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Princeton Junction native brings Black + Jewish exhibit home

By ReBeKah SchroeDer

A jar of soil sits in the Jewish Center of Princeton’s “Black + Jewish” exhibit besides a panel on lynch laws, where by exploring race, religion and interactions between groups, the complexities of an under-discussed historical relationship are unearthed.

Ten of these panels are on loan from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and have traveled from curator Adina Langer’s public history class to the

state of New Jersey; intending them as a “backbone for conversation” within the local community, Langer, her students, and TJC members have been working to articulate the reality of what people of these identities have endured — just as much as what they achieve from working together.

For Langer, who grew up in Princeton Junction, this step towards discussion starts with education. The combination of images and text, designed in the KSU program, highlights topics such as the emergence of the civil rights era,

European immigration through the “Golden Door” of Ellis Island and the Great Migration, and the presence of Jewish refugee professors at historically black colleges and universities due to World War II.

The exhibit, subtitled “Connection, Courage, Community,” remains on view at the Jewish Center through until Oct. 31. To expand the project’s scope from Atlanta to a context much closer to home, TJC congregants Linda Oppenheim, Michele Alperin, Miki Mendelsohn, and Wilma Solomon produced sup-

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First-time author crafts a mystery

By Dan AUBrey

A successful middle-aged architect lets himself into a dark New York City apartment, passes through an entry hall faintly scented with a familiar perfume, calls out a woman’s name, and, after moving into the ornately decorated living room, is greeted by the dead body of the young designer with whom he has been having an extramarital affair.

So starts the mystery West Windsor writer Victoria Weisfeld shares with readers in her newly released novel Architect of Courage

“When I started, all I had in my

mind was the opening situation,” Weisfeld says during a recent interview at a local café.

However, by the book’s conclusion, that architect, Archer Landis, and the reader have traveled a thenrecently changed post-9-11 world, confronted personal secrets and become ensnared in a deadly plot.

Up until the current release of this first novel, Weisfeld called herself a short story writer whose works have appeared in mystery anthologies and noted mystery magazines, including Ellery Queen, Sherlock Holmes and Black Cat.

She is also a member of Sisters

of Crime and Mystery Writers of America, reviews New Jersey theater for TheFrontRowCenter.com, and reviews crime/mystery stories for the United Kingdom’s crimefictionlover.com.

While the author spent decades writing for such organization as the National Academy of Science and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she says, “Dating back to being a teenager I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I needed to earn a living. When I left the corporate world, I worked freelance for several years. (And) I said I’m not getting younger

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Grovers Mill local William Dock poses for newspaper photographers shortly after the 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. Paul Ligeti writes about the event and its impact on the area in this month’s West Windsor Chronicles starting on page 18.

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plemental information sheets that emphasize local connections found throughout the research process.

Emily Kafas, TJC’s communications and social media manager, is currently producing the additional materials, which will soon accompany the originals. But as a way of initiating dialogue outside of the exhibit, the Center has enlisted three speakers who share their perspectives through a series of virtual lectures.

Marc Dollinger, a professor and chair of the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University spoke on Sept. 19. Langer was set to discuss the goals, intentions and overall creation of the exhibit via Zoom on Oct. 2, and Ambassador John L. Withers II, former U.S. ambassador to Albania, will give a Zoom talk on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. titled, “Balm in Gilead: How Black Soldiers Rescued Young Holocaust Survivors.”

In an interview with the News, Langer takes a few steps back to her time attending school at the Jewish Center, where her parents — physicians Corey and Mindy — have been active members since the late 1980s.

TJC is “really the community where I grew up, and where I had my Jewish education,” Langer says, referencing her bat mitzvah. “I wasn’t a Holocaust scholar in

terms of what I had studied expressly in college or in graduate school, so my basic content knowledge, a lot of that really does trace back originally to the Jewish Center, and to my religious school upbringing.”

Drawn to the “free choice learning experience” of the institutions she now works within, as well as the accessibility of the Princeton area, Langer cultivated an interest in museums in early childhood. Her father began taking her on day trips to historic sites and institutions while her pediatrician mother, Mindy, would be on call at home.

Whether it was through visits to Teddy Roosevelt’s home at Sagamore Hill or somewhere nearby, Langer says she realized that while “being a doctor was a really important job,” it was “also, a very stressful one,” and decided to follow her parents’ interests in another way.

“Lifelong learning is a huge part of my family’s values,” Langer adds, positively associating conversations with her father, which became more intellectual in nature as she grew older, with the “curiosity” that compels her family.

“I think that I was attracted to studying history because I am an incurable polymath,” Langer says, referencing the term for someone with aptitude in a range of disciplines. “I really enjoy learning about how we got to be where we are in multiple

aspects of culture and geography and science. They’re all the ways in which people engage with the world. When you study history, it doesn’t limit you to a single disciplinary perspective; it allows you to weave together all of the relevant threads in order to understand continuity and change over time,” she explains.

All of the Langer family have written poetry for U.S. 1 (the News’ sister newspaper) in the past, with Corey, a professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the director of thoracic oncology, also having been president of the Delaware Valley Poets — a Mercer County group that merged with another local collective to form the Delaware Valley Poets/US 1 Poets Cooperative in 2021.

Adina’s brother, Micah, has explored a number of subjects, but is now studying to be a certified archivist at the Pratt Institute, preserving that same special desire for discovery.

lic history concentration from New York University.

Langer currently lives in Decatur, Georgia, having moved there in 2014 with her husband, Matthew DeAngelis, an associate professor of accounting at Georgia State University. After networking, she began teaching at the same institution’s heritage preservation program, where she met and befriended MHHE’s former curator, Julia Brock.

As Brock transitioned from that role into another, she advocated for Langer to apply for the open position. When Langer took on the task in 2015, her expertise was more in oral and public history than the actual subject matter of the Holocaust. She instead utilized her skills in “interpreting traumatic history for a diverse audience” from the 9/11 memorial.

“Black + Jewish” was made possible via a grant from the Breman Foundation of Atlanta, named after humanitarian William Breman. The Foundation’s funding, according to Langer, goes toward developing exhibits coordinating with their mission, and MHHE’s first venture was titled “Enduring Tension: (En)Countering Antisemitism in Every Age” in 2018.

After graduating from High School South, Langer received her bachelor’s degree in history and creative writing from Oberlin College in Ohio. She then rose from curatorial assistant to memorial exhibition manager for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City. She completed graduate school at the same time, earning her archives and public history master’s degree with a pub- See LANGER, Page 5

When Breman added the themes of “combating antisemitism, addressing race relations, and working for social jus-

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tice” for its 2021 grant cycle, Langer says MHHE applied for the grant, noting the emergence of “this very public conversa tion about race, and how we think about community in the United States” during the pandemic and Black Lives Matters protests.

The purpose, Langer adds, was “to cre ate this exhibition that would illuminate this complex and wide-reaching history, and also really acknowledge that to say that there’s a Black community and a Jew ish community, that is a false dichotomy. That there are Black Jews, that there are Jews of color, that we have to be thinking intersectionally when we are looking at this history, so we put that forward right from the beginning.”

Langer adds that many people — includ ing her public history students, “a major ity” of whom were not Black and/or Jew ish—came into the course with little to “no knowledge at all that there was a relation ship between” the groups.

But in other circles, such as Langer’s own upbringing in Princeton Junction, which she refers to at the time as being a “progressive Jewish community, but still mostly white and Ashkenazi,” people have often found pride in the primary history of what they did know.

Stories of how “a lot of Jews from the

Adina Langer, a Princeton Junction native who now lives and works in Georgia, has brought her ‘Black + Jewish’ exhibit to the Jewish Center of Princeton.

north went and helped organize during the Civil Rights Movement, maybe went and participated in the Freedom Rides on the Greyhound buses or helped with orga nizing for voting rights in Mississippi,”

were common, she explains.

The very concept of this alliance was worn like a badge of honor, Langer con tinues, that “because of a shared history of experiencing ostracization or discrimi

nation, Jewish people who came from Europe seeking a better life in the United States could have some empathy for our understanding of the experience that Black communities in the United States have or had, and that this was a reason for working together in solidarity.”

Through this project, Langer was able to gain a deeper understanding beyond those claims, also consulting with volun teers of those identities in a community advisory group.

“If we’re telling a complex story, how do we make our best effort to weave together different voices?” she asks. “The whole title, we were very purposeful in looking at Black and Jewish. This is not an exhibit about Black history with some Jewish con tent, or an exhibit about Jewish history with some content related to Black his tory; we were really trying to make it be an exhibit about Black history and Jewish history, and where they came together.”

Langer wanted to show progress, but also convey the findings as an “acknowl edgement of inequities and places where there were misunderstandings, or differ ent priorities in different places at differ ent times, and what might cause that,” she explains.

This is a core feature of the panel by KSU student Ben Schmidt, “Coming

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people understand that this history is not just a regional history; it’s a national his tory, and [it] unfolded differently in differ ent places.”

In 1886, Samuel “Mingo Jack” John son was falsely accused of rape by a white woman in Eatontown, New Jersey, where he was beaten and hanged by a mob in what “was described as the first lynching in New Jersey since the Revolution,” the Monmouth Timeline says.

Oppenheim shares that the New Jersey Social Justice Remembrance Coalition, composed of groups from all around New Jersey, including members of Not-in-OurTown Princeton, was part of a ceremony to honor Johnson’s legacy. Along with send ing the jar of soil from the lynching site to Montgomery for the Memorial for Peace and Justice, the group filled several jars with additional soil to be displayed around the state. Now, one of those can be found in the “Black + Jewish” exhibit.

This is in understanding that while Frank’s lynching “was an outrage,” as Oppenheim says, Black individuals were disproportionately lynched—even in the north.

The last speaker in the lecture series is John Withers II, a former U.S. Ambassa dor to Albania who attended high school in South Korea with TJC congregant Wilma Solomon.

His father, John L. Withers, Sr., was “a newly commissioned Army lieutenant commanding an all-Black supply convoy in postwar Germany” when two young survi vors of the Dachau Concentration Camp approached the soldiers looking for help, a 2007 boston.com article explains.

Risking their own status, Oppenheim says, the men protected and traveled with the teenagers, ignoring the rule against housing refugees. The bond that formed as a result is the subject of John Withers

II’s 2020 book, “Balm in Gilead: A Sto ry from the War,” that relates his father’s experiences.

Solomon reached out to Withers II after years, and the latter agreed to present on Wednesday, November 9, which is also the anniversary of Kristallnacht or “The Night of Broken Glass,” the infamous 1938 event in Germany marked by shattered glass from the destruction of Jewish-owned business, synagogues, and homes filling the streets.

After finishing its stay in Princeton, “Black + Jewish” will travel to Adath Israel Congregation in Lawrenceville from November 1 to 29, then Congregation Beth El in East Windsor through December 18.

Langer is optimistic that no matter the location, “Black + Jewish” will be able to “inspire people to look at their own local history,” turning inwards—and to voices that may have gone unheard or over looked—for a greater awareness of where improvements can be made.

“It’s really meaningful to be able to give something back to that community that did so much to create the foundation of my own understanding of justice, and those moral obligations in what we strive for, and what role your work can play in trying to help educate and make the world a better place,” she says.

Black + Jewish: Connection, Courage, Community, Jewish Center of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street, Princeton. On display until October 31. Hours for the exhibit are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Fridays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

To register for the Nov. 9 Zoom talk or to schedule a tour, email Linda Oppen heim at linda.oppenheim@gmail.com. More information: thejewishcenter.org.

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and I better do it now. So I bit the bullet and started.”

Originally from a small town outside Detroit, she says her interest in fiction comes from her habit of always being a “big reader. I lived in the country, and books were my friend. I liked mystery writers. Nancy Drew came up, she was my hero.”

Drew was followed by Trixie Bell and Hardy Boy mysteries. “Then as you get older, there’s Agatha Christie.”

She says the appeal of mysteries con nected to her personal life. “My dad was an engineer. I wanted to know how that works. So, in a mystery you want to know how things work.

“I love puzzles, and a lot of mysteries include a puzzle. The Architect of Courage includes two—the code and the puzzle. I didn’t think I was doing it at the time, but, in retrospect, I was putting puzzles in.”

The idea of not thinking is also part of Weisfeld’s process. “I am a big believer in the subconscious mind,” she says, and catego rizes herself as a “pantser” style of writer, as opposed to a plotter.

She sums up the difference as follows, “I write by the seat of my pants, letting the story grow organically, and the relationships deepen as it moves forward. I throw in bits of information—potential clues—as they occur to me and keep those that ultimately fit. Yes,

it’s a little messy at times, but I enjoy that thrill of discovery.

“When I get to a place where I can’t eas ily answer the question, ‘now what?’ I take a big sheet of paper, write the main character’s name in the center, and array all the other characters around, maybe with a few notes about their conflicts or characteristics.

Then I draw lines to show how they intersect. Opportunities for new and unexpected con nections and points of possible conflict emerge.”

Yet there are some funda mentals that guide her. For example, methods to engage the reader. That includes a murder to heighten the emo tion and engage the reader. She also has a sense of her readers, especially female readers who, she says, “feel threatened a lot of time and they have to be careful. They see things that men don’t notice.”

And as a mystery writer/critic, she says, “I love police procedurals that are really detailed” and appreciates well-rounded char acters and seamless plots.

Among her dislikes are the writers— mainly male, she says—whose main charac ters are the author’s projection of themselves rather than a character with a separate iden

tify and behavior.

“I have to work to not write about me,” she says. “It is a challenge. I throw in a wildcard.”

Speaking about herself, the daughter of a Ford engineer father and elementary school teacher mother says her writing career started with studying journal ism at the University of Michi gan and then working with a local advertising agency.

That was followed enroll ing in graduate classes at the School of Public Health (Pittsburgh) where she met her future husband, Neal, although the two did not start dating until they both came to Washington, DC, during the mid-1970s.

Weisfeld says she started writing for the National Acad emy of sciences and through the organiza tion met Frank Correll, communications director from the Princeton-based Robert Wood Foundation.

“(He) came down (to Washington) to talk to us, and I thought this was a good connec tion. I wrote him a letter, but they didn’t have any openings. When they did, that brought us to Princeton.”

In 1983, she and her attorney husband moved to West Windsor, where she raised a family, started writing fiction, and reflects

on her first novel. “Now that the book is out I’m discovering things that my subconscious worked out,” she says about the story she started around the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack.

“Architects are builders and Landis was facing people who were destroyers,” she says. “It is an interesting profession, and it was something that I knew something about, going back to childhood. My father designed our house, my mother and father were Frank Lloyd Wright fans and asked him to design the house. But he declined.”

She says that she had also realized the story would “tie-in” to the anti-Muslim feel ing of the time. “When I started this, Mus lims were being blamed for everything. I thought that was ridiculous.”

Then there was the theme of courage. “This is something that I (added) a few drafts in. The story isn’t just a mystery. It was also of Landis’s emotional journey. It has a story arch. He is learning and growing and, while he’s full of regret, he’s coming to terms with what has gone on.”

Weisfeld points out that early in the book, one of Landis’s friends mentions four types of courage: physical, mental, emotional, and moral.

“By the time you get to the end of the book, Archer has displayed each courage in the book. The theme of courage is baked into the DNA of the book,” says Weisfeld.

Three running unopposed for WW Board of Ed seats

By Bill Sanservino

Three candidates are running unop posed for three West Windsor seats on the West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education.

Barring the appearance of a success ful write-in candidate, which is unlikely, incumbents Louisa Ho and Graelynn McKeown will be re-elected to three-year terms on the board. Shwetha Shetty is running unopposed for a one-year unex pired term on the board.

The News asked each of the candi dates to provide biographical information about themselves and a statement regard ing why they want to serve on the board. Their answers are presented below.

Louisa Ho, 63, and her husband, Carl, are 28-year residents of West Windsor. Ho earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engi neering and a master’s degree in trans portation from from MIT. Her daughter, Rebecca, and son, David, are both South graduates.

She previously worked as the director of planning for the Greater Richmond Transit Company. After that she worked at New Jersey Transit -Bus Operations, where she held a variety of jobs in plan ning and operations, including project manager, bus projects administrator, manager of terminal operations, direc tor of eastern region and deputy general manager southern division.

After the birth of her second child, Ho focused on being a full-time parent. Ho became her daughter’s Girl Scouts troop leader, which has led to what Ho calls her current volunteer “career” with Girl Scouts. She has been a troop leader for 19

years, and currently leads two troops. Ho’s statement: I am asking for the community’s support to re-elect me to the School Board, representing West Wind sor. As a 10-year member of the School Board and 7-year chair of the Finance Committee, I have extensive experience grappling with the issues that affect the district today, as well as perspective on how we got here. As a parent, I have per sonal experience with the district through both of my children, who attended WW-P schools from kindergarten through 12th grade. As a taxpayer, I know what it feels like to pay property taxes both with and without having children attending the schools. Serving on the school board is my way of giving back to our community.

I volunteer my time, skills, and judgment

to the school district. While I like to pre tend that I’m 39, as a “senior” board mem ber I enjoy helping new board members learn the ropes, especially when they join the Finance Committee. I have been hon ored to represent West Windsor in the past, and am running for re-election to continue for one more term. My commitment to community ser vice began years ago when my daughter, Rebecca, told me that she wanted to be a Girl Scout. To make that happen, I vol unteered to be her troop leader. Twentyone years later, I am a full time Girl Scout volunteer. (My husband would probably say it is more than full time.) Currently, I lead three troops and am co-service unit manager for West Windsor-PlainsboroCranbury Girl Scouts. As a Girl Scout

volunteer, I use all the organizational and leadership skills that I honed in my professional career to help girls develop their own leadership skills. It is tremen dously rewarding when girls tell me that I made a meaningful difference in their lives. And it’s fun too. It doesn’t get much better than eliciting shrieks of delight from your troop. Being a troop leader has taught me a lot about teaching and man aging students. It also keeps me in touch with kids currently attending the WW-P schools as well as their parents. And through them, I see the many different paths that kids take through the district. Some of my scouts attend private schools, which is a useful window into those envi ronments. I also volunteer for MIT as an alumni admission’s interviewer. All of this

Louisa Ho

Graelynn McKeown

Shwetha Shetty

helps me be a better board member.

As a single member of the board, I can’t promise quick fixes to the issues that we face. I can promise to focus my time, per spective and analytical skills on the major issues facing the board.

• First and foremost is finances. As chair of the Finance Committee, I am focused on the financial stability of the district and managing costs, while maintaining academic excellence. This is going to be especially difficult now because of the high rate of inflation.

• Parents everywhere are concerned about school security. We need to con tinually assess school security, and make cost effective decisions about ways to maintain and enhance school security.

• As we all hope that this year will be a return to “normal”, we need to remember that the last two years haven’t been nor mal. We need to support the students that need extra help, and approach them with patience and understanding.

• Many of our students, particularly in high school, are under a lot of stress. While some stress is good, excessive stress is not. As a district, we need to help our students manage stress, minimize unnecessary stress, and provide sup ports for students in crisis. We need to continue using expert resources, like the mental health counselors from UBHC.

• Our students and parents care deeply about the environment, as do I. One issue that I will continue to pursue is look ing for ways that the school district can improve its environmental footprint.

In closing, I would like to take a moment for gratitude. To all the staff of the WW-P Regional School District, thank you. It has been a tremendously difficult two years. Converting teaching from in-person to virtual is an enormous amount of work. Trying to plan how the

schools will function without clear guide lines and with constantly changing rules was excruciatingly difficult for school administrators and principals. In a time when few people wanted to work in pub lic schools because of the risk of COVID, our staff showed up. And I’m not just talk ing about teachers. Without our nurses, substitute teachers, instructional assis tants, bus drivers, cafeteria staff, facil ity maintenance staff and cleaners, we would have been hard pressed to keep the schools open. All employees were critically needed employees over the last two years.

I also want to thank the parents in our community for their trust in the school district, for their understanding as we redesigned school, and for their coop eration and support in helping us in our efforts to keep us all safe.

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Graelynn McKeown, 42, has lived in West Windsor for 10 years with her husband, Craig. The couple has three children—two of whom are currently in WW-P (one in middle school, the other in upper elementary). The youngest is still a toddler.

McKeown earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Rutgers University and currently works a learning strategist for Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

She has previously worked as a senior manager of training and document control working under quality assur ance, operations and human resources functions.

McKeown’s statement: This is my third year proudly serving our commu nity as a member of the WW-P Board of Education. I spent two years on the Cur riculum and Instruction Committee, and this past year, I was part of the labor nego

tiations team, the Finance Committee, and the board vice president. As a liaison, I am also an ex officio board member of the WW-P Education Foundation. I was sworn in at the first meeting of 2020 and three months later, we found ourselves in an “unprecedented” and ever-evolving sit uation that presented the school adminis tration with multi-dimensional challenges and inadequate guidance. My first year on the BOE felt like diving into the deep end! It has been such an amazing expe rience: learning so much about how the schools are run, witnessing firsthand the hard work and dedication of the admin istration and staff, and forging relation ships throughout our community.

I am running for re-election to give back to my community in a fruitful and positive way. There is much work ahead to support our students and staff as we recover from the pandemic. This is on top of the strategic planning and continuous improvement initiatives that were well underway before the infamous virus took us all for a detour. I, along with my fellow board members, will evaluate curricula updates, construction projects nearing completion, technology upgrades, DEI (diversity, equity, & inclusion) initiatives, professional development, financial plan ning, safety and security measures, spe cial education programs, transportation, and more.

My goal is to ensure the school admin istration is living up to the district’s mis sion and core values. I wholeheartedly believe in the “Whole Child, Every Child, Global Child.” As a board member, it is my responsibility to ask the tough ques tions and challenge the administration to do some self-reflection. For example, how does the district ensure that students and staff are provided a safe and supportive learning environment? Are we truly lis

tening to the voices of our students and supporting them with appropriate plat forms to be heard? What kind of prog ress are we making in the area of DEI and is the implementation strategy using a holistic approach?

As I enter this next term in office, I seek to understand how the district plans to support our students’ growth and development from the lessons learned in adjusting, and then re-adjusting, to life in a pandemic. Are they striking a healthy balance between social and emotional learning with the strong academic pro gram WW-P is well-recognized for? How is the district preparing our students to be successful and responsible in a digital world? I also want to ensure the district fosters an inclusive environment that cel ebrates our diversity and builds a true sense of community within and across the schools.

When there are difficult decisions to be made, I focus on what is best for the students, the staff, and the community. As a BOE member, I am a voice that represents everyone in our community whether they have, or have had, children in the school district or not. Our towns are uniquely intertwined, and decisions made at the WW-P Regional School Dis trict can directly or indirectly impact everyone.

I am grateful for your support these past three years and for the opportunity to serve you and advocate for our stu dents. I look forward to this next term, working alongside some amazing and dynamic people. Thank you for placing your trust in me, staying engaged, and keeping an open mind.

Shwetha Shetty, 48, has lived in West Windsor since 2005 with her husband,

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Raj. She holds a post-master’s supervi sor certification from Caldwell Univer sity, an educational specialists degree in school and community psychology from Seton Hall University, a master’s in edu cation (psychological studies) from Seton Hall University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Rutgers University.

Shetty has been a school psychologist in the N.J. public school system for over 21 years and recently moved into a new role as the district coordinator of school mental health services in the N.J. school district where she works.

Shetty and her husband have two sons who have attended Maurice Hawk, Dutch Neck, Millstone River, Village, Com munity Middle School and High School North.

She has been involved with West Wind sor Little League, WW-P Soccer Associa tion, and the West Windsor Hoopsters ,as well as their school athletic teams, booster clubs and PTA.

Shetty’s statement: I am excited to be running for the board of education as a West Windsor resident. I believe that I have a unique set of skills, experiences and perspectives that can help the board continue making informed policy deci sions in the best interests of its students,

educators and broader community. I am a product of and have devoted my adult life to NJ public schools and I hope to bring that passion and expertise to our school board as it continues to navigate these challenging times.

I attended and graduated from the NJ public education system. I have 2 sons that have attended different WW-P schools over the years as we have moved within West Windsor including Maurice Hawk, Dutchneck, Millstone River, Vil lage, Community Middle School and High School North. As student-athletes they and our family have been actively engaged in local organizations over the years including West Windsor Little League, WW-P Soccer Association, and the West Windsor Hoopsters as well as their school athletic teams. As a mother and community member, I believe that I have a valuable point of view on how the board can continue fostering an envi ronment that maximizes the academic, social, and extra-curricular experiences of our students.

In addition to having been a NJ pub lic school student and parent, I have also been a School Psychologist in the NJ pub lic school system for over 21 years and cur rently serve as the District Coordinator of School Mental Health services in another NJ school district. I have an Educational

Specialists Degree (Ed. S) in School and Community Psychology, a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Education (Psychological Studies), and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) of Psychology. My training and experience have given me a deep understanding and appreciation for the needs and challenges of Special Education as well as General Education students. I have worked closely with students, parents, teachers, social workers, administrators and other stake holders and can bring various learnings and best practices to the table as a school board member.

I lead my school’s crisis team, have conducted trainings on suicide awareness and risk assessment procedures, and have worked on bullying-related issues in the school setting. I am well versed in both the legal and operational consider ations of Special Education, Harassment Intimidation and Bullying (HIB) laws, and codes of student conduct. I strongly believe more than ever that a compre hensive Social Emotional Learning (SEL) approach has never been more impor tant, and I believe I can bring that lens to the WW-P School Board’s deliberations and decisions over the next few years.

In addition, I truly am an advocate of developing the whole child and believe that balance between academics, sports and extracurricular activities is crucial

for our students. Since I joined the board in February 2022, I have been able to pro vide my perspective on a variety of topics considered by the board and have been an active member of the Finance commit tee. I look forward to continuing to learn and share my voice with my fellow board members, school administration, and the broader West Windsor community.

Finally, my personal and professional life experiences have instilled in me a deep commitment to equity,diversity and inclusion for all members of the WW-P community but especially for its students. I have seen firsthand how the needs of particular ethnic groups, special educa tion students, and LGBTQIA+ students have not always been well understood or prioritized.

As a school board member, I would advocate for the type of policies that can mitigate the disparities in educational outcomes often experienced by these his torically disadvantaged populations.

In summation, I love living in West Windsor and want the best for our school district. As a WW-P School Board mem ber, I hope to give back to the West Wind sor community and to the N.J. public schools both of which have played such important roles in my life. I thank you for this opportunity to be able to share a little about myself.

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TRENTON SENIORS GET IN STEP with Capital Health’s Vascular Rehabilitation Program

Trenton residents Clara Boatwright and Alice Wells have a lot in common—including being schoolmates in their younger days— and after reuniting as patients in the Vascular Rehabilitation Program at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell, they’re happy to be together again on the path to better health.

The Vascular Rehabilitation Program is for people experiencing mild or severe pain in the legs due to lower-extremity peripheral artery disease or similar symptoms that are still present following vascular procedures.

“I thought I was having muscle troubles,” said Alice. “My primary care doctor sent me to Dr. Lotto, who confirmed I had poor circulation.” Dr. Christine Lotto, a board certified, fellowship trained general and vascular surgeon at Capital Health Surgical Group, referred Alice to the program.

“I was having pain in my calves when walking,” said Clara. “I told my heart doctor (Dr. Kristopher Young, Capital Health – Heart Care Specialists) what was going on, and tests showed that the circulation was bad in my legs. My specialist (also Dr. Lotto) recommended vascular rehab at Capital Health.”

Capital Health’s team of physicians, nurses, exercise physiologists and registered dietitians work closely with referring physicians to help program participants achieve their rehab goals through personalized exercise, nutrition counseling, risk factor management guidance, and psychological support all aimed at helping participants meet their health goals.

“The program helped me a lot. When I first started, I had a lot of stiffness because I wasn’t very active,” said Clara. “We watched videos that helped us understand the things we were experiencing, and the exercise helped me get all the kinks out. The nutritionist also gave me a lot of insight on how to eat better.”

“They really keep you informed so you’re not in the dark after the program is done,” said Alice. “I got a lot of good handouts about

exercising, healthy eating, and stopping smoking. I enjoyed my time there, but more importantly, it still helps me!”

If you’re experiencing mild or severe cramping pain in the legs with walking as the result of lower-extremity peripheral artery disease or lower-extremity revascularization procedures, call Capital Health’s Vascular Rehabilitation Program at 609.537.6420 to schedule an appointment, or visit capitalheartandvascular.org for more information.

From left, Clara Boatwright and Alice Wells on the path to better health with Capital Health’s Vascular Rehabilitation Program.

Capital Health Employee Education Program Awards

Four Full Tuition Scholarships to Rider University

Capital Health has announced four winners of full-tuition scholarships to Rider University as part of an employee education benefits partnership with the university. The scholarship winners are immediate family members of Capital Health employees and include Rachel Burnett (education), Andrew Coates (communication studies), Gloria Owusu (accounting), and Johannah Stevenson (STEM). In order to be eligible for the scholarships, candidates or their immediate family members must be full-time, non-union employees of Capital Health for at least one year and meet additional eligibility requirements. Capital Health’s partnership with Rider launched in 2020 when Capital Health Medical Group began overseeing the university’s Student Health Center and providing primary care health services to students and employees.

“On behalf of Capital Health, I’m pleased to congratulate the inaugural winners of our full-tuition scholarships to Rider University” said Al Maghazehe, president and CEO of Capital Health. “As our relationship with Rider grows, we’ll offer similar scholarship opportunities annually as part of a broader education benefits program for our employees and their families. Two of the four scholarships awarded this year went to students whose annual family incomes were under $100,000, and we look forward to helping more members of our Capital Health family reach their education goals in the years to come.”

RACHEL BURNETT of Morrisville, Pennsylvania is a graduate of Pennsbury High School. Daughter of Elizabeth De La Portilla-Stout, assistant nurse manager in Hemodialysis at Capital Health Regional Medical Center, Rachel is an education major in Rider’s College of Education and Human Services, which is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

ANDREW COATES of Levittown, Pennsylvania is the son of Kim Coates, a registered nurse and practice lead at Capital Health Occupational Health Center. Andrew is a graduate of Calvary Christian Academy of Philadelphia and his major is communication studies, with a minor in broadcast journalism. He intends to pursue a career in media.

GLORIA OWUSU of Hamilton, New Jersey is the daughter of Samuel Acheaw, Care Management nurse at Capital Health Medical

Center – Hopewell. Gloria is a graduate of Hamilton High School West and is an accounting major in Rider’s Department of Accounting, which is one of only 2% of programs worldwide with accreditation from the AACSB International.

JOHANNA STEVENSON of Lumberton, New Jersey is a graduate of Rancocas Valley Regional High School. Daughter of Robert Stevenson, tech specialist at the Sleep Center at Capital Health – Hamilton, Johanna plans to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in order to pursue a career as a secondary STEM teacher (grades 9 12) in a “high need” school district.

Undergraduate students (including those transferring to Rider University or enrolling in a continuing studies program) are eligible to receive these scholarships, which are awarded for four consecutive years or until completion of the academic program. Scholarship recipients must be full-time students, maintain at least a 3.0 GPA, and be students in good standing with Rider University at all times during the course of their enrollment. Full-tuition scholarships do not include room, board, or other related costs, such as textbooks.

Capital Health’s employee education benefits program also features a 50% tuition discount agreement with Rider University for nonunion employees and their immediate family members (cannot be combined with full-tuition scholarships). Other Rider education benefits for Capital Health employees include an application fee waiver; free, unofficial evaluation of transfer credits prior to applying; and a Rider academic advisor to help plan their schedule. Graduate student applicants can request a free evaluation of transfer credits as well as course and GMAT/GRE waivers and exclusive certificate programs for Capital Health employees are currently in development.

Winners left to right: Rachel Burnett, Andrew Coates, Gloria Owusu, and Johannah Stevenson

THREE EXPERIENCED PULMONOLOGISTS

Join Capital Health Medical Group

Drs. Akbar Obaray, Syed Asghar and Nasir Malik have joined Capital Health – Pulmonology Specialists, part of Capital Health Medical Group. These three experienced, board certified pulmonologists join colleagues Drs. Irene Hao, Diana Kolman, Naresh Nagella and Dolly Patel in providing care for patients in Mercer and Bucks counties with conditions that affect the lungs and respiratory system.

“Capital Health – Pulmonology Specialists launched four years ago to meet the needs of people in our community who are living with a variety of lung and respiratory conditions,” said Dr. Joshua Eisenberg, chief medical officer of the Capital Health Medical Group. “The addition of these qualified and experienced pulmonologists to our

already talented group of providers expands patient access to the best possible pulmonary care in the Mercer/Bucks region.”

DR. AKBAR OBARAY is a board certified pulmonologist with extensive experience in all aspects of pulmonary medicine, including respiratory intensive care, fiber optic bronchoscopy, transbronchial biopsies and pulmonary functional testing as well as the management of asthma, COPD, lung cancer and interstitial lung disease. Prior to joining Capital Health, Dr. Obaray was in private practice in Hamilton, New Jersey for more than 30 years.

DR. SYED ASGHAR is board certified in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. He sees patients with all types of pulmonary disease and has extensive experience in performing bronchoscopies. Before joining Capital Health, Dr. Asghar spent many years in private practice and as a hospitalist, attending physician, and in leadership roles at Capital Health Regional Medical Center and other hospitals in Mercer and Bucks counties.

Are you having a difficult time with lingering breathing issues and other long-term effects of a COVID-19 infection? Join DR. DIANA KOLMAN, a board certified and fellowship trained interventional pulmonologist, to discuss lung issues related to the coronavirus and treatment options available for those suffering from long COVID-19. DR. KRISTINA MCGUIRE, a licensed clinical psychologist, will discuss the psychological symptoms associated with long COVID-19, coping strategies and behavioral health treatments.

This event will be taking place virtually using Zoom. Register online at capitalhealth.org/events and be sure to include your email address. Zoom meeting details will be provided via email 2 3 days before the program date. Registration ends 24 hours before the program date.

DR. NASIR MALIK is board certified in pulmonary diseases and internal medicine. His areas of interest include asthma, COPD, lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, sarcoidosis and pulmonary hypertension. Before joining Capital Health, Dr. Malik served as a pulmonologist/critical care attending physician with Wellspan Healthcare in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Capital Health – Pulmonology Specialists specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that affect the lungs and respiratory system. They have office locations in Hopewell Township (Two Capital Way, Suite 487, Pennington, NJ 08534), Newtown (3 Penns Trail, 2nd floor, Newtown, PA 18940) and Hamilton (1445 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Suite 111, Hamilton, NJ 08619).

Appointments are now available by calling 609.815.7390 or visit capitalhealth.org/pulmonology for more information.

Capital Health Welcomes New Director of Comprehensive Headache Center

Capital Health recently welcomed DR. DWAYNE BROWN, a board certified and fellowship trained neurologist, to its Capital Institute for Neurosciences as director of its Comprehensive Headache Center. In his new role, Dr. Brown leads the Center’s multidisciplinary approach to patients and offers a variety of services to treat migraine headache, tension headache, cluster headache, trigeminal autonomic cephalgia, CSF leak headache, high-pressure headache, facial pain and various secondary headache conditions. In addition, Dr. Brown offers procedures such as Botox for migraine, trigger point injections and nerve blocks.

“Over the past few years, Capital Health has steadily added new specialists to its broader neurosciences program,” said Dr. Joshua Eisenberg, chief medical officer of Capital Health Medical Group. “We welcome Dr. Brown’s significant expertise to our Capital Institute for Neurosciences and making specialized care for those who are suffering from headache conditions available here in a very convenient environment.”

Board certified in neurology, Dr. Brown completed his headache and facial pain fellowship training at Yale University School of Medicine

in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned his medical degree from Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia and completed his residency training at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York, where he served as chief neurology resident. He also earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in pharmacology from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.

“I am extremely pleased to join Capital Health and Capital Institute for Neurosciences,” said Dr. Brown. “Capital Health has a reputation for providing a very high level of neuroscience care, and I look forward to being a part of its continued growth.”

Dr. Brown’s research has been published in national and international publications, including Neurology, Neurotoxicity Research, The Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, Neuroscience Letters and Neurochemistry International. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, Society for Neuroscience, American Association of Neurology and the American Headache Society.

Dr. Brown is now seeing patients in the Capital Institute for Neurosciences office in the medical office building attached to Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell (Suite 456). To schedule an appointment with Dr. Brown, call 609.537.7300 or visit capitalneuro.org for more information.

UPDATE AND THE MIND EATING PLAN

Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 6 p.m.

Join DR. DANIELLE CARCIA, a board certified family medicine physician with fellowship training in geriatrics, to discuss the latest research, treatments, and prevention strategies for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Registered Dietitian MINDY KOMOSINSKY will discuss the MIND eating plan, which promotes the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of certain foods that may help lower the risk of dementia and slow the loss of brain function that can occur with aging.

This event will be taking place virtually using Zoom. Register online at capitalhealth.org/events and be sure to include your email address. Zoom meeting details will be provided via email 2 3 days before the program date. Registration ends 24 hours before the program date.

Generations ago, a hoax made Grovers Mill famous

PAUL LIGETI

WEST WINDSOR CHRONICLES

The Historical Society of West Windsor is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting local history. This article explores a nation-wide hoax from 1938 that put West Windsor in the national spotlight.

Also – 2022 is West Windsor’s 225th birthday year! The Historical Society is leading dozens of commemorative community projects and free-to-the-public events from January to December – check it out at westwindsorhistory.com/year-225

Mars Attacks! Paranoia! Disinformation!

Turn back the clock 84 years and you’ll find a West Windsor worlds removed from today’s reality. Amid vast expanses of farmland, only about 2,000 people lived in this small community, little known outside of central New Jersey. However, on the night of October 30, 1938, a young up-andcoming radio star named Orson Welles and the rest of the “Mercury Theater on the Air” radio company changed this dynamic

for good. Welles and his crew ensured that the broadcast – and the sleepy neighborhood of Grovers Mill – would take center stage in the national consciousness and live on in infamy.

That night, at 8 PM, radio listeners tuned in to a normal weather report and music by “Ramon Raquello and his orchestra,” only for the broadcast to be interrupted by several panicked “news bulletins” about unusual explosions on the surface of Mars. Although the musical program temporarily returned, it was soon cut short again – this time by reports of a strange meteorite crashing into the sleepy community of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Further interruptions portrayed a story of alien monsters emerging from the crater, beginning a Martian invasion. Until 9 PM, the radio broadcast reported a nation under attack, with the eventual battle between the military and the aliens, the invasion of New York City, and the death of thousands of East Coast residents. As in the novel, it is only pathogenic earth-based germs– alien to the Martians’ immune systems – that save the day.

According to long-held but mostly debunked popular belief, what happened during that hour and the ones that followed

was nothing short of national hysteria. Legend said that millions of people fled their homes, took their own lives, and formed militias to fight back against

the Martian aggressors. So realistic was the production that the nation was (reputedly) practically at war against a nonexistent threat. Following the broadcast, newspapers across the nation plastered the alleged “panic” on their front papers. Portraying Welles and his crew as mastermind frauds, they lambasted the production’s role in the “hysteria.”

Local Tales

And, the tales say, nowhere was this fear more heightened than in the otherwise sleepy hamlet of Grovers Mill itself. Cars reputedly backed up the streets from here to Trenton, filled with families desperate to escape the extraterrestrial menace. Telephone lines were jammed with thousands of callers looking to connect with loved ones. One legend portrays a man so intent on escaping that he backed out of his garage through the closed door, shouting at his protesting wife, “We won’t be needing it anymore!” Another tells of a drunken local farmer mistaking a water tower behind a local house as an alien tripod and peppering it with bullet holes. Even more have residents forming militias and conducting a sweep of the Wilson Farm across the river (at the back of

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Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s 1906 Illustrations for “The War of the Worlds.”

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It is true that traffic did congest Central New Jersey, and switchboard operators in Trenton were especially overwhelmed that night due to the broadcast. And residents who grew up in Grovers Mill attest to seeing bullet holes in the water tower decades later (although former residents of the house whose backyard it stands in doubt it).

However, other newspapers at the time portrayed a sleepier scenario. A November 1st, 1938 article in the New York Daily News was titled “A Martian Raid Can’t Wake Up Grover’s Mill.” The author, George Dixon, spoke to two locals, James Andersen and Wyatt Fenity, both tenants on the Wilson farm. Andersen divulged that when his wife shook him awake and told him what was happening on the radio, “[he] just looked out the window and saw everything was about the same and went back to sleep.” Fenity, meanwhile, was not even listening to the broadcast, instead turning in early that night and commenting the next morning that the “Old Mill...was still standing.”

The Larger Hoax

So where did tales of the national hysteria come from? A large amount of blame lies with newspapers. Threatened by their audible competitors, many

A large bas relief sculpture installed in 1988 in Van Nest park celebrates the broadcast and its legacy.”

journalists published articles exaggerating the national response. In fact, of a group of 5,000 regular radio listeners interviewed by the C. E. Hooper ratings service soon

after revealed that only 2 percent of them were listening to “a radio play,” “the Orson Welles program,” or something similar suggesting a CBS production. But that didn’t stop newspapers castigating the broadcasters, with editorials such as The New York Times’ “Terror of Radio” chastising the alleged irresponsibility of the producers for conjuring up a night of terror.

The international atmosphere didn’t help. The United States was still in the throes of the Great Depression when joblessness and hopelessness were omnipresent. Moreover, the looming threat of fascism across the Atlantic likely contributed to tensions, and the susceptibility of an audience to absorb disinformation.

Eight decades of tradition

Though a great deal has changed in the 8 decades since that fateful October night, the memory of the broadcast still lives on in the fabric of West Windsor. Although for years, many residents were embarrassed that our town was caught up in this incident, by 1988 – half a century after the original “panic broadcast” – our town had fully embraced this part of its identity. Following days of festivities, the township unveiled a 7.5-foot-tall bronze bas relief sculpture in Van Nest Park. The plaque was inaugurated

during a three-day ceremony jam-packed with events, including a formal dinner, art and planetarium shows, the burial of a time capsule, a bike race and a parade.

Other community ventures still commemorate the infamous broadcast. Grovers Mill Coffeehouse in the McCaffery’s complex features a cornucopia of War of the Worlds paraphernalia. The West Windsor Arts Council features a 12-foot sculpture by Eric Schultz called “Scoutship” at the corner of Scott Avenue and Alexander Road, and this year, the Historical Society has partnered with them on a townshipwide sculpture contest. And, of course, the Historical Society retains newspapers dating back to the original broadcast, as well as memorabilia from subsequent celebrations.

To this day, the “War of the Worlds” broadcast remains one of West Windsor’s best-known historical legacies, and a point of pride. With those benefits in mind: bring on the next invasion!

To contact, donate to, or volunteer for the Historical Society and explore more WW history, visit westwindsorhistory. com. We are also on social media –search “Historical Society of West Windsor” on Facebook and “@ SchenckFarmstead” on Instagram. Email us at westwindsorhistory@gmail.com.

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