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Students Join Effort to Prevent Relocation of Westminster Choir College A group of Westminster Choir College students has joined the list of plaintiffs in a lawsuit aimed at preventing Rider University from relocating Westminster Choir College from its Princeton home to Rider’s Lawrenceville campus. But while litigation to stop the move gathers strength, enrollment at the choir college is at a dangerously low level. “Enrollment has dropped 60 percent in the last two freshman classes,” attorney Bruce Afran told a standing-roomonly crowd gathered for a public forum on Westminster’s future last Tuesday evening, September 10, at Nassau Presbyterian Church. “I am fearful that the students who visit the Lawrenceville campus, which is the only campus where they are being given tours, will not attend, because they will see [Rider] does not have the facilities they need for their craft. We may end up with zero students, and that is a horrible waste.” Some members of the audience, which included students as well as faculty and members of the community, expressed concern that the college could be decimated by the time litigation is complete. But Afran vowed to continue the suits, adding that efforts are still being made to sit down with Rider and come up with a financial solution. The Westminster Foundation, a nonprofit group of alumni, faculty, and supporters of the choir college, organized the meeting to provide the public with their side of the what they see as Westminster’s struggle for survival. Rider, which merged with Westminster in 1991, announced in 2016 that it intended to sell the music school’s campus to help stem a projected deficit. After a failed attempt to sell Westminster to a Chinese company, the University changed its focus to moving the music conservatory to Lawrenceville. A lack of facilities to accommodate Westminster’s specialized curriculum is among the issues of concern. Acoustics, recital halls, places to practice, and moving Westminster’s library full of valuable scores, books, and other materials are also in question. “Westminster has 165 pianos, many of which are baby grands and grands,” said Afran. “Two pianos often have to go in one room. Rider will need about Continued on Page 10
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“Urgent” Planning Needs Top BOE Agenda As the 2019-20 school year enters its third week, the Princeton Public Schools (PPS) Board of Education (BOE) is wrestling with the challenges of maintaining top-flight schools in the face of steadily rising enrollments and limited financial resources. All six schools are at or over capacity, with school buildings more than 50 years old, and, in the case of Princeton High School, more than 90 years old. “We need more space,” BOE President Beth Behrend told a September 10 special meeting, “but are faced with budgetary constraints on our ability to staff and teach in these spaces.” Emphasizing the importance of collaboration within the schools and with the larger community, Behrend noted, “What we do next requires big thinking. Solving the puzzle of ‘growth with great schools’ requires planning and action, not just by the Princeton Board of Education, but also by our municipal bodies, our local institutions, and by the entire community.” Behrend pointed out that the current focus is on process rather than solutions, with the possibility of another facilities referendum not even on the table at this point. “Many in our community would like to know when to expect another facilities
referendum,” she said. “The simple answer is that we do not know yet because we do not have a pre-ordained outcome in mind. Instead, we believe that the best solution will come from an informative, transparent, and collaborative planning process.” She continued, “This requires full engagement with teachers, staff, students, local residents, and partners in order to first agree on needs and priorities and only then identify the best path forward based on our mission and values, within our community’s financial means. Our goal, as stewards of the public schools, is to develop a mission-driven, cost-ef-
fective plan to address rising enrollment and aging facilities based on sound data, creative planning, and a high level of community engagement.” The September 10 meeting, which drew a large crowd including community leaders, representatives of a number of local organizations, and a range of interested citizens, featured a presentation from Milone & Macbroom (M&M), a professional planning firm with experience helping school districts and municipalities address the complex challenges arising from growth. Continued on Page 7
County Approves Armored Vehicle Purchase, Over Widespread Resistance and Questions
The Mercer County freeholders approved the purchase of an armored vehicle last Thursday, September 12, with Sheriff Jack Kemler emphasizing the need to keep officers safe and opponents warning against militarization of the police, erosion of public trust, and waste of funds needed elsewhere. About 100 members of the public filled Room 211 of the McDade County Administration Building in Trenton at the meeting
of the freeholder board, with more than 20 speakers voicing their opposition to the purchase. The freeholders voted 4 to 2 in favor of the purchase for approximately $310,000, with Sam Frisby and Andrew Koontz casting the two negative votes. Frisby had declared earlier in the week that he would vote “yes,” but said that he had changed his mind after talking with many residents, Continued on Page 10
MONTGOMERY FUNFEST: The annual community event, held Sunday afternoon at Princeton Airport, featured a vendor fair, local food, live music, classic cars and planes, helicopter rides, children’s activities, and more . Participants share their favorite parts of FunFest in this week’s Town Talk on page 6 . (Photo by Charles R. Plohn)
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A Community Bulletin Bridge Closure Postponed: Mercer County has announced that emergency work on the Mercer Bridge over the Stony Brook has been postponed due to upcoming advanced utilities work and road closures on Alexander Street. Flu Shot Clinics: The Princeton Senior Resource Center will offer free flu shots October 8 from 1-4 p.m. Shots are also available at Witherspoon Hall on October 3 and November 7. Call (609) 497-7610 for locations and details. Old Smart Cards: To spend down remaining balances, cardholders can continue to use old cards to pay for parking in the Spring Street garage indefinitely, until the equipment fails. Cardholders can also have their old Smart Card balances transferred to the Park Princeton mobile app. An informational session will be held Thursday, September 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Monument Hall’s East Conference Room. Visit princetonnj.gov. Alexander Bridge Replacement and Road Closure Informational Session: On September 24 and 25, NJDOT will be holding public meetings in West Windsor and Princeton, respectively, regarding the upcoming Alexander Street closure and construction projects. On Wednesday, September 25 from 6 to 8 pm, all interested people are invited to the meeting in the Main Meeting Room at 1 Monument Drive (Monument Hall) to review project exhibits, ask questions and address any concerns. Deer Population Survey: Princeton’s Animal Control Officer needs help surveying the deer population. If you live in an area that is overpopulated with deer, leave him a message at (609) 924-2728 or email animalcontrol@princetonnj.gov with your address and contact information. He will be in touch with further information. Princeton Community Dance: On September 20, 7-9 p.m. For adults and teens with special needs, ages 13 and up. At John Witherspoon School gym, 217 Walnut Lane. With “DJ Redline” Steven Knox. Register at https://register.communitypass.net/princeton. S.H.R.E.D.Temberfest: On Saturday, September 21, Princeton’s annual shredding and recycling event will be held at the Franklin Avenue parking lot from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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ent-day father-daughter activists George and Ingrid Lakey, founders of Philadelphia’s Earth Quaker Action Team. They led a successful campaign to get PNC Bank to discontinue financing mountaintop-removal coal mining that pollutes the water and disfigures the landscape. The film also travels to locations in Ohio, New York, and Indiana that figure prominently in the Quakers’ history. The Quakers’ impact is illustrated through their most significant causes and the people who helped lead them, from William Penn to the Lakeys. The abolition movement awakened the country to the inhumanity of slavery. The women’s suffrage movement won the vote for women thanks to the leadership of Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. Bayard Rustin brought the concept of nonviolent protest to Martin Luther King Jr., while Quakers practiced principled pacifism and humanitarianism during the the Vietnam War. The film doesn’t gloss over the contradictions. Though Quakers were leaders in the abolition movement, they were reluctant to integrate their own schools and meetings. Their early introduction of the practice of solitary confinement is shown in a reenactment shot in Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. The film takes on the two Quaker presidents – Herber t Hoover, who denied government aid to impoverished Americans during the Depression, and Richard Nixon, whose role in prolonging the Vietnam
her head, she began researching. She found that while there were films on other religions, there was nothing she could find on Quakerism. “It’s not really surprising. Quakers don’t proselytize,” she said. “In a way, that leads to them being a little bit under the radar.” Fu nding began w it h a Kickstarter campaign, and eventually Gardner secured a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2015-2016 to support the effort. “That was kind of a deciding factor which gave us a certain legitimacy,” she said. “We had been applying to some large The one-hour film tells the foundations, and we had apContinued on Next Page story of a spiritual move- plied a couple of times.” ment that has played a role in the religious, social, and political life of the nation, and has a significant place in the history and founding of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia. Demonstrating an influence disproportionate to their numbers, Quakers have led anti-slavery, civil rights, and women’s rights movements and been strong advocates for world peace. Gardner decided to make the film after taking part in a trip to England with an education group a few years ago. As part of the pilgrimage, they v isited Pendle Hill, the site where George Fox had a vision of “a great people to be gat hered,” more than three centuries AN EVENING IN SUPPORT OF THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM ago. “We were traveling in his footsteps,” she said. “We went to this hill, which is NASSAU PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH really a huge mountain, and climbed it. I began to think 61 Nassau Street, Princeton about it. I could visualize what he meant, because you look down the mountain and you see all these hous7:30 - 9:30 pm es, and unspoiled green. It was very foggy. So in that foggy atmosphere, I began Academy Award-winning film director and Princeton High School thinking about this film.” An established filmmaker graduate, Damien Chazelle, will be interviewed by Roger Durling, and founder of The GardExecutive Director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. ner Group, Inc., which does documentaries that emphaFilm clips from Chazelle’s major works will be shown. Q&A to follow. size the human experience in the context of historic F O R E V E N T D E TA I L S A N D TO P U R C H A S E events, Gardner had begun SPONSORSHIPS AND TICKETS VISIT: her career as a field proW W W .PETEYGREENE.ORG/UPCOMING-EVENTS ducer, film editor, and news writer for NBC News, CBS News, and other stations. Her films have been broad*Don’t miss a free screening of cast on public television staChazelle’s award-winning film tions and won awards. La La Land, on September 18th, G ardner specializes in in honor of Art House Theatre Week, films “about hidden his tory,” she said. Once the at the Princeton Garden Theatre. idea for the film got into
film, which illuminates the histor y, faith, contradictions, and enduring impact of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers. The broadcast date coincides with the sixth annual World Quaker Day, cel ebrated in prayer, hymns, and activities by Quakers arou n d t h e glob e. T h i s year’s theme is sustainability of the Earth.
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Gardner refers to herself as “a recovering Episcopalian,” while the film’s narrator, Richard Nurse, is “a recovering Catholic.” Nurse, who was an administrator at Rutgers University and was Crossroads Theatre Company’s executive director for five years, also served as a senior producer. Gardner’s late husband, George Morren, was a Rutgers professor of anthropology and served at one time as the mayor of Rocky Hill. The film begins in England, where it was illegal to be a Quaker. “We got some interesting shots of the English side of this,” said Gardner. “Some people don’t know that William Penn brought between 10,000 and 20,000 Quakers to the New World. They don’t really understand Quakerism. I certainly learned a lot.” The faith is brought into focus through interviews, archival footage, and dramatizations. The film follows its history from England to A mer ica, where Quakers found religious freedom, economic opportunity, and an evolving nation ripe for their activism. Part of the film was shot at the Princeton Friends Meeting House. Several of its members are featured. “Friends of mine in Princeton gave me wonder ful acces s inside t he meeting,” said Gardner. While normally publicity-shy, the members agreed to allow the camera in. “I was delighted, actually, at their enthusiasm and support,” she said. “Without their support, we couldn’t have done it.” Quakers opens with pres-
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On September 13, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofrio announced that the owner of a construction company has been charged with bribing a Princeton Township supervisor. On September 6, a summons complaint was signed charging Pantelis Kounelias, 64, with one count of second degree bribery. Kounelias is the owner of V&K Construction in Edison. The complaint alleges that between July 1 and August 31, 2018, Kounelias paid a Princeton supervisor approximately $3,000 in bribes to allow him to dump excavated soil from the Mary Moss Playground project at the Princeton Sewer yard on River Road. The supervisor, Thomas Hughes, 46, of Brow ns Mills, was also charged with one count of second degree bribery in June. Onofr i stated that the charges are the result of an investigation by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Economic Crime Unit ( ECU). The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the ECU at (609) 989-6365. Kounelias is scheduled to appear in Mercer County Superior Court on September 24, while Hughes’ next court appearance is scheduled for October 16.
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“I love all of the great people that I meet. Everybody is happy to be here and in a great mood, so I love getting to chat with everybody.” —Tracy Sonner, Montgomery
Alexis: “My favorite part is winning prizes from the spinning wheels at the different booths. I’ve won a lot of candy.” Terry: “It’s just everybody getting together, spending a beautiful day outside, and having a great time.” —Alexis Lease-Springer, South Brunswick with Terry Lease, Skillman
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M&M was recommended to the BOE by a district selection committee and the BOE’s ad hoc Strategic Advisory Committee on Growth and Capacity (SAC) as “an exceptional educational consulting group with the requisite analytical and planning capacities which will be critical in assisting the Board in advancing our strategic planning process.” SAC Chair Bob Powell noted a “sense of urgency that the Board must be proactive in its short-term and longterm facilities planning,” in light of projections for significant growth in Princeton’s population and school enrollment over the next 5-10 years. “We strongly support the initiative to engage this firm to work with the Board and its staff, together with our volunteer committees and the Princeton community, in developing an intelligent strategy to address the challenges of growth our school system is facing,” Powell said. Ralph Widner, chair of the ad hoc Committee on Future Enrollment (CFE), also made a statement supporting the hiring of a planner. PPS enrollment has increased nearly 10 percent over the past five years, with a 1.28 percent increase since last year. Constitutionally-mandated affordable housing plans, which the municipal-
ity expects to announce in the coming months, could increase Princeton’s housing stock by 10 percent in the next ten years. The CFE was convened in February to help validate updated enrollment projections, and the SAC, comprised of local citizens with expertise in the relevant fields, advises the BOE and superintendent on the school impact of municipal land use planning and real estate development. The BOE plans to take action on the recommendation to hire M&M at its next meeting on September 24. M&M’s planning would take place over a seven-month period, with some initial factfinding, much of which the district can supply; followed by communit y outreach, workshops, interviews, and connecting with the broader community in the second, third, and fourth months; then the presentation of a preliminary long-range plan with four different options or scenarios presented to the public for feedback in the sixth month; and a final plan in month seven. The cost to the district would be approximately $90,000, plus possibly as much as $50,000 additional, depending on the need for preliminary research that the district has not already provided. “We don’t know the answers, but, as stewards of the public schools, we must carefully plan for the future
on behalf of all of our current and future students,” Behrend said. ”Our Board has solicited planning firms to help us build on the work of the past two years, assess and verify the data we have already gathered, define district needs, engage the public, develop alternatives, and quarterback a facilities master planning process.” Representatives from M&M emphasized their commitment to understand the community and where it’s heading, and “to lead a thoughtful community planning process that is informative, transparent, and receptive.” They added that this would be a “consensus-building project,” in which they gather information then “come up with a program that matches your goals and visions.” Their proposal could include a recommendation for additions or alterations to existing buildings, new buildings, redistricting, and/or other configuration options. In the question period following the M&M presentation, some concerns were expressed about the cost and the need for the extensive planning process. BOE member Debbie Bronfeld was most direct in expressing her reservations at the prospect of hiring a planning team. “We have a lot more housekeeping to do internally,” she said. “We need to concentrate on what’s happening now with our current referendum projects.” B OE m emb er M ichele Tuck-Ponder urged that the planners adopt a strategy “to ensure that you hear a variety of voices.” —Donald Gilpin
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We, the undersigned, thank and applaud the following organizations for their endorsement of House Resolution 246, a congressional resolution passed by the United States House of Representatives opposing the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement which targets Israel and which seeks to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist.
The Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks The American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Adath Israel Congregation Congregation Beth Chaim Beth El Synagogue
American Jewish Committee
Congregation B’nai Tikvah
Anti-Defamation League
Congregation Brothers of Israel
Stand With Us Hindu-Jewish Coalition
The Princeton Chabad Center Har Sinai Temple The Jewish Center
This important resolution passed with overwhelming bipartisan Congressional support in a vote of 398-17 and complements the resolution by governors from all 50 states against BDS. The founder of the Global BDS Movement has denied the right of the Jewish People in their homeland, saying, “We oppose a Jewish State in any part of Palestine.” We must call out BDS for what it is: a movement dedicated to destroying the Jewish State — the lone democracy in the Middle East and America’s strongest ally in the region. It is important to note that House Resolution 246 affirms the constitutional right of all United States citizens to free speech, including the right to protest or criticize the policies of the United States or the State of Israel. We urge the greater Princeton community to stand united in its continued fight against antiSemitism and against the BDS movement and to oppose efforts to delegitimize the right of the State of Israel to exist. PAID ADVERTISEMENT
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150 rooms to put them in. At this point, Rider has no plan. No new construction has been proposed, no plans presented.” In a letter to the Rider/ We s t m i ns ter com mu n it y this week, DonnaJean Fredeen, Rider provost and vice president for academic affairs, wrote that Rider “has committed to extensive renovations and additions to our existing facilities, all of which will take place between now and fall 2021. As this year progresses, I commit to sharing detailed information on all of those construction projects with you.” Efforts by the University to make the move into a positive development have provoked some angry comments on social media. A recent post by voice professor Elem Eley referenced Fredeen’s letter, specifically a section that says, “Movement of the educational and artistic programs of Westminster Choir College to Lawrenceville will make it possible for all students to participate in programs, ensembles, and productions. Among other possible new developments, I look forward to the participation of those Westminster students who also play instruments in our various School of Fine and Performing Arts instrumental groups; to collaboration among various a cappella student groups; and to relationships between our new programs in game design, dance science, and the many communications and music majors.”
Thomas Scheck wrote, “They simply do not understand anything about Westminster Choir College and what made it the world-class institution it has been.” June Tipton wrote, “To be world class in anything is to have risen above average. Our society would never mix NFL team members with those who never made the cut, and for good reason! Duh!” Constance Fee, president of the Westminster Foundation and the moderator at last week’s meeting, questioned the pace at which Rider is acting. “This reckless speed with which they are moving forward raises questions of why. Why can’t you get the plan first and the funding first, and leave us where we are?” D espite t he dw ind ling enrollment, the lawsuits will continue. “We are getting money pouring in from choir conductors and public school music teachers every day, more and more, to go toward the legal proceedings, because we’re not backing down,” she said. “There is inevitable damage that Rider has already caused, but this is too valuable an institution to stop now.” Fee confirmed that the Foundation is still in discussion with another academic institution about taking Westminster on. At the meeting, Afran also mentioned the idea of making Westminster part of a consortium of several college conservatories. “There is interest there,” said Fee. “But it is all in the hypothetical stage until the lawsuits are determined.” —Anne Levin
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especially from Trenton, who did not want the vehicle. The residents from throughout Mercer County who spoke against the purchase argued that the County could put the money to much better use for many different urgent needs. Kemler noted that the vehicle would be used only for protection in extremely dangerous situations, and stated, “Our concern is for the safety of our citizens and officers during a critical incident.” In voicing his opposition earlier in the week, Koontz expressed his aversion to “militarization” of the police departments and pointed out that local law enforcement already has access to state police armored vehicles, one of which is based in Ewing. Koontz recalled TV images of military equipment in the hands of local police during disturbances in Ferguson (2014) and Baton Rouge (2016) in urging that “military buildup is the wrong way to go.” At a September 15 meeting of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) Koontz, looking forward, noted, “The task at hand is to look at the use policy for this vehicle and ensure that we won’t have the vehicle used for parades, or to intimidate the public, or to challenge the right to assembly. It’s a good idea to monitor the use of this vehicle.” At t he same meet ing, Cou nt y E xecut ive Br ian Hughes expressed his concerns with the vehicle purchase, but stated “The sheriff has to run his department
the way he sees fit. This is not an ordinance. I cannot veto it.” Hughes added that he had received a number of letters and phone calls from PCDO members and others, and that he expected the vehicle to be used only in dire emergencies. “I have ambivalence towards this vehicle,” he said. —Donald Gilpin
Mail-in Ballot Deadlines For General Election
The League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area is working to ensure that all voters are informed about New Jersey’s vote by mail process and are able to fully participate in the November 5 election. Voters who applied for a vote by mail ballot for the General Election in 2016, or for any election since then, will automatically receive a vote by mail ballot for the upcoming November 2019 General Election. These voters may opt out of receiving vote by mail ballots by alerting their county clerk. County clerks are scheduled to begin sending vote by mail ballots to voters on September 21, so any voter wishing to opt out should act immediately. The election official in each county should be contacted if a change is needed: In Mercer County, contact the Superintendent of Elections at (609) 989-6750. In Middlesex County, contact the County Board of Elections at (732) 745-3471. In Somerset County, contact the Election board at (908) 231-7084. Voters who receive vote by mail ballots have the right to
either vote using that mail-in ballot or vote using a provisional ballot at their polling place. They will not be allowed to vote on the voting machine. Provisional ballots are paper ballots that are counted after a voter’s eligibility is verified. In the case of voters who received a mail-in ballot, their provisional ballots will be counted once it is verified that they did not cast a vote using the mail-in ballot. If a voter is not scheduled to receive an automatic vote by mail ballot, but desires one for the November General Election, they must apply. The application deadline to receive a vote by mail ballot through the mail is October 29. The county clerk must receive the application by that date. Voters can also apply in person at their county clerk’s office until 3 p.m., November 4. Any other questions can be directed to your county clerk, or you may call the League’s toll-free voter information hotline, (800) 792-VOTE (8683). From now through the close of polls on Election Day, the League of Women Voters will be running that hotline to answer any questions or assist with any problems voters might have.
Workshop to Address Transit on Demand
What would it take to make Princeton an accessible community for all, even those who cannot or choose not to own or drive a car? That question will be addressed at a public workshop on Saturday, September 28, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Community Room of the Princeton Public Library. Organized by Princeton Future, the nonprofit, independent
community group studying issues related to planning, development, and affordability, the workshop will consider the capabilities of a transit-ondemand system, using several small vehicles that could be summoned by a smart phone app to a location within walking distance of a user’s home. Five neighborhood breakout sessions will be held to consider what routes would be most valuable for residents. Speakers at the event include Alain Kornhauser, professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and director of the Program in Transportation at Princeton University, and Jerry He, an urbanist with a background in computer science who is pursuing a master’s degree in architecture at Princeton. “Developers of electric cars and autonomous vehicles are eager to see how their technologies can be applied in the real world,” said Sheldon Sturges, administrator and co-founder of Princeton Future. “Because the transit on demand system would operate over fixed routes, the variables presented to autonomous vehicles would be minimized.” “We want to explore the possibility of leveraging this interest to gain support — possibly including the vehicles — for such an on-demand system,” he continued. Sturges said that such a system, if implemented, would begin with safety drivers in control. Piloted autonomous shuttle buses are already operating on fixed routes in downtown areas of Detroit, Denver, Las Vegas, and Columbus, Ohio. The program is presented in partnership with the Princeton Public Library. For more information visit www.princetonfuture.org.
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Table 1: 01 Princeton Shopping Center 02 N Harrison St 03 Princeton Charter School 04 Bunn Dr 05 Princeton Community Village 06 Princeton Care Center 07 Mt Lucas / Campbell 08 Mt Lucas / E Stuart 09 Redding Circle 10 Ewing St 11 Stone Hill Church 12 All Saints Church 13 Terhune / Thanet Table 2: 14 Mt Lucas / Jefferson 15 Withersppon / Valley 16 Community Park 17 Witherspoon/Clay 18 Witherspoon/Hulfish 19 Harrison/Hamilton 20 Princeton High School 21 John Witherspoon Middle 22 Herrontown / Mt Lucas 23 Cherry Valley Rd 24 Griggs Farm 25 Woodhul Ln
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Culminating a five-year collections planning and review process, on August 26, 2019, the Historical Society of Princeton’s (HSP) Board of Trustees approved items from HSP’s objects collection for deaccession, upon the recommendation of HSP’s Collections Committee. HSP retained and improved use, access, and interpretive strategy for the majority of its vast collection as part of this process. As per field-w ide best practices, HSP periodically reviews its holdings, a process that includes determining which items truly support HSP’s mission and which items are not relevant. HSP has reviewed and deaccessioned material several times over the course of its history, in 1978, 1997, and 2004. Starting in 2014, HSP began its most recent collections review, an extremely thorough look at each and ever y t hree - dimensional artifact in HSP’s possession, of which there are approximately 3,000. HSP’s extensive archival holdings, including 35,000 historic p h oto g r ap h s, ove r 8 0 0 manuscript collections, and 2,000 maps and architectural drawings, were not part of this artifact review. As part of this process, HSP reunited objects with records, improved the documentation of objects in its collections database, repackaged holdings according to conser vat ion standards, extensively researched objects to confirm their provenance, and identified 487 items that do not support HSP’s mission,
was reviewed three times in the last three years. HSP has retained the majority of its collection. Consistent w ith estab lished best practices, deaccessioned objects deemed suitable will be offered to other cultural institutions, while others will be sold at a well-advertised public auction. Some will be retained at HSP as handling objects to be used for educational programs. All proceeds generated by the auction sale will be restricted for the direct care of HSP’s important remaining collection. From its inception in 1938, the Historical Society of Princeton has actively collected museum and reference materials relevant to Princeton or of general historical interest as part of its history education and stewardship mission. Over time, a substantial and important collection of over 100,000 items was established, consisting of artifacts, maps, architectural drawings, archival manuscript materials, photographs, newspapers, and reference books. “HSP’s collections create tangible links between the past and present, allowing community members to come face-to-face with Princeton’s story. Nothing is more educationally powerful than this encounter. It’s what makes museum collections so essential,” said Stephanie Schwartz, HSP’s curator of collections and research. “As a history organization, we always prioritize strategies to more effectively bring our exciting and important collections to the pub-
and more.” As with all professional museum institutions, a formal, board-adopted Collections Management Policy governs all collections practice at HSP. This policy aligns with all best practices, industry standards, and American Alliance of Museums guidelines. Within its Collections Management Policy, HSP outlines its criteria for the acquisition and deaccession of museum materials. Primarily, items in HSP’s holdings must document the history of the Princeton area or its role in state or national history. The deaccessioned items did not meet HSP’s collecting criteria, largely because they lacked sufficient connections to Princeton history. “Deaccessioning is a healthy process that is part of the natural life cycle of a museum collection,” said Dan Scheid, HSP’s vice president of collections. “This review process has positioned our collection to be the best possible historical resource for the Princeton community, and has allowed the Historical Society to ensure it focuses on preserving, interpreting, and sharing the collections that are truly meaningful to the Princeton community.” Rago Auctions will manage the public auction of deaccessioned items designated for sale on October 4. More details about this event will be released soon.
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Thirteen years ago, Princeton psychologist Toby Israel was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. That meant a six-week course of radiation, five days a week, at Capital Health Medical Center. Israel knew she had to make the experience as positive as possible. “I thought about wearing those blah, hospital gowns, and I remembered I had a silky Chinese robe in the back of my closet,” she said. “I wore it to each radiation session. It turned out to be not only a positive distraction for other patients, and an ice-breaker. It was good for me. It was a way for me to imagine myself as a queen, kind of staring down cancer.” Whether the robe was a factor in keeping her healthy, Israel can’t say for sure. “I do know that I didn’t get the traditional radiation burn that most people get,” she said. “And having had this experience, I began to think about other women.” Trained as an environmental psychologist and the founder of a profession she calls design psychology, Israel was aware that health care environments
throughout the country have been upgraded to help promote healing. “So there are these beautiful places where people go for treatment. But if women are walking around them in those drab robes, they will feel less empowered,” she said. “I got this idea to make robes that were special.” Israel tracked down a fabric designer and found a material she loved. She used the pattern of the robe she wore for her radiation treatments, and created elegant robes for women to take to the hospital, in custom pouches, for each treatment. The Asianinspired kimonos are in a design inspired by nature, in earth tones. Out of that idea came a sewing circle called Robe to Wellness, during which participants sew labels with messages of hope into the robes. Supportive messages are submitted by the public at the website robetowellness.com, to offer emotional support through radiation and recovery. The group meets weekly at Israel’s home. All are welcome — patients, survivors, friends, families, and volunteers.
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“It’s not a support group where you talk about your cancer,” said israel. “I, for one, was overwhelmed with my own story without hearing everybody else’s. This is an informal gathering where people talk about anything. If they naturally get into talking about treatment or doctors, that’s great. But the pressure is off.” She wanted the idea to be “a live project,” Israel said. “I wanted it to be a way women can emotionally support one another as a group. So it’s not just this product of the robe. It’s a process. Anyone can send a message of cheer, which is turned into labels, like camp labels. Then the women gather to sew them in.” Capital Health Medical Center and a hospital in Westchester, New York, are among the institutions that use the robes. “Capital Health believes in the gowns. I’ve met many of their patients who talk about what a difference it makes,” said Israel. The robes can be purchased for anyone dealing with a health crisis, of any kind. Members of Princeton Breast Cancer Resource Center get a 20 percent discount. “We sit around, sew the labels in, and support one another while we sew,” said Israel. “Then we have a healthy dessert.” The current session of Robe to Wellness meetings began September 11, and are held on Wednesdays from 1-2:30 p.m. To attend, visit info@robetowellness.com. —Anne Levin
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Collaborative economic development ef for ts be tween Mercer County and the city of Trenton were in the spotlight at the Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) meeting on Sunday, September 15, as Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes, County Freeholder Andrew Koontz, and Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora reported on a range of initiatives taking place in the capital city. “We do not have a strong Mercer County without a strong capital city,” Hughes told the group of more than 50 gathered in the Suzanne Patterson Center next to Monument Hall in Princeton. The “burning issue” of the moment, according to Hughes, seemed to be the County’s recent controversial decision to purchase an armored vehicle, about which both Hughes and Koontz expressed concerns and commitment to make sure the use of the vehicle is carefully monitored. Gusciora, who when he became mayor in 2018 “hit the ground running” with a host of public improvement projects, according to PCDO President Jean Durbin, described a number of challenges and accomplishments in Trenton. Among the problems Gusciora mentioned were the cutting of state aid from $35M under Governor John Corzine to just $6M under the Chris Christie administration. Governor Phil Murphy restored some capital city aid, which is now at
$10M, “but we have a long way to go, and we don’t have the population we can go to to make up the difference,” Gusciora said. He explained that because of government presence in the city, over 60 percent of developable property downtown is tax exempt. Another on his list of difficulties is working with the State Depar tment of Communit y Affairs, which oversees all city projects operated in conjunction with the state. “It’s frustrating working with unelected bureaucrats who think they know how to run things,” he said. Among recent project initiatives, Gusciora highlighted the opening of a brand new $150M Trenton Central High School; the development in progress of an Innovation Learning Center, funded with an Innovative Challenge Grant and driven by a consortium of five area colleges; a prisoner re-entry program to ensure, through employment with local government organizations, that when prisoners come out of jail they have jobs waiting for them; restoration of New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund money that Trenton had failed to apply for in previous years; and the releasing of Housing and Urban Development block grant funds that had been frozen since 2015. Gusciora emphasized the impor tance of Trenton’s collaboration with both the state and the County. Hughes reported on a wide range of Mercer Count y
projects in Trenton, including the rehabilitation of Mercer Cemetery near the train station, a mosquito control initiative, the resurfacing of Liberty Street, the support of a number of popular Trenton events, and various projects with the Mercer County Park Commission and Department of Transportation. Hughes highlighted a summer program giving jobs to 127 young men and women from Trenton, and also mentioned the assistance provided to meet vital transportation needs for older citizens. “We’re also working hard on the 2020 census,” he added. “It’s critically important to count every citizen in Trenton to make sure they get the services and funding they need from the federal and state budgets.” Koontz, a freeholder since 2011 and former Princeton Borough council president and former PCDO president, went on to point out that Mercer County provides services to all the municipalities in the County. “Princeton will soon be informed that the Count y government reconstructs bridges,” he said in referring to the upcoming reconstruction project on Alexander Road scheduled to start November 6. “The County government is very effective in getting the job done on time and on budget,” he promised. Koontz also mentioned the disadvantages Trenton faces in raising tax revenues with so much government property off the tax rolls. —Donald Gilpin
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Candidates for the Princeton Board of Education will meet in a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Princeton Community TV on Wednesday, October 2 at 7 p.m. Monument Main, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. Questions will be taken from the audience. Video of the forum will be broadcast on Princeton TV and posted at the League’s website www.lwvprinceton.org and on VOTE411.org. The League is also planning forums for candidates for Princeton Council and the 16th Legislative District. Final arrangements will be made as candidates work out their schedules. Stay tuned: keep an eye on the League website and Princeton TV! You may send questions for the candidates to lwvprinceton@gmail.com. Recent legislation requires that voters who received a Voteby-Mail ballot in 2017 and 2018 but who no longer wish to vote by mail must opt out in writing — and soon. The deadlines are not posted. If you wish to opt out, the League advises that you check your mail for an opt-out form or call your county clerk immediately. If you receive a Vote-by-Mail ballot, whether you want it or not, the League advises that you use it and mail it. It
PCDO Reminds Voters That Election Day Is November 5
To the Editor: Mark your calendars! Election Day is Tuesday, November 5, and the polls will be open from 6 a.m. through 8 p.m. I write to provide Vote By Mail information and highlight the Democratic Party ticket in Mercer County. You may apply for a Vote By Mail Ballot at the County Clerk’s office in Trenton, 209 South Broad Street, or by downloading an application at the NJ Division of Elections website at www.state.nj.us/state/elections. Mail your completed application to the Mercer County Clerk (209 South Broad Street, PO Box 8068, Trenton, NJ 08650), up to seven days prior to the election or better yet, deliver it in person at the County Clerk’s office up until 3 p.m. on November 4. If our current national nightmare has taught us anything, it is that elections matter. The decisions we make at all levels of government shape our community and reflect our core values.
That’s why I’m proud that the Democratic Party has an exceptional slate of candidates up and down the ballot this year, anchored in Princeton by our nominees for Princeton Council Mia Sacks and Michelle Pirone Lambros. Both have strong roots in our town and a deep commitment to making it a better place. Mia and Michelle are running a Democratic Joint Campaign focused on proactive planning for Princeton, with affordability and economic development as top priorities. As Council members, they will be responsive and accountable to all Princetonians. You can learn more about their background and qualifications at miaforprinceton.com and pironeforcouncil.com. The Princeton Democratic Joint Campaign is coordinating closely with the campaigns of Asm. Andrew Zwicker and Asm. Roy Freiman, running for re-election to the NJ State Assembly in Legislative District 16. Campaign headquarters are located at 45 State Road, Princeton, and I urge all local Democrats to get involved. I am pleased to share also running for re-election this year on the Democratic ticket are County Executive Brian Hughes, County Freeholder Andrew Koontz, and County Freeholder Nina Melker. While voter turnout is normally low in an “off year” without a presidential race, it is squarely within our power to defy the odds. Let’s send a signal as Democrats by turning out in record numbers to support our candidates who are committed to representing us fairly, with integrity, and with innovative solutions to help our town, county, and state. I hope you will join me in supporting Mia and Michelle and our whole Democratic ticket on November 5. JEAN Y. DURBIN President, Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) Mt. Lucas Road
Supporting Legislation For Early Childhood Development
To the editor: With the start of the school year, our thoughts turn to children’s learning and development. We know the importance nurturing children through reading and singing to them, engaging them in play with colorful objects, providing sound nutrition, and involving children in other activities that will enhance their early childhood development. That’s why I hope readers will join me in urging Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman to cosponsor legislation being introduced by Reps. Castro (D-TX) and Fitzpatrick (R-PA) that would bring early childhood development (ECD) to children all around the world. Most people don’t know that since 1990, U.S. international aid has saved the lives of nearly 100 million children, an amazing accomplishment. But we need to make sure that children do more than survive — we need to help them thrive. That’s where ECD comes in. In poorer countries, integrating early childhood development into child-focused foreign assistance programs costs 50 cents per child per year, and we know that it improves their well-being. Living in refugee camps and other dire situations can bring terrible harm to children, but early childhood development can mitigate some of the worst effects. Princeton residents care about our community and the world around us. Urge our congresswoman to play a leadership role on this legislation. SAM DALEY-HARRIS Dorann Avenue The author founded the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, and Civic Courage.
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Princeton Program in Creative Writing Launches 80th Anniversary Celebration The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing kicks off a year-long celebration of its 80th anniversary Wednesday, September 25, with a reading by National Book Award-winning writer Maxine Hong Kingston, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, and Ojibwe novelist and non-fiction writer David Treuer, a Princeton alumnus, Class of 1992. The reading, which will be introduced by poet and faculty member Paul Muldoon, opens the 2019-20 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series and begins at 7:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium on the Princeton University campus. Free and open to the public, the reading will be followed by a book sale and signing with the writers. Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of, among others, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. In 1997 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Clinton, and the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2013. She is emerita senior lecturer for Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Yusef Komunyakaa’s books of poetry include Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize, and Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2020. His honors
include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. He teaches at New York University. An Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, David Treuer is a member of Princeton’s Class of 1992, where he studied with Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, and Joanna Scott. He published his first novel, Little, in 1995, and his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999. His newest book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America since 1890, was a New York Times bestseller. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta, Harper’s, Esquire, TriQuarterly, The Washington Post, and Lucky Peach. The Program in Creative Writing traces its origins to 1939 and a grant from the Carnegie Foundation to help Princeton focus on the cultivation of writers and other artists. A committee of faculty from the Departments of Art, Music, French, and English defined the program’s mission, “to allow the talented undergraduates to work in the creative arts under professional supervision while pursuing a regular liberal arts course of study, as well as to offer all interested undergraduates an opportunity to develop their creative faculties in connection with the general program of humanistic education.”
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Sara Georgini John and Abigail Adams Are Subject of Lecture
Sara Georgini, author of the new book, Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family, will give a lecture titled “The Providence of John and Abigail Adams” at the David Library of the American Revolution on Thursday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Feinstone Conference Center on the Library’s campus, 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing. “Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was religion that shaped his family’s fortunes and young America’s future,” Georgini notes. “The Adamses were globetrotters who chronicled their religious journeys extensively. They developed a cosmopolitan Christianity that blended discovery and criticism, faith and doubt.” In her lecture, Georgini will demonstrate how pivotal Christianity was in shaping the family’s life as Americans formed a nation. Georgini earned her doctorate in history from Boston University in 2016. For the past decade, she has worked at the Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where she is series editor for The Papers of John Adams. She frequently writes about early American history for Smithsonian. Lectures at the David Library are admission free, but reservations are required. To reserve a seat, call (215) 4936776 ext. 100, or send an
The sale will run from September 19 through September 22, with Preview Night from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 19, free for Friends of the Library members, $10 for non-members. General Admission Day, Friday, September 20 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Half Price Day, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $5 Bag & Box Sale, Sunday, September 22, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. The West Windsor Library is at 333 North Post Road, Princeton Junction. All funds raised support the Library.
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CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta will be at McCosh Hall on September 23 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. to give a talk entitled “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.” He will be joined in conversation with Julian Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton. A book sale and signing will follow the discusssion. The event is presented by The Woodrow Wilson School and is open to the public.
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Joyce Carol Oates will read from her new novel, My Life as a Rat, on Wednesday, September 25 at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library. The event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books. Publishers Weekly says Oates “adroitly touches on race, loyalty, misogyny, and class inequality while also telling a moving story with a winning narrator. This book should please her fans and win her new ones.” Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of t he Nat ion al Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achieve ment Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/ Malamud Award for Excell e n c e i n S h or t F i c t i o n , and she has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her works include the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University and Artist in Residence at NYU.
John Banville, Paul Muldoon at Stewart
Award-winning Irish novelist John Banville reads from his work followed by a conversation with Princeton’s Howard G.B. Clark ‘21 University Professor in the Humanities Paul Muldoon on Friday, September 20. The event will take place at the James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street on the Princeton University Campus at 4:30 p.m. The reading and conversation are free and open to the public as a part of Princeton University’s 2019-20 Fund for Irish Studies series. Born and raised in Wexford, Ireland, Banv ille studied at Christian Brothers schools and St. Peter’s
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College before he began his career as an author. In 1970, he published a short story collection and a novella, John Lankin, before publishing his first novel, N i g h t s p a w n , i n 19 71. Other novels include Birchwood (1973), The Book of Evidence (1989), Ghosts (1993), The Sea (2005), The Infinities (2009), and Mrs. Osmond (2017). He has won several awards for his writing, including the Man Booker Prize for The Sea, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature. Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of the Princeton Atelier, Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. Founding chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, he is a former poetry editor for The New Yorker. His main collections of poetry are Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Madoc : A My ster y (1990 ) , Poems 1968 -1998 ( 2001), One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015), and Poems 1968-2014 (2016). Awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. The Fund for Irish Studies series is co-produced by the Lewis Center of the Arts and the 2019-20 edition of the series is organized by Muldoon and senior lecturer in Theater Michael Cadden.
Alter at PU Discussing Art of Bible Translation
Robert Alter will be visiting Princeton University on Monday September 23 at 4.30 p.m. in 101 McCormick to deliver a talk about “The Art of Bible Translation.” A scholar of Hebrew and Comparative literature at UC - B e r ke l e y, A lte r h a s single handedly translated the Hebrew Bible over the course of two decades. The New York Times called his work “a New Hebrew Bible to Rival the King James.” For additional information, v isit ht tps :// humanities. princeton.edu/event/robertatler-belknap-visitor-in-thehumanities/.
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BOOK REVIEW
Before and After September 11, The Tolstoy Tower Looms Large
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he Wednesday after the Tuesday from Hell I’m in the Community Room at the old library setting up what will be the last Friends Book Sale before the move to a temporary location in the Princeton Shopping Center. Like most people in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, I’m still trying to deal with yesterday’s nightmare. So it’s good to have the distraction of a tiring, totally absorbing task. Although volunteers helped in the moving and unloading of donations, ultimately it’s up to me to get everything ready for the Friday morning opening, and I still have at least a hundred boxes to unpack and price. By the time I arrange stand-up signs on the tables for History, Religion, Biography, Science, and Literature, I’m getting punchy, thinking these aren’t books, they’re the broken pieces of western civilization I’m putting in place, one man’s deranged response to what happened yesterday in lower Manhattan against a pure blue sky, a perfect morning, absolute clarity, then out of nowhere absolute apocalyptic carnage. Gazing out over the vista of tables piled high with books not yet arranged in rows, I see the towering stacks as buildings, or so it seems in the hour of supreme, up-after-mybedtime mindlessness. Acutely aware of the relevance of the titles to Tuesday’s madness, I begin the first row of Literature with the Modern Library editions of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Balzac’s Lost Illusions. I’m wondering which would cast the longest shadow in a skyline made of classics, a tower of Balzac or a tower of Tolstoy? On any other day, measured in terms of sheer quantity, it would be the many-storied work of the author of the Human Comedy soaring skyward above all others, but War and Peace is the novel I’ve been absorbed by for months, finally, thankfully, for the first time since I was 20 and unable to love it as much as Anna Karenina. What I’m especially grateful for is knowing that on the night before the catastrophe I was reading and rereading Tolstoy’s account of young Petya Rostov’s enchanted final hours. It was something to cherish forever, to have felt the euphoria all readers should know at least once in their lives, to have spent that night of all nights under Tolstoy’s spell. Now, after a day of non-stop beyondbelief television, I can’t stop seeing terrified New Yorkers in flight from the monstrous mass of debris risen in Satanic splendor from the smoking ruin, headed full-force up Broadway, as if the mad genius terrorists had designs on midtown, even Central Park. That’s when it dawns on me that the Balzac and Tolstoy buildings should be equal in height, like the Twin Towers. The Week Before Working late Wednesday and Thurs-
day, I have the library to myself, except for what has become an annual late-night ritual shared with Bianca, the cleaning woman, who sticks her head in the door, says hello, and goes “Ahhh!” at the sight of all those books. In the old library building, the Community Room was on the second floor, just to the right of the stairway, except there’s no such thing as an unhaunted stairway on the Week After, not when you keep imagining the scene on the stairwells in the North and South towers. It’s when I’m reeling around, dizzytired, that I begin remembering things that happened the Week Before. Given what I’m surrounded by, it’s no wonder my first thought is of Saturday’s 20th anniversary party for Micawber Books, celebrated at a roadhouse north of Hopewell with a live band rocking out while people boogied the night away. A few days later that rollicking festive occasion would become another of those sad-making “little did they know” events overshadowed by tragedy. I’m also reminded of Sunday night watching the last film my wife and I saw before 9/11, an old favorite called (you can’t make this stuff up) Ball of Fire. All day Tuesday the same television set would be recycling images of the smoking ruins, making a morbid pun on a title meant only to suggest the cosmic impact of Barbara Stanwyck’s burlesque dancer Sugarpuss O’Shea on a bunch of lovable stuffed shirts working on an encylopedia. Last but not least in the land of little-did-we-know, late Monday night into Tuesday I was on the phone with an old friend of the road about the time we got free room and board for painting a mural in the dining area of Kabul’s Benazir Hotel. The mural was meant to show the dragon of the East in mortal combat with the eagle of the West. Our audience was composed of sullen tea-sipping Afghanis who could be fathers or grandfathers of today’s Taliban. Human Meaning I’ve just now gone back to the New York Times’ interactive “Portraits of Grief” website for the first time since writing about Portraits: 9/11/01 on the tenth anniversary of the attack. This time what caught my eye as I scrolled down through the names and
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faces was a piece of poetry written by a 29-year-old father for his infant son that begins, “Open your eyes young Nicholas/Open and see the colors/ Of the world around you,” and ends, “Walk young Nicholas/Walk and find — “ That’s as far as he got. It’s like a microcosm of what happened that day, the abruptness of a line and a life cut short, the way the father’s life had ended. Walk and find what, I’m wondering. Nicholas would be going on 19 today. What did he find? One thing we know he found is an unfinished poem made all the more precious by an act of mass-murder. Great literature transcends “littledid-they-know.” Writers like Tolstoy and Balzac somehow know, regardless of specific situations and sheer numbers of the lost and fallen, and the incomprehensible magnitude of events like 9/11, which we’ve neatly and conveniently reduced to a two-digit code. What the reporters who put together “Portraits of Grief” were trying to do is to bestow some human meaning on each of the lives lost that day. What happens in War and P e a c e w h e n To l stoy writes about a 16-year-old soldier’s last night alive is the same thing taken to the highest power. A Fairy Kingdom The spell Tolstoy creates around Petya Rostov’s last night is further evidence of the novelistic magic that has readers caring about a minor character so far known merely as Natasha’s younger brother. Seen through the boy’s drowsy eyes, the “big dark blotch” on his right is a watchman’s hut, and the “red blotch” below to his left the “dying embers of a campfire.” Soon he’s in a waking dream, “a fairy kingdom where nothing resembled reality. The big dark blotch might really be the watchman’s hut or it might be a cavern leading to the very depths of the earth,” while the red of the campfire “might be the eye of an enormous monster.” Perhaps he’s “really sitting on a wagon” or it might be “a terribly high tower from which, if he fell, he would have to fall for a whole day or a whole month, or go on falling and never reach the bottom.” As his eyes begin to close, the sound made by the Cossack sharpening Petya’s sword against the whetstone becomes in his ears an orchestra “playing some unknown, sweetly solemn hymn.” Somewhere between
waking and dreaming, he imagines himself conducting the orchestra. Whatever he wishes to hear, the sounds obey him: “Now softly, softly die away! Now fuller, more joyful. Still more and more joyful!” As from “an unknown depth” rise “increasingly triumphant sounds.” Now he hears men’s voices and then women’s growing “in harmonious triumphant strength,” as he listens “to their surpassing beauty in awe and joy.” In the next chapter Petya’s living his dream, riding his horse into battle, waving his sword, shouting “Hurrah-ah-ah!” as “without pausing a moment” he gallops “to the place whence came the sounds of firing and where the smoke was thickest.” We see what happens next through the eyes of Denisov, an officer the boy idolizes: “Petya was galloping along the courtyard, but instead of holding the reins he waved both his arms about rapidly and strangely, slipping farther and farther to one side in his saddle. His horse, having galloped up to a campfire that was smoldering in the morning light, stopped suddenly, and Petya fell heavily on to the wet ground. The Cossacks saw that his arms and legs jerked rapidly though his head was quite motionless. A bullet had pierced his skull.” Tuesday morning there’s no room for Petya’s final hour, which is still glowing somewhere in my mind, and I remember it when I read the words, “Walk young Nicholas/Walk and find —” The Library as Refuge It’s pouring rain the Friday morning of the book sale, never a good sign, yet there’s the usual long line for the paid preview. The mood is different, however. With all the death and destruction being constantly recycled on the news, people seems to be sharing an awareness of the unthinkable reality only an hour away. Saturday and Sunday the weather’s beautiful and the library’s bustling, not so much the “community living room” as it will be known in its 2004 incarnation, but a calm refuge in the eye of the hurricane. The turn-out is amazing, unprecedented, as though the event had been a formally arranged respite for people in need n his journal for September 1899, Tolstoy asks himself, “What is this faculty connecting separate beings in time, into one?” He continues, “I have to manifest myself and know myself in time — for communion with other beings and for influencing them.” —Stuart Mitchner
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Elem Eley egie Hall, David Geffen Hall and Alice Tully Hall, as well as with regional orchestras and presenting groups throughout the country and in Europe. Eley sang the title role of Don Giovanni for his debut at the Operafestival di LOVE, HORROR, AND MORE: Lookingglass Theatre Company’s production of “Mary Shelley’s Roma, and he has appeared Frankenstein” comes to McCarter Theatre’s Matthews Stage October 15-November 3. in productions with the Op-
and recorded with Judith Bettina works by Milton Babbitt, Mel Powell, Chester Biscardi, Christopher Berg, Tobias Picker and David Rakowski; and collaborated in performance with many Westminster colleagues. Recipient of Rider University’s 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award, he has also taught at Goshen College, Stanford University and the University of St. Thomas. During two residencies in Vienna, one under the auspices of a Fulbright grant, Goldsworthy studied late 18th and early 19th-century fortepiano construction, did research in pianoforte instruction of the same time period, and coached voice students at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. For more information, visit www.rider.edu/arts. Continued on Page 24
“Frankenstein” In-The- performances of one-act lie Diana Hench, executive plays. This annual event is director of Princeton Ballet Round At McCarter
Princeton Ballet School, the official school of American Reper tor y Ballet, is entering its 65th year of operation with the start of the 2019-2020 school year.
Julie Diana Hench The school was founded in Princeton by Audrée Estey in 1954 and now provides dance instruction to ap proximately 1,000 students each year at its Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick studios. In addition, with its Access and Enrichment initiatives, the school reaches into the community through its DANCE POWER program, On Pointe lecture series, and with free programming, master classes, residencies, lecture demonstrations and school-time matinees. “This year, as Princeton Ballet School celebrates its 65th anniversary, we remain committed to Audrée Estey’s legacy of providing excellence in dance education,” said Ju-
“AN IDEAL HUSBAND”: Opening ActorsNET’s 24th season, Oscar Wilde’s satirical comedy about blackmail and political corruption in late 19th-century London has been updated and moved into Washington, D.C.’s world of politics and scandal during the 1960s. It performs on The Heritage Center Theatre stage in Morrisville, Pa., through September 29. For times, tickets, and details, visit www.actorsnetbucks.org or call (215) 295-3694.
Film Screening: FATHER’S KINGDOM Wednesday, September 18, 6:00 pm Frist Film Theatre (Room 301) Princeton University campus
Faculty Recital Series Begins at Westminster
Westminster Choir College opens its 2019-2020 Faculty Recital series with a performance by Elem Eley, baritone, and James Goldsworthy, piano, on Sunday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University on Walnut Lane. Admission is free. They will perform Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, an epic tale of love lost told over 24 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller. Eley is professor of Voice who has performed at Carn-
Question & Answer Session with Director Lenny Feinberg and Featured Scholar Judith Weisenfeld following the screening
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Princeton Ballet School Celebrates 65 Years
School and the American Repertory Ballet. “We teach students of all ages, from our hand-in-hand youngsters starting at age 3 to our preprofessional and adult dancers. We believe dance should be accessible to all, and our special programs and scholarships ensure that we continue our mission. “While adhering to Princeton Ballet School’s traditions, School Director Aydmara Cabrera has also introduced more modern and contemporary dance classes, coordinated a black box theater performance for advanced students, staged a new version of Don Quixote, separated classes to allow for more personalized attention, and attracted new teachers to the school such as José Manuel Carreño, Ana Novoa, Valerie Amiss and Elvis Ferrera.” Today, the school’s trainee div ision has over 30 aspiring professional dancers. In addition to trainees from throughout the United States, the program attracts dancers from many countries across the globe, including Brazil, Uruguay, Italy, Australia, South Korea, China, and Japan. These students represent the top level of dancers at Princeton Ballet School. In addition to all levels of ballet, Princeton Ballet School offers open enrollment classes in hip-hop, tap, contemporary dance, modern dance, C ardioB allet, f lamenco, Bharatanatyam, and other dances of the world. As Princeton Ballet School commemorates 65 years of dance education, its company, American Repertory Ballet, will be celebrating its 40th anniversary in the coming year as well. For more infor mation, call (609) 921-7758 or visit www.arballet.org.
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designed to showcase local original theater. Plays should be 10 minutes in length, with a maximum of five actors. Playwrights should be of high school age or older and reside or work in the Delaware Valley. Submissions are limited to a maximum of two per playwright. Playwrights, amateur or professional, should submit their plays by Friday, January 10, 2020. Scripts can be emailed as a Word document attachment to akerr@ mcl.org or may be brought to the Lawrence Headquarters Branch Library reference desk. Include two title pages: one with the play title only and the other with play title and name, address, phone, and email address of the playwright. The playwright’s name should not appear in the script. For additional information, call Ann Kerr at (609) 883-8292.
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Lookingglass Theatre Company’s production of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a visceral adaptation that brings together inventive staging, acrobatics, and a unique in-the-round experience to McCarter Theatre’s Matthews Stage October 15-November 3. Mary Shelley herself (played by Cordelia Dewdney) rests at the core of the theatrical adaptation. Ahead of her time in more ways than one, the author was only 18 when she conceived of Frankenstein. Shelley experiences a lifetime of love and passion, of tragedy and loss, all of which unfolds as her characters navigate a new age of science and unintended consequences. Two hundred years later, this cautionary tale is relevant as we grapple with the ramifications of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and algorithms. “I’m fascinated by the blur between Mary Shelley’s story of creation, rejection, and destruction and her own life of love, loss, and abandonment. How does the human heart survive desolation and misery?” said Director/Adaptor David Catlin. “This is a story that continues to unsettle us.” McCarter Theatre Center Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann added, “When I heard that David Catlin was adapting Frankenstein through the lens of Mary Shelley’s life and experience, my heart started to pound because it was such an exciting idea. The ar tistr y of Lookingglass plus the genius of Mary Shelley seemed to me to be a perfect marriage. I believe that this story’s extraordinary power will blow the roof off of this theater.” The cast includes Walter Briggs (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Debo Balogun (Dr. John Polidori), Cordelia Dewdney ( Mary Shelley), Keith D. Gallagher (Lord Byron), and Amanda Raquel Martinez (Claire Clairmont). All are making their McCarter Theatre Center debuts. For dates, times, and tickets, visit mccarter.org.
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era Companies of Cincinnati, Hawaii, Shreveport and Syracuse, Athena Grand Opera, the Sylvan Opera Festival and Musica Europa 2001. At the Center for Contemporary Opera, he performed in the world première of Vera of Las Vegas by Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon, and the video of Kalmanoff’s The Bald Soprano. In Vienna, he sang Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, with soprano Faith Esham and pianist JJ Penna, in recital at the Schubert Geburtshaus. He founded and directs the summer vocal program, Vienna: Language of Lieder. Professor of Piano James Goldsworthy has performed throughout Europe, Israel, Japan, Canada, and the United States. He has co-edited with Judith Bettina song collections of Tobias Picker and Chester Biscardi; premiered
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“Beyond the Music” Programs Announced
In addition to its lineup of chamber music performances, Princeton University Concerts (PUC) also offers supplemental programs, many of which are free, designed to bring audiences closer to the season’s music and musicians. These non-concert events, all of which fall under PUC’s “Beyond the Music” programming umbrella, include Live Music Meditations, the annual Late Night Chamber Jam, an At the Movies series at the Princeton Garden Theatre and the Princeton Public Library, and half-hour Warm Ups prior to performances on the Concert Classics series. Live Music Meditations, a partnership with the University’s Office of Religious Life, offer the opportunity to immerse in world-class music with the focus and mindful-
ness that meditation allows. Participants engage in a meditation guided by Associate Dean Matthew Weiner before hearing a half hour of music performed by musicians on PUC’s series. A conversation about the experience among audience members and musicians follows. The series begins Tuesday, October 22 with pianist Brad Mehldau. Next, on November 7, violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Jeremy Denk are scheduled. On February 6, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras appears; and the final event of the series is April 16, when the Dover String Quartet is scheduled. All of the events are at Richardson Auditorium. Meditation instruction begins at 12 p.m. and the events begin at 12:30 p.m. PUC also offers the annual Late Night Chamber Jam, this year on February 20 at 10 p.m. with the Calidore String Quartet. Amateur string play-
ers of all levels and ages are invited to join the quartet on the stage immediately following their performance on PUC’s Concert Classics series to sight read with them. This year’s Chamber Jam will focus on the string quartet and will be led by the inaugural winners of the M-Prize, the world’s largest chamber-music prize. The series also includes films. At the Princeton Garden Theatre on Wednesday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m., Martha Graham: Dance on Film will be introduced by Professor Simon Morrison. Princeton Public Library screens Beethoven Lives Upstairs (film screening for kids) Saturday, February 1, at 3 p.m. Admission is free. The Garden Theatre shows Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times Monday, February 10, at 7:30 p.m. These three films all relate to the programs and artists on PUC’s concert season. Martha Graham: Dance on
Film includes footage of the choreographer’s original ballet Appalachian Spring, for which Aaron Copland wrote the music. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will perform this music during PUC’s season-opening concert on Thursday, October 10, at 8 p.m. The family movie Beethoven Lives Upstairs will be screened in tribute to composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th anniversary of birth, a theme throughout PUC’s 2019 –2020 season. And Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero will engage in a postscreening conversation about Chaplin’s Modern Times before she improvises a film score to Chaplin’s The Immigrant as part of her concert program on the Performances Up Close series on Tuesday, February 11. Visit princetonuniversityconcerts.org for more information.
Singer Tolchin Comes To Hopewell Theater
Singer/songwriter/bluesman and Princeton native Jonah Tolchin will be performing at the Hopewell Theater on October 12 at 8 p.m. in support of his fourth studio album, Fires for the Cold, on Yep Roc Records.
MORE THAN JUST CONCERTS: This Live Music Meditation from last season is one way Princeton University Concerts strives to bring audiences closer to music and musicians. Several events are planned for this season.
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Jonah Tolchin Tolchin’s appearance in Hopewell is part of a tour that is taking him to New York City, Nashville’s AmericanaFest, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, Decatur, Cambridge, and Chicago, among other locations. A European tour with label mate Dawn Landes is scheduled for December. Featuring nine original compositions, Fires for the Cold was recorded at Carriage House Studios and co-produced with Grammy-winning producer, musician and engineer Sheldon Gomberg. Other notable guests include Sara Watkins on backing vocals and violin on “Supermarket Rage” and “Honeysuckle.” The album also features Jay Bellerose (drums), Little Feat guitarist Fred Tackett, Greg Liesz (steel guitar), and Ben Peller (guitar). Tolchin’s solo albums include Clover Lane (2014), and Thousand Mile Night (2016), both with Yep Roc Records. He and fellow mu-
sician/drummer/songwriter Kevin Clifford also perform as the band Dharmasoul and released the album Lightning Kid in 2018. Clifford, who also lives in the Princeton area, will join Tolchin on the tour and at Hopewell Theater. Tolchin has toured extensively with Chuck Prophet, Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin, Tony Joe White, Gregg Allman, Chris Smither, Tom Paxton, Ricki Lee Jones, Joseph Arthur, and others. Hopewell Theater is at 5 South Greenwood Avenue in Hopewell. Visit hopewelltheater.com for more information.
Princeton Film Festival Screens Shorts, Features
The fifth annual Princeton Independent Film Festival (PRINDIE) will bring 24 short films and three features to Princeton University’s McCormick Hall and the Princeton Garden Theatre September 21-23. This year’s focus is on the environment, mental health, and cultural diversity. Among the films to be screened are Honeyland, the most awarded film at the Sundance Film Festival; The Death of Dick Long; and Demons in Paradise, followed by a discussion with the director, Jude Ratnam, and Erica Kiss of the University’s UCHV Film Forum. Screenings are at McCormick 101 (before the entrance of Princeton University Art Museum) on Saturday, and at the Princeton Garden Theatre on Monday. Tickets are free for students, faculty and staff; $8-$10 for others. The Monday screening of Demons in Paradise is free to all. For specifics and details, visit www.prindiefest.com.
Sungji Kim to Perform At Lawrence Library
On Thursday, October 24 at 7 p.m., the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System will host soprano Sungji Kim, who will perform popular opera arias and musicals by Rossini, Puccini, Gershwin, and other composers. Kim has been praised for “her bright, incisive voice” in the New York Times. She will be accompanied by Joseph Krupa.
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Trenton Music Makers To Have Home at Church
Trenton Music Makers and Union Baptist Church have announced that the youth orchestra will take up residence on the church’s Pennington Avenue site starting September 30. The Trenton Music Makers orchestral music and social development program is in its fifth year, and has grown to include students in the second grade through high school. Formerly on site in four Trenton schools, it will consolidate the orchestra at Union Baptist, and will transport students from throughout the Capital City for rehearsals, lessons, and leadership development, four days a week. Union Baptist Church is committed to community activism and youth development. This partnership with Trenton Music Makers is the newest addition to its diverse history of community partnerships and support of charitable and nonprofit organizations, both local and regional. Also, Trenton Music Makers has been awarded a grant from the I Am Trenton Community Foundation that will fulfill its goal to host a series of “First Thursday” dinners for the families of young people in the program, sourced from local restaurants. Allowing the families to share a meal and enjoy each other’s multi-generational company, the dinners will also provide information on such topics as supporting children in their practice at home (even if parents don’t play), census participation and health resources, and mini-performances by the young players. “The leadership of Union Baptist Church has provided us with an extraordinary welcome,” says Trenton Music Makers Board Chairman Julian Grant. “The commitment of its faith community to young people’s growth, and our shared vision of their role as an asset to their city, fills us with anticipation for what we will accomplish together this year.” Union Baptist Church’s Pastor, the Rev. Simeon Spencer, shares Grant’s enthusiasm. “Music is one of God’s most precious gifts,” he said. “We are tremendously blessed and excited to be a part of this effort to develop the talents of and provide opportunities for young people to share that gift with the larger community.” Trenton Music Makers receives significant funding from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Carnegie Hall PlayUSA, the George H. and Estelle M. Sands Foundation, El Sistema USA, the Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation, and many individuals and family foundations in the region. Participation in the Trenton Music Makers Orchestra is available to students in grades 2-12 at no charge, but with a deep time commitment. Orchestra rehearsals, studiobased sectionals, and string instruments are provided to its students, along with leadership training and performance opportunities that highlight their natural role as assets to their community. Registration for new students began September 15, and pre-registration is available at www.trentonmusicmakers.org.
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ing effectively “become” the creature. The “Species on the Edge” art and essay contest encourages students to learn about local environmental issues. All are encouraged to express their concerns for the world around them, think creatively about ways to improve it, and consider how their own actions impact the natural world. Submitted art is judged by artists; essays by scientists. Students must win in both categories. Each county’s winning essay is displayed for reading in the exhibit. The contest attracted more than 2,800 entries. Since 2003, over 15,000 New Jersey children have entered the “Species on the Edge” art and essay contest. “These talented children
poured their hearts into the ‘Species on the Edge’ contest, creating vibrant artwork and passionate essays about these rare wildlife species,” said David Wheeler, executive director of Conserve Wildlife Foundation. “We are inspired to connect the next generation of New Jersey conservation leaders with their natural world. Both their art and essays illustrate nature’s wonders — and reveal many of the challenges we must overcome to help vulnerable wildlife survive in our densely-populated state.” The Olivia Rainbow Gallery is in the Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, off Rosedale Road, (above Johnson Park School). For more information, call (609) 924-4646 or visit www.drgreenway.org.
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The students became virtual wildlife biologists through research and unique art for this statewide educational contest. Open to all fifthgraders, this display of winners launches the fall season of D&R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery. “We display exceptional student art throughout each year, conveying the urgency of protecting nature to the preservationists of tomorrow,” says Linda Mead, president and CEO. For the contest, students are given the list of New Jersey’s more than 80 endangered and threatened species. Each composes an essay on factors contributing to the animal’s endangered situation, and suggestions on how to protect it. The essays are often written in the first person – each student hav-
“AN EVENING WITH BOLLYWOOD”: The Arts Council of Princeton’s family-friendly event, featuring live dance performances, Mehndi henna tattoos, folk arts and crafts, and more, is scheduled for Saturday, September 21 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Princeton Shopping Center. “My buddy and I came Delaware River Basin without DRBC Announces Summer across this scene during a regard to political boundarPhoto Contest Winners At the Delaware River Basin Commission’s ( DRBC) third-quarter Business Meeting last week, Assemblywoman Carol Murphy (NJ-7) presented Joint Legislative Resolutions from the State of New Jersey for the winners of the commission’s 2019 Summer Delaware River Basin Photo Contest. Murphy, a hobbyist photographer, was the guest judge for this season, which included a public contest and one run concurrently for DRBC staff. The photo contest judging team, in addition to the assemblywoman, included DRBC staff. They chose Carl LaVO’s photograph, titled Easy Chairs on a Hot, Summer Day, as the winner of the public contest, and chose DRBC Water Quality intern Scott Jedrusiak’s The Light Within as the winner of the staff contest. “I am pleased to be able to present these Joint Legislative Resolutions from the State of New Jersey recognizing Carl and Scott as the summer photo contest winners,” said Murphy. “This photo contest is a great way to connect with those that live, work, and play in the river basin and share what they love about it. The winning photos represent the beauty of our water resources that the DRBC works to protect for current and future generations.”
bike ride on N.J.’s Delaware and Raritan Canal towpath one hot July day,” said LaVO, an author, columnist, journalist, and former Bucks County Courier Times editor from Levittown, Pa. “We so wanted to cool off in those chairs, but access prevented us, so we continued on.” “Carl’s photograph stood out for its contrasts: the rushing water versus the peaceful image of the easy chairs, as well as the juxtaposition of dark and light,” said Mur phy. “It evokes a story just waiting to be told, perhaps while relaxing in those chairs being cooled by the water’s flow.” The winning images will be featured on the commission’s website at https:// www.nj.gov/drbc/basin/ photo/2019summer-photocontest.html and on DRBC’s Tw it ter, Ins tag ram, and Flickr social media sites. The photos w ill also be published in the commission’s 2019 annual report, and the winners will receive certificates of recognition. The contest’s purpose is to highlight photography representing the beauty, diversity, function, and significance of the water resources of the Delaware River Basin, a 13,539-square-mile watershed. The DRBC is a federal/interstate government agency responsible for managing the water resources within the
ies. The five commission members are the governors of the basin states (Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) and the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ North Atlantic Division, who represents the federal government. To learn more about the commission, www.drbc.gov.
“Species on the Edge” At D&R Greenway
D &R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery presents the works of the county winners of Conserve Wildlife New Jersey Foundation’s 16th annual “Species on the Edge” contest through October 31. The annual juried exhibition features art and essays on New Jersey’s threatened and endangered species. Spirited versions of creatures — from Gloucester County’s bog turtle to Passaic Count y’s Kennedy’s emerald dragon (dragonfly) to Mercer County’s bluespotted salamander — are on display from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each weekday.
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“BLUE-SPOTTED SALAMANDER”: Oishee Sinharay, a student at a student at Stony Brook Elementary School in Pennington, won first place for Mercer County in Conserve Wildlife New Jersey Foundation’s 16th annual “Species on the Edge” art and essay contest. The works of county winners are on display at D&R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery through October 31.
Princeton
Singers Infinite Variety
Saturday, September 22, 5:30 pm and 8 pm Art Museum The Princeton Singers complement the Art Museum’s exhibition Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity with an exploration of the infinite variety of colors available to composers as they explore a kaleidoscopic canvas of sounds. Featuring the music of Steve Reich, John Cage, David Whitaker, and others.
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“EASY CHAIRS ON A HOT, SUMMER DAY”: This photograph by Carl LaVO was named the public winner of the 2019 Summer Delaware River Basin Photo Contest. The image will be featured on the commission’s website, social media sites, and annual report. TT_PrincetonSingers-Infinite Variety.indd 1
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“OCTAGON”: This mixed media work by Mircea Popescu is featured in the “2019 MCCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit” on view at The Gallery at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor through October 10. The community is invited to a reception on Wednesday, September 25 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
MCCC Gallery Hosts Art Faculty Exhibit
The focus is on the faculty at the first art show of the season at The Gallery at Mercer County Community College (MCCC), where the college’s own visual arts faculty members have put their personal works on display. The “2019 MCCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit” runs through Thursday, October 10. The community is invited to a reception on Wednesday, Sept. 25 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The MCCC Gallery is located on the second floor of the Communications Building on the college’s West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. Ac cord i n g to MCCC ’s gallery director, Alice K. Thompson, the faculty show is an opportunity for students to view their professors from a different perspective. “Students will have the opportunity to gain insight into the studio practices of their professors, and make connections with what they are learning in the classroom,” said Thompson. “This is an important part of the learning experience for MCCC students.” T he show feat ures 26 works by the college’s fulltime and adjunct visual arts
faculty members. All exhibited work is current, produced in the last two years, and portrays the range of styles and formats present among MCCC’s faculty. Among the participating faculty members are Emily Buchalski, Ryann Casey, Michael Chovan - Dalton, Dave Dimarchi, Yevgeniy Fiks, Meagan Greenberg-Impellizzeri, Lucas Kelly, Tina LaPlaca, Paul Mordetsky, Kerri O’Neill, Mircea Popescu, Lauren Rabinowitz, Kyle Stevenson, Michael Welliver, and Mauro Zamora. Gallery hours for this show are Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.mccc. edu /gallery or www.facebook.com/MCCCgallery.
Artworks Presents Show on Video Artist
Pioneering video ar tist Nam June Paik and the public art installation he created in Trenton is the subject of a show at Artworks running through October 19. “PBS (1963 -20 0 0 ) , T hen and Now” delves into the life and art of Paik, considered one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, and details how he came to create his neon and video Trenton work, PBS (1963-
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2000), which recently underwent a full restoration after being unlit for more than a decade. Paik (1932-2006) was born in South Korea, studied in Japan, and lived in Germany before settling in New York City. He achieved global fame through his playful and thought-provoking art using televisions and video, effectively inventing the discipline of video art. In 1992, as part of the New Jersey Arts Inclusion Program, which sets aside a percentage of state building construction costs for public art, Paik was commissioned to create a piece for the New Jersey Network building on Front Street in Trenton. PBS (1963-2000) was finished in 1993, consisting of two 20 -by-12foot wall panels filled with neon and 54 19” televisions streaming video created by Paik as well as live feeds of NJN programming. According to Artworks, PBS (1963-2000) is emblematic of Paik’s broader interest in the power of broadcast technology to spread ideas widely and democratically. The piece also specifically references Trenton-area contributions to communications technology like the invention of color television at the nearby Sarnoff Center. Incorporating original drawings, plans, equipment and video content, “PBS (1963-2000), Then and Now” is a multimedia homage to Paik’s artwork. The exhibit documents the creation of PBS (1963-2000), as well as its full restoration earlier this year, funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and overseen by Artworks. Artworks is located 19 Everett Alley, Trenton. For more information on exhibits and other programming, call (609) 394-9436 or go to artworkstrenton.org.
NJ State Museum Celebrates Museum Day
The New Jersey State Museum will welcome all Museum Day ticket holders on Saturday, September 21, as part of Smithsonian Magazine’s 15th annual Museum Day, a national celebration in which participating museums emulate the free admission policy at the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington D.C.-based museums. The program represents a nationwide commitment to access, equity, and
“UNUSUAL OBJECTS SEEN FROM MY WINDOW”: This painting by Bill Hogan is featured in “Solitary Interludes,” an exhibition of his surreal works on view through October 31 at the Gallery at the Center for Collaborative History, 113 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University. “Stoneware Sculpture,” works by Susan Hogan, runs through October 25. A reception for both is Thursday, September 19 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. inclusion. Free tickets for the event are available for download at Smithsonian.com/museumday, or via a link on the State Museum’s website www. statemuseum.nj.gov. According to Beth Cooper, New Jersey State Museum curator of education, “Museum Day is a great opportunity for guests to visit and discover the variety of exhibitions and programs offered by the New Jersey State Museum.” This year, Museum Day will celebrate the Smithsonian Year of Music. Guests can enjoy “Voice of the People: A History of American Folk Music,” a live performance by David Fry in the Auditorium at 11 a.m. This interactive musical experience explores the history of folk music, from “Yankee Doodle” and “This Land is Your Land” to rock and roll, playground songs and jump rope games, and dances. Fry makes this distinctly American music a creative, contemporary, and accessible art form. Discover how music influences visual artists and vice versa with historic and modern examples, and create art based on a favorite song in the Museum’s Imagination Studio. Other activities include creating your own instrument out of recycled materials and free Planetarium shows at noon, 1 p.m.,
2 p.m., and 3 p.m. Visitors who present a Museum Day ticket will gain free entrance for two at participating venues on September 21. One ticket is permitted per email address. A list of participating museums can be found at Smithsonian.com/museumday/search. T he New Jersey State Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; closed on Mondays and State holidays. For more information, visit www. statemuseum.nj.gov.
Area Exhibits A r t i st s’ G a l l e r y, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Ghosts” through October 5. www.lambertvillearts.com. Arts Council of Prince ton , 102 Wit herspoon S t re e t, has “ Wonder” through October 5. www. artscouncilofprinceton.org. D & R Greenway Land Tr u s t , 1 P r e s e r v a t i o n Place, has “Creature Comforts: Habitat Immersions” t h rou g h S epte mb er 20. www.drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “New Jersey Photography
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“DELAWARE RIVER AND LAMBERTVILLE”: This painting by John Folinsbee is featured in “The Beauty of Bucks County,” an exhibition of Pennsylvania Impressionism works opening at the Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio in Doylestown, Pa., on October 5. The exhibition was inspired by preservation efforts of the land, the history, and the cultural heritage of Bucks County. For more information, visit www.gratzgallery.com.
Forum: A 25-Year Retrospective” through November 10. www.ellarslie.org. Gourgaud Gallery, 23 North Main Street, Cranbur y, has “Four Seasons Watercolor Artists” through September 30. www.cranburyartscouncil.com. G roun d s For S c ul p ture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Interference Fringe | Tallur L.N.” through Januar y, “Rebir th : Kang Mu x ia ng” t hrough May, and other exhibits. www. groundsforsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “A Morning at the Updike Farmstead,” “Princeton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. $4 admission Wednesday-Sunday, 12-4 p.m. Thursday extended hours till 7 p.m. and free admission 4-7 p.m. www. princetonhistory.org. James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., “The Poetry of Sculpture: Raymond Granville Barger (1906–2001)” through October 20, and “Harry LeithRoss: Scenes from Country Life” through February. www. michenerartmuseum.org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “New Jersey Baseball: From the Cradle to the Major Leagues, 1855–1915” through October 27. www.morven.org. New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, has “Many Inspired Steps” through November 10. www.statemuseum.nj.gov. Present Day Club, 72 Stockton Street, has the award-winning photography of Larry Parsons through October 30. Pr inceton Universit y Art Museum has “Legacy: Selections from the Gillet G. Griffin Collection” through O c to b e r 6 a n d “ H e l e n Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Ty pes of A mbiguit y” through October 30. www. artmuseum.princeton.edu. West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, has “Math and Art” through November 1. An opening reception is Sunday, September 22, 4 to 6 p.m. www. westwindsorarts.org. William Trent House Museum, 15 Market Street, Trenton, has “The Immigrant Experience” through November 3.
Wednesday, September 18 1-2:30 p.m.: Robe to Wellness Sewing Circle for breast cancer patients, survivors, friends, family, and volunteers, 429 Walnut Lane. www. robetowellness.com. 7-8:30 p.m. at Hopewell Train Station, environmentalist Maya von Rossum discusses her book The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment, followed by Q&A and signing. www.sourland.org. 7:30 p.m.: Author and playwright Calvin Ramsey will discuss the creation and history of The Negro Motorist Green Book at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street. Fundraiser for the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society. Admission is a tax-deductible $35; children under 12 free. Doors open at 7 p.m. 8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers Contra Dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street. princetoncountrydancers.org. Thursday, September 19 10 a.m.: 55 Plus Club meets at The Jewish Center, 435 Nassau Street. Princeton University Professor Marina Rustow speaks on “Lost Archives and Sacred Wastebins: The Cairo Geniza and the Global Middle Ages.” Free, $4 donation suggested. 12 p.m.: Westminster Conservatory at Nassau noontime recital, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street. Free recital by oboist Melissa Bohl and pianist Phyllis Alpert Lehrer. Free. Works by Debussy, Poulenc, Paladilhe. 5:30-7:30 p.m.: Friends for Bates Cocktail Reception YWCA Princeton, at Springdale Golf Club. $100; proceeds benefit Pearl Bates Scholarship Fund. ywcaprinceton.org/friendsforbates. Friday September 20 12:30 p.m.: All You Want to Know About Princeton Parking with Members of the Town Council, at Princeton Senior Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street. Free, but registration required. (609) 924-7108. 5-7 p.m.: Tie-Dye Day at The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. $5. thewatershed.org. 6-8 p.m.: Princeton Culture Exchange, on Palmer Square Green (raindate 9/22). Cultural displays, music, dancing, arts and crafts, activities for kids. https://seam. ly/91DPnogq. 6:30 p.m.: Harvest Moon C on c e r t, B a n d s t a n d at Fri. 09/20/19 to Thurs. 09/26/19
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Lively Arts NTLive: The Lehman Trilogy (NR) Sat, Sep 21 at 12:30 Adelphi Theatre: Kinky Boots (NR) Sun, Sep 22 at 12:30
Art House Theater Day La La Land (PG-13) (Free Event) Wed, Sep 18 at 7:30
Members-Only Screening Blade Runner (R) (Free Event) ue, Sep 24 at 7:30
Housing Initiatives of Princeton Presents Owned: A Tale of Two Americas (NR) Wed, Sep 25 at 7:30
Brittany Runs A Marathon Fri-Sat: 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 (R) Sun-Thurs: 2:15, 4:40, 7:05
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7 p.m.: Green Planet performs at Thomas Sweet Cafe, 64 Princeton-Hightstown Road. 8 p.m.: Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs at Richardson Auditorium in a concert conducted by Rossen Milanov, featuring pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton. Works by Mozart. princetonsymphony.org. Sunday, September 22 8 a.m.-5 p.m.: At Hinds Plaza, “One World, One Love,” event to help create awareness about climate change. Free yoga every hour on the hour; music by DJ Richle Parella, Nature to Nurture, Arul Karttikeya, Turiya. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Apple Days Harvest Festival at Terhune Orchards, Cold Soil Road. Pony and tractor rides, pedal tractors, wagon rides, corn stalk maze, hay bale maze, adventure barn, lots of food, wine tasting, live music by Stone Hearth. $10 for age 3 and up. terhuneorchards.com. 2:30 p.m.: Faculty recital by The New School for Music Study, at Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street. Music of Mozart. Free. 4 p.m.: Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs at Richardson Auditorium in a concert conducted by Rossen Milanov, featuring pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton. Works by Mozart. princetonsymphony.org. 5:30 and 8 p.m.: The Princeton Singers perform music by Leonin, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Reich, Rachmaninoff, and more, at Princeton University Art Museum. $15. (800) 838-3006. 7 p.m.: At Plainsboro Presbyterian Church, 500 Plainsboro Road. LYRA, an a cappella group from St. Petersburg, sings works by
Russian composers of the 18th-20th centuries. Free will donations of $10-$20 encouraged. (609) 454-3877. Monday, September 23 4:30 p.m.: Scholar and author Robert Alter talks about “The Art of Bible Translation” at 101 McCormick Hall on the Princeton University campus. Free. Wednesday, September 25 1-2:30 p.m.: Robe to Wellness Sewing Circle for breast cancer patients, survivors, friends, family, and volunteers, 429 Walnut Lane. www. robetowellness.com. 8-10:30 p.m.: Princeton
Country Dancers Contra Dance at Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street. princetoncountrydancers.org. Thursday, September 26 11 a.m.: Baseball Legends Storytime at Morven, 45 Stockton Street. The topic is “We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.” Ages 3-6. www.morven.org. 6 p.m.: Twilight Walking Tour explores the architecture, history, and gardens surrounding Morven Museum. Registration is required. www. morven.org. 6:45 p.m.: Mercer’s Best Toastmasters meet at Lawrence Community Center,
295 Eggerts Crossing Road, Lawrenceville. mercersbest. toastmastersclubs.org. 7-8:30 p.m. at Hopewell Train Station: Hiking the Sourlands and Beyond with Priscilla Estes, author of AMC’s Best Day Hikes in New Jersey. Followed by book sale and signing. Register at www.sourland.org. 7:30 p.m.: Fundraiser for The Petey Greene Program, with guest Damien Chazelle. At Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street. The Oscar-winning filmmaker will be interviewed by Roger Durling. Visit peteygreene. org/upcoming-events.
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Borough Park, Hopewell. Live music by Castle Lane. $5 donation suggested to benefit Hopewell Harvest Fair. With food for sale. 7-8:15 p.m.: Co-Dependents Anonymous Step Study Meeting. A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. At the 24 Club at The 1860 House, 2nd floor, 124 Montgomery Road, Skillman, entrance at rear of building.fridayeveningcoda@gmail. com. 8 p.m.: Darren Jessee of Ben Folds Five and Johnny Irion perform at the Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell. Visit http://ow.ly/otUY30p1e7i for tickets. Saturday, September 21 7:30-11:30 a.m.: The Parkinson Alliance presents the 20th Team Parkinson 5K & Fun Run at Carnegie Center. Proceeds support Parkinson’s disease research. www.RunForPD.org. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Farmers Market, Vaughn lot, Princeton Junction train station. Autumn Music Showcase, car seat safety checks, bike and pedestrian safety information, apple pie contest, more. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: S.H.R.E.D.Temberfest, at Franklin Avenue parking lot. Annual shredding and recycling event for Princeton residents. Visit princetonnj.gov for details. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Hopewell Harvest Fair, Hopewell Elementary School, 35 Princeton Avenue, Hopewell. Live music, food, kids’ activities, games, pop-up shops from local businesses. hopewellharvestfair.org. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Apple Days Harvest Festival at Terhune Orchards, Cold Soil Road. Pony and tractor rides, pedal tractors, wagon rides, corn stalk maze, hay bale maze, adventure barn, lots of food, wine tasting, live music by Growing Old Disgracefully. $10 for age 3 and up. terhuneorchards.com. 11 a.m.: Represent New Jersey Chapter meets at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Cherry Hill Road at Route 206. Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker speaks about his bill on Ranked Choice Voting and New Jersey’s Dark Money bill. (609) 688-0336. 3:30 p.m.: Concert by the Generations Baroque Ensemble at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street. morven.org. 4-8 p.m.: The Arts Council of Princeton and Princeton Shopping Center present “An Evening with Bollywood.” At the Princeton Shopping Center.
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Princeton Football Celebrating 150th Anniversary, Facing Hard Act to Follow After Going 10-0 Last Fall
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s the Princeton University football players file into their locker room tucked in the bowels of Princeton Stadium, they pass by a sign that reads “Where Football Began.” With college football celebrating the 150th anniversary of the sport, which started when Princeton played a game at Rutgers on November 6, 1869, the milestone holds special meaning for the Tigers. “Players need to understand how important it is to Princeton as a university; those early years really started what we now have in this game,” said Princeton head coach Bob Surace ’91, a star offensive lineman for the Tigers during his college days. “I tell the guys as you are running out of the tunnel you are representing a lot of things — obviously yourselves and the team and a lot of people in the stands, their memories of playing the game or as students, enjoying such great memories.” Last fall, Princeton produced a batch of great memories, going 10-0, the program’s first perfect season since 1964. But that heritage means little as Princeton kicks off its 150th campaign by hosting Butler University (1-2) on September 21. “You are losing a lot of significant, experienced players,” said Surace, whose 2018 squad was led by such senior standouts as two-time Ivy Offensive Player of the Year John Lovett and two brilliant receivers in Jesper Horsted and Stephen Carlson, all three of whom are with NFL organizations on practice squads or injured reserve. “The thing that I love was the Sunday after the season, once the seniors left the meeting, we were very honest. The next season is going to start 0-0 and will come down to how we work.” Surace likes the work ethic he is seeing from the 2019 group. “Our weight room numbers have been the highest they have ever been,” said Surace, whose team will face Dartmouth at Yankee Stadium on November 9 in a special celebration
of the 150th anniversary. “This is the best the guys have done in coming back in shape. Mentally, we are not making alignment mistakes. We continue to get better.” Unquestionably, there will be growing pains as Princeton works new faces into the mix. “We know we are at the point where they are some inexperienced guys at the receiver spots, the O-line spots and as you go down the depth chart at running back,” said Surace. “They will make some mistakes, we have to get them out of their system now. They are getting better. The mistakes that were made day one, weren’t made day two. The guys have moved on.” With Lovett moving on to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he is on injured reserve, the quarterback situation is up in the air, with Surace declining to reveal his starter. Surace, though, did note that he is happy with the progress he has seen from his four returners — senior Kevin Davidson (33-for-50 passes for 386 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2018), senior Zach Keller (13-for-13 for 117 yards), junior Cole Smith (2-for-4 for 49 yards and 1 touchdown), and highly touted sophomore Brevin White. “Those four guys have really put themselves in a good position,” said Surace. “That is not one position I am losing sleep over with the culture in that room, the work ethic in that room, and the way they practice.” On the other hand, Surace will be losing sleep over the receiving corps with the graduation of all-time great Jesper Horsted, the program’s leader in receptions (196) and touchdown catches (28), along with two-time All-Ivy performer Carlson. The options at that spot include junior Jacob Birmelin (7 catches for 44 yards in 2018), sophomore Dylan Classi (7 catches for 110 yards and one touchdown), and senior Andre Griffin (3 catches for 31 yards). The secret weapon in the passing game could be senior tight end Graham Adomitis, who made 10 catches for 61
yards and one touchdown last fall as he earned firstteam All-Ivy honors. “He is a really good athlete,” said Surace. “The one thing I hope we can take advantage of the match ups and his athleticism a little more with a guy who is 6’ 4, 255 pounds.” Princeton features some good athletes at running back in junior Collin Eaddy (663 yards rushing and 4 touchdowns in 2018), senior Ryan Quigley (330 yards, 4 touchdowns), and sophomore Trey Gray (202 yards rushing). “Collin has been an outstanding player for us, he came in as a freshman and found a role,” said Surace. “Last year, he had a bigger role and when Charlie Volker was out, Collin played some incredible football there. Quigs has been the Swiss Army knife. He catches the ball so well. He is not a guy who has been a 15-20 carry a game guy ever but in his seven to 10 carries, he has been really efficient. We are starting to see Trey Gray emerge; he is one of the better athletes that we have. I am starting to feel better about out depth there.” Along the offensive line, senior center Alex Deters and senior tackle Brent Holder lead a deep group that also includes sophomore Luke Aschenbrand, sophomore Henry Byrd, senior David Garfunkel, junior Riley Held, junior David Hoffman, junior Ryan Huth, junior Nikola Ivanisevic, sophomore Ford Roberts, sophomore Connor Scaglione, and sophomore Zackary Zambrano. “Alex Deters has been steady center for us, last year I thought he played at a really high level,” said Surace. “We have been really solid
at tackle. We haven’t had to help our tackles much since I have been here the last six or seven years. I really feel good about our tackles, Brent Holder was one of the better players in the conference last year. When Reily Radosevich went down with an injury last year, we were able to see Henry Byrd step up in the Penn game. One thing we do is we play a lot of linemen because of the number of plays we run. We are not a just play five guys team. We are typically playing eight or nine guys. You are always going to have some butterflies but it is not going to be the anxiety of your first start.” With a defense featuring such key returning starters as senior lineman Joey DeMarco, senior lineman Jake Strain, junior lineman Sam Wright, junior linebacker Jeremiah Tyler, sophomore defensive back Christian Brown, senior defensive back T.J. Floyd, junior defensive back Trevor Forbes and junior defensive back Delan Stallworth, that unit should not cause anxiety for Surace. “A lot of those guys have played for a couple of years,” said Surace. “They have been awesome in practice with the way they run to the ball. I am watching a guy like Sam Wright, who had a great role last year. He technically struggled at some things, he never used his hands the way he should. He has improved. I am watching practice and he has made this jump that we need. We are watching guys do that, guys like Jeremiah Tyler. I felt like almost every big moment last year that we needed a stop on defense, he took advantage of opportunities and made the stop. We are watching practice and he is doing the same stuff. We are using him in different positions and moving him around. He has really been a top player for us.”
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STARTING POINT: Princeton University football head coach Bob Surace makes a point to reporters at the program’s recently-held media day. Coming off a 10-0 season in 2018, the program’s first perfect campaign since 1964, Surace will be looking for the program to make more history this fall in conjunction with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the sport which started when Princeton played Rutgers in November, 1869. The Tigers kick off their 2019 season by hosting Butler University (1-2) on September 21. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) Producing an encore performance of last year’s perfect campaign isn’t weighing on Surace, as his top priority is getting ready for the next foe. “I always want to win, I don’t think there is any more pressure than there was in 2010,” said Surace. “I will feel the same way each week, focusing on that week and going into that game. That is what our guys have done really well. We have been on the other end of it and when somebody knocks you down, you might have a little more of a chip on your shoulder. At the end of the day when the ball is kicked off, you are running down the field to make a tackle and somebody is trying to crush you. Nobody
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is thinking about last year.” This week, Surace is thinking about Butler (1-2), who the Tigers defeated 50-7 in last year’s season opener. “It was great to go out to Indianapolis and our midwestern alums got to take part in that,” said Surace, who has guided the Tigers to three Ivy crowns in the last six years. “They have been a top three team in their conference for a majority of my time here. They are well coached. We really got off to a great start last year. I remember walking up the tunnel and I said to one of our coaches, if we don’t mess this up, we have a chance to be pretty good.” —Bill Alden
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Assuming Role as Co-Captain for Princeton Football, Tight End Adomitis Primed for Historical Campaign
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Graham Adomitis was a member of the supporting cast last fall as the Princeton University football team rolled to a 10 - 0 record, achieving the program’s first perfect season since 1964. With such heralded stars as quarterback John Lovett along with receivers Jesper Horsted and Stephen Carlson sparking a highpowered offense that set a slew of school and league records, tight end Adomitis quietly went about his business, earning All-Ivy League honors mainly due to his stellar blocking. Looking back to 2018, Adomitis credited the squad’s seniors with setting a winning tone. “It was an extremely special group; we just had so much buy in and a lot of great senior leadership that just trickled town all the way to the freshman class,” said Adomitis. “That is the secret of success to a great team, when you have guys from the top to bottom that love coming to practice and work everyday.” This fall, Adomitis looking to provide that leadership, having been selected as one of the team’s captains along with fellow seniors, linebacker John Orr and defense lineman Jake Strain. “It is definitely an honor being captain here, especially in this 150th season of college football,” said Adomitis, a 6’4, 255-pound native of Pittsburgh, Pa. “I am really just taking the approach, making sure that guys can trust me and set an example with what I do. They can lean on me and know that if they ever need anything on or off the field, they can come to me for advice.” Having followed the example set by Horsted and Carlson, Adomitis acknowledged that there is a void without them on the field. “It was definitely a different feel because they were such a big presence on our practice field and during the games in the Ivy League,” said Adomitis, referring to spring practice. “It is not only their presence on the field but they are two of my best friends. They are known as one of the greatest receiver duos in the league’s history, so it
was different, but it was also exciting. Looking out on the field, I know that Andrew Griffin, Andrei Iosivas, and Dylan Classi and a couple of other guys who have been waiting their turn, working hard and taking the right approach. I am looking forward to seeing what those guys can do.” As a returning All-Ivy performer, Adomitis is looking to do even more for the Tigers this fall. “I have been around for a while and I am comfortable with the role I have had,” said Adomitis, who made 10 catches for 61 yards and a touchdown to go along with his blocking prowess. “I am trying to continue to build the aspects of my game, passing, blocking, running routes, or whatever they need me to do. I just enjoy being with this team; it is a great group of guys.” Staying in Princeton this summer with a bunch of the guys on the team helped Adomitis build confidence. “That is most beneficial for myself and for the guys that are here,” said Adomit is, not ing t hat players worked out every morning from 6 to 8 a.m. “We make huge strides. We feel like it can give us a step up coming into the season, get ting into the best shape possible physically and mentally being in the playbook. We take a lot of time on our own to run routes and run through plays, putting in extra time away from just the workouts. I enjoy being here in the summer as well. It is hard work but I am around 50 of my best friends and getting after it.” With college football celebrating the 150th anniversary of the sport, which s t ar te d wh e n P r i nce ton played a game at Rutgers in November 1869, the Tigers are enjoying being in the limelight but aren’t losing focus on their main goal. “I don’t know if it is is quite sinking in that we are the program that started college football,” said Adomitis. “It is a really special thing to be representing that program in this season. There is a little extra attention and extra talk about it because it is the 150th season and we are Princeton, the team that
started it. We are embracing that but we are still taking a game by game approach. The goal is still the same, w inning t he Iv y L eag ue championship.” Fueled by that goal, the Tigers have enjoyed a productive preseason camp. “We have great energy and it is a fun team to be around,” said Adomitis. “We have a good group of guys that likes coming out and working, even in the dog days of camp. You are on day eight, day nine and it is the same routine over and over. We are trying to take the mentality to embrace that grind everyday. We have taken the right approach so far, seeing guys on both sides of the ball making plays and standing out.” With Princeton kicking off the season on September 21 by hosting Butler (1-2), who it defeated 50-7 in last fall’s season opener, Adomitis and his teammate are chomping at the bit to get things started. “We are excited; this is an interesting time of the year where other teams are stating to play games and we are still in the dog days of camp but that fuels the fire,” said Adomitis “We are that much more excited to get out there and play somebody else come that first week. We will start prepping for Butler in a week or two but right now we are focused on fine-tuning our own skills with our offense, defense, and special teams before we start focusing on somebody else. We think it is going to be another good matchup with them.” While last season’s heroics will be tough to match, Adomitis believes the 2019 group can add to the program’s rich legacy. “I truly believe this team can make another run,” said Adomitis. “I get the sense that it is a tough group of guys and that toughness is a core characteristic of a team that you need. It is a tough team that is hungry. We know what we did last year but this group here wants something for itself as well. We are preaching, let’s get one for us, let’s make this 2019 team something special as well.” —Bill Alden
READY TO BALL: Princeton University football senior tight end Graham Adomitis, center, poses with classmates and fellow team captains, defensive lineman Jake Strain, left, and linebacker John Orr at the program’s recently-held media day. Returning first-team All-Ivy League performer Adomitis will looking to help the Tigers make history this fall as the program celebrates its 150th season. The Tigers kick off their 2019 season by hosting Butler (1-2) on September 21. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
Clara Roth emerged as a force last fall for the Princeton University field hockey team, scoring 13 goals on the way to being named the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year. As junior striker Roth started the 2019 season, she had a quiet first weekend, picking up one assist as Princeton fell 4-3 to North Carolina on September 6 before edging Wake Forest 2-1 in double overtime two days later. With Princeton hosting Albany last Friday and Penn State on Sunday, Roth displayed the form that earned her accolades last year. She had three assists in a 4-3 win over Albany and then scored both goals as Princeton rallied from a 1-0 deficit to edge Penn State 2-1. “I think it was really important for us after last weekend,” said Roth, a native of Schwetzingen, Germany. “It was a tough loss to UNC. Coming back and winning three games straight and winning our first home games is so important for us.”
In reflecting on the comeback against Penn State, Roth said the focus was on finishing opportunities. “It was taking a deep breath, and resetting our brains in the locker room over halftime,” said Roth. “We needed to bring the energy out there and use the chances we had. We did really well outletting so then it was just staying on the ball and showing composure.” Roth displayed composure, breaking the ice for the Tigers with a blast from a tight spot nearly parallel to the goal midway through the third period. “It was a pretty difficult angle on the base line so I thought I would just hit it and see if it goes in,” said Roth, noting that she got a lift from having her parents on hand last weekend as they made the trip from Germany. With 3:23 remaining in reg u lat ion, Rot h s t r uck again, tallying the winning goal on a scramble off a penalty corner. “It was a good hit on goal and then I just got the rebound,” said Roth, who was
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our shooting was not that straight today.” The Tigers showed good awareness in the waning moments of the game as they deftly controlled the ball, preventing the Nittany Lions from making a rally. “If the Carolina game doesn’t happen, I think this last minute looks a lot more hectic,” said Tagliente. “You saw Hannah Davey come out of the middle and Clara come back because they are two of our better ball carriers and be on the ball and close out the last minute. Whereas with UNC, it was I don’t want the ball you take it. The last minute today was very nice. It was big growth from last weekend to this weekend, sometimes you have got to learn hard lessons.” With Princeton hosting No. 21 Rutgers on September 20 and No. 3 UConn on September 22, Tagliente believes her team can build on the hard-earned wins it achieved last weekend. “I didn’t think these two ga m e s wou ld b e e as y,” said Tagliente. “Albany is a tough matchup, they are very physical. Penn State is always a good game; they have a tough schedule and they have one-goal losses to everybody so they are right there. It is a great weekend for us, especially going into next weekend with two more good teams coming in.” Roth, for her part, sees good things ahead for the Tigers. “We will get back to practice this week and go all out,” said Roth. “We have a great team this year with a great incoming freshman class. It is really positive.” —Bill Alden
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STICKING WITH IT: Princeton University field hockey player Clara Roth hits the ball against Penn State last Sunday. Junior star striker Roth scored both goals for fifth-ranked Princeton as it rallied for a 2-1 win over the Nittany Lions. The Tigers, now 3-1, host No. 21 Rutgers on September 20 and No. 3 UConn on September 22. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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PU Sports Roundup PU Women’s Volleyball Goes 2-1 at Maryland Event
Getting into the win column for the first time this fall, the Princeton University women’s volleyball team went 2-1 at the Maryland Tournament last weekend at College Park, Md. The Tigers opened the event by defeating George Mason 3-0 on Friday as sophomore Elena Montgomery led the way with 11 kills. In action on Saturday, Montgomery contributed 13 kills and 15 digs as the Tigers started the day by defeating Arkansas. Princeton ended the weekend by falling 3-2 to host Maryland. The Tigers, who moved to 2-4 with the loss to Maryland, will compete in the Villanova Tournament from September 20-21.
Princeton Men’s Golf 12th at Duke Event
Evan Quinn starred as the Princeton University men’s golf team finished 12th of 13 teams at the Rod Myers Invitational held at Duke University last weekend. Senior Quinn was the top Tiger finisher individually, tying for 44th overall at 10-over
226 for the three-round event after turning in a 1-under 71 in the final round on Sunday. In the team standings, Princeton had a total score of 44-over 908 in the event won by Wake Forest at -22. The Tigers are next in action when they compete in the MacDonald Cup on September 28-29 at Yale.
Tiger Men’s Water Polo Goes 1-3 at Invitational
Hosting its annual invitational last weekend, the 12thranked Princeton University men’s water polo team went 1-3 in the event held at DeNunzio Pool. On Friday, Princeton fell 1110 in overtime to No. 9 UC San Diego. A day later, the Tigers earned a split, defeated Johns Hopkins 16-8 before falling 11-8 to No. 14 Bucknell. Princeton wrapped up the competition by losing 13-12 to No. 15 George Washington on Sunday. The Tigers, now 3-5, host Wagner and Navy on September 21.
GRACEFUL MOVE: Princeton University women’s soccer player Grace Sherman heads the ball in recent action. Last Friday, freshman star Sherman scored two goals in a losing cause as Princeton fell 4-3 in overtime at Georgetown. The Tigers, who lost 3-0 at Maryland last Sunday to move to 2-3-1, host Villanova on September 19 and William & Mary on September 22. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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face an uphill battle over the next few weeks, dealing with a tough schedule and having several players sidelined by injury. “We said to the guys all week, we are not where we want to be soccer wise, we are not where we want to be health wise, and we are not where we want to be fitness wise,” said Barlow, whose team dropped to 1-2 with a 2-0 loss at Loyola last Friday and plays at Monmouth on September 18 and at FDU on September 21 before hosting Drexel on September 24. “We still have to find ways to win games while we are getting there in all three. As we get guys healthy and as we get fit, we can figure out how we are going to be dangerous. We have still got to find ways to win so that was a good step forward.” Gillespie, for his part, believes that Tigers will need to bring the resilience they showed against Rider to pick up wins. “We are going to really have to tough it out and grind like we did tonight,” said Gillespie. “We need to lock in defensively, win headers, win defensive battles, win one-vs-ones, and keep up the press like we did today.” —Bill Alden
In Barlow’s view, Gillespie Walker Gillespie didn’t see himself being an impact player has the ability to be a scoring as he made his home debut for threat for the Tigers. the Princeton University men’s “Walker has some great soccer team last Wednesday starting points in that he is evening when it hosted Rider. big, strong, fast and he looks “I really wasn’t thinking I to go to goal,” added Barlow. was going to play that much “He still has to polish things today,” said freshman forward up a little bit from that standGillespie, a 6’3, 185-pound point. There is a lot to build native of Charlotte, N.C. on and hopefully this will help “Once I got in there I just his confidence.” wanted to give 100 percent.” In assessing his team’s Gillespie got on the pitch performance against Rider, at Roberts Stadium in the Barlow noted that the Tigers first half but didn’t get to play need to polish things up colmany balls as the Tigers were lectively. stymied by the Broncs for “I thought in the first 15 much of the first half as the minutes of the second half, local rivals played to a score- we were really, really good,” less draw heading into inter- said Barlow. mission. “After we got up 2-0, we “We weren’t really getting struggled. We could tell that behind well in the first half we haven’t figured out all of so at halftime we decided to our responsibilities yet. We make more runs in behind,” have got a lot of maturing to said Gillespie. “Once we start- do.” ed to make runs behind, the Barlow credited senior game really opened up for us.” midfielders Ben Martin and Early in the second half, Danny Hampton with providGillespie opened the scoring ing some mature play. by making a sprint into the “I thought Ben and Danny box, taking a pass from Cole Morokhovich and pushing really kept it together,” said the ball into the back of the Barlow.“They put out fires net with 40:59 remaining in everywhere and everyone battled hard.” regulation. Going forward, the Tigers “I saw the ball come in low and hard and I knew the keeper was going to have a tough time dealing with it,” recalled Gillespie. “I just got in the right spot to take a touch and just poke it in. We kept getting opportunities after that one.” Less than two minutes later, Gillespie generated another scoring opportunity, taking the ball into the box on a 2-on-1 and then sliding a slick pass to Kevin O’Toole, who knocked it home to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. “I saw Kevin out of the corner of my eye, I couldn’t tell if he was on or off,” said Gillespie, who was later named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for his performance. “I looked over and made sure he was on and when the keeper decided to come out To: ___________________________ early, I just slotted it to him.” From: _________________________ Date & Time: __________________ From there, Princeton had is fort a proof of scored your ad, scheduled to run ___________________. toHere hold the as Rider a Please goal withcheck 30:07itleft in the thoroughly and pay special attention to the following: half and put the pressure on (Your check mark will tell us it’s okay) for the rest of the contest. “It definitely got tough after � Phone number � Address � Expiration Date that second goal but we held� Fax number out,” said Gillespie. In reflecting on his transition to college soccer, Gillespie acknowledged that there have been some tough FEELING AT HOME: Princeton University men’s soccer player moments. Walker Gillespie heads the ball last Wednesday evening “The biggest challenge is against Rider University. Freshman forward Gillespie enjoyed technical ability and how fast a memorable home debut, tallying a goal and an assist to practice is compared to what help Princeton edge Rider 2-1. Princeton, which dropped to I was used to in high school 1-2 with a 2-0 loss at Loyola last Friday, plays at Monmouth and development academy,” on September 18 and at FDU on September 21 before hosting said Gillespie. Drexel on September 24. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) “I think it is definitely deserving so far that I am coming off the bench, I haven’t Fast Food • Take-Out • Dine-In proved myself yet. I am workHunan ~ Szechuan ing on it.” Malaysian ~ Vietnamese With the Tigers needing a Daily Specials • Catering Available spark heading into the second half, Princeton head 157 Witherspoon St. • Princeton • Parking in Rear • 609-921-6950 coach Jim Barlow turned to Gillespie. “The idea at halftime was to put some pace up front and Walker is probably one of our fastest guys,” said Barlow. “He played wide in the first half and we told him to go along along the back line in the second half; we wanted the option to play behind, just to stretch them out a little bit Ice Cream On Palmer Square • 9 Hulfish St. • To 11pm to help our ability to pass in front of them.”
Mat t Perello displayed f lashes of br illiance for the Princeton High football team as a freshman in 2016, going long for a 40yard touchdown reception against Pemberton in the season opener. But sustaining a concussion that fall in a JV game, Perello opted not to play fo otb a l l a f te r t h at a n d turned his attention to track, developing into a brilliant sprinter. In the spring of 2018, Perello starred as the PHS boys’ track team placed first in the Mercer County championship meet, the Central Jersey Group 4 sectional, and the state Group 4 meet. He placed first in the 100 (11.07) and fourth in the 200 (22.60) at the county meet and took third in the 200 in the sectional meet and helped the 4x100 relay to victory, and then ended up third in the 200 at the group meet. Despite his success in track, though, senior Perello decided that he wanted to give football one last shot. “I love this sport and I wanted to come back and my parents are like why not; they didn’t want me to have any regrets left in high school,” said Perello. “My track coach [Ben Samara] was a little hesitant
but he said the same thing, he didn’t want to me regret not playing.” As PHS opened its 2019 season at Hightstown last Friday night, Perello utilized his blazing speed to provide a highlight in a 49-8 loss for the Tigers. Late in the first quarter, Perello took a Hightstown kickoff and broke loose down the sideline, sprinting 70 yards for a touchdown. “A lane just opened up, I took it,” recalled Perello. “Some of the Hightstown guys were being cocky, one of the guys said hello and I juked him out and took it to the house. It feels great, the rush of getting by everybody and just having a clear field to cover.” In reflecting on his return to football, Perello credited his track experience with preparing him well for this fall. “We lift a lot during track so I have definitely been b u i l d i n g u p m y m u s cl e strength,” said Perello, a w i d e r e c e ive r /d efe n s i ve back. “My speed has 100 p e r c e n t c o n t r i b u te d to football. My agility has increased, my mobility has increased. I am able to take hits now.” Perello has focused on sharpening his defensive tech n ique. “My for m in
FULL SPEED AHEAD: Princeton High football player Matt Perello, center, races up the field last Friday night at Hightstown in the season opener. Senior receiver/defensive back Perello, who is also a star sprinter for the PHS track team, used his speed to provide a highlight for the Tigers, returning a kickoff for a touchdown in the first quarter during a 49-8 loss to the Rams. PHS hosts Pemberton on September 21. (Photo by Joseph Perello)
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tackling is a challenge, everybody suffers in that too,” said Perello. “This is my third season playing tackle football overall and I am not a great tackler but I am definitely improving.” In any event, Perello is relishing his final season of football. “It is probably the best choice I have made,” said Perello. “It is one of my favorite sports, I watch it all the time. I love the guys, it is a great community.” While PHS head coach Charlie Gallagher was happy to see Perello break free for his scoring jaunt, he acknowledged disappointment that the PHS offense did not break through as well. “Matt is exciting, I wished we could have scored some more points,” said Gallagher. “You don’t want to score just off a kickoff. You want some offensive production, we just didn’t have any. We haven’t gotten in synch yet, that is a struggle right now. I think the interior line did do a good job.” Despite the lopsided defeat, the Tiger players didn’t hang their heads. “I was just telling them the spirit is alive and well with PHS football,” said Gallagher. “At halftime, there was a lot of conversation taking place about how do we get back into the football game. There was no one dejected, there was no one down. We were excited when we came out for the second half. That is important.” Gallagher cited the leadership of his three senior captains, lineman Fred Otte, running back/defensive end Stephen Avis, and quarterback/defensive back Judd Petrone, with holding things together. “Fred is a super committed player,” added Gallagher. “Avis is a baller, he leads by his play. Judd hangs in there, he is super unselfish. He is the kind of guy who says wherever you need to put me, I will go there. He wants to catch some footballs but if you need me to throw them, I will throw them too. He also wants to run.” As PHS hosts Pemberton on September 21, Gallagher wants to see a continued commitment from his squad. “I would like to think that we have the ballplayers to mix it up,” said Gallagher. “We just want to keep the games competitive. There are a couple of wins out there somewhere along the line.” In Perello’s view, the Tigers have been getting more and more competitive week by week. “I know we are a very novice team but you can easily see the growth from July to now,” said Perello. “We are definitely improving.” —Bill Alden
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Featuring a Mix of Seniors and Sophomores, PHS Girls’ Tennis Gets Off to Strong 4-0 Start Featuring a blend of battle-tested seniors and promising sophomores, the Princeton High girls’ tennis team has the formula for another winning campaign In the first week of the 2019 season, PHS defeated Lawrence High 4-1 and then edged WW/P-North 3-2. “ We were def i n itely pleased with the opening t wo matches,” said PHS head coach Sarah Hibbert, whose team improved to 4-0 with a 5-0 win over Hopewell Valley last Monday. “Lawrence and North are t wo strong competitors. North was missing their first singles that day due to an injury but they are still a very formidable team. We still had to work hard to win.” The return of senior Spencer Watts, who took a hiatus from the team last fall due to other commitments, has made PHS stronger. “Spencer brings more experience to the table as a senior,” said Hibbert. “She is excited to be back with the team. It is nice to have her energy and personality back out with us. She is one of the players who is willing to serve and volley and attack the net. A lot of players are perfectly content to stay on the baseline and slug it out but she is willing to come up and take control of the point.” Moving up from playing first doubles in her debut season last year, sophomore Bella Lependorf has taken over the second singles spot. “Bella does a lot of tournaments and hopefully after she plays a couple of more matches, she will really start feeling settled and comfortable in her spot,” said Hibbert. “She has got nice ground strokes as well. She is willing to come and play some points up at net.” Senior Nicole Samios will be playing at third singles for the second straight season. “Nicole was a steady player in that position last year and we are certainly excited to have her back,” said Hibbett. “She brings a wealth of
knowledge. She is a good all around player, She is steady, she can move the ball around well but she can also attack and pick her opportunity well.” A pair of sophomores, Lucia Marckioni and Sophia Kim, have seized opportunity at first doubles “They played together last year on JV; I had initially looked to split them and put them with players with more experience,” said Hibbert. “But after after watching them in challenge matches, I thought we would give them a shot to get that experience together, realizing that there may be some challenges. They are friends as well and there is the possibility of developing for the future.” Hibbert has been rotating senior Sora Sato with senior Ilana Scheer and sophomore Isha Sahota at second doubles. “All of three of them will see time this season, whether at doubles or filling in as one of the singles players,” said Hibbert, noting that Sahota played third singles in
a 5-0 win over Steinert last Friday. “It is trying to see where the chemistry is going and which player is feeling good. With Ilana being a senior, it gives her a chance to get matches in and with Isha being a sophomore, it gives her a chance to develop for the future. They have seen time so far and they will continue to see time.” With the Mercer County Tournament starting on September 23 at Mercer County Park, Hibbert is looking for her squad to come up with another good performance at the competition. “We definitely have some strong players this year; a lot will depend on how the singles draws shake out and how the doubles players come together,” said Hibbert. “It will be interesting to see. Last year Hightstown took it and we came in second by only half a point over the third place team. I think there were four to five teams within two points. It was really close last year and I have the feeling that it is going to be as close, if not closer, this year.” —Bill Alden
STRONG RETURN: Princeton High girls’ tennis player Spencer Watts displays a strong forehand earlier in her career. After taking a hiatus from the team last fall, senior Watts has returned to the squad and is playing at first singles. PHS, who improved to 4-0 with a 5-0 win over Hopewell Valley last Monday, hosts Ewing on September 19 before competing in the Mercer County Tournament which starts on September 23 at Mercer County Park. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) The Program in Creative Writing presents
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Boasting Young Talent at Top of Lineup, With Amer Providing Scoring Punch in Midfield, PDS Girls’ Tennis Looking Formidable PDS Boys’ Soccer Cruises to Win Over George Youth is being served this fall for the Princeton Day School girls’ tennis team. With sophomore Robyn Karchere-Sun playing at first singles and a pair of freshmen, Amy Zhou and Neha Khandkar, competing at second and third singles, respectively, PDS boasts some young talent in key spots. With PDS head coach Will Asch returning from a sabbatical last spring, he is stepping into a good situation. “It is nice to be back and coaching the girls,” said Asch, whose team topped Stuart Country Day 5-0 last Monday to improve to 4-1. “It is nice weather, a nice season, and nice girls.” Karchere-Sun gives the Panthers a nice presence at the top of the lineup. “She is a very good player, she will play in college if she wants,” said Asch. “She is not a big person but she is very strong. She is a good athlete and has got a big forehand. She has some experience, she plays tournaments in the USTA.” Having Zhou and Khandkar at second and third singles will give them some valuable experience as they adjust to high school tennis. “Amy is a pretty big hitter, she has got some heavy groundstrokes,” said Asch. “Neha is little more polished but not as big a hitter. She has played more tournaments, she has a more well-rounded game. She can come to the net. They are very close.” A pair of juniors, Hayden Masia and Hannah Van Dusen, bring cohesiveness to first doubles. “Hayden played last year with Giulia Gerschel at first doubles,” noted Asch. “In most years, Hannah would be playing singles. She is a very good doubles player too. They have good chemistry. They are good friends and they really like to play as a team. They are going to be good.” Senior Zaiya Gandhi and sophomore Eshaa Doshi are
working on developing their chemistry at second doubles. “They just won the challenges so they have only played two matches,” said Asch. “They are just really starting to figure out how to play together. They are very different kind of players. Zaiya is a big, tall girl and is very intimidating at the net. Eshaa is sort of a retriever so we are trying to figure it out.” Looking ahead to the Mercer County Tournament, which starts on September 23 at the Mercer County Park tennis complex, Asch is confident that his players will figure things out and make a good run. “We could be very good, it is hard to really say,” said Asch, whose team hosts Lawrence High on September 20 and plays at the Blair Academy on September 21 as it tunes up for the county competition. “We don’t have that sure win any place. In the county tournament, you have to be a good team and you need to have a little luck. We have had some incredible teams and came in second. We won it one year and it was one of those years where nobody really had a dominant team and we kind of eked it out.” —Bill Alden
With prolific scorer Wesley Leggett having graduated and now playing at the University of Connecticut, the Princeton Day School boys’ soccer team will have to spread the wealth offensively this fall. “We lost a big player in our striker Wesley so we have to make up for it somewhere, said PDS senior midfielder Nas Amer. “I think this year we are more rounded as a team, more balanced.” Last week as PDS hosted the George School (Pa.), Amer helped make up for the loss of Leggett, scoring two first half goals to help the Panthers jump out to a 3-0 halftime. “Our intensity from the start really put them under,” said Amer. “The first couple of goals set the tone for the game.”
Amer displayed his intensity and finishing touch with his goals in the September 10 contest. “It was take a touch, I saw there was space and just hit it,” said Amer, reflecting on his first tally which gave PDS a 2-0 lead. “On the other one, I trusted that the ball would be put in; I just made the run and it worked out.” While PDS ended up winning 4-0, Amer acknowledged that there was a lack of intensity in the second half. “That shows a bit of complacency I think,” said Amer. “We played a great first half. We need to keep that up because against a tougher opponent; say we play Pennington, that is two or three goals we are conceding, playing like that.”
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BALL CONTROL: Princeton Day School boys’ soccer player Nas Amer controls the ball in recent action. Last week, senior midfielder Amer scored two goals to help PDS defeat the George School (Pa.) 4-0. The Panthers, who moved to 2-2 with a 3-0 loss to Hillsborough last Thursday, host Germantown Academy (Pa.) on September 19 before playing at the Blair Academy ion September 21 and at Peddie on September 24. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
After being plagued by leg injuries last fall, Amer is excited to be getting extensive playing time in his final campaign. “I was out for the majority of last year, it was my quad and groin,” said Amer. “I feel 100 percent now.” Returning to full speed, Amer has been able to sharpen his skills by competing in club ball. “I play for a club team that is pretty high ranked like top 10 in the country, PSA (Princeton Soccer Association), I contribute a lot to that,” said Amer. “We are playing tough opponents, the best in the country week in, week out and that helps a lot. I bring that here and I try to help my teammates.” PDS head coach Ollie Hilliker likes what Amer is bringing to the table this fall. “Nas has been great; he is looking sharp,” said Hilliker. “He is a senior captain this year. I think that is something he is proud of. He is working really hard everyday. I am pleased with how he is doing. He is definitely a good influence on the team right now.” Hilliker was pleased with how the Panthers set the tone against George.“We started great, it is the first home game both preseason scrimmages and the first two games were all away,” said Hilliker. “We are a team that can play, we can move the ball. I was looking forward to playing here today. We started very well, we had good intensity and took the game by the scruff of the neck. We got at them and it showed, we did very well to come in up 3-0 at half time.” Things didn’t go as well in the second half as the Panthers took their foot off the gas. “We changed formation because we wanted to experiment today, look at some different ideas and try that out a little bit,” said Hilliker. “That was no reasonable excuse for how we played, we definitely weren’t nearly as good. The players lost a little
bit of focus and lost a little bit of the mindset we have been talking about. It is super early in the season. I am OK with that right now as long as they understand that and we change going forward.” In the wake of Leggett’s exit, PDS is focused on developing a balanced attack. “We have been talking about how we need to get goals from all over the field,” said Hilliker. “We have good players all around and they all need to contribute to the team’s success, whether it is playing the ball wide, whether it is getting a cross in, whether it is getting an assist, or whether it is getting a goal.” With PDS facing some very good teams in the next few weeks, the squad will need contributions all over the field to hold its own. “We have got a barrage of real big teams coming up but you have to play the best to compete at that level,” said Hilliker, whose team moved to 2-2 with a 3-0 loss to Hillsborough last Thursday and hosts Germantown Academy (Pa.) on September 19 before playing at the Blair Academy on September 21 and at Peddie on September 24. “The focus for me is continuing to develop the way we play, move the ball, and create chances on goal. If we can convert more than we are doing then we will do well. We move the ball nicely but we have to convert in the final third.” In Amer’s view, the Panthers can do very well if they can produce the level of soccer they displayed in the early stages of the George game. “This is a good start, we need to build off of this,” said Amer. “We need to just keep playing the same way we played in the first half today every single game.” —Bill Alden
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and 85 yards in the second quarter as Hun built a 42-0 lead by halftime. “Our line did a great job, coach [Todd] Smith puts us in a great position,” said Franzoni. “We just had to come out and execute. I know what my job is and I just try to come out and execute whenever I can.” With several Hun players working out together over the summer, the team came into the season with an edge. “We had a good core of guys who came in and worked hard in the weight room in the summer,” said Franzoni. “I think it is making all the difference for us right now and for myself personally.” Franzoni, for his par t, supplemented that training by connecting with former Hun star and NFL veteran Nick Williams. “I trained with Nick Williams, who was with the Falcons for a couple of years,” said Franzoni. “I give him a lot of credit for the success I am having. He is a great guy, he helped me a lot. That was definitely helpful for my confidence and everything.” Hun head coach Todd Smith was confident that Franzoni could emerge as a star this fall for the Raiders. “We are fortunate to have had some really good players here at Hun,” said Smith. “Ian just got stuck behind Josh. It wasn’t that we didn’t know how good he is, we knew how good he is. Now he is getting a chance to shine out here and it has
been a great first two weeks for him. We are real proud of him because there are probably not too many guys in the country who have put in the time and effort he has.” While Smith was happy to see his team roll to the win over Canada Prep, he was hoping for a more competitive contest. “I wanted a little more; we came out healthy and we did some good things,” said Smith. “We found some things we need to work on.” Senior quarterback Logan Clouse did some very good things in the win, connecting on 11-of-16 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns. “Logan is definitely sharper,” added Smith. “He is so much further ahead of where he was last year. We want to make him keep getting better and better every week. All in all, it is really good stuff.” Hun’s mammoth offensive line laid the foundation for the victory, dominating in the trenches. “The biggest thing is we just want to make sure that
they play physical,” said Smith. “I thought they did a good job of that today.” On the other side of the ball, the Hun defense totally stifled Canada Prep. “We are humming on all cylinders at all levels of the game,” said Smith. The Raiders will need to raise the level of their game as they hit the road to play a formidable foe. “Next week is a whole different challenge, we are down in Richmond, Virginia playing Life Christian Academy,” said Smith. “They are very good. They play a national schedule so we are going to go down there and give it our best shot. It is just keep shoring up things and don’t make any mistakes on our end. We just need to keep moving forward and make sure that it is next play, great play.” Franzoni, for his part, believes Hun can keep moving in the right direction. “We just need to keep working hard,” said Franzoni. “We have a tough schedule going forward so it is coming into practice and just punching the clock every day. If we don’t let up, I think we will be fine.” —Bill Alden
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Hun Field Hockey : Allison Rho scored the lone goal for Hun as it fell 3-1 to Pennington last Thursday. The Raiders, who moved to 0-2 with the defeat, host Montgomery High on September 21 and Stuart Country Day on September 24. Boys’ Soccer: Unable to get its offense going, Hun fell 4-0 to Putnam Science Academy last Sunday at the Main Line High School Soccer Jamboree. The Raiders, now 0-3, host the Scotland Performance Institute on September 21 and the Pingry School on September 23. Girls’ Soccer: After winning two of its first three games, Hun fell 7-1 to the Pingry School last Monday. The Raiders, now 2-2, host the Noor-ul-Iman School on September 19, Monroe High on September 21, and the Pennington School on September 24.
Lawrenceville Football : Running into a buzz-saw, Lawrenceville fell 50-0 to Deerfield Academy (Mass.) last Saturday. The Big Red, now 1-1, play at Choate Rosemary Hall (Conn.) on September 21.
Pennington Football: Former Princeton High standout Jay Jackson came up big to help Pennington defeat Pingry 27-21 last Saturday. Jackson connected on 4-of-9 passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns as the Red Raiders improved to 2-0. Pennington hosts Hew HopeSolebury School (Pa.) on September 20. Boys’ Soccer: Sparked by Giusmane Gueye and Babacar Niang, Pennington defeated Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) 6-2 last Sunday. Gueye and Niang each tallied two goals for the Red
Raiders, who improved to 2-1. Pennington hosts the Haverford School (Pa.) on September 19 and Seton Hall Prep on September 21.
PHS Field Hockey: Ria Sharma and Morgan Swanke scored goals in in a losing cause as PHS fell 4-2 at Lawrenceville last Saturday. The Tigers, who moved to 4-1 with the defeat, host WW/P-South on September 19 and play at Allentown on September 23. Boys’ Soccer: Nico Carusone and Nick Petruso tallied goals to help PHS defeat Steinert 2-0 last Monday. Goalie Jared Bell made 10 saves in earning the shut out for the Tigers, who improved to 4-1. PHS plays at Trenton High on September 18, hosts WW/P-North on September 20 and plays at Allentown on September 24 Girls’ Volleyball : Led by Gillian Hauschild, PHS defeated WW/P-North 2-0 (25-19, 25-20) last Monday. Hauschild contributed 10 kills and three digs as the Tigers moved to 5-0. PHS hosts Notre Dame on September 18, plays at the Cherokee tournament on September 21, and plays at Montgomery on September 24.
PDS Field Hockey: Prevailing in a defensive battle, PDS edged Robbinsville 1-0 last Monday. The Panthers, now 2-1-2, play at the Blair Academy on September 18, hosts the Pingry School on September 21, and play at Peddie on September 24. G irls’ Soccer : Ariana Jones led the way as PDS defeated Steinert 3-0 last Saturday. Senior star Jones scored two goals for the Panthers, who improved to 5-0. PDS hosts Pennington on September 19, plays at the Blair Academy in September 21, and hosts Peddie on September 24.
Stuart Field Hockey : Kaitlyn Magnani scored a goal to help Stuart tie Princeton Day School 1-1 last Thursday. Goalie Audrey Blandford made three saves for the Tartans, who moved to 1-11. Stuart hosts Steinert on September 19, Hamilton on September 20, and the Hun School on September 24.
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T h e B a i l e y B a s ke t b a l l Academy (BBA) is currently holding registration for its fall programs. The fall sessions, run by Kamau Bailey, the New Jersey Director/International Deputy Director for the Philadelphia 76ers Basketball Team Clinics and former Princeton Day School girls’ basketball head coach, include travel teams for 2nd-8th grade boys to compete in the Central Jersey Basketball League at the Monroe Sports Center. Teams will practice two times per week ( Tuesday and Thursday at John Witherspoon) with the 2nd-5th grade teams practicing from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. and the 6th-8th grade teams practicing from 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. The team will play eight to 10 games in September through November. There will also be skills/ player development sessions offered on Saturdays open to elementary school boys and girls of all ages from 10 a.m -11:30 a.m. and middle schoolers from 11:30 a.m. -1 p.m. at PDS. In addition, the BBA will be holding a “First Hoops” coed program for K-2nd grade players, providing an introduction to basketball and development of fundamentals and skills, from 5:50 p.m. -
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Jermain Johnson Anderson Jermain Johnson Anderson, 95, passed peacefully on September 11, 2019 in her home at Princeton Windrows with her beloved husband Ellis at her side. She was born Jermain Duncan Johnson in Boston on February 16, 1924 to Madeline (Snelling) and George Frederick Betts Johnson and raised by her father George and stepmother Isabelle (Kahle) of Lewiston, New York. She attended Ro s e m a r y H a l l S c h o ol, Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated from BouvéBoston School of Physical Education in 1945 with a degree in physical therapy. She returned to Buffalo and worked at Buffalo Children’s Hospital where she met John F. Mueller. They were married in 1946 and had two children, Jermain Johnson (Jamie) and John Fr e e m a n , J r ( J o h n n i e ) . While in Buffalo, Jermain served on boards of hospital organizations, was a member of Junior League and was involved with Planned Parenthood. The family moved to the Philadelphia area and lived there for six years, relocating to Princeton in 1957. Divorced in 1966, Jermain married Jack F. Andrews on April 22, 1967 and gained three adult daughters. She taught third grade at Miss Mason’s School in Princeton from 1963 to 1982. Her teaching career continued at Princeton Day School until 1986, followed by tutoring at the school and in the volunteer program at a Trenton inner city school.
Funeral arrangements are Schaefer; and two grandchilbeing made by The Mather- dren, Han and Rei Schaefer. Hodge Funeral Home. A Memorial Mass will be held at the Princeton University Chapel, 2 p.m., Friday, September 20, followed by a reception, 3:30-6 p.m., at Prospect House (University Faculty Club). Her ashes will be interred at 11 a.m., Saturday, September 21, in the St. Anthony Mausoleum of the Holy Cross Burial Park, Jamesburg, NJ. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Nancy Carole Schaefer fund of the Arts Council of Princeton, http://artscounNancy Carole cilofprinceton.org/donate/ Schaefer support-acp/special-fundsmemorial-gifts/. Nancy Carole Schaefer, 74, passed away at her home in Princeton on September 1, 2019, after a period of illness, in the company of her loving family. Nancy was born in Newark, NJ, on February 1, 1945, the only daughter of James and Margaret Schaefer. She grew up in Plainfield, NJ, attended the Hartridge High School, and graduated from Marymount University in Tarrytown, NY, with a BA in Joyce Beldon Turner English in 1967. 1949–2019 She then at tended the USC Film School to train Joyce Turner, age 70, longas a sound recordist. She time resident of Princeton, pursued a career in the film NJ, passed away at the Jefindustry for several years, ferson University Hospital in working on commercials, Philadelphia, PA, due to comdocumentaries (including plications following a surgery one in Nigeria and another she had undergone two days in Zimbabwe), a feature film previously. by an African A merican Joyce is survived by Ed production company, and Turner, her husband of over on Frank Zappa’s film 200 48 years, whom she met in Motels. 1969; by their sons Alex She moved to Princeton Turner and Danny Turner as in 1976 to be married, and well as the latter’s wife Jesfollowed her media interests sica Turner, whom she loved with work in publishing be- like a daughter; her 2-year-old fore becoming a mother in grandson Dylan Turner, who 1983. Around 1990 she was the unrivaled joy of her began teaching art to incar- life in her final years; her siscerated teens, first in pro- ter Debby Herritt; her brother grams funded by NJ State Rob Beldon (Lori); and her grants, and later as a full- brother-in-law Scott Turner time teacher at the NJ Train- (Erica). Throughout her childing School near Jamesburg. hood and adult years she was Her last, ongoing, project is exceptionally close to her una documentary on Princeton cle and aunt, Ed and Laney Elsculptor Bob Jenkins. lis. She was preceded in death Nancy was a devout and by both of her parents, Mickey lifelong Catholic, and for and Sidney Beldon of Newton, several decades attended MA, as well as by both of her services at the Aquinas In- parents-in-law, George and stitute as well as St. Paul’s Gladys Turner of Knoxville, TN. Joyce was quite familyChurch in Princeton. Nancy is survived by Kirk centered and was a devoted McDonald, her husband of and beloved wife, mother, 43 years; her two children, mother-in-law, grandmother Alex McDonald and Owen (or “Mimi” as Dylan called
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her), daughter, daughter-inlaw, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, and niece. Joyce was born and raised in the Boston, MA, area and spent significant periods of her life residing in Pasadena, CA, and in South Brunswick, NJ. She moved to Princeton first in 1975 and then returned permanently in 1987 after a decade-long absence. Her early schooling was in Newton, MA, and after graduating from Newton South High School in 1967, she attended Lesley College in Cambridge, MA, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1971. From shortly after her college graduation until the time of her death, she worked as an educator in many capacities, from school board member to teacher to volunteer aide in various school settings, and at every level from pre-school to high school, mostly in public schools but also for a few years at private schools in California. For the past 19 years, she worked as a special education teacher at Princeton High School, having been certified in that specialty in 2001 based on graduate studies at Rider College. Her engagement with students routinely extended far beyond the classroom, and she was a passionate advocate for all students and their wellbeing in every possible way she could. Many consider her to have had a deep and crucial positive influence on their lives. In addition to her work as an educator, Joyce was an active, enthusiastic, and influential member of numerous civic groups and other local organizations wherever she lived. In Princeton these included the Minority Education Committee; Not In Our Town; the Princeton Community Housing Board; Springboard, Inc. (which she directed for several years) at the Princeton Library; the Co-op Nursery School Board; and the P’nai Or congregation; among others. In the 1980s she was twice elected to the South Brunswick Board of Education on which she served for five years. Beyond her ef-
forts through such organized groups, Joyce frequently took a strong personal interest and role in the lives of both students and other young people with whom she came into contact, either professionally or socially. She was even given the affectionate nickname “Mama Turner” by a group of young Japanese astronomers who spent time in Princeton in the 1990s. Outside of her work and family, Joyce was an avid traveler, visiting 46 U.S. states and five continents plus many island nations. The Boston Red Sox, casino gambling, mahjong, crocheting, and reading were among her numerous interests. She was exceptionally passionate politically with views solidly situated on the left wing of the Democratic Party for her whole adult life. Irrepressible laughter, a quick smile, enthusiasm, quiet determination to fight for social justice, unshakable conviction that she knew its nature, deep concern for the problems of others, and a sunny disposition were among her defining qualities as a person. Through ten major surgeries in less than three years, she struggled fiercely against a persistent infection in her right hip that ultimately took her life. Her courage, determination, and positive attitude during her illness inspired all those around her. Her passing has left the Universe a far less bright, happy, kind, and loving place. A public memorial service to celebrate Joyce’s life and accomplishments will be held on October 19, 2019 from 2-6 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton worship center (50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, NJ 08540). Donations to a memorial fund being established in her honor and to support at-risk and special needs students in the Princeton Public Schools are requested in lieu of flowers or other material expressions of sympathy. Please make checks payable to “Memorial of Joyce Turner” and mail them to Alex Turner, PO Box 22302, Oakland, CA 94623.
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After Jack passed away in 1991, Jermain continued living in the Princeton area. She was a longtime, active member of Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, and while serving on the Session of the church, she met Ellis B. Anderson, another Session member. They were married in 1993 and Jermain gained two more adult daughters. Jermain had an active life of sports, church, and community service. In Princeton, Jermain served on the boards of The American Boy Choir School and the Princeton Present Day Club and was a volunteer at Princeton Hospital. She enjoyed sailing, fishing, skiing, tennis, and golf. Jermain and Ellis loved to travel the world, a highlight being their journey along the Old Silk Road from China. During retirement at Princeton Windrows, she enjoyed bridge, gardening, reading, and the cultural events available in the Princeton area. Piecing together jigsaw puzzles was a favorite pastime. Jermain is survived by her husband of 26 years, Ellis B. Anderson; sister Georgia Pooley of Buffalo, New York; daughter and son-inlaw, Jamie and Eric Steiner of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and son and daughter-in-law, John and Sally Mueller of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is also survived by stepdaughters Rebecca Smith and Katherine Nestor (Tom), Gwen Nacos (Tom), Gail Walraven, and Valerie Williams. Her beloved grandchildren include Hillary Aldassy, Emily Morey, Annabel Rangel, Taze Mueller, and step grandchildren Ben Smith, Allison Fontan, Tyler Fontan, and Harrison Fontan. She is also survived by three great-grandchildren, four step great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. The loss the family feels is eased by the special joy of knowing her love for others, which was returned by so many friends and family who will cherish lovely memories of Jermain. In lieu of f lowers, the family requests that gifts be made to the charity of your choice in honor of Jermain. A memorial service will be held at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey, on Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 11 a.m.
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Local psychotherapist has space to share in Princeton. Plenty of parking. Close to public transportation & town. Reasonable rate. Weekends & evenings available. Call (609) 240-6696. 09-11-2t FOR RENT: 253 NASSAU Downtown Princeton Luxury Apartments 2 Bedrooms/2 Bathrooms Priced from $2,900 253Nassau.com Weinberg Management Text (609) 731-1630 WMC@collegetown.com tf HANDYMAN: General duties at your service! High skill levels in indoor/outdoor painting, sheet rock, deck work, power washing & general on the spot fix up. Carpentry, tile installation, moulding, etc. EPA certified. T/A “Elegant Remodeling”, www.elegantdesignhandyman.com Text or call Roeland (609) 933-9240 or roelandvan@gmail.com tf EVONKA’S CLEANING SERVICE: Polish way of cleaning. Experienced, excellent references. Perfect English. Local personal service. Houses, Offices Stores, etc. Free Estimates. (609) 947-7694; (267) 884-9146. 09-18 PRINCETON-Seeking tenant who will be in residence only part-time for studio apartment on Princeton estate. Big windows with views over magnificent gardens, built-in bookcases & cabinetry, full bath with tub & shower. Separate entrance, parking. Possible use as an office or art studio. (609) 924-5245. tf CARPENTRY/ HOME IMPROVEMENT in the Princeton area since 1972. No job too small. Call Julius Sesztak, (609) 466-0732 tf HOME HEALTH AIDE: 25 years of experience. Available mornings to take care of your loved one, transport to appointments, run errands. I am well known in Princeton. Top care, excellent references. The best, cell (609) 356-2951; or (609) 751-1396. tf PROFESSIONAL BABYSITTER Available for after school babysitting in Pennington, Lawrenceville, and Princeton areas. Please text or call (609) 216-5000 tf PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS: by lecturer of Piano Performance at Penn State. Over 29 years of experience. Private studio in Princeton. All levels taught. Contact Susan (609) 924-5313. 09-11-3t HOUSE FOR RENT: 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, $1,500/mo. plus utilities. 7 minute walk to Nassau Street. Contact: jacqui@princeton.edu, (609) 924-2541. 09-18-2t
ESTATE LIQUIDATION SERVICE: I will clean out attics, basements, garages & houses. Single items to entire estates. No job too big or small. In business over 35 years, serving all of Mercer County. Call (609) 306-0613. 01-09-20
HOUSE CLEANING: By an experienced Polish lady. Call Barbara (609) 273-4226. Weekly or biweekly. Honest & reliable. References available. 09-11-3t
AWARD WINNING HOME FURNISHINGS Custom made pillows, cushions. Window treatments, table linens and bedding. Fabrics and hardware. Fran Fox (609) 577-6654 windhamstitches.com 05-01-20
WE CLEAN HOUSES & APARTMENTS: The quality of our service & the satisfaction of our customers is very important to us. Call Maggie for free quote: (609) 540-7479 or email: mms. cleanup@gmail.com We will do the cleaning for you! 09-11-3t HOUSECLEANER/ORGANIZER available Monday-Friday, 9-3. Has own transportation. Speaks English. Pet friendly. (609) 635-2588. 09-11-3t HOUSE FOR RENT One-of-a-kind spacious dairy barn conversion with Princeton address, on private estate. Open floor plan, 3 BR, 2 bath, breathtaking 2nd floor versatile room. Fireplace, 2-car garage, central air. Includes lawn maintenance & snow removal. Move-in ready. No pets, smoke free, $3,000. (609) 731-6904. 09-18-3t HOME HEALTH AIDE/ COMPANION AVAILABLE: NJ certified with 20 years experience. Please call Cindy, (609) 2279873. 09-18-3t HOUSECLEANING: Experienced, English speaking, great references, reliable with own transportation. Weekly & bi-weekly cleaning. Green cleaning available. Susan, (732) 8733168. 09-11-8t LAWN MAINTENANCE: Prune shrubs, mulch, cut grass, weed, leaf clean up and removal. Call (609) 954-1810; (609) 833-7942. 09-11/12-04 GREEN–PLANET PAINTING: Commercial, Residential & Custom Paint, Interior & Exterior, Drywall Repairs, Light Carpentry, Deck Staining, Green Paint options, Paper Removal, Power Washing, 15 Years of Experience. FULLY INSURED, FREE ESTIMATES. CALL: (609) 356-4378; perez@green-planetpainting.com 04-03-20 TOWN TOPICS CLASSIFIEDS GETS TOP RESULTS! Whether it’s selling furniture, finding a lost pet, or having a garage sale, TOWN TOPICS is the way to go! We deliver to ALL of Princeton as well as surrounding areas, so your ad is sure to be read. (609) 924-2200 ext. 10; classifieds@towntopics.com tf I BUY ALL KINDS of Old or Pretty Things: China, glass, silver, pottery, costume jewelry, evening bags, fancy linens, paintings, small furniture, etc. Local woman buyer. (609) 9217469. 09-04-20 JOES LANDSCAPING INC. OF PRINCETON Property Maintenance and Specialty Jobs Commercial/Residential Over 35 Years of Experience •Fully Insured •Free Consultations Email: joeslandscapingprinceton@ gmail.com Text (only) (609) 638-6846 Office (609) 216-7936 Princeton References •Green Company HIC #13VH07549500 05-22-20 CLEANING BY POLISH LADY: For houses and small offices. Flexible, reliable, local. Excellent references. Please call Yola (609) 532-4383. 05-01/10-23 J.O. PAINTING & HOME IMPROVEMENTS: Painting for interior & exterior, framing, dry wall, spackle, trims, doors, windows, floors, tiles & more. 20 years experience. Call (609) 305-7822. 08-14-20 BUYING: Antiques, paintings, Oriental rugs, coins, clocks, furniture, old toys, military, books, cameras, silver, costume & fine jewelry. Guitars & musical instruments. I buy single items to entire estates. Free appraisals. (609) 306-0613. 01-09-20
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Taking care of Princeton’s trees Local family owned business for over 40 years
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MUSIC LESSONS: Voice, piano, guitar, drums, trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, saxophone, banjo, mandolin, uke & more. One-on-one. $32/ half hour. Ongoing music camps. CALL TODAY! FARRINGTON’S MUSIC, Montgomery (609) 9248282; www.farringtonsmusic.com 07-31-20
Experience ✦ Honesty ✦ Integrity 32 Chambers Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 (800) 763-1416 ✦ (609) 924-1416
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HOME REPAIR SPECIALIST: Interior/exterior repairs, carpentry, trim, rotted wood, power washing, painting, deck work, sheet rock/ spackle, gutter & roofing repairs. Punch list is my specialty. 40 years experience. Licensed & insured. Call Creative Woodcraft (609) 586-2130 07-10-20
ON OVER 11 ACRES TWO HOUSES: EXPANDED CAPE COD PLUS A CHARMING CUSTOM-BUILT COTTAGE CALLED “BROOKHOUSE”
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HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION AND ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EVENT Sponsored by the Mercer County Improvement Authority
SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 2019 / 8– 2AMPM– 2 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 28, 2019 / 8AM Dempster Fire School / 350 Lawrence Station Road
MATERIALS ONLY ACCEPTED ON THIS DATE AND TIME, RAIN OR SHINE
CAUTION
HAZARDOUS WASTE
ACCEPTED MATERIALS
Aerosol Cans / Used Motor Oil / Propane Gas Tanks / Pesticides & Herbicides Car Batteries / Paint Thinner / Oil Based Paint / Stains & Varnishes / Gasoline Anti-Freeze / Driveway Sealer / Insect Repellents / Mercury / Fluorescent & CFL Bulbs
MATERIALS NOT ACCEPTED
NO LATEX PAINT / NO Heating Oil / NO Infectious Waste / NO Radioactive Materials NO Explosives or Munitions / NO Railroad Ties / NO Asbestos / NO Tires NO Wood / NO Fencing / NO Air Conditioners / NO Helium or Oxygen Tanks NO Humidifiers / NO Dehumidifiers / NO Unknowns
ACCEPTED ELECTRONICS
Computers / Printers / Copiers / Fax Machines / Stereos / Televisions / Microwaves
MERCER COUNTY
RECYCLES Residential Waste Only / NO COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES Mercer County Residents Only / Proof of Residency Required (Driver’s License) Brian M. Hughes, County Executive / John P. Thurber, Chairman / Phillip S. Miller, Executive Director
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 609-278-8086 OR VISIT WWW.MCIANJ.ORG
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ROSA’S CLEANING SERVICE LLC: For houses, apartments, offices, daycare, banks, schools & much more. Has good English, own transportation. 25 years of experience. Cleaning license. References. Please call (609) 751-2188. 09-04-4t
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STOCKTON REAL ESTATE, LLC
20 South Main Street, Pennington
CURRENT RENTALS
20 South Main Street, Pennington
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OFFICE LISTINGS:
Buy a piece of Main Street. 1,150 square foot 20 South Main Street, Pennington retail store/office space with 2 bed 2 bath Buycondo a pieceabove. of Main Street. 1,150 square foot $475,000 retail store/office space with 2 bedspace 2 bathalso Commercial condo above. for rent $2,000/mo. $475,000
Commercial space also for rent $2,000/mo.
Princeton Office – $1,600/mo. Nassau Street, 2nd floor, reception area & 2 nice-sized offices. One has private powder room. Heat & 2 parking spaces are included. Princeton Office – $2,050/mo. 5-rooms with powder room. Front-toback on 1st floor. Available now. Princeton Office – $2,200/mo. Nassau Street. Conference room, reception room, 4 private offices + powder room. With parking. Available now. Princeton Office – $2,800/mo. Nassau Street. Available now.
RESIDENTIAL LISTINGS: Princeton – $125/mo. EACH 2 parking spaces-2 blocks from Nassau Street. Available now. Princeton (Franklin Twp) $1,950/mo. Plus utilities. 3 BR, 1 bath, LR, DR, Kitchen. Large back yard. Unfinished basement. Bungalow style one-story. Vacant, available now. Princeton – $2,000/mo. Plus utilities. 2 BR, 1 bath house. LR, Kitchen. Nice yard. Available now.
We have customers waiting for houses!
STOCKTON MEANS FULL SERVICE REAL ESTATE. We list, We sell, We manage. If you have a house to sell or rent we are ready to service you! Call us for any of your real estate needs and check out our website at: http://www.stockton-realtor.com See our display ads for our available houses for sale.
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Employment Opportunities in the Princeton Area P/T LICENSED HAIR STYLIST NEEDED to work in a Senior Living Beauty Salon. 2-3 days/wk. No nights or weekends. Supplies provided. Call Denise (609) 290-5054. 09-11-3t
ADMINISTRATIVE/ MARKETING: Architecture firm looking for a creative administrative / marketing candidate to fill a temporary (October-February) position with potential for permanence. Email jobs@joshuazinder.com for details. 09-11-2t
SUBSTITUTE STAFF NEEDED: We are looking for warm, caring, energetic, reliable & responsible individuals to work cooperatively in a team teaching environment. Experience working with children is required. If you love working with children, UNOW offers you the opportunity to develop your skills in a pleasant school setting. Under the supervision of the classroom staff, substitute teachers will nurture & care for children from 3 mos. to 5 yrs. This is an “on–call” position w/ variable hours ranging between 8 am–6 pm. Salary starting at $16 $17 hr. Please no phone calls. Email resumes to sbertran@princeton.edu 09-18-3t
ADVERTISING SALES Witherspoon Media Group is looking for an advertising Account Manager to generate sales for our luxury magazines, newspaper, and digital business. The ideal candidate will: • Establish new and grow key accounts and maximize opportunities for each publication, all websites, and all digital products. • Collaborate with the sales and management team to develop growth opportunities. • Prepare strategic sales communications and presentations for both print and digital. • Develop industry-based knowledge and understanding, including circulation, audience, readership, and more. • Prepare detailed sales reports for tracking current customers’ activity and maintain pipeline activity using our custom CRM system. Positions are full- and part-time and based out of our Kingston, N.J. office. Track record of developing successful sales strategies and knowledge of print and digital media is a plus. Compensation is negotiable based on experience. Fantastic benefits and a great work environment. Please submit cover letter and resume to: lynn.smith@princetonmagazine.com melissa.bilyeu@witherspoonmediagroup.com
09-18 MAGNIFICENT ESTATE SALE
HELP WANTED Princeton Ballet School seeks friendly person with professional manner and appearance for P/T evening and weekend Customer Relations/Front Desk position (10-25 hours/week). Job entails general office duties, phones and walk-in customer relations. Strong verbal/phone communications skills required. Computer skills: MS Word & Excel, email. Must be able to multi-task. Highly visible position in our Princeton, Cranbury, or New Brunswick studios. Email resume to: hr@arballet.org References required. EOE
in this 9,000 sf Designer Georgian brick home. 25 years accumulation. Friday 9/20, Saturday 9/21 & Sunday 9/22 from 9-4. 210 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton. (215) 962-7222. Sale includes antiques, modern furniture, leather sofa & club chairs, mirrors, BR furniture & mattresses, rugs, artwork, golf clubs, iron urns, kitchen items & much, much more! Cash & local checks. Please bring packing materials & do not park on grass. Pictures available on Estatesales.net 09-18
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