. He was also selected to the NCAA AllTournament Team. Pederson was a third-team AllAmerican last spring after having two goals, four assists, 27 ground balls and eight caused turnovers. Slusher led Princeton with 46 goals, the fifth-best single-season total in program

history, and he also had 10 assists for 56 points, along with 23 ground balls and eight caused turnovers.

PU Football Program Has

7 Selected to Dream Bowl

Seven players from the Princeton University football team have been selected to compete for the United States squad in the upcoming Japan-U.S. Dream Bowl in Tokyo.

The U.S. roster consists of seniors and graduate student-athletes from all eight Ivy programs. The group is comprised of 22 players that earned All-Ivy honors throughout their careers. The team will be led by Columbia

head coach Al Bagnoli and the Lions’ coaching staff.

The game will be held on January 21 at 11 p.m. EST in the United States (Sunday, January 22 at 1 p.m. JST locally) at the recentlybuilt National Stadium, site of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The event will be broadcast live in Japan.

Princeton’s representatives in the contest include defensive lineman Michael Azevedo, defensive back Dawson De Iuliis, linebacker Ike Hall, punter Will Powers, offensive lineman Connor Scaglione, defensive lineman James Stagg, and defensive back C.J. Wall.

MURPHY’S LAW: Princeton University men’s hockey player Ian Murphy brings the puck up the ice in a game earlier this season. Last Friday, junior forward Murphy tallied two goals and an assist to help Princeton defeat LIU 5-2 and improve to 9-9 overall. The Tigers play at Colgate on January 20 and at Cornell on January 21. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Led by Senior Standout Silverstein’s Tough Play, PHS Boys’ Hockey Gets Back on Winning Track

As an assistant captain for the Princeton High boys’ hockey team, Gabe Silverstein looks to lead by deeds rather than words.

“The leadership is a group thing, everyone steps up for different reasons,” said senior standout Silverstein. “Some guys are locker room guys, some guys lead on the ice. I take more of a physical approach on the ice, sticking up for the other guys. We have got to look out for the younger guys.”

Utilizing that approach, Silverstein stepped up last Friday as PHS faced the WWP Ice Hockey Coop at the Mercer County Skating Center. With the Tigers trailing 1-0 early in the first period, Silverstein banged in a goal to knot the game at 1-1. Later in the period, he swooped in on an odd-man rush and found the back of the net again as PHS built its lead to 3-1.

“You get one and you start rolling,” said Silverstein. “We are better than that team and once we put one in the net, we knew were going to start rolling.”

The Tigers kept rolling, tallying three more goals on the way to a 6-1 win.

“We get a lot more time and space against a team like this,” said Silverstein. “We moved the puck around and got more shots and crash the net and get more goals.”

With PHS having started the week by falling 8-2 to Robbinsville on January 10 and then topping Hopewell Valley 5-2 a day later, the Tigers were determined to keep on the winning track.

“Every dog has his day — we are used to winning in this league a lot,” said Silverstein, who picked up two assists as PHS defeated Notre Dame 6-2 last Monday to improve to 7-4. “When we are faced with adversity, we have just got to come into every game with a different mindset and score more goals than the other team. That is how you win.”

Boasting a core of seniors which includes captain Cooper Zullo, assistant captain Ethan Garlock, Julian Drezner, Nico Vitaro, Andrew Benevento, and Ryan Friedman, PHS has a solid group of battle-tested veterans who have won a lot of games.

“It is leadership among all of the seniors, we have got a really good thing going,” said Silverstein. “The chain of command is great, everyone respects everybody. We come in, we do our work, and we leave. Julian [Drezner] and I have been best friends before we could even talk. Cooper and Ethan are pieces of the puzzle. We really mesh. We get along on the ice and off the ice, hanging out in school and out of school. It is a great, great group of guys.”

PHS head coach Rik Johnson respects the way Silverstein works hard on a daily basis.

“Gabe will always bring his game,” said Johnson. “Sometimes it is working, sometimes it is not, but he is always going to give his best effort.”

In the win over WWP, junior Charles Ross brought his game, tallying two goals.

“He has been feeling more and more comfortable as we go,” said Johnson of Ross. “He was good.”

Johnson acknowledged that PHS may have been a little too comfortable in the early going on Friday as it fell behind 1:02 into the contest.

“I think they realized we have to start playing,” said Johnson. “We came out a little loose maybe and then it was time to play.”

As the game unfolded, PHS played very well. “I was happy with the whole team, everybody did pretty much what they needed to do,” said Johnson.

“They skated hard, they got a little loosey-goosey and then they tightened it up and got a couple of goals.”

With PHS facing Lawrence on January 22 and Middletown South on January 24 with both games to be played at the Mercer County Skating Center, Johnson wants his players to enjoy themselves on the ice.

“The biggest key is playing fundamental hockey and having fun,” said Johnson. “If you are pressing too much, you are going to be too tight and make mistakes. It is have fun and just play.”

Silverstein is looking to have fun as he wraps up his high school hockey career.

“It has been a long, strange trip, I have gotten better over the last 15 years or whatever playing hockey,” said Silverstein, who currently plays club hockey for the Princeton Youth Hockey Association after playing in the Nassau program for many years. “Now I am putting final pieces on the cake and that will be it and I will hang up my skates at some point.”

—Bill Alden

Sophomore Standout

Speir Explodes for 6 Goals as PHS Girls’ Hockey Fights Hard in Loss to Madison

Cassie Speir has a lot on her plate this winter in her sophomore season for the Princeton High girls’ hockey team.

Speir plays defenseman, scores nearly all of the team’s goals, and serves as an assistant captain.

While shouldering such responsibility could be a bit overwhelming for a secondyear player, Speir is enjoying herself.

“I just love the team, we are all so supportive of each other,” said Speir. “Everybody is here to have fun. We don’t win that much, but we have fun at practice, we have fun at games, we have fun in the bus, and in the locker room.”

Last Thursday, Speir had a lot of fun, tallying a careerhigh six goals as PHS fell 12-6 to Madison in a game played at Hobey Baker Rink.

Coming into the matchup against the Dodgers, Speir and her teammates were confident that they could hold their own.

“We were all on the bus researching them and this could be a game where we could actually stay in it and have a good chance,” said Speir. “It was competitive.”

After scoring one goal in the first period as PHS fell behind 3-1, Speir cashed in on her chances in the second, scoring four goals.

“I really was feeling it,” said Speir, reflecting on her second period outburst which saw her score goals on end-to-end rushes and some one-timers from the point. “In the second period I feel like I usually do better. It is getting warmed up and getting into the game and seeing where the goalie plays well and I can look for chances.

Although Speir’s heroics helped PHS narrow the gap to 4-3 at one point, it could not get closer as it moved to 0-8.

“It definitely was (a step

forward),” said Speir, reflecting on the team’s effort. “Our goalie is getting better every single day. Everybody is getting used to playing with the pucks and skating. Everyone is just getting better.”

Speir got into hockey as a grade-schooler. “I have been playing since I was 8 or 9; one of my friends was playing and I thought it was such a cool sport,” said Speir. “I started at Nassau and then they merged with the Flames. I was on a boys team for a year and then I was Tiger Lily.”

While Speir has spent plenty of time on the ice, she is determined to hone her skills.

“I am really working on my shot, especially in the games,” said Speir. “I work on stick-handling and deking everyone.”

PHS head coach Christian Herzog enjoyed seeing Speir’s work pay off against Madison.

“It was nice to see Cassie put the biscuit between the pipe,” said Herzog. “It was one of those things where it just wasn’t working out for her in the first period. The goalie’s top left was a little more open than other spots, she was decent as far as the butterfly. Cassie found the spot to send it home with.”

With Speir having scored 13 of the team’s 14 goals this season, she is giving the Tigers some nice work.

“Cassie is the iron woman of the team; what makes my day is the way she dekes some of the players,” added Herzog. “I like to see her putting her best foot forward. It was good to see her smile when the boys’ hockey players were cheering for her tonight out there when she was dropping her shoulder or going on a toe drag. She is a good kid too.”

Junior goalie Logan Hollingsworth, who had 27 saves, including some point blank stops, is making good progress between the pipes.

“Our goalie is coming along, like any other sport you have to get out there and play consistently,” said Herzog. “She just really hasn’t had that opportunity, she is not afraid to work hard. We talked about just going for it. If no one is around go for it, you get beat or you make a good save, one or the other.”

Senior captain Annie Terry has been setting an upbeat tone for the Tigers.

“Annie has been playing well,” said Herzog. “She is like Miss Positivity — she is enjoying her hockey.”

Although PHS has been taking its lumps in the early going, the players have remained positive.

“They are here to have a good time; they realize that the majority of them are brand new to the sport,” said Herzog, whose team hosts Immaculate Heart on January 18 at Hobey Baker Rink, plays at Madison on January 19, and then hosts Chatham on January 24 at Hobey Baker Rink.

“They are not travel players but you can’t take the spirit out of them. I try to provide them an opportunity where we can click together and have each other’s backs. This is the year to take some more chances and give girls opportunities in the hopes that some more talent is going to come in and some of these girls get a little stronger.”

Speir believes that the Tigers are laying the groundwork for a strong future.

“We have a ton of freshmen and a lot of sophomores too,” said Speir. “It is just keep practicing hard and developing; next year will definitely be a good year for us.”

—Bill Alden

SIX SHOOTER: Princeton High girls’ hockey player Cassie Speir, right, goes after the puck in recent action. Last Thursday, sophomore star Speir scored a career-high six goals as PHS fell 12-6 to Madison in a game played at Hobey Baker Rink. The Tigers, who moved to 0-8 with the loss, host Immaculate Heart on January 18 at Hobey Baker Rink, play at Madison on January 19, and then host Chatham on January 24 at Hobey Baker Rink.

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

SILVER

Princeton High boys’ hockey player Gabe Silverstein

against the WWP

Hockey Coop. Senior star and assistant captain Silverstein scored two goals

Tigers,

improved to 7-4 with a 6-1 win over Notre Dame last Monday, face Lawrence on January 22 and Middletown South on January 24 with both games to be played at the Mercer County Skating Center. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Sparked by Aririguzoh’s Energy, Production, Hun Boys’ Hoops Rolls Past Trenton Catholic

Anthony Aririguzoh prides himself on being a catalyst for the Hun School boys’ basketball team.

“I am more of an energetic leader,” said Hun senior forward Aririguzoh. “I am really more of a get-guys-together leader. I get guys to where they have to be, talk on the court. I just contribute any way I can. That is my job around here, I am happy to do it.”

Last week as Hun hosted Trenton Catholic Prep, Aririguzoh did his job from the opening tip-off. Driving hard to the hoop, Aririguzoh scored the first bucket of the game to spark an early 11-3 run for Hun as it built a 4123 halftime lead in the January 10 contest.

In the opening moments of the second half, the 6’6 Aririguzoh made a couple of steals and two hoops, including a thunderous dunk, as Hun reeled off nine unanswered points and never looked back on the way to an 89-64 triumph.

“It always feels good to contribute,” said Aririguzoh, who tallied 10 points with four rebounds, two steals and one assist in the win. “I think the dunk was really an exclamation point for our team, it really got us going. I am always happy to make plays like that. I am happy to be the energy guy because our team is really good when we are focused and energetic.”

With Hun coming into the evening having lost its first two games of 2023,

falling 68-58 to Friends Select (Pa.) on January 5 and losing 67-63 to Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) two days later, the Raiders were intent on getting back on the winning track

“I think the biggest word for our team today was focus,” said Aririguzoh. “We had big leads in both of those games, and we just threw them away. I think the biggest thing for our team was to lock down and not get too comfortable. It was a really big one and our team got behind me especially. We all came together for this one — we knew it was an important one.”

Aririguzoh enjoyed playing against Trenton Catholic as he went there for two years before transferring to Hun in 2020.

“It is always fun to play against guys you know,” said Aririguzoh.“It is fun to be able to play with those guys and be able to talk to them about the game.”

It has been fun for Aririguzoh to soak up some knowledge from his older brother, Richmond Aririguzoh, a former standout and two-time All-Ivy League performer for the Princeton University men’s basketball team from 2016-2020.

“I train with him all of the time,” said Aririguzoh, noting that his brother is currently playing pro ball in Belgium. “I have all of his moves down to a science. The biggest lesson he has taught me is body language, sometimes I let stuff get

inside my head a little bit. I can’t be an effective leader that way. My teammates back me up, my coaches back me up, and my brother really talked me through the process. I have just grown and matured a lot being under his wing, so I am really happy about that.”

Hun head coach Jon Stone was happy with the energy that Aririguzoh displayed on the defensive end against Trenton Catholic.

“What is sticking out in my mind was the beginning of the second half defensively,” said Stone. “Anthony might have had two steals in three possessions. He is a really good defender — he has the ability to get steals in bunches.”

Aririguzoh also has the ability to inspire his teammates.

“He can really motivate the guys at times, he can really get excited and get the guys pumped up,” added Stone of Aririguzoh, who has 15 points, six rebounds, and three assists to help Hun defeat Springside Chestnut Hill (Pa.) 78-58 last Saturday and improve to 8-6. “He is a likable person — the guys like him and the coaches like him. When he plays hard, he is really good.”

Stone liked the way Hun played hard from the opening tip-off in the win over Trenton Catholic.

“It is always good when you make some shots early and get going,” said Stone. “I thought our defense was

good early as well.”

The Raider backcourt duo of Anthony Loscalzo and Dan Vessey had a very good game in the victory as Loscalzo tallied 18 points and Vessey chipped in 16.

“Vessey has been scoring a lot inside, they both are great scorers,” said Stone. “They were taking it as it came to them tonight; certainly that helped propel us.”

Post-graduate star Symeon Efstathiou came through against the Iron Mikes, tallying seven points with some deft passing and good work on the boards.

“Symeon has the ability to dribble past, shoot and score,” said Stone. “He is so versatile, there isn’t anything he can’t do. His rebound numbers are off the charts, he has had at least two games of 20 rebounds. He is very versatile and brings a lot to the team.”

With Hun playing at the Peddie School on January 18 and Germantown Academy (Pa.) on January 21, Stone is looking for his team to keep bringing the intensity.

“We needed a win and we need a couple more,” said Stone. “We have some tough games coming up and we are really looking forward to them. We will hopefully be more consistent.”

Aririguzoh, for his part, believes that Hun needs to show the mental toughness it displayed against Trenton Catholic to keep winning.

“The biggest focus for us is just staying focused,” said Aririguzoh, who has committed to the admissions process at Wesleyan

University and will be playing for its Division III basketball program. “Every team is the same. Every team can

beat us and we can beat every team on our schedule.”

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COMING THROUGH: Hun School boys’ basketball player Anthony Aririguzoh heads to the hoop in a game earlier this season. Last week, senior forward Aririguzoh tallied 10 points with four rebounds, two steals, and one assist to help Hun defeat Trenton Catholic 89-64. The Raiders, who defeated Springside Chestnut Hill (Pa.) 78-58 last Saturday as they moved to 8-6, play at the Peddie School on January 18 and Germantown Academy (Pa.) on January 21. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

—Bill Alden

Hall Shows His Resilience with Strong 2nd Half As PDS Boys’ Hoops Rallies to Win Over HoVal

Jaden Hall got off to a slow start for the Princeton Day School boys’ basketball team as it hosted Hopewell Valley High last Saturday afternoon.

Senior guard Hall tallied just two points as PDS found itself trailing the Bulldogs 22-16 at halftime.

“We wanted to focus on playing together; it was keep our heads up, play through adversity, and stick together,” said Hall, recalling the halftime message. “We are known to not have good third quarters — our coach (Eugene Burroughs) emphasized coming out strong. We just wanted to focus on our energy; we wanted to have a good third quarter.”

With Hall scoring five points in the third quarter, PDS seized momentum, outscoring HoVal 20-12. The Bulldogs fought back in the fourth quarter, knotting the contest at 40-40, but PDS ended the game on a 10-2 run to prevail 50-42 as Hall hit some key free throws down the stretch.

Hall, who ended the game with 13 points, spread the credit around for his second half surge.

“My teammates were helping me out with shots, I wasn’t getting that many shots in the first or second quarter,” said Hall. “In the third quarter, my teammates found me. Credit to Jaden Dublin, he started getting me some good shots.”

In the waning moments of the contest, Hall helped PDS close the deal with some clutch free throw shooting as it moved to 5-5.

“I wasn’t making as many jump shots, so I just wanted to equal it out at the foul line,” said Hall. “I just want to do anything to help the

team win. I know for all of the other seniors, that is their goal too. Definitely having an all-around game helps a lot.”

Over the last year, Hall has developed some deep bonds with fellow senior backcourt star Dublin.

“We were in the gym all fall and all summer, so it is building that connection,” said Hall.

“He came here as a junior last year — I just wanted to get to know him as a player and a person. We talk a lot when it comes to basketball and outside of basketball; the connection obviously shows on the court.”

Coming into the clash with HoVal, PDS was looking to show its strength.

“We just wanted to make a statement,” said Hall. “People don’t really look at us as a good team, they look at us like we are weak. We want to make ourselves known.”

In the wake of the victory over the Bulldogs, Hall believes that the Panthers can go on a good run.

“I think we are in a good spot, the defense is going to anchor our ability to win games,” said Hall, who will be playing at the next level as he has committed to attend Kings College and play for its Division III men’s hoops program. “We are good on the offensive side of the ball; defense is where it really counts and we have to work on that more.”

While PDS head coach Eugene Burroughs acknowledged that his squad struggled in the early going against HoVal, he was confident it would right the ship.

“I think defensively we did a great job, just holding them to 22 points,” said Burroughs. “We rebounded

the basketball. I felt we were making them take tough shots. I think offensively for us, we got great shots, but we just didn’t make them.”

In the third quarter, PDS finally got shots to fall. “We made some shots and we stayed with what we were doing,” said Burroughs. “We told the kids to be confident and have a positive attitude. I know we can score the basketball. We just had to share it and move it and I think we got back to that.”

Keeping up the intensity on the defensive end paved the way for the comeback.

“Everything stemmed from our defense, our defense led us,” said Burroughs. “We were scrappy, which allowed us to get some easy buckets in transition which we needed because we struggled a little bit in the half court. It was defend, rebound, push, and score.”

Hitting free throws was another key to the win for the Panthers.

“They have done a great job of making free throws; we have been focusing on free throws because in games like this, it makes a difference,” said Burroughs. “If we miss those free throws, it is a totally different game. The fact that we were able to get the stops down at the other end was a testament to them buying in and digging down and finding a way to win today.”

Burroughs credited Hall with digging deep after his lackluster first half.

“Jaden was just resilient. When you are a scorer, a guy who shoots the ball, you are going to have nights where it just doesn’t go in,” said Burroughs. “Now it is ‘what can you do to help your team win?’ He had a great assist,

he made some free throws, he got some rebounds. Those are things a senior does, I think it is great that he just hung in there and fought in that game. We need those 12 points he got in the second half. He is a guy who is going to score for us. He was smart with the ball, he took it out, ran some clock, and got fouled.”

Dublin had some great moments as he scored a game-high 19 points and made some key rebounds and steals.

“He is so athletic, there is a loose ball in the air at half court and he is an explosive athlete and he goes and gets it,” said Burroughs. “He gives us rebounding. He is still finding his way a little bit too — I am excited to see him go forward. I think the game is going to come easier for him. He is trying to find ways to navigate. He is an unselfish player, he brings a lot to our team. He is a catalyst for us. He plays well off of Jaden. He had some great drives to the rim today, he can really go. I think he played a great game and he is getting better too.”

Freshman guard Jordan Owens, who tallied seven points against HoVal, has been getting better.

“Jordan made some shots, he can make free throws,” said Burroughs. “He is progressing. He is maturing and he is learning. He is a young player so game experience is the best way to learn. He is getting in there and learning from his mistakes. We are trying to coach him through it. He has gotten better and he has more room to grow. He is still scratching the surface but he is a great

complement to the team. He can shoot the basketball, he is probably shooting over 50 percent from three.”

In the view of Burroughs, a 54-50 loss to the Solebury School (Pa.) on January 9 proved to be a wake-up call for PDS.

“The Solebury game was the game that we all felt; we were ahead and we took our foot off the gas and got a little too complacent in that game,” said Burroughs. “It is one that we gave away and it recalibrated us to come back. We can’t play two quarters, we have to make it to four. This is a game where we played with a consistent energy effort-wise the whole game. Offensively we made buckets at the right time and we made stops at the right time.”

If the Panthers keep bringing that energy, they can compete with anyone.

“We have had our ups and downs like every team and we are trying to hit our stride again,” said Burroughs. “I think we are hitting that stride of playing the right way and just buying in and believing that hey we can play with these teams. I think we have shown that.”

Hall, for his part, is determined to savor his last few weeks with the Panthers.

“It is just to have fun, that is what it comes down to,” said Hall. “Having fun with our teammates that we are not going to see for a long time after this year. We want to build a connection we are going to have for a lifetime.”

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New Museum for a New Age: James Steward Thursday, January 26, 4:30 p.m.

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HALL PASS: Princeton Day School boys’ basketball player Jaden Hall, right, looks to pass the ball in recent action. Last Saturday, senior guard Hall tallied 13 points to help PDS defeat Hopewell Valley 50-42. The Panthers, now 5-5, play at Hightstown on January 18, host Hunterdon Central on January 20, play at Princeton High on January 21, and then host Franklin High on January 23.

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

With Senior Star Ix Providing Continuity, Leadership, Stuart Hoops Making Progress with Revamped Roster

With the Stuart Country Day School basketball team experiencing major roster turnover from last season and going with freshmen and sophomores by necessity, Emily Ix has been a constant for the program.

“I am the only senior, it is definitely different that anything I have done before,” said Ix, who also plays on the Stuart field hockey and lacrosse teams. “It has been a learning experience for me, really learning how to bring different people together. I really love all of the girls on the team. It is really fun, we are playing really scrappy basketball.”

Last Wednesday against visiting Robbinsville, Stuart showed its scrappiness jumping out to an 8-6 lead in the first quarter.

“I was really pleased with how we started, we came out

as a team with a lot of aggressiveness,” said Ix. “We have been working on defense a lot in practice. I feel like that really showed.”

But it was Robbinsville’s defense, though, that made the difference as the Ravens applied a full-court press in the second quarter and turned the tide of the contest, outscoring the Tartans 24-5 to build a 30-13 halftime lead on the way to a 48-24 win.

Ix acknowledged that Stuart struggled with the press. “Since we have only seven girls, it is hard to practice pressing,” said Ix, reflecting on the setback which dropped the Tartans to 1-3. “It is definitely different in games.”

While things got away in the second quarter, Stuart kept scrapping, battling the Ravens to an 11-11

standstill in the fourth quarter as Ix tallied seven points down the stretch.

“I felt a little more confident in the fourth quarter, I was definitely trying to be more aggressive,” said Ix, who ended up with eight points in the contest. “I need to learn how to do that from the get-go. The fourth quarter is definitely something we can build on. We are definitely trying to get better every day.”

In the view of Ix, the Tartans have been building a good team chemistry.

“A lot of team bonding has been going on, I feel like we are coming together as a unit,” said Ix. “We have never played together before. It has been fun to be a leader on the team and get to know everyone.”

Stuart head coach Tony Bowman credited Ix with setting a positive tone for his young squad.

“That is what I told her — don’t wait until the fourth quarter,” said Bowman, who has returned to the program this season after guiding the Tartans from 2003-11. “She has to lead by example. It is don’t wait for somebody else to start the offense, if you see an opening, take it. Make them follow behind you versus leading at the end. I told her I need you to lead throughout, and she is doing that. She is solid, she listens, and she works hard.”

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“She has a lot of potential, I just need the light to click on,” said Bowman. “She is shooting straight up in front of somebody. It is use your whole arsenal, go around, or use a head fake. In the eighth grade with that height you can do that. In ninth grade you can’t do that, especially on a varsity team. There is no JV team here, so you are going from eighth grade to the varsity. She has a lot of beautiful moves and she has touch. She can do more.”

While Stuart is shorthanded with only seven players and has to deal with fatigue, that hasn’t dimmed the squad’s enthusiasm.

“When you don’t have a sub and you are playing hard defense, you get tired,” said Bowman. “The recovery time wasn’t quick enough. They play hard all of the time, which I appreciate. Each kid from the top to the bottom plays hard and they give me their all. They learn quickly, and I appreciate that as well.”

With the Tartans playing at Noor-Ul-Iman School on January 20 and at Solebury School (Pa.) on January 23, Bowman believes his team is headed in the right direction.

“I feel they are developing, we are a lot closer today than in November,” said Bowman. “We have progressed — the defense has picked up, and the offense is getting better. People are knowing their roles, that is the key. We keep on plugging away. Because we are

not that big and don’t have that many kids, we just have to be smarter.”

Ix, for her part, is confident that Stuart will keep plugging away.

“We are definitely looking forward to the future and playing more games,” said

Ix, who is headed to Wake Forest University where she plans to play club field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse. “I think now our momentum is going to carry forward. We are definitely working on being more aggressive.”

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X-FACTOR: Stuart Country Day School basketball player Emily Ix, right, dribbles the ball in recent action. Last Wednesday, senior guard Ix scored eight points in a losing cause as Stuart fell 48-24 to Robbinsville. The Tartans, who moved to 1-3 with the loss, play at Noor-Ul-Iman School on January 20 and at Solebury School (Pa.) on January 23. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

as Hun fell 2-1 to Bergen Catholic last Thursday. The Raiders, who moved to 6-8

Hun Lawrenceville

Girls’ Basketball: Seeing its three-game winning streak come to an end, Hun fell 62-46 at Pennington School last Friday. The Raiders, now 6-8, play at Peddie School on January 18 and then host Lawrenceville on January 20.

Boys’ Hockey : Elian Estulin scored the lone goal

Girls’ Basketball : Kayla Dora had a huge game as Lawrenceville topped the

Peddie School 61-25 last Saturday. Dora tallied 25 points to help the Big Red improve to 2-9. Lawrenceville hosts the Blair Academy on January 18 and then plays at the Hun School on January 20.

Boys’ Hockey : Unable to get its offense going, Lawrenceville fell 3-0 at Northfield Mount Herman (Mass.) last Saturday. The Big Red, now 8-8, host Princeton Day School on January 18 and Albany Academy (N.Y.) on January 20 before a rematch at Albany on January 21.

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Boys’ Basketball: With four players scoring in double figures, Pennington defeated the Academy at Palumbo (Pa.) 59-47 last Friday. Brandon Russell tallied 13 points in the win with Corey Miller and Dwayne Snead adding 12 apiece and Kae Kilic chipping in 11 as the Red Hawks improved to 8-10. Pennington hosts Friends Select (Pa.) on January 18 and then plays at Moorestown Friends on January 23.

Girls’ Basketball: Morgan Matthews had a big game as Pennington defeated St. Benedict’s 52-40 last Saturday. Matthews scored a game-high 22 points for the Red Hawks, now 11-3. The victory marked the 300th career win for Pennington coach Carmen Cook, who is in his first year with the program after previously coaching the Voorhees High girls’ squad for nearly 20 years. Pennington hosts the Hill School (Pa.) on January 18.

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Girls’ Basketball : Mia Hartman scored 13 points in a losing cause as PDS fell 44-26 to Hopewell Valley last Thursday. The Panthers, now 2-8, host Somerville on January 20 and Peddie School on January 24.

Boys’ Hockey : Sparked

by Liam Jackson, PDS defeated the Pingry School 6-1 last Thursday. Star forward Jackson tallied two goals and two assists for the Panthers as they moved to 6-3-2. PDS plays at the Lawrenceville School on January 18 and at Christian Brothers Academy on January 23 before hosting Delbarton on January 24.

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Boys’ Basketball : Jahan Owusu led the way as PHS defeated Steinert 57-40 last Friday. Owusu tallied 24 points to help the Tigers post their third straight win and improve to 4-5. PHS hosts Robbinsville on January 20, Princeton Day School on January 21, and North Brunswick on January 23.

Girls’ Basketball : Anna Winters starred as PHS defeated Piscataway 52-44 last Saturday. Freshman standout Winters tallied 14 points and grabbed five rebounds as the Tigers improved to 6-6. PHS plays at Robbinsville on January 20 and at Lawrence High on January 24.

Boys’ Swimming : David Xu, Julian Velazquez, and Daniel Baytin each won two races as PHS defeated WW/P-North 104-64 last Wednesday. Xu prevailed in the 200 individual medley and 500 freestyle while Julian Velazquez won the 200 free and 100 butterfly and Baytin took fi rst in both the 50 and 100 free races. The Tigers, who improved to 9-0 with a 126-43 win over Trenton Central on Thursday, host Lawrence on January 19 and Steinert on January 23.

Girls’ Swimming : Jesse Wang starred as PHS defeated WW/P-North 114-50 last Wednesday. Wang took first in both the 100 butterfly and the 100 backstroke as the Tigers improved to 7-0. In upcoming meets, PHS hosts Lawrence on January 19 and Steinert on January 23.

Wrestling : Martin Brophy and Chase Hamerschlag came up big as PHS went 3-0 in a quad last Saturday, defeating Hamilton West 48-38, Notre Dame 49-30, and Allentown 48-36. Brophy produced pins in all three of his matches at 144 pounds while Hamerschlag also had three pins at 165. The Tigers, who improved to 10-3 with the victories, host Clifton on January 18 and then have a quad at Trenton Central on January 21.

Track : Benjamin Gitai starred as PHS competed at the Steve Borbet Invitational in New York City last Friday. Sophomore Gitai notched personal bests in the 55 meter hurdles (8.85) and the 300 meters (36.67) before anchoring the 4x200 relay with a 23.3 split. Junior Sawyer Quallen won the triple jump at 41’5.25 while sophomore Ishaq Inayat finished sixth in the long jump with a personal best of 19’10. On the girls’ side, sophomore Sophie Gono tied her personal best in the 55 dash (7.70) and set a new best in the 200 meters (27.33). Senior Katherine Monroe (8.89) finished fourth in the 55 meter hurdles and qualified for the Emerging Elite division of Nike Nationals later in the spring. Junior Grace deFaria cleared a new best of 4’8 in the high jump. The Tigers will be competing in the Mercer County Championship meet on January 22 at the Toms River Bubble.

OVER THE SUMMIT: Princeton Day School girls’ hockey player Logan Harrison controls the puck in a game earlier this season. Last Friday, junior forward and captain Harrison scored a goal to help PDS edge Summit 2-0. Goalie Brigid Milligan made 19 saves in earning the shutout. The Panthers, who moved to 3-1-2 with the win, will host Friends Academy on January 20 before playing at Morristown-Beard on January 23. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Obituaries

Charles David Allis (“Dave”) passed away January 8, 2023 in Seattle, Washington, surrounded by his loving children and wife Barbara of 47 years. He was born March 22, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dave and Barb met at the University of Cincinnati where they both attended undergraduate studies and later married July 12, 1975.

Dave’s passion for helping others and his enthusiasm for knowledge led him to pursue a career in science. He loved teaching and cherished the opportunity to mentor countless young scientists over his 42-year career, spending the last 20 years at The Rockefeller University in New York City. Dave is often remembered as saying, “Find something that you like to do and someone you like to share it with,” and how blessed he was to have found both in his remarkable career and his loving wife Barbara. To steal a phrase from Dave himself, “Good show, Dave!”

Dave was a husband, father, grandfather, brother, mentor, and friend. Those close to him loved his sharp wit and sense of humor — always enjoying new puns and putting smiles on the faces of

those around him. We will all laugh thinking of his energy and enthusiasm in all things important to him — his family, his career, and the many students he mentored over the years.

He is survived by his wife Barbara, his children (Laura, Brian, and Mike), grandchildren (Hannah and Sam), and his sister Cathy.

To honor Dave, please consider contributing to the C. David Allis Mentorship Fund for Young Scientists: go.rockefeller.edu/allis-fund.

at Montgomery, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She was born October 28, 1937, in Oak Park, IL, the daughter of Herbert J. and Gladys Semple Johnston.

She graduated from Amundson High School, Chicago, and Park College (now Park University), Parkville, MO. She spent her junior year of college at International Christian University in Mitaka, Japan. She later attended McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago.

In 1961, she married the Rev. David E. Mulford. They lived in Albany, NY, Chatham Township, NJ, and Vero Beach, FL, while her husband, a Presbyterian minister, served as the pastor of churches in those communities. In 1994, upon her husband’s retirement, they moved to Black Mountain, NC, where they lived for 12 years. In 2006, they moved to Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, NJ.

Nancy was an active volunteer in every community in which she lived. While living in Chatham Township, she was active in American Field Service (a student exchange program) and served it as an area representative. She served on Parent-Teacher Association boards and was chair of the Friends of the Library of the Chathams. She was named an Outstanding Volunteer of Morris County, NJ, in 1983.

Nancy and her husband enjoyed leading pre-retirement seminars for the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church USA. She managed the Country Store at Stonebridge for many years, providing a resource for those unable to shop independently. Nancy shared her artistic and teaching gifts with many generations of children and adults, and was especially well known for her wonderful classes in creating Pysanky Ukrainian eggs. Her creative talents were endless and live on in those with whom she shared her creations and her talents.

Princeton, NJ, 08542 or to Japan ICU (International Christian University) Foundation, Study Abroad Initiative, 475 Riverside Drive,

Suite 439, NY, NY 10115 or jicuf.org. Funeral arrangements are by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

Nancy

As a member of a Presbyterian church wherever she lived, she served churches as both a Deacon and an Elder. She was also a member and officer of P.E.O., a women’s organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities for women and belonged to chapters in New Jersey, Florida, and North Carolina. In Princeton, she was a member of Nassau Presbyterian Church and the Princeton Women’s College Club.

Nancy is survived by her husband, David, of Skillman; son Stephen Mulford of Baltimore, MD; daughter and son-in-law, Ann and Dr. David Youmans of Princeton, NJ; grandchildren Carey and husband Ammar Shallal of Princeton, NJ, Avery and husband Andrew Sellers of Lusaka, Zambia, and Nicholas Youmans and partner Michael Collins of Brooklyn, NY. She is also survived by great-grandchildren Zayn and Remy Shallal and Owen Sellers. Her sister, Bonnie Jacobi of Fairview, NC also survives. In addition, she will be missed by a number of foreign students who have lived with the Mulfords and became very much a part of their family: from Sri Lanka, Samatha James, Niloo James Hennings, and June James Bechler and their families; Bambang Gunawan of Indonesia; and Erika Schoonhover-Lovera of the Netherlands.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at Nassau Presbyterian Church 61 Nassau Street, Princeton.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Nancy Mulford should be made to Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street,

Nancy Johnston Mulford

Johnston Mulford, 85, of Skillman, NJ, died January 12, 2023 at Stonebridge

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