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Face to Face Talks Have PREA, Board Hoping for Agreement Before Fact Finding Stage . . . . . . . 12 Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra Closes Season Saturday at Richardson Auditorium . . . . . . . . 17 Longtime Princeton Resident Charles Townsend, Who Chaired the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for 32 Years, Dies at Home . . . . . . . 31 After Enjoying Quick Start to Decathlon Career, PU’s Soerens Hoping for Big Finish at NCAAs . . . . . 22 Men’s Summer Hoops League Tips Off 27th Season With Old Guard Looking to Hold Off Young Guns . . . . . . . . 28
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Council Moves On Overnight Parking, Lytle Street Property Rules for overnight parking and the purchase of a controversial property on Lytle Street dominated a lengthy meeting of Princeton Council Monday night. The governing body was evenly divided about how to proceed with harmonizing rules from the former borough and township on overnight parking, leading Mayor Liz Lempert to cast the deciding vote against introducing an ordinance that would have slightly modified or expanded the former borough’s overnight parking rules. “This issue needs more consensus before we move forward,” Ms. Lempert said. At its previous meeting, Council discussed three options for overnight parking. One was to keep boundaries the same, another was to make some changes, and a third was to ban overnight parking throughout the town. While no one expressed support for the third option, there was considerable discussion about the other two. Council member Jo Butler, who did extensive work with colleagues Jenny Crumiller and Bernie Miller on the issue, was especially disappointed with the decision. Along with Mr. Miller and Patrick Simon, she voted in favor of introducing the ordinance, which would have made some changes to boundaries. Heather Howard, Lance Liverman, and Ms. Crumiller voted against it. Ms. Crumiller said that though she had done a lot of work on the issue, she recently changed her mind about introducing the ordinance because it wouldn’t be fair to tell residents who have previously been allowed to park overnight that they would no longer be permitted to do so. Ms. Howard agreed with Ms. Crumiller’s opinion. “We ought to protect what we have,” she said. “The equity is really cut in favor of keeping existing rules. Tweaking the edges has a real impact on the residents who live in the area that’s being affected.” Ms. Butler commented that other rules have changed as a result of consolidation, including regular leaf and brush pickup that borough residents have had to give up. According to existing rules, anyone can park on the street in much of the former township. But in the former borough, on-street parking is not allowed Continued on Page 10
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Leslie Burger, the woman credited with turning the Princeton Public Library into “the community’s living room” while bringing it national recognition for services and innovation, is retiring after 16 years as executive director. According to the library’s Board of Trustees, Ms. Burger has decided to step down in January 2016. A national search will be launched by an executive search firm to hire her successor. “This is a bittersweet moment for the Princeton community,” said Kiki Jamieson, president of the library’s Board of Trustees. “We’re very happy for Leslie as she starts a new chapter of her life, but we will sorely miss her leadership, vision, hard work, and dedication to the
Princeton community and public libraries in general.” Ms. Burger, who co-founded the private consulting firm Library Development Solutions with her husband Alan in 1991, will turn her full attention to that company once she retires. It was as temporary library director that she first came to Princeton in 1999 when former director Jacqueline Thresher had left for another position. “Leslie took us by complete surprise,” recalled Marvin Reed, who was mayor at the time of what was then Princeton Borough. “We had this big plan to expand and double the capacity of the library. We
weren’t sure what direction to take, or what we’d do about parking. Our director had gotten a wonderful job out on Long Island and here we were having to at least temporary fill her shoes. Leslie came on, and we told her we wouldn’t bother her too much about all our planning for our expansion, but she said, ‘That’s alright, I’m interested in that. We’ll fit it into the schedule.’ Eventually, she asked if we’d mind if she submitted her application for the directorship. Of course we said, ‘Fine.’” Ms. Burger changed the way municipal leaders viewed the library’s future. “She introduced us to the fact that we weren’t just physically remaking a building,” Mr. Continued on Page 7
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SHE GAVE THE COMMUNITY A LIVING ROOM: After 16 years as executive director of the Princeton Public Library, Leslie Burger will step down in January 2016. Echoing Ms. Burger’s favorite term for the library under her tenure, particularly during crisis situations like Hurricane Sandy, former Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand credits her with making it “the living room of our community.” (Photo by Mark Czjakowski for Princeton Public Library)
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The municipality is preparing to make improvements to Valley Road in 2016, as part of a capital improvement program, partially funded by a New Jersey Department of Transportation municipal aid grant. Last month Valley Road residents were invited to contribute their ideas at a May 12 meeting. A second meeting, described as a “public design session” will take place Monday, June 15, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room at Witherspoon Hall, 400 Witherspoon Street. This meeting, which will again be chaired by Mayor Liz Lempert, will continue the discussion between residents and representatives from various municipal Boards and Commissions. It is designed to discuss Valley Road in the context of the town’s master plan, which recommends the installation of an offroad multi-use path along Valley Road, as well as Princeton’s Complete Streets Policy, adopted in 2013. Topics to be discussed include repairs to storm sewers, sanitary sewer main and laterals, new curbing repair of sidewalks and/or replacement with blacktop pathways. The municipality will be imposing a five-year moratorium on any street openings once the work is completed, and residents planning to upgrade or install new utility services are being advised to contact their utility company. A list of contacts is provided on the municipal website: www.princetonnj.gov. Continued on Page 11
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She is also a forBurger led the library through years; 400 are enrolled this mer president of the New Jeran unprecedented period of summer. growth highlighted by the sey Library Association. Having grown up in Princ- design, construction, and “She had national contacts,” eton, Mr. Waltman attended opening of the Sands Library Mr. Reed said. “She was well Johnson Park Elementary Building in 2004 and a suc- known in the field. She brought School and graduated from cessful campaign to build a national attention to what we Princeton High School in $10 million endowment to had done here in Princeton.” 1982. His favorite part of support innovation. Accord- Ms. Marchand added, “She rethe job, he said, is its diverse ing to information from the ally put the Princeton library on demands. “I’m constantly library, she led development the national and international involved in a mix of differ- efforts resulting in more than map when she was president ent things, from lobbying in $25 million in all in private of the AIA, which is a feather Trenton, to discussions on funding for the institution. in our cap.” the STEM curriculum, reBefore joining the Princeton During Ms. Burger’s tenure, moving a dam on the MillLibrary, Ms. Burger served as all library usage statistics, instone River, and talking with cluding overall attendance, a development consultant at kids.” circulation of materials, the New Jersey State Library His next goal is to turn growth of technology and where she focused on developfrom building the center to digital collections, and pub- ing leadership and marketing using it to advance the Wa- lic programming attendance initiatives within the state’s litershed’s mission and he’s either doubled or increased braries. She served as execueager to get the message dramatically. She strength- tive director of the Central across to high school stu- ened ties between the library Jersey Regional Library Coopdents interested in science and public, private, nonprofit, erative, which served Mercer, and engineering. A one- and educational institutions in Monmouth, and Ocean counweek Watershed Academy the local community. ties. She also worked at the ______________ is designed just for them Connecticut State Library as “Being executive director of during the summer. _______________ Date & Time: ______________________ a library in a town that places the LSTA coordinator, direcStony Brook-Millstone a premium on reading, learn- tor of Planning and Research, our ad, The scheduled to run ___________________. Watershed Association is lo- ing, and community engage- and director of Network Seroughly andatpay to the following: cated 31 special Titus Millattention Road, ment has been the highlight vices. 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Fax number Address � Expiration Date are open� each evolve from one marked by community information and day from dawn to dusk; Wa- slow, deliberate planning to referral service. tershed Center for Environ- one driven by technology to The announcement of Ms. mental Advocacy, Science rapidly meet the ever-chang- Burger’s retirement comes as and Education’s hours are ing and growing demands of the library is in the midst of Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to library customers.” a campaign to raise $3 mil5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. lion in private funding for the Phyllis Marchand was mayor to 4 p.m. For more informaplanned renovation of its secof Princeton Township when tion, call (609) 737-3735, or ond floor. She hopes to have Ms. Burger arrived at the livisit: www.thewatershed. all funds secured and for the brary. “I can’t imagine anyorg (where an audio-visual project to be underway when tour of the new Center can one who has accomplished she leaves. so much in her job,” she said. be viewed). “I cannot think of a better “She literally stuck with this —Linda Arntzenius building and the garage and way for Leslie to complete her legacy as executive director of Fast Food • Take-Out • Dine-In the Princeton Public Library than by her overseeing the Hunan ~ Szechuan funding and launch of this Malaysian ~ Vietnamese planned renovation,” said Daily Specials • Catering Available Ms. Jamieson. “Her vision and inspiration will forever be 157 Witherspoon St. • Princeton • Parking in Rear • 609-921-6950 part of our community and a reimagined second floor is a wonderful and enduring gift from Leslie to all of us.” “I’m so happy for her,” said Ms. Marchand. “I think she’s leaving at the top of her game.” —Anne Levin
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To the Editor: Planning for next summer’s reconstruction of Valley Road is taking place now. Options concerning provisions for pedestrians and bicyclists are being considered. We share the goal of making Princeton a great community for all, including walkers, bikers, and homeowners (categories which obviously overlap). Only one of the proposed options serves all interested parties well — to repair and maintain the current 4 foot sidewalks on each side of Valley Road. The other options, such as an 8 foot wide pathway on one side of the road, or one 6 foot pathway on each side, are, as a prior writer said, unnecessary, unsafe, intrusive, and unattractive. Please consider the following: • Necessity: Thirty years of observation and personal experience have shown that the sidewalks along Valley Road are more than sufficient and quite safe for all the walkers and bikers who use them. They are never congested. On weekends, we often see serious cyclists on the street itself, and feel that sharrows (onpavement signage) would be appropriate. • Safety: Wider paths would decrease safety along Valley Road in two ways. First, they would make dangerous intersections more dangerous; they would increase the likelihood that bikers, taking their right of way for granted, would fail to exercise sufficient caution when entering the busy intersections at Jefferson, Walnut, and Ewing. Second, wider pathways would hamper the ability of drivers backing from driveways into the busy street to maintain the continuous vision necessary to do so safely. • Intrusiveness and appearance: Wider paths would take a substantial amount of land from across the front of homeowners’ properties. They would decrease privacy. In increasing the volume of hard-surface coverage in front of houses, they would be very unattractive. In eliminating space from owners’ driveways, they would limit residents’ usage and parking. Finally, in no case is asphalt an acceptable surface for sidewalks. Property values are likely to decrease as a consequence of all these factors. We share the value of making Princeton a great community for walkers and bikers. We also feel that it is essential that the town not take homeowners’ property and cover it with hard-surface pathways unless it is absolutely necessary to do so. The current sidewalks on Valley Road are well suited for all the pedestrian and bike traffic they may ever bear. So in the Valley Road reconstruction, repair the sidewalks and preserve our neighborhood! NaNcy SchREIbER, GREG haNd Valley Road
To the Editor: Last Tuesday’s letter endorsing the 10-cent surcharge at Mccaffrey’s for each so-called single-use bag supplied by the store prompts a number of questions, and some speculative answers. If the surcharge would not affect whether or not customers shop at Mccaffrey’s, isn’t it also reasonable to assume it would not be much of an incentive for them to bring their own reusable bags? In spite of the reported outcome of the referendum, the present balance of opinion among the shoppers themselves appears to be at least 10-to-1 against having to bring their own bags; 40 or 50 cents more on a bill whose order of magnitude is a hundred dollars seems unlikely to greatly change that balance. Is it really a significant contribution to the environment to bring one or two reusable bags to the store several times a week while typically driving a minimum of two miles per round trip in semi-urban traffic in a car or SUV that gets less than 20 miles per gallon following such a protocol, thereby emitting at least 2 pounds of cO2 per trip? Is the sole target of the movement really Mccaffrey’s? Would the surcharge not apply to every retailer doing business in the town? For example, will a dry cleaner be required to charge 10 cents for each paper or plastic bag protecting just-cleaned clothes from the atmosphere? Pizza boxes are notoriously non-recyclable and not obviously reusable, so is there not a valid rationale for including them under the surcharge umbrella? also, as one more inconvenient example, paper and styrofoam coffee cups and “doggie bags” or their equivalent. I perhaps should know, but don’t, who would get to keep the surcharge. If it’s the stores, it makes a certain sense, since they would be compensated to some degree for their extra clerical work. It would seem regrettable to an extreme degree if the town planned to set up a bureaucracy to enforce adherence to the new ordinance, regulate its application, and collect the proceeds. do the surcharge advocates target paper bags and plastic bags with equal emphasis? both are nominally recyclable, but in practice it appears substantially more likely for paper to be recycled than plastic. also, paper, though one suspects it is more costly to the stores, is relatively benign environmentally; paper and wood products constitute one of the most effective and least costly — but also least credited — avenues to long-term sequestration of atmospheric cO2 (and paper shopping bags, at least in our house, are rarely single-use). JOhN STROThER Grover avenue
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To the Editor: Non-biodegradable plastic bags are filling up landfills. Princeton does not have an active landfill within its boundaries, thus any problem with plastic bags does not uniquely concern Princeton. The proposed ordinance would impose a tax on those Princeton shoppers who use store-supplied plastic bags. Proponents of the tax would have us believe that this is not a tax because we can bring our own bags and thus avoid it. If we apply the same reasoning to the gasoline tax, then it, too, is only a fee that can be avoided if we walk or use bicycles. Orwellian Newspeak, long used by the Federal government (“collateral damage” or “Revenue Enhancement” anyone?), has arrived in Princeton! Proponents of the proposed ordinance claim the plastic bags supplied by retail stores are single use because they fail to acknowledge that these bags are also used for garbage (making them dual use, which is why they are in the landfills rather than being recycled). If the consumer complies with the ordinance and carries his purchases home in a reusable bag, then he must change his garbage handling. The obvious solution is to buy plastic kitchen garbage bags that are small enough to line a kitchen waste container. These thicker plastic bags will then go to the landfill instead of those supplied by the store, making a net reduction of landfill plastic very dubious. The current store-supplied plastic bags would be replaced, the proponents demand, by a sturdier reusable bag. I have received several of these so-called reusable bags and doubt that they can be used more than 20 times before they tear or break. comparing a store-supplied plastic bag tax of 10 cents with a reusable bag sold by Mccaffrey’s for $1.99 plus sales tax, the consumer really has no net cost incentive to abandon the store-supplied bags. The proposed tax would apply only to Princeton, thus encouraging people to shop outside of Princeton. The only justification put forth by the proponents is that Princeton should be a model for the rest of the world to copy. The latter outcome is at most unlikely. but, as pointed out by Mccaffrey’s, this tax would place local vendors at a real competitive disadvantage. Such a tax should be state-wide, or at least county-wide, but that is unlikely after the defeat of the county referendum in the last election. (how the proponents expect to move the world when they can’t even succeed in their home county is an unaddressed question.) The proposed ordinance would exempt people on public assistance from the tax. If that clause is approved, the goal of eliminating plastic bags from future garbage streams will not be met, but if not, the tax would be regressive. The proposed bag tax would also apply to paper bags. Since when are paper bags not biodegradable? The job of Princeton’s mayor and council is to do the best they can for the people of Princeton. It is not their job to set a dubious standard which the rest of the world may not follow. RONald NIElSEN humbert Street
Cyclist Who Uses Valley Road Reveals Hazards of Poorly Maintained Bike Paths
To the Editor: I must agree with those residents of Valley Road who oppose the transformation of one of their sidewalks into a bike path and I do so, not as a Valley Road resident, but as a long-time cyclist who has been riding almost every day, year ’round for 12 years. and I do ride a portion of Valley Road one day, also year ’round, on my weekend 30-mile rides out to and up along Sourland Mountain’s ridge line from east to west and then back down the “mountain” and back to Princeton. Valley Road as it exists today is as safe for cyclists as any other moderately to high-trafficked through street I ride on my weekday 7-milers around town and rarely are bike paths in the area as safe. The problem with bike paths is that they are never maintained as well as streets and are rarely as well cleared of debris and other dangers to cyclists … for example low growing shrubbery and tree limbs … as are the town’s main roads. The little bike path that runs close and parallel to Valley Road from Moore across Jefferson Street and on over to Witherspoon is an excellent example of this. and the long bike path along The Great Road from Mountain Road to just short of drake’s corner is another. I would not ride on either because of broken glass and other debris, downed and low-hanging tree limbs, and bumps and pot holes on those paths. In all the years I’ve been riding, I’ve never once seen a cyclist on The Great Road’s bike path. lots of joggers, but no bikes. We all ride parallel to it on the road. There is little doubt in my mind that a Valley Road bike path, however well-intended, would suffer the same fate as the bike paths mentioned and that cyclists will choose to ride, as we do now, on Valley Road instead. Town money would be better spent improving the shoulders of Valley Road for cyclists as they are currently riddled with potholes and patches, especially toward the Witherspoon end. chestnut and Jefferson streets pose dangers to cyclists too and my main concern there is not for myself but for the many school children who ride on those and any other street near our schools. Would not money be better spent making roads safer for children who ride bikes to school? bike laNES as opposed to PaThS, placed judiciously, can be a great help to cyclists. The bike lane markings along Wiggins, for example, have made my weekend run down Wiggins far less scary as drivers have come to understand and respect their purpose. Perhaps bike laNE markings along Valley Road would better serve cyclists and at much less cost to the town and to those residents of Valley Road who would lose their sidewalk to what is almost certainly to become an unused and thus useless bike path. aShlEy W. WRIGhT Park Place
To the Editor: as principal and P.T.O. co-presidents of Johnson Park (JP) School, we’ve had the good fortune to work, over the years, with many community partners: the arts council, the Princeton Public library, Mccarter Theatre, cotsen children’s library, the Thomas clarke house, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and the University, among others. In recent months, a long-term partner has emerged as a special friend to the children, parents, and staff members of our school community. We refer to the Princeton Police department. Since Sandy hook, officers have established a frequent, informal presence around our school — at our arrival and dismissal times, during our school day, and in the evening. In addition, members of the Safe Neighborhoods division have come to JP several times per year to make classroom presentations to our fifth graders on the issues of cyberbullying and substance abuse and on the potential dangers of social media; they’ve presented similar workshops to our parents. More recently, the police have been active supporters and guides during the “swatting” hoaxes that have plagued our community, including our schools. When other schools and ours received threatening telephone calls, officers were on the spot immediately to ensure our children’s and staff members’ well-being and to outline precautions we should take. They’ve checked JP’s perimeter and surrounding woods, our roof, and our hallways. and, last Friday four officers joined with JP parents and staff members to participate in our fifth graders v. adults basketball game. What a thrill it was for our boys and girls to compete in a spirited game with the officers, and what an opportunity it offered our school community’s spectators to demonstrate their appreciation for our first responders, our protectors, our partners, our friends. Thank you to the Princeton Police department for all they do for and with us. They’re Princeton’s finest. With appreciation, RObERT a. GINSbERG Principal MIlENa dElUca P.T.O. co-President MaRa FRaNcESchI P.T.O. co-President
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surface. We don’t need an “off road path” replacing grass, flowers, and carefully tended hedges with asphalt. I won’t be able to attend the June 15 meeting, but I encourage my neighbors to be there to demand that the work on Valley Road be focused on repair and reconstruction of the roadway and sidewalks as they are. None of our taxpayer dollars should be spent on this “off-road multi-use path” that we don’t need and don’t want. It is a bad idea. ROGER NElSON Valley Road
To the Editor: There are neighborhood/town meetings to discuss the Valley Road project, which is mostly about needed repairs and resurfacing. but there is an issue lurking in the list of items planned for our taxpayer dollars which I and many of my neighbors see as a serious problem: “The Princeton Master Plan recommends the installation of an off-road multi-use path along Valley Road.” If that is done as I have heard it described, an 8-foot wide asphalt strip nominally accommodating bicycles and pedestrians, it will destroy a strip of landscaping by my neighbors that is about 4 feet wide. That is unconscionable, unjustified, unnecessary, and unacceptable. among the reasons why are: that we have very little bike traffic, and quite uneventful sharing of the current sidewalk. Easy. also, this would be a bike path to nowhere since there is nothing connecting to it at either end of Valley Road or, as far as I know, in other Princeton neighborhoods. Valley is a pretty wide road as it is, and it would be sensible and economical to paint the bike lane symbols on the road
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from 2 to 6 a.m. unless the resident has a permit. Residents who do not have driveways can currently buy a permit for one car, for $30 a quarter. This would continue, according to the ordinance. Since the borough and tow nship were consolidated, there are streets where residents at one end can park overnight, while those at the other end cannot. “What’s fair is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to parking,” Ms. Lempert said earlier in the day. At the meeting, she acknowledged that while a lot of time has been spent working on the issue, “We shouldn’t go ahead with it because of that.” Andrea Ihnat, a resident of Green Street in the former borough, said she has spent $7,000 on parking in the 10 years since she moved from Brooklyn to Princeton. “Overnight and daytime parking is actually easier in Brooklyn,” she told Council. “Near the art museum in Philadelphia, you pay $356 a year to park. Princeton needs to function like a real city.” Former Borough Council member David Goldfarb, who lives on Charlton Street, said overnight parking restrictions are necessary as a way to address overcrowding on downtown streets. “I would be very cautious about changing the status quo,” he said. “Do not relax restrictions.” Lytle Street Council voted unanimous-
ly to purchase the double lot at 31-33 Lytle Street after considering a proposal from a group of citizens who want to partner with Habitat for Humanity and hope to build affordable housing units on the site. Under that proposal, which came to Council last Friday, the house located on one part of the property would be demolished by current owner, developer Roman Barsky. The Mary Moss Park would be expanded to that site. Habitat for Humanity would undertake fundraising to build one or two new units of affordable housing on the other side of the lot. Plans call for the removal of the porch and other historic features of the house, which was built around 1870 and is considered to be the oldest on the street. Those elements would be included in the new construction. The parcel is in the WitherspoonJackson neighborhood, which Princeton’s Historic Preservation Commission has recommended as a historic district. The town has gone back and forth on the Lytle Street issue for the past few months, taking into consideration an outcry from citizens who were opposed to demolishing the existing house to turn the site into an expanded spray park rather than a site for affordable housing units. Council voted last March to buy the property for $600,000, with Mercer County agreeing to pay half if the house was razed. Mark Dashield, the town’s administrator, said that Princeton would have to pay back its open space account and the county’s portion if affordable housing was built there at a later date.
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Construction would likely begin in 2017, said Tom Caruso of Habitat for Humanity in Trenton. Prospective buyers would be vetted before being approved, and would have to put in 300 hours of sweat equity. “We will not start the project until the fundraising is completed,” he said. “We wouldn’t put a shovel in the ground until we have all of the monies.” Princeton resident Kip Cherry, who has been active in the efforts to partner with Habitat for Humanity, praised Council for approving the proposed plan. “We’re very excited,” she said. Porches such as the one being saved were key when the town “coped with being a segregated community.” John Heilner, who also worked in the plan, told Council the proposal was “a triple win for the community: additional affordable housing, expansion of Mary Moss Playground, and maintaining the scale and streetscape with replication of a key historical site in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood.” Resident Hendricks Davis told Council he thought the plan was a step in the right direction, though “not the best solution.” He favors that both lots be developed for affordable housing, rather than just the one. Before making a final decision, Mr. Simon said he wants to hear the recommendations of the Affordable Housing Board which had not yet weighed in on the issue. Ms. Lempert praised the citizens and municipal staff members who have worked on the issue. “We all sort of went up and down on a roller coaster to see if it would work,” she said. “I’m really happy we were able to get to this point. I had my moments of doubt.” —Anne Levin
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Valley Road is currently classified as a minor collector roadway. It has a 25-mph speed limit and a five-ton weight restriction. It is estimated that approximately 6,000 vehicles per day use the road, which is part of the route of the Princeton FreeB. There are sidewalks along both sides of the road except for the northern side of Valley between Witherspoon and Jefferson. It is lined by a number of large established London plane trees. At the initial May 12 session, three options were proposed in order to accommodate bicyclists. Option one would be to complete the existing four feet wide sidewalks and install “sharrows” on the roadway (a sharrow is a shared lane marking painted on the road surface). Option 2 would be to widen the sidewalks to six feet and install sharrows on the roadway. Option 3 would be to install an eight feet wide asphalt side path on the south side of Valley Road and complete the four feet wide sidewalk on the north side. According to a document available on the municipal website (www.princetonnj. gov/engineering/ValleyRoad-Improvement-Project. html), Valley Road residents have expressed the view that the third option is not desirable. After the May 12 meeting, a Princeton resident proposed an alter native (fourth) option to “install a six feet wide bike lane, buffered from the vehicle traffic lanes with a planted median, and complete the four feet wide sidewalks.” This option would necessitate a reduction of on-street parking and the relocation of parking to the north side of the roadway. (See the Mailbox on page 8 for more on this issue) Since the May 12 meeting, engineering staff and the Municipal Arborist Lorraine Konopka have completed an initial review of the existing right of way trees, their size, species, and general conditions. Ms. Konopka will be on hand to provide more information on the trees at the June 15 meeting. Municipal tree crews are expected to be at work on Valley Road during the next few weeks, to remove some dead branches identified during the review. In addition, engineering staff identified the location of some sump pump and/or roof drains that discharge very close to the road and/ or sidewalk. Residents are being asked to fill out a Drainage Utility form to assist in this process. Public Works staff working with a subcontractor are in the process of cleaning and inspecting the storm sewer and sanitary sewer mains on Valley Road. Later this month or in July, a surveyor is expected to conduct an engineering survey of the roadway, after which engineering staff “can begin our design drawing preparation.”
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According to the engineering department, “comments will be evaluated and incorporated into the design as appropriate.” An additional de sig n meet ing may b e scheduled in the summer to clarify any unresolved design issues but if no such meeting is deemed necessary, engineering staff will proceed with the design in order to secure the services of a contractor in late fall for the 2016 construction season. Documents from the May 12 meeting are available at: www.princetonnj.gov/ engineering/Valley-RoadImprovement-Project.html. For more information, call (609 ) 921-7077 or email dstockton@princetonnj.gov, —Linda Arntzenius
Free Plane Rides for Kids At Trenton-Mercer Airport
Children who are interested in the magic of flight will have a chance to fly in an aircraft for free on Saturday, June 13 at Trenton-Mercer Airport. The rain date is Sunday, June 14. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 176 is sponsoring a Young Eagles Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. that day. All children ages 8 to 17 years will have an opportunity to fly in an aircraft piloted by an EAA pilot, free of charge. On-site registration is 9:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; there is no advance registration available. The day will provide kids of all ages an opportunity to learn about aircraft and aviation. In addition to the free flights for the 8- to 17-yearolds, children younger than 8 years can have a ride in a simulated plane mockup. There also will be an aviation ground school where parents and kids can find out how an airplane actually functions. Additionally, there will be multiple aircraft on display. Children who wish to fly
must be accompanied by a parent; however, parents will not be allowed on the aircraft during actual flights, which usually last 10 to 15 minutes. EA A is an organization dedicated to sharing its passion for aircraft and aviation through various activities, including the Young Eagles program and tours of historic aircraft. Since 1992, the Young Eagles program has provided free flight experiences to more than 3,000 children who were piloted by Chapter 176 volunteer pilots. Nationwide, the program has provided these flights to 2 million children. Activities will take place at Landmark Aviation, located on the grounds of TrentonMercer Airport at 18 West Piper Avenue, West Trenton, off Exit 3A of Interstate 95. For more information, contact Lee Goldberg of the EAA at (609) 575-7669 or bearberg @ gmail.com, or visit EAA Chapter 176 at www.176.EAAchapter.org. ———
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Riverside Elementar y School presents a free evening of music and dinner Friday, June 12 from 7-9 p.m., to benefit the organization Christine’s Hope for Kids. This “Adult Night” will feature the Princeton High School Studio Band led by Joe Bonjovi. Returning for the event is Mark Stern, jazz saxophone player and Riverside School alumnus. Participants are encouraged to make a donation to Christine’s Hope for Kids, the five-year-old organization that helps local children by teaching kids to aid other kids. The event will be held in the Riverside School gym, 58 Riverside Drive. To RSVP, contact Bill Cirullo at (609) 806-4260 or bill_cirullo@ princetonk12.org. Donations can be made online at www.christineshope.org.
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Face to Face Contract Talks Move District, PREA Representatives Closer In what appeared to be a last ditch attempt to come to an agreement before negotiations move to the costly fact finding stage, representatives of the teachers’s union, Princeton Regional Education Association ( PREA), sat down face to face last week, Ju ne 2, with the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education (BOE). According to District negotiator Patrick Sullivan, both sides had agreed before the meeting to start talks at 9 a.m. and “to go on as long as it takes.” True to that promise, the talks went on into the small hours of Wednesday morning. “T he meeting went 18 hours,” said John Baxter, PREA chief negotiator. “We did not reach a tentative agreement but scheduled a meeting for June 10, to continue talks.” BOE President A ndrea Spalla repor ted that the June 2 meeting “went pretty well,” with much progress being made. “I think getting a deal is definitely do -able,” she said, add ing that today’s meeting was intended to “close the remaining differences between the two sides.” The apparent shift forward comes after lengthy negotiations that have b e e n o n g o i n g for m or e than 14 months. Teachers have been working without a new contract since last July. Chapter 78 remains a st umbling block, even though, as BOE member Patr ick Sullivan pointed out, 107 districts in the state have settled without any change to Chapter 78. Last month, the District reached agreements with two other unions, the Princeton Regional Educa-
tional Support Staff Association ( PRESSA) and the Princeton Administrators’ Association (PAA), replacing contracts that had prev iously b een negot iate d for 2012-15 and 2014-15, respectively. T h e n e got iat ion s w it h PRESSA lasted eight weeks, those with PAA six weeks. The new contract w ith administrators gives them annual increases for the next three years of approximately 2.39 percent, 2.38 percent, and 2.37 percent. That with PR ESSA gives an annual increase of 2.5 percent for each of the next three years. The most recent PR E A offer from the District was for 2.44 percent, 2.2 percent, and 2.3 percent over the next three years. Ac cord i n g to 2013 -14 figures, salaries for Princeton teachers range from $54,033 for a teacher on the first step with a bachelor’s degree to $108,050 for an upper level teacher with a doctorate. A teacher’s base salar y goes up with level of education attained and number of years in the District. For example, a teacher with a doctorate will earn more than one with a master’s degree, who in turn will earn more than one with a bachelor’s degree. A teacher who has served 15 years or more, will earn a longevity payment. Many teachers supplement their basic salary t hrough coach i ng or by teaching extra classes or doing home tutoring. In comparison, figures for 2014-15 show that administrators earn (including longevity payments) between $107,000 and $185,415, w it h t h e ave r ag e b e i n g $141,661. In West Windsor, for the same period, the average is $129,805.
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No Coaching In view of the ongoing contract dispute, coaches i n t h e P r i n ce ton P ubl ic Schools signed a letter last month about summer volunteer activities. Coaches announced that they will not do any volunteer summer coaching or training until August because of the impasse. Their contracts specif y August 10 as the starting date for coaching. Earlier this year, in reaction to the contract stalemate, teachers stopped doing other work t hey are not com pensated for. Twenty-four coaches will be affected. Based on data for t he 2014 calendar, they stand to lose stipends of between approximately $6,000 and $ 2 0,0 0 0. A t P r i n c e to n High School (PHS), for example, an assistant football coach would earn $8,304; an assistant girls soccer coach, $5,260; and an assistant girls tennis coach, $ 5,039, w it h i n a r a nge f rom pr e s ch o ol to h ig h school between $20,060 and $90,700. T h e aver ag e co ach i ng stipend at Princeton High School, as detailed in the last PR E A contract, is $7,229.69. Save our Schools Meeting Just in case today’s talks fail to produce a contract, Save Princeton Public Schools, a public advocacy offshoot of Community for Princeton Public Schools, is planning to hold a public forum Monday June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Un ivers alis t Church, 50 Cherr y Hill Road “in the hopes of providing clarity and encouraging transpare n c y ab ou t t h e l e n g t hy negotiations between the Board and the PREA. Described as a “teachin,” the event will include m e m b e r s of PR E A . For more information, contact saveppsnj @ gmail.com. To submit a question, visit: bit. ly/1KjEyOn. The next meeting of the Board of Education will take place Tuesday, June 16. For more on this issue, see the Mailbox on page 8. —Linda Arntzenius
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HAPPY HACKERS: At the first Code for Princeton Civic Hackathon in the Community Room of Princeton Public Library last weekend, some 150 enthusiasts gathered to share ideas about hacking, coding, and lots more. A core group of 60 stayed for most of the event, which spanned two days and was designed to help build community solutions. Helping to develop a code for SAVE, the Princeton animal shelter, were, from left: Mike Swift, Major League Hacking; Piper Burrows, executive director of SAVE; Prafull Sharma of Montgomery; Iccha Singh, Montgomery; Ben Matthew, Montgomery; Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert; and Claire Ralph, an organizer of the event. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Calendar Wednesday, June 10 11 a.m.: Susie Wilson, author of “Still Running: A Memoir” discusses her partnership with Jacqueline Kennedy and creating the first preschool at The White House; Princeton Senior Resource Center, Suzanne Patterson Building. 7 p.m.: The Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda per forms a free concer t at Hopewell Presbyterian Church. Free will donations will be accepted. 7:30 p.m.: Princeton Photography Club’s “Swap and Buy” at the Johnson Education Center, D&R Greenway Land Trust. Thursday, June 11 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market in Hinds Plaza in downtown Princeton. Local fruits, vegetables, meat, flowers, juice, bread and more (repeats ever y Thursday). 12 : 30 p.m. : “Re cla i m Your Life: All About Hip Replacement” presented by orthopedic sports medicine specialist W. Thomas Gutowski; Princeton Fitness and Wellness Center, 1225 State Road, Princeton. 5:30 p.m.: Philip Keller, author of Advanced Math for Young Students and The New Math SAT Game Plan, leads a free math workshop for children of all ages; Labyrinth Books, Princeton. 7:30 p.m. : T he A ssisi Quartet presents “Music of Haydn and Messiaen.” The cost is $20 to attend; Westminster Choir College’s Bristol Chapel, Princeton. Friday, June 12 3 p.m.: Native Plant Sale at the D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton. Plants are available in quart and gallon-sized pots from $5 to $12. 7:30 p.m.: Free, Divorce Recovery Group meeting at Princeton Church of Christ, 33 River Road, Princeton. 8:30 p.m.: Free screening of Father of the Bride (1991) at the Princeton Shopping Center. Part of the Summer Courtyard Movie Series. Saturday, June 13 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Disposal Day. This event is open to Mercer County residents
only (visitors must provide proof of local residency); J oh n T. D e m p s te r F i r e School, 350 Lawrence Station Road, Lawrence. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: West Windsor Community Farmers Market, located in the Vaughn Drive Parking Lot at Princeton Junction Train Station. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: The Pennington Farmers Market at the lawn at Rosedale Mills, 101 Route 31 North in Hopewell Township. 10 to 11 a .m . : L aw renceville Main Street presents the 4th Annual Kids in the Park celebration with musical performer Miss Amy. This free event will be held at Weeden Park, located in downtown Lawrenceville. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Cherry Grove Farm’s Second Annual Grass-Fed BBQ Party. Spit roasted BBQ pork sandwiches, sides, drinks, and dessert. The entrance fee is $10 per vehicle. For more information, visit www.cherry grovefarm.com. 6:30 to 10 p.m.: The Historical Society of Princeton’s 4th Annual Concert Under the Stars at Updike Farmstead. This year’s event includes a live, 90-minute performance by Charlotte Kendrick. Sunday, June 14 7 a.m.: Princeton Tour de Cure and Step Out Walk presented by The American Diabetes Association at the Novo Nordisk Campus in Plainsboro. Learn more at www. diabetes.org/Princeton. Noon: Flag Day Ceremony at 400 Witherspoon Street. Bring American flags to be properly retired. Presented by the Spirit of Princeton. Noon: EASEL Animal Rescue League Dog and Cat Adoption at the Petco at Mercer Mall, Route 1, Lawrenceville. Monday, June 15 Recycling 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.: Free, Baby Bootcamp at MarketFair Mall. 7 p.m.: ESL Conversation Class at Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro. Tuesday, June 16 9 :30 a.m.: “Read and Pick: Cherries” at Terhune Orchards in Princeton (also at 11 a.m.). 7: 30 p.m. : T h e 2015 Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands (FPNL) Annual Meeting will feature an illustrated journey through landscape history presented by Aura Star, Professor of Botany at The College of New Jersey;
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you the reader — the experience is a lot more subtle than that high-altitude analogy. Around about page 420, after a long sequence in Mexico vicariously training an eagle and losing a lover, you may make the mistake of thinking that Bellow is folding up his tent, winding things down, ready to cruise through the last 100 pages toward the dreaded Curse of the Denouement. Far from it — a torpedo blows your doubts at the moon as the curtain rises on a mad and masterful scene wherein two Chicagoans adrift in a lifeboat have an endgame conversation somewhere to the far side of Strindberg, Beckett, and Mary Shelley — “You didn’t create life!” “In all humility, that’s exactly what I did. Six universities have thrown me out for claiming it.” A Sea of Prose In his New Yorker review of Zachary Leader’s new biography The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune (Knopf), Louis Menand suggests that the first 200 pages of Augie March contain “the best writing Bellow ever did,” which is to say “the best prose” since a quick random count sugge s t s t hat on ly around 40 of t hose f irst 200 pages appear to contain dialogue. Writing in Advertisements for My s e lf (195 8 ) , Norman Mailer states the obvious when he calls B e l l o w ’s s t y l e “self-w illed and u n n at u r a l.” It’s easy enough to find examples of what Mailer’s talking about, like : “Before vice and shortcoming, admitted in the weariness of maturity, common enough and boring to make an extended showing of, there are, or are supposed to be, silken, unconscious, nature-painted times, like the pastoral of Sicilian shepherd lovers, or lions you can chase away with stones and golden snakes who scatter from their knots into the fissures of Eryx.” As it turns out, the long paragraph in Chapter Six containing that passage is a journey worth taking, in spite of the borderline self-parody, you go from Eden and shepherd-Sicily to “deep city vexation” and studying Greek in Bogotá to temples, pool rooms, “musical milk-dreaming innocence,” fiddle lessons, and Robinson Crusoe. On top of that, Bellow’s “unnatural” prose seems to have driven Mailer off the rails into tortured equivalents (Bellow’s “narrative disproportions are elephantiastical in their anomaly”) and nonsensical declarations (“I do not think he knows anything about people or himself”)
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culminating in a dismissal of Augie March “at its worst” as “a travelogue for timid intellectuals.” A Bloody Genius In Princeton, where his friendship with John Berryman seems to have coincided with the composing of the extraordinary lifeboat chapter, Bellow gave the poet the finished manuscript, and according to Berryman’s wife Eileen Simpson in Poets in Their Youth, Berryman spent a weekend “immobile for hours except to light a cigarette while he trained his intelligence on The Adventures of Augie March, giving it the kind of reading every writer dreams of having.” When Berryman finished, he announced “Bellow is it!” and went off to tell the author that he was “a bloody genius.” Removing Restraints “My earlier books had been straight and respectable,” Bellow said in a 1991 interview. “But in Augie March I wanted to invent a new sort of American sentence. Something like a fusion of colloquialism and elegance.” In the Winter 1966 Paris Review (Art of Fiction No. 37), Bellow admitted being afraid to let himself go in The Dangling Man and The Victim. “I was timid. I still felt the incredible effrontery of announcing myself to the world (in part I mean the WASP world) as a writer and an artist. I had to touch a great many bases, demonstrate my abilities, pay my respects to formal requirements …. When I began to write Augie March. I took off many of these restraints.” In 1991, he mentioned “reckless spontaneity” as he “began to write in all places, in all postures, at all times of day and night. It rushed out of me. I was turned on like a hydrant in summer. The simile is not entirely satisfactory. Hydrants are not sexually excited. I was wildly excited.” Celebrating Mimi You don’t have to read far in the reviews of Leader’s biography to learn that Augie and his creator have in common a compelling weakness for women. For all that might be said on the lofty theme of immigrants, discoverers, and pioneers, the point where I bonded with the novel is when Augie goes all out, against odds, to help a female friend through a botched abortion that might have proved fatal had he not been there for her. The most appealing of all the memorable women in
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CUBAN LIVES: Alina Bliach’s photograph of Ardelio is one of 45 portraits of Cuban immigrants from the past 50 years on display at the Mercer County Community College Gallery from June 13 through June 24. An opening reception with Ms. Bliach, a 2006 alumna of the MCCC Photography program, will be held Saturday, June 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, visit: www.mccc.edu/gallery.
Photographs of Cuba At MCCC Gallery
A special photography exhibition featuring Mercer County Community College (MCCC) alumna Alina Bliach (’06) opens with a reception in the Gallery at MCCC on Saturday, June 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will continue through June 24. “A Voyage of Many,” includes images and stories of 45 Cuban immigrants over the past half century in their new American homeland. Each photo graph is accompanied by a printed excerpt from interviews Bliach conducted. The photos and narratives tell stories of forced exile, escape, loss, hope, and triumph. Ms. Bliach notes that many of those who came to the United States in the 1960s are now in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, and most of their stories remain unrecorded. “Since the 1960s more than one million Cubans have immigrated to the United States — the children of the Peter Pan flights, the people of Camarioca, the Freedom Flights, the Mariel Boatlif t, t he people k now n
as the Balceros, and the Immigration Visa Lottery winners …. Their’s are the stories of sacrifice, perseverance, and survival in their ultimate quest for freedom. These are their portraits,” she said. Ms. Bliach’s portraits are rich in detail that connects their subjects to their Cub a n h e r it ag e. “For c e d to leave their homeland, their love for family, art, religion, and music is often apparent throughout their homes. Photographs of loved ones, brightly colored art and religious relics are proudly displayed …. More than decorations, these objects reveal the deep relationship between these immigrants’ cultural background and the new lives they built for themselves in America,” she said. The photographer’s work has won numerous awards and honors: as a finalist in Best of Photography 2013; First and Second Prize honors in the Pollux Awards; Merit Awards in the Professional Photographers of America International competitions; PPA Loan Collection honor; Hasselblad Photographer
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of the Month; and several International Photography Honorable Mentions. Her work has been exhibited at the Borges Cult ural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Room in SoHo, N.Y.; Arts Council of Princeton in Princeton; Grounds for Sculpture ; Phillips Mill in New Hope, Pa.; Artworks in Trenton; and Art Along the Fence in Hoboken. The MCCC Galler y is located on t he second f loor of the Communications Building on the college’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. Gallery hours for “A Voyage of Many,” are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturday, June 20, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. ———
D&R Greenway’s Summer Exhibition
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HOLLYHOCKS: This delightful watercolor by Lisa Walsh is part of the exhibition “Works by Watercolorists Unlimited” through June 26. Each month the group of artists has been meeting, for more than 25 years, to critique their paintings on a new subject. The 18 artists show their work throughout New Jersey and annually at the Gourgaud Gallery, located in Town Hall, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury. The artwork is for sale with 20 percent of each sale going to support the Cranbury Arts Council and its programs. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, June 7, June 21, from 1 3.5x4 to 3 p.m. For more information contact (609) 395-8567, or ad v2.qxp 6/29/06 4:54 PM Page 1 visit: www.cranburyartscouncil.org.
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Preservation. There will be an opening reception Friday, June 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition celebrates nature’s dependence on color. “Color is critical to how flora and fauna function, whether it’s to hide from a predator, sneak up on prey, or attract a mate,” says D&R Greenway Curator Diana Moore. “Experience how color calls and conceals with a special exploration of camouflage by the Contemporary Art Group.” CAG is a coalition of artists meeting regularly in Watchung whose works run the gamut from abstraction to representation in various media. Artists include Margaret McCrary Anderson, Virginia Carroll, Alicia Cotter, Paul Federico, Brooke Gardiner, Monique Hendricks, Mel Holston, Donald Ku h n, E duardo Lara, Lane Lewis, Charlann Meluso, Tom Perri, Sharon Reed, Linnea W. Rhodes, Bob Sharen, Cecilly Sullivan, Cynthia Weiss and Gail Winbury. D&R Greenway Artists of Preservation include Jim Among, Amadeo De Bona, Jamaila Hernandez, Teresa Prashad, Megan UhazeWear, and Anne Zeman. “The artists in this exhibit illustrate how color can be expansive enough to fill our senses com pletely, clever enough to coyly pique our interest, or concealing enough to allow cloaked creatures to go undetected entirely,” said Ms. Moore. Also on view: In the Olivia Rainbow Gallery, All Eyes on Nature, features Arts Exchange Students of the Arts Council of Princeton and HomeFront, through June 26; Jay Vawter Decoy Collection, with lifelike birds including Ruddy Ducks, Greater Scaups, Pintails, and Blue-Winged Teals. Many of these are award-winning decoys. Palette with Purpose : Color in Nature will be in the Marie L. Matthews Galleries of the Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, Princeton. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed holidays and special occasions–please
Through its grantmaking to thousands of nonprofit groups each year, the NEA promotes oppor tunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity. For more information on projects included in the NEA grant announcement, go to www. arts.gov.
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The Colored Threads of Dreams aspirations for the future,” Seminary. Gallery hours Tapestries by Armando Sosa said Mr. Sosa. “The tradi- are Monday through FriCurrently on view in the Erdman Ar t G aller y at the Princeton Theological Seminary is a solo exhibition of tapestries by the extraordinary Guatemalan weaver Armando Sosa. “The Colored Threads of Dreams,” features Mr. Sosa’s brilliantly colored hand-woven tapestries and other textiles with themes and images of his native land. The title of the exhibition is inspired by the artist’s use of symbols and images that derive from dreams and memories of traditional icons and figures, both religious and secular, some inspired by his native Maya or preColumbian heritage, others to actual memory of a Central American childhood. “Through my weaving, I am working to express my dreams, my memor ies, the overlapping cultural influences of my life in the United States, and my
tional elements repeated in different forms throughout my textiles are a means of connecting with, celebrating, and preserving the rich and fascinating Guatemalan culture of my childhood.” A master weaver, Mr. Sosa is a Hopewell resident. His work is in the collections of the Newark Museum, the Princeton Public Library, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, and Capital Health Medical Center–Hopewell, as well as private collections. He has exhibited his tapestries in museums throughout New Jersey, and has been feat ured on various television programs. To v iew Mr. S os a at work, go to YouTube.com and enter Armando Sosa, weaver. The Erdman Art Gallery is located in the Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, at Continuing Education at Princeton Theological
THREADS OF DREAMS: Examples of the work of the master weaver Armando Sosa are currently on view in the Erdman Art Gallery in the solo exhibition, “The Colored Threads of Dreams,” which features the brilliantly colored hand-woven tapestries and other textiles with themes and images of his native Guatemala. Mr. Sosa uses symbols and images that derive from dreams and memories of traditional icons and figures, both religious and secular, some inspired by his native Maya or pre-Columbian heritage, others to actual memory of a Central American childhood. The Erdman Art Gallery is located in the Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, at Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Sunday, 1:30 to 9 p.m. For more information, contact coned@ptsem.edu or call (609) 497-7990.
day, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 :30 p.m., and Sunday, 1:30 to 9 p.m. Gallery hours are subject to change during holidays. Ad m is s ion is f ree a nd open to the public. For more information, contact Continuing Education at coned@ptsem.edu or call (609) 497-7990. ———
ArtPride New Jersey Receives NEA Grant
The ArtPride New Jersey Foundation is pleased to announce its award of $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), presented as part of the NEA’s second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015. It will support Discover Jersey Arts Cultural Tourism Destinations, a project that will promote arts and cultural activities in regions throughout New Jersey. “The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States,” said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. “Funding these new projects, like the one from ArtPride New Jersey, represents an investment in both local communities and our nation’s creative vitality.” T he grant award w ill support Internet marketing packages that focus attention on arts and culture destinations, along w ith hospitalit y-related business partners in Cape May, Long Beach Island, t he Mon mout h Cou nt y Ar ts Corridor, Newark, Princeton, and Trenton. A r t P r ide New Jer s ey Foundation President and CEO Adam Perle said, “We are very grateful to receive this competitive grant from the NEA to advance our work with New Jersey’s nonprofit arts organizations, regional chambers of commerce, destination marketing organizations, and regional arts marketing groups.” The first outcome of the grant award is a cultural destination Web page to suppor t the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce’s “Beach Culture Redefined,” a promotion that shares the artistic side of the LBI region, as well as takes a closer look at what makes its stretch of the Jersey Shore unique. “We are excited to work with ArtPride New Jersey through Discover Jersey Arts to shine a light on the many arts-related businesses on Long Beach Is-
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Area Exhibits Art for Healing Gallery, University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, Route 1, has an exhibit of mixed media and collages by Renee Ku-
mar through July 19. www. princetonhcs.org/art. A r t i s t s G a l l e r y , 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has works by painter Gail Bracegirdle and photographer Paul Grecian through July 5. w w w.lamber t v ille arts.com. Arts Council of Princeton,
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Jianping Wang MCCC Names New College President
A veteran educator with 20 years of experience in community college administration has been selected by the Mercer County Community College (MCCC) Board of Trustees as the next college president. Dr. Jianping Wang (pronounced WONG), vice president of academic affairs at Ocean County College (OCC) in Toms River, will begin her duties at MCCC July 1. She was named MCCC’s sixth president after an exhaustive five-month nationwide search and selection process that included the entire college community. Wang will succeed Dr. Patricia C. Donohue, who will retire June 30 following a 49-year career, the past eight at MCCC. “I am honored and excited to be selected as the next president at Mercer County Community College,” Ms. Wang said. “Mercer has a nationwide reputation as one of the top community colleges, and I look forward to bringing my experiences to Mercer County, working with faculty, staff, local high schools and the community as a whole to provide a quality, affordable education that will enable students to reach their life goals.” A 24-member committee conducted the search, which included 14 individuals representing college unions, faculty, staff, and academic deans, along with three community representatives, two students, four members of the Board of Trustees, and a representative of the MCCC Foundation. Board of Trustees member Dr. Gwendolyn Harris, chair of the MCCC Presidential Search Committee, noted that 60 applications were reviewed, eight candidates were inter viewed by the committee, and three were chosen as finalists. Each of the finalists participated in two-day interviews on the West Windsor and Trenton campuses, which included open forums with students, faculty, staff, and community members. “In the end, we agreed on the one candidate who consistently offered student-centered responses to questions, with a focus on student success,” Ms. Harris said. Dr. Wang received her master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1993, and her PhD in education from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara in 2007. She served as director of institutional research and effectiveness at Roxbury Community College in Boston from 199598; dean of the division of arts and humanities at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, N.Y. from 1998 -2012; and at OCC since 2012.
Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra Closes Season In Full Symphonic Fashion
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reater Princeton Youth Orchestra (GPYO) wrapped up its 2014-15 season this past Saturday night with a very full concert at Richardson Auditorium. Presenting three of the ensembles within the GPYO organization, the concert both showcased the graduating senior musicians and demonstrated ensemble musical expertise. This past year, GPYO added a choral performance element to its activities with the GPYO Choir, for singers grades seven through twelve. Conducted by Jennifer Sengin, director of choirs at East Brunswick High School, the small but very effective vocal ensemble demonstrated good tuning and choral technique in their six selections. Ms. Sengin is known for her knowledge of diverse and multicultural music, and the six pieces she selected for the GPYO Choir began with a Zambian arrangement and ended with a bit of Broadway. Ms. Sengin taught movement to the 14 members of the choir to go with Andrew Fischer’s celebratory arrangement of Bonsa Aba. Accompanied by drum, the GPYO Choir sang with a clean blend among all the voices. In the second selection, Z. Randall Stroope’s flowing setting of Omnia Sol, the alto section of the women’s parts was particularly strong, topped by a light soprano sound. Through all these selections, it was clear that Ms. Sengin can train voices and impart style. The choir shifted gears again with the Robert Shaw/Alice Parker arrangement of the Italian Renaissance Fa un canzona, in which the irregular accents and odd meters were well handled. GPYO has two principal orchestral ensembles under its umbrella — the Concert Orchestra and the Symphonic Orchestra. The Concert Orchestra amassed a full stage of players for three unique works. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture is usually heard outdoors at this time of year, complete with fireworks, but GPYO’s Concert Orchestra made the piece work well within the confines of Richardson Auditorium. Conductor Arvin Gopal kept musical phrases crisp, with a lean string sound and clean winds. A quartet of horns was especially clean, and it was impressive how well the triangle rang in the hall from the percussion section. Joseph Jay McIntyre’s Ghosts of Antietam captures the atmosphere of the Civil War as spirits of the great battle come to life through music. Beginning with low cello, chimes, and swirling
“Romeo and Juliet” at Plainsboro Library
Actors from the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s professional training program, the Next Stage Ensemble, will stage two performances at the Plainsboro Public Library this summer, as part of the library’s Summer Discovery Program. The first performance, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, will take place on June 19, at 6:45 p.m. Shakespeare’s story of doomed young love in 13th century Verona is one of Shakespeare’s most gripping and moving tragedies. A s e con d pro d u c t ion, Pierre de Marivaux’ The Triumph of Love, will take place on Friday, July 31, at 6:45 p.m. The play concerns Princess Leonide, who must disguise herself as a boy to win the hand of the man she loves. Mistaken identities, bumbling clowns, and newfound infatuations make this lighthearted farce a wonderful summer treat.
winds, this was a dark piece, which the Concert Orchestra kept precise. McIntyre’s symphonic work incorporates Civil War tunes, passed among instrumental solos. Trumpeter Marie Petitjean provided an effective rendition of “Taps” to close the piece. The Concert Orchestra closed its portion of the evening with a sprightly rendition of Ronan Hardiman’s Music from the Lord of the Dance. This piece, also replete with familiar tunes, was well played by the orchestra, with elegant themes in the flute and brass. GPYO’s Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Kawika Kahalehoe, presented the winner of GPYO’s Concerto Competition in a movement from a challenging Chopin piano concerto. Seventeen-yearold Louis Petitjean has studied at some of the finest musical institutions in the country, and shares his talents with the Symphonic Orchestra as a member of the flute section. In the first movement of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in e Minor, the Symphonic Orchestra presented the long dark orchestral introduction with a very clean sound, emphasizing the sinuous Romantic melodies. Chopin wrote no full symphonies, but this work was so close to a symphony one forgot that there was a piano soloist waiting to enter the musical action. And what an astounding piano soloist he was — Louis Petitjean showed himself to be a very composed performer, taking plenty of time on entrances. Mr. Petitjean was a very strong yet agile pianist, elegantly playing fluid passages with a quick and nimble right hand. Mr. Petitjean demonstrated very strong octaves against the symphonic orchestral accompaniment. hrough the two closing works on the program — an excerpt from Holst’s The Planets and several movements from Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade — the Symphonic Orchestra brought out the bright and chipper orchestration of the pieces, as well as rich playing of the familiar “I Vow to Thee my Country” hymn of Holst’s orchestral suite. Scheherazade in particular showcased a number of the graduating seniors in the orchestra as soloists, most notably cellist Michelle Zhou, clarinetist Anthony Wang and oboist Jennifer Park, as well as exquisite solo violin playing by concertmistress Dallas Noble. The graduating musicians joined the entire ensemble in closing the evening with a solid musical performance. —Nancy Plum
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The Ensemble, a troupe of young actors just beginning their careers, presents plays in communities throughout New Jersey during the summer months. The Plainsboro Public Library Foundation supports the Discovery Program with funds raised by the 4th Annual Mayor’s Cup Scramble Golf Tournament, which will take place on September 21, 2015 at The Meadows at Middlesex. The library is located at 9 Van Doren Street in Plainsboro. For more information, call (609) 275-2897. ———
Trenton Film Festival At Mill Hill
from narrative features and documentaries to new media such as music videos and experimental works. Tickets are on sale now and Festival passes are available for just $25. With this all-access pass, moviegoers will be able to watch as many films as they like. Individually priced tickets are $8. The Trenton Film Festival offers the opportunity to partake in the Trenton filmmaking scene by meeting local directors and cinematographers. For a complete lineup, visit www.trenton filmsociety.org. ———
Opera and Musical Comedy The 2015 Trenton Film At Princeton Festival
Festival will take place from June 10 through June 14 at The Mill Hill Playhouse, located at 205 East Front Street in Trenton. Presented by the Trenton Film Society, this year’s festival features 53 films from 16 countries, ranging
The Princeton Festival’s two original productions, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro and Broadway’s musical The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee open this week, the musical on Friday, June 12 at 185 Nassau Street at 8
VOTED FAVORITE OPERA COMPANY: For the second year in a row, The Princeton Festival was awarded “Favorite Opera Company” in the annual Jersey Arts People’s Choice Awards. Princeton Festival Chairman Costa Papastephanou and Artistic Director Richard Tang Yuk hold the award.
Tim Keyes Consort Celebrates 20 Years
The Tim Keyes Consort will celebrate their 20th anniversary by presenting Ubi Caritas Copia Est on Saturday, June 13 at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton. The program will consist of a performance of Famine Remembrance by Irish composer Patrick Cassidy with readings by Eric Mabius, Ubi Caritas by Durufle, and the world premiere of Bread of Life by Tim Keyes. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the ongoing mission of the Crescent Avenue Food Ministries to alleviate hunger in Central New Jersey. Famine Remembrance is scored for orchestra, choir, soprano, alto, and tenor soloists and includes readings related to the Irish Famine. The work was commissioned by the Irish Echo in 1995 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine. Featured soloists for the Consort are Eliza Rush (soprano), Tina Czepiel (Alto), and Justin Connors (Tenor). Bread of Life is scored for solo clarinet, orchestra, and SATB choir. The scriptural based texts reflect on both physical and spiritual hunger. Kenneth Ellison is the featured clarinetist. Crescent Avenue Food Ministries is based out of Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church
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he good news about Insidious 3 is that you don’t have to know what happened in the first two episodes in order to follow this movie’s plotline. This prequel does not involve the Lambert family that was haunted by ghosts in the series’ previous two films. The best news is that, despite being rated PG-13, this harrowing adventure was so scary that I screamed louder than my wife! Guaranteed to have you jumping out of your skin, Insidious 3 evokes an earlier era when horror movie filmmakers subtly sowed the seeds of suspense instead of simply splattering the screen with gruesome scenes. The movie is Australian Leigh Whannell’s directorial debut. She wrote and acted in Insidious 1 and 2. This film features Lin Shaye (There’s Something about Mary) as Elise Rainier, the gifted psychic who can commune with the afterlife. As the film unfolds, we find Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott) trying to hire the clairvoyant to help her contact the spirit of her late mother (Ele Keats). Elise declines the offer, explaining that she’s retired, but gives the grieving teen an ominous piece of advice, — “Don’t try to contact your mom on your own.” Quinn returns home to the mythical town of Leland
Park where she lives in an apartment with her father (Dermot Mulroney) and little brother, Alex (Tate Berney). Of course, she disregards Elise’s warning, and next thing you know paranormal activities begin; a waving apparition, here, a disembodied voice there, an unexplained crack in the ceiling, bloody footprints on the floor, and so on. Quinn’s distracted dad does not give her much help in dealing with these phenomena, however, the boy nextdoor (Ashton Moio) is concerned about her welfare. Finally, the ghostly activities escalate to the point where Elise agrees to get involved and stage a séance. Although the storyline reads like stock fright fare, trust me, Insidious 3 is an expertly edited horror movie that repeatedly shocks you when you least expect it. Again and again it makes you jump from your seat, then lulls you back into a false sense of security only to deliver another jolt. The movie is a chilling spine-tingler that will generate lots of bloodcurdling screams. Excellent (HHHH). Rated PG-13 for violence, profanity, frightening images, and mature themes. Running time: 97 minutes. Distributor: Focus Features —Kam Williams
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Ex Machina (R for profanity, violence, sexual references and graphic nudity) Sci-fi thriller about a corporate computer geek (Domhnall Gleeson) tempted to free a fetching fembot (Alicia Vikander) slated to have her memory banks erased, after he develops a romantic attachment to the gorgeous android. With Oscar Isaac, Corey Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno. Far from the Madding Crowd (PG-13 for violence and some sexuality). Third adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel, set in Victorian England, about a trio of suitors, a shepherd (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sergeant (Tom Sturridge), and a wealthy bachelor (Michael Sheen), vying for the affections of a beautiful headstrong farmer (Carey Mulligan). With Juno Temple, Jessica Barden, and Eloise Oliver. Home (PG for mild action and rude humor). Animated adventure about a huggable fugitive from a distant planet (Jim Parsons) who forges an unlikely friendship with an innocent, young Earthling (Rihanna) on a quest of her own. Voice cast includes Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Matt Jones. Hot Pursuit (PG-13 for sexuality, profanity, violence, and drug use). Comedy about a straitlaced police officer (Reese Witherspoon) who ends up on the run from mobsters and crooked cops after being assigned to protect the widow (Sofia Vergara) of a recently deceased drug kingpin. With John Carroll Lynch, Matthew Del Negro, and Richard T. Jones. I’ll See You in My Dreams (PG-13 for sexuality, drug use and brief profanity). Romantic dramatic comedy about a retired widow in her 70s (Blythe Danner) who gets another shot at love when she meets a velvet-voiced gentleman (Sam Elliott) at a speeddating event. Cast includes Martin Starr, Rhea Perlman, June Squibb, Malin Akerman, and Mary Kay Place. Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13 for violence, profanity, frightening images, and mature themes). 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Tom Hardy plays the title character in this remake of the apocalyptic science fiction series as a warrior haunted by his turbulent past who joins forces with a group fleeing across the barren desert to escape a despicable tyrant (Hugh Keays-Byrne). Co-starring Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz, Adelaide Clemens, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13 for profanity, sexuality, drug use, and mature themes). Drama based on the Jesse Andrews novel of the same name about a couple of amateur filmmakers (Thomas Mann and RJ Cyler) who decide to make a movie for a high school classmate who has been diagnosed with leukemia (Olivia Cooke). With Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon, Bobb’e J. Thompson, and Chelsea Zhang. Pitch Perfect 2 (PG-13 for profanity and sexual innuendo). This sequel finds the humiliated a cappella group, The Bellas, reuniting to restore their dignity in the World Championship competition. Cast includes Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Hailee Steinfeld, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, and Katey Sagal. Poltergeist (PG-13 for intense horror, mild profanity, and suggestive material). Remake of the 1982, horror classic about the abduction of a little girl (Kennedi Clements) whose family is being terrorized by malevolent spirits. Starring Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Jarred Harris. San Andreas (PG-13 for action, mayhem, and brief profanity). 3-D disaster movie, unfolding in the wake of a devastating earthquake, about a helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson) who flies with his ex-wife (Carla Gugino) from Los Angeles to San Francisco to rescue their missing daughter (Alexandra Daddario). With Paul Giamatti, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, and Will Yun Lee. Spy (R for sexuality, brief nudity, violence, and profanity). 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tephen Soerens took an immediate liking to the decathlon. Taking his first stab at the grueling 10-event competition as a sophomore at Fayetteville High, Soerens excelled in the 2009 Arkansas decathlon. “I came in fourth, that surprised me,” said Soerens. “I realized I was actually good at this and I enjoyed the experience.” Soerens went on to place second in the next two Arkansas decathlons and the Princeton University men’s track coach Fred Samara, a former U.S. Olympic decathlon competitor, apparently realized how good he was. “Fred called me on the first day of recruiting on July 1 before my senior year of high school,” recalled Soerens. “I liked him. I had seen and liked Princeton from recruiting materials. It was definitely a big thing that he had that decathlon experience. By September, I realized that was what I wanted to do and I committed. I did a visit in early December and I liked it a lot.” Coming to Princeton in the fall of 2011, Soerens steadily progressed under Samara’s tutelage. He placed third in the decathlon in the 2012 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships and then took second the next two years. Last month, he took first at the Heps decathlon to help Princeton clinch the team title. This week, he is headed to the NCAA championships in Eugene, Ore. to make his debut performance at the national meet. He will be joined by five teammates at the NCAA competition, including senior Sam Pons in the 10,000, junior star and defending national champion Julia Ratcliffe in the hammer throw, junior Cecilia Barowski in the 800, sophomore Lizzie Bird in the steeplechase, and sophomore Megan Curham in the 10,000. In his freshman year at Princeton, Soerens sensed that he could end up as a title contender in his event. “It was definitely different; track immediately became a bigger thing for me,” said Soerens.
“It was important in high school, I spent at lot of time on it but this was different. I was thinking about it all the time and I was surrounded by good talent. I had older guys to practice with and I was able to hold my own. I was third outdoors as a freshman and I thought I can make my way to the best in the league.” After taking second in the next two Heps decathlons, Soerens was primed for a big senior season. “I think I had made a lot of progress,” said Soerens. “I was in position to bring up my athleticism.” But Soerens experienced a setback as he competed in the heptathlon in the Indoor Heps. “I had some hamstring issues; on my first step of the 60 something popped in my right hamstring,” recalled Soerens. “I didn’t have serious damage. I just trotted through the jumps and threw the shot really well. It was a long recovery, I built up steadily. I was trying to make sure that I was both ready to go by Heps and that I had more resiliency. I came back gradually; the training staff helped a lot.” Showing resilience, Soerens pulled out a dramatic victory in the Heps decathlon this May at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. With Princeton narrowly trailing Cornell in the team standings, the meet came down to the decathlon and the battle between Soerens and Big Red star Austin Jamerson. “The fear of a decathlete is that decathlon will be the last event to finish and it will come down to 1500,” said Soerens. “Everyone runs it hard but when you have done nine events, you don’t want to depend on that. You have a lot of fast twitch athletes and they are not used to that.” After a big throw in the javelin to increase his lead over Jamerson, Soerens sealed the deal by taking first in the 1,500, the final event of the day. Soerens ended up with a winning total of 7,319 points with Jamerson second in 7,070.
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His heroics clinched a narrow 163-159.5 win for Princeton over the Big Red. “I wanted to give it my best shot, it was a great feeling, my family was there, my teammates were all there,” said Soerens, reflecting on his triumph. “I had wanted that first place for two years, that was great.” Qualifying for the NCAAs as one of the top 24 decathletes in the country this year, Soerens is hoping for a great performance at Eugene. “The preparation has gone really well,” said Soerens. “We are doing short-focused training blocks, good workouts but not so much to wear you down. We tapered for Heps, this is not quite a taper. It is working SOARING TO SUCCESS: Princeton University men’s track star on speed and some fine points Stephen Soerens soars through the air on a long jump. Last month, on jumps and throws. One of senior star Soerens took first place in the decathlon at the Ivy the things I am excited about is League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships to help that this is my meet in terms of Princeton clinch the team title. This week, he is headed to the being able to go for it. At Heps, NCAA championships in Eugene to make his debut performance at there is a little extra caution, the meet. (Photo Courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications) you need to complete it for the team. It should be a lot of fun, I have never Tuesdays and Thursdays devoted to throwing been out there.” events and aerobic training. In reflecting on his Princeton career, So“We have a great relationship. He has all erens said it has been a lot of fun training and that experience. He goes through the technicompeting with his teammates. cal things in practice and gives you cues. He is “I think one of the most important things is also able to present things in a different light that we have a really tight-knit group of guys,” and that can really be helpful.” said Soerens. Looking ahead, Soerens is hoping to experi“It is a team that is especially close. I am ence more in his decathlon career. rooming with some of the distance guys. It has “I would like to keep training for at least anbeen a great experience to be able to train other year,” said Soerens, a civil and environwith guys who are so committed to track and mental engineering major who sees himself so talented.” someday working in a job on an oilfield. It has also been a great experience for So“I have a short window; I figure I might as erens to work with decathlon guru Samara. well try to make that happen. If I like it and “I got to spend a couple of hours a day, five things are going well, I will keep doing it. If days a week with him,” said Soerens, noting not, I won’t have any regrets. It is not a thing that he thrived on Samara’s training system you can stop doing for a couple of years and which typically revolves around hard running then start up again.” workouts, the pole vault, and sprint starts —Bill Alden on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with
While Mike Russo was thrilled to start his college baseball career with Division 1 powerhouse N. C. State, he realized that D-3 Kean University would be a better fit. “I loved the atmosphere at NC State; I loved the school,” said former Hun School standout pitcher Russo, who played t wo seasons for the Wolfpack. “I wasn’t developing as much as I thought I could at N.C. State. I didn’t have an established role. The opportunities were limited, based on performance. Neil Ioviero at Kean was a well known pitching coach. They were in the top 5 in D -3 and in the College World Series a lot. It was definitely a good move on my part.” Russo enjoyed a ver y good t wo - year st int at Kean, going 10-2 with a 1.93 ER A as a junior in 2011, earning D -3 A llAmerican honors and getting named as the NJAC Pitcher of the year. As a senior, he went 7-1 and helped pitch the Cougars to a second straight College World Series. But more impor tantly
than his success on the mound, his experience at Kean changed the course of his future as he caught the coaching bug. “Neil is one of the reasons I got into coaching; I liked his style, he inspired me,” said Russo. “He is ver y hands-on, has a routine, an organization. There is always a practice plan, a drill progression and bullpens. He works with every pitcher individually. If a pitcher was commit ted to him, he was committed to the pitcher.” Upon graduating from Kean, Russo returned to Hun to serve as an assistant coach for its baseball program. Moving up the ladder after serving on the Hun staff from 2012-14, Russo went across town to Princeton University where he joined the baseball program as an assistant coach last fall. “I was really getting into coaching, I wanted to get to a higher level,” said Russo. “I e-mailed 15 college coaches looking for a volunteer job. There is usually a lot of movement in May
COLLEGE JOB: Mike Russo just completed his first season as an assistant coach for the Princeton University baseball team. Russo, a former Hun School standout who was a Division 3 All-American pitcher at Kean University, coached for three years at Hun before joining the Tiger program last fall. (Photo Courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications)
and June. Scott (Princeton head coach Scott Bradley) got back to me, he said a guy was leaving a staff to go back to grad school and that there was an opening. I met with him, he said he had followed me over the years and he basically offered me a job on the spot.” Russo’s experience at Hun under longtime head coach Bill McQuade helped him become a more wellrounded coach. “It was great, McQuade always had respect for me,” said Russo. “I ran ideas by him. He would say what do you think. He valued my opinion. He let me take control of some things. I was hands-on. I started out with the pitching staff. I called pitches and took charge of the pitchers and was then doing a little bit of everything. pitching BP, working on team defense, and pickoffs.” In joining the Princeton staff, Russo was able to take a similar approach under Bradley. “I said I wanted to work with all of the pitchers individually and he was happy with that, he said do it,” said Russo. “He wanted to have another pitching guy on the staff, sometimes it helps to have someone say different things to the pitchers, put some different words in their minds.” W h ile t he T igers en dured a rough spring as they posted a record of 7-32, Russo believes that he helped lay a foundation for future success. “The guys liked the organization, they got better as the season went on,” said Russo, who is r u n ning the Robbinsville Baseball Camp for players ages 7-12 from July 27-31 with former Steinert High pitching coach Bryan Rogers. “We struggled with depth and injuries. The biggest thing is for them to be more accou ntable w it h their actions. It was a little bit of a challenge, towards the middle of the season. It was tough to go to the park, you don’t want to go and be losing all the time. T hey were excited and happy when they went to the ballpark. I think they learned how we have to practice and go about our business.”
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PU Men’s Lax Alums Earn Accolades
Pr inceton Universit y men’s lacrosse players Kip Orban and Mike MacDonald graduated with additional honors while Princeton lacrosse alums Tyler Fiorito ’12 and Tom Schreiber ’14 earned some impressive accolades of their own on the pro level. Orban was named to the ECAC Division I men’s lacrosse all-star first-team, while MacDonald was named to the second team. Both players earned their Princeton undergraduate degrees last week as well. Orban led all Division I midfielders with 45 goals this season, while MacDonald broke the school record for points in a season with 78 on 48 goals and 30 assists, and finished third alltime at Princeton in goals in with a career 132. Fiorito and Schreiber, for their part, were named Major League Lacrosse allstars. Fiorito, in his first season as t he f ull-time starter for the Baltimore Bayhawks, is second in MLL in save percentage at .582 and is fourth in goalsagainst at 12.43 in what is decidedly not a goaliefriendly league. Fiorito was the Ivy League Player of the Year in his senior campaign in 2012. Schreiber, the No. 1 overall pick in last year’s draft and a three-time first-team All-America, is tied for the Major L eag ue L acrosse
lead with 16 assists in seven games. He also has 13 goals, leaving him fifth in the league in scoring with 29 points. There were 41 players named to the roster for the all-star game, which will be played June 13 in Houston and televised on the CBS Sports Network. The actual teams will be chosen in a draft the night before the game as part of the league’s “Ultimate Fan Fantasy” contest. ———
and to win a national championship under his leadership at Princeton in 1992,” said Calkins. “He has impacted my life and those of so many others, so positively and in immeasurable ways. I am grateful for the generosity of so many who are making this happen, and we all consider ourselves privileged to have the opportunity to recognize and celebrate his unparalleled success and contributions to the sport of lacrosse with the naming of the field at Former PU Coach Tierney the new US Lacrosse national headquarters.” Honored by U.S. Lax ——— Hall of Fame men’s lacrosse coach Bill Tierney, Princeton Fencer House who guided Princeton to six Going to World Games NCAA championships and Princeton University risthen became the first coach ing junior Alex House will to win seven NCAA titles be one of 24 fencers to repand at least one at two dif- resent the United States at ferent schools when he led the upcoming World UniDenver to the 2015 cham- versity Games in Gwangju, pionship in late May, has South Korea in July. received a special honor House, an épée specialist, from U.S. Lacrosse earned All-America, firstT h e or ga n i z at ion a n - team All-Ivy League and nounced last week that Academic All-Ivy League the playing field at its new honors this past season, national headquarters in placing 11th at the NCAA Sparks, Md., will be named Championships. A year “The William G. Tierney ago, House was the Iv y Field.” It will be used as a League Most Outstanding training field for the U.S. Rookie and just missed out national teams, as well as on All-America honors, finfor games involving college, ishing 13th at the NCAAs. high school, and yout h House is sure to see some teams. familiar faces on the U.S. The effort to build the cont ingent, w it h 11 of field and name it after Tier- the 24 fencers across the ney was spearheaded by Ed six weapons as fellow Ivy Calkins, a senior on Tier- Leaguers. He’ll also have at ney’s first NCAA champion least one Princeton classin 1992, and the chair of mate there, as men’s tenthe U.S. Lacrosse Founda- nis player, Alex Day, will be tion Board. representing Canada. “I had the great fortune The games are slated to to play for Coach Tierney run from July 3-14. ———
Princeton Men’s Hoops Adds Williams to Staff
Donovan Williams, who helped guide Lafayette College to the 2015 NCA A Tournament, has joined the Princeton University men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach. Over his five seasons as an assistant coach at Lafayette, Williams and the staff guided the Leopards to the Patriot League championship game three times and the league semifinals four times. This past season, Lafayette hosted the Patriot League final after upsetting top-seeded Bucknell in the semifinals, knocking off American 6563 to make the program’s fourth NCAA Tournament appearance. At Lafayette, Williams was involved in player development, working with both perimeter and post players, while including on- cour t coaching, recruiting, opponent scouting and game preparation among his duties. “I’m excited to be part of a program with such a rich basketball tradition here at Princeton University,” Williams said. “Coach (Mitch) Henderson and his staff have been tremendous in welcoming me to the Princeton family. His enthusiasm and vision truly excites me and I look forward to joining the culture that he has established.” A 2008 graduate of Park University near Kansas City, Williams, a native of Columbus, Georgia, was a twoyear starter for the NAIA program, helping the team to the Round of 16 as a junior during a 25-7 season. After completing his degree
in business administration, he became a graduate assistant coach at Georgia Tech, where the team improved from a 12-19 record in his first season to 23-13 in his second season, earning an at-large NCAA Tournament bid and a first-round win over Oklahoma State. After earning his master’s degree in sports administration from Georgia State in 2010, Williams moved on
to Holy Family University in Philadelphia during the 2010 offseason before joining the staff at Lafayette for the 2010-11 campaign. Williams comes from a coaching family, as his father George and his older brother Pershin are currently head coaches at Columbus High School and Hardaway High School in Columbus, Georgia.
SLY MOVE: Recently graduated Princeton University women’s lacrosse star Erin Slifer, left, fights off a foe in a game this spring. Last week, Slifer, the 2015 Ivy League Midfielder of the Year, was named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I Women’s Lacrosse All-Star Team. Her other postseason accolades include being named second-team AllAmerica, first-team all-region, and first-team all-Ivy League. Slifer led Princeton in scoring in 2015 with 71 points on 41 goals and 30 assists as the Tigers won the Ivy League regular season crown, the Ivy League Tournament, and reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament, posting a 16-4 record. She finished her Princeton career ranking ninth on the all-time scoring list with 179 points, second in assists with 81, and eighth in draw controls with 104. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Even though the Princeton High baseball team didn’t culminate its season with an appearance in the state tournament, it still had plenty to play for in the last week of action. Bringing an 8-15 record into its final two games, PHS was determined to hit the 10-victory mark, something the program had not achieved under current head coach Dave Roberts in his seven seasons at the helm of the program. With its bats booming, the Little Tigers achieved that goal, beating sectional quarterfinalist Nottingham 13-3 and then pulling away from Trenton 11-2 in its season finale. Head coach Roberts, for his part, was thrilled to see his squad end on a high note. “We were all very excited to win that game; to beat them by 10 was really nice,” said Roberts, referring to the victory over Nottingham. “Against Trenton, the guys did a great job of wearing down their No. 1 pitcher and getting to their bullpen.” For Roberts and his players, getting that 10th win was sweet. “We had gotten to nine and nine the last two years,” said Roberts. “As a team, no doubt getting to 10 wins was the biggest positive.” Another big positive this spring was PHS’s productivity with the bat, as it posted a team batting average of .339 and averaging 5.7 runs a game. Freshman Paul Cooke led the hit parade for the Little Tigers, pacing the team in batting (.442) and RBIs (16). Junior Hayden Reyes batted .420 and classmate Joaquin Hernandez-Burt hit .403 with a team-best 12 doubles. Senior Steve Majeski hit .362 with senior John Reid and junior Matt Lambert both coming in at .333, junior Colin Taylor batting .311, and senior Ben Danis finishing at .306. “T he of fensive per formance was terrific; I think the highest team average we have had since I have been here was .270,” said Roberts. “It was a talented group of kids who worked hard; all we did in March was hit. They were aggressive. They were listening to what we were telling them. We executed a lot of hit and runs; we had a lot of kids who could handle the bat. The offensive production and the infield play were the stories of the season; we had a great infield.” Another great story of the season was the play of the squad’s seniors, three of whom (Majeski, Ben Grass, and Marcus Henderson ) played junior varsity last year. “The seniors were fantastic; Ben Grass and Marcus Henderson were huge on the mound, they hadn’t played at the varsity level before and they had six wins between the two of them,” said Roberts who got a 4-4 season from Grass with Henderson going 2-5. “Majeski, Reid, and Danis did a phenomenal job with the bat.” With a good core of players returning, highlighted
by a junior group of seven, PHS appears poised to take things to a higher level next season. “I have been excited about them for a long time; the core three of Reyes, Taylor, and Hernandez-Burt have proven to be stellar,” said Roberts, referring to his junior class. “You add Matt (Lambert), Tim ( Frawley), and Micah (Daley-Harris) to that and Dan Gross should be back. Paul Cooke had a phenomenal year for a freshman with 34 hits; he has a really sweet swing. We took a huge step forward, it was good stuff from everyone. I think everybody who is returning left excited; wishing they could start next season FINAL CUT: Princeton High baseball player John Reid follows a day later.” through on a swing in a game this spring. Senior outfielder —Bill Alden Reid hit .333 this season with 10 RBIs to help PHS post a final record of 10-15. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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PHS Softball Goes Through Roller-Coaster Ride, Mixing Big Wins With Near Misses in 7-16 Season
Playing at WW/P-N in the Mercer County Tournament, the Princeton High softball team showed its potential. Despite having previously lost 18-5 and 13-2 to the Northern Knights in regular season play, 11th-seeded PHS defeated sixth-seeded WW/P-N 8-3. In reflecting on the upset, Little Tiger head coach Dave Boehm credited his squad with producing a sharp effort in all phases of the game. “We didn’t make mistakes, we made the plays,” said Boehm, who got two hits apiece from Nancy Gray, Kelli Swedish, and Kayla Volante in the w in w ith pitcher Sarah Eisenach going the distance, striking out seven and giving up two hits. “ We d i d n’t l e t t h i n g s snowball. Sarah [Eisenach] pitched a heck of a game and we got some clutch hits.” Unfortunately, the team’s 10-3 loss to Notre Dame on May 16 in its season finale was a more accurate reflection of how things went this spring as PHS posted a re-
cord of 7-16. “In the Notre Dame game we were tied 3-3 in the fifth inning,” recalled Boehm, whose team was defeated in the MCT quarterfinals by third-seeded Steinert. “There are two outs and there is a close play at first, they get the call, the next girl hits a single and then the next girl hits a threerun homer and we are down 5-3. They added some more. I said to the girls that the game summed up our season. We played well but it would be one bad call or giving the other team an extra run and it looks like a blow out but it was actually a better game.” In reflecting on the season, Boehm acknowledged that he had hoped to see his team post a better record. “Going 7-16 is a little disappointing, it is the same record we had last year,” said Boehm. “I thought we could add to our win total. We lost some close games, we had two one-run losses to WW/P-S, a 7-6 loss to Trenton, and a 4-3 loss to Nottingham.”
The Little Tigers, though, had some memorable games this season “Winning the Teaneck tourney and beating WW/P-N in the counties were highlights,” said Boehm. “I think our best game was a 3-1 loss to Steinert in the regular season.” Senior pitcher-first baseman Eisenach gave PHS her best effort over the last four years. “She was our only senior and she was the leader of the team,” said Boehm, who went 4-9 with 80 strikeouts and hit .263 with a teamhigh 15 RBIs. “She got the girls to run and work out. She wasn’t on a team that did great t h e las t fou r ye a r s b u t she always played well. We are going to miss her. She pitched and could play first, second, or even shortstop.” In Boehm’s view, PHS has potential to be a very good team next year in light of its group of returning players. “I am looking forward to next year, I think we can do well,” said Boehm. “We could have an inf i e l d of S w e d i s h ( . 3 4 4 batting average in 2015) at t hird, Gray ( .270 ) at shortstop, (Stephanie) Wu (.283) at second, ( Emily) DiLella (.276) at first, and ( Christina) Cuomo (.186) at catcher. Volante (2-7 record with 4.82 ERA and 69 strikeouts) will be the main pitcher, Gray will see some time in the circle. She has been working with a pitching coach. We w ill have six seniors; we realize that we only have them for one more year but we are hoping they can have big final year. We have a good core of sophomores with Volante (.314 battling average), Gray, and Cuomo. (Bianca) Guidi (.263 ) was a good freshman player.” —Bill Alden
Youth Is Served at MOC for PHS Track As Sophomores Roth, Levy Come Up Big Youth was served for the Princeton High track team as a number of its top athletes competed at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions last Wednesday at South Plainfield. Sophomore distance star Alex Roth continued his strong spring campaign, taking 15th in the boys’ 3,200 with a time of 9:20.32. Rot h ’s classmate, Noa Lev y, produced a breakt hrough per for mance in the girls’ high jump. With the competition starting at 5’2, a height she had never cleared, Levy made it on her second attempt. Her personal record jump gave Levy a 15th place finish at the meet.
In the boys’ 4x800, PHS took 15t h as t he quartet of sophomore Patrick O’Connell, sophomore Alex Roth, junior Noah Chen, sophomore Cy Watsky, and senior Ben Siegel posted a time of 8:16.58. The Little Tigers girls’ 4x800 of senior Paige Metzheiser, junior Lou Mialhe, senior Julie Bond, and sophomore Annefleur Hartmanshenn placed 23rd in a time of 9:46.64. The girls 4x400 relay of junior Maia Hauschild, freshman Jackie Patterson, junior Jordan Vine, and Metzheiser, finished ninth in 3:59.03. Paced by two big splits from Hauschild (57.9) and Patterson (58.9), the quartet posted the second best 4x400 in school history.
Hauschild made some history on her own, running in two open meets last week, one on June 2 and another last Saturday, producing two consecutive personal bests in the 400 meters, running 57.85 and then 57.47. Her 57.47 is a top-five time in Mercer County for the last five years. PHS athletes will be looking for some more top performances as they compete in the 2015 New Balance Nationals Outdoor meet from June 19-21 at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, N.C. —Bill Alden
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LEAPING LEVY: Princeton High girls’ track star Noa Levy clears the bar at 5’2 in the high jump at the Meet of Champions last Wednesday at South Plainfield. The jump was a personal record for sophomore Levy and gave her a 15th place finish at the meet. (Photo by John Dowers)
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Murphy’s Law appeared to gover n t he Pr inceton Day School baseball team much of this spring. In posting a 10-14 record, PDS lost eight games by one run and suffered five walk-off defeats. It had a potential w in over Hamilton taken away from it when a game-tying 2-run homer in the bottom of the last inning was disallowed after one of the umpires made a hotly-disputed call that the batter didn’t touch home plate. While senior star, James “JP” Radvany could have been bit ter about how t hings unfolded, he was able to draw positives from the experience. “It was a crazy up and down year; we had a lot of bad luck but we were also in a lot of exciting games and t hat was f u n,” said Radvany. “It was great to play one last season with Jake (Alu) and Cole (McManimon). It was not the year that we wanted to have but it was the most number of wins we have had in a season while I was at PDS. With everything that happened, we were still one out from making the Prep B finals. It was tough at times to go through a season like that but it was a really close group of guys. We leaned on each other and we really enjoyed playing with each other.” Radvany enjoyed some big games this spring, hitting two homers and getting seven RBIs in an 11-10 loss to Allentown in the opening round of the Mercer County Tournament and starring in a 12-9 win over Pennington in an MCT consolation contest. “That was one of my better games in high school; I was seeing the ball well,” said Radvany, referring to the Allentown game. “The game against Pennington in the MCT consolation game was a highlight; we had lost to them before. I got my 100th career hit and got the win on the mound in relief.” Over the spring, Radvany hit .371 and tied McManimon for the team lead in RBIs with 31. Radvany ended his PDS career ranked first in program history in RBIs and third in hits. “T hat is sur real,” said Radvany, who also starred for t h e PD S b oys’ b as ketball team and won the school’s Gold P senior athletics award. “I should stay in the record books for a while. It is a good form of recognition.” PDS head coach Ray O’Brien lauded what his big three of Radvany, Alu, and McManimon brought to the program, both this spring and over the last four seasons. “It is not often that three kids come in and step right in as freshman starters and have the career that they had,” said O’Brien, whose other seniors included Sean Flahive, Cody Meagher, and Davin Bialow. “JP ended up third in hits and first in R BIs. I have been coaching at PDS for 10 years and I have not seen anyone have the all
around season that Jake had (a team-best .523 average with 45 hits, 38 runs, 10 doubles, three triples, and three homers). It was a terrific year for him from start to finish. He ended up as the all-time hit leader. Cole was healt hy in Florida for our spring trip and pitched a great game against Hill with a one hitter and 15 strikeouts. Cole couldn’t pitch as much as we wanted him to because he had a stress fracture in his shin (3-3 record, 2.11 ER A and 57 strikeouts in 2015) but he had a great year batting for us (.359 with a team-high four homers to go with 31 RBIs).” In reflecting on the season overall, O’Br ien la mented the team’s run of bad fortune. “We started off 5-1 and t hen had t hat Ham ilton game and it seemed like the baseball gods were against us after that,” said O’Brien. “You can’t believe all of the things that went wrong for us, injuries, bad breaks, and bad hops.” A heartbreaking defeat to Gil St Bernard’s in the Prep B semis exemplified the team’s star- crossed campaign as PDS brought a 7-3 lead into the bottom of the last inning only to lose 8-7 on a walk-off grand slam. “That game was a microcosm of the season,” said O’Brien. “On two separate o c c a s i on s we we r e on e strike away from going to the prep finals. The last inning you just cou ldn’t b e l i e v e w i t h b a d h op s , bloopers, t wo strikes on last batter who then hits a fly ball into the wind that turns into a grand slam.” O’Brien believes he has a good core of returners in place with sophomore catcher Paul Franzoni, junior third baseman Dom Gasparro, and junior second baseman Sam Guarino along with a group of young pitchers. “Paul is get ting bigger and stronger; Dom had a good year, he was particularly good in the field,” said O’Brien. “Sam was really good at second, he turned 20 double plays and started hitting at the end. We have some sophomore pitchers (Ryan
Spark s, Chas e F lem ing, Russ Kirczow) that are still developing. As they mature and get bigger, our pitching will be OK.” T he ret ur ning players, though, have quite a void to fill as they follow the likes of Radvany, Alu, and McManimon. Each of the team’s big three is going on to play at a Division I college program with Radvany heading to Villanova University, Alu to Boston College, and McManimon to Lehigh University. “For me and the seniors, it is a tough way to go out,” said O’Brien. “We felt that we had the best team in the preps. It is rare that we have 3 D -I players at the same time; they will be sorely missed.” R advany w ill cer tain ly miss playing with his PDS teammates. “It has meant a lot, a lot of people say that high school ball is what you w ill enjoy the most, because it is not the pressure of college ball,” said Radvany. “It was great to play with two of my best friends, all three of us are going on to play D -1. We are like brothers, we had dinner on Thursday night before graduation to talk about some of the glory days.” A s h e lo ok s a h e ad to starting his college carer, Radvany is determined to give it his best. “The main thing in the summer is to get bigger and stronger physically; I am going from the oldest to the youngest and will be one of the frailest physically,” said Radvany, who is playing for the Lawrence Post 414 American Legion team this summer. “There are a lot of studs. I am also making a transition into being more of an outfielder. They have an opening in the outfield. They have a senior at first base who is one of the best players in the Big East. If I have to sit a year and learn from him that would be fine but I want to do whatever I can to get on the field. As an athlete, you are always looking for a challenge and I am ready for the challenge.” —Bill Alden
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BIG THREE: Princeton Day School senior baseball stars, from left, Cole McManimon, Jake Alu, and JP Radvany, take a break during the team’s preseason trip to Florida. The trio were the mainstays of the program over the last four years and helped PDS go 10-14 this spring and reach the state Prep B semifinals. Each will be going on to play at a Division I college program with McManimon heading to Lehigh University, Alu to Boston College, and Radvany to Villanova University.
The Pennington School congratulates the Class of 2015
Cedric Abano Timothy Gates Hansen Casey David Betlyon Joshua Daniel Hauser Michael Alexander Bliss Shaynie Hayward Caroline Elise Bonfield Caitlin Ann Herbert Brian Ridgway Booth Jody Olivia Hoffberger Lauren Alexa Brown Congtai Hu Marcus Bruccoleri Yangeng Jiang Nicholas William Bunn Joseph Michael Jingoli Christian Cantaffa Sarina Danielle Kaplan Alison Erika Chack Elizabeth Tessa Koloski Sara Catherine Clark Alexandro Joseph Salvatore Kovalcik Harrison Cohn Grace Catherine Kovalcik John William Connors Owen Nye Kula Alana Simone Cook Pippa Delight Kula Thomas James Cosgrove Austin Kuppek Alessandra Marie D’Amour Sun Woo Kwak Amanda Diane Dafonte Pierce Kiernan Lawlor Robert Alexander Demaree Luke Kiernan Lawlor Jordan Dana DeSouza Elaina Meghan Lawrence E. Lukas DiGiacomo Michael Joseph Luciano Kevin Michael Dillaway Joseph Marsala-Williams Zachary Jordan Dowdie Sophia Clare Mavellia Brendan Laurence Dowling Casey Joan McGovern Bradley John Ebersole Luis Diego Mena Villegas Gregory Mark Ebersole Armani Adrian Mendez Yi-Chun Fang Marcellus Isaiah Morris Ryan Michael Fassak Savannah Haley Morris Brendon Gosling Andrew Vincent Murdza Kristyn Lissette Green Nora Ann Murray Andrew Bernard Gurick Gregory Bernard Oldsey Sarah Elizabeth Haeckel Hailey Jun-Yen Pendergrass
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Men’s Summer Hoops League Tips Off 27th Season With Old Guard Looking to Hold Off Young Guns
When Winberie’s faced King’s Pizzarama last July in the best-of-three championship series of the Princeton Recreation Department Men’s Summer Basketball League, it was a clash of grizzled veterans against young turks. Utilizing its savvy, Winberie’s was able to prevail over upstart King’s, posting two tightly contested victories to win the series 2-0. As the summer hoops league tips off its 27th season on June 10 with a triple-header at the Community Park basketball courts, league commissioner Evan Moorhead expects a similar scenario to play out this year. “I think the overall theme will be, can the old guard, Winberie’s, Iv y Inn, and Dr. Palmer, hold off the young guns, like King’s, Aria Health, Belle Mead Physical Therapy, and SAT Smar t,” said Moorhead, noting that the league will have 10 teams this summer,
up from nine in 2014, and that there has been a key rule change as it will take seven team fouls rather than 10, as in the past, to trigger one-on-one bonus free throws. “The older teams have experience but not the youthful legs any more. Experience tends to win it, with Winberie’s and Ivy Inn winning the last two years.” Winberie’s and Ivy Inn appear poised to lead the old guard again this summer. “The big stor y is that Chris Hatchell is officially retired,” said Moorhead, the assistant director of the Rec Department. “Kur t Simmons is the GM. Cliff Pollard, Chris Edward, and Terrence Bailey are back. Any time you have Bailey, you can score points. Ivy Inn is back and Skye Ettin (former Princeton High and TCNJ standout) is going to be playing with them. Shahid AbdulKarim, Buddy Thomas, and Mark Aziz are all back.”
Another veteran unit, Dr. Palmer, has returned after a one-year hiatus from the league. “Dr. Palmer is back with some new names but also some familiar players,” added Moorhead. “They have Mika Palmer, Gary Wilson, Larry Upshur and Brad Billmeier. They say they have a 6’10 player.” Last year’s finalist, King’s Pizzarama, figures to be a power f u l you ng g u n. “King’s will have a similar team; they had a really good season last summer,” added Moorhead. “They have the two Princeton football players, Anthony Gaffney and Jakobi Johnson. They have also added Justin Leith (a former Princeton Day School standout and current Stuart Country Day athletic director who played pro basketball overseas).” Another young gun, Jesse Krasna, who gave Winberie’s some young legs to help its title run last sum- WINNING POSITION: Chris Edwards of Winberie’s establishes an inside position in a game last mer, will be heading a new year in the Princeton Recreation Department Men’s Summer Basketball League. Edwards helped Winberie’s win the 2014 championship series and will be back to help the team defend its title this summer. The league tips off its 27th season on June 10 with a triple-header at the Community Park basketball courts. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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league entry, Aria Health. “J e s s h as broke n of f and has a new team,” said Moorhead. “He has the Sibol twins (John and Zach) from the old Blue Devils team. Jesse is a heck of a player and he brings people together. He has experience in the league and he knows what it takes to be competitive so I am assuming his team will be tough.” SAT Smar t, the TCNJ entry, has the potential to be a tough team. “Bobby Brackett will be one of the top players in the league,” said Moorhead. “They have a couple of guards back. They will be competitive if the guards can get Bobby the ball in the post.” Princeton Youth Sports (PYS), the Princeton High boys’ hoops entry, along with Princeton Pi, Bring Me Food, and Belle Mead Physical Therapy, will be hoping to be competitive
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with rosters stocked with young players. PYS should feature highscoring Matt Hart, an ALLCVC performer last winter for PHS while Princeton Pi returns last summer’s leading scorer, Juwan Harrison. New entry, Bring Me Food, figures to get firepower from Davon Black, a for mer PHS standout who was a first-team All League performer last summer for Northeast Realty. Belle Mead boasts strength on the perimeter with AllLeague performers Jalen Parham, Jonathan Gregory, and Matt Johnston. Moorhead, for his part, believes the action on the Community Park courts will heat up with the temperatures.
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STAYING IN THE GAME: Princeton Day School senior athletes who are playing their sports at the college level gather together last week. Pictured, from left to right, are: Morgan Foster (Hamilton College lacrosse); Niki van Manen (Tufts University field hockey); Kathleen Crowell (Franklin and Marshall College crew); Marco Pinhiero (Washington University soccer) Christian Vik (Swarthmore College lacrosse); Jacob Shavel (RPI lacrosse); Chris Markey (Muhlenberg College lacrosse); Josiah Meekins (Goucher College tennis); James “JP” Radvany (Villanova University baseball); Jake Alu (Boston College baseball); Yahyah Ladiwala (Wesleyan University squash); Zach Golden (Clarkson University soccer); Cole McManimon (Lehigh University baseball); Alexa Soltesz (Gettysburg College soccer); and Stefany Soltesz (Gettysburg College soccer). Not pictured are Chris Azzarello (Ohio Wesleyan University lacrosse) and Kevin Towle (Kenyon College lacrosse).
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pick up league for rising 9th graders, high school players, college players, and adults (female and male players). The program will take place Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6-8 p.m. from June 22-August 5 on Baker Field at Princeton Day School. The cost is $50 for all 14 sessions or $10 drop in. Form a team of 10 players and pay just $30 per player. USA Field Hockey membership is required. Those interested can register at OAFHA.org. ———
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The Princeton Athletic Club ( PAC ) will hold allcomer track meets on June 11 and 25 at Princeton High School. The meets are sanctioned by USA Track and Field. The program includes long jump and shot put and various running events.
P rereg is t rat ion is en couraged via the Princeton Athletic Club website www.princetonac.org. This is especially important for field events, so they can get started on time at 5:30 p.m. Running events start at 6 p.m. T he f irst night opens with the mile run. Each meet includes a distance event, sprint, and a middle distance. Every night concludes with a relay. The meets are open to everyone: runners, jumpers, and throwers of all abilities and all ages. The heats for running events are set up based on estimated finish times, so all have a chance to run with people at their level. Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy and New Balance Princeton sponsor the series this year. For more information on registration and volunteering, log onto www. princetonac.org.
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Charles Townsend Charles Townsend, longt ime P r inceton resident and professor at Princeton University, died peacefully at home surrounded by his family on June 7, 2015. Charlie, as he was commonly known, was born to Charles E. Townsend and Lois Townsend (nee Fukushima) on September 29, 1932 in New Rochelle, N.Y. His only sibling and identical twin, Peter, predeceased him. Charlie spent his early years on a farm in Vermont, before moving to New York and attending Trinity School on a full scholarship. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, where he majored in German, in 1954. Charlie then spent a year in Germany on a Fulbright scholarship. On the boat over, he met his future wife and fellow Fulbright scholar, Janet Linner. They were married in 1957. D raf te d i nto t he U.S. Army, Charlie served three years, studying Russian at the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif. and working in the U.S. counterintelligence corps in Nuremberg, Germany. He was chosen as a Russian-speaking guide to the U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow in the summer of 1959. Charlie did his graduate work at Harvard, where he earned an MA in Soviet Regional Studies, followed by a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1961. He was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years before coming to Princeton, where he chaired the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for 32 consecutive years, until his retirement in 2002. Two e arly s abb at i c a ls were spent with his wife and young daughters in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he developed his lifelong interest in the Czech language, of which he was a preeminent scholar. Over his academic career, Charlie published nine books and innumerable articles; taught linguistics, Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, and Polish; and was a tireless mentor to his students, many of whom went on to distinguished careers. Charlie’s research took him to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / Russia many times. He and Janet loved to travel together and enjoyed many trips throughout the U.S. and Europe as well as to Asia and Africa. Charlie played basketball and football as a youth, was an avid tennis and squash player, and loved watching sports. He was a Red Sox fan to the end. He played piano, guitar, and banjo by ear and loved singing with
Daniel M. Wise Jr. Daniel M. Wise, Jr., 95, died peacefully May 23, 2015, at his home in Meadow Lakes, a retirement community in Hightstown, New Jersey. He leaves behind a loving family and a trove of experiences and memories he generously shared professionally as a writer/filmmaker, and personally as a well-practiced and engaging storyteller. T he son of Daniel M. Wise, Sr. and Lydia Cranmer Wise, he was born October 28, 1919, in Washington, D.C. The family later lived in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania; Palmyra, New Jersey; and Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, where Daniel graduated from Upper Darby High School. He attended Franklin Pierce business school in Philadelphia and graduated from Bucknell University in 1942. As an officer in the U.S. A r my A ir Cor ps dur ing World War II, he led the ordnance supply unit of a fighter-bomber squadron, beginning after D-Day at some of the first forward airfields in Normandy, and continuing through northern France and into Germany. He parlayed his college French into many great experiences, most notably the courting of the love of his life, Janette Mail, a ballerina in the Paris Opera, whom he met while both were vacationing in the alpine resort of Talloires in August 1945 and to whom he was a devoted husband for 65 years. After the war he worked for the Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner in Paris and married Janette in 1947. They returned to the United States on the SS De Grasse later that year, and settled in Philadelphia. Daniel became a writer and film producer with TelRa Productions, making programs for the NFL, Sports Illustrated, and Major League Baseball in the new medium of television, eventually becoming president of the company. He was an independent producer for several years and later worked for the American Kennel Club where he made award-winning training films and documentaries before retiring in the early 1980s. The family moved to Princeton in 1976 where, in semi-retirement, he served as a driver for Beck & Call,
a limousine and courier service. A lifelong at h lete, he started running before it became popular, competing in many races, including the Penn Relays and a marathon at age 59. He was a fixture on the streets and paths of Princeton and surrounding towns, running with his beloved golden retriever, Coda, and posted a personal record of running consecutive days that extended for nearly three years. Later, he became an avid biker with the Princeton Freewheelers, and did several bike tours in the U.S. and overseas with his son, Christian. For over 40 years he was a fixture in the Philadelphia Eagles press box where he collaborated with the statistics team to write a detailed play-by-play narrative of every home game for use by the media and the NFL. Predeceased by his wife who died January 14, 2012, Daniel is survived by his three children: Anita Wise and her husband TJ Tindall, of Pennington; Daniel R., and his wife, Lillian Doucet Wis e, of Concord, New Hampshire; and Christian Wise, and his wife Hannah Fuller-Boswell, of Montague, Massachusetts; four grandchildren ; and two greatgrandchildren. Daniel will also be lovingly remembered by an extended family that includes his brother, Joseph, of Hanover, Pennsylvania; a cousin, Sam Wise, of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; and numerous nieces and nephews from his late sisters, Dorothy, and Harriett, and Janette’s sister, Léone Mail of France. Daniel donated his body to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center for the education of medical students. His life was celebrated at a service at Meadow Lakes, 300 Etra Road, Hightstown, New Jersey at 1 p.m., Sunday, June 7, 2015. His remains will be buried with his wife at Princeton Cemetery.
Alice M. Garrison Alice M. Garrison, a lifelong resident of Princeton, passed away at age 90 on Thursday, June 4, 2015 in the house where she was born. Alice was a graduate of P r i nce ton H igh S cho ol, Class of 1942. In 1943, she married Philip Garrison, her husband of 64 years whom she first met at Nassau Street Elementary School when the two were in kindergarten. Alice worked for two years at the Institute for Advanced Study as a secretary to Albert Einstein and John von Neumann. In 1944, she went to work for Princeton University, where she was employed for 43 years, first in the Department of Romance Languages and later in Latin American Studies and European Civilizations. She was
particularly proud to administer the Helen Lee Wessel Fellowships in Public Affairs, established to support scholars of inter-American affairs. Long after she retired in 1987, she remained in touch with students she had met at the University. Alice was predeceased by her husband, Philip, by her younger sister, Nancy Blaney, and by a long string of loyal German Shepherds. She is survived by her daughter, Sharon Worthington of Princeton; her son, James Garrison of Dublin, Ohio and his spouse, Peggy. She had four grandchildren: Ross Worthington of Washington, D.C.; Julie Worthington of Somerville, Mass.; Kimberly Gatton of Atlanta, Ga; and Amy Garrison of Cleveland, Ohio. A private burial service was held at Rock y Hill Cemeter y in Rocky Hill, N.J. under the direction of the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Avenue, Princeton, N.J. 08540. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org. Condolences may be sent online by visiting www.thekimblefuneralhome.com. ———
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Margaret A. (Spohn) Scott died on June 3, 2015 at the age of 80 in the Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center in Plainsboro. She was the daughter of the late Llewellyn N. and Dorothy Seyfert Spohn. She was predeceased by her husband, Dr. Eric J. Y. Scott. Marge was born in Reading. Pa. and was a graduate of Reading High School and Cedar Crest College. After graduation, she was employed as a social worker in Philadelphia until her marriage. Marge and her husband shared a great love for music. They enjoyed English contra dancing and made many good friends from this activity. They also enjoyed and attended many concerts. Marge had a beautiful alto voice and was a member of Elaine Brown’s chorus when she resided in Philadelphia. She was a pianist and artist. One of her outstanding hobbies was quilting. She organized friends and family members in producing quilts for many occasions. She was a beloved family member and a good friend. Marge is survived by her sister, Dorothy R. Rapp,
wife of Vernon G. Rapp; her niece Lynanne R. Hesse, wife of Stephen R. Hesse a n d n eph e w Jef f re y D. Rapp all of Berks County, Pa.; as well as her nephew Gregory A. Rapp husband of Karen L. of Ocean County, N.J. She is also survived by Lynanne’s children, Christine A. Scheipe of Columbia, S.C. and Benjamin W. Scheipe of Berks County, Pa. A private celebration of her life will be held by her family.
James Quigley Griffin James Quigley Griffin of Hopewell, New Jersey died peacefully on June 2, 2015 after a brief illness. A revered husband, father, grandfather, farmer, sportsman, and friend to countless individuals, Mr. Griffin had a diverse and inspiring career in banking, museum administration, finance, and as a trustee of numerous cultural institutions. Son of Helen Quigley and Donald Worner Griffin, Mr. Griffin was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania on August 23, 1932. He grew up on the Princeton University campus where his father was general secretary of the Alumni Association. He was a graduate of the Gilman School of Baltimore, Maryland and earned an AB in histor y from Princeton University in 1955. After serving as Captain in the U.S. Army, he began a 25-year career at First National City Bank where he rose to be a vice president and head of personnel for Citibank’s international division. In 1979, Mr. Griffin joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as treasurer and vice president for finance. Upon leaving the Metropolitan Museum he joined Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler LLP as treasurer. After 35 years commuting to New York City, Mr. Griffin chose to work closer to home and his family, and joined Wilmerding, Miller & Co., Inc., an investment advisory firm in Princeton,
as vice president and secretary from 1992 until the present. Mr. Griffin served as treasurer on the Boards of the New York Historical Society, the New York Society Library, International School Services (ISS), AMIDEAST (America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.), and as a trustee at Mor ven Museu m and Garden. Mr. Griffin was deeply committed to The Ivy Club in Princeton, where he served as the graduate board president from 1982 until his death. He was a long-standing member of the Century Association, the Anglers Club of New York, and Pretty Brook Tennis Club. Mr. Griffin is survived by his wife of 56 years, Barbara Moorehead Griffin; his three daughters, Barbara Griffin Cole, Cynthia Griffin Ferris, and Sarah Griffin Thompson; his sons in-law, Christopher A. Cole, Timothy G. Ferris, Newell M. Thompson; and nine grandchildren. He and his wife lived on a working sheep farm in Hopewell where he was a passionate amateur stonemason. When not working on his legendary argillite stonewalls, he could be found in the vegetable garden or on his tractor mowing the fields. He loved nothing better than to prepare a homegrown feast for his family and friends in their warm, welcoming kitchen. In the winter, after the first cold snap, the call went out, “Ice at Jimmy’s!” Skaters of all ages joined with him to play fast and furious shinny hockey on the Griffin’s pond. He was widely known for his gentle, gracious and selfless manner, his work ethic, and his unwavering values. An optimist with a keen appreciation for individual talent in all walks of life; he was a rare person who inspired others to be better. A memorial service celebrating the Life of James Q. Griffin will be held at the Princeton Universit y Chapel on June 22, 2015 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, friends may contribute to the James Q. Griffin Memorial Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation (15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08525), which w i l l s upp or t e du c at ion, leadership, and Jim’s other charitable interests. Obituaries Continued on Next Page
GRIFFIN, James Q.
The Board of Governors of The Ivy Club and the Trustees of the Ivy 1879 Foundation mourn with profound sorrow the passing of our friend, James Q. Griffin, Princeton Class of 1955. Jim was elected president of The Ivy Club in 1982, and he led the Club for over three decades, overseeing changes including the admission of women and the establishment of the Foundation to further the Club’s educational role. He conceived of and led the effort to build a splendid addition to Ivy’s Clubhouse, named by the Board the Griffin Wing despite the reluctance born of Jim’s characteristic modesty.
He nurtured the undergraduate members in the Club’s culture by his unassuming example in word and deed, and by his endearing sense of humor. Thanks to his irresistible charm and wisdom, Jim exercised his leadership through the creation of a willing consensus in the board and the membership as a whole. His vision advanced the quality of the Club’s life and enhanced its educational mission. Jim’s legacy, in spirit and in stone, will always be an important part of Ivy. Jim Griffin was a natural and complete gentleman, a loyal Princetonian and a man utterly devoted to his family and his friends. The values by which he lived, and the standards he set, inspired all those whose lives he touched. We shall miss him greatly. The Trustees of the Foundation join the Governors of Ivy in extending to Jim’s wife, Barbie, and to his entire family, our heartfelt condolences. THE IVY CLUB Corbin R. Miller, Treasurer Robert A. Engel, Secretary
IVY 1879 FOUNDATION John F. Cook, President Frances P. Jain, Secretary
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family and friends. After his retirement, he volunteered with the Princeton Hospice Program, and particularly enjoyed leading a weekly “singfest” at the Acorn Glen assisted living facility. Charlie is survived by his wife of 57 years, Janet; and his daughters Erica Appel (Charles), Sylvia Townsend (Charles Cowens), and Louise Townsend (Ben Schmidt). He leaves behind his five beloved grandchildren, Rose and Alice Cowens; Justine and Stephen Appel; and Isabel Schmidt; and his nephews Ross Adler (Pam) and James Townsend (Jenny); and nieces Sara Poumerol (Gilles) and Laura McWright (Glen), and their children. A memorial service will be announced. In lieu of flowers, donations may be mailed to Princeton Hospice, 88 Princeton-Hightstown Rd, Ste 201, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550 (“Attn. Hospice”) or made online at princetonhcs.org. ———
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Mark Lawrence Mark MacKenzie Lawrence, 59, passed away on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at his home in Holmdel, New Jersey. He was born in East Liverpool, Ohio to the late Frederick and Barbara ( MacKenzie) Lawrence. Mark grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where he moved to in 1961. He graduated from Denison University in 1977 and moved to Florida, where he pursued his passion for scuba diving and underwater photography for many years, cultivating his lifelong fascination with and love of the ocean and marine life. In addition to working at Pro Dive in Fort Lauderdale and Ocean Dive in Key Largo, he worked for Scuba Diver magazine, reviewing the best locations for coral reef exploration in the Gulf and the Caribbean. He loved to regale his friends and family with tales of his many ad-
ventures from this time in his life, including close encounters with sharks and morel eels. He moved to New York City as a commercial photographer, later moving to New Jersey and working for a digital photography equipment company, and most recently, in cyber security with Protected Mobility. He was devoted to his son, Alexander, who filled his life with joy and with whom he shared his love of science and exploring nature. He was the enthusiastic leader of Cub Scout Den 7 in Holmdel, with whom he shared many adventures and his gift for encouraging those around him to try new things with patience and humor. His laugh and love of life will be greatly missed. He is survived by his loving son Alexander Schlag Lawrence; his former wife, Elisabeth Schlag Lawrence; his two sisters, Lisa Porter Lawrence and Deborah MacKenzie Lawrence and her husband Peter TenEyck Clinton and a niece, Comfort MacKenzie Clinton. A C elebr at ion of L ife was held at Christ Church Shrewsbury Episcopal on Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent in Mark’s memory to w w w.Reef.org to support Mark’s immense passion for reef conservation and underwater life. Please visit Mark’s memorial website at www. johnedayfuneralhome.com.
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Ruth Goodman, 87, of P r i n c e to n p a s s e d aw ay Thursday June 4, 2015 at Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center, Plainsboro following a long illness. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, she had resided in Princeton since 1968. She was a selfemployed artist who worked for many years with Michael Graves. Daughter of the late Harry and Louise Sandhouse; she is survived by her husband, Lionel Goodman, a son and daughter-in-law, Steve and Sandy Goodman of Montclair, New Jersey, a daughter and son-in-law, Debbie and Jack Harnatkiewicz of Swansboro, North Carolina, and five grandchildren, Justin, Jessica and Joey Harnatkiewicz, Sarah and Sydney Goodman. Friends were asked to call on Tuesday June 9, 2015 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Wilson-Apple Funeral Home, 2560 Pennington Road, Pennington. The interment will be private. Condolences are welcome at www.wilsonapple.com. C ont r ibut ion s m ay b e made to the Alzheimer’s Association (www.alz.org).
Noted fashion historian, Elizabeth Logan Schmeck Brow n died on May 19, 2015 at her home in Skillman, New Jersey with family at her side. Known to her friends as Rikki, Elizabeth was born on September 7, 1918 in Ancon Canal Zone, Panama, the daughter of Henry Penuel Schmeck and Pansy Blossom Logan. Henry was a civil engineer, employed by the Panama Canal Company during the construction of the canal; Pansy was a proper Kentucky belle. Her family lived in California and Oklahoma, then settled in Texas, where she attended the University of Texas at Austin. Elizabeth transferred to Cornell University in Ithaca New York, which became one of the most significant moves of her lifetime. She loved Cornell, and there began a lifelong fascination and love affair with fashion and fashion history. She developed that interest more deeply, spending a year in New York City working at Lord & Taylor and attending the Art Student’s League. Upon returning to Cornell, she received her Bachelors’ Degree in 1940 and her Masters’ Degree in 1945. She taught textiles and clothing and curated the university’s extensive costume collection. It was at Cornell that she met her husband Walter D. Brown, who was teaching Naval students in the V-12 program during World War II. They married at Cornell’s Sage Chapel and were together for 62 years, until Walter died in 2006. Her passion for costumes and all things related, especially sewing machines and patterns, began to manifest itself at this time and continued throughout her life. After Cornell, Elizabeth and her husband lived in the Solomon Islands, Maryland, then Pittsburgh. They raised four boys, born between 1946 and 1953. The family lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, and finally settled near Princeton, New Jersey in the 1960’s. Elizabeth was a teacher at heart, and dedicated her life to enriching the lives of her family and community. Her vast knowledge of fashion and textiles was indispensable not only to her own professional development but also to the many institutions
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that she contributed to and advised. Never content to be a bystander, she was an active participant in many professional organizations, especially the Costume Society of America (CSA), of which she was a founding member. She was named a Fellow of the Costume Society in 1992. She served on the CSA Board of Directors and as the Parliamentarian for many years. She worked in the fashion industry for McCalls, Butterick, and Uno. She lectured, appraised, and amassed a huge collection of costumes, sewing machines, and all manner of related objects. In her collecting, she had a loving co-conspirator in her late husband Walt; and her sons David, Ned, Ken, and Walt Jr. indulged her interests and supported them. Ultimately, she amassed a renowned clothing collection which is now housed at several institutions, including The Elizabeth Schmeck Brown Gallery at Cornell Universit y, the Smithso nian Institution, Houston Communit y College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, The Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the University of Rhode Island, and numerous others. Her sewing machine collection grew to the hundreds and was featured by the International Sewing Machine Collectors Association, of which she was a proud member. She was an inspiration to so many in her field and reveled in meeting new members and continuing to learn from everyone she met. She also belonged to a panoply of organizations that supported women in colleges, Cornell alumni, and the value of family education in schools. She was an active member of many organizations i nclu d i ng t he A m er ic a n Association of University Women, Princeton United Met ho d is t Church, New Jersey Association Family and Consumer Sciences, American Association Family and Consumer Sciences, Van Harlingen Historical Society, Historical Society of Princeton, International Textile and Apparel Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, New Jersey Association of Museums, International Sewing Machine Collectors Society, Costume and Textile Group of New Jersey, American Association of State and Local History, Cornell Alumni Association, Cornell Women’s Club, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Omicron Nu, and Alpha Lambda Delta. She served as chair of the Somerset County School Boards Association and president of the Montgomery Township Board of Education. She is survived by David H. Brown and Wendy L. Brown, and their son David M. Brown and his wife, Heather P. Brown; Walter D. Brown, Jr.; Ned L. Brown and Karen Mur phy ; and Kenneth M. Brown and Rebecca G. Brown, and their children, Johanna, Peter, and Sarah. Memorial contributions in Elizabeth’s name may be made to the Costume Society of America Endowment, P.O. Box 1723, Mendocino, CA 95460-1723. A private ceremony will be held in Princeton Cemetery.
Patricia Klensch-Balmer Long-time Princeton resident Patricia Klensch-Balmer died on April 27, 2015 at the age of 89 after a long illness. Pat was born March 6, 1926 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the eldest of 5 children to Frederick Balmer and Gertrude (Banister) Balmer. Her father, a Swiss born restaurateur who operated restaurants in Switzerland, Arkansas, and Illinois was a talented musician known for playing every instrument in the band. He inspired Pat’s life-long appreciation of music while her mother — a one-room school teacher in the rural south — instilled her with a love of learning. From 1931 to 1935 Pat and her family lived in Switzerland, before moving back to Arkansas and eventually settling in Chicago in 1942. After graduating from Wright Junior College with a degree in English, Pat worked for a time as a reporter at a local newspaper. In July 1953, Pat married Richard Klensch at Saint Pau l ’s Chu rch i n P r i nc eton. While married, Pat worked at the Institute for Advanced Study where she became acquainted with Albert Einstein and was proud to have typed some of his papers. Following her divorce in the late 1960’s, Pat worked for Mathmatica, a notable think-tank of the time located in Princeton Junction. In the mid-1980s Pat went on to work for the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching as an assistant librarian. On a personal level, Pat collected books and was equally passionate about music, learning to play the cello and attending performances of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Tanglewood regularly. She was famous for her baking skills, especially her fudge, which inspired tears of appreciation at first taste. Throughout her life Pat embraced adventure, from learning to fly a Piper Club aircraft to exploring North America, Africa, and Switzerland. Julia Bernheim, Pat’s friend of over 40 years and travel companion on safari in Africa, said the two talked almost every day and just laughed together. Her youngest brother Guy, recalls “she imbued me with a sense of wonder and was more like a mother than a big sister,” exposing him to the arts and bringing the outside world of learning and history into their home. Pat is sur v ived by her brothers, James, Ronald, and Guy Balmer, along with her nephews Guy and Mark Balmer, and Sean Bolen. Memorial Mass will be held in her honor on June 13, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul’s Church in Princeton, New Jersey followed by a reception.
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SUMMER RENTAL: 4-5 BR, 3.5 bath in Princeton Western section. Fully furnished. Modern eat-in kitchen, central air. No smoking. Available June 26-Sept. 7. $3,000/mo. plus utilities (negotiable), (609) 688-9199. 06-10 LUZ CLEANING SERVICE: Provides reliable & top quality cleaning. Many years experience, good organizing, great references. Free estimates & 10% discount. (609) 5105097; e-mail: Yarenis134@hotmail. com 05-20-4t HOUSECLEANING: Reliable Italian woman with 30 years cleaning experience! Excellent results guaranteed! Please call after 2pm, (908) 359-2889. 05-20-4t HOME ASSISTANT/ HANDYMAN: Extremely capable, typing, art hanging, organizing, painting, carpentry, shopping, appointments. Live in Princeton father. Resume and references. Rate negotiable. John (609) 477-8424. 05-27-3t PRINCETON RENTAL: Sunny, 2-3 BR, Western Section. Big windows overlooking elegant private garden. Sliding doors to private terrace. Fireplace, spotlighting, built-in bookcases, oak floors, half-cathedral ceiling, clerestory windows. Laundry room with washer/dryer. Modern kitchen, 2 baths, central AC. Walk to Nassau St. & train. Off-street parking. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright disciple. (609) 924-4332. 06-10
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GENERAL HOUSE CLEANING: By Jennie. Also windows, ovens. laundry and bedding. (609) 752-7606. 06-10
HOUSECLEANING SERVICES: Quality housecleaning. Experienced and reliable. Trustworthy and respectful. References. Call (609) 858-4296; (732) 430-5865. 06-10
HOUSE FOR RENT: Single family home, West Windsor, 3 BR, 2.5 bath, LR, DR, kitchen, family room, w/full basement, 2-car garage. Convenient to Princeton university & train stations. No pets. Available July. $2,000/ mo. Evenings (609) 273-4416. 06-03-3t
TUTORING AVAILABLE: in Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Physics, SAT, ACT & AP. For more information contact Tom at (609) 216-6921. tf
NUBIA’S CLEANING: Quality housecleaning, excellent references. Houses & apartments, move-in, move-out! We also are available to serve parties. 12 years experience. (609) 915-8981. 05-20-10t
EXCELLENT BABYSITTER: With references, available in the Princeton area. (609) 216-5000 tf APARTMENTS FOR RENT: 1, 2 and 3 BR apartments located in town of Princeton. Parking/Washer/Dryer/ Storage. Nassau Street Apartments: (908) 874-5400 x802. 06-10 HANDYMAN: General duties at your service! High skill levels in indoor/outdoor painting, sheet rock, deck work, power washing & general on the spot fix up. Carpentry, tile installation, moulding, etc. EPA certified. T/A “Elegant Remodeling”, www.elegantdesignhandyman.com Call Roeland (609) 933-9240 or roelandvan@gmail.com tf
HOME OFFICE & ACADEMICS ASSISTANT AVAILABLE: MA Degree holder & prospective PhD applicant available for home/office assistance & academic support (ages 7 & above) in the Princeton area. May also assist with babysitting (ages 7 & above) & family errands. Excellent Resume & References available. Please call Annie: (609) 414-2835. 06-03-3t ONE DAY HAULING & HOME IMPROVEMENT: We service all of your cleaning & removal needs. Attics, basements, yards, debris & demolition clean up, concrete, junk cars & more. The best for less! Call (609) 743-6065. 06-10-2t
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Deadline: 12 pm Tuesday • Payment: All ads must be pre-paid, Cash, credit card, or check. • 25 words or less: $23.25 • each add’l word 15 cents • Surcharge: $15.00 for ads greater than 60 words in length. • 3 weeks: $59.00 • 4 weeks: $76 • 6 weeks: $113 • 6 month and annual discount rates available. • Classifieds by the inch: $26.50/inch • Employment: $33
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3 bedrooms, 2 full and 2 half baths, smashing kitchen, stunning features throughout on a great piece of property in Hopewell Township not far from town center. High efficiency HVAC systems for huge savings in utility bills. $659,000
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Nursery • Landscaping since 1939 Water Gardens Patios and Walks famous for quality & service Landscape Lighting 3730 Lawrenceville Road
Princeton
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MACK’S WINDOW CLEANING: Windows & storm windows. Inside & out. $9 each window. Fully insured. All work guaranteed. Call (609) 9241404 or (609) 393-2122. 06-10-3t
IRIE PAINTING: Quality workmanship, interior & exterior, light carpentry, power washing. Free estimates, fully insured, references. (609) 5848808; Email iriepainting@gmail.com 05-27-8t
HOPEWELL VICTORIAN TOWNHOUSE for rent. Located on the main street. Open 1st floor, 2+ BR’s, nice yard, short walk to town. Available July 15, $1,750 + utilities. Call (609) 4686769. 06-10-3t
GET A PC HOUSE CALL FOR $49.95! Our expert computer technician will restore your computer to like-new condition, speed up processing by 1000% & eliminate all viruses causing pop-ups, freezing, glitches & quirks. Find out why our clients are thrilled with their lifetime telephone support & professional, trustworthy & reliable service. Call Steve Ozer (484) 557-4274. 06-03-4t
SEEKING UNIQUE RENTAL: in Princeton/Hopewell area: cottage or in-law suite in private, natural setting. Mature professional woman, ideal tenant: quiet, responsible, will take beautiful care of your space. Excellent Princeton references, (415) 265-1555. 06-10-3t PRIVATE HOME CARE: Specializing in developmentally delayed needs. 12 years agency experience. References available. CPR certification. Native French speaker. Also available for babysitting. Claire (609) 240-3695; Email: babayaga1963@aol.com 06-03-4t HOUSECLEANING: Experienced, English speaking, great references, reliable with own transportation. Weekly & bi-weekly cleaning. Green cleaning available. Susan, (732) 8733168. 05-13-8t
A TOUCH OF CLASS
For gracious living in a terrific location, this impeccable studio on Palmer Square is the perfect solution. It offers a beautiful view and access to a charming courtyard for warm weather enjoyment. The gracious foyer opens to newer kitchen with granite counter, culinary gas broiler range, under counter refrigerator/freezer and maple cabinets with glass doors. The renovated bathroom features mosaic tiles. Recently refinished floors, wood-burning fireplace, coin-operated laundry in the basement. Truly a marvelous way of life in a great Princeton location. . $289,000
I BUY USED “modern” furniture, pottery, glass, art, rugs, teak, Danish, American, Italian, Mid-Century, etc. from the 20’s to the 80’s or anything interesting or old. One or many. Call (609) 252-1998. 05-27-5t
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FOR RENT 160 WITHERSPOON STREET
PRIME RETAIL LOCATION
PRINCETON ACADEMICS TUTOR-COUNSEL-COACH All grades & subjects. Regular & Special Education. ADHD coaching. Beginning to advanced reading instruction. Test prep- PARCC, SSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT. School assessments & homework club. Build self-esteem while learning! JuDY DINNERMAN, M.A., Reading & Educational Specialist. 35 yrs. experience, u. of Pa. certified, www.princetonacademics. com, (609) 865-1111. tf CARPENTRY General Contracting. No job too small. Licensed and insured. Call Julius Sesztak (609) 466-0732. 06-03-4t HOME HEALTH AIDE: 25 years of experience. Live-in or out. Would love to take care of your mother or father. I am well known in Princeton. Top care, excellent references. Also available nights & weekends. The best, cell (609) 356-2951; or (609) 751-1396. 06-10-4t PROPERTY MAINTENANCE: Landscaping, Pruning, Edging, Mulching. Free estimates. Call Franco (609) 510-8477. 06-03-6t
European High Quality House Cleaning. Great Experience & Good References. Free Estimates. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Reasonable Prices. Call Elvira (609) 695-6441 or (609) 213-9997. 06-03-10t
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Custom fitted in your home. Pillows, cushions, table linens, window treatments, and bedding. Fabrics and hardware. Fran Fox (609) 577-6654 windhamstitches.com 03-18-16
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SPRING CLEAN UP! Seeding, mulching, trimming, weeding, lawn mowing, planting & much more. Please call (609) 637-0550. 03-25-16
PAINTING BY PAUL LLC: Interior, exterior. Wallpaper removal, light carpentry, power washing. Free estimates. Fully insured. Local references. Cell (609) 468-2433. Email aapk06@gmail.com 06-10-8t
We deliver to ALL of Princeton as well as surrounding areas, so your ad is sure to be read. Call (609) 924-2200 ext. 10 for more details.
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NEED SOMETHING DONE? General contractor. Seminary Degree, 17 years experience in the Princeton area. Bath renovations, decks, tile, window/door installations, masonry, carpentry & painting. Licensed & insured. References available. (609) 477-9261. 02-18-16
OFFICE SUITE FOR LEASE: 220 Alexander Street, Princeton. ~1,260 usable SF on 2 levels. Weinberg Management, WMC@collegetown. com, (609) 924-8535. tf
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PRINCETON–LINCOLN COURT: 2 BR, 1 bath, Brick Row-home. Central Downtown Location. $1,750 plus utilities. Weinberg Management, (609) 924-8535. 05-27-tf
Sunny, 3 BR, 1 BATH DuPLEX. Princeton schools. Walk to Nassau Street, university, library, dinky & local schools. Classic Princeton charm, fireplace, washer/dryer, newly renovated bathroom. Off-street parking. Available mid-August/Sept.-May. $3,000/month. Lawn/snow maintenance included. (808) 203-3479 . 06-10-12t
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Princeton Jewel! Walk to town from this elegant colonial home, featuring three bedrooms and three full bathrooms. Ideal for couple, single or small family.
NASSAU STREET: Small Office Suites with parking. 390 sq. ft; 1467 sq. ft. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf
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STORAGE SPACE: 194 Nassau St. 1227 sq. ft. Clean, dry, secure space. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf PRINCETON – 253 NASSAU: Luxury Apartment, 1 BR, 1 bath. Featuring All Amenities, Great Light, Central Downtown Location, Off Street Parking, $2,300 plus utilities. Weinberg Management (609) 924-8535. 05-27-tf SPRING CLEAN UP: Prune shrubs, mulch, cut grass, weed, leaf clean up and removal. Call (609) 883-7942 or (609) 240-6404. 04-01/06-24
PRINCETON: 1 BR DUPLEX House for Rent. $1,575/mo. Parking Available. Call (609) 921-7655. tf
For all home repairs. 35 years experience. Specializing in kitchens, baths, basements, flooring, ceramic tile, painting, drywall. No job too large or too small! Free estimates. Licensed & insured. Call (908) 966-0662. 05-27/08-12 MUSIC LESSONS: Voice, piano, guitar, drums, trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, saxophone, banjo, mandolin, uke & more. One-on-one. $32/ half hour. Ongoing music camps. CALL TODAY! FARRINGTON’S MUSIC, Montgomery (609) 9248282; West Windsor (609) 897-0032, www.farringtonsmusic.com 02-11-16 I BUY ALL KINDS of Old or Pretty Things: China, glass, silver, pottery, costume jewelry, evening bags, fancy linens, paintings, small furniture, etc. Local woman buyer. (609) 9217469. 08-06-15 BUYING: Antiques, paintings, Oriental rugs, coins, clocks, furniture, old toys, military, books, silver, jewelry & musical instruments. I buy single items to entire estates. Free appraisals. (609) 890-1206 , (609) 306-0613. 07-31-15 PRINCETON RETAIL STORE for lease. 72 Witherspoon Street. Ideal Location, Approx. 640 SF. $3,000 per month. Weinberg Management, (609) 924-8535. 05-27-tf NEED A PLUMBER? Master Plumber Phillip E. Gantner for plumbing, heating & mechanical. Residential & commercial. NJ License: B 106867. (609) 943-1315 (cell); pgantner47@gmail.com tf
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14 Lupine Lane, Hopewell Twp | $1,395,000 Marketed by Barbara Facompre, Cell: 609-731-1189 Hopewell Crossing Office: 609-737-9100
36 Summit Road, Montgomery Twp | $865,000 Marketed by Randy Snyder, Cell: 609-658-3193 Princeton Office: 609-921-2600
Striking architecture combines with sensational design and craftsmanship in this storybook home. Completely redone by its interior designer owner since purchasing the home in 2005, light space and functionality stand out in every room and warm forest tones complement a neutral palette.
In a quiet enclave of homes in one of Belle Mead’s most exclusive neighborhoods, set upon two acres at the end of a cul-de-sac yet only minutes from downtown Princeton, this custom-built Victorian-style home with a gorgeous wraparound porch was constructed with every comfort in mind.
5 Woodgate Drive, South Brunswick Twp | $744,900 Marketed by Randy Snyder, Cell: 609-658-3193 Princeton Office: 609-921-2600
74 Burd Road, Hopewell | $738,000 Marketed by Alison Covello, Cell: 609-240-8332 Princeton Office: 609-921-2600
Lovingly cared for, expanded and updated through the years by the original owners, this gorgeous center hall colonial is situated in the established Woodgate community, minutes from shopping, restaurants and mass transit, and boasting the South Brunswick blue ribbon schools.
This spacious home in one of Hopewell’s most beautiful settings has had many recent renovations, including refinished hardwood floors, a media room and a newly-built covered front porch with a copper roof and ceiling fans that offers perfect views of Southwind Farms.
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EDDY’S LANDSCAPE & HARDSCAPE CORP: Lawn maintenance, spring/fall cleanup, mulching, mowing, rototilling, fertilizing, pruning, planting, lawn cutting, tree service. Patios, walls retain, stone construction, drainage, fences, etc. Free Estimates. 10% off. (609) 213-3770; edy_davila@msn.com 03-04/11-25 HOME REPAIR SPECIALIST: Interior/exterior repairs, carpentry, trim, rotted wood, power washing, painting, deck work, sheet rock/ spackle, gutter & roofing repairs. Punch list is my specialty. 40 years experience. Licensed & insured. Call Creative Woodcraft (609) 586-2130 06-11-15 WANTED:
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Princeton – $1650/mo. Nassau Street. 2nd floor “B”, 3 rooms. Private 1/2 bath. Available now. Princeton – $1600/mo. Nassau Street. 2nd floor, 3 offices, use of hall powder room. Available now.
STOCKTON MEANS FuLL SERVICE REAL ESTATE. We list, We sell, We manage. If you have a house to sell or rent we are ready to service you! Call us for any of your real estate needs and check out our website at: http://www.stockton-realtor.com. See our display ads for our available houses for sale.
32 Chambers Street Princeton, NJ 08542 (609) 924-1416 Martha F. Stockton, Broker-Owner
• WE PAY CASH
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• WE BUY HOMES IN ANY CONDITION
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www.heritagehomesprinceton.com heritagehomesbuilders@gmail.com Igor L. Barsky, Lawrence Barsky STOCKTON REAL ESTATE… A Princeton Tradition Experience ✦ Honesty ✦ Integrity 32 Chambers Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 (800) 763-1416 ✦ (609) 924-1416
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PART-TIME ADMINISTRATOR/ ASSISTANT: @ Carnegie Business Center. $20/ hr. 8am-12pm weekdays. Support Princeton office of an overseas public company. Good communication skills & familiarity with local Princeton/West Windsor community to handle administration work & to assist employees & families relocated to this branch. Please send resume/ background to benjamin_yeh@ sercomm.com 06-10-3t
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Sell with a TOWN TOPICS classified ad! Call (609) 924-2200 ext 10 DEADLINE: Tues before 12 noon MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE: Everything from bikes to books!. Saturday, June 13 from 9-12. 255 S. Harrison Street, Princeton. Everything must go! 06-10 TWILIGHT ESTATE SALE: 5 Toth Lane, Rocky Hill. Friday June 12, 3-8 & Saturday June 13, 9-3. Everything in pristine condition. Make us your 1st stop! visit dustyoldbag. com for photos. 06-10 YARD SALE: Saturday, June 13 from 9-4. 13 & 27 MacLean Street. Wine cooler, mini refrigerator, espresso maker, GPS, toaster oven, slightly used & brand new bassinets w/bedding, car seat, clothes, jewelry, fabric. 06-10 MASSIVE MOVING GARAGE SALE: 58 Mercer Street, Princeton. Saturday & Sunday, June 13 & 14 from 9-5ish. 06-10
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YARD SALE: Saturday, June 13th, from 9-1, 282 Western Way, Princeton, (enter from Cedar Lane). Antiques, collectibles, china, linens, bikes & household items. 06-10
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Galina Peterson Sales Associate, Realtor®
TRADING PLACES
Trade the mundane for the marvelous in this spacious residence with every amenity. Great room with natural wood vaulted ceiling, eat-in kitchen, dining room, living room, 4 bedrooms, 2 full and 2 half baths, 3-car garage, large deck with hot tub. In a terrific Pennington Borough neighborhood, A great place to live. $695,000
908.227.9044 cell 609.924.1600 office galina.peterson@foxroach.com
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PrinCETon, This 5-bedroom Colonial on a 0.5 acre lot features a foyer that opens into the living room, hardwood floors, plate-glass windows & wall of windows that overlook a garden. $895,000
PrinCETon, Brick front Colonial features 5 bedrooms, a first-floor ensuite, 3.5 baths, a 2-story family room, a gourmet kitchen w/ SS appliances & a walk-out daylight basement. $1,100,000
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PrinCETon, Expanded 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath Colonial in coveted Riverside area with plenty of natural light and views of Lake Carnegie. Hardwood floors throughout. $1,250,000
PrinCETon, Hilltop Colonial with 5 bedrooms and renovated baths. Gourmet kitchen opens to family room with large windows overlooking the patios, wooded lot and in-ground pool. $1,340,000
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beatrice bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
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