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COVID Rates Rise; Local, State, Federal Officials Show Concern COVID-19 infection rates seem to be rising locally and nationally, and both New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and President Joe Biden have recently expressed high levels of concern and fear of the possibility of a new wave. Particularly in New Jersey, the curve does not seem to be flattening. The Princeton Health Department reported on Monday, March 29, 13 new cases of COVID-19 in the previous 7 days and 21 new cases in the past 14 days. “Princeton is continuing to see between one and two cases per day, which is certainly higher than where we were about six weeks ago,” said Princeton Health Officer Jeff Grosser. He continued, “As we have seen throughout the pandemic, Princeton has somewhat lagged behind national, state, and regional trends. Our office is closely monitoring upticks in cases and miniclusters of cases, but they are typically linked back to households.” Grosser added that public health experts attribute much of the recent spike to “large spring/warm weather gatherings,

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Community Leader Phyllis Marchand Dies at 81 On Tuesday morning, nearly 100 people stood on the corners of Witherspoon and Wiggins streets to pay tribute to Phyllis Marchand, who died of cancer on Thursday, March 25 at the age of 81. As Marchand’s funeral procession passed, the gathering of local officials, friends, and admirers — some holding “Thank You Phyllis” signs — broke into spontaneous applause. It was a brief but emotional farewell to the former Princeton Township mayor, Township Committee member, marathon runner, mother, and grandmother, who remained active in many community causes despite her 15-year battle with lymphoma. Marchand served in local government for 22 years; 14 of them as mayor. Marchand is survived by her husband of 57 years, Sy Marchand; her three children Michael, Deborah, and Sarah; and eight grandchildren. Phyllis Steinberg Marchand was a native of New York City and a graduate of Skidmore College. She worked in Manhattan’s publishing industry and moved with her husband to Princeton in 1966. At the time of her death, she was chair of the D&R Greenway Board of Trustees and was active in several other area organizations including the Princeton YWCA,

McCarter Theatre, HomeFront, Planned Parenthood, the Coalition for Peace Action, the D&R Canal Commission, Princeton-Pettoranello Sister City Foundation, the New Jersey League of Municipalities, the Mercer Council for Alcohol and Drug Addiction, Corner House, the Jewish Center of Princeton, Cancer Care, the Princeton Garden Theatre, and the Lymphoma Research Foundation. On a special website (posthope.org/ thoughts-of-phyllis/posts), several people

wrote messages of appreciation to Marchand before she died. Since March 25, numerous others have written to her family. “I am one of hundreds of people who admired Phyllis for her bravery, tenacity, good spirits, commitment to service and so much more,” wrote Eleanor Horne, trustee of the Princeton Area Community Foundation. “To say that she is an inspiration does not begin to capture her impact. I know no one else like her. I know that she is leaving a huge hole in the hearts of Continued on Page 8

Large Crowd Rallies in Solidarity With Asian American Community More than 500 people, overflowing Hinds Plaza outside the library and the Witherspoon and Hulfish streets area, gathered in Princeton on Saturday afternoon, March 27, to rally in solidarity with the Asian American community. “We are outraged by the racism and misogynistic dehumanization toward Asians,“ said Pastor Mia Chang of the NextGen Church in West Windsor in her opening prayer. “We can no longer be silenced.” David Chao, director of the Asian American Program at Princeton Theological Seminary, followed the opening

prayer by repeating the names and brief descriptions of the eight people killed by a gunman in Atlanta on March 16, then calling for a moment of silence. The diverse crowd of demonstrators of all ages and races, all wearing masks, most at least attempting to retain social distance, carried a variety of signs proclaiming “Stop Asian Hate,” “Stop AntiAsian Violence,” “Not Your Model Minority,” “We are Not a Virus,” “Hate is a Virus,” and more. Sponsored by the Princeton Chinese Continued on Page 12

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STOP ASIAN HATE: Hundreds of masked supporters attended the rally and vigil in solidarity and support with the Asian American community on Saturday afternoon at Hinds Plaza . Participants share what brought them to the rally in this week’s Town Talk on page 6 . (Photo by Weronika A. Plohn)

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ROBESON REMEMBERED: A series of events honoring one of Princeton’s most famous residents begins April 4 and runs through April 9. (Photo courtesy of Paul Robeson House of Princeton)

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A week of events intended to inspire an annual recognition of Princeton native son Paul Robeson will begin Sunday, April 4 and culminate on Friday, April 9 – Robeson’s 123rd birthday – at locations in and around the WitherspoonJackson neighborhood where the famous actor,

singer, athlete, and political activist grew up. The Robeson Week of Remembrance is a project of the Paul Robeson House of Princeton board of directors, which has been closely involved in the renovation of the Robeson family house on Witherspoon Street, across from the Princeton Cemetery.

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“ We or ig i na l ly had planned this for last year, but COVID-19 got in the way,” said Ben Colbert, president of the board. “It’s part of an annual observance we are going to be doing. One of our biggest objectives is to really put his name and accomplishments as part of our regular observances here in Princeton. If Albert Einstein deserves a day, Paul Robeson deserves a day.” The celebration begins with a “Football Toss and Hunt” at Palmer Square Green on Sunday f rom 1-3 p.m. Princeton High School students, Robeson House board members, and others will share information about Robeson’s life, and will distribute footballs and other materials. On Tues day, Apr il 6, Princeton Public Library’s S tor y t i m e w i l l fe at u r e Grandpa Stops a War, by Robeson’s granddaughter S u s a n Rob e s on, w h ich tells the true story of his visit to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. Princeton High School student Hailey Hawes will read the story on the library’s YouTube channel. Also to be featured is the Robeson graphic biography Ballad of an American, by Sharon Rudahl. T he Robeson House’s YouTube premiere will be celebrated Thursday, April 8 with “Robeson Legacy Interviews and Reflections,” in which board and advisory committee members and friends discuss what Robeson’s life has meant to them, and to the world. The final event, at 12 p.m. on Friday, April 9, is the placement of a memorial wreath at the bust of Robeson in front of the Arts Council of Princeton building at Witherspoon

Street and Paul Robeson Place. Mayor Mark Freda is scheduled to read a proclamation declaring April 9 Paul Robeson Day, and historian Shirley Satterfield will lead a walking tour highlighting sites related to Robeson in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood. Renovations of the Paul Robeson House on Witherspoon Street have been interrupted by the pandemic, but things are picking up. “They’ve been hindered quite a bit,” said Colbert. “First there was the long appr ov a l pr o c e s s, a n d then, just as we were about to get started, the pandemic hit. But we are hoping this series of activities

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will jump start the process. There is progress on the house. The front and sides are all enclosed. The back, which was severely in need of repair, is our next big expense. We are in the middle of beginning a major funding initiative.” Preservation of the house will include space for temporary lodging. “It was a rooming house for many, many years. Lots of students and people in the community trace their arrival in Princeton to living there. So we will continue that tradition by providing space for temporary housing,” said Colbert. “And we will be working with the schools to raise the visibility of Paul Robeson, recognize the plight of the poor and underserved in Princeton, and keep with what we think is a very, very important part of Princeton’s history.” For details about t he Robeson Birthday Celebration, visit thepaulrobesonhouseofprinceton.org. —Anne Levin

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“Watching a lack of response from a lot of people made me want to come to the rally today. I am here to support the Asian community in the same way the Black Lives Matter movement was supported in June.” —Aamir Horton, Ewing

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Bin: “I am Chinese, so I came here today to represent myself and to show support for other Asian Americans. I have never been treated unfairly because of my race, but I do know people who have and I hope events like this help stop that.” Mark: “I am here to support my wife and the Asian American community. I am against any kind of racism or discrimination.” —Bin Xu with Mark Beaumont, both of West Windsor

Lori: “I am here to stand up against those who blame others for their own problems and issues.” Liping: “We want to show solidarity with the Asian community and stand up against racism and hate. It is a beautiful country, and we all try to make it a better place to live for everyone.” —Lori Liu with Liping An, both of Princeton

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Peter: I am here to support the movement against the racism that has been shown to the Asian community. It is obviously a bad thing, and I hope that it will get better and the leaders of the country will listen to what we have to say to make it better.” Michal: “I am here to protest against racism. I have many Asian friends and they are very intelligent, hardworking, and honest people, and I am surprised that they are being targeted.” —Peter Merritt, Franklin Park with Michal Gerwel, Plainsboro

Ril: “I came here to support my mom and the movement to stop the hate.” Joe: “I am here to support my wife and the Asian community.” Vivian: “I feel like this year of killings and hate not only toward Asians but other minority groups has to stop. There is just too much sadness, grief, and death, and I want to be part of the movement that promotes love.” —Ril and Joe Giamarese with Vivian Hung, all of Princeton

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Hilltop Park Turf Field Project is Taken Off the Table

A controversial plan that would add synthetic turf and field lighting to Hilltop Park has been put aside. At a highly attended Zoom meeting on March 25 of the Princeton Recreation Commission, it was announced that the proposal was no longer under consideration. The plan was also the focus of discussion during a meeting of the Princeton Environmental Commission on March 24. “We have been told to stop working on it effective immediately until the matter is more fully resolved at the Council level,” said Evan Moorhead, assistant director of the Princeton Recreation Department. “There is ultimately no avenue for moving it forward.” The plan would have replaced an existing grass soccer field with a multipurpose, synthetic field for soccer and lacrosse. It also would have upgraded lighting at the existing baseball field and added new fencing and seating. The site off of Bunn Drive also includes a skate park, basketball court, and playground, and serves several surrounding neighborhoods. Many area residents have

expressed opposition to the project. Other people have spoken in support. The project would have been aided by a Mercer At Play Round 2 grant from Mercer County. The grant allows mu nicipalit ies to build or upgrade recreational facilities. Moorhead said there will likely be future conversations with the county about whether the field can be used for lacrosse, flag football, volleyball, and badminton as well as soccer. Neighborhood resident Jeff Bergman thanked the commission for the decision. “But I also think we never should have gotten to this point,” he said, adding that the grant should be used for rehabilitating the existing field. “The rest of the project seems like a really good idea,” he said. “Just not the turf.” Jon Durbin, who had been in support of the project, said he realized the elimination of the turf proposal was good news for many. “But I just want to remind everybody that we still have a field shortage problem in town,” he said. “It would be a huge mistake for us not to face that. We need to deal

with this. There are more people coming w ith the affordable housing plans; more kids and families and not enough fields. So we need to have a broader community-wide discussion, and I’m happy to talk to anybody to help solve this issue.” Former Princeton Councilwoman Jo Butler said that during her years as liaison to the Recreation Department, the proposal was discussed and voted upon multiple times. “We shouldn’t turn our backs on the Mercer at Play grant,” she said, adding that the town’s athletic f ields are deter iorating. Community Park in particular, she said, needs to be refurbished. G e o r g e D i Fe r d i n a n d o of the Princeton Board of Health said, “Everybody in Princeton, but especially youth, needs a place for active, structured, free play. From a n overa l l he a lt h point of view, overcrowding is critical.” —Anne Levin

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her family, friends, and this community. Her spirit will live on as we continue to work on the causes that mattered so much to her.” Linda Mead, executive director of D&R Greenway, wrote, “A woman larger than life is hard to lose: Determined. Courageous. Committed to community and causes. Fun! Leader. Friend. And her favorite roles: wife, mother, grandmother. Hers is an impression that no one can forget.” Emily Mann, former artistic director of McCarter Theatre, wrote, “Since I arrived in Princeton over 30 years ago, Phyllis was part of my life as a friend, a mentor, a supporter and my greatest role model. She exemplified what authentic community leadership is and showed me how women’s leadership can be transformative to a community, leading through love, humor, joy, and boundless enthusiasm. Her intelligence operated on all levels — from matchmaking to political organizing— and her support always felt like family. Whenever I introduced her, it was always as Princeton’s mayor, whether she was in office or not! In my mind, she was and always will be the mayor of Princeton.” Mayor Mark Freda said this week, “Phyllis cared about Princeton and that was seen through all her years on Princeton Township Committee, and all the different causes and groups she supported. It was always a joy to see her at meetings or events, and to talk to her and get her take on what was happening. Her family can be very proud of the legacy she leaves behind. I remember fondly working with her many times in a Township Committeewoman to a Borough Councilman relationship and both of us just pushing for what was best for the overall town.” Former Mayor Liz Lempert wrote in an email, “Phyllis had an enormous impact on Princeton, especially the former Township, and touched many people’s lives, including my own, through her many, many years of public service. It’s hard to imagine Princeton without her. She will be sorely missed.” J. Robert “Bob” Hillier, a Town Topics shareholder, said, “Phyllis was amazing with her energy, intelligence, perseverance, caring, and leadership through mentorship, all delivered with creativity and humor.

Phyllis Marchand We should not lose sight of all that changed during her tenure as the mayor of Princeton Township: The offices moved from the Valley Road School into a new Town Hall, a new library was built, McCarter Theatre flourished, Princeton Hospital began its move to Plainsboro, and, the truth be told, Phyllis called me to step into

the Hovnanian contract and create senior housing that became Copperwood with 17 acres of preserved woods on the ridge. She also convinced me, along with D&R Greenway, to preserve Coventry Farm while releasing the west side of the Great Road to become athletic fields for the town. To say she was amazing is an understatement!” To send condolences to Marchand ’s family, v isit OrlandsMemorialChapel. com. Contributions in her memory can be made to the Marchand Espir Family Holocaust Education Fund at the Princeton Jewish Center, D & R Greenway, and HomeFront. A celebration of her life will be held at a later date. —Anne Levin

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The Princeton Health Depar tment announced on March 30 that they have received 200 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The health department is seeking homebound Princeton residents who have not yet received a COVID-19 vaccine and do not currently have an appointment who are interested in receiving a Johnson & Johnson vaccine. T he P r inceton He alt h Department is attempting to contact these residents through community partners, including the Princeton Senior Resource Center and various nutrition programs. The Health Department is also continuing to perform COVID-19 vaccination clinics at senior housing sites throughout the community. Individuals who are unable to leave their homes due to illness, injury, or other mobility issues should contact the Health Department’s Vulnerable Population Outreach Coordinator Gwen Krol at gkrol @ princetonnj.gov or (609) 497-1478 to inquire about eligibility. Added to the eligibility list on March 29 were the following workers: food production, agriculture, and food distribution; eldercare and support; warehousing and logistics;

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For Princeton University students it’s a safe social event across Nassau Street, a chance to get out of the dormitory, and an opportunity to help out local businesses while enjoying free food, beverages, and other merchandise. And for local restaurants, coffee shops, and other businesses, it’s an opportunity to reintroduce themselves to thousands of University students and provide a boost to sales in what for many has been a long, slow pandemic era business cycle. P r i n ce ton Un ive r s it y’s recently created, popular Tigers in Town program, supported by funds that in other years would be used for in-person events on campus and student giveaways, encourages students to explore the town while supporting local businesses. Tico’s Eatery and Juice Bar, jaZams, Small World Coffee, Sakrid Coffee Roasters, Say Cheez Cafe, Hoagie Haven, Pizza Den, and Ficus have already hosted groups of University students, and the idea is attracting additional businesses and more and more students. “I like that we can be engaged with the community,” said Princeton University senior Rachel Hazan. “I also love the free food.” Hazan, who as a participant in the program discovered Pizza Den and enjoyed a smoothie from Rico’s and coffee from Small World and Sakrid, will soon be treated to a hoagie from Hoagie Haven courtesy of the Princeton Class of 1996, whose members saw their reunion canceled but wanted to support seniors as they were writing their theses. “It’s a way for them to bu ild com mu nit y across cl a s s ye a r s,” s a i d To m Dunne, deputy dean of undergraduate students, who oversees the program. “It’s a way of maintaining connections and class ties to Princeton.” Dunne explained that students wanting to support local businesses through the difficulties of the pandemic provided the motivation to start the program. “Students

began to think about businesses they had frequented in Princeton, and they came up with creative ideas about how to support businesses that had become a defining part of their college experience,” he said. It took some organizing among businesses, University administration, and students in order to enlist campus groups, sign up students for particular time slots, and maintain appropriate health and safety measures. “We’ve talked businesses through that process,” said Dunne. “It’s a great opportunity to partner with businesses in this new era and this new enterprise. It’s a great chance to have a productive, collaborative, and creative way to connect businesses with student consumers in a way that’s safe, and also to introduce new students to the local community.” Dunne noted that the program is growing every day, with the Undergraduate Student Government committing an additional $15,000 to the program just last Sunday and the possibility of more in the future. “We anticipate we’ll be adding more businesses in the coming months,” Dunne said, and he went on to mention future planning for outreach to businesses in the Princeton Shopping Center. “St udents are look ing for ways to contribute and to be good citizens during this time when so many communities are stressed,” he added. “This program gives them opportunities to do that and they feel good about it.” Renee De Bernard, the owner of Tico’s, where the Tigers in Town program was launched on March 9 with “Tico Tuesday,” is pleased with the program so far. “It’s a great way for the University to put money into the community and help the students at the same time,” she said. Tico’s, she noted, lost about 75 percent of its business overnight at the start of the pandemic and had to shut down for two months. W hen De Bernard found out that students were re-

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Community and supported by about 20 different organizations, the rally featured 18 speakers, most of Asian descent but from a wide range of ages and backgrounds, including African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinx. The mood of the two-hour event was at times reverent and mournful, at times angry, loud, and determined. There were frequent chants of “Enough is enough” and others, and history lessons, including many personal examples and chronicling the legacy of racism in the United States and prejudice and violence against Asians. Many impassioned expressions of support and solidarity came from all quarters of the Princeton community. “The rally was really successful,” said Princeton Chinese Community organizer and activist Cecilia Birge in

a March 29 phone conversation. “That speaks volumes about how Asian Americans and others have been feeling over the years. The Atlanta killings touched a nerve, evident here and in all the vigils and rallies around the country.” Birge, former mayor of Montgomery Township and currently assistant principal at Princeton High School (PHS), went on, “I hope we can continue to build a strong coalition, and continue to work with each other, continue to fight alongside each other. Nobody is safe until everybody is safe.” Emphasizing the importance of this moment in history, for Asian Americans and the whole country, Birge discussed the changing nature of the battle against racism, the coming together of many different groups, the key role of education, and the challenges ahead. “People so appreciated

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facing the truths of history and moving forward together were reiterated throughout the afternoon. The Rev. Robert Moore, executive director of the Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action, stated, “We are in solidarity with the Asian American community as they face the epidemic of hatred, and we will overcome this.” He described the large diverse rally crowd as an example of “the beloved community” and added, “We stand up for each other. We stand in solidarity with each other. And we stand for the love that will always overcome and triumph over hate.” In a follow-up phone conversation on March 29, Moore emphasized the large turnout, the strong messages, and above all the importance of the solidarity manifested at Saturday’s rally. “We always want to stand in solidarity with any group that is suffering from that kind of hate, discrimination, and violence,” he said. “Whoever is suffering is not standing alone. There are a lot of people of good will who want to stand in their corner.” Princeton Public Schools were well represented at the rally. In addition to Birge as leading organizer and speaker and a number of PUMS and PHS students, teachers, administrators, and Board of Education members, Zoey Nuland, Chinese American Princeton Unified Middle School eighth grader, presented an original poem. Recent PHS graduate Yingying Zhao talked about growing up with an ethnic name and the ridicule and abuse she has faced through her years in school. In the aftermath of the Atlanta killings, she wondered “What will kill me first in America,

being a woman or being Asian?” Commenting on the implications of her name, Zhao concluded, “Yingying means listen to me, America. This is your reckoning.” PHS science teacher Joy Barnes-Johnson described herself as “part of a collective of PHS racial literacy educators.” She continued, “I stand here as a Black woman in solidarity with t h e A s i a n c o m m u n i t y. ” Echoing the chant “enough is enough,” she added, “It is important that we disrupt this hate, that we disrupt this violence. It starts with creating environments where education matters more than anything else we do on any given day.” Speakers from the Princeton University community included undergraduates Jennifer Lee and Kesavan Srivilliputhur, co-presidents of the University’s Asian American Students Association; Neuroscience Professor Sam Wang; Associate History Professor Beth Lew-Williams, historian of race and migration in the United States; and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Yiguang Ju, representing the University Chinese American Scholar Forum. Other speakers included local clinical psychologist Jasmine Ueng-McHale, who led the crowd in a meditation; Sadat Jaffer, chair of Montgomery Township Diversity and Equity Committee and former mayor of Montgomery Township; Van Le, vice chair of the New Jersey Vietnamese American Community Association; Valeria TorresOlivares, board member of Not In Our Town Princeton; Leighton Newlin, co-chair of Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood Association; and Ana from Unidad Latina en Accion. —Donald Gilpin

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Jeff Tittel, director of the Sierra Club’s New Jersey Chapter, has announced that he will retire as of May 1, 2021. For nearly 23 years Tittel has been one of New Jersey’s most unrelenting advocates for the environment. As a constant presence among Trenton’s lawmakers, the lobbyist has been involved in every major environmental legislation passed in the state since 1998. He has been instrumental in helping pass landmark legislation, sometimes in the face of strong opposition. Tittel has worked on behalf of New Jersey’s citizens, sitting with industry leaders and legislators to ensure that our laws were stronger, and with fewer loopholes than they would otherwise have been. “I’d like to thank everyone who I had the pleasure of working with over the years as NJ Sierra Club’s director and the accomplishments we made to gether. You have been part of my extended family and I will miss our comradery,” he said. “We worked from one end of New Jersey to the other and everywhere in between whether it was working to protect the Pinelands, cleaning up toxic sites, protecting our parks, reducing climate change impacts, saving open space in the Highlands, protecting our clean water, and more. Tittel has been instrumental in passing legislation that saved Sterling Forest, the NJ Highlands Act, New Jersey’s Clean Car Pro gram, the Global Warming Response Act, the Plas tic Bag Ban, and banning fracking in the Delaware River Basin. News of Tittel’s retirement has drawn comments from many elected officials. Congressman Frank Pallone, (NJ-06) said, “[Jeff] knows more about env ironmental issues on the state and federal level than anyone I know.” NJ State S enate Major it y L eader, Loretta Weinberg said, “It’s hard to imagine the Sierra Club without Jeff Tittel. He was never shy; never retiring; never someone who is afraid to fight for the values of the Sierra Club, as well as his own. He has contributed mightily to a cleaner env ironment for me and for all the generations who come after us. His leadership will be missed, but I know he has built an organization that will continue to fight for a better, cleaner future.” “Since 1892, the Sierra Club has led the way in the protection of the world we inhabit,” said Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker. “For well over 20 years, Jeff Tittel led the fight in New Jersey for major environmental legislation including the Highlands Act, New Jersey’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law, and New Jersey’s Global Warming Response Act. While his leadership and advocacy will be missed, his impact on the fight for clean air, water, and land is profound and will have an impact for generations to come. I wish him nothing but the best, though I suspect while he is retiring, his work on behalf of our environment is far from complete.”

Council Candidate Niedergang Shares Key Points From PCDO Statement

To the Editor: On March 14, the Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) met virtually to hear from local and state Democratic candidates. Although this year’s race for Princeton Council is not contested, PCDO allowed the candidates for Princeton Council (Leighton Newlin and me) to make statements before we were endorsed by acclamation. I thank PCDO members for their endorsement, and I want to share with the larger Princeton community key points from the statement I gave that evening: “I ask tonight for your support for a second term on Princeton Council. In 2018, I pledged that I would work hard, always be available and open to community input, and always keep the best interests of Princeton front and center. I believe that I have lived up to those promises. As a progressive Democrat, I am committed to the values of inclusion, social and racial justice, climate sustainability and smart growth, and providing opportunities for our businesses and for all who live and work in our unique and diverse community. 2020 was a very tough year and we faced some existential challenges. I believe that we faced those challenges as a community should, united in helping our residents and our businesses weather this very difficult storm as best we could. I am proud, and I hope that you are as well, of the way Princeton’s elected officials rose to the challenges of COVID, working tirelessly and as a team to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. We also continued work on many goals that could not be set aside, such as our affordable housing settlement, which was passed last year. With vaccines now increasingly available, we are beginning to look beyond the pandemic. We hope this year to get back to some of the goals that we set aside in the spring of 2020. This year, I’ve taken the lead on two key projects, the administrator search committee and the Cannabis Task Force. I’m also Council liaison to our Sustainable Landscaping initiative; in all of these efforts, inclusivity and To the Editor: attention to racial and social equity have played a role, as To Princeton’s dog owners: In parks, playing fields, and they should in all of the municipality’s endeavors. streets, please obey the law and leash your dogs. I’m happy to talk to any resident about items on my perThese are public spaces, to be safely enjoyed by everysonal or on Council’s agenda or any other concerns they one. The law is for the common good, and is not optional. might have; as I said in 2018, and repeat again tonight, my STEPHANIE MAGDZIAK (metaphorical) door is always open. Although I recognize Jefferson Road that this race for Council is not contested, the active support of my fellow Princetonians is very important to me. I hope that my words and actions as a member of council over the last two years have earned your support.” EVE NIEDERGANG Forester Drive The writer is a candidate for re-election to Princeton Council. Brooks, Smith Converse offer, opening up new ways of looking and listening by In April 1 LLL Event Daphne Brooks and Tracy tracing lineages and calling K. Smith will discuss Liner for more space.” To the Editor: Daphne Brooks is profesNotes for the Revolution: This letter supports renaming John Witherspoon Middle The Intellectual Life of sor of African American School after Shirley Satterfield. Black Feminist Sound, the studies; American studies; Ms. Satterfield was my high school guidance counselor new book by award-winning women’s, gender and sexuat Hightstown High School, in Hightstown, New Jersey. Black feminist music critic ality studies; and music at As I considered what to write about Ms. Satterfield, or Daphne Brooks. Cospon- Yale University. 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successful guidance counselor, and Dawn, one of the best legal minds in California. I could speak to her various efforts to preserve the history of African Americans in Princeton, New Jersey, and throughout the state. Her family’s personal history is filled with accomplishment and is also well documented. You can find Ms. Satterfield’s work in a number of periodicals, at various institutions that she has taught, and if you are given the privilege, throughout her home which highlights the history of her family. Ms. Satterfield represents the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These qualities are fundamentals of a strong person and a good Christian. Ms. Satterfield taught these values through her words and actions. Ms. Satterfield is what generations ago would call a race woman, someone who strongly advocates for the rights of African American people in all that she does. I can say without a doubt that I would not be where I am today — a college and law school graduate having held various senior positions in the legal and business world — if it weren’t for Ms. Satterfield. As importantly, she showed me how the fruits of the spirit can work in my life. She also taught me how to advocate for, at all times and in all ways, African Americans, and our history. John Witherspoon’s history, founding president of College of New Jersey; delegate to the Continental Congress; and State Legislature of New Jersey is well documented. His legacy will always be connected to New Jersey, Princeton, and to this country. His good deeds and his personal history will be open to history for debate. However, Ms. Satterfield’s spirit is indelibly etched in the hearts of those who were fortunate enough to be loved and educated by such a decent and wonderful human being. Her legacy, although completely different than that of John Witherspoon, has spread throughout this earth by those she has taught and loved. Like Witherspoon, she should not be forgotten. I pray that this committee will see fit to name this middle school after Ms. Shirley Satterfield. ALI K. WILSON Kensington Avenue, Trenton

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“Strength and Sweetness” — Andrew Marvell at 400 Marvell is the most enigmatic, unclassifiable, and unaffiliated major poet in the language. —Harold Bloom Now let us sport us while we may... —Andrew Marvell (1621-1679) No man is an island entire of itself ... —John Donne (1572-1631) n October 1966, Ray Davies and the Kinks recorded my theme song for the day, “Too Much On My Mind,” which makes a surprising but perfectly natural appearance a decade later in The American Friend (1977) by the German director Wim Wenders. At the time of the filming, Wenders told an interviewer that rock and roll had “saved” him: “It gave me the idea of finding out about life. It led me to everything; it led me to film-making.” Because of rock Wenders started to think of creativity “as having something to do with joy: the idea of having a right to enjoy something.” That’s a striking admission from someone who grew up in postwar Germany; instead of the burden of guilt, angst, and negativity: enjoying the right to find joy in creation. It’s not that I mind having too much on my mind every week. Far from it. Witness the crowd of epigraphs at the top. I could have added a dozen more, including all of Andrew Marvell’s irresistible seize-theday and see-the- world-and-die seduction song “To His Coy Mistress,” one of those poems it’s hard to stop reading. One sip of this salty Margarita and you’re off to the races with the world and time like the wind at your back, the notion of maidenly coyness the salt on the rim of the glass. Try not feeling happily drunk reading a line like “our long love’s day.” Then to go from that to the sweeping geographical audacity of the coy mistress finding rubies by the Ganges while the love-crazed poet from Hull sings a lusty far-reaching complaint beside his own hometown Humber (was Humbert Humbert here?). Then a take-no-prisoners love song pitch for all time, “I would love you ten years before the Flood.” Who cares what happens after the Flood? And the casual beauty of “And you should if you please refuse” with the not so casual “until the Conversion of the Jews.” Another one-two punch follows, the time-wise, “My vegetable Love should grow / Vaster than Empires, and more slow.” How slow? At this point a poet writing in the 1660s, his poetry unpublished in his time, casts his line and lands the last, July 29, 1997 entry, in the journal of William S. Burroughs two days before his death in Lawrence, Kansas, where a low-

rent midnight movie called Carnival of Souls had been filmed in the early 1960s around the time Burroughs’s Naked Lunch was being served up to the world. Too much on my mind, for sure. Like Ray’s song says, “It seems there’s more to life than just to live it.” Here’s where Marvell’s lover outdoes himself. Has anyone this side of Dante put as much on the line as a poet promising a hundred years to praise his lover’s eyes and forehead and “Two hundred to adore each breast, / But thirty thousand to the rest,” and “an Age to every part,” and “the last Age should show your Heart. / For Lady you deserve this State; / Nor would I love at lower rate.” And so you arrive and catch your breath in time to utter the poem’s most quoted line, the by now relatively underwhelming one about “Time’s w ingèd char iot” (which surfaces in 1929 in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms), but that’s as it should and has to be when the poet’s loving fullon, at the highest rate, no holds barred. Anyway, what comes next more than makes up for it (and will be reborn 200 years later in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” ): “And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast Eternity.” From the middle stanza’s worms and ashes and lust and dust, and the poem’s second most quoted couplet (“The Grave’s a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace”), Marvell’s rolling again, moved by the momentum of time repossessed for poetry, all his, fueling his fire; giving an infusion of force to the word Now. While youth “Sits on thy skin like morning dew, / And while thy willing Soul transpires / At every pore with instant Fires. / Now let us sport us while we may.” Pause again. Take a breath. Enjoy the joy and savor saying this, “Let us roll all our Strength, and all / Our sweetness up into one ball.” Remind yourself, it’s the middle of the 17th century when the poet adds, let’s “tear our Pleasures with rough strife” right through the “Iron gates of Life.” And so he ends, as bold and undaunted as ever, “Thus, though we cannot make our Sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.” Don’t Mess with Marvell Maybe it’s because I first encountered Marvell by way of Hemingway (the “time’s

chariot” line prompted by the honking of a car), but I can’t help seeing a “Let’s put the gloves on and go ten rounds” challenge in Marvell’s expression as he peers out of the shadows on the cover of the Wordsworth Poetry Library paperback (shown here). Imagine a pandemic mask covering his nose and mouth as I just did and he seems to be sizing you up. Actually, his expression is more intense without the mask. You definitely don’t want to cross or misconstrue or in any way underestimate this man of many parts — a poet serving both Oliver Cromwell and the court as pamphleteer, member of Parliament, tutor, secretary to and defender of Milton, government agent on undercover missions in Europe and Russia. It only makes sense that his portrait (circa 1655-1660) would be painted by “an unknown artist.” When he was riding high, Hemingway liked to imagine himself holding his own in the ring with Mr. Turgenev and Mr. de Maupassant, and fighting “two draws with Mr. Stendahl,” but Mar vell? I doubt he’d take on the author of one of his favorite poems. In a letter from January 1926, Hemingway says he doesn’t think “good poetry has anything to do with our age at all,” meaning our age in history. As an example of “my idea of Poetry” he quotes from the anonymous 16th-century song (“... Christ that my love were in my arms / And I in my bed again”) and an anonymous Medieval ballad. The only poet he mentions by name is “Andy Marvell To His Coy Mistress somewhere in the 17th century.” Marvell in Person Says John Aubrey in his Brief Lives, Marvell “was of middling stature, pretty strong sett, roundish faced, cherry cheek’t, hazell eie, browne haire. He was in conversation very modest, and of very few words; and though he loved wine he would never drinke hard in company, and was wont to say that, he would not play the goodfellow in any man’s company in whose hand he would not trust his life. He had not a generall acquaintance.” Harold Bloom imagines “a bad-tempered, hard-drinking, lifelong bachelor and controversialist” he finds hard to match with “everything we know of his religion and politics, for the paradoxical reason that such a personality simply does not manifest itself in the poems, except

perhaps for the satire. The Mower poems could have been written by a good-tempered married man who never touched alcohol and had little notion of religious and political quarrels. Yet they are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and personal and totally universal in scope and emphasis, which is only to say that they are very great, very enigmatic lyric poems.” Marvell Now In my review of Nigel Smith’s biography Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale 2010), I quoted from Christopher Ricks’s analysis of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” in which Ricks suggests that “not since Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ has there been such an upsurge of the urgency of now.” As David Niven’s RAF pilot seems to be plunging to a fiery death in the 1946 Powell-Pressburger film Stairway to Heaven, he shouts four lines from “Mistress” and exclaims, “Andy Marvell — what a marvel!” Wikipedia is hard put to contain all the Marvellian fallout, from Ursula LeGuin to Woody Allen to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The upside of having too much on your mind is the chance to listen and listen again to the Kinks song on YouTube after a year of pandemic challenges. Just as “To His Coy Mistress” is hard to stop reading — you could almost say it reads itself — it’s hard to stop thinking or humming or singing quietly along to a deceptively simple lyric that encompasses so many possibilities, as in that line, “It seems there’s more to life than just to live it,” all the more when you think beyond the moment, back over the last year. Or, you can think back through the centuries to John Donne, who died on March 31, 1631, ten years after Andrew Marvell was born, March 31, 1621. t was Donne’s “No man is an island” from his “Devotions on Emergent Occasions” that gave Ernest Hemingway, who died 60 years ago this July, an epigraph and a title when he sent For Whom the Bell Tolls” into a world at war. Given the enormity of the death toll, it’s a meditation that has special resonance today, the idea that “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind.” But with vaccinations on the rise, I’d rather end with something more upbeat. In his song “The Good-Morrow,” Donne says “good morrow to our waking soules, / Which watch not one another out of feare; / For love, all love of other sights controules, / And makes one little roome, an every where.” —Stuart Mitchner

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Princeton Festival Presents “Something Wonderful” to Benefit 2021 Season; Duo’s Online Recital Features Songs from Classic and Contemporary Musicals

he Princeton Festival presented Something Wonderful: An Evening of Musical Favorites on March 26. Actress, singer, and dancer Amy Weintraub performed an online recital of songs from classic and contemporary musicals. Actor, director, and musician Shane Lonergan accompanied Weintraub on guitar, and also sang with her on some of the selections. A press release emphasizes that the concert was a benefit whose ticket sales “help fund the Festival’s 2021 season.” Weintraub and Lonergan previously performed together in The Princeton Festival’s 2020 Live Musical Theater Revue. Weintraub also starred in the Festival’s 2019 production of She Loves Me. According to Weintraub, Something Wonderful was livestreamed from the living room of her parents’ house (which hosted a small “fully vaccinated” audience) in Fort Collins, Colorado. Acting Artistic Director Gregory Geehern said that he had asked the performers for an “NPR ‘Tiny Desk’ vibe.” It was an astute bit of direction; the intimate, relaxed mood echoed that of a concert in a coffee shop. The concert was in two segments. The first largely favored selections from musicals that premiered during Broadway’s mid-20 th century “Golden Age.” After an intermission, greater emphasis was placed on more recent shows and songs. Unifying themes were the emergence of love, the uncertainty that can accompany it, and the extent to which prior experience can leave one unprepared to process current feelings. The concert opened with “Almost Like Being in Love,” which the duo performed at a brisk, sweeping tempo. The euphoric duet is from Brigadoon (1947), the first major Broadway success for lyricist (and librettist) Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Weintraub — a soprano whose experience in singing opera equips her for Loewe’s evocations of Viennese operetta — began the number, infusing it with amiable intensity. Lonergan, a sturdy tenor, joined her on the subsequent verses. Weintraub incorporated movement into her performance, concluding the piece with her arms exuberantly outstretched. A similar musical style characterized the next selection, which was a graceful vocal solo by Weintraub. Written by Meredith Wilson, the wistful “Goodnight My Someone” is sung in The Music Man (1957) by Marian, a small-town librarian

whom Weintraub recalled portraying in a high school production. The role suits her voice. Weintraub’s subsequent solo, while vocally refined, replaced the operetta style of the previous numbers with a musical comedy idiom. In Guys and Dolls (1950), whose music and lyrics are by Frank Loesser, the character Sarah Brown sings “If I Were a Bell” after she has had “a little too much to drink,” Weintraub noted. The vocalist illustrated this by swaying to the song’s gentle swing rhythms. For “People Will Say We’re In Love,” a duet written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II for Oklahoma! (1943), the performers opted for a style that echoed that of the 2019 Broadway revival. That production’s musical arrangements have “bluegrass, folk, and country elements,” Weintraub explained. The choice particularly suited Lonergan’s voice. Weintraub and Lonergan combined the first act duet with its reprise near the end of the show, which offered scope for a change in mood. The characters initially express determination to hide their budding romance, but affirm and celebrate it in the second act. During Lonergan’s verse, Weintraub wordlessly captured the characters’ playfully adversarial relationship, through facial expressions and folded arms. The bluegrass theme continued with the more recent duet “Asheville.” Edie Brickell and Steve Martin had written “When You

Get to Asheville” for their 2013 album Love Has Come for You. With some lyric changes it was featured in Bright Star (2016), a musical inspired by the album. Lonergan’s skill as a guitarist stood out in this number, infusing it with a driving ostinato. This change in idiom and vocal style, from the material that opened the concert, accentuated Weintraub’s adaptability as a singer. However, the end of the first half marked a return to the earlier era, with a suitably blithe rendition of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music (1959). Later, a second song — a duet — from the musical was featured: “Something Good.” After Hammerstein’s death, Rodgers wrote both the music and the lyrics to the unassuming ballad for the 1965 film. (The number was re-used in the1998 Broadway revival and the 2013 NBC telecast.) The first selection after the intermission was “Falling Slowly” from the film Once (2007), a Broadway musical adaptation of which opened five years later. The song is by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (who portrayed musicians in the film). Lonergan credits the opportunity to attend multiple concerts by the duo (named the Swell Season) with inspiring him to play the guitar and become a performer. Weintraub and Lonergan blended well together in the song’s harmonies. Next was “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” Mary Magdalene’s ballad from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock

opera Jesus Christ Superstar (1970). Weintraub’s earnest, delicate rendition struck a careful balance between giving the song sufficient vocal strength, and letting her vocal and emotional power build gradually, so that it could peak right after Lonergan’s guitar interlude. Written by Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown (2019) retells the ancient Greek myth in which Orpheus visits the underworld to rescue his fiancée Eurydice. In “All I’ve Ever Known,” Eurydice weighs the dichotomy between her independence and her deepening affection for Orpheus. Not unlike “Asheville,” “All I’ve Ever Known” has a breezy melody in a folk-pop idiom, which Weintraub and Lonergan clearly enjoyed performing. Written in a similar style is “Only Us,” a duet by Justin Paul and Benj Pasek for Dear Evan Hansen (2016). Pasek and Paul also wrote the songs for The Greatest Showman, and “Only Us” is somewhat reminiscent of “A Million Dreams” from that film. Big Fish (2013) is adapted from Tim Burton’s film of the same name (for which the musical’s librettist John August also had written the screenplay), which in turn is based on Daniel Wallace’s novel. Composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa’s score includes a tender ballad, “I Don’t Need a Roof,” which highlighted Weintraub’s ability to shape and seamlessly phrase a musical line, propelling each one with a gradual increase in volume and a pleasing vibrato. Just as “Asheville” had been a departure from the mid-century selections of the first segment, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s playfully feisty “I’m Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair” from South Pacific (1949) interrupted the second half’s contemporary focus (“for all of you longterm couples out there,” joked Weintraub). Although she stood in place, Weintraub enlivened the number with energetic movement that recalled her rendition of “Almost Like Being in Love.” hat energy was present in the duo’s closing number: the rousing “I Feel the Earth Move.” Written and performed by Carole King in 1971, the song appears in Beautiful: The Carole King “SOMETHING WONDERFUL:” The Princeton Festival presented “Something Wonderful: An Musical (2014). With its steady, pulsEvening of Musical Favorites.” The online concert featured soprano Amy Weintraub (right), ing beat the song gave Weintraub a final chance to dance in place, and showcase accompanied by tenor and guitarist Shane Lonergan. (Photo courtesy of The Princeton Festival) her vocal power. It was a rousing conclusion to a concert — by two versatile musiTo learn about Princeton Festival’s upcoming events visit princetonfestival.org. cians — that more than lived up to its title. —Donald H. Sanborn III

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peras have been presented in unusual formats over the past year as companies think far outside the opera house, ranging from Zoomed recitals to a presentation of Wagner in a parking garage. Princeton University’s Department of Music joined the inventive performance arena this past month, with a virtual opera performance of 17th -century Italian composer Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto. Most academic years in January, students in the Department of Music fall course on opera performance have presented the fruits of their labor in a public performance at Richardson Auditorium. Princeton University operated remotely the first half of this academic year, but the students enrolled in the fall 2020 virtual class refused to be cheated out of their public performance. With the combination of a conductor, director, videographer, dramaturg, and its own collective imagination, the class created a virtual three-act opera production presented by the Department of Music over three Saturdays this past month. The University production of La Calisto began its technological path as University Orchestra conductor Michael Pratt and voice faculty member Martha Elliott recorded the opera’s harpsichord accompaniment on piano. The videotape was then sent to harpsichordist Joyce Chen, who rerecorded the music on harpsichord to Pratt’s conducting. With the cast isolated all over the country, the University sent each singer stateof-the -ar t recording equipment and software to record their solo parts to Chen’s accompaniment. Students were allowed to submit as many “takes” as they wanted. The opera’s extensive recitatives were replaced with narration written by dramaturg (and Music Department chair) Wendy Heller and opera director Christopher Mattaliano and delivered throughout the opera by the cast members themselves. The University Department of Music presented the three-act production act by act beginning in early March, with Act I launched March 6, Act II March 13, and Act III on March 20. The final broadcast reflected 17 singers and instrumentalists from the University student body using the spaces of their own homes, combined with the best technology the 21st century has to offer, to recreate a story from mythology set to music of the 17th century. Cavalli’s opera is based on the story of Calisto, the nymph daughter of King Lycaon and a follower of Diana, the goddess of the hunt. Calisto catches the attention of the thunder god Zeus, who transforms himself into a “fake” Diana to seduce her, and the complicated love story is on, with Calisto eventually set among the stars as the constellation Ursa Major. As was the custom of the time, Cavalli’s opera begins with an overture, played by strings and harpsichord and visually accompanied in the Princeton University production by artwork of the 17th century. University junior Emily Cruz started the vocal lines off well as the character Natura with a rich alto voice, visually accompanied by outdoor scenes of the University. She was subsequently joined by sopranos Ally Noone and Jamie Feder for a wellbalanced and well-blended trio. Calisto was played by University Junior

Marley Jacobson, who showed herself to be a solid soprano throughout the production, but particularly in the aria which opened the third act as she reminisced about Diana. Jacobson handled particularly well the difficult scales embedded in her vocal line, and her Act I duet with Diana, sung by senior Siyang Liu, was welltuned and well-timed. Liu consistently sang with a crisp and clean soprano voice, and her character showed clever use of phone technology (especially Tinder) to convey the story. A secondary character with leading role vocal challenges and difficulty was the shepherd Endimione, sung by Mariana Corichi Gomez. Gomez demonstrated a solid lyrical soprano voice with a rich lower register and conveyed Cavalli’s melodic writing especially well in an Act II aria sung while recording the storyline’s drama in her diary. The characters of Giove (Zeus) and Mercurio (Mercury) were well sung by Kevin Williams and Tim Amarell, respectively. The men in the cast often joined their love interests simultaneously onscreen, as all singers presented complex contrapuntal vocal lines accompanied by animated and imaginative facial expressions, even if they were not in the same space. The cast, among the best the University has had for an opera performance in recent years, was well rounded out by Leila Abou-Jaoude, Hannah Bein, Rupert Peacock, and Katelyn Rodrigues. Rodrigues, singing the role of Zeus’ wife Juno, sang with a sensitive lyric soprano as she advised women of the world on affairs of the heart, and Abou-Jaoude, portraying Linfea, conveyed her unrequited romantic feelings in a solid soprano voice to her ever-attentive cat. The University Department of Music’s production of La Calisto was accompanied by an instrumental ensemble of two violins, cello, and two harpsichords, led by conductor Michael Pratt. The string parts of the orchestra, played by violinists Allie Mangel and Joanna Kuo, as well as cellist Mika Hyman, were among the last to be added to the final production. Combined with the harpsichord playing of Joyce Chen and Cameron Khan, the painstaking musical layering which became the orchestral accompaniment was always perfectly in time with the singers and observant of Baroque details and musical nuance. Key to making this production particularly relevant to these times was the use of today’s indispensable technology as props for the characters, with visual backdrops to the singing reflecting what the cast has missed most from pre-pandemic life, all seamlessly blended together by sound engineer Carlos Dias and editor Christopher McDonald. pera has often reflected the times in which it was w r it ten, and although La Calisto was composed in the middle of the 17th century, Princeton University’s production well represented the current year. The 17th century in Europe was not without its epidemics, but as these 21st-century students created their own realities and dreams in Cavalli’s characters, La Calisto became an achievement of creating an opera under the circumstances of the past year, as well as the opera’s storyline itself — showing that timeless art is called that for a reason. —Nancy Plum

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r ies of Maine’s seafolk, those whose lives and livelihoods are inextricably connected to the ocean. This atmospheric film shows the beauty, intimacy, and uncertainty that coastal dwellers face in rooting their lives in the ocean, particularly as human actions — from overfishing, to aquaculture, to warming seas — confront Maine and its people with profound change. For a complete schedule of films, visit princetonlibrary. org/peff.

George Street Playhouse Features “Fully Committed”

George Street Playhouse is back with a production of the play Fully Committed. The hit comedy, written by Becky Mode and directed by David Saint, stars Maulik Pancholy, award-winning actor, author and activist known for his roles on 30 Rock and Weeds. The virtual production will be available to stream through April 11. “I was dazzled by Maulik’s ability to slip like a chameleon from one character to another in this comic whirlwind with a real heart at its center,” said George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint. The one-act play features 40 diverse characters, all played by Pancholy. It follows a day in the life of Sam, an out-of-work actor who mans a red‐hot reservation line at Manhattan’s trendiest restaurant that receives outrageous calls

nothing to secure a reservation. Coercion and bribes are just beginning Amid the barrage of calls, Sam has to deal with non-stop harassment from the chef and his own personal problems. The question is, can he deal with it all? “I’m so grateful to everyone at George Street Playhouse for finding innovative ways to make theater during this pandemic. Working with David Saint was an absolute thrill,” said Pancholy. “We had so much fun putting this together, and I’m excited to share it with the final character in any play ... the audience.” Pancholy can also be seen in the upcoming Hulu series Only Murders in the Building, The Good Fight, The Good Wife, Phineas and Ferb, and Web Therapy. T i c ke t s a r e av a i l a b l e for $33 per household at GeorgeStreetPlayhouse.org.

Choir Camp to Be Held by Westrick Music Academy

Voices Chorale NJ Presents Evening of Song and Lecture

On Monday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m., an evening of late 19 th and 20 th century song, and a lecture, will be presented virtually by Voices Chorale NJ. Soprano Alex Meakem and baritone Michael Banks, accompanied by Akiko Hosaki, will perform.

Westrick Music Academy will launch its third year of Camp Westrick, which features voice training and performance with leading children’s choir directors, musical theater class, daily choir rehears als, devel opment of musicianship, games, and more. Instructors and counselors Akiko Hosaki create a fun, safe environThe concert will feature ment offering opportunities for students to develop mu- songs, duets, and arias by sical and vocal technique Puccini, Sondheim, Lloyd while creating friendships Webber, and others, highlighting the human experiences of love and longing though some of their most cherished works. Dr. David A. McConnell, artistic director of Voices Chorale NJ, will offer context and commentary. Meakem is a New Jerseyborn classical singer and

RINGING IN EASTER: The carillon concerts at Princeton University’s Cleveland Bell Tower are a favorite of audiences who gather to listen on the lawns surrounding the building. The concert on Easter Sunday, April 4, performed by Lisa Lonie, will be at a special time of 2-3 p.m. It will feature springtime favorites, as well as arrangements of Irving Berlin’s “Easter Parade” and “Here Comes Peter Cottontail.”

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and learning to work together. The week-long camp culminates in a celebratory performance of music and skills learned during the week for family and friends. Camp Westrick will run from Monday, August 2–Friday, August 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and is open to rising fourth through ninth grade boys and girls. There are no audition requirements. The camp location will be announced at a later date, with possibilities for fully virtual, fully in-person, or a hybrid of both being considered. Founded in 1989 as Princeton Girlchoir, the organization has grown over the past 30 years from 27 girls to more than 300 singing in seven choirs. In 2017, the organization added the Princeton Boychoir to its ranks with 50 boys singing in the inaugural season. To accommodate these flagship choirs and additional growing programs, the board announced in January 2018 the creation of a new umbrella organization, Westrick Music Academy, after the founder, Jan Westrick, that would continue to house P r inceton G irlchoir and Princeton Boychoir as they currently stand. For m or e i n for m at ion about camp, the organization, or to schedule an audition, visit westrickmusic. org/camp, or contact the office at (609) 688-1888.

MAKING MUSIC: A week of musical instruction for fourthninth graders is being planned for August by Westrick Music Academy. chorister. She is a graduate of Westminster Choir College, a member of Voices Chorale NJ Choral Scholars Program, and is currently on the teaching staff of VCNJ’s online music education program. She has performed in venues across the tri-state area and in France and England. Banks has sung in amateur and professional ensembles and productions around the tri-state area. He was a member of the Westminster Choir, has performed with The Princeton Festival, with Boheme Opera New Jersey, and has been heard in several churches as a section leader and soloist in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Hosaki, collaborative pianist, serves as accompanist with Voices Chorale NJ. She has worked with several opera companies in the U.S. and Japan, and is an active chamber musician. Hosaki currently serves as the head of vocal staff accompanists and the pianist coordinator at Westminster Choir College, and senior choir director/organist at Hillsborough Reformed Church at Millstone, where she runs the concert series. She holds degrees from Musashino Academia Musicae in Japan, Westminster Choir College, and University of Minnesota. David A. McConnell, artistic director of Voices Chorale NJ, founded Vox Philia in 2012, a chamber choir comprised of professional and gifted amateur singers, and co-founded the Berks Sinfonietta chamber orchestra in 2014, both of which feature an intergenerational approach. Dr. McConnell teaches music courses at Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus and Alvernia University in Reading, PA. He received his doctor

of musical arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College - Conser vator y of Music. Admission is $15. To sign up, visit voiceschoralenj.org.

Singers are Welcome To Join Mozart Mass

The Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs (PSMA) invites singers to participate in a Zoom sing of the Mozart Mass in C Minor on Sunday, April 11, at 4 p.m. Marjorie Herman will introduce the piece and guide singers through a warmup. Then, everyone will be muted as each sing (and/or play) along to a Youtube recording with professional orchestra and chorus, with scrolling score. Since this is a virtual sing, participants can invite family and friends, wherever they live, to join in. There will be an opportunity to chat at the end of the session. PSMA provides opportunities for members of the community to gather for the common and joyful enterprise of making music, to sing through the great works in choral literature, with chorus, orchestra, and soloists as the works require, for their own pleasure. A semi-professional orchestra is assembled and professional soloists arranged for, as each work requires. The sessions are always conducted by professional conductors. The meetings are informal readings in which any musically interested person may join the chorus. There are no auditions and no separate rehearsals. Conductors usually do some preparation with the chorus before the sing-through. This varies from minimal snippets for wellknown pieces to a complete review for unfamiliar works. Scores are provided. Visit musicalamateurs.org for more information.

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so many of us turned to art for comfor t, expression, documentation, and relief. To celebrate art’s power to lift us out of darkness, the ACP’s galler y committee will place an emphasis on exhibition proposals that reflect a sense of optimism. Artists are encouraged to embrace the theme in any medium, literally or figuratively, through a realistic or abstract lens. Interested artists should submit their proposal at artscouncilofprinceton.org/ artists.

Zimmerli Art After Hours Wraps Up Season

“STACKING ‘EM UP!”: This photo by Dafydd Jones is featured in this year’s Phillips Mill Photo Exhibition. The juried member show can be viewed online beginning April 3. T he Phillips Mill Pho - honor not repeated for any Phillips Mill Photo Committee Hosts Online Member Show tographic Exhibition will other site.

The Phillips Mill Photo Committee has announced that its first-ever member show will go live on April 3. “The talented photographic artists who volunteer their time every year to produce the prestigious annual Phillips Mill Photo Exhibition, our juried photo show, are excited to have this chance to share their personal imagery,” says Spencer Saunders, who chairs the Phillips Mill Photo Committee. For this year’s show, each of three dozen Phillips Mill Photo Committee members will submit up to eight fine art photographs to display in the show. It is a special opportunity for all to see the body of work these talented photographers create. As a virtual show, its organizers say there is “no excuse not to see it” and encourage you to sit back and enjoy some stunning, e v o c at i v e p h oto g r ap h y. “Each artist has been given the freedom to present a body of work that represents their vision, which gives us all an unusual opportunity to appreciate the breadth of their creative works,” Saunders said. All photographs are for sale. The show goes live on Saturday, April 3 at phillipsmillphoto.com.

return in 2022. For more The Old Barracks Museum information, call Spencer invites everyone to visit barSaunders at ( 267) 229 - racks.org/exhibits to learn 2846. more about “The Old Barracks at the World’s Fairs.” Online Exhibit Showcases There other online exhibNJ and the World’s Fairs its also include “Collection The Old Barracks Museum Highlights,” “When Women in Trenton has announced Vote: The Old Barracks and the opening of a new on- the A nti- Suffrage Moveline exhibit, “A Symbol of ment,” and “Necessary and New Jersey to the World: Proper for the Public Good: The Old Barracks at the How t he A mer ican Red World’s Fair,” on view start- Cross and the Old Barracks ing Thursday, April 1 at bar- Association Partnered to racks.org/exhibits. Contribute to the World War The exhibit details the im- I Effort at Home.” portance of World’s Fairs to the global community and Arts Council Now Accepting the role of the Old Barracks Exhibition Proposals for 2022 The Arts Council of Princas a symbol of New Jersey at the 1915 Panama-Pacific eton (ACP) has announced International Exposition, that proposals for gallery the 1926 Philadelphia Ses- exhibitions for their 2022 quicentennial Exposition, season are now being acand the 1939-40 New York cepted. The deadline for World’s Fair “World of To- submissions is June 12, 2021. morrow.” The Arts Council’s Paul World’s Fairs made it possible for people to experi- Robeson Center serves as ence cultures and history a key resource for contemfrom places they would oth- porary art in central New erwise not be able to visit. Jersey. Through thoughtCountries and states, includ- provoking exhibitions and ing New Jersey, allocated related public programs, considerable funds to ensure the Arts Council presents they represented their most artwork with a broad range significant contributions to of aesthetic, social, cultural, the world. The three times and political themes. the state of New Jersey seA noted by the ACP, while lected the Old Barracks to we navigated the disruprepresent the state was an tion of life as we knew it,

It has been almost a year since the last in-person Art After Hours was canceled due to the initial COVID-19 closures during the spring of 2020. One of the most popular and longest running programs at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Art After Hours welcomed the campus community and general public to experience art together while on a guided tour, listening to a band or guest speaker, and socializing in the lobby – often while standing closely with both friends and strangers. In October of 2020, Art After Hours, like many cultural programs throughout the world, returned on Zoom as a collaboration between the Zimmerli and Rutgers Global. While museum staff missed seeing regular attendees and meeting new visitors in the galleries, they recognize how many more people have participated who may not have had the opportunity in the past. “It’s been exciting to see how Art After Hours has continued to draw audiences together for conversation and consideration of how art intersects with different facets of contemporary life,” said curator of education Amanda Potter, whose department coordinates the programs at the museum. “We’re glad that we could play a role in helping to keep people connected with and through the museum, especially the Rutgers community scattered near and far through our partnership with Rutgers Global.”

The final Art After Hours of the 2020-21 academic year takes place on Tuesday, April 6, starting at 7 p.m. The virtual program spotlights the online exhibition “Musings by Moonlight: The Moon from Japanese Art to Japonism” with the students and staff who created it, followed by a talk about the appearance of the moon in manga and an origami demonstration. The program is free and open to the public. Zoom registration is available at go.rutgers.edu/artafterhours. “Musings by Moonlight” is the first exhibition created e xcl u s ive ly i n a d ig it a l format at the Zimmerli, but is the result of the museum’s longstanding partnerships with academic programs across campus. The Zimmerli Art Museum remains closed to the public and in-person programs are suspended until further notice. In the meantime, Zimmerli at Home invites the public to experience an array of virtual programs. For more information, visit zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.

Area Exhibits Check websites for information on safety protocols. Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Lyrical 2021” through April 4. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com. Arts Council of Prince ton , 102 Wit herspoon Street, has “Textured Waters: Paintings by Léni Paquet-Morante and Susan DeConcini” through April 3 and “A Voice to Be Heard” April 10 through May 8. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. artscouncilofprinceton.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “On the Forefront: Trenton’s Junior 1, 1916” through April 24 and “Women Artists, Trenton Style” through June 6. Visit ellarslie.org for museum hours and timed entry tickets.

Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Rebirth: Kang Muxiang,” “Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020,” and other exhibits. Hours are Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Timed tickets required. Indoor buildings are closed to the public. groundsforsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “A Virtual Tour of Hamilton’s Princeton” and the “History@ Home” series. princetonhistory.org. James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., “Fern Coppedge: New Discoveries” through April 18, “Essential Work 2020: A Community Portrait” through July 11, and “Through the Lens: Modern Photography in the Delaware Valley” through August 15. The museum is open to the public. michenerartmuseum. org. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “In Nature’s Realm: The Art of Gerard Rutgers Hardenberg” through January 9 and the online exhibit “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints Of New Jersey, 1761–1898.” Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. morven.org. Old Barracks Museum, 101 Barrack Street, Trenton, has the ongoing virtual exhibits “When Women Vote — The Old Barracks and the Anti-Suffrage Movement” and “Necessary and Proper for the Public Good.” The museum is temporarily closed to the public. barracks.org. Princeton University Art Museum has the online exhibits “Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Painting,” “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography,” “The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder,” and more, along with many online events. The museum is currently closed to the public. artmuseum.princeton.edu. West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “2021 W WAC M e m b e r S h o w : Floral Persuasion,” online and in the gallery by appointment through May 14. westwindsorarts.org.

NEW ONLINE EXHIBIT: “A Symbol of New Jersey to the World: The Old Barracks at the World’s Fair,” on view beginning Thursday, April 1 at barracks.org/exhibits, details the importance of World’s Fairs to the global community and the role of the Old Barracks as a symbol of New “ISABELLA”: This oil on canvas painting by Frenel Morris is featured in “A Voice to be Heard, on view in the Arts Council of Princeton’s Taplin Gallery April 10 through May 8. Jersey at three fairs.

Wednesday, March 31 12:15 p.m.: “Can Private Sector Play a Role in Delivering Public Infrastructure Services?” Free Zoom event presented by Princeton University with speaker Jyoti Bisbey of the World Bank Organization. Princeton. edu. 1 p.m.: Boheme Opera NJ presents “Poor Little Buttercup,” free Zoom event with selections from Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Sponsored by Monroe Township Library. Register at monroetwplibrary.org. 4:30 p.m.: “Black Women and American Democracy,” free Zoom event presented by Princeton University Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Princeton. edu. 7-8 p.m.: The Suppers Program Signature Meeting: Eating For Your Health. Suppers.wildapricot.org/ events. Thursday, April 1 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market Winter Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket. com. 4:30 p.m.: Virtual book talk, “How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,” presented by Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Free. Speakers are Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes, and Julian Zelizer. Princeton.edu. 5:30 p.m.: Lecture from Princeton University Art Museum, “The Spiritual Life of Tlingit (Objects).” Free. Artmuseum.princeton.edu. 6 p.m. : L L L P re s ent s Daphne Brooks and Tracy K. Smith in Conversation. “Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound.” Free Zoom event. Labyrinthbooks.org/events. 6-7 p.m.: Jake Thistle performs via Zoom for “Save the Sourlands.” $10. Sourland.org. 7 p.m.: Poetry Circle: Poetry Reading and Open Mic, presented virtually by Mercer County Library System. mcl.org. 7-8 p.m.: “NASA’s Artemis Program: Our Return to the Moon,” virtual program presented by Mercer County Library with Patricia L. Moore, communication strategist for NASA. Register at mcl.org. Friday, April 2 9 a.m.-3 p.m.: Princeton University’s Center for International Security Studies holds a conference, “Europe and the Future of Security: EU and NATO Defense and Security Policy for the 21st Century.” Free, on Zoom. Princeton.edu. Saturday, April 3 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Terhune O r c h a r d s o n C ol d S o i l Road marks t he ar r ival of spring with the annual Bunny Chase and several other events including pony rides, music, food, and craft activities. $10 (kids under 3 free). Timed admission tickets must be purchased in advance. Terhuneorchards. com. Sunday, April 4 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Terhune Orchards on Cold Soil Road marks the arrival of spring with the annual Bunny Chase

International Affairs, present free Zoom event, “Fighting Deat h wh ile Sav ing Lives: The Experiences of a Medical Doctor in Aleppo, Syria.” Princeton.edu. 1- 3 p.m . Fr i d ay w i t h Friends, held by the YWCA Princeton Area Newcomers & Friends. Zoom gathering featuring Trish Chambers presenting “Women Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.” RSVP required at ywcaprinceton.org/newcomers. Sunday, April 11 4 p.m.: Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs invites participation in a Zoom sing of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. All are welcome. Musicalamateurs.org. Monday, April 12 Recycling 10 a.m.: “Climate Change: Science and Impacts,” presented virtually by Princeton Senior Resource Center with representatives of Climate Central. Register at princetonsenior.org. 4:30 p.m.: Jeffrey Shandler discusses his book, Yid d i s h : B i o g r a p hy of Language, in a Zoom event sponsored by the Allen and Joan Blidner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. Register at BildnerCenter.Rutgers.edu. 7 p.m.: “Pollinators, Food and Climate Change,” virtual program presented by Mercer County Library System with Judith K. Robinson, native plant garden designer. Register at mcl.org. Tuesday, April 13 3 p.m.: Healthcare Decisions Workshop presented virtually by Princeton Senior Resource Center. Register at princetonsenior.org. Wednesday, April 14 1 p.m.: Boheme Opera NJ presents “I Could Have Danced 2,000 Years,” program on how the Pygmalion legend evolved to My Fair Lady. Sponsored by Monroe Township Library. Free Zoom event. Register at monroetwplibrary.org. 4-5 p.m.: Panel discussion, “Trends in Digital H e a l t h ,” s p o n s o r e d b y Princeton Innovation Center Biolabs and the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council. Free virtual event. Princetonbiolabs.com. Thursday, April 15 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market Winter Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket. com. Friday, April 16 10 a.m.: Women in Retirement: “Competition Cook: Kitchen Gadget Garage,” virtual program presented by Princeton Senior Resouce Center. Register at princetonsenior.org. 10 :30 a.m.: “The Five Wishes : A Discussion of End-of-Life,” virtual program presented by Mercer County Library System with hospice social worker Liz Cohen. Register at mcl.org. Saturday, April 17 12-5 p.m.: Chardonnay Release Weekend at Unionville Vineyards, 9 Rocktown Road, Ringoes. Tastings by appointment. $16. Unionvillevineyards.com. 1 p.m.: Virtual program on history and culture of the Lenni-Lenape people and their descendants in New Jersey today, sponsored by the Trent House Museum. Given by the Rev. J.R. Norwood Jr., via Zoom. Williamtrenthouse.org.

Sunday, April 18 12-5 p.m.: Chardonnay Release Weekend at Unionville Vineyards, 9 Rocktown Road, Ringoes. Tastings by appointment. $16. Unionvillevineyards.com. 3 p.m.: “T.S. Eliot & Emily Hale Letters: Re-examined.” Princeton University presents a panel discussion with experts and scholars. Library.princeton.edu. Monday, April 19 10 a.m.: “Sea Level Rise: The Science, the Impacts, and Your Role,” presented virtually by Princeton Senior Resource Center with Kelly van Baalen. Princetonsenior.org. 8 p.m.: Washington Crossing Audubon Society presents “Saving the Cerulean Blue Warbler,” online event by Katie Fallon. Free. To re g is ter, em a i l cont ac t. wcas@gmail.com. Tuesday, April 20 6:30 p.m.: Historical Fiction Book Group discusses Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, virtual session led by Larry Danson, retired Princeton University English professor. Presented virtually by the Historical Society of Princeton. Princetonhistory. org/events. Wednesday, April 21 6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting. Princetonlibrary. org. Thursday, April 22 10-11:30 a.m.: Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber presents “Shaping the Future vs. Grinding Through the Present,” part of Women in the Workplace. Live virtual event. Princetonmercer. org.

Saturday, April 24 12-3 p.m.: Sustainable Landscaping Mini-Expo at Princeton Shopping Center. Outdoor event focused on electric lawn care equipment, organic lawn care te c h n i q u e s , a n d n a t i v e plants. Sustainableprinceton.org. Monday, April 26 Recycling Wednesday, April 28 1 p.m.: Boheme Opera NJ presents “Let Us Entertain You,” free Zoom event sponsored by Monroe Township Library. Selections from musicals by Jule Style including Funny Girl and Gypsy. Register at monroetwplibrary. org. Thursday, April 29 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market Winter Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket. com. 1-2 p.m.: Virtual tour of historic Princeton, presented by Eve Mandel of the Historical Society of Princeton through Mercer County Library system. Register at mcl.org. 5:30 p.m.: Lecture from Princeton Universit y Ar t Museum, “Guides for the Soul: Art from China’s Warring States Period.” Free. Artmuseum.princeton.org. 6 p.m.: “Wills, Probate, and Estate Planning 2021 Update,” presented virtually by attorney Kenneth Vercammen through Mercer County Library System. Register at mcl.org. 6 p.m.: “Cooking with CASA” virtual class to benefit Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children of Mercer and Burlington counties; with chef Ian Knauer of

The Farm Cooking School. Casamercer.org. 7 p.m.: Virtual “Eyes on Eagles” panel discussion w it h fo otage of e agle s’ nests, by Mercer County Park Commission. Focused on eagle behavior, biology, and conversation. Mercercountyparks.org. Thursday, May 6 6-7 p.m.: Abbie Gardner performs via Zoom for “Save the Sourlands.” $10. Sourland.org. Monday, May 10 Recycling Saturday, May 15 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market, Cure Insurance Arena Parking Lot, Trenton. $7. @TrentonPRFM on Instagram. Wednesday, May 19 6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting. Princetonlibrary. org. Monday, May 24 Recycling Thursday, June 3 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market Winter Market, Franklin Avenue lot. Princetonfarmersmarket. com. 7 p.m.: Virtual “Eyes on Eagles” panel discussion w it h fo otage of e agle s’ nests, by Mercer County Park Commission. Focused on eagle behavior, biology, and conversation. Mercercountyparks.org. Saturday, June 5 8 a.m.-2 p.m.: Household waste collection and electronics recycling. For Mercer County residents, at Dempster Fire School, 350 Lawrence Station Road. Mcianj. org or (609) 278-8086.

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and several other events including pony rides, music, food, and craft activities. $10 (kids under 3 free). Timed admission tickets must be purchased in advance. Terhuneorchards.com. 2-3 p.m.: Lisa Lonie performs a concert on the carillon at Princeton University’s Cleveland Bell Tower. Listeners can socially distance on the lawns outside the building. Princeton.edu. Monday, April 5 4:30 p.m.: “It’s All in the Delivery: Crafting the U.S. President’s Communications and Getting America’s BuyIn: A Talk With Obama’s F o r m e r S p e e c h w r i t e r, Adam Frankel.” Presented by Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs with Julian Zelizer. Free. Princeton.edu. 7-8 p.m.: “Adventures in Costume Research,” virtual program presented by Mercer County Library System. Costume designer Mitchell Bloom tells backstage anecdotes and stories about his work with the Metropolitan Opera where he is assistant costume designer. Register at mcl.org. Tuesday, April 6 12:15 p.m.: “COVID-19 as an Accelerator of Trends: The View From Technology and Capital.” Free virtual event presented by Princeton University’s Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. Princeton.edu. 7 p.m.: Celebrity chef Nick Liberato leads a live virtual tutorial “Your Cutting Board, Your Palette: The Art of Presenting Sunday Brunch.” Presented by the Arts Council of Princeton. Free. Register at artscouncilofprinceton.org. Wednesday, April 7 5 p.m.: Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man in Palmer Square; online video premiere. Led by Music Director Rossen Milanov. On the PSO YouTube channel, followed by a live chat. Princetonsymphony.org. 7 p.m.: “Can we Make New Jersey an Equitable Place to Live, Vote, and Thrive?” Zoom roundtable discussion presented by the Lawrence League of Women Voters with Dr. Simona L. Brickers, Kyla Allen, JaydaMilan Parker, and Kayla Phillips. Register at LWVLT. org or (609) 301-0401. Thursday, April 8 5:30 p.m.: Panel discussion from Princeton University Art Museum. “How to Move a Museum: The Fine Art of Deinstallation.” Free. Artmuseum.princeton.edu. 6 p.m.: Katrin Kaeufer a nd Dar r i n Wi l l ia m s i n conversation: “Just Money: Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance,” presented by Labyrinth Books. Labyrinthbooks.org/events. Friday, April 9 10 a.m.: Men in Retirement: “The Lost Cause : How The South Saw the Civil War.” Virtual program presented by Princeton Senior Resource Center. Register at princetonsenior.org. 11:45 a.m.: “Financial and Tax Strategies for 2021,” online event sponsored by Princeton Senior Resource Center. Register at princetonsenior.org. 12 p.m.: Syrian obstetrician Dr. Farida and Alyssa Sharkey, lecturer in Princeton School of Public and

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Driven to Pursue Different Path Than Classmates, PU Golf Alum Harmeling Aiming to Make PGA Tour

hile many of his Princeton University classmates went into business, law, or medicine, Evan Harmeling was driven to pursue a different career path. After an up-and-down career with the Princeton University men’s golf program, Harmeling ’12 decided to take a shot at the pro game. “The interesting thing about golf is that it is all about what you shoot,” said Harmeling. “There is no draft, there is no you have a lot of potential so we are going to take a shot on you and give you a chance. Everyone, except for the very few guys at the top of the college game who are getting some match sponsor exemptions, is starting from scratch. From that standpoint, college careers are not as important in terms of establishing your professional career.” Over the last eight years, Harmeling, now 32, has scratched and clawed his way up to the Korn Ferry Tour, the development circuit that is one step below the PGA Tour. Having won the Savannah Golf Championship last October, Harmeling is looking to work his way into the top 25 of the Korn Ferry money list and thereby earn PGA Tour status for next season. He currently ranks 41st on the Korn Ferry money list with earnings of $146,374. Harmeling’s journey to the pro ranks began nearly 30 years ago, getting into the game at age 2 when his dad cut down some clubs for him. A s a g r a d e s c h o o l e r, Harmeling made his debut into competitive golf and enjoyed it right away. “I played my first tournament when I was 10 or 11,” recalled Harmeling. “It was on a par 3 course, Firefly, in Rhode Island. I remember that day, that first tournament, it is exciting. It is a different animal when

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you get a scorecard and you have got to post a score next to your name.” Going to Phillips Academy for high school, Harmeling, a native of North Reading, Mass., started taking the game more seriously. He was named the Massachusetts Golf Association Junior Golfer of the Year in 2005 and was part of a twosome that won the Massachusetts Four-Ball Championship in 2007. After graduating from Phillips, where he also played squash, Harmeling qualified for the 2007 U.S. Amateur Championship. Turning his attention to college and playing at that level, Harmeling found a home in Princeton. “I went and visited Princeton and loved it, I loved the campus,” said Harmeling, who was also looking at Virginia and Northwestern in his recruiting process. “I met coach [Will] Green, he is great. I have a great relationship with him. Springdale is sweet, it is a fun course to play. Having Jasna nearby as well is great.” In reflecting on his Tiger career, Harmeling acknowledged that he struggled to balance schoolwork with his golf. “In terms of golf, keeping up with these classes took a little away from my golf,” said Harmeling, who took a year off from school in 2008-09. “I wasn’t as organized as I could have been. I had to manage my priorities.” On the course for the Tigers, Harmeling had mixed results, highlighted by finishing sixth at the 2012 Ivy League Championships as a senior, earning second-team All-Ivy honors. “I definitely didn’t play my best golf at school,” said Harmeling. “I grew up playing up north and then went to Princeton. Right when I got down to Florida and started playing on Bermuda greens, I immediately felt more at

home. My short game got better, playing on Bermuda grass.” Turning pro after graduating from Princeton, Harmeling started grinding his way up the ladder. “In my first year, I played a lot of Monday qualifiers and I played the E Golf tour in the Carolinas,” said Harmeling. “It is a mini tour where everyone throws in $1,000 for a tournament each week and you go play for that money essentially. It is organized gambling. I went to Q School that year.” By 2013, Harmeling was playing on the Mackenzie Tour in Canada and two years later he also joined the PGA TOUR Latinoamerica. “The whole thing was playing in the biggest tournaments I could play in so I could get to the highest level I could get to,” explained Harmeling, who made his Korn Ferry debut in 2017. “I didn’t get through Q school until 2016. For ’12, ’13, ’14, and ’15, I didn’t get through to the final stage that gets you on the Korn Ferry tour level. I went to go play in Canada and then down in Latin America; that was the next best thing I could do anywhere in the western hemisphere and was the feeder into the Korn Ferry tour.” As he endured the ups and downs of pro circuit, Harmeling didn’t get discouraged. “There were material improvements each year and that was really the benchmark to keep playing,” said Harmeling. A key factor in Harmeling’s improvement has been coming under the tutelage of noted golf teacher Adam Schriber. “I have been working seven years with Adam,” said the 6’4, 190-pound Harmeling. “He is great, he is really an expert in biomechanics. He knows the golf swing like the back of his hand.”

SPOILS OF VICTORY: Former Princeton University men’s golf standout Evan Harmeling displays the trophy he earned for winning the Savannah Golf Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour last October. Harmeling ’12 is currently ranked 41st on the Korn Ferry money list with earnings of $146,374 as he looks to crack the top 25 and earn a spot on the PGA Tour next year. (Photo provided courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications)

A great moment for Harmeling came when he won the 2019 BMW Jamaica Classic on the PGA TOUR Latinoamerica. “That was awesome, everything kind of came together,” said Harmeling, who led the tournament after two rounds but then had to birdie the final hole of the event to edge Augusto Nunez by one stroke. “I like getting into those situations where you are the guy to beat and have the lead going into the final round or the lead after the second round. That was fun.” Last October, Harmeling came through in another big situation, winning the Savannah Golf Championship, tying with Kevin Dougherty at -21 after 72 holes and then prevailing on the first playoff hole. “That was sweet, the back nine was a two-man race,” said Harmeling, who

matched the tournament scoring record for 72 holes with his 21-under 267. “It was fun, it was kind of that match play situation. It means a lot of perform well under pressure with everything that I work on and to see the fruits of that. It wasn’t like that catapulted me into the top 25 to be in the position to be on the PGA tour so there is still work to be done.” With the Korn Ferry season in full swing, Harmeling is working hard between tournaments to hone his game. “I work out every day that I am home,” said Harmeling, who is currently based in Atlantic Beach, Fla., where he lives with his wife and their infant daughter. “I have these drills I have to complete putting, it depends on how long it takes. Now I have occasional days where I will hit balls for three or four hours. That

is lately when I have been trying to zero in on things. When I am in rhythm, I don’t like to hit a ton of balls so I can preserve my wrist and my body for a long season.” Although his quest for the PGA card has been grueling, Harmeling is more than happy with his career choice. “I just need to keep doing what I am doing, going through my routine, and doing my drills,” said Harmeling, whose scoring average is 70.98 this season with his driving distance coming in at 303.6 yards. “I believe in the stuff that I am doing with my swing, my game, and my preparation. It is executing that and then I am going to be in good shape. Adam is over at TPC Sawgrass and we have been doing some good work. Golf has been great to me, the traveling around, the places I have gone. It is awesome.” —Bill Alden

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Princeton University senior wrestling star Leonard Merkin and Tiger assistant coach Nate Jackson earned spots last weekend to compete at the upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials in Fort Worth, Texas. The trials are set for April 2-3 at Dickies Arena, where the champion in each weight class will represent the U.S. at the Olympic Games this summer in Tokyo. Merkin and Jackson both won their way into the trials with their finishes at the Last Chance Qualifier, also

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held in Fort Worth at Texas Wesleyan, March 26-27. Merkin won the 67-kilogram Greco-Roman event after being unseeded in the draw and knocking off topseeded Hayden Tuma 8-0 in the quarters. Two matches later, Merkin beat the second seed, Benjamin Peak, in the final on an injury default with Merkin up 6-2. Jackson, a two-time AllAmerican at Indiana University during his college years, finished second in the 86-kilogram freestyle event, earning him a bid to the trials. Seeded second, Jackson won four times to make the final, getting the bid-clinching win 3-1 over third-seeded Mark Hall before falling 7-2 to Gabe Dean in the final and defeating Drew Foster 10-0 for second place.

Com ing up big in t he clutch, Princeton University alum Michael Sowers ’20 scored the game-winning goal late in the fourth quarter as the second-ranked Duke men’s lacrosse team edged No. 4 Syracuse 1514 last Thursday. Sowers, who is currently playing for Duke as a grad student on a fifth year of eligibility resulting from the cancellation of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, assisted on the tying goal and then notched the winning tally with 3:25 left in the contest. The star attackman had three goals and three assists in the victory as the Blue Devils improved to 9-0.

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OLYMPIAN EFFORT: Former Princeton University women’s track standout Julia Ratcliffe ’17 displays her hammer throwing form during her college days. Ratcliffe added to her already impressive resume last week at the Jennian Homes New Zealand Track & Field Championships, qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics along with setting new Oceania and national record in the hammer throw. Ratcliffe’s best throw of the day went 73.55 meters, exceeding the Tokyo automatic qualifying standard of 72.50 meters. Her mark of 73.55 meters also topped the previous Oceania record of 73.47 meters. The 2014 NCAA Champion in the hammer throw, Ratcliffe was a four-time All-America honoree at Princeton along with a gold medalist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. (Photo provided by Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications)

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the Greyhounds, losing 2-1 (25-20,17-25, 20-25) in the other match on the day. “This is a game to see who makes the least mistakes,” said Ince. “So when we are making mistakes, it is saying let’s shake it off, let’s move on to the next play, it is a new play. It is maintaining positive energy on the court.” A s a te a m co - c aptai n along with classmate Amanda Shi, Ince strives to keep things positive. “Volleyball is definitely a mental game as well as a physical game,” added Ince. “Your mental game is really, really important. As a captain, I want to make sure that everyone is feeling good about themselves at all times on the court because when you are not it shows in the way we play.” Looking good around the net, Ince piled up eight kills in the doubleheader against Northern Burlington in addition to the 11 she had against HoVal. “I am hoping to bring consistency, I like to put points on the board,” said Ince. Ince also likes playing with younger sister, PHS junior star Ayo. “We are very competitive people,” said Ince. “We are not twins but it is like twin telepathy on the court. We are really close, I love playing with her.”

TWO-FISTED: Princeton High girls’ volleyball player Yani Ince returns the ball in recent action. Senior star and co-captain Ince is stepping up in her final campaign, piling up kills at the net. In upcoming action, PHS, now 1-6, plays at Rancocas Valley on March 31, at Princeton Day School on April 1, and at WW/P-North on April 6. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Deciding to speed things up on the court, the Princeton High girls’ basketball team enjoyed a good run this winter. Bolstered by an infusion of talented freshmen, PHS employed an uptempo style to end the campaign with a final record of 7-3, a marked improvement on the 5-20 mark the program posted in the 2019-20 season. “The fact that more players were able to play bodes well for the future as far as that exciting brand of basketball,” said Tiger head coach Dave Kosa. “We had our end of season meetings; we went uptempo in practice and a lot of the girls said it was just fun to go to practice.” PHS had a lot of fun in its season finale, defeating New Egypt 39-29 on March 6. “New Eg y pt is always strong, it was a good last game,” said Kosa, who got 11 points and six assists from freshman star Casey Serxner in the win with Sofia Aguayo chipping in eight points and five rebounds and Nora Devine contributing six points, eight rebounds, and five blocked shots. “It was nice to finish unbeaten at home. We didn’t have that many home games but of the home games that we did have, I think we were 4-0. We played well, we led from beginning to end and we played great defense.” The squad’s quintet of freshmen Ser xner, L eah Rose-Seiden, Delaney Keegan, Riley Devlin, and Gabby Bannett, proved to be a nice addition to the program. “We knew we had good freshmen coming in, I was excited to see what we had with them,” said Kosa. “They really exceeded our expectations. This year we had more options to score the ball. It translated into wins and success for us.” Star point guard Serxner in particular was critical to the success of the Tigers this winter. “Casey came on the scene to lead us on scoring, assists, and steals; she rarely turned the ball that much either,” said Kosa, noting that Serxner earned All-Colonial Valley Conference honors. “I was talking to her and she thinks she could have played better. She hates coming off the floor even if she is in foul trouble. It is really great to have a point guard as competitive as she is. She is also very smart too. Her instincts are really good, some of the best I have seen. At half court in our diamond defense, she really adjusts well. She went sideline to sideline. There were times where she was anticipating passes and getting her steals that way. She really helped us.” Junior forward Devine, who also received All-CVC recognition, was a big help in the paint for PHS, leading the squad in rebounds and blocked shots. “Nora really started to come on towards the end, I am really excited for her next year to have a full season,” said Kosa. “In the beginning, when we went to an up tempo, we were splitting time with Nora and Sofia [Aguayo] because

being uptempo we need to have a lot of bodies. She really accumulated those numbers in pretty much half a game throughout the entire course of the season.” The team’s lone senior, Brynne Hennessy, was an inspiration to her teammates throughout the season. “Brynne led by example, she worked really, really hard,” said Kosa. “Her forte is shooting the basketball so we are going to miss that. In practice every day, Brynne was grinding it out, doing what she needed to do. Even though she is a shooter, she worked hard on the other parts of her game as well. That is something important for us, we really want to play defense.” Noting that his players worked through strict COVID-19 protocols, Kosa credited them with displaying a positive attitude on a daily basis. “T hey were g reat ; we talked about it in the beginning that we had to play with masks because it was what the district policy had us do,” said Kosa. “We just made the best of it. Every game that we played we were thankful for playing. Some things were out of our control, like some of the teams that didn’t play us. It is the same thing in life. Some things are out of your control and what are you going to do, you make the best of things.”

In Kosa’s view, the program is poised to do some big things in the future. “We do have a nice mix coming back, we will have four seniors next year,” said Kosa, whose returning seniors include Katie Chao and Molly Brown in addition to Devine and Aguayo. “The fact that we added these new freshmen into the mix coming off of a subpar season and trying to mesh everything, playing 10 games while other teams are playing 15, really turned out awesome for us. Now we have 11 out of our top 12 back and we are able to play and do workouts over the summer and get everybody more accustomed to our system. It is really exciting going into next year.” In order to produce an exciting campaign next winter, the returning players will need to put in the work during the offseason. “We talked a lot about playing over the summer and playing spring ball, playing AAU,” said Kosa. “That was the one thing about that group two years that went to the sectional semis, they were committed to playing a lot. They played during the spring and they played during the fall. Those close games that we had that year went our way because of all the chemistry that came from practicing together. That is something that we are trying to draw upon this year going into next year.” —Bill Alden

DEVINE INSPIRATION: Princeton High girls’ basketball player Nora Devine puts up a shot in a game this season. Junior forward Devine’s superb play in the paint this winter helped PHS go 7-3. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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After having lost its first three matches of the 2021 season by 2-0 scores, the Princeton High girls’ volleyball team got off to a promising start as it hosted Hopewell Valley last Thursday. Hustling after balls and playing aggressively at the net, PHS won the first set 25-15. “We decided that we were losing on our own mistakes and today we tried to be a little bit more on our toes,” said Tiger senior co-captain Yani Ince. “We played really, really well in the first set.” The Tigers, though, got on their heels as they dropped the next two sets, 25-23 and 25-17, to fall 2-1 to HoVal. “I think we relaxed a little bit in the second set,” said Ince, who ended up with a team-high 11 kills in the defeat. “In the third set, I think we were a little too slow.” In reflecting on the setback, Ince believed PHS can take a valuable lesson from the experience. “We need to work on maintaining a high level of energy throughout the entire game,” said Ince. “We need to work on that in our practices.” A day later, Ince and the Tigers reached a higher level, breaking through with a 2-0 win (25-23, 25-19) over Northern Burlington as they split a doubleheader with

Looking ahead, Ince is confident that PHS will be more and more competitive as the season goes on. “We don’t have a preseason and that time to get into our groove,” said Ince. “We have to do it in the game. We are really looking forward to playing some high level volleyball, raising the level of play and having fun.” While PHS head coach Patty Manhart was happy to see her squad win the first set against HoVal, she was frustrated that the Tigers didn’t close the deal. “It is on the girls just wanting it and playing hard,” said Manhart. “Maybe it is the inexperience, not really hav ing retur ning varsit y players who know how to close that game. It is just more time and experience. I hope it will come in time. I have been changing the lineups around a little bit. I was excited that this first set clicked.” Manhart is excited about the play of senior standout Ince. “It was her idea to move to the opposite hitter, which was great because she is the stronger hitter on that side and is more confident,” said Manhart. “It really paid off in how she produced tonight so that was a good call on her part.” With PHS moving to 1-6 with a 2-0 loss (12-25, 2125) to Rancocas Valley last Monday, Manhart is looking for her players to show more confidence on the court. “In any game, you are going to lose a point or you might make a mistake, you have to shake it off and then want to fix it or make up for it in the next point,” said Manhart, whose team plays at Rancocas Valley on March 31, at Princeton Day School on April 1, and at WW/P-North on April 6. “I feel like instead we tend to then get a little timid and give a free ball over or not go for the ball to receive on defense. It is just that mentality of wanting to come back and fix a mistake and come out stronger instead of them trying to play it safe.” In addition to getting PHS on the winning track, Manhart is focused on making sure that the team’s Class of 2021, which includes Malia Gildersleeve, Carly Hubert, Megan Li, and Kylee Tucholski in addition to Shi and Ince, get to enjoy a special final campaign with the program. “Most of the seniors are out there in the lineup,” said Manhart. “I want the seniors to leave with good memories of being able to play with each other. That is the most important part.” Ince, for her part, is making those memories. “We are so happy to have a season; it was a little touch and go,” said Ince. “I think all of us, especially the seniors, are very thankful that we have season, no matter how short it is. We are just excited to be back on the court again and playing as a team.” —Bill Alden

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Displaying Perseverance Along With Skill, PDS Boys’ Hockey Enjoyed 4-1-1 Campaign While Scott Bertoli was happy to see his Princeton Day School boys’ hockey team post a 4-1-1 mark this winter, a winning record isn’t what will stand out when he looks back on the 2021 campaign. “The results aside, it was the way we ended up getting through it,” said PDS head coach Bertoli, referring to the manner in which his players dealt with the COVID-19 protocols this winter. “We were on the ice all nine weeks. We weren’t shut down at any point. Our kids did a good job. The school’s mask policy was effective and our kids showed a willingness to buy into that. I understand it is challenging. Even when I would hop on the ice for drills fully masked, it was hard to get adjusted to.” PDS played hard to the end, topping St Augustine 4-0 on March 4 to avenge its only defeat of the season and then defeated crosstown rival Princeton High 6-0 a day later in its season finale. Bertoli was proud of how his squad per for med at both ends of the ice in the win over St. Augustine as it evened the score in the rivalry after having lost 3-2 to the Hermits in mid-February. “I think the kids just naturally got excited; we always took the approach that you didn’t know what tomorrow

was going to bring,” said Bertoli, who got two goals and two assists from senior star Drew McConaughy in the win with junior goalie Tim Miller making 25 saves in earning the shutout. “For all intents and purposes it might have been our last game of the year with one day to go. We played well, we controlled the game. I felt good about the way we were playing. Timmy was outstanding in net all year long. We generated chances. Our kids looked good.” As games got canceled, Bertoli and his staff worked on honing the skills of their kids. “With so few games, we spent more time at practice on individual skill work, the focus was on that individual attention,” said Bertoli. “It was more of a holistic, collective approach. As the days and the weeks went on, it was less likely that we were going to play a lot of games. It was just nice to have that to look forward to and I know how much it meant to the kids, being together to do something that they love and are passionate about.” The squad’s senior group of Mc C onaug hy, Trevor Ku n k le, A lex Daren kov, Birch Gorman, Gibson Linnehan, Alex Nowakowski, and Emery Oliver held things

ON POINT: Princeton Day School boys’ hockey player Gibson Linnehan controls the puck in recent action. Senior standout forward Linehan’s solid play helped PDS go 4-1-1 this winter. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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PDS Girls’ Hockey Produces 5-0-1 Campaign, Fueled by Senior Stars, Talented Young Performers John Ritchie was expecting big things from his Princeton Day School girls’ hockey this winter. Looking ahead to the season, PDS head coach Ritchie asserted that his squad possessed the depth and talent to post one of the best records in program history. Ritchie’s confidence proved to be well-founded as the Panthers ended up going 5-0-1. While Ritchie was proud of his team’s undefeated season, he was disappointed that COVID concerns and inclement weather led to the cancellation of scheduled clashes against some of the elite teams in the state. “We will take it, we finished it on a good note for the seniors by not losing,” said Ritchie, whose team skated to a 2-2 tie against Trinity Hall in its season finale on February 22. “It is one of those situations where you don’t have much control. I would have loved to play some of those other teams. We scrimmaged Summit but we didn’t get to play them in a real game. We didn’t get to play Mo-Beard, we didn’t get to play Pingry. We count those teams as the top of the state and they showed that again this year. Unfortunately with this group we didn’t get a chance to test them this year.” The PDS group had a good time on a daily basis as it got plenty of ice time at McGraw Rink. “If nothing else, from a social aspect for a bunch of teenagers to be able to come to the rink four or five days a week whether it was for prac-

tice or the few games that we had was a huge positive for everybody,” said Ritchie. “It was a good year overall.” As the players dealt with the COVID protocols and the cancellations, they displayed a positive mindset. “The thing I told them is that life can be that way sometimes where it is just out of your control,” said Ritchie. “They did a great job all year. They were grateful for the season, they stayed together. They never complained once about wearing masks. They never complained about not having a locker room. They never complained about not having a lot of games. I could not have, and our coaching staff could not have, asked for any more from the girls. The maturity level of them for high schoolers is probably a lot better than I would have been.” The team’s corps of seniors Maisie Henderson, Hannah Choe, Madeline Chia and the Wexler twins, Hailey and Jillian, showed mature leadership. “It is so bittersweet because when I started they were all freshmen; I wasn’t the head coach but I was on the staff so it was the first group of girls that I watched go from freshmen to seniors,” said Ritchie, who was in his second year at the helm of the program. “One unique thing about high school versus the club sport is that you don’t get that opportunity to see the full four year maturation process. They are a special group. It is really interesting to see where they started and how they finished. They all have bright futures in different areas, whether it

is in sports or in academics. They were really, really key in my first year as head coach. They helped myself and my staff implement what we expected in terms of what we liked and how the locker room was organized. They bought in right away, they were eager. They are definitely going to be missed.” Featuring a strong group of returning players in juniors Ally Antonacci, Natalie Celso, Franny Gallagher, Courtney Richter, and Frances Bobbitt along with sophomores Lauren Chase, Abigail Ashman, and Nora Appleby and freshmen Emily McCann, Logan Harrison, Isabel Cook, Colleen Mayer, Lily Ryan, and Elena Sichel, the PDS program has a bright future. “We are really high on the skill level of the younger players,” said Ritchie. “The seniors leaving is going to give them the opportunity to step up. This year, they were able to learn. Part of our long term goal of trying to attract girls that want to try the sport and also girls that play it as their primary sport. In each of our classes, we have several girls of higher skill level. That is going to help us year after year.” Due to that skill level through the roster, Ritchie believes that the Panthers can develop into one of the elite teams in the state. “I definitely think we have the capabilities,” said Ritchie. “Once the talent level is there and the numbers are there, then it is up to us as coaches to make sure that we put that all together. I think we have the capability to be at the top of the state but it will be a good challenge for us.” —Bill Alden

HAIL STORM: Princeton Day School girls’ hockey star Hailey Wexler, left, races up the ice in a game this season. Senior forward Wexler’s offensive production helped PDS go 5-0-1 this season. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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For the Hun School boys’ hockey team, the theme of the 2021 season turned out to be what might have been. Boasting a squad w ith seven seniors and some talented younger players, Hun featured depth throughout the lineup. But paused by COVID-19 concerns and having opponents cancel games due to similar issues, the Raiders only played three games this winter, the last one coming on February 17. “It was tough to not think about an unfortunate waste, more so than any other year, this was when we could have been good,” said Hun head coach Ian McNally. “It is so unfortunate that this is the year that it happened. It was almost like we never got started, that it wasn’t a season.” The Raiders ended up losing all three contests they did have, falling 6-1 to Morristown-Beard on February 12, 5-4 to Bergen Catholic on February 15, and 4-2 to Don Bosco on February 17. “We did as well as we could, unfortunately, the three games that we were able to get in were no slouches,” said McNally. “We played Mo Beard, we were pretty rusty and they smoked us. We played Bergen Catholic, we played hard and we fought back. We played Don Bosco and we played hard. We were never able to have the full team because of quarantines. It was whoever was available, played. We tried our best and then we went home.” While Hun didn’t get anything close to a full slate of games, the players did benefit from daily training sessions.

“For the kids who got to practice the three or four weeks that we were there, it was enjoyable,” said McNally. “They liked having a social thing as part of their school day. They got to know each other. If you weren’t on the same A /B day in school, you didn’t see each other. There were friendships, fun and camaraderie but it certainly didn’t feel like we had a hockey season. At the end, that part was more for the practice and enjoyment of being together.” McNally was particularly disappointed that his group of seniors, Will Banford, Nick Dimatos, Eddie Evaldi, Zach Kandel, Elliott Lareau, Charles Lavoie, and Max Schmuckler, didn’t get to go out on a high note. “We got just enough time to name Nick Dimatos and Eddie Evaldi as captains, they got to wear the ‘C’ for a week,” said McNally. “They got that out of it but as a senior season, unfortunately it wasn’t much to have. There was only so much they could do. We are losing seven and it is a bigtime seven, certainly more so than we have felt before with a group that is leaving at the same time. They leave pretty big holes.” The program is planning to honor the legacy of its Class of 2021. “We are still figuring out how to do something at the end of the year for those guys; it would have been hard to even have a Senior Day because we didn’t have any sort of a year with the senior group,” said McNally. “If anything, you are celebrating what they have done in the past. Guys like Eddie,

Nick, and Max have been here all of the way through. That is a little more understandable. You look back and think about all that they have been able to bring and how they grew up through the program.” Looking ahead, Hun has plenty of good guys slated to return in juniors Riley Frost, Ming Yuan, Christian Clover, Josh Ouellette, Paul Dumas, and Jack Borek along with sophomores Elian Estulian, Mark Gall, Stephen Chen, and Joshua Sosner. “With the contributions from the sophomores this year, there is enough there,” said McNally. “They are not coming up from JV, they are contributing varsity kids that we will be able to lean on. There is certainly a group there that is certainly going to be excited to play with.” With things hopefully returning to normal by next winter, Hun will be looking at an exciting schedule as it will be a member of two competitive prep circuits. “We were supposed to join this APAC league (Atlantic Prep Athletic League) that has LaSalle, Holy Ghost, Malvern, and St Joseph,” said McNally. “We were joining that league until we weren’t allowed to go to Pennsylvania. We will do that next year. So we will be in the APAC and we will be in the MAHL (Mid-Atlantic Hockey League). Then that way there will be very few meaningless games. It will all be league play. There will be excitement to make a little more purpose.” —Bill Alden

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NICK OF TIME: Hun School boys’ hockey player Nick Dimatos controls the puck in a game during the 2019-20 season. Senior defenseman and team captain Dimatos didn’t get many games during his final campaign as the Raiders went 0-3 in a season abbreviated by COVID-19 concerns. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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BACK IN THE SWING: Hun School baseball player Ben Petrone takes a swing in a 2019 game. After having the 2020 campaign canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Raiders finally return to action this week for regular season play. Hun was slated to play at LaSalle College High (Pa.) on March 30 in its season opener and then play at the Blair Academy on April 5 and at the Peddie School on April 6. In addition to the Raider baseball team, the Hun softball, boys’ lacrosse and girls’ lacrosse teams are all starting regular season action this week. The Raider softball team plays at Peddie on April 6 in its opener, boys’ lax hosts Episcopal Academy (Pa.) on April 5, and girls’ lax is at Lawrenceville on April 1. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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training in Minnesota and then onto the island of Crete in Greece, working with Nike Missiles. Later he served in Furth and Ansbach, Germany, a base the U.S. Army took over after World War II. Within this time frame, he married the late Marlyn (Funk) Gaskins of Minnesota. He was later employed by the company GE/Betz, Inc. of Trevose, Pennsylvania, and Addison, Illinois, where he retired. He also enjoyed playing music with a few old friends, organizing a jazz band of sorts. Later he went back to a beloved hobby of his collecting, designing, and building scaled model trucks, “18 wheelers,” and when he was growing up, how he loved his farm tractors … those “green” John Deeres. Norman is survived by his wife, Sandra (Fuchs) Gaskins, of Easton, PA, and their two children, Jennifer G. Niederer and her husband John of Hamburg, NJ, and Jeremey Gaskins and his wife Nicole S. of Kissimmee, FL; and his four children with his first wife Marlyn, Norman E. Gaskins III and his wife Jennifer A. of Minnetonka, MN, Melonie G. Elvebak and her husband Mitchel of Waconia, MN, Robert Gaskins and his wife Jennie U. of Brooklyn Park, MN, and Gregory Gaskins and his wife Michele D., Brooklyn Park, MN. He is also survived by a brother, Owen Hall Gaskins of Hamilton (Princeton), NJ; an aunt, Mary E. Hall Sibley of Los Angeles, CA, and an uncle, Richard G. Hall of Blue Bell, PA; 11 grandchildren; and a host of cousins and many dear friends. A committal service at the graveside of his parents at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ, to be determined.

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Holy Week Schedule: Wed, Mar 31 Confessions at 7:00pm

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2021 and was immediately put onto oxygen to try to bring up his levels. One week and a day later, he passed away from pneumonia as a result of COVID-19. Norman was born on April 19, 1943 in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of the late Norman Edward Gaskins, Sr. and E. Ermalene (Hall) Gaskins. With the passing of his father, the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey, after living on the campus of Lincoln University, outside of Oxford, Pennsylvania, where his father was a Professor of Organic Chemistry for over 20 years. Lincoln’s campus had many children about and one of Norman’s friends was Julian Bond and his brother James, and they would roam the campus making up games and boys just being boys. Norman graduated from Princeton High School, where he played football and played the clarinet and saxophone in the Princeton High School Band. He attended Lincoln University and served in the U.S. Army for nine years,

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