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Healthy Living Pages 20-21 Earth Day Celebration in Herrontown Woods . . . 5 Chambers Street Will Be One-Way Northbound During Hotel Project . . 8 Whyte Biography By Local Journalist . . . . . . 9 PU Concerts Welcomes Tetzlaff String Quartet . . . . . . . . . 17 Theatre Intime Presents The Laramie Project . 18 PU Men’s Volleyball Wins EIVA Title, Will Face North Greenville in NCAAs . . 26 Erickson Keys Defensive Effort as PHS Boys’ Lax Defeats Allentown . . . 29
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Westminster Tradition At University Chapel To End After This Year Since Rider University moved Westminster Choir College (WCC) from its longtime Princeton location to Rider’s Lawrenceville campus two years ago, Westminster’s dwindling student body has watched the 96-year-old school’s traditions fade. The latest to be headed for extinction is Westminster’s commencement ceremony, a much-anticipated event held each spring at Princeton University Chapel. Westminster’s May 13 commencement will be its final one at the chapel. Next year, according to Rider Associate Vice President of University Marketing and Communications Kristine Brown, the Westminster students will become part of Rider’s regular graduation ceremonies on the Lawrenceville campus. “There are many reasons for this, including factors such as the overall number of WCC students graduating and cost, but mostly it is to incorporate all that is special about WCC’s commencement into the overall university commencement for everyone to experience,” Brown said in an email this week. This doesn’t sit well with alumni, students, and supporters of the choir college, which merged with Rider in 1992 but maintained its identity as a top training ground for musicians and music educators until Rider attempted to sell the 22-acre Princeton campus four years ago. When those efforts proved unsuccessful, Westminster was moved to the Rider campus. The future of the Princeton campus has yet to be decided. The ceremony at Princeton University Chapel is more than an awarding of diplomas. “This is the final straw for many Westminster Choir College students, and definitely for the alumni,” wrote Barbara Calvert Freund, Class of 1973, in an email. “Many of us would return every year to participate in this glorious celebration of music, and welcome the new WCC graduates into the greater family of alumni who share an ageless and eternal bond.” In an article in The Rider News, Westminster Professor Joel Phillips called the decision “another attempt by this administration to eradicate something valuable and irreplaceable.” On May 16, oral arguments are scheduled to take place regarding lawsuits by Continued on Page 10
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Pressure Ramps Up For Fossil Fuel Divestment As the Princeton University community awaits an administration committee’s proposal to the board of trustees on dissociation from fossil fuel companies and the trustees’ ultimate decision, many in the community are not optimistic and not happy with the slow pace of the University’s response to many years of student activism in urging divestment. A year ago the Princeton University Board of Trustees authorized a process to consider the University’s dissociation from certain fossil fuel companies. On March 21, 2022, University Vice President and Secretary Hilary Parker provided an update on the work of an administrative committee assigned to the task. “Our goal remains to propose for board approval a set of actionable criteria for dissociation and a process for implementing them, now and into the future, by the end of this academic year,” she said. In February of this year Divest Princeton — a coalition of students, staff, and alumni — filed a legal complaint against Princeton University with the New Jersey Attorney General, calling for an investigation of the University’s investments in the fossil fuel industry. Last Friday, April 22, a group of about 40 demonstrators outside Nassau Hall delivered to University President Christopher Christopher L. Eisgruber a petition signed by 160 faculty and staff, the
first time Princeton faculty and staff have publicly taken a collective position calling for divestment from fossil fuels. An earlier Divest Princeton open letter calling for divestment has been signed by more than 3,000 Princeton students, staff, and alumni. The recent faculty and staff petition states, “It is incompatible with the University’s moral principles to seek profit from continued investment in fossil fuels. We thus call on its leaders to adopt a policy of
complete divestment during this calendar year, in keeping with the majority of Ivy League peer institutions.” The petition claims that the current University administration process to consider dissociation from fossil fuel companies spreading climate disinformation or involved in coal and tar sands production is not adequate. “We feel this is not enough; we are fast losing the only home we have,” the petition states. Nate Howard, Princeton University Continued on Page 10
Princeton Public Schools Take First Steps To Create New Strategic Plan for District
More than 100 parents, community members, administrators, and staff have come together to begin the process that will culminate in August 2022 with a new strategic plan for the future of Princeton Public Schools. “We have a great school district for most kids, and we want to make sure it’s a great district for all kids,” said PPS Board of Education President Dafna Kendal. “That’s what we know we have to work on, and that’s what we’re hoping the planning process will help guide us to do.” In all-day sessions of the core planning team on April 19 and 20, more than 50 stakeholders analyzed data from recent surveys of different segments of the community, as well as perusing PPS’ stan-
dardized test scores, absenteeism information, and other data points. The core planning team is expected to integrate feedback and perspectives of other teams involved in the planning and to lead the way in setting the direction for the district’s strategic plan. The core team is scheduled to meet three more times in the coming weeks. The alignment team, comprised primarily of community leaders and BOE members, also met last week, and on Thursday, April 21, the 20 members of the instructional planning team spent a fullday session incorporating and expanding on work done by the core planning team earlier in the week. Continued on Page 12
PORCHFEST COMES TO TOWN: A front porch on Linden Lane was one of 11 locations hosting a total of 61 performers for the inaugural Princeton Porchfest music festival on Saturday. Residents and visitors share their impressions of the event in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Charles R. Plohn)
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EARTH DAY EXPLORATIONS: More than 200 visitors to Herrontown Woods last Sunday, April 24 learned about becoming stewards of their local environment. They participated in nature hikes and explored a variety of different encounters with nature, arts and crafts, and other activities in an all-day event sponsored by Friends of Herrontown Woods and the Princeton Public Library. (Photo courtesy of Friends of Herrontown Woods)
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Herrontown Woods was in bloom last weekend with its customary spring array of redbuds, crabapple trees, and yellow violets as well as trout lilies, spring beauties, wood anemones, and
rue anemones, according to Friends of Herrontown Woods ( FOHW) President Steve Hiltner. “The daffodils have been in their splendor near Veblen House and Cottage,” he wrote in his April 21 blog post. “They could have been planted by Elizabeth Veblen herself, or by one of the garden clubs that worked to renovate the gardens after she died in 1974.”
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On Sunday, April 24 the quiet beauties of nature displayed in Herrontown Woods were joined by hundreds of admiring visitors celebrating Earth Day 2022: Becoming a Steward of Your Local Environment, a daylong event sponsored by the FOHW and the Princeton Public Library (PPL). About 140 people participated in seven different nature walks. Tables were spread out at the Barden (Botanical Art Garden) and Veblen House grounds, each featuring a different aspect of nature : native plants, mushrooms, invasive species, herbal vinegars, nature mandalas, and more. The popular PPL table presented a display of books on pollinators and wild flowers, with bee identification cards and butterfly bookmarks to take home. And May’s Barden Cafe served coffee, baked treats, and freshly brewed tea, including a specially created Barden Blend, f rom Tipple and Rose, a new Nassau Street tea parlor and apothecary. Hiltner described the event as “historic for our group and for Herrontown Woods, in that it was the first event that took full advantage of the whole preserve — the trails, Veblen House, and the Barden. It was also the first event we’ve had that mobilized the full abilities and passions of the FOHW board, which has grown quite a bit in the past year. S everal board members were up into the wee hours the night before, working on displays and taking care of last-minute details.” Inge Regan, FOHW board
member and lead organizer of the event, noted the theme of “building community through stewardship,” pointing out the importance of learning more about the natural world that surrounds us. “Knowledge is very important if you’re going to have opinions,” she said, pointing out hundreds of interactions between people who might not have known too much about nature and the experts at the different tables. “They were all connecting with each other and learning from each other,” she added. “Wonderful discussions took place. It was a glorious day.”
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Through her work with FOH W and her recent founding of the “relaxed and friendly” Invasive Species of the Month Club, Regan, a Princeton resident and physician, has gained new respect for botanists. “I’ve started to call them the physicians of the earth,” she said. Emphasizing the urgency of protecting the environment, she continued, “You can really do more than just recycle. There’s so much that people can do. Like my club. You don’t need tons of knowledge to get started. It’s so exciting to see the world open up to you and to look with open eyes around you at how you can help.” Among additional popular offerings at the celebration were the Flowers and Frogs Family Hike with local botanists Hiltner and Fairfax Hutter; planting wildflower seeds with Mathilde Burlion of Pousse Petit Jardinier; mushroom foraging with Philip Poniz; a geology walk with Princeton University Geosciences Professor Emeritus Lincoln Hollister, discussing the formation of the Princeton Ridge and its special rocks; making herbal vinegar using local plants and herbs with Tish Streetan of Mab’s Herbs; bringing home a potted native plant for your yard; and a variety of arts and crafts. FOHW started in the summer of 2013 as an informal group that came together to clear trails in Herrontown Woods and Autumn Hill Reservation. The Barden, an extensive native plant garden with 130 native species of plants, was created in 2017. In 2020 FOHW signed a lease with Princeton for the Veblen House and Cottage and has begun work to repurpose the buildings for community use. For more information, visit fohw.org. —Donald Gilpin
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As thousands of birds wing north in their annual migration, the volunteer support group for the Delaware and Raritan Canal, the D & R Canal Watch, will sponsor a walk at 8 a.m. Sunday, May 8, Mother’s Day, to see and hear some of them. The free walk will be led by veteran birders and Canal Watch members Barbara and George Dawson. The walk will start at the historic Van Wickle House off Easton Avenue at the foot of DeMott Lane in Franklin Township (1289 Easton Avenue, Somerset, for GPS location). “This is the ideal time to look and listen for migrants at the height of the big-push season,” said Barbara Dawson. “We hope to see species that are especially beautiful in their spring and summer breeding plumage. The fact that it’s Mother’s Day is an added bonus. The walk is a lovely way for any mother and her family to start the day.” No registration is necessary. For more infor mation, email barbaradawsonwriter@yahoo.com.
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Sudeep: “This is so cool and the weather is great. We were just listening to Westrick Music Academy at the Arts Council, and my son was playing in the performance. This is the first time that I have heard the boys and girls from Westrick singing together, and they sounded wonderful.” Sheela: “I think this is a great way to bring the community together.” —Sudeep and Sheela Das, Princeton
Braedon: “I might be a little bit biased because I was a performer in the Princeton Boychoir segment of it, but the acts before and after ours were really fantastic. I think that it’s a really great idea to have different groups performing in front of a public audience.” Kelton: “I just got here and so far it’s been pretty fun. The music is great, and I’ve met some really nice people.” —Braedon Owen, Yardley, Pa., with Kelton Gibbs, Princeton
Valen: “It’s been a lot of fun. I was just listening to the Westrick Music Academy. I’m part of it in one of the other choirs, and it’s been a lot fun meeting up with friends and also meeting some new people, too.” Sebastian: “I like the concept of it because you can move around and listen to all types of music made by different people and groups. It’s been really fun seeing a bunch of my friends already, and we’ve been meeting up and going from place to place.” —Valen and Sebastian Roden, Princeton
Heather: “I’m really into it! This is very well done. We’re going to be putting on a Porchfest in Perkasie next month, so we wanted to come and see what they had going on here and get some more ideas.” Corey: “There’s been some really cool bands, and it’s nice to see everyone together and enjoying the music on this beautiful day.” —Heather and Corey Armideo, Perkasie, Pa.
Madeline: “I really like it because wherever you go, you just hear or see music. It’s just really fun.” Mia: “Porchfest is really fun because you just have to walk 10 steps and you hear music. You just feel really welcome and you don’t want to leave.” Kailyn: “I like it because you get really into the music and you don’t want to leave, but another set starts and you just keep listening and having fun.” —Madeline Tramontana, Mia Dzelzkalns, and Kailyn Lorenz, all of Pennington
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Chambers Street Will Be One-Way Northbound During Hotel Project When developers of the Graduate Hotel planned for 20 Nassau Street came to Princeton Council a month ago w it h t he news t hat Cha mb er s S t re e t wou ld most likely not be kept open to two-way traffic during the extensive construction process, members of the governing body were not happy. Council asked the developers and builder Hunter Roberts Construction Group which had previously indicated that the road might stay open both ways, to take another look, and see way to keep if there was any the traffic flowing in both directions. On Monday night, at another work session on the project, they got the disappointing news that there was not. “We’ve all come to the conclusion that Chambers will have to be one-way northbound,” said James Purcell, Princeton’s assistant municipal engineer. Christopher DeGrezia, attorney for Graduate Hotel, added, “We did a deep dive into the construction and the tasks we are doing along Chambers so we can evaluate what equipment will be there, what space we’ll need, and what minimum distance we’ll need during various stages.” The fact that Witherspoon Street, where another project is underway, has also been made one-way northbound caused concern among Council members. C ou n c i lwom a n M i ch e l l e Pirone Lambros asked if Chambers Street could be
directed sout hbound in stead. “From a traffic standpoint, southbound is the way to go. The only way out will be Vandeventer Avenue and Palmer Square. So at the very least, it should be southbound.” But Purcell explained that from a safety standpoint, that would not work. “We analyzed what would be the best way for the community in terms of safety. I’ve also had meetings with the police, the Office of Emergency Management, fire officials and Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad. Everyone is in agreement that northbound is better than southbound for responding [to emergency situations]. Southbound could tie up traffic; northbound is easily cleared.” Tom O’Shea of Hunter Roberts went over the eight stages of the project, with a timeline that ends in December 2023. Interior demolition has been underway at 20 Nassau, and demolition of the buildings on Chambers Street, where an addition will be built, is to begin next month. Councilwoman Eve Niedergang asked that efforts be made to complete the project by the beginning of December rather than the end. “Having that road be opened to two-way traffic for the holiday season of 2023 would really make a big difference,” she said. “I also want to make sure you are reaching out to every resident and business owner that is affected by this. We want them to have the
same time and consideration you’ve given to us.” There were several questions about fitting in various trucks, dumpsters, and sliding gates that will secure the site. “We have skepticism as a Council because the last presentations were not well thought through,” said Councilman David Cohen at one point during the presentation. “I’m not sure it is from what I’m seeing here, but you can continue.” Lambros suggested having a crossing guard on Chambers Street to help with pedestrian traffic at peak times dur ing t he const r uct ion phase, and asked Graduate Hotel to help with support. Pablo David, vice president of community relations for the company, said he is working on a more efficient way of communicating, such as a newsletter or other outlet to get updates out quickly and in advance of construction stages. “Timeliness is key so that people can plan accordingly,” he said. “I’m in constant communication with Palmer Square and other areas. We want to be an agent of that.” Council also held a work session on a proposal for a program that would allow developers to make payments in lieu of parking (PILOPs) in instances where they can’t park on site. The next public meeting of Council is Monday, May 9 at 7 p.m. Visit princetonnj.gov for an agenda on the Friday before the meeting. —Anne Levin
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Consulting w ith PrincDonations by Widner Family eton’s arborist Taylor SaKeep Tree Canopy Alive Thanks to an ongoing donation by the Widner family to the Princeton Commemorative Tree Program and the Princeton Shade Tree Trust Reserve, the town’s tree canopy continues to grow. W hen Jennifer Widner moved to Princeton from Michigan, one of the selli ng p oi nt s of t h e tow n was the tree canopy. As a conservation-minded person who is also a beginner bird-watcher, she knows the importance of trees to the environment and the benefits they provide, not only to human residents but also to the many species of birds, animals, insects, and pollinators that the trees support. During the pandemic, Jennifer and her parents found joy and comfort in Princeton’s forest as they walked the trails and woodlands in and around the town. But they also noticed significant tree loss, the result of damage caused by insects, diseases, and storms; construction and development; and normal aging. These observations led to the family’s decision to gift a legacy of trees and a financial contribution to augment Princeton’s tree canopy. Their donations aim to address these losses, and the new challenge of climate change. This spring, the Widner gift enabled the town to plant three swamp white oaks on a ridge at D & R Greenway Meadows, along with two shingle oaks. Three more swamp white oaks will take up residence in the lower part of the meadow later this spring. These locations were selected because they have suffered extensive tree loss. Where tree planting disturbs the soil, Jennifer is working with the D &R Greenway, the town, and some Princeton University volunteers to plant native w ildf lowers. T he fam ily has also contributed to the planting of street trees and plans future contributions to help renew tree stocks at the D &R Greenway Meadows and elsewhere.
pudar, the Widners selected species of oak. Of all native trees here, oaks have the greatest positive impact on habitat and the environment. Oaks suppor t the largest number of caterpillar species; provide a high proportion of food eaten by insects, birds, and other animals; host birds which forage longer in oaks for the high-value food provided by caterpillars; and produce acorns that feed a large number of animals. In addition, an oak’s canopy and root system reduce storm water runoff by percolating rain water and purifying it in the process. It also sequesters carbon. In addition to the donation of oaks to the town, Jennifer Widner has maintained a “mini-forest” of mature trees on her property: tall pines, a pin oak (preventively treated for bacterial leaf scorch), a sweet gum, and, until recently, two white oaks. One of the white oaks, which was over one hundred years old, was split by a 2013 ice storm, revealing previous damage and creating a gaping hole in canopy and habitat. To compensate for the loss of this cherished tree, Jennifer planted an American yellowwood, an American hop hornbeam, American and European hornbeams, and a holly. The diversity of species she selected enriches the variety of habitat on her property: their spring flowers attract and support pollinators as well as insects and caterpillars that feed migrating and breeding birds; their fall catkins and seed pods provide food. The Shade Tree Commission invites anyone who would like to commemorate a person or event with the donation of one or more trees, or who prefers to make a financial contribution to help ensure the future of Princeton’s tree canopy, to visit its website via princetonnj.gov.
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A f ter g raduat ing f rom P r i n c e ton Un ive r s it y i n 1969 and working for Time magazine, Richard K. Rein took a job with a landscape architecture firm in Pittsburgh, Pa. It wasn’t a good fit — he was fired after 9 months. But while he was there, Rein happened upon The Last Landscape, a book by American urbanist, journalist, author, and 1939 Princeton University graduate William Hollingsworth “Holly” Whyte. He never forgot it. Rein is familiar to local readers as the founder and longtime editor of the weekly newspaper U.S.1, from which he retired two years ago. A Princeton resident, he currently edits the community news site TAPinto Princeton, and serves on the council of the nonprofit Princeton Future. Rein’s interest in Whyte has recent ly com e f u l l circle. Early this year, his book American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life was published by Island Press. It was a few years before leav ing U.S.1 t hat Rein started to consider writing a book about Whyte. “He just fascinated me,” Rein said. “He was this early
icon of planning, preservation, and environmentalism. He said that in order to save the countryside, you’ve got to do better in the cities. So much of what he wrote about is still so relevant today.” A f ter g raduat ing f rom Princeton, Whyte served as a U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer in World War II, and later wrote the bestselling book The Organization Man, which warned about the dangers of what he c a l le d “g roupt h i n k.” He was a key influence in the revitalization of New York City’s Br yant Park, among other projects, and he helped shape the rising environmental movement. He died in 1999 at the age of 82. Rein began investigating Whyte with the usual Google search. He found Fred Kent, who had been one of Whyte’s research assistants. and reached him by phone. “Kent was Whyte’s disciple. He was incredibly enthusiastic,” Rein said. “I started thinking I should really do this. In 2018 I went to the Rockefeller archives in Tarrytown, N.Y., where Whyte’s papers are stored. I took photos of documents, walked out the door, and said, ‘Wow, I’ll be coming back here.’ Which I did, on several occasions.”
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Af ter his idea was re jected by a few publishers including Princeton University Press, Rein considered publishing the book himself. But he ended up landing a contract with Island Press. “It was a home run. From that point on, I spent over a year working on this pretty much full time,” Rein said. “It was a lot of research, but it could have been more.” Rein didn’t immediately see the book as a pure biography of Whyte, but ultimately changed his mind after realizing that none existed. “It finally dawned on me, after almost two years of just digging around and getting in the batter’s box and all that. That’s when I came up with the first sentence: ‘This book is about William H. Whyte.’ ” T he b o ok s hare s how Whyte’s work evolved over five decades of research, writing, and advocacy. Rein was particularly struck by Whyte’s experiences during World War II. “It was the thing I found m o s t c o m p e l l i n g ab o u t him,” he said. “I discovered all this writing he had done after he fought at Guadalcanal — some very perceptive, long-form journalism pieces about military intelligence. I realized there was a whole side of the Marine Corps I didn’t appreciate. And as I looked at the rest of Whyte’s life, I saw that the Marine experience really meant a lot to him. It was his equivalent of a Ph.D. He really applied it a lot when he got into analyzing public spaces
in New York in the seventies and eighties.” Editing the book during the end of the Trump administration, Rein was reminded by Whyte’s work of how civil people used to be. “He was incredibly civil and never confrontational, but always ready to take the enemy’s purported strength and use it against him in a nice way,” he said. “Over and over again, he would take the strongest point of someone’s argument and say, ‘This is an excellent point and here is the way I want you to think about it.’ He was non-partisan.” Applying W hy te’s writings to current issues facing Princeton, Rein said, “In 1958, he feared exactly what has happened in Princeton today. He wrote in The Exploding Metropolis, ‘More and more, it would seem, the city is becoming a place of extremes – a place for the very poor, or the very rich, or the slightly odd.’ “ If faced with the loss of Princeton’s loss of middle, lower, and working-class re s ide nt s, W hy te wou ld likely urge stakeholders and decision-makers to get their facts in order. “He’d say, gather empirical evidence,” Rein said. “Stop and think before making emotionally charged conclusions. He would stress the objective gathering of facts, and work from that rather than coming to the conclusion first. He was a real empiricist and would stress empirical data whenever possible.” Rein had to cut 10,000 words out of his first draft of the book. “Most of it was fat,” he said. “As my editor
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said, ‘You might have to cut a few of your little darlings.’” The book has earned positive reviews, most prominently from The New York Times, which called it “a well-t imed biog raphy of a man who reshaped city life.” Publishers Weekly said “Journalist Rein debuts with an intriguing intellectual biography,” while Booklist called the book “an accessible and worthy source of inspiration for contemporar y and future land-use challenges.” Rein, who will speak about the book at New York’s Skyscraper Museum on May 4,
the birthday of late journalist and urbanist Jane Jacobs, has been pleasantly surprised by the attention. “I have to say that once I got the idea, I just said I’m going to write this thing for myself and put together something that I find enjoyable to read at the end of the day,” he said. “If it attracts the attention of 100 people and a few of them read it, that would be a victory; that’s wonderful. So the New York Times was icing on the cake. There have been some other nice discussions with people. And more is going on.” —Anne Levin
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students and alumni seeking to block Rider’s relocation of Westminster. While the lawsuits were dismissed two years ago by Judge Robert Lougy of New Jersey’s Superior Court Chancery Division, in favor of Rider, appeals were fi led on behalf of the alumni and students. The May 16 arguments will be heard by the State Appellate Division of Superior Court. Key among those seeking to sue Rider are members of the Westminster Foundation, a group made up of alumni and other supporters. Commenting on the news about commencement, Constance Fee, president of the Foundation, said “The reaction of the Westminster Choir College community to the announcement that Rider administration has sacrificed yet another treasured and irreplaceable tradition goes without saying. The purpose of the lawsuits fi led by the Westminster Foundation is to return WCC to its home on the Princeton campus, and our focus now is on our own activities and on the hearing scheduled for May 16 at the New Jersey Superior Court.” The Rider News article also
quoted Andrew Bernstein, the Rider Student Government Association president, saying he will continue to fight for the Westminster students and wants to ensure they are represented. The group has had conversations on the subject with Rider President Gregory Dell’Omo and others in the administration, he is quoted in an email. “During conversations with the administration, one of the important acknowledgements has been the need to adjust commencement to account for Westminster traditions,” he said. Brown said the administration “has already begun discussing ways in which to bring Westminster traditions historically celebrated at the WCC commencement ceremony to the entire campus and student body. We want to not only honor the many WCC traditions, but fi nd ways in which all Rider students can learn about and appreciate those traditions.” Rider’s goal, she added, “is to create opportunities in which the WCC traditions can be preserved, blended, and celebrated collectively for the benefit of our entire university community. There may even be new opportunities created in the future
in which WCC students and alumni can gather around the time of commencement for a special celebration. While those ideas and plans are yet to be fi nalized, discussions have already begun and will be further developed over the next year. Westminster Choir College is an integral part of Rider University, but we are one university and commencement should reflect all of the university’s collective traditions on a day that is meant to celebrate the achievements of all graduating Rider students.” —Anne Levin
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April 23-30 • FREE mercersustainabilitycoalition.org April 23 Saturday Water Ways Clean-up registration thewatershed.org/ stream-cleanups Watershed institute, Lawrence public works, Friends of Colonial Lake 9 am Lawrence Colonial Lake 9 am Drexel Woods Shabakunk Stream 10 am Ewing Township Earth Day Community Park Clean-up at Moody Park (rain date Sunday, April 24th) ALL DAY - West Windsor Family Friendly Bike Rides - Trolly Line Trail April 24 Sunday 9:00 - 11 am Hilltop Park in Princeton. Help remove trash. Enjoy the open space! Register with The Watershed. 3—5 pm Virtual Climate Change And Health Kathleen Biggins president of C-Change Conversations. Will present the climate impacts on Health with a multimedia presentation. Virtual. George Diferdinando, physician professor at Rutgers and chair on the Princeton board of health, Princeton, speaking and moderating a discussion on climate change and health local impacts Hosted by Lawrence Green Team April 25 Monday 7 pm Virtual Landscape approaches to Rewilding Your Backyard, by Nick D’Amato Environmental Designer, owner of Gino’s Nursery. Plant a tree, rip out some lawn, install a rain garden, the options are plentiful. Welcoming nature back to your own backyard. Hosted by Ewing Green Team April 26 Tuesday 8:30 am In-Person Mercer County Business Clean Energy Summit. Boathouse at Mercer Park West Windsor. Breakfast included. PSE&G presents clean energy program for small businesses. Now is the perfect time to upgrade to new energy-efficient equipment, heating, cooling, lighting, and other more comprehensive solutions. • New Jersey Board of Public Utility Programs: Ariane Benrey, NJBPU • PSE&G Energy Saver Programs: Christine N. Leary, Gary Finger and
Roger Kliemisch, DNV Energy Systems • New Jersey Sustainable Business Registry, Gina Gambacorto, NJDEP April 27 Wednesday 7 pm Virtual Plant Power. Learn how plants can manage and prevent water problems in your yard and neighborhood. Presented by the Watershed Institute and Lawrence Green team. April 28 Thursday 7pm Virtual Energy Tools for the Homeowner. Electrification and renewables, solar energy and storage, PSEG residential energy efficiency program, electric vehicles and charging, heat pumps for heating, cooling and hot water. Hosted by Hopewell Green Team and Lawrence Green Team. April 29 Friday Arbor Day Tree Planting in Many Mercer Towns. 3 pm Lawrence Nature Center Ed Cohen NJ Extension service discussion on lantern fly problems and how to demonstration building a lantern fly trap. 4 pm Lawrence Nature Center Tree Planting and Meadow walk around. See the birds at Colonial Lake 9:30 am Washington Crossing Audubon Society. April 30 Saturday 10am-2pm Green Get Together and Bike Rodeo Outdoors. Lawrence High School Parking lot— Children bring your bikes, receive a new well-fitting helmet from Capital Health Safe Kids Program. Learn how to ride your bike safely on the Rodeo trail (Lawrence Police and GMTMA.) Have fun!! Cover the parking lot with your creative pictures using colorful chalk. Electric Car and Electric bike meetup – hear about all the latest models and talk with sustainable vendors, compost program, native plant pickup, tree seedlings, clothing repair demonstration, PSE&G clean energy program, community solar, and much more.
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freshman, co-coordinator of Divest Princeton, and one of the leaders of last Friday’s demonstration, described the petition from faculty and staff as “a significant milestone in our campaign.” He continued, “The trustees and the administration can no longer pretend that the Princeton academic community is indifferent to the University’s complicity in the climate crisis.” The Princeton University endowment’s total fossil fuel exposure is about 4.5 percent (about $1.7 billion) of the total endowment. In the past five years, about 50 fossil fuelrelated companies have recruited on campus, and the University has received about $26.2 million in new funding research from 11 oil and gas companies. “The most significant support has been from ExxonMobil and BP for environmental and sustainabilityrelated projects,” the University reported. “Princeton needs to acknowledge that its extensive fossil fuel investments are at odds with the climate research being done by its own faculty,” said Princeton freshman Aaron Serianni, the other co-coordinator of Divest Princeton.
schedule p before Serianni, Howard, and Divest Princeton are determined to keep putting pressure on the University to divest from fossil fuels. “I’m hopeful that once the report comes out we’ll have a more clear understanding of how we need to move forward,” said Serianni. “We’re freshmen and we’ll be around for a long time to keep the pressure on.” In her committee’s March
21 dissociation update, Parker emphasized that “Dissociation includes and goes beyond divestment,” to include also “refraining … from soliciting or accepting gifts from a company, purchasing the company’s products, forming partnerships with the company, and facilitating the company’s campus engagement activities.” —Donald Gilpin
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PJS Goes to Odyssey of the Mind World Finals Two Princeton Junior School (PJS) Odyssey of the Mind teams have qualified for the world final competition at Iowa State University on May 25-28. The PJS grade six team competed in Division II against other New Jersey sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students and placed second in their long-term problem, Escape Vroom. The grade five team competed in Division I against other elementary students and placed third for their Matryoshka Structure. They were also honored with a Ranatra Fusca Award for demonstrating outstanding creativity and “ingenuity that even seasoned judges had never seen.” This is only the second year the school has participated in the program and the first year in person. The team’s coaches, PJS teacher Zach Floyd and others, have started a fundraising campaign to generate awareness and to help pay the team’s travel expenses to Iowa for the competition finals.
PHS Welcomes New Interim Assistant Principal Sherriese Anderson has taken over as interim assistant principal at Princeton High School, starting on Monday, April 25. She is expected to continue in the position until the end of the year, with one of the three PHS assistant principals on leave. Anderson, who has more than 19 years of experience working in education, has served as assistant principal at the Somerset County Educational Services Commission, as human resources coordinator for the East Brunswick Public Schools, and as a school social worker and the supervisor of special services in the Lakewood Public Schools. Anderson earned a B.A. in psychology from Georgian Court University, a master of arts in social work from Monmouth University, and an Ed.D. in educational leadership from the Fischler School of Education at Nova Southeastern University.
PHS Students Win Multiple Science Awards In its inaugural PPS Science Spotlight newsletter, the PPS science department featured a number of students winning awards and recognition. The PHS research team — including George Kopf, Julie Liu, and Katherine Monroe, supported by Katie Linares and William Lopez — won honorable mention at the University of Pennsylvania Climate Ventures Competition for their proposal using waxworms to convert plastic waste into animal food and agricultural products. At the Mercer County Science Fair in March, several PHS students were recognized for their research, including first-place winners Kate Becker in behavioral and social science; Ada Mataxas in biochemistry, biology and medical; and Shrey Khetan in environmental science and engineering. Amanda Sun, Will Baumgartner, and Julius Verma were awarded second place in their respective categories, and Amy Lin brought home a third-place prize. Competing in the Princeton University Design STEM Challenge, PHS’ Erin Kim and her team of students from nearby schools received a second place award for their plan to optimize green spaces in urban areas while still allowing for a high population density.
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produce positive results. “I so that we are prepared for have really high hopes re- the future. You have to be garding the process,” she very intentional. In any good said, “definitely from the relationship, folks are very standpoint of keeping our intentional about what it is focus on student results they’re doing.” and how we can look at the She continued, “The secschool system as a system ond thing I would say is that and what we need to do resources are not infinite. As more of or less of in orga- good stewards in the comnizational, leadership, and munity we are strategically instructional practices.” using our resources in ways Among results that might that can help us achieve the emerge from the planning hopes and dreams of the process Kelley mentioned individuals who live here. organizational shifts that People have a lot of choices foster more communication in terms of where they live and collaboration among and send their children to staff, families, and com- school. munity members, as well as “It is imperative for us to more of a growth mindset. do a pause break, to listen “Just because a student to our students, to listen to group has not attained a our families and communicertain level does not mean ties and hear what they have they won’t ever attain that,” to say about where they she said. “We can shift from want to be in the future … ‘we’re not there,’ to ‘we’re with the understanding that not there yet.’” we may not all be doing the She emphasized the idea same thing, but we’re all of Princeton schools as ”a rowing in the same direcA Legacy of collective learning commu- tion.” nity.” Kendal added, “Our Craft For Our school district is the pride Kelley offered some perCommunity spective on the value of of our community and our Since 1985 planning. “Princeton is a schools belong to everyone fantastic school district,” in the community. It’s alSOIL ROAD PRINCETON, NJ 08540 she said. “It excels in so ways good to get feedback 330 COLD SOIL ROAD NJbut 08540 609.683.1034 PRINCETON, from the community about many areas, planning 330 COLD SOIL PDGUILD.COM ROAD PRINCETON, NJ 08540 is a practice that’s neces- things we can do better and sary for any organization. It do differently.” WINERY OPEN SAT. & SUN. 12-5 • WWW.TERHUNEORCHARDS.COM —Donald Gilpin helps us put things in place WINERY OPEN SAT. & SUN. 12-5 • WWW.TERHUNEORCHARDS.COM
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Mailbox ACP Thanks Community for Support Of Successful Princeton Porchfest
To the Editor: This past Saturday, the Arts Council asked you to take our hand and jump — and we landed on solid gold! Princeton Porchfest was a first for our community, and together, we created a musical experience that will resound for years to come. Art has transformative power: when the right note is hit, it vibrates through our very soul, and Porchfest seems to have hit that note. Our dream of bringing live music back to the streets of Princeton was made possible with the unending support of Princeton University, the municipality, Mayor Freda, Princeton Council, Princeton Police, porch hosts, musicians, sponsors, and YOU. When we set out to fulfill this goal, we repeated the phrase “for locals, by locals” — Porchfest needed to epitomize the Arts Council’s mission of building community through the arts, bringing friends, families, and neighbors into the streets to connect and enjoy. Thank you for letting us know that you did just that. Eleven porches + 61 performers + hundreds of community members = a weekend to remember. Thank you, Princeton. ADAM WELCH Executive Director, Arts Council of Princeton
Thanking Those Who Helped at Guyot Cleanup on Earth Sunday
To the Editor: Many thanks to all who worked to tidy up the Guyot Walk, the three-block stretch of Guyot that offers a woodsy shortcut from Moore to Carnahan. Families and neighbors brought loppers and pruners, rakes and hoes, and their children to work in the great spring weather. In three hours we trimmed enough branches and vines to fill a dozen wheelbarrows, opening up the Walk to sunshine and fresh air. Special recognition to the hardworking and enthusiastic children (and their parents, all of whom stayed the course); to Mayor Mark Freda, who trimmed weeds up one block and halfway down the other; and to Steve Hiltner, who helped us identify native plants and weeds. We are looking into adding to the native plantings along the Walk, and invite all to join us, probably in late June, for another go, and again in autumn for planting. MARY CLURMAN Harris Road
Sharing Thoughts on Cannabis From Front Line Experiences
To the Editor: Enough articles, comments, and editorials have been shared extensively and passionately on recreational cannabis being sold in Princeton. As I think, why add another comment in this battle-wearied topic, I decided to share my observations from 11 years of women’s ministry work at my church, Princeton Alliance. These are my experiences from the front lines. I have given much comfort and support to moms and grandmoms over the years traumatized by drug addicted young people in their families. These young people are from our area, and as children they were cared for by very good parents and
families. When drugs come into their lives, the youth become unrecognizable at their worst, and eventually they may come around after several destructive years if they don’t die on the streets; then they still live a life of dependence on their parents. Rarely do the parents share that their young adult children are still very dependent on them for emotional and financial support, and medical insurance too. They don’t post on Facebook. They come to places of worship and faith. I am glad that we are here to help and support the caregivers. The common theme that I heard from these sorrow-filled ladies is that their children’s path to hard drugs started with marijuana. Their children were cared for so well, and yet how can this happen to good, educated families in our areas? Our youth have been very traumatized in the last two years because of the pandemic, social unrests, death, family fights and divorces, bullying online and off, learning challenges, screen addiction, etc. They will look for relief from their escalating anxieties, anguish, and mental turmoil. I am concerned that our youth will look for relief in recreational cannabis. All the studies and reports that I have researched show that when recreational cannabis becomes legal in the state, then more youth will do marijuana. As of now, there are 13 recreational cannabis shops in New Jersey with two stores by Zen Leaf opened in central New Jersey — one is a walking distance from Quaker Bridge Mall on Route 1. Recreational cannabis is already in our state. Sadly, I am bracing for more lamenting moms and grandmoms coming to our church for support, help, and prayers. I really hope that Princeton will keep a buffer for our youth for a tad longer by not having a marijuana store in town. Thank you for reading my appeal. By the way, if there are any young people who use marijuana regularly and are still getting into good universities and are productive, successful members in society, then please enlighten me. I know not one. I would love to speak to that young person, maybe I am not seeing the whole picture. Please find me at Princeton Alliance Church, the majority of our pastors know me there. Thank you. SASHA WEINSTEIN Shady Brook Lane
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Public Library’s ongoing, jointly-sponsored series of A u t u m n Wo m a c k a n d events ( LLL), and is also Imani Perry will be talking cosponsored by Princeton about Womack’s book, The University’s African American Studies Department and Matter of Black Living: Humanities Council. The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data 1880- “The Racial Muslim” 1930 ( Univ. of Chicago Discussed at Library Press) on Thursday, April Safar Aziz will discuss her 28 at 6 p.m. To register for book, The Racial Muslim: the online event, visit labyWhen Racism Quashes Rerinthbooks.com. ligious Freedom (Univ. of In her new book, African California Press) with BehAmerican Studies scholar rooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, chair Wo m ac k e x a m i n e s h ow of Princeton’s Near Eastern turn-of-the-century Black Studies Depar tment, on cultural producers’ experi- Thursday, April 28 from 7 to ments with new technolo- 8 p.m. This is a hybrid event, gies of racial data produced offered both in person and experimental aesthetics. virtually. To sign up to atSimone Browne, Universi- tend in person, or for a link ty of Texas at Austin, com- to Crowdcast, contact princments: “With new historical etonlibrary.libnet.info/event. insight and indispensable According to David Cole, analysis of the social survey, national legal director, ACLU, the photograph, and the mo- and author of Enemy Aliens: tion picture, Autumn Wom- Double Standards and Conack calls for an urgent re- stitutional Freedoms in the thinking of the information War on Terrorism: “Sahar technologies, data regimes Aziz deftly examines the peand disciplinary measures culiar place of Muslims in the employe d to enu m erate American imagination, studyBlack social life. From read- ing a religious minority that ing Zora Neal Hurston’s has been treated as a racial filmic practices through an minority, objectifi ed as teraesthetic of overexposure rorist, denied the religious to conceptualizing ‘looking freedom our tradition celeout’ as a capacious mode of brates, and instead subjected perception and praxis, The to the profiling, monitoring, Matter of Black Living re- and policing that our tradiveals the ruptures and pos- tion has too often practiced. sibilities of Black creative An essential book for underinnovation. A brilliant read.” standing how American law Womack is assistant pro- and culture have constructed fessor of African American an image of the Muslim that Studies and English at Princ- bears no resemblance to reeton University. Perry is a ality and betrays our failure scholar of law, literary, and to practice what we preach.” cultural studies, and an auAziz is professor of law, thor of creative nonfiction Middle East Legal Studies and professor of African Scholar, and Chancellor’s SoAmerican Studies at Princ- cial Justice Scholar at Rutgers eton. Her pr ize -w inning University Law School. She is books include More Beauti- also the founding director of ful and More Terrible: The the Rutgers Center for SecuEmbrace and Transcen- rity, Race, and Rights. dence of Racial Inequality This program is made posin the United States; Looksible with support from the ing for Lorraine: The RaNational Endowment for the diant and Radical Life of Humanities. Any views, findLorraine Hansberry; May ings, conclusions, or recomWe Forever Stand: A Hismendations expressed in this tory of the Black National programming do not necesAnthem; and Breathe : A sarily represent those of the Letter to My Sons. National Endowment for the This event is part of Lab- Humanities. yrinth and the Princeton
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oldest Black congregation in Trenton, being first incorporated as “The Religious Society of Free Africans of Trenton” in 1811. Richard Allen, founder of the American Methodist Episcopal denomination, helped organize the Society into one of its first churches in 1816. Since then Mount Zion, now Greater Mount Zion, AME Church has been a force in Trenton’s history. Over the past 200+ years the church has built and rebuilt its worship space and, among other firsts, founded the first nursery school in Trenton for Black children and became the first church to establish a credit union. Boyer is a third-generation AME preacher and holds a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Payne Theological Seminary. He is senior pastor for Greater Mount Zion AME Church and is founder and executive director of Salvation and Social Justice, a nonpartisan organization that is a leading Black faith-rooted
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In Shakespeare’s Month: Picturing Emily Mann and Mourning a Friend “....nothing can be lost of the self, of a lifetime of bringing forth selves ...” —C.K. Williams (1937-2015) pril and poetry have been lovers since William Shakespeare accomplished the birth-death rhyme of the ages by entering and leaving the world on the 23rd day of the “cruelest” month. Another poet of the theater born in Shakespeare’s month is the subject of Alexis Greene’s biography Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater (Applause $29.95). There’s no turning away from the face on the cover of this book. Emily Mann is looking right at you, eye to eye, as if saying, “Get up on the stage. Show me what you’ve got. Transcend yourself. Give me a poem in 10 words. Amaze me! Bring me to tears. Make me laugh. Delight me. Do the impossible, the goal Faulkner set for writers: “Put the Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin!” C.K.’s Warbler All I can do is offer a touch of the poet who introduced me to Emily Mann in 2007 and whose April 2016 memorial service was the occasion of a more meaningful meeting. In C.K. Williams’s poem “Garden,” which is posted for the world to read in a shady spot on the D&R Greenway’s Poetry Trail, something alights on the poet’s hand and, startled, he instinctively, inadvertently flinches it off only to see “a warbler, gray, black, yellow, in flight already away. / It stopped near me in a shrub, though, and waited, as though unstartled, as though unafraid, / as though to tell me my reflex of fear was no failure, that if I believed I had lost something, / I was wrong, because nothing can be lost, of the self, of a lifetime of bringing forth selves.” Mothers and Fathers I began writing this column on April 20, my mother’s 110th birthday. Emily Mann celebrated her 70th birthday this past April 12 and her mother Sylvia’s 100th on April 16. Sylvia died in January 2019, my mother Ann, a two-pack-a-day smoker and heavy drinker, died at 67 a week before Christmas 1978. Both Ann and Sylvia were faculty wives, which means Emily and I were, as she has said of herself, “faculty brats.” Emily’s father Arthur was a history professor who taught at the University of Chicago and died in February 1993; my father Robert was an English professor at Indiana University who died on April 14, 1986. The Mitchners were WASPs, the Manns were Jews, which led a Catholic girl at a sixth-grade slumber party to tell Emily she’d “burn in hell,” the same thing the Catholic girl across the street told me, age 6, when I disrespected the statue of the Virgin Mary in her front yard. Many
years later, in a column on Anne Frank’s 90th birthday, I wrote about the lesson learned when I took the Jewish girl I was in love with to see The Diary of Anne Frank, which brought me an email from Emily Mann saying, “Bless you for this one.” As I pointed out to Emily the other day, “Bless you” was one of my mother’s favorite expressions, penned in big letters on the first piece of writing I ever showed her. Pictures of Emily I warmed up for this piece by listening to “A Rose for Emily” by the Zombies, which strays a bit too close to Faulkner’s Gothic story but works nicely enough with a slight change in the lyric ( “There’s loving everywhere and all for you”); “See Emily Play” a psychedelic romp by Pink Floyd, where Emily is “often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams till tomorrow”; and “Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” by Simon and Gar f unkel, which is over-the-topprecious lyrically but musically irresistible. Even so, I found no music equal to three views of Emily in Rebel Artist. The first, a full page photo captioned “Emily Mann on the sidewalks of New York, 1979” is a song in itself, a show stopper. She’s 27, she’s landed in the city, a capital A “here I am, world” arrival, she’s having fun, a director playing at acting as she simultaneously parodies and celebrates the art of the pose, stylish and silly, like a sly toreador stepping smiling out of the path of an imaginary bull. It’s the East Village, Tompkins Square Park, in the days when “punk-rock musicians, visual artists, and theater folk owned the streets.” The Director in Action Now flip ahead a hundred pages for a view of the director at work during a 1991 McCarter rehearsal for Betsey Brown, the play she wrote with Ntozake Shange. She’s leaning fiercely forward like a coach hollering commands from the bench, ready to spring into action. She’s only just boarded McCarter’s sinking ship, a pioneer with a mission, the first of her sex, she who was once told by a male adviser that although she was “quite talented” she’d be better off “going into children’s theater.” Around the time the photograph was taken, Mann was told that she had MS. At first she thought her life was over. When she went to McCarter’s board president and offered to resign, her offer was
graciously refused. Not long after she received this vote of confidence, McCarter won the 1994 Tony for Best Regional Theater. In a March 2019 interview with the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Mann said of the occasion, “I was not having a good day and couldn’t walk, so Jeff Woodward and Liz Fillo said, ‘We will go out with you. We will hold you on either side, your board president and managing director, and support you as you walk.’ Nobody knew. I didn’t even tell my mother. We carried it off. And we started a new tradition! Every year since then, the artistic director comes out with her board president and managing director.” In Remission In the third view, Emily’s a newlywed in “a strapless, gold-tinged ball gown,” arm in arm with Gary Mailman at their Princeton wedding, June 4, 2000 (“I danced at my wedding!”). According to a Shakespeare’s birthday email, she’s been in remission for almost 20 years. As she said in the PAW interview, “For six or seven years — before we found which drugs worked in t he r ight combination — I was in and out of a wheelchair. But I never missed a rehearsal. I never missed a day of work.” Now she’s preparing for a New York workshop on The Pianist, which she’s adapted from Wladyslaw Szpilman’s memoir on a Broadway commission. She’s also directing it: “I will be in a rehearsal studio for the first time since the pandemic struck, the longest gap since I began in the theater some 50 years ago.” Greene’s biography ends with an epilogue about The Pianist in which Mann recalls asking herself in the summer of 2017, “Does anyone want to hear about the Holocaust again?” Then came Charlottesville and the neo-Nazi flags. “And I thought, ‘Yeah I should be doing this.’ “ Then came October 2018 and the deadly invasion of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. At The Writer’s House At the April 11, 2016 memorial for C.K. Williams at The Writer’s House on the Penn campus, the concluding stanza from “Wait,” a poem he addressed to time, was reproduced on a placard handed out at the door. The stanza begins with the poet saying, “Wait, though, wait: I should tell you, too, how happy I am,” this after imagining time as a butcher and realizing
that “When I ran / as though for my life, wasn’t I fleeing from you, or for you?” Now time is his beloved: “Please know I love especially you, how every morning you turn over / the languorous earth, for how would she know otherwise to do dawn, / to do dusk, when all she hears from her speech-creatures is ‘Wait!’?” After 15 readers finish reading 15 Williams poems, there’s a brief silence, followed by the sound of his recorded voice musing on “forgiveness and repair” and “the garments of the mind” in his poem, “Invisible Mending.” By now it’s dark outside, people are standing, mingling, talking, and I can’t find the couple who gave me a ride from Princeton. Just when I’m in danger of feeling sorry for myself, someone calls out my name, and a vaguely familiar woman emerges from the departing crowd. She’s looking right at me, she looks really happy, and she’s looking at me. She says she reads me every week, she says, “Can I hug you?” And suddenly, wonderfully, I’m a writer in the Writer’s House hugging someone saying incredibly nice things, then it all goes by in a whirl, she’s out the door, and someone tells me the someone was Emily Mann. “Nothing Can Be Lost” Saturday before last, a week before Shakespeare’s birthday, I lost an old friend (but then “nothing can be lost, of the self, of a lifetime of bringing forth selves”), a poet, a musician, and a wayfarer I met on Myconos in late April 1963. He and I had been corresponding ever since or until the advent of email when we became the equivalent of transatlantic roommates in 2013. So, although he lived in Bristol, U.K., he was there for me in the middle of the night with some music or a thought and I was there for him. Some of our last messages were about Chekhov and the proximity of his birthplace to the ravaged city of Mariupol, which was also the subject of the last poem my friend ever wrote. In 2004, the first time C.K. Williams and I had coffee at Small World, we talked about his “Elegy for an Artist,” from the 2003 collection, The Singing, I said I found it the most moving poem in the book, he said readers had told him it “helped them mourn.” Now here I am, mourning a friend, and every line of that poem rings so true that I hardly know where to begin. I hope C.K. will forgive me for running his uncharacteristically short lines together: “Surely I know by now that each death demands its own procedures of mourning, but I can’t find those I need even to begin mourning you: so much affectionate accord there was with you, that to imagine being without you is impossibly diminishing.” —Stuart Mitchner
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Princeton University Concerts Welcomes World-Class Tetzlaff String Quartet
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ast Thursday night’s concert by the Tetzlaff String Quartet in Richardson Auditorium was a new beginning on several levels. Not only was this a reschedule of Tetzlaff’s premiere performance on the University Concerts series from two years ago, but it was also the Quartet’s first appearance in the United States in five years. Violinists Christian Tetzlaff and Elisabeth Kufferath, violist Hanna Weinmeister, and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff brought a program of Haydn, Berg, and Schubert to Princeton last week, demonstrating a unique approach to chamber music and why the ensemble is one of the most popular quartets worldwide. Led by first violinist Christian Tetzlaff, the Tetzlaff Quartet showed a consistently amazing ability to build drama in a piece through dynamics — often collectively bringing the ensemble sound down to almost nothing to disclose a side of the piece not otherwise heard. Opening with Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5, the Tetzlaff musicians played phrase repetitions delicately and allowed repeated notes to gracefully and stylistically taper away. Christian Tetzlaff well maneuvered the technically demanding first violin part, which Haydn had composed for the particularly gifted concertmaster of his court orchestra. Throughout Quartet No. 5, the Tetzlaff players well captured the nickname of this set of pieces as the “Sun” quartets, but also showed that the sun can be dark and obscure as well. Especially in the second movement “Minuet-Trio,” sequential passages were always played with direction, and the musicians well captured Haydn’s folk-like and outdoorsy atmosphere in the “Trio.” First violinist Tetzlaff remained the musical leader throughout the work, executing especially complex and heavily ornamented passages, but always with the solid support of the other three players. Alban Berg’s 1910 String Quartet, Op. 3 drew a great deal of influence from the late 19th-century compositional school, despite Berg’s studies with modernist Arnold Schoenberg. The two-movement work incorporated both 20th-century musical language and 19th-century lyricism, and from the outset the Tetzlaff players brought out the intense emotionalism and
long melodic lines of Berg’s music. The overall ensemble sound was very lean, with cellist Tanja Tetzlaff particularly busy with the jagged themes and fierce second movement variations. Violist Weinmeister had a chance to stand out in extended viola passages of the first movement against the driving repetitions of the first violin. The Haydn and Berg works seemed to be merely a warm-up to Franz Schubert’s 1824 dramatic String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, known as “Death and the Maiden.” Based on one of Schubert’s own songs, this string quartet demonstrated the composer as always the poet, expressing unfulfilled longing and a search for peace through his music. Following a dramatic opening to the first movement, the Tetzlaff Quartet displayed the same dynamic contrasts as with the other two pieces on this program, well depicting the story behind the music. Fast passages were played cleanly, especially from first violinist Tetzlaff, whose technical requirements seemed nonstop at times. The second movement “Andante” was reverent, with each variation on Schubert’s song melody showing Viennese elegance even through musical agitation and fear. Driving dotted rhythms recalled the galloping horse of Schubert’s earlier song “Erlkönig,” and a particularly sweet third movement “Trio” stretched the violins to the highest register. Increases in dynamic sound throughout the piece were so uniform it was as if someone had turned up a radio, demonstrating the solid communication among the musicians. The Tetzlaff String Quartet came to full force at the conclusion of the fourth movement “Prestissimo,” with a fast and furious coda reminiscent of Beethoven. ast Thursday night’s performance was the penultimate concer t in a Princeton University Concerts season, which was finally able to reach its peak in these late spring months. With audiences gradually building back to full houses, Princeton University Concerts has been able to successfully and admirably continue its more than 125-year history of bringing the world’s most celebrated artists to Princeton University. —Nancy Plum
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Theatre Intime Offers Poignant Staging of “The Laramie Project”; Docudrama Explores Matthew Shepard’s Murder — and Theater Itself
n October 1998 Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten and left to die near Laramie. Rescuers took him to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo., where he died of his injuries six days later. Writing about Shepard’s attackers, a history.com entry notes, “To avoid a death sentence, Russell Henderson pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murder in April 1999 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Later that year, Aaron McKinney attempted to use a “gay panic” defense at his own trial, claiming that Shepard’s advances disgusted him.” Both Henderson and McKinney are serving life sentences. The history.com article adds, “Matthew Shepard’s death sparked national outrage and renewed calls for extending hate crime laws to cover violence based on a person’s sexual orientation.” In 2000 the New York City-based Tectonic Theater Project presented The Laramie Project — first at Denver’s Ricketson Theatre, then off-Broadway at the Union Square Theatre. Two years later the play was presented in Laramie. Written by Moisés Kaufman in collaboration with members of the theater company, the docudrama explores the events and viewpoints surrounding Shepard’s death. We learn that Tectonic members arrived in Laramie in November 1998, a month after the event. Members of the theater company interviewed Laramie residents, and all of the dialogue is derived from those conversations, as well as Tectonic members’ journal entries. Published news reports also are excerpted. Princeton University’s Theatre Intime has presented The Laramie Project. In a program note, director Ethan Luk admits to having had doubts about the play’s relevance: “How does The Laramie Project speak to an audience more than 20 years after its premiere?” For the director, an answer can be found in events such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and the Brooklyn subway shooting: “Violence and injustice, both in explicit and implicit forms, still run rampant … perhaps that is why we find ourselves in front of the mirror time after time.” It is worthwhile to give audiences an opportunity to observe The Laramie Project as a foremost example of a genre that currently is prominent. In recent years there has been a resurgence of documentary theater — in particular, verbatim theater. Examples include McCarter’s 2020 online reading of Execution of Justice and Passage Theatre’s in-person The OK Trenton Project. A revival of The Laramie Project is in keeping with this trend. Luk writes that this production takes place in an “empty rehearsal studio.” On either side of the stage is a gallery of
photographs. Luk explains that these are a “collage of pictures featuring our cast’s personal memories and my own visual research for the production.” On one side, underneath the photos, is a guitar which one of the cast members picks up and plays. As Luk observes, “This play is not only a document of Matthew Shepard and the town of Laramie, Wyoming, but also a document of Moisés Kaufman’s company, Tectonic Theater Project.” That The Laramie Project is as much about theater as it is about Shepard is made clear throughout the play. University student Zubaida Ula is incredulous at the idea of Laramie’s residents, including her, being portrayed onstage by the New York-based company; she remarks. “That’s so weird.” One of the first interviewees portrayed is Jedadiah Schultz, a theater student at the University of Wyoming. Schultz recounts that he received a standing ovation at a high school theater competition, for performing a scene from Angels in America — a textual choice to which Schultz’s parents strongly objected. Moments in the early scenes are deceptively — ominously — placid, as interviewees chat about subjects ranging from
railroads to the bartending profession. This is in stark contrast to the harrowing climax of the act, in which we see the discovery of the critically injured Shepard, who is represented onstage only by white sheets. Disparate interviewees — Aaron Kreifels, who found Shepard; Reggie Fluty, the policewoman who responded to the scene; and Dr. Cantway, the emergency room doctor who first attempted to treat Shepard — recount the events of that night. We are forced to reflect on the fact that all of the commentary, before and after this moment, is connected with the person signified by the sheets. Luk and lighting designer Rhim Andemichael make an astute decision: the spotlights are turned off, and the only source of illumination is flashlights held by the cast. Sound designer Eliyana Abraham provides introspective music, which includes some poignant choral writing. Another eerie moment concerns the media firestorm surrounding the attack on Shepard. A news report is excerpted; while the recording plays, others are added, one after the other, until cacophony ensues. As this happens, actors move in a frantic circle.
The second act recounts the days Shepard lay in Poudre Valley Hospital, as well as the vigils held for him, and ends with his death. The third act depicts his funeral — which was picketed by Westboro Baptist Church’s homophobic Rev. Fred Phelps and his followers — and the sentencing of Henderson and McKinney. Actors occasionally face away from the audience. At times — for this writer, at least — this results in some lines being difficult to hear. There needs to be consistent attention to projection, particularly if actors are masked (which often is the case in this production). That said, there are some memorable performances. Every actor portrays many characters, which obviously requires great versatility. Theatre Intime’s cast admirably rises to this task. Ay Marsh is outstanding, portraying a range of interviewees that includes Henderson, Rev. Phelps, and Shepard’s father, Dennis. Other notable performances include those of Luc Maurer (driver Doc O’Connor, McKinney, and Kreifels); Arthur Yan (Schultz and Dr. Cantway); Rilla McKeegan (Rulon Stacey, CEO of Poudre Valley Hospital, and the spokesperson for Shepard’s family); Sabina Jafri (Ula); and Matthew Shih (Father Roger Schmit, a Catholic priest who holds a vigil for Shepard). Father Schmit delivers one of the final lines of dialogue: “I will trust that if you write a play of this, that you say it right.” Beside the explicit consideration of homophobia, intolerance, justice, and contrasting faith-based viewpoints, a key theme of The Laramie Project is authenticity — particularly theatrical authenticity. At the back of the stage, set designer Kat McLaughlin places thin, door-sized props covered in a substance that resembles aluminum foil. This is in keeping with the idea that “we find ourselves in front of the mirror,” Although these “mirrors” create reflections, they are conspicuously blurry and distorted; this underlines the point that retellings of events often are distorted, imperfect reflections, because both sources and interpreters bring biases and preconceptions. he Laramie Project itself may be an imperfect reflection of events. But it captures a wide diversity of speakers and viewpoints, and the audience is left with a vivid picture of Laramie before and after October 1998. We are confronted with the attitudes that led to the attack on Shepard, as well as the compassion that led others to hold vigils. Theatre Intime’s production, guided by Luk’s thoughtful direction, enhances the power of this docudrama’s world. —Donald H. Sanborn III
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“THE LARAMIE PROJECT”: Theatre Intime has staged “The Laramie Project,” presented April 15-24 at the Hamilton Murray Theater. Directed by Ethan Luk, the play explores the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, as well as interviewees’ reactions to the idea of being depicted in a docudrama. Above, from left, are cast members Luc Maurer, Alexis Maze, Sabina Jafri, Rilla McKeegan, Ay Marsh, Arthur Yan, and Matthew Shih. (Photo by Rowen Gesue) For information about Theatre Intime’s upcoming productions call (609) 2585155 or visit theatreintime.org.
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more, stealing hearts along the way. This new touring production reunites Broadway’s award-winning creative team, led by director Jack O’Brien and choreographer Jerry Mitchell. The show is based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, who served as a creative consultant on the musical comedy. Hairspray premiered at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater in June 2002. The show was a hit when it transferred to Broadway, winning eight 2003 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and became the longest-running musical to play the Neil Simon Theater, running 2,642 performances from July 18, 2002 until January 4, 2009. It is the 22nd longest running show in Broadway history. The State Theatre is at CONTEMPORARY BALLET: Jermel Johnson, who is retiring from Philadelphia Ballet after this 15 Livingston Avenue. Visit season, is among the dancers in Hans van Manen’s “Humankind,” a program of three works at (Photo by Alexander Iziliaev) STNJ.org for tickets, which the Academy of Music in Philadelphia May 12-15. are $40-$98. Academy of Music on the French playwright, novelist, Merry Widow, Die FlederGreater Princeton Youth Kimmel Cultural Campus. memoirist, and actor best maus, The Threepenny OpOrchestra Holding Auditions Tickets are now on sale at known for her satiric plays era, Rose Marie, Naughty The Greater Pr inceton philadelphiaballet.org. that speak to contempo- Marietta, and more will Youth Orchestra is schedul“It is nothing less than rary middle-class anxieties. be performed by soprano ing auditions for the 2022- a t h r i l l to b e p r e s e n t- Her work has been trans- Eve Edwards, mezzo Eva 23 season. There are four ing ballets by Hans van lated into more than 30 Kastner-Puschl, and tenor ensembles for students ages Manen, one of t he tr ue languages. Clifford Bechtel. 8-18 in strings, winds, brass, inter national legends of Shows are on April 29 and On May 18 at 1 p.m., “One OUT OF THE CLOSET: The cast of “Perfect Arrangement,” about and percussion. t h e a r t fo r m ,” s a i d A r - 30 at 8 p.m., and May 1 at Fine Day — Treasures from gay couples in the 1950s, which is on stage at Heritage Center Weekly orchestra rehears- t i s t i c D i r e c t o r A n g e l 2 p.m. Tickets are $18-$20. Puccini” will feature arias in Morrisville, Pa., through May 8. als are held on Monday Corella. “Our company is Visit KelseyTheatre.org or and duets from the Pucat the Unitarian privileged to share three of call (609) 570-3333. cini’s La Boheme, Madama “Perfect Arrangement” on the outside world by simply evenings Universalist Congregation his most renowned works to Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, switching places through the Stage at Heritage Center of Princeton. Participation our audiences here in Phila- Opera Lectures, Performances and others, sung by soprano closet — that is until their The Philadelphia-area prein the orchestra provides Continue at Monroe Library Jacqueline Quirk, tenor Jermiere of screenwriter and pompous boss and his ditzy ensemble performance op- delphia.” Boheme Opera NJ, one emy Blossey, and baritone wife come to visit.” I n t h i s p r o g r a m , v a n playwright Topher Payne’s portunities, sectionals, and Manen’s fascination with of the oldest opera compa- Charles Schneider. Dinner with the boss leads comic drama Perfect Armaster classes with profes- i n t e r p e r s o n a l r e l a t i o n - nies in New Jersey, will be Series creator and Borangement brings a coming- to a series of complications sional musicians. sh ips is brought to t he continuing its lecture/per- heme Opera President Jerthat interweave sitcom-style out tale to the Heritage CenWind, brass, and percus- forefront in a series of his formance series at Monroe rold Kalstein, who also narter stage in Morrisville, Pa., comedy and challenging sion students trying out for most celebrated ballets. Township Library on May 4 rates each performance, presented weekends through drama, as the couples come and 18. said, “We’re excited to conMay 8 by the nonprofit Ac- to realize they can’t rely on concert or symphonic or- All works on the program chestras should audition in Both productions will fea- tinue our partnership with w ill feature live musical their closet forever. torsNET theater company. June. Places may be filled by performance by the Phila- ture a trio of rising opera Monroe Township Library. The Heritage Center TheCommunists weren’t the August. Sign up by May 20 stars, accompanied by pia- I’m personally thrilled, as only ones hunted during the ater is located at 635 N. Del- and submit a video by June d e l p h i a B a l l e t O r c h e s nist and Boheme Opera NJ always, to not only tell the t r a . T h e p r o g r a m a l s o “Red Scare” of the 1950s. morr Avenue in Morrisville, 3 for spring auditions. For Managing Director Sandra stories behind the music, but marks the final PhiladelPa. The show runs through Gays and lesbians were also summer, sign up by August M. Pucciatti, performing to be handing the stage to targeted as threats to the May 8 on Fridays and Sat- 15 and submit a video by phia Ballet production for favorite selections from the the outstanding performers pr incipal dancer Jer mel U.S. as part of the “Laven- urdays at 8 p.m. and Sun- August 22. The audition fee Johnson, a member of the operetta and opera reper- who are the true stars of the der Scare.” “Coming out of days at 2 p.m. Ticket res- is $25. toire. company since 2003. show.” the closet” was almost un- er vations, including seat Audit ions are planned On May 4 at 1 p.m., the Tickets start at $25. Visit Monroe Township Library selection, are available at heard-of, as it could easily to be held in Princeton, in philadelphiaballet.org or call program is “When I’m Call- is located at 4 Municipal end a career or even a life. actorsnetbucks.org. accordance with best prac- (215) 893-1999. ing You — Selections from Plaza. Visit Bohemeopera. And no one even considered The Musical Comedy “Hairspray” tices. For more informaVien nese and A mer ican org for more information. the possibility of gay marBrings Broadway to New Brunswick tion, visit gpyo.org or call Satirical Comedy Touches Operetta.” Songs from The riage. On Bonds of Friendship State Theatre New Jer- (609) 683-0150. “Topher Payne’s script is a Yasmina Reza’s comedy sey presents Broadway’s Philadelphia Ballet to Stage romp,” said ActorsNET ArArt hits the Kelsey Theatre Tony Award-winning musiWorks by Hans van Manen stage April 29 to May 1 on tistic Director Cheryl Doyle. cal comedy Hairspray for Philadelphia Ballet will the Mercer County Com“In it, two U.S. State Defour performances on Friperform Hans van Manen’s mu n it y College ( MCCC ) partment employees, Bob day, April 29 at 8 p.m.; “Humankind,” a program of campus, 1200 Old Trenton and Norma, are assigned the Saturday, April 30 at 2 and three works by one of the Road, West Windsor. task of ferreting out ‘sexual 8 p.m.; and Sunday, May 1 key figures of contemporary deviants’ within their departat 2 p.m. The multiple awardballet. This final producment. Unbeknownst to their w inning play ( translated The national tour’s cast tion of Philadelphia Ballet’s boss, they are both gay. To from French by playwright/ keep their personal lives pri- will be led by Andrew Levitt, 2021/2022 s e as on fe a screenwriter Christopher aka Nina West (from Rutures a trio of van Manen’s vate, they marry each othHampton) takes a comedic Paul’s Drag Race) as Edna ballets, including Grosse er’s partners and live in two look at the bonds of friendTurnblad; and Niki Metcalf Fuge, Variations For Two adjacent apartments that ship viewed through the as Tracy Tur nblad, who Couples, and 5 Tangos. The conveniently share a closet. prism of modern art, and This allows them to appear makes her way onto a TV program runs five perforasks the questions : How dance show in 1960s Baltimances, May 12-15, at the to be ‘traditional couples’ to much would you pay for a painting that was a white canvas? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art? The stor y begins when one of Marc’s best friends, Serge, buys a “ver y unusual” expensive painting. To Marc, the painting is a MODERN ART AND FRIENDSHIP: Three friends square off over joke. However, Serge in- the importance of an expensive piece of artwork in the upcomsists Marc doesn’t have the ing production of “Art” at Kelsey Theatre. proper standard to judge the work. Yvan, another friend, R gets pulled into the discussion. Lines are drawn and the friends square off over the canvas. Arguments become less theoretical and more personal and border on destroying their longtime friendships. So the true question is revealed: “How DANCING HER WAY TO TV: Niki Metcalf plays Tracy Turnblad, the 16-year-old dancing fanatic in much is a painting really 609 . 203 . 0741 the musical “Hairspray,” which comes to the State Theatre New Jersey April 29 through May 1 worth?” as part of a national tour. Reza is an award-winning
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Concierge Medicine
There’s a new trend in healthcare, and it’s gaining momentum in our area. By Sarah Emily Gilbert
(Originally published in Princeton Magazine)
Dr. Francis Rehor, Dr. Barbara A. Brown (left) and Dr. Lynne B. Kossow, and Dr. Emily Kossow Sandberg of Princeton Lifestyle Medicine.
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Princeton Lifestyle Medicine is delighted to announce that Dr. Emily Kossow Sandberg, MD, joined our practice on April 1, 2022.
or the past several years, Dr. Lynne B. Kossow, Dr. Barbara A. Brown, and Dr. Francis E Rehor have offered their patients far more than the traditional primary care practice. Most doctors see 25-30 patients per day for an average of 15 minutes, Drs. Kossow, Brown, and Rehor see 6-8 patients per day. In addition to providing treatment for acute illnesses, the doctors act as their clients’ healthcare coaches through Lifestyle Medicine, a scientific approach to patient wellness by effecting changes in areas such as diet, physical activity, and stress management. With the current shortage of primary care physicians and the abundance of high-volume practices, this type of individualized attention is rare. However, by switching to a concierge format, doctors like the ones at Princeton Lifestyle Medicine are able to practice medicine that consists of this broad-spectrum care. Concierge medicine, also known as retainer-based medicine, is an umbrella term for private medical care wherein patients pay an out-ofpocket fee in exchange for enhanced care. Born in the 1990s, concierge medicine was once thought of as a service for the wealthy that charged patients a lofty fee for luxury medicine. In recent years, it has evolved to accommodate patients across all income brackets, leading to expanding interest among patients and their primary care doctors. According to a survey released by the American Academy of Private Physicians at the AAPP 2015 Fall Summit, more than 45 percent of 862 independent physicians would consider a concierge or similar membership model in the next three years. This may be due in part to our aging population needing increased and varied medical services, leading to an imbalanced patient/doctor ratio. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act has increased the number of insured patients, putting a further strain on primary care doctors. As a result, physicians are often unable to dedicate enough time to each patient. In the hopes of increasing both job and patient satisfaction in a financially sustainable way, primary care physicians are looking toward concierge medicine. “Where conventional medicine is failing is in the prevention and reversal of chronic diseases that are becoming an epidemic in the United States today,” explain the doctors. “The current insurance model is built upon a problem-based economic reimbursement that encourages doctors to address medical problems very quickly. This leads to most doctors rushing to see 25-30 patients per day in order to make ends meet…This is not how we have ever practiced. We always want to have the time to address the root cause of diseases that are preventable today.” Lifestyle Medicine is a 21st century approach to healthcare that consolidates the very best characteristics of traditional medicine with the profound impact of lifestyle behaviors on health. Lifestyle Medicine is an evidence-based practice that has been shown to prevent, reverse, or slow down heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes, dementia, and some cancers.
Concierge medical practices come in various forms, including those that reject insurance plans all together, but this is not the case for Princeton Lifestyle Medicine. All the doctors there accept insurance for all covered medical services. In addition, their patients pay an annual fee of $1,500 for the Lifestyle Medicine Concierge program, which gives them access to an elevated level of care. The founders of Princeton Lifestyle Medicine trained at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Medical School. They are at the vanguard of their field, having lectured about their practice development model at The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine Conference in 2015. They are also members of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the American College of Physicians. They are among the first physicians to become board certified in Lifestyle Medicine, as well as maintaining their board certifications in internal medicine. This practice is unique in that it offers patients comprehensive conventional medical care combined with lifestyle counseling. Patients interested in a natural approach to disease prevention are provided in-depth, individualized coaching based on their needs. The doctors can assist with everything from quitting smoking to creating a manageable diet and exercise plan. The concierge model offers Princeton Lifestyle Medicine patients additional benefits including access to the doctors’ emails, cell phone numbers, a private phone line, extended patient office visits, and same or next day appointments. Their patients see their physician not only as accomplished medical doctors, but health advocates, mentors, and even friends. “Our practice structure allows us to spend more time educating our patients about what may be going on with them medically,” the doctors explain. “We are better able to work with them as partners in their care and advocate for them with their specialists or if they are in the hospital. We provide tremendous support and guidance to them and their caretakers or family. We greatly value this enhanced communication with our patients. Princeton Lifestyle Medicine physicians include the two original founders, Dr. Lynne Kossow and Dr. Barbara Brown, as well as Dr. Francis Rehor who joined the practice in 2015.” Princeton Lifestyle medicine is also delighted to announce that Dr. Emily Kossow Sandberg joined the practice in April of 2022 as well. Concierge practices like Princeton Lifestyle Medicine focus the healthcare system on its most vital component: the patient-doctor relationship. The model emphasizes quality care instead of quick care, benefitting both parties. Princeton Lifestyle Medicine has the only physicians in the Princeton area who are board certified in both Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. As leaders in both concierge and Lifestyle medicine, it comes as no surprise that Princeton Lifestyle medicine is at the forefront of this effort, bringing Princeton into the future of healthcare.
The Princeton Lifestyle Medicine Concierge Program is $1,500 per year. The fee can be paid monthly, quarterly, biannually, or annually, and credit cards are accepted as payment. All medical services are billed through the patient’s insurance company as usual. Princeton Lifestyle Medicine is located at 731 Alexander Road, Suite 201 in Princeton, New Jersey. For more information call 609.655.3800 or visit www.princetonlifestylemedicine.com. — Paid Advertisement —
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Art
“BEACHED BOATS”: This mixed media work by Thelma Freid is featured in an exhibit of her works on view at Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury May 8 through May 27. An artist’s reception is on Saturday, May 7 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Thelma Freid Exhibit At Gourgaud Gallery
Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury will host a show of original artwork by Thelma Freid from Sunday, May 8 through Friday, May 27. An artist’s reception will be held on Saturday, May 7 from 1-3 p.m. “Art has always been a part of my life,” said Freid. “I love to experiment with found objects such as corrugated cardboard, rust, bottle caps, etc. I use textures, patterns, and the interplay of light as well as making
discarded material into art media.” T he show w ill feat ure original, framed pieces of various subjects and sizes. Most pieces will be for sale with 20 percent of all sales benefiting the Cranbury Arts Council. Gourgaud Gallery is located on the second floor of the Cranbury Town Hall at 23-A North Main Street in Cranbury. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Cranbury Arts Council provides arts-oriented programs, workshops, and
performances aimed at enriching the cultural experiences of the community and keeping the creative spirit alive in adults and children. Their mission is to foster, support, educate, inspire, and promote artists and art appreciation in the community. For more information, visit cranburyartscouncil.org.
Letvin Named Associate Curator at PU Art Museum
The Princeton University Art Museum has appointed Alexandra Letvin as the inaugural Duane Wilder, Class
of 1951, Associate Curator of European Ar t. Let vin joins Princeton from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where she has served as assistant curator of European and American art since 2019. She will begin her appointment at Princeton early this summer. The newly endowed position is named in honor of Duane Wilder, who was an avid art collector and a tireless advocate for the ar ts and hu man it ies on Princeton’s campus and beyond. He served for nearly 40 years on the Princeton Universit y Ar t Museum’s Advisory Council and bequeathed his extensive collection to the Museum upon his death in 2017. In 2020 the Museum presented “The Eclectic Eye,” a digital exhibition featuring highlights from Wilder’s collection that ranged from 16th-century northern European paintings to contemporary photography. At P r inceton, L et v in’s portfolio will include guiding the Museum’s program in European art from the medieval period to 1945 and integrating the European tradition more fully into global inquiries. Letvin’s appointment comes at a critical time for the Museum, which last year began construction on a new facility designed by Sir David Adjaye, scheduled to open in late 2024. Letvin will be responsible for shaping collections displays in the new building, originating exhibitions, conducting research, making acquisitions, and working closely with campus and broader communities.
Alexandra Letvin
lecture Alvin Langdon Coburn, the Great War, and the “World’s First Abstract Photographs” Thursday, May 5, 5 p.m.
“Alexandra is an exciting scholar curator with an innovative curatorial vision, who truly understands the complex responsibilit ies of the academically-based museum in the 21st century,” said James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J.
Haemisegger, Class of 1976, director. “Her boundar ycrossing scholarship along with her commitment to teaching and engagement will make her a compelling voice in reimagining what a university museum can be.” Letvin graduated magna cum laude from Williams College with a bachelor’s degree in art history and received a master’s and Ph.D. in the history of art from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Oberlin, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and has held curatorial fellowships at the Meadows Museum in Dallas and the Baltimore Museum of Art. A specialist in early modern Spanish art, Letvin has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, collection handbooks and essay collections, including a chapter in Sorolla in America: Friends and Patrons (2015), which won the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies’ Eleanor Tufts Book Award in 2017. “To me, the great joy of curating European art in a campus setting is the challenge it presents to be responsive and to rethink the stories we tell,” said Letvin. “I’m honored to join a dynamic team at the Princeton University Art Museum that is deeply and creatively engaged with this work.” For more information, visit artmuseum.princeton.edu.
“When Trees Talk” Photography Exhibit
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Fox & Roach Realtors has announced a special installation of landscape photography, “When Trees Talk and Rivers Sing,” by Robin Resch in their offices at 253 Nassau Street. The exhibition is on view through May 12, and is open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on the weekend by appointment. An artist’s reception will be held Thursday, April 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. “When Trees Talk and Rivers Sing” is an installation of nearly 40 landscape photographs taken by Resch across the country. In her landscape work Resch seeks to explore the power of nature and the duality of its ephemerality and continuum. Often it is the force of nature, a crashing stream, rolling fog, or rushing wind that alters and abstracts the image. Her intent is to share the emotive experience of the fleeting moment, that of the landscape
as we pass through it — an analogy of the ephemeral nature of our own lives and the vulnerability of our planet. Some of these images were previously presented as a special installation at NRG’s headquarters in 2019. A Princeton-based photographer, Resch was the Arts Council of Princeton’s Anne Reeves of Artist-in-Residence from 2020 through 2021. For her residency, she continued work on her ongoing portrait project “Taking Pause,” which culminated with an installation of photographic banners in Dohm Alley last year. Her work has been exhibited at Princeton University’s Lucas Gallery, the Pringle Gallery in Philadelphia, Design Within Reach, Princeton Project Space, the Arts Council of Princeton, and the Nassau Club. Her photos have been published in the New York Times, the Witte de With Cahiers, the Rotterdams Dagblad, Italian GQ, and Princeton Magazine. Resch has maintained an active portrait studio since 2003. In 2012, she was honored to be the exclusive campaign photographer for the Princeton fundraising event with first lady Michelle Obama.
Call for Art: Ellarslie Open
The Trenton City Museum’s annual Ellarslie Open juried art show invites artists to submit artwork through May 12 via its online Call for Art. Walter Wickiser, of Wickiser Gallery in New York City, will jury the 2022 show. Artists may submit up to six works, with a maximum of two from any of the 10 primary judging categories. Complete instructions and timeline, and entry link are found at ellarslie.org. The top award, Best in Show Overall, carries a prize of $1,000. Best in Show in 2021 was awarded to Mikhail Gubin of New York City. The Trenton City Museum is housed in Ellarslie Mansion in the heart of Trenton’s historic Cadwalader Park, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Ongoing and rotating shows explore Trenton’s history and culture and showcase contemporary regional fine arts. Museum hours are Friday and Saturday from 12 to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. There is no admission charge, but donations in support of the museum’s mission and programs are appreciated. For more For more information on Ellarslie Open 39, visit ellarslie. org, email exhibits@ellarslie. org, or call (609) 989-1191.
In 1917, Alvin Langdon Coburn staged a show of photographs and watercolors at the London Camera Club. By looking at the context of what Ezra Pound dubbed “Vortographs,” this lecture will probe why Coburn sought to free his medium from reality at this critical historical moment. Presented by Anne McCauley, the David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art, Princeton University.
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LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support for this program has been provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation. Image: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Vortograph (detail), 1916. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman House
“PATH”: This photograph by Robin Resch is part of “When Trees Talk and Rivers Sing,” a special installation of her work on view through May 12 at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Fox & Roach Realtors, 253 Nassau Street. An artist’s reception will be held Thursday, April 28 from 5 to 7 p.m.
T he Trenton Cit y Mu Closing Reception Saturday for “Painting the Moon and Beyond” seum’s hours are Fridays
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie will host the closing reception for its exhibition “Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends” on Saturday, April 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. In addition to meeting the show’s artists, attendees will hear a moon- and art-inspired concert of “Nocturnes, Arias, a n d A r t is t ic Me m or ie s” performed by cellists Eric Schultz and Mira Kang and pianist Sandra Pucciatti. The program will include selections by Chopin, Sondheim, Bach, and Puccini. Schultz is know n as a producer and director of arts programming, including public television’s State of the Arts. Kang is an accomplished concert soloist who has appeared on many renowned stages. Pucciatti is the managing director of Boheme Opera NJ. Following the concert, the museum will formally accept into its collection the painting Woodland Vase, by Mel Leipzig, who painted the artwork on site in the Trenton City Museum in 2019. “Painting the Moon and Beyond” showcases paintings by New Jersey native and revered landscape painter Lois Dodd and artists who have long been a part of her life. Dodd is a co-founder of the legendary artist-run Tanager Gallery and has, for more than 70 years, painted her surroundings — New York’s Lower East Side, rural Mid-Coast Maine, and the Delaware Water Gap. Among her favorite subjects — and the central theme of the exhibition — is the night sky. Together with fellow exhibitors Jeff Epstein, Dan Finaldi, and Elizabeth O’Reilly, Dodd has ventured out on summer nights to paint. In addition to the nocturnes, “Painting the Moon and Beyond” looks through windows and doors and at portraits the artists have made of each other, including one by Mel Leipzig of Trenton. For more about the exhibition and the Trenton City Museum, and to sign up for the reception, visit ellarslie. org or call the museum at (609) 989-1191.
and Saturdays from 12 to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. Ample parking is available adjacent to the museum in Trenton’s Cadwalader Park, entered from Parkside Avenue. There is no admission charge, but donations in support of the museum’s mission and programs are appreciated.
Area Exhibits Check websites for information on safety protocols. Ar t @ Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Elizabeth Colomba: Repainting the Story” through May 8. artmuseum.princeton.edu. A r t i st s’ G a l l e r y, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Begin, Again” through May 1. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com. Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age” May 7 through August 7. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Still Lives from a Mostly Stilled Life” through April 30. artscouncilofprinceton.org. D & R Greenway Land Trust, One Preservation Place, has “Space to Dream: Nature and Creative Freedom” through May 27. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Mus eu m i n C adwa lader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends Explore the Night Sky” through April 29. ellarslie.org. Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell has “The Warp of Time” and ”Tree Talk” through May 1. Open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment. gallery14.org. Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has photographs by members of the Cranbury Digital Camera Club through April 28. cranburyartscouncil.org.
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Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age Saturday, May 7, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Celebrate the opening of Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age at Art on Hulfish. This exhibition features the work of global and intergenerational artists who explore the evolving role of video and photography in a society where online culture is omnipresent.
Screen Time was curated by Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, and Phillip Prodger, executive director, Curatorial Exhibitions. The works in this exhibition have been generously loaned from The EKARD Collection. The exhibition is toured by Curatorial Exhibitions, Pasadena, California.
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Image: Marilyn Minter, Yellow Sparkle, 2007. The EKARD Collection. © Marilyn Minter / Courtesy Regen Projects
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“ERIC SHULTZ”: The cellist, painted here by Mel Leipzig, will perform with Mira Kang and Sandra Pucciatti at the closing reception for the exhibition “Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends” on Saturday, April 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie.
Gratz Gallery and Conservation Studio, 5230 Silo Hill Road, Doylestown, Pa., has “Peter Miller — Forgotten Woman of American Modernism” through May 31. Gratzgallery.com. Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “What’s in the Garden?” through August 1, among other exhibits. Hours are Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Timed tickets required. groundsforsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery,” “Princeton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. Museum hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m. princetonhistory.org. James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy” through July 31. michenerartmuseum.org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Ma Bell: The Mother of Invention in New Jersey” through March 2023 and the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761– 1898,” and others. morven. org. The Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, has “Emergence: Expanding in Light” through June 6. lagphotography.com. New Hope Arts, 2 Stockton Avenue, New Hope, Pa., has “Spring Salon” through May 1. newhopearts.org. Phillips’ Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope, Pa., has “Not Your Run of the Mill Photo Show” through April 30. phillipsmill.org. Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has paintings by Meredith Remz through May 3. “Real Life Magic” is at the 254 Nassau Street location through May 3. smallworldcoffee.com. West Windsor Arts Center, 52 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Member Show: Horizon” through May 14. westwindsorarts.org.
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Mark Your Calendar Town Topics Wednesday, April 27 8-10:30 a.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber presents “Women in the Workforce: Navigating Success in the Evolving Workplace,” at Mercer Oaks Catering, 725 Village Road West. Networking and discussion. Princetonmercerchamber.org. 3 p.m.: Princeton University Library Author Talk by Jennifer Rampling, on The Experimental Fire, about alchemy in medieval and modern Europe. Zoom event. Registration required. Visit Library.princeton.edu for link. 8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers presents a contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Sue Gola with Contra Rebels. $10; free for dancers under 35. Princetoncountrydancers.org. 1-3 p.m.: Panel discussion, “Become a Biotech Entrepreneur,” virtual event presented by Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs and other organizations. Registration information at Princetonbiolabs.com Thursday, April 28 6 p.m.: Autumn Womack and Imani Perry discuss The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data 1880-1930, in an online event presented by Labyrinth Books, Princeton Public Library, and Princeton University. Labyrinthbooks.com. Friday, April 29 7 p.m.: Tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon and his trio perform outside Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, as part of Jazz Appreciat ion Mont h. Free. Plainsborolibrary.org.
Saturday, April 30 8-10 a.m.: Bird Walk focused on local birds with David Padulo, in the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Preserve. Free; registration necessary. Fopos.org. 9 a.m.-12 p.m.: Free Fitness Festival at Princeton Fitness & Wellness at Plainsboro, 7 Plainsboro Road. Fitness classes, demonstrations, health screenings, kids’ classes and activities, and other events focused on health and fitness. Free. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: “Introduction to Lichens: Pixie Cups and British Soldiers.” At the Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. Ages 12 and up, $10, adult attendance required. Thewatershed.org. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Princeton Future Public Input Meeting, Community Room of Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. The topic is the town’s new master plan. Princetonfuture.org. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Kite Day at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Tookany Creek plays country music; food and wine available. Bar nyard animals, pony rides for kids. Bring a kite, make one, or buy one at the Terhune store. $12 in advance, $15 at the gate. Terhuneorchards.com. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Green GetTogether and Bike Rodeo outdoors, Lawrence High School parking lot. Bring bikes, get a well-fitting helmet (children), learn how to ride safely on the Rodeo trail. Part of Greening Together celebration. Mercersustainabilitycoalition.org. 6 p.m.: Princeton Playhouse Choir Spring Concer t, by Pr inceton
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University’s Department of Music and the Lewis Center for the Arts, at the Forum at Lewis Arts Complex. Songs from such musicals as Waitress, Godspell, The Wiz, Annie Get Your Gun, and Sunday in the Park with George. Free. Arts.princeton.edu. 8 p.m.: Voices Chorale NJ performs “Singing for Peace” with the Berks Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. Works by Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and contemporary composers. Voiceschoralenj.org. Sunday, May 1 8 a.m.-12 p.m.: Community Science Day, Rogers Refuge, West Drive. Registration required. Participants will collect data to support Princeton Environmental Resource Inventory. Princetonlibrary.libnet. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Kite Day at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Chickens ’N Such play music; sheep-shearing and lots of activities for kids. Bring a kite, make one, or buy one at Terhune’s store. Food and wine available. $12 in advance, $16 at the gate. Terhuneorchards.com. 10:30 a.m.: May Day Bird Walk with New Jersey Audubon Society’s Kristin Hock, at Mor ven’s garden and fringe areas, 55 Stockton Street. $10 ($5 members). Morven.org. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.: Earth Day Recycling Fair, Skillman Park, Montgomery. Drivethrough drop-off event. Edf. Montgomery.nj.us. Tuesday, May 3 10 :30-11:30 a.m.: Preschool Nature Class: Mighty Trees, at The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. For ages 3-5; adult attendance required. $10 per child. Followed by a hike, art activity, and game. Registration required. Thewatershed.org. Wednesday, May 4 1 p.m.: Boheme Opera NJ performs “When I’m Calling You — Selections from Viennese and American Operetta” at Monroe Township Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe. Bohemeopera.org. 4-7 p.m.: “Beers & Pierogies” fundraiser for people of Ukraine, with live music by Strange Brew, at Ivy Inn, 248 Nassau Street. All donations will buy medical supplies. $50. Princetonerrands.com. 7 p.m.: “Build a Home M e a d o w.” A t H o p e w e l l Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell. Mike Van Clef shares how to incorporate sustainable conservation practices while beautifying the area around a home. Register at (609) 466-1625 or by emailing hpl@redlibrary.org. 8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers presents a contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Carl Levine with French Toast. $10. Princetoncountrydancers.org.
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Thursday, May 5 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. : Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber’s monthly membership luncheon at Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, 100 College Road East. Col. Bert W. Adams of McGuire Air Base is the speaker. Princetonmercer.org. 7 p.m.: The History of Greater Mount Zion AME Church, the oldest Black church in Trenton, via Zoom. Sponsored by the Trent House Association and presented by the Rev. Charles F. Boyer. Free by donations are accepted. Williamtrenthouse.org. Friday, May 6 6-8 p.m.: Morven in May’s Garden Party, at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Silent auction, grazing menu, signature cocktail, live entertainment, at the museum’s largest fundraiser of the year. Tickets are $175 and up. Rain date May 7. Morven.org. Saturday, May 7 8 a.m.-2 p.m.: Mother’s Day Plant Sale/Bake Sale, held by Princeton /Pettoranello Sister City Foundation, in the parking lot of Pettoranello Gardens, Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Preserve. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.: New Jersey State Button Society’s “Derby Day” button show at Union Fire Company and Rescue Squad, 1396 River Road, Titusville. NewJerseyStateButtonSociety.com. 9 a .m . : To a s t m a s te r s meet via Zoom. Toastmastersclubs.org. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Food distribution event presented by local Rotary Clubs at Boys and Girls Club, 1040 Spruce Street, Lawrence Township. Free food items while supplies last. Bring empty boxes or bags. Njrotary.org. 12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, Mot her’s Day weekend celebration, 330 Cold Soil Road. Bill O’Neal and Andy Koontz play from 1-4 p.m.; fresh produce and baked goods available. Terhuneorchards.com. 7:30 p.m.: Princeton Pro Musica presents “Shout for Joy!” at Princeton University Chapel, led by Ryan James Brandau with organist Eric Plutz. Includes works by Maurice Durufle, Eriks Esenvalds, and Adolphus Hailstork. Princetonpromusica.org. 8 p.m.: The Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs at Richardson Auditorium. Rossen Milanov conducts, and Stefan Jackiw is solo violinist. Princetonsymphony.org. Sunday, May 8 12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, Mot her’s Day weekend celebration, 330 Cold Soil Road. The Barbara Lin Band plays from 1- 4 p.m.; fresh produce and baked goods available. Terhuneorchards.com. 4 p.m.: The Princeton Symphony Orchestra
performs at Richardson Auditorium. Rossen Milanov conducts, and Stefan Jackiw is solo violinist. Princetonsymphony.org. Monday, May 9 Recycling Tuesday, May 10 9:30 and 11 a.m.: Read & Pick Program at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Young kids combine hands-on farm activity with stories highlighting the fruit or farm area. $12 including a container of fresh-picked asparagus. Register online at terhuneorchards.com. 10 :30-11:30 a.m.: Preschool Nature Class: Are You My Mother? At The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. For ages 3-5, adult attendance required. $10 per child. Search for animal mothers and their babies, followed by a hike, art activity and game. Registration required. Thewatershed.org. 11:30 a.m.: Toastmasters meet via Zoom. Toastmastersclubs.org. 3 p.m.: Princeton Senior Resource Center presents an FYI Seminar on “The Creature’s Tale: The Creation of a Frankenstein Novel,” via Zoom. Registration required. Princetonsenior.org. 6-9 p.m.: Outdoor movie night at Mountain Lakes House in Billy Joh nson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve; showing of Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Film starts at 8 p.m. Registration required. Fopos.org. 6 : 30 p.m. : G arden ing for Butterflies and Historic Garden Stroll, at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. $10 ($5 members). With horticulturalist Louise Senior. Morven.org. 7:30 p.m.: Angelique Kidjo performs at McCarter T h e at r e , 91 U n i v e r s i t y Place. Mccarter.org. Wednesday, May 11 7 p.m.: Silent sunset hike at Plainsboro Reserve, presented by Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health. Virtual event, open to all. Princetonhcs.org / events. 8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers presents contra dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Donna Hunt with Crossing the Millstone. $10. Princetoncountrydancers.org. Thursday, May 12 1-2 p.m.: Lunchtime gallery series at West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road. Led by Princeton University Art Museum docent Connie Shaffer, “Highlights of French Art.” Free for arts council members, $10 for others. Westwindsorarts. org. 7 p.m.: Greenwood House hosts “Battle of the Bands” fundraiser at Princeton Airpor t hangar, 41 Airpark Road. Food from caterer Max Hansen; dessert food trucks; local and reg ional bands. Special musical memorabilia will
be available. $125- $250. Contact Neil Wise at (609) 883-9014 or visit nwise @ greenwoodhouse.org. 7 p.m.: Virtual talk by Kelly McManus on General George Washington’s stay at the Dey Mansion in Passaic, 1780. Sponsored by the Trent House Association. Free; donations accepted. Williamtrenthouse.org. Friday, May 13 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: The Hunterdon County Rug Artisans Guild holds a rug hooking guild meeting at Raritan Township Police Depar tment, 2 Municipal Drive, Flemington. Hcrag.com. Saturday, May 14 8 -11 p.m . : P r i n c e to n Country Dancers presents English country dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. Judi Rivkin with Bob Pasquarello, Kathy Talvitie and Miranda Weinberg. $11. Princetoncountrydancers.org. 9 a.m.-12 p.m.: Upcycle event in the parking lot behind Monument Hall. Batteries, bikes for adults, block Styrofoam, cell phones, and much more. Visit sustainableprinceton.org for a full list. 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Food distribution event presented by local Rotary clubs at Boys and Girls Club, Princeton Forrestal Village, 201 Village Boulevard. Free food items while supplies last. Bring empty boxes or bags. Njrotary.org. 10 a.m.: Pam’s Herb Class, at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pam Mount teaches how to grow food in the home garden. Free. Register to reserve a spot. Terhuneorchards.com. 12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Allan Willcockson plays from 1-4 p.m.; fresh produce and baked goods available. Terhuneorchards.com. Sunday, May 15 10 :30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.: Ukraine Support Day hosted by Princeton Yoga Community Center and Innerspace Taijiquan, 88 Orchard Road, Skillman. Sample yoga sessions, massage, reiki, healing sound baths, music, food, and more. Donate to help people and animals of Ukraine. 12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Mark Mikloss play from 1-4 p.m.; fresh produce and baked goods available. Terhuneorchards.com. Tuesday, May 17 6 p.m.: At Morven, 55 Stockton Street, “20th Century Black Scientific Renaissance at Bell Labs,” with four people who worked at Bell Labs; in conjunction with the current exhibition. $5-$20. In-person and virtual. Morven.org.
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She continued training at New York University Medical Center in an otolaryngology, head and neck surgery residency program. She then pursued advanced studies in facial plastic surgery at the University of Toronto under the auspices of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, where she trained with the president of that organization. Brunner is affiliated with Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, where she performs surgery. She is also a Fellow, American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and a Fellow, American College of Surgeons. During her career. she has performed thousands of cosmetic facial plastic surgery procedures. Painting and Drawing In addition to her skill and years of cosmetic facial plastic surgery experience, Brunner is distinguished by her long-standing interest in art. From a young age, she loved painting and drawing, studied at the Parsons School of Design in the summer, and at one point, contemplated a career as an artist. Her interest and ability in science was evident too, and by the 10th grade, she was determined to become a doctor. Her love of art, however, remains strong, and is a factor in the creative aspects of cosmetic facial surgery. She definitely believes her talent for art is linked with her love of plastic surgery. “There is a tie-in. You have to have a good eye in the operating room for proportion and detail,” she points out. “The combination of surgery and art has enabled me to augment and define my facial plastic surgery techniques, both cosmetic and reconstructive, with aesthetic and surgical artistry.” Br unner’s practice has evolved over the years, and consists of three main components: surgery, skin rejuvenation laser treatments, and non - surgical proce dures, including fillers and injections. Depending on t he patient’s condition, one or all of these can be incorporated into a treatment plan. Laser Resurfacing “The interaction between
the results of these types of facial procedures is exponential and will have tremendous impact in heightening your overall rejuvenation experience and outcome,” she explains. “For example, the results obtained from a facelift will be significantly improved and augmented with laser resurfacing of the skin to lessen sun damage and brown spots.” Surgical facelifts include an array of options: full or mini facelifts ; neck lifts ; eyelid, brow, and forehead lifts; rhinoplasty (nose); chin and cheek augmentation; and many more possibilities. “Cosmetic facial plastic surgery involves reshaping, contouring, and lifting,” observes Brunner. “Whether having a facelift to remove jowls and a double chin or rhinoplasty to reshape your nose, it is important to ensure that your results are natural in appearance and well-balanced to suit the proportion of your facial features.” The goal of most patients is to have a natural look, she adds. Realistic expectations are also very important, and these are emphasized in her initial consultation with a patient, when she also takes a full medical history. Harmony and Balance “Facial plastic surger y cannot make you look like someone else. It cannot guarantee you success in your job, improve your social life, nor make people like you,” points out Brunner. “What it can do is improve the harmony and balance of your facial features, reverse some of the signs of aging, and help you look your best. After the lifting process, the patient should look better and refreshed, but not different.” For those who want to improve their look but who may not be ready for surgery, Brunner offers a wide range of non-surgical treatments. She established the Skin Rejuvenation L aser Center, which includes the most progressive, innovative techniques available. Her state-of-the-art facility offers 10 different laser treatments, utilizing the most advanced equipment and machines. “These procedures are designed to refresh and tone your skin,” she explains. “Whether you are 60 years old and require fractional
C02 laser resurfacing to remove wrinkles and sun damage or 30 years old and would like less invasive procedures to reinvigorate and stimulate your skin, we can offer the correct laser treatment for your needs.” Among the laser procedures are SmartLipo Triplex for face and neck contouring; Fraxel Repair laser for w r in k le removal ; Fra xel Dual laser for brown pigmentation and scar removal; and MicroLaser Peel for fine lines and sun damage. Many others are also available. Brunner performs numerous filler and Botox injections to contour and redefine facial features, as well as to smooth and soften wrinkles. Botox, Restylane, Juvederm, and lip augmentation procedures are just some of the possibilities. “These are very refined and intricate procedures that require the artistic skill and precision to render a ver y meticulous painting and the three dimensional aptitude to execute a finely formed sculpture,” she reports, again referring to the importance of art in her practice. Recovery Time An important aspect of the laser and non-surgical treatments is their quicker recovery time. Whereas surgery would include a two-week or more recovery period, laser, fillers, and injections require very little time away from normal activities. Time, gravity, genetics, and years of exposure to the elements are factors in the aging process, and individuals differ considerably in their need or desire for
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LOOKING YOUR BEST: “It’s important to have the right treatment for the right issue. Each patient is an individual with unique needs and circumstances. My job is to put together a treatment plan that is appropriate for that patient’s individual situation.” Cosmetic facial plastic surgeon Eugenie Brunner, M.D., FACS, practicing in Princeton, also offers non-surgical procedures, including a skin rejuvenation laser center. any of these procedures, surgical or non-surgical. Wherever her patients are in the spectrum, Brunner will determine which of the treatments would be most effective for that person’s condition. She sees patients from all over the Princeton area and beyond. Typically, they are 40 to 70 years old and in good health. Certain conditions, including smoking, preclude patients from receiving treatment. For others, though, it can make a difference in their life. As the saying goes, when you look good, you feel good. And indeed, it is not just vanity. Outward
appearance can affect inner feelings, and build selfesteem and confidence. Brunner is pleased to be able to make a positive difference in people’s lives. As she says, “It is so satisfying to me when patients are happy with the results and feel better about themselves. What I most enjoy is making people happy. I look forward to coming to work every day. It’s a new day. A new opportunity. A new patient to help!” he office is open Monday through Friday. Call (609) 921-9497 for an appointment. Website: drbrunnermd.com. —Jean Stratton
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man, we walked into the semis and we had already played a playoff match. You are not sure if you are going to have gas left in the tank, that is the only concern. But if you have gas in the tank, it is good to have a few miles on the road.” In facing the Nittany Lions for a third time, Princeton was looking to play its game. “They are a tremendous team, we need to try to focus on our side,” said Shweisky. “If we execute a little better, if we receive a little better, if we serve a little tougher, if we block a little better and believe CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT: Members of the Princeton University men’s volleyball team display in ourselves, it is can you do it the trophy they earned for topping New Jersey Institute of Technology 3-1 (23-25, 27-25, 27-25, 25-18) in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association final last Saturday evening. The when it counts.” After winning first two sets Tigers, now 15-12 overall and riding a 10-match winning streak, will be facing North Greenville against Penn State, Princeton University (20-5) in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on May 1 at Pauley Pavilion in (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics) dropped the next two and Los Angeles, Calif. trailed 9-6 in the fifth set when as it prevailed 23-25, 27-25, “I love this team so much While Shweisky was thrilled Shweisky took a timeout. 27-25, 25-18 with Harrington and to see the adversity we to see his squad win the title, “I can’t think about winning starring again, coming up with went through in the beginthe program’s third overall or losing, I just have to think about the next point, that is career-high 24 kills and add- and the second of his tenure, ning of the year and then to what I preach to them,” said ing seven digs to get named as the biggest joy came in having have a 10-0 match win streak another game and the chance is great,” said Nelsen. “It is Shweisky. “I don’t re- the tourney MVP. to keep working with his play- really special to have a lot of “You could feel the nerves, member what I said but I am ers. those moving parts at the bemore so than with Penn State sure it had to do with love and ginning, have some problems, because we were such the un“At the end of the day, supporting each other. If you and need a little bit of oil. We derdog,” said Shweisky. “You it is the experience,” said think about what just happened or winning or losing, it could feel the tension, we Shweisky. “You love the ex- figured it out in this back half pulls you away from the mo- felt very evenly matched with perience and you love spend- of the season. It is a team, them. We play NJIT a lot and ing time with each other. We I don’t want to leave at any ment.” point. My time is coming up. The Tigers ended up pull- it was pretty 50/50. On any get to go on another road trip We have three, four games left given night we knew we could out to California, how great is ing away to a stunning 25-15, at the max. It is a team I want 28-26, 23-25, 17-25, 15-12 beat them, we also knew they that. It is wow, how we have to be part of every step of the could beat us. 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rowing fun and that is why guys do it.” The Princeton varsity 8 has learned a lot so far this spring, opening the season on March 26 by defeating Georgetown, Drexel, and Temple on Lake Carnegie and then edging Navy in Annapolis a week later. The Tigers then lost to Harvard on April 16, and last weekend the Tigers finished behind Yale and ahead of Cornell. Yale was determined to have cut to the inside of a turn buoy and was disqualified, giving Princeton the win. For Hughes, the opening regatta on Lake Carnegie was an emotional moment for him and his rowers. “To be able to get that first race here felt so great,” said Hughes. “It was hard to realize how much we had all missed it until we were doing it again and seeing how much it means and how special it is.” Edging Navy by 0.9 seconds in the second race of the season to win the Navy-Princeton Rowing Cup was a step forward for the top boat. “It is a big, open exposed body of water and the conditions were actually really challenging,” said Hughes. “Navy is ready for that. You had five or six guys who had never raced a cup race before. That was their first cup race and they are in the varsity 8 on Navy’s home course against the Naval Academy. It is a big step up. They took that on well which was cool.” On April 16, Princeton took on a powerful crew in
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Gaining Experience By Getting Regular Racing, PU Men’s Heavyweight Crew Making Progress
HEAVY LIFTING: The Princeton University men’s heavyweight rowing varsity 8 churns through the water in a race earlier this spring. Last Saturday, Princeton finished behind Yale and topped Cornell in the race for the Carnegie Cup. Yale was determined to have cut to the inside of a turn buoy and was disqualified, giving the Tigers the cup. In upcoming action, Princeton hosts Brown on April 30 in the race before the Content Cup. (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics) fifth-ranked Harvard on the Charles River and fell by 6.0 seconds in the race for the Compton Cup. “It was extremely heavy, rough conditions and the g u y s r ac e d w e l l,” s a i d Hughes. “There was no fear shown, they engaged in the battle. Harvard had to fight to get back through them. It was a good way to step into that level of racing. Harvard had more speed than us. It was a good test for us. Here is where we know we can be stronger without a doubt. We walked away from that seeing that there were spots where we let some of the conditions get to us. We were able to come back and make some adjustments off of that.” Last Saturday, the ninthranked Tigers were nearly seven seconds behind topranked Yale and two seconds ahead of 11th-ranked Cornell but came away with the
Carnegie Cup due to the error by the Bulldog boat. “It is a disappointment, it is not how you want a race to go,” said Hughes. “Yale is fast, they are the No. 1 ranked crew in the country. They have been all year and that is who they are. Without a doubt on Saturday they were faster than us.” In the view of Hughes, his top boat is poised to get faster. “It has been a solid year for those guys, there is lot we still have to learn,” said Hughes. “What has been really impressive to me is the attitude they have had in just staying stuck into that and recognizing, ‘hey look, we are in the mix.’ We have obviously lined up against the No. 1 crew in our league and the No. 2 ranked crew in our league and both of those teams were really strong. We are not quite there yet and we have
work to do. We have to keep chipping away at it and try to get a little bit faster every week.” With Princeton hosting seventh-ranked Brown on April 30 in the race for the Content Cup, Hughes will be looking for a strong performance from his rowers. “Brown is good, they are ranked above us right now a few spots so it will be another good challenge,” said Hughes. “They have had some great races. They fell to Harvard, they fell to Yale as well. It will be an awesome test. It will be another chance for us to step up against a higher ranked crew and race at that level. That is stuff that we really need. Racing at that level, you have to learn how to respond and be responded upon.” —Bill Alden
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PU Sports Roundup PU Men’s Lacrosse Falls at Harvard
Alex Slusher and Coulter Mackesy each scored four goals but it wasn’t enough as the Princeton University men’s lacrosse fell 19-16 at Harvard last Saturday. Princeton led 9-4 in the second quarter and 13-11 early in the fourth but couldn’t hold off the Crimson down the stretch. The seventh-ranked Tigers, now 9–3 overall and 3-2 Ivy, host 14th-ranked Cornell (10-3 overall, 3-2 Ivy) on April 30 in its regular season finale. Five teams are currently tied at 3-2 in league play, competing for the four spots in the upcoming Ivy postseason tournament.
Princeton Men’s Golf 4th in Ivy Championships
Ma x Ting and William Huang starred as the Princeton University men’s golf team placed fourth in the Ivy League Championships last weekend at the Century Country Club in Harrison, N.Y. Junior Ting and freshman Huang tied for ninth individually as they both carded a 10-over 223 for the three-round event. In the team standings, Yale won the title at +35, five shots in front of runner-up Columbia (+40) with Har vard (+ 45) third and
Training 8-0 going into Princeton 12 shots off the the bottom of the fourth inlead at +47. PU Women’s Water Polo ning, the Tiger forged ahead 10-8, powered by a sevenFalls in CWPA Semis run outburst in the seventh Kayla Yelensky scored inning. Harvard, though, three goals as the Princeton scored a pair of runs in the University women’s water top of eighth to force extra polo team fell 11-9 to Harinnings and then tallied four vard in the Collegiate Wain the top of the 12th to pull ter Polo Association (CWPA) out the win. semifinals last Saturday at On Saturday, the rivals Bucknell University. split a doubleheader with A day later, Jovana SekuHarvard prevailing 2-0 in lic and Nicole Kresich each the opener and the Tigers scored three goals as Princwinning 4-3 in the nightcap. eton edged Brown 11-8 in Princeton, now 6-26 overthe third place game. The all and 3-12 Ivy League, victory left the Tigers with hosts NJIT on April 27 and a final record of 21-10. then heads to Brown this Tiger Women’s Lax weekend for a three-game Defeats Harvard series with a doubleheader Sparked by Kyla Sears, on April 30 and a single the 12th-ranked Princeton game on May 1. University women’s lacrosse Princeton Softball team topped Harvard 14-9 last Saturday. Senior star Sweeps Penn Ali Blanchard starred as Sears tallied four goals and the Princeton Universit y three assists to help the Tigers improve to 10-3 overall softball team swept a threegame series against visiting and 5-0 Ivy. Penn last weekend. P r i n c e to n , w h i c h h a s Princeton swept a doubleclinched a spot in the upcoming Ivy League postsea- header on Saturday, winning son tournament, plays at 3-0 and 3-1. On Sunday, the Columbia (2-11 overall, 0-5 Tigers completed the sweep Ivy) on April 27 and then with a 9-5 victory, improvhosts No. 24 Yale (10 -5 ing to 22-13-1 overall and overall, 6-0 Ivy) on April 30 14-4 Ivy League Junior Blanchard, who in its regular season finale. was later named the Iv y Princeton Baseball Pitcher of the Week, conGoes 1-2 Against Harvard tributed in the circle to two A dramatic rally fell short of the three wins, throwing as the Princeton University 8 1/3 shutout innings in all baseball team lost 14-10 in and allowing just two hits, 12 innings to visiting Har- two walks and striking out vard last Sunday to end up 10 over that time. Blanchard going 1-2 in the weekend started the first and third series against the Crimson. games of the series, going
NET GAIN: Members of the Princeton University women’s tennis team are all smiles after they defeated Columbia 4-0 last Sunday to win the Ivy League title. The win moved the Tigers to 1110 overall and 6-1 Ivy as finished just ahead of Penn (5-2 Ivy) and Yale (5-2 Ivy) to win their third straight league crown and 16th overall. Princeton will find out their opponent and location for the NCAA Tournament during the selection show on May 2. (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics) 5 1/3 innings in Saturday’s 3-0 win and the first three innings of Sunday’s 9-5 win. Princeton hosts Rider for a doubleheader on April 27 and then heads to Columbia this weekend for a threegame series with a doubleheader on April 30 and a single game on May 1.
PU Women’s Open Rowers Fall to Texas, Top Rutgers
Suffering its first defeat of the season, the fourthranked Princeton University women’s open crew varsity 8 fell to top-ranked and defending national champion Texas while defeating No. 16 Rutgers last Saturday on Lake Carnegie. Texas posted a winning time of 6 :18.6 over the 2,000-meter course with Princeton taking second in 6:22.6 and Rutgers coming in at 6:39.6 to finish third.
Pr inceton hosts Penn, Princeton Men’s Tennis Syracuse, and Tennessee Falls to Columbia on April 30. Dropping a nail- biter, the Tiger Men’s Lightweight Crew Princeton University men’s tennis team fell 4-3 at CoFalls to Penn, Georgetown Getting edged in a tight lumbia last Sunday. Karl Poling starred in a race, the Princeton University men’s lightweight varsity 8 losing cause for the Tigers, lost to Penn and Georgetown helping Princeton win the last Saturday on Lake Carn- doubles point and postegie. Georgetown took fi rst ing a three-set win at third with a time of 5:47.5 over singles. the 2,000-meter course in T he T iger s, now 18 - 8 with Penn taking second in overall and 4-3 Ivy League, 5:49.5 and Princeton com- are hoping to earn an ating in at 5:51.0 for third. large bid to the NCAA tourPrinceton hosts Harvard and nament when the field is Yale on April 30 in the race announced on May 2. for the Goldthwait/Vogel Cup.
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Will Erickson has taken it upon himself to lead the defensive unit for the Princeton High boys’ lacrosse team this spring. “I have learned from some good guys, like Carson Giles and Lucas Kirby, and I just have to be a vocal leader out there and show the young guys how to play,” said senior star Erickson. “On ball, I have improved a lot. Playing against Will Doran and Patrick Kenah every day in practice gets you a lot better.” Wit h PHS hav ing los t three of its last four games coming into a clash against visiting Allentown last Saturday morning, Erickson was determined to help PHS improve at the defensive end. “We had been frustrated with some of our losses,” said Erickson, ref lecting on a tough stretch that saw PHS fall 14-10 to Hopewell Valley on April 19, 14-12 to Notre Dame on April 12, and 13-9 to Mount Olive on April 9. “We just wanted to come in and prove ourselves. As a defense we gave up a lot of goals that we didn’t want to. We just wanted to limit those and make them work.” The Tigers limited Allentown’s potent one-two punch of senior stars Jake Searing and Jake Raff as PHS raced out to a 6-1 halftime lead. “They are a lefty and a r ight y, me and A nthony [Famiglietti], the other defender, just matched up with our hands and didn’t let them get to the their domi-
nant hands,” said Erickson. “We know they took some shots they probably didn’t want to and that is what we wanted to do as a defense. We wanted to make them feel the pressure and make them feel that they have to shoot. It happened and Rory [Dobson] made some great saves.” In the second half, PHS held off an Allentown surge to post a 9-7 win in a contentious contest that featured crunching hits, a number of penalties, and some trash talking. “It is a little scary with our defense sometimes, we haven’t really proven it that much this season,” said Erickson, reflecting on holding the fort in the second half. “We let up a few goals but we just kept staying locked in and making them work and it ended up working.” W hile the Tigers were thrilled to get the win, which improved them to 5-4, Erickson knows that the squad has plenty of room to improve. “We feel good but there is a lot of work to be done,” said Erickson. “It is a regular season game and we want more than a regular season game.” PHS head coach Chip Casto was relieved to see his team come through against the Redbirds. “We had some tough losses, there is an old coach I used to work with who said just keep working hard, just keep working hard,”
said Casto. “We had a good game plan, it was to be patient, move the ball and they will make mistakes and we will capitalize. We played very well early and then we hung on for dear life.” The Tiger defensive effort helped set the tone for the contest. “We were just very aware when they had the ball and we were sliding to them early,” said Casto. “They were a little off, they got shots and they didn’t hit them like they usually hit. We had that little bit of luck today.” Casto credited Erickson keeping t he defense on track. “Will is controlling things,” said Erickson. “He sends the early slides and he organizes things. He did a great job.” As for the PHS attack, senior star Doran dished for five assists to trigger things with sophomore standout Kenah tallying four goals and two assists and freshman Braden Barlag contributing three goals. “It was all patience; Will [ Doran ] and Patrick can handle the ball and as soon as they make a mistake we usually find it in the crease,” said Casto. “We were super patient with the freshman Braden Barlag finishing everything inside, he has been tremendous.” Casto was proud of how his team weat hered t he storm in the second half as the Redbirds reeled off three straight goals in the third quarter.
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Erickson Spearheads Gritty Defensive Performance As PHS Boys’ Lacrosse Defeats Allentown 9-7
CREASE CONTROL: Princeton High boys’ lacrosse goalie Rory Dobson, right, tracks a shot in a game earlier this season. Sophomore Dobson helped key a superb defensive effort as PHS defeated Allentown 9-7 last Saturday. The Tigers, who improved to 5-4 with the win, play at South Brunswick on April 30 and then host Red Bank Regional on May 3. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) “That is who they are, they are the best athletes in the conference,” said Casto. “We were waiting for it and it came. We withstood that and had to be a little smart with the ball at the end.” Going forward, Casto is hoping that the victory over Allentown can be a turning point for his squad. “When you beat them, it is always a confidence builder and sends a little message to the conference,” said Casto,
whose squad plays at South Brunswick on April 30 and then hosts Red Bank Regional on May 3. “It got a little heated, it is a great rivalry. We had been losing to everybody and now we are going to start winning hopefully. We have to just keep getting better, especially defensively. We have been giving up a lot of goals. We said if we score nine, we should win. We haven’t been doing that, today we did by
limiting their opportunities.” Erickson believes the Tigers can do some big things down the stretch. “It is no secret, we want to win the Mercer County championship as does Allentown, Notre Dame, and Hopewell,” said Erickson. “Everyone wants it and we want to just work hard and get there. It can propel us and show us what we want to work on.” —Bill Alden
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Transfer Hutchinson Making Impact for PHS Girls’ Track, Helping 4x100 Quartet to 1st Place at Mercer County Relays Samirah Hutchinson didn’t run for the Princeton High girls’ track and field team after she moved to the area last year, but she’s excited for the rest of the season after seeing the strength of the 4x100 relay. Hutchinson, a senior, ran the third leg for the Tiger team that included Sophie Gono, Megan Rougas, and Kendall Williamson as they won the 4x100 relay at the Mercer County Relays at Lawrence High last Saturday in 50.77 seconds. The school record is 50.27 seconds. “Honestly it was very ecstatic and proud moment,” said Hutchinson. “We put the work in at practice. It was our first relay of the year. We were very happy about it.” PHS also won the girls’ 4x200 with Gono, Katherine Monroe, Alysse Kiesewetter, and Williamson going 1:47.48, and the foursome of Lucy Kreipke, Robin Roth, Florica Eleches-Lipsitz, and Kyleigh Tangen won the girls’ 4x1600 in 22:09.51. The boys also picked up a win in the distance medley relay with Charlie Howes, Zach Della Rocca, Kento Nakaya, and Andrew Kenny finishing in 10:46.94. Five PHS teams also garnered second-place finishes in relays. The girls’ 4x800 of Eleches-Lipsitz, Brielle Moran, Maeve Motto, and Tessa Thai took silver. Monroe, Grace Defaria, Chiara Lavino, and Kiesewetter were runners-up in the girls shuttle hurdles. In the field events, Isabella Ospina Posada and Macaela
Wilton placed second in girls’ shot put, and Ospina Posada and Brittany Newman were second in girls’ discus. Zach Della Rocca, Blake Bergman, Kento Nakaya, and Addison Motto were second in the boys’ sprint medley. “We were pleasantly surprised,” said PHS head coach Ben Samara. “It’s been slow going at the start of the season. We had an ill-timed spring break in terms of training and competing. We’re just getting people back, and this is the first real weekend for competing. The kids came out and performed really well.” Hutchinson and the Tigers lowered their season best mark to 50.30 seconds in the 4x100 on Monday in a meet against Nottingham to pull within hundredths of a second of the record. They will get another shot at it on one of the biggest stages in the country at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia on Thursday. It’s the first running of the Penn Relays in two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m just looking forward to beating the school record by a lot,” said Hutchinson. “I know we’re capable of it. Even though it’ll be the biggest crowd yet, I’m excited to go perform with my team.” It’s a new team for Hutchinson, who came from Hightstown where she had competed since she was a freshman. She’s joined a PHS team that does things a little differently, and they’ve welcomed her addition which strengthens the depth of their sprint corps. “It’s great,” said Samara.
“Coming in, we knew Samirah was talented. She spent a large part of winter injured and she hadn’t competed in a long time. She’s still working through shin issues and leg pain. For her to be a contributing part of this group and to be able to get out there and be able to compete at Penn Relays is really exciting for her. It’s exciting for us too. We have a pool of six girls that we’ve been doing handoffs with. We have depth that we don’t always have. It takes some pressure off.” Samara allowed Hutchinson and Rougas to sit out the rest of the relays while nursing their aches and pains. It gave others an opportunity to compete and showcased PHS’s speed. “I definitely see a lot of potential in everybody,” said Hutchinson. “We’re continuing to build an elite group of sprinters. I like that we have variety. We can always see who can be put in. I was recovering from shin splints and with what Megan was going through, it was good to know your back-up can go just as good as what we would do.” Hutchinson will be focusing on the 100 and 200 meters this spring. She’s always favored the shorter distances, and were it not for her shin pain she might also be hurdling. She is gearing up to compete in college, and this year has been important to get back on the track after missing last spring following her move and transitioning to a new school and team. “It had to be one of the
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FAB FOUR: The Princeton High girls 4x100 and their coaches are all smiles after the quartet placed first in the Mercer County Relays at Lawrence High last Saturday. Pictured, from left, are head coach Ben Samara, Samirah Hutchinson, Megan Rougas, Sophie Gono, Kendall Williamson, and assistant coach Thomas Harrington. hardest things I’ve done,” said Hutchinson. “Coming from the high school I was previously at, building that relationship and having the chemistry, and to move into a new environment with whole new people and not be able to show off my skills was tough. But everyone welcomed me with open arms. Honestly it turned out really good.” Training through the winter with the team helped her establish connections with her new teammates. The first race of the spring showed a budding togetherness. It’s made the transition for Hutchinson a little easier and she appreciates the talents of her new teammates. “As a group, our girls are truly great athletes with Sophie getting out fast with a great start and a beautiful handoff to Megan to get it to me,” said Hutchinson. “And being third leg to chase the competition down to then hand it off to Kendall who finished strong, I’m so very proud of them and us as a whole.” PHS came out of the winter looking for major accomplishments this spring. For the first significant meet of the season and coming off spring break, PHS was excited about the potential its athletes showed. It gave the team a good starting
point for the outdoor season. “Almost to a person, everybody really executed race plans and strategies and just performing up to the best of their abilities,” said Samara. “We were firing on all cylinders.” Samara came into the season confident that the 4x100 relay could be good. Of the quartet that ran Saturday, seniors Rougas and Williamson are veterans for the Tiger relays and Gono is a talented freshman while Hutchinson brings in experience and a passion for track. “They went out and their handoffs were flawless,” said Samara. “We want to be more aggressive with that and have a chance to go under 50. They went 50.77. With that Penn atmosphere, I definitely think they can.” The return to racing has brought a familiar feeling back for Hutchinson. She was thrilled to be back on the track competing in the sprints. “With any race you’re going to have those butterflies and adrenaline,” said Hutchinson. “As a team we were working to stay positive. It all happened so fast. Once it happened, you have to go for it. That’s what we did.” Hutchinson did her part. She ran the turn to give the baton to Williamson, who’s
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been one of the top sprinters in the county for years. Once rivals on the track, now they are teammates pulling for the same record goals. “I feel like a did a really good job running the rest of the teams down to get the last handoff,” said Hutchinson. “I knew she’d come through.” It was just the way that Samara had envisioned the team looking as they worked together for the first time. Hutchinson filled her role perfectly. “She was the third leg,” said Samara. “She’s steady and consistent and Kendall is anchoring. We need somebody in there who is able to get the baton to Kendall. Samirah is very, very reliable.” PHS won’t be resting on one good race. The Tigers see plenty of opportunities ahead and are confident that they can continue to go faster. “There’s always room for improvement,” said Hutchinson. “We do better every time we run. We try to aim higher and better. As a whole, I was proud of us, for winning or placing top three, whatever the teams got. I was there cheering everybody on. We did such a good job.” Hutchinson is looking forward to the next chance to race. She was scheduled to compete in Penn Relays her sophomore year when the pandemic shut down one of the biggest meets in the country. She is looking to make the most of her first trip there with her new teammates who are lined up for a big spring after an outstanding showing at the Mercer Relays. “I think it gives us a huge confidence boost,” said Samara. “Coach [Jim] Smirk and I were talking on Saturday about the mindset we need going into the rest of the season and how much this meet is going to buoy us for the rest of the season confidence wise. It’s clear we have athletes in pretty good shape. We’ve been talking about the mental aspect and to get a good meet in is a good springboard into the bigger meets coming up.” —Justin Feil
As Ben Romano stepped to the plate for the Hun School baseball team in the first inning last Thursday against Seton Hall Prep, he was looking to keep things simple. “Usually I get my first pitch fastball and I just take that up the middle,” said Romano. “I just keep that approach every single time at the plate and that is what I did. It gets us started.” Utilizing that approach, Romano lined a single up the middle, stole second and third and then came home on a two-run homer by Mike Chiaravallo as Hun went up 2-0. In the third inning, Romano got things started again, ripping a double and scoring on a single by Jackson Kraemer. “Again it was a first pitch fastball, I just tried to do what I can with it and stay in the middle,” recalled Romano. “I was fortunate enough to put it in the gap, get on second base and get on scoring position. Kraemer got a nice hit to get me in.” Hun went on to add two more runs as it prevailed 5-1, earning an impressive victor y over a perennial powerhouse. “It was another game that was circled on our calendar, they obviously had a lot of good players,” said Romano of the matchup. “They had a lot of good arms, we were looking forward to this one. Luckily, we came out with a win today. I thought we played exceptionally on offense and the defense was amazing. We made two double plays.” The Raiders showed the depth of their batting order as Michael Jolly added an RBI and Carson Wehner went 2-for-3. “We train for it all year, I feel like we are built for ever y thing and any arm that can be thrown against us, velocity, non-velo movement,” said Romano. “I feel like we can handle it all, we work on that at practice.” In the wake of losing to
Peddie 4-1 on April 5, its only loss so far, Hun has been rolling since that setback. “Coach [Tom] Monfiletto said earlier in the season you never want to peak at the first game, you want to peak when May starts and it is time for the playoffs and everything,” said Romano of Hun, which defeated Lawrenceville 14-2 last Monday to improve to 10-1 and post its sixth straight win. “We just try to keep that same mentality, we try not to get too up or too down.” With Romano hitting .467 with 13 runs and a teamhigh 14 hits, that mentality is paying dividends. “For me, I always feel there is room for improvement,” said Romano. “I think it is just keeping that same approach and just keep hitting it up the middle. That is my game.” Romano has been thrived with a move to the number two spot in the Hun batting order, following lead-off hitter Carson Applegate. “I was hitting in the four spot,” said Romano. “Having Carson and me at the top of the lineup is a cool deal.” While Romano is also a star receiver for the Hun football team, he realized his future is on the diamond and has committed to attend Tulane University and play for its baseball program. “My whole life, I always wanted to play college football,” said Romano. “It is always a ton of fun but when it came down to it, I just wanted to play baseball. I had a wide range of recruitment but when I talked to coach [Travis] Jewett and I got down to New Orleans, I fell in love with it. That was the spot for me.” Hun head coach Tom Monfiletto is glad that Romano has focused on baseball. “Ben is having a phenomenal year, he is such an incredible hitter and is such an unbelievable athlete,” said Monfiletto. “He is so fun to coach but the most fun
part about coaching him is his energy. He does that in practice too. He is a ball of energy. He is hilarious and has an incredible personality that is infectious and engaging. He is a very, very solid young man.” Junior star Chiaravallo is emerging as a solid power hitter for the Raiders. “He has been seeing the ball really, really well, that homer was a bomb,” said Monfiletto of Chiaravallo, who has smacked a teamhigh five homers so far this spring. “He has been hitting really well and really consistently,” said Monfiletto. “In practice too, you see it too. He is another really, really good athlete. He is really explosive and strong. He works his butt off and it is fun to see it come to fruition this season.” The Hun pitchers had to work hard in the win over Seton Hall Prep as starter Ryan DiMaggio went four innings with four strikeouts and four walks and was relieved by Wehner, who went two innings, with Applegate coming on in the seventh to close the deal. “They are just an awesome team, there is no room to breathe in their lineup,” said Monfiletto of Seton Hall Prep. “Ryan just wasn’t as consistent as we are normally used to which is fine. It was still good enough to beat one of the best teams in the state. He just relied on his defense. Because they have played so well this year, he has the luxury of just being able to throw strikes and let the guys behind him do the work.” In Monfiletto’s view, his players have bounced back well after falling to Peddie. “The loss to Peddie was a humbling experience, that wasn’t a fluke, they beat us,” said Monfiletto, whose team hosts Steinert on April 30 and play at Don Bosco on May 1. “We have been pretty focused since then. The pitching has been great, defense has been good and we have been putting some good swings on balls so it is good.” Romano, for his part, is focused on making the most out of his final spring for Hun. “I think the most important thing is just taking one game at a time, just cherishing every moment with coach Mono, coach [Steve] Garrison, and my class mates,” said Romano. “I feel like this senior class is really tight as a group. We are just taking in every moment as we can.” —Bill Alden
With Senior Shortstop Riviello Emerging as a Leader, Hun Softball Looking Dominant with Sizzling 10-0 Start Christina Riviello has developed a take-charge attitude this spring in her senior season for the Hun School softball team. “I am normally quiet but I have taken more of a leadership role,” said Riviello. “I like to pick everyone up and make sure that everyone is included.” Last Saturday, shortstop R iv iello helped pick up Hun as it hosted the Blair Academy, hitting a double and scoring two runs as the Raiders prevailed 10-0. “I have been feeling more comfortable at bat,” said Riviello. “I have been working on keeping my head in and just driving the ball because I am not very big. I have got to use everything I have got.” Despite hitting in the bottom of the order, Riviello has emerged as an offensive catalyst for the Raiders. “I feel like I am up first a lot because the innings end before I get up for some reason,” said Riviello. “I like being first up in an inning.” With Hun off to a 10-0 start, the squad has made scoring first a habit this spring. “It is mostly everybody being aggressive and trying to take advantage,’ said Riviello. “We really came out with energy today. We all feel pretty good, even after making mistakes. You have
got to pick yourself up and you have fun.” Riviello is having fun playing shortstop. “I love it, I have not gotten many plays this year but when I do, it is really fun,” said Riviello. “I really enjoy it a lot.” A particularly enjoyable aspect of this spring for Riviello is having her sister, freshman third baseman Brianna, join the Hun squad. “It is a lot of fun, I like to pick her up if there are any errors or any thing,” said Riviello. “If she makes a good play, I will go over and give her a hug.” Hun head coach Kathy Quirk is having fun watching Riviello mature into a leader for the squad. “She is doing a nice job for us; she has really stepped up her leadership,” said Quirk. “She is quiet but she turns and talks to them, saying how many outs and asking where is the play. I think the two sisters work well together and they talk.” Sophomore star pitcher Lexi Kobryn produced yet another mound gem for the Raiders, holding Blair hitless with 13 strikeouts and no walks in five innings of work. She also went 3 for 3 at the plate with three runs and two RBIs. “L ex i has b e en doi ng a n i c e j o b of fe n s i v e l y,
defensively, and with her pitching,” said Quirk of Kobr yn, who started the season by pitching back-toback no-hitters. “Normally I rotate my pitchers but Lexi will throw again on Tuesday (against Lawrenceville). She is just has a little bit more speed than Jamie [Staub] has.” S t a u b, w h o h a s a l s o pitched well, has helped the club with her glove and bat. “Jamie is good, she also does a great job at first base,” said Quirk of Staub, who ripped a triple and scored t wo r uns against Blair. “I am very, very happy with her.” Quirk points to the team’s chemistry as a key to its hot start. “I am surprised, I think we have really jelled as a team,” said Quirk, whose team will look to keep rolling as it hosts Lawrence High on April 29 and Hopewell Valley on April 30 before playing at Blair on May 3. “They support each other. They work together and they have fun.” For Riviello, that camaraderie is making for a memorable final campaign. “We all love playing, we have so much fun at practice and at the games,” said Riviello. “We are all friends, so we play a lot better. I obviously want a good last season. With this team, everything is so fun and it is a great senior year.” —Bill Alden
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Sparked by Romano’s Superb Hitting, Athleticism, Hun Baseball Tops Seton Hall Prep to Keep Rolling
IN THE SWING: Hun School softball player Christina Riviello takes a swing in recent action. Last Saturday, senior shortstop Riviello smacked a double and scored two runs to help Hun defeat the Blair Academy 10-0. The Raiders, who improved to 10-0 with the victory, host Lawrence High on April 29 and Hopewell Valley on April 30 before playing at Blair on May 3. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Hun Girls’ Lax Goalie Vitale Enjoys Special Birthday, Coming Up Big as Raiders Stifle PDS in 10-6 Victory Last Friday was Angelina Vitale’s 17th birthday, and she celebrated by giving a gift to the Hun School girls’ lacrosse team as it played at the Princeton Day School. Playing under rental lights brought in for the night game, junior goalie Vitale saw the ball fine, producing a brilliant performance that saw her make nine saves including several point blank stops as Hun stifled PDS for a 10-6 win. Vitale and her teammates were fired up for the Friday night lights clash with their crosstown rival. “We played a hard game against them last year and didn’t come out on top,” said Vitale. “We worked hard in practice and really came out strong today with energy. It was their home field so we knew we had to bring a lot of energy and intensity and play with heart.” The Raider defense showed plenty of heart as it clogged up the crease area to thwart the Panthers and jump out to a 7-1 halftime lead. “It was really stay stickon-stick with the cutters and play with speed,” said Vitale. “We have a lot of new players on defense so it just is digging deep. If they can’t get the ball, they can’t score. We really stuck with them, we stayed on their sticks.” Vitale stuck with it as she dealt with the somewhat dimly lit field. ”Looking up into the light is a little hard sometimes,” said Vitale. “On clears, I was running with the ball so I could make sure that I could get it to my teammates, it was staying big in the goal, that is all you can do.” Hun maintained its focus as PDS started the second half with a 3-1 run but could never get closer than four goals. “We got the defense together, we talked about what we were doing and we
made sure not to let that get us down,” said Vitale. “You can’t let one goal determine the momentum of the game. We would get a good turnover and start it right back up.” In her third season with the Hun program, Vitale has become a vocal leader on the field for the Raiders. “I love playing lacrosse, I love my teammates and I want to be a voice for them,” said Vitale. “I want to help them as much as I can. I make sure that I am making them feel comfortable and not letting them get down on themselves. If we let a goal in, it is the whole unit together. We need to make sure that not just one person is taking the blame. I would like to be that voice and lead them. If they don’t know where to go, I help them out with that and just make sure that we are keeping our energy up.” Hun head coach Kathleen Jaeger liked the energy her team displayed from the opening draw. “I think coming off the game with Hill (a 16-9 loss on April 20), we were ready to go,” said Jaeger. “Hill was a very tough team, we came ready to go from that game so thanks to them. I think the big goal today was to stay big, to stay playing together and getting our heads up.” The trio of Ava Olender, Oliv ia K im, and Maggie Maffia helped Hun dominate draw controls and also prov ided the offense as Olender tallied five goals with Kim and Maffia adding two apiece. “Ava, Olivia, and Maggie do a great job, the three of them together,” said Jaeger. “They were not afraid to try something a little bit new on the draw, It kind of went to everybody. There wasn’t just one of them getting every single one. It was nice to see them help their teammates. One boxes while one gets ball.”
Jaeger credited Vitale with doing a great job in goal. “Angelina has this calm, composed demeanor to her at all times,” said Jaeger. “I think the defense really fed off of that today, knowing that she was behind them. They had the confidence so they were not afraid to put on a little more pressure than they normally would.” When PDS put the pressure on Hun with its second half run, the Raiders responded. “I think the intensity from PDS was awesome, it really challenged us to play to the top of our game,” said Jaeger. “It came down to ball possession, who wins the draw, who had the offensive possession and who was able to take control of it. We played a lot of defense in the second half. I think in transition it was just continuing to keep possession and take our time rather than rush because of the excitement and intensity of the game.” In Jaeger’s view, the intensity displayed by Hun last Friday bodes well for the rest of the spring. “In the season, you continue to build on what you do each game and I think we really saw that tonight,” said Jaeger, whose team lost 12-8 to the Shipley School (Pa.) last Monday to move to 4-5 and hosts Germantown Academy (Pa.) on April 30 and then plays at Lawrenceville on May 3 in the state Prep A semis. “They were ready to play together, they were ready to play with intensity and energy and just not give up.” Vitale, for her part, believes things are coming together for the Raiders. “We have had a pretty rough start and it is just getting that momentum,” said Vitale. “We just needed to get our energy up and get our chemistry together. We have been working really hard in practice to bond and to work on the small things. That really showed today.” —Bill Alden
Sparked by Freshman Lee’s Scoring Prowess, Stuart Lacrosse Heading in the Right Direction It didn’t take long for Allison Lee to make an impact this spring in her freshman season for the Stuart Countr y Day School lacrosse team. The skilled midfielder tallied four goals in a season opening 17-7 defeat to Princeton Day School on April 4 in a harbinger of things to come. “Everyone has their role on the team and my role has been to help with the scoring,” said Lee. “I can always count on my team. They are always supporting me so it allows me to score.” L a s t We d n e s d ay, L e e scored early and often, tallying seven goals and two assists in a 14-4 win over Rutgers Prep as the Tartans posted their second win in the last three games. “In practice, we have been working really hard, we have been working on different plays,” said Lee. “It is a lot about the teamwork. In the beginning, it was little bit rougher but then we started to come together. The whole team has been working really hard and it has been showing in the results.” While Lee is making it look easy, she acknowledged that adjusting to high school lacrosse has been challenging. “It has been hard mentally getting into the groove,” said Lee, who took up lacrosse in third grade and plays for a club program. “But I can rely on my team so much.” Forming a one-two punch with junior star Emily Ix has helped Lee get into the groove. “I love working with Emily, she is so nice and she
is an excellent player,” said Lee, who tallied four goals and five assists to help the Tartans edge the Ranney School 12-11 last Friday as they improved to 3-5. “She and I just really click together, it has been nice playing with her.” Stuart head coach Mark Maser liked the way the Tartan offense clicked in the win over Rutgers Prep as it jumped out to a 9-0 lead with five different players scoring goals. “We are evenly distributing the ball, nobody is too possessive of it,” says Maser. “We are looking for the open player and that is what we have been stressing on practice.” Stuart has been looking for Lee around goal. “Allison keeps getting a little bit better every day; we have talked to her about moving the goalie and placing the shots because she has that talent to do it,” said Maser of Lee, who has tallied a team-high 46 points on 33 goals and 13 assists. “She is motivating others through her play. She is modeling good play and others see it. She might not be the most outspoken. Rather than leading by words, she is leading by deed and example.” Junior Anna Landis has been providing the Tartans with some good play, coming up with three goals against Rutgers Prep. “Anna has been working on her shot,” said Maser. “She has a lot better shot placement, that has helped quite a bit. She realizes next year that she is going to be
stepping up in a different role. We have been running her more in midfield when we get the opportunity to start to train for that next year.” The Stuart defense has been stepping up in recent action. “We are being more aggressive on defense,” said Maser. “We are playing more closer to the ball, we are bringing the defense more to them.” With Stuart slated to start action in the state Prep B tournament this week where it is seeded sixth and was scheduled to play at thirdseeded PDS on April 26 in a first round contest, Maser believes his squad is headed in the right direction. “The biggest areas of progress have been finding the open person and increasing our lacrosse IQ,” said Maser, whose team will also be playing at Hamilton West on April 27. “It is understanding that it is just as important for the off ball players to be doing the right thing as well as the ball carrier. We are starting to understand positioning. We are starting to understand that you have multiple options. We are trying to set up a basic offense with the ball carrier having two choices. They keep playing, they keep chugging along.” Lee, for her part, believes that Tartans will keep chugging along. “We are going to keep building on what we have been working on in practice,” said Lee. “I can’t say enough about the foundation that these upperclassmen have provided for our team. Our wins are nice but we are getting closer and close in our losses.” —Bill Alden
IMMEDIATE IMPACT: Stuart Country Day School lacrosse player Allison Lee races upfield in a game earlier this season. Last Wednesday, freshman star Lee tallied seven goals and two assists to help Stuart defeat Rutgers Prep 14-4. On Friday, Lee contributed four goals and five assists to help the Tartans edge the Ranney School 12-11 to improve to 3-5. Stuart was slated to start action in the state Prep B tournament this week where it is seeded sixth and was scheduled to play at third-seeded PDS on April 26 in a first round contest. In addition, the Tartans will be playing at Hamilton West on April 27. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) VITAL CONTRIBUTOR: Hun School girls’ lacrosse goalie Angelina Vitale, right, looks to clear the ball in a game earlier this season. Last Friday, junior star Vitale celebrated her 17th birthday by making nine saves to help Hun defeat Princeton Day School 10-6. The Raiders, who lost 12-8 to the Shipley School (Pa.) last Monday to move to 4-5, host Germantown Academy (Pa.) on April 30 and then play at Lawrenceville on May 3 in the state Prep A semis. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Boys’ Lacrosse: Clicking at both ends of the field, Hun defeated Princeton Day School 16-4 last Friday. The Raiders, now 5-3, host Haddonfield High on April 28 and the Westtown School (Pa.) on April 30 Boys’ Tennis: Competing in the opening round of the Mercer County Tournament last Monday, Hun posted first round wins in two flights. Kevin Jaeger advanced at third singles as did the pair of Scott Richmond and Andrew Zhang at
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Baseball: Hawkins Sutter went 1 for 3 with a run in a losing cause as Lawrenceville fell 14-2 to the Hun School last Monday. In upcoming action, the Big Red, now 5-3, have a doubleheader at Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) on April 30. G irls’ Lacrosse : Lexie Koch starred as Lawrenceville defeated the Blair Academy 14- 6 last Saturday. Koch
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in April 30, plays at Peddie on May 2, and at George School (Pa.) on May 3. Girls’ Lacrosse : Coming up short in a defensive battle, Pennington got edged 5-4 by George School (Pa.) last Friday. The squad, now 1-6, plays at Newark Academy in the first round of the state Prep B tournament on April 29 and then hosts Moorestown Friends on May 2.
Baseball : Will Bercaw had two RBIs but it wasn’t enough as Pennington fell 9-6 to Princeton Day School las t Fr iday. T he s quad, which moved to 3-5 with the defeat, hosts PDS on April 28, plays in the Papa Bear Baseball: Ryan Vandal tournament at Delran High starred as PDS defeated the Pennington School 9-6 last Friday. Vandal went 3-for 4 with a run and three RBIs in the win for the Panthers. PDS, which fell 21-1 to Burlington Township last Saturday to move to 2-6, hosts the Peddie School on April 27, plays at Pennington School on April 28 and at New Egypt on May 2. Softball: Running into a buzz saw, PDS fell 18-2 to Hopewell Valley on April 19. The Panthers, who moved to 3-3 with the loss, are slated to host Ewing on April 27, Princeton High on April 29, and Rutgers Prep on May 2. Boys’ Lacrosse: A late rally fell short as third-seeded PDS fell 6-5 to secondseeded Morristown-Beard in the state Prep B semis last Monday. The Panthers trailed 5-0 at halftime before scoring three goals in the third quarter to turn the game into a nail-biter. PDS, now 2-6, hosts the Peddie School on April 27. Boys’ Tennis: Joshua Chu and Jason Wu stepped up as PDS competed in the opening round of the Mercer County Tournament last Monday. Chu advanced to the semifinals at first singles while Wu followed suit at third singles. PAIGE TURNER: Princeton Day School girls’ lacrosse player Paige Gardner heads to goal in In addition, Neel Adusumilli recent action. Last Friday night, junior star Gardner tallied five goals in a losing cause as PDS and Oliver Silverio advanced fell 10-6 to Hun and moved to 4-5. PDS was slated to start action in the state Prep B tournament to the semis at first doubles. this week where it is seeded third and was scheduled to host sixth-seeded Stuart Country Day The MCT semis and finals on April 26 in a first round contest. In addition, the Panthers will be hosting the Peddie School are slated for April 27 at the Mercer County Park tennis on April 27 and Princeton High on April 29. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) complex.
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THE RIGHT STUFF: Princeton High baseball player Kenny Schiavone fires a pitch in a game last season. Last Saturday, senior Schiavone tossed a one-hitter with 11 strikeouts and no walks as PHS defeated Ewing 3-0. The Tigers, who edged Allentown 6-5 last Monday to improve to 6-5, play at Trenton Central on April 28 before hosting South Hunterdon on April 30 and Nottingham on May 2 and then playing at Hamilton West on May 3. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
PHS Girls’ Lacrosse : Riley Devlin had a huge game as PHS defeated WW/P-North 17-6 last Monday. Sophomore standout Devlin tallied seven goals and two assists for the Tigers, now 9-3. PHS hosts Allentown on April 27 and plays at Princeton Day School on April 29. Softball: Unable to get its bats going, PHS fell 12-0 to Allentown last Monday. The Tigers, now 0-8, play at Trenton Central on April 28 and at Princeton Day School on April 29, host Nottingham on May 2, and then play at Hamilton West on May 3. Boys’ Tennis: Coming up big in the first day of action at the Mercer County Tournament last Monday, PHS advanced to the semis in four of the five flights at the competition. Jonathan Gu made the semis at first singles as did Melvin Huang at second singles. Roberto Haubold and Jason Singer advanced to the semis at first doubles while Nikita Medvedev and Varun Vaidyanathan followed suit at second doubles. The MCT semis and finals are scheduled for April 27 at the Mercer County Park tennis complex.
Local Sports Princeton Post 218 Legion Baseball Holding Tryout
The Princeton American Legion Post 218 baseball team is holding a tryout on May 1 from 1-3 p.m. at Smoyer Field. The program encourages all interested high school players from P r inceton High S chool, Princeton Day School, Hun School, and Notre Dame High School or any players who live in the towns of Princeton and Cranbury to attend these two sessions. In addition, first-year college freshman born in 2003 are also eligible to play this year. For more information on the program and to RSVP for the tryouts, one should contact Jon Durbin at jonwdurbin@gmail.com.
Run for Kate 5K Slated for May 1
The Hun School is holding its 24th annual Run for Kate on May 1 at 9 a.m. as part of its alumni weekend celebration. The five-kilometer run/ walk starts and finishes on the Hun School track and features a course that winds through the neighborhood surrounding the school. For more information on the event and to register, log onto hunschool.org and hit the alumni link and go to the news and events section. The event honors the late Kate Gorrie ’98, and provides an opportunity to support the Katherine Wright Gorrie ’98 Memorial Scholarship, that allows a deserving student to have the opportunity to attend Hun. This scholarship is awarded to a student who “best exemplifies Kate’s qualities — love of family and friends, respect for the environment, joy and radiance of expression and demeanor, integrity, a desire to acquire and impart knowledge, and a commitment to community service.”
Bailey Basketball Academy Offering Spring Programs
The Bailey Basketball Academy (BBA) has announced the schedule for its upcoming spring hoops programs. Participants will have an opportunity for competitive travel play, individualized instruction, skills development, and fundamentals as well as league play. BBA is led by former Princeton Day School girls’ hoops coach and Philadelphia 76ers camp director and clinician Kamau Bailey. The BBA spring program will include two competitive boys’ travel teams (second-fifth grade and sixth-eighth grade), weekly practices, and the Shot King Shooting Program and Player Development Skill Sessions for elementary through high school players (boys and girls). BBA programs stress fundamentals and team play with emphasis on ball handling, shooting, passing, footwork, speed, agility, movement with and without the ball, one-on-one moves, defense, and other hoops skills. Parents can sign their players up for hoops programs for boys and girls all ages through the month of April. For more information, contact Kamau Bailey at (917) 626-5785 or kamau.bailey@ gmail.com.
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Bruce Finnie Bruce Finnie began his life in Memphis, and though he left just after his first decade, it was a place that left its stamp on him, expressed through his lifelong love of jazz and southern barbeque, and rich, vivid memories of fishing with his father on the wild Mississippi River delta between Tennessee and Arkansas. His life there, poised to join his father in a roofing business (with “& son” already painted on the door)
was disrupted suddenly and irrevocably by his father’s untimely death when Bruce was only 11. He was uprooted from the hot Memphis streets of his youth and taken to live with his grandparents in Cleveland. He would say of what followed that he had to “invent everything” about life from that point on, himself. His life pivoted yet again when, through his exemplary service as a paperboy for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he
was awarded a scholarship to Phillips Academy Andover in faraway Massachusetts. His mother refused the offer at first, but the donors persisted, and Bruce went off to join another world, a seminal, beloved place that would, as he said, become his family. At Andover, Bruce was exposed to teachers and fellow students that opened up a completely different path for his life, a path that took him to a full scholarship to Harvard and a life in higher education, including, for more than 30 years, at Princeton University. Bruce wore his credentials lightly. He declined to be referred to as “Dr. Finnie,” though his work at Harvard in Sociolog y included a sports fan study, and developing some of the first use of computers in sociological research, analyzing data from the now-famous Harvard health study. He and his best friend Harry Scarr became sought-after experts, and it was this expertise that drew him to Princeton. Recruited to be the Registrar, he asked, “what’s a registrar?” But he leaped in, and did not look back, automating registration, class scheduling, and grades at Princeton for the first time. This was the first of several roles at Princeton where he championed “zero errors” – but always put people first. He was a beloved manager and a relied-upon leader, tapped for a series of roles bringing computation to university processes. He became an iconic figure on the campus, walking with his beloved Beagle, “Took,” sending zingers on the squash courts at Dillon gym and on the softball field, and teaching as a “preceptor” in sports
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sociology, dubbed “Coach” by his appreciative students. He was an utterly devoted fan of Princeton basketball and football, and for decades held season tickets, rarely missing a game; he was also a die-hard fan of the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Browns, supporting these teams in victory and defeat in a way that fully manifested the original word “fanatic.” Perhaps because his own experience taught him that life can change on a dime, he created a life for his family that was grounded, stable, and balanced – a rock-solid foundation from which all could grow and thrive. He married his seventh grade sweetheart, Virginia “Ginnie” Boylan (who survives him) in 1954, and together, through their enduring bond, they raised three children and generously supported their partners, Matthew Finnie and his wife Carol Guttman Finnie, Ellen Finnie and her partner Jaime Basswerner, and Janet Finnie and her husband Rob Whiteside. He was cherished and loved beyond measure as a husband, father, and grandfather, to Daniel and Hannah Finnie, to Nat Duranceau, and to Phoebe and Ellen Whiteside. He was a north star, a bright beacon for them all – a man of unshakeable principle, markedly frugal for himself but generous with others, a colorful character who was never hesitant to share his views, but whose clear values – and openness to all people – created an indelible impression and were a guiding light and inspiration to his family and for all those whose lives he touched. A man who had to be his own guide from a very young age, he was sought out for advice, though he was very clear that “I don’t give advice, I help people find out what they already know.” Bruce never wavered in his understated but steadfast commitments: to family, to hard and “honest” work, to the institutions that shaped him, but also to the simple pleasures: his beloved sports, travel with Ginnie and special friends, birdwatching and berrypicking in the yard with his beloved grandchildren, a cigar, and time at the fireplace with the newspaper and crossword puzzle. Centered, balanced, clear, hardworking, unflappable – Bruce lived what he believed, without apology or uncertainty. His was a life fully and well lived, on his own terms, but always, always, with others in mind. Those who wish to honor his life and legacy may want to consider a donation to Phillips Academy Andover’s Financial Aid Scholarships (andover.edu /givenow) to which Bruce was a faithful supporter for over 20 years.
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J o h n Va n R e n n s e l a e r Rawson Jr., 87, of Skillman passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Monday, April 18, 2022. Fondly known as Skip, he was born in Plainfield, NJ, to parents John V. and Anna Mabel (Snoden) Rawson. Over the course of his career, Skip had many varied interests. Formerly chairman of the Loan Committee of Montgomery National Bank, he then founded Rawson Food Services, a Wendy’s franchise company. A lover of airplanes, motorcycles, boats, and cars, Skip embraced life with great enthusiasm. A retired Major in the United States Air Force, Skip continued to be active in the aviation community, including flying in the Tora! Tora! Tora! airshow group.
Memorial Service — Kassof Celebrating the life of Allen H. Kassof (1930-2021) Saturday, June 18 at 11:30 a.m. Institute for Advanced Study* Reception following RSVP/more info: kassofmemorial@gmail.com *All visitors to IAS must attest they are vaccinated and boosted.
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He was also involved in the Delaware Valley Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. Skip’s adventures also led him to the Thousand Islands where he restored Calumet Island and made it a family retreat. He adored being surrounded by his children, grandchildren, and friends. He had boundless energy, extreme loyalty, and was truly one of a kind. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother, Richard. He is survived by his loving wife Dr. Joyce H. Glazer as well as his children, Lisa and Steven Garb, Laura and Paul Butrico, John and Gail Rawson, Melony and Steve Baclini, and Hannah and Billy Theodat. He will be greatly missed by his grandchildren, Aimee, Dan, Tim, Anna, Erin, Holly, Jillian, John, Miles, and Logan. Skip is also survived by his sister, Carole Pratcher and brother, John Corey Rawson. There will be a private family burial at the Blawenburg Reformed Cemetery, 1006 Route 601 Skillman, NJ 08558. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Commemorative Air Force (delawarevalleywingcaf.org), the Antique Boat Museum in Clay ton, N Y (abm.org), and/or a charity of your choice. Arrangements are under the direction of MatherHodge Funeral Home.
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Call (609) 924-2200 ext 10; circulation@towntopics.com tf YARD SALE + TOWN TOPICS CLASSIFIED = GREAT WEEKEND! Put an ad in the TOWN TOPICS to let everyone know! Call (609) 924-2200 ext. 10; classifi eds@towntopics.com DEADLINE: Tues before 12 noon tf EXPERIENCED ELDER CARE for your loved one. Compassionate caregiver will assist with personal care, medication, meals, drive to medical appointments, shopping. Many local references. Call or text (609) 977-9407. 04-27-10t HOUSECLEANING: Experienced, English speaking, great references, reliable with own transportation. Weekly & bi-weekly cleaning. Green cleaning available. Susan, (732) 8733168. I have my own PPE for your protection. 04-27-8t HOME HEALTH AIDE/COMPANION AVAILABLE: NJ certified and experienced. Live-in or live-out. Driver’s license. References available. Please call Inez, (609) 227-9873. 04-27-3t GARAGE SALE: Saturday, April 30, starts 8 am. 25 MacLean Street, Princeton. Large printer, bikes, furniture, clothes and shoes, tools, costume jewelry, lawn furniture, framed artwork. 609-947-3009. 04-27 GARAGE SALE: Household items and appliances. Glassware, ceramics and serving pieces. Wall art. Tools.Friday (4/28): 12 –5pm. Sat: 10-5pm. Sun: 10–12pm 38 Cherry Brook Drive, Princeton 04-27 KARINA’S HOUSECLEANING: Full service inside. Honest and reliable lady with references. Weekly, biweekly or monthly. Call for estimate. (609) 858-8259. 04-27-7t GARAGE SALE, Saturday April 30, 8-4pm.110 Sayre Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540. Hardware and small tools.· French and American antique furniture. European clothing man/woman. Men equestrian clothing. Home accessories and small appliances. 04-27
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The process of buying and selling a home is complex. There are many moving parts involved in the transaction process. In some cases, not everything can be resolved, and a deal falls apart. It’s a good idea to become familiar with some of the most common reasons deals fall through, as some issues can be resolved by either a buyer or seller before the real estate process begins.
Here are some of the top reasons why deals fall through:
* Complications related to the home inspection. Sometimes the home inspection reveals
a major unexpected issue such as a structural defect, insect damage, or an issue with mold that that cause the buyer to walk away. * Unexpected issues related to the title. A title search can uncover issues such as outstanding liens, public record errors, taxes due, or child support payment issues. * Appraisal gap. If the appraisal of the home shows a value of less than the sales price, the bank may refuse to finance the property.
Fortunately, being prepared and working with an experienced Realtor can help resolve some common issues before they become deal breakers.
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