Town Topics Newspaper, October 11, 2023

Princeton Nonprofits to Get $1M+ in Grants From NJ Historic Trust

Morven Museum & Garden, Dorothea’s House, and the Princeton Battle eld are slated to receive a total of approximately $1.198 million from the New Jersey Historic Trust for projects intended to save and promote historic sites.

There are 71 projects throughout the state that are on this year’s list of grant award recommendations. The New Jersey Historic Trust, an affiliate of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA), recently approved a total of more than $14 million in grant recommendations from the Preserve New Jersey Historic Preservation Fund.

Morven, former home of Richard Stockton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was awarded funds for three different projects, as it gears up for the United States Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary celebration) in 2026.

The historic 18th century house, museum, and garden will receive $500,000 for outdoor site improvements, in particular for refurbishing Morven’s driveway and parking lot, and for the addition of exterior lighting so that visitors can move safely through the grounds.

“Our regular visitors know that Morven’s driveway is a constant issue with recurring potholes each season,” said Morven Interim Director Beth Allan as quoted in a Morven press release. “A rehabilitated driveway and parking lot will provide a smoother and safer surface for entering and exiting the grounds on foot, bike, or vehicle.”

The press release added, “As we anticipate heavy visitorship in 2026, Morven requires better lighting in the parking lot, in the rear of the property, and throughout our main walking paths. Adding lighting to the historic structures will also enhance our street view while providing increased safety to visitors after dark. The upgrade will be appropriate for the historic nature of the site and energy efficient, adding additional power drops and sitewide WiFi connectivity so we can more effectively and efficiently hold outdoor events and programs.”

To support marketing efforts, Morven was awarded a $75,000 Heritage Tourism Grant from the Historic Trust, which it will use to overhaul its website, update marketing materials, create and

Council Votes to Continue Stormwater Study

Following a presentation by Clay Emerson of engineering consultants Princeton Hydro, Princeton Council approved a resolution at its Monday, October 9 meeting to proceed to the next phase of a Stormwater Utility Feasibility Study, for an amount not to exceed $149,853.

More frequent and more severe rainstorms have increased the problem of stormwater runoff in Princeton. A stormwater utility is a mechanism to raise sufcient funds for management of stormwater, and allocate its costs more equitably.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Clean Stormwater and Flood Reduction Act into law in 2019, giving municipalities the ability to create stormwater utilities and establish fees. More than 40 states already have them, but there are none so far in New Jersey, according to Emerson. “You are one of the rst municipalities to consider this,” he said.

Council rst considered creating an ordinance for a stormwater utility in 2021. Princeton Hydro was brought on in 2022.

Princeton Hydro has completed the rst phase of the four-part study, reviewing needs and analyzing data. After holding two well-attended focus groups, the consultants evaluated current services

and costs related to stormwater management, and identi ed unmet needs and future initiatives. The phase also included the analysis of data sources for fee allocation, the preparation of a potential impacts report, and user fee rate options. Phase II, Emerson said, “would be an even deeper dive.”

After conducting several interviews with municipal staff members, the consultants found that current expenditures are estimated at $760,000 a year for services

related to stormwater. The issue is typically met in a reactive rather than proactive fashion, and shifting to a proactive approach is recommended.

“That takes a stable revenue source that is bigger than what is currently available,” Emerson said. Having staff dedicated speci cally to stormwater would also be favorable, he added.

Phase II of the study will include an indepth analysis of costs, rates, educating the public, and a program plan. Four more

Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart To Close at the End of This School Year

Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart announced last week that, due to nancial challenges, it will be closing at the end of the 2023-24 school year.

The school, located on a 50-acre campus on Great Road, was founded in 1999 in seeking to meet the need for a “valuesbased” private school for boys in grades K-8, according to the Princeton Academy website.

A letter to the Princeton Academy community signed by the school’s Board of Trustees Chair Olen Kalkus and Head of School Alfred (Rik) F. Dugan reports,

“Princeton Academy continues to facenancial challenges brought on by changing demographics and rising costs.”

The letter notes that the board had been pursuing various options to keep the school open, including sales of assets, efforts to increase enrollment, additional support from donors, and possible mergers with other institutions.

The letter continues, “However, despite our best efforts to nd workable solutions, and after careful consideration, re ection, and discernment, the Board of Trustees has unanimously made the most difficult

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FUN WITH BOOKS: Author Gabrielle Balkan entertains young fans at the Princeton Children’s Book Festival on Saturday at Hinds Plaza. Presented by the Princeton Public Library, the festival featured nearly 50 acclaimed authors and illustrators of children’s literature along with arts and crafts activities. Participants share what books they found at the event in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Weronika A. Plohn)

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FIGHTING THE TEACHER SHORTAGE: Rider University’s Teacher Education Scholarship aims to inspire more young people to pursue careers in education.

Rider Increases Amount Of Education Scholarships

Rider University recently increased the award amount Teacher Education Scholarship, which was introduced earlier this year to help combat the nationwide teacher shortage. Qualified, incoming undergraduate education majors may receive up to $5,000 toward their studies.

Preparing the next generation of educators is critical as the U.S. and New Jersey struggle to fill open

“There are a number of reasons why teaching positions are difficult to fill throughout the country — large numbers of retirements and those leaving the field, and less students earning teaching degrees,” said Susan Dougherty, chair of Rider’s Department of Teacher Education. “There can also be some financial roadblocks to becoming a teacher. By increasing the

scholarship award for students who plan to dedicate their career to this vital profession, we hope to alleviate some of their financial burden.”

The scholarship is open to first-year and transfer students who enroll as undergraduate elementary education, secondary education or music education majors beginning their studies in the fall 2024 semester. Students must maintain a 3.0 GPA, enroll in 12 credits per semester and remain in good academic standing.

Rider’s extensive teacher preparation programs ensure students are prepared for teaching in multiple environments including inperson, virtual and hybrid modalities. Undergraduate students participate in numerous fieldwork experiences beginning sophomore year. Students typically have at least one or multiple fieldwork experiences per semester, culminating

in a full-semester, studentteaching experience their senior year.

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Call for Land Stewards: Join Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) in October and November for morning or afternoon Saturday volunteer sessions under the guidance of FOPOS’ director of natural resources and stewardship to assist with various conservation projects at Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. More at fopos.org/getinvolved.

Princeton Flu Vaccine Clinics: Through December, Princeton is hosting a clinic for those age 3 and older. There is no charge, but bring insurance information if you have coverage. Visit princetonnj.gov for locations and more details.

Annual Holiday Gift Drive : Princeton Human Services seeks donors to provide gifts for children age 12 and under, plus grocery store gift cards, for the holiday season. Contact Princetonnj.gov/754/Holiday-Gift-Drive by November 17.

School District Updates : Princeton Public Schools is holding forums this month about issues impacting the district this year and in the future. On October 11 at 7 p.m., a virtual forum titled “Elementary and Middle School Enrollment” is scheduled. On October 14 at 9 a.m., the topic is “Elementary and Middle School Enrollment Community Forum,” in person at Princeton Middle School. On October 18 at 7 p.m., a virtual forum on the 2023 Bond Referendum is scheduled. Visit princetonk12.org for details.

Latin American Women’s Group of Princeton Marks Forty Years of Friendship and Culture

Four decades ago, three women met in Princeton to share a cup of coffee and speak Spanish together. Married to non-Latinos and missing their native cultures, the women had encountered each other by chance, and decided to meet.

That initial coffee date was the seed for the Latin American Women’s Group of Princeton, a lively group that now numbers some 25 members who are natives of 11 Latin American countries. On Saturday, October 14, the group will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a party at the Nassau Inn.

“You have to understand, 40 years ago there was hardly anybody around here who spoke Spanish,” said Alice Faroh, current president of the group. “These women — Irene Wynne and Marta Vega from Venezuela, and Cristina Naithani from El Salvador — missed their language and their culture. When Irene happened to hear the other two speaking Spanish, she grabbed them.”

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A diverse group made up scientists, professors, psychologists, lawyers, and other professionals, the women meet in each other’s homes to host guest speakers who share an interest in Latin America. “It’s very enriching,” said Faroh, who teaches Spanish at Rider University. “We talk about different subjects. It might be science, politics, literature, or music, or a new book.”

Several professors from Princeton, Rider, and Rutgers universities, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and Penn State have given talks to the group. The list of speakers over the years numbers 280, and includes Paul Sigmund, Ignacio Walker, Michael Jimenez, and Jeremy Adelman.

Members have listened to Latin American piano compositions played by John Penacchi, Antonio Sala, and Juan Ananos. Musicologists John Burkhalter and the late Eugene Roan have given recitals of Latin American music, on instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Of course, there is food.

“It’s very important,” said Faroh. “It’s one of the main things. We have five members each month who bring a dish. We have sweets, savories, and coffee. It’s my favorite part.”

Since 1991, the group has been awarding three annual scholarships for books to 78 exceptional Latina high school graduates. During the pandemic, the women learned different perspectives about the virus from one of its members, Dr. Carmen Raventos-Suarez.

“Being a scientist brought me out of my locked world of fascination, where everything was understanding life at the cellular level,” Raventos-Suarez said. “It pushed me to the world as a whole through literature, community, social responsibilities, and the joy of being part of the future as part of a plural facet group.”

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Other members have reflected on their experiences. “Being part of this wonderful, diverse family of Latin American women has been gratifying for me,” said Delfina Lester. “We have attended a very rich, exciting, and thought-provoking variety of lectures about our countries, other countries’ cultures, science, society, books, and other interesting topics. But most importantly, we are always hungry for constant new knowledge and to have a fun time together in solid unity, speaking our beautiful language.”

Lidia Harbat said membership in the group “gives me the space I need to balance my Hispanic heritage with my American life and family.”

While most members are in their 60s, anyone can join. “We try to get younger generations,” said Faroh. “Our main idea is to keep our language alive, and learn a lot about different cultures as well as our own. It’s something all of us value.”

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Christ Congregation Hosts Talk on Human Trafficking

At its worship service at 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 15, Christ Congregation hosts Daniela Peterka-Benton as expert presenter on the topic of human trafficking. Following her presentation during the approximately one-hour worship service, Peterka-Benton will respond to questions during a postworship Q&A.

Peterka-Benton is an associate professor in the Department of Justice Studies and serves as the coordinator for the department’s International Justice concentration at Montclair State University. She has a Ph.D. in sociology with a specialization in criminology from the University of Vienna, Austria; a master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati; and a master’s degree in adult and media education from the University of Vienna.

Recently she completed a grant project funded by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice with two of her Montclair State colleagues, analyzing human trafficking data reporting, law enforcement response, and improvements for data collection methodologies such as the use of a statewide database on human trafficking. Another area of interest is the role of misinformation and disinformation on various issues including human trafficking. Her research on how QAnon has hijacked the human trafficking discourse was published in the journal Anti-Trafficking Review

The church’s co-moderator, the Rev. Robert Moore, said “We are pleased to host such an outstanding expert on this profoundly troubling human rights issue. We encourage interested community members to join us on October 15.”

Christ Congregation is located at 50 Walnut Lane in Princeton at the intersection with Houghton Street, across from Princeton High School. Parking is available at the rear of the church off Houghton, or across the street at Princeton High School. For further information, visit ccprinceton.org

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Question of the Week: “What did you find here today?”

(Asked Saturday at the Princeton Children’s Book Festival at Hinds Plaza) (Photos by Weronika A. Plohn)

“I got a book about wolf puppies and one about caterpillars. I like nature a lot.”

—Richie McDomino, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Moses: “I am very excited to find some new books. Last year at the book fair we found Barb the Last Berzerker. I hope to find some more fun books today too!”

Leandro: “The book fair is so fun! I got like 10 books today. I like the book about the fire truck the most — I will read it when I get home.”

—Moses Miller, West Windsor with Leandro Font, Princeton

Logan: “JaZams previously recommended a book by Rowboat Watkins, Rude Cakes. We loved it so much that we bought three of the other books here today. We also got Amelia Bedelia, Anna Banana, and our first graphic novel by Mika Song, Donut Feed the Squirrels.”

—Annabel and Logan McIntosh, Princeton

Hafsa: “This is our first time coming to the book festival with my nephew. We got a Amelia Bedelia book because I remember reading it myself as a child. We also saw some books about dinosaurs.”

—Ibrahim Hassan, North Brunswick with Hafsa Abid, East Windsor

Aeron: “I got the third book of the Wild Robot series by Peter Brown. I even got the author to sign it for me!”

Owen: “We got some Halloween-themed books such as Creepy Crayon, Creepy Pair of Underwear, and Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds. We got the books autographed too.”

Nikolle: “I got a novel by Anica Mrose Rissi. I cannot wait to read it!”

—Aeron and Owen Thomson-Hohl, Warminster, Pa., with Nikolle Wuen, Bethlehem, Pa.

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Story Behind “The Lawrenceville Stories”

Is Subject of Screening at Lawrence Library

Back when it was known as Lawrenceville Prep, the Lawrenceville School played host to Hollywood for several scenes of The Happy Years, a film based on Owen Johnson’s series of Lawrenceville-based stories set in the 1890s.

Johnson was a member of the class of 1895. His years at the school inspired the series that, in 1949, was turned into a feature film. In celebration of Lawrence Township History Month, The Happy Years will be screened on Thursday, October 19 at 5:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System. Jacqui Haun, Lawrenceville School archivist, will introduce the film and be on hand after the screening to answer questions.

“The stories were originally published serially, in magazines like the Saturday Evening Post,” Haun said. “They were made into a series of books, which were widely read, sort of like Tom Brown’s School Days. So Lawrenceville became well known because of those books.”

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) bought the rights to the stories in 1945. Producer

Carey Wilson, known for the Andy Hardy movies and classics like The Postman Always Rings Twice, wasn’t a Lawrenceville graduate. But he was a fan of the stories, and he wanted to bring them to the screen. After the film was released, Wilson was made an honorary member of the class of 1950.

“He said, if I’m going to make the movie, I want to do

it on campus,” said Haun. “It finally got all worked out, and in the fall of 1949, Hollywood came to Lawrenceville.”

Those familiar with the leafy campus will recognize certain building and details. “You can identify things like the wrought iron fence that runs along Main Street,” said Haun. “One of the major sections involves Green House on Main Street, which is actually the childhood home of Norman Schwarzkopf. There really were students living there, and in other houses nearby. But they didn’t film anything inside.”

Several students acted as extras in the film, which stars a very young Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Leo G. Carroll, and Scotty Beckett. Robert Wagner has a small role. William A. Wellman directed.

Stockwell plays Humperdink Stover, who is enrolled at Lawrenceville as a last chance after being expelled from both a public school and another prestigious private school. Though he manages to ostracize himself from the boys in his dorm, and make himself a target for the headmaster, young Stover finally realizes he has to straighten himself out.

The Lawrenceville campus is a National Historic Landmark known for its architecture, and in particular for its landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted. “I’ve actually had landscape architects interested in Olmsted who would come to campus and watch the film, to see how the landscape has changed,” Haun said.

The Happy Years is most directly based on The Varmint, which is part of Johnson’s series of stories. Several incidents in the story, and the film, are based on actual events and real people. “We actually have lists of who was based on who,” Haun said. “The main character in the film is fiction, though, as is his main opponent. The teacher is based on the actual person. So there is a lot of reality, but put to comic effect.”

Lawrenceville alumni used to be shown the film on occasion. But problems with getting a copy in the right format resulted in fewer screenings in recent years.

“Fortunately, it was finally digitized and made into a DVD,” said Haun. “For us, that was huge exciting news. We can keep it alive for Lawrenceville history.”

Admission to the screening is free, but registration is appreciated at mcl.org or by emailing lawprogs@mcl.org. The library is located at 2751 Brunswick Pike.

—Anne Levin

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Community Options Names

Senior Vice President

Community Options, Inc., the Princeton-based, national nonprofit organization that develops housing and employment supports for people with disabilities, has appointed Emily Kawski as senior vice president of compliance, training, and clinical supports.

Her career spans over a decade in various quality assurance and compliance roles. She received a Master of Social Service from Bryn Mawr College and a bachelor’s in social work from La Salle University.

“I am honored to join one of the most reputable organizations for quality supports in the country,” said

Kawski. “I look forward to working with the executive leadership and using my experience to make a meaningful impact on the lives of the people we support. ONLINE

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Community Options supports 5,000 people with disabilities and their families across the country. In her new role, Kawski will oversee training, clinical services, and outcome management. She will ensure that all programs are consistent with best practices for safety and quality.

“Emily is a proven leader who brings a wealth of experience and success ensuring quality of care for vulnerable populations,” said Robert Stack, Community Options’ president and CEO. “Her expertise in quality assurance will be instrumental in ensuring that we continue to provide the highest quality of care to people with disabilities.”

Kawski was most recently chief behavioral health officer at a nonprofit organization providing supportive housing and shelter services.

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Helene Lanctuit is New Leader at Princeton-Based Share My Meals

Growing rapidly on its mission to serve the food insecure and reduce the environmental impact of food waste, Princetonbased Share My Meals has appointed Helene Lanctuit as its first chief executive officer.

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Founded in 2020, Share My Meals has doubled the number of meals recovered in just the past year, distributing an average of 6,000 meals a month collected from 40 food donors.

Lanctuit intends to accelerate that growth. “It’s the best moment for me to step in,” she said. “I’m very happy to be leading this organization. There’s so much potential, and the staff is amazing.”

Share My Meals started in Princeton just before COVID-19 hit, and Lanctuit is looking to continue here while also expanding the organization’s scope. Share

My Meals is now delivering additional surplus meals to other nonprofit organizations such as Mercer Street Friends Food Bank, Princeton Mobile Food Pantry, HomeFront, Arm In Arm, and others that have a direct relationship with food insecure families in Trenton and other areas of high food insecurity.

Since 2020, Share My Meals has recovered more than 70,000 prepared meals from corporations, educational institutions, hotels, and hospitals, and served them directly to individuals in their homes or through its community partners. Among the regular donors are Bristol Myers Squibb, Novo Nordisk, and several Princeton University eating clubs.

“We are delighted to welcome Helene,” said Share My Meals President and Cofounder Isabelle Lambotte. “She has the perfect mix of knowledge, skills, and experience to take Share My Meals forward, to build greater capacity to deliver healthy meals to vulnerable people, and further reduce the environmental impact of food waste.”

Lambotte noted that Share My Meals is now serving food insecure families and individuals in Mercer, Middlesex, and Somerset counties and has saved more than 400,000 pounds of CO2 emissions from food waste. The volunteer-driven

nonprofit operates out of Dorothea’s House on John Street with a staff of just five people.

Lanctuit has 10 years of experience in corporate environmental sustainability, including three years at Nestle, where she measured and minimized food waste. She received her engineering degree from the Lille School of Engineering in France, and has held technology and engineering positions at corporations in Europe and the U.S.

She has served on the Share My Meals board of directors since October 2021.

In her new position, Lanctuit will continue to work closely with Lambotte, who will remain as president of the organization.

Lanctuit commented on the possibilities for Share My Meals and the bright prospects for innovative approaches. “It is especially important now, when the rising cost of living is driving an ever greater need for regular access to healthy food,” she said. “We find that corporations, restaurants, and other establishments want to play a positive part in their neighborhoods, reduce their food waste, and decrease their environmental impact. Share My Meals provides the link so that everyone benefits.”

Lanctuit emphasized the importance and complexity of the innovative technology that helps Share My Meals to recover and deliver its meals safely and efficiently.

The meal donors put the meals on a reusable tray that is already bar-coded, Lanctuit said. The trays are scanned when they leave the donors and again when they arrive at the hub or go to the recipient’s location. Tracking the food, which is perishable, allows Share My Meals to monitor safety and efficiency of delivery.

“We’re tracking the time it takes to get from point A to point B,” said Lanctuit. “We’ve been developing this technology, which helps us to go faster from pickup to delivery and also to communicate with our volunteers and with our food donors. All of this navigation system is included with our technology platform.” There is real time monitoring of the number of meals delivered, the dollar amount of the food, pounds of food saved, and pounds of CO2 saved.

“That’s the beauty of the program,” said Lanctuit. “The technology will enable us to do all that.”

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The Central Jersey Orchid Society will host its annual orchid auction on Saturday, October 28 at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. The auction supports the club’s mission to educate, inform, and support other orchid growers. The auction is open to the public and offers both experienced and novice growers the opportunity to bid on a variety of orchids grown by members of the club. There will also be orchids listed as “Buy it Now” that are too young or not considered auction quality. For a small price, one can buy something to grow into a beautiful blooming plant.

The Central Jersey Orchid Society was founded in 1961. Its members pride themselves on growing orchids and sharing their abundant knowledge with like-minded people. They welcome all from the beginner looking to enter the orchid-collecting hobby, to the advanced grower with decades of experience. Visit them any third Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m., September through June, at Trinity Church. The meetings feature an experienced speaker, a show table, a raffle, and lots of fun.

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Halloween Storytelling

At the Trent House

The Trent House Association will host master storyteller Denise McCormack sharing Halloween stories for all ages on Sunday, October 29 from 3 to 5 p.m. This free event will be held at the Trent House Museum, 15 Market Street, Trenton (across from the Hughes Justice Complex). Free parking is available behind the Museum property.

Apple cider and seasonal refreshments will be available. McCormack will tell age-appropriate stories for young children (up to age 8) in the historic museum building at 3:15 p.m., and repeat them at 3:40 p.m. Older children and adults will hear stories at 4:20 p.m. All storytelling listeners will receive prize bags.

McCormack has been a featured teller and workshop presenter at local and regional events, including the National Storytellers Network conferences and Philadelphia stages. Among her affiliated roles are New Jersey state liaison for the National Storytelling Network; recent past chair and board member of the New Jersey Storytelling Festival; president of Patchwork: A Storytelling Guild in Philadelphia; member of the board of the Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild; and editor of National Storytelling League’s publication Story Art.

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Princeton Academy

continued from page one decision to close operations of Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart at the end of the current school year.”

Princeton Academy will remain fully open throughout the current school year, the letter states. “Rest assured, this decision will have no impact on the 2023-24 academic year,” it says. “Princeton Academy will continue to offer the same outstanding program we have had since 1999, and all planned activities will remain unchanged.”

The board goes on to add that it is currently in discussion with Aldenham Education Group, one of the oldest schools in England, to “potentially allow for a new school, under a new banner, to begin operations in the fall of 2024.” More information about this possibility is expected to be available in the next two months.

The Princeton Academy board has been conducting a number of meetings and conversations to help the school community understand the board’s decision and the best options for the future.

“We understand that this news may come as a shock and that you will have many questions,” the letter states. “One of the questions we know will be on everybody’s mind is how Princeton Academy intends to assist students, families, faculty, staff, and alumni. We plan to engage with each group directly in a series of meetings, and we hope the initial conversations we have in the coming weeks will provide both an understanding of our decision and how we can move forward.”

Dugan declined to comment further on the school’s financial difficulties or on the demographic challenges faced by Princeton Academy.

Princeton Academy started out in 1999 with 34 students in grades K-3 and the next year grew to 94 students in K-6. It purchased the current property in December 2000, and in November 2003 received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In 2008 Princeton Academy was formally admitted into the network of Sacred Heart Schools.

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disseminate promotional material in collaboration with partner organizations, and expand its print and digital advertising outreach.

Morven was also awarded $72,300 to modernize the elevator inside the museum.

“A properly functioning elevator will ensure that our guests with mobility challenges can easily access the exhibition galleries and restrooms … and also convey to visitors that this museum is open and welcoming to everyone,” the Morven press release stated.

Princeton Mayor Mark Freda described Morven as “a jewel within our community that deserves to be properly cared for and preserved.” He continued, “And having the support of the New Jersey Historic Trust is significant towards that goal.”

Dorothea’s House, an Italian American cultural institution on John Street since 1913, has been awarded $475,718 by the Historic Trust, mainly for work on the exterior of the building in accord with its 2021 Preservation Plan, according to Ed Truscelli, a member of the Dorothea’s House Board of Trustees.

“This is great milestone for us, for the building, and for the neighborhood,” said Truscelli. The funds will be used for repairs and restoration of the masonry and stucco exterior, as well as restoration of the stairs on the John Street side of the building.

Windows and doors at the historic building will be restored with prevention of

water infiltration a priority, Truscelli added, and the parking lot behind the building will also be repaired. Also receiving funding from the New Jersey Historic Trust through the American Battlefield Trust was the Princeton Battlefield, which is lined up to receive $74,925.

DCA Acting Commissioner Jacquelyn A. Suarez commented on the importance of the New Jersey Historic Trust and its role in preserving the state’s history. “As the state’s leading voice for historic preservation, the Trust has consistently advanced historic guardianship in New Jersey for the benefit of future generations through education, stewardship, and financial investment programs that protect our traditions and strengthen our communities. This investment in historic resources will help to preserve New Jersey’s history for generations to come.”

—Donald Gilpin

Weddings

Amanda Rose Girard and Jeremy Lian Tyson

Amanda Rose Girard and Jeremy Lian Tyson were married on Sunday, October 8, 2023, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden in Staten Island, New York.

The Matrons of Honor were the bride’s two sisters Jennifer and Theresa. The Best Woman was Jeremy’s sister Michelle Hongyi Tyson. The beautiful nuptial ceremony was conducted on an autumn day. Amanda’s dress was an ivory timeless dress and Jeremy wore a custom black tuxedo with midnight blue accents. The bridal party wore custom black suits and cinnamon-colored dresses for the ladies matching the season.

Amanda works in Customer Success at CB Insights in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from CUNY-College of Staten Island and graduated from Tottenville High School. in Staten Island, New York.

Jeremy works as a Software Engineer at CB Insights in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and graduated from George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

The bride is the daughter of Deborah and Donald Girard of Staten Island, New York. The groom is the son of Holly Chen and Kenneth Charles Tyson, of Plainsboro, New Jersey. The happy couple currently reside in Bayonne, New Jersey. They have traveled extensively to Europe, the Caribbean, and within the U.S. They will continue their adventures to Asia and more countries in Europe in the upcoming year.

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continued from page one focus group meetings will be held during this phase.

Other resolutions passed by Council included one involving roof repairs to the Suzanne Patterson building, a professional services agreement for community outreach and a concept plan for Community Park South, amending the term of a professional services agreement in connection with the Princeton Safe Routes to School program, an agreement authorizing a supplement for traffic signal electrical maintenance services, a site license agreement with Crown Castle for a location near 573 Herrontown Road, and the purchase of a high water rescue truck for $257,773.

The next public meeting of Princeton Council is Monday, October 23 at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Building at 400 Witherspoon Street.

—Anne Levin

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The Sourland Conservancy is partnering with Duke Farms for the next “Talk of the Sourlands” on October 12 at 7 p.m. Mike Ballaus is the speaker at the event at Duke Farms, 1112 Dukes Parkway in Hillsborough.

The Duke Farms Deer Management Program (DMP) is one of the most successful in the state. Prior to 2004, exceedingly high resident deer herd densities on the Duke Farms property resulted in severe ecological degradation, native plant extirpation, and a dramatic loss of biodiversity. Over the last two decades, Duke Farms has implemented a strategic, aggressive, and consistently applied combination of deer management strategies which has resulted in a prolific rebound of native plant communities and overall ecosystem health. Bellaus will talk about the program’s inception, methodologies, and quantifiable results.

Bellaus has been professionally managing both flora and fauna for the purpose of ecological restoration for the last 13 years. He began his tenure at Duke Farms, where he is the manager of habitat restoration, in 2013. His primary responsibilities include working with his team to continually improve and measure the ecological integrity and biodiversity of the many habitat types that comprise the 2,700-plusacre property. He specializes in deer management with a focus on herd population reduction as well as deer management program creation and implementation.

Seating is limited, but a hybrid model will be implemented, allowing participants to join from home.

Admission to all talks is free, but registration is

required. Donations are always greatly appreciated. Membership support and donations provide the resources for the Sourland Conservancy to create educational events like this one. Register at tinyurl.com/ DukeFarmsDMPs.

Police Blotter

Fatal Motor Vehicle Crash on Mercer Road

On October 4, at 11:45 p.m., Princeton Police were dispatched to Mercer Road near Quaker Road on a report of an overturned vehicle off the roadway.

The driver, Marc Leon, a 23-year-old from Hamilton, was pronounced dead at the scene.

An initial on-scene investigation revealed that he was driving a 2019 Toyota Camry southbound on Mercer Road when the vehicle entered the southbound shoulder. The vehicle struck a boulder and began to roll, eventually stopping on the northbound shoulder of Mercer Road. The cause of the crash in under investigation.

The Police Department is requesting that anyone who witnessed the incident contact Patrolman Jonathan Myzie at (609) 921-2100, ext. 1875.

On October 6, at 3:52 p.m., it was reported that eight election lawn signs were stolen from various yards within Princeton. The signs are valued at $10 each.

On October 5, at 9:40 a.m., a South Harrison Street resident reported that a neighbor entered their residence without authorization to do so. As a result, a 63-year-old male was placed

CANDID CONVERSATION: Princeton Adult School is kicking off its 85th year with “Behind the Byline: A Candid Conversation on the Media,” on Sunday, October 22 from 3 to 4 p.m. at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1200 Stuart Road. At the event, Jenny Carchman, and award-winning documentary film producer and director, and Mark Mazzetti, a Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist for the New York Times, will discuss what it’s like to work in a 24/7 news world. For more information and tickets, visit princetonadultschool.org or call (609) 683-1101.

under arrest and transported to police headquarters where he was processed, charged, and released.

On October 4, at 12:14 a.m., subsequent to a building check on Paul Robeson Place, a 20-year-old Princeton male was placed under arrest, after previously being advised that he was not permitted on the premises. He was transported to police headquarters where he was processed, charged, and released.

On October 4, at 9:56 a.m., a Spruce Street resident reported that an unknown individual gained access to her email and as a result, was able to fraudulently transfer and obtain $53,705.58 from her.

On. October 4, at 5:29 p.m., an employee of a retail establishment on State Road reported that two unknown persons entered the store and stole $913.20 worth of merchandise. A review of surveillance footage revealed that a third person acted as a lookout while the other two took the merchandise.

On October 2, at 11:31 a.m., someone reported that an unknown individual stole their cell phone while they were at an establishment on Palmer Square East.

On September 30, at 4:26 p.m., it was reported that an unknown individual entered a Hulfish Street retail establishment and shoplifted several items valued at $27.97.

On September 28, at 9:08 a.m., the owner of a State Road retail establishment reported that two vehicles had their catalytic converters stolen while the vehicles were parked in front of the building. The theft resulted in a loss of between $2,400 and $2,600 per vehicle. Unless noted, individuals arrested were later released. TOWN

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Thanking All Involved with PBC’s Successful Links to Youth Golf Outing

To the Editor:

On Friday, September 22, the Princeton-Blairstown Center (PBC) held its eighth annual Links to Youth Golf Outing at the Fox Hollow Golf Club in Branchburg. This event drew 90 golfers and guests and raised $75,000, which will support PBC’s award-winning Summer Bridge Program. Each year, Summer Bridge offers hundreds of students from Trenton, Newark, and Camden a high-quality summer enrichment experience focused on social emotional learning, literacy, and STEM completely free of charge.

At the dinner celebration following the outing, PBC presented the Ev Pinneo Award to the Rev. Alison Boden, Ph.D. Established in 2018 as part of the 110th Anniversary of the Center, the Ev Pinneo Award is given to a volunteer or staff member who has gone above and beyond in their dedication and commitment to the mission of the Princeton-Blairstown Center, in much the same way that Ev has throughout his seven-decade association with PBC. Alison is the dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University and served on the PBC Board for 15 years, helping to shepherd the organization through its transition from a support organization of the University to the independent nonprofit that it is today.

The winning foursome for the day was the team from Beyond Payments and included Brian Bernabe, Peter Cappiello, Greg Farrell, and Mike Peters

This event supports the mission of the Princeton-Blairstown Center to serve young people, primarily from historically marginalized communities, by nurturing their social-emotional skills through experiential, environmental, and adventure-based programming. Developing these skills enables participants to engage in self-discovery and transform their communities to create a more just world. PBC strives for a future in which young people exhibit personal resilience and compassion, embrace expanded possibilities for their lives, and enact positive change within their communities and the world.

Thanks to our event sponsors Kathy and Bruce Petersen; the Iyer Family; NRG Energy; Bank of America NJ Markets; Beyond Payments; Robin and Chris Van Buren; AMSkier Insurance; Tamara Simpkins Franklin; Geeta and Bruce Ellsworth; Pam Gregory and David Palladino; Peggy and Russell DaSilva; R.G. Hoffman Electrical Contractor; Claudia Franco Kelly and Scott Kelly; Northfield Bank; Suman Rao and Kaushik Arunagiri; Sarah and Mark Antin; Lubaina Maimoon; Marc Engelsman; Haley and Aldrich; Imbue Creative; Mea and Al Kaemmerlen; Lear and Pannepacker; Payday; and PBC Senior Leadership Team.

We are also tremendously grateful to our Links to Youth co-chairs, Heather Reilly and Derek Simpkins, for their time, energy, and effort organizing and executing this successful event.

PAM GREGORY

President and CEO, Princeton-Blairstown Center Roszel Road

Bierman, Hubbard Will Bring Wise, Pragmatic Views to BOE

To the Editor:

I am writing to recommend Adam Bierman and Eleanor Hubbard for the PPS Board of Education. Both Adam and Eleanor will bring a wise and pragmatic point of view to the Board — qualities much in need at this time. They each have long experience with education that will serve them well in these roles.

Adam has an almost preternatural ability to identify practical solutions to educational problems and issues. Eleanor has distinguished herself in many ways but came to my attention as an able and effective advocate for proper math instruction at PPS. Please consider giving them your vote.

CHARLES LARSEN Overbrook Drive

Tuck-Ponder is Proven Leader with Experience, Vision to Guide School District Into Future

To the Editor:

I urge the Princeton community to join me in supporting Michele Tuck-Ponder for reelection to the Princeton Board of Education.

I first met Michele in 1993, and served as her campaign manager in her inaugural run for Princeton Township Committee. We have remained friends over the past 30 years. I have observed, up close, her dedicated service to our community and her skills as a public servant. She listens well, carefully considers all views and opinions, gathers facts and data, and makes decisions grounded in integrity and accountability.

Our school district faces many challenges today and in the future, but two of the most important are fiscal responsibility and equity for all students. Michele has consistently demonstrated her commitment to both of these principles during her three years on the Board of Education.

As a 33-year resident of Princeton, former mayor and member of Township Committee, commissioner of the Princeton Housing Authority, and chair of the District Equity Committee, Michele has a deep understanding of the intersecting issues of fiscal responsibility and equity.

For example, in her first year on the Board of Education, Michele had the courage to stand alone and vote against a $129M referendum because she believed that there had not been sufficient investigation into the best possible use of existing space, expansion, and facility improvement. She also knows that all budget and program decisions must be made within the context of our educational strategy and goals for the future.

Michele is committed to ensuring that our facilities are the right facilities for developing the 21st century skills that all of our children need, regardless of their career and life goals. She also knows that we must make every financial decision through the lens of equity. That’s why she supported the purchase of laptops for every student, so that every student had equal access and opportunity to learn during the COVID pandemic via remote learning.

Michele is the right person to ensure that every decision, both financial and otherwise, will be made through the double lens of equity and financial accountability. She is a proven leader who has the experience and vision to guide our school district into the future.

I urge you to vote for Michele for reelection to the Princeton Board of Education. She is the best person to lead our district on a path of fiscal strength and equity for all students.

KAREN A. JEZIERNY Mount Lucas Road

Writing in Support of Behrend, Hubbard, PPS Bond Referendum

To the Editor:

I am a parent of three PPS children (one each at Littlebrook, PMS, and PHS), and I’m writing to support the candidacies of Beth Behrend and Eleanor Hubbard for the Board of Education and the upcoming referendum to support the public schools.

Beth is running for reelection to the Board after having served two highly effective terms. During Beth’s time on the Board, the schools expanded free Pre-K and stabilized district finances while successfully and amicably negotiating a five-year labor contract that ensured our ability to retain top teaching talent at a time of nationwide teacher shortages. Beth’s tenure as president coincided with the darkest days of the pandemic, and I marveled at the grace, empathy, and good sense with which she navigated the competing imperatives of keeping our children and teachers healthy and keeping our schools up and running, all in the face of considerable public scrutiny. For the past several years, Beth has devoted her energies to the district’s future as the chair of the Board’s long-term planning committee, in which capacity she leads the Board’s crucial efforts to plan for considerable increases in enrollment and update our long-neglected facilities. As a seasoned attorney, Beth brings her legal and strategic acumen along with her deep knowledge of district finances and experience in board governance to this essential planning work, and I am profoundly grateful to Beth for running to serve another term to see this work through.

I’ve known Eleanor since we met in Princeton University’s history department 12 years ago. For five years, we served together on the board of UNOW, the University’s affiliated child care, during which time the center doubled in size. Throughout this time, I was consistently impressed by Eleanor’s sharp intelligence and her roll-up-her-sleeves willingness to take on any responsibility, big or small, from organizing monthly parent coffees to serving as Board president. She was integral to the renegotiation of UNOW’s contract with Princeton University in 2022, safeguarding the center’s competitive teacher compensation and excellent teacher/student ratios while laying important groundwork for a robust scholarship program. Her tenure was guided by her commitment to teachers, to quality education, and to increasing access for all children, regardless of socioeconomic background — principles that have continued to guide Eleanor’s advocacy in the public school context and her campaign to join the Board. UNOW benefited tremendously from Eleanor’s wise leadership, and I am delighted that PPS now also has the opportunity to benefit from Eleanor’s committed service.

Voters should also support the Princeton schools’ bond referendum. The funds will cover key security improvements, playground enhancements, sustainability measures, essential wireless network improvements, and basic maintenance. Passing the referendum is critical both for student wellness and to ensure the long-term viability of school facilities. Moreover, the referendum gives Princeton access to $5 million in state debt service aid that would otherwise be unavailable. I enthusiastically encourage all Princetonians to vote for Beth, for Eleanor, and for the school bond referendum on November 7!

JANE MANNERS Wheatsheaf Lane

School Board Candidate Obregon Understands Lifelong Impact of Quality Public School Education

To the Editor:

We have known Rene Obregon Jr. for more than 20 years, are thrilled to support his run for School Board. He is a tenacious, hard worker who stops at nothing to get the full information necessary to make difficult decisions. But besides that, Rene just has a lot of common sense.

Rene is a first-generation college graduate, the son of a Cuban welder and Peruvian nurse, who understands the lifelong impact of a quality public school education. He believes our children deserve the best education that our public schools can and should offer.

Rene is not afraid of asking uncomfortable questions or voicing unpopular opinions. He is an involved member of the community who is fair, kind, and reasonable, with an eye for quality while being realistic and fiscally responsible.

There are no perfect School Boards, however Rene Obregon Jr. would be an amazing addition to ours.

KAREN AND ROBERT EHEE Wendover Drive

Beth Behrend is Well Informed About Schools, Greater Princeton Community

To the Editor:

I am writing to lend my support to Beth Behrend’s candidacy for reelection to the Princeton Board of Education.

I was on the Princeton Board of Education for two terms 30 years ago. Beth lives in Riverside neighborhood, as do I, and our dogs are pals. On occasion we walk our dogs together and chat. I learn from Beth about what is happening at the moment in the Princeton schools and in the region. I know firsthand about the enormous amount of data and other relevant materials given to Board members. It is clear to me that she does her homework.

She is well informed about all aspects of our local schools as well as being aware of what is happening in Princeton, Mercer County, and the state of New Jersey. She works very hard, and is good at being a responsible public servant. From our conversations, I have listened to her try to think through the best ways to gather community input on various matters and try to figure out the best way forward that benefits the broad range of interests of the people in our community.

I have not sensed any specific agenda that she has other than the important one of serving the entire community by helping the Princeton Public Schools improve over time. I am pleased that she is running again. She has my vote.

MICHAEL LITTMAN Riverside Drive

Michele Tuck-Ponder Will Continue Work to Ensure Excellence, Equity for All PPS Students

To the Editor:

We are supporting Michele Tuck-Ponder for a second threeyear term on the Princeton BOE. The past three years have been challenging for our Board and our schools: keeping our students and staff safe through the COVID-19 pandemic, handling the high school principal controversy, and seeking solutions to our future facilities needs to address the exploding development in Princeton, just to name a few.

Princeton is not unique in that regard. Education is at the forefront of culture wars, and Princeton is not immune from those who advocate for a conservative agenda, and a public education system that serves the few, as opposed to all children.

Michele’s priorities remain the same: to be a consistent advocate for all students to have the opportunity to achieve excellence through an equitable and fair education in our schools.

Over the past three years, Michele has worked with the PPS staff to present a variety of career options to our high school students through the sponsorship of the fi rst PHS Career Fest; co-chaired the Labor Negotiations team, which resulted in successful contracts with the district’s three labor unions; and served on the Long Term Facilities Committee, working to ensure equitable access to schools by our students residing in low income and public housing and bringing to the forefront the “hidden costs” of curricular and extracurricular activities, which exclude students due to the astronomical costs required in order to participate.

Leadership experience matters! Michele is an experienced leader, one committed to public service, who can be trusted to build on her solid record of working to ensure excellence and equity for every student in the Princeton Public Schools. We hope that you will vote for Michele so that we can continue to ensure a safe and effective educational environment, a focus on 21st century learning skills, and fiscal responsibility.

ROBIN BIRKEL Meetinghouse Court

Rene Obregon Has Intelligence, Integrity, Energy to Take School District Forward

To the Editor:

We are writing to recommend Rene Obregon for the Princeton Public Schools Board. Rene has the intelligence, integrity, and energy to take the district forward after some difficult years.

We have known Rene, his wife Karolin, and his children for nearly 10 years. In that time, we have discussed many things with him including interesting political conversations. What is notable is that we have not always agreed, but the discussion has always been constructive. In an era where politics are tribal and your side is always right (and the other always wrong), debating with Rene reminds me of how things should be. He is a truth seeker, willing to learn from others but never blindly accepting. He is an honest broker with the facts.

We fully expect that Rene will slowly change the dynamic in the district. Like many residents, we have been incredibly disappointed with the soap opera that has been played out over the last few years. We believe Rene has the personality and people skills to address the drama and force the Board

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to look beyond the current blinkered approach. Change probably won’t be quick and it is very unlikely to be easy, which is why Rene is particularly right for the role at this time. He might have to take a few punches from those who want to keep the status quo, but Rene has the resilience to bounce back, survive, and eventually thrive.

Rene is a larger than life personality with the right curiosity, charisma, and, critically, the right motives for Princeton Public School. We believe he is the best candidate to help the Board deliver the high quality schools that Princeton children deserve.

JEREMY AND JENNIFER PENSTON Red Hill Road

Thanking All Involved in Success Of First Altamura Legacy Concert

To the Editor:

This letter is to thank everyone who helped attract a warmly appreciative sold-out audience for the first of the Altamura Legacy Concerts. We particularly appreciated the Town Topics article by Anne Levin [“New Concert Series at Methodist Church Features Eclectic Lineup of Artists,” September 20, page 5] and the photo caption that labeled the piano as the star. Indeed, that is the goal.

Cristina Altamura has loaned her exquisitely restored 100-year-old Steinway to Princeton United Methodist Church. Her aim is to rally the excellent musicians in the community in addition to international guest artists who uphold high standards and deserve a platform. She believes that the unusually extraordinary craftsmanship of the 1924 grand piano, with its original soundboard and original cast iron frame, evokes an era that has passed and that can be inspiring for the next generation of young pianists in our community.

REV.

JENNY SMITH WALZ

Lead Pastor, Capital District Multi-site Ministry Initiative

LORI PANTALEO

Princeton United Methodist Church Leadership Board Vandeventer Avenue

Kurt Tazelaar Laid Groundwork for Restoration of Herrontown Woods

To the Editor:

Though mentioned in his obituary [Obituaries, September 6, page 31], Kurt Tazelaar’s tremendous contribution to the Princeton community through his work at Herrontown Woods and Autumn Hill Reservation is worthy of elaboration. Since 2007, I had been trying to stir interest in restoring Herrontown Woods, along with the Veblen House and Cottage — all part of Princeton’s and Mercer County’s first nature preserve. But it wasn’t until I met Kurt and his wife-to-be Sally in 2013 that things got going.

Hurricane Sandy had come through the year before,

making long-neglected trails truly impassable. That summer, Kurt took the project on, assisted by Sally and me. Many trails had disappeared altogether, giving us this weird sense of being on the frontier rather than on the outskirts of Princeton, as we looked for signs in the forest of where the trails might once have led. Later on, Kurt began amending the trails, rerouting them towards drier ground and more interesting topography. With Sally and other volunteers, he did the lion’s share of clearing of invasive vines and brush around the Veblen House and Cottage, and where Princeton’s Botanical Art Garden now stands.

Viewing Herrontown Woods as his gym, Kurt literally laid the groundwork for so much that has followed. He was aided by a deep love of rocks —the bigger the better, limited only by his remarkable strength and the carrying capacity of my ’94 Ford Ranger. Rocks in Herrontown Woods are round, and so we scavenged flat rocks from nearby developments. These he hauled up the trails with a hand truck, and set them carefully in place with the goal that, 50 years from now, they would still be serving as dry passage over streams and muddy ground.

One thing I regret is not having recorded his sonorous voice when he gave me a tour of his plan for the purple trail, on 7.5 acres that we had convinced the developer of Windy Top to donate. The land was clogged with nonnative shrubs and a massive clone of wisteria, but Kurt could see beyond that to a future landscape freed of invasive plants. Undeterred by his battle with cancer, he described where the trails would lead, and the cleared vistas hikers would enjoy.

It speaks to the importance of art in the world that the Friends of Herrontown Woods — now with people of many backgrounds caring for 230 acres of public land — was founded by artists with a vision and a hands-on approach. I have a background in science and music. Sally has made her living as an arts educator. And Kurt was an original in everything he put his hands to, be it guitar or painting or trail building. He built a giant bird’s nest out of the sprawling wisteria vines he cut down on the Veblen House grounds. He had the mind of an artist and a body that reveled in the exhilaration of physical work, and found his finest canvas in Herrontown Woods.

STEVE HILTNER

North Harrison Street

Hiltner is president of the Friends of Herrontown Woods (HerrontownWoods.org).

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Studio Hillier’s Retrospective On Distinctive Body of Work

Hillier: Selected Works, available later this fall, is an illustrated guide to Studio Hillier’s unconventional and much-acclaimed awardwinning architectural path. The book (ORO Editions, $60) is by Studio Hillier of Princeton, J. Robert Hillier, and Barbara A. Hillier.

The forward is by Stan Allen, American architect, theorist, and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture. He writes in his introduction that two core ideas — architecture’s capacity to better the lives of those who come in contact with it, and the concept of architecture as a vocation — “are exemplified by the firm’s longstanding commitment to education.”

Both J. Robert Hillier (a Town Topics shareholder) and the late Barbara A. Hillier enjoyed accomplished careers, growing the firm to 500 people and executing nearly 4,000 projects in 27 states and 34 foreign countries. The quality of the firm’s work has been honored with over 350 design awards.

In 2008, Hillier Architecture, then one of the

largest firms in the country, merged with a foreign firm to create the third largest architectural firm worldwide. Studio Hillier LLC was co-founded in 2011 by partners Barbara A. Hillier, AIA, and J. Robert Hillier, LHD, FAIA, PP. Together for more than 30 years, they formed the backbone of a vibrant, growing fullservice architectural studio, working collaboratively with experts in the region and elsewhere who bring excellence and knowledge of the latest building technologies including prefabrication and environmental systems and the preservation of historic structures. The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture and Design was renamed the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design, celebrating the Hilliers’ commitment to providing more equitable access to design education.

J. Robert Hillier (Bob) is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from New Jersey Institute of Technology and an Honorary MBA from Bryant University. Other

honors include the Legacy Award from the Urban Land Institute, the AIA’s Michael Graves Lifetime Achievement Award, and The President’s Medal from NJIT. He is also a Trustee Emeritus at McCarter Theatre Center.

Barbara A. Hillier, who died in November 2022, was the recipient of many honors and awards, most recently for the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas and for the BD Campus Center, which received the distinguished Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. Barbara Hillier opened and led the firm’s Philadelphia office for 11 years, which helped build the firm’s national reputation.

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Achievement Pressure is Topic Of Library Zoom Author Event Award-winning journalist Jennifer Wallace will be joined by psychologist Melissa Greenberg to discuss Wallace’s recent book Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It in a Zoom event presented by the Princeton Public Library on

Wednesday, October 18 from 7 to 8 p.m. Registration is at princetonlibrary. libnet.info/events.

Never Enough ( Portfolio , $15.99) investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. As part of the Mayors Wellness Campaign, Wallace and Greenberg will examine how can we teach children to strive toward excellence without “crushing” them, and offer parents advice and tools to help raise healthy achievers. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, Wallace exposes how the pressure to perform is baked in to our larger society and spurred by increasing income inequality and dwindling opportunities. As a result, children are increasingly absorbing the message that they have no value outside of their accomplishments, a message that is reinforced by the media and greater culture at large. Through research and interviews with today’s leading child psychologists, Wallace shows that selfworth not contingent upon external achievements is what matters.

Wallace , a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and television news, began her journalism career at CBS’ 60 Minutes . She is a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Greenberg’s research has examined how the process of regulating emotions is understood in contemporary psychotherapy practice, focusing on psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, and emotion-focused therapy models. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University and has held clinical positions at Lenox Hill Hospital, Zucker Hillside Hospital, and the Rutgers University Counseling Service. She has a private practice in Princeton and New York City.

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Author Bikes Underground Railroad, Presents Book Findings at Updike

Author David Goodrich will talk about stories and heroes chronicled in his book, On Freedom Road: Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings on the Underground Railroad at the Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, on October 16 from 6 to 7 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Princeton, with Princeton Public Library. The event is free; register at princetonhistory.org.

On Freedom Road (Pegasus Books, $27.95) is the result of Goodrich’s traveling the routes of the Underground Railroad by bicycle over four years. On his 3,000-mile trek east of the Mississippi, Goodrich followed the route of Harriet Tubman, from where she was enslaved in Maryland, on the eastern shore, all the way to her family sanctuary at a tiny chapel in Ontario, Canada. He also followed Underground Railroad routes in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.

“Climate scientist Goodrich documents his bike rides along ‘routes of the Underground Railroad’ in this illuminating blend of history and travelogue,” says Publisher’s Weekly. “Throughout, Goodrich reveals how slavery is remembered and misremembered in America, and makes a convincing case that ‘national trauma, like a wound, tends to heal when it’s exposed to air.’ It’s a harrowing yet inspirational ride.”

Goodrich is the former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Observations and Monitoring Program, and served as the director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of A Hole in the Wind, which was a One City, One Book pick for San Francisco, and A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean. He lives in Rockville, Md.

Fitzgerald’s “Gatsby” Headlines the Library Book Sale

Alittle over two months ago, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was all the rage, and Princeton and the Garden Theatre were at the center of the cinematic universe. A little over 10 years ago, in May 2013, Baz Luhrman’s big, jazzy, flamboyantly picturesque improvisation on The Great Gatsby was all the rage, and Princeton and the Garden Theatre were again at the center of the cinematic universe. One big difference is that Oppenheimer himself, or Hollywood’s version of him, was the hero, or anti-hero, of the celebration. Ten years ago the true hero, Gatsby’s creator F. Scott Fitzgerald, seemed to be the forgotten man, overshadowed by his own creation.

As I wrote at the time, “Gatsby lives, while his creator, the poet laureate of Old Nassau, is a tragic phantom. The charismatic Gatsby is front and center along with the Great Baz and a lot of chatter about poor boys, rich girls, and the American dream, while Fitzgerald seems to be hanging on to his creation’s coattails.” And when the author died in 1940, a self-confessed Jazz Age has-been, the novel appeared to be dead as well. Dorothy Parker famously made the connection, so the story goes, with her remark, “The poor son of a bitch” at Fitzgerald’s passing, a direct quote of the comment made by the only one of Gatsby’s party people who bothered to come to his funeral.

The Man in the Library

Since a first edition of The Great Gatsby is among the headline items at this year’s Friends and Foundation of the Princeton Public Library Book Sale, it makes sense to begin in the “high Gothic library” of Gatsby’s Long Island mansion. As the novel’s narrator Nick Carraway wanders into a room “paneled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas,” he is greeted by “a stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles” sitting “somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books.” He’s quite excited, having discovered that the books are “absolutely real — have pages and everything.” To prove it, he goes to the bookcases and comes back with a volume of the Stoddard Lectures , presenting it as “a bona fide piece of printed matter ... What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop too — didn’t cut the pages.”

Would you believe that the only one of the Gatsby crowd who came to his funeral and made the famous remark was the man in the library?

The World of Books

My first exposure to secondhand books came at the age of 10. I can still see the row of shops along both sides of Fourth Avenue in the bookish gloom of a late December Manhattan afternoon. My father turned me loose in the general direction

of the Hardy Boys and Baseball, and so my life in the world of books began. The character Nick eventually refers to as “Owl-Eyes” had settled down in Gatsby’s library to sober up after being drunk for a week. It was the other way around for a 10-year-old going from the sober light of day into the excitement of a vast, mysterious realm of books towering overhead like a city within the city.

Eight years later, for no more than a few dollars, I bought a soft-covered 1934 Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby in one of the same Fourth Avenue bookshops. As the novel’s reputation rose from relative obscurity to the pinnacle of literary prestige in the decades after the author’s sudden death in December 1940, so did the cost. The Gatsby first edition being offered for sale by the Friends and Foundation of the Library would have gone directly to an auction house had it been wrapped in the dust jacket bearing Francis Cugat’s visionary cover showing the eyes of Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby’s dream and his doom, “whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs … sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth.” Dressed in that jacket, a plain green volume similar to the library’s copy recently sold for $377,000.

Alone and Alone

Fitzgerald’s introduction for the edition I bought in 1957 and still own gave it a value beyond numbers, thanks to the closing words:

“No one felt like this before — says the young writer — but I felt like this; I have a pride akin to a soldier going into battle; without knowing there will be anyone there, to distribute medals or even to record it.” The final sentence is set apart for maximum impact: “But remember, also, young man: you are not the first person who has ever been alone and alone.”

At work on my first novel when I read those words, I decided of course that Fitzgerald was speaking to me, and that only young writers like myself understood what was meant by “alone and alone.”

“The Promises of Life”

For the first time since the 1960s, I just read my original copy of Gatsby all the way through, with attention to the parts the “young writer,” or YW, read and marked and read over again that special summer. The first mark appears on the opening page, when Nick Carraway recalls being “privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men” — which was like a reprise

of the “alone alone” message: the hint of special access.

A page later there’s a ballpoint star next to the first reference to Gatsby: “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”

Finding it impossible to sit still after reading that sentence, the YW walks around the room with it asking himself why the word gorgeous sounds so right in a sentence that ends “ten thousand miles away.” And why is it especially right when read aloud on a warm New York night when “the promises of life” seem to be waiting outside the window in the paths and lights and voices and murmurous breezes of Washington Square?

The Valley of Ashes

Nothing in the opening chapter prepares you for what Fitzgerald creates out of “a certain desolate area of land” in Chapter 2: “This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-gray men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ashgrey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.”

And while you’re gazing “above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it,” you see the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which “are blue and gigantic,” with retinas “one yard high” looking “out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.”

Now there’s nothing for it but to walk out into the New York summer night. No use marking the passage when nothing can be said. So the YW walks up Sixth Avenue as far as 23rd Street and then back down to finish the chapter. But first the excited YW heads for his Olympia typewriter and starts pounding away. Will he write anything even remotely as amazing as the Valley of Ashes? Of course not, but it feels good to believe you’re following

the same line, breathing in the luminous dust left in the magician’s wake, putting words together, looking for some comparable wonder, even if only a hint of it.

Soldier Readers

In last Saturday’s New York Times, an article on the impact of the Armed Forces paperback editions sent by the U.S. government to troops during World War II (“Powerful Weapons In Their Pockets”) reminded me of the stray volumes from the series that occasionally turned up on the tables at past library book sales. I don’t know that the donations ever included a copy of the Armed Forces edition of The Great Gatsby like the one shown in the article, but I was interested to read that these editions “also boosted the fortunes of some authors,” notably Fitzgerald, whose Gatsby, published in 1925, “had barely sold 20,000 copies.” After it was selected as an Armed Services Edition, “more than 120,000 copies were distributed, spurring its transformation into a classic.”

So it seems that three years after his death, Fitzgerald’s finest novel, which he wrote with “a pride akin to a soldier going into battle,” was going into real battles with soldier readers as well as young writers with “some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.” One such writer was J.D. Salinger, who wrote The Catcher in the Rye on and off the battlefield and who pays tribute to Fitzgerald’s influence by way of Holden Caulfield: “I was crazy about The Great Gatsby, Old Gatsby. Old sport. That killed me.”

Some Special Offerings

Some of the other special items in addition to Gatsby at this year’s Friends and Foundation Book Sale are the English edition of Zelda Fitzgerald’s autobiographical novel Save Me the Waltz ; signed copies of Toni Morrison’s novels Love and A Mercy ; Kurt Gödel’s On Formally Undecidable Propositions ; the Italian dancer Carlo de Blasis’s L’Uomo Fisico, Intellettuale e Morale (a scarce, beautifully illustrated book published in 1857); a signed copy of photographer Richard Avedon’s In the American West ; 1970s Delacorte editions of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater ; a signed first edition of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation’s Edge ; and firsts of Ian Fleming’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

For detailed information about the sale, which begins with a preview on Friday, October 13, from noon to 12 p.m., and ends with a half-price day on Sunday from noon to 5:30 p.m., email cbertrand@princetonlibrary.org, or call (609) 924-9529 x 1227.

—Stuart Mitchner

MUSIC REVIEW

Princeton University Orchestra Opens Season with Captivating Cello Soloist

Fall always brings lively audiences to Richardson Auditorium for the University’s ensemble concerts, with anticipation of the new academic year and students cheering each other on. Princeton University Orchestra began its 2023-24 season this past weekend with two performances in Richardson featuring both the newest Orchestra roster of talented students and one student musician in particular who successfully tackled one of the most difficult works in the repertory.

Led by conductor Michael Pratt, Friday night’s performance (the concert was repeated Saturday night) continued the ensemble’s multi-year tradition of paying tribute to Ukraine with the playing of Elegie by Ukrainian composer and ethnomusicologist Mykola Lysenko. The Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff works which comprised the bulk of Friday’s program showcased the full capabilities of the Orchestra, and Pratt felt that for this season opener, the voice of Ukraine should also be heard. Lysenko originally composed Elegie as a solo piano piece, and the instrumental version played by the Orchestra was created by composer Vsevolod Sirenko and one of Princeton’s own — Class of 1983 graduate Hobart Earle, currently conductor of Ukraine’s Odesa Regional Philharmonic. This arrangement preserved Lysenko’s keyboard charm while reflecting the composer’s desire to retain Ukraine’s distinct identity within the country’s Russian historical influence.

Beginning with Alessandro Troncoso’s lyrical flute solo, the University Orchestra brought out the music’s melodic lushness and poignancy. Conductor Pratt created effective rubatos , aided by clean horn playing and allowed the piece to fade away as an expressive musical commentary.

Dmitri Shostakovich composed Concerto No. 1 for Cello in 1959 for renowned Russian Mstislav Rostropovich. Considered one of the most challenging pieces in the cello/orchestral repertory, the four-movement concerto includes both a motivic acknowledgement to the composer and a quirky musical acquiescence to Russian dictator Josef Stalin, whose political actions could not help but influence Shostakovich’s music. The concerto is scored for unusually small wind and brass sections, as well as an extended cello solo cadenza.

Featured cello soloist in the Orchestra’s performance was University senior Aster Zhang, who was a winner of last year’s Orchestra Concerto Competition. Zhang

has already amassed an impressive resumé of performances both nationwide and abroad and is combining her performance and conducting studies with University certificates in finance and applied mathematics within a degree program in economics. From the opening solo cello passages, Zhang showed herself to be poised and accomplished, intent and decisive in bringing the most out of the music.

The Orchestra began Shostakovich’s work with martial winds against Zhang’s crisp solo playing. Zhang explored a wide range of dynamics throughout the performance, with even the softest playing speaking well in the hall. Considering the large numbers of strings onstage, Pratt kept the overall sound well under control.

As the sole French horn, Clara Conatser added a lyrical color to the orchestral palette, and passages for solo cello and solo horn were especially elegant.

The second movement “Moderato” was marked by lush and mournful strings, and a linear melody from soloist Zhang was richly accompanied by sectional violas. Climbing double bass lines provided a solid foundation to the sound, offset by a delicate combination of solo cello and celeste. Zhang played the improvisatory cadenza which followed this movement taking command of the double stops and simultaneous melodies, concluding with rapid and fiery virtuosity. Zhang especially verified her poise and professionalism in the closing movement, when upon snapping a string on the cello, she seamlessly finished the concerto with the instrument of principal cellist Brandon Cheng — a sign of true collaboration between Orchestra and soloist.

Pratt and the University Orchestra concluded Friday night’s concert with a spirited performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45. Rachmaninoff’s 1940 three-movement work, the last of his life, was both a study in orchestral colors and a summary of Russian musical traditions past, including quotes from liturgical chant and folk song. Pratt kept tempi moving along throughout the Dances , with a great deal of dialog among the winds. Bass clarinetist Nirel Amoyaw and saxophonist Isaac Yi added unique instrumental colors, and a solid brass section created a percussive contrast to cinematic strings. Pratt called Symphonic Dances one of his personal favorites, and Friday night’s performance allowed both players and audience to enjoy the rich and complex music of all the composers presented.

—Nancy Plum

Princeton University Orchestra will present its next set of concerts on Friday, December 1 and Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium. The Orchestra will be joined by the University Glee Club for these performances; ticket information can be obtained by visiting tickets.princeton.edu.

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including children with autism or other special needs.

The performance is presented in a judgment-free environment, and is less formal and more supportive of sensory, communication, movement, and learning needs.

Tickets are $5 for children and $10 for adults, available at puc.princeton.edu or (609) 258-2800.

“PUC has always been committed to accessibility,” said PUC Director Marna Seltzer. “We leaned further into this with our first relaxed-format CMS Kids concerts last spring. It was such a joyous afternoon of music and imagination, and Rami Vamos immediately connected with our audiences. We are so happy to have Rami and the musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center back with a new relaxed format, family friendly program.”

SPINE-TINGLER: Actors David Acton and Ben Porter star in “The Woman in Black,” coming to McCarter Theatre Center October 13-29. The London production of the thriller by Stephen Mallatratt is among the longest-running plays in London. (Photo

“The Woman in Black”

Comes to McCarter

The original London production of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black , adapted by Stephen Mallatratt and directed by Robin Herford, begins performances October 13 at McCarter Theatre Center and runs through October 29.

Based on Susan Hill’s 1983 classic horror novel, The Woman in Black grew to global acclaim and terrified thrill-seeking audiences for 33 years on the West End, becoming one of the longest-running plays in London and inspiring a film franchise starring Daniel Radcliffe.

“It’s unusual for a live theater experience to make an audience actually scream,” said Executive Director Martin Miller. “I’ve seen The Women in Black on London’s West End, where it ran for more than three decades as a sell-out, smash hit. Trust me, the audience screamed. It’s exactly the caliber of production that McCarter audiences have come to expect, with highoctane thrills and entertainment value. Perfect for a spooky October night.”

In this production, audiences will be transported back in time as an old man recounts the eerie events of his youth. Journeying into the misty English countryside, he grapples with settling the estate of a family entrenched in a tragic history that continues to haunt

(quite literally) anyone who dares come too close.

“We are thrilled to present The Woman in Black at McCarter straight from London’s West End. It’s a mustsee for anyone who enjoys the spine-tingling sensation of being on the edge of their seat,” said McCarter Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen.

With a combined total of more than 1,000 previous performances of The Woman in Black in London, New York City, and beyond, the cast includes Antony Eden (The Actor), Ben Porter (Arthur Kipps/The Actor), and David Acton (Arthur Kipps).

Playwright Mallatratt wrote his early plays while working as an actor in Alan Ayckbourn’s Scarborough company. Several of these were produced and directed by Ayckbourn at Scarborough, and commissions from other theates followed. In addition to original plays, he wrote adaptations of books for both TV and theater including Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. His television work included The Innocents for YTV, and he adapted the Forsyte Saga for Granada. The Woman in Black ran for 33 years at the Fortune Theatre in the West End, and over a decade at the Rafael Solaria theatre in Mexico. It has been translated into at least 12 languages and performed at the last count in 41 countries.

Tickets start at $25 and are now on sale at mccarter. org or call (609) 258-2787. Groups of 10 to 20 save 10 percent and groups of 21 or more save 15 percent off tickets (zone restrictions apply.) Princeton University Students can access free tickets with Passport to the Arts using code PUTIGER. More information is on PU Student Tix for events at McCarter: McCarter.org/ TigerTix. College students can access $25 tickets in advance with code STUTIX. Tickets can be picked up prior to the performance with a valid student ID. Visit Mccarter.org for further information.

Chamber Music Society

Performs Family Concerts

Princeton University Concerts (PUC) welcomes the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center back to Princeton for the first family program of the 2023-24 season on Saturday, October 14 at 1 and 3 p.m. “CMS Kids: Overcoming Obstacles,” curated for kids ages 3-6 and their families, is in the Lee Rehearsal Room of the Lewis Arts Complex. Host Rami Vamos and the professional musicians of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will guide audiences in an exploration of the music of Niccolò Paginini, discovering how this composer overcame obstacles to create his music. This inclusive concert experience is adapted for neurodiverse audiences,

Vamos and musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will return on Saturday, March 16 with “Adventures in Chamber Music,” a program curated for children ages 6-12 and their families.

Jewish Film Festival Returns to In Person

The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival returns to in-theater screenings with 15 award-winning films from Israel, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, the United States, and France on October 26 through November 12.

The festival will present mid-Atlantic and New Jersey premieres, as well as discussions with filmmakers, actors, scholars, and other special guests. Screenings will be held in person at the Regal Cinema, North Brunswick, and the Rutgers Business School in Piscataway. Four films will be available in the virtual cinema.

The festival kicks off with Irena’s Vow, which had its world premiere this September at the Toronto International Film Festival. This powerful drama is based on the true story of Irena Gut Opdyke, a young Christian nurse who risked her life to save Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland while forced to work as a housekeeper in the home of a Nazi commandant. Irena’s daughter, Jeannie Opdyke Smith, will speak at both festival screenings.

The festival will present the mid-Atlantic premiere of the documentary film Rabbi on the Block, about Tamar Manasseh, an African American Jewish rabbi and community activist from Chicago who is building bridges in support of a revitalized alliance of African Americans and Jews. Manasseh and the film’s director, Brad Rothschild, will speak at the screening, which is cosponsored by Rutgers’ Tyler Clementi Center for Diversity Education and Bias Prevention.

Producer Nancy Spielberg will speak at the N.J. premiere of Closed Circuit, a film from Tal Inbar that weaves together raw footage from closedcircuit cameras at the 2016 terrorist attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market with current memories of Arab and Jewish survivors of the incident.

refugees and a deeper understanding of Anne’s legacy. Lead actor Moshe Lobel (Broadway’s Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof ) will speak at both screenings of the r Ukrainian film SHTTL, which captures the lives and loves of a Ukrainian Jewish village just before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Director Maxim Pozdorovkin will speak at the N.J. premiere of his documentary film The Conspiracy, which takes on the age-old myth that Jews are plotting to take over the world.

In-theater and virtual tickets are both $14. Discount passes are also available. The festival is sponsored by Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and made possible by a grant from the Karma Foundation. For a full schedule, further information, or to purchase tickets, visit BildnerCenter.Rutgers.edu/film.

Singer/Songwriter Fure

Draws on Many Influences

The Princeton Folk Music Society presents singer-songwriter Tret Fure on Friday, October 20 at 8 p.m., at Christ Congregational Church, 50 Walnut Lane.

Fure launched her career in the early 1970s and described herself at that time as a soprano in the style of Judy Collins. She learned guitar by repeatedly “dropping the needle” on Judy Collins records until she understood Collins’ picking style. Fure also cites James Taylor as an instrumental influence.

Before long, she was recording and touring as a vocalist and guitarist with the Spencer Davis group. As a solo performer, Fure opened for Yes, Poco, Little Feat, the J. Geils Band, Black Oak Arkansas, and Humble Pie. She also was active in the women’s music movement.

Fure’s songs touch upon universal themes and she reaches out to all people. Her guitar accompaniment often features intricate guitar picking with distinct bass and treble lines, sometimes drawing on rock, blues, and other stylistic influences.

Tickets are $5-$25. Visit Princetonfolk.org.

a Princeton tradition!

Jazz Vespers

Wednesday, October 25 at 8pm Princeton University Chapel

STARTING EARLY: Children ages 3-6 and their families, along with children with autism and special needs, are the focus of an upcoming concert at the Lewis Center by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

The festival will screen the animated, award-winning film Where Is Anne Frank, which brings to life Anne’s imaginary friend Kitty, whose quest to find her best friend leads to unexpected adventures with modern day

An inclusive experience of poetry, music, and quiet centering, featuring saxophonist Audrey Welber, pianist Adam Faulk, and members of the Chapel Choir. Program continues: Nov 29, Feb 21, Mar 20, Apr 10

(Photo by Tristan Cook)

by Jenny Anderson)

AN EVER-EVOLVING ARTIST: Tret Fure, known as a vocalist and guitarist, will appear at Christ Church, courtesy of the Princeton Folk Music Society, on October 20. (Photo by Irene Young)

MUSICAL POWERS: A scene from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse Live in Concert,” coming to the State Theatre New Jersey on Friday, October 13.

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Live Musicians Accompany

“Spider-Man” Screening State Theatre New Jersey presents the national tour of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse live in concert on Friday, October 13 at 8 pm. Tickets range from $29-$99

The Academy Award-winning film from Sony Pictures Animation will be accompanied by a live orchestra, band, and turntables with a scratch DJ playing music from the score and soundtrack. Joining the tour is The Broadway Sinfonietta, an all-women and majority women-of-color orchestra. Emily Marshall will serve as the tour’s conductor.

The film’s music score was composed by Daniel Pemberton, known for his work on movies such as The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Oceans 8, Enola Holmes, The Bad Guys, and Steve Jobs.

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of my favorite scores I’ve ever written,” said Pemberton. “Utilizing a full orchestra, crazy electronics, and unbelievable turntable scratching techniques amongst a million other things is so technically complex, I never thought we’d ever be able to actually reproduce it in a live setting; but somehow,

we have. I am ridiculously excited for fans around the country to see their very first Spider-Verse concert later this year.”

The hip-hop infused film score contains original music showcasing elements of heroism, resilience, and is complemented by song contributions from Post Malone, Lil Wayne, Jaden Smith, and Nicki Minaj. Set in New York City, Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse introduces Brooklyn teen, Miles Morales, who after being bitten by a radioactive spider gains Spider-Man like powers. The film features Shameik Moore (Miles Morales), Hailee Steinfeld (Gwen Stacy / Spider-Gwen), Jake Johnson (Peter B. Parker), Chris Pine (Peter Parker), and Mahershala Ali (Aaron Davis / Prowler).

The film sequel, SpiderMan: Across the SpiderVerse made its worldwide theatrical debut on May 30 in the U.S and became a box office sensation, opening to No. 1 around the globe.

The State Theatre New Jersey is at 15 Livingston Avenue. Visit Stnj.org for tickets.

Clarinetist and Pianist In Lunchtime Concert Westminster Conservatory at Nassau presents a free recital of music for clarinet and

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piano on Thursday, October 19 at 12:15 p.m. in the Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street.

Clarinetist Kenneth Ellison and pianist Phyllis Lehrer are members of the teaching faculty of Westminster Conservatory of Music. The program includes Five Bagatelles by Gerald Finzi and Dance Preludes by Witold Lutoslawski.

Ellison has performed internationally with many ensembles, including the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Riverside Symphonia, the Greenville Symphony, and the American Fine Arts Festival. He is an adjunct professor of clarinet at Kean University and teaches clarinet and saxophone at Westminster Conservatory of Music. Ellison’s recorded collaborations include Bread of Life with the Tim Keyes Consort, On Course by Laurie Altman, Pictures at an African Exhibition by Darrel Yokley, and more. He holds degrees from Furman University and Arizona State University.

Lehrer is known internationally as a teacher, performer, clinician, author, and adjudicator. A professor emerita of piano at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, she continues to serve on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory. Her collaboration of over 35 years with duo

piano partner Ena Bronstein Barton has produced multiple recordings featuring duets of Mozart, Schubert and Debussy, as well as several twopiano works by Laurie Altman, Mozart, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff. Lehrer earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and a master’s in piano from the Juilliard School of Music. Visit rider.edu for further information.

Rock for a Cause at New Alt-Rock Fest

The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) will host Four on the Floor, Princeton’s inaugural alternative rock festival, on Saturday, October 14. From 6:15-10 p.m., local alt-rock bands will provide more than three hours of live music in the Arts Council’s parking lot pop-up venue.

Named for the “Four-onthe-Floor” beat — a dancefriendly rhythmic pattern that has influenced many different genres of music, from jazz and disco to rock and metal — the festival will feature performances by local acts Fabian Barona, Gooney, Naked Hugs, and headliner Cherry Blossoms.

What makes Four on the Floor truly unique is that it was conceptualized, booked, and coordinated by the performing musicians to give back to their creative community and support the ACP.

Jedd Lopez, co-organizer

and drummer

for Cherry

Blossoms, said, “The goal of Four on the Floor is to not only bring more live music to Princeton, but to showcase and bring awareness to our amazing Arts Council. Not only will you get to listen to great music all night, but we’ll have sign-ups for bands to participate in future events to continue spreading the love.”

All ticket sales will go towards funding future Arts Council events and programs. “The long-term goal is to host this event every year,” said Lopez, “and we will need the public’s help and support to kickstart this inaugural event.”

The ACP is located at 102 Witherspoon Street. Tickets are $15 and include one beer ticket for those aged 21+, available at artscouncilofprinceton.org.

New Executive Director For Westrick Music Academy

Westrick Music Academy, home of the Princeton Girlchoir and Princeton Boychoir, has appointed Lorraine Goodman as its new executive director.

Capital Philharmonic Presents

“Pictures at an Exhibition”

Music and visual art share the spotlight at the October 21 concert of the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey on Saturday, October 21 at 7 p.m. The orchestra, led by Daniel Spalding, is collaborating with Artworks Trenton, from which artists will create works inspired by the piece Pictures at an Exhibiton by Mussorgsky.

The concert is at Patriots Theatre at the War Memorial, Trenton. Images by the artists Alia Bensliman, Leon Rainbow, Tamara Torres, Amanda Chesney, Mayfield Williams, Diya Paul, Katelyn Liepins, Hannah Fink, Addison Vincent, and Kathleen Hurley Liao will be projected above the orchestra during the concert. Artist Craig Shofed will be honored at the event.

Also on the program is Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Serbian pianist Maja Rajkovic as soloist. She has recorded and performed with numerous symphony orchestras and ensembles, including The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio and Television Symphonic Orchestra, St. George Strings, Belgrade Strings, and Camerata Serbica. Rajkovic is also a chamber music performer. Visit capitalphilharmonic. org for ticket information.

Two Live Music Events

Goodman is an arts administrator and a soprano who has appeared in opera and musicals. She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and earned a master’s in performing arts administration at NYU Steinhardt. She is also known for her work with the Latin American Legal Defense Fund.

“I am honored to join Westrick Music Academy and return to my roots in music, where the harmonious voices resonate with unmatched beauty,” said Goodman.

“I am delighted to extend a warm welcome to Lorraine Goodman, our new executive director,” said Dr. Archana Pradhan Lackey, co-president of the board of directors and chair of the search committee. “Her extraordinary background in arts administration aligns seamlessly with our mission. Lorraine will spearhead the implementation of our strategic plan, strengthen development efforts, broaden our outreach, and champion our core commitments to equity and inclusion. Under her stewardship, we are poised for an exhilarating journey ahead.”

Come to Princeton Makes Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, will host two music events — The Einstein Alley Coffee House on Friday, October 13 from 7:30 to 9 p.m., and the Java Jam on Sunday, October 15 at 4 p.m. Both events will be held at the Princeton Makes artist studios and art market in the Princeton Shopping Center.

The Einstein Alley Coffee House is a collaboration between Princeton Makes and The Einstein Alley Musicians’ Collaborative. This event will take place each week through the end of the year, with different local musicians performing each week. LiLLiPiES pastries will be served. The event on October 13 will feature Callie and Maia, a folk, indie, and jazz-influenced duo who play piano, bass, acoustic guitar, and sing eccentric harmonies. A $10 suggested cover charge goes directly to the musicians.

Java Jam is on the third Sunday of every month, and is free and open to the public. On October 15 the featured musician is Irish Singer Fiona Tyndall, who will be singing Celtic songs accompanied by Nathan Bishop on fiddle and Anton Guryev on guitar.

Visit princetonmakes.com for more information.

ROCK ON: The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) will host Four on the Floor, Princeton’s first musician-run alternative rock festival, on October 14. Proceeds benefit ACP community programs.

Lorraine Goodman

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GAME DAY LECTURE

Before the football game (beat Harvard!) and Orange & Black Tiger Tailgate, join us for an engaging discussion with ELIZABETH H. MARGULIS, professor of music, with affiliations in psychology and neuroscience. Her book, “The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction,” connects cognitive science to larger questions about music. For example: Why can one musical performance move an audience to tears, and another compel them to dance, clap or snap along?

Art Show Opening at Highlands Art Gallery

Master artist Joseph Orr will be at the Highlands Art Gallery, 41 North Union Street, Lambertville, for the opening of his solo show on Saturday and Sunday, October 14 and 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. He will be conducting painting demonstrations informally on both days. The Lambertville Art and Antiques Weekend, sponsored by the Lambertville Chamber of Commerce, is taking place that weekend as well.

Orr is one of the founders of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society and is a master in that organization. He is recognized as an expert in the acrylic painting field. Orr has written material for art instructional books as well as magazine articles on the acrylic medium. He has almost 50 years of painting experience, and his love of the landscape and rural life translates through color, seasonal change, and atmospheric nuances into his paintings.

For more information, call (908) 766-2720, email info@highlandsartgallery. com, or visit highlandsartgallery.com.

Annual “Senior Citizens Art Show” at Meadow Lakes

The public is invited to enjoy the 57th annual “New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show,” now on display in the hall galleries of the main building at Meadow Lakes Senior Living, 300 Meadow Lakes, East Windsor. The exhibit, featuring more than 280 works of art created by New Jersey artists over the age of 60, will remain on display through Thursday, October 26. Artists from 19 of New Jersey’s 21 counties have work on display in this year’s exhibit.

The exhibit, with artwork by professional and non-professional artists in 11 categories (acrylic, craft, digital imagery, mixed media, oil, pastels, photography, print, sculpture, watercolor, and works on paper), was juried by a three-person judges’ panel of professional artists who selected first-, secondand third-place winners and honorable mentions in each category. This year, exhibiting artists range in age from 60 to 93.

Edward Garvey’s (Atlantic County) oil painting, Lake Como Italy, was named Best in Show/Non-

Local Potter Hosts Annual Fall Studio Sale

Local Master Potter Caryn Newman opens her studio, Willowood Pottery, to the public on Saturday, October 14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, October 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and by appointment for an annual sale of new ceramics.

Trained in Japanese-style production pottery, Newman creates functional work for the home in stoneware and porcelain clays. “Handmade objects are trending, as people are focusing on the enriching the home environment. Nothing says comfort like handmade objects designed for everyday use.” said Newman.

Newman also makes cups, vases and large serving pieces to enhance every meal and entertaining. Her major pieces are a strong interior design feature and focal point in any home décor.

Willowood Pottery was featured in HomeFront’s ArtJam pop-up gallery in Palmer Square this past spring. She is a member of New Hope’s Red Tulip Gallery, an artist’s cooperative in its 10th year.

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Professional, and Joan Capaldo’s (Hunterdon County) watercolor painting, Homeward Bound, was selected as Best in Show/Professional.

The annual exhibit, a cosponsored project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Mercer County’s Division of Culture & Heritage, caps a year of county-based Senior Citizen Art Shows throughout the state.

All work on display rep resents first-place winners from the county shows. Work may also be viewed on the “New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show” website at njseniorarts.com.

The show is open to the public Mondays through Sat urdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Groups of six or more are asked to contact Meadow Lakes in advance by call ing (609) 448-4100. For more information, contact Mercer County Division of Culture & Heritage at (609) 278-2712 or email JOttilie@ mercercounty.org.

The studio is located at 7 Willowood Drive, Ewing. It is open for the sale weekend and by appointment. For more information, call (609) 203-7141 or visit willowoodpottery.com.

“BREEZE POINT AFTERNOON”: This acrylic painting by Joseph Orr is part of his solo exhibition, on view October 14 through November 14 at the Highlands Arts Gallery in Lambertville. The artist will be on hand for opening weekend activities on October 14 and

“LAKE COMO ITALY”: This oil painting by Edward Garvey was awarded Best in in Show/Non Professional at the 57th annual “New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show,” on view at Meadow Lakes Senior Living in East Windsor through October 26.

WILLOWOOD POTTERY: Works by Master Potter Caryn Newman will be featured at her Annual Fall Sale on October 14 and 15 at her studio at 7 Willowood Drive in Ewing.

“DARK SHADOWS”: This work by Robert Seufert won the Patrons’ Award for Painting at the “94th Juried Art Show” at Phillips’ Mill in New Hope, Pa. The show runs through October 29.

20 Artists Receive Awards

At Phillips’ Mill Art Show

Twenty artists have been awarded $12,000 in prizes by the jurors of the “94th Juried Art Show” at Phillips’ Mill, which runs through October 29. The awards were presented at the Opening Preview Reception for artists and patrons held on the grounds of the historic mill on September 22. The jurors for this year’s show — academics as well as practicing artists — were Al Gury and Jill Rupinski, both from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; TK Smith from the Barnes Foundation; Syd Carpenter from Swarthmore College; and Lauren Sandler

The $1,000 Patrons’ Awards are presented in three categories. They are funded by Phillips’ Mill and considered the show’s top prizes. Other awards, most funded by individual patrons of the art show, recognize various media, styles, and subject matter, some gifted in memory or in honor of people dear to the givers. New this year was an award in memory of Bill Tinsman, a beloved local icon and fierce protector of the Bucks County, Pa., landscape, funded by the Lumberville Founder’s Day Committee.

Taking top honors, the Patrons’ Award for Painting was presented to Robert Seufert of Fairless Hills, Pa., for his large oil landscape, Dark Shadows. Ron

first-time entrant, won the Patrons’ Award for Drawing, Pastel or Printmaking for his linocut, Otter. Shawn Campbell of Milford, Pa., won the Patrons’ Award for Sculpture for her clay figure, Perch.

Other artists awarded for their work were Kenn Backhaus, Robert Beck, Beatrice Bork, Dot Bunn, Christiane Casella, Ginger Del Rey, Susan Gilli, David Hahn, TingTing Hsu, Michael McFadden, Robert Papp, Pat Proniewski, Jonathan Rischawy, Jenny Schaeffer, Steve Smith, Kate Wright and Tricia Zimic. For more about the awards presented, visit phillipsmill.org.

Many of these artists, along with others whose works were selected for

throughout the run the show as part of the Mill’s Meet the Artists program. Check the website to learn who will be there and when.

The “94th Juried Art Show at Phillips’ Mill” is open daily from 1 to 5 p.m. at 2619 River Road (Route 32) just north of New Hope, Pa. Adults $6, students $2, and exhibiting artists and Mill members free.

To learn more about Phillips’ Mill Community Association, the art show, membership and other arts programs offered at the Mill, visit phillipsmill.org.

Area Exhibits

Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “East and West” through November 5. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com.

Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings” through November 5. artmuseum.princeton. edu.

Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “In Whose Image?” through November 4 in the Taplin Gallery. Artscouncilofprincetton.org.

Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, has “Images from Wandering Times” through October 29. gallery14.org.

Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has “All Around the World” through October 31. cranburyartscouncil.org.

Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Local Voices: Memories, Stories, and Portraits” and “Spiral Q: The Parade” through January 7 and “That’s Worth Celebrating: The Life and Work of the Johnson Family” through the end of 2024, among other exhibits. groundsforsculpture.org.

Highlands Art Gallery, 41 North Union Street, Lam -

bertville, has “Pop Up Show Featuring Master Acrylic Artist Joseph Orr” October 14 through November 14. An opening with painting demonstrations is on October 14 and 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. highlandsartgallery.com.

Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery,” “Princeton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m., Thursday to 7 p.m. princetonhistory.org

Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Sarah Kaizar: Rare Air” through November 5 and “Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories” through January 14. michenerartmuseum. org

Morpeth Contemporary, 43 West Broad Street, Hopewell, has “Donna McCullough + Jody Olcott” through October 22. morpethcontemporary.com.

Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Striking Beauty” through February 18 and the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings,

and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898,” and others. morven.org.

New Hope Arts Center A Space, 2 Stockton Street, New Hope, Pa., has “Charles David Viera, New Works” through October 29. charlesdavidviera.com.

Phillips’ Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope, Pa., has “94th Juried Art Show” through October 29. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m. daily. phillipsmill.org.

Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, has “Everything’s Fine: Surreal Paintings About Mental Health” through October 15 in the second floor Reading Room. princetonlibrary.org.

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, has “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches: Selections from the John Doar Papers” through March 31. Library.princeton.edu.

Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has “Beatrice Wiesner-Chase” through November 7. smallworldcoffee.com.

West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Ode to New Jersey Art Show” through October 28. westwindsorarts.org.

“WOMAN ON A WHITE STALLION”: This work by Hunterdon County Rug Artisans Guild member Jane Anderson of Clinton has been selected for inclusion in the 2023 Celebration of HandHooked Rugs 33, a premier juried collection of the year’s best hand-hooked rugs. Her design is an adaptation of artwork by Wladyslaw T. Benda (1873-1948). Visit hcrag.com for information on the guild’s programs and activities.

Mark Your Calendar Town Topics

Wednesday, October 11

1-3 p.m.: Gay People of Princeton, documentary screening at Princeton Senior Resource Center, 101 Poor Farm Road and on Zoom. Free, registration required. Princetonsenior.org.

4 p.m .: Meeting of the Princeton Special Improvement District (Experience Princeton) Board of Directors, at the Nassau Inn, Palmer Square.

7-9 p.m .: The 9th Annual Amazing Pumpkin Carve, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. Giant carved pumpkins, giant crows, and other Halloweeninspired creations; fundraiser for Hopewell Valley Arts Council. Hvartscouncil.org/ amazingpumpkincarve.

7:30 p.m .: Princeton University Concerts’ annual free Chamber Jam at Princeton University Chapel; amateurs can sing along with Chanticleer ensemble. Visit puc.princeton.edu for more information.

7:30 p.m .: The LOTUS Project and Frontline Arts host a concert at the War Memorial, Lafayette Street, Trenton, addressing veteran mental health, with 100 singers and orchestra musicians from Trenton Children’s Chorus, The LOTUS Chorale, and Bordentown Regional Middle School. Suggested donation of $25. Thelotusprojectnj.org.

Thursday, October 12

8-10 a.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber presents “Real Estate Business Alliance: Liquor License Reform and its Impact on Real Estate,” at Springdale Golf Club, 1895 Clubhouse Drive. Princetonmercer.org.

10 a.m.-3 p.m .: Princeton Farmers’ Market is at Hinds Plaza. Organic produce, pasture-raised meat and eggs, bread, empanadas, pickles, flowers, and more. SNAP/EBT accepted on eligible purchases. Free parking for one hour in Spring Street Garage. Princetonfarmersmarket.com.

12:30 p.m .: Princeton University Concerts’ Live Music Meditation, with the ensemble Chanticleer, at Richardson Auditorium. Puc.princeton.edu.

4:30-6 p.m .: “Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government,” talk by Princeton professor Kevin M. Kruse at the Friend Center and Mudd Library, Princeton University. Libcal.princeton. edu.

4:30 p.m .: Drew Gilpin Faust, author of Necessary Trouble, is in a discussion with Shirley Tilghman at Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street. Labyrinthbooks. com.

5-9 p.m.: The 9th Annual Amazing Pumpkin Carve, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. Giant carved pumpkins, giant crows, and other Halloween-

inspired creations; fundraiser for Hopewell Valley Arts Council. Hvartscouncil.org/ amazingpumpkincarve.

6-7:30 p.m .: Robert W. Sands Jr. and Patricia E. Mil len discuss their book ington Crossing, focused on the Battle of Trenton, at the Old Barracks Museum, 101 Barrack Street, Trenton. A Q&A and book-signing fol low. Free. Barracks.org.

6:30 p.m .: Screening and discussion of The Price of Silence, documentary about the history of New Jersey’s enslaved people, at Mor ven’s Stockton Education Center, 55 Stockton Street. Followed by discussion with the filmmaker and histori ans. Hybrid event. $5 (free for students and members). Morven.org.

7 p.m.: “Talk of the Sourlands” series pres ents Mike Bellaus speak ing about the Duke Farms Deer Management Pro gram at Duke Farms, 1112 Dukes Parkway, Hillsbor ough. Free. Tinyurl.com/ DukeFarmsDMPs.

7:30 p.m.: Chanticleer performs at Richardson Auditorium as the open ing of Princeton Uni versity Concerts’ 130th Concert Classics Series. Puc.princeton.edu.

Friday, October 13 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: erdon County Rug Artisans Guild holds its monthly meeting in the administra tion building of Hunterdon County Complex, 314 State Highway 12. Guests are wel come. Hcrag.com.

12-5:30 p.m.: Friends and Foundation of Princeton Public Library Annual Book Sale, in the library’s Community Room. Ticked Preview Sale from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Princetonlibrary.org.

5-9 p.m.: The 9th Annual Amazing Pumpkin Carve, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. Giant carved pumpkins, giant crows, and other Halloweeninspired creations; fundraiser for Hopewell Valley Arts Council. Hvartscouncil.org/ amazingpumpkincarve.

7 p.m .: “Jersey Devil Homecoming” with journalist William Sprouse, author of The Domestic History of the Jersey Devil. Book presentation and signing. At Old City Hall, 13 Crosswicks Street, Bordentown. Donations requested. Facebook. com/OldCityHallRestoration.

7 p.m .: American Repertory Ballet presents “Elevante,” a program of three works by Ethan Stiefel, Meredith Rainey, and Stephanie Martinez at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Tickets start at $25. Arballet.org or (732) 745-8000.

7-9 p.m.: Halloweenthemed storytelling event at West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road. Tell 5-7-minute stories,

win prizes. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Westwind sorarts.org.

7:30-9 p.m .: Callie and Maia, the folk/indie/jazz duo, perform at Princeton Makes in Princeton Shop ping Center. $10 suggested cover charge; LiLLiPiES pastries will be served. Princetonmakes.com.

8 p.m.: Matilda the Mu sical is at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. $24$26. Kelseytheatre.net.

Saturday, October 14

9 a.m.-12 p.m.: Open House at the Burke Foundation Early Childhood Center, YWCA Princeton, Paul Robeson Place. Ywcaprinceton.org.

10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pony rides, pedal and play tractors, kids’ games, animals, stories, food, live music, and more. Terhuneorchards.com.

10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.: The Friends and Foundation of Princeton Public Library Annual Book Sale, in the library’s Community Room. Princeton library.org.

10:30 a.m .: “The Magic and History of Marquand Park,” walking tour with members of the Marquand Park Foundation. Start at 46 Lover’s Lane parking lot. Free but advance registration required. Princetonhistory.org.

11 a.m.-2 p.m .: Fall clean-up day at Princeton Battlefield, 500 Mercer Street. Garden tools and gloves will be available, but bring your own if you can. A pizza party follows. Register at pbs1777.org.

12-5 p.m.: Hopewell Porchfest, music and family-friendly events in Hopewell Borough. Performances from over 30 local and regional performers. Hopewellporchfest.com.

2 and 7 p.m .: American Repertory Ballet presents “Elevante,” a program of three works by Ethan Stiefel, Meredith Rainey, and Stephanie Martinez at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Tickets start at $25. Arballet.org or (732) 745-8000.

2 p.m.: “Cemetery Tales,” afternoon stroll at Kingston Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Free, but registration is requested at (609) 921-8895. Visit kingstonpresbyterian. org for directions and details.

OCTOBER

3-9 p.m .: The 9th Annual Amazing Pumpkin Carve, Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. Giant carved pumpkins, giant crows, and other Halloween-inspired creations; fundraiser for Hopewell Valley Arts Council. Hvartscouncil. org/amazingpumpkincarve.

6:15 p.m .: “Four on the Floor,” musician-run alternative rock music festival in the parking lot of the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street. $15. Benefits the arts council’s community programs. Artscouncilof princeton.org.

8 p.m .: Matilda the Musical is at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. $24-$26. Kelseytheatre.net.

Sunday, October 15

9 a.m.: Jewish Family and Children’s Service annual Wheels for Meals bike ride fundraiser to fight hunger, at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor. Four route options, crafts, face-painting, snacks, and entertainment. $18 for 18 and under; $36 for adults. JfcsWheels4Meals.org.

10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pony rides, pedal and play tractors, kids’ games, animals, stories, food, live music, and more. Terhuneorchards. com.

12-5:30 p.m.: The Friends and Foundation of Princeton Public Library Annual Book Sale, in the library’s Community Room. Princetonlibrary. org.

1-4 p.m.: Electric Stingray performs as part of the Music on the Green festival at Palmer Square. Free. Palmersquare.com.

2 p.m.: American Repertory Ballet presents “Elevante,” a program of three works by Ethan Stiefel, Meredith Rainey, and Stephanie Martinez at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Tickets start at $25. Arballet. org or (732) 745-8000.

2 p.m .: Matilda the Musical is at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. $24-$26. Kelseytheatre.net.

2 p.m .: Poet Gregory Maertz reads from his new collection The Charisma of Animals at Flounder Brewing Company, 2 Clerico Lane, Hillsborough. (917) 763-1814.

Enjoy Country Charm and Special Service at the Woolverton Inn in Stockton

Are you looking forward to a change of scene?

A chance to relax and leave that to-do list behind?

To spend time in a setting free of the all-consuming technology that commands so much of your time today?

IT’S NEW To Us

If that is on your wish list, the Woolverton Inn is the place for you!

A remarkable bed and breakfast in Stockton, it is situated on 10 acres and surrounded by 300 preserved acres of rolling farmland and forest. Its handsome stone manor house dates to 1792, and features eight splendidly restored guest rooms. Six cottages offer additional gracious accommodations.

Its setting overlooking the Delaware River adds further charm to this special place, with its spacious grounds, serene walking paths, biking trails (bikes are provided), and water features. In addition, its proximity to Lambertville and New Hope, Pa., provides opportunities for dining, shopping, exploring art galleries, and theater.

Rich With History

The Woolverton Inn is rich with history. Before its evolution into a B&B in the 1980s, it was a private residence. Built by John Prall Jr. in the post Revolution era, it was originally a

simple two-story farmhouse. It became part of the early days of commerce along the Delaware River, as the farm’s crops of linseed and grain were barged down the river to be sold.

In the mid-1800s, it was acquired by the Woolverton family, who completed a significant renovation, transforming the building into its current Federalist form, a three-story grand Colonial Manor House with a veranda overlooking the spacious lawn.

As the years passed, the house belonged to various owners, who continued to make changes, and it was also often a gathering place for the nearby artistic community. The opening of the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., brought well-known performers and artists to the area. Master showman and local arts supporter St. John Terrell established the Playhouse in 1939 and the Lambertville Music Circus in 1949; the Inn was his private residence during the 1950s and ’60s.

The nearby Stockton Inn was another attraction, known not only for its fine hospitality, but for its wishing well, which was prominently featured in the famous Richard Rodgers/ Lorenz Hart song, “There’s a Small Hotel.”

Another fascinating piece of history features world-famous chef Julia Child, who was married on the stone patio of the Manor House in 1946.

As the property transformed into a B&B in the 1980s, it attracted many guests who wanted to experience its rustic charm. The house was updated during the 1990s, and four cottages were later added in 2002.

Historic Character

Now a total of six cottages are located nearby the Manor House, which itself offers eight guest rooms.

In 2015, Mary and Mario Passalacqua became owners of the Inn, and they have continued to make improvements, always with the historic character of the Inn and its stewardship foremost. The building retains its authentic architectural details and charm.

The Passalacquas’ previous life included careers in finance and the corporate world, not innkeeping. But as Mary Passalacqua points out, “We had enjoyed staying at bed and breakfasts over the years, and then we learned that the Woolverton Inn was for sale. We really liked the location and the feeling of a country inn and its history.

“It is such a nice opportunity for our guests to relax and spend time in the country. We do our best to welcome everyone and give them the best possible service. Mario and I are always present, and our chef and team of 10 all work hard to make sure the guests are completely satisfied. We want to provide a wonderful experience and a really positive time.”

With the number of guests increasing all the time, they are doing just that. People are arriving from the Princeton area and Bucks County, Pa., as well as New York City, Philadelphia, and beyond, including from overseas. Many are regulars who make it a point to come every year or even more often, such as one couple from Scarsdale, N.Y., who have been coming for 14 years.

“We really found the Inn by accident,” they recall, “and we absolutely love it. We especially enjoy the opportunity for biking, the country setting, and friendly atmosphere.”

Appealing Location

Many visitors are referred by other guests, report the Passalacquas, and others find them online.

What all the visitors appreciate is the Inn’s comfortable, welcoming ambiance, appealing location, and attractively appointed guest rooms and cottages. In addition, many are grateful for the charging station for their electric cars. Guests are also welcome to play the piano in one of the main rooms.

The uniquely designed rooms, suites, and cottages include carefully selected amenities, including whirlpool and jetted tubs, and private outdoor sitting areas. Whether guests select one of the cottages, such as the Hunterdon, The Audubon, The Cotswold, or an elegant suite in the Manor House, they will be assured of features such as private balconies, private steam room, handprinted murals, and views of the various fountains, ponds, other water features, and graceful landscaping.

Animal lovers will appreciate the six sheep that stroll through the grounds, and one cottage accepts dog and cat visitors.

And then there is the complimentary three course gourmet country breakfast! Freshly prepared and served from 8:30 to 10 a.m., it can be enjoyed in the historic dining room (part of the Inn’s original structure), on the veranda, or on the outdoor patio.

It starts with freshsqueezed orange juice,

locally-sourced whole bean coffee, espresso, cappuccino, hot chocolate, and an assortment of teas. Fresh baked scones, muffins, coffee cake and sweet bread, fresh seasonal fruit, and greens follow. The daily entree includes choice of omelet, frittata, eggs Benedict, pancakes, French toast, waffles, eggs “your way,” or oatmeal.

Dietary Options

A variety of vegetables, cheese, homemade applecranberry turkey sausage, maple-glazed bacon, ham, and pork sausage are also offered. When available, the herbs, greens, and berries are harvested from the Inn’s garden.

Mary Passalacqua also points out that ”gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, and other special dietary options are always available.”

In addition to the breakfast, refreshments are served every afternoon, including homemade Belgian chocolate chip cookies, lemon blueberry biscotti, glutenfree and vegan options, and fresh seasonal fruit.

The Passalacquas are attentive stewards of the Inn’s history, and make it a point to share it with guests. Photos of the Inn’s past, including individuals who have been part of its history, are displayed on the walls.

They are also proud to have been included in Historic Homes of America, the official program of the national Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Inn is one of more than 300 hotels and resorts throughout the country that is recognized by Historic Hotels of America for preserving and maintaining its integrity, architecture, and ambiance.

Babymoons

In addition to individual

guests, the Inn often serves as a destination location for weddings, anniversaries, and events, such as company workshops.

“We also have babymoons, when parents-to-be enjoy coming for a weekend before the baby is born,” reports Mary.

Because the Inn is so popular, booking one or two months ahead for a weekend stay is recommended. Dates for weddings and events should be reserved well ahead of time, including a year for weddings.

Costs cover a wide range, with prices varying depending on weekend, week night options, or events.

As they continue to make improvements to the Inn, the Passalacquas look forward to renovating the historic Pennsylvania Bank Barn, which is part of the property’s original buildings.

“The restoration work will bring the barn back to life, and include multiple event spaces, a catering facility, and a restaurant,” explains Mary.

And as they look ahead — and back — the Passalacquas have never regretted that career change. As they say, “the opportunity to live and work in such a lovely country setting is a continued pleasure. And we always enjoy meeting our guests. They are all different ages, different backgrounds, and always interesting. Being able to share the Inn with them — enabling them to spend time in the country, take it easy, and enjoy themselves — is our great pleasure.”

The Woolverton Inn is open year round. For further information, call (609) 397-0802 or visit woolvertoninn.com.

—Jean Stratton

“HAVE YOU ANY WOOL”? The sheep at the Woolverton Inn in Stockton enjoy strolling the grounds of this impressive country bed and breakfast. They are admired by the guests who visit the inn from all over the area and beyond.

ROOM SERVICE: This handsome guest room is located in Carolyn’s Overlook, the two-bedroom, two-bath cottage at the Woolverton Inn. With full kitchen, spacious living area, private outdoor space, and many amenities, it offers a special getaway for those seeking a unique weekend within lovely bucolic surroundings.

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Junior Receiver Barber has Career Day in Losing Cause As Princeton Football Gets Edged 12-9 by Lafayette

AJ Barber got an inspirational message from a gridiron legend before he took the field for the Princeton University football against visiting Lafayette last Saturday.

Barber, the son of former NFL All-Pro and New York Giants star running back Tiki Barber, heard from his father as usual.

“Every single game he texts me saying good luck, I love you and I really appreciate that,” said junior receiver Barber. “I know he believes in me.”

Barber justified that belief against Lafayette, producing a career game, making seven receptions for a personalbest 156 yards in a losing cause as the Tigers fell 12-9 to the Leopards before a crowd of 4,059 at Princeton Stadium.

In reflecting on his big day, Barber attributed it to luck. “We put an emphasis on the pass this week; I could have been any number of seven guys in our room, I just happened to be the guy today,” said the 5’9, 180-pound Barber, who matched his careerhigh in single-game receptions as the Tigers moved to 2-2.

“There are seven people who could have had the same exact day that I did. I would say that any one of us could be the X receiver on this offense, everyone has an equal role. I just happened to get lucky today.”

Barber, though, was clearly first among equals on Saturday. On Princeton’s first possession, he gathered in a Blake Stenstrom pass for a 43-yard reception to set up 29-yard field goal by Jeffrey Sexton as the Tigers knotted the game at 3-3. Later in the quarter, Barber got loose for a 57-yard catch that got the Tigers to the Lafayette 11yard line to set up an 11-yard TD pass from Stenstrom to Luke Colella as Princeton took a 9-3 lead.

With Princeton tailing 10-9 early in the fourth quarter, Barber made a 30-yard

reception as the Tigers advanced to the Lafayette 41 but ended up having to punt. On the next Princeton possession, Barber made a 5-yard grab to help the Tigers to get in position for a 37-yard field goal attempt which Sexton missed. Princeton didn’t get back into Lafayette territory after that and the Leopards sacked Stenstrom in the end zone for a safety to get the final margin of 12-9.

“Lafayette is a great team, probably one of the better defenses we will play all year — there is a lot to take away from this game,” said Barber of the Leopards, who improved to 5-1. “We are going to fix what we didn’t do well today. It is the little things. We are not as precise as we should have been in the red zone. It is something that we have to put an emphasis on in practices.”

Barber has emphasized developing a connection with quarterback Stenstrom.

“With the way we practice, we throw the ball a lot, Blake’s connection with me and the rest of the receivers is coming up,” said Barber. “I think that showed today with 310 yards passing.”

With Princeton having gone 35-5 over the last four seasons coming into this fall, the 2-2 start is a bit of a comeuppance for the proud program.

“It is a little depressing being 2-2, but we know that everything that happened on that field is very fixable so we are looking ahead,” said Barber. “We are not going to dwell on the two losses this year, we are going keep looking forward. We are excited for Ivy League play.”

Princeton head coach Bob Surace saw positives despite the disappointing result.

“Every year is new, I told the guys that is a really good team,” said Surace. “They were down 14-7 to Duke with a minute to go in the second quarter and they have pretty much blown everybody else out. To watch the play by play, it is so encouraging.

We are doing so many good things and we just got some self-inflicted wounds, penalties that really hurt us, and a couple of special teams mistakes.”

Going back to the last two contests of 2022, the Tigers have found themselves in a series of nail-biters.

“The last six games have been really nip and tuck, tight games,” said Surace. “The games where we have been a little bit tighter with what we are doing with less mistakes we come out in top. We saw it Friday night last week (a 10-7 win over Columbia). Games where we are not, you are holding your breath. It shouldn’t come down to luck, it shouldn’t come down to one play. They are a really good team and that is probably the best game we have played. That is encouraging. It is discouraging that we didn’t get the outcome. We are shooting ourselves in the foot just a little bit.”

Surace was encouraged by the play of Barber on Saturday. “I feel like it has been receiver by committee, it has been different guys who have had a little bit of a breakout,” said Surace of Barber, who now has 15 catches for 240 yards this season and has returned 10 punts for 67 yards.

“It was really fun to see him get the ball in space. You see him on returns, he does such a good job.”

The Tiger defense did a very good job Saturday, holding Lafayette to 265 yards total offense but did fail to force any turnovers.

“It is crazy how well our defense is playing, we are doing everything right but one thing,” said Surace. “We can talk about it, we can practice it, but until we get the ball back, the field position has been really tough. We are playing uphill on some field position. I know they are working at it. We are punching it out, I thought we had one on the quarterback sack. They looked at and said he was down. We just have to

get to the ball more We have four games and zero interceptions. With the pressure that we are getting, that is a hard stat.”

On the other side of the ball, Princeton has piled up yards but not points, having scored just 32 points in its last three games.

“We have got to finish drives, I felt like we have got control,” said Surace. “My wife played soccer here and sometimes you have everything going and the goalie stops the penalty kick or the play. That is what it felt like. We are executing so well and then we stub our toe and they stop us. That is a really, really good team and a really good defense and they stop us. We get the ball back and we did it again. We have to finish those drives.”

With Princeton heading into the Ivy stretch drive over the next six games starting with a contest at Brown (2-2 overall, 0-1 Ivy) on October 14, the Tigers will have to sharpen up to produce a big finish.

“I feel like the majority of the games have been like this,” said Surace. “We are going to have some happy moments like last week (the win over Columbia). You play 50/50 games and you aren’t going to win them all. So if we don’t clean it up and we can’t get out of own way, it is going to be a tough stretch. We are going to have to because we are only going to play better teams.”

Barber, for his part, will have special inspiration when

BREAKING OUT: Princeton University football player AJ Barber races upfield last Saturday as Princeton hosted Lafayette. Junior receiver Barber made seven receptions for a career-high 156 yards against the Leopards but it wasn’t enough as the Tigers fell 12-9. Princeton, now 2-2 overall and 1-0 Ivy League, starts its Ivy stretch drive by playing at Brown (2-2 overall, 0-1 Ivy) on October 14.

he takes the field this Saturday.

“I am very motivated for Brown,” said Barber.

“My brother (wide receiver

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Chason) plays on that team, so I will be looking forward to that.”

—Bill Alden

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Featuring a Lineup Stocked with Talent, Experience, PU Women’s Hockey Fired Up for Opening Weekend

Last winter, the Princeton University women’s hockey team saved its best for last, going 5-2 down the stretch of the regular season and then pushing No. 3 Colgate to a decisive third game before falling in the best-ofthree ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series.

As Princeton starts its 2023-24 campaign by hosting Robert Morris for a twogame set on October 13 and 14, Tiger head coach Cara Morey is looking for her players to display that sense of urgency from the opening face-off.

“We saw what that team could do at playoffs last year when we played our game but we can’t wait until then,” said Morey, whose squad posted an overall record of 15-15-1. “Last season, I think we were just waiting, waiting, waiting and then we turned it on in playoffs. If we had done that earlier in the season, it would have been different story. We would have been in a different standing heading into playoffs. I think what we know this year is that we have got to take every game like it is a playoff game and have that mentality every single game of the season.”

Senior star forward Sarah Fillier (19 goals, 18 assists in 2022-23) brings a winning mentality to the ice for the Tigers. Fillier has established herself as an international star, having helped Canada to the gold medal at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing and world championships in 2021 and 2022.

“I think that last year was hard for Sarah coming off of

two years away at the Olympics and having expectations that weren’t met,” said Morey. “This year coming in, it looks like she is fresh with a totally different mindset.”

Another Sarah, sophomore Sarah Paul, is back after losing most of her freshman season to injury and being sidelined all of last year.

“She is such a threat offensively all the time,” said Morey. “When she has the puck on her stick, she has the chance of scoring every time.”

The Tigers boast a quartet of superb sophomores in Jane Kuehl (3 goals, 4 assists), Izzy Wunder (9 goals, 9 assists), Katherine Khramstov (7 goals, 9 assists), and Emerson O’Leary (4 goals, 11 assists).

“They look really good; Jane has been surprising me in the preseason, she is flying out there, she looks really good,” said Morey.

“Izzy has been amazing. Katherine and Emmy play so well together. Those four are going to do really well for us this year.”

Senior Annie Kuehl (6 goals, 9 assists), junior Grace Kuipers, junior Mia Coene (2 goals, 4 assists), and senior Emma Kee (1 goal, 3 assists) give Princeton additional firepower and experience at forward.

“We have lots of depth up front, we have a bigger roster this year so practices have been really competitive,” said Morey.

“The seniors know the game. They know what we want to see out of them. They are a lot more

consistent. This is a good lineup.”

A trio of newcomers — freshman Wallis York, Calista Chong, Ani Kozak — should make an impact as the season unfolds.

“They are really transitioning to what the college game is going to be,” said Morey. “Wallis has been playing up with Emmy and Katherine, so we will see how she does there. Calista has a ton of skill, she needs to learn the game at pace. Ani is more defensive-minded, good at penalty killing. They all have a different skill set.”

The Tiger blue line features skill and depth in senior Kate Monihan (1 goal, 9 assists), senior Dominique Cormier (2 goals, 6 assists), senior Stef Wallace (1 goal, 8 assists), and junior Emma Dornseif along with freshmen Teja Gatfield, Gabby Kim, and Maggie Johnson.

“Kate and Dom have both been great, Stef and Emma are also back,” said Morey. “Then we have the first years, they have really surprised us. Teja has been a little banged up so we haven’t see her yet. Maggie and Gabby have been outstanding. Maggie had never played d before and she has been unreal. Our d-corps looks really strong this year, there are seven of them.”

At goalie are junior Jennifer Olnowich (2.55 goals against average and .884 save percentage in 202223), sophomore Taylor Hyland (2.58 goals against average and .909 save percentage), and freshman Uma Corniea

“We used both Taylor and Jen throughout the preseason because Uma wasn’t able to play; they both did well and gave us a chance to win every time we played,” said Morey. “Uma is back now — we are excited to see what she can do. She has had great practices. I think someone will steal the net, we just have to give everyone a chance. Uma has size and athleticism; she is sound, she is a really good goalie. Taylor looks good, she is battling in the net. She is making second effort saves right now, she looks good too. They all look great.”

Looking ahead to the opening weekend matchup with Robert Morris, Morey is hoping for a great effort from the Tigers.

DOMINANT DEFENDER: Princeton University women’s hockey defender Dominique Cormier handles the puck in game last winter. Senior defender Cormier should be a force on the blue line this winter for Princeton. The Tigers open their 2023-24 campaign by hosting Robert Morris for a two-game set on October 13 and 14. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Senior Star Murphy Making the Most of Every Minute

As PU Field Hockey Stays In the Mix for Ivy Tourney

Bridget Murphy’s debut for the Princeton University field hockey team in 2021 lasted only six seconds.

Murphy, then a sophomore, took a blast on the foot on the first play against North Carolina in the season opener, suffering a bruised foot, dislocated fibula, and torn muscle. Showing tenacity, Murphy made it back to the field weeks later.

Rising through the ranks, Murphy was a key reserve for the Tigers last year and has emerged as a star in her senior campaign.

Murphy has enjoyed taking a leading role this fall.

“I am on the field a bit more and more hands on, which is awesome,” said Murphy, a 5’7 native of Summit, who starred for state powerhouse Oak Knoll in her high school days. “As a senior and having a lot of new kids playing, especially the freshman class, I am just trying to be a role model. Knowing that they are out there and playing their best, I need to pick up and play my best. Although I am a senior, I don’t think there is a hierarchy. We are a cohesive unit and everyone leads by example. It is awesome, you don’t find that everywhere.”

Last Wednesday as Princeton hosted Penn, Murphy set a sterling example, hustling over the field and scoring a goal that forced overtime as the Tigers battled back from a 0-2 deficit only to fall 3-2 in the second extra period.

In reflecting on her goal, Murphy credited her teammates with setting her up.

“I had a beautiful pass from the midfielders, the outlet was awesome,” said Murphy. “They just hit it up. I actually got stopped initially but had motivation from my teammates behind me to keep going. Then I saw a lane and dished it in.”

Murphy acknowledged that it took a while for the Tigers to get going against Penn as it fell behind 1-0 late in the first quarter and got outshot 5-1 in the period.

With the Tigers having gone to OT four times in this first nine games this season, Murphy was hoping that experience would pay off.

“We have been there a lot of times,” said Murphy. “Although we are comfortable with the experience, it is not something you want to be in.”

Falling to the Quakers, who snapped a 17-game losing streak against Princeton, led to some soul searching by the Tigers.

“We knew going in that every team in the Ivy League is super competitive and this was another example of that,” said Murphy, who helped Princeton edge Brown 2-0 last Friday as improved to 3-1 in Ivy play. “We have a decision to make here. We can either learn from it and show up for all four quarters or we can take a quarter off and then see the results on the tail end. It is keep good energy and play confident.”

As the leading goal scorer for Princeton so far with three tallies, Murphy has drawn confidence from her teammates.

“It is not me individually, it is the feeds from the team,” said Murphy. “They are communicating to me, they are telling me where they are going to put it. I am just there. Having the confidence and talk from them behind has really allowed me to see more opportunities.”

As Murphy heads down the stretch of her senior season, she is determined to make the most of every minute.

“It is taking the lessons from this game and playing a full 60 minutes so not forgetting but also not dwelling on it,” said Murphy. “It is going forward and just going out and wanting to play a full game and being gritty and just compete. That is all I can ask for.”

Princeton head coach Carla Tagliente was disappointed with how her squad competed in the first half against the Quakers.

of bad hockey and to have to come from 0-2 down.”

After Penn’s third goal in regulation was waved off, Princeton seemed to get a lift.

“We settled in and played better from there,” said Tagliente. “It wasn’t any magic words.”

The goal from Webb resulted from some smart play. “It was a nice goal, she is disciplined and got to the back post,” said Tagliente. “It was a nice finish for her, it is good to see. We need more of that from our players, just getting into position and being ready.”

Tagliente credited Murphy with giving the Tigers a very good effort.

“Bridget works hard, you are never going to question her effort,” said Tagliente. “She defended well, I thought she provided a lot of attack. She was one that was playing for 60 minutes and gave us a lot. We needed more Bridgets today.”

Heading into OT, Tagliente was concerned despite her squad’s experience with that situation.

“I didn’t feel not confident but I think at this point, you could tell we were gassed and had no legs,” said Tagliente. “We couldn’t execute a simple 2v1. If we can’t create 2v1s in overtime, it is going to be a long overtime. This was one of the poorest defending games we have had overall. We were sloppy and gave up a lot of corners.”

The Tigers were sharper two days in the win over Brown and then fell 2-0 to No. 12 Syracuse last Sunday in a non-conference game to move to 5-7 overall.

“The focus is the long game and to get into the top four and get into the tournament,” said Tagliente, whose hosts Harvard (9-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy) on October 14 in a critical Ivy matchup. “We have some good games in front of us. We have got a hard road in.”

Murphy, for her part, is confident that the Tigers will do what it takes to make the tourney and rise to the occasion when it matters most.

“They haven’t played in two seasons because of their program folding but they got some really good transfers and some players who hung around who are fifth year players,” said Morey. “So they are going to be a pretty good test to start off with.”

Based on the urgency she has been seeing from her players in the preseason, Morey is confident they will pass that test.

“The girls are in a really great space mentally, they are excited,” said Morey. “They are working hard, they are learning new stuff really quickly. The vibe just feels like there is a lot more excitement this year. They are competing every single day in practice, it is awesome.”

—Bill Alden

“Going into the half we realized that we needed to step things up, we weren’t showing the offense that we are capable of,” said Murphy. “It was just don’t be afraid, play our game and be confident. When we are confident, we have a really good offense and we are really strong as a collective unit. It was just recognizing that and putting our heads together and realizing that we are capable of getting back into this game.”

After the Tigers fell behind 2-0 and nearly trailed 3-0 but got a reprieve when Penn’s third goal was waved off, Lily Webb got Princeton on the board with a goal midway through the third quarter.

“That goal was a real hus tle play, they gritted it out,” said Murphy. “Getting on the board gave us that confi dence that we already knew we should have. It reignited that spark.”

With the game knotted at 2-2 heading into the fourth quarter, Princeton sputtered after that.

“I think the third quarter we showed what we are capable of and the ability to come back in the game,” said Murphy. “It would have been nice if we kept that energy up going into the fourth.”

“We had no rhythm on attack or defense, we were just flat coming out,” said Tagliente. “We came out in the second half there and they got a quick one. I thought in the third quarter, we actually played pretty well, minus the start when we got rang up on one goal, but the first half was terrible. It was a lot to dig ourselves out of, you expend a lot of energy for a full half

“It is awesome; it takes the pressure off of having to go through the league,” said Murphy. “It really shows who is going to be the top dog, it is hard to beat a team twice. It allows you to not put so much pressure on one game but also realize that if you want to be the top team then you have to keep improving in practice every week. You can’t ever slack off.”

—Bill Alden

MURPHY’S LAW: Princeton University field hockey player Bridget Murphy battles an opponent for the ball in a game earlier this season. Last Wednesday, senior Murphy tallied a goal to force overtime as Princeton hosted Penn but the Tigers ultimately fell 3-2 to the Quakers in the second extra period. Princeton rebounded with a 2-0 win over Brown two days later and then lost 2-0 to No. 12 Syracuse last Sunday. The Tigers, now 5-7 overall and 3-1 Ivy League, host Harvard (9-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy) on October 14 in a critical Ivy contest. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Sparked by Sophomore Ittycheria’s Finishing Touch, PU Men’s Soccer Tops Columbia 4-0 for Key Ivy Win

Danny Ittycheria has worried less about himself and more about the team in his second season with the Princeton University men’s soccer team.

The result has the sophomore forward making a bigger impact for the Tigers.

Ittycheria scored twice in a game for the second time this season to help Princeton defeat Columbia, 4-0, Saturday in an Ivy League matchup. The win helped Princeton improve to 4-4-1 overall, 1-1-1 in Ivy League play.

“It was a huge win to get our first Ivy League win of the season,” said Ittycheria. “It’s much needed momentum for the next upcoming games. It’s a huge confidence booster.”

The Tigers go on the road this Saturday to play at Cornell after playing at Seton Hall on October 10. Princeton is looking for consistency as the Tigers haven’t won two straight games yet this season although they have also only lost two in a row once this year.

“We’ve had some great wins like this one,” said Ittycheria. “But we’ve had some pretty poor losses. All of us are especially frustrated with the loss to Dartmouth — I think we all want that back. We feel great after a very convincing win at home. But we know we have so much more to prove. The league is wide open, but we’re still at the bottom, even if it’s only by a point or two. We’re still at the bottom. We know we have a lot more work to do. We’re not satisfied at all.”

Ittycheria, a 6’2, 170-pound native of Warren, has paced the Tigers’ offense. His seven goals are more than double any other player’s total, and he has 15 points. Ittycheria put a lot of focus into his training over the summer. He returned with a better sense of the increased pace of the college game, and looked differently at his role.

“During the offseason, I put in a lot of work in improving my fitness and also staying sharp,” said Ittycheria. “And also mentally, I’ve felt more confident in myself coming in. Last year, I was really focused on making some sort of impact. Now the mindset has completely changed and I’m trying to get a win for the team instead of focusing on myself.”

He’s part of an offensive group that has been productive recently. The unit also scored four goals in a win over Monmouth, and the Tigers have shown they can score with a variety of weapons. Nico Nee has a pair of goals and five assists for nine points and Will Francis has six points on three goals. Ian Nunez, who also scored Saturday, has two goals for four points.

“We’re pretty versatile,” said Ittycheria. “We have a lot of different kinds of players, especially attackingwise. One of the things that is going to probably be the key for us is our depth in attacking. We have pacy guys like myself, Walker (Gillespie), and other people, and we have players that are more technical and can have slower pace but are still very quality like Nico, and

other players like that. The versatility up top and the depth to be able to sub in and out attacking-wise is going to cause a lot of teams to handle all of us or one of us, and the key for us is one of those guys each game stepping up, whether it’s starters or people coming off the bench. That will be huge.”

Ittycheria has improved his production since a year ago when he played in four games and netted a goal and two assists. He’s playing at another level this year.

“I think with a lot of guys that go from Academy soccer to college soccer there is a learning curve,” said Princeton head coach Jim Barlow. “It’s so fast and hectic and chaotic and competitive. In a lot of the Academy games, it has a slower pace to the game. In college with the subs being able to be unlimited and being able to come in and out of the game, the game never really slows down. It just takes a little time to understand how that impacts when to make your runs and the timing of your runs and how little time you have the box in these games. He’s done a good job of understanding that and improving at the timing of his runs and his ability to get dangerous and get shots off. And every time you score, I think your confidence grows and I think he’s really confident right now.”

Princeton, too, is gaining confidence. The Tigers showed solid moments despite a 3-0 loss to Georgetown in their midweek game that preceded the Columbia contest. In that game, Princeton hit the crossbar with the first real scoring chance of the game, a potential goal that could have given them early momentum. Bouncing back like they did to dominate Columbia was a good sign.

“From top to bottom, we were good all-around,” said Ittycheria. “Defensively we were sharp, offensively we were sharp. Scoring four goals in a game is always pretty good.”

Three of the goals came in the first half. Ittycheria opened the scoring with a great individual effort, outdueling two Columbia defenders to create a breakaway chance that he finished. Princeton’s second goal only one minute later started with a creative pass from Whit Gamblin to Walker Gillespie who sent it to Will Francis for a terrific team goal. Nunez scored a third goal off a Columbia miscue. Ittycheria credited the fast start to Princeton’s attitude and approach.

“It was us believing in ourselves and playing to our strengths,” said Ittycheria. “Getting the first goal pretty early in the half only propels us even more mentally and also lowers the other team’s confidence. Once we got the first one, it was huge. Also getting two goals in one minute also helped a lot.”

Princeton has the firepower to be able to create chances. The Tigers are hoping they can build on the offensive outburst as they go in the second half of the season.

“We were able to have a couple different ways to

get dangerous, and I think when we’re able to do that, it starts with the other team having to worry about us getting behind them,” said Barlow. “And we’re at our best when our forwards are defending really hard and counter-pressing and our transition defending up the field helps us win the ball back in dangerous spots, and I think we did a good job of that.”

At the defensive end of the pitch, Princeton picked up its first shutout of the season. Junior goalie Khamari Hadaway made a pair of saves for the shutout. Hadaway played in half of Princeton’s games a year ago, and is another player who has grown considerably since last season.

“He’s really looked so at ease in the goal this year and his presence and confidence and he’s a really talented, athletic, quick goalkeeper,” said Barlow. “This year, he just looks like he’s experienced and he knows when to be off his line. He commands the box pretty well on crosses and restarts, and he’s doing well as an option to get the ball back at his feet and distribute from the back too. He’s come up with some big saves for us. He just has been rock solid in pretty much every game this year.”

Princeton was good on both ends of the field Saturday. Their offense was clicking and their defense came up with big plays to preserve the shutout.

“I think it was probably the best 90 minutes we’ve played,” said Barlow. “We were from start to finish the most focused we’ve been — disciplined and determined. We had a few

moments at the end of the first half where we were sloppy and Columbia had kind of a breakaway with about three minutes left before halftime and Whit Gamblin made an incredible recovery to catch up to the guy and save a goal because he had already dribbled past Khamari and he was about to shoot into the open net and Whit made a great play. If that goes in and it becomes 3-1 then momentum could have changed.”

Instead it’s Princeton that has momentum going into a vital stretch. Princeton sits in a fifth-place tie with Penn in the Ivy standings with four points. Only the top four teams will advance to the inaugural Ivy League tournament which is being held on November 10 and 12 at the home field of the top seed. Cornell, in seventh, two points behind Princeton, is a big game for both teams looking to move up.

“It’s a huge week,” said Barlow. “We have an away match against Cornell, who’s a really incredibly talented team that was picked to win the league and they’ve already beaten the defending national champions so that will be a huge game on the weekend. Seton Hall is also a really important game because having played such a hard schedule, our RPI is still very strong. If we can continue to get a couple wins over some of these top teams, we still have Seton Hall and Fordham on our schedule that are both very high RPIs, if we can get a couple wins and continue to pick up some wins in the league that could position us well from an RPI standpoint.”

Princeton’s players will be juggling midterm exams this week as they prepare for their games. The Tigers are feeling better about their

MAKING HIS POINT: Princeton University men’s soccer player Danny Ittycheria, right, celebrates after a goal in a game earlier this season. Last Saturday, sophomore forward Ittycheria tallied two goals to help Princeton defeat Columbia 4-0. The Tigers, now 4-4-1 overall and 1-1-1 Ivy League, were slated to play at Seton Hall on October 10 before resuming Ivy action with a game at Cornell on October 14. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

play after coming off an encouraging win. Princeton looks to build confidence and a win streak with four Ivy games remaining and a pair of strong non-conference foes.

“The whole team is bought in from top to bottom,” said Ittycheria. “The leaders and upperclassmen have done a great job in creating an environment that makes everyone encouraged to be bought into the process and

be bought into potentially having a successful season. That’s one of the most encouraging signs. It doesn’t matter if one guy is playing a lot or on the bench, we’re all encouraging each other. The guys coming off the bench are making a huge difference. And the guys that come out are trying to do the same and keep encouraging the team and the intensity.”

—Justin Feil

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PU Sports Roundup

Tiger Men’s Water Polo Defeats LIU, Iona

George Caras and Pierce

Maloney starred as the No. 6 Princeton University men’s water polo team posted wins over LIU and Iona last Saturday in Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) action.

Caras tallied three goals as Princeton started the day by defeating LIU 16-8 and then Maloney followed suit with a hat trick of his own as the Tigers topped Iona 16-9.

Princeton, now 16-2 overall and 5-0 NWPC, will head west next week as it plays at UC Irving on October 15 and UC Santa Barbara on October 17.

PU Women’s Volleyball Defeats Dartmouth 3-1

Sparked by Kamryn Chaney, the Princeton University women’s volleyball team defeated Dartmouth 3-1 last Saturday evening.

Freshman Chaney contributed a match-high 16 kills with a match-high five service aces, three digs, and one block to help the Tigers prevail 25-20, 22-25, 2522, 25-15.

Princeton, now 7-7 overall and 4-2 Ivy League, hosts Columbia on October 13 and Cornell on October 14.

Tiger Golf Star Fantinelli To Play in Amateur Event

Princeton University men’s golf star Ricardo Fantinelli will represent Italy at the 2023 World Amateur Team Championships this coming October on the National

Course at Abu Dhabi Golf Club.

Sophomore Fantinelli, the 2023 Ivy League champion and Ivy League Rookie of the Year, will compete in he event that is taking place from October 18-21. A native of Rome, he will representing his country in the 36-team tournament, which will be contested in four rounds of stroke play. The winning team will receive gold medals and possession of the Eisenhower Trophy.

“It has been a goal of mine for the past three years to compete in the World Amateur Team Championship and being selected for the team is certainly very gratifying after all the sacrifices I have made in the past,” said Fantinelli. “The field looks incredible, and it will be an amazing opportunity for me to compare my game against the very best in the amateur world. Some of the past participants have gone on to do great things as professionals and since that is my dream, it is reassuring to know that I am on the right track to achieving my dreams.”

First held in 1958, the World Amateur Team Championships are being played for the first time in the Middle East this fall. Italy is the defending champion, posting a one-shot win over Sweden in 2022.

“This is a tremendous honor for Riccardo, one he is most deserving of,” said Princeton head coach Will Green. “He has established himself as one of the top amateur players in Europe and a force in collegiate golf. The opportunity to represent your country in international competition is

one of the highest honors in our sport and I am excited to watch him compete in October, representing not only Italy but also Princeton.”

The list of previous competitors at the World Amateur Team Championships is a “Who’s Who” of current and former professional stars including, among others, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, Billy Horschel, Collin Morikawa, Bryson DeChambeau, SiWoo Kim, Phil Mickelson, Paul Casey, and Sergio Garcia.

PU Hoops Alumna Dietrick

Makes U.S. 3x3 Squad

Former Princeton University women’s basketball star Blake Dietrick ’15 has been named to the United States 3x3 Pan America Team, U.S. Basketball announced last week.

The team will play in the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile from October 21-24. The USA women will play in Group A and their first matchup is against Dominican Republic on October 21. Their next group contest is on October 22 against Mexico and if the U.S. advances then it will play in the quarterfinals later that day. The semifinals and gold medal game are scheduled for October 23.

Dietrick has played for the U.S. at various 3x3 events since 2021, including stops on the FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series. Along with Burdick, the duo recently competed for the USA at the 2023 FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series Final and previously won gold at the 2021 FIBA 3x3 AmeriCup.

FINE-TUNING: Princeton University women’s soccer player Lexi Hiltunen goes after the ball in a game earlier this season. Last Saturday evening, Hiltunen

Earlier this summer, Dietrick, a 5’10 native of Wellesley, Mass., helped LDLC Asvel Feminin win the French League and EuroCup titles. During her senior campaign at Princeton in 2014-15, Dietrick helped the team to one of the greatest seasons in Ivy League history. The Tigers had an unblemished 30-0 regular season, won its fifth Ivy League title in six years, and won the program’s first ever NCAA Tournament game. The guard averaged career-highs in points (15.1), assists (4.9), and rebounds (4.5) per game en route to being named the Ivy Player of the Year and earning Associated Press and WBCA Honorable Mention All-America honors.

Princeton Men’s Golf Takes 5th at Hamptons

Willam Huang led the way as the Princeton University men’s golf team produced individual and program records on the way to taking fifth place at the Hamptons Intercollegiate last week at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, N.Y.

Junior Huang shot under par in all three of his rounds at the event, firing a threeday total of 205 (70-66-69) to finish in third place at -11 which sets a new school record for a low round to par at a 54-hole event — surpassing the -10 Huang shot at the 2021 Princeton Invitational.

The 278 carded by the Tigers in the second round established a new modernday program record for team score in relation to par at -10, besting the -9 shot by the Tigers in the third round of the 2005 Ivy League Championship. It is tied for the fifth-lowest team total for a single round in program history.

Huang’s play helped the Tigers to a fifth place finish overall at -8 as a group with a three-day total of 856 (291-278-287). Only five teams were under par collectively at the tournament, led by Alabama which posted a team score of -24. Ohio State (-21) and UCLA (-20) were in a tight battle for second and third, respectively while Virginia (-10) was just ahead of the Tigers. In terms

of the four Ivy schools who competed, Princeton was the highest-finishing team, well ahead of Yale (+6), Harvard (+27) and Penn (+30).

Huang, the 2022 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a two-time All-Ivy selection, posted a new careerlow round with his six-under 66 in Round Two on Monday. After bogeying the first hole, he birdied seven of the final 17 — including six birdies on the back nine. He would finish the 54 holes of the event with 18 total birdies.

Senior Jackson Fretty also starred as he also shot a 66 in the second round, matching the 66 he shot at the Ivy League Championships for his career low round. The pair of 66s from Huang and Fretty marked the first time in modern program history — dating back to 1993-94 — that two Tigers show 66 or lower in the same round.

The -6 second rounds from Huang and Fretty tie the modern program record for low round to par — the seventh and eighth rounds of -6 by Princeton players since 93-94.

tallied a goal to help Princeton defeat visiting Yale 3-1. The Tigers, now 8-2-2 overall and 3-1 Ivy League, play at Harvard on October 14 and then host Bucknell on October 17.

PHS Football Falters Early in Loss to Cherry Hill East, Primed to Rebound in Homecoming Clash Against WW/P

Employing tunnel vision on a weekly basis, the Princeton High football team produced an encouraging 4-2 start this fall.

“Our motto has really been be 1-0 against the week, it is something that we have been doing,” said PHS head coach Charlie Gallagher, whose team has posted shutouts in each of its wins this season as the Tigers have made marked progress after going 1-9 last year.

“We weren’t thinking about previous weeks, we were looking at that as more of a distraction than anything else. It is, ‘How do we prepare for the week and how do we find a way to be 1-0?’”

Last Saturday as it hosted Cherry Hill East, though, PHS couldn’t find a way to get it done, falling 34-14 as it moved to 4-3.

After not having given up a point the previous two games as it blanked Holy Cross Prep 29-0 on September 29 and Bishop Eustace 24-0 on September 22, PHS fell behind 22-0 in the first quarter.

“They had a good running back,” said Gallagher, referring to Denzel Lee, who rushed for 194 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries against PHS. “They bullied us a little bit in the first quarter and then we weren’t able to rebound.”

While PHS couldn’t overcome that early deficit, it did show some fight as it outscored the Cougars 14-12 over the final three quarters of the contest.

“They just played better than us, we tried to address it in the second half and the kids responded,” said Gallagher. “I think we made some progress later in the game but we got down so early. We scored seven in the second quarter and then we traded scores.”

The Tiger defense responded as it held the fort after the shaky start.

“The defense played well, Joe George did a great job, I think he had 10 tackles,” said Gallagher. “Anthony Famiglietti played some great defensive end for us, which was awesome. You have to be really disciplined in that position. He and

Sean Wilton on the other side are just doing a great job. The interior guys have been playing great. Evan Pease got another pick. I think that might put us at 10 or 11 interceptions on the year which is phenomenal. Ellington has four with two touchdowns, Carmine [Carusone] has four with one touchdown.”

As for the PHS offense, the passing attack had its moments as quarterback Travis Petrone connected on 7 of 12 passes for 118 years and one touchdown. Wyatt Arshan made two catches for 55 yards while Ellington Hinds and two receptions for 38 yards with a 28-yard TD grab.

“Wyatt had a big catch down the sidelines for 55 yards, Ellington is doing what he does,” said Gallagher. “He does a great job. He caught a screen pass, that pass was six yards and he just ran right down the middle with the offense blocking out front. He just took it to the house, he outran the screen. We have to figure a way to get him the ball more.”

With PHS hosting the West Windsor-Plainsboro Co-op (5-2) this Friday evening in its annual Homecoming game under the lights, Gallagher is looking for his players to control their emotions.

“We just have to come out a little more like tempered, I think we get a little too jacked up,” said Gallagher.

“They get too excited and then I think the butterflies kick in. They look at the crowd. They need to go out there and just focus on what is between the lines and don’t get wrapped up in all of the hoopla.”

West Windsor is bringing a 5-2 record into the contest, boasting some key offensive weapons in quarterback Conor Sattiraju and running back Ryan Beske. Sattiraju has passed for 935 yards while Beske has rushed for 435 yards.

PHS Girls’ Soccer Rallies to Defeat Steinert 3-1 As Senior Star Kiesewetter Displays Her Versatility

Over the last two years, Alysse Kiesewetter has established herself as a star on the back line for the Princeton High girls’ soccer team.

But after PHS star midfielder Casey Serxner got sidelined earlier this fall with a leg injury, Kiesewetter has seen her role change, becoming a more attacking player.

“I usually play left back, but we have been needing to get some more goals,” said Kiesewetter. “I like playing midfield too, I like going up.”

Displaying her versatility last Thursday, Kiesewetter scored two goals on penalty kicks as PHS rallied from a 1-0 halftime deficit against visiting Steinert to pull out a dramatic 3-1 victory.

“We know it is Steinert and they are very competitive every single year,” said Kiesewetter. “Last year we lost twice to them. This year, we had a better mindset. The first half was a little rocky with them scoring pretty early. Halftime came along and we were like, ‘we have to be aggressive’ and that is what we did.”

That aggressiveness paid dividends as the Tigers eventually broke down a stingy Tartan defense that had yielded only two goals on the season coming into the contest.

“Their defense was very strong, we knew we had to pass it around them,” said Kiesewetter. “We have been focusing a lot in practice on possessing the ball, doing give-and-goes. I think we did that really well today.”

PHS head coach Dave Kosa acknowledged that his squad had a hard time in the early going against Steinert.

“In the first half, I think we were a little on our heels,” said Kosa. “They were the more aggressive team. We made a mistake and they capitalized on it. They are a really good team, they are a great program.”

Things got really tough for PHS early in the second half when freshman star goalie Julia Zaldarriaga left the game after going down with an injury. With last year’s goalie Olivia DeLuca coming in off the bench, the Tigers kept fighting.

“The fact that we battled back is a testament to the girls and their hard work,” said Kosa. “Steinert had given up two goals the entire season and we got three today. We have been so close, and this is the time where we finally got over the hump. It was great to see. I am very proud of them.”

The team’s grit bodes well for the homestretch of the season.

“Every game is going to be a battle, we are getting ready for tournament time,” said Kosa. “It is just a matter of leaving it all out there. The fact that Julia went out — she has been our rock on the back line — our defense stepped up big time. It was very physical out there, especially in the second half. We took their best shot and we kept battling against them so it was great.”

moved her up,” said Kosa of Kiesewetter, who had tallied two goals and three assists so far this fall. “She has given us a great offensive punch. She just gives a threat with her corner kicks and taking it down the left side. She gives us that speed on the perimeter. She has made some great crosses. On the penalty kicks, she went top corner first time and then she went the other side the second time. It was great poise by her.”

Gallagher has also demonstrated poise this season, coming up with some clutch play.

“Quinn has had some big goals for us, she tied the game against Robbinsville (1-1 on October 3),” said Kosa. “She has got a big foot but again when she turns it on, she is tall and gets by people. She is deceptive like that and it really helps us.”

Getting by Steinert gave the Tigers a glimpse of their potential.

“It shows them that we can compete against the best teams,” said Kosa, whose team topped WW/P-South 5-0 last Monday to improve to 7-6-1 and will host WW/PNorth on October 12 before starting action in the Mercer County Tournament on October 16.

“We have been close; Allentown was a 1-0 loss, Notre Dame was 2-1, PDS was 1-0. So with all of the top teams we have been right there. We just needed that extra boost and today we got it.”

In Kiesewetter’s view, PHS has what it takes to be a top squad.

BIG JAKE: Princeton High football defensive star Jake Angelucci on the move in a game earlier this season. Senior cocaptain Angelucci has helped spearhead a rugged PHS defense that has posted four shutouts so far this season. Last Saturday, the Tigers ran into a buzz saw as they fell 34-14 to Cherry Hill East to move to 4-3. PHS will look to get back on the winning track when it hosts the West Windsor-Plainsboro Co-op (5-2) this Friday evening in its annual Homecoming game under the lights.

“It is going to be tough; they have a good quarterback and a good offensive line,” said Gallagher. “They have a good running back in Beske. He is a pesky running back, he is a problem. They also have a big tight end who had a good game against us last year. We have to be prepared.”

In order to solve those problems, PHS will need to be ready to go from the opening kickoff and play sharper throughout the game.

“We have to have a better first quarter; you are going to get scored on, we just can’t give up three touchdowns,” said Gallagher. “It was nice to get that little winning streak, it was two games. It was short-lived. West Windsor provides a multitude of challenges. We are excited, I hope we provide the same thing to them. Special teams-wise we do a good job and defensively we are doing a great job. Offensively, we have to fine-tune a few things.”

—Bill Alden

Kiesewetter got things going for PHS, burying a penalty kick with 27:39 left in the second half. Six minutes later, Tiger sophomore star Quinn Gallagher raced down the right flank and slotted the ball into the back of the net to put PHS ahead 2-1. With the Tigers clinging to that lead, Kiesewetter struck again, knocking in another penalty kick with 2:53 remaining in regulation.

While Kiesewetter felt some nerves as she took the PKs, she kept her head and coolly focused on where she was sending the ball.

“I usually go bottom right, but today I decided to switch it up a little bit and go top right,” said Kiesewetter. “I hadn’t taken a PK year this year, it was like, ‘oh no.’ Once the second one came along, I thought I am going to the opposite side.”

Coming through against Steinert was a confidence builder for the Tigers.

“We have been rivals for years,” said Kiesewetter. “This will definitely give us a little push. It has definitely been a little harder this year because we had some very close games, losing by one. It is just being confident, we have really been working on that and working as a team. I think we did that really well today.”

As a three-year starter and team co-captain, Kiesewetter has looked to instill confidence in her teammates.

“I just try to look out for everyone that is younger and just to help them along and help them gain confidence,” said Kiesewetter. “With Casey out, it has been hard on us. All the captains have been coming together and just getting the team together. It has been really fun.”

Moving Kiesewetter into the attack has given PHS a shot in the arm.

“We were having trouble scoring goals in the beginning especially when we lost Casey a couple of games ago so we

“It is just working together and working as a team,” said Kiesewetter. “We didn’t really do that in the beginning, and more wins here have inspired us.”

—Bill Alden

BRINGING HER A-GAME: Princeton High girls’ soccer player Alysse Kiesewetter dribbles the ball in game earlier this season. Last Thursday, senior defender/midfielder Kiesewetter tallied two goals to help PHS rally for a 3-1 win over Steinert. The Tigers, who topped WW/P-South 5-0 last Monday to improve to 7-6-1, host WW/P-North on October 12 before starting action in the Mercer County Tournament on October 16.

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Bouncing Back From First Defeat Since 2020, Hun Football Dominates in 43-0 Rout of Blair

With the defense generating the first points of the game on a safety to set the tone, the Hun School football team rolled to a 43-0 win over the Blair Academy under the lights last Saturday night.

The Raiders thrilled their Homecoming crowd with a dominant performance on both sides of the ball to bounce back from their only setback of the year and improve to 4-1.

The Raiders got the early safety from Owen Wafle on a bad snap, and those two points were enough with another dominant defensive effort coupled with a balanced offensive attack. Hun never looked back from there as it rebounded from a mistakefueled 17-7 loss at Malvern Prep (Pa.) on September 29 to rout Blair, the first of three Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) opponents it will face this year.

“It was a good effort,” said Hun head coach Todd Smith, whose program saw a 21-game winning streak snapped by the defeat to Malvern Prep. “The kids made some good plays. We still made our share of mistakes against Blair but we were able to recover. Defense played very well and put the offense in a very good position.”

The Hun defense returned many of the same pieces that made it such an important cog in their winning every game a year ago.

The Raiders have picked up where they left off by limiting foes to just 5.6 points per game. Wafle, a senior committed to Michigan, is a four-year starter on defense, and has wreaked havoc out of his defensive tackle spot.

“Owen is just a force to be reckoned with,” said Smith. “He’s done a great job honing his craft. He’s extremely physical. He runs sideline to sideline. No one knows how deal with him, and rightfully so. Not many kids are built like him or have a motor like him or as strong as him. He’s doing a great job for us. He’s got four more games for us and then he starts to get ready for his college career. He’s been a force for us for four years now. This is his swan song a little bit.”

The Raiders have come to expect Wafle’s dominance on the line that also includes his brother, Luke, a sophomore who is in his first year at Hun, as well as Kole Briehler, a junior defensive tackle. Wafle checks all the boxes for a star defensive player and combines them in a rare combination.

“He has a lot of freakish

qualities,” said Smith. “He’s a 290-pound kid but he runs a 4.9 40. He is 6’2, but he has a 7-foot wingspan. So he’s got these freaky measurables that allow him to do these things and then when you add the motor on top of it, that’s what makes him really special. When you have big kids that are twitched up, they’re just really hard to match up against and that means you have to dedicate more than one guy to him, and when you’re doing that, that means someone else is getting a one-on-one matchup. It’s not just the plays he makes. It’s the blockers he takes up as well.”

The win was Hun’s first shutout of the season as the defense held the fort even after losing linebacker/running back Kamar Archie to injury during the game. Their play would have made the safety alone stand up for a win. The defense has continually given the Raiders a strong starting point.

“The defense is doing very well,” said Smith. “The defensive line is doing a great job of getting pressure, and when you can get pressure with four it takes a lot of pressure off everyone else. We did a good job of pass coverage. Luke Sutphen had to shift over to Mike linebacker which he hasn’t played in years, but when Kamar was injured we just moved him over and he did a great job at Mike linebacker for us (Saturday) night. He really controlled the inside of the box, and Owen and Kole did a good job of getting pressure on the quarterback. We were really happy with that. The DBs kept everything in front of them and we didn’t give up any big plays. I think we gave up two first downs on the night. We’re not afraid to play field position just because we know the defense can put us in a good spot all the time.”

The Raiders took the possession following the safety and moved quickly down the field with Miles O’Neill connecting with Bryce Kania for the first of three touchdowns that each would account for in the game. O’Neill, the Texas A&M commit, connected on 17-of-25 passes for 332 yards and three touchdowns and one interception. Jack Moran, the highly touted junior quarterback, also played and finished 6-of-9 for 143 yards and three touchdowns.

Chase Enlow led the rushing game with 36 yards on six carries. Enlow picked up the slack when Archie was injured and missed the remainder of the game after

recording one carry and one catch.

“We had our playmakers step up and make some really good plays,” said Smith. “Kamar got hurt early so there was opportunity for some young guys to step up and take over which was great. We kind of patchworked it together. We had a bunch of significant injuries, but I thought kids stepped up and we did a good job.”

Hun had eight different pass catchers. Liam Thorpe led the receivers with seven catches for 138 yards and a score. Kania had four catches for 140 yards and the three touchdowns. Enlow also had four catches for 59 yards. Christian Soltis caught three passes. A.J. Schwartz and Eric Urbaniak made touchdown catches among their two catches apiece, and Drae Tyme also had one reception.

Between the running and passing game, the offense piled up 524 yards a week after only mustering seven points on a defensive touchdown. Most of the issues against Malvern, though, came from Raider mistakes.

“Last night we did a great job moving the ball, and then we’d go backwards because of self-inflicted penalties,” said Smith.

“We had a personal foul at one point, a holding at one point, a clipping at another point. That part’s a little frustrating when you’re committing these things, but we do have a lot of young guys on the field so it’s a lot of great experience. Miles did a great job of putting the ball in great spots. We had some inopportune drops, so sometimes we weren’t doing ourselves any favors. Jack came in and did a great job. Both quarterbacks had three touchdowns so it was good.”

Hun will go on the road for its next three games. The Raiders look for their second league win in a row at Hill School (Pa.) on October 14 before playing at St. Frances Academy (Md.) on October 21 and then at the Peddie School on October 28.

“We have to rally the troops,” said Smith. “We had some significant injuries and we’ll see how Kamar bounces back. We have some young guys that have to step up, and we’ll get ourselves ready during the week. We’ll get the 11 ready to play and we’ll take on Hill next weekend.”

—Justin Feil

Looking to Come Together When it Matters Most, Hun Boys’ Soccer Aiming for Stellar Stretch Run

For the Hun School boys’ soccer team, last week proved to be a microcosm of a season that has turned into bit of a bumpy ride.

Playing at Life Center Academy on October 3, Hun rolled to a 4-0 win as four different players scored goals.

“We were firing on all cylinders we came out really strong,” said Hun head coach Pat Quirk, who got goals from Conor Frykholm, Zachary Stark, Toba Olaleye, and Christian Wolfe in the win. “We had balanced scoring, we scored early and we scored often. It was nice.”

The defense also produced a nice effort against the Warriors, led by junior goalie Diego Pena who made six saves.

“Diego had some good saves in that game, he has had some big saves this year to keep them all close,” said Quirk. “I have been super happy with him and the back line. Alden Hill has been solid guy in the back. Bradford Barnes and Chris Meehan have been back there to solidify things. We are playing with three right now.”

Three days later as Hun hosted the Blair Academy, the Raiders took an early 1-0 lead but misfired after that in playing to a 1-1 draw with the Buccaneers.

“We came out strong, we scored early; I thought it was going to be like Life Center again but we struggled to score again,” said Quirk. “We created a lot of opportunities, but they are pretty organized defensively and one guy who can get dangerous. We had the ball in their half of the field for the majority of the game and we struggled to put it in.”

Senior Stark tallied the Hun goal against Blair to give him a team-high five goals on the season.

“We had him as a winger and he said, ‘let me play in the middle,’ so we have got him on the ball a little bit more,” said Quirk. “We started him at center mid. Now he has a role up top. He has bounced around between the two of them. He is a guy that when he is in the box, he wants to beat his defender to the ball.”

With Hun moving to 4-51 in the wake of the draw with the Buccaneers, Quirk believes his team is playing a good brand of soccer.

“The way that we have been playing has been really good, we focus a lot on just playing simple, finding the next guy, just connecting passes,” said Quirk. “I have been really happy with that,

how we have been working the ball that way.”

Quirk has been happy with the work he has been getting from senior star midfielder and Babson commit Frykholm.

“Conor has been a leader in the middle of the field,” said Quirk of Frykholm, who has tallied three goals and three assists this season. “He is just a competitor, he rarely comes off. He has gotten really good in the air and his distribution has been really solid too.”

Noting that 10 players have scored goals for the Raiders so far this season, Quirk likes the way the scoring load has been distributed.

“It has been a whole team thing, it is super balanced,”

said Quirk. “There is no one superstar who is taking the team on their back like we have had the last couple of years.”

With Hun playing at Peddie on October 11 in the opening round of the Prep A state tournament before playing at the Hill School (Pa.) on October 14 in a regular season contest, Quirk is looking for a big team effort down the stretch.

“I have heard that Peddie has a couple of guys, definitely one guy up top who can score,” said Quirk. “We have to go there, it is always a little tough on their grass but I think our guys are going to be ready. We talked after the Blair game about how the basic thing is to let go of what the outcome of the game is going to be and just do the best we can together and compete.”

—Bill Alden

HEADS UP: Hun School boys’ soccer player Conor Frykholm goes up for a header in action last season. Senior star and Babson commit Frykholm has starred in the midfield for the Raiders this fall as they have started 4-5-1. In upcoming action, Hun will play at Peddie on October 11 in the opening round of the Prep A state tournament before playing at the Hill School (Pa.) on October 14 in a regular season contest. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

With Flamer Growing Into an Offensive Force, Stuart Field Hockey Showing Improvement

As a freshman in 2021, Nyla Flamer, then about 80 pounds soaking wet, showed flashes of brilliance for the Stuart County Day School field hockey team as she zipped around opponents.

Working on her game and adding some height and pounds over the last two years, Flamer has grown into a go-to star for Stuart.

Last Friday as the Tartans hosted South Hunterdon, Flamer displayed her development, snaking through the Eagle defense in the third quarter to set up a Gloria Wang goal as Stuart ended up prevailing 1-0.

In reflecting on the play, Flamer was looking to be aggressive in the circle.

“I saw it was a 3v2 and after I eliminated the first defender it was OK, I have two others, so I can shoot now or I can pass,” said Flamer, who leads the Tartans, now 5-3, in scoring with five goals and three assists. “I decided to shoot, unfortunately the goalie was there but I knew my teammate was there so she got the rebound.”

Coming off a 6-0 win over Burlington City on October 3, Stuart realized that it faced a tough test in South Hunterdon.

“We knew that the game today was going to be a tougher game so we needed to work on our communication and our passing skill,” said Flamer. “I think we really capitalized on that today.”

With the teams knotted in a scoreless draw at halftime, the Tartans focused on

the basics as they looked to make a breakthrough.

“It was looking up and passing and making sure that we are talking,” and Flamer. “We really want to prep for the state game coming up, so these two wins are really helping us with our positive affirmation for each other.”

With last year’s senior stars, Lily Harlan and Emily Ix, having graduated, Flamer is determined to make a positive impact for the Tartans this fall.

“I am really trying my best to step up as a junior,” said Flamer. “I know that Lily and Emily were really, really good players for our team. We really loved them. Now we are just trying to be one with our team and make sure that we know who the leaders are on our team.”

Over the offseason, Flamer worked hard to make herself a better player.

“I play on the Princeton Field Hockey Club; I have been to a lot of clinics,” said Flamer. “I had summer practice for club — I did a lot of skill work and shooting work.”

As a result of those efforts, Flamer is bringing a different mindset to the field this season.

“I feel like I have made the most improvement in my confidence,” said Flamer. “I think this helped me, I got more comfortable with the ball and having the ball and wanting the ball instead of being afraid of the ball.”

Stuart head coach Missy Bruvik was not surprised to

see Flamer to come up big in the circle.

“We have been starting her in the midfield because she is also a great defensive player, she sees the field,” said Bruvik. “At 0-0, I said let’s push her up because we had kids on the forward line that can fill some mid positions as well. Sometimes in the midfield, she doesn’t get that opportunity to get through that last line of defense. She has worked hard in the offseason for sure.”

Bruvik got some great work from sophomore Abby Chirik on the back line against South Hunterdon as she repeatedly thwarted the Eagles.

“Abby was on fire today; she just kept her stick down, she was steady, she was fearless and got rid of the ball,” said Bruvik. “She cleared the ball whether it was on the left or right. She usually plays midfield and we bumped her back to that right back position and she supported the midfield beautifully.”

In the midfield, senior standouts Alex Mandzij and Elise Price played well in the win.

“The two seniors, Alex and Elise, our captains, are just leading the way,” said Bruvik. “They take charge on the field, but also they really inspire the new kids. That has been really nice. Alex played the center mid today instead of center back to give her more freedom to roam and push the ball forward. They played beautifully together in the midfield, when one pushes up, the other is able to play a support role.”

With Stuart having gone 3-2 over the last two weeks, Bruvik believes her squad is heading in the right direction.

“I think we are in a good place because we are able to move some of these kids and they are getting more versatile as the season goes on,” said Bruvik. “We can adjust kids in the back and move kids up. That is nice seeing us move forward. Today was a test to try and do that. I think we were pretty successful getting the ball out of the back. They all played great today — every kid played with great intensity. I just think that the key is to continue to learn the game, not just that one position. It is keep working on your skills and be challenged. We have improved with the games. It has been building confidence.”

Bruvik is hoping that ver satility will make a differ ence as the fourth-seeded Tartans host fifth-seeded Pennington in the quarterfinal round of the Prep A state tournament on October 16.

STICKING WITH IT: Stuart County Day School field hockey player Nyla Flamer looks to send the ball upfield in recent action. Last Friday, junior star Flamer assisted on the lone goal as Stuart edged South Hunterdon 1-0 to improve to 5-3. In upcoming action, the

“We are going to see Pennington in the first round of the Preps so the kids are looking forward to that,” said Bruvik. “We will work hard next week and we will just keep pushing forward.” Flamer, for her part, is confident that Stuart will keep moving forward.

“We try to capitalize on our positivity and going in we want to win,” said Flamer. “It is also talking on the field and making sure we have strong, hard passes.”

—Bill

Alden

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PHS Athletic Hall of Fame Holding Banquet Nov. 11

The Princeton High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee has announced its 15th induction class.

The Class of 2023 includes Carl Lutz ’31, an All-State football and basketball player and captain of the ’31 Class B state title basketball squad; Peter Nichols ’74, a star runner who competed in cross country, indoor and outdoor track, and broke 8 course records during his senior cross country season; Allen Bryant ’10, an AllState midfielder in lacrosse who was CVC Player of the Year in ’10 and a starting defender on the Group 3 state title soccer team and earned Group 3 all-state recognition; Michelle Bazile ’14, an All-State performer who is the school record holder in the shot put and discus and the winner of the shot put in 2014 at the Meet of Champions; the 1931 boys’ basketball team, which won the Class B state title; the 2012 boys’ swimming team, which won the Division B state title and was the Star Ledger’s top-ranked team in N.J.; coach Greg Hand, the longtime head coach of girls’ soccer and the boys’ and girls’ swimming teams, who also served as the throws coach for track and field; and contributor Bill Alden, the longtime sports editor of the Town Topics who has been covering PHS athletics for more than two decades.

The Hall of Fame Awards dinner and banquet will take place at Mercer Oaks Country Club in West Windsor on November 11 from 6-10 p.m. Seats for the event are $65 and all proceeds go towards scholarships for current PHS student-athletes. Individuals interested in attending the banquet, placing an ad in the banquet program, or contributing to the scholarship fund can email the Hall of Fame Committee at PrincetonHighHoF@gmail.com.

The Hall of Fame Committee would like to hear from relatives of the 1931 boys’ basketball team (coach George Tindall and players Carl Lutz, Leroy “Roy” Page, John Tindall, Joseph Richards, Randolph “Bud” Applegate, William Saunders (Sanders), Peter Marx, Harry Caplan, Rudolph Ehart, and team manager Bill Stonaker). Please contact the Hall of Fame Committee by email at PrincetonHighHof@gmail.com.

For more information on the PHS Hall of Fame, visit its website at https://princetonhs.rschoolteams.com/ page/3142.

Rec Department Holding Sign-Up for Dillon Hoops

The Princeton Recreation Department is now taking registrations for the 2024 Dillon Youth Basketball League.

The Dillon Youth Basketball League is a storied program for the Princeton community that is entering its 52nd season. The league consists of both games and clinics. It is open to boys and girls in grades 3-10 who are Princeton residents and non-residents who attend school in Princeton.

The Dillon season will taking place from JanuaryMarch 2024 and games will be held Saturday mornings at the Hun School. The program is a recreational league intended for players of all skill and experience levels. “Dillon Basketball” is about playing the game the right way, teamwork, and having fun.

To register, log onto register.communitypass.net/ princeton under “ 2024 Winter Sports Programs.” Registration is open until January 2, 2024, or until divisions are at capacity. More information can be found at princetonrecreation.com.

Princeton Junior Football League Recent Results

In action last week in the Princeton Junior Football League (PJFL) Seniors division (Grades 7-8), t he Woodwinds Chiefs defeated the Christine’s Hope Lions 3221 as Shail Besler passed for three touchdowns with two to Lachlan Arnold and one to Mason Merse. Besler also rushed for a TD as did Arnold. As for the Lions, John Monica and Cooper Casto traded touchdown passes to one another with Monica

Eagles defeated the Petrone Steelers 27-19. Andrew Lutz starred for the Eagles, accounting for three touchdowns with George Hogshire scoring on an interception return. Anders Stoneman scored a pair of touchdowns to lead the way for the Steelers while Nazir Rollins added a rushing TD. The COE Smiles Vikings blanked the UOA Cardinals 13-0. Ozzie Roeser, Aiden Russo and Aakarsh Chaganty all had interceptions to lead the strong defensive effort for the Vikings. Aiden Spies accounted for both Vikings touchdowns with an interception return for touchdown and a quarterback run. The TSS Photo Broncos topped the Christine’s Hope Giants 31-7 as Leo Codispoti led a stout Broncos defense with two interceptions. Oliver Bregman had a touchdown catch for the Broncos with Matthew Sheleheda adding a TD run.

Hun

Field Hockey : Ana Dios stared as Hun edged the Blair Academy 2-1 in overtime last Friday. Dios scored a fourth quarter goal to force overtime and then assisted on the game-winner by Ali Ieva as the Raiders improved to 6-2. In upcoming action, secondseeded Hun hosts seventhseeded Morristown-Beard in the Prep A state quarterfinals on October 13, plays at the Hill School (Pa.) on October 14, and then starts play in the Mercer County Tournament on October 17.

assist as the Red Hawks improved to 8-0. Pennington plays at Hopewell Valley on October 14 and then starts action in the Mercer County Tournament on October 16.

Girls’ Soccer : Led by Hailey Adamsky, Pennington topped Paul VI 4-0 last Saturday. Adamsky had two goals and two assists in the win for the Red Hawks as they improved to 11-0. Pennington hosts Albertus Magnus on October 11, plays at Hopewell Valley on October 14 and then starts action in the Mercer County Tournament on October 16.

addition, PDS will be playing at Ewing on October 13 and hosting Notre Dame on October 16.

adding a second TD pass to Liam McCloskey. The Mercato Broncos topped the TSS Photo Vikings 34-20. For the Broncos, Luke Giannatasio, PJ Ross, Oliver Scriven, and Aibree Greenwich figured in the scoring. For the TSS Photo Vikings, Eli Salganik ran for two touchdowns and threw a TD pass to AJ Davidson. The Petrone Steelers edged the PBA-130 Eagles 20-19 as Roy Bellace threw two TD passes to Xander Cox for the Steelers. Cox added an interception return for a TD in the victory. For the PBA-130 Eagles, Mathew Robinson threw three touchdown passes to Reggie Wright.

In the Super Juniors division (Grades 5-6), the Besler Cardinals defeated the Princeton Global Eagles 28-14. Leo Miele scored two rushing touchdowns for the Cardinals and threw TD passes to Neil Patel and Aiyan McCollum. As for the Eagles, James Carter had two TD catches and two interceptions in a losing cause. The PBA-130 Broncos topped the Christine’s Hope Giants 4020. Christian Barr accounted for all six touchdowns for the Broncos, including three receiving from Hugh Kelly, two rushing, and an interception return. For the Giants, Bryce Davison scored two TDs, and Michael Kshirsagar scored one TD. The Petrone Associates Steelers beat the TSS Photo Vikings 27-14.

Theo Henderson had three touchdowns for the Steelers, two rushing and one on an interception return. Alex Burger added a TD run for the victors. Luke Branagh and Aidyn Shah scored TDs for the Vikings.

In the Juniors division (Grades 3-4), t he Lululemon

As for the Rookie division, (Grades 1-2), the PREA Chiefs got three TDs from Henry Robinson in defeating the UOA Cardinals 3514. Chase Barr also had two scores for the Chiefs and Ryan Costella added a TD. Ethan Borrus and Paxton Kukla each scored TDs for the Cardinals in a losing effort. The Petrone Steelers and Christine’s Hope Giants played to 28-28 tie. Owen Duffy, Rahill Patel, Jamison Keel and Xavier Marcus each scored touchdowns for the Steelers while Jonathan Colon Jr. and Sebastian Cole each had two TDs for the Giants. The COE Vikings pulled out a 35-28 win over the PREA Falcons. Everett Zweig led the Vikings with two touchdowns while Reid Goodrich, Thaddeus Pellegrino, and Logan Burke contributed one TD apiece. Henry Arns scored three touchdowns to lead the Falcons while Eddie Ostrowsky added one.

Post 218 Legion Baseball Holding Player Evaluation

The Princeton American Legion Post 218 baseball team will be holding a second player evaluation for its summer 2024 season on October 15 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Smoyer Park in Princeton.

Players living in the Princeton municipal boundary or who are attending a high school in Princeton are eligible to play, as are residents of Cranbury, and residents of West Windsor. (West Windsor players must live on the Route 1 side of West Windsor Community Park to be eligible.)

The roster size will be 18 to 23 players. There are additional spots available on the team practice roster. The season will run from May 20-July 23. The team will practice and play five days a week with approximately 25 games and 12 team practices.

The team will be primarily composed of varsity high school players, rising varsity players, and college freshmen (college age freshmen born on or before December 31, 2004 are not eligible). The competition is level is high as Post 218 will play each Legion team in Mercer and surrounding counties. Away games are typically within a 30 minute drive of Princeton. Smoyer Park is Post 218’s home field.

Players are expected to adjust their summer work and vacation schedules around the Legion schedule. The cost will be $595 per player. Contact team general manager Jon Durbin with any questions at jonwdurbin@gmail.com

Girls’ Soccer : Coming up short in a nail-biter, Hun fell 3-2 to the Blair Academy last Saturday. The Raiders, who moved to 1-7 with the loss, play at Oak Knoll on October 11 in a Prep A state tournament play-in game, play at the Hill School (Pa.) on October 14, and then start action in the Mercer County Tournament on October 16.

Lawrenceville

Football: Snapping a three-game losing streak, Lawrenceville edged Penn Charter (Pa.) 13-7 last Saturday. The Big Red, now 2-3, host the Peddie School on October 14.

Field Hockey : Megan Widlar scored the lone goal for Lawrenceville as it fell 3-1 to Pennington last Monday in the continuation of a game that started on September 11 and was halted due to inclement weather.

The Big Red, now 2-3-1, will be taking part in the Prep A state tournament, where they are seeded eighth and will host ninth-seeded Kent Place on October 11 in a preliminary round contest. In addition, Lawrenceville hosts the Peddie School on October 14.

Pennington

Football: Keon Kenner ran for two touchdowns as Pennington defeated the Mastery High School of Camden 42-8 last Saturday to remain undefeated. The Red Hawks, now 4-0, play at the Academy of New Church (Pa.) on October 14.

Field Hockey : Paloma Szyfer, Devan Tirendi, and Genevieve Vallieres each scored goals as Pennington topped Lawrenceville 3-1 last Monday in the continuation of a game that started on September 11 and was halted due to inclement weather. The Red Hawks, now 5-6, play at South Hunterdon on October 11 and then start action in the Prep A state tournament where they are seeded fifth and will play at fourthseeded Stuart Country Day on October 16 in a quarterfinal contest. In addition, Pennington will be starting play in the Mercer County Tournament on October 17.

Boys’ Soccer : Matty Lynch came up big to help Pennington defeat Paul VI 5-0 last Saturday. Lynch tallied two goals and an

PHS PDS

Boys’ Soccer : Squandering a 2-1 halftime lead, PDS fell 4-3 to WW/P-South last Monday. The Panthers, who moved to 0-11-1 with the defeat, host Hamilton West on October 13, play at Notre Dame on October 14, and then start action in the Mercer County Tournament on October 16.

Girls’ Soccer : Juliana Hartmann and Ava Szalabofka each scored two goals as PDS defeated Hamilton West 6-0 last Monday. The Panthers, now 9-1-1, host Steinert on October 13 and Trenton Central on October 14 before starting action in the Mercer County Tournament on October 16.

Girls’ Tennis : Getting off to a good start in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public South Tournament, ninth-seeded PDS defeated eighth-seeded Union Catholic 5-0 last Thursday in a first round contest. The Panthers advanced to the quarterfinals where they were slated to play at top-seeded Rutgers Prep on October 10. In

Field Hockey : Leah Rose-Seiden had a big game as PHS defeated Hamilton West 8-0 last Friday. Senior star Rose-Seiden tallied three goals to help the Tigers improve to 8-0. PHS will look to keep on the winning track as it hosts Notre Dame on October 11, Nottingham on October 14, and Lawrence on October 16.

Boys’ Soccer : Azariah Breitman scored the lone goal for PHS as it edged Gill St. Bernard’s 1-0 last Monday. The Tigers, who moved to 12-1 with the victory, play at WW/P-North on October 12.

Girls’ Volleyball : Naomi Lygas produced a dominant performance as PHS topped Lawrenceville School 2-1 (23-25,25-22, 25-9) last Monday. Lygas contributed 27 kills and 16 digs to help the Tigers improve to 180. PHS plays at Burlington Township on October 11, at Williamstown on October 13, has a quad at Hunterdon Central on October 14, and then hosts Lenape on October 16.

Girls’ Tennis : Winning each match in straight sets, second-seeded PHS topped seventh-seeded Jackson Memorial 5-0 in the quarterfinal round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 3 sectional tournament last Monday. The Tigers, who moved to 6-3 with the win, will host the victor of the quarterfinal matchup between third-seeded Colts Neck and sixth-seeded Lawrence in the sectional semis on October 12. In addition, PHS will host Hopewell Valley in October 11 in a regular season matchup.

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Princeton Day School field hockey player Tessa Caputo races upfield in recent action. Last Monday, Caputo and PDS defeated Hightstown 5-1. The Panthers,

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who moved to 11-1-1 with the victory, host Allentown on October 16 and then start play in the Mercer County Tournament on October 17. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Rabbi Eric B. Wisnia

Rabbi Eric B. Wisnia passed away on Friday, September 29, 2023.

He was the devoted husband of Judith Glassburg Wisnia for 52 years, and is survived by his children, Sara and Avi Wisnia; siblings Karen Wisnia (Kirk Wattles), Jana Dickstein (I. Lee Dickstein), Michael Wisnia (Misa Wisnia), Michele Glassburg (Eldred Bullard), and Sandra Sloane (Bruce Solomon). He was also the father of the late Dov Benjamin Wisnia. He is remembered and loved by all of his many family members and countless friends, colleagues, and congregants.

Eric was born on November 6, 1949 in Brooklyn, NY, the son of Cantor David and Dr. Hope Wisnia, and was raised in Levittown, PA. He raised his own family in East Windsor, NJ, and later resided in Yardley and Dresher, PA.

Rabbi Wisnia graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Thought from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1970. He received a Master of Hebrew Letters and was ordained at the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, OH, in May 1974. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1999. He served as assistant Rabbi at Congregation Shomer Emunim in Toledo, OH, from 1974 to 1977 before joining Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction, NJ. Rabbi Wisnia served Congregation Beth Chaim as Senior Rabbi from June 1977 until his retirement in February 2019, when he was named Rabbi Emeritus.

Rabbi Wisnia will be remembered for his exuberance, intelligence, guidance, and humor. He was a prominent religious and community leader who cared deeply about Judaism, Israel, ethics, and education. Over his four decades of leadership at Congregation Beth Chaim, he helped the synagogue grow from 160 to 600 families with comparable growth in the Preschool to 12thgrade religious school. During his tenure, the physical structure of the synagogue was rebuilt and expanded twice. A social action program, a cantor, and a volunteer congregational choir were added to enhance the ritual experience. He taught many classes at Beth Chaim, for both students and adults, while also officiating well over 4,000 important life cycle events for families all over the country. With his colleagues in the area, he organized and instituted many initiatives and programs that helped nurture a thriving Jewish community and fostered deep interfaith connections. His strong

vocal support for the building of the Muslim Center of Greater Princeton in West Windsor led the mosque to honor him with a Community Service Award in December 2014. He operated with the philosophy that “we are all brothers and sisters, and when any of our rights are diminished, all of our rights are diminished.”

During his rabbinic career, Rabbi Wisnia served as President of the Mercer County Board of Rabbis, President of the New Jersey Association of Reform Rabbis, President of the Shore Area Board of Rabbis, and President of the Hightstown Area Ministerium. At the Medical Center at Princeton, he was on the Institutional Review Board for Medical Ethics, was a longtime Chaplaincy Committee member, and was past Chair of the Committee on Religious Ministries. He served the Jewish Committee on Scouting for the Central New Jersey Council Boy Scouts of America. He was also a past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Family Service Agency of Princeton and served on the Board of The National Brain Tumor Association. At the time of his passing, he was working on a book of Jewish Philosophy.

Rabbi Wisnia’s family is grateful that he was able to be a tissue donor and give the gift of life to others.

Funeral services were held on Sunday, October 1, at Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia.

Rabbi Wisnia had many famous sayings, but one he loved to espouse the most was this: “Prayers don’t change things. Prayers change people, and people change things.” He will be dearly missed by the many souls he brought comfort to in times of need and by everyone he made feel welcome with open arms and a joke for every occasion. His teachings, his words of wisdom, and his puns will live on in all of the lives he touched.

Donations in Rabbi Wisnia’s memory can be made to the National Brain Tumor Society - please designate those donations to “Team Dov” (https://tinyurl.com/ TeamDov2023).

For condolences, please visit OrlandsMemorialChapel.com/rabbi-eric-wisnia.

Funeral arrangements are by Orland’s Ewing Memorial Chapel.

Charlie grew up in Philadelphia attending William Penn Charter School for 12 years, graduating from Princeton University and receiving an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1952, Charlie joined the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company (later known as Fidelity Bank) as a trainee, rising to Senior Executive Vice President and Director of the bank and its holding company. During much of this period, Charlie managed the bank’s fast growing International Department, opening an international banking offi ce in New York and establishing 10 offi ces and subsidiaries overseas. During this time, he also served as President of the Washingtonbased trade association for international banking, Bankers Association for Foreign Trade, was on the Board of the Export-Import Bank and was an informal advisor on international fi nance to several government agencies.

Charlie moved to Princeton in 1979 to take senior executive positions successively with The New York Bank for Savings, American Express International Bank, and The First American Bank of New York. In 1995, he opened his own consulting office, Ganoe Associates, in Princeton which he maintained until 2019 providing marketing advice for investment managers and, in later years, clubs and associations.

During the course of his career, Charlie was an officer and/or a board member of a number of companies and organizations. This included President of the Wharton Graduate School Alumni Association, the Princeton University Class of 1951, the Philadelphia Council for International Visitors, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Robert Morris Associates (now Risk Management Associates), and Princeton’s Constitution Hill Property Association. He also was Secretary Treasurer of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and the Philadelphia Committee on Foreign Relations.

Charlie enjoyed writing. He was co-author of two books on international banking, won several awards for the dozens of pieces written for professional journals, and wrote a number of articles for general U.S. and European publications ranging from The New York Times to the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

an avid sports follower, especially Princeton football and basketball. He took up road racing at age 50; by the time he ran his final 10k race at age 76, he had competed in over 500 races including 12 marathons in the U.S. and Europe and over 40 halfmarathons.

Charlie was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations for more than 45 years. He was also a member of the Delta Psi Fraternity (St. Anthony Hall), the Ausable Club, Princeton Club of New York, Merion Cricket Club, Nassau Club, and the Old Guard of Princeton. He and his family own a cottage on the grounds of the Ausable Club in the high peaks region of the Adirondacks where he spent his summer vacations and occasional holiday weekends in the winter. He and his wife also regularly vacationed in St. Barths in January.

Charlie was predeceased in 2009 by his wife, the former Frances-Sue “Susie” Williams, a prize-winning gardener who was the daughter of R. Norris Williams II, a survivor of the Titanic and winner of two U.S. singles titles, five U.S. doubles, one Wimbledon doubles, and one Olympic doubles title. He is survived by two daughters, Hemsley Ganoe Hughes (James) of NYC and Leyden, MA, and Alice Ganoe of Larchmont, NY, plus fi ve grandchildren: William, Cate, Kurt, James, and John. Burial is strictly private. In lieu of fl owers donations may be made to Princeton University Class of 1951 Annual Giving, PO Box 5357, Princeton, NJ 08543.

Charles S. Ganoe

Charles S. Ganoe, a retired banker and consultant, passed away in Princeton Hospital at age 94 on October 3, 2023. The cause of his death was heart failure according to his family.

Born in Abington, PA, to Robert L. Ganoe and Leonette Rehfuss Ganoe,

Charlie traveled to Europe more than 100 times and flew around the world four times. All told, he visited more than 100 countries in all parts of the world. In addition to business, he was an adventurous personal traveler; he was one of the fi rst Americans to visit the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin, and his travels in the recent years prior to his death took him to such places as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tibet, and North Korea. He and his wife loved good food and they always tried to eat at the top restaurants in the countries they visited. They were proud that, at one point in time, they had eaten at every Michelin 3-star restaurant in New York, London, Paris, and the Riviera, as well as the Spanish El Bulli, long rated the No. 1 restaurant in the world.

Captain of his high school baseball team, Charlie was

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