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When it comes to breast cancer, the statistics tell the story. According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, one in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed in her lifetime. In 2024, an estimated 310,720 women and 2,800 men will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.
But there is hope. The ve-year survival rate for breast cancer diagnosed at the localized stage is 99 percent. Thanks to better screening, increased awareness, and improving treatment options, breast cancer rates have slowly gone down since 1989 — an overall decrease of 43 percent through 2020.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Local efforts to combat the disease include Let’s Talk About Breast Cancer on October 14 from 4-6 p.m. at the Witherspoon Hall parking lot, sponsored by the Princeton Health Department, Princeton Human Services, and Move Over Breast Cancer; and the 7th Annual Beyond Pink Art Show fundraiser on October 24 at MarketFair, sponsored by the YWCA Princeton’s Breast Cancer Resource Center (BCRC). Artworks from that event remain on view through October 27.
The October 14 gathering is designed to provide information about prevention, detection, and treatment options. Princeton Council is also scheduled to read a proclamation at its meeting that evening. The Beyond Pink event is BCRC’s major fundraiser of the year. The 52-year-old organization offers free and low-cost support services for women and men living with, through, and beyond the disease. The BCRC provided more than 8,000 services to the public last year. This year so far, that number has risen to 10,000.
“The more we can educate and make people aware of breast cancer and its symptoms, and what resources are available, the better it is,” said Rose Wong, the YWCA’s CEO. “Everybody knows somebody who has either had breast cancer, passed away from it, or is struggling with it. We provide a huge amount of support and wraparound services, which is part of our overall mission.”
The Beyond Pink Art Show opens with a party where works of art inspired by breast cancer survivors and others affected by cancer are on display. “We welcome any artist at any level. They don’t have to be survivors. They can be
Sustainable Princeton, working with municipal officials to meet the demands of Princeton’s Climate Action Plan (CAP), delivered a progress report at the September 23 Princeton Council meeting, zeroing in on two speci c actions: evaluating, and implementing a plan for, waste streams; and reducing emissions in the built environment.
CAP, adopted ve years ago, includes ve different categories, 13 objectives, and more than 80 actions to be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, preserve environmental quality, and enhance public health and safety.
The Sustainable Princeton presenters, Executive Director Christine Symington and Program Managers Jenny Ludmer and Alex Dill, pointed out signi cant progress achieved in working towards the CAP goals.
In the materials management category, the stated “community vision” is that “all Princeton community members are aware of the carbon emissions of the resources they use.” The action which Sustainable Princeton and the municipality are currently taking, said Symington, is to evaluate all waste streams (solid waste, recycling, food, leaf and brush, electronics, etc.) from all sectors (residential,
commercial, and institutional) and implement a plan to save money and reduce emissions.
In 2022, with the assistance of DeFeo Associates environmental consultants, Princeton launched a new solid waste program with a cart-based system with 64-gallon carts collected weekly, along with a bulk waste collection weekly by reservations.
Councilman Leighton Newlin thanked Sustainable Princeton and the municipal
engineering department for the bulk waste -by-reservation program. “It has improved the quality of life, especially for those of us who live in the more densely populated neighborhoods,” he said. Ludmer stated that in 2023 Princeton collected 5,075 tons of solid waste. She went on to note that in the area of leaf, branch, and log collection, following the completion in 2022 of a program study by DeFeo Associates, Sustainable Princeton had offered six recommendations
National Hispanic Heritage Month extends from September 15 to October 15, a time to “celebrate the histories, cultures, and contributions of those living in America whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America,” as stated in a September 9 Princeton Council proclamation. Princeton and the surrounding area offer many opportunities to join the celebrations.
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP), the Princeton Public Library (PPL), McCarter Theatre, Princeton University, and local schools, as well as the Latin
American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF) in Trenton, are presenting a variety of entertaining and edifying activities to engage the community and respond to Princeton Mayor Mark Freda’s “call upon the people of Princeton to join in this special observance by seeking out celebrations, educational programs, and community activities to learn more about the role Hispanic and Latino Americans have played in our nation’s history.”
McCarter Theatre, which presented the legendary Ballet Hispanico on
Here, buying small and living large are not mutually exclusive.
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Here, buying small and living large are not mutually exclusive.
You have never been afraid to show the world who you are. Why should your home be any different? When you step into any of our compact studio or one-bedroom apartments, your mind will immediately go to work. Taking in the space, visualizing the possibilities—and transforming it into a home that is functional, flexible and unapologetically you. Come see how large you can live at Princeton Windrows.
Lawrence Hopewell Trail Holds Trail & Treat Event
On Sunday, October 20 from 3-5 p.m. at Village Park in Lawrence Township, the Lawrence Hopewell Trail’s annual Trail & Treat event invites children 12 and under and their families to wear their Halloween costumes as they ride their bikes on the trail to collect candy and treats, have their faces painted, and hear live music by kids’ band School of Rock.
parking lot. The Lawrence Hopewell Trail (LHT) is a 20-mile walking and biking loop trail in Lawrence and Hopewell Townships that is 90 percent complete. The Lawrence Hopewell Trail Corporation is a nonprofit organization that relies on grants and donations to fund maintenance and operating expenses as well as community events such as this one.
The event is held near the Yeger Drive entrance and
The party includes a milelong, treat-filled bike ride or walk for children 6-12, while younger children can ride or walk along an approximately
quarter-mile loop to collect their goodies. Scooters, tricycles, roller skating, and stroller participants also welcome. Parent supervision is required, and parents are reminded that state law requires that children riding bikes wear helmets. Cost is $10 per child 2 and older. Children under 2 are free. Parents are encouraged to pre-register their children online by visiting lhtrail.org/trailandtreat. Onsite registration is also possible, space permitting.
Note from the Publisher: Town by Town, Neighbor to Neighbor : The loss of local news coverage nationwide has plagued citizens who are curious and interested in events, news, and helping their neighbors. In the last year, 5,000 local newspapers stopped publishing.
We at Town Topics are devoted to zeroing in on local issues and bringing them to our readers. In that spirit, Town Topics has begun to offer expanded coverage of local news in neighboring communities. Look for upcoming coverage of Hillsborough, Hightstown, Ewing, Pennington, Hopewell, Flemington, and surrounding communities. Each town will have its own section of news and advertisers.
We hope this expanded coverage results in your visiting our neighboring towns, and developing a better appreciation for our Central New Jersey neighbors, town by town, neighbor to neighbor.
Leighton Listens: Councilman Leighton Newlin holds one-on-one conversations about issues impacting Princeton from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on October 2 at Tipple and Rose, 210 Nassau Street; on October 9 at Pastiamo, Princeton Shopping Center; on October 16 at The Bread Boutique, 41 Witherspoon Street. On October 23 at Mi Espana, Princeton Shopping Center; and on October 30 at Princeton Soup and Sandwich, 30 Palmer Square East. All are welcome.
Food Pantry: Arm in Arm’s mobile food pantry is at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System, 2751 Brunswick Pike, on Monday afternoons in October, from 2-4 p.m. Fresh produce, eggs, milk, frozen proteins, and quality baked goods as well as canned and boxed items and personal care items are available for those in need.
Sustainable Princeton “Lending Library”: Sustainable Princeton offers residents and nonprofits in Princeton the opportunity to borrow sustainable home items such as electric landscape equipment, induction cooktops, and repair tools, for free, for up to two weeks. Visit sustainableprinceton.org for more information.
Literacy Tutoring Program: To help adults improve their English literacy skills, volunteers are needed to work one-on-one or in small groups. Online training is available in October. For specific dates and more information, email mercer@literacynj. org or call (609) 587-6027.
Millhill Holiday Giving Drive: Millhill Child and Family Development is collecting gifts and warm coats through November 29. In-person donations will be accepted through December 6. Contact Angie at AMcManimon@millhillcenter.org for details.
For the past eight years, the basement of a fourbedroom Cape Cod house at 26 Washington Street in Rocky Hill has been the headquarters of a sprawling model railroad system. This 5,000-square-foot miniature world boasts trains,
buildings, bridges, mountains, rivers, and even a circus train. A dispatcher, a trainmaster, three tower operators, and 15 engineers operate the system on a rotating basis.
The railroad is run by the Pacific Southern Railway (PSRY) club, which holds meetings for members and visitors on Wednesday evenings. On October 19 and 20, the club will hold its annual family-friendly train show at the house. The popular event will include hourly demonstrations between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. As has been the case for several years, all of the $10 donations support the Rocky Hill Rescue Squad and Volunteer Fire Company.
But despite its presence in the community, the 40-member club may soon be out of a home. CEO Carlton Pate III, who owned the house, died this past July. His widow, Ann Pate, is hoping to sell the home and downsize. This could be complicated. When Pate puts the property on the market this coming spring, the offer will include not only the four-bedroom house and two-acre lot, but the basement train system as well.
“I’d like whoever buys the house to buy the layout, and allow the club members to continue their Wednesday evening operations,” she said. “I know it takes a special kind of person to allow people to come into your home every week. But I was always okay with it.”
The Pates moved from Connecticut to Rocky Hill in 2016. Carl Pate was the nephew of Bob Latham, a train enthusiast who started the basement layout in 1964. In 1993, founding PSRR member Jeff Green purchased the home and expanded the layout to the north, under an outside terrace. An accessory garage structure was added after the Pates moved in, to accommodate Carl Pate’s early Ford automobiles (he was a president of the Horseless Carriage Club of North America and author of an encyclopedia on early Fords). Onsite parking was
also expanded for Wednesday night club gatherings. A typical timetable at one of those meetings is from 7:30 to around 9 p.m., running about 45 minutes. Trains go from east to west and west to east, passing models of the original Rocky Hill train station and a sawmill, among other buildings in miniature. Work is in progress on model warehouses.
Computerized occupancy and automatic train detection on LCD screens posted throughout the basement allow all members to see where the trains are located during operating sessions. Customized electronics and
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computer code have been written specifically for running the railroad.
“Trains automatically stop in a stopping block if an operating engineer overruns a signal, and trains can also be released by the dispatcher using computer-driven automatic train control (ATC),” club member Francis Treves wrote in an email. “The PSRY added dozens of cameras connected to the WiFi system and computer during COVID that enabled the PSRY to operate with remote train engineers in their homes without gathering in larger numbers in the basement.”
The club members bring their own trains to run on the tracks. “Any member can run any member’s train,” said Ann Pate, who is familiar with the system’s workings. “The reason the club is unique is that everybody brings their own talent. Some are interested in software, some are interested in building models, and some are interested in the artistic aspect. Others are good with running the trains. So everybody brings their own little niche, and they all work together.”
The club is in the planning stages for public shows, possibly in December and around Easter, as well as private events. Pate, who is 74, would like to sell the house by the summer. But she is in no rush.
“I don’t have a deadline. I don’t even know where I want to go yet, but I know the house is too big for me,” she said. “If we can’t find someone who wants to keep the layout, we’ll just have to see what happens.”
The train show is Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Visitors are advised to arrive 20 to 30 minutes early for on-street parking. No reservations are required. Children aged 5 and under are admitted free. For more information, visit pacificsouthern.org.
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The 101: Fund, which for more than 50 years has been providing need-based college scholarships to Princeton High School (PHS) graduates, recently received a bequest of $110,000 from the estate of Princeton Public Schools (PPS) art teacher Dave Mackey, who died at age 89 in May 2023.
Mackey and his wife Becky, a PHS physical education teacher and coach who died in 2000, are well remembered by many PHS graduates and repeatedly described as two of PHS’s most beloved teachers.
“The 101: Fund is incredibly honored and thankful to receive this generous gift from and in memory of Dave and Becky Mackey,” said 101 President Anthony Klockenbrink. “Becky was a previous board member of 101. The gift will enable the 101 to support more PHS students and to support more meaningful scholarships going forward. It is also our hope to establish a named scholarship in their memory.”
PHS 1989 graduate and current 101 board member Linda Noel recalled the Mackeys as teachers and warmhearted adults at PHS. “Both were dedicated to creating a positive and welcoming environment,” she wrote in an email. “There was room for everyone in Mr. Mackey’s art studio: students with great talent as well as less experienced students. Often, even students not enrolled in art classes would come and spend their
free period talking to Mr. Mackey and making art.”
In addition to being in Dave Mackey’s class, Noel was also on soccer and track teams coached by Becky Mackey. “Similarly, Becky was a coach who encouraged and supported athletes of all abilities,” said Noel. “As the girls’ soccer and track coach she made sure everyone found a place on the team.”
Jeff Lucker, who taught history at PHS for 53 years before his retirement last year, was a colleague of the Mackeys for many of those years. “Dave was an art teacher, but he was a lot more,” said Lucker. “The art room at PHS became a drop-in center for students during their free periods. Dave endeared himself to his students because he was a consummate storyteller. He was also a good listener, and many students who felt alienated from the traditional school teachers felt comfortable with Dave because
he was non-judgmental. His talents enabled him to become a mentor in the peer group at PHS.”
PHS 1985 graduate Maud Mandel, who is now president of Williams College, emphasized the impact that Mackey had on her and many other students. “Dave Mackey was a beloved teacher and mentor to hundreds of students in the Princeton Public School system,” she wrote in an email. “Personally, I benefited from his open door, encouraging, warm approach to education, and terrific sense of humor, both when I was in grade school and, again, when I was in high school. He left a positive, enduring mark on more students than I can count.”
Adam Bierman, currently a member of the Princeton Board of Education, knew the Mackeys well as a family friend. “David Mackey, a beloved art teacher for 33 years in the Princeton Public Schools, was more than just an educator,” said Bierman. “Known for his infectious laughter, captivating storytelling, and passion for art, Mackey created a classroom environment that felt like a second home to his students.”
Bierman continued, “With a knack for sparking curiosity and excitement, he often announced upcoming art projects with the enthusiasm of a train conductor. His nurturing personality made every student feel valued and cared for, as if they were his own children.”
Lucker noted that Dave and
Becky Mackey “never had children of their own, but in a way they ended up parenting the thousands of students they taught in their careers.”
In 1986 Mackey received the Art Educators of New Jersey “Outstanding Art Educator Award” and a life membership, according to his June 7, 2023 Town Topics obituary.
He was also a train enthusiast and a collector of railroad memorabilia. He served as president of the New Hope Steam Trains Foundation for two years and occasionally worked for the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Hopewell Museum and served as their president. In retirement he kept up his interest in art education as a docent for the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Kufner Yachts USA has recently been awarded the Best New Boat with the People ’s Choice Award at the Newport International Boat Show. The awards were presented during the “New to Newport” awards breakfast.
Kufner Yachts USA’s vessel was recognized for its exceptional design, innovation, and performance.
“We are truly honored to be recognized by such an esteemed panel of experts in the yachting industry and by the passionate boaters attending the show,” said Todd Gasior of Kufner Yachts USA, based in Skillman. “These awards validate our dedication to excellence in yacht craftsmanship and innovation, and we are excited to share our passion for sailing with the boating
community at the Newport International Boat Show.” The show spanned over 15 acres in the heart of historic Newport, R.I., from September 12-15. The event showcased sailboats and powerboats, many of which were making their U.S. debut. Also on view were hundreds of marine products, services, and accessories, along with educational seminars and a wide range of on-water courses.
Kufner Yachts USA will be featured at the Annapolis Sailboat Show from October 10-14. The company is focused on innovation, craftsmanship, and customer satisfaction. Visit kufneryachtsusa.com for more information.
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The career of innovative musician and producer Brian Eno is the subject of a documentary to be screened on Tuesday, October 8 at the Princeton Garden Theatre. What makes this one-nightonly event unique is its use of the latest AI technology, which means it will never be seen the same way twice.
Eno premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival. Landing the screening, which is underwritten by the Princeton Record Exchange, is a coup for the Garden.
Kyle Stenger, the theater’s outreach director, thinks it is the only movie house in New Jersey to have the honor.
“It’s a brand-new concept called ‘generative documentary.’ The director, Gary Hustwit, developed this AI software specifically for this movie, and it is re-edited for every showing so it’s different every single time,” said Stenger. “You’re never going to get a version of it that has Eno’s whole life in it. You might get his time with David Bowie in Berlin, or with David Byrne in Talking Heads. That’s what makes it so exciting. It’s a radical concept that is also meant to reflect the experimental process of Eno himself.”
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An English musician, songwriter, record producer, and visual artist, Eno is known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music over the past 50 years.
“The hugely influential British musician, producer, activist, visual artist and self-described ‘sonic
landscaper’ began his career as an original member of the legendary Roxy Music in the early 1970s,” reads Hustwit’s website. “He left the band to release a series of solo records and later pioneered the genre of ambient music with his 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. As a producer, Brian Eno has helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most important artists in music, including David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, Coldplay, and dozens of others. He also composed what may be the most heard piece of music in the world: the startup sound for Microsoft Windows. Undeniably, Eno has changed the way modern music is made.”
The website goes on to explain the technology used in the film. “Hustwit and creative technologist Brendan Dawes have developed bespoke generative software designed to sequence scenes and create transitions out of Hustwit’s original interviews with Eno, and Eno’s rich archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, and unreleased music. Each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, music, and meant to be experienced live. The generative and infinitely iterative quality of Eno poetically resonates with the artist’s own creative practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity.”
The film’s process was developed not just to reflect Eno’s process of producing and recording, but also his unique methods of cutting and pasting. “He’s very experimental,” said Stenger. “The idea is that this film is an experiment in storytelling, much like Eno’s music is an experiment in recording.”
The Garden secured the screening through its membership in Art House Convergence, a coalition of independent exhibitors that advocates for its community. The theater recently launched its Underwriting Program, in which a business or individual provides funding for a specific event or series.
“We were so happy to do this with the Princeton Record Exchange,” said Stenger. “They are making it possible, and we’re very happy to be partnered with them.”
Stenger plans to introduce the film before the screening begins.
“We’ve recently been trying to bring and events and films to the theater that are more difficult to come by, like our recent showing of the restored Seven Samurai,” said Stenger. “That was a great thing for us, and this will be, too.”
Eno will be shown on Tuesday, October 8 at 8 p.m. The Princeton Garden Theatre is at 160 Nassau Street. Visit princetongardentheatre.org for more information. —Anne Levin
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An Evening with David Sedaris
Thu, Oct 3 at 7:30PM
Humorist, and Princeton favorite, David Sedaris returns to McCarter following the release of his newest books, A Carnival of Snackery and Pretty Ugly
Fri, Oct 4 at 7:00PM
Create magical memories with the whole family. This interactive performance and screening features live music by Banda de la Casita, bringing Disney’s beloved lm to life.
Welcomes
Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
Fri, Oct 18 at 7:30PM
Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal will revisit the music and stories behind The Wheel, celebrating the album's 30th anniversary.
Welcomes Makaya McCraven & SHABAKA
Sat, Oct 19 at 7:30PM
Experience an extraordinary evening of musical innovation with two trailblazing artists pushing the boundaries of contemporary jazz music.
SW!NG OUT
Fri, Oct 25 at 7:30PM
Swing by for SW!NG OUT, an exhilarating evening of live music and spectacular swing dance culminating in an on-stage jam session inviting the audience to join in on the fun.
Sat, Nov 2 at 7:30PM
Known for his incisive commentary on The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr. skillfully blends razor-sharp wit with profound storytelling, crafting stand-up that is as thought-provoking as it is side-splittingly funny.
Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens Adapted and Directed by Lauren Keating December 10-29
McCarter's annual holiday tradition returns with magic, music, and merriment for all.
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Education is a priority for the BCRC, which goes into high schools to teach students about breast health, knowing their bodies, and family history. The organization also holds outreach efforts at local churches and companies that employ people who might not have access to sufficient health care.
“That definitely helps to remove barriers, which leads into our mission at the YWCA to eliminate racism and empower women,” said WhiteMcMahon. “There is a lot of information. A lot of people don’t realize that cancer is not just genetic. Many more cases are not genetically linked, and we need to get the word out about that, and simplify it.”
Among the zero-cost programs offered by the BCRC are free wigs, post-mastectomy bras, chemo care bags, and breast forms, “which are extremely costly even with insurance,” said White-McMahon. “We have a healing arts program, five different support groups, wellness and educational programs, and talks by expert speakers about different topics. We connect
women to others who might have the same diagnosis. That also extends to their families.”
For services not offered by the BCRC, the organization tries to connect clients with places that do offer them. “We are a resource center. So it’s not just what we can offer, but also finding resources in our community and throughout the state. We always say we don’t have any boundaries here,” said White-McMahon. “Any person who calls us, we are able to offer a line of support to them. We don’t turn anyone away, no matter what type of cancer they have.”
Breast cancer is a lifetime disease. “Not everyone understands that,” said WhiteMcMahon. “And recurrence is a real thing. We are here from day one and throughout.”
White-McMahon sees evidence of advancements in treatment, especially for those with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. In 2018, the BCRC provided services for one woman in that situation. Currently, there are 15. “They have really come so far with treatments,” she said. “We really support that community, because it is a growing community. They will never be cured, but we are helping them thrive.”
Visit ywcaprinceton.org/ beyond pink for information about attending or sponsoring Beyond Pink. Visit princetonnj.gov for information about the Let’s Talk About Breast Cancer event.
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Camden & Amboy Railroad Lecture, Tour in Bordentown
On Sunday, October 13, starting at 1 p.m., the Bordentown Old City Hall Restoration Committee and the Bordentown Historical Society present “All Aboard Bordentown Railroad!” featuring a free lecture and walking tour to commemorate New Jersey’s first railroad, the Camden & Amboy Railroad (C&A RR).
The lecture starts at 1 p.m. at Bordentown’s Old City Hall, 11 Crosswicks Street, and will be followed by a 2 p.m. walking tour that will visit the many remaining features of the C&A RR. This event also celebrates the State of New Jersey’s recent announcement to repair the historic 1831 Farnsworth Avenue Stone Arch Carriage Bridge and Tunnel, the oldest carriage bridge built over railroad tracks and in continuous use in the U.S.
The Camden & Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company was chartered by the New Jersey Legislature in 1830. The railroad revolutionized transportation of freight and passengers between Philadelphia and New York City. The C&A RR operated trains on the tracks until the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) began using the rails in 1871. With the PRR using the tracks through 1976, Conrail between 1976 and 2004, and NJ Transit River Line and CSX from then to today, the Bordentown section of the C&A RR is one of the two oldest continuously used railroad rights-of-way in America.
The presentation will include the history of digging
ALL ABOARD: The historic John Bull Engine is among the topics at the upcoming talk and tour starting at Old City Hall in Bordentown on October 13.
the cut through Bordentown, building the bridges, laying stone sleepers (the precursor of wood ties), and flat bottom T-rails. The presentation will cover the people who designed and built the railroad, the engineering they used, and the problems they surmounted. Points of interest of the walking tour include the historic Farnsworth Avenue Bridge; the Stone monument commemorating the John Bull steam locomotive, and an1830 British-made steam engine that first pulled passengers on the C&A RR. The John Bull steam engine is the world’s oldest operable transportation engine and is prominently displayed at the Smithsonian Institute. The tour will include the sites of the three previous passenger stations, the site of the former Camden & Amboy railroad work yard, and the site of a new outdoor exhibition highlighting the company’s history and innovations.
The presentation and tour will be led by railroad expert Pierre Lacombe, a retired U.S. Geological Survey geologist. Additional train historians and officials will also participate in the event. Visit facebook.com/OldCityHallRestoration for more information.
Bayard Rustin Center Chief Honored by Equality Forum
Robt Martin SedaSchreiber, Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice (BRCSJ) chief activist, has been named an LGBTQIA+ History Month Icon by the Equality Forum, an international LGBTQIA civil rights organization.
Seda-Screiber is among this year’s 31 recipients of the honor, with one new Queer Icon designated each day of the month of October. He will be celebrated on October 22 on Equality Forum’s website, equalityforum.org.
Seda-Schreiber has led the BRCSJ since its founding in 2018, and has created a range of support initiatives, educational and entertainment programs, and special events in making the BRCSJ on Stockton Street a welcoming safe space, educational bridge, and activist center for the community.
Before founding BRCSJ, Serda-Schreiber formed the Creatures of Awareness Theatre Co., raising funding for AIDS support and HIV
testing. As a schoolteacher for more than 25 years, he created the first Gay Straight Alliance in a New Jersey middle school.
Throughout his years of public service, Seda-Schreiber has received many awards, honors, and accolades, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Champion for Justice; Human Rights Advocate of the Year; the Jefferson Award for Public Service; State Champion of Equality; Fulbright MF Scholar to Japan; two Senate Proclamations recognizing his service to the local and greater community; the National Endowment for the Art’s Social Justice Activist of the Year, and the Russ Berrie Making a Difference Award.
He currently serves nationally on Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman’s LGBTQ Advisory Board as well as locally on Gov. Phil Murphy’s Commission on Advancing LGBTQIA+ Youth Equity and Inclusion in Schools, the first of its kind in the nation.
“I am extraordinarily honored and absolutely thrilled to receive this awesome accolade from such an august organization, especially in the company of other such courageous cats,” said Seda-Schreiber. “This work is never done in a vacuum, so what excites me most about this kudo is the opportunity to reflect this spotlight even more brightly upon our terrific team here at Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice headquarters.”
OAKtober Celebration Returns to Marquand Park
The Marquand Park Foundation holds the annual OAKtober celebration on Saturday, October 19 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Children’s Arboretum in the park. The rain date is October 20.
Participants in the event will receive free oak saplings, cookies, and cider, go on an oak scavenger hunt,
and make seed bombs for the meadow planting.
Marquand Park and Arboretum is a 17-acre historic preserve of trees and woodlands that offers a variety of recreational and educational experiences in the center of Princeton. Originally the landscaped garden of a 19thcentury estate, the park has a rich collection of native and exotic trees reflecting the interest and tastes of its previous owners and its current beneficiaries. Some trees in the park are the largest of their kind in New Jersey. The park includes in its collection over 140 different tree specimens, among them some rare evergreens and a dawn redwood, known only as a fossil until 1944 when it was discovered growing in China. In the wooded area are huge specimens of native trees such as beech, hickory, and black, white and red oaks. The park’s tree planting program ensures the continuous acquisition of new trees.
The Marquand Park Foundation, established in 1954, supports planting and special maintenance programs to preserve the park as an arboretum for the public to enjoy. To that end, the Foundation has purchased or been given more than 100 species of trees and shrubs over the years. In addition, the Foundation maintains close relationships with the municipality of Princeton, which owns the park, to ensure proper routine maintenance and raise awareness, if special attention is needed, to the condition of trees and shrubs. Parking is in the Lovers Lane parking lot, with overflow on Mercer Street between Hibben Road and Springdale Road. Additional parking is available on Olden Lane. Visit marquandpark.org.
Sustainable Princeton
continued from page one for the municipality to consider: bag-only leaf collection, reduce leaf collection period to October to January, prohibit commercial landscapers from placing leaves on the curb, revise the town ordinance and establish specific collection periods, enforce limitations, and enhance education on leaving the leaves.
Changes in leaf, branch, and log collection in the wake of those recommendations have included hiring a community compliance officer; implementing a revised collection schedule; reducing spring leaf collection; eliminating summer log and branch collection; constraining the placement and time for collection; revising the leaf, branch, and log requirements to improve compliance; subsidizing composter sales in 2023; and collaboration of the municipality and Sustainable Princeton on education and outreach opportunities, including landscape training, maintaining a sustainable landscaper list, and educating residents.
In 2023, Sustainable Princeton reported, Princeton collected 11,645 cubic yards of material, which was transported to the Ecological Center in Lawrence Township. There are between 60 and 70 bulk waste-by-reservation pick-ups per week.
Ludmer reported on the food scraps program, which Symington described as “a way to direct food scraps other than to the landfill.” There are currently two collection sites, at the Municipal Building on Witherspoon Street and at Monument Hall on
Monument Drive, with a plan to establish three additional sites in 2025. There are 223 participants.
“The goal is to spread sites throughout the town so that more people can participate,” said Ludmer, noting that Princeton has collected 24,260 pounds of food scraps at the two sites so far this year, with 18 tons total anticipated by the end of the year.
The annual emission reduction from this diversion of food scraps is about four mega tons of CO2 per year, the equivalent of growing 66 tree seedlings for 10 years, Ludmer pointed out.
Newlin, who has been using the composting program for about a year, urged others to join him. “It keeps your trash lighter,” he said. “Help us out. Do what’s right for you. Do what’s right for the earth. It’s a small ask. It’s not a heavy lift. It’ll keep your trash lighter and it doesn’t smell and it’s good for the environment.”
The second part of the Sustainable Princeton report focused on an objective and action that is number one in the Energy section of the CAP, with a community vision that “All Princeton community members efficiently use clean, reliable, and affordable energy.”
To that end, the desired action is to “accelerate residential and commercial participation in state and utility energy efficiency programs.”
Earlier in September, Dill pointed out, the municipality, along with Sustainable Princeton, had launched energy efficiency outreach campaigns, one targeting homeowners and renters and another targeting businesses. Residents
and businesses were urged to take advantage of numerous PSE&G programs and incentives to help manage energy use, reduce carbon emissions, and save money.
A front page Town Topics article last week urged readers to visit the residential campaign website at EnergyOutreachNJ.com/Princeton and/or the business campaign website at EnergyOutreachNJ.com/PrincetonSave.
Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros thanked the three presenters. “Great leadership,” she said. “It’s really great to see the progress we’ve made since we went to the new cart implementation.”
She went on to note that she had participated in a PSE&G energy assessment. “It was pretty shocking the number of things that need to be done,” she said. “PSE&G had some really good programs to help. It’s really worthwhile. I’m looking forward to seeing the results in a decrease in my bills, but most importantly that I’m saving energy.”
She commended the Sustainable Princeton for their accomplishments and praised them for organizing a successful Sustainable Home Expo in March and the recent eCommuter Fest.
Council President Mia Sacks echoed Pirone Lambros’ praise for Sustainable Princeton, and also thanked DeFeo Associates and its principal Wayne DeFeo, “a huge help in moving us toward more responsible waste disposal.”
Symington thanked the Princeton Council “for keeping the CAP as one of your priorities.”
—Donald Gilpin
Friends in Service Here (F.I.S.H.) of Hopewell Valley, the grassroots local meal delivery program, has made the decision to legally dissolve.
This all-volunteer nonprofit organization has been serving homebound seniors for more than 50 years throughout Hopewell Township. As needs have changed, homebound seniors are more often requesting medically tailored meals, and Meals on Wheels of Mercer County (MOWMC) can provide these in addition to financial need-based pricing.
F.I.S.H. wants to accommodate their patrons as best as possible, and this transition ensures the tradition of caring service will continue through MOWMC.
“As we close the chapter on an amazing run, we kindly thank Mike Rothwell and Catering Directors Sandy Gares and Diana Meskill at Pennington Quality Market for their incredible support of our program for decades,” said Benita Wittenborn, F.I.S.H co-coordinator.
“Additionally, we express tremendous gratitude for all our F.I.S.H. volunteers. These individuals are compassionate, dedicated and they embody the spirit of serving their community. They are neighbors helping neighbors, a truly rewarding experience they will preserve when delivering meals with MOWMC.
“We recognize how important F.I.S.H. has been to the Hopewell Pennington Community – neighbors helping
neighbors by providing hot, delicious meals, as well as love and compassion to friends in need. MOWMC is honored to be entrusted to continue this remarkable legacy of caring” said Amy Flynn, MOWMC CEO.
To enroll in the meal delivery program or volunteer to serve, call (609) 695-3483.
A suspect who was involved in the Sunday, July 28 robbery at TD Bank, located at 883 State Road, has been identified.
On July 28, Princeton Police Department responded to a panic alarm at the bank and, shortly after, a bank teller called 911 to report a robbery in progress. The investigation revealed that the suspect entered the bank at 1:56 p.m., approached the teller counter, and displayed a black semi-automatic handgun while handing the teller a note demanding money, according to a Princeton Police news release. After obtaining an undisclosed amount of cash, the suspect fled the scene, last seen walking south on Route 206 near the Exxon Gas Station at 870 State Road.
Following an extensive investigation led by Det. Daniel Chitren, the suspect was recently identified as a 37-year-old Skillman woman. With assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, she was arrested By Chitren and Ptl. Melody Van
Ness on September 24, in Montgomery Township. The suspect faces multiple charges, including robbery, criminal restraint, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, unlawful possession of a weapon, terroristic threats, theft, money laundering, and aggravated assault. She was processed at the Princeton Police Department and is currently being held at the Mercer County Correction Center.
On September 25, a New Jersey State Park Police Facebook post announced that, as a result of a targeted operation, a male from Princeton was taken into custody by the New Jersey State Park Police in the West Windsor Township section of D&R Canal State Park following several complaints of lewdness in the park between Princeton Township and Plainsboro Township. The suspect was processed, charged, and released, with summonses for lewdness, harassment, theft of lost/mislaid property, indecent exposure in a state park, and improper conduct in a state park.
Unless noted, individuals arrested were later released.
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September 28, will be following up this weekend with two noteworthy performances: “Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert” on Friday, October 4 at 7 p.m. and “An Evening with Natalia Lafourcade” on Sunday, October 6 at 6 p.m.
“Encanto,” an interactive performance and screening, features live music onstage by Banda de la Casita, as it brings Disney’s film to life. “Dress up as your favorite character and join the fun in this enchanting musical adventure,” the McCarter website urges.
Lafourcade’s work “reflects both her deep cultural heritage and innovative spirit,” according to the website. The acclaimed singer-songwriter from Mexico will play solo guitar on stage and share stories. “Rooted in Latin American tradition, her music seamlessly weaves together elements of rock, jazz, pop, bossa nova, and folk, creating a rich tapestry of sound that has captivated audiences globally,” the website adds.
The celebrations continue on Friday, October 11 from 7 to 9 p.m., when the ACP is inviting visitors to “come show off your moves and learn a few new ones as we dance favorites like salsa, merengue, bachata, cambia, and more — no experience needed,” at an evening of dance, culture, and celebration.
Dance instructors from Princeton University’s Mas Flow dance group will be in attendance to help participants, and DJ Pro Bono
will be spinning the music curated by Councilwoman Leticia Fraga. The familyfriendly event, free and open to everyone, will be held in the ACP parking lot or, if the weather doesn’t cooperate, in the ACP theater.
The PPL has been highlighting Hispanic Heritage Month in a number of different ways, with festive dance-centered events, a Latino poetry initiative, and a series of four discussions that will continue through October and into November.
September 30 in the Community Room of the Library, the PPL presented a panel which explored the newly published Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology to launch its programming for “Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home,” a nationwide public humanities initiative.
Follow-up discussions will focus on representative poems selected to bring out eight themes integral to the tradition of Latino poetry, along with essays on those themes. “Ancestry and Identity” and “First and Second Homes” will be the themes featured on October 9; “Voice and Resistance” and “Language/Lenguaje” on October 23; “Family and Community” and “Music and Performance” on November 6; and “Labor” and “Earth, Landscape, and Myth” on November 20. Meetings are scheduled for 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Many Princeton schools are holding Hispanic Heritage Month events and creating displays in their classrooms and common areas. Among the events on the Princeton Middle School calendar are salsa dancing
after school on October 4, an art workshop on October 11 to create a mural honoring those of Hispanic descent, and a Family Fall Fest, a grand finale to Hispanic Heritage Month on October 18 featuring the Oro de Mexico mariachi band.
Over the summer two PMS students, Camila and Nathalia Araizaga, designed and created two bulletin boards honoring their Hispanic heritage: one featuring the artist Frida Kahlo, with 21 flags representing the 21 countries celebrated during the month; and the other honoring the Hispanic athletes who participated in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
PPS reports that Community Park Elementary School fifth grade students are spotlighting a different Spanish-speaking country each day throughout the month, sharing information and a song from the country featured each day. Fifth grade students are also working on a mural for the second-floor hallway.
Littlebrook Elementary School is presenting an assembly for a Musiquita Performance by Young Audiences of New Jersey. They are also featuring a “country of the week” and inspirational quotations during the morning announcements throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.
Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts has been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with traditional Mexican Arts Workshops led by artist and community partner Veronica Olivares-Weber. “This initiative aims to foster a deeper
connection with Latinx heritage and with local communities while celebrating the vibrant traditions that define our culture,” the Lewis Center website states.
A September 28 workshop explored the art of papier-mâché, known as cartoneria in Mexico, and on October 7 there will be a metal embossing (repujado) workshop from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the University’s Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building. “In this workshop, participants will learn how to create intricate, raised designs on thin sheets of metal such as tin, copper, or aluminum,” the website explains. For required registration and further information visit arts.princeton.edu.
On Saturday, October 12 LALDEF will be holding its third annual Hispanic Heritage Resource and Wellness Fair at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 151 North Warren Street in Trenton. The event, in
partnership with a number of community health organizations and others, will offer COVID-19 vaccines, WIC (Women, Infants and Children) services, cancer screening information, a clothing giveaway, health insurance enrollment, family support services, utility assistance, and more.
culture and heritage that brings us together.”
“LALDEF proudly celebrates Hispanic heritage and its significant impact on Mercer County,” LALDEF Executive Director Cecy Jimenez-Weeast wrote in an email. “With a large Hispanic and Latino population, we are dedicated to helping the community understand and honor our shared heritage and its contributions to New Jersey. Through our annual Wellness Fair, LALDEF works closely with community partners to create a strong support network for all Mercer County’s residents, uplifting our neighbors while celebrating the
At their September 9 meeting, where the Princeton Council also issued an award of recognition to Mariachi Los Tigres de Princeton, a University mariachi group noted for its community building, celebrating culture, and bringing people together, the Council’s proclamation emphasized “Hispanic and Latino Americans represent a significant and fast-growing demographic and we honor the invaluable ways they contribute to our community as friends, family members, teachers, elected officials, essential workers, coworkers, and much more.”
—Donald Gilpin
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To the Editor:
The Friends and Foundation of the Princeton Public Library wish to extend our thanks for the exceptional public support for our 2024 Annual Book Sale. We rely on our local community here in Princeton for our dedicated volunteers and extraordinary book donations, and we thank our Library colleagues who go the extra mile to make everything run smoothly. The event was a resounding success, with many happy customers from as far afield as Massachusetts and Virginia.
The funds we raised together will be used to purchase new materials for the library’s collection. We also raise money for the library throughout the year through our wonderful used Book Store. This would not be possible without the generous book donations we receive from our local community. To find out more about donating books and supporting the library, please go to princetonlibrary. org/support/book-donations-
JEANINE ROSEN, JANE NIEMAN, AND CLAIRE BERTRAND
2024 Annual Book Sale Co-Chairs and Volunteer Coordinator
Friends and Foundation of the Princeton Public Library Annual Book Sale Witherspoon Street
Supporting Franceschi, Synder, and Santarpio For Election to Princeton Board of Education
To the Editor:
I ask Princeton voters to look carefully at the choices on the ballot for the Board of Education. Look for proven commitment to our kids and our schools. Look for the workers and volunteers who work and not just talk; those with skills who labor with love, care, and commitment on behalf of something greater than themselves; those without personal agendas. My own service on the Board revealed that the job requires 15-20 hours of commitment each week to ensure the schools are well run.
I’m casting my votes for Mara Franceschi, Erica Snyder, and Chris Santarpio because they have the proven ability to devote substantial personal resources for the greater good of our schools, along with the skill, integrity, and mindset to serve ethically.
Mara’s record of service to our schools is unparalleled from leadership roles in the PTO, PTOC, and BOE. During
my service with her on the Board, I found her to be collaborative, insightful, and thoughtful. Her professional background in finance combined with leadership in committee work have served the district well, as evidenced by the proven, positive changes underway, including increasing test scores, early learning intervention initiatives, and dynamic administrators and staff who are dedicated to our kids. Mara’s second term will no doubt continue to benefit the district through her demonstrated, effective experience.
Erica and Chris both have held leadership roles as PTO parent-leaders. Over the past few years, both have dedicated their time and talents and countless hours to serving PPS students — as PTO leaders and as active participants at numerous board and board committee meetings. Erica brings extensive teaching/educational experience from districts around the country (her husband was active military) and now runs a preschool. Chris runs a second-generation N.J. family business and brings employee management, operational, logistics, and financial skills that would benefit the BOE. I believe both possess the skills and experience — and have the time, listening ability, and inclusive care for all students that the BOE needs.
If you are undecided, I ask you to consider voting for Mara Franceschi, Erica Snyder, and Chris Santarpio.
JEAN Y. DURBIN
Mount Lucas Road
To the Editor:
I am writing today to voice my enthusiastic support for my friend and fellow Community Park and Princeton Middle School parent, Erica Snyder, as she runs for a seat on the PPS Board of Education.
My husband and I have lived in Princeton with our family for more than 20 years. Our daughter is a sophomore at PHS, and our son recently began sixth grade at PMS. Both children attended the Dual-Language Immersion Program at Community Park (CP).
I first met Erica, her husband Paul, and their three kids not long after they moved to Princeton in 2021. As our sons became friends in the classroom and through team sports, I got to know and appreciate Erica as a parent who had similar values as I, but also as someone who had a particularly insightful point of view as it pertained to our kids’ paths through the public school district.
Then last year, when Erica became a co-PTO president at CP, her skillset was on full display: Never in the 10 years I’d been an active parent at the school had we enjoyed such organization, clear communication, and collaborative conversation to discuss new ideas and approaches to some of the time-worn practices. She was a breath of calm, rational, informed fresh air, and as we worked alongside
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each other as fifth grade room parents, I quickly learned that she was so much more: She was smart and educated, but never condescending; she made efficient, strategic, and thoughtful decisions, but always took the time to understand all of the angles. She asked questions and did her research, whether we were pricing out playground equipment or examining the current district curriculums in math and world languages.
I soon learned that Erica did not come by this educational aptitude accidentally. Born to educator parents, Erica had always wanted to be a teacher and so had an impressive and extensive background in education, from her experiences as a high school project-based learning specialist in Chicago and Charlotte and her roles in bilingual and ESL education; to her more recent tenure on the PTO Council, as a second-term co-PTO president of Community Park, and the director of Cherry Hill Nursery School.
It became clear to me rather quickly that this new friend of mine was the real deal, and her abilities and expertise could be put to the best and highest use beyond the walls of our elementary school.
I know I am not alone in my concerns over how the district’s frequent senior administration changes and the learning loss due to COVID have unsettled our kids, and I believe Erica is just the person to help guide us in the search for a new, trustworthy, committed superintendent and to close the educational gaps for those who call PPS their educational home. Erica’s intelligence, tenacity, commitment to transparency, willingness to innovate, and passionate concern for every child in this district is just what we need to move forward with integrity, honesty, and efficiency.
To the Editor:
New Jersey voters who wish to learn about their candidates, especially those in local races, can go to the League of Women Voters’ non-partisan vote411.org. By putting in their address, voters can see their ballot and their candidates’ responses to League questions. Voters can also check whether they are registered and even register or submit name/address changes if needed.
Information about candidates for Princeton Board of Education is available at vote411.org and in local media . Look for a recording of the Princeton ParentTeacher Organization’s October 1 forum at princetonptoc.weebly.com. Princeton Parents for Black Children (PPBC), Not in Our Town Princeton (NIOT), and Civil Rights Princeton (CRP) will co-host a Board of Education candidates forum on October 16 at 7:30 p.m. Attendees must register in advance for this webinar at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fnxGMJWLT6Kq7WywAUJyQw. A video recording of the forum will be available on the PPBC website and YouTube page. Go to vote411.org or vote.nj.gov to find specific information about early voting, vote-by-mail, polling and drop box locations, as well as hours and deadlines. Voter registration forms must be postmarked by October 15. Vote-by-mail ballots have already arrived. They must be postmarked or placed in drop boxes before 8 p.m. on Election Day, November 5, and cannot be returned to polling places. Voters marked “VBM” may only vote provisionally at the polls.
The League of Women Voters encourages civic engagement. The Mercer County Board of Elections is still seeking board (poll) workers, including students aged 16-17, for the nine days of early voting (October 26-November 3) and on November 5. Board workers are compensated: $300 on Election Day and $21.43/hour during early voting, plus $30 for attending training.
Vote early, by mail, or on Election Day — but please vote!
CHRYSTAL SCHIVELL
League of Women Voters of the Greater Princeton Area Monroe Lane
To the Editor:
At a time when engagement levels have been challenging in our world, Chris Santarpio and Erica Snyder stand apart for their sense of duty and enthusiasm to jump in and help. We witnessed this firsthand while working with them through the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at Community Park (CP) School. Both have engaged in learning and understanding the needs and concerns of families across the district by attending BOE meetings, Board committee meetings, and PTO Council meetings. They took on the immense, nonstop jobs of co-presidents at Community Park — while both working full time. They led our PTO Board, which had suffered during the pandemic as longtime volunteers matriculated out of CP. They recruited new volunteers from diverse backgrounds to revive beloved activities and traditions and create new ones. They also helped to revitalize our PTO’s fundraising, which is a lot more sophisticated than bake sales and provides critical funding for classroom supplies and curricular enrichment for all students. You can feel the difference they’ve made when you walk the halls at CP, and we know that they would have a similar impact on our school district if elected to the Board of Education.
Chris is all about helping people to get what they need to be successful. Your problem becomes his problem and he brings creativity and his life experience to the situation. He was the fi rst person to attend college in his family and then went on to help grow and steward his family’s business into a regional enterprise, while getting his MBA in his spare time. His background in fi nance and operations would be an asset to understand the complex PPS budget, a role that will be missed with the departure of a BOE member to town Council. He is ready to help with ongoing facilities improvements and long-term projects being planned to meet the needs of our growing community. He can also help advocate for the unmet needs of aftercare in the district. Erica, who currently serves as director of Cherry Hill Nursery School, understands service, both as an Army spouse and a former teacher and education leader. Before moving to Princeton, she served other school communities, some which faced complicated socioeconomic situations —from rural Ecuador to the south side of Chicago. She’s dedicated to investing in all students, so that they don’t just “get through” school, but thrive and see their futures as full of opportunity and possibility. PPS has worked overtime the last couple years to help students recover from pandemic learning losses, which disproportionately affected our most vulnerable learners, and Erica would add an experienced perspective on best practices and innovative ideas to further student achievement for all. For these reasons and more, we enthusiastically support Chris and Erica in their bids for the Board of Education. We know that they will work tirelessly to make PPS a dynamic and nurturing learning community for all students, while also being responsible and practical stewards of one of our town’s most precious resources: our public schools.
MEGAN CHRISTIE Balcort Drive
DANNY FREUND
Stonewall Circle
HOCHUL LEE Red Hill Road
PATRICIA KIM
Boudinot Avenue
To the Editor: Sarah Rous’ letter [Mailbox, September 25] about a near miss at the Terhune-Jefferson intersection confirms what those of us who live in this area already know — it is a dangerous intersection. However, it is not correct that for drivers traveling west on Terhune there are no sightline issues. A large sycamore right at the corner blocks a driver’s view of traffic on the right (uphill). The other direction is even worse. For drivers going east on Terhune, the view to the left (uphill) is blocked by overgrown shrubbery. It is necessary to inch up right into the lane of oncoming traffic to see whether there is any oncoming traffic. Most cars traveling on Jefferson in this direction have come off Route 206 and many are traveling at a relatively high rate of speed. Having lived nearby for many years, I’ve witnessed two accidents at this corner, heard others, and seen the debris left by even more.
Over the years, improvements have been made: larger stop signs, “STOP” and stripes painted in the road, and signs saying that the cross traffic (on Jefferson) does not stop. The accidents and near misses have continued. Rather than installing yet more attention-getting devices, It’s time to enhance safety by taking the simple steps of cutting down the tree and pruning the bushes so that drivers can see oncoming traffic. Meanwhile, drivers and cyclists beware.
MARILYN JERRY Terhune Road
To the Editor:
I am writing in support of Ari Meisel’s election to the Princeton School Board. I am a parent of a third grade Haitian American Littlebrook Elementary student and am a graduate of Riverside Elementary, Princeton Middle School, and Princeton High School. I am intentionally raising my child in the school district I graduated from for the sense of inclusivity, community, and progressiveness I felt growing up here.
I first met Ari at Back to School Night at Littlebrook when our daughters shared a first grade classroom. When he heard me introduce myself to their teacher as my daughter’s mom, he said “I’m going to need your number because my daughter can’t stop talking about yours.” This was the start of a wonderful friendship between our girls and our families, and the first example of many where it’s in Ari’s nature to take swift action. I know Ari firsthand to be the most dedicated parent there is. From the moment he and his family settled in Princeton, he made certain to get involved in the community in as many ways possible to benefit our community and its members.
Ari is naturally selfless, always looking for a way to solve a problem and improve existing methods. From Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad to being vice chair of the Princeton Committee on Affordable Housing, Racial, Economic, Social Equity and Services, Ari has proven his values and his commitment to our community. I know that Ari will make a positive impact if elected for many reasons, the greatest being that he is innovative and considers all within our diverse community. Prior to his candidacy for School Board Ari mentioned to me the difficulty families within our community are likely facing in navigating the various platforms our schools use whether it be a language barrier or lack of resources. Ari brings an expertise in efficiency to the table that will make life easier for all. Of all the qualities I know Ari to have, his ability to see people for who they are or what their circumstances are is most admirable and what our school district’s team of leaders should encompass.
EMMA KARP
William Livingston Court
To the Editor:
I have got to know Chris Santarpio through his outstanding dedication to our Parent Teacher Organization, and I am delighted to hear that Chris is hoping to build on that experience by joining the School Board. Chris has demonstrated that he really cares that our schools are working well and has gone over and above normal duty to help out. Any time I go to a school district meeting I see him there, asking great questions, and working hard to ensure the best outcomes for kids in our local schools.
The School Board is planning a bond referendum to provide much-needed classroom space, but many residents will be wondering whether all the investments are necessary. Chris has been following this process for years. He understands how important these investments are, and also has the skills and background to ensure that local residents are getting value for money. He has also considered the needs of families from different schools, and has worked to ensure that improvements benefit everybody.
Chris has the energy and attention to detail to make a difference on the Board. With several extremely important issues facing the Board in the coming years, including the Superintendent search, it’s important that we have people like Chris representing us. Chris is a very open guy, who will be a great team player. If you haven’t got to know him yet, look Chris up — I’m sure you will be impressed!
SAM BUNTING Dempsey Avenue
To the Editor:
We would like to add to Yasna Shahriarian’s thoughtful letter about the dangerous intersection of Hamilton Avenue, Rollingmead, and Snowden Lane [Mailbox, September 25].
As local residents, we walk or drive through that intersection every day. Many years ago, several of us, all residents of Snowden Lane, asked the town to install speed bumps along Snowden Lane. Our request was rejected. More than shrubbery, which we don’t find inhibits our view, we think the problem is the highway-velocity speeding of cars going both ways along Snowden Lane. It is downhill in both directions, and the speeding is appallingly dangerous.
The local consensus among our neighbors is that speed humps would be good or at least a four-way stop sign be installed, with warning signs half-way up each hill to slow the traffic to stop and look safely.
LESLIE AND LEON VIELAND Snowden Lane
Mara Franceschi’s Reelection is Crucial For Princeton
To the Editor:
I am writing to support Mara Franceschi’s reelection to the Princeton Board of Education.
I have known Mara and her family for many years and know Mara to be deeply dedicated to and care very much about the Princeton community. Since moving to Princeton 14 years ago, she has volunteered with many local nonprofits, including assistant treasurer of the Friends of the Library, treasurer for Nassau Nursery School, PTO treasurer and president for Johnson Park Elementary School, and on the town’s now disbanded Citizen’s Finance Advisory Committee (CFAC). There is no doubt, however, that her service on the School Board on behalf of our children is her highest volunteer priority. Mara believes passionately in a vital public school education for all children.
Mara’s experience in financial services and as a Columbia MBA and CFA charter holder brings much needed financial insight to the Board. As the only incumbent running, I believe it’s essential to reelect Mara to maintain critical institutional knowledge and experience to guide the district through its various budgetary and capacity challenges. I know Mara to be prudent and conservative in her decisionmaking and her reelection is crucial for the Board’s stability and continuity.
In addition to her financial background, Mara’s straightforward and honest approach to issues gives me confidence as a taxpayer that she is the voice we need on the Board of Education.
ALBERT STARK Lovers Lane
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Author Daniel Chandler will be in conversation with Nobel Prize-winner Sir Angus Deaton on Wednesday, October 9 at 6 p.m., at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street. Chandler, an economist and philosopher, will discuss his recently released book, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society with Princeton University Professor Emeritus Deaton.
The publisher describes the book (Knopf $32.00) as such, “Imagine: You are designing a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be within it — rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary
thought experiment proposed by the 20th century’s greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely ambitious and exhilarating manifesto, it is by rediscovering Rawls that we can find a way out of the escalating crises that are devastating our world today.”
“Chandler builds a powerful case,” continues the publisher’s writeup, “for a new progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better.”
Chandler is an economist and philosopher based at the London School of Economics, where he is research director of the Programme
on Cohesive Capitalism. He has degrees in economics, philosophy, and history from Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and was awarded a Henry Fellowship at Harvard, where he studied under Amartya Sen. Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author (with Anne Case) of the New York Times bestselling book Deaths of Despair and The Future of Capitalism and Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality.
This event is co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, Labyrinth Books, and the School of International & Public Affairs in NJ, and presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Guelzo Looks to Lincoln in James Madison Public Talk
Author Allen C. Guelzo, director of the James Madison Program ‘s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, will give a talk titled, “Can democracy in America be saved?”
The public talk is on Wednesday, October 9 at 4:40 p.m. at Bowen Hall, Room 222, Princeton University.
Guelzo will look back to the crises in the U.S. that were navigated by President Abraham Lincoln. How did Lincoln define democracy? What are its vital features? And what are the particular leadership characteristics he brought to the challenges of the American Civil War?
Copies of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy and the American Experiment (Knopf, 2024), his most recent book, will be available for purchase following the lecture.
Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is a three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize
for his books on Abraham Lincoln, and the New York Times best-selling author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
Prison Theater Workshops Are Topic of Essay Collection
See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Its main author, Jan CohenCruz, will be at Labyrinth Books Monday, October 7 at 6 p.m. to talk about the essay collection.
Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected in the temporary community of a workshop. Part I is an exchange grounded in the prison theater workshop between the author and one of the incarcerated participants. Part II consists of essays jointly written by eight other people impacted by close relationships spawned in diverse inprison and re-entry theater workshops.
Cohen-Cruz is a former professor of drama at New York University and founder of the department’s applied theater minor. As a past director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, she co-founded its journal, Public. Her books include Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It; Local Acts; Engaging Performance; Remapping Performance ; and two co-edited texts on Augusto Boal. Cohen-Cruz currently teaches at Touchstone Theatre/Moravian University.
This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books, Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Princeton University’s Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, the School of International & Public Affairs in NJ, and Department of African American Studies.
Artist and Author Diana Weymar Brings Community Through Crafting together as we navigate this uncertain personal and political landscape.”
Artist and activist Diana Weymar has been bringing people together through textile and embroidery. She discusses her book, Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists , on Thursday, October 10 at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. The event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books.
Weymar, the creator and curator of the public art projects Interwoven Stories and Tiny Pricks Project, addresses how crafting can alleviate the feelings of anxiety and hopelessness brought on by issues like the climate crisis, racism, gun violence, attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, and myriad other issues facing the country and world.
Crafting a Better World is a new kind of call to action: a guidebook for combatting fatigue and frustration with the handmade, says the publisher (Harvest, $25).
The book features essays, profiles of well-known creatives, and projects that readers can create by themselves or with their communities. The book is a means to stay engaged, make things and “hold ourselves
“Progressive crafters will be galvanized by this celebration of homespun resistance,” states Publisher’s Weekly. According to Library Journal, “activist crafters will find abundant motivating forces and community in this collection.”
Weymar grew up in the wilderness of British Columbia, studied creative writing at Princeton University, and worked in film in New York City. For the past decade, she has been threading the needle to create a material record of our times. Both on social media and in person, she has encouraged thousands of people to find their own creative path through personal and political challenges.
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I’ve just read Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” today being his 145th birthday. Why that particular poem now? Probably because it’s an infectious idea that inspires impersonation. And why 13? Why not 9 or 7? Or 10 to match the number of his birthday month?
When I began writing a few days ago, I was thinking about ways of looking at Italy. What set me off was the Milan cathedral, which rises magnificently from the center of Luchino Visconti’s epic Rocco and His Brothers (1960), a film so “fearsome” (Martin Scorsese’s word) that people screamed “No!” “Stop it!” and “Basta!” when its prolonged explosions of murderous violence were first shown at the Venice Film Festival.
What happened to me? Suddenly, breathtakingly, after one of the movie’s most brutal, harrowing, hard-to-watch scenes, I found myself at the top of the cathedral surrounded by spires and pinnacles, with dizzy-making views of the city and country on all sides while straight scarily down below were tiny streetcars, busses, and human beings. I’m up there with Alain Delon’s Rocco and Annie Girardot’s Nadia, who was beaten and raped in front of Rocco by his brother Simone, mad with jealousy because Rocco and Nadia, a free-spirited prostitute, have fallen, truly, in love.
Dostoevsky and Twain
Imagine a scene out of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, as Visconti did in fact imagine it, with Delon as the Holy Fool Myshkin and Girardot as the forever fallen Nastasya Filippovna, transported from the 1860s to the 1960s, St. Petersburg to Milan and life, death, and love atop the cathedral: she’s threatened to throw herself from the roof, he’s trying to stop her, startled tourists are staring, and I’m so thrilled by the spectacular setting I feel like shouting. Along with everything else, it’s one of the greatest location shots in cinema.
“Away above, on the lofty roof, rank on rank of carved and fretted spires spring high in the air, and through their rich tracery one sees the sky beyond” — that’s how Mark Twain sees the setting in The Innocents Abroad (1869), viewing “long files of spires, looking very tall close at hand, but diminishing in the distance.”
Stunned by the “wonder” of it (“So grand, so solemn, so vast! And yet so delicate, so airy, so graceful!”), Twain writes, “They say that the Cathedral of Milan is second only to St. Peter’s at Rome. I cannot understand how it can be second to anything made by human hands.”
When Annie Girardot died in March 2011, the New York Times accompanied her obituary with a still from the rooftop scene. And among the career-defining moments mentioned in the aftermath of Alain Delon’s death at 88 last month, I’ve seen
none as intimate and compelling — one soulful close-up after another — as the shots of him atop the “wonder” that so moved Mark Twain.
That Singular Mountain
First published in 1917 and collected in Harmonium (1923), “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” opens “Among twenty snowy mountains,” where “the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird.” In close proximity to Stevens’s “Blackbird” in The Collected Poems (1955) is a sonatina to Hans Christian Andersen, who looked at the cathedral of Milan in 1833 and saw “that singular mountain which was torn out of the rocks of Carrara.” Viewed “for the first time in the clear moonlight; dazzlingly white stood the upper part of it in the infinitely blue ether.”
In his sonatina, the poet of twenty mountains asks, “What of the dove, / Or thrush, or any singing mysteries? / What of the trees / And intonations of the trees?” And in the last stanza: “What of the night / That lights and dims the stars? / Do you know, Hans Christian, / Now that you see the night?”
In a letter from 1818, Percy Shelley’s way of looking at Milan’s cathedral was to note “the effect of it, piercing the solid blue with those groups of dazzling spires, relieved by the serene depth of this Italian heaven, or by moonlight when the stars seem gathered among those clustered shapes.”
“An Awful Failure”
“steals from every style in the world: and every style spoiled.” Calling it “this curious Flamboyant,” Ruskin finds “the only redeeming character about the whole” being “the crowding of the spiry pinnacles into the sky.”
Obscured by Mist
Writing in Pictures from Italy (1846), Charles Dickens brought London weather with him: “The fog was so dense here, that the spire of the far-famed Cathedral might as well have been at Bombay, for anything that could be seen of it at the time.” Flash forward to the 20th century and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929) and the cathedral in Milan is “fine in the mist” as Frederick and Catherine pass by it, too much in love to come back for a clearer look. In stanza IV of “Thirteen Ways,” a “man and a woman are one” and “A man and a woman and a backbird are one.”
While stanza VIII of “Blackbird” speaks of “noble accents” and “lucid, inescapable rhythms,” Stevens knows that the blackbird “is involved / In what I know.” And when “the bards of euphony” in stanza X “cry out sharply,” I find that it helps counter the disparaging of the cathedral by Oscar Wilde in a letter from 1875 (“An awful failure ... monstrous and inartistic. The over-elaborated details stuck high up where no one can see them”), as well as John Ruskin’s claim in S even Lamps of Architecture (1849) that the duomo
From the Center
The only reference to Milan in Stevens’s Letters (Knopf 1966) is his August 1949 response to an “unusually exciting” letter about Bergamo from a friend that prompted him to “look up the place,” whereupon he “learned for the first time what everybody else in the world has probably known for centuries; that Milan is a great center, perhaps not a great place but a great radial focus,” — which sends me to Stanza IX of “Thirteen Ways”: “When the blackbird flew out of sight / It marked the edge / Of one of many circles.” This “way of looking” works for Milan and its cathedral, which Visconti chose as the setting for the central, most significant conversation in Rocco and His Brothers, no doubt aware that its construction in 1386 coincided with the ruling power of his ancestor, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, who not only approved of the site’s centrality but hired a French engineer familiar with Rayonnant Gothic. Whether Flamboyant or Rayonnant, it’s the poet’s “radial focus” that makes “ways of looking” central to the geometry of Wallace Stevens.
Fellini, Rome, Keats
The catch is that I’ve been writing about a vicarious Milan, having never seen the fabulous cathedral in person, and yet, as should be obvious by now, I feel that I have. I could say the same about the uncut version of the three-hour-long Rocco and His Brothers that I saw for the first time last week on a Milestone DVD. Until then the only version of Visconti’s “fearsome” Rocco I’d seen was the crudely edited travesty that arrived in America only to be dwarfed by the Rome of Federico Fellini in La Dolce Vita (1960).
In a late poem, Stevens muses on “the sources of happiness in the shape of Rome, / A shape within the ancient circles of shape / And these beneath the shadow of a shape.” For all the wonders of Fellini, nothing could match what I felt standing at the age of 19 in the room where John Keats died at 26. On each of my visits to Rome in the 1960s, I visited that room adjacent to the Spanish Steps “within the ancient circles of shape” and then the Protestant cemetery near the Pyramid of Cestius, looking first at Shelley’s grave (“Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange”) before settling down in front of the grave of Keats, gazing at these words: “Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.”
Inflections and Innuendoes
In August 1925, William Faulkner sent his mother a postcard of the Piazza del Duomo in Milan: “The Cathedral! Can you imagine stone lace? or frozen music? All covered with gargoyles like dogs, and mitred cardinals and mailed knights and saints pierced with arrows and beautiful naked Greek figures that have no religious significance whatever.”
In his prime Faulkner could have written the cathedral into a single soaring sentence five pages long. In Stanza V of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” Stevens doesn’t know which to prefer — “the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendoes / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.” Although Hemingway left the cathedral in a mist in A Farewell to Arms, his inflections and innuendoes make you see what you feel in his 1927 story “In Another Country,” which begins, “It was cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early. Then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. There was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. It was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains.”
—Stuart Mitchner
Don’t
“Romeo and Juliet”
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel He recently starred in Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre , Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 with Tom Cruise; Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon ; and his latest movie, Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, based on the true story of the first British secret mission during World War II. The State Theatre New Jersey is at 15 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. Visit stnj.org for tickets, which range from $25 to $150.
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
“Duel Reality” Inspired
By “Romeo and Juliet”
McCarter Theatre Center presents Duel Reality , from Montreal-based circus troupe The 7 Fingers, October 9-13. Known for their blend of circus, theatre, illusion, music, and dance, this latest creation is an acrobatic tour-de-force inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Audiences are invited to imagine a world where starcrossed lovers are circus stars, their love story unfolding through acrobatics. This cirque-infused performance portrays the feuding families engaging in increasingly daring battles of skill — while the lovers struggle to escape the escalating conflict. The performance distills the classic love story to its core conflict and transforms the stage into a sporting arena, with the audience/spectators taking sides and cheering on their team.
McCarter Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen calls it “a truly multi-generational show that offers an unforgettable night of
theater for all ages.” The 75-minute performance is recommended for ages 7 and up, and has no intermission.
The 7 Fingers are renowned for their work on Broadway, including Water for Elephants and the Tony Award-winning revival of Pippin (2013). The show is directed and choreographed by Shana Carroll. “Ringside” seats are available for a few, and a limited block of onstage seats can be had.
For an American Sign Language Accessibility performance on October 12 at 2 p.m. and an audio described and open caption accessibility performance on October 13 at 2 p.m., call (609) 2582787. Visit mccarter.org for tickets.
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Actor Cary Elwes Talks About “The Princess Bride” State Theatre New Jersey presents “The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes” on Saturday, October 19 at 8 p.m.
After a screening of the movie The Princess Bride , actor Elwes (Westly) will engage in a moderated discussion for a behind-the-scenes look at life on and off the set of the classic film, revealing never-before-shared stories.
The moderator is journalist and musician Alex Biese.
A limited number of VIP packages are available and include the best seats in the house, a Meet and Greet with Elwes, and a signed copy of his book, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Elwes has been in films and TV shows, including Robin Hood: Men in Tights ; Bram Stoker’s Dracula ; Saw ; Twister ; Liar, Liar ; Stranger Things ; and The
Performs at Richardson Auditorium Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) concertmaster Basia Danilow and principal cellist Alistair MacRae team up with pianist Steven Beck October 19-20 for performances of Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major, Op. 56, “Triple Concerto.” Conducted by Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov, the concerts at Richardson Auditorium also include Michael Abels’ More Seasons and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical.”
The entire program provides variations on traditional musical forms, and even the usual order of orchestral concert programming. “Rather than designing the program in the customary way — overture, concerto, symphony —I have decided to move the programming blocks a bit to allow the audience to experience first the more modern works by Prokofiev and Ables before hearing the Beethoven’s original masterpiece —’Triple Concerto’ — in the second half of the concert,” said Milanov. Abels, known for writing the scores for Jordan Peele’s films Get Out, Us, and Nope, brings his own blend of remixed baroque sounds to the Spring and Summer themes of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in his own work, More Seasons. 20th century composer Sergei Prokofiev compacted his Classical Symphony , giving nods to baroque and classical eras, while creating something entirely new and imbued with his own musical style. Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Triple Concerto” was the first of its kind, replacing the traditional single instrument soloist with a piano trio, creating a dynamic conversation between multiple instruments.
Danilow is concertmaster of the PSO, a member of
the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and an associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. PSO principal cellist MacRae has performed in Carnegie Hall, Palm Beach’s Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, and Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. Beck has appeared frequently with the New York Philharmonic. His discography includes George Walker’s piano sonatas, on Bridge Records. A Steinway Artist, he is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and teaches orchestral piano at The Juilliard School.
Visit Princetonsymphony. org or call (609) 497-0020 for tickets.
Westminster Community Orchestra To Present Two Concerts
The Westminster Community Orchestra (WCO) and conductor Ruth Ochs will perform two programs in November and December in Hillman Performance Hall, housed in the Marion Buckelew Cullen Center, 101 Walnut Lane.
The orchestra will present its first performance, Celebrate America!, on Sunday, November 3 at 3 p.m., featuring works by George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, George Whitefield Chadwick, Florence Price, Aaron Copland, and Richard Rodgers. The program will also include Georg Philipp Telemann’s Recorder Concerto in C, with Westminster Conservatory student Tegan Costello as soloist. The concert highlights a variety of musical themes that are distinctly American. There are no tickets required; a suggested admission of $10/ person will be collected at the door.
The orchestra’s annual Holiday Sing-along concert
will take place on Wednesday, December 11 at 7:30 p.m. and will feature guest soloist soprano Danielle Sinclair, a member of the Westminster Conservatory faculty, in a performance of seasonal favorites. The audience will be invited to sing along on a variety of Hanukkah and Christmas selections. All ticket donations collected at the door will be distributed among several Mercer County food pantries/service organizations.
When the Westminster Choir College moved to Rider University in Lawrence Township, the Westminster Conservatory remained on the Walnut Lane campus and continues to provide high quality music education to the area’s youth and musicians of all ages and levels. Founded 37 years ago by Barbara Barstow, the WCO offers a significant outlet for area musicians who enjoy performing the symphonic repertory and playing in a supportive community of musicians of diverse ages and backgrounds. Ochs took the helm of the WCO in September 2005. Under her leadership, the orchestra frequently features ensembles and soloists from the Westminster Conservatory and highlights works by local and under-represented composers. Ochs is currently a senior lecturer in the Princeton University Department of Music, where she is in her 23rd season as the conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia. Email inquiries from prospective members may be sent to westminster.play@ gmail.com.
“BOOK OF AYRES” with SULLIVAN FORTNER Piano/Harpsichord/Keyboards
EMI FERGUSON Flute
DUŠAN BALARIN Theorbo/Lute
YASUSHI NAKAMURA Bass
KEITA OGAWA Percussion
Hopewell Valley Arts Council
Hosts Amazing Pumpkin Carve
The Hopewell Valley Arts Council is celebrating a decade of community tradition with its 10th Annual Amazing Pumpkin Carve at Woolsey Park in Hopewell Township from October 9 through 13. Bringing together families, art lovers, and fall enthusiasts, this event features 30 massive pumpkins carved into creative masterpieces under a big top tent.
Since its inception, the Amazing Pumpkin Carve has grown into one of Hopewell Valley’s favorite fall events, drawing thousands of visitors each year. The pumpkins, carved by local artists, range from whimsical to spooky, showcasing the talent and creativity within the community. Rain or shine, attendees can enjoy the pumpkin displays inside the tent.
“It’s incredible to see how the carve has evolved over the past 10 years,” said Carol Lipson, executive director of the Hopewell Valley Arts Council. “This event is more than just a showcase of pumpkin art — it’s a celebration of community spirit, creativity, and the fun of fall. We’re thrilled to be able to bring this event back each year, thanks to the support of our sponsors, artists, and everyone who attends.”
The event also includes live music on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the new Woolsey Park bandshell, weather permitting.
Younger visitors can enjoy a hay bale playground and try their hand at pumpkin painting on the weekend, adding to the festive atmosphere.
This year’s featured carvers include Brittany KeyakPotoczky, Susan Roseman, Jeff Brown, Michael Davies, Jodi Walker, Jonathan Conner, Kathleen Sheehan, Jennifer Stevens and Annette Vilagos, Poppy Sangthong and Peter Buruschkin, Matt Derby, Leonora Kandiner and Tim Cresson, Barbara DiLorenzo and Jonathan Fisk, Patrick Pasquito, Caroline Hall, Michelle Clark, Aleece Davis and Jill Thomas, Curtis May, Jason Ferrara, John Woodard, Joyce Vollmer, Danielle Costa McCobb and Rich Palumbo, Austin Martin, Charlie Yeh, Sarah Bernotas, and John Goeke.
The Amazing Pumpkin Carve will be open on Wednesday, October 9, from 7 to 9 p.m.; Thursday, October 10, from 5 to 9 p.m.; Friday, October 11, from 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, October 12, from 3 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, October 13, from 3 to 6 p.m.
Tickets are available online and at the gate. For information, visit hvartscouncil.org/ amazingpumpkincarve.
Golu Installation Coming To West Windsor Arts
Since expanding its programming to include more one-of-a-kind, communitybuilding events — built by community members — West Windsor Arts has hosted dancing in the dark parties, game nights, holi celebrations, immersive classical musical performances, and more.
On Saturday, October 5, from 4 to 9 p.m., the arts center will bring the Southern Indian tradition of Navrati Golu to its gallery space.
“From Ethereal to Real: A Navratri Golu” will feature an installation of intricately arranged, handcrafted dolls and heirlooms in settings that explore global warming through allegory, metaphor, and mythology. The evening will also include impromptu, live Indian classical music, a presentation on the significance of the golu, and fun art activities for children.
“I am very excited about hosting a community golu at the arts council,” says West Windsor Arts vice president and local artist Padmaja Ganapathy, who crafted the display with other artisans.
“The response from the community has been very exhilarating. We are excited to get everyone together and showcase a unique tradition.”
Navratri, a nine-day celebration of divine feminine power, is typically celebrated in the home. Dolls and figurines depicting a particular theme are arranged on steps or a tiered platform. Friends, family and neighbors are invited into the home to enjoy the presentation and participate in singing and socializing.
In addition to hosting the event on October 5, West Windsor Arts is offering special visiting hours and guided tours from October 2-12, so everyone can experience the display. Visit westwindsorarts.org/event/golu for more information.
“Most of the dolls are brightly painted and made of clay or wood, and may have been handed down from generation to generation. In this way, a golu captures a cross section of society at that time,” Ganapathy said. “During the festival period, many women will dress up in their fi nest sarees. It is just such a delightful, enchanting, happy and communal social happening.”
By presenting a golu, West Windsor Arts seeks to share this creative, joyful and communal tradition with the community at large. “As a primarily female-led organization, we are excited to participate in this celebration of the feminine divine,” said Aylin Green, executive director of West Windsor Arts. “Padmaja’s golu addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time. Through thoughtful interpretation and compelling storytelling, she has created a really fascinating installation.”
For more about West Windsor Arts, call (609) 716-1931 or visit westwindsorarts.org.
Princeton University Chapel October 9 at 5:30pm
Join Ruth Cunningham, founding member of Anonymous 4 and Sound Healing practitioner, in this time of live music for meditation and introspection.
Thursday, October 10, 5:30 p.m. East Pyne Courtyard
Take a break from studying to explore the healing benefits of yoga on a beautiful autumn evening. Please bring your own mat.
In the case of inclement weather, the yoga class will be held in Frist Multipurpose Room A.
“LOTUS FIELD, FALL”: Leni Paquet-Morante, whose work is shown here, is among the artists of Princeton Makes, which will host its second annual Art in the Courtyard — Fall Festival on Sunday, October 6 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Princeton Shopping Center courtyard.
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Princeton Makes Presents Art in the Courtyard Oct. 6
Princeton Makes will host its second annual Art in the Courtyard — Fall Festival on Sunday, October 6 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Princeton Shopping Center courtyard.
The festival is a celebration of creativity and community and will showcase the local artistic talent of Princeton and neighboring areas.
Art in the Courtyard is designed to give local artists and artisans the opportunity to spotlight their work. But the festival goes beyond artistic displays; it is a celebration of the entire Princeton and neighboring areas. Princeton Makes is focused on community building and welcomes everyone to contribute to a community art project to be made during the event.
The Art in the Courtyard
— Fall Festival is free to attend and iopen to all members of the community, who are encouraged to participate in a day filled with art, music, and connections.
Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 37 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers are able to support local artists by shopping for a
wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more.
For more information, visit princetonmakes.com.
“Monsters & Machines” Exhibit In PU Library’s Milberg Gallery Princeton University Library presents “Monsters & Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary” in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library, on view through December 8.
The exhibition examines the global use of bestiary in visual satire during the period from the beginning of World War I through the end of the Cold War. It is curated by a team of PUL librarians: Thomas Keenan, Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies librarian; Lidia Santarelli, librarian for History, New York University; Deborah Schlein, Near Eastern Studies librarian; and Alain St. Pierre, librarian for History, History of Science, and African Studies.
Bestiary is most often associated with the medieval period, when artists and authors commonly presented images of real and mythical animals as embodiments of moral nobility or degradation. This practice persisted in caricature art of the ensuing centuries and eventually found new life in 19th- and 20th-century broadsides, posters, and illustrated periodicals.
“The period between World War I and the end of the Cold War was a time of ideologically-fueled hostilities of unprecedented scale and destructive consequence that eventually brought humanity to the brink of self-annihilation. This is the period historian Eric Hobsbawn called “the age of extremes,” said Keenan.
The monsters and machines featured in the exhibition are graphic expressions of hostility and phobia towards great powers that were feared and loathed
10/6: John McDermott Band Sixties Rock & Roll Revue
10/13: Jerzy Merzy Beat Beatles Tribute
10/20: Epic Soul Motown
10/27:
Cosmic Jerry Band
Grateful Dead Tribute
because of their perceived potential to pose danger, impose their will, and inflict harm. Drawing from PUL’s collections of 20thcentury posters, illustrated periodicals, and ephemera from North America, Europe, Asia, Eurasia, and the Middle East, the exhibition looks at works of weaponized visual humor created by and aimed at exponents of different national cultures and ideologies. Despite their pointedly divisive agenda, the items on display show what appears to be a shared impulse to dehumanize adversaries using images where hybrid human-animal or human-machine monstrosities depict satirical targets’ moral subhumanity.
Members of the public are welcome to visit the exhibition between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays, and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
For more information about the exhibition, public tours, and related programming, visit library.princeton. edu/monstersandmachines.
Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Heléne Aylon: Undercurrent” through February 2. Artmuseum. princeton.edu.
Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Progressions” through October 6. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Lambertvillearts.com.
Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography” through January 5. Artmuseum. princeton.edu.
Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Narratives in Motion” October 5 through November 9. Artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Dohm Alley, next to 100 Nassau Street, has the Princeton Einstein
First Tradition Worship Service Sundays at 11am
Museum’s “Einstein’s “Attraction to Magnetism,” open 24/7 through November 30. princeton einsteinmuseum.org.
Ficus Bon Vivant, 235 Nassau Street, has “Capture the Rhythm” through January 12. Ficusbv.com.
Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, has its Members’ Exhibition through September 29. Galler14.org.
Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has “Reciprocal Inspiration and a Cranbury School Legacy: Elizabeth Grimaldi and Elaina Phillips” through October 30. Cranburyartscouncil.org.
Green Building Center, 67 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has an art show by the MUGA Group through December 31. Greenbuildingcenter.com.
Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “That’s Worth Celebrating: The Life and Work of the Johnson Family” through the end of 2024, among other exhibits. Groundsforsculpture.org.
Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Princeton Reflected: Stories from HSP’s Collection” and “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery.” Museum hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m. Princetonhistory.org
Mercer Museum , 84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “The Doan Gang: Outlaws of the Revolution” through December 31, 2026. Mercermuseum.org.
Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition” through October 13 and “Monuments and Myths: The American Sculptors Augustus SaintGaudens and Daniel Chester French” through January 5. Michenerartmuseum.org.
Morpeth Contemporary, 43 West Broad Street, Hopewell, has “Robert Beck: Here and Now” through October 6. Morpeth contemporary.com.
Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Morven Revealed: Untold Stories from New Jersey’s Most Historic Home,” through March 2. Morven.org.
New Hope Arts, 2 Stockton Avenue, New Hope, Pa., has “Raise the Roof: Contemporary Barnscapes” through October 6. Newhopearts.org.
Phillips’ Mill, 2619 River Road, New Hope, Pa., has “95th Juried Art Show at Phillips’ Mill” through October 27. Phillipsmill.org.
Present Day Club, 72 Stockton Street, has “Pastel Perspectives: An Exploration of the Sourlands Mountain Region, open to the public on Fridays from 12 to 5 p.m. through October 4.
Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has works by Liesl Schubel through November 5. Paintings and collages by Clara Sue Beym are at the 254 Nassau Street location through November 5. Smallworldcoffee.com.
West Windsor Arts, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Art Alliance of Monmouth County Invitational Show” through November 2. Westwindsorarts.org.
Wednesday, October 2
11 a.m.-3 p.m.: Princeton University Farmers Market, Firestone Library/ Chapel Plaza. Fresh, locally grown produce and other goods from area businesses using sustainable practices. Pumarket@princeton.edu
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m .: Leighton Listens. Councilman Leighton Newlin is available to discuss current events with members of the public at Tipple and Rose, 210 Nassau Street.
Thursday, October 3
10 a.m.-3 p.m .: Princeton Farmers Market is at Hinds Plaza. More than 30 vendors with local organic produce, pasture-raised meat and eggs, cheeses, fresh flowers, knife-sharpening, jewelry, and more. Live music. SNAP/EBT cards and matches accepted up to $10 a day. Princetonfarmersmarket.com.
4 p.m .: Community Newsroom with Princeton Chief of Police Chris Tash, at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
7:30 p.m .: An Evening with David Sedaris at McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. Mccarter.org.
Friday, October 4
7 p.m.: “Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert,” at McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. Mccarter.org.
7 p.m .: Roxey Ballet presents “C-Word: Stories of Triumph Over Breast Cancer,” in person at Mill Ballet School, 46 North Sugan Road, New Hope, Pa. Music, dance, and spoken word, choreographed by Mark Roxey. Roxeyballet.org.
7:30 p.m .: Organist Ken Cowan is in concert at Princeton University Chapel. Free. Princeton.edu.
8 p.m.: The play A Thread of Golden Ashes is presented at the Wallace Theater in Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Free. Tickets. princeton.edu.
Saturday, October 5
8-10 a.m.: Fall Bird Walk at Billy Johnson Nature Preserve, 57 Mountain Avenue. Led by Winnie Hughes Spar. Fopos.org.
9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Farmers Market at Vaughn lot, Princeton Junction train station. Fresh produce and much more. Wwcfm.org.
10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pick your own apples and pumpkins, go on pony rides, play with tractors, games, mazes, barnyard, and much more. Food and live music by Traffic Blue Grass Band. $18 in advance; $22 day of the event. Terhuneorchards.com.
10 a.m .: Join a three-mile walk along the D&R Canal. Meet at Turning Basin Park on Alexander Street. To be notified of cancellations due to weather, visit canalwalkers@googlegroups.com.
10 a.m.-12 p.m .: “Chalk it Up,” Fundraiser for Heart2Heart at The Meadows at Lawrence, 2 Morris Hall Circle Drive, Lawrence Township. Fill the streets with chalk art. Registration necessary. Meadows atlawrence.com.
10 a.m.-1 p.m .: A Gathering for the Bike-Curious, sponsored by Sustainable Princeton. Ride through Princeton on a Pedego EBike (or BYO Bike) with Laurie Harmon, chair of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee. Picnic lunch follows from Ficus. Sustainableprinceton.org.
11 a.m.-4 p.m .: The Princeton Children’s Book Festival is held on Hinds Plaza, with 50 authors and illustrators of children’s and teens’ literature, free arts and crafts activities, and more. Princetonlibrary.org/ bookfestival.
12-4 p.m.: Fish Fry Fundraiser at Mt. Pisgah AME Church, 170 Witherspoon Street: $15 dinner includes fish, macaroni salad, string beans, and bread.
1 p.m .: Free screening of the documentary Choral Singing in America: Nurturing the Country’s Soul, at Bart Luedeke Center Theater, Rider University, Lawrence Township. Presented by Westminster Choir College of Rider University and Kemp Endowment for Church Music. Rider.edu.
4-10 p.m .: Fifth Annual Hopewell Community Oktoberfest, 131 Burd Street, Pennington. Food, craft and domestic beers, wine, cornhole, music, face-painting, pumpkin-painting, and more. Trentoncyrus.org.
6-9 p.m .: “Celebrate to Elevate,” fundraiser for the New Jersey Arts Incubator, at 862 Route 518, Skillman. $75-$150. Light fare, cocktails, music, and art-making. NJArtsIncubator.org.
7 p.m .: Roxey Ballet presents “C-Word: Stories of Triumph Over Breast Cancer,” at Mill Ballet School, 46 North Sugan Road, New Hope, Pa. Music, dance, and spoken word, choreographed by Mark Roxey. Also presented virtually. Roxeyballet.org.
8 p.m.: The play A Thread of Golden Ashes is presented at the Wallace Theater in Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Free. Tickets. princeton.edu.
Sunday, October 6
8:30 a.m.: “Run for Rescue” 5K run and walk, at Jasna Polana, 4519 Province Line Road. Benefits the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad. Register at Pfars.org.
10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pick your own apples and pumpkins, go on pony rides, play with tractors, games, mazes, barnyard, and much more. Food and live music by Catmoondaddy. $18 in advance; $22 day of the event. Terhuneorchards.com.
11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Princeton Makes hosts its Second Annual Art in the Courtyard — Fall Festival in the Princeton Shopping Center courtyard. Princetonmakes.com.
12-3 p.m.: Princeton Fire Department Open House, 363 Witherspoon Street. Annual event includes fire truck tours, a bounce house, and snacks. Meet local firefighters and learn about fire safety. Princetonnj.gov.
2 p.m.: Roxey Ballet presents “C-Word: Stories of Triumph Over Breast Cancer,” in person at Mill Ballet School, 46 North Sugan Road, New Hope, Pa. Music, dance, and spoken word, choreographed by Mark Roxey. Also presented virtually. Roxeyballet.org.
3-5 p.m.: Friends of Princeton Open Space presents Fall Fest 2024 at Mountain Lakes House, Billy Johnson Nature Preserve, 57 Mountain Avenue. Music by the Ragtime Relics, plant-based fall food, nature-themed activities, craft beer, non-alcoholic drinks, and more. Fundraiser for the environmental stewardship program. $60 (free for 12 and under). Fopos.org/events-programs.
5-7 p.m .: Cheese-tasting program at Dorothea’s House, 120 John Street. Marcelli Formaggi of Clifton will bring samples of raw milk cheeses they import from their cousin’s organic farm in Anversa degli Abruzzi, and talk about the history and value of the cheese. Free. Bring refreshments to share at a post-program reception.
6 p.m .: An Evening with Natalia Lafourcade at McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place. McCarter.org.
7 p.m .: Comedian Brian Regan performs at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $49-$223.50. Stnj.org.
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7 p.m.: Continuing Conversations on Race is held virtually. Nathalie Edmond discusses strategies in her book Mindful Race Talk: Building Literacy, Fluency and Agility. Visit princetonlibrary.org to get the link.
Tuesday, October 8
4:30 p.m.: Atelier@ Large: Conversations on Art-Making in a Vexed Era, with Annie Baker and Kamala Sankaram, presented by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts at Richardson Auditorium. Free. Arts.princeton.edu.
7 p.m.: Eno is screened at the Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street. One-night-only screening underwritten by Princeton Record Exchange about the creative process of musician and artist Brian Eno. The event is different every time it is shown. Princetongardentheatre.org.
7 p.m.: “PSO Soundtracks: Picture Perfect: Music and the Movies.” Radio host and music journalist Ross Amico discusses the role of music in film at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
Wednesday, October 9 11 a.m.-3 p.m.: Princeton University Farmers Market, Firestone Library/ Chapel Plaza. Fresh, locally grown produce and other goods from area businesses using sustainable practices. Pumarket@ princeton.edu
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m .: Leighton Listens. Councilman Leighton Newlin is available to discuss current events with members of the public at Pastiamo in Princeton Shopping Center.
12 p.m.: Virtual talk, “One Year after October 7: A Conversation with Miriam Hershlag,” opinion and blogs editor of The Times of Israel. BildnerCenter. Rutgers.edu.
6-7:30 p.m .: “Ancestry and Identity” and “First and Second Homes,” discussion hosted by poets Enriqueta Carrington and Carlos Hernandez Pena at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.
You will definitely be “in style” at Enmoda Salon & Spa at 163 Bayard Lane.
The Spanish term “enmoda” can mean in style, and Princeton’s Enmoda lives up to its name. The master stylists, estheticians, nail technicians, and makeup specialists are all ready to help each client look their best.
The customer care begins the moment a client walks in the door, adds Mosco. “You will be instantly greeted by one of our salon coordinators, who can take you to one of our lounges to await the arrival of your artist, and you will be offered the beverage of your choice.”
very individualized. We offer customized care for every client.”
Whether tending to long hair, short hair, curly, or straight, it is the goal of the stylist to suit the look to each individual’s own style.
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Opened two years ago, the establishment has a clientele of men, women, and children, from 9 years old to 80-plus, all who are regular clients, reports salon director and master stylist Zachary Mosco.
“We have created a gender-neutral, texture-inclusive safe salon that not only highlights our master artists but creates a studio for them to showcase their art while being a safe space for everyone to receive premiere luxury services,” he points out. “We are committed to serving all hair textures, and our staff collaborates with our clientele to design a customized, personal look unique to each person.”
Special Treatment Enmoda’s spacious twostory setting features a modern industrial look emphasizing the natural elements of stone, wood, and metal. This perspective is interesting and intriguing.
Five master stylists, two estheticians, two nail specialists, and two makeup artists are part of the Enmoda team. Depending on the purpose of the appointment, the hairstylist, esthetician, nail technician, or makeup artist will escort you to the appropriate station or private room for your service. The overall approach is to offer the highest professional service within a relaxed, calm atmosphere for the benefit of each client’s comfort.
If you are seeking a new hairstyle, tweaking existing color or opting for an entire new color scheme, hoping to enjoy a revitalizing facial, or need a manicure of pedicure, you are in the right place. In addition, both face and body waxing are available, as well as makeup applications for special events, including weddings.
The master stylist will help to define and design a special precision cut and style, points out Mosco. “With both haircuts and color, we take into consideration the client’s hair texture, facial structure, skin tone, and lifestyle. All of these are important factors in determining the best look for each client. And it is always
“When I am behind the chair, I specialize in cutting and styling. Cutting curly hair is a specialty for me,” says Mosco, a New Brunswick native, who is very enthusiastic about his work and his decision to go into this field. His experience in cosmetology school led him to see the opportunities it presented.
“After I got into cosmetology school, I realized how magical it can be. Helping people to look their best became an important goal.”
Color has become a fashion statement for many people today. Once the focus was to cover gray, and that is still true in many cases, but with the advances in color chemistry and safety, the opportunities for a new color look are extensive.
A special color room/ chemistry lab, where color magic is created, offers a full range of choices. Some clients want a natural look, while others opt for something bold and dramatic.
“The color can whisper, talk, or yell,” depending on the client’s personality and current mood, reports Mosco.
The Enmoda color specialists can accommodate every look, he adds. “Highlights
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Hair regrowth products as well as four formaldehydefree Keratin treatments are available, as are hair extensions.
An Essential No longer a luxury as it once was, a facial has become an essential for many people. Enmoda offers a variety of facials, depending on each client’s needs. Everything from the basic and classic facial to a teen facial to a spotlight facial featuring advanced light therapy to the specialized Hydrafacial is available.
“The Hydrafacial with its patented Vortex technology provides a more thorough cleansing and moisturizing through the use of a special machine,” explains esthetician Nia Sanchez.
She points out that many clients start out with a basic facial and then, depending on their age and skin condition, they move on to a more personalized treatment. “First, we have a consultation to determine the most appropriate facial. There are so many benefits from having a regular facial. They help to improve and maintain healthy skin, help prevent breakouts and blemishes, and help aging skin.”
Clients are all ages, she adds, and many come regularly. “Some come once a month, which is ideal. If they can’t come that often, seasonally is good, as weather conditions affect the skin. We also have products to help benefit the skin for customers to take home.”
Manicures and pedicures are a must for many, and Enmoda will not disappoint. A full range from basic to deluxe to platinum to special gel manicures and pedicures, as well as Russian manicures, are all offered.
Sterilization of all products and implements for manicures and pedicures is emphasized and required, points out Mosco, ensuring that clients have a safe as well as soothing experience.
Special occasion makeup opportunities are a highlight at Enmoda, and are offered for the bridal party or for creating a special look for a special night on the town.
Mosco is also focused on the high-quality products at the establishment. “We have 13 product brands, which are among the best available. For haircare, these include Goldwell, Oribe, IGK, Kerasilk, Design Me, Aluram, Zenagen, Jolie, and Amika. For hair color, we use Goldwell Color Systems.”
Skincare products include Skinceuticals, Faith, and Farmhouse Fresh. Nail lines are Opi and Dazzle Dry.
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In addition, a variety of other products are available for purchase, including filtered shower heads. “Princeton water is very hard” points out Mosco, “and that can affect the product’s effectiveness.”
Also available are several items such as dry shampoo and touch-up color products.
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Mosco is very encouraged with the customer response to Enmoda, both with regular clients and newcomers. “We have clients from Princeton and the area, and many are referrals. They know they can rely on our special service and highquality products. There is a lot involved in overseeing a successful operation like this, and we are also focused on continuing education, including classes at the salon, to keep up with the new advances all the time.
“The biggest challenge is to advance our growth and continue to focus on innovation and be open to change. We are set apart by our quality service and products and offering our clients a great experience.
“Our team of master stylists and estheticians and all our artists are dedicated to their craft, ensuring that each treatment is delivered with precision and care. You can trust that you are in the hands of professionals with extensive knowledge and skill who are passionate about helping you achieve your beauty goals.”
Enmoda is open six days: Monday and Tuesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
F or further information, call (609) 924-1188 and visit the website at enmodasalonspa.com. In addition, Mosco adds, “If you follow us on instagram@enmodasalonspa, on October 31 we will start featuring our holiday gift guide.”
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For Blaine McAllister, being patient over the last four seasons was rewarded last Saturday as he made his first start at quarterback for the Princeton University football team.
Toiling on the Princeton junior varsity team in 2021 and 2022 and making one varsity appearance last fall, senior McAllister got the starting nod against visiting Howard with opening day starter Blaine Hipa sidelined by injury.
“I found out on Friday, I have been preparing for it all week in practice,” said McAllister. “I had been taking first team reps. To finally get that confirmation of starting was probably one of the most exciting moments of my life.”
McAllister got off to an exciting start Saturday as he connected with senior star receiver Luke Colella for a 37-yard touchdown pass as the Tigers jumped out to a 7-0 lead 1:46 into the contest.
“My first completion ever was that touchdown,” said a smiling McAllister, a 6’4, 215-pound native of Milton, Ga. “They jumped (offsides) so we had a free play and we know no matter what we do, even if I throw a pick, it doesn’t matter. Our goal on that is just to throw the ball down the field and hopefully one of our guys wins outside. Luke is my boy, we have been together for years. I throw the ball up to him and I know he was going to come down with it.”
That scoring strike set the tone as Princeton built a 20-0 halftime lead and held off a late Howard rally to prevail 30-13 before a crowd of 7,886 on hand at Princeton Stadium for the Tigers’ home opener. After that auspicious start, McAllister did misfire as he completed just 2-of-13 passes for 46 yards in the first half.
“The passing the ball wasn’t what I wanted it to be in,” said McAllister. “I thought we were running the ball well. The O-line was controlling the line of scrimmage, doing a phenomenal job for us. They really brought that game home for us.”
While he struggled a bit through the air, McAllister excelled on the ground, rushing for a net of 50 yards, including a sevenyard touchdown run midway through the second quarter.
“I think if you asked anyone at the start of the day today, I don’t think they would have said that I would have been a good runner,” said McAllister with a chuckle, acknowledging that he was running for his life at times.
“It worked out well today. We will see what happens in the future. Hopefully I can keep using my legs a little bit.”
When Howard trimmed the Princeton lead to 23-13 with 8:34 left in the fourth quarter, McAllister engineered a seven-play, 75-yard scoring march as the Tigers went up 30-13 to close the deal.
“We all knew that we needed to respond,” said McAllister. “That drive was huge, to put the game away like that and take away some hope on the other side. We were all banding together. That was the feeling on the sideline, we were all locked in.”
The Tiger defense was locked in all day as it showed a lot of progress after a 3520 loss to Lehigh a week earlier in the season opener.
“This week, we were running to the ball, making the tackles that we needed and making the plays that we needed,” said junior defensive back Tahj Owens. “Mason Armstead’s interception (that set up a field goal in the first quarter) was a very big momentum play. We were getting turnovers, tackles, and getting off the field.”
Owens made one of the big plays of the game, picking off a Howard pass on a two-point conversion attempt after the Bison made it a 23-13 game.
“I was thinking that it was going to be a pick play beforehand and it turned out to be so,” said 5’11, 205-pound Owens, a native of Chico Hills, Calif., who had three tackles in the win.
“We had a press corner, he did a good job of holding the receiver up at the line so I really didn’t get picked off at all. I came free and was able to make a play on the ball.”
Overall, Owens liked the
way the Tigers played on both sides of the ball as they bounced back from the loss to Lehigh.
“I feel like we knew had to make a stand there and make a statement with this game,” said Owens. “Everybody knew we can’t take our foot off the gas pedal in the game. I think that is why our offense and defense was able to finish off the game well.”
Princeton head coach Bob Surace concurred, seeing the improvement from week one to week two that he was looking for.
“I thought our discipline was terrific,” said Surace. “That was huge because in the first game we were sloppy. We had bad snaps, missed assignments, and we gave up a lot of big plays. I haven’t seen the stat sheet, but I don’t think we gave up a whole lot of big plays today. I thought our tackling was good. Their running backs are good, they put it on you.”
Although McAllister was a surprise starter, Surace sensed that he would rise to the occasion.
“Blaine executed really well,” said Surace of McAllister, who ended up competing 5 of 19 passes for 80 yards with no interceptions. “We compete during camp so our top three quarterbacks get a ton of reps. I wasn’t worried he wouldn’t be ready.”
Owens took away some of the worry late in the contest with his big play on the Howard two-point attempt.
“It is not a two-score game any more if they get that,” said Surace. “We make that play and now it is a 10-point game. Now we are in four down territory so Mark (offensive coordinator Mark Rosenbaum) can call the offense a little differently.”
The Princeton offense took over from there as running backs John Volker and Dareion Murphy found daylight with several big jaunts. Murphy scored the final TD of the day in a 22-yard sprint to end up with 40 yard rushing on eight carries. Volker, for his part, gained 88 yards on 12 carries.
“Our offensive line played really well,” said Surace. “I thought our running backs
ran hard, yards were hard to come by against Howard (now 2-3). I thought we did a great job of opening up enough holes to get some good plays.”
With Princeton starting Ivy League action by playing at Columbia (1-1), Surace knows that the Tigers have to play even better next week to overcome the Lions.
“I told the team it is a new season,” said Surace. “You play these two games, knowing that we were going to be a little bit behind. We hope we can handle it. We got better. Now it is a whole other level, it is a whole other emotion.”
McAllister, for his part, believes that Princeton is primed to build on the effort against Howard as it gets into league play.
“Coach Surace always talks about the biggest jump that a team will make is from week one to week two,” said McAllister. “I felt like we made that jump; the biggest thing was that everyone was bought in focused and energized today. That is pretty exciting, I can’t wait for Columbia.”
McAllister certainly knows something about making things worth the wait.
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Over its first two seasons as a varsity 15s program, the Princeton University women’s rugby team went winless, dropping all 13 games it played in 2022-23.
But heading into this fall, Princeton was confident that it was on the verge of a breakthrough win.
It was also a proud moment for Ziluca, who has led the women’s rugby team as its head coach since 2019 when it was a club program and oversaw the transition to the varsity level.
player in contact, whether that be on attack or defense,” said Ziluca. “Samantha has moved all across the field, she was a back at one point. She has stepped up and in that Bowdoin game, she propped the entire game. She took it on and did so well.”
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“I think the team with the close score line, especially in one game last year with Mount St. Mary’s, we lost by one point (27-26), we felt OK,” said Princeton head coach Josie Ziluca. “We have had a few more additions to the team. We have grown and our understanding of the game has matured a bit.”
Even though Princeton started this fall by losing 67-0 to Sacred Heart on August 31 and falling 93-0 to Dartmouth on September 14, Ziluca saw progress.
“I knew we were going to do well,” said Ziluca. “I feel so confident in this team and what they are capable of to get that badge of honor. So we have completed this. For me, this is a Division I team and we played a D-III team, the best of D-III. There is a difference and it was nice to do that. What’s next on the docket is to be able to have a good game, a winning game against a D-I team.”
Last Saturday, Princeton did some good things as it fell 46-5 to Brown to move to 1-3.
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“There are other considerations and goals in those games that we are trying to hit,” said Ziluca. “Something that we are always trying to develop is how good is our defensive system? The reality is that we play a lot of defense. Each person and their tackle completion rate is important, we need to get everyone’s percentage up in order for that system to operate at a higher level. On the attack, we are always still working on things. This group has a lot of fun and gets to express themselves on attack. It is fun but on defense it is a system.”
“I think our match with Brown, we proved a bit of that with the defense,” said Ziluca, whose team plays at Quinnipiac on October 5. “Defense is really the heart of a team. If you can prevent someone from scoring then you are in the game. Certainly tries were let in but Brown had to really work for them. We saw some incredible tackles that I don’t think Brown was expecting from us.”
A trio of sophomores — Watson, Kwemo and Laura Barnds — has been giving Princeton some good work in the backfield.
“We recently had a very successful tryout period, we have added six players to our roster,” said Ziluca. “I think a lot of it is from the USA and the success in the Olympics. They have just started training with us, it will take them a little while to reach the maturity of a rugby player who can enter a game but we are really, really excited.”
Looking ahead, Ziluca is excited to see what the Tigers do over the rest of the fall.
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Heading into its match against Bowdoin on September 21, the Tigers sensed it would be a fun day for the program
“We knew it was a good matchup,” said Ziluca. “Bowdoin has won the Division III championship quite a bit. It was a cross divisional match.”
Hungry for that first win, Princeton jumped out to an early 14-0 lead over the Polar Bears and never looked back on the way to a sweet 59-0 triumph.
“We put our foot to the pedal,” said Ziluca. “I said going in that it was a culmination game even though we are still in the beginning of our season. This is years in the making. They exhibited everything they have learned, everything they have been challenged upon. They challenged themselves and put it together to get it done and they kept pushing. We wanted it to be a statement. We have had a lot of shutout games against us and wanted to show we can do the same thing.”
Earning that first win was a special moment for the Tiger players.
“It was a lot of fulfillment to get a W — it certainly feels like you have completed something you have set out to do,” said Ziluca, who got three tries in the victory from sophomore wing Celia Watson with sophomore forward row performer Hannah Mulligan scoring a pair of tries and sophomore back Malinka Kwemo going 7-for9 on conversion attempts. “It gives a chance for people to notice what has been done and the work that has been done. I think for them to be rewarded for that, it is just a proud badge of honor to wear.”
“Celia is a great attacking player, she has infused the team with a bunch of excitement in the back line,” said Ziluca. “She goes between outside center and wing. Malinka is a wonderful kicker but she is such a multi-dimensional player and is capable of so much. She has played fly half and fullback. She had some ridiculously insane tackles on Saturday. Laura has been playing outside center and a little bit of a wing. She came over from lacrosse and is a talented athlete. She has moved into rugby at an exciting speed, starting in these games.”
At forward, Mulligan and junior Samantha Handwerk have been leading the way.
“Hannah is a very tough
“I am so lucky to be able to work with people who really focus on the process of learning a new skill,” said Ziluca. “We meet challenges together on things, it does provide an ability to have an accelerated path to learn rugby. They have all of the processes. They know how to do it and are having these moments that give them confidence. That Bowdoin win was one of them so it is a confirmation to say OK, I am doing this right. Let’s keep pushing. No opponent is too big for us, that is the grit we are always going to show in the game.”
— Bill Alden
Princeton Women’s Soccer Tops Cornell in Ivy Opener
Displaying a balanced attack, the Princeton University women’s soccer team defeated Cornell 3-0 last Saturday in the Ivy League opener for both squads.
The Tigers got goals from Kate Toomey, Isabella Garces, and Alexandra Barry in the victory as they improved to 5-3 overall and 1-0 Ivy. Princeton resumes Ivy action by hosting Brown on October 5.
PU Men’s Cross Country 9th at Nuttycombe Event
Myles Hogan set the pace as the Princeton University men’s cross country placed ninth in the Nuttycombe Invitational last Friday in Madison, Wisc.
Junior Hogan covered the 8,000-meter course in 23:58.6 to place 26th individually.
In the team standings, Princeton had a score of 275 in finishing ninth in the event won by BYU at 44.
The Tigers will host the Princeton Fall Classic on October 18.
Tiger Men’s Water Polo Sweeps Iona, LIU
Enrique Nuno and Finn LeSieur came up big as the No. 7 Princeton University
men’s water polo team posted wins over Iona and LIU last Saturday to open Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) play.
Freshman Nuno and sophomore LeSieur each totaled five goals on the day as Princeton topped Iona 15-7 and then routed LIU 27-13.
The Tigers, now 11-4 overall and 2-0 NWPC, host Brown and MIT on October 5 and Harvard a day later.
Princeton Women’s Volleyball Splits with Penn to Start Ivy Play
Kamryn Chaney had a big weekend as the Princeton University women’s volleyball team started Ivy League action by splitting with Penn, falling 3-1 on Friday and then topping the Quakers 3-1 a day later.
Sophomore star Chaney contributed 14 kills and 10 digs on Friday but it wasn’t enough as Penn prevailed 17-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-21.
On Saturday, Chaney piled up 24 kills to spark the Tigers as they won 24-26, 2523, 25-21, 25-12.
Princeton, now 3-8 overall and 1-1 Ivy, hosts Brown on October 4 and Yale on October 5.
Tiger Women’s Golf Wins Princeton Invitational
Victoria Liu and Catherine Rao led the way as the Princeton University women’s golf team placed first in its annual Princeton Invitational last weekend at the Springdale Golf Club.
Senior Liu carded a two-
under 211 to place first individually in the three-round event while junior Rao was one stroke behind in taking second.
In the team standings, Princeton had a winning score of 863 (+11) with Georgetown taking second at 893.
The Tigers will next be in action when they play in the Evie Odom Classic from October 4-6 at the Princess Anne Country Club in Virginia Beach, Va. PU Field Hockey Falls to Northwestern Lydia Bills and Ella Cashman scored goals as the No. 16 Princeton University field hockey team fell 3-2 to No. 2 Northwestern last Sunday.
The Wildcats scored three goals in a 2:14 span in the third quarter that proved pivotal.
On Friday, Princeton edged Columbia 1-0 on a goal by Beth Yeager to improve to 2-0 in Ivy League play.
The Tigers, now 5-3 overall, play at Cornell on October 4 and at Syracuse on October 6.
With the start of new season on the horizon for Princeton’s University men’s and women’s ice hockey teams, the programs will be hosting the first-ever Baker Bash on October 12 at Hobey Baker Rink.
Both the men’s and women’s teams will take to the ice for a series of intrasquad
scrimmages and small games culminating with shootouts. After the Baker Bash concludes on the ice, the party moves to the concourse where both teams will meet fans and sign autographs.
Admission to Baker Bash is free but Tigers fans are encouraged to RSVP ahead of time at events.princeton. edu/BakerBashFY25.
The doors will open at 6 p.m. with puck drop at 7 p.m . There will be two 25-minute halves followed by six minutes of overtime and a joint shootout featuring both teams.
In addition to the action on the ice, fans can visit the Fan Zone on the concourse before and during the event which will feature face painters, giveaways, merchandise, photo opportunities, and the Tiger mascot.
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Azariah Breitman scored just one goal in the first five games this fall for the Princeton High boys’ soccer team.
In game six, though, senior forward and co-captain Breitman exploded for three goals in a 4-1 win over Hopewell Valley and that opened the floodgates for him.
“After the Hopewell game, I have been feeling so confident,” said Breitman, who scored a goal in a 6-0 win over Princeton Day School on September 24 and then added two goals and an assist in a 7-1 victor over WW/P-North last Thursday. “It has just been so much easier, goals have just been coming. I am sure they will just keep coming. It is like a snowball effect.”
Breitman’s connection with fellow senior and cocaptain Archie Smith has helped spark his scoring surge.
“Me and Archie together are pretty lethal up there,” said Breitman. “We are definitely finding our stride this season — it feels good to score.”
In the win over the Northern Knights, Smith scored the first goal and then Breitman converted a penalty kick for his first goal and got his second tally on an assist by Smith.
“Before the game, where I am going to go?” said Breitman, explaining his PK approach. “Then when I step up to the spot, there is no question in my mind. I look the keeper in the eye and slot it away.”
On his second goal, Breitman got a good look from Smith. “We felt pretty good at the end of the half,” said Breitman, who now has seven goals and two assists on the season with Smith having totaled seven goals and four assists. “Right after my penalty, I took a free kick and then Archie squared it to me and I scored the third.”
In the second half, the Tigers got two goals from Chris Penston with Kian Asiaie and Ivan Marinov chipping in one apiece as they turned the game into a rout.
“It is great to see everyone on the team scoring, even off the bench,” said Breitman. “Chris had two goals and we had a beautiful goal off a corner by Ivan. Everyone on the team is scoring.”
Getting selected as a team co-captain along with Smith and senior goalie Nicolas Holmelund, Breitman has taken on a greater leadership role this fall.
“Last year we had Nick [Matese] and Felipe [Matar Grandi] who were great leaders,” said Breitman. “After they left, me, Archie and Nick had to step in and fill the role. l feel like we are doing a pretty good job so far.”
PHS head coach Ryan Walsh believes his squad is doing a very good job as it has caught fire over the last few weeks.
“We were playing so well early on but we are kind of feeling each other out,” said Walsh. “We had new guys playing forward, new goal scorers.”
The one-two punch of Smith and Breitman has triggered the squad’s recent scoring prowess.
“You can see between Archie and Azariah, they are starting to get it going a little bit,” said Walsh. “Azariah has been playing great, just being super dangerous with the ball at his feet. He is crafty, he is being a little selfish because I told him to.”
While Breitman has stepped up, PHS possesses a number of offensive weapons.
“We have a really deep team this year, we have so much talent so it is great when we can get everybody on,” said Walsh, whose team tied Westfield 2-2 last
Saturday to move to 6-1-2 and hosts Gill St. Bernard’s on October 5 and Steinert on October 8. “The hardest part of being a coach is not being able to play everybody. Today everyone played and everyone played really well. I was really happy from start to finish.”
The Tigers have been playing well at the defensive end from the start of the season, having yielded just six goals in nine contests.
“Starting with Nick, our goalie, he has been phenomenal,” said Walsh. “Our back four have really grown into their spots. Chase [Hamerschlag] and Thomsen [Lord] in the center backs have been better than I ever thought they were going to be this year. I am really happy with those guys.”
Going forward, Walsh believes his team is in a good place.
“They have really responded well after the Robbinsville game (a 2-1 loss on September 19), we talked a lot about just being resilient and how we are going to respond,” said Walsh, who guided the Tigers to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Group 4 state title last fall. “You can feel that the vibes on the team are really good right now. It is just keep everyone happy. We play a lot of games here, it is like three games a week. It is keep everyone focused on the present day.”
Breitman is confident that the Tigers will keep their focus.
“We just bring the momentum from the previous game,” said Breitman. “After a great win like this, 7-1, the confidence keeps building. The start of the season was a bit shaky, we won 1-0, we tied 0-0. The goals start coming in, we gain confidence. I feel like we have a great chance to win again.”
—Bill Alden
As the Princeton High girls’ volleyball team hosted Woodbridge last Wednesday, Charlotte Woods didn’t take long to get into the flow.
“I feel like I was able to warm up and open up and take some really harder hits,” said junior outside hitter Woods. “The sets by Lois [Matsukawa] were awesome, — that made those big hits possible.”
The Tigers got into the groove collectively in the first set, jumping out to a 16-6 lead on the way to winning it 25-15.
“The team is super great so we have a lot of great players and a lot of great servers,” said Woods. “It is nice to have that gap in the start, it really lets us have fun in the front row and take some more aggressive swings and do some more plays. The support of the team really makes that happen.”
In the second set, PHS fell behind 10-4 before rallying to win 25-21 to clinch a 2-0 victory.
“When you get in a lull where it feels like balls aren’t landing, it takes one big push and it is a really big team effort from everyone to find the gap somewhere to put the ball,” said Woods, who ended up with seven kills and eight digs in the win. “I think we did that; coming back, getting our serves in. crawling back and finishing the set.”
Coming off a 2023 season which saw the Tigers win the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Group 3 state title, PHS is off to a perfect
start this fall as it improved to 12-0 with a 2-0 (25-18, 25-8) win over Princeton Day School last Monday and is ranked No. 1 in the state by NJ.com.
“This season has been going really well for us, we definitely have a lot more tough games coming up,” said Woods. “We have Williamstown (ranked No. 2 by NJ.com) coming up, we have some new ones on the schedule as well that we are looking forward to. We are really looking to just playing our best every game.”
In reflecting on the program’s emergence as a dominant force, Woods pointed to the players’ chemistry and their year-round commitment to volleyball.
“Through the last three years, we have just grown even closer as a team,” said Woods. “I think outside of the season when we play our club seasons, we have really put in a lot of work. We all come back better than the year before which really progresses the team even more. It is fun to show off all of the new things that we have learned throughout the club season.”
For Woods, getting into the club scene helped her develop a love for the game.
“In middle school when I moved to Princeton, that is when I joined Princeton volleyball club and started playing for a club team,” said Woods. “That is where I met Kaelin (fellow PHS junior star Kaelin Bobetich), so we have been playing together for a long time, probably since seventh grade. It has been a lot of fun.”
PHS head coach Patty Manhart had fun watching her team click in the first set against Woodbridge.
“Things we did well in the fi rst set were serving, serve receive —we just gave ourselves opportunities,” said Manhart. “The girls pointed out they were only putting up one block on the outside so that was all to make our hitters more effective. The first set communication was good. We played Princeton volleyball, we were in system.”
Things didn’t go so well for PHS early in the second set, but the Tigers were able to work things out on their own.
“When we go behind a couple of points, I am always debating whether to call a timeout or not call a timeout,” said Manhart, who got 10 kills and five digs in the win from Naomi Lygas with Matsukawa contributing 18 assists and five digs and Bobetich chipping in five kills and seven digs. “At the end of the day, I have the confidence in the team that they will figure out how to side out. I don’t have anything to say that they don’t already know. They just know when the job isn’t getting done and what they are able to do. In situations like that, I am confident in the girls being able to do what is needed and they did. They figured it out. I feel like not calling timeouts shows the confidence. It is in our control, we can fix this and then they do. Being able to rally is important but let’s not get into a hole in the first place.”
start. It is nice how we are progressing. I understand the regular season is still important. I am impatient but I am happy with how we have started 100 percent. There are definitely things we can work on, we can focus on prior to November that we will do. We will use this time for that.”
Woods, for her part, is looking forward to another big postseason run.
“We are definitely hoping to make it as far as we did last year,” said Woods. “Hopefully we see some great teams when we make it to postseason. Hopefully we will win the BCSL (Burlington County Scholastic League) again. It is fun to play those BCSL games where you know so many girls on the other teams.”
—Bill Alden
Manhart credits Woods with bringing plenty of confidence to the front row.
“In the offseason when she is playing defense, she doesn’t get to hit as much,” said Manhart. “Then she comes into this season and she is a hitter. You can tell that she really enjoys that job of being in the front row, scoring points, putting the ball away. I love seeing her thrive in that spot. She is smart, she has a great arm and get up. With one blocker on the outside we are going to work around them. She did just that.”
The play of senior Anya Haeberli and sophomore Carmen Barbosa also made a difference against Woodbridge.
“Anya is doing a really nice job reacting in the middle, “said Manhart. “Something we have been focused on is if we get a block touch, can we turn and find the ball. If we are out of system, can we still set a play and Carmen has been ready. The middles have the court IQ to be able to play in those out of system moments when we should still be able to keep the ball up. Those little extra touches, making something happen is really nice to see from both of the middles.”
While Manhart has her eye on a state title repeat, she knows her squad has work to do over the rest of the regular season.
“I just want to get us to November 17 (the state final). I am so ready,” said Manhart, whose team plays at Immaculate Heart on October 5 and at Notre Dame on October 7. “It
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Boasting a battle-tested core of veteran performers, the Princeton High girls’ tennis team has picked up where it left off last year.
After winning eight of its last nine matches in 2023, advancing the Central Jersey Group 3 final in the process, the Tigers have started 5-1 this fall with their latest victory coming last Monday when the fourth-seeded Tigers defeated 13th-seeded Middletown North 5-0 in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) North 2 Group 3 state team sectional on October 8.
“We have had a nice start to the season,” said Hibbert, whose team moved to 5-1 with the win over Middletown North and will play at Lawrence High on October 7 in a regular season match before hosting fifth-seeded Summit in the sectional quarterfinals on October 8. “With six returners and a freshman at the top of the lineup we hope for good things.
That freshman, Kathleen Xu, has already emerged as a star at first singles.
“Kathleen is a tournament player, she trains a lot, she works very hard,” said Hibbert. “She started off the season really well. She has a good all-around game. She does stay at the baseline a lot but she has a good serve and is willing to move the ball around, move forward, and volley.”
At second singles, sophomore Phoebe Decker is giving PHS some outstanding work.
“Phoebe has good power in her game and can move the ball around well,” said Hibbert. “She has variety with her shots as well. We will look forward to seeing where she can go this year.”
Sophomore Katie Qin has established herself as a fixture at third singles.
“Katie has been there for a while for us, she is very steady,” said Hibbert. “She really does work hard and tries to battle everyone. Third singles are often a lot of long rallies, you often have to be a lot more patient. Katie has really picked up a good balance of patience and aggressiveness of when she should attack and when she needs to
just stay in the point. She has been a steady position for us.”
Another steady position for PHS is first doubles where senior Maya-Alexandra Todorov and junior Ashna Bushan are back in that spot after a terrific 2023 campaign that saw them win their fl ight at the Mercer County Tournament.
“They had a great season, they only had one loss last year,” said Hibbert. “They were a strong pairing, they have a year of experience together. With doubles pairings, a lot of it is the on-court stuff, knowing who is going to go where, working through that. It takes a little while to get that down and if you already have it, it makes sense to stick with it.”
At second doubles, senior Lada Labas and sophomore Sophia Bruhn have been paired together and have quickly gotten in synch.
“I have been very pleased with the way they have opened the season,” said Hibbert. “Their consistency and chemistry has really clicked since the season started. Sophia has a year of doubles experience Lada has three years of varsity experience. So far, they have made a really solid team.”
While Hibbert is happy with how the Tigers have started, she knows that they face plenty of challenges going forward.
“There are at least six or seven schools that could win the thing,” said Hibbert, referring to the state team tourney. “It is a tough section. We do the best we can every match and see what happens.”
— Bill Alden
It is the only loss for the Hun School boys’ soccer team so far this fall, but it proved to be a sign of the squad’s quality.
Facing perennial powerhouse Pennington on September 18, Hun battled the Red Hawks to a scoreless stalemate in the first half and the foes were locked in a 1-1 tie late in the second half before the Raiders yielded two late goals to fall 3-1.
“They came with a lot of energy in the beginning and we weathered the storm and settled in really nicely,” said Hun head coach Pat Quirk. “We created a couple of opportunities. Diego [Pena] kept us in the game for sure, he made some great saves. We proved to ourselves that we can compete with anybody. We can stay in any game.”
Since that battle, the Raiders have gone 2-0-1, edging Delran 1-0 on September 21, tying Episcopal Academy (Pa.) 0-0 on September 24, and defeating Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) 4-0 last Saturday to move to 5-1-2 on the season.
In the win over Mercersburg, Hun poured it on in the second half.
“It was a slow start, it was 0-0 at halftime,” said Quirk, who got two goals from Austin Rollins in the win with Gonzalo Nunez Perez tallying a goal and an assist and Luke Donahue chipping in one goal. “It was their parents weekend so they were pretty hyped — they had a lot of energy coming out. In the second half, we turned it on. We thrive on winning 50/50 balls, winning the second one and going off each other’s energy. Once we got one, we started playing a lot better.”
A stingy defense has been a constant for the Raiders this fall.
“We have a really strong defense, beginning with Diego in goal and our two center backs, Chris Meehan and Brad Barnes,” said Quirk. “With Diego, it is almost like having an 11th field player out there. He plays such a high line and his distribution has been really good for us this year. We can play out of the back and
we can feel that we can play it to him at any time. Chris and Brad have been really great back there. The two outside backs, Austin Rollins and Noah Silvestre, have been great. Marius So, Max Frost, Christian Wolfe, and Gonzalo rotate — those four are central midfielders. Each of them pick up balls from each other.”
The Raiders have displayed balance at the offensive end as seven different players have scored goals this fall.
“We are starting to find our offensive groove,” said Quirk. “What I like most about it is that it is not just the starters playing for 80 minutes, it is the starters and a bunch of bench guys that are coming in to help out. We are able to save some legs. I think the cool thing is that everyone feels a part of it, everyone is buying into their roles. I think that has been awesome in terms of playing time and people working hard for each other.”
Hun has been getting good work from Hayden Gronczewski (2 goals, 3 assists in 2024), Sasha Mykhalchuk (2 goals), Luke Donahue (1 goal, 1 assist), and Luciano Verduci (2 goals).
“Hayden came off the bench in a couple of games, he is starting now a little bit but he is creating a lot,” said Quirk. “Sasha is still trying to figure out where he fits — he takes a lot on. He is very strong on the ball, he can shoot and finish. Luke is just so athletic, he can win any ball in the air. He hustles his butt off. Luciano scored the first one against Hopewell, a game winner. He has got a knack for scoring.”
With Hun playing at the Blair Academy on October 5 and at the Peddie School on October 8, Quirk wants his players to keep hustling.
“The one thing I have been reiterating to them is you can’t get complacent,” said Quirk. “You can’t feel like we have accomplished anything. We have got a tough schedule ahead of us. It is one game at a time, keep the standards high, and keep the competition high.”
–Bill Alden
Undeterred by a steady rain that fell as it played at Hopewell Valley High last Friday afternoon, the Princeton Day School field hockey team came out firing.
Cashing in on some deft passing, PDS jumped out to a 1-0 lead with 6:41 left in the first quarter as Reagan Falconi blasted the ball into the cage, converting an insert by Olivia Herscovici on a penalty corner.
“We were passing and moving, we played well,” said PDS head coach Heather Farlow. “That is the kind of hockey that we want to play. That possession, the passing, that was really nice. That is our second goal off a corner this year.”
But Hopewell Valley poured it on after that, scoring two unanswered goals in a five-minute span in the second quarter and then adding one each in the third and fourth quarters to pull away to a 4-1 win.
“Hopewell made adjustments, they got their rhythm so kudos to them,” said Farlow. “They played well. We worked really hard defensively to get it out and then we were having difficulty generating offense. It is the next piece we have to work on.”
In Farlow’s view, the Panthers have made progress in other areas of the field.
“I build from the back, I am trying to build up our circle defense and then transition out to middle third,” said Farlow. “Now I have to build our attack.”
PDS has been held back this fall by injuries and illness. “We are not completely healthy,” said Farlow, whose team lost 7-0 to Notre Dame last Monday to move to 3-5 and plays at Allentown on October 2 and at WW/P-North on October 7. “I have two out on concussion protocol and we have had
STEPPING UP: Princeton Day School field hockey player Sammy Dandy, right, goes after the ball in a game earlier this season. Sophomore Dandy has scored one goal so far this season for PDS. The Panthers, who lost 7-0 to Notre Dame last Monday to move to 3-5, play at Allentown on October 2 and at WW/PNorth on October 7.
lingering sickness. We haven’t had a full squad at practice in probably two and a half weeks, so that has been tough.”
The squad’s core of young players which includes freshmen Herscovici, Lena Wijaya, Syann Priester, and Joline Su along with sophomores Falconi and Sammy Dandy have displayed their toughness. “They work incredibly hard, it has been nice,” said Farlow.
In goal, senior Molly Hall has been giving the Panthers some incredible play.
“Molly has been great; she has been a great leader in back, there is a calmness to her,” said Farlow of Hall, who recorded 19 saves against HoVal and had 16 against Notre Dame. “She is going to Tufts to play. She has made saves that we have needed and saves that we have wanted. She was absolutely outstanding today.”
Another senior, Charlotte Mullen, has also been outstanding. “Charlotte is a hustler, she is one of the hardest working kids,” said Farlow. “She is playing both ends on defense corners and offensive corners.”
Junior Amelia Lach has shored up the PDS defensive unit.
“We put Amelia in a new position at center back,” said Farlow. “She has great stick skills, she has been doing great for us back there.”
While things didn’t go great for the Panthers as HoVal rained on their parade, Farlow believes her squad can get on the winning track.
“If we can get everybody healthy then I think we will be able to continue to move forward,” said Farlow. “We have to just keep working on the basics and keep getting after it.”
—Bill Alden
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Football : Propelled by another huge game from Jack Moran, Hun defeated Mt. Zion Prep Academy (Md.) 51-6 last Saturday. Star quarterback Moran completed 25-of-33 passes for 608 yards and seven touchdowns as the Raiders improved to 5-0. Hun plays at the Blair Academy on October 5.
Field Hockey : Producing a dominant performance, Hun defeated the Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) 7-0 last Saturday. The Raiders, now 5-3, play at the Blair Academy on October 5 and at the George School (Pa.) on October 8.
Girls’ Soccer: Losing a nail-biter, Hun fell 1-0 to the Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) last Saturday. The Raiders, who moved to 1-3-3 with the defeat, play at the Blair Academy on October 5 and at Monroe High on October 8.
Football : Losing its second straight game, Lawrenceville fell 40-14 to Springside Chestnut Hill (Pa.) last Saturday. The Big
Red, who dropped to 2-2, are next in action when they plays at the Peddie School on October 11. Field Hockey : Unable to get its offense going, Lawrenceville lost 5-0 to the Pingry School last Saturday. The Big Red, now 2-4, play at Morristown-Beard on October 4, host Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) on October 5, and then play at Montgomery High on October 8.
Vanga and Kalra posted a 6-4, 6-3 win in their match as the Panthers dropped to 4-3. PDS will be starting play this week in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public South Jersey team tournament where they are seeded second and were slated to host 15thseeded Immaculata in a first round contest on October 1 with the victor advancing to the quarterfinals on October 8. In addition, the Panthers will be hosting WW/P-North on October 7 in a regular season contest.
Boys’ Soccer : Oren Yakoby starred in a losing cause as PDS fell 2-1 to Hamilton West last Thursday. Senior goalie Yakoby made eight saves for the Panthers, who moved to 3-5 with the defeat. PDS plays at Lawrenceville on October 4 and at Notre Dame on October 8.
Girls’ Soccer : With Ava Szalabofka coming up big, PDS defeated Hamilton West 6-1 last Thursday. Szalabofka scored two goals as the Panthers posted their fifth straight win and improved to 5-2-1. PDS hosts Shawnee on October 4 and Notre Dame on October 8.
Girls’ Tennis : The first doubles pair of Shuchi Vanga and Zarna Kalra provided a highlight as PDS lost 4-1 to Robbinsville last Monday.
Football: Prevailing in a high-scoring affair, Pennington defeated the Hill School (Pa.) 43-40 last Saturday. The Red Hawks, who improved to 2-2, host the Academy of New Church (Pa.) on October 5.
Boys’ Soccer : Sparked by Elvis Appiah, Pennington defeated the Hill School (Pa.) 6-0 last Saturday. Appiah scored three goals for the Red Hawks, now 5-1. Pennington hosts the South Kent School (Conn.) on October 5 and the Phelps School (Pa.) on October 8.
Girls’ Soccer : Riley Conboy starred as Pennington defeated the Hill School (Pa.) 7-0 last Saturday. Conboy tallied two goals as the Red Hawks moved to 5-2. Pennington hosts the McDonogh School (Md.) on October 5 and Springside Chestnut Hill (Pa.) on October 8.
Field Hockey : Emily Harlan starred in a losing cause as Stuart fell 3-0 to Pennington last week. Senior goalie Harlan made 15 saves in the September 24 contest as the Tartans moved to 4-4. Stuart hosts Delaware Valley on October 3 and Somerville on October 8.
course in a time of 19:41.8 with Karra taking 10th in 19:52.3. The Tigers are next in action when they race in the Shore Coaches Invitational in Holmdel on October 5.
Field Hockey : Lila Casto scored the lone goal for PHS as it got edged 2-1 by Lawrence High last Saturday. The Tigers, who dropped to 3-4 with the defeat, host WW/P-North on October 2 and Allentown on October 4 before playing at WW/PSouth on October 7.
Girls’ Soccer : Nadia Mauger tallied a goal in a losing cause as PHS fell 3-1 to Hopewell Valley last Saturday. The Tigers, who moved to 1-5-2 with the setback, host Monroe on October 5 before playing at Steinert on October 7.
Boys’ Cross Country : Felix Ferrugia led the way for PHS as it took 17th in the Varsity II race at the Bowdoin Park Cross Country Classic last Saturday in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Senior Ferrugia finished 60th individually, covering the 5,000-meter course in 17:51.8. The Tigers are next in action when they race in the Shore Coaches Invitational in Holmdel on October 5.
Girls’ Cross Country : Grace Hegedus and Kajol Karra set the pace as PHS finished third in the Varsity II race at the Bowdoin Park Cross Country Classic last Saturday in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Sophomore Hegedus placed ninth individually, covering the 5,000-meter
Princeton Junior Football Recent Results In action last Sunday in the Princeton Junior Football League (PJFL) Seniors division (Grades 7-8), the Princeton Global Packers defeated the University Orthopedic Associates Broncos 30-18. Luke Giannatasio starred for the Packers, running for a touchdown and throwing TD passes to Aiden Davidson and Judah Lerman. In addition, Mathew Robinson threw TD passes to Lerman and Luke Smith. As for the Broncos, John Monica threw TD passes to Joseph Valez, Jamie Monica, and Alex Arnold. The Christine’s Hope Giants defeated the Besler Chiefs 28-24. For the Giants, Bree Green led the way with two rushing TDs. Malcolm Harris had a TD catch from Ilan Spiegel and Spiegel ran for a TD. The Chiefs were sparked by Shail Besler, who ran for one touchdown and threw TD passes to Henry Ambra for two touchdowns. The Mercato Ristorante Eagles defeated the Petrone Associates Steelers 28-18. Shaan Patel accounted for four touchdowns in the win, including three receiving from Christian Barr and one passing to Theo Henderson. Barr and Henderson each added interceptions to power the Eagles defense. The Petrone Associates Steelers were led by Bryce Davison, who ran for a touchdown, made a TD catch, and had a TD throw to Sunny Coulianidis.
In the Super Juniors division (Grades 5-6), t he Christine’s Hope Giants defeated the Besler Chiefs 34-13. Leo Miele threw four TD passes, one each to Sebastian Chalyavsk
and George Hogshire and a pair to Michael Kshirsagar. In the loss, the Chiefs got a touchdown run from Jasper Weiss and a TD pass from Brady Goldsmith to Nathan Besler. Declan Shevory returned an interception for a touchdown for the winning score with time expiring as University Orthopedic Associates Broncos edged the Petrone Associates Steelers 19-13. Hugh Kelly and Christopher Pepek had touchdown runs for the Broncos while Milo Hedges and Eric Costello added interceptions. For the Steelers, Alex Bansal ran for a touchdown and Ryan Leta threw for another TD. The C.O.E. Packers defeated the Woodwinds Associates Eagles 31-13. Lucas Agosto had three interceptions and a touchdown in the win while Nazir Rollins added two TDs with Everett Cole and Myles Eldridge each scoring a touchdown. For the Eagles, Theo Salganik ran for a touchdown and Geordie Feller had a TD pass to Julian Vanderpool.
In the Juniors division (Grades 3-4), the Christine’s Hope Giants defeated the Woodwinds Associates Chiefs 34-20 behind three rushing touchdowns from Aiden Spies. On the defensive end, Spies added three interceptions, with one returned for a TD. Brian Willison Jr. also registered a pick six. The Chiefs were led by Andrew Lutz who scored two touchdowns, including an interception return for a TD. In addition, Jack O’Dowd threw a TD pass to Graham Wilkinson for the Chiefs. The COE Broncos and Petrone Associates Steelers fought to a 13-13 tie. As for the Broncos, Everett Zweig rushed for a touchdown and caught a TD pass from Parker McEvoy. The Steelers were led by Jack Stephan and Benjamin Shockey, who each threw touchdown passes. The Mercato Ristorante Eagles defeated the Lululemon Packers 2013 behind three touchdown runs from Chase Barr. The Packers were paced by Noah Fairey, who ran for a touchdown and passed for another to Rehm Casto.
Marvin Preston died peacefully at home in Princeton on September 30 with his family around him. Death was a result of a 10-year battle with primary progressive apraxia of speech. He bore the gradual disintegration of his body with great grace. His mind was intact until the end and he was so very grateful for the tremendous support of his family and his friends, who never abandoned him, even after he was unable to speak and lost most motor control over his body. When he could no longer come to them, they kept coming to him, bringing and sharing dinner and music on a regular basis.
Marvin was born on June 18, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, to Marvin Preston III and Helen Hoppin Preston. Along with his older sister Joyce, he grew up in Ferndale, Michigan. In high school he discovered his musical talents and entrepreneurial spirit. Throughout high school, he enjoyed playing the French horn and piano, and also singing. He went with his high school to Interlochen Arts Academy for a week and fell in love with it. He dearly wanted to spend a summer there but his family could not afford it. Ever so driven and industrious, he worked in the kitchen at Interlochen scrubbing pots so that he could attend every concert he could, at least two a day and often more. He was a Detroit News paperboy for many years. Beginning in ninth grade, paperboys who had exceptional records of recruiting, servicing, and maintaining customers could earn money toward college scholarships. Marvin was awarded a $500 scholarship the first three years of high school, but as a senior he subcontracted part of his route to a friend in order to serve more customers. As a result, he was disqualified. He was accepted to CalTech but his parents refused to apply for financial aid. Nevertheless, he paid his own way to the University of Michigan by painting houses in the summer and working at different jobs on campus during the school year. In 1962, the year he started college, tuition at the University of Michigan was $260 a year. He graduated in 1966
Marvin Preston with a degree in mathematics. He began a PhD program in physiology and worked as a computer programmer, first with punch cards and later with paper tape. But perhaps his most important achievement in Ann Arbor was meeting Candace Heussner, who was introduced to him by mutual friends in 1966. He was smitten from the start and not easily dissuaded, despite being stood up on his birthday. Candace, too, could not be dissuaded from falling for the brilliant and witty guy with a warm smile and a crown of flaming red hair, a characteristic for which he was bestowed the nickname “Rusty” by family and friends. It was also a shared upbringing in the Detroit area, values and vision for their futures that solidified them as a couple. They were married in Birmingham, Michigan, in January 1968.
With the Vietnam War raging, Marvin applied for a job with IBM Advanced Systems Development in Yorktown Heights, New York. Because it was a large military contractor, IBM was able to offer a deferment from military service. The interview for the job was in Yorktown Heights. Having no car, he had to fly or spend two days on a bus. The cheapest way he could do it was to use North Central Airlines (fondly referred to as “the Blue Goose”), a small regional airline with no nonstop flights that got him close to Yorktown Heights. The trip he took from Detroit to White Plains had fi ve legs. Marvin always suffered from motion sickness and by the time he landed in White Plains, he was green. Alas, the taxi ride from White Plains to Yorktown Heights cost more than the plane ride. Nevertheless, he got the job. He always said it was the best first job anyone could have had. His boss, Al Gaines, was an inspiration to him long after he left IBM.
Marvin was happy working at IBM but the company would only request a military deferment for one year. After a year, Marvin left IBM and went to work for Ford Motor Company, also a major defense contractor. While there, the draft lottery was held, but
thankfully the war ended before his number was reached.
In the midst of building a successful career, he took on another important and defi ning role in his life, becoming a father. Marvin and Candace welcomed their first child Catherine in 1973, and in 1976, Christopher would complete the family. With a playful spirit and a wish to provide his children a loving home, Marvin fell very naturally into fatherhood and being a most supportive parent with Candace by his side.
After leaving Ford, Marvin worked for Information Control Systems Omnitext, Inc., both start-up companies at the forefront of text editing, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Wall Street Journal, which adopted the Omnitext editor for computerized typesetting, was their first major client. To facilitate editing, Marvin and a colleague developed the first cursor for computer screens and were jointly awarded the patent for it. While they received the patents, the rights went to the company. They called it a cursor because the original was shaped and acted like a fist shaking at you.
As computers rapidly replaced even the most advanced typewriters, Marvin joined Micro Office Systems, Inc. Micro Office Systems was ahead of its time. It produced the first notebook-sized portable computer in 1985. The market wasn’t ready for it and the company soon folded.
After that Marvin founded his own company, NewMarkets, Inc. NewMarkets was a specialized consulting firm that focused on start-up or rescue operations for companies with innovative technology products. Inevitably, when clients realized the depth and breadth of their problems, they asked him to join the company as CEO. That was the case with Scott Instruments Corporation. Scott Instruments was one of the early leaders in speech recognition technology. While at Scott, the company was the first to commercialize speech recognition across telephone lines. The company was ultimately sold to Philips.
Marvin’s experience with speech recognition brought him to Healthtech Services Corporation, which pioneered the use of speech recognition and computers for home health care through the robot, HANC (Home Assisted Nursing Care). HANC was the first commercial telemedicine robot that responded to patient queries and dispensed medicine on command and in accordance with approved schedule. If the patient needed medical assistance, HANC would call the doctor, nurse, or emergency service for them and a telemedicine visit would take place. HANC was adopted by hospitals and became the basis for many further home health applications.
Throughout his life, Marvin was devoted to serving the community. He was the president of Carnegie Lake Rowing Association for 10 years; stepping down only when work travel did not permit him to participate as much as was needed. He also served on the board of Young Audiences and Opera New Jersey and sang with Princeton Pro Musica. For the last 40 years of his life, he would be a wellregarded, highly respected and very recognizable fi xture in the Princeton community.
For years, he could be seen zipping around town in his red Miata convertible and regularly picking up a cup of coffee at Small World Coffee. An outgrowth of his service in arts organizations and his reputation as a problem solver was his rescue of the Martha Graham Dance Company. In the 10 years following her death, under the leadership of her former protégé, there was a decline in the Dance Company until it suspended operations as the protégé asserted ownership of all her dances, technique, and name. In 2000 Marvin was hired by the trustees as executive director to save the Company. Battles ensued over who would head the Company (Marvin prevailed) and who owned the intellectual property. In 2002, following the first of several favorable, landmark rulings, the Company resumed dancing under his leadership. Over the course of four years of intense litigation in two phases, he discovered and delivered the evidence that proved that the Company, not the protégé, owned the intellectual property.
Because of his success with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the New York Attorney General, whose office oversees all not-for-profit organizations in New York, sought him out and asked him to untangle the legal problems at New Dance Group and guide it through bankruptcy and dissolution.
By then, firmly entrenched in the dance world, Marvin fi nished his professional career as the executive director of American Repertory Ballet and the Princeton Ballet School.
Throughout his career and
many professional achievements, his most rewarding time was as a husband and a father. Some of Marvin’s fondest memories were construction projects that he did with each of them. He and Catherine built a swing set from scratch, including a balance beam which became a favorite bee colony. And as a passionate renovator of houses that he and Candace could always recognize as diamonds in the rough, Marvin and Chris bonded over breaking a foundation and tearing down a garage at their home on Prospect. He reveled in the skiing and biking vacations that the family took together in the United States around the world. But by far his most memorable vacation with them was the one the children, ages 12 and 9, planned on a fixed budget and forgot to include the cost of overnight accommodations. Just prior to departure, they realized that and borrowed tents and equipment from Chris’s Cub Scout troop to make the trip possible. He beamed with pride at their resourcefulness. He rejoiced in watching them grow and mature into the wonderful adults they are now. He would extend this love of shared experiences and travels with his
Marvin is survived by his wife of 56 years, Candace; his daughter Catherine and son-in-law Kevin Connolly of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and his son Christopher and daughter-in-law Angela and their two children, Lauren and Ming of Encino, California. He is also survived by his sister Joyce Preston of Lansing, Michigan. He will be missed by all, but lives forever in their hearts.
A memorial service will follow at a later date. In lieu of fl owers, gifts in memory of Marvin may be sent to: Neurodegenerative Research Group’s PPAOS (Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech) Studies at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (855852-8129) or Princeton Pro Musica.
Arrangements are under the direction of The MatherHodge Funeral Home.
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On Thursday September 26 Patricia Frawley, aged 89, of Princeton, New Jersey, passed away surrounded by loved ones. She is survived by her four children Melissa Frawley, Alison (John) Gillen, Jennifer (Todd) Coniff, and Matt ( Kim) Frawley; six grandchildren, Colin (Kristen), Timothy, and Kaya Frawley, Davis Coniff, and Mary and Elizabeth Gillen; and her faithful dog, Lewie. She was predeceased by her husband, Earl Frawley, Jr. Dr. Pat Frawley came from
humble beginnings: she was the only child to a single mother, and throughout her childhood they lived in attics and basements of relatives in Chicago, Illinois. With tenacity and scholarship, Pat earned her Bachelors in Sociology from Loyola University in Chicago. After raising four children, she earned a certification as a Montessori teacher, a Masters in Special Education, and a Doctorate in Education from Rutgers University. She was an esteemed adjunct professor at
Kean College and Rutgers. In addition to lecturing in higher education, she taught special education in Plainfield and Rahway. She then became an educational diagnostician for Scotch Plains-Fanwood Regional School District. She served on the national boards of the Council of Exceptional Children and the Association of Learning Consultants and was a founding member of the National Certification of Educational Diagnosticians (NCED) and the New Jersey Association of Learning Consultants (NJALC).
In retirement, she became a Master Gardener while living in Westfield, NJ. She moved to Princeton and was very active in the Mercer County Master Gardener Program serving in several roles including President, Secretary, and head of the ever popular InsectFest. She was a longtime member of the Shade Tree Commission and also served on the Adult School Commission.
Pat was a multi-talented woman. Many children have been welcomed to the world with a Pat Frawley custommade baby quilt or knitted hat. She was an avid birder, skilled baker, and passionate gardener. Every Friday night family gathered for Pat’s phenomenal homemade pizza. On holidays she had to whip up a double batch of cinnamon rolls so that at least a few would make it to the dinner table. She also loved to swim and spend time with family on yearly trips to Martha’s Vineyard. Her family will be holding a Celebration of Life event in December when family and friends near and far can come together. Details to follow.
In lieu of flowers, please consider supporting WHYY. Pat was a longtime contributor; she loved good murder mysteries and cooking shows. Bird watching brought her so much joy, so you could also donate in her name to CornellLab (birds. cornell.edu) to help birds in every habitat.
Professor Walter David Neumann, 78, of Princeton, NJ, died peacefully, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s, on Tuesday morning, September 24, 2024, at Artis Senior Living of Princeton Junction with loving family by his side. Born in Cardiff, Wales, to Bernhard and Hanna (Von Caemmerer) Neumann, Walter, a pure mathematician, had been a Princeton resident for the last 24 years.
Unusually, Walter’s parents were both group theorists (a branch of mathematics), and, until they found jobs at the same university, they must have been one of the first academic “two-cities” families. Walter’s older brother Peter
and a cousin Mike Newman were also group theorists, at Oxford and the Australian National University respectively. After an undergraduate degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia, Walter earned his doctorate in topology from Bonn University, Germany, under the direction of the late Friedrich Hirzebruch.
Walter’s first American positions were at the University of Maryland and the Ohio State University. He later moved to Melbourne University, Australia, and, fi nally, to Barnard College and Columbia University, from which he retired in 2021. He also held visiting teaching and research positions at, among others, Aarhus University (Denmark), the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, Warwick University (England), and — numerous times — the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Walter was an exceptionally broad mathematician, internationally renowned for major breakthroughs in fields of mathematics that included low-dimensional topology, hyperbolic geometry, geometric group the-
ory, and singularity theory. He felt that mathematicians do their best work not only when they’re young but also when they’re new to a field. His own career proved the truth of his theory.
According to the most recent of his many collaborators, Anne Pichon of Marseille University, Walter was also “a wonderful human being — deeply modest, warm, humble, and remarkably generous, both as a person and as a mathematician. Walter was especially generous with young mathematicians, always offering his time and guidance. He had a rare ability to listen during mathematical discussions with his many collaborators and friends, making everyone feel heard and valued. His enthusiasm for mathematics was contagious, and working with him was a constant source of joy.”
Walter is survived by his wife of 52 years, Anne Waldron Neumann, his daughter Hannah Neumann, and a granddaughter Noelle Paquiot. A Zoom memorial will be held on Saturday, October 5 at 9 a.m. ET in order to accommodate both Australian and European relatives, friends, and mathematical colleagues.
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Classic architecture meets modern sophistication at 81 Westcott Road in Princeton’s coveted western section This five-bedroom, four-and-ahalf-bath Colonial features a beautifully updated interior with rich hardwood floors, a sunlit front-to-back living room, and a stunning kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances The finished walkout basement, with a recreation room, game room, bedroom, and luxurious full bath, adds versatile living space Outside, enjoy a serene, professionally landscaped yard with terraces, tiered decks, and gardens on nearly half an acre With a two-car garage, EV charger, and proximity to downtown Princeton, this home offers timeless charm and contemporary living
ALISON COVELLO, REALTOR® ASSOCIATE C 609 240 8332 | O 609 924 1600 alison covello@foxroach com MoveWithAlison com
