Town Topics Newspaper, June 14, 2023

Four Possible Plans For Community Park Unveiled to Public

Four possible concept plans for improvements to Community Park South, the area bordered by Route 206 and Birch Avenue, were presented at a public engagement meeting last Thursday, June 8, at the municipal building.

The meeting was the second public event to be held on the master plan for the park. Citizen feedback about the design proposals is encouraged, through a survey, in English and Spanish, available through June 19 at 9 a.m. on the website princeton.civilspace.io/en/projects/ community-park-south-master-plan.

Originally, three options were planned for the park. But a fourth was added after consultants gathered input from the public, a steering committee, and municipal staff over the last few months. A survey that was posted following the rst public engagement meeting in March received more than 450 responses, according to representatives of Suburban Consulting Engineers (SCE).

Some of the things people wanted to see improved were the walking path, the multi-purpose athletic eld, tennis courts, picnic pavilion, and platform tennis. New features requested included rest rooms, benches, sports lighting, and outdoor tness facilities.

“The challenge was to take all of the feedback and collaborate with [departments of] recreation and engineering,” said SCE’s Joseph Perello. “The good news is that, out of all four plans, all the main items asked for can t on the site. We can accommodate all the items that were requested, and the appropriate spaces behind them.”

Each of the proposals includes the perimeter walking path, open space, athletic elds, tennis courts, pickleball courts, a hitting wall, platform tennis, rest room buildings, additional picnic areas, a family zone (playground), fenced dog parks, and an exercise area. All have accessibility and detailed landscape plans with native plant materials, and green infrastructure such as rain gardens or water in ltration.

The rst option retains a lot of what already exists at the site. The perimeter path would be widened, and the parking lot would remain where it is. The existing, fenced dog parks would be slightly smaller “but still accommodate a number of dogs,” Perello said.

Council Approves 2023 Capital Budget

Some much-needed infrastructure improvements are included in Princeton’s 2023 capital budget, which Princeton Council voted to approve at a meeting on Monday night, June 12.

Previously deferred projects funded by the budget include the replacement of eight sanitary sewer pumps, improvements to the sewer system’s pipes, six storm sewer culvert replacements, open space improvements, streetscape projects, and safety and traffic calming projects.

Chief Finance Officer Sandy Webb told Council that an initial request of $47 million, “a huge number,” was reduced to about $35 million following extensive meetings with various municipal departments. The restructuring of some departments included the consolidation of engineering and infrastructure operations. The normal capital budget is around $20 million.

Councilmembers praised the municipal staff, particularly Webb, for their work on managing the budget. Council President Mia Sacks, who chairs the Infrastructure and Operations Committee, said the consolidation of the two departments was “a critical step to more effectively channel the efforts of our highly

skilled workforce in addressing the backlog of infrastructure improvements.”

Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros said the budget addresses decades of deferred maintenance. “At the same time, we are acknowledging the impact of climate change on our town,” she said. “And we’re really taking action to counter it. These are all critical investments we need to do now. We can’t kick the can down the road any longer. So I’m really grateful to this team for being able to

move this forward. It’s tremendous, and it’s historic.”

A statement detailing the infrastructure improvements provided some speci cs. Many of the sanitary sewer pumps to be replaced are in ood-prone areas and have exceeded their useful life. The replacements will reduce disruptions during extreme weather events. The six storm sewer culvert replacements address increasing rainfall and runoff, helping to reduce over-topping and property damage.

Area Air Quality Improves, But Residents Should Be Aware as Fire Season Continues

Last week’s poor air quality because of billowing and blowing smoke from wild res in Canada hit Central New Jersey and Princeton hard. And it may not be the last time, as weather experts say a warm and dry season can cause more res.

But for now, there is good news: the air quality has improved and Monday’s soaking rain has lowered the danger of area brush res.

On Tuesday, Jeffrey Grosser, Princeton’s deputy administrator for health and community services, said, “Mercer County/ Princeton is back into good/green

air quality based upon the Air Quality Index (AQI).”

Grosser suggested that “residents should continue to monitor wild res in our area due to the abnormally dry season we are having.” The weekend saw assorted res, now controlled or out, in parts of New Jersey such as Browns Mills, Evesham Township, and Lakehurst. Princeton’s Director of Emergency and Safety Services Michael Yeh said that because of rain this week, the area is in a better position than it was previously, when the New Jersey Forest Fire Service

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STITCHING TOGETHER: Knitting and crochet enthusiasts gathered at the Princeton Shopping Center on Saturday afternoon to celebrate Worldwide Knit in Public Day. The event was presented by the Princeton Public Library in partnership with Princeton Makes. Participants discuss their projects in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Charles R. Plohn)

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left, with Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice founder Robt Seda-Schreiber, will lead Princeton’s Pride Parade on Saturday, June 17.

Rustin Center to Host Pride Parade and Party

The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice (BRCSJ) is once again organizing Princeton’s Pride Parade and After Party, on Saturday, June 17. Alan Muraoka of Sesame Street and trans activist Gavin Grimm will be grand marshals. The parade begins at 11 a.m. at the Municipal Building, 400 Witherspoon Street. The party is at the field of the Princeton YMCA on Paul Robeson Place.

Muraoka plays the proprietor of Hooper’s Store on Sesame Street, and is an actor and director on television and the stage. He won the GLAAD Media Award for outstanding children’s programming for the “Family Day” episode of Sesame Street, which included two gay dads. He is a board member of the Rustin Center.

“I am beyond thrilled and honored to act as grand marshal of the BRCSJ Princeton Pride Parade,” said

Muraoka. “On Sesame Street we try to teach tolerance, acceptance, and love, and I am inspired by the mission and vision of all the good folks at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice who are teaching the same values.”

Grimm is the 24-year-old transgender activist and victor in the landmark ACLU lawsuit Gavin Grimm vs Gloucester County Public School Board.

“The fight, which started in 2015 and lasted for years, helped enshrine some legal protections for transgender students in the fourth circuit and is absolutely pivotal right now as our center defends students here locally as well as across the nation,” reads a release from the BRCSJ.

In 2019, the BRCSJ organized Princeton’s first Pride Parade with over 3,000 people in the streets. Virtual events were held during the pandemic, with over 25,000 viewers.

“We invite all to join us as our LGBTQIA community and their friends, allies, and families (chosen or otherwise) march, dance, roll, stroll, and sashay through the historic WitherspoonJackson neighborhood to end up at the fabulous afterparty at the Princeton Y,” said BRCSJ Chief Activist Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber. “What better way to walk the walk (both literally and figuratively) of inclusivity and intersectionality than to bring together all of our beautifully diverse folks in Princeton and in the greater community.”

The event also features parade queens Cissy Walken and Carrie Dragshaw; flagbearer activist Rebekah Bruesehoff; Congressperson Andy Kim, poet Michelle Elizabeth Brown, Sen. Andrew Zwicker, Mayor Mark Freda, queer icons Chet Kabara and Frank Mahood, and several others.

Visit rustincenter.org for more information.

Topics In Brief A Community Bulletin

Nassau Street Streetscape Project: The municipality will hold a public open house on Wednesday, June 14 from 6-8 p.m. on Hinds Plaza on the project; design concepts will be on display. Key topics will be furniture and materials, opportunities and concerns, bicycle infrastructure, and more.

Call for Land Stewards: Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) holds morning or afternoon summer volunteer sessions through August under the guidance of FOPOS’ director of natural resources and stewardship to assist with various conservation projects at Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. Weekday and weekend sessions available. Visit fopos.org/getinvolved.

Donate: At Monument Hall, Princeton Human Services is collecting workwear clothing through June 16 for the Summer Youth Employment Program participants. Visit humanservices@princetonnj.gov for a full list.

Outdoor Yoga: At the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Preserve on Sunday, June 25, 10-11:15 a.m. Donations of $10 suggested to benefit Friends of Princeton Open Space. Fopos.org.

MARCHING WITH PRIDE: “Sesame Street” star Alan Muraoka,

Composer Reworks “I Am Harvey Milk” for Upcoming Princeton Festival Performances

Some 10 years ago, composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa was asked by the artistic director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus if he could write a five-minute choral piece about City Supervisor Harvey Milk.

A program of several pieces was planned for a tribute to Milk, an openly gay politician who was assassinated on Nov. 27, 1978 at San Francisco’s City Hall. But Lippa said he was “so inspired by the idea, I considered it more than a creative assignment. I asked to write the entire program.”

The full-length piece premiered in San Francisco on June 26, 2013, with Lippa singing the role of Milk.

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That piece, I Am Harvey Milk, has been reworked and will be presented by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at the Princeton Festival at Morven Museum and Garden on Friday, June 23 and Saturday, June 24, both at 7 p.m.

The piece celebrates Milk, who championed legislation against discrimination based on sexual orientation. But it is also a call to action, something Lippa agreed is needed in these times.

Lippa believes the piece addresses “the need to let people live their lives. Be yourself, be honest,” he said. In the piece, Milk sings: “I’m tired of the silence so I’m speaking out … Come out, come out, and become yourself. You’re not the one who is wrong.”

The lyrics, especially “come out” (sung 48 times at the end of the piece), are modeled after Milk’s famous “come out” speech that urged, “Gay brothers and sisters … You must come out.” He gave that speech on the ninth anniversary of the New York Stonewall riot on June 25, 1978.

Lippa wrote in a 2011 Huffington Post blog that Milk’s “famous ‘come out’ speech remains a reminder to all of us, gay and straight, that living an authentic life is the only way to live. Anything other than authenticity is a lie.”

The Princeton Festival’s I Am Harvey Milk is called a musical theater oratorio. Lippa said he considered different terms, because it has a story and characters, but is not a concert staging. It is theatrical but is part “classical music and the theater musical.” Lippa predicted

that audiences who love both genres “will connect to it, and will care about Harvey Milk.”

The Princeton performance is directed by Noah Himmelstein, a New Yorkbased theater director, and features Benjamin Pajak as young Milk and Adam Kantor as adult Milk. Pajak recently played Oliver Twist in City Center’s Lionel Bart’s Oliver! and Kantor is a stage veteran of such shows as Rent and The Band’s Visit. The performance also will feature actress Scarlett Strallen, Family Equality CEO Stacey Stevenson, and the Princeton Festival Men’s Chorus.

“I AM HARVEY MILK”: Shown is an October 2014 performance of “I Am Harvey Milk” at Lincoln Center, with composer Andrew Lippa, center, in the title role. The piece has been updated and will be presented by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra on June 23 and 24 at the Princeton Festival, this time with Lippa conducting.

“I Am Harvey Milk”

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When writing the piece, Lippa was struck by the connection he felt to Milk. At the time, he was the same age — 47 — as Milk was when he was assassinated. Both were gay, Jewish men who had grown up in New York. Milk even had worked for a time in the theater. Lippa wrote, “What I have come to learn, with Harvey’s words and life as my encouragement, is that I wanted to write about existence itself, about my right to exist, Harvey’s right to exist, to excel, to be accepted, to express gratitude, to soar.”

Lippa said he did not want to “tell a biography. For me, the biography is not interesting.” He wrote a series of events in Milk’s life, not in chronological order. As a child, Milk sings “An Operatic Masterpiece,” about how he wants his life to be big, and important. The next section, “I am the Bullet” tells the story from the point of view of the bullet. With childhood and death portrayed, “It gives the audience permission to ask, ‘What’s next?’” noted Lippa.

In Princeton, Lippa will conduct the performance, a skill that complements his talents writing music, lyrics, and the book for many of his works. In fact, he is now working on a musical piece from the movie about dance and life choices, The Turning Point, for which he created all three.

Among his Broadway credits are music and lyrics for Big Fish ; the Tony-nominated music and lyrics for The Addams Family ; and the book, music, and lyrics for Wild Party.

At the Princeton Festival, Lippa will speak to young musicians about portraying social change in art. “Art is social change” he said. “Every act of art is social change. It is life. Every day is about change.”

“That’s how I walk through the world,” said Lippa. “It’s incumbent upon you to be aware of everyone in the world. I teach young people how to do that, to let people lives their lives.

“I have no interest in preaching, but at the same time ... a man lives at a time so unlike our own, but 50 years on we have to stand up and be counted.”

The Princeton Festival is holding two companion events in conjunction with I Am Harvey Milk. On June 17 at 2 p.m. the Princeton Public Library offers a free screening of the 2008 film Milk. On Friday June 23 at 4 p.m., Lippa will speak with young musicians about his writing process. The event, at the Stockton Education Center, is free and open to the public.

Tickets for the June 23 and June 24 Princeton Symphony Orchestra performances of I Am Harvey Milk at Morven range from $42 to $125; youths 5-17 receive a 50 percent discount with an adult purchase. Visit princetonsymphony.org or call (609) 497-0020.

– Wendy Greenberg

Question of the Week: “What are you knitting today?”

(Asked Saturday at the Worldwide Knit in Public Day event at the Princeton Shopping Center)

(Photos by Charles R. Plohn)

“I’m actually knitting a mistake rib hat. It’s very portable and easy. This is a great event.”

“I’m actually crocheting. I am crocheting a snowflake-themed decorative circle.”

Ellaree:

Josaine:

“My focus here is this bathing suit, which is soon to be featured in an upcoming photo shoot. This is all freehand lace work.”

—Guadalupe Perez, Trenton

—Carole Braun, Princeton

—Ruthie Schemmann, Princeton

“Today I am knitting a little doll. This was presented at the Princeton Public Library as part of a four segment class, and they gave us the pattern along with the kit. I’m just finishing her up today and might give her to my granddaughter.”

“I’m not knitting anything right now. I’m just rolling some yarn.”

—Ellaree Pray, Piscataway with Josaine Royster, Somerset

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Air Quality continued from page one of the Department of Environmental Protection called for Stage 2 fire restrictions.

The nonprofit group Sustainable Princeton has issued information about staying safe in wildfires. The organization suggests making a safety plan for climate emergencies. “Unfortunately, wildfires, extreme weather, and floods will occur more frequently as our climate changes,” the group said in a statement. “We need to be prepared for them now.” The Sustainable Princeton website at sustainableprinceton.org has tips to get started on a safety plan.

As of Tuesday, “Princeton and the state of New Jersey are in a Moderate Fire Danger Rating,” said Yeh. “This is a step below High and a step above Low. That has been updated after the rainfall last yesterday into today.”

Yeh said that before the rain, there was a concern about restrictions such as outdoor grilling, but “the rain lowered the fire danger. We’ll see what happens this summer.”

Last Thursday, because of the Canadian wildfire smoke, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued a Code Red, and a Code Orange for last Friday. Weather reports indicate the peak of the nation’s wildfire season is occurring earlier in the year, a season that used to peak in August.

The AQI runs from 0 to 500 with the greater the level of air pollution and the

greater the health concern, explained Grosser. “Last week, as a result of the effects from the Canadian fire, smoke impacted our area Wednesday, Thursday, and part of Friday. During this time, the AQI for Princeton was specified as unhealthy and even hazardous at times.”

Advisories were distributed by the Princeton Police Department and Health Department advising residents to stay indoors.

As conditions improved, sensitive residents, such as those with heart or lung disease, older adults, children, and teens, were also advised to remain indoors in cases of bad air quality, Grosser said.

“In the event residents needed to go outside, KN95 or N95 masks may provide some protection by filtering out fine particles in the smoke,” he said.

Grosser said that exposure to poor air quality can worsen chronic respiratory conditions, like asthma, cause respiratory discomfort, and lead to increased risk of respiratory infections. However, there are “likely no long term health effects for most groups during a short period of exposure. Residents were reminded to limit outdoor activities when air quality is poor and to keep track of the current air quality.”

This past week, with more a dozen forest and brush fires across New Jersey, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service announced tougher restrictions on outdoor burning during the Stage 2 fire danger, of a three-tiered system of fire burning restrictions.

During Stage 2, the restrictions allow for an elevated charcoal grill or stove using electricity or a liquid or gas fuel. An elevated prepared fireplace must be constructed of steel, stone, brick or concrete; elevated at least one foot above the ground; and surrounded by a mineral soil radius no less than 10 feet. The fire service asks to make sure there are no other combustible materials around. It also issued a prohibition against burning leaves, grass, or trash.

The Forest Fire Service updated its restriction based on Monday’s rainfall. However, the office has reminded residents: don’t discard cigarettes, matches, or smoking materials on the ground; contact your nearest Forest Fire Service office for information on how to obtain a Campfire Permit; don’t leave fires unattended — douse them completely, until cold to the touch; keep matches and lighters away from children and teach youth about fire safety; and use wood stoves and fireplaces carefully, since both can emit embers that spark fires. Fully douse ashes with water before disposal.

Both Yeh and Grosser suggested monitoring statewide fire danger and fire restrictions at the New Jersey Forest Fire Service: nj.gov/ dep/parksandforests/fire/ infotools.

Grosser also suggested that for more information regarding how to protect oneself from bad air quality, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at cdc.gov/air/wildfiresmoke.

—Wendy Greenberg

Romus Broadway is the Inspiration For Teen-Oriented Photography Camp

Thanks to the late photographer Romus Broadway, life in Princeton’s WitherspoonJackson neighborhood is documented with thousands of images of people and community gatherings from the late 1950s through the early 2000s.

Princeton University Library’s Special Collections acquired and digitized these images in 2021, a year after Broadway died at the age of 81. From August 2022 through May of this year, the library and the Arts Council of Princeton held an outdoor exhibit of Broadway’s photographic collages displayed on banners throughout the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood.

Broadway’s achievements make him an ideal inspiration and role model for the 12 young teenagers who will take part in a new photography camp being held at Princeton University’s Carl Fields Center June 20-30. As of Monday, eight were signed up for the camp, which is free and geared toward those who have an interest in photography and an appreciation for the Witherspoon-Jackson community.

“Romus took pictures of every person in town he could fi nd,” said Lance Liverman, who was on the committee that organized the camp along with Shirley Satterfield, Iona Harding, the Rev. Gregory Smith, Charles Phox, and Jennifer Garcon, the University’s librarian for modern and contemporary special collections. “There must be about 15,000 or 20,000

pictures,” Liverman continued. “He was incredible.”

Broadway was born in Belle Mead in 1939 and moved with his family to Princeton when he was 4 years old. He graduated from Princeton High School and Amherst College, served in the Air Force, and worked for American Airlines. Photography and history were his passions.

The teens, ages 12 to 15, will attend the camp from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Each day will be different. “One day, maybe Shirley [Satterfi eld] will speak to them about history,” said Liverman. “Another day, Dr. Jennifer Garcon will talk. We’ll take them into Firestone Library and go over historical stuff. They’ll walk around the neighborhood and take pictures, download them, and talk about what they’ve seen and what it means.”

An exhibit of the campers’ work will be held on the final day. Parents, donors, and supporters will be invited.

When the camp concludes, each student will go home with a $400 camera. Between the cameras, two instructors, and a director, the entire initiative is costing about $19,000. A little over $15,000 has been raised so far, and donations are welcome, Liverman said. Photographers Asha Weal and Ryshawn Cooper, both direct

descendants of WitherspoonJackson, have created the curriculum.

The idea for the camp came from Smith last August after he heard a talk by Garcon on photography and legacy during the annual Joint Effort Safe Streets series held in the Witherspoon-Jackson district.

“He reached out to us, and said this is something we should teach our kids,” Liverman said. “We all came up with the idea of summer camp, to give kids in the area an idea of how to take pictures and retain history. We put our heads together, contacted the University, and they were generous enough to give us space for two weeks in the Fields Center. They were also nice enough to provide food for us each day.”

The original idea was to attract participants from the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood, but kids from other parts of town have signed up as well. The program is open to all.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing how this all turns out,” said Liverman. “We’re excited.”

For more information, to register, or sponsor a child, email romusbroadwaysummer-camp@gmail.com.

—Anne Levin

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer Seeks “Great Guys” as Youth Mentors

The pandemic has had a significant effect on volunteerism, and Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of Mercer County is no exception.

The organization, based in Trenton, creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships by matching underserved youths ages 6-18 with caring adult mentors. The Mercer County Chapter was founded in 1973, and is affiliated with the national organization which was founded in 1904.

BBBS is looking at several ways to recruit in its “Great Guys Mentor” campaign, and also to raise awareness about the need for male mentors to become “Bigs,” as they call the mentors.

“We know that the pandemic has made it more difficult for people to volunteer, but we also know that there are many ‘Great Guys’ out there who want to make a difference,” said Tara Belford, interim executive director. “We want to show them that they have the power to positively influence a child’s life by reinforcing and encouraging a young person’s better instincts. And that it doesn’t take a huge time commitment but comes with amazing rewards.”

One event is a recruiting table at its Annual Spring Picnic on Thursday, June 15 at Veterans Park at the Court Games Pavilion South from 5 p.m. to sunset.

Belford added that “it’s always a challenge recruiting volunteers,” and “right now there is an extreme lack of male volunteers. People who have gone back to work since the pandemic are catching up, and don’t have a lot of free time.” She suggested coming to the picnic and picking up an application. Applicants will be entered into a prize drawing.

According to Director of Advancement Loraine Goodman, the organization matched 600 mentors and youths a year prior to the pandemic. This past year there have been just under 300 matches and 47 children are on the waiting list for mentors, 37 of whom are young males, some of

whom have been on the list for more than a year.

Although most people are aware of the community template, where mentors visit with their “matches” for community-based activities, a work-based program, where Trenton Central High School students were exposed to various workplaces, lost two sites because of remote work during the pandemic. A school-based program where high school and college students were matched with elementary school students, as both tutors and friends, visited schools.

“Those programs were hard hit,” said Goodman.

“The organization is building those back up.”

“Exacerbating the shortage of mentors, more youths signed up to be mentored during the pandemic, and the waiting list got longer,” said Belford.

The organization has launched a social media campaign, and is also doing outreach to local businesses, churches, faith-based organizations, sports groups, and community organizations.

According to BBBS, a large percentage of youths who are mentored are less likely to skip school, and less likely to begin using illegal drugs. The mentors range in age from their 20s to their 60s and beyond.

Most mentees in Mercer County live in Trenton, and others live in Lawrence Township, Hamilton, Princeton, East Windsor, and Ewing. Most are 5-10 years old.

The organization does not ask a lot of time be spent — five hours a month over a year — but asks for a yearlong commitment for youths who have seen a lot of transition in their lives.

“The commitment is small but it can have a huge impact,” said Goodman.

More information, and instructions for applying, can be found at mercerbbbs.org.

—Wendy Greenberg

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Safety and traffic calming projects include the enhancement of crosswalks on Route 206 at Herrontown Road and Mansgrove Road; sidewalks, bike lanes, and traffic calming on a portion of Terhune Road; repaving and traffic calming on University Place, Alexander Street, and Dickinson Street; and additional measures.

Among other actions at the meeting was the introduction of a budget for the Special Improvement District; a public hearing will be held at the Council meeting on July 10. A resolution was approved for an agreement with the New Jersey Department of Transportation for purchase, installation, and maintenance of optically controlled emergency preemption equipment on the traffic signal at Nassau and Witherspoon streets. This allows traffic to be stopped to make way for emergency vehicles at the intersection.

Council reached a consensus to allow a food truck from the restaurant Jammin’ Crepes to park in a space across from 20 Nassau Street, from which the eatery is temporarily displaced during work on the building as it is being converted into the Graduate Hotel. Jammin’ Crepes is among several retail businesses that have had to vacate while the safety work is carried

out, which could take several weeks.

Co-owner Kathy Klockenbrink said the truck will sell food Tuesday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The restaurant has contracted to use a commissary kitchen at Princeton Shopping Center to cater private events, its Saturday hours at the West Windsor Farmers Market, and the Jammin’ Community Cafe at Princeton Public Library.

The next public meeting of Princeton Council is on June 26 at 7 p.m.

—Anne Levin

Community Park

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The second option “starts with a different canvas,” Perello said. The tennis courts would be moved in order to expand green space from the park further east. New vegetation would be planted, and the east/west view from the park site to Community Park School and back would be opened up. Additional parking would be included, as would an indoor recreation facility that could house two courts for different sports.

The third option mixes some of the features of the first two, and includes some other layout changes. Six of the existing tennis courts would be retained, and six new ones would be built. The platform tennis courts would be moved to the side next to Route 206, in order to fit new storage buildings. The perimeter path would have sitting areas and exercise stations. There is no

additional parking in this layout.

The fourth option creates a greener buffer to the southern end of the site. All-new tennis courts, along with platform and pickleball courts, would be moved closer to Route 206. New lighting would be added for the courts, with newer technology that doesn’t create glare for the homes that are nearby. The perimeter path would be widened to allow for security vehicles, and additional parking would be included.

The consultants and municipal staff hope to hold another meeting in the fall with choices having been narrowed down to one or two options. A video of both public engagement meetings and detailed information about each of the four plans are available on the website.

—Anne Levin

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Princeton Public Library Extends Thanks for Successful Princeton Community Pride Picnic

To the Editor:

The library and its community partners at McCarter Theatre Center, HiTOPS, YWCA Princeton, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton Civil Rights Commission, and Princeton Human Services welcomed more than 2,000 people to the third annual Princeton Community Pride Picnic on Saturday, June 3 where we celebrated Princeton’s LGBTQ+ community with music, art, activities, food, and much more.

A special thank you to Palmer Square Management for providing a safe host site for this year’s Pride Picnic. Twenty local nonprofits and organizations set up booths that offered fun activities, information, and giveaways in support of the mission of the picnic to “celebrate and commemorate the local LGBTQIA+ community and its Pride, to connect, and to share resources.’’ There was joy in the air at this multi-generational event where acceptance for all was clearly on display and as Princeton reaffirmed its commitment to being an inclusive and welcoming town for everyone where we all belong.

It truly takes a village to host a successful event of this scope, and it would not have been possible without support from our community partners as well as additional generous funding from the following sponsors: Experience Princeton, JoyCards, Witherspoon Media Group, Lake Smithfield Studios, Ellen Malavsky Marketing and Communications Consulting, jaZams, and Rylan Lott Photography.

JENNIFER PODOLOSKY

Executive Director, Princeton Public Library

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Former PHS Principal Frank Chmiel Shares Thoughts for Class of 2023

To the Editor: Congratulations to the PHS Class of 2023! I am extremely proud of you. Graduating from Princeton High School is no small feat. PHS is marvelous, but it is also competitive, and pressure-filled. While the challenges push people to excel, they also cause stress. Thankfully, the school is filled with resources for students and many opportunities for positive experiences. The faculty, staff, and building leaders are all gifted, skilled, and hard-working individuals, who care about you. I know that they wanted nothing more than for you to finish off your PHS experience on a good note, and I hope that you finished your year positively.

I want to share a few thoughts. Never judge others and don’t judge yourselves too harshly either. Don’t compare yourself to others. Find ways to be your best you. Today, for example, you’re graduating from high school. That is an awesome achievement. There were some hard times for you, but you get to celebrate this moment together as Tigers. I had the privilege of bringing the classes of 1971 and 1972 on tours during my time as principal. I learned a lot by listening, and the best thing I observed was their school pride. I hope that as opportunities come for you to meet with your classmates again, you will make some time to return and remember your experiences at PHS.

Remember the PHS motto: Live to learn and learn to live. It’s the best motto I’ve come across as an educator. It’s carved into the wall on the outside of the Learning Commons. In an unofficial capacity, I added a little something to it last year. I told it to the Class of ’22 and now I’m telling you: Learn and live to give. Find ways to be kind to people and give. It can be your time or other resources. When you know someone is in need, don’t assume that someone else will help. You become the one to give.

I miss you and will continue to miss you, and I am so happy for you. Whether you won awards or not, are going to college, taking a gap year, or going into the workforce — whatever you do, just find ways to be happy. Please take time to relax and celebrate. Just please make sure to do so with moderation and safety.

It has been some time since I have seen most of you. It has been difficult not seeing you every day. Thank you for supporting me as your principal; for taking time to say hello, for not being embarrassed to invite me to cheer with you in the stands, or perform with you, or just to be seen having a conversation with me. I learned positive things from you, Class of 2023. I had a great experience being your principal. If you walked away learning any positive things from me, then I’m happy. Now, go and find ways to make our world a better place. Go Tigers!

FRANK CHMIEL Horner Lane

Plan for TRW Site Enumerating Specific Benefits Will Be Safeguard for Residents

To the Editor:

Ideas regarding the redevelopment of the Tennent-Roberts-Whiteley sites, including adaptive re-use and the designation of the site as affordable housing, have come from one side — the residents and taxpayers of Princeton. The residents’ concern is that the final project complements the scale and diversity of the area. Our request is “first do no harm.”

No proposal from the developer has been shared with residents, yet Council states [“Response from Princeton’s

Mayor and Council to PCRD Proposal,” Mailbox, May 24] that the project will: include affordable units; incorporate robust stormwater mitigation systems; contain enhanced green technologies; utilize high quality design and architectural features; preserve mature trees, especially street trees; and convert a previously tax-exempt property into one that generates significant annual income, offsetting homeowners’ tax burden.

Sounds great, but on what basis are these claims made?

Under the Area in Need of Redevelopment (ANR) designation, additional benefits to the community are required in exchange for favorable zoning. It is not clear what these will be.

A 20 percent affordable set aside is required as part of the town’s legal settlement with Fair Share Housing. It is a requirement, not an ANR benefit.

All proposals made by Princeton Coalition for Responsible Development (PCRD) offer a higher density than what was there previously. But at what level will the density exceed the balancing benefits? While these sites are close to town restaurants, they are not walkable to supermarkets or schools, and the number of cars will rise proportionately with the number of residents — causing strain on infrastructure and climate.

Stormwater mitigation systems are now mandatory. Using fabricated solutions as a replacement for old-growth trees does not further a climate-friendly agenda.

The street trees are owned by Princeton and already are protected by a strong Shade Tree ordinance. If the town truly intends to prioritize the climate, the old-growth trees on the sites should be protected as well.

Enhanced green technologies sound great, but the main site is relatively small at just over 3.5 acres. To understand if these will be meaningful, we need the specifics of what will be achieved.

The change in ownership from a tax-exempt institution to a for-profit developer will only relieve the burden of current taxpayers if the developer isn’t granted a PILOT. We need every developer to pay their fair share of our school taxes if Princeton is going to maintain a premier school system.

The scant 30-year deed restriction on the affordable units means the units will revert to market rate and additional profit to the developer. The town, on the other hand, will face replacing these affordable units and producing even more units to meet our future obligations. The town’s financial due diligence should be for the long-term benefit of the town.

Once there is a proposal, we will have a better understanding of how these concerns may be addressed. A redevelopment plan for the sites enumerating the specific benefits to the town will be an important safeguard for all Princeton residents who are concerned with rising costs of living and the gentrification of the more affordable neighborhoods.

JANE MACLENNAN Princeton Coalition for Responsible Development Edgehill Street

Wishing Chmiel and Courageous Fathers a Happy Father’s Day

To the Editor:

I started off in the USA as an undocumented/uninsured immigrant child, gained citizenship by age 19, and later became a first-generation college graduate. This path has offered me deeper thoughts on role models during one’s development. There are plenty of female role models and mentors. But generally, there is a great deficit of male role models for children with backgrounds like mine. My first real-life experience with a good male role model was my college professor and mentor, Dr. Norman Spear.

Having worked on many initiatives and projects with Frank Chmiel at PHS as a parent volunteer, I saw firsthand the great, positive impact he had on the students, staff, and parents. Perhaps it was the lack of good male role models in my own development that I so appreciated Frank Chmiel being there for the students at PHS.

At the Donaldson hearing last month, Frank Chmiel eloquently detailed his reasons to the BOE on why he should be reinstated as principal of PHS; it was here, again, that I witnessed a male role model who was modeling courage and sacrifice at his expense for the benefit of others. If it wasn’t for the persistent rallying from PHS students and parents urging him to fight for his rights to get reinstated, I highly doubt he would draw this battle onto himself and his family.

I listened to both sides of the arguments at the hearing, willing to switch my side if I heard evidence pointing toward anything illegal or deeply concerning regarding his performance as PHS principal. This did not happen for me. After the disappointing verdict by the BOE, I have moved past my deep grief. Now, I want us to help Frank Chmiel and his family by offering our support as he is looking for a new job. He fought hard for PHS. Let’s stand by Frank Chmiel and his family and help him with our connections and resources until he lands another leadership position. The school that gets him as their principal will be immensely fortunate, especially the students.

Personally, it will also lessen my grief if I see him employed and appreciated elsewhere. The Chmiel family lives in town and it would be a lot easier for the PHS students and parents to run into them if we see Frank Chmiel happy and rewarded for his bravery and hard work at PHS. He did not abandon us, so let us not abandon him and his family until he finds a new, great job.

On this Father’s Day 2023, I appreciate all the fathers in town who I have met working together to reinstate Frank Chmiel. I have observed your courage and sacrifice, and

a part of my soul healed watching these fathers, their families, and Frank Chmiel in action. Kids are watching and so are those who grew up without good male role models. Thank you for your courage and sacrifice. Happy Father’s Day.

SASHA WEINSTEIN Shady Brook Lane

Sharing Disappointment in Princeton Health Department’s Passivity During Air Quality Alert

To the Editor:

I was disappointed by the Princeton Health Department’s failure to provide us with updates on air quality here in town during the now ebbing (I’m writing this on Friday, June 9) intrusion of smoke-laden winds from north of the border.

Today I wanted to check whether it was advisable to resume normal outdoor activities (most importantly, tennis). On visiting the Princeton Municipal website, the lead feature under News & Announcements proclaimed “Community Alert — Poor Air Quality Continues.” Only after clicking on the full article does one find that the alert was posted two days ago, on Wednesday, June 7.

Surely, during such an unusual health related emergency, we should expect the Health Department to provide more frequent and timely updates to local residents. I was able to find the info I needed readily enough by googling Accuweather Princeton, but still…

PETER EPSTEIN Jefferson Road

Wishing PHS Graduates Success, Resilience, And Courage to Stand Up for What is Right

To the Editor:

Congratulations to the outstanding class of 2023 at Princeton High School. These past four years have undoubtedly been filled with challenges, as you persevered through a global pandemic, remote learning, mask mandates, and the loss of your beloved principal, Frank Chmiel.

As you prepare to step onto the graduation stage, it is disheartening to know that you will be greeted by a superintendent and Board of Education (BOE) whose actions have contributed to many of the obstacles you faced throughout high school. Over the past three months, their decisions have created an atmosphere of distrust not only within the Princeton community, but also among our neighbors in Cranbury.

Trust serves as the bedrock for any successful organization, providing the necessary foundation to operate, lead, and thrive. It enables an institution to take calculated risks and, if mistakes occur, to learn from them and grow. Regrettably, the PPS BOE appears unwilling to acknowledge their missteps, despite overwhelming evidence of malfeasance by the superintendent.

As we approach the summer months, the fight to rectify the shortcomings of the PPS BOE must persist. Many of you have voiced your frustrations during the PPS Board meetings and endured the chaotic atmosphere of the BOE’s recent Donaldson hearing. It is crucial to recognize that you still possess the power to make a difference in this struggle. When you come of age and reach 18, make sure to register to vote. By doing so, you can amplify your voice in a BOE recall election and the general November election, aiming to remove these misguided individuals from their positions.

Your generation holds immense potential, and by actively participating in the democratic process, you can shape the future of our community and ensure that future students have the positive educational environment they deserve. It is through your collective voices that meaningful change can be achieved, allowing Princeton Public School district to regain its credibility and rebuild trust among its constituents.

Congratulations once again on your graduation, and may your journey beyond high school be filled with success, resilience, and the courage to stand up for what is right. Together, we can forge a brighter path for the students who will follow in your footsteps.

MICHAEL BROWN Laurel Circle

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Publishers Weekly calls the book “outstanding,” and states that “Belkin’s judicious research parlays into an engrossing, expansive narrative that reads like a real-life Greek tragedy. It will spur contemplation and debate in an audience far beyond just true crime diehards.”

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Letting in the Light —

When I paint smoke, I want you to be able to drive a nail into it.

—Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), from Life With Picasso

When Pablo Picasso died 50 Aprils ago, Paul McCartney and Wings recorded “Picasso’s Last Words,” a tribute to the “grand old painter,” the chorus based on what were purportedly his last words: “Drink to me, drink to my health / You know I can’t drink any more.” However, TIME (April 23, 1973) claims he went on to say, “And now I must go back to work,” which he did, painting until 3 a.m. After suffering a heart attack in his sleep, he died at 11:40 a.m.

Orange Skies

The week of orange skies from Canadian forest fires coincided with the June 6 death of artist Françoise Gilot (1921-2023), whose 1964 memoir Life With Picasso (New York Review Classics 2019) “is crucial” to an understanding of him, according to his biographer John Richardson. A June 6, 2019 NJPR piece by Lily Meyer calls it “an invaluable work of art history and a revealing precursor to the literature of #MeToo.”

Given the extraordinary weather event that was underway as I began reading Life With Picasso , I was struck by the moment early on when Picasso told Gilot about his Cubist portrait of an art dealer that “in its original form” looked “as though it were about to go up in smoke.” But, he continued, “when I paint smoke, I want you to be able to drive a nail into it. So I added the attributes — a suggestion of eyes, the wave in the hair, an ear lobe, the clasped hands.” Earlier in the conversation, Picasso had said, “When I paint, I always try to give an image people are not expecting, and, beyond that, one they reject.... I always try to be subversive.”

Picasso’s affinity for smoke dates back to October 25, 1881, when the midwife thought that he was stillborn, he looked so weak, so “grey.” Numerous sources, including Norman Mailer’s Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man , claim that at that point, the infant’s cigar-smoking uncle blew a huge cloud of smoke in his face that brought him howling to life.

Streaming Picasso

After watching Picasso stand before the same canvas “for three or four hours at a stretch,” making “no superfluous gestures,” Gilot asked if it didn’t tire him, and he told her, “While I work I leave my body outside the door, the way Moslems take off their shoes before entering the mosque.”

The notion of the artist leaving his body “outside” accords with my impression of “Picasso” as terminology, another word for a force of pure imagination that inspires, builds, fuses, assembles and disassembles, a gene in the DNA of the culture that in

Françoise Gilot’s Picasso

2023 might take the form of a meme based on his signature. While reading Gilot, I’ve been thumbing through the fat, 411-page Portable Picasso (Universe 2003), a carnival of images that took on the fluid force of “streaming Picasso” when I flipped the pages into cinematographic motion, from the cover’s self-portrait of the artist at 25 to the monstrous close-up self-portrait at 91; from the frontispiece Nude in a Red Armchair of May 1929 to the thrilling two-page Landscape of March 1972 that you could spend the better part of an hour wandering around in.

Picasso’s Nightmares

Later in the “I leave my body outside the door” conversation, Picasso talks about a dream he had when he was a child “that used to frighten me greatly. I dreamed that my legs and my arms grew to an enormous size and then shrank back just as much in the other direction. And all around me, in my dream, I saw other people going through the same transformations, getting huge or very tiny. I felt terribly anguished every time I dreamed about that.”

At this point, you half-expect Gilot to ask if he’d ever read Alice in Wonderland , presumably one of the first books she picked up when learning English during her childhood years in the U.K. But she makes a more apt connection: “When he told me that, I understood the origin of those many paintings and drawings he did in the early 1920s, which show women with huge hands and legs and sometimes very small heads: nudes, bathers, maternity scenes ... and occasionally male figures and gigantic infants. They had started through the recollection of those dreams and been carried on as a means of breaking the monotony of classical body forms.”

Big Foot

In the winter of 1941, soon after the Germans had occupied Paris, Picasso wrote a short, surreal six-act play called Desire (originally Le Désir attrapé par la queue ). Published seven years later in an English translation by Bernard Frechtman, it’s billed as “a rambunctious farce” for “those who approach life and art without pre-fabricated formulas.” The cast of characters includes Big Foot ( Le Gros Pied ), Onion, Tart, The Two Bow Wows ( Les Deux Toutous ), Silence, Fat Anguish ( L’Angoisse grasse ), Skinny

Anguish ( L’Angoisse maigre) , and The Curtains ( Les Rideaux ).

Big Foot is the dominant force, the Picasso of the piece, admired by one of the Anguish sisters as he snores: “He is lovely, like a star. He is a dream painted in water colors on a pearl.... His whole body is filled with the light of a thousand electric bulbs all lit up.” A typical sentence: “The scarf of the veil that hangs from the eyelashes of the shutters is wiping the pink clouds on the apple-colored mirror of the sky which is already awakening at your window.”

There are also hints of the Nighttown chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the scene set in Sordid’s Hotel, where the two feet of each guest “are in front of the door of their room, writhing in pain” and saying, each in turn, “My chilblains, my chilblains, my chilblains.” It wasn’t until 1944 that Desire had its first reading, in a Paris apartment. The readers included Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Valentine Hugo, Raymond Queneau, and Picasso himself. The director was Albert Camus.

Lennon’s Inner Picasso

When asked in a 1980 Newsweek interview if he’d been to a certain disco, John Lennon said “I’ve never been to any rock clubs. It’s like asking Picasso has he been to the museum lately.” Lennon composed no McCartneyesque tributes on the artist’s passing, having already expressed his inner Picasso in songs like “Dig a Pony” (“You can penetrate any place you go”); “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (“a girl with kaleidoscope eyes”); “I am the Walrus” (“Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower”); and of course “Come Together,” a do-whathe-please you-got-to-be-free rogue’s gallery of grotesques led by old flat-top with joo-joo eyeballs, hair down to his knees, who’s “got to be good looking cause he’s so hard to see.”

Gilot’s Picasso Show

The just-opened Brooklyn Museum show “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” is creating a predictable stir that’s worth mentioning here if only to shine some reflected glory on Gilot’s intimate book-length “exhibit” in which Picasso gets an intelligent, credible showing. As if anticipating shows like Gadsby’s, Gilot recalls Picasso saying, “I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves,

to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so that no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”

Alex Greenberger’s Art News review quotes curators Catherine Morris and Lisa Small declaring that the exhibit “aspires toward a new kind of Picasso scholarship that better accounts for his misogyny, his bad behavior, and his colonialist impulses.” However, as Greenberger points out, “Pablo-matic” repeatedly references Gilot along with Picasso’s previous lover Dora Maar “who both produced art of note,” none of which is on view among the feminist artists in the show, where “it would have been instructive to see their art placed on equal footing with Picasso’s.”

In this context, it’s important to note that the cover image of the 2019 paperback edition of Life With Picasso is a 1953 self-portrait by Gilot. To find the credit line you have to read the fine print on the back of the book. You can call this modesty to a fault or just another example of the grace with which Gilot approached her subject. She was 21 when she met the 61-year-old Picasso in May 1943, during the occupation of Paris. Her final paragraph is worth quoting:

“Pablo had told me, that first afternoon I visited him alone ... that he felt our relationship would bring light into both our lives. My coming to him, he said, seemed like a window that was opening up and he wanted it to remain open. I did, too, as long as it let in the light. When it no longer did, I closed it, much against my own desire. From that moment on, he burned all the bridges that connected me to the past I had shared with him. But in doing so he forced me to discover myself and thus to survive. I shall never cease being grateful to him for that.”

Although Gilot knows there’s no point in having “the last word” in such a relationship, she has the “last image” in the famous Robert Capa photograph that appeared on the front page of the New York Times when she died: Gilot striding ahead of Picasso, smiling and happy, while he attempts to hold a beach umbrella over her head, the great artist as gnomish Beast to radiant Beauty.

—Stuart Mitchner

In her introduction to the New York Review edition of Life with Picasso , novelist Lisa Alther points out that although French was Françoise Gilot’s first language, she composed the book in English “because she prefers the shorter sentences.” In the original edition published by McGraw- Hill in 1964, Gilot expressed her gratitude to art critic and curator Carlton Lake (1915-2006) for encouraging her to take on the project, as well as helping her with “technical aspects” such as taping, typing, and editing.

Artwork by Sean Carney The Mercer Oak, set of 4, 35mm colored film prints, by John Rounds

Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra Shows Off its Ensembles in Season Finale

The Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra (GPYO) is justifiably proud of its 63-year history, and especially in rebounding from the instability of the past three years. In the midst of the pandemic, GPYO hired a new music director, who wasted no time in bringing the ensembles within GPYO back to full strength. The four ensembles within the Youth Orchestra organization presented their final concerts of the season this past Sunday afternoon and evening in Richardson Auditorium, solidly demonstrating their mission of providing young musicians with challenging musical experience while cultivating a lifelong love of the arts.

Sunday night’s concert at Richardson featured the Concert and Symphonic Orchestras, both conducted by Jessica Morel, in works which were both operatic and programmatic (the Chamber Winds and Preparatory String Ensembles performed in the afternoon). With more than 80 players, the Concert Orchestra presented two opera overtures and a contemporary work which showed how far the Orchestra had come in a season. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture, Op. 72 is full of contrasts between rich orchestral passages and solo instrumental playing. The Concert Orchestra has an army of strings and fewer wind and brass players, but the solo instrumentalists were well up to the challenges of the music, especially horn player Kamila Ouadah. Conductor Morel kept the tempos steady; another orchestra might have played this work faster, but the tempos selected worked for this ensemble.

Morel admittedly raised the bar for the Concert Orchestra players with Bruce Tippette’s 2012 Unconquered , a work with both audience appeal and pedagogical goals for young musicians. Concert Orchestra’s performance began with a well-unified string sound as Morel led the players through a rich and spacious instrumental palette. Tippette built much of the drama of this piece through the percussion, well played on Sunday by Darren Oommen and Gagan Chunduru. The Concert Orchestra supplemented the Beethoven and Tippette works with a dance-like performance of Camille Saint-Saëns “Bacchanale” from the opera Samson et Delilah , played with a dramatic yet joyful feel. The wind players effectively provided a “snakecharmer” atmosphere with clean melodic lines, and transitions among tempos were clean.

Morel’s other ensemble within GPYO is the Symphonic Orchestra, a smaller ensemble of the most advanced musicians. As part of Sunday night’s concert, GPYO honored its founder, longtime

music educator Matteo Giammario, whose name is now attached to the GPYO Concerto Competition. This year’s Competition winner, Princeton High School senior and flutist Heidi Gubser, chose to perform a lively and spirited movement from Jacques Ibert’s 1934 Concerto for Flute and Orchestra . The Concerto’s closing “Allegro scherzando” is considered some of the most difficult music in the flute repertory, but Gubser had no trouble executing the running triplet figures and what one critic described as a “blast of fireworks suspended from mid-air.” Throughout the movement, Gubser maintained solid control over the complex line, especially taking her time in the cadenza.

The Symphonic Orchestra ended the concert with two programmatic works — a saucy opera overture and a composer’s poignant and descriptive tribute to his homeland. Gioachino Rossini’s “Overture” to La Gazza Ladra is full of humor over its somewhat silly but allegoric story. One of Rossini’s longer operatic overtures, this work is full of contrasts, and provided opportunities for clean solo and duet playing, including from flutist Eesha Gadde, oboist Sophie Wang, clarinetist Ben You, and a pair of horns played by Tyler Olmstead and Siddharth Balasubramanian. Flutist Heidi Gubser showed herself to be equally as expert on the piccolo, providing the charm often heard in Rossini’s opera overtures.

Bedrich Smetana’s set of symphonic poems known as Má Vlast describe Bohemia’s landscape and history, and the second poem “The Moldau” follows the course of the Vltava River as it flows through the countryside. In Sunday’s performance, a trio of flutes well portrayed the river, musically chasing one another through bubbling streams. Smetana’s trademark broad Czech melodies were heard in the string sections, and Morel encouraged a full orchestral sound as the river rumbled along. Dynamic swells were well-executed and the transition to a peasant dance section was clean, as the Symphonic Orchestra brought out the majesty of Smetana’s music.

The annual spring concert of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra is designed to both show off the progress and abilities of the instrumentalists and send the graduating seniors off with one more solid concert memory of their time with GPYO. The addition of seasoned conductor Jessica Morel as conductor provides an added benefi t of a tremendous role model for the young musicians as she brings an international conducting background to a Princeton ensemble.

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Juilliard School, Vail Dance Festival, American Repertory Ballet, Flight Path Dance Project, Stars of American Ballet, Asbury Park Dance Festival, Oakland Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, and Ballet Academy East. She served as an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow and a Toulmin Creator at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. She participated in New York Choreographic Institute’s 2022 Fall Session, under the direction of Adrian DanchigWaring, creating a work on dancers from New York City Ballet. Quan was one of the 2022 Artists-in-Residence at the Vail Dance Festival and is a creative associate at The Juilliard School.

The Trio takes its inspiration from the musicianship, integrity, and humanity of the pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892–1993). The ensemble’s pianist, Rieko Aizawa, was Horszowski’s last pupil at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. The Trio’s repertoire includes works by many of the composers with whom Horszowski had personal interaction, including Gabriel Fauré, Enrique Granados, Bohuslav Martinu˚, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

mainstage show is Jiehae Park’s Peerless, a dark comedy retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth about the cutthroat world of college admissions and what it means to be an Asian American teenage girl, directed by PST artistic director Eliyana Abraham, showing for two weekends from July 20 to July 30.

COLLABORATION: American Repertory Ballet and the Attacca Quartet share a program at the Princeton Festival on Saturday, June 17.

Ballet and Music

At Princeton Festival

On Saturday, June 17, at 7 p.m., the Grammy Award-Winning Attacca Quartet pairs with dancers from the American Repertory Ballet for an Evening of Contemporary Ballet at the Princeton Festival, held in a performance pavilion on the grounds of Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street.

On the program are ballet excerpts from Circadia, choreographed by Caili Quan

to the music of Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution; and Wood Work , choreographed by Ethan Stiefel to Nordic folk tunes arranged by the Danish String Quartet. Attacca Quartet will also be performing compositions by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers John Adams and Caroline Shaw.

In 2021, the quartet announced their exclusive signing to SONY Classical, releasing two albums, Real Life and Of All Joys , that embody their redefinition of

what a string quartet can be. The quartet performs at such venues as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Sala Sao Paolo, San Francisco Performances, Paris’ Théâtre de la Ville, Palau de la Musica, Concertgebow Brugges, De Doelen, Kings Place, and Amsterdam’s String Quartet Biennale.

Quan is a New Yorkbased choreographer who danced with BalletX from 2013 to 2020. She has created works for BalletX, The

Stiefel, the artistic director of ARB, began his professional career at age 16 with the New York City Ballet where he quickly rose to the rank of principal dancer. He held the same rank with Ballett Zürich and American Ballet Theatre. Stiefel has served as dean of the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) as well as the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. As a choreographer, he has created new works for American Repertory Ballet, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Washington Ballet, ABT Studio Company, Northern Ballet (UK), The Royal Ballet School, among others.

Tickets are available at princetonsymphony.org/ festival or (609) 497-0020.

Internationally Known Trio Opens Annual Chamber Series

The Horszowski Trio will open Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts’ 56th Season in Richardson Auditorium on the Princeton University campus on Friday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m. Works by Bernstein, Schubert, and a piece commissioned for their 10 th anniversary are on the program.

Formed in 2011 and based in New York City, the Horszowski Trio made its London debut eight years later in a sold-out concert presented by Wigmore Hall. Their success led into a 21-concert-tour in Germany in 2022. During the pandemic, the trio managed to keep performing, including a special project in several performances of Morton Feldman’s epic, twohour-long Piano Trio.

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In addition to their performance cycles of the complete trios of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, the Horszowski Trio advocates for the music of our time.

The Trio is ensemble in residence at the Longy School of Music at Bard College in Cambridge, Mass., and of the Leschetizky Association in New York City.

Admission is free but tickets are required. Visit princetonsummerchamberconcerts.org or call (609) 570-8404.

Princeton Summer Theater

Announces 2023 Shows

Princeton Summer Theater’s 2023 season opens June 15-August 4, featuring three mainstage works and the presentation of two new works including the annual children’s show.

Founded in 1968, Princeton Summer Theater is a semi-professional summer stock theater company located in Princeton University’s Hamilton-Murray Theater. It recently won the 2019 JerseyArts.com People’s Choice Award for “Best Small Theater.” Notable alumni include Tony Award-winning actress Bebe Neuwirth ( Chicago ), Tony Award-winning producer Geoff Rich ( Avenue Q ), and actor William Hootkins ( Star Wars, Batman ).

The season begins with a production of Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The show, a comedic stage adaptation of the novel, directed by Eliana Cohen-Orth, will run for three weekends, from June 15 through July 2.

Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet , a musical told by four actor-musicians set at the end of the world, directed by BT Hayes, will follow for two weekends from July 6 to July 16. The last

The season will also feature a new children’s comedy by Sam Melton, The Woman Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge, telling the story of Emily Roebling, a female engineer who helped complete the iconic bridge.

The last weekend of the season, August 3-5, will feature a workshop of a new musical by Allison Spann and Maeli Goren-Wilson titled We Ride Upon Sticks, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Quan Barry.

Visit princetonsummertheater.org for more information and specific times and dates.

Nathan Bishop Plays

At Monthly Java Jam

Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, will feature Nathan Bishop at its monthly Java Jam on Sunday, June 18 at 4 p.m. at its artist studios and art market in the Princeton Shopping Center.

Bishop is a traditional Irish fiddler, classical violinist, and teacher based in New Jersey. A 2019 graduate of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, he teaches and plays in a variety of groups including as the baroque violinist of La Fiocca. His program is titled “Farms and Fathers and My Father the Farmer.” Java Jam is a coffeehouse that takes place on the third Sunday of every month at Princeton Makes. It is free and open to the public.

Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 35 local artists who work across a range of artistic genres including painting, drawing, stained glass, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able to support local artists by shopping for a wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more. Visit princetonmakes.com for more information.

CHAMBER SERIES: The Horszowski Trio is the first of the Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts series on Friday, June 23.

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TAWA and Trenton Library

Present “First Friday Curators”

The Trenton Artists Workshop Association (TAWA) and the Trenton Free Public Library present “First Friday Curators” at the Trenton Free Public Library through July 29. An opening reception is on Thursday, June 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit celebrates the talent of people that have brought art to the downtown Trenton community on the first Friday of each month.

Jonathan Conner (LANK) is an artist, designer, and

educator from Trenton. LANK seeks to create impactful community-led public art as the public project manager for Artworks Trenton. His anthropological research as a graduate student focuses on what we can learn about a population and how they can be best served through participatory and collaborative artmaking. A founding member of the grassroots art nonprofit S.A.G.E. Coalition, LANK has been organizing and executing mural projects and community artmaking since 2008.

Brass Rabbit is a data artist and curator who lives and works in Trenton. She uses the mediums of photography and data collection to create meaningful pieces. Much of her art explores themes of social expectations and economic inequality. Her work has been featured in regional and international galleries, and private collections. Her work focuses on societal issues and economic inequality by collecting data from various groups via surveys and interviews and incorporating it into site-specific projects and series. She uses a creative pseudonym to safely connect with the populations that drive much of her work and practice. She was a manager of BSB Gallery and has orchestrated and managed arts exhibitions, large-scale installations. and public outdoor events in the city of Trenton and beyond.

Habiyb Shu’aib (beloved1) is a Trenton-based documentary street photographer who has spent much of his career capturing the beauty of the capital city. He is also a fine art curator, bringing his vision to galleries throughout the region. Through moments of both pride and pain, Shu’aib has a unique capacity for capturing the raw essence of the city. As a Trenton native, his work is raw and uncut; he documents his perspective on what he sees daily and the times we are in.

Laura Poll was a photographer in her former life before becoming an archivist. Inspired most by Puerto Rican artist (and short-term Trenton resident) Adal Maldonado’s Evidence of Things Not Seen (1975), she experimented with the possibilities of black and white film and its manipulation in the darkroom as well as inside the camera. Focusing on the documentation and distortion of reality, her use of bright light and deep shadowing reveals new moods.

TAWA is a Greater Trenton nonprofit organization and has a 40-year history organizing exhibits in such venues as the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton City Museum, Artworks Trenton, Prince Street Gallery in New York City, and more.

The Trenton Free Public Library is located at 120 Academy Street and is located in the Creek2Canal Trenton Arts District. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on the library, call (609) 392-7188.

More information on the Trenton Artists Workshop Association can be found on the organization’s Facebook page.

West Windsor Arts Presents “Faculty and Student Show”

The “Faculty and Student Show” at West Windsor Arts (WWA) celebrates the work of teaching artists and their students created in a class or workshop at WWA during 2022 summer camps, and the fall, winter, or spring sessions of the 2022-2023 class year. The exhibition runs through July 15.

Teaching artists comprise a group of talented and accomplished individuals in their field and community. Small class sizes offer plenty of opportunities for one-onone instruction with supportive staff, providing each student with a personalized learning experience. WWA nurtures creative and independent thinkers who benefit from work in the arts and guidance of their teaching artists. No matter the difficulties of everyday life, the nonprofit WWA aims to offer a safe place where students and teachers can leave their worries behind and feel empowered by their art.

Faculty highlighted in the exhibition include Zakia Aziz Ahmed, Jaime An-Wong, Audrey Jakab, Lori Langsner, Yun Li, Eleni Litt, Katie Truk, Pratibha Raju, Sarika Soman-Risbud.

Adult students featured in the show include: Michael B.*, Tammy Dawkins, Joelle*, Kati, Michael I.*, Aarti Nathan, Rupa Sanbui, Sreelekhya*, Maryanne Quinn, Larry W.*, Barbara Weinfield. (*Eden Autism

Eden Autism Services is a leading provider of educational and therapeutic applied behavior analysis

services to children and adults with autism in N.J. Students from this group are adults of varying ages, and participate in visual arts activities planned by West Windsor Arts teaching artists.

Youth students featured in the show include Rhodia Algeri, Allora Chandhok, Cayla Cheung, Natalia CervantesRamirez, Shraddha Dharma, Jenna Rose Doyle, Srinya Gottipati, Inigo Hodge, Mingyu Huang, Niam Jain, Rushabh Kondraju, Annabel Lee, Olivia Luddy, Eleanore Magulak, Lucas Nelson, Nozomi Pugh, Jahnavi Rastogi, Benjamin T. Rosenberg, Aathiraa Senthilkumaran, Nidhi Shivashankar, Abinitha Vasanthan, Brian Xu, Luke Zhong.

This year West Windsor Arts presents 28 youth students in the Certificate of Fine Arts (CiFA) program. CiFA students select either a visual arts or a performing arts track and progress from two years of foundational education to more advanced coursework within their area of study. It is an elective program where students with a commitment to achievement in the arts grow their passion, learn to take risks, and improve their personal and creative skills. This program has become the backbone to the art education programs offered. The works presented in this exhibition reflect the work and growth of the artists over this past year.

The fifth year of CiFA will begin in fall 2023.

West Windsor Arts is located at 952 Alexander Road in Princeton Junction. For more information, visit westwindsorarts.org.

Area Exhibits

Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Cycle of Creativity: Allison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers” through July 9. artmuseum. princeton.edu.

Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Wishes in the Wind” through July 2. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com.

Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Traces on the Landscape” through August 6. artmuseum. princeton.edu.

Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Family Recollections” June 17 through July 22. An opening reception is on Saturday, June 17 from 3 to 5 p.m. artscouncilofprinceton.org.

David Scott Gallery at BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors, 253 Nassau Street, has “Botanica: An Unlikely Garden,” through June 24. Follow the gallery on Instagram @davidscottgallery. bhhsfoxroach.

D&R Greenway Land Trust Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place, has “Migration: Movement for Survival” through September 24. drgreenway.org.

Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, has “Three Artists, Three Viewpoints,” through June 18. gallery14.org.

Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery,” “Princeton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m., Thursday to 7 p.m. princetonhistory.org Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Striking Beauty” through February 18 and the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898,” and others. morven.org.

Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, has “Albert Einstein: Champion of Racial Justice and Equality” June 15 through August 1. An opening reception is on Thursday, June 15 from 6 to 7 p.m. princetonlibrary.org.

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

Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has art by Agata Scibich through July 4. Works by Aleksandr Berdnikov are at the 254 Nassau Street location through July 4. smallworldcoffee.com.

West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Faculty and Student Show” through July 15. westwindsorarts.org.

participants.)

“DIFFERENT APPLES: GREEN, RED, YELLOW”: This oil pastel work by 7-year-old Inigo Hodge is featured in the annual “Faculty and Student Show,” on view through July 15 at West Windsor Arts in Princeton Junction.

“AVE”: This work by Jonathan Conner (LANK) is part of “First Friday Curators,” on view at the Trenton Free Public Library through July 29. An opening reception is on June 15 from 5 to 7 p.m.

“DOLLAR STORE”: This photograph by Habiyb Shu’aib (beloved1) is featured in “First Friday Curators,” a group exhbition on view at the Trenton Free Public Library through July 29.

Mark Your Calendar TOWN TOPICS

Wednesday, June 14

12 p.m.: Spirit of Princeton Flag Day celebration, at the Municipal Plaza, 400 Witherspoon Street. Retired Princeton Police Sergeant Fred Williams is guest speaker. The Garden Statesmen a cappella group perform, and representatives of Princeton police and fire departments, and Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, take part. Visit spiritofprinceton.org for more information.

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

Thursday, June 15

10 a.m.: The 55-Plus Club of Princeton meets at the Jewish Center Princeton, 435 Nassau Street. Peter Loftus, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, speaks on “The Story of Moderna and its COVID-19 Vaccine.” In person and via Zoom. Free. Princetonol. com/groups/55plus .

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

6:30 p.m.: Story & Verse, storytelling and poetic open mic at Pettoranello Gardens, Community Park North. Outdoor summer series. The theme is “Perfect Storms.” Those wishing to participate should arrive at 6:15 p.m. Free. Artscouncilofprinceton.org.

7 p.m.: Boyd Meets Girl. Guitarist Rupert Boyd and cellist Laura Metcalf perform music of Bach, the Beatles, Beyoncé, Boccherini, and Radiohead at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. Princetonsymphony.org/festival.

Friday, June 16

5-8 p.m.: Sunset Sips and Sounds at Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winery, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music by Ragtime Relics. Terhuneorchards.com.

7 p.m.: The opera ber of Seville is performed at the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Rossen Milanov conducts the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and singers. Princetonsymphony.org/festival.

7 p.m.: Members of Central Jersey Dance demonstrate basic steps and lead others in an evening of dancing to recorded music of all kinds at Hinds Plaza (or in Princeton Public Library’s Community Room if it rains). Princetonlibrary.org.

7:30 p.m.: Special Juneteenth Shabbat service at Congregation Beth Chaim, Princeton Junction. Featuring a performance by the Afro-Semitic Experience band. Free. Bethchaim.org.

Saturday, June 17

11 a.m.: Princeton Parade begins at the Municipal Building, 400 Witherspoon Street, and heads to the Princeton YMCA field on Paul Robeson Place for an after party. Organized by the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice. Rustincenter. org.

12-4 p.m.: The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) holds its second annual family-friendly Juneteenth celebration, “Freedom Forward.” Music, food, exhibit, activities, tours, vendors, and more. 189 Hollow Road, Skillman; rain or shine. For more information and tickets, visit ssaamuseum.org/ juneteenth.

12-5 p.m.: Father’s Day Winery Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Family-friendly event, plus $2 off wine tastings for dads. Music by Joah Blume from 1-4 p.m. Light fare available, no outside food or pets. Terhuneorchards. com.

2 p.m.: The movie Milk is screened at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. About Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man in America to be elected to major public office. Free. Princetonlibrary.

5 p.m.: Collegium Musicum NJ holds a classical concert at Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street. Violinist Alexei Yavtuhovich and pianist Phyllis Lehrer perform works by Mozart, Franck, Bartok, and others. $15. Collegiummusicumnj.org.

7 p.m.: The Attacca Quartet and American Repertory Ballet perform works by Caili Quan and Ethan Stiefel at the Princeton Festival, at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Princetonsymphony. org/festival.

Sunday, June 18

12-5 p.m.: Father’s Day Winery Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Family-friendly event, plus $2 off wine tastings for dads. Music by Chris P from 1-4 p.m. Light fare available, no outside food or pets. Terhuneorchards.com.

1 p.m.: Princeton University carillon concert at the Graduate Tower; listen from outside the tower. Arts. princeton.edu.

4 p.m.: The opera The Barber of Seville is performed at the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Rossen Milanov conducts the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and singers. Princetonsymphony.org/ festival.

4 p.m.: Violinist/fiddler Nathan Bishop performs at Java Jam coffeehouse, at Princeton Makes artist cooperative, Princeton Shopping Center. Free. Princetonmakes.com.

Monday, June 19 Recycling

7 p.m.: Opera singer Will Liverman gives a recital at the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Princetonsymphony. org/festival.

Tuesday, June 20

6:30 p.m.: Story & Verse, storytelling and poetic open mic at Pettoranello Gardens, Community Park North. Outdoor summer series. Those wishing to participate should arrive at 6:15 p.m. Free. Artscouncilofprinceton.org.

7 p.m.: Author Lisa Belkin appears at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, to discuss and sign Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families . Princetonlibrary.org.

7 p.m.: The opera The Barber of Seville is performed at the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Rossen Milanov conducts the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and singers. Princetonsymphony.org/festival.

Wednesday, June 21

6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, in the Community Room unless otherwise noted. Princetonlibrary.org.

7 p.m.: Mazel Tov Cocktail Party. At the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Conceived by klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg; celebration of shared humanity. Princetonsymphony. org/festival.

Thursday, June 22

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

5:30 p.m.: Artist Conversation: Kelli Connell and Byron Wolfe, in person at Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street; or livestreamed. Artmuseum.princeton.edu.

6:30 p.m.: Virtual program from Morven about the life and legacy of tennis player Althea Gibson with University of Wisconsin professor Ashley Brown, author of Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. $10 ($5 for members). Morven.org.

7 p.m.: The Sebastians perform Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons at the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Princetonsymphony.org/festival.

Friday, June 23

5-8 p.m.: Sunset Sips and Sounds at Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winery, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music by Jerry Steele. Terhuneorchards.com.

7 p.m.: The musical theatre oratorio I Am Harvey Milk is performed at the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Princetonsymphony.org/ festival.

7:30 p.m.: Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts presents the Horszowski Piano Trio in Richardson Auditorium performing music by Bernstein, Schubert, and a commissioned piece to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Free; tickets are available online one week before the concert through tickets. princeton.edu.

Saturday, June 24

9-11 a.m.: Dev Yoga celebrates the Ninth International Day of Yoga at Auten Road Intermediate School, 281 Auten Road, Hillsborough. Meditation, Pranayam (breathing techniques), and yoga. Free. Register at devyoga.org.

11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Book signing by teen author Abigail Readinger of her book The Young Federalists , at Barnes and Noble, Princeton MarketFair, 3535 U.S.1.

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11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Annual vintage baseball game at Greenway Meadows Park, 275 Rosedale Road. Presented by the Historical Society of Princeton. Players answer questions and hold batting practice after the game. Free. Princetonhistory.org.

12-6 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music by Jerry Steele from 1-4 p.m. Light fare available, no outside food or pets. Terhuneorchards.com.

2 p.m.: Family Trees Tour of Marquand Park, presented in partnership with Morven. 45 Lovers Lane. In-person only. $10 ($5 members of Morven and students). Morven.org.

7 p.m.: The musical theatre oratorio I Am Harvey Milk is performed at the Princeton Festival, held at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. Princetonsymphony.org/ festival.

Sunday, June 25

11 a.m.-4 p.m.: Courthouse Quilters Guild hosts their monthly meeting and a workshop. From 6-8:30 p.m., Kyona Nason will talk about her quilt journey and have a trunk show. At Hunterdon County Complex, 314 State Route 12, Flemington. Courthousequilters.org.

1 to 4 p.m.: “From Cow to Cheese — The 18thCentury Whey” at Rockingham Historic Site. Heart to Hearth Cookery presents an ongoing program making fresh cheese, along with a cheesemaking display. Museum Store, refreshments. County Route 603, between Kingston and Rocky Hill. Rockingham.net.

4-9 p.m.: Firefly Festival at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Music, food, crafts, barnyard fun, pony rides. Performances by Bud Belviso and Lolly Hopwood. Free admission; $7 fee for crafts activities. Terhuneorchards.com/firefly-festival.

Tuesday, June 27 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.: Read & Pick Program: Monarchs, Swallowtails and Honeybees – Oh My at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. $12 per child includes activity; online pre-purchase of tickets is required. Register at terhuneorchards.ticketspice.com/ read-pick.

4 p.m.: The Yuang Sheng International Children’s Choir performs music from the indigenous people of Taiwan, at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary. org.

Thursday, June 29

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

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After Developing into Star Receiver for PU Football, Iosivas Looking to Earn a Spot with Cincinnati Bengals

Andrei Iosivas has been battling a couple of stigmas as he tries to start his career in the NFL.

As an accomplished track athlete at Princeton University as well as a football player, he heard often from teams that wondered if he was a football-first athlete. He is. He gave up track this spring to focus on preparing for the NFL draft. And then, like many Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) prospects, he’s heard the doubts about jumping to the NFL from Princeton.

“If you go to North Dakota State, South Dakota State, stuff like that, people still respect you more,” said Iosivas. “They don’t really respect the Ivy League. People literally laugh about it. They say, ‘You played Harvard, Yale, a bunch of yacht dwellers.’ I’m always saying, ‘We have really good football.’ That was the chip on my shoulder more than the track thing.”

The Cincinnati Bengals, though, showed their strong belief in the recent Princeton graduate when they selected him in the sixth round of the NFL draft. The Bengals already have a strong receiving core, and even selected another receiver, Charlie Jones, ahead of Iosivas. The Princeton receiver was getting a little nervous with his family, friends, and girlfriend on hand in New Jersey as they watched the third day of the draft.

“It was a long process, I‘m not going to lie,” said Iosivas. “I thought I was going to go a bit earlier, maybe around the third to fifth round, but I ended up going in the sixth. I was sitting around getting a little bit anxious, but then I got the call. I had a bunch of teams that I thought liked me pass on me and then the Bengals drafted Charlie Jones in the fourth, so I thought they weren’t going to choose another receiver, but they did, which was nice.”

Iosivas missed the Princeton graduation festivities because he was at Cincinnati’s minicamp. He’s been working out with the Bengals veteran corps, and trying to pick up everything as fast as possible surrounded by such NFL star wideouts as Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, and Tyler Boyd. Higgins is the most comparable to Iosivas, an imposing receiver at 6’3, 212 pounds.

“I think it’s been really good,” said Iosivas, a native of Honolulu, Hawaii. “The confidence I have and just running routes with Tyler, Tee, and Ja’Marr and having a really good coach behind me, my routes, I’m coming off the ball a lot better, my pad level is a lot lower. I’ve been more consistent in my stride length, you can’t really see a change in it when I’m breaking. Of course, everything still needs to get better, but it’s like a boot camp so they really try to push us and get us better in a short amount of time.”

It is comparable in many ways to what Iosivas experienced at Princeton. When he

came out of Punahou School in Hawaii, he didn’t have as much experience as some Tiger recruits. He spent his first year on the junior varsity.

“The transition from Hawaii to New Jersey was a little tough at first, just being so far from home and getting adjusted to the school, culture, weather, and football,” said Iosivas.

“I thought it was really good to just throw me in the fire, honestly. People get scared to be thrown in the fire, but that’s what Princeton is for. You go to this place that is so different and expects so much from you on the football field and academically, and you come out of that fire sharper. And that’s kind of what you do that first year. You get acclimated and accustomed to the way things are done.”

His first year was spent learning the Princeton system. He had veteran wide receivers to help and the Tigers staff saw an athlete that they could help groom into a better player. Iosivas started to understand the nuances of the game more in his first college season.

“I never really had to read coverages that much in high school,” said Iosivas.

“I never had to read coverages much in high school — and just understanding a more complex playbook. Everything was given very fast and it came at light speed. It slowed down once I’d been there a year.”

Iosivas came with an attitude to the Tigers that he had to prove himself. It’s a lot like he has now, so having been through it before is reminiscent of how his college career began.

“I wasn’t a big-name recruit, even with our (Princeton) recruiting class,” said Iosivas. “I was like, ‘keep my head down and let my game speak for itself.’ And that’s what I’ve always done. I did feel like I was overlooked in terms of how many offers I got and the attention. But it definitely made me want to go out and keep my head down and just grind.”

When the Ivy League canceled the 2020 fall season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Iosivas stayed in Hawaii and worked out on his own. He made an important decision that has helped him earn a chance in the NFL.

“During COVID, I had to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, and I decided I wanted to try everything I could to go to the NFL,” said Iosivas.

“I worked out really hard. I worked out every day. I benched, I squatted, I ran routes, I caught balls. When I came back in the summer, I ran routes with the defense and I was cooking them bad. Once I started really being competitive with the defense once I came back from COVID, I kind of figured that I was at another level.”

By the time that Iosivas finished his Tiger career, he was third all-time in program history in touchdown catches (16), sixth in receiving yards (1,909), and 12th in receptions (125). He led the

Ivy League as a senior with 66 catches, 943 yards, and seven TDs. It showed how hard he had worked to get to that point.

“As he self-reflected during the questions he got during the draft process, he was a late bloomer,” said Princeton football head coach Bob Surace. “He wasn’t really considered as a college player. It was kind of fortune. His dad and a former player here, Mike Lerch, who played with me and was coached by and was close to Steve Verbit. Mike had reached out to us to take a look at Andrei. His junior year in high school, in track and football, it wasn’t like he was a standout.”

Iosivas was a standout in track from the outset at Princeton. He scored in the decathlon at the Ivy League Heptagonals as a freshman. He went on to set the Ivy League record in the heptathlon and the NCAA Indoor Championships record in the 60-meter dash in heptathlon and was three-time Ivy League champion in the heptathlon. He gave that up this spring for football.

“I had a lot of good friends on track,” said Iosivas. “And coach [Fred] Samara and coach [Robert] Abdullah, they’re great guys and I really liked being around coach Samara every day. He was with me every step of the way in my college career. Competing in track is just different. When you run, and you just dust someone severely it’s a really great feeling. Or high jumping or pole vaulting, it’s such a unique feeling that you can’t really get anywhere else. Football is obviously unique, but I feel like track and field is just a little more niche and when you can connect coming in like that, it’s definitely different.”

Iosivas was grateful for his experiences at Princeton. He called his first year of football “transformative and helpful.” He is hoping he can improve in the same way in the NFL. He’s already excited about being selected by an organization like Cincinnati, which advanced to the AFC championship game last season and played in Super Bowl LVI the prior year.

“You want to go to a place that wins and knows how to win,” said Iosivas. “But just the way their culture was, when I took my visit and being there now, it’s an organization I feel like everyone loves once they’re in it. It’s family oriented. Everyone is nice. Everyone lifts each other up. It’s a really great environment to be in.”

The Bengals have made it clear to Iosivas that he will likely have to be more than a receiver to make the team. Rookies and non-starters especially need to prove that they can help in other areas, and that means playing special teams, something that Iosivas never had to do at Princeton.

“It is definitely different, but I’m here and grateful for them choosing me and even putting the time and effort into developing me

so anything I can do for this team, I will do and hopefully do well,” said Iosivas. “They obviously see what traits you have, so usually receivers and corners will play the gunners or the safeties on punts — the guys that guard the gunners and might dabble on being the return man in the preseason, and we’ll see where it goes from there. For now, I’m trying all the speed positions.”

Cincinnati, like all NFL teams, was wowed by Iosivas’s test scores. His Relative Athletic Score of 9.96 out of 10 is in the top 1 percent of all receivers ever tested. His athleticism is a bonus, and Iosivas is trying to prove he’s not just a good athlete.

“I think it you’re a competitor or true athlete, you’re always going to want to put your best foot forward and just work really hard,” said Iosivas. “I think I’ve shown I’m a hard worker in the time that I’ve been with the team, but I think that I’m going to shock a lot of people when it comes to camp and the preseason. I just have to keep my head down and keep grinding and show my athletic ability and football ability.”

Iosivas is in Cincinnati through mid-June. Then players report back for official preseason July 22. The minicamps give him some experience to lean on for when preseason begins.

“We’re just reviewing install and stuff like that, but install has definitely come easier because at Princeton we run a pretty complex offense so once you learn how it works you can learn pretty much anything,” said Iosivas. “I think the install has been going pretty smoothly. I’m just trying to learn all the positions so if someone goes down I can be a plug-in in any spot.”

Iosivas is trying to prove his value to the Bengals each day. He’s also trying to make sure he establishes himself as a reliable option for Cincinnati Pro Bowl quarterback Joe Burrow.

“He’s been really good,” said Iosivas. “He’s been really nice to me. He texted me

a little bit after I got drafted just welcoming me to the team. That was a nice gesture from him. He throws a great ball. He’s super smart. You can tell by the way he operates he expects everyone to be at the top of their game. It’s been really good having him around. You want to play good so that he trusts you and he’ll be that guy that pushes for you maybe when cuts come around.”

With a deep group of receivers, it is a challenge just to make the team. But being drafted shows Cincinnati has faith in him that he could help beyond this year. The Bengals may need options because of the financial parity within the NFL.

“How they can pay Chase, Higgins, and Boyd with Burrow is probably going to be

a major challenge,” said Surace. “Receiver, although it doesn’t seem like a need, it’s probably one year away from being a need. And so they invested some future assets knowing that Andrei most likely is going to need some time to develop. And if he does develop, it allows a higher priced guy to walk.”

Iosivas is hoping he fits right in the talented Bengals receiving core. It would allow him to live out his NFL dream and do so while continuing to sport a look much like he did while starring at Princeton.

“I was talking to someone a little bit ago and I was saying, ‘When would I ever wear orange again outside of Princeton?’” said Iosivas. “Now, I can still wear my orange stuff, so it’s all good.” —Justin Feil

EARNING HIS STRIPES: Andrei Iosivas, right, eludes a Harvard player during his career with the Princeton University football team. Star wide receiver Iosivas was recently selected in the sixth round of the NFL draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. He is currently working out with the team as he looks to earn a spot on its final roster for the 2023 season. Iosivas finished his stellar Tiger career ranked third all-time in program history in touchdown catches (16), sixth in receiving yards (1,909), and 12th in receptions (125).

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Princeton Track’s Joyce

Competes in Javelin at NCAAs

Princeton University

women’s track star Kate Joyce made her second consecutive appearance at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Austin, Texas, last Thursday.

Competing in the javelin, junior star Joyce placed 22nd with a best heave of 158’5.

Joyce was coming off an NCAA East Regional in Jacksonville, Fla., that saw her finish 12th with a mark of 157’5. She is the current Princeton and Ivy League record holder with her mark of 179’5 from the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Championships, where she finished sixth to earn First Team All-America honors.

Women’s Tennis Star Frayman

Earns All-America Honors

Princeton University

women’s tennis star Daria Frayman has been named as an All-American for the second time in her career, as announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) last week.

ITA All-America honors are given to student-athletes that earn a top 16 seed in the NCAA Singles

Championship, advance to the round of 16 in the NCAA Singles Championship, or finish in the top 20 of the final ITA Singles rankings.

Ranked No. 12 to end the 2022-23 season, Frayman, the 2023 C. Otto von Kienbusch award winner as Princeton’s top senior female athlete, became the first Tiger woman to advance out of the first round of the NCAA Singles Tournament. She defeated No. 43 Eryn Cayetano of USC in the opening round of the competition, prevailing 6-0, 5-7, 6-3.

In addition, Frayman, a native of Moscow, Russia, qualified for the NCAA Doubles Tournament. She also led the Tigers to the second round of the NCAA Team Championships for the third straight season.

The 2023 Ivy League Player of the Year and a First Team All-Ivy honoree, Frayman led Princeton to a fourth-straight Ivy title and a perfect 7-0 record in Ivy play, along with a 17-7 overall record. Individually, Frayman finished with a 32-7 record, and was ITA Fall Nationals runner up for the second-straight season.

Tiger Field Hockey

Names 3 Captains

Coming off another Ivy League championship campaign, the Princeton University field hockey team has named a trio of rising

seniors — Grace Schulze, Sam Davidson, and Robyn Thompson — as captains for its upcoming 2023 season.

Schulze was a second-team All-Ivy League selection a year ago after a breakout season that saw her score six goals and add 10 assists for 22 points. Her assist and point totals ranked second on the team, and her assists per game total ranked third in the Ivy League and 22nd in Division I.

Davidson was the team’s Academic All-Ivy League selection and a CSC District Academic All-American (the national team has not yet been announced) in her junior year, which also saw her score seven goals, third best on the team. All seven of Davidson’s goals came on penalty strokes, where she was a perfect 7-for-7.

Thompson was an honorable mention All-Ivy selection at goalie after putting up a 1.72 goals-against average and a .713 save percentage. Thompson, who earned one Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honor, made at least eight saves in five games.

The program, which lost eight players to graduation, will also be without Beth Yeager this fall as she will be taking off the coming school year to play for the U.S. National Team as it focuses on Olympic qualifying for next summer in Paris. Yeager is a two-time firstteam All-American and Ivy Offensive Player of the Year, and she led the team in goals (12) and points (32), both of which led the Ivy League. Yeager set Princeton’s freshman record for goals with 16 in the 2021 season. Yeager

VAULTING INTO HISTORY: Princeton University men’s track star Sondre Guttormsen heads down the runway as he competed in the pole vault at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Last week, senior star Guttormsen wrapped up his Princeton career by tying for sixth place in the pole vault at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships on Austin, Texas, with a best mark of 18’4.5. Guttormsen, a native of Ski, Norway, earned First-Time All American honors as a result of his finish. He is leaving quite a legacy as a three-time NCAA champion and four time First-Team All-American pole vaulter. Guttormsen won the pole vault titles at both the 2022 and 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships as well as the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Championships. In addition to Guttormsen, sophomore Nicholas Bendtsen earned second-team All-American honors at the NCAA meet as he finished 16th in the 5,000 meters in 14:22.79 last Friday. (Photo by Seth James Photography, provided courtesy of Princeton Athletics)

will be competing with the U.S. team this summer at the FIH International Pro League in England and Belgium.

Princeton went 13-5 overall in 2022, including a 7-0 run through the Ivy League, while reaching the NCAA tournament.

PU Football Getting National TV Exposure

The Princeton University football program will have three of its games this fall shown on national television, the Ivy League said last week.

The Tigers’ home game against Columbia on Friday, September 29 (7 p.m.) will be broadcast by ESPNU.

Princeton’s game at Dartmouth on Friday, November 3 (7 p.m.) will also be shown on ESPNU. The Tigers’ final national television game will be the following week on Saturday, November 11 (time and network TBD) against the Yale Bulldogs at home.

This is the 15th consecutive year that the league will feature a national football television package. For the fifth straight year, the

package includes all eight programs.

All other Ivy League home football games outside of the package will air on ESPN+, while select games will also be available through a variety of regional sports networks.

The schedule is one of several parts to the league’s comprehensive agreement with ESPN that was launched in 2018. The partnership airs over 1,400 events annually on ESPN+ and includes at least 24 events on ESPN linear networks.

Focusing

on Sprint Events Pays Off for Della Rocca

As PHS Boys’ Track Senior Star Makes MOC in 100, 200

Zach Della Rocca is headed back to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) outdoor Meet of Champions (MOC), but the senior sprinter will represent Princeton High in two different events from a year ago.

Della Rocca, who advanced to last year’s MOC in the 400 meters, chose to focus on the shorter sprints at the end of this spring season. He won the 100 meters in 10.86 seconds, and he set a new personal record of 21.62 to finish second in the 200 meters in the boys’ NJSIAA Group 4 state championships at Franklin High last Saturday.

“I felt great,” said Della Rocca, whose heroics helped PHS finish ninth in the team standings in the meet won by Pennsauken. “That was a big goal of mine — winning at sectionals and then winning at groups. That was something I wanted to achieve coming into this season. And I didn’t get to do it in winter because I was injured. It meant a lot to me that I could get first in the 100 and second in the 200.”

Della Rocca missed more than six months of training due to a stress reaction in his leg that limited him to upper body lifting only. He returned this spring and hasn’t missed a beat. He consistently competed in the 100, 200, and the 400 meters in dual meets, invitationals, and championships, and his trajectory landed him back in the MOC.

“Zach’s return has caused me to do a deep dive on coaching philosophy and training philosophy,” said PHS head coach Ben Samara. “I’ve been researching and trying to make it something I’ve focusing on. His return defies all logic in terms of training, injury, how you come back from those things. For him to sit out eight months and be able to come back and do what he’s doing speaks to what sort of athlete he is. He’s a once-in-a-generation talent.”

Five times this season he has lowered his own 100 or 200 school record. He set the 100-meter best when he won sectionals in 10.64. His improvements have kept him satisfied with his progress.

“Every time I get a PR, that’s great, that’s the direction I want to be heading,” said Della Rocca. “With the 100, it wasn’t quite my PR but I’m happy with it because the 100 is such a technical race — it’s all about the start and there are so many factors that go into it. I’m happy with that time, but I know I can definitely get it better. I know I can get under 10.5 so that’s what I’m going to try to do this Wednesday.”

The Meet of Champions will bring plenty of competition back to Franklin on June 14.

“I’m definitely excited for it, but I know it’s going to be a lot of hard competition, especially with some of the boys from Group III that I’m normally racing against in Mercer County,” said Della Rocca. “So I really have to put the work in in practice this week and get in the mindset. I think it’s going to

be a lot of competition, but I think I should be in a good place to compete.”

Della Rocca is appreciating each chance he has to compete after missing the winter season. He was cleared to return when the Tigers came off spring break, and he’s worked to get himself to his goals.

“It was definitely hard in the winter when I was injured because I put so much time in training in the fall,” said the senior who has committed to continue his track career at Princeton University. “It’s really frustrating when you get injured and then you can’t compete. I put the work in at physical therapy and recovered and so far this spring I’ve felt great and had no problems. I’ve felt no pain, which has made me happy. I’m glad I’m able to be back on the track finally.”

Della Rocca finished last year in fourth in the 400 at the Meet of Champions. He passed up the opportunity to improve on that finish in the quarter-mile for the chance to medal in the shorter sprints.

“Going into this postseason, we made a decision that we wanted to focus on the 100 and 200, building up my resume and seeing what I can do in those events when I have 100 percent attention in those events,” said Della Rocca. “I’m really glad I did it because I never thought I could be a 100-meter Group 4 champion, especially after last year. Last year I was running 11.2s, and then going from 11.2 to 10.6 is an insane PR. So I’m glad we focused on that. But next year I’ll primarily be a 400 runner, but I hope to also still compete in the 100 and 200. I hope to do as much as I can at Princeton.”

He won’t be alone in his final meet for PHS. The Tigers advanced several wild card entries to the MOC. The top two finishers in each group event advanced automatically plus the next 18 best times from across all groups as wild card entries.

“We felt pretty good about our chances going into the weekend,” said Samara. “The wild card rules are much more fair for the top performers now. In the past, we’ve had to deal with the rules that put some of the big schools at a disadvantage. This year, they’re trying to get the top performers in the state in. That will always benefit us as a Group 4 school. We had some kids on the bubble so we were happy.”

The PHS boys also advanced a pair of distance runners to the MOC as wild card entries. Andrew Kenny ran 1:55.72 to place sixth in the 800 meters while Marty Brophy dropped a huge PR of 4:18.18 in the 1,600 meters.

“For our distance runners, Marty, a five-second PR in the 1600 at the most amazing time to do that, I don’t know how to explain it,” said Samara. “For Marty, you’re coming off that huge PR. It’s ‘how much do I have left and how much can I push?’ If it’s two guys that can squeeze more, it’s Marty and Andrew for sure.”

Oleg Brennan also placed sixth in his top event as the senior threw 152’0 in the discus. It landed him in the MOC and earned some redemption in a season of ups and downs.

“I think it’s great that he’s able to get to this Meet of Champs,” said Samara.

“Last year, he fouled out in sectionals. This year, it happened again and he had a tough time at counties, and he was really devastated after that, not only for the team but for himself as an individual. Now he’s bounced back and he’s in a position he can let it rip and go for that big PR he’s been looking for all season.”

Sawyer Quallen earned a wild card spot after placing eighth in the triple jump with a 44’6 effort. The MOC is another chance for the junior to shine.

“The sky is the limit,” said Samara. “Sawyer had two really big jumps at the start of his series where he could have gotten out to 45-46 range, but sometimes when you have a big jump it can make you go haywire. He’s ready for a breakthrough. He just has to put it out there.”

The PHS girls will be represented as well. Kyleigh Tangen, Brielle Moran, Ava Tabeart, and Rica ElechesLipsitz ran 9:52.77 for fifth in the girls 4x800 relay. The Tiger girls placed 36th in the team standings at the Group 4 meet which was won by Elizabeth High.

“It’s a really special group of girls,” said Samara. “They click really well together. They run really well when they run together. They’ve been dropping that time consistently. I think they just want to continue to do that.”

Della Rocca is looking to finish his high school career on a high note. It’s been a brief career. He didn’t join the track and field team until he was a junior last year, but after focusing on soccer for much of his athletic career, track became his top pursuit.

“Looking back at it, I’m just grateful for what has happened,” said Della Rocca. “None of this would have been possible without my coaches, my teammates. I couldn’t have asked for more. Looking back on it, no matter what happens this Wednesday, I’ve achieved more than I could have possibly wanted to going into track. That’s in large part due to my coaches and my teammates, my school, and family. More than anything I’m grateful and really lucky to have the experience I’ve had in track.”

Della Rocca’s speed made him an immediate impact athlete for the team. Last year’s experience paid off with him putting more effort into his preparation and training for this year. He approached this season differently because of his success in his first spring.

“Going into this year, I definitely had really high expectations for what I expect of myself and what I want to see from myself,” said Della Rocca. “It’s different from last year. I always set goals for myself before the season. It’s about reaching those

times and working on my form. A lot of that I didn’t have going into last season. This year, I had set goals of being first in sectionals and first at groups. I think that’s the main difference between last year and this year. Last year, I was mostly just doing the best that I could. Then this year, I know what I can do and I want to make sure I’m getting better and doing stuff that I need to be a faster runner.”

Della Rocca also became more of a leader for the team. While he was learning alongside other first-year athletes, this year he feels more comfortable lending support to his track teammates.

“The thing about this year is that I can actually help my team members through meets and help them with their starts because I now know somewhat what I’m doing,” said Della Rocca. “And in the weight room, I’m able to help them because I’ve been through the program for a year. I have a lot more experience in those ways. And navigating through meets because they can be confusing about where to check in and everything. Then I can help with competition mentality and with form. Competition can be really anxiety producing for a lot of people, so helping them through that and helping them keep their form during races.”

Della Rocca is still a work in progress. He is learning with every race. He found areas he could build on and other aspects to improve coming off his gold and silver medals at groups.

“The 100, I think I had a good start,” said Della Rocca. “I was with the pack the whole time and pulled it out at the end. The 200, I was behind quite a lot coming into the final stretch, but that’s where I’m used to being, that’s normally how it plays out for me. Then I chased them down. I’m trying to get out of that because if I could start faster, I wouldn’t have to have that issue. So I wasn’t necessarily happy with it and it shows where I can improve and that’s what I’m trying to do on Wednesday.”

Della Rocca still has plenty ahead of him at the next level. He is looking forward to the opportunities presented by competing for the Princeton University track program.

“It’s a dream come true,” said Della Rocca. “I’ve

He is viewing Princeton as a place that can help him grow in every way. His relatively little track experience means he has a higher ceiling for improvement, and he has heard only good things about sprints coach Robert Abdullah’s work.

“He’s great at developing sprinters and getting them faster,” said Della Rocca. “He’s almost like a magician, they don’t know how he does it. That’s something I was excited about. All of the coaches I have talked to during the process, none

of them had a reputation like that. That’s exciting for me, especially because I am playing catch-up in a way. Having him and his skill set will benefit me greatly, and I’m excited to what I can do when I start getting coached by him.”

Della Rocca has one final high school meet that he is focused on before he turns his attention to competing across town. He has the chance to medal in both short sprints in the culmination of one chapter of his track career.

IN THE FAST LANE: Princeton High boys’ track star Zach Della Rocca displays his form in a race last spring. Last Saturday, senior and Princeton University-bound Della Rocca starred at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Group 4 state championship meet, taking first in the 100 meters and second in the 200. Della Rocca’s heroics helped PHS finish ninth in the team standings in the meet won by Pennsauken. Della Rocca will next be in action when he competes in the NJSIAA Meet of Champions on June 14 at Franklin High. (Photo provided by Ben Samara) looked up to those runners for so long. Now realizing that I’m going to be a part of that team, it’s a dream come true. That team is so exceptional. With the exception of the spring, they’ve won Ivies the last eight years. They placed seventh at nationals last year. They’re one of best track teams in the country and one of best academic schools in the country too. It’s the best of both worlds and I’m so grateful that I have the opportunity to be on that team and to go to Princeton.”

“Even though it’s not our full team, it’s really special in that we all get to be there, we all get to compete,” said Della Rocca. “I know we don’t have enough to compete for a team title, but I hope we all do our best and we can all place. More importantly for the seniors, I hope that we enjoy that this is our last time competing with each other and we take the moment in because sometimes we forget to do that.”

—Justin Feil

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Playmaking

Gives a Lift to

PDS

Boys’ Lax But Panthers Fall to Gill St. Bernard’s in State Title Game

Ollie Hall had extra incentive to make the most out of his last chance to take the field for the Princeton Day School boys’ lacrosse team as it faced Gill St. Bernard’s in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group B state final last Saturday.

After having been sidelined for the Non-Public

quarterfinal and semi due to a concussion, senior attacker Hall got cleared for the final on Friday and he wanted to return the favor his teammates had given him by advancing to the title game in his absence.

“These boys really put on a clinic and got us here to the finals,” said Hall. “If

they were going to give me a shot to play in this game, I was going to show up.”

Showing his offensive flair with some slick passing, Hall got two assists as PDS jumped out to a 5-2 lead in the contest which was played at East Brunswick High.

“We were feeling amazing,

we really came out swinging,” said Hall. “I had full trust in these boys to play well.”

But Gill narrowed the gap to 5-4 at halftime and forged ahead 7-5 midway through the third quarter.

Heading into the fourth quarter, PDS was down 9-7 and narrowed the gap to 9-8 but couldn’t get any closer as Gill prevailed 10-8 to win the title.

“The game got away from us a little at the end,” said Hall, reflecting on the loss which left the Panthers with a final record of 15-7. “We weren’t worried but at the end of the day, it can’t always go your way.”

As PDS fought its heart out down the stretch of the contest, Hall set up Bernardi for the tally that got the Panthers to within one midway through the fourth quarter.

“Harry is my brother on and off the field, I couldn’t love that kid more,” said Hall, who assisted on three of Bernardi’s four goals in the contest. “Any time I see his stick, even if he has a guy on him, I just know that if I throw him the ball, he is putting it in the net.”

Hall acknowledged that PDS faced a tough task in trying to defeat Gill for a third straight time as the Panthers had defeated the Knights 9-6 in the Prep B state final on May 1 and 8-7 in a regular season contest on April 11.

“It is hard to beat a team three times in a row,” said Hall. “I wouldn’t want to play this game with anyone other than these boys. We definitely had the chance.”

While the defeat stung, Hall was proud of the strides PDS made this spring as it turned things around after going 6-11 in 2022.

“We improved from last year for sure,” said Hall, who ended up with 30 goals and 26 assists this season. “Even from the start of the year, we have grown so much as a team. I couldn’t be prouder of the boys.”

PDS head coach Joe Moore credited Gill with producing a superb team effort in edging the Panthers.

“I think they tried to win

their one-on-one matchups. Our defense has played really well all season; numbers 25 (Max Voigt) and two (Will Deo) were really focusing today and played really well,” said Moore. “The last time we played them, they didn’t play Deo in the first half. We knew that was going to shake things up in this one. At the end of the day, they just played lacrosse, and put balls in the back of the net a couple of more times the we did.”

In going from the disappointing campaign last year to a Prep B title and the program’s first-ever trip to the Non-Public final this season, PDS displayed focus and heart.

“It was amazing, I love these guys; I just told them we are more than a team, we are a family because of the adversity we have faced this year and we have stuck together through it all,” said Moore, who got three goals from freshman Andrew Ahrens in the final with sophomore Hart Nowakoski contributing one goal and one assist in addition to the four tallies from Bernardi.

“We easily could have folded after we lost to Allentown (6-5 in the Mercer County Tournament semis). The seniors put the team on their back and made sure that everybody dialed back in. We made a great run in this tournament and got to where we wanted to be and just came a little bit short. I am really proud of these guys.”

Moore was proud of how two of those seniors, Hall and Bernardi, stepped up on the final.

“They love each other; they have been connected all over the field all season whether it’s Harry or Ollie or our defense connecting with our offense,” said Moore. “It was nice to see our offense click with our role players, not necessarily Sebastian [Rzeczycki] or Andy [Ahrens]. It was nice to see that in our last game with those two seniors really clicking and putting some in

the back of the net.”

It was the last game with the program for Moore, who had announced before the season that he would be stepping down after this spring to devote more time to his job at Centercourt and his young family.

“It is really hard, I have been dreading this day, win or lose,” said Moore, describing his emotions in the wake of the finale. “If we win, it was still going to be a hard day for me. On an individual level, I am so proud of this team. I just told them, ‘I have been in this sport for 25 years as a player or a coach and this is easily one of my favorite teams to be with because of who these guys are. I am going out exactly how I hoped to.’”

In reflecting on what will stand out about his PDS tenure, Moore pointed to the feeling of brotherhood among the guys that has been cultivated around the squad from year to year.

“We have had really talented players, but more than that we have had guys who just have great hearts and take something away from this program,” said Moore, whose players and coaches hugged each other one by one after the postgame talk.

“I think the coolest part is to see them come back to our practice field or to our games and give me a big hug. You can tell that they feel welcome into this program and I have always wanted to build that culture. It is a big piece of it.”

Hall, for his part, has developed bonds with his teammates that will last for a lifetime.

“On and off the field, every single one of these guys is absolutely amazing,” said Hall, who is heading to Lehigh University where he plans to play club ice hockey. “Even besides lacrosse, these are boys that I will have with me for the rest of my life.”

— Bill Alden

HALL PASS: Princeton Day School boys’ lacrosse player Ollie Hall heads upfield in a game this spring. Last Saturday, senior attacker Hall passed for five assists but it wasn’t enough as thirdseeded PDS fell 10-8 to top-seeded Gill St. Bernard’s in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group B state final last Saturday at East Brunswick High. PDS finished the spring with a 15-7 record as it won the Prep B state title along the way.

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

PDS Boys’ Tennis Puts Scare into Newark Academy Before Losing to Minutemen in Non-Public State Final

With an eerie smoky orange haze settling over the Mercer County Park tennis complex last Wednesday afternoon, the Princeton Day School boys’ tennis team took the court to face perennial powerhouse Newark Academy in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public state final.

Underdog PDS was fired up for the challenge of trying to upend the Minutemen, who came into the day with 29 state titles in program history.

“We really needed to bring the energy to match their energy because we knew coming in it was going to be like that,” said PDS heads coach Michael Augsberger. “They are famous for the positive energy that they have. We love that.”

Displaying plenty of energy, the Panthers pushed Newark Academy to the brink in a dramatic clash. With PDS first singles star Heyang Li prevailing in his match while the Minutemen posted victories in second doubles and second singles, the match came down to third singles and first doubles.

In both of those matches, the Panthers rallied to force a third set to put things on a knife’s edge. Showing its championship pedigree, Newark managed to pull out wins in the nail-biters to earn a 4-1 victory.

While Augsberger was disappointed with the result, he had no qualms with the fight displayed by his players.

“We are proud of what our guys did; we were in it until the end,” said Augsberger, whose team finished the spring at 11-5-1 as it earned the Prep B state team title along the way. “To come here and almost topple Newark Academy, that is really special. We don’t take moral victories — we understand the level of play that these guys have. We are right there with them, a couple of points away. That is why they are who they are; that is the sports psychology that they are famous for. They are very good at that and it was great for us to be able to test ourselves against that.”

Panther senior standout Jason Wu put up a ferocious fight at third singles, rallying to force a third set against Aryan Grover before the Newark standout prevailed 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to clinch the victory for the Minutemen.

“I tried to control the baseline more,” said Wu. “I hit a lot more high, deep shots to his backhand which resulted in him hitting short and me being able to attack from there.”

Pressing the attack, Wu brought a lot of momentum into the third set. “I felt like I was going to win it,” recalled Wu. “In the second game, I was up 40-love serving and I just lost focus. I lost five points in a row and then the momentum completely shifted. I think he and his coach had the plan to go high and heavy to my backhand. I struggled a lot in the third set, I think that is how he won.”

Wu took the setback hard, banging his racket on the court and sitting alone

for minutes on an adjacent court to gather his thoughts.

Putting things in perspective, Wu acknowledged that ending his career in a state final was something to cherish.

“It is a very special day because it is the last day being with these guys,” said Wu. “There are four or five seniors on the team.”

Another PDS senior, Joshua Chu, gave his all in his last day on court with his classmates as he fell 6-4, 6-2 to Ethan Polen.

“The past couple of matches, I wasn’t playing too well,” said Chu. “I definitely found my feel a little more in this match. Ethan is a good player, I tried my best.”

Chu felt good about what the Panthers have accomplished this spring. “As a team, this was one of our best seasons by far in the last decade,” said Chu. “It is amazing. I really enjoyed it over the last three years. I really had a good time.”

Winning the second singles title at the Prep B tourney as the Panthers rolled to the team title was an amazing moment for Chu.

“It meant a lot because we won it back-to-back,” said Chu. “This year I played second singles, so it was a different field to play. I lost in the semis last year in the Preps at first singles. I was able to win it this year, that was a special moment.”

The Panthers got a special victory against Newark Academy at first singles from sophomore star Heyang Li as he topped Andrew Kotzen 6-3, 6-4.

“That is a very satisfying win, especially going into the state singles tournament,” said Augsberger of Li, who made the Round of 16 last weekend at the state singles tournament before getting knocked out. “That shows what Heyang can do because everybody knows the respect that Kotzen has across the state. Heyang really played top-notch tennis. He was able to work in his backhand, he was able to come up when he was supposed to and he stayed positive the whole time.”

The first doubles pair of senior Oliver Silverio and junior Steven Li stayed positive as they forced a third set in their match before Newark Academy’s Evan Lai and Jean-Luc Marchand pulled out a 6-2, 6-7, 7-6 win.

“Oliver is an incredibly smart player,” said Augsberger. “He is probably the most intelligent guy out there in terms of shot selection and using his talent as much as he can get out of it, hustling on every point, making tough decisions like going down the line when he sees the opening. What they have done in this match is that they tried to play their game in the beginning and

they needed to adjust and they hit a lot more lobs. It has given them trouble and that is what got them back in the second set.”

Augsberger was not surprised to see Wu get back into his match against Grover.

“Jason has done that so many times this year, he has saved match points and turned matches around after dropping the first set,” said Augsberger. “Jason is the grinder. He takes it really hard. He cares that much, that is the thing. He has learned to keep it in perspective over time and now he is able to channel it.”

Chu tried his hardest to turn his match around, but just came up short.

“Especially at the beginning of the second set, Josh really turned things around by raising his energy level, hitting behind Polen a bit,” said Augsberger. “He has a huge reach, he is vocal and has a lot of positive energy. Working with Josh, it was more about keeping the energy up.”

Chu has shown a growth over his PDS career that is emblematic of his senior stalwarts of Wu, Silverio, and second doubles standout Farhan Mohammad.

“It has been incredible to watch him and the other guys mature over the three years I have been here,” said Augsberger. “Farhan is the glue that holds everybody together. I am going to miss the guys.”

Wu, for his part, liked the way the guys worked together this spring.

“I feel like we played really well as a team, we worked well as a team, we practice well as a team,” said Wu, who is headed to Middlebury College and plans to play club tennis and may walk on to its men’s squash program.

“Our goal was to repeat in the Prep Bs and do better in the state finals which we did. We got the sectional win which we didn’t get last year. In the Prep Bs, we were very dominant.”

Chu won’t soon forget the good times he had with the Panther team.

“I definitely think that this tennis program at PDS helped me a lot,” said Chu, who is going the University of Rochester where he will be playing for its men’s tennis team. “Most of our starters are seniors, we came up together. The bus rides home were the best part of this. Tennis is an individual sport — it is very good to make it a team sport.”

—Bill Alden

After Majeski Foundation’s Unlikely Title Run Last Year, Princeton Men’s Summer Hoops Featuring Parity, Drama

After the Majeski Foundation went on an unlikely run to the championship last year in the Princeton Recreation Department Men’s Summer Basketball League, snapping a three-year title run by LoyalTees, more surprises appear to be in store as the league tips off its 2023 campaign this week.

“It is very competitive. With the nine teams, anything is possible at this point,” said Evan Moorhead, the executive director of the Recreation Department and longtime summer hoops commissioner. “I can’t pick out a favorite going into this season. I think there is a lot of parity there and a lot of teams with potential.”

As the league starts its 34th season on the evening of June 14 with a tripleheader at the Community Park, Moorhead sees a good blend of old and new.

“It is an interesting mix of veteran squads, LoyalTees, AEI, and Princeton Supply; obviously Majeski is back as defending champions,” said Moorhead. “We will see what they bring this year and then there are a couple of new teams as well. I am excited to see how that plays out.”

In winning the title last year, Majeski, which is comprised of players from The College of New Jersey men’s hoops team, produced an exciting stretch run after

posting a 3-6 regular season record.

“This year, there are some of the same names back,” said Moorhead, noting that the Majeski roster includes such stalwarts as Jason Larranaga, Danny Bodine, Jack Vreeswyk, Jimmy Clemente, and Nick Koch.

“They have a full roster of guys. Because they have that continuity and the chemistry from playing during the year and the young legs, you can never count them out.”

AEI, which fell to Majeski in a dramatic best-of-three championship series last summer which went to overtime in the decisive third game, is led by league fixture Kevin Johnson.

“Kevin is great, he is well organized and has a consistent group of guys, he is respectful of the league and the history and everything,” said Moorhead. “They are one of the teams last year that had somebody go on the vacation at the wrong time.

Jalen Parham was the regular season MVP and missed the entire finals. They were one missed three away from winning that series.”

With its core of Davon Black, Nick Davidson, Vince Anfield, Zahrion Blue, and Terrance Bailey returning, LoyalTees will be hungry to get back to the title series.

“Six or seven years ago, they were the up and coming team and going after some

of the more established teams,” said Moorhead. “Now they are the veteran team. They had a target on their backs for a while. Last year, they weren’t able to defend their title. Bringing back basically the same starting lineup, the question is can they make another run for the title and hold off some of these young guns that are coming after them.”

One of those teams with young guns is Jefferson Plumbing, who reached the league semis last summer.

“Jefferson Plumbing had a nice run but they are missing two of their stalwarts from last year in Ethan Garita and Tyler Jones this year — those are big losses for them,” said Moorhead of the squad whose manager is Chris Petrucelli, a program supervisor with the Rec Department and assistant coach of the Princeton Day School boys’ basketball team.

“Ike Eluwa is a scorer. Chris picked up two guys who were on that Princeton Supply team from last year — Brian Johansson, a Hopkins guy, and Charlie Gillikin, who played at Muhlenberg. They are a couple of big bodies and two D-III level players who are definitely going to help them out. They give them some shooting and a little bit of size.”

Under the leadership of Phil Vigliano, Princeton Supply figures to be a good squad.

“Coach Phil has access to players every year,” said Moorhead, noting that the squad features Quayson Williams, Shaquan Worthy, Mike Kane, and Steve Harris. “It is getting the right mix of guys that commit to being here and showing up. His teams have fallen victim to not having the bodies when it comes to the playoffs. He puts a good roster together but the guys aren’t always fully committed. That will be the question again.”

A league newcomer, YSU, appears to have put together a good roster.

“I am intrigued by this team. Freddy Young Sr. is one of the building blocks of this league,” said Moorhead of Young who is managing the team. “He played the first year and for a long time as a standout with the Tiger’s Tale group. He certainly knows what it takes to put together a competitive team in this league. I expect that these guys will be really strong. Freddy Young Jr. is playing at Lincoln now. He has been in our league and he has a strong game. Young Freddy has been at those courts his whole life, it is like his backyard, playing in the park. Pat Higgins had a good summer for Majeski last year and then he got hurt in the playoffs. He is a very good player, he proved himself last year out here.

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there. Charles Cooke was a Trenton Catholic guy was a D-I player, he was at James Madison and Dayton.”

Another new face, Speed Pro, boasts some league veterans.

“This is a new team, there are a couple of names on there,” said Moorhead. “They have a couple of strong players, these are guys that are familiar. The names that jump out at me there on that list are guys that have played in our league like Lorenzo Spinazzi, Ashwin Narra, and Justin Carbone. Justin was one of the leading 3-point shooters in the league last year, he average two 3-pointers a game. Greg Louis-Jacques played in our league last year. I think they have enough there to be competitive. It is always good to get new teams and some new blood as other teams phase out. Having new teams is part of what makes this league what it is.”

Planet Fitness should be competitive, led by longtime league standout Juwan Harrison.

“Juwan is back. They always seem to have a strong nucleus of guys,” said Moorhead. “This is another wild card. Juwan has played in our league for a number of years. Juwan is a scorer, he has proven that.”

The PATH squad features some scoring punch.

“Their backcourt jumps out to me, they have Jalen Carey and Tobias Pratt who both played last year and had a very good summer, they are two quality guards,” said Moorhead. “Tobias was the leading three-point shooter last year in the league, he averaged over three a game. He averaged 17.5 and 3.5 threes last year so he can definitely score. Jalen is another guy who is a good three-point shooter. I expect they will be competitive. TJ Malave has been trying to upgrade his roster over the last few summers. He has learned what it takes to be competitive in this league and is going out and getting the right players.”

In preparation for the season, the Community Park courts have received an upgrade.

“We just got the basketball court repainted. We had some cracks repaired and repainted with a nice fresh coat of paint,” said Moorhead. “It looks really sharp. That is going to stand out to people.”

Moorhead, for his part, is looking forward to being back out on the court for the summer.

“I am excited to get back out there,” said Moorhead. “I always look forward to it, every year it energizes me to be out there and be on the mic, trying to entertain everyone.”

It is the players who have provided the most entertainment over the years.

“I am happy that there is still a lot of interest in the league,” said Moorhead. “We still have good local guys, local to Princeton and surrounding areas in Mercer County that still want to come out here and play at the Community Park courts. That is the lifeblood of the league — the players. They keep it going.”

—Bill Alden

Hun

Softball : After producing a second straight Prep

A championship campaign, Hun had five players named as All-Prep performers. Senior outfielder Kat Xiong, junior pitcher-first baseman Lexi Kobryn, junior first baseman-pitcher Jamie Staub, and freshman infielder Sam Jolly were named to the First Team while sophomore catcher Emma Eisenberg received honorable mention. The Raiders went 18-2 this spring and topped Pingry 10-0 in the Prep A title game.

Boys’ Lacrosse : In the wake of another winning season, Hun had three players earn All-Mid-Atlantic Prep League honors. Postgrad attacker Ryan Demato and senior defender Ryan Donahue were named as First-Team performers while junior midfielder Dillon Bucchere was an honorable mention choice. The Raiders posted a 12-4 record this season, prevailing in their last eight games and earning their second straight Mercer County Tournament title.

took fourth in the 100 hurdles and fifth in the 400 hurdles. The Panther 4x100 relay took third. PDS took eighth in the team standings at the meet won by the Wilberforce School.

Girls’ Lacrosse: Sophie Jaffe and Tessa Caputo starred in a losing cause as third-seeded PDS fell 11-8 at second-seeded Montclair Kimberley Academy in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public Group B semifinals. Senior star Jaffe tallied two goals and two assists while junior standout Caputo contributed two goals and an assist in the June 6 contest as the Panthers finished the spring with a 13-8 record.

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Boys’ Track : Ben Jerris provided a highlight as PDS took part in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) NonPublic B outdoor track championship meet last Saturday at Delsea High. Senior Jerris took 10th in the 1,600 meters in the competition won by St. Rose High. In addition, junior Tyler Olmstead had a busy day at the meet, taking 11th in the javelin, 14th in the shot put, and 15th in the discus.

Girls’ Track : Harleen Sandu, Emily McCann, and Sophia Zhou starred as PDS competed in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA)

Non-Public B outdoor track championship meet last Saturday at Delsea High. Junior Sandu placed third in the 3,200 meters and sixth in the 1,600 while classmate McCann finished third in the 1,600 and sophomore Zhou

Boys’ Tennis : Senior star and defending champion Jonathan Gu had a big weekend at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) state singles tournament. On Saturday, Gu, a 3-4 seed, rolled to a 6-0, 6-1 win over Ben Duan of Westfield in the second round of the competition. A day later, Gu topped Derrin Lerner of Cherry Hill East, 7-6 (8-6), 5-4 (retired) in a third round match. Gu was slated to face Archit Yemula of Ridge in the quarters on June 13 with the victor advancing to the semis on June 14. In the doubles tourney, the PHS pairs of Aman Kapur and Andrew Kuo and Nikita Medvedev and Shaan Zaveri both fell in the fourth round.

Local Sports

Post 218 Baseball Falls to Allentown

Brett Pagoda starred in a losing cause as the Princeton Post 218 American Legion baseball team fell 11-8 to Allentown last Sunday. Pagoda pounded out three hits for Princeton as it fell to 1-3. In upcoming action, Post 218 hosts Bordentown Post 26 on June 14, Trenton Post 93/182 on June 17, and Hightstown Post 148 on June 18 before playing at Broad Street Park Post 313 in June 20.

EMERGING FORCE: Members of the Wilberforce School girls’ track team enjoy the moment after placing first at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public B outdoor track championship meet last Saturday at Delsea High. Wilberforce piled up 89 points in taking first with Montclair Kimberley Academy scoring 59 to come in second. Individual standouts for the Wolverines included Gwen Mersereau, the winner of 800 meters and fourth-place finisher in the 200, Adeline Edwards, who took second in the 3,200 and fifth in the 1,600, Maria Madigan, the runner-up in the 400, Laura Sallade, the second place finisher in the 800, and Sophia Park, who came in third in the 800 and fourth in the 1,600. The squad’s 4x400 and 4x800 relays both placed first. The Wilberforce boys also performed well, tying Eastern Christian for seventh in the team standings of the meet won by St. Rose High. Caleb Brox and Philip Schidlovsky led the way for the Wolverines as Brox placed second in the 1,600 and fourth in the 3,200 while Schidlovsky took fourth in both the 800 and the 1,600. Wilberforce will wrap up its season by competing in the NJSIAA Meet of Champions on June 14 at Franklin High. (Photo provided by Lois Szeliga)

DANNY BOY: Majeski Foundation’s Danny Bodine, right, unloads the ball in a game last year in the Princeton Recreation Department Men’s Summer Basketball League. Bodine helped Majeski, which is comprised of players from The College of New Jersey men’s hoops team, win the league title last summer. The league tips off its 2023 campaign with a triple-header at the Community Park courts on June 14 starting at 7:15 p.m. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Obituaries

shared many nights critiquing the game in the stands with Pete Carril. This year, he won the 2023 Moore Family March Madness Challenge trophy which his daughter, Kimberly, proudly presented to him.

There will be no services, but gifts in his memory to the Ridgeview Conservancy of Princeton or to the Friends of the Princeton University Library are appreciated.

William D. Hogan

William D. Hogan, 84, of Princeton passed peacefully at home on Wednesday, June 7 following a courageous 12-week battle with peritoneal cancer.

Born in Paterson, NJ, and raised in Hawthorne, he was predeceased by his parents Caroline and William L. Hogan; his brother Richard F. Hogan; his sister Maureen Hogan; and his daughter Erin Doreen Curcio.

Bill leaves behind his beloved wife Elaine (nee Martinetti); his daughter Kimberly and Karl Moore of New Hope; his son William P. Hogan of Hamilton; his adored grandchildren Audra (21) and Logan (16); his brother Kevin Hogan of Pickerington, OH; his son-in-law Shawn Curcio of Lenoir, NC; and many nieces and nephews.

A loyal Son of Xavier High School ’56 in Manhattan, Bill graduated as an ROTC Captain, and believed his Jesuit education became the foundation of his independent thinking, respect for hard work, and positive attitude.

He earned a BS and MA from Montclair State College, and began teaching math and coaching basketball at DePaul High School in Wayne and Our Lady of the Valley in Orange. At 28, he was recruited by IBM starting in their Cranford office, promoted to the Strategic Planning Staff at headquarters in Armonk, NY, and became sales manager when the Trenton office opened. He moved to Lawrenceville, and in 1969 was named basketball coach at Notre Dame High School.

He owned Hogan’s Restaurant and Carnegie Hall in Lawrenceville for 10 years.

Bill owned an executive search firm specializing in placing salespeople throughout the United States. He subsequently founded Hogan Leadership Group, a consulting firm working with small businesses to develop and grow their companies. He wrote and published three consulting books for his clients to use as reference tools. They included his trademark storytelling, time management and hiring skills, and an honest approach to selling. His third book, Stop Selling, is still being sought on Amazon.

He proudly served on the Board of Stuart Country Day School and was a longtime member of The Bedens Brook Club.

Bill’s love of basketball was lifelong. He and Elaine were season ticket holders for Princeton University basketball for over 25 years where he

Bill had a lifelong respect and passion for the game of golf. He was the first known player to shoot his age at Bedens Brook with a score of 73. Subsequently, he shot his age 18 times. In 21 years, he played 4,051 rounds of golf averaging over 200 rounds per year. He also had three holes-inone. Two at Bedens Brook and one at Querencia, in Cabo San Lucas. He was truly the Bedens Brook Legends Club Champion and was honored this week with Mens Day being renamed The Hogan. His walk, smile, and swing will grace the course forever.

At age 19, Bill was honored to caddie for the legendary golfer, Ben Hogan, at a tournament at Ridgewood Country Club.

His passion for work and sports golf, basketball, tennis, and skiing were only surpassed by his love and unwavering commitment to his family, friends, and Catholic faith.

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A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 17 at the Church of St. Ann, 1253 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Visitation will be in the church chapel from 9 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made in Bill’s memory to Stuart Country Day School, 1200 Stuart Road, Princeton, NJ 08540.

Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08542.

Maxine A. Gurk

August 28, 1928 –June 7, 2023

Maxine A. Gurk, a longtime resident of Princeton, passed away at home on June 7, 2023. She was predeceased by her husband, Herbert M. Gurk in 2013. She is survived by her children Lisa Gurk Herman (Michael) of New Orleans, LA, David Gurk of Ann Arbor, MI, and Rebecca Gurk (Stuart Mangel) of Columbus, OH; her grandchildren Katie (Mike Noble) and Peter Herman, Josh, Molly, and Ben Mangel; and her greatgrandson, August Noble.

Born to the late Bernard and Helen Auerbach, Maxine was raised in Philadelphia. In 1960 she moved to Princeton with her husband where they found a welcoming community and formed lasting friendships. Maxine was a frequent participant in charitable activities for the town and the local chapters of Hadassah and Jewish Women International. As a JWI member, she visited numerous schools, inspiring children with stories about heroes who fought for tolerance. She was deeply involved in the Princeton Jewish Center and served as president of its Women’s Division. Before Princeton Borough and Township consolidated, Maxine served for many years on the Joint Commission on Aging.

Jewish Center’s art gallery and, after moving to Princeton Windrows, served as an illustrator for a number of Windrows publications. She also enjoyed volunteering in the Grand-Pals program of the Princeton Senior Resource Center, as an English as a Second Language teacher, and as a tutor in Mercer County Community College’s Adult Literacy Program.

Services were held at The Jewish Center in Princeton followed by burial in Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge, NJ.

Donations in memory of Maxine Gurk may be made to The Jewish Center of Princeton (thejewishcenter. org/donation) or the Princeton Senior Resource Center (princetonsenior.org/support/donate).

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At the end of her teaching career, her friends and colleagues wished her a proverbial “long and healthy retirement.” Little did they know how prescient that would be, as she pursued a healthy and active retirement for the next 34 years. During that time, she made good on some lifelong desires such as trying her hand at painting (she ended up producing more than 50 paintings in her Senior Center class) and taking trips around the world. She enjoyed many diverse experiences on those trips such as riding on an elephant or in a rickshaw in India; visiting Buddhist temples in Thailand; praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem; cruising along the Rhine in Germany; donning a kimono in Japan; and coming full circle by going back to her home in Vienna, which she had been forced to leave some 50 years prior.

Not surprisingly, she always told anyone willing to listen (and usually more than once) that she had lived a wonderfully full life, had no

Martha Kingsley

Martha Kingsley passed away at Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, NJ, on June 2, 2023.

William Louis Howarth

William Louis Howarth died peacefully at the Princeton Medical Center on June 6, 2023, of interstitial lung disease. He was 82.

Will was born in Minneapolis, grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and received a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in 1962 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1967. He was a member of the Princeton University faculty for 51 years, specializing in American Studies, literary nonfiction, and eco-criticism. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Papers of Henry D. Thoreau, wrote 14 books, reported on literary America for the National Geographic Society, and was a founding member of the Princeton Environmental Institute.

He is survived by his wife, Anne Matthews, three siblings, and a daughter and a son.

As a senior in high school, Maxine chose between two great interests: art and education of young children. She was awarded a scholarship to Moore College of Art but instead accepted one to the University of Pennsylvania, receiving her BS in Education in 1950. While at Penn, she combined her two passions by teaching ceramics at a South Philadelphia settlement house. After graduating, she taught first grade at the University of Pennsylvania’s IllmanCarter Children’s School, where she served as a demonstration teacher for educators from across the country and abroad. During that time, Maxine earned a qualification for teaching the deaf from Temple University, which she used to teach preschoolers at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf and teenagers at the Society of the Friends of the Deaf in Philadelphia.

Maxine met and fell in love with her future husband, Herb, in 1951 while working as an arts and crafts counselor at Indian Lake Camp in the Pennsylvania Poconos, where he was also a camp counselor. They married in December 1952.

For the last 22 years of her career, Maxine worked at the Rocky Hill Cooperative Nursery School, serving as head teacher and director. She daily marveled at her good fortune to have a job she loved so much. In her retirement, her pleasures included writing memoirs and poetry and continuing her lifelong love of art as a prolific painter, using various media with an emphasis on watercolor. For several years she was the co-curator of the Princeton

Martha was born in Vienna, Austria, on July 7, 1925. At the young age of 13, she was forced, by Hitler’s advance into Austria, to leave her family behind and travel solo to New York aboard the Queen Mary. This was the beginning of the indomitable spirit that she demonstrated throughout her life. There she resided with her aunt and uncle until seven years later after the war when her mother and father were finally able to rejoin her.

She met her beloved husband, Ben, in a swimming pool in New York City where she mistakenly entered the deep end of the pool, and then suddenly had to call for help because she was not able to tread water. Ben happened to be substituting for his cousin as a lifeguard that day, even though he actually had no training. He subsequently went in to try to “save” her, and Martha ended up pulling him down as well, inspiring one heroic soul to jump in and save the both of them! That was the beginning of a wonderful union which lasted 50 years until Ben’s passing, producing three sons, eight grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren!

Martha graduated from Julia Richman High School in Manhattan in 1942. Her senior yearbook memorably characterized her as a “sweet and sincere friend of the truest blend.” After 20 years of childraising, Martha was determined to go back to school, and subsequently obtained her teaching degree from Trenton State College. She then taught for over 21 years in first grade in the Mill Lake School in Monroe, New Jersey. Martha used to joke that she “never graduated from first grade,” but that turned out to be a great benefit to the many students that were shaped and touched by her teaching.

regrets, and was SO grateful for everything, and most especially her beloved family! Perhaps that attitude was part of the “secret sauce” that enabled her to live until the ripe “young” age of 97. At Stonebridge, where she lived out her remaining 13 years, she couldn’t walk through the hallways without numerous residents and staff members stopping her along the way with a warm greeting and a smile. One staff member commented that she’s “kind of like a legend around here.” Another said that Martha looked at her like an adopted daughter. What always stood out for those of us who knew and loved her were the warmth and kindness we could see shining through her eyes!

A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, June 16, 2023 at 2 p.m. at Stonebridge at Montgomery, 100 Hollinshead Spring Road, Skillman, NJ 08558. Extend condolences and share memories at The KimbleFuneralHome.com.

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