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COVID Cases Down, Masks Coming Off, Restrictions Lifting
Group Walks to Begin Again on Lawrence Hopewell Trail . . . . . . . . 5 Task Force Prepares Recommendation on Future of Cannabis in Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Municipality Gets Closer To Witherspoon Street Redesign . . . . . . . . . . . 10 NJSO Presents Second in Concert Film Series . . . 16 PU Rowers Excel in Nationals Despite Abbreviated Season, Limited Training . . . . 27 PHS Golf Makes History, Wins 1st CVC Match Play Tournament . . . . . . . 30
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On Tuesday, June 1, the Princeton Health Department reported just two new cases of COVID-19 in Princeton in the previous 14 days, and the state of New Jersey announced the lowest number of new cases since March 17, 2020 during the early weeks of the pandemic. Princeton Health Officer Jeff Grosser, sounding increasingly optimistic though still cautious and unwilling yet to suggest that we’re getting back to normal, noted, “We are continuing to see regional COVID cases trending downward, which is what we want to continue to see.” He discussed the changing protocols and practices of mask-wearing, in the wake of last Friday’s lifting of state mask mandates. “Last week we certainly had our fair share of inquiries on how to comprehend the lifting of mask-wearing restrictions,” said Grosser. “We have observed that many businesses are still leaning towards mask-wearing of workers and customers for the time being. We are supportive of this endeavor since it continues to protect our residents.” He continued, “With that said, we understand that as more individuals become vaccinated, there will likely be less of a need to mask, especially as we enter the summer months when we typically see fewer respiratory illnesses.” In addition to lifting the mask mandate on May 28, the state removed social distancing requirements, though unvaccinated people are still strongly encouraged to wear masks, and businesses can still require masks and social distancing. As of Friday, June 4, limits will be lifted on indoor gatherings, allowing full-capacity indoor concerts and sporting events. The Princeton Health Department will be holding its last second-dose clinic at the Princeton Senior Center on Thursday, June 3, which Grosser called “a milestone in Princeton’s centralized vaccination effort.” The health department continues to hold pop-up vaccination clinics at various locations in the community. Nearly 50 individuals, contacted through word of mouth and outreach efforts by community partners, were vaccinated last week at a pop-up site in collaboration with Lupita Grocery Store on Leigh Avenue. Grosser emphasized the importance of carefully planning the locations and Continued on Page 8
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PU Plan for Prospect Ave. Meets Resistance A Princeton University plan to move a former eating club building and demolish three Prospect Avenue homes is meeting with widespread resistance from local residents. As part of the University’s “East Campus” development plan, the project would raze three University-owned Victorian houses (at 110, 114, and 116 Prospect) and move the Court Clubhouse building at 91 Prospect across the street to the location formerly occupied by the three houses, making room for the new Environmental Science and Engineering and Applied Science complex on the south side of Prospect. An organization called Save Prospect Now has initiated a petition at change.org/ saveprospect, calling on the University to revise its plan in order to keep the Court Clubhouse building in place and preserve the three Victorian houses. The petition also urges local citizens to attend meetings of the Special Historic Preservation Commission on June 7 at 3 p.m. and the town Planning Board Hearing on June 17 at 7:30 pm., where Princeton University officials will be seeking site plan approvals and zoning variances to complete their plan. The petition, with about 200 signers as of noon on Tuesday, June 1, claims
that “none of the moving should be necessary.” It goes on to criticize the University’s construction plans for “inserting a large incompatible building and landscape, thus irreparably harming the Historic District and Prospect Avenue aesthetics and streetscape.” Moving the Court Clubhouse across the street would take it out of Princeton’s Historic District. Several letters in this week’s Town Topics Mailbox reflect and elaborate on many of the concerns voiced in the petition.
In a May 18 memo, Princeton Planning Department staff noted their concern with the University plan and proposed an alternative. “Considering Sustainable Development, historic preservation, and the priority of preserving and enhancing housing opportunities in Princeton, staff is concerned that three viable residential structures are being razed in order to move a contributing element of the Prospect Avenue row of eating club buildings from its current location,” Continued on Page 7
New Traffic Safety Initiative Aims to Halt Disturbing Trend Blame it on the pandemic, but motorists in Princeton have gotten dangerously sloppy in their driving habits. With fewer vehicles on the road to consider, things like rolling stop violations, speeding, and texting have increased to a point that has prompted the Princeton Police Department (PPD) to take action. “Limit It” is a new initiative launched last month by the department’s Traffic Safety Bureau. The program invites Princeton residents to sign a pledge stating they will obey the posted speed limit, put down their cell phones, and resist other distractions while driving. Those who sign will
be issued a “Limit It” magnet to affix to their vehicles. Traffic accidents in Princeton rose by 65 percent between March and April of this year. “We had 29 accidents in March, and 48 in April,” said Sergeant Thomas R. Murray III, the PPD’s Traffic Safety Bureau supervisor. “Obviously, as the traffic safety officer here, that makes me a little concerned. We’ve always had issues with driver inattention, but this is unusual.” Murray came up with “Limit It” as a response to the fact that some 80 percent of accidents are attributable to total Continued on Page 12
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A Community Bulletin Vaccine Clinics at Princeton University’s Jadwin Gym: Open to the public, including 12-15-year-olds. The Pfizer vaccine is given June 4, 12-5 p.m.; June 8, 2-7 p.m.; June 9, 2-7 p.m.; and June 11, 12-5 p.m. Register with the New Jersey Vaccine Scheduling System at covidvaccine.nj.gov/en-US. Limited walk-ins are available. Vax Pass: The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is offering State Parks Vax Passes to all New Jersey residents who have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccination by July 4. It allows free access to all of the state parks and forest facilities that charge fees. Visit nj.gov/dep/vaxandvisit for details. Summer Recreation Programs: The Princeton Recreation Department has several programs to offer youth this summer, including Summer Chess, Wonder of Magic Camp, the Youth Dance Program, and the Summer Youth Sports Program. Visit princetonnj.gov for details. Bags Needed: The Princeton Mobile Food Pantry seeks clean, handled paper grocery bags; large, laundered, cloth bags; and large, clean, Fresh Direct bags for their biweekly deliveries of fresh groceries. Drop points: on the walkways or steps of 83 Mount Lucas Road or 46 Henry Avenue; every other Wednesday morning (911 a.m., June 2, 16, and 30) at the former Bon Appetit site at Princeton Shopping Center. Contact info@pmfpantry.org or visit pmfpantry.org for more information. Free Financial Coaching: Offered by United Way of Greater Mercer County to help with debt management to those struggling during the pandemic. Visit uwgmc. org/financialcoaching. Information is also available in Spanish. Sustainable Princeton Survey: Princeton residents who maintain a yard or property are needed for a brief survey to help further the organization’s “Changing the Landscape” project. Visit sustainableprinceton.org. Scholarships Available: The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer is offering book awards to college-bound Jewish students who reside in the Princeton Mercer Bucks community and surrounding areas. The scholarships for academic books and supplies are awarded based on financial need, and students must be accepted and enrolled in a college or university for the fall semester 2021. Visit amy@foundatonjewish.org for more information.
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BACK AT IT: The Lawrence Hopewell Trail’s Saturday Morning Walking Club will hit the trails again on Saturday, June 5, after a long hiatus caused by COVID-19. Masks are optional. Members are pictured during their last walk in October 2020.
Group Walks To Begin Again On Lawrence Hopewell Trail For a growing group of nature enthusiasts, the morning of the second Saturday of each month has become a tradition. That’s when the Saturday Morning Walking Club takes to the Lawrence Hopewell Trail ( LHT) for some exercise, socializing,
and appreciation of the outdoors. The club has been on hold since October. Now that pandemic restrictions are lifting, walkers are scheduled to resume their monthly gatherings. But instead of the second Saturday, the group’s June walk is set for this Saturday, June 5, which is National Trails Day. “That’s more of a reason for us to celebrate,” said Becky Taylor, co-president of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail and host for the walks. “I thought it would be nice to link in to an event that recognizes the importance of trails.”
ship. They will cross over Keefe Road, enter Mercer Meadows, and wind across a field before going down a path leading toward the barn of the Pole Farm. “We don’t want to overdo it this fi rst time out,” said Taylor. “We just want to get everyone back together again.” The club’s walks are a year-round activity. “I remember that first year when it started getting colder, I thought we should pause over the winter,” said Taylor. “But too many people wanted to walk. So we kept going, although the walks aren’t as long in winter. Summer can actually be more grueling.”
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Taylor came up with the idea of the walking club a few years ago, when she and LHT co-president Eleanor Horne were looking for ways to engage the community. “We had some wonderful events already, like the Full Moon Ride and the Trail and Treat bike ride,” Taylor said. “But they are big and take a lot of work, and involve a lot of people. We wanted something much more low key and more consistent. Personally, I think it’s so much fun to get out on the trail and talk with people, and enjoy nature. I decided at one point, ‘I belong to a book club and we’ve had so much fun. Why can’t we do a similar thing with walks?’” The word got out. “We just invited anybody who wanted to come out to join us,” Taylor said. “As I chatted with the first ones who came, I told them, ‘You are now a member of the club.’ Now we have 150 people who have come out at least once, and many several times. There have been regulars. Over time, we’ve really gotten to know each other. Some people bring friends, but we’ve made friends, too. Some bring their dogs and their families.” While getting exercise is a key goal, the walks are not meant to be overly strenuous. This weekend’s stroll will be 2.7 miles round-trip. Participants will meet at the Bergen Street entrance of Village Park, close to Gordon Avenue in Lawrence Town-
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After initially halting in March of 2020, the club members resumed walks this past September and October before pausing once more. “At this point, I feel very joyous t hat we can get back out,” Taylor said. “I want to make it clear that if anyone wants to wear a mask, that’s fine. We won’t be asking people if they are vaccinated, though it’s fine to share if you want to. We don’t want to be invasive.” Participants should meet at 9:30 a.m. in the parking lot at Village Park. For more information, visit lhtrail.org. —Anne Levin
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T he leadership of t he Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber has announced that it will return to hosting in-person events. After moving to a virtual platform in March 2020, the organization will once again bring business and community leaders together in-person to foster greater opportunities for networking and business growth. In a survey done by the chamber, over 85 percent of respondents indicated they were ready for a return to in-person events. “Our members are ready to get back to business, and we are listening,” said Chamber CEO Hal English. “While we have been able to maintain – and in many cases even grow – our business relationships using technology for the past year, nothing can replace the synergy that is formed when we are in-person with our colleagues. With proper safety protocols in place, we look forward to bringing that energy back to the business community.” The first in-person event on the calendar is June 24’s Business After Business, which will be held at Arm & Hammer Park, home of the Trenton Thunder. The event will run from 5-7 p.m. and will include light appetizers, beer, and wine. It is open to both members and nonmembers of the Chamber. Among the in-person events plan ned for t h is summer are Princeton Pitch Stop, a program of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council, to be hosted by Grounds For Sculpture on July 13; Business After Business hosted by Ovation at Riverwalk on August 18; and the Chamber’s signature monthly luncheon at the Princeton Marriott on September 9. The guest speaker that day will be Rutgers Professor James Hughes, who will speak about the postpandemic economy. Because many Chamber programs require extensive pre-planning, the organization will continue to use a virtual platform for some events into the fall. The New Jersey Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will be virtual on September 30, and the New Jersey Conference for Women will use a virtual platform October 28-29. The Chamber will follow all CDC, state, local, and venue-specific guidelines regarding health and safety for all in-person events. Visit princetonmercer.org for details.
Rose: “I like to go to the beach and play in the sand. I like eating vanilla ice cream the most!” Alexander: “We like going on hikes in the summer. Visiting the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore is always a hit too. We also love it when the ice cream truck goes through the neighborhood.” —Rose and Alexander Englert, Princeton
Quinn: “I like all summer sports. I play soccer and club lacrosse.” Avery: “I like to go to the beach in the summer. I play beach volleyball, swim, eat ice cream, and spend time with friends and family.” —Quinn and Avery Gallagher, Lawrenceville
Megan: “We are looking forward to swimming in our pool and going to the beach. We are also looking forward to celebrating the Fourth of July with family and friends.” — Kaitlyn and Megan Christie, Princeton
Jane: “We like to play in the splash pad and go to the beach. We always visit the Mary Moss Playground in the summer, and we hope it will reopen this year. We really miss it.” Sadie: “I can’t wait to splash in the water again!” — Jane Tallon and Sadie Tallon McDonald, Princeton
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the memo states. “The University should consider retaining 91 Prospect Avenue on the southerly side of the street and incorporating it into the new ES - SE AS complex,” the memo continues. “This would allow for the three large residences (110-116 Prospect Avenue ) to be preser ved and renovated for housing.” The nonprofit Princeton Prospect Foundation, led by Board Chair Sandy Harrison, Board Member and Architect Karl Pettit, and Historic Preservation Consultant Clifford Zink, has issued a 19-page report calling on Princeton University to “develop a design for the ES+SEAS Development that follows National Park Service Policy by keeping the Court Clubhouse within the Princeton Historic District and preserving three historic houses to maintain the unique character and architectural significance of Prospect Avenue for the benefit of present and future generations.” The change.org petition further states, “the Princeton Historic District on Prospect Avenue (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) has long been considered the jewel of our town, with rows of stately eating clubs and charming turn-of-the-century homes. One author has dubbed it, ‘the most beautiful suburban street in America.’” The petition goes on to note that the University has nearly 15 acres available
for the East Campus project and that there is already a vacant lot adjacent to 91 Prospect with frontage for access to the proposed East Campus. T he p et it ion contends that the University proposal continues a trend of the University’s encroaching on residential neighborhoods, demolishing older homes, and replacing them with new academic buildings. “Already in the 2010s, multiple historic homes were torn down for campus development on adjoining Olden Street and on Alexander Street,” the petition states. “The proposed construction on Prospect would be another encroachment into the residential areas near Fitzrandolph Road and Broadmead Street, and would establish a precedent for new departmental buildings to creep further onto Prospect with the moving or demolition of other homes and clubhouses owned there.” The Cour t Clubhouse ceased to be an eating club in 1964. It became a nonselective, University-managed dining facility named Stevenson Hall in 1969, and it currently houses the office of the University’s dean for research. Deputy University Spokesman Michael Hotchkiss, in a June 1 email, supported the University’s plan and noted, “We are pleased to have the opportunity to share the process and thinking behind this project with the Historic Preservation Committee and the Planning Board at their upcoming meetings.” He added, “The University’s plan, developed in
clo s e con s u lt at ion w it h historic consultants, will provide much-needed new facilities for Environmental Studies and the School of Engineering and Applied Science while preserving the historic structure now at 91 Prospect.” Hotchkiss stated that the University would be open to initiating a process to request modification of the boundary of the Historic District “to include 91 Prospect at its new location.” He continued, “It is important to note that the structures at 110-116 Prospect are not in any historic district. And while 91 Prospect is in the New Jersey and National Register-listed Historic District, our plan does not trigger federal, state, or local review.” Hotchkiss emphasized the University’s commitment to preservation, adding, “The University takes great pride in its beautiful, historic campus and has restored and preserved approximately 80 historic buildings and landscapes on campus and in the adjacent neighborhoods in the past 20 years. In planning campus construction, we seek to balance the distinctive sense of place on campus with the need to advance Princeton’s teaching and research mission.” He also pointed out that the University is working w ith Pr inceton Prospect Foundation to restore the historic Prospect Avenue streetscape and will be providing 84 new trees to support that effort. —Donald Gilpin
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Isles, Inc., a Mercer County-based community development and environmental nonprofit, is hosting its first-ever virtual forum from June 7–12. This free event explores community development topics such as urban agriculture, lead safety, youth violence prevention, healthy housing, and green jobs in a series of webinars, panels, and workshops. The forum is open to the public as part of Isles’ 40 Years of Impact Celebration, acknowledging the learning, sharing, and innovation that has been core to Isles’ approach since its founding in 1981. “Over four decades, we’ve tested different approaches to family self-reliance and healthy communities, learning what works, trying new things, and sharing with others,” said Isles’ Chief Executive Officer Sean Jackson. “This forum is a way we can bring together folks from around the country to tackle a range of topics critical to fostering healthy, sustainable communities.” The forum includes five themed days with 18 sessions that feature Isles staff, guests, and topic experts. Isles’ Founder Marty Johnson kicks off the forum on Monday, June 7 with the session, “Climate Change, Environmental Hazards, and the City: What’s an Organization to Do?,” exploring the environment and critical urban issues. During Tuesday’s “Urban Placemaking” sessions, CEO Sean Jackson will highlight the Social Profit Center at Mill One.
year, is building a collaborative environment where nonprofits and social impact groups can work together and learn from each other regularly,” he said. “This forum is the embodiment of that spirit, and displays the type of programming we want to offer in the Center once we can safely gather together again.” On Thursday, Isles’ Chief O p erat i ng O f f icer Joh n Hart and others will lead a session titled, “Challenges and Lessons in Developing Anti-Racist Organizations,” which explores Isles’ journey to becoming an actively anti-racism organization
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times for clinics in order to serve residents who are unable to take time off from work or who face family hardships with child care or adult care. The Princeton Health Department has also initiated a Mobile Vaccination Program, allowing interested businesses, community organizations, or places of worship to host health department staff on location during a time of their choice. Email jgrosser@princetonnj. gov for details. Princeton University is continuing to host a series of COVID-19 vaccination clinics that are open to the public, including 12-15 year olds. The Pfizer vaccine will be administered in clinics at Jadwin Gymnasium on campus on Wednesday, June 2, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday, June 4, 12 to 5 p.m.; Tuesday, June 8, 2 to 7 p.m.; Wednesday, June 9, 2 to 7 p.m.; and Friday, June 11, 12 to 5 p.m. Limited walkups are possible, but interested individuals should register with New Jersey’s Vaccine Scheduling System at covidvaccine.nj.gov to secure an appointment. Mercer County’s mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit will be offering vaccinations on Wednesday, June 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 640 South Broad Street in the parking lot across from the County Administration Building and on Friday, June 4, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 930 Spruce Street, Lawrence, in the parking lot next door to the Trenton Farmers
Market. Capital Health staff will administer the singledose Johnson & Johnson vaccine to individuals 18 and older with registration in the New Jersey Vaccine Scheduling System encouraged but not required. Additional County vaccination sites, with appointments not required, include the CURE Insurance Arena, 81 Ham ilton Avenue in Trenton, in partnership with Capital Health on Saturday, June 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the Mercer County Park Skating Center in West Windsor, in partnership with Penn Medicine Princeton Health, on Thursday, June 3, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. About 56 percent of the state’s adults have been fully vaccinated so far, and more than 232,000 children between the ages of 12 and 17 have also been vaccinated in New Jersey. More than 4 million people who live, work, or study in New Jersey have now been fully vaccinated at New Jersey sites. Grosser pointed out that vaccines can help protect the population against variants that have been seen around the world. Variants have been most prominent in countries with lower vaccination rates. “It does demonstrate the importance of global public health,” he said, “and how until all countries see high vaccine uptake, the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to smolder.” —Donald Gilpin
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D & R Greenway L and Trust has announced the permanent preservation of its 316th property since its 1989 founding, less than a half mile from where the land trust first purchased land for preservation. This multigenerational half acre, made up of scenic woodland along Hopewell-Wertsville Road, is the second parcel of land preserved by the Marino family with D&R Greenway. Donated by the Marino siblings, preservation of this roadside woodland ensures continuation of the rural character of the area. During its first decade, the Marino family was among the earliest preservationists with D&R Greenway. Their initial preserved property contributed to the core of the land trust’s Sourlands Ecosystem Preserve that now protects over 3,000 acres within New Jersey’s largest contiguous forest. “On behalf of the Marino family, I would like to thank D&R Greenway and attorney Richard Goldman for accepting our donation of property in Hopewell,” said Gary Marino. “This property had been owned for 100 years by three generations of Marinos. Many family memories are associated with the property. We are so happy that the land will be preserved in its natural state by D&R Greenway for many generations to come.” This sparsely populated area known as the Sourlands includes par ts of Somerset, Hunterdon, and Mercer counties. Groundwater recharge and healthy Sourlands streams that flow
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SCENIC WOODLANDS: The Marino family has preserved a half-acre property along HopewellWertsville Road. It is D&R Greenway Land Trust’s 316th property to be permanently preserved since its founding in 1989. into the Delaware & Raritan Canal and the Millstone River protect drinking water for over 1.2 million New Jerseyans. The new preserve, which D&R Greenway CEO and President Linda J. Mead refers to as “a piece of heaven,” also connects to the Hunterdon Sourlands Preserve. “The first property protected by D&R Greenway was also the very first acquisition in New Jersey completed with the new, at the time, NJ Green Acres nonprofit grant funds,” said Mead. “T his acquisition brings us full circle, occurring in the same year that we are celebrating the NJ Green Acres Program’s 60 th anniversary.” Protection of this land prevents incursions of houses,
driveways, and hardscapes, ensuring natural habitat for wild creatures. Among avian species present in the Sourlands in spring and fall migration seasons, and that depend on this habitat for breeding and survival, are the red-bellied, downy, hairy, and the rare pileated woodpecker; vivid northern flicker; eastern towhee, American woodcock;
red-tailed hawks; and other significant raptors. The Sourland Mountain region has been designated an official Important Bird Area [IBA] by the National Audubon Society. The area contains approximately 25,000 acres of mature, contiguous forest, 7,500 acres of wetlands and 20,000 acres of agricultural land in active production.
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Princeton municipal website. “Finally, the CTF will investigate how Princeton can best affi rm its commitment to social and restorative justice in terms of how cannabis policing and enforcement is done.” The 23-member CTF includes local representatives from the medical, business, law enforcement, and legal communities, as well as public schools, social services, Princeton University, municipal government, and a number of other organizations. Pr inceton Cou ncil has been advised by its attorney that a decision to opt in would involve a land use ordinance and would have to go through the Planning Board before coming back to Council, so this month would be the actual effective date for making a decision before the August deadline. Niedergang noted some reluctance among committee members to opt out, fearing that opting out would send an indication of Princeton’s lack of interest, but she disagreed. “My understanding is that it would send a signal that we’re not ready to commit to something when we don’t know what the rules and regulations will be and what will be the impact,” she said. “The CRC doesn’t expect to have its rules determined until sometime in August, but towns are being asked to make decisions about what they want to do without all the information they need to make those decisions.” Niedergang expects that
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yes, where to zone for such an industry and what to do with the tax revenues that might be generated. There is also a subcommittee on education, outreach, and enforcement, working on delivering educational messages for different populations and recommending prosecutorial and police enforcement around cannabis that reflects the community’s values. Given the short time frame for making the initial opt-in or opt-out decision and the current lack of specificity on state regulations from the CRC, Niedergang is leaning towards postponing the decision by opting out as a temporary measure. “I feel comfortable making a temporary decision that has only minor implications, but making a major decision without community input is not how I want to operate, and I don’t think anyone on Council would want to operate that way,” she said. Both the Princeton CTF and the state CRC have meetings scheduled for this week. The CTF, Princeton Council, and the state have committed to keeping social and racial justice in the forefront of all discussions and recommendations concerning the cannabis industry. “The CTF will, using the best data available and upto-date science on the impact of cannabis use, develop the most accurate and effective educational message for minors, adults, and senior citizens for this now-legal product,” according to the
feature presentations on website (princetonnj.gov) for the effects of cannabis on people who are interested the brain at various ages by in listening or commenting, CTF member and neurosci- and the CTF is also welcomentist Abby Kalmbach and ing community input in the CTF member and Doctors subcommittees. for Cannabis Regulation “The CTF would love to founder David Nathan. The hear from voices in the comJuly 8 meeting will focus on munity, or individuals can “Cannabis and social justice reach out to me directly,” — what can Princeton do?” Niedergang said. The CTF meeting schedule —Donald Gilpin is posted on the municipal CONGRATULATIONS
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Following the passage last November of a ballot issue to legalize recreational use of cannabis in New Jersey and the governor’s signing of follow-up legislation into law on February 22, Princeton is faced with a decision of whether to opt in or opt out on allowing any of six cannabis industry licenses (cultivation, manufacturing, wholesaling, distribution, retail, and delivery). With an August deadline, many related decisions still to be made, and much information from the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission still forthcoming, Princeton can choose to opt out now and then opt in at any later point or to opt in now with a lock-in period of five years. Cannabis Task Force (CTF) Chair Eve Niedergang, a Princeton Council member, pointed out that the decision is not really over whether or not there will be cannabis in Princeton. “It’s really important to remind people that, because of the way New Jersey law is written, deliveries will be allowed everywhere,” she said. “So there’s nothing we can do even if we want to prevent deliveries here. If people are objecting because they don’t want cannabis in the community, that battle has already been fought and lost.” The CTF started meeting in April, with a subcommittee on economic and community impact working on the question of whether to opt in to any element of the cannabis industry and, if
Princeton and the state will know more after this week, as the work of the CTF continues. She expects her committee to complete its task by the end of 2021, with a consensus on Princeton’s participation in the cannabis industry and a final recommendation to Council. In the meantime she is anticipating significant public input through ongoing committee meetings, all open to the public, and a larger public meeting on the issue. “There will be concerns that people will have. People who are advocates for having it in the community and people who are opposed will want to be heard, and that’s what local democracy is all about,” she said. Niedergang said she has received a few emails from people eager to see the cannabis industry as a way to attract people to the downtown area and also as a way to generate revenue for social equity and racial justice causes. She has also heard from a number of people interested in exploring Princeton as a possible cannabis business location and one email opposed to opting in on any aspect of the cannabis industry, but she suspects that the issue “hasn’t really come to the front of people’s consciousness yet.” So far at its meetings the CTF has heard presentations from Hugh O’Beirne, CTF member and Cannabis Advisory Group co-founder; Municipal Planner Michael LaPlace; and Zoning Officer Derek Bridger; and a briefing from Municipal Attorney Trishka Waterbury. The June 10 meeting will
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Following a May 25 work session on the details of an improvement project for Witherspoon Street between Nassau Street and Paul Robeson Place, Princeton Council gave the go-ahead for municipal staff to try and come up with a final design. A major motivation is $600,000 in state funding, which must be applied for, with a plan in place, by August 3. There was considerable discussion among members of Council, members of the public, and local business owners
on different aspects of the plan. Acting Municipal Administrator Bob Bruschi and Municipal Engineer Deanna Stockton said they will work on a final proposal and come back to Council within two weeks at a meeting, during which comments by the public can still be made and considered. “Pushing us is a schedule we have to adhere to, to get to the finish line,” said Bruschi. “In the next few months, we hope to award a contract, but there are a lot of hoops we have to jump
through to get the state funding we’ve looked to get, and get our project lined up to begin it later this year or next year.” While it was decided earlier to keep the roadway one way going north, as it has been during the pandemic, there were some from the public who expressed hope that it could be closed to vehicular traffic. As it stands, the one-way design will be maintained, with the ability built in to close it to vehicles for certain events. Busines s ow ners f rom
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said his top priority is maximizing pedestrian space, with the cartway minimized as much as possible. “There will be some pain as we adjust to new traffic patterns, but in a year or two they will be forgotten and the wonderfulness of the new design will be treasured every day by members of the community. It’s important not to be timid about making the best decisions for the design of the street.” Councilwoman Mia Sacks said many people have told her they were upset that the street will not be pedestrian-only, and don’t want the option to return it to two-way from one-way in the future. Mayor Mark Freda said he has heard the opposite. “The vast majority who have talked to me are very much in favor of keeping the two-way option,” he said. Accommodating emergency services and deliveries are major considerations and affect the decision on the width of the street. The increasing popularity of biking should also be taken into account when coming up with a design, several people commented. Bruschi said parking, loading zones, parking, stormwater management, and green infrastructure will all be taken into account. “Once we incorporate all of these things, we will have other issues like wayfinding, types of parking, and other things,” he said. “Those are decisions we can make over the next few months.” —Anne Levin
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P r i n c e to n C o m m u n i t y Television (PCTV), provider of Public Television programing in Central New Jersey, has partnered with the New Jersey Flight, New Jersey’s Indoor football organization, to broadcast their 2021 home games. PCTV is carried by Verizon and Comcast in addition to a multiple streaming service throughout the region. The first New Jersey Flight indoor football game took place on Friday, May 28 at Cure Arena in Trenton. The New Jersey Flight is a member of the National Arena League and will play an eight-game schedule. “We are thrilled to broadcast the New Jersey Flight indoor football games and expand the viewership of this exciting sport throughout our Central New Jersey region,” said George McCollough, executive director of Princeton Community Television. “We are honored to have the opportunity to partner with Princeton Community Television (PCTV), the leading provider of public television programing in Central New Jersey,” said Terrance Foster, head coach for the Jersey Flight. “Our goal is to become a pillar of suppor t and net working for our youth in Trenton and beyond, and with this partnership we will have better reach into our neighboring communities to display our Championship Brand.” Peter Crowley, vice chairman of Princeton Community Television, said, “As the region’s only public television station, Princeton Community Television continues to expand our programming to meet the needs of our communities. We will continue to broadcast and provide new programming including local news, sports, political discourse, and unique community programming options for our business and nonprofit members as well as our community television viewers.” Visit princetontv.org for more information.
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driver inattention. “It isn’t just the phones. It’s all the electronics,” he said. “People are looking at the GPS, changing the radio station, texting, and making calls. Or maybe their coffee fell out of the cup holder.” In a report about the initiative, Murray wrote, “Data has shown that reading a text and/or focusing on a GPS unit contained within the interior of a vehicle while traveling at 55 miles per hour is like driving the full length of a football field while blindfolded, an incredibly alarming fact to say the least.” By asking drivers to sign a pledge, Murray hopes to encourage them to take responsibility for their driving habits rather than blaming someone else. “I think we’ve become a generation of people that always points the finger at others, and are very hesitant to acknowledge our own actions,” he said. “The No. 1 complaint in town is that people are speeding. And there is truth to that. But we often find that the very people who complain are doing it themselves, maybe without realizing it.” The pandemic has also
resulted in an increase of distracted walking incidents, in some cases due to social distancing concerns. “Motorists need to be aware of the same so they can adjust accordingly by slowing down and remaining more attentive to the fact that they may not be aware of their presence when approaching,” Murray’s report reads. Taking the pledge makes motorists part of the solution. Participation is voluntary. Depending on how many drivers take part and the program’s success, it could be expanded in the future. In the meantime, all licensed drivers who live in Princeton and are in good standing with the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles can take the pledge by visiting PPD headquarters at 1 Valley Road, any time between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. “We’re just trying to stay ahead of things,” Murray said. “I don’t want to see the situation get out of control. Because now that the restrictions from the pandemic have been lifted, we all know there are going to be more people out and about. Drivers just need to limit so many of these bad habits in their vehicles, and taking the pledge means you are serious about doing it.” —Anne Levin
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Coalition for Peace Action To Hold Annual Gathering
Rep. Ro Khanna, top peace advocate and deputy whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, will keynote the Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) 40th anniversary virtual membership gathering at 7 p.m. on June 10. At the gathering, the CFPA will also present a Lifetime Achievement in Peacemaking Award to Daniel Ellsberg. Khanna has been the prime sponsor for numerous bills in Congress to promote peace, most recently introducing the Investing in Cures Before Missiles (ICBM) Act. He has also been primary sponsor or co-sponsor of efforts to officially end the Korean War, stop militarizing law enforcement, prevent nuclear proliferation, establish a nofirst-use policy, and enforce the authority of Congress to declare war. Ellsberg, renowned as a courageous whistleblower ever since releasing the topsecret Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, has had a long career in activist opposition to nuclear weapons and war. He recently released new secret documents about the U.S. seriously considering using nuclear weapons in the Taiwan crisis in 1958. At the age of 90, Ellsberg is again facing the possibility of a long prison sentence. Members of the public are invited to visit peace coalition.org to join or renew their CFPA membership and then register to attend the membership gathering. Membership and pre-registration are required to receive the Zoom link to this event.
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Princeton High School (PHS) students triumphed over 49 other teams from 14 states and the District of Columbia to bring home the first place prize in the 2021 Euro Challenge, a contest in financial literacy and specific knowledge of policymaking from a European Union perspective. The PHS team included Christopher Bao, Charles Kaswan, Alexander Margulis, Andre Penn, Debolina Sen, Christopher Shen, Cherie Sun, Arunima Suri, and Phillip Yan. Organized by the European Union Delegation to the United States, this year’s virtual contest marked the 16th edition of the Euro Challenge, an annual competition providing an opportunity for students from across the country to learn about the global economy, policy-making in the Euro area, and economic relations between the United States and the European Union. The PHS team will receive a monetary award provided by Moody’s Foundation and a virtual trip to Washington, D.C., to present their recommendations to the embassy of the country they researched. “The Euro Challenge puts students in the shoes of policymakers to consider innovative solutions to shared problems in order to build better societies — students become the decision-makers,” said European Union Ambassador to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis, speaking at the awards ceremony. “It also highlights the important economic relationship between the EU and U.S.” West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North was among the five runner-up schools in the competition.
Pennington School Supports Malawi Refugee Camp Students at The Pennington School have been providing needed resources to the schools at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, refurbishing iPads, presenting online math tutoring sessions, designing a hybrid sanitary napkin, and developing lessons on solar power for the high school at the African camp. A community service group at Pennington has been collaborating with the Nine Scholars nonprofit organization, which was co-founded by a group of students from boarding schools across the United States and China with the goal of donating materials to refugee schools and increasing international understanding of the refugee crisis. The first shipment to Malawi from the Pennington-Nine Scholars joint effort included 12 refurbished iPads, an iPad charging system, 200 face shields, 400 reusable face masks, and 1,000 disposable masks. In addition The Pennington School has donated 10 more refurbished iPads, an Owl 360-degree camera, a large-screen smart TV, 10 laptops, and numerous solar panel kits. Pennington students have also designed hands-on learning experiences for the students at the refugee camp.
Charter School Language Scholars Win National Recognition Princeton Charter School (PCS) students won honors recently in both the National French Contest and the National Spanish Contest. In the French Contest three of the 11 winners at the platinum level in grades 1-6 were from PCS, including third-graders Kaianne Mark and Alina Xiong and fifthgrader Madeleine Tsai. Sonya Bachurina and Kristine Wang were among only five national platinum winners at the seventh grade level. Many other PCS French students received recognition at the gold, silver, bronze, and honorable mention levels. In the Spanish language competition, PCS sixth grader Hannah Yap won one of three gold medals distributed in New Jersey; Emilie Shen and Henry Tsai won two of the 22 gold medals awarded to New Jersey seventh graders; and Cece Gibb brought home one of the 13 gold medals won by New Jersey eighth graders. Hun School students have recently departed from classrooms and textbooks for three-week mini-courses, immersing themselves in the outside world. Examining climate change and sustainability through architecture, agriculture, and economics; traveling to a national park to understand how nature is an essential part of the human experience; and exploring how a worldwide pandemic is predicted to change the medical field and the world economy are just a few of the challenges the Hun students have undertaken. The Hun School mini-semester, known as NextTerm, included such inter-disciplinary courses as Into the Open Spaces, which took students to the Delaware Water Gap and Shenandoah National Park, and Making Good Trouble, in which students met with activists in different fields to learn about many ways students can engage in activism and service by working with local and international organizations. “The opportunities students have through NextTerm are ones that don’t exist anywhere else,” said Otis Douce, director of Equity, Inclusion, and Global Diversity and teacher of Making Good Trouble. “The program provides experiences that are meaningful and foundational for who they are, who they become, and how they see the world.”
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The Pennington School Aviation Club recently designed a plane using flight simulation software to win second prize in the General Aviation Manufacturers’ Association (GAMA) Design Challenge. Competing against more than 60 teams from across the country, the Pennington squad of high schoolers started in January studying the science of aviation and airplane design. Then entered the competition in March. The planes were evaluated based on how fast they could fly and how much weight they could carry. “The Pennington team’s design incorporated an increased wingspan and area, increased engine power, and a streamlined fuselage,” according to the judges’ report. The team’s prize will include a custom aviation course from Redbird Flight Simulations. The Pennington aviation club team is led by science teacher Ryan Vogt, co-captained by Jonathan Eaton and Jack Wang, and also includes William Arthur, Nicholas Callan, Gavin Cui, Sebastian Drezek, Michael Krajci, Avani Prakash, Charles Sanders, and Elias Sebti.
Asking University to Reconsider New East Campus Design Proposal
To the Editor, Last Wednesday, I tuned into a neighborhood meeting given by the University about their new East Campus plan, a large project extending north and east of the football stadium. I had heard a little about it, but thought it mostly impacted a number of parking lots and the Ferris Thompson apartments. After the presentation, though, I had a hard time sleeping. I learned that this project is so vast (nearly 15 acres!) that it would sprawl even up to Prospect Avenue — and incredibly, that the University is planning to demolish three Victorian-era houses I’d always found delightful, and which have added charm and warmth to the Prospect neighborhood for so many years. What’s more, they are planning to move one of the beautiful Eating Club manors from its current location next to all the others, and sandwich it between an apartment building and a parking garage. In its place, I learned, the University is proposing to add a discordant, modern Engineering complex with 250’ of exposure along the length of Prospect, shattering the visual continuity and forever altering the feeling and atmosphere of this grand, historic avenue. I couldn’t understand it. It just made no sense. I was angry, and sad, and upset. Why would they do this? Thinking more about it, I realized that, regrettably, this kind of thing has become a trend in recent years around our town. The University can construct new buildings, but they don’t need to tear down so many older or historic ones. With all their impressive resources and brilliance, they can — and should — find a way to work with (or around) more of the historic structures which have been gracing our streets for generations. Not everything that is new is better. And lately, it seems there is a new teardown at every corner. So here, in this massive project, we have even more teardowns — and ones that aren’t necessary by a long shot. In Princeton, especially, many of us prefer or enjoy the character that older buildings bring and work hard to maintain and improve their historical fabric and context. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that our town would not be as famous as it is, nor attract so many visitors, without protection and preservation of our architectural heritage. The headline of an April 21 feature story in the New York Times read, “Princeton, N.J.: Historic Homes and Cultural Riches.” So, let’s not kill the golden goose. If you feel the same way, or are concerned about similar issues, then please sign the community petition (and learn more ways to help) at: change.org/saveprospect. We are asking the University to reconsider the East Campus design, which is fortunately still in the conceptual stages. Please don’t irreparably mar Prospect Avenue, a true gem which is priceless and cannot be replaced. JAMES BASH South Harrison Street
Save Historic Prospect Avenue From Damaging Development Plan
To the Editor: Princeton University’s application for a variance from zoning regulations for 1) moving the historic Court Clubhouse at 91 Prospect Avenue out of the National Register Princeton Historic District; 2) demolishing three graceful Victorian-era houses at 110, 114, and 116 Prospect; and 3) constructing a new pavilion at 91 Prospect that will be incompatible with the Historic District should be denied by the Historic Preservation Commission at its hearing at 3 p.m. on June 7 and by the Planning Board at its hearing at 7:30 p.m. on June 17. All three components of the University’s proposed development on Prospect Avenue violate National Park Service policy for historic districts and buildings, and will irrevocably damage the iconic streetscape of 15 historic eating clubs and three Victorian houses that is unique to Princeton. The University’s rationale for doing this? — to attract and retain top faculty. Many of those faculty will no doubt be appalled by the University’s overreach on Prospect. Everyone in town admires the University and wants it to be as successful as possible, but at the expense of town and campus history? Its proposed plan for needless destruction and intrusion on Princeton’s most distinctive street is a bridge too far, and yet another damaging encroachment into a residential neighborhood. The University cannot justify this completely unnecessary damage and encroachment. It has a vacant lot at 111 Prospect where it could erect a pavilion compatible with the historic streetscape, and it has a 2-acre vacant section of its proposed 660,000-square-foot development on Western Way and Ivy Lane where it could erect any type of building design it wants. It could also adjust the layout of the development to simply keep Prospect Avenue intact, which it should have done in the first place.
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Urging Municipality to Designate Western End of Prospect Avenue as Historic District
To the Editor: I am writing to urge the town to designate the western end of Prospect Avenue as a Local Historic District. Part of this neighborhood is currently on the National Register of Historic Places, but unfortunately, that does not seem to be enough to fully protect it. I’ve lived in Princeton for half my life, much of which I’ve spent studying or teaching aesthetics, art history, language, and literature at the University I love. Every day for some two decades, I’ve relished walking, running, or riding up Prospect Avenue, taking in the charm of the Queen Anne Victorians to the right, and the grandeur of the 19th and early 20th century Eating Clubs to the left. As I’ve climbed the hill to the University, the historic character of these buildings has helped me transition to a community committed to the life of the mind and service. I understand why some have called our majestic Prospect Avenue the Champs-Élysées of Princeton. In recent years, I’ve noticed that the Queen Anne Victorians have not been well tended to; the paint has been left to chip and the exteriors have fallen into some disrepair. Since the University has tremendous financial resources for new construction projects, I’ve wondered why its building managers have not better cared for the structures already under their charge. Now to my dismay, I’ve learned that the architectural firm the University has hired wishes not only to tear down these lovely turn-of-the-century Victorians, but also to move the stately Club Courthouse away from Eating Club Row. Replacing it at 91 Prospect, the architect proposes a futuristic engineering complex, with strong horizontal lines of concrete and glass. The aesthetic of this new structure would be incompatible with the historic Prospect streetscape; it would encroach on the residential area nearby, and it would seem to provide a precedent for other historic buildings on Prospect to be destroyed or removed. I call on our town to save the four historic buildings on this jewel of an avenue and to reject the replacement of the Club Courthouse by jarring new construction. As there is no shortage of land owned by the University; its architects should return to the drawing board and find another, more suitable location or design for the proposed engineering building. Finally, as a Princeton alumna, a historian of aesthetics, and a concerned citizen, I request the municipality to designate the westernmost block of Prospect Avenue as a Local Historic District; this would ensure the appropriate long-term stewardship of this Princeton treasure. DR. ÉVA MARTIN South Harrison Street
Development Plan Proposal Presents Another Opportunity to Address Issue of Teardowns
To the Editor: Six years ago, I enjoyed the privilege of having a letter published in this newspaper (“Spike in Tear-Downs Offers Princeton Sustainability, Affordability Opportunity” July 29, 2015) arguing for a more significant and proactive policy to address the trend of teardowns in Princeton. I expressed then and still believe that while teardowns will happen, and McMansions defy any legislation that night curb them the overall community should benefit more from their overall effect on the makeup and image of Princeton. Specifically, I hoped that our local government might follow the example of other U.S. towns on teardowns and impose a fee for such actions in the form of a water hookup or other connection fee that would then make more money available for such causes as affordable housing. Had our elected officials enacted such a policy, Princeton’s coffers by now would have gained millions of dollars from such fees. Nothing happened. Two years ago, Zoning Officer Derek Bridger called for efforts to “slow down and de-incentivize teardowns on substandard lots.” Changes in zoning arose in Council discussions at that time. Nothing happened. Now, we are faced with not only the continuation of the teardown trend throughout our town, but also a proposal by Princeton University to tear down three Victorian houses on historic Prospect Street. As an online petition seeking to stop this destruction notes, “The Princeton Historic District on Prospect Avenue (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) has long been considered the jewel of our town, with rows of stately Eating Clubs and charming turn-of-the-century homes. One author has dubbed it, “the most beautiful suburban street in America.” But Princeton University’s ES+SEAS development plan (the “East Campus” project) proposes moving the Court Clubhouse at 91 Prospect out of the Princeton Historic District and across the street, intentionally destroying three lovely Victorian houses — and then inserting a large incompatible building and landscape, thus “irreparably harming the Historic District and Prospect Avenue aesthetics and streetscape.” Almost 20 years ago, The National Trust for Historic Preservation named teardowns in historic neighborhoods to its annual list of 11 Most Endangered Places. In Princeton, nothing happened. The University’s ES+SEAS development plan proposal presents yet another opportunity to address the issue of teardowns and perhaps even improve overall zoning regulations. The same obstacle exists as it did six years ago: inertia, “the property of a body by virtue of which it opposes any agency that attempts to put it in motion.” Inertia is powerful and at times useful, but without some action now to overcome this enduring inaction in such matters Princeton will continue to experience the demolition of longstanding houses without any compensation to the overall community for the loss in aesthetics and the change in neighborhood composition. As our ability expands to see beyond the terrible COVID-19 crisis of the last 15 months, dealing with what the character of Princeton moving further into this century deserves immediate attention by local elected officials and — in the case of the proposed Prospect Street teardowns — a willingness from University leaders to listen and entertain alternatives. T.J. ELLIOTT Cedar Lane Continued on Next Page
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Town’s Tree-Lined Streets Should Not Have Cars Parked Bumper to Bumper
To the Editor: I want to address the mayor and Council’s current proposal for expanding street parking availability in Princeton’s in-town and near-town neighborhoods. The proposal reserves spaces for downtown employees and creates new parking by removing the overnight parking ban and adding new permits for residents. As a former Princeton Council member for 10 years, I know firsthand that requests for parking from employees and residents are often tinged with desperation and stories of hardship. Council members may believe their plan achieves a measure of social justice for low-paid workers and for those who live in modest homes that lack driveways or whose driveways accommodate only one car. I disagree with that in terms of both residential and commercial parking. A parking spot for one’s car is a cost of owning a car. Employee parking is a cost of doing business. When considering providing new parking spaces for residents, it is important to understand that houses with no driveways have lower purchase prices and pay lower taxes than houses with plentiful parking. In other words, these residences are more affordable. Adding new parking spaces will increase their price and their taxes. Currently, residents with limited parking who want another car either move or find parking somewhere to rent. With an overnight permit, these residences will no longer include this limitation. Instead of incentivizing low-car households, the proposal incentivizes the opposite. The U.S. census indicates that Princeton has a higher-thanaverage number of residents who commute to work by walking. This should be evidence that our decades-old parking limitations are actually progressive in terms of promoting a walkable, bike friendly environment. Are we really going to change strategy now? This question of sustainability has been inexplicably absent in the debate. It seems obvious that adding new residential parking spaces will lead to more cars and more traffic on the streets. Where are the climate activists? As for employee parking, the majority of Princeton employers provide parking for their employees. If the town wants to solve the problem for those who do not, it should adopt an ordinance requiring employers to provide parking. Not only would that be fair, it would eliminate the moral hazard created by providing low cost parking when market-rate parking is more expensive. Holding the line on street parking is difficult for the Council when residents and employees plead for more. Those who would get new parking spaces under the proposal will likely support it. However, the proposed solution is not a long-term solution. It is only helpful in the moment and only for current residents. Finally, I hope we are not underestimating the permanent, detrimental effect of vast parking-lot streets on Princeton’s oldfashioned beauty and appeal. Princeton is still a picturesque, tourist-worthy town. I ask whether the mayor and Council want Princeton’s beautiful tree-lined streets parked bumper to bumper like so many cities in the United States. We can be different. We can prevent that future. JENNY CRUMILLER Library Place
Council Should Consider Housing Affordability in Parking Discussion
To the Editor: I appreciated Mr. Rodrigues’ Town Topics letter of May 19 [“Build More Housing to Solve Princeton’s Parking “Problem”], connecting the ongoing parking discussion to another important ongoing discussion: affordable housing. I grew up in Princeton and moved back in my mid-20s to care for an ill parent. I made $35,000 a year at a local nonprofit, while my partner made under $10/hour while getting a professional degree. Three years later, we now both work for the town’s public institutions, giving back to the community that raised me. But we moved out of town because of the lack of affordable housing. In Princeton, we struggled to find housing to share with friends in similar situations — wanting or needing to live in Princeton but unable to afford more than a room in a shared house. Part of the issue was the high rent, and part of it was the preference of landlords to rent to traditional families or Princeton PhDs. Another part was the outdated prohibition on overnight parking in the former Borough, which closed off the entire “core” of town to our household of 3-5 young adults who needed multiple cars to get to work and school. This prohibition also affects multigenerational households, households that require overnight caregivers, and people who don’t have the mobility to walk or bike. I agree that public school students should ride the bus to school rather than driving and parking private cars. As a frequent bike commuter, I also agree that it’s crucial to invest in local and regional walking and biking infrastructure. However, the Western Section residents’ concern for “sustainability” above the ability of their neighbors to live in this town is a straw man. Stalling this discussion to keep their wide, quiet streets empty of parking serves only them. To me, sustainability means that more of the people who keep the town running can live within walking or biking distance of their workplaces. Sustainability means that multigenerational families and people in their 20s are able to live here. Sustainability means that elders can age in their community. Council, please consider our community members, including those of us who work here and care for family members here, in your discussions of sustainable parking and housing regulations. NATHALIE LEVINE Parker Road, Highland Park
Energy Innovation Bill Would Put Fee on Carbon and Return Funds to Households
To the Editor: Princeton is clearly a community that cares about the environment and big issues like climate change. And yet, with all we do, it’s easy to wonder whether our actions are equal to the climate emergency. Our congresswoman, Bonnie Watson Coleman, has taken a step that is equal to the climate challenge by cosponsoring the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 2307. The bill would put a steadily rising fee on carbon and return the funds to households. The third thing the bill would do is to establish a border adjustment. “The border adjustment might actually be the most important feature,” according to Citizens Climate Lobby Executive Director Mark Reynolds, “because what the border adjustment essentially says [to] other countries [is], ‘If you don’t put a price on carbon in your country, we’re going to impose it here.’” While costs at the gas pump and energy bills would rise, most households, especially low and moderate-income households, would come out ahead, and so would the planet and our families. According to researchers at Duke University, the bill would save 4.5 million lives over 50 years due to reduced air pollution. Please join me in thanking Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman for cosponsoring the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 2307, and in urging Senators Cory Booker and Robert Menendez to introduce a companion measure in the Senate. Princeton residents should continue to take all of the important steps we are already taking, and reach out to our elected officials to assist us in doing the heavy lifting. SAM DALEY-HARRIS Dorann Avenue The writer founded the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, and Civic Courage and is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy.
To Manage Stormwater Issues, Put Moratorium On Variances That Increase Impervious Surfaces
To the Editor: The Harry’s Brook watershed is recorded to be one of the “flashiest” in the country. That means that it does not take much rain to produce a flash flood. I live on Harry’s Brook, and in the last decade what used to be called 100year floods have, for some of my neighbors, become fiveyear, two-year, or even one-year floods. Every time the Zoning or Planning Boards issue a variance allowing for an increase in impervious surfaces on a lot on our street, the mismanagement is made visible by our eroding backyards and flooded basements. The typical excuse for the variance is “property rights,” but what about the property rights of people who have owned their properties for decades? And why should taxpayers have to pay more because these variances are making our stormwater infrastructure issues significantly worse? The developer of the last over-sized house built on our street was told by the Planning Board to plant native trees and install rain gardens. The trees were not native, they died, and the rain gardens were poorly designed. Now the new owners are stuck having to cut down the dead trees and their unresolved water issues contribute to the downstream flooding. I am amazed that the Zoning and Planning Boards have not figured out that the only people benefiting from the construction of over-sized houses, that increase impervious surfaces, are the developers; not the new buyers or the existing homeowners. This has to stop. To effectively manage Princeton stormwater issues, I want to encourage residents to demand that the Zoning and Planning Boards put a moratorium on variances that increase impervious surfaces. Princeton has a strong ordinance that requires stormwater management for new development. If we are going to begin to address flooding in neighborhoods like mine, we also need to ensure that stormwater is managed with green infrastructure when appropriate redevelopment occurs, and we need enforcement. CAROLYN ROUSE Wheatsheaf Lane
Thoughts on Parking, Housing, Bike Lanes, and Shopping Center Proposals
To the Editor: Recently, letters were sent to the Town Topics Mailbox addressing parking, bicycle lanes, housing, and the shopping center enlargement proposals. I agree with the points made, and would like to add some thoughts below: 1. Why is the shopping center site up for grabs again for adding more “affordable” housing in an area that has seen increased traffic over the last 10-15 years on Terhune, Valley, and Harrison? If Council members had done their homework, the wooded area abutting the shopping center and Terhune was voted down for additional housing many years ago through the efforts of northeast residents. The little park is used for baseball games. The shopping center is used as a meeting place, exercise walks, and has ample parking for a comeback of more restaurants, gyms, shops, and venues for seasonal events. Leave our little ’50s style shopping center and surrounding green space alone! 2. Valley Road School. Why has it taken so long for Council and the School Board to make a decision to renovate this historic building built by our esteemed Italian masons 100 years ago? Valley Road School was discarded for renovation due to “mold” issues, only to be replaced by a new $20 million municipal building which developed mold issues — resulting in more cost to the taxpayers. Could
Valley Road possibly be considered for condo-type housing with a small gym and grocery store to house our growing senior population? And perhaps the open space next to the Valley Road School might be redesigned for outdoor activities such as concerts, festivals, etc. when not in use for sporting events. There is ample free parking nearby. The building is near Witherspoon for a short drive or walk into town; 206 is nearby for access to points north and south. The same might be true for considering the unused “recreation” space near Community Park School. A diverse population lives in that area and would welcome more affordable housing. Plenty of parking there and access to town. 3. Paying the municipality for permit parking is ludicrous! Taxes are high enough; a tax credit should be granted to homeowners over 65 as has been implemented in towns elsewhere (see Austin, Texas). Finally, residents should have the right (a low permit fee) to use the current Witherspoon school swimming pool on weekends and evenings. We paid for that with tax dollars as well. How much would it cost to hire a lifeguard? 4. The bike lane subject has come up again for Hamilton/ Wiggins? The road is not wide enough; cyclists/pedestrians will be injured, not to mention automobile accidents. In Manhattan cyclists ride on one-way streets in the wrong direction and totally disregard traffic lights. If a real need is there, paint a bike lane on the no parking side of Prospect. Our infrastructure, while greatly improved over the last 20 years, is fragile. More building will turn Princeton into a mini-Manhattan, rather than preserving the small town we all want to keep peaceful and congestion free. NANCY WOELK Maybury Hill
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Franz Kafka Here, There, and Everywhere (July 3, 1883 — June 3, 1924)
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ot Kafka again!” says my wife when I mention my plans for this week’s column. It’s true. I find his presence everywhere, most recently haunting an article in the front section of Friday’s New York Times about the reopening of The Vessel, “the labyrinth of staircases at Hudson Yards that closed four months ago after several people killed themselves there.” Related Companies, the developer, “had put measures in place to reduce the risk of suicides” among visitors to the “150-foot spiraling sculpture,” with its “154 interconnecting flights of stairs and 80 landings.” No need to reference Kafka in the article, he’s there. He can also be read into baseball (K the symbol for a strikeout), and the current conspiracy-theory twilight zone of American politics. The first place I look when I need close-up one-on-one Kafka, however, is in my copy of Diaries 1914-1923, edited by his friend Max Brod. Say you’re reading around in the summer of 1917, you’ve been trying to find words for the sound the Brood X cicadas are making in the summer of 2021, and you land on a single line set apart from the surrounding entries: “The alarm trumpets of the void.” Does it come close to the surreal magnitude of a sound so monstrously impending that you seem to be seeing what you’re hearing? Close enough I think. In German, it’s Die alarmtrumpeten der Leere. The translator of this edition of Diaries is listed as Martin Greenberg, “with the assistance of Hannah Arendt.” Where does the line come from? It might be a fragment from a work in progress such as “In the Penal Colony” or “The Great Wall of China.” Whoever, however, wherever, all I know is Kafka pitched another K, a nasty slider that just caught the outside corner of the strike zone. Magic Changes The wonder of the diaries is that something worth reading at least twice is always just around the corner. For instance, the “alarm trumpets of the void” comes a few days after a July 31 entry that begins, “Sit in a train, forget the fact, and live as if you were at home; but suddenly recollect where you are, feel the onwardrushing power of the train, change into a traveler, take a cap out of your bag, meet your fellow travelers with a more sovereign freedom, with more insistence, let yourself be carried toward your destination by no effort of your own, enjoy it like a child, become a darling of the women, feel the perpetual attraction of the window, always have at least one hand extended on the window sill. Same situation, more precisely stated: Forget that you forgot, change in an instant into a child traveling by itself on an express train around whom the speeding, trembling car
materializes in its every fascinating detail as if out of a magician’s hand.” And you’ve been sharing a compartment on the train of changes with a traveler, a child, a darling, and the author of The Metamorphosis. Departed June 3 Summer is arrival-departure time for Kafka the traveler, born on July 3, 1883, died on June 3, 1924, leaving instructions for his dear friend Max to incinerate everything he’d left behind “in the way of notebooks, manuscripts, letters,” all “to be burned unread and to the l a s t p a g e .” I was reminded of this last request when I came to Brod’s note explaining that the particular “manuscript notebook ” I’d been reading consisted of only a number of loose leaves due to the fact that “much of it was torn out by Kafka and destroyed.” Reading t he entries from 1917 that Kafka thought worth saving heightens the exper i e n c e, a s i n the entry from September 15 following on the first medical confirmation of the tuberculosis that will kill him seven years later (“You have a chance, as far as it is at all possible, to make a new beginning. Don’t throw it away.”). Beyond that, it’s a reminder of what Brod was up against when confronted by his friend’s dying request. If not for his enlightened disobedience, there would be no diaries, no Castle, no Trial, none of the material that made possible Kafka’s impact on the 20th and 21st centuries — a presence so unique and pervasive that his biographer Reiner Stach can describe him as “virtually the only author to have a logo that is known throughout the world.” An Imaginative Technique In Kafka: The Early Years (Princeton Univ. Press $35), Stach places the invention of the “famous logo, the man-sized bug,” in the first months of 1907 when Kafka was trying to work his way into a
project with the unlikely title, “Wedding Preparations in the Country.” Eduard Raban, the city-dwelling narrator-protagonist isn’t looking forward to the event, imagines a “debacle,” and “would willingly let any obstacle, no matter how minor, stand in his way.” He recalls “an imaginative technique he’d resorted to as a child when summoned to participate in any dangerous business,” which was to send a standin, “a clothed body that will suffer the consequences,” not an I or a he but an it that “stumbles on the stairs, travels to the country sobbing, and eats its supper there in tears while the narrator will be lying in his bed, “smoothly covered over with a yellowish brown blanket, exposed to the air wafting in through the barely open window.” At this point, perhaps prompted by the “yellowish brown” of the blanket, Kafka tries out “something completely different”: “Lying in bed I have the shape of a large beetle, a stag beetle or a cockchafer I think ... A beetle’s large s hap e, ye s. I would then pretend it was a matter of hibernating, and I would press my little legs to my bulbous belly. And I would whisper a small number of words, instructions to my sad body, which stands close beside me, bent over. Soon I’m done, it bows, it goes off swiftly, and it will manage everything in the best way while I rest.” In Stach’s words, “This, then, was the birth of the famous logo, the man-sized bug,” except that Kafka soon realized he had no use for it in the story: “It was only a thought experiment that provided a brief source of entertainment for the author.” As for the character, he had “to get moving, so Kafka put his suitcase in his hand, had him board the train in drearily, drizzly weather, and alight in a rural town in the pouring rain.” As Stach notes, while the rest of the pages are lost, enough remains to “reveal that Kafka had already given up the bug idea for this text.”
An Alarming Letter In the “Backgrounds” section of his edition of The Metamorphosis (Modern Library 2013), Stanley Corngold includes an October 8, 1912, letter that Max Brod felt he had to share with Kafka’s mother. What made Brod “seriously afraid for Franz’s life” was the reference to pressure from both parents and now even Kafka’s younger sister, who has “abandoned me, with a monstrous lack of judgment.” Kafka feels “a wave of bitterness” going through his “whole body” as he imagines two alternatives, one banal, family-and-work related, the other “waiting until everyone had gone to bed and then jumping out the window.” And although he resisted the temptation to kill himself and turn “this letter into a letter of farewell, ... I stood at the window for a long time and pressed myself against the pane, and several times I felt like frightening the toll collector on the bridge with my fall. But the whole time I felt myself too solid for this decision to dash myself to pieces on the pavement.” What’s of special interest in this letter, as Corngold points out, is the way Kafka’s reference to his sister’s abandonment figures in Grete’s abandonment of her brother Gregor, which “provokes his death,” at the end of The Metamorphosis. Who or what dies? Her brother, the “monstrous vermin”? Corngold ends his introduction speaking for Gregor — “I am not anything you have ever held me to be. I am neither man nor beast. You have never seen the likes of me. I am, dear reader, your most frightful possibility.” Kafka and Whitman Max Brod referred to his friend of 22 years as a “Diesseitswunder,” an earthly miracle. A similar term in any language would also serve for Walt Whitman, who is usually the poet of the moment on his birthday, May 31, Memorial Day. In conversation with his friend Gustav Janouch, Kafka reportedly said that Whitman’s poetry “found an enormous echo throughout the world,” combining “the contemplation of nature and of civilization, which are apparently entirely contradictory, into a single intoxicating vision of life.” (Conversations with Kafka, translated by Goronwy Rees, New Directions, 1971.) he 18th annual marathon reading of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” will take place on Sunday, June 6. This year’s readers include Rosanne Cash, who invokes Whitman in her new song, “The Killing Fields.” The live Zoom reading, from 4 to 7 p.m., will be broadcast on the Walt Whitman Initiative’s YouTube channel. The reading will also be recorded and available on YouTube and at waltwhitmaninitiative.org. —Stuart Mitchner
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ew Jersey Symphony Orchestra continued its “Emerge” concert series this past week with an ondemand film of a live performance recorded this past February at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The “Emerge” trilogy, directed by filmmaker Yuri Alves, has fused orchestral performances with visual meditations and dance sequences to create a multi-media online experience. The second performance of this trilogy, launched last Wednesday evening, featured pianist Inon Barnatan playing Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement; also included on the program was one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final symphonies. Accompanying these works was a New Jersey Symphony Orchestra seemingly up to full strength, led by Music Director Xian Zhang. Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement was premiered in Chicago in 1934 with the composer as soloist. The work appears to have fallen into obscurity following its premiere, with the orchestral score later reconstructed. The Concerto’s three continuous sections hark back to the Romantic style of Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn, and in NJSO’s performance, the work showed plenty of Romantic and improvisatory flavor. With Zhang on the podium and Barnatan at the keyboard, the music of was very dramatic, with Barnatan’s left hand a constant swirl of flowing arpeggios. Zhang conducted with broad gestures, allowing repeated passages to become more intense with each recurrence. The second section of the movement was marked by an elegant oboe solo from Alexandra Knoll in duet with the piano, with a great deal of lushness from just these two instruments. Barnatan’s piano solo seemed to be in duet with various instruments, gradually speeding up toward a very jazzy third movement capturing a 1920s feel. Visually accompanying this piece, which was filmed in black and white, were dance sequences from guest dancers Cori Barnes and M.A. Taylor.
Mozart’s 1788 Symphony No. 39 in Eb Major was one of a trilogy of symphonies the composer wrote within a few years of his death. The circumstances of the symphony’s composition are unknown, and it is has not been established definitively that it was performed in Mozart’s lifetime. The first movement was textbook late 18 th -century, paying homage to Mozart’s mentor Franz Joseph Haydn, followed by a conventional “Andante,” “Menuetto,” and “Finale.” The musicians of New Jersey Symphony presented the opening “Adagio” regally, with clean dotted rhythms recalling the Baroque French overture. The subsequent “Allegro” was light and chamber-like with detached playing, delicate winds, and Zhang allowing the music to glide along on its own. The players leaned into the movement well, emphasizing the graceful melodic themes. Delicate lines were evident in the second movement, as Zhang maintained a fluid orchestral palette. One could hear a traditional Ländler in the third movement, with a “Trio” effectively led by clarinetist Pascal Archer. The “Finale” demonstrated clean playing from the brass, and the movement showed hints of 18 th -century musical humor. rev ious online concer ts by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra have featured a reduced ensemble playing a number of shorter pieces. The “Emerge” series highlights the ensemble’s return to full strength and presentation of more substantial works. Pianist Barnatan has been heard in several regional online orchestral broadcasts over the past year, and his participation in last week’s NJSO concert demonstrated his commitment to helping ensembles present the highest quality performances possible in these times. Even when limited to audience-less halls and a slow return to a full roster, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has been able to maintain innovation and musical quality through the multi-media “Emerge” series. —Nancy Plum
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New Jersey Symphony will present the third and final concert of the online “Emerge” series on Wednesday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m. Featured in this broadcast will be guest pianist Daniil Trifonov performing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, conducted by Xian Zhang. Information about accessing any of NJSO’s online performances, as well as live concerts this summer, can be found at the NJSO website at njsymphony.org.
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Summer Ballet Workshop for Ages 8-10
A full day of dance-related fun including ballet class, choreography, crafts and more.
June 28th - July 2nd & Aug 9th - 13th 9:00am-4:00pm daily - Monday-Friday Experienced, professional faculty
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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. This program, including live closed-captioning, is made possible by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Lois Dodd (born 1927, Montclair, NJ; active New Jersey and Maine), Blowing Laundry (detail), 1980. Watercolor over graphite. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of the artist. © Lois Dodd / Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY
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Ashv in Chhabra, Christi and Rahul Gautam, and Cheryl and Richard Goldman invite ticket buyers to gather friends and assemble a watch party at the “virtual theater,” and take a seat at the “virtual table” to mingle with guests in a private party. Princeton restaurant The Meeting House is crafting a three-course meal and wine pairing that is available for pick up on the night of the gala. Tickets start at $100 and virtual tables of 10 start at $5,000. For more information, v isit mccar ter.org / mccartergala21.
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NEW DOCUMENTARY: Trenton Music Makers will debut a short documentary film, “Freedom: Stories of Innovation, Resiliency, and Connection,” in observance of Juneteenth.
Trenton Music Makers Students musicians from their own The organization provides a city — Josue Lora and DJ high-quality instrument and Featured in New Short Film In observance of Juneteenth, Trenton Music Makers will celebrate its resilience and creativity over the past year with the premiere of a short documentary film, Freedom: Stories of Innovation, Resiliency, and Connection, featuring interviews with Trenton Music Makers and their families, orchestral selections, and more. The film celebrates the grit that has carried Trenton Music Makers forward during this pandemic year. It will also include the debut of a new music video of Trenton hip hop artist Josue Lora’s composition “Simple,” in a remix featuring the musicians from Trenton Music Makers and dancers of Trenton Education Dance Institute (TEDI). The documentar y, produced by filmmaker Nick Donnoli, will also include the young musicians performing excerpts from Mozart’s Symphony #40 and Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” “We have a singular opportunity here to connect our players with exciting
Ahmad’s musical gifts are matched by an amazing heart for children. Thanks to the I AM Trenton Communit y Foundation, this project celebrating our city’s own warmth and resiliency is being supported by our city’s own resources — we are proud and honored,” said Carol Burden, executive director, Trenton Music Makers. Trenton Music Makers is a creative youth development organization that empowers young people as teams of musicians, providing an environment of abundant resources and high expectations, and enriching the com m u n it y t hrough t he joyful pursuit of excellence together. Students in prekindergarten attend weekly music classes during school, and K-12 students attend afterschool starting with pre-orchestra two days per week and growing to a full five-day program starting in grade 2. They are part of the global El Sistema movement, begun in Venezuela in the 1970s, which uses music and ensembles as a platform for social development.
welcome any child to participate, with no audition, and regardless of financial resources. The Trenton Education Dance Institute (TEDI ) is based on the principles of the National Dance Institute (NDI) founded by late dancer Jacques d’Amboise. The youth-development program was founded in 1989 to teach Trenton public school students the arts and life lessons of dance such as teamwork, confidence, commitment, and pride in personal achievement. These important life skills help students become successful in the classroom and in life. TEDI joined with The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey in 2010. To learn more about the premiere, visit trentonmusicmakers.org/juneteenth.
Hopewell Theater Reopening On Fourth Anniversary
Hopewell Theater, which has been closed for more than a year due to the pandemic, will reopen the week of September 7, the anniversary of its first opening four years ago. A special event performance that week, with headliners to be announced, will be held for members, press, and special guests. Regular programming will resume on September 15. Live music, live performance, comedy shows, and film screenings are planned. The theater is located at 5 South Greenwood Avenue in Hopewell. Visit hopewell theater.com.
McCarter Theatre Gala Features Several Artists
UKULELES AND MORE: Westrick Music Academy is enrolling for Term 5 virtual music classes, with group lessons and individual classes for children and adults. Students from grades three-12 in the ukulele group will learn traditional songs while building their musicianship skills. For information, visit WestrickMusic.org/education.
McCarter Theatre Center has announced its 2021 gala, taking place virtually on Friday, June 11 at 7 p.m. This virtual event will include performance segments and tribute messages from special McCarter artists, giving audiences a sneak peek at the programming for the reopening season. Guests include Emanuel Ax, Laurie Berkner, J’Nai Bridges, Shawn Colvin, Rhiannon Giddens, Joe Henry, Wynton Marsalis, Audra McDonald, Nella, The Hot Sardines, David Sedaris, Somi, and Mitsuko Uchida. The evening’s co-chairs, Timothy M. Andrews, Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra and
The Romantics, a devised performative collage outdoor performance, will be performed at Mercer County Community College June 5-6. The production is the brainchild of MCCC Theatre and Dance Company Coordinator Jody GazenbeekPerson. As audience members meander through and around the campus, they will come upon dance, poetry, and theatrical scenes. Audience size is limited to 50 for each of the performances, which are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6 at 2 and 6 p.m. The rain dates are June 12-13 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. A special performance for those with mobility concerns is planned for 4 p.m. Friday, June 5 (rain date June 11). The audience members can remain seated the entire time. “The idea for this production hit me due to the pandemic,” Gazenbeek-Person said. “This has been a challenging time for everyone. The one beautiful thing to come out of these awful times was people’s return to nature — taking hikes, houseplant collecting, gardening, joining bird-watching groups. It struck me to move with the positive parts of our time. A lot of people haven’t heard of Shinrinyoku (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing). People are much more inspired to nature at the moment, and I thought ‘why not take our community in Mercer County deeper?’” “In between the performance moments we’re actually doing a horticultural walk and will teach the audience the principals of Japanese forest bathing — nature is the energizing force. When you breathe those things in, you build your immunity — Japanese scientists have proven that forest bathing improves short-term memory, reduces stress, increases creativity and has many other health benefits.” The Romantics cast includes many Mercer County residents, with East Winds o r, E w i n g , L a w r e n c e , Princeton, Robbinsville, and Trenton represented. “This is a unique event,” Gazenbeek-Person said. “All the various art forms tend to do one of two things: make people more empathetic or change their thinking. We are going to do both of those things, we are actually going to be affecting people’s health in a positive way, they’re going to walk away feeling a little healthier, and they’re likely to be more sympathetic to others.” Studies have shown that forest bathing increases
TAKING IT OUTDOORS: Mercer County Community College alumna Natalie Bogach of East Windsor is part of the cast for the performances of “The Romantics” scheduled for June 5-6 on the West Windsor campus. Members of MCCC’s theatre and dance programs will present the production. prosocial aspirations and generosit y. “People who do forest bathing are more likely to be helpful in their communities,” GazenbeekPerson said. He hopes that as participants are “bathed in a forest atmosphere,” they will have an opportunity to commune with nature and relax after the challenges of the past year. The performance is two hours with a 10-minute intermission. Audience members can wear masks if it makes them comfortable, and it is asked that social distancing be maintained. The event will cross many terrains: walking on grass, gravel, and concrete; and up and down small hills. Tickets, which can only be purchased online, are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and students. Attendees will be permitted to bring a lawn chair or a walker to sit during the performances. For further details and tickets visit KelseyTheatre.org.
Princeton Festival Announces Lectures Series and More
T he eight f ree v ir t ual events in this year’s edition of the Princeton Festival’s lecture series include an interview on immersive video, an international poetry reading, and a special focus on Baroque music and opera. All launch at 7 p.m. and remain available through the end of June. The series, co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, starts June 2, with a panel interview of the artists behind “Dreaming/Undreaming,” a multimedia, interdisciplinar y concer t scheduled for June 17. Admission to the interview is free, but tickets, available through the website, are required to view the concert. “Our next lecture kicks off four consecutive evenings centered on Baroque music, alternating lectures and concerts,” said Gregory Geehern, the Festival’s acting artistic director. “For lovers of Bach, Vivaldi, and other Baroque composers, it will be like binge-watching a favorite TV show.”
The first lecture on Monday, June 7, “Profound Harmony and Invention,” features scholar and musician John Buckhalter demonstrating the style and sound of Baroque music with music that the Festival’s Baroque Chamber Ensemble will play during its ticketed concerts on June 8 and 10. On Wednesday, June 9, the evening between the two concerts, viewers can participate in an Artists’ Round Table where members of the chamber ensemble will reveal the secrets of playing Baroque music correctly. Four lectures will allow opera lovers, art histor y buffs, and fans of music in general to immerse themselves in their chosen subjects. In “What the Opera Meant to Paris in the 19th Century” on Friday, June 11, Princeton Art Museum docent Marianne Grey will trace the influence of opera through artists such as Manet, Renoir, and Pissarro. Rutgers music professor and regular festival lecturer Timothy Urban explores “Wine, Women, and Song in Opera” on Monday, June 14. Opera expert Harold Kuskin, former Metropolitan Opera backstage tour guide, surveys “Expressions of Love in Opera” on Tuesday, June 15. Finally, Stuart Holt, the Metropolitan Opera’s Director of School Programs and Community Engagement, compares two leading forms of music theater in “Opera or Musical? – The Fine Line that Divides Them,” on Wednesday, June 17. On Saturday, June 12, the Princeton Festival will present poets from Japan, China, Venezuela, Italy, Russia, and Switzerland reading selections from the Butterfly collection of poems by Mari Kashiwagi in their own languages and English translations. Kashiwagi, a Japanese poet, originally previewed the collection at an in-person reading during the 2018 Princeton Festival. Visit princetonfestival.org for ticket information and further details.
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NEW POST: Award-wining photographer Deana Lawson was recently named the inaugural Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. (Photo courtesy of Deana Lawson)
Photographer Lawson Named to lives and Black selfhood that Guggenheim Foundation by is indispensable in a climate a jury of international critPU Endowed Professorship Award-winning photographer Deana Lawson has been named the inaugural Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts in Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. A member of Princeton’s Program in Visual Arts faculty since 2012, Lawson’s appointment begins July 1. “Deana Lawson, one of the preeminent artists of our time, has fashioned a visual vocabulary for Black
where daily threats and convoluted debate have hamstrung our national dialog about race and redress,” said Lewis Center Chair Tracy K. Smith. “Poignant, painterly, provocative, her images hurt a little bit, even when the inner wish they capture is rapturous. It’s fitting that she be honored with an endowed professorship.” Lawson was the recipient of the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Solomon R.
ics and curators, the first photographer to win this prestigious biennial award. She received an honorarium of $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, which opened May 7 and runs through October 11. Lawson was also the subject by a recent New York Times Magazine cover story that dives deeply into Lawson’s life, artistic process, her aesthetic, the cultural impor tance of her work,
and her latest projects. Staff writer Jenna Wortham noted, “Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.” “I’m thrilled that Deana has been appointed t he inaugural Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts,” said Martha Friedman, director of the Program in Visual Arts. “Deana has been a singularly consequential professor for scores of students at Princeton and is a daring and remarkable artist. Her photographs offer an object lesson in intimacy, majesty and defiance, holding one rapt from the moment they are glimpsed. Deana crystallizes everything that is best about the arts at Princeton.” Lawson’s work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New Photography 2011 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and she had a solo exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Her first museum survey will open later this year at the ICA Boston. In addition to the Hugo Boss Prize, Lawson is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, an Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant. She has participated in the Workspace residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Light Work residency in Syracuse, and the Visual Studies Workshop residency in Rochester, New York. At P r i n c e ton s h e h as taught introductory and advanced level courses in both digital and analog photography. For more information, visit arts.princeton.edu.
ArtYard Open New Art Center in Frenchtown
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A r tYa r d , a n o n p r o f i t c o n te m p o r a r y a r t c e n te r a n d r e s i d e n c y, h a s opened its newly completed
21,000-square-foot home with two floors of exhibition space, and a 162-seat state-of-the-art theater. This interdisciplinary art center is located at 13 Front Street in Frenchtown. With its new art center, ArtYard aims to create a welcoming communal resource and deploy the power of art to unsettle, engage, bridge divides, and occasion moments of arresting beauty. Three major exhibitions per year anchor a program of related offerings in theater, poetry, dance, music, and film, as well as idiosyncratic communal celebrations such as ArtYard’s Hatch, a New Orle ans -inspire d parade of giant birds. An artists residency program is also in development and will launch in 2022 with an inaugural collaboration with the Baryshnikov Art Center in New York. Architects Ed Robinson and William Welch collaborated on the design of the new building, embedding a sophisticated modern art center within a structure that respects the architectural idioms of a once industrial town, at the site of the former egg hatchery, Kerr’s Chickeries. ArtYard’s Managing Director Kandy Ferree, with assistance from architectural advisor Bob Hsu, managed the project with builders William S. Cumby. “The opening of ArtYard’s new space will be the most significant economic catalyst Frenchtown has seen in decades,” said Mayor Brad Myhre. “It will serve as a treasured arts and cultural resource for our community, Hunterdon County, and New Jersey, attracting both visitors and permanent residents that will in turn benefit local businesses, restaurants and the overall vitality of Frenchtown,” A r tYa r d o r i g i n a l l y launched in 2016, announcing its presence by hatching a flock of giant bird puppets out of a 14-foot-tall welded steel egg at the then derelict former egg hatchery. Since this inaugural Hatch parade,
ArtYard has operated out of a nearby warehouse in Frenchtown at 62A Trenton Avenue, offering programs ranging from a locally composed chamber opera to an exhibition of works by neurodiverse artists from progressive art studios across the country, a solo show by the Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes featuring a site-specific cloud made of wishes gathered from communities in Frenchtown and Peru, and poetry events that pair local poets with nationally recognized poets including Toi Derricotte, Ross Gay, Patrick Rosal, and Aracelis Girmay. “ We n a m e d ou r s e l ve s ArtYard. We wanted to be an ordinary public place, a yard in lieu of a museum, where art is invented, ideas exchanged, relationships forged. We wanted to demystify art, to invite different communities to collaborate, and we committed ourselves to the notion that creative collaboration is a critical component of civic life,” said Executive Director Jill Kearney, describing Kearney and ArtYard Artistic Director Elsa Mora’s vision for ArtYard at its founding. ArtYard’s inaugural year in the new space will feature two major art exhibitions: “Girl You Want,” on view through August 1, a meditation on the gendering and racialization of girlhood curated by Bennington College professor and art historian J. Vanessa Lyon, and “Going to the Meadow,” a collaborative installation curated by Ulla Warchol and Robin Hill, in which teams of artists working with the same original materials will reinvent the exhibition repeatedly over a three-month span. The coming year will also feature an outdoor installation of sculptures by South African artist Ledelle Moe, and a program of artists talks, performances, workshops, and films predicated on the theme of “A Year of Mending.” For more information, visit artyard.org.
NEW ART CENTER: ArtYard has opened its new 21,000-square-foot facility in Frenchtown, which features two floors of exhibition space and a 162-seat state-of-the-art theater.
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Area Photographers Share Work in “Princeton Pecha”
The Arts Council of Princeton presents Pr inceton Pecha, bringing local artists together to share their work in a virtual program inspired by PechaKucha, a lively, upbeat format created in Japan that is designed for more show and less talk. Featured artists during this June 9 program from 8 to 9:15 p.m. include Alan Chimacoff, Habiyb, Mary Leck, Craig Shofed, Brass Rabbit, and Eileen HohmuthLemonick. Each artist will show 20 slides for 20 seconds each (about 7 minutes per artist), exhibiting for the audience an array of visual expression. “As a photographer and teacher, I have watched over time the exponential growth of photography from darkroom days to digital” said curator and host Madelaine Shellaby. “Curat ing t he June Pecha offered an opportunity to find individuals whose work distinguished itself from the crowd and evidenced a through line to unique purpose. The photographers I chose show a clear dedication to not only finding their own truths through their work, but to making a difference within their community. The many ways to do this include r e ve a l i n g p s ych olo g i c a l truths, observing social dysfunction, and my personal favorite, uplifting the moment with poetic beauty.” Registration is free at artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Plainsboro Library Opens With New Art Exhibition
An exhibition of work by local artist Evie Sutkowski will be on view Thursday, June 3 through Thursday, July 1 in the gallery of the Plainsboro Public Library. The library, closed to the public since March 2020, will be open for interested viewers and other patrons. Sutkowski, a resident of Monroe, has participated in a number of Plainsboro Library activities through the years, including two Arts Festivals. Her work was featured in
several group shows sponsored by the Plainsboro Library Artists Group. In addition to the library group, she is a member of the Garden State Watercolor Society (GSWS), the Suburban Artists Guild (SAG), and Princeton Sketchers. T he show w ill consist primarily of watercolors, although Sutkowski is also interested in collage, on which she focused during the pandemic. T he w inner of several awards, she has exhibited at Penn State’s Paul Robeson Gallery; the GSWS 50 th Anniversary Juried Art Show, the NJ Audubon Society Juried Art Exhibit at the Plainsboro Preserve, the Monroe Tow nship Cultural Commission Annual Juried Art Show, Pinot to Picasso Art Show (Princeton Arts Council), and other local venues. Her work is in private collections in New Jersey, Florida, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. The library is located at 9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro. For more information, call (609) 275-2897.
Library to Host “Art on the Plaza” Exhibit June 12
The Princeton Public Library will host the first exhibit by the Princeton Artist Directory (PAD) on Saturday, June 12 at Hinds Plaza. “Princeton Artist Directory Presents Art on the Plaza” will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. PAD is a newly formed collective of visual artists, musicians, writers, and performance artists from the Princeton community. The rain date is June 13. “Ever yone is invited to come along and see what extraordinary talent there is in this first-of-its-kind event,” said artist Mary Waltham, who founded the Princeton Artist Directory with fellow artists and longtime Princeton residents Mic Diño B o ekel m a n n a n d K are n Stolper last year. “Held in collaboration with Princeton Public Library, the exhibit reflects the synergy that exists between PPL and PAD, who each work to benefit the Princeton community.”
Materials relating to the library’s Summer Reading programs for all ages, including sign-up information, will be available during the event. The theme for this year’s programs is “Reading Colors Your World.” “This partnership with the Princeton Artist Directory, which celebrates the colorful world of local artists with an art show on the plaza, is the perfect way to kick off Summer Reading,” said Janie Hermann, manager of adult programming at the library. Programs begin June 15. More information about the Princeton Artist Directory can be found at princeton artistdirectory.com.
Trent House Museum Reopens with New Exhibits
The Trent House Association, in partnership with the City of Trenton, has announced the reopening of the 1719 William Trent House Museum on Sunday, June 6 at 2 p.m., with a special welcome-back program. Visitors will see new exhibits in the Museum, Visitor Center, and garden exploring the rich history of the many people whose lives were connected with this historic site. The Trenton Historical Society will join the Association in presenting a deed signed in 1677 by the first English resident of the area, Mahlon Stacy, that was recently purchased by the two organizations. The deed will remain on view at the Trent House through the summer before being donated to the Trenton Free Public Library for its Trentoniana Collection. Visitors can see how the garden has been redesigned to include plants that New Jersey’s native people would have grown or gathered in the wild and those that enslaved Africans would have cultivated for their own use and for the local market, as well as the herbs and vegetables grown in the gardens of English colonists. Throughout the 300-year-old house are hands-on displays and posters that show what daily life was like in the 1700s for both the wealthy Trent
p.m. lambertvillearts.com. Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Leslie V. Kuenne: A Life in Art” through June 19. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. artscouncilofprinceton.org. D& R Greenway Land Trust, One Preservation Place, has the ongoing virtual galleries “Trail of Breadcrumbs: Nature in Fairytales” and “Portraits of Preservation: James Fiorentino Art.” The center is currently closed to the public. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “Women Artists, Trenton Style” through June 6. Visit ellarslie. org for museum hours and timed entry tickets. Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Rebirth: Kang Muxiang,” “Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020,” and 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 “Princeton and Women’s Suffrage” and other online exhibits, as well as the “History@Home” series. The museum is currently closed to the public. princetonhistory.org. Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton, has “Our Environment” and “Print+” through September 5. hunterdonartmuseum.org. James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Essential Work 2020: A Community Portrait” through July 11 and “Through the Lens: Modern
Photography in the Delaware Valley” through August 15. The museum is open to the public. michenerartmuseum.org. Mercer Museum, 84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Measurement Rules” and “Magnificent Measures! The Hausman-Hill Collection of Calculating Instruments” through September 6. mercermuseum. org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “In Nature’s Realm: The Art of Gerard Rutgers Hardenberg” through January 9 and the online exhibit “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints Of New Jersey, 1761–1898.” Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. morven.org. New Hope Arts Center, 2 Stockton Avenue, New Hope, Pa., has “Weaving Re-Imagined: At the Intersection of Tradition and Creativity” through July 18. Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., by appointment. newhopearts.org. Princeton University Art Museum has the online exhibits “Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Painting,” “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography,” “The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder,” and more, along with many online events. The museum is currently closed to the public. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Small World Coffee, 104 Witherspoon Street, has “Art Speaks,” a gallery show of paintings and photographs, through July 5. smallworldcoffee.com. West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Faculty Student Show,” online through July 9. westwindsorarts.org.
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“PRINCETON PECHA”: Works by photographer Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick and other local artists will be showcased in a free virtual program presented by the Arts Council of Princeton on Wednesday, June 9 from 8 to 9:15 p.m.
family and for the people held in bondage who worked there. What did these residents of the house eat, how did they dress, where did they sleep, what did they do for fun or relaxation, how were children cared for? The Visitor Center displays what archaeology on the grounds has revealed about the lives of indigenous people from artifacts left behind and how Trent’s involvement in the slave trade of the 1700s connected him with many other wealthy and prominent colonists. Watch a reenactment of the dilemma that Mary Trent faced when her husband suddenly died without a will in 1724 and a video illustrating with maps how the neighborhood around the Trent House went from orchards and farms to factories and workers’ houses to the parking lots and highways surrounding it today. The Museum, located at 15 Market Street in Trenton, will return to its regular schedule for visitors on Wednesdays through Sundays, from 12:30 to 4 p.m., on Wednesday, June 9. All visitors will be required to wear face coverings until further notice. For more information, visit williamtrenthouse.org.
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Calendar Thursday, June 3 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket.com. 11 a.m.: Free one-hour forum on how to take advantage of New Jersey’s initiatives to help residents pay utility bills. Register by 5 p.m. June 1 by emailing Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker at asmZwicker@njleg.org. 12 p.m.: Virtual monthly membership luncheon networking event, presented by the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber. Princetonmercer.org. 1 p.m.: Navigating Resources for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder, presented by The Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System. Virtual event. Email hopeprogs @mcl.org to register. 6 p.m.: James Popik and the Supernova Band perform jazz at a fundraiser for the Sourland Conservancy. Can be attended live or virtually. $10-$25 suggested donation. Visit www.tiny.cc/ SCHappyHour for registration and location. 6 - 8 p. m . : I n P a l m e r Square, “Beagles Do Beatles” free Beatles tribute concert. With horns, keyboards, and special guests. Palmersquare.com. 6:30 p.m.: “A Proud Heritage: The African American Presence and Contribution in the Sourland Mountain Region and Surrounding
Area,” virtual talk led by historians Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, co-sponsored by Congregation Beth Chaim, Har Sinai Temple, Flemington Jewish Community Center, and Congregation Kehilat Shalom. Suggested donation is $18 per household but all are welcome regardless of ability to pay. https://bit.ly/33wX301. 7 p.m.: Virtual “Eyes on Eagles” panel discussion w it h fo otage of e agle s’ nests, by Mercer County Park Commission. Focused on eagle behavior, biology, and conservation. Mercercountyparks.org. 7-8 p.m.: West Windsor Arts presents a virtual storytelling workshop, for ages 21 and up. Free to those who sign up for the June 12 storytelling event. Westwindsorarts.org. 7 p.m.: Poetry Circle, discussion and readings. Presented by Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer Cou nt y L ibrar y System. Email hopeprogs @mcl.org to register. Friday, June 4 6-7 p.m.: Adaptive Outdoor Bingo at Princeton Community Pool, 380 Witherspoon Street. Free socially distanced event sponsored by Princeton Special Sports and Programs and other organizations. Masks are required. Register at pssnj. org by June 1. Saturday, June 5 8 a.m.-2 p.m.: Household waste collection and electronics recycling. For Mercer County residents, at Dempster Fire School, 350 Lawrence Station Road. Mcianj. org or (609) 278-8086. 9 a.m.: “Moving for Mutts”
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f u n d r a is er for A m a z i ng Mut ts Puppy Rescue, at MarketFair, West Windsor. 90-minute sampler class of kickboxing, Les Mills Core and yoga flow. Also, kids’ Hula Hoopla. Presented by Athleta Princeton and Apart Together in Motion. $25 minimum donation. Register at atinmotion.punchpass. com/classes/8206030. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Wwfm.org. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Pop-Up Kids’ Book Sale at Princeton Shopping Center, rain or shine. Masks are required. Spons ored by t he Br y n Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale. www.bmandwbooks.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.: NJ Renaissance Faire, rain or shine, at Liberty Lake, 1195 Florence-Columbus Road, Bordentown. $10-$25. NJRenFaire.com. 10 a.m.: “Old Time Baseball Game” at Howell Living History Farm, 70 Woodens Lane. Two teams play by 19th century Town Ball rules. Followed by a public game on the far mhouse law n. Howellfarm.org. 2 and 6 p.m.: “Forest Bathing,” immersive outdoor performance at Mercer County Community College (rain dates June 12 and 13). $8-$10. KelseyTheatre.org. 5-7 p.m.: Princeton Community Pride Picnic, free event at Princeton Family YMCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place. Music, art, activities for kids, and more. Artscouncilofprinceton.org. 7 p.m.: Princeton Boyc h o i r’s s p r i n g c o n c e r t ,
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streamed on Westrick Music Academy’s YouTube channel. Suggested donation of $10. Three choirs sing music they learned during online rehearsal this spring. Westrickmusic.org/upcoming. Sunday, June 6 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Pop-Up Kids’ Book Sale at Princeton Shopping Center, rain or shine. Masks are required. Spons ored by t he Br y n Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale. www.bmandwbooks.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.: NJ Renaissance Faire, rain or shine, at Liberty Lake, 1195 Florence-Columbus Road, Bordentown. $10-$25. NJRenFaire.com. 11 a.m.: The Liam Sutcliffe Combo performs in front of LiLLiPiES Bakery at Princeton Shopping Center as part of a summer Jazz Brunch series. Free. 1 p.m.: Princeton University’s carillonneur Lisa Lonie performs a concert at Cleveland Tower on the graduate school campus. Free, rain or shine. Listen on the grounds surrounding the building. Gradschool.princeton.edu. 2 p.m.: Reopening of William Trent House Museum and presentation of 1677 deed of Trenton’s First English Colonist, 15 Market Street, Trenton. Special free welcome-back program, with new exhibits and more. Williamtrenthouse.org. 2 and 6 p.m.: “Forest Bathing,” immersive outdoor performance at Mercer County Community College (rain dates June 12 and 13). $8-$10. KelseyTheatre.org. 3 p.m.: “NJ Healthcare Disparities and Access Inequality during COVID-19,” panel discussion by STAND CNJ. Standcnj.org. 4 p.m.: Moroccan Sheepherders perform at McCarter Concerts in Palmer Square. Free. 4 p.m.: Princeton Boyc h o i r’s s p r i n g c o n c e r t , streamed on Westrick Music Academy’s YouTube channel. Suggested donation of $10. Three choirs sing music they learned during online rehearsal this spring. Westrickmusic.org/upcoming. Monday, June 7 Recycling Thursday, June 10 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket.com. 10 a . m . : W o m e n o f Achievement Awards, virtually presented by the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber to Erin Klebaur, Amita Mehta, Dr. Nicole McGrath Barnes, and Dr. Deborah Mican. $30-$40. Princetonmercer.org. 7 p.m.: Rep. Ro Khanna speaks at the Coalition for Peace Action’s 40 th anniversary membership gathering, via Zoom. Daniel Ellsberg will appear to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in Peacemaking. Peacecoalition.org. 7 p.m . : S c r e e n i n g of Monty P ython and the Holy Grail at Cherry Grove Farm, in partnership with Princeton Garden Theatre. Cheeses and ice cream will be available. Princetongardentheatre.org. Friday, June 11 7 p.m.: McCar ter Theatre gala, virtual event with guests including Emanuel Ax, Wynton Marsalis, J’Nai Br idge s, S haw n Colv in,
Audra McDonald, and others. Special dinner menu available from The Meeting House. Tickets start at $100. Mccarter.org/mccartergala21. Saturday, June 12 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Wwfm.org. 11:30 a.m.-2 :30 p.m.: “Art on the Plaza,” presented by the Princeton Artist Directory, a newly formed collective of visual artists, musicians, writers, and performance artists, at Hinds Plaza. Rain date is June 13. Princetonartistdirectory. com. 12-5 p.m.: Old Mill Hill Society’s 30 th Annual Garden Tour, in Mill Hill district of Trenton. $20. Visit trentonmillhill.org/events to purchase and get more information. 5 p.m.: Outdoor reading of The OK Trenton Project at Mill Hill Ampitheater, Trenton, presented by Passage Theatre Company. Passagetheatre.org. Sunday, June 13 4 p.m.: Random Test Reggae performs at McCarter Concerts in Palmer Square. Free. 5 -7 p.m. : “Come and Whine,” outdoor storytelling and wine tasting event presented by West Windsor Arts. $25. Westwindsorarts.org. Monday, June 14 6 -7 p.m.: The Suppers Programs presents a virtual webinar on edible flowers. Register at suppers.wildapricot.org. Wednesday, June 16 6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting. Princetonlibrary. org. Thursday, June 17 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket.com. 6:30 p.m.: “The Stocktons and the Civil War Amendments.” Historian /author John Baxter is lecturer in this event presented by Morven. $10 (free for members). Virtual program. Morven. org. 7 p . m . : “ Wo m e n o n Wheels : Bicycling in the Gilded Age.” Virtual Event presented by author Ellen Gruber Garvey, sponsored by Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System. Email hopeprogs@mcl.org to register. Friday, June 18 8 p.m.: Juneteenth Shabbat Service. “FreedomDay” celebration, with special guest, Pastor Kahil Carmichael of Live Well Church. Presented by Congregation Beth Chaim. To attend in person, 329 Village Road East, Princeton Junction. To attend virtually, email bethchaimrj@gmail.com for Zoom information. Saturday, June 19 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Wwfm.org. Sunday, June 20 11 a.m.: QPK Trio performs in front of LiLLiPiES Bakery at Princeton Shopping Center as part of a summer Jazz Brunch series. Free.
1 p.m.: Virtual Bulgarian Singing Workshop, presented by Princeton Folk Dance, with Daniel Spassov and Millen Ivanov via Zoom. $25. Princetonfolkdance.org. 1:30 p.m.: Cane Pole Fishing at Washington Crossing State Park, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. Meet at Niederers Pond on Church and Brickyard roads. Rain date June 27. Advanced registration required, free. Njparksandforests.org. 4 p.m. Ritmo Caliente performs at McCarter Concerts in Palmer Square. Free. 4 p.m.: “30 Myths About Jane Austen,” webinar presented by Princeton University Library, with Claudia Johnson and Clara Tuite. Register at libcal.princeton. edu. Monday, June 21 Recycling Wednesday, June 23 7 p.m.: “LGBTQ+ in NJ: A History of a Community & GAAMC (Gay Activist Alliance in Morris County).” Presented virtually by Mercer County Librar y Lawrence Headquarters Branch. To register, email hopeprogs@mcl.org. Thursday, June 24 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket.com. Friday, June 25 6 p.m.: Concert tribute to The Four Seasons, organized and performed by New Jersey youth to raise funds for NAMI of Mercer County and the Washington Crossing Open Air Theater, which is the venue. Visit tjbconcert.square.site for tickets and information. Saturday, June 26 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Wwfm.org. 6 p.m.: Concert tribute to The Four Seasons, organized and performed by New Jersey youth to raise funds for NAMI of Mercer County and the Washington Crossing Open Air Theater, which is the venue. Visit tjbconcert.square.site for tickets and information. Sunday, June 27 1-3 p.m.: Free Vegetarian lunch provided under the red tent at the Princeton Family YMCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place. www.bviscs.org. 2-3 p.m.: Gardening with Native Plants, hosted by Friends of Princeton Open Space. $5 supplies cost. Visit sustainableprinceton. org for information. 3 p.m.: Concert tribute to The Four Seasons, organized and performed by New Jersey youth to raise funds for NAMI of Mercer County and the Washington Crossing Open Air Theater, which is the venue. Visit tjbconcert.square.site for tickets and information Thursday, July 1 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket.com. Saturday, July 3 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Communit y Far mers Market, Princeton Junction. Enter at 877 Alexander Road through the Vaughn lot. 17 farms and 20 artisan food makers. Wwfm.org.
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BCBA in 2003 after passing the exam. I will be starting my doctoral studies in September of this year.” Finkler has addressed issues at both the state and national level on such topics as effective teaching strategies for students with autism, behavior management strategies, and educational assessment. She has consulted with more than 50 public and private schools, and has been an invited speaker for several educational institutions, including the Cleveland Clinic. Her experience includes extensive practical application of applied behavior analysis (ABA), curriculum development, professional and parent training, consultation, and assessment. One-on-One Her practice includes a staff of 20, with experience in special education, behavior therapy, and occupational therapy. Clients range in age from 18 months to 22 years old, with the majority children and teens. All sessions are private, one-onone within the individual’s home, classroom, or community. “Most of our students attend public schools in their local districts or special ser v ices school distr icts like Mercer County Special Services,” explains Finkler. Treatment sessions vary depending on each case, but typically they are two to three hours, and held at least 10 hours a week. “Autism is a spectrum,
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lthough the Princeton University rowing programs had just a handful of regattas this spring as opposed to their usual slate of around eight weeks of regular season action culminated by the Eastern Sprints/Ivy League championships, the Tigers crews still excelled in national championship competition last weekend. Taking part in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) national championship regatta last Friday at nearby Mercer Lake, the Princeton women’s lightweight varsity 8 provided a highlight as it won a national title. Rowing in a two-boat grand final against Wisconsin, the Tigers covered the 2,000-meter course in 7:42.73, more than 26.3 seconds better than the Badgers. Having seen his varsity 8 take second in the 2019 national final and third in both 2017 and 2018, the triumph was special for Princeton head coach Paul Rassam. “It’s a bit bittersweet,” said Rassam as quoted on the PU Athletics website in reflecting on the top boat’s first national title since 2003. “I say that because we had the speed to win last year and obviously the people from that boat didn’t get that chance. When I think of this group my heart nearly bursts with pride. They are cut from granite. They are one of the best boats I’ve ever seen. They are champions in every way and words don’t do them justice.” The championship crew included included senior Annie Anezakis, senior Isabelle Chandler, senior Lauren Sanchez, freshman Kalena Blake, sophomore Sarah Polson, freshman Lily Feinerman, senior Ashley Scott, freshman Nathalie Verlinde, and senior Rebecca Mays. “After four years of growing momentum on this team and 15 months of training through uncertainty, it feels incredible to finally see it all come together to win a national title,” said Anezakis. “Today’s result means so much to us because it is a reflection of the unshakeable faith and grit our whole team has shown all season in addition to our determination to race for the Class of 2020 and our coaches who we are all beyond grateful for.” The Princeton double scull placed fourth in its final with a time of 9:44.56. Boston University took the title (9:08.72), followed by Stanford and Oklahoma City. The Tiger men’s lightweights also earned medals at the IRA as the second varsity 8 placed second with a time of 6:47.28, 5.9 seconds behind champion Navy. Princeton’s varsity 8 finished third, coming in at 6:55.54 with Navy taking first in 6:44.89 and Penn placing second ion 6:47.54 The bronze marked the third straight medal for the varsity 8 at the regatta and the fourth in the last five IRAs. The third Princeton program competing in the IRA, the Tigers men’s heavyweights, earned a pair of
top-10 finishes as the varsity 8 took second in the B final to finish eighth overall. Princeton clocked a time of 6:11.71, just behind Boston University’s mark of 6:08.82 in the race. The second varsity 8 took sixth in the A final, clocking a time of 6:36.44 with Washington winning the national title in 6:15.42. Princeton head coach Greg Hughes liked the way his rowers battled through the downpours that drenched competitors over the weekend in West Windsor. “I thought they really stepped up well, it was obviously a challenging couple of days over there with the weather,” said Hughes. “It was fitting, we were joking about it. In this year after everything we have been through and all of the challenges we have overcome, we are also going to have a white-capping headwind. We had not really had any opportunity to prepare in anything like that.” The varsity 8 made progress through the weekend. “That time trial was a good, strong effort for those guys. They were in the thick of it,” said Hughes of the first race in Friday. “That semifinal was really challenging with the conditions. They just had not had the chance to do anything where they could rehearse in that. They learned a lot from the mistakes they made in that race. They retooled and came right back 12 hours later and had a final where they did an awesome job.” With its lineup revamped in the weeks before the competition, second varsity came together in a hurry. “For those guys, that was a really awesome effort,” said Hughes. “The combination that they were rowing in had probably rowed five times before the racing because we were really juggling bodies and dealing with some injuries and what not. The way that they stepped into that was really inspirational, it was great to see.” Looking back on a uniquely challenging year, Hughes was inspired by the effort he got from his rowers on the final weekend of the season. “What was rewarding for me was just seeing that they got this opportunity and the way that they took it on,” said Hughes. “It was just such a crazy year. For them to stay focused, committed, and resilient through so many challenges, even in this last month where we were losing a couple of guys and it was just changing our dynamic and what we could do. They never once stepped out of it. The most rewarding piece of the year for me was just being with them and experiencing that. They made it a really special year for me.” That special commitment will help the program next year and beyond. “For so many of those guys, they had no experience at all, and now they have an experience,” said Hughes. “They understand, ‘OK,
this is what it is like to actually go to one of these events and now I have a sense of where I want to go with it.’ I think that will be really, really important. Getting them introduced to our program and to really feel and experience our culture during the racing season is huge. They understand that this is the role that I have to play going forward and these are the goals that I want to set. I think that is going to be really important.” The Princeton women’s open rowers headed south over the weekend to compete in the NCAA Championships in Sarasota, Fla., and they also excelled. The varsity 8 placed fourth in the B final to finish 10th overall nationally while the second varsity 8 finished second in the C final to come in 14th overall and the varsity 4 won the C final to take 13th. The top boat clocked a time of 6:32.56 in taking fourth in its final, trailing third-place Cal by .08 in a race win by Ohio State with a mark of 6:27.72. It marked the fifth straight top-10 finish by the Princeton varsity 8 at the NCAAs but that was not the most important thing to Tiger head coach Lori Dauphiny. “There was a streak but I didn’t even know about that, I don’t count that stuff, “ said Dauphiny. “They did finish in the top 10 which I think was fantastic given the challenges we have faced. I was extremely proud of the team. They poured out the best race that they had. That was super exciting. They were in the lead, they were tied for the lead for a bit and they were in second position going into the third 500. They just got nipped out by Cal at the finish for that third position.” The second 8 produced an exciting race as well in its final, coming at 6:45.47 just behind the winning time of 6:43.42 posted by Duke. “The second varsity came in second into C final and it was a real battle and they were moving,” said Dauphiny. “They were leading, they were in it, it was just exciting. They gave it their all. It was a fantastic finish for them.” Princeton got off to a flying start in the finals action on Sunday with the varsity 4 covering the course in 7:27.36 to place first and edge Navy, which came in at 7:31.68 to finish second. “The 4 winning the C final was a really nice way to finish for them,” said Dauphiny. “It was the way we started that Sunday of finals. It was so uplifting to see. It excited the rest of the team. That was their best race too. We know these boats well and it was absolutely their fastest race for all three.” While seeing that speed was nice, the character displayed by her rowers over the year meant more to Dauphiny. “The coaches recognize what these women have been through and what they had to overcome to be there,” said Dauphiny. “There was every opportunity for people to walk out the door and say ‘you know what,
SHINING LIGHTS: Members of the Princeton University women’s lightweight varsity 8 enjoy the moment after they placed first in their grand final at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) national championship regatta last Friday at Mercer Lake. The boat included Annie Anezakis, Isabelle Chandler, Lauren Sanchez, Kalena Blake, Sarah Polson, Lily Feinerman, Ashley Scott, Nathalie Verlinde, and Rebecca Mays. (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications) I have had enough, what is the end here, this is too much.’ There were plenty of opportunities for these women to give up without knowing what was going to happen.” In Dauphiny’s view, the bonds forged by the rowers kept them from giving up on the season. “I think it is the love of the sport but I think it is also the love they have for each other,” said Dauphiny. “They really care about each other; what I have noticed with this team that they count on each other. There are friendships on the team, they are close and they care about each other. I think that stepping away from the team was not an option as a whole. I think they felt
dedicated to each other.” That dedication will yield dividends for the Tigers going forward. “I told these women that they have helped this program immensely by the fact that they really salvaged a tough season and they didn’t give up,” said Dauphiny.
“That will have great impact on our program now and in the future. They are stars. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate their fortitude. It didn’t matter what happened last weekend but I thought they crushed it.” —Bill Alden
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Princeton Universit y wrestling star Patrick Glory placed first at 57 kg men’s freestyle at the U.S. U23 National Championships last weekend in Lincoln, Neb. Glory defeated five opponents to take the title at the competition which wrapped up Saturday, including three without giving up a point and three by a 10 -point margin each. The win in the best-of-three final came with 8-0 and 10-0 wins over Taylor LaMont, a junior in 2020-21 at Utah Valley. With the win, rising junior Glory has earned a spot on USA Wrestling’s team at the United World Wrestling U23 World Championship, set for November 1-7 in Belgrade, Serbia. Glory was one of seven Tigers to earn All-American honors at the event along with fellow rising juniors Quincy Monday, Travis Stefanik, and Jake Marsh, rising sophomores Matt Cover and Nick Kayal, and incoming freshman Luke Stout. Monday took second at 74 kg, winning five times to reach the final against Peyton Robb, a sophomore at host Nebraska in 202021. Robb took the first two matches of the best-of-three 12-3 and 7-5. Kayal won three times at 57 kg to make the semis before falling to LaMont, one round short of an all-Tiger final. Kayal finished sixth.
Marsh won three times at 79 kg to reach the quarters before finishing eighth. Stefanik won once in the main draw at 86 kg before a loss in the round of 16. He then won three consolation matches to reach the consolation round of four and take the seventh-place bout with an injury win. Stout posted two wins at 92 kg to reach the quarterfinals before adding a consolation win and a win in the seventh-place bout. Cover won once at 125 kg to reach the round of 16 and won two consolation matches to make the seventh-place bout before finishing eighth. Princeton assistant coach Nate Jackson also enjoyed a big weekend on another front at the Pan-American Championships in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Jackson represented the U.S. at 92 kg, competing with wrestlers from Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Venezuela. Jackson defeated two of his opponents, from Mexico and Canada, 10-0, and the other two by forfeit to finish atop the pool and win gold.
Tiger Field Hockey Players Earn Academic Awards
Princeton University field hockey standouts MaryKate Neff and Margaret Lynch ear ned awards following their graduation from Princeton on May 16.Neff, a chemistr y and biological engineering major, was selected as the George J.
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Mueller Award winner. That award is given to honor the graduating senior who most evidently combined high scholarly achievement with quality of performance in intercollegiate athletics. Lynch, a geology major, was honored with the Sigma Xi Book Award, given to a senior elected to the Princeton Chapter of Sigma Xi, the national society for recognition of scientific research. Over her college career, Neff played in 60 games for Princeton, registering 17 goals and seven assists. She was a three-time All-Ivy player and two-time All-Region nomination. Lynch appeared in 54 games for the Tigers. Both players won two Ivy titles and went to two NCAA Final Fours.
Under-23 Championships being held from July 7-11 in Racice, Czech Republic, in the men’s eight, men’s four with coxswain and men’s quadruple sculls.
PU Steeplechasers Excel at Portland Meet
A trio of past and current Princeton University track stars excelled in the 3,000-meter steeplechase last Friday at the Portland
Tr a c k F e s t i v a l – H i g h Performance Meet at Lewis & Clarke College. Rising Tiger senior Ed Trippas clocked a time of 8 : 26.25, a mark wou ld lead the NCAA this spring and improve upon his PR of 8:33.90 from the NCAA Regional in 2019, which ranks No. 2 on Princeton’s all-time list behind two-time Olympian Donn Cabral ’12. Overall, Trippas finished seventh
out of 27 runners and two spots ahead of Cabral, who came in at 8:27.25. Former Princeton women’s standout Lizzie Bird ’17 earned an Olympic standard time in her steeplechase race. Bird, a native of St. Albans Herts, England, finished in 9:26.73, more than three seconds better than the Olympic standard time of 9:30:00. She placed third out of 21 competitors.
Four Princeton Rowers Invited to U.S. U-23 camp
Four Princeton University rowers have been invited to United States Rowing men’s under-23 selection camp, the organization said last week. Tiger standouts Sydney Edwards (men’s lightw e i g h t s ) , Ke e l a n G o o d ( heav y weights ) Nathan Phelps (heavyweights), Erik Spinka (heavyweights) were among the 54 athletes nominated for the camp. The camp will go from June 1-20 at Northeastern’s Henderson Boathouse. This camp will select the athletes who will represent the U.S. OH YES: Princeton University women’s track star Obiageri Amaechi shows her discus form earat the 2021 World Rowing lier in her college career. Last Saturday, senior standout Amaechi punched her ticket to the NCAA Championships for the third time in her career after finishing in fourth at the NCAA East Available for Regional in Jacksonville, Fla. Amaechi’s best throw in the competition was 56.54 meters. Lunch & Dinner Amaechi made it to the NCAA Championships in 2018 and 2019, earning First Team All-America Mmm..Take-Out honors in 2018 after finishing in seventh place. She is both the school and Ivy League record holder with a mark of 57.95 meters, set at the Ivy Heptagonal Championships in 2019. The Events • Parties • Catering 2021 NCAA championship meet will take place June 9-12 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. (609) 924-5143
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S her yl S evera nce w i l l never forget her final days coaching the Princeton High golf program. Cu lm inat ing t he 2021 campaign last week, PHS won the first-ever CVC Boys’ Match Play Tournament, defeating WW/P-North 157167 on May 25 at the Springdale Golf Club to end the season with a 15-0 record. A day later, the Tigers girls played in their CVC Match Play final, battling WW/PNorth to a standstill, tying the Northern Knights 173173 after the first four golfers’ scores were added up
and 222-222 after the fifth golfers were calculated. The Northern Knights prevailed 271-277 with the scores of the sixth golfers being used as the final tiebreaker. For Severance, who is stepping down after guiding the PHS golf team for 28 years, it was a perfect ending to a storied tenure. “If you have to go out, you want to go out this way,” said Severance, who guided the Tigers to state titles in 2007 and 2008; sectional titles in 2005, 2007, 2008, a n d 2 019 ; a n d M e r c e r County Tournament crowns
in 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2007. “It was a fantastic year. The group of kids were amazing.” As squad competed in the boys’ CVC final, Severance wasn’t sure if she was going to go out with a win. “I was so nervous watching them, there was a bad shot and I was like ‘oh no,’” said Severance. “Going into it they were nervous, they were excited. We got Springdale. We had beaten them before at Princeton Country Club so we had an advantage there.
We didn’t play all year on Springdale. We did think that this is the final, it should be on a course like Springdale. A few of them were saying we have been playing well at Princeton Country Club, maybe we should stick with that.” T he Tigers st uck w it h t hings and prevailed as freshman Brooks CahillSanidas led the way, firing a three-over 38 for the nine-hole competition. Senior star Adam MacMillan and sophomore standout Madeleine Zang were right behind as they both carded 39s. Freshman Peter Eaton rounded out the scoring for PHS with a 41. “Brooks came out of nowhere, he has been up and dow n,” s a id S evera nce. “Adam and Madeleine had great rounds.” With the CVC event featuring a team format with a bracket played over weeks due to COVID concerns rather than the annual one-day competition of the Mercer County Tournament, Severance enjoyed the change. “I really liked it, it was fun,” said Severance. “I have always enjoyed the MCT, but then it is over so quickly. It is one round and you are like did the best team win.”
The PHS girls were led by Zang as they were seeded fifth in their CVC competition and upset second-seeded WW/P-South in the semis to earn the match against top-seeded North. “Madeleine is such an inspiration to these girls, that is all they talk about,” said Severance. “They say I want to be as good as Madeleine, I am going to work as hard as her. Her game is so spot on, I love watching her. I was talking to Pat [ assistant coach Pat Noone] the other day and I said I could stand here all day and watch her swing. She is just such a good player. She is a real inspiration to the group. She is humble, every time someone says to her you had a good round, she says thank you and then she will talk about someone else.” In the final, Zang came through again with a 38 followed by Eden Raymond (42), Emma MacMillan (46), Tia Sindu (47), Shelly Zhang (49), and Arunima Suri (55). “The girls went out, they stepped it up, beating South was great,” said Severance. “The final went to the sixth score. My girls came in and it was tied after fourth
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and then you go to the fifth and we had a tie for that. Then it went to the sixth score and we lost on that one. They had a good time, I am so proud of them.” Severance believes she is leaving the PHS program with a good foundation in place. “We had a ton of freshmen and sophomores and they are all so energetic,” said Severance, who credited assistant coach Pat Noone with playing a key role in the team’s success this spring and hopes that he will succeed her in leading the team. “T hey were all like ‘I want to play golf, I love this game.’ I had 50 kids come out for golf this year. It is in fabulous shape.” Reflecting on her 28-year tenure guiding the squad, Severance had a fabulous time. “It is sad, I was walking out to the car after today and I thought ‘this is it, I am never going to do this again,’” said Severance, who plans to spend time with her grandchildren and on the golf course in retirement. “I really enjoyed myself, it was a good run.” —Bill Alden
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PHS Golf Produces Memorable Final Week As Coach Severance’s Tenure Ends with CVC Glory
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Ending Stellar PHS Golf Career on a High Note, MacMillan Helps Tigers Win CVC Match Play Title Adam MacMillan got off to a shaky start as he teed off in the CVC Match Play final for the Princeton High golf team last week when it hosted WW/P-North at the Springdale Golf Club. “I hadn’t played there in a year and a half, I was not sure what to hit off the tee,” said MacMillan. “I pull out an iron and I hooked it into the woods and it is gone. I played a
provisional after that and I ended up double bogeying the first hole, but I didn’t let that get to me because I knew two-over was going to be a competitive score at the end of the day. It was a little nerve-wracking, but then I started to calm down a little bit.” S enior star MacMillan settled down, shooting a four-over 39 for the ninehole competition to help
PHS defeat W W/P-North 157-167 to win the first-ever CVC Match Play and end the season with a 15-0 record in dual match play. “On the fifth hole, I had my most memorable shot of the day: I was a half an inch from a hole in one,” said MacMillan. “It was a big turnaround, it was a big shot for me. Once I made it, it was there you go, get one back and finish strong.”
The win over North in his PHS finale is leaving MacMillan with a special memory. “We would always lose to North, they were the top team my first two years, so being able to win meant a lot to me,” said MacMillan “I know my teammates feel the same way, it meant a lot of them and it meant a lot to coach [Sheryl Severance]. Having kids win it in their first or second season was a great experience for them. I hope they cherish that.” MacMillan has cherished getting to play this spring
DRIVEN TO SUCCEED: Princeton High golf star Adam MacMillan follows through on a swing in action this spring. Senior MacMillan placed second individually in the state Central/South Jersey Sectional on May 10 as PHS took second in the team standings. Last week, he helped the Tigers win the first-ever CVC Match Play Tournament title with a 157-167 win over WW/P-North at the Springdale Golf Club. PHS ended the spring with a 15-0 record in dual match play. MacMillan will continuing his golf career at West Chester University next year. (Photo provided courtesy of Sheryl Severance)
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for PHS after the 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was just awesome just being able to get back out there and to be competing with my teammates for the rest of the year,” said MacMillan “I felt bad for our seniors last year who didn’t get a season. I usually just compete by myself so being able to go out with the team and being able to finish my career at PHS was special.” As a team captain, MacMillan enjoyed imparting some wisdom to his younger teammates. “There were a lot of the younger guys who weren’t there before and who just started,” said MacMillan. “It was just giving them advice from things I have picked up over the years from all of my experience. I know before some matches, especially our last ones, they were nervous. I just helped calm them down a little bit and tell them to just go out and do your best. I think coach Severance did really well this year in making sure that everyone was ready to go and felt welcome and well acclimated to the environment.” PHS began the season by playing well with lopsided wins in its first four matches and then gained a shot of confidence after edging W W/P-North 161-166 on April 22 to improve to 5-0. “I knew that once we had beaten Nor th, we would get over the hump because they were the best team we faced,” said MacMillan. “After that, we started to get a little less nervous and also we started playing really well. That was the turning point of the season. It was ‘OK we have got this, we can go on a pretty good run this year.’” Playing at the Central/ S ou t h J e r s e y S e c t i on a l on May 10 at Charleston Springs in Millstone, MacMillan and PHS had a very good day. MacMillan carded a one-over 73 to finish second in the individual standings while the Tigers had a score of 328 to place second in the team standings behind champion Montgomery. “During the offseason and during COVID, I was going to the gym a lot more,” said MacMillan. “I picked up a lot of distance. I just felt really confident going out there. After a couple of practice rounds and warmups, I was just striking the ball really well. It just all came together that day.” A week later, playing at the state Tournament of Champions at Hawk Pointe Golf Club in Washington, MacMillan scored a 10-over 80 to place 61st individually as PHS placed 14th overall and fourth in Group 4. While that result was a bit disap-
pointing, it helped steel the Tigers for the CVC Match Play competition. “Being able to play in sectionals and states did give us a big boost of confidence that hey we can really make a run here and we are the team to beat,” said MacMillan. The squad was also determined to make a big run to help longtime coach Severance enjoy a fitting finale as she was stepping down after a 28-year tenure guiding the program. “She instilled a lot of confi dence in us every match,” said MacMillan of Severance. “She liked to start it with a huddle and has a quote she uses almost every day that she will tell us. She was able to build a chemistry. Knowing that this was her last season, we really did push ourselves as much as we could to play well. We knew we wanted to make it special for her, we wanted to send her off with a great season.” Severance, for her part, credits MacMillan with making a great impact on the squad. “Adam is a very special player for me. We just had our end of the year meeting and it got a little emotional,” said Severance. “I am going to miss him tremendously. He stepped up so many times. He is just a very cool player, he has a laid back demeanor. He doesn’t get upset easily. He is dedicated to it and it is all for his team. It is not just for Adam, it is for the team.” Next year, MacMillan will be working hard for a new team as he has committed to attend West Chester University and play for its men’s golf program. Over t he sum mer, he w ill be looking to keep his game sharp and continue to get stronger physically. “I am going to do some USGA events, a couple of Met events, and N.J. state events,” said MacMillan. “I am not going to do as many junior tournaments as I did before. I am in college now. I have to make sure that I am going to the gym.” As MacMillan looks back on his PHS career, he will savor the journey with his teammates as much as his achievements on the course. “I would say the biggest thing that will stand out is the bus rides,” said MacMillan, reflecting his high school experience. “It is only six people but we have fun. Everyone might be quiet when we are driving there, but when you come back with a win, everyone is talking and laughing. Those are the things you miss.” And the Tiger program will certainly miss MacMillan. —Bill Alden
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It has worked out nicely ing some big things. there are that manyHex#teams chert Realtors because Roberto and Eric “Our team is pretty strong we can’t beat this season.” make a nice team.” ifications this year,” said Gu. “We —Bill Alden Playing at the top spot in The Tigers were excited Jonathan Gu was fired up Freshman Melvin Huang to make an impact at singles the Tiger lineup has been a to get state tournament play has proven to be a stalwart underway with the match for the squad, officially last spring in his freshman challenge for Gu. season for the Princeton “There is pressure on you against Brick Memorial. listed at third singles but High boys’ tennis team. playing No. 1,” said Gu. “In “We were lucky to get a playing all over the singles But with the 2020 season tournaments, I play people bye in the first round and lineup when other players canceled due to the COV- that are older than me as it is nice to get underway have been unavailable. ID-19 pandemic, Gu never well. I think my serve, espe- with the competition,” said “Melvin has been doing got the chance to show his cially, has improved a lot. I Hibbert. great as well, he is our third have been playing every day skills. “It is always nice to have singles and I think he played This spring with the sea- with the team and then do- one where you feel confi- two matches at third singles son in full swing, Gu is mak- ing matches and then play- dent in your chances when all year because he has been ing the most of his delayed ing on the weekend. I am the match gets started. We first and second most of the debut campaign, starring at playing a lot and it is pay- have had a lot of good tennis time,” said Hibbert. this season; I am sure there first singles as PHS has gone ing off.” “It is great experience for Gu started playing tennis is a lot more good tennis to him. He is working hard on 15-0, advancing to both the CVC tournament final and at a young age, following in come. 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We have joked intact is a great start,” said on my serve, trying to get fortunately the season was with them that they have Hibbert, whose team would EYES ON THE PRIZE: Princeton High boys’ tennis player Jonagreat first sets and then take the first and second serve cut short,” said Hibbert. be play ing in t he s tate than Gu shows his focus in a recent match. Gu and PHS have a down,” said Gu, who plays “We were all excited to a slight mental vacation in Group semis on June 3 if big week coming up as they will be competing in both the CVC • Closing Real Estate • finals Mortgage Insurance and the• state tournament. In the Services Central Jersey Group regional and national see what• heClosing could do but we the second. 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This past winter, Hailey Wexler provided scoring punch to help the Princeton Day School girls’ hockey team go 5-0-1. Once spring rolled around, senior Wexler turned her attention to defense, starring at goalie for the PDS girls’ lax team. While Wexler is accomplished at both sports, lacrosse became her priority over the years. “I focus on lacrosse more; if I had something on the same day at the same time, I would pick lacrosse over hockey,” said Wexler. “All of my coaches already knew which one came first. Playing hockey makes me more athletic. I think I might see better places to shoot in hockey from being a lacrosse goalie.” Wexler displayed her athleticism in the cage last week as the Panthers hosted Lawrenceville, making 15 saves in a losing cause as PDS fell 11-8 to the Big Red “We wanted to get the win and that didn’t happen,” said Wexler. “We came in saying this is the best team we have had in a while. We thought this was going to be the closest game we have had against Lawrenceville in a while and it was.” The Panthers dug an early hole falling behind 5-0 but
rallied to narrow the gap to 7-4 at halftime. Making some key stops to stem the Lawrenceville tide, Wexler helped spark the comeback. “In my head, I need to get that save and I think that changes t he moment u m sometimes,” said Wexler. “I did get a little worried but once we started scoring, we started picking it up and it helped a lot. I started to make a few more saves, I felt momentum. Our halftime talks have been really good recently and that give us momentum too.” In the second half, the PDS defense tightened up as the Panthers made it an 8-6 game with 17:51 left in regulation but the Big Red ultimately held on for the win. “It makes me feel more confident, it makes me feel better,” said Wexler of the defensive effort which was led by fellow seniors Ella McIntyre, Caroline Topping, and Alex Hollander. “That can definitely change the momentum of the game, especially for the other team. If they see it, they start to struggle. It helps a lot. I made one save that really changed it; the one on my knee changed it for me because this game started to get close again.
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But that 5-0 start, we just couldn’t make that up.” As PDS has faced some tough foes down the stretch of the season, a battle-tested Wexler has become more confident. “I have made a lot of progress from sophomore year to now,” said Wexler. “We had some easier competition earlier in the season. I had a little drop in the middle of the season where you star t playing harder teams. I wasn’t used to that yet. In the last few games, I feel like I have definitely stepped it up. Against Mount St Mary’s, (a 19-11 loss on May 22 which saw Wexler make 13 saves), I stepped it up and it fed into this game too.” Next year, Wexler will look to keep progressing as she has committed to attend The College of New Jersey and play for its women’s lax program. “It is closer to home; they just made it to the quarterfinals so they have a really strong D-III program,” said Wexler, who made 11 saves in a losing cause as PDS fell 14-9 to Hillsborough High in its season finale last Thursday to end the spring with an 8-7 record. “My goalie coach [ Bob Henderson] who I have been working w ith since fif th Princeton Airport, 41 Airpark Road, grade is the goalie coach Princeton, New Jersey 08540 there. I really looking for609-921-3100 ward to getting four more years with him.” 39N@princetonairport.com PRINCETON PDS head coach Jill www.princetonairport.com AIRPORT Thomas credited her players with making a strong effort against the Big Red. “We thought coming in that we matched up pretty well this year,” said Thomas. “The girls did rally, they never quit throughout. That is the piece as a coach that you like. For the seniors, this was their chance. If you hear a little frustration, it is OK. We know we were right there and we just have to keep that in mind. Those unforced turnovers hurt us.” In the view of Thomas, Wexler and the PDS defense stood tall as it battled Lawrenceville. “She has been playing great, everything is good,” said Thomas of Wexler. “I told the defense before the game that we were going to win it at that end of HOPEWELL • NJ HIGHTSTOWN • NJ the field. 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SAVING GRACE: Princeton Day School girls’ lacrosse goalie Hailey Wexler makes a leaping save in a game this spring. On May 25, senior star Wexler made 15 saves in an 11-8 defeat to Lawrenceville. Two days later, Wexler recorded 11 saves in a losing cause as PDS fell 14-9 to Hillsborough High in its season finale. The Panthers ended the spring with an 8-7 record. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Senior Goalie Wexler Shows Grit, Athleticism As PDS Girls’ Lax Falls 11-8 to Lawrenceville
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Hun Baseball : The honors are rolling in for Hun’s powerhouse baseball team that went 19-2 this spring, winning its fifth straight state Prep A crown and the Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) regular season title along the way. Junior Carson Applegate, senior Ben Petrone, junior Ben Ro mano, and junior Jackson Kraemer were named as First-Team All-MAPL selections. Junior Ryan DiMaggio earned honorable mention recognition. In addition, Applegate, DiMaggio, Kraemer, Petrone, and Romano along with Carson Wehner (alternate) have been selected to play for the Mercer County squad in this year’s Carpenter Cup tournament, which includes all-star teams from Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The six players named make up the
biggest Carpenter class in Hun program history. Softball: Senior Hanna Babuschak, freshman Lexi Kobryn, and freshman Jamie Staub were named as First-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) selections last week. Sophomore Kat Xiong received honorable mention. The quartet helped Hun go 9- 4 this spring. Boys’ Lacrosse: Seniors Mat t D or r ia n a nd R a n dall Brown were named as First-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) selections last week. Junior Tyler Jamison was an honorable mention choice. Hun ended up 4-6 in 2021 in head coach Jim Stagnitta’s first season guiding the program. Girls’ Lacrosse: Senior Anna Hyson and sophomore Abby O’Brien have been named as First-Team AllMid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) selections. Sophomore Priscilla Stelmach received honorable mention. The trio helped Hun post a 7-10 mark in 2021.
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Baseball: Shaun McMillan starred as Lawrenceville edged Delbarton 2-1 last Wednesday. McMillan hit a two-run homer and earned the win on the mound, striking out three and giving up two hits in four innings of work. The victory gave Lawrenceville a final record of 14-10. Boys’ Lacrosse: Jumping out to a 4-1 first quarter lead, Lawrenceville never looked back in defeating Bergen Catholic 12-6 last Friday in its season finale. T he Big Red ended t he spring with a 10-3 record. Girls’ Lacrosse : Bella Koch triggered the offense as Lawrenceville defeated the Princeton Day School 11-8 last week. Koch tallied four goals to led the Big Red in the May 25 contest. Lawrenceville finished the 2021 season at 11-4.
Baseball : Ryan Vandal scored the lone run for PDS as it fell 11-1 to Pingry last Thursday in its season finale. The Panthers finished the spring with a 2-14-1 record. Boys’ Lacrosse : Ending the 2021 campaign on a high note, PDS defeated St. Joe’s Metuchen 10-6 last Friday. The Panthers, who won their last five games, posted a final record of 8-7. Softball: Going out with a bang, PDS defeated Rutgers Prep 15-5 last week to wrap up the season. The Panthers scored eight runs in the fourth inning of the May 25 contest and never looked back on the way to the victory. PDS finished the 2021 campaign with a 5-4 record against varsity competition.
IN LIKE FLYNN: Princeton High baseball player Flynn Kinney steps into a swing in recent action. Last Thursday, senior infielder Kinney went 1-for-3 with an RBI to help PHS edge WW/P-North 3-2. In upcoming action, the Tigers, now 10-8, will start play in the Central Jersey Group 4 sectional where they are seeded 13th and are playing at fourth-seeded Edison in a first round contest on June 2. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
PHS Softball: Kylee Tucholski and Clare Johnson had hits in a losing cause as PHS fell 12-2 to W W/P-North last Thursday. The defeat left the Tigers with a final record of 2-14. G irls’ Lacrosse : Kate Becker and Shoshi Henderson triggered the attack as PHS defeated Hopewell Valley 17-10 last Wednesday in the third-place game of the CVC pod tournament. Junior Becker tallied eight goals and three assists while senior standout Henderson chipped in four goals and six assists for the Tigers, who improved to 7-5. PHS will now start action in the Central Jersey Group 4 sectional where they are seeded fourth and will host 13thseed Monroe in a first round contest on June 2. Track: Sparked by Kendall Williamson, Robin Roth, and Peyton Reynolds, the PHS girls’ squad produced a dominant start start in the CVC Championship track meet last weekend at WW/ P-North. Williamson won the 100-meter dash and took third in the 400 while Roth placed first in the 3,200 and second in the 1,600 and Reynolds prevailed in the pole vault as the Tigers raced into first place in the team standings in a competition that saw its Saturday session moved to June 1 due to inclement weather. PHS piled up 86 points to take the lead with Hopewell Valley second with 52. In other highlights for the Tigers, Alysse Kiesewetter placed second in the 400 hurdles and Ada Metaxas was the
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Local Sports PDS Baseball Alum Franzoni Helps NJIT Make NCAAs
For mer Pr inceton Day School standout Paul Franzoni has helped the New Jersey Institute of Technology baseball team make the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. NJIT was awarded the America East Conference’s automatic bid to the tourney as they defeated Albany and Maine in the conference tournament and the championship game against Stony Brook was canceled due to inclement weather. NJIT was the only undefeated team in the tournament and got the NCAA bid on that basis. Senior catcher and co-captain Franzoni hit a homer to help the Highlanders edge Albany 5-4. T he Highlanders, who started the 2021 season 3-12 and have won 18 of their last 22 games in improving to 2622, will play at No. 1 Arkansas (46-10) in the Fayetteville Regional on June 4 to start the double-elimination NCAA competition. Franzoni is hitting .239 with 5 homers, 27 runs, 7 doubles, and 16 RBIs in 42 games so far this season.
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P r i nce ton Day S cho ol boys’ basketball head coach Eugene Burroughs will be holding co - ed basketball camps this summer for boys and girls in grades 3-10. Burroughs, who has extensive experience coaching at the college level and for the Philadelphia 76ers organization, will be offering NBA-style skills training and shooting sessions. During the morning session of camp, the focus will be on learning basketball fundamentals based on principles Burroughs has learned at the professional level. In the afternoon session, campers will delve into art of shooting by getting schooled on the proper techniques needed to be a great shooter, starting with the basics and expanding into more advanced drills. T he goal is for ever y camper to develop and learn great habits that will impact their basketball future to take their game to the next level. For the younger campers, the focus will be on creating a fun environment for them to learn the basic fundamentals of the game. The camps will take place at the PDS Athletic Center during the weeks of June 2125, July 12-16, and July 1923. The morning sessions will run from 8:30-11:30 a.m. with the afternoon sessions going from 12:15-3:15
p.m. Participants may sign up for either the morning or afternoon session or for both. The cost of the week for just the morning or afternoon session is $280. The cost of a week doing both sessions is $540. For more information and to register, log onto pds. org/basketball-camp.
Bailey Basketball Academy Offering Summer Programs
T he B ailey B asketball Academy (BBA) is resuming its year-round hoops programs this summer. Run by former Princeton Day School girls’ basketball head coach and NBA camp clinician Kamau Bailey, the BBA summer hoops program will offer several day camp oppor t u nit ies for Princeton and Mercer County area youth boys and girls. The offerings include a series of basketball player development camps, shot doctor shooting clinics for developing and advanced players, and appointmentonly sessions. CDC and N.J. state health protocols will be strictly enforced. As a special promotion for Princeton families, all preregistrations before June 15 will receive a BBA player/ family discount of $50. The first BBA offering will be a Junior 76ers Camp #1 running from June 28-July 2 at 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at PDS for players ages 9-14. There will be a BBA camp from July 5 -9 at Stuar t Country Day School from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. This program will be a skill development camp for boys and girls ages 7-13. Campers will learn basketball f undamentals in a fun and friendly environment. The focus will be on shooting, passing, and ball-handling. Campers will need to bring their own ball, snack, and lunch each day. There will be a Shot Doctor Shooting Camp from July 12-16 at Stuart Country Day School from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. This offering will be for boys and girls ages 8-17 with two sessions — morning for younger players and afternoon for older players. This is a special camp for those looking to improve shooting ability where each camper will shoot on average 300-500 shots per day in the form of high level shooting drills and games. Specialty skills to be covered will include: shooting mechanics/form; shooting off the dribble, pass, and screen; and shot selection. There will be a video breakdown done for each camper and each camper will receive a Shot Doctor shooting T-Shirt. Each camper will need to bring their own snack and lunch each day. The final offering will be Junior 76ers Camp #2 running from August 9-13 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at PDS for players ages 9-14. Additional player development workouts for individual and small groups can be arranged by contacting coach Bailey and making appointments that fit one’s family/ youth schedule. For more information and to register, contact Kamau Bailey at (720) 629-0964 or kamau.bailey@gmail.com.
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Trudy Glucksberg, nee Hoenigswald, of Princeton, New Jersey, died suddenly on May 22, 2021 after spending an evening celebrating life with her companion, Allen Kassof, and his family in her favorite city, New York. She was the daughter of the toy designer Hilde Bohn Hoenigswald and philosopher Richard Hoenigswald. Trudy graduated from Music and Arts High School in New York and earned a BA in Fine Art from City College. Born in Munich, Germany, Trudy and her family fled prewar Germany and settled in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She was an artist by profession and passion, and a gifted and gracious connector of people. Her Princeton home was a gathering place where all were welcome. There was always a pot of soup on the stove to be served with great conversation, and opportunities to meet people of all backgrounds and
together. Newly vaccinated, they were enjoying the ongoing and welcome company of both their extended families. She is predeceased by her half-brother and sister-inlaw, Henry and Gabi Hoenigswald, and survived by her three children and their spouses: Matthew Glucksberg and Harriet Stratis, Ken Glucksberg and Sue Rosengard, and Nadia Glucksberg and Steve Hamill; her nieces, Frances Hoenigswald and Anne Hoenigswald, and Nick Thorner, Anne’s husband; her grandchildren Max Glucksberg and Alexander Stratis, and her great-nephews and their children. A celebration of her life will be held later this summer. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in her memory to the Arts Council of Princeton at artscouncilofprinceton.org/ donate.
Predeceased by her parents Luigi and Marie Sasso; and her husband Angelo DiMeglio who passed away on D ecemb er 28, 2020; she is survived by her son Frank DiMeglio (fiancé Laura); daughters Lisa DiMeglio and Julie Willenbacher; grandchildren Alex Di Meglio, Melis s a Dean (Jonathan), Jillian DiMeglio, Jordan DiMeglio, Christian Evangelisto Willenbacher, and Grayson Willenbacher; great-grandson Sebastian Michael Dean; and sister Carmela Di Scala. Visitat ion and f u neral service were held at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research hospital at stjude.org.
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