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Food Is the Star for Ruth Reichl . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 PHS Sophomore Bringing Dental Supplies to Peru . . . 9 In NYC With Samuel Beckett and the Dogs of Tompkins Square . . . 16 Rachel Bonds’s Five Mile Lake at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre . . . . . 19 Princeton Pro Musica Closes Season with Rachmaninoff's Choral Vigil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Tiger Women’s Lax Advances to NCAA Quarters . . . . . . . . . . 28 PDS Girls’ Lax Tops Pennington for Prep B Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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American Boychoir School Raises Enough Money To Close Out School Year After mounting an emergency fundraising campaign, the American Boychoir School (ABS) has exceeded its goal of $350,000 to keep the financially ailing institution open until the end of the current term. The school has raised $359,096, according to an email sent to donors and school supporters. As of Tuesday, ABS had received $269,021 in gifts and $90,075 in pledges. “The $30,000 challenge grant succeeded in closing the final gap, so ABS will have the necessary resources to complete this school year,” the email reads. “Thank you for your part in making these events a reality,” it continues after listing a series of activities this coming weekend, including a screening of the film Boychoir at the Princeton Garden Theatre on Friday, a gala concert and auction on Saturday at the school in Plainsboro, and the annual graduation ceremony on Sunday. The school filed for bankruptcy last month. The academic year was curtailed from the normal, mid-June ending to this Sunday. Founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1937 and moved to Princeton in 1950, the school for boys in grades four to eight was located on Lambert Drive until relocating to Plainsboro in 2013. With an international reputation, the school’s choirs have performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among others. The school was the inspiration for the film Boychoir starting Dustin Hoffman, Debra Winger and Kathy Bates. The Friday screening of the film is a fundraiser for the school. It is unclear how the school will proceed in its efforts to stay in business after this term ends. “As we proceed, our singular focus will turn toward determining what will come next for the American Boychoir School. Opportunities for the institution abound, although considerable funds will be needed to build a plan going forward,” the email from Rob D’Avanzo, chairman of the Board of Trustees, reads. “We thank you again for your generosity through this phase of the campaign, and we hope that we can count on your help in keeping this exceptional mission a reality.” —Anne Levin
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Last July, Princeton Council created a task force to review and help harmonize existing parking ordinances from the former Borough and Township. Prominent on the task force’s list of issues is overnight parking. The topic raises hackles because the existing ordinances allow some residents to park overnight while others, who may live on the same block, need to purchase a permit in order to do so. Council, intent on creating a new ordinance that is fair and reflects a consolidated community, heard three possibilities Monday night. Assistant municipal engineer Deanna Stockton detailed the options for the governing body: Leave the boundaries as they are, adjust them slightly, or make no overnight parking a town-wide implementation. Council members concurred that more input from the public is needed before an ordinance is crafted. “First,” said Ms. Stockton, “we want to discuss what the boundaries would be. Then we would move ahead with looking at the criteria for issuing permits and creating permit areas.” In the former Borough, residents could
purchase a permit for a fee. In the former Township, there was no fee payment required. That alone created “some fundamental unfairness,” said Mayor Liz Lempert. “This is something important for us to address because obviously right now you have a situation where the former dividing line goes through the middle of some blocks. You have some neighbors having to pay for their permit and others are getting it for free.” If overnight parking were to be banned
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Womanspace Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award To Honor Sex Slavery Survivor Minh Dang Human rights activist, Minh Dang, will receive the 21st annual Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award from Womanspace at a ceremony and reception Thursday, May 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton. Ms. Dang is being honored for her efforts to end human trafficking, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services calls the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. It is one that is hard to track and hard to stop.
Ms. Dang’s own harrowing story of surviving child abuse and sexual slavery, reached the public in 2010 when MSNBC aired the documentary Sex Slaves in America: Minh’s Story. As a California schoolgirl, Ms. Dang led a secret life. Even as she excelled at academics and sports, she was being forced into sexual slavery by her own parents from the age of 10 until her first two years as a college student. Continued on Page 14
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T h e P r i n ce ton Pol ice Department is asking the public’s help in identifying a male suspect in a fraud that occurred on April 25 at 10:40 a.m. at the Bank of America, 370 Nassau Street. The suspect made a series of unauthorized ATM withdrawals totaling $900. He is described as white, Hispanic, or Middle Eastern, 25-30 years of age, medium to stocky build, scruffy beard, dark hair and eyes, gapped front teeth; wearing: a dark coat and a camouf lage st yle baseball cap with a Harley Davidson-type insignia. Any information, contact Det. Adam Basatemur at (609) 921-2100 ext. 2170, or abasatemur@princetonnj. gov. Another Phone Threat On May 12, at 10 : 02 a.m., the John Witherspoon Middle School received a pre-recorded message that was general in nature and threatened to harm children. The school notified Princeton Police headquarters immediately. Police patrol units responded to the school and found it to be safe. As a precaution, police remained at the school throughout the day. Patrols have been increased in the areas of all the schools throughout the municipality. All Princeton public and private schools were notifi ed of the incident by police. The Princeton Police Department will continue to investigate the origin of the threat. Similar threats were received today at schools in Farmingdale and Holmdel, N.J. Riverside School received a similar threat on April 28, which continues to be investigated.
Town Topics: the entire issue is now available in digital format: www.towntopics.com. The Fifth Annual Wheels Rodeo, sponsored by Princeton Human Services, Princeton Police Department, Mayor’s Wellness Campaign, Princeton Recreation Department, Greater Mercer TMA, and Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee of Princeton, will take place in the Princeton Municipal Parking Lot next to Community Park Pool, at 400 Witherspoon Street on Saturday, May 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Rain Date Sunday May 17). The event is open to bikes, tricycles, skateboards, and roller blades and includes: a road course (for which helmets are required), free raffl es (noon drawing), free refreshments, a bike safety check, free car seat inspections, and free helmets for the first 100 kid participants! Donated bicycles will be collected for the Trenton Boys and Girls Club Bike Exchange. For more information, call (609) 921-2100 ext. 2121 or email Officer Leonard Thomas at: Lthomas@princetonnj.gov. Riverside School will host a Family Fun Day on Saturday, May 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Healthy Children, Healthy Planet” will feature garden tours and activities including family yoga, plant sale, crafts, music, food, and rescue vehicles. A donation of $5 is suggested, proceeds benefit Riverside School garden programs. For more information, visit: https://www. facebook.com/riversideschoolgarden. Princeton University is seeking input from area residents via an interactive mapping tool called Campus Compass that will inform Princeton University’s 2026 Campus Planning effort. The planning team, led by University consultant Urban Strategies, invites community members to describe where and how they spend time on campus and offer their ideas for improvements. Urban Strategies plans to share aggregated responses on its blog site this summer. The mapping tool is available online (http://princetoncampusplanblog.com). It takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete a questionnaire. For more information, contact princetonblog@ urbanstrategies.com. Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) will hold a panel discussion on the “Affordability of Living in Princeton” at the Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Sunday, May 17, from 7 p.m. Parking is free. The meeting will begin with five brief presentations: How are Princeton’s property taxes divided among the county, the municipality, and the schools? Where, if anywhere, could savings be found? What combination of family size, family income, and county of residence makes one eligible for affordable housing in New Jersey? Is affordable housing best provided as a proportion of commercial development or should a town build its own affordable housing? How much affordable housing does Princeton currently need, and is it legal to offer that housing to Princeton residents first? How does Princeton University influence the town’s affordability? There will be a general discussion with audience members. For more information, contact moderator Anne Waldron Neumann at anne.neumann@ verizon.net or (609) 924-7635. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children of Mercer County is currently seeking new volunteers. The non-profit organization recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers who speak in Family Court in the best interests of children who have been removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect. Upcoming one-hour information sessions will take place Thursday, May 14, 9:30 a.m., Thursday, May 28, 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 10, 10 a.m., at 1450 Parkside Avenue, Suite 22, Ewing, NJ 08638. For more information, call (609) 434-0050, email Jill Duffy, jduffy@casamercer.org, or visit: www.casamercer.org. Princeton First Aid Squad at 237 North Harrison Street, next to Princeton Shopping Center, will hold a Flea Market Saturday May 16, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with over 25 tables selling furniture, jewelry, antiques, kitchen, sporting, clothes, collectibles, linens, art, toys, books, and more. There will be a 50/50 raffle and refreshments will be for sale. The event will be held rain or shine.
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Community Options Settles Into New Location, Expands STEP Program Shortly after Town Topics moved out of 305 Witherspoon Street, the building it had occupied since 2007, local residents wondered what would be taking its place. That question was answered last week when the staff of the non-profit Community
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TOPICS Of the Town For 25 years, the non-profit organization has worked to develop housing and employment programs for people with disabilities. Its guiding philosophy is that all people — regardless of disability level — should live and work in the community with dignity, choice, and selfdetermination. Founder and President/CEO Robert Stack likes to say that people with disabilities have some of the same problems as celebrities. “They are surrounded with people who are paid to be around them and what Community Options wants is for them to be in the regular workplace,” he explained. “We try to jumpstart that process through STEP and a chance at giving them a regular paid job.” As to meeting obstacles along the way? “Everyone has obstacles that we have to figure out how to deal with; we can’t put ourselves in a bubble,” he said. Before acquiring its current building, Community Options had offices in the Daily Plan It, which was, said Mr. Stack, “bursting at the seams.” The new location provides space for the STEP program and for staff from its Mercer County office. “We hope that our local presence on Witherspoon Street will give parents of children with disabilities the vision that their son or daughter can in fact have a job just like any other student who is close to finishing school regardless of the fact that they have disabilities,” said Mr. Stack. Thanks in part to a grant by the Kessler Foundation, STEP was launched in New Jersey in 2008 in response to the youth employment rate for individuals with disabilities. The job training/transition program serves high school students and young adults with special needs, through real world, hands-on training. The goal is to improve future opportunities for competitive employment and/or post-secondary education. In recognition of the contribution made to STEP by the Kessler Foundation, Elaine Katz will receive the Community Options Betty Pendler
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and others, offering experience in food service, maintenance, custodial, inventory, and other work. “One of our teenagers loves to work in patient transport, taking patients from XRay to their hospital room or from there to the hospital’s main lobby, for example,” said Mr. Stack. “We find that if we place a person in a job that is a good match for them, it works well and so far we’ve had a 90 percent success rate.” That means that 90 percent of the time, the intern has been hired into a paid job. STEP places students aged between 16 and 19, who are on the autism spectrum or have some intellectual or physical disability, filling a gap in what is available from government programs such as ARC, which, according to Mr. Stack, has a waiting list of well over 6,000. “We are very well-known in the area and a lot of parents want their kids in our program, which currently has 27 students from the area,” said Stefanie Rinaldi, who oversees STEP. “And that number is likely to double by the end of the year.” Ms. Rinaldi explained how the program works. “For our student interns we hire coaches; each intern is paired with a paid coach who does not have a disability and who works alongside the intern in the job, until they are able to do it on their own. At that point the coach is no longer needed and can ‘fade.’ We call it ‘fading,’” she said, adding that Community Options is always looking to hire coaches. “If there are people in the area who want to work with Community Options as coaches, they should get in touch and this is a great place to get work experience; we have hundreds of such parttime per diem employees; some are retired, some are college graduates looking for a stepping stone, often in social work, education and psychology. Community Options was founded by Mr. Stack in 1989, some years after he moved to Princeton in 1981. “I had been working with kids with disabilities for a long time but when the place I was working for went out of business, I realized that a non-profit group was needed that would follow a business model,” said Mr. Stack. Since then, the organization has grown to include 275 group homes nationwide, 104 in New Jersey, including 17 in Mercer County. It now serves thousands of people with disabilities through 38 offices across 9 states, including Arizona, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. With an operating budget of $107 million, it currently has some 3600 employees nationwide, at least 1,000 in New Jersey, and 30 in Princeton. Its funding comes from private sector donations as well as from state and federal government. Locally, Community Options operates a home built from the ground up in Hopewell and a renovated home on Harrison Street in Princeton for persons who use wheelchairs. The excitement of moving into a new space was tangible last week as computers were set up and staff members figured out the logistics of the newly-painted building. Still there might be one downside to the new location, laughed Mr. Stack. “Our staff might be growing in another sense now that we are within walking distance of Conte’s Pizza!” For more information, visit: www.comop.org. —Linda Arntzenius
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In Ruth Reichl’s Writings, Food Is Always the Star Ruth Reichl is sometimes asked the question: If you had a superpower, what would it be? For the author, food writer and editor — formerly the restaurant critic at The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times and the editor-in-chief of the late and lamented Gourmet magazine, the answer is a no-brainer: To have a heightened palate. “I wish I had it, but I so do not,” she said during a telephone interview last week.
“Especially in my business, it would be a great asset.” Ms. Reichl will speak this Friday at a sold-out Book Lover’s Luncheon hosted by the Princeton Public Library and the Friends of the Library, at Springdale Golf Club. “The closest I’ve ever seen is Paula Wolfert, whom I traveled with once,” she continued. “She really does have an uncanny ability to pull flavors apart.” Perfect palate or not, Ms. Reichl has been at the center
of the food world since writing the first of three memoirs, Tender at the Bone, in 1998. Three subsequent memoirs, other books, and television appearances followed. Last year, Delicious! marked her first venture into fiction. She is currently at work on another novel and a memorial to Gourmet, which folded suddenly in 2009. Making the transition to fiction was harder than Ms. Reichl expected. “Everybody said to me, ‘This will be so
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easy for you. Your memoirs read like novels.’ And I thought I knew how to do it,” she said. “But the truth is, I didn’t. It was really slow. I realized I needed to know the characters very well, and that took longer than I thought.” Delicious! is the story of a young woman with a remarkably sensitive palate who travels from her home in California to take a job at New York’s oldest and best known food magazine. When the much-loved publication is abruptly shut down, she agrees to stay on at the empty office to maintain its hotline for reader complaints. Along the way, she makes some compelling discoveries about the magazine and its history, particularly concerning the persecution of Italian-Americans during World War II. Ms. Reichl admits to a few obvious parallels between the world of Delicious! and Gourmet — the camaraderie between the staff members, the test kitchen where staffers would drop everything and rush in when someone testing out a recipe yelled out, “Taste!” — but that’s about it. “Everybody says your first book is autobiographical. But I really wanted the fun of inhabiting someone who was very different from me,” she said. “It was interesting to me to explore the sister relationship because I don’t have a sister. And it was fun to be 21 again. I like that she’s not really me, but when my son read it he said, ‘But Mom, she’s optimistic like you.’ I hadn’t realized that.” The main character’s discovery about the treatment
of Italian-Americans comes from Ms. Reichl’s own interest in life on the home front during World War II. “I did a lot of research for this book,” she said. “I read a lot, and I suddenly came upon this whole history of what happened to Italian-Americans, especially on the west coast. I was shocked. I don’t think anybody knows about it, except that there was an apology read into the Congressional Record in 1998 or so. The thing that really ended it was that Fiorello LaGuardia put a stop to it. He said, ‘OK, that’s enough.’” She continues, “As a writer one of the great things is when you get blocked, you just go do research for awhile. I probably own every rationing cookbook that was published. I read a lot about Roosevelt and his feelings about food being another front of the war. To me, this was such a fascinating time. Today we live in a time in America when the rich and poor have probably never eaten so differently from each other. But World War II was a time when just about everybody ate the same. “ Ms. Reichl was born and raised in New York and spent several years as a young adult in Berkeley, California. She was a co-owner of a restaurant in Berkeley and served as restaurant critic not only for the Los Angeles Times, but also for New West and California magazines. She currently lives in the Berkshires with her husband, a television producer. Her own ventures into television include hosting specials on Food Network, producing a public television series for Gourmet,
and serving as a judge on the show Top Chef Masters. Ms. Reichl has mixed feelings about food shows. “A lot of them are remarkably stupid,” she said. “ But we have food TV to thank for the fact that we have a foodobsessed public, which is a good thing. Kids raised on food TV are now cooks and curious eaters. With the stupider shows, it’s kind of like when you first start drinking wine. You drink Blue Nun and Mateus, and then you graduate to better things. I have no animosity toward any of the shows.” Her ow n cooking rep ertoire consists mostly of fairly simple food. “I had people over the other day, and I just did a roast chicken with German fried potatoes and creamed spinach and a big salad, with a lemon tart,” she said. “I don’t think home cooks need to cook like chefs. I’m fortunate because we buy most of our food from local farmers and providers. We pretty much eat with the season.” Keeping abreast of what is advisable to eat and what is not can be a chore. “We’re so frightened of food in so many ways,” Ms. Reichl said. “Every couple of years we’re told you shouldn’t eat this, you should eat that. Butter’s bad, butter’s good. The same with eggs. But then the things that are really bad, we’re not frightened enough of, like margarine. We’re not wary enough of industrial food and way too frightened of natural things. I think if your grandmother ate it, you shouldn’t worry about it.” —Anne Levin
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For the past 12 years, Princeton High School Spanish teacher Martha Hayden has been taking students on summer trips to her native Peru through the independently sponsored program Creating Ties. The goal is twofold: To teach students about the culture of the country, and to involve them in community service.
All the students — 18 this year — travel together with Ms. Hayden for a week. A smaller group, led by John Witherspoon Middle School teacher Carolina Montoya Mondragon, stays for an additional week, living with families in small rural villages and contributing to the community through building projects, teaching, agricul-
HELPING WITH DENTAL HEALTH: Princeton High sophomore Avery Peterson will bring toothbrushes and toothpaste to a rural village in Peru when she visits through the Creating Ties program this summer. After viewing photos of villagers and noticing they were in need of dental care, she contacted local businesses and got some help with her cause.
ture, and other activities. For the students who participate in only the first week of the trip, there is a day devoted to community service. But those able to take part in the second half of the program make the strongest connections, getting a chance to immerse themselves in the local culture. Avery Peterson, a 16-yearold PHS sophomore, is one of the students among those on this year’s trip. As someone interested in public health and social sciences, Ms. Peterson has been thinking for some time about how she could contribute to the general health of the rural village she will visit. She decided on dental care, and she has enlisted the aid of some local businesses in her mission to teach the importance of dental health to the villagers. Church & Dwight, Princeton Orthodontics, and Princeton Dental Group are supplying Ms. Peterson with toothbr ushes and toothpaste to take with her on her trip. “I thought I would definitely want to make the trip very impactful,” Ms. Peterson said. “I wanted to have something that would change their lives. There are lots of communities and places that are impoverished and they don’t necessarily have the best dental hygiene. Bad teeth leads to bad health, and bad gums lead to gingivitis, which leads to further diseases.” During a checkup with her orthodontist, Dr. Jona-
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than Nicozisis, Ms. Peterson told him about her idea. He immediately gave her 200 toothbr ushes to take on her trip. She sent an email about her plan to Princeton Dental Group, which donated 50 toothbrushes and dental floss. Ms. Peterson made her connection with Church & Dwight through Matt Wasserman, whom she knew through a friend. Mr. Wasserman works for the company and also chairs the Princeton Environmental Commission. Mr. Wasserman was happy to help out, arranging for Church & Dwight to donate two boxes full of toothpaste and toothbrushes. “Church & Dwight and its employees take seriously the importance of CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility, and have made it a core tenet to sup-
port the local organizations that help the less fortunate and other people in need,” he said in an email. “While Peru isn’t exactly local, Avery certainly is, and as such the Arm & Hammer Oral Care marketing team was thrilled to be able to support her in this wonderful service project.” Ms. Hayden is impressed with her student’s resourcefulness. “Avery’s idea was wonderful,” she said. “She saw pictures of kids who had a lot of issues with their teeth. They don’t have a lot of water yet, and they don’t clean their teeth regularly at all. They lose teeth at an early age. So she will teach them oral health. We’ll also do it for adults. She did this all on her own, and I’m very proud of her.” The students, who will
depart for Peru at the end of June, have good Spanish language skills. Before the trip, they are learning about the culture of the Incas and Peru. In addition to the dental care products being brought by Ms. Peterson, those staying on for the second week will bring games, crayons, toys, balls, and other items that are not accessible. “The community service part has been wonderful for the kids,” said Ms. Hayden. “A lot of them go back during their college years or gap years. I think it changes the way you look at the world. It makes you understand that there are little things you can contribute that mean so much. It builds social conscience and it’s life changing.” —Anne Levin
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To the Editor: On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the staff of the Princeton Education Foundation, I would like to thank everyone in the Princeton community who supported our “Sculpting the Future” Spring Gala and Silent Auction. We raised almost $60,000 net that will directly benefit our public schools’ teachers and students and will further our goal of supporting excellence in education in the Princeton Public Schools. Since its inception, the Princeton Education Foundation has contributed almost $2 million to the Princeton Public Schools for capital improvements, educational programs, and teacher support. We are especially grateful to the Princeton Education Foundation’s lead sponsor, Georgeanne Gould Moss, The Gould Group of Wells Fargo Advisors and to our Salutatorian sponsors, Bai Brands, LLC; Roger and Theresa Liao and W. Bryce Thompson Foundation. Thank you to our Summa Cum Laude sponsors, The Bank of Princeton, Beatrice Bloom, Weichert Realtors, Hamilton Dental Associates, Herring Properties, and OnePrinceton. Thank you to our Magna Cum Laude sponsors, Jean Durbin Esq. and Walter Bliss, Esq., Charles Schwab, Dr. Tyl & Dr. Fogarty, Dennigan Cahill Smith, Mathnasium of Princeton, NT Callaway Henderson Southeby’s Intl. Realty, and PNC Bank. We are deeply grateful for the sumptuous community tasting stations provided by: Alchemist & Barrister, Asian Bistro, Cross Culture, Eno Terra, Jammin’ Crepes, Mediterra Restaurant and Taverna, McCaffrey’s Food Markets, The Taco Truck, Teresa Caffe, Corner Bakery Café, LiLLiPiES Bakeshop, Lindt Chocolate, Seasons 52, WildFlour Bakery and Café, Bai Brands, LLC, River Horse Brewing Company and Unionville Vineyards. The community businesses and individuals that provided Silent Auction merchandise are too many to name and are a testament to the generosity of community support in our mission to provide excellence in the Princeton Public Schools. We are also grateful to have the support of many individual Benefactors and Patrons. We would like to recognize the hard work of our Gala committee, the group of dedicated volunteers that planned and executed this year’s event, led by Co-Chairs Nicole Bergman, Jean Durbin, and Theresa Liao. Our Auction Co-Chairs included Sue Bowen, Milena Deluca and Stacy Pibl. Our Wine Grab Co-Chair was led by Mara Franceshi and Décor Co-Chairs included Liz Kaman and Alex Esco-
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It’s hard to express how much it means to us when our community leaders engage with our population. Thank you to Jo Butler of the Princeton Council, and to Leslie Germaine and Dick Nosker of the Recreation Commission, for joining us. And finally, thank you to my colleagues on the PSS Board. Now in our 15th year, these dedicated volunteers continue to make special needs sports and social programming available to this wonderful community: Katerina Bubnovsky, Carmine Conti, Ann Diver, Hana Oresky, John Pecora, John Rutledge, and Barbara Young. The next and last dance of the season is our pool party, dance, and BBQ at the Princeton Community Pool on June 5. Swimming will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., followed by BBQ and dancing from 7:30 to 9 p.m. For more To the Editor: information or to register, go to princetonrecreation.com The Princeton Special Needs Prom on May 8 was our or princetonspecialsports.com. most successful yet. With attendance at over 100, it really DEBORAH MARTIN NORCROSS was a FIESTA! Co-President, Princeton Special Sports We are grateful to a long list of incredible people who enable us to offer this annual event to our adult and teenaged neighbors with special needs. Thanks to John Groeger, Stacie Ryan, and Joe Scullion of the Recreation Department for all of their hard work, and To the Editor: particularly heartfelt thanks to the Rec’s Program SuperviTwo front page stories in the May 6 issue of Town Topsor Joe Marrolli for his extraordinary commitment to cre- ics, one describing the negotiating breakdown between ative programming. Princeton is very lucky to have him! the Board of Education (BOE) and teachers’ union (PREA) Special thanks to Jaime Escarpeta and Alicia White, our [“District/Teacher Talks Break Down”], and the other dephotographers who once again donated their time and sent scribing a $2.9M public library upgrade [“Library Seeks to every participant home with a beautiful formal portrait. Raise $1.7 Million for Second Floor Redesign, Upgrade”], Thank you, too, to our DJ Drew Zimmerman, and to the present an interesting contrast. Mexican Mariachi Grill for supplying a fabulous dinner and Ms. Burger, director of the Princeton Public Library, being so easy to work with. And huge thanks to Olivia and commendably observes that “the world has changed draCourtney Browndorf for generously donating sombreros matically” since the library opened in its new building 11 and other fun favors. years ago. She specifically identifies radical upgrades and We are fortunate to have an exceptional group of busy redesigns of space, technology, and programs to accommoprofessional women who carve out time each year to bring date the ongoing information-age renaissance we are living the prom to life: Katerina Bubnovsky, Ann Diver, Radha through. The BOE/PREA, article, however, could’ve been Iyer, Hana Oresky, and Susan Simonelli. Thank you also to written in the early 20th century, when labor and manageevent volunteers Oleg Chebotarev, Liz Cutler, John Diver, ment clashed perennially over compensation policy in the Sethu Iyer, Tom Kreutz, Katie Lynch, Joan Morelli, Abitha old manufacturing-based economy. Nowhere do we read Ravichander, Trudy Sugiura, and Valerie Walker. We so that BOE and PREA acknowledge the “dramatic changes” appreciate you all! in our new knowledge-economy, or frame their dispute in But it is indisputably our student volunteers who make the context of a world undergoing radical transformation the prom such a tremendous event. Thank you to these out- by technology and the systemic improvements it enables. standing middle, high school, and college students: Joanne While today’s pre-schoolers face a future world radically difAdebayo, Matthew Ams, Caroline Black, Josh Bonaparte, ferent from that of their grandparents in: manufacturing, reOlivia Browndorf, Anna Cao, Callia Cordasco, Sonia DaSilva, tail, transportation/logistics, consumer services, even, finally, Chris Diver, Phoebe Elias, Amy Hauer, Barbara Kaminska, in healthcare, those grandparents would be quite at home Marysia Kaminska, Caley Knox, Jack Lynch, Kaity Mattia, in today’s educational institutions. The EdTech revolution John Mochia, Lauren Morelli, Kathryn Murphy, Ella Quain- is desirable, inevitable, and already underway. Princeton’s ton, Rhea Ravichander, Caroline Sasser, Grace Seward, Jes- Public Library administration seems to understand that in a sica Sheridan, Kaitlin St. Amour, Sydney Vogel, Charlotte way our public school establishment does not. Walker, Jimmy Walker, Eli Wasserman, and Isaac Webb. BRANDON HULL Linden Lane
bar. Thank you to the volunteers that worked to set up and during the event to keep everything running smoothly. Finally, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone in the community who participated in this important fundraiser by volunteering time, purchasing tickets, donating wine, or bidding on items in our auction. Thank you for joining with us to say that our children’s public education matters! FRAN JONES Executive Director, Princeton Education Foundation
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BOOK REVIEW
In a New York Moment: Having It Both Ways on Samuel Beckett’s Other Birthday
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xcept for the lack of a parking spot on Charlie Parker Place, the transition from Princeton to Manhattan has never been smoother, turnpike to tunnel, uptown, crosstown to a bench in Tompkins Square Park and a sunny spring day of chirping sparrows and grumbling pigeons. While dogs are romping nearby in their own playground, I’m reading about dachsunds “of such length and lowness” that “it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.” Until I bought the Grove Press paperback of Murphy (1938) last week in Doylestown, I’d never found a way to read Samuel Beckett. In all the English courses I took in college and graduate school, he’d never been on the reading list, no friend had ever chanted his name in my ear, “you must read this,” and I’d never seen a performance of Waiting for Godot. But when I read in Chapter 5 of Murphy that the title character was one of those “who require everything to remind them of something else,” I caught a glimpse of myself in Beckett’s mirror. Of course everything reminds everyone of something, but to require it is another matter and not unlike what I do when I compose a column. Beckett is requiring it in a room where the “lemon of the walls whined like Vermeer’s,” “the unupholstered armchairs” resembled “those killed under him by Balzac,” and the linoleum’s “dim geometry of blue, grey and brown delighted Murphy because it called Braque to his mind.” Having it Both Ways After a mere 109 pages of Murphy, Beckett has become a state of mind, a place, a way of life. It’s very Beckett, in fact, that my motive for finally reading and writing about him is based on misinformation about his birth. According to wwnndb. com, he was born on this date, May 13, in 1906. Look elsewhere and the date is April 13. The New York Times obituary of December 27, 1989, has it both ways: “Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in Foxrock, a suburb of Dublin, on Good Friday, April 13, 1906 (that date is sometimes disputed; it is said that on his birth certificate the date is May 13).” You don’t need to read far in Beckett to appreciate the April/May conundrum. If you have it both ways, or all ways, right or wrong or neither, whether you’re looking for a subject for a column or a New York moment, it becomes possible not only to penetrate what had seemed impenetrable but to see Beckett spilling off the page into the “real life” ambience of dogs and sparrows and people on a spring day in an East Village park. Enter Nelly and Shelley As the reader on the park bench in New York resumes reading, Murphy’s title character is in London’s Hyde Park placing five biscuits “face upward on the grass, in orPSO der TOPICS as he felt of edibility … a Ginger, an Osborne, a Digestive, a Petit Beurre and one anonymous.” While he contemplates those items “of which it could be said as
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truly as of the stars, that one differed from another,” a “corpulent middle-aged woman” asks him if he would mind holding “her little doggy.” Miss Rosie Dew has come all the way from Paddington to feed greens from her garden to “the poor dear sheep” grazing nearby (such was the case in those days). The doggy, a dachsund called Nelly, is, her owner admits, in heat, and Miss Dew is afraid that if Nelly is not held she will “be off and away,” to “plunge the fever of her blood in the Serpentine or in the Long Water for that matter, like Shelley’s first wife you know, her name was Harriet was it not, not Nelly, Shelley, Nelly, oh Nelly how I ADORE you.” At this moment the reader on the park bench, who has come all the way from Princeton, is grinning as he rereads the passage, with its abrupt, absurd, delightfully rhymingly remindfully blending of Shelley and Nelly. It’s really as if Beckett’s doggy mind has gone for a romp in the park of the page, and Murphy, who “requires
… or as much of it as she could stomach.” The matter is settled when Miss Dew gives Murphy threepence for “his loss.” Much more could be said about Miss Dew’s talents as a medium “who could make the dead softsoap the quick in seven languages,” but once you start quoting Beckett you’re lost. As Leslie Fielder notes in a 1997 New York Times appraisal of Murphy, Beckett’s “eerie deadpan humor” involves “the gravely mathematical working out of all the possibilities of the most trivial situation,” for it’s as a “vaudevillian of the avant-garde” that he “especially tickles us, converting its most solemn devices into quite serious gags.” Fiedler finds Murphy the “funniest, perhaps, of his novels,” one that “evokes a ferocity of terror and humor that shames most wellmade novels of our time.” Beckett in Manhattan In Norman Mailer’s 1958 collection Advertisements for Myself, the excitement
everything to remind him of something else,” has found another Romantic poet in the “dingy, close-cropped, undersized and misshapen” sheep that want nothing to do with Miss Dew’s offerings. It’s right about now that the reader is reminded that the author served as James Joyce’s secretary when he was writing Finnegan’s Wake, so is it any wonder that he imagines “a compositor’s error” transforming Wordsworth’s “lovely ‘fields of sleep’” into “‘fields of sheep.’” Time for a breather after all this chasing after Beckett, who has been cavorting unleashed all over Tompkins Square Park, and we haven’t even come to the first of several denouements, or punch-lines. It seems that while Murphy was engaged by the spectacle of Miss Dew’s “tendering of lettuce” to the dejected, disinterested sheep, the dachsund was eating all the biscuits “with the exception of the Ginger, which cannot have remained in her mouth for more than a couple of seconds.” Murphy thereupon points out to Miss Dew that while “the sheep may not fancy your cabbage … your hot dog has eaten my lunch
generated among New York theatregoers and intellectuals in the spring of 1956 by the Broadway production of Waiting for Godot inspires Mailer to, in effect, jump all over Godot in his column for the Village Voice before, as he admits, either seeing or reading the play. After facetiously congratulating the critics for revealing that the title “has something to do with God,” Mailer points out that Godot “also means ‘ot Dog, or the dog who is hot,” thus “To Dog The Coming, and God Hot for Waiting,” or “Go, Dough! (Go, Life!)” (among “a hundred subsidiary themes”), though in the end he likes “To Dog the Coming” best. This romp in the dog park of Mailer’s undaunted and ever expanding ego precedes his announcement that a quarrel with the editors of the Voice has made the outburst on Godot his “last column” for the paper “at least under its present policy.” How rare, how sweet, how very Beckett, that after finally seeing and reading the play and realizing “it was, at the least, very good,” Mailer returns to the Voice
long enough to write a mea culpa (“It is never particularly pleasant for me to apologize, and in the present circumstances, I loathe doing so”), which he ceremoniously titles “A Public Notice on Waiting for Godot.” It’s six pages of Mailer throwing everything he’s got at Beckett’s “sad little story, but told purely” — until the character Lucky enters and delivers “the one strangled cry of active meaning in the whole play, a desperate retching pellmell of broken thoughts and intuitive lurches into the nature of man, sex, God, and time” that “comes from a slave, a wretch, who is closer to the divine than any of the other characters.” Thirteen years later, when the Nobel Committee gave the prize in literature to Beckett, an Irishman who had lived in France most of his life, his French wife said, “This is a catastrophe” while the author of Godot left them waiting in Stockholm and gave away the prize money. Earth Opera I’m sitting on the same bench in Tompkins Square Park with my son watching the dogs at play and talking about Earth Opera, one of the great lost groups of the sixties. The words and music from the self-titled debut album had been haunting me for days because the lead singer and lyricist, Peter Rowan, was the first and only person to point me in the direction of Beckett. True to Murphy’s law about requiring everything to remind him of something else, Beckett reminds me of Rowan, who reminds me of watching Earth Opera perform free summer Sunday concerts on the Cambridge Common. Back from three hours browsing the stock at Academy Records, my son had been hoping to find the first Earth Opera album, which had seen him through some hard times in his late teens. The same record had meant so much to me in my late twenties that I looked up Peter Rowan’s number in the Boston phone book and called him to talk about it. Here was someone whose roots were in bluegrass, who had played with Bill Monroe, and now he was writing Brechtian songs like “Home of the Brave” (“and the war was grand, a glorious parade”), “Death by Fire,” which ends “no willow will weep for her silence of ashes, will sleep in the new fallen snow,” and “Time and Again,” which begins “Every day is the same growing gently insane/it’s the wind or the rain/ but I don’t feel anything.” Then there were lines like “and it is being only being, it is as it was before” and “I can see you combing sleep from your hair as you choose what to wear and you whisper who’s there to the mirror on the wall.” o here I was, a total stranger calling Rowan up like Holden Caulfield calling Fitzgerald after reading Gatsby, asking, in effect, who’s your favorite writer, where did all this come from? Said Peter Rowan without hesitation, “Beckett. Samuel Beckett.” —Stuart Mitchner
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D&R Greenway welcomes the public to “All Eyes on Nature,” an exhibition of innovative works by ArtsExchange students of the Arts Council of Princeton, through HomeFront. Dynamic images of nature from the insects’ perspective may be viewed in the land trust’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery from May 14 through June 26. S i n ce 1993, t h e A r t s Council of Princeton has partnered with HomeFront, which serves thousands of Mercer County families to help break the cycle of poverty and end homelessness in offering ArtsExchange, a weekly program where year-round arts instruction is provided to more than 75 children, ages 5-18, whose families are currently living in transient circumstances. For “All Eyes on Nature,” Arts Council of Princeton Outreach Program Manager/Instructor Eva Mantell guided her students to create paintings from the vantage point of insects. Ms. Mantell asked, “What are flowers, leaves, even surrounding landscapes, when you are an insect? Where is the horizon? Where is the ground? Where is the sun? What size are the elements in the painting?” “All Eyes on Nature” comprises the children’s vibrant answers. The lively results are intended to catalyze a greater sensitivity to nature, its beauty and its peril. “They recreated nature’s own shifts in scale, colors, and textures, as well as its marvelous complexity and interconnectedness,” explained Ms. Mantell. “Native species were their starting point, each communicating his or her own ‘insect’ energy and excitement.” D &R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery is funded in memory of four-year-old Olivia Kuenne, who cherished nature and art. Sequential nature exhibitions by students extend Olivia’s enthusiasms into our time. The Arts Council of Princeton thanks the following funders for their support of the ArtsExchange programming in 2014-15: ACP Fundraising Galas, Charles Galbraith Testamentary Trust, Colgate via United Way, The Concordia Foundation, The Firmenich Charitable Foundation, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies, Contributions Fund of the Communit y Foundation of New Jersey, Mary Owen Borden Foundation, The Migedan Foundation, Inc., New Jersey State Council on the Arts, NRG. “All Eyes on Nature” will be on v iew at the D & R Greenway Land Trust, One Preservation Place, from May 14 through June 26. For more information, call (609) 924-4646 or visit: www.drgreenway.org. ———
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ETERNAL WAR: This 12 by 12 inch oil on gesso panel from Samira Abbassy’s Eternal War Series will be on display in an exhibition of the Iranian-born artist’s work at the Bernstein Gallery from May 16 through August 13. “Narratives: Hearts, Minds & Mythologies,” will be open to the public through May, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and from June through August, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Gallery is located at the Woodrow Wilson School. There will be an artist’s reception on Sunday, May 17, from 4 to 6 p.m. For more information, call (609) 497-2441, or visit: wws. princeton.edu/about-wws/bernstein-gallery.
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The Bernstein Gallery will present the work of Iranianborn artist Samira Abbassy in the exhibition, “Narratives: Hearts, Minds & Mythologies,” from May 16 through August 13. There will be an artist’s reception on Sunday, May 17, from 4 to 6 p.m. Born in Ahwaz, Iran, Ms. Abbassy moved to England as a child. After graduating from Canterbury College of Art, she began showing her work in London. In 1988 she moved to New York to help establish and found the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, where she currently has a studio and is a lifetime board member. Her 2007 New York solo show was reviewed by Benjamin Genocchio in The New York Times and by Ariella Budek in Newsday. In September 2012, Nisa Qasi interviewed Ms. Abbassy for the Financial Times lifestyle section. “Charting the history of warfare from the era of the sword to the present, Abbassy’s sensitively painted modular panels allow for the presentation of numerous narratives on war and violence through the ages,” wrote Maryam Ekhtiar, cura-
T he B er nstein G aller y exhibition combines t wo distinct bodies of work that are conceptually linked by the artist’s examination of mythologies, both personal and collective. In her “Eternal War Series,” two of which are on view, the artist begins her inquiry into holy wars, specifically with the cult of martyrdom in Shia Islam. Manuscripts, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum, inspired Ms. Abbassy to a visual retelling of the story of contemporary wars in the Middle East. “Shahnameh” manuscripts, or “The Book of Kings” (15th century), are illustrated epic poems documenting the invasions of the Persian Empire. Using brown oil paint on gesso panels, these delicately painted small works convey a sense of timelessness and the repetitive cycles of warfare. “Older empires are obliterated and overlaid by
and mythologies,” said Ms. Abbassy, whose work raises the question: Who is behind the narrative? The victor or the vanquished? Or both? Other works on view include richly colored oil and collaged paintings of female figures set in threatening backdrops that evoke private, yet universal, psychic struggles. Having lived many years as an immigrant in Britain, the artist has written about the difficulties she has encountered trying to understand the culture of her parents and how she fits into a broader narrative. Calling herself a “fictional historian,” she has tried to “knit together disparate languages, conventions, and myths” through her art. Ms. Abbassy’s work is shown internationally and has been acquired for private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her work is currently on view through May 31; the British
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Anne Reid ‘72 Gallery, Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, has student exhibitions through May 22. (609) 924-6700. Art for Healing Gallery, University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, Route 1, has an exhibit of mixed media and collages by Renee Kumar through July 19. www.princetonhcs.org/ art. A r t i s t s’ G a l l e r y, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Curves Ahead,” art by Alan J. Klawans and Andrew Wer th, through May 31. www.lambertvillearts.com. Arts Council of Prince to n , 102 Wit herspoon Street, has “Beyond Function” in the Taplin Gallery through June 6. runs www. artscouncilofprinceton.org. B e r n ste i n G a l l e r y, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Robertson Hall, has “Narratives: Hearts, Minds & Mythologies” May 16-August 13. A reception is May 17, 4-6 p.m. www.princeton.edu. Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, has “Lasting Impressions,” a group show by Peace Corps artists, through May 26. Princeton Senior Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street, has paintings and drawings by members of the studio art class through May. www.princetonsenior.org. The Princeton University Art Museum has a major reinstallation of galleries of the ancient Americas. “The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960 1980” runs through June 7. (609) 258-3788. Trisha Vergis Gallery, the Laceworks, 287 South Main Street, Lambertville, has works by Rhonda Garland, Lucy Graves McVicker, Annie Parham, Nancy Shill and Annelies van Dommelen May 23-June 28. (609) 4604710. We s t W i n d s o r A r t s C e nter, 952 A lexander Road, has works by “Generation Next” through July 11. The opening reception is May 17, 4-6 p.m. www. WestWindsorArts.org.
Rachel Bonds’s Low-Key “Five Mile Lake” Channels Chekhov, Examines Life’s Regrets and Frustrations, Hopes and Dreams school, Mary has found her runs becoming shorter and shorter as her world shrinks and her life becomes more limited. She yearns for an escape. Near the end of the first scene, Jamie’s brother Rufus (Nathan Darrow) and his girlfriend Peta (Mahira Kakkar) arrive from New York on an unexpected visit that will unsettle the worlds of Mary and Jamie. Rufus is unsuccessfully trying to write his PhD dissertation, and Peta is an assistant magazine editor. They come out to Rufus’ old hometown and the house he co-owns with Jamie (but seldom visits) in order to “work on their relationship.” Tension is high from the start — Between Jamie and Mary, between the two brothers and between Rufus and Peta, whose relationship, we discover, is seriously troubled. There is an immediate attraction between Rufus and Mary, who share an affinity for the larger world beyond the confines of Five Mile Lake, and that attraction proves seriously upsetting to both Peta and Jamie. Five Mile Lake is about the difficulties
of entering adulthood, about ambitions and about small-town life versus the allure of the big city. It is about memories and regrets, about establishing relationships, and finding a path forward towards fulfillment. Though “nothing happens” as the scenes move back and forth between Jamie and Rufus’ lake house and the coffee shop, the four protagonists, all convincing, credible individuals, become more and more intriguing as we learn more about their pasts, their present fears, and their dreams for the future. The character of Peta, the least thoroughly developed of the four principals, would be interesting to know in more depth and detail — as would the relationship between the two brothers. It’s difficult to believe these two actually grew up together in the same home, though maybe that’s the point, as these estranged siblings struggle in vain to make connections with each other in the face of so many barriers and so much time apart. Near the end of the play, as Mary and
Jamie are preparing to open the coffee shop for the first customers of the day, Mary relates a story about a figure skater on TV, who, near the finale of what would have been a spectacular performance, misses her landing. “You can see something breaking in her,” Mary reports, “–it’s like this little crack running down the side of a teacup, just this terrible sense of failure like running across her skin. And she’s thinking, I missed it. I missed it.” As Ernest Hemingway described in A Farewell to Arms, in the context of World War I, “the world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” The cracks in Five Mile Lake, some more subtle than others, appear in all of the characters — “something breaking,” some wound from the past that does not fully heal, something they’ve “missed.” Ms. Bonds’ script that, like Chekhov and Hemingway at their best, is rich in its reticence and its unadulterated realism, along with these highly committed, capable, focused actors under the wise, loving, scrupulous direction of Emily Mann, ensure that audiences will care about these people. Even the occasionally arrogant, insensitive Rufus and Mary’s volatile brother Danny (Jason Babinsky), in a supporting role, win over the audience. We care deeply about these characters, worry about them, wonder where they’re heading as the play ends. To establish that degree of audience engagement is an extraordinary accomplishment for playwright, director, and performers. Production values here are exquisite, most notably Edward Pierce’s meticulously realistic set design, with lighting by Jeff Croiter, to create the detailed scenes inside and outside the bakery shop and also inside and outside Jamie’s lake cabin. The turntable revolves with impressive efficiency and style to shift venues seamlessly and convincingly. olstoy and his preferences for highaction drama notwithstanding, Five Mile Lake provides a moving, memSMALL-TOWN CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Rufus (Nathan Darrow), back home for a visit from New orable evening in the Berlind Theatre. RaYork, and Mary (Kristen Bush), still living in the small town where they grew up, share mem- chel Bonds is a young playwright whose ories, hopes, frustrations, and gummy worms in McCarter Theatre’s production of Rachel work will surely be staged frequently in Bonds’ “Five Mile Lake,” playing at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre through May 31. the future. —Donald Gilpin Rachel Bonds’ “Five Mile Lake” will run at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre through May 31. Call (609) 258-2787 or visit www.mccarter.org for tickets and information.
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here does one get to with your heroes?” Leo Tolstoy complained about his Russian contemporary Anton Chekhov,” from the sofa to the outhouse and from the outhouse back to the sofa again.” And audiences might well make a similar complaint about the characters and plot of Five Mile Lake, Rachel Bonds’ new play (which premiered at South Coast Repertory in California a year ago) now at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre through May 31. Not much seems to happen or change for Ms. Bonds’ five troubled, frustrated, young characters, but the greatness of Chekhov and the power of Ms. Bonds’ play lie not in sensational plot twists or dramatic events, but rather in the subtleties of human behavior and the understated relationships and interactions that can quietly shape people and their lives. Ms. Bonds’ characters, all struggling to work through the demands and disappointments of early adulthood, reveal themselves gradually, realistically, through what looks like casual dialogue, but resonates with realism and emotion. The richness here lies often in the subtext — what is not said, rather than what is said — as these characters in their gestures, intonation, body language, facial expressions, perhaps a quick glance or movement — display their deepest selves and greatest needs. Five Mile Lake takes place in a small town near Scranton, Pennsylvania in seven short scenes (just one hour and 40 minutes of uninterrupted running time), that occur over a period of several days in winter. Jamie (Tobias Segal) and Mary (Kristen Bush), both approaching 30, run the local bakery/coffee shop. Jamie never left town because he loves the beautiful lake and he is in love with Mary, and his ambitions lie locally: fixing up his grandfather’s house that he has inherited on the lake, taking care of his mother — and winning Mary’s attention and affection. Mary, however, still dreams of escape from the claustrophobia of small-town life. She feels trapped, and is currently taking care of her brother Danny, who is back from two military tours in Afghanistan, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and struggling to get a job and lead a normal life. A cross country runner in high
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SMALL TOWN STORIES: “Five Mile Lake” written by Rachel Bonds runs at McCarter Theatre through May 31. The play stars Kristen Bush, Tobias Segal, Mahira Kakkar, Jason Babinsky and Nathan Darrow. To purchase tickets, visit www.mc carter.org.
NEPAL DISASTER RELIEF BENEFIT CONCERT: Krishna Das and Guru Ganesha will perform at the Nepal Disaster Relief Benefit Concert at Nassau Presbyterian Church, located at 61 Nassau Street in Princeton on Saturday, May 16 at 7 p.m. The event is organized by Friends of Nepal. To learn more, visit www.fonj.com.
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Over its 77-year history, the American Boychoir has performed in many of the world’s grandest venues. Director François Girard’s Boychoir marks the choir’s first feature film appearance. After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014 and opening in New York and Los Angeles in April, Boychoir will have its Princeton premiere on Friday, May 15 at the Princeton Garden Theater on Nassau Street. A benefit for the American Boychoir School will follow the film screening. The first showing, at 7 p.m. on May 15, will be a benefit for the American Boychoir, to include tickets to the film and a reception. Those interested in attending the benefit can contact the American Boychoir at (609) 924-5858, ext. 628. “From the fi lming, to the Toronto International Film Festival premiere, and now to its upcoming U.S. release, we’ve been so honored to be a part of this heartwarming film,” says American Boychoir School President Kerry Heimann. “To witness it all come together, and to watch our students’ excitement is very gratifying. We always strive to shine a spotlight on our amazingly gifted students, and know that audiences will be drawn not only to the fi lm’s compelling story, but also to the captivating vocals provided by our choir.” Warner Records released the Boychoir soundtrack on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The album is available for download from over 200 platforms, including iTunes. Many of the album’s tracks were arranged by the American Boychoir School’s Litton-Lodal Music Director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz. The film’s end title song, The Mystery of Your Gift featuring Josh Groban and the American Boychoir, was released as a single on January 27, 2015, and is also available for download. Boychoir tells the story of an orphaned 12-year-old boy sent to a prestigious music school where he struggles to
this rebellious loner to succeed, least of all the school’s relentlessly tough conductor who wages a battle of wills to bring out the boy’s extraordinary musical gift. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Josh Lucas, Kevin McHale, Eddie Izzard, Debra Winger, and newcomer Garrett Wareing. For more information visit www.americanboychoir.org. ———
McCarter Closes Season With “Five Mile Lake”
Continuing its tradition of introducing major new plays and writers to the American Stage, (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Convert, and Anna in the Tropics) McCarter Theatre Center is pleased to present the East Coast Premiere of Five Mile Lake by playwright Rachel Bonds. The play runs through May 31 on McCarter’s Berlind Stage. For more information, visit www.mccarter.org. ———
Mercer Dance Ensemble At Kelsey Theatre
The Mercer Dance Ensemble (MDE), featuring Mercer County Community College (MCCC) students and community dancers, presents “Modern Classics” at Kelsey Theatre. Performances will be held on Saturday, May 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 24 at 2 p.m. Kelsey Theatre is located on Mercer’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. Tickets are $18 for adults, $16 for seniors, and $14 for students. Tickets are available online at www.kelseytheatre. net, by calling the Kelsey Theatre box office at (609) 5703333, or in person at the box office. Free parking is available next to the theatre. Kelsey Theatre is wheelchair accessible and provides assisted listening devices upon request.
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rinceton Pro Musica closed its 2014-15 season this past Saturday night with a work well suited for the ensemble, and in an appropriate acoustical space, but the performance may have missed the opportunity to educate its loyal audience about a unique period in music history. The 100-voice chorus presented 11 movements of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil to a full house at the Princeton University Chapel, but a lack of context for why the chorus selected the movements it did for performance may have left the audience unaware of the unique and historic musical effects Rachmaninoff employed in the piece. Rachmaninoff composed his setting of the All-Night Vigil in 1915, as Russia was teetering toward revolution and Rachmaninoff was conversely achieving worldwide acclaim as a conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer. The Vigil, the traditional Russian Orthodox service celebrated before major feasts or on Saturday evenings, combined portions of three daily services. These texts were not foreign to Russian composers; Tchaikovsky also produced a setting in 1882. Rachmaninoff set 12 traditional parts of the Vigil, with the addition of three movements of his own. Like much of Russian choral music, Rachmaninoff set the Church Slavonic text for a cappella chorus, which was tailor-made for the vast acoustics of the University Chapel. Conductor Ryan James Brandau selected movements 1-8, and 10, 11 and 15 — excluding the movements that Rachmaninoff added, as well as one movement of traditional praise text. With unfortunately no explanatory notes in the printed program, it was difficult to know why specific movements were selected or deleted. The singers of Pro Musica certainly had their hands full; the concert was less than an hour in length, but an hour of music in Church Slavonic would require great preparation. Through much of the piece, the preparation of Pro Musica came through well. There were many passages during which the chorus moved through dynamics uniformly, and diction was consistently clean. The reverberating acoustics of the University Chapel made it difficult to al-
ways discern choral precision and when the music split the chorus into as many as 12 parts Brandau maintained good control over ending movements gracefully. There were some unfortunate lapses in tuning in a couple of movements, particularly at the end of the piece, when the choral chords became a little unstable at the close of the work. Joining Pro Musica were mezzo-soprano Cynthia Cook and tenor Kyle van Schoonhoven. Ms. Cook, featured in the second movement, sang from the Chapel lectern with incredible richness while accompanied by a stream of sound from the chorus (interestingly, this solo was sung by a boy in the work’s premiere). The soprano sectional sound in this movement was especially clean, as Brandau kept the combined sonority of soloist and chorus steady. Kyle van Schoonhoven is a Westminster Choir College graduate who has done well, singing with opera companies throughout the country. From the Chapel lectern, his solid tenor sound fit in well with the upper choral voices that provided the bulk of the responding text in the fourth movement, with the basses answering “Alliluiya.” Both soloist and chorus created more fervency in the text, ending the movement with a joyful character. n his introductory remarks to the concert, Brandau suggested that the audience “let the music come to you and wash over you.” This was easy to do in the University Chapel, but what the audience missed was listening for the different types of chants Rachmaninoff employed in the piece. Znamenny, the oldest form of unison, melismatic Orthodox chant, figures prominently in this work, contrasted with Rachmaninoff’s use of Greek and regional Russian chant, as well as chants of his own composition. Without knowing the details of the chant setting, the piece runs the risk of becoming a set of homophonic movements with no connection or delineation. However, the audience present at the University Chapel on Saturday night seemed committed to supporting Pro Musica throughout the season, including this concert of challenging Russian choral works. —Nancy Plum
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James McCloskey, Founder and Director of Centurion Ministries, Is Scheduled to Retire in May
“T
he afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” That line from poet Robert Frost surely reflects the remarkable career of James McCloskey, founder and executive director of Centurion Ministries, which is located in Princeton. After 35 years of leading the non-profit organization, which works to free innocent people who are incarcerated, Mr. McCloskey plans to retire May 31st. His dedication, focus, and commitment have been unswerving, and his organization has successfully freed 54 innocent prisoners, most of whom had been incarcerated for 20 or more years. The longest time served by one of those whose freedom Centurion Ministries secured was 45 years. “The work that Centurion Ministries has done is remarkable,” says the Reverend David Davis, Pastor of Princeton’s Nassau Presbyterian Church. “When you consider the number of wrongfully imprisoned people they have worked to free and you add up the collective number of years in prison, it simply takes your breath away.” Mr. McCloskey’s career path was certainly not planned from the beginning. As a boy, growing up near Philadelphia, he never could have foreseen such a future for himself. His was a happy childhood, filled with good times and good friends. He had a fun-loving, adventurous, and optimistic spirit, and was always convinced things would work out. Great Experience Serving in the Navy during the Vietnam war, he was initially stationed in Japan. “I loved the Navy,” he recalls. “It was a great experience, and was my entree into the world. I loved Japan and the Japanese.” He moved on to Vietnam in 1965 because, as he says, “I wanted to be where the action was. I trained for combat and to be an advisor to the Vietnamese junk fleet which patrolled the rivers looking for the Vietcong.” Jim was awarded the Bronze Star with the combat V for Valor for his courage under fire. In 1967, he was discharged, and returned to Philadelphia, “When I came back from Vietnam, I thought it was a lost cause and a waste of human life,” he observes. “It also had made me skeptical of authority.” He decided to head back to Japan, this time to fulfill his goal of becoming an international businessman. To achieve this, he entered the American Graduate School for International Management in Arizona, earning a post graduate degree in international business in 1968. From 1969 to 1973, he lived in Tokyo, and worked for a management-consulting firm jointly owned by the then First National City Bank of New York and the Fuji Bank of Japan. “I enjoyed the work, which primarily involved conducting market research and joint venture negotiations on behalf of American clients interested in establishing their business in Japan and other Asian markets,”
nary in 1981. He earned a he explains. Master of Divinity degree, but He traveled throughout decided to forego the church Asia, and then, a bit homepastorate in favor of estabsick, returned to Philadellishing Centurion Ministries, phia in 1974, where he which he named for the Roworked for The Hay Group man centurion from the New consulting firm. Building on Testament who proclaimed his Japanese experience, while standing at the foot of Mr. McCloskey developed the cross: “Surely, this man and led Hay’s business with is innocent.” Japanese companies in the Now, Mr. McCloskey wanted US., and established Hay’s to devote the rest of his life management consulting busito freeing the imprisoned inness in Tokyo. nocent. Earlier, he had come The Good Life to believe in the innocence By now, he had spent a of two other men, and was number of years enjoying the able to gain their freedom in good life — making money the 1980s. and having the accoutreInvestigators, Advocates ments that go with it: big car, He officially founded Centuhandsome house, travel, dinrion Ministries (CM) in 1983, ners at fine restaurants, and and although this occurred the like. He lived in Paoli, out of a spiritual calling, it is Pa., a desirable community not a religious organization, 25 miles from Philadelphia. he explains. “We are investiBut, explains Mr. McClosgators and advocates for the key, “I was beginning to lose wrongfully convicted. It is my passion for it. I wasn’t satisfied with my life-style. FREEING THE INNOCENT: “To be successful in what you do, it is very important irrelevant to Centurion MinI felt I wasn’t living my life to follow your inner voice, even if you can’t explain it to others, or whether they istries what religion, if any, fully. I wasn’t centered. And, approve or disapprove. If you think it is right for you, do it.” James McCloskey that an inmate or beneficiary I felt I was missing a spiritual is founder and director of Centurion Ministries, which works to free unjustly practices. This also applies to convicted and imprisoned individuals. He will step down as director at the end of our staff and all those who dimension. work with us (i.e. volunteers, “To go back a bit,” he May and plans to write a book about his experiences with the organization. attorneys, investigators, etc.). continues, “from the fourth McCloskey. “We spoke of the student minisgrade through high school, I went with try in which he was engaged at the prison, Our sole concern and big focus is on an inmy family to an evangelical Presbyterian and he told me of an inmate he believed had mate’s factual innocence. Thus, Centurion Church. Every Sunday, there was Sunday been wrongfully imprisoned for well over Ministries is a purely secular organization School, then church, and the Youth Group a decade. Imagine being imprisoned for a even though I have felt spiritually called to at night. By the time I was in college, I crime you did not commit! I was impressed do this work.” In 1985, still basically operating CM on had had enough. I said to my father, ‘I’m by the passion with which Jim held that feelnever going to church again in my life! And ing and by his deep concern for that man. his own, he took on the case of Nate Walker, I didn’t darken a church door until I came It was out of that concern that what is now a convicted rapist, whom he believed to be innocent, and this would change the course back from Japan.” Centurion Ministries took root. of Centurion Ministries. He was able to gain “But now I felt that the good times I was “What Jim McCloskey has done through having and the money I was making just the intervening years to gain freedom for Mr. Walker’s freedom in late 1986. “Nate’s story put us on the map,” explains weren’t good enough. It had become unim- the wrongfully imprisoned is truly remarkMr. McCloskey. “It became a national story, portant to me. It wasn’t the way to make able. He is one of my heroes.” with a lot of press coverage, print and TV. my life authentic and real.” Jim decided to take a year off and try to So he gave it all up, and embarked on help this man. And it was not going to be Nate and I were on the Today show, and a new path. In 1979, at the age of 37, he easy. “I had to hire a lawyer, investigate the families and inmates from all over the counentered the Princeton Theological Seminary case, and raise money to do this. And I was try started writing to us for help with their with the intent of becoming an ordained broke! At the time, I was living rent-free in cases. In addition, foundations began callminister. At the Seminary, students are a house on Library Place, whose owner had ing, asking for proposals for grants.” Next, he undertook the first CM case outrequired to do field work, and during his taken a liking to Seminary students, and side of New Jersey, going to Texas in an second year, Jim became student chaplain generously let me continue to stay. effort to prove the innocence of Clarence at Trenton State Prison. “I really believed this was my life call“I met an inmate, Jorge de los Santos, and ing,” he adds, and fortunately, his parents Brandley, convicted of rape and murder, he really got to me,” recalls Mr. McCloskey. had come into some money, and gave him who was on death row and scheduled for “He kept insisting that he was innocent of $10,000, which he was able to use to form a execution in three months. “This was my first experience with a the murder he was convicted of, and he was defense committee of noted New Jersey juso impassioned that I began to believe him. rists, attorneys, and clergy, and he secured death row case,” notes Mr. McCloskey. “We He said to me: ‘What are you going to do the services of a noted defense lawyer. He read through the transcripts of the trial, poabout it?’ And I thought maybe I could try conducted his own investigation, and raised lice reports, post conviction hearings, etc. Then, we formulated an investigative plan, to help him.” and spent $25,000 to meet the costs of including talking to people who were inDeep Concern trying to free Mr. de los Santos. In 1983, volved, finding witnesses, going and knockPrinceton resident the Reverend Chase he was indeed freed and exonerated by a ing on their doors. No one has to talk to Hunt was also at the Seminary at that time, federal district judge in Newark. and he remembers his first meeting with Jim Continued on Next Page Mr. McCloskey had returned to the Semi-
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us. It’s moral suasion. Some people have a conscience; others don’t. It’s all an effort to find new evidence to overturn the conviction, and ultimately, Clarence was freed in 1990.” The amount of work involved in such an undertaking is staggering, points out CM director Kate Germond. “Our battles are mighty. This is hard, hard work; no one has any idea of what we endure as we fight these battles to free these innocent folks. Jim worked alone for over five years before I came along. I don’t know how he did it. Especially with his level of concentration. It is fierce.” Unending Struggle As Ms. Germond points out, fighting these battles is intense : encounter ing uncooperative district attorneys and lawyers, witnesses unwilling to admit they lied — these situations are seen again and again. It is an unending struggle, yet the positive outcomes are so welcome, they outweigh the strain of the uphill ordeals. Chairman of the Board Jay Regan is strongly supportive of Centurion Ministries. “I think the work they do is phenomenal. I can’t imagine anything worse than being
in prison for something you didn’t do. Most of these people don’t have the money to hire lawyers or other people to help them, so they end up with public defenders who know nothing about the case. “I am proud to be part of this organization. And Jim McCloskey is an amazing person. He is totally dedicated and a great guy — a regular guy and fun to be around. And a huge sports fan.” Mr. McCloskey cannot help but be proud of what Centuriion Ministries has accomplished. “It’s been 35 years now, and we have a great track record. We are 100 percent underwritten by donations from across the country, and most of them are from individuals. We now have nine full-time staff members, five parttime, and 20 to 25 volunteers at any given time. We get 1200 to 1600 requests for help every year.” As a small organization, CM is not able to take all the cases presented to it, and there are strict guidelines for accepting requests. “After we study the case, examine the written history, the last step is to meet the person,” explains Mr. McCloskey. “We want to have an objective mastery of the case and not be influenced by personality.
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“T hen, it’s hour s a nd hours of interviews with the inmate whom we are devoting ourselves to over the next five years. Will this be someone who will be able to become a functioning member of society if he or she is exonerated? Inmates are angry and bitter. Some are able to overcome this while in prison. Suffering can give you wisdom and inner power. If they are able to realize that their anger is destroying them, they can invest themselves in something else and let go of the anger. They have to let it go to move on. Then, they can begin to transform themselves.” “Our Own Despair” Mr. McCloskey is reminded of the famous quote from Aeschylus: “In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” The enormously time-consuming nature of his work takes unlimited patience and perseverance, points out Mr. McCloskey. “I learned patience and taking the long view from the Japanese.” It is all worthwhile, he adds, when an innocent person is exonerated and walks out of prison. What it means for the family of that person is also important. “No one talks about the pain of the family and the trauma and suffering they go though. For us to be able to come into the situation and say to them: ‘We will take on your burden’ is a tremendous relief for them. We are then in touch with them throughout the case.” No one knows this more personally than R ichard Miles. At 19, he was wrongly convicted of a murder in Texas, and remained in prison for 15 years. Finally, Mr. McCloskey and his team were able to present the evidence to exonerate him. What this has meant to Mr. Miles is incalculable. “I learned about Jim from another prisoner, and just to hear his name and his story gave me hope. The thought of someone out there fighting for you gave me encouragement. To have someone come and believe in you would mean everything.” Today, Mr. Miles is married and the father of a twomonth-old baby, He is also head of Miles of Freedom in Texas, which, as he explains, “gives aid and assistance to individuals, families, and communities who have been impacted by incarceration. We also help people with their job searches. Down-to-Earth “I see Jim at least twice a year, and we stay in touch. Knowing Jim has also helped me to know how to be humble. He is such a down-toearth, humble person himself. I greatly admire him.” Mr. Miles will also be one of the 33 exonerees, along with colleagues and friends, who will come to the Westin Hotel in Princeton Forrestal Village on May 16th to honor Mr. McCloskey. The almost day-long event will celebrate the founding and development of Centurion Ministries with speeches, remembrances, and a special program. Now that he is stepping down from the day-to-day operation of CM, Mr. Mc-
Closkey reflects on the organization’s accomplishments. “I am most proud of two things: One, we have given 54 people a whole new life, redeemed and saved them from a life spent in prison for something they didn’t do. “Collectively, all the people we freed had ser ved 1,109 years falsely incarcerated. Collectively, since we have freed them, they have lived 684 years in freedom. “I am also proud that I was a pioneer in this work. There were no books or blueprints or guidelines; no one else was working in a systematic fashion. From 1980 to 1985, I was basically alone, until Kate joined me. Now, a number of “Innocent” projects have sprouted up, but we are the only organization that re-investigates cases throughout the nation.” As he looks ahead to his retirement, he has several projects to keep him busy. “It has been 35 years of gritty, gritty work, and I will not miss that. I still have seven cases I have been working on for years, and will continue with those. It will take five years to bring them to successful completion. Unreserved Confidence “I am retiring from all involvement in CM’s management and administration with unreserved confidence in my successor Kate Germond and the team of people we have assembled to complement her as she leads CM into an even better and more productive future. She has been by my side for nearly 30 years as we have built CM brick by brick and case by case, and fashioned it into what it is today.
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“I am also eternally thankful and pleased that the Chairman of CM’s Board of Trustees, Jay Regan, will continue to actively occupy that position as he has for the last 22 years. With Kate at the helm and Jay working close by in support, I foresee great things ahead for CM and its mission. “I also can’t wait to begin writing a book on CM’s 35 year history and our experience with and insights into America’s criminal justice system.” Having seen the highs and lows of that system at work, Mr. McCloskey has a realistic appraisal of what it entails. Like his hero Abraham Lincoln, he is aware of the shortcomings of human beings but also of their ability to lift themselves beyond selfish and narrow interests. “As with anything to do with human beings, the legal system has flaws,” he points out. “We just continue to do our best to find justice for those wrongly convicted.” Now, he adds, in addition to writing his book, he looks forward to having time “to enjoy life. I want to take time to be in the moment, to really look at things. I’ve never taken a tour of the Princeton University campus or audited a class. I’ve basically lived in a tunnel for 35 years. I love Princeton, and I’ll be staying here for sure — for one thing, I couldn’t survive without Olives!” He also foresees some travel in his future, including a return to Vietnam. Here in the U.S., the Grand Canyon awaits him, as well as North and South Dakota — the only two states he hasn’t visited — and a number of
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n putting together a six-game winning streak heading into the start of NCAA tournament last weekend, the Princeton University women’s lacrosse had demonstrated that it could excel at both ends in the field. At the Ivy League tournament over the first weekend of May, host Princeton stifled Harvard 15-8 in the semis before outscoring Penn 14-11 in the championship game. Playing at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium on the campus of Stony Brook Brook University to start NCAA play, the Tigers showed their versatility once again, rolling past Fairfield 18-8 in a first round contest on Friday before shutting down sixth-seeded and host Stony Brook 8-4 two days later to earn a spot in the NCAA quarterfinals. Princeton, now 16-3, will play at thirdseeded Duke (15-4) on May 16 in the quarters with the winner advancing to the NCAA Final Four in Philadelphia, where the semis are slated for May 22 at PPL Park. “The attack really carried us against Fairfield; to get 18 goals in an NCAA tournament game is a lot of goals,” said Princeton head coach Chris Sailer, who has guided Princeton to three national titles in her Hall of Fame tenure. “The defense dominated on Sunday.” It took a little while for Princeton to get rolling in the win over Fairfield as the Tigers were clinging to a 10-7 lead at halftime before outscoring the Stags 8-1 over the final 30 minutes of the contest. “I think they came out hard, winning ground balls and draws,” said Sailer, who got a career-high three goals from sophomore Lauren Steidl in the win over the Stags with sophomore standout Olivia Hompe tallying a game-high four and senior Erin McMunn adding three. “We had to match their intensity and
play our game better. We just had to turn it around and we did just that.” Sailer knew that Princeton faced a hard challenge in the Round of 16, taking on host Stony Brook, who brought at 18-1 record and a seven-game winning streak into the contest. “They are a great team, they only had one loss and a lot of great wins over teams like Florida and Northwestern,” said Sailer of the Seawolves who were averaging 12.1 goals a contest. “They had great sticks, they had an incredible attack, deadly off cuts and screens. They are very physical and scrappy and play a different kind of zone defense with a rover.” Princeton jumped out to a 2-0 lead to gain early momentum and then took control of the game in the second half as it broke open a 3-3 game by outscoring Stony Brook 5-1. Freshman Abby Finkelston scored a careerhigh four goals to lead the Tigers’ attack. “They expected to advance deep in the tournament and it was important for us to assert ourselves early and get that lead,” said Sailer. “It took us a little while to figure out how to be effective on offense. We had to change up some things. We had some great ball movement and Finkelston was finishing well.” The Tiger defense was effective all game long, holding the high-powered Seawolves to 12 shots with sophomore goalie Ellie DeGarmo making 12 saves. It was a great defensive effort; to hold a team like that to four goals on their home field is quite a feat,” asserted Sailer whose team had a 15-11 edge in ground balls in the afternoon and won 8-of-13 draw controls. “Jen Cook (assistant coach) did an awe-
some job with her defensive scout and game plan. The girls executed things b e a u t i f u l l y, t h e y knew what Stony Book Brook was going to do before they did it. Advancing to the NCAA quarters for the first time since 2011 is a nice feat as well for Princeton. “It is really exciting for the program,” said Sailer. “Now that the bracket has expanded to 28 teams, you have to win two games and beat a top 8 seed to make it the quarters so it says a lot about the way we are playing right now. We are performing at a high level. We are excited to be back and we think we can play with anybody.” While Princeton has plenty of respect for powerful Duke, Sailer is excited about her team’s prospects in the matchup. “They have had a ABBY ROAD: Princeton University women’s lacrosse player Abby Finkelgreat year; they have ston heads to goal at the Ivy League tournament earlier this month. Last been a consistently Sunday, freshman attacker Finkelston scored a career-high four goals to strong team,” said help Princeton defeat sixth-seeded Stony Brook 8-4 in the Round of 16 at Sailer of the Blue the NCAA tournament. The Tigers, now 16-3, play at third-seeded Duke Devils. (15-4) on May 16 in the NCAA quarterfinals. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) “They have gone they are executing what we tell them. We through the ACC so they have been playhave a nice flow on offense and the defense ing strong teams game in, game out. We are is playing really well. Ellie DeGarmo has excited to go down there and play Princeton been great in the cage.” lacrosse. The girls are dialed in and focused, —Bill Alden
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After Showing Consistent Improvement All Season, PU Men’s Lightweight Crew Geared Up for Sprints For Marty Crotty, it has been a pleasure to coach his Princeton Universit y men’s lightweight varsity 8 this spring. “They have had a lot of consistency in terms of improvement,” said Princeton head coach Crotty, as he looks ahead to the Eastern Sprints, slated for May 17 on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. “They have had some really good practices. They just need to add a layer of speed over the next 10 days. They are easy to watch, they are easy to coach.” With Princeton classes having ended on May 1, the rowers can accelerate their improvement with extra time on the water. “If you look at HYP to the finals of sprints, from April 25 to May 17, that is 22 days and you might have 15-16 practices
in normal schedule when in school,” said Crotty. “Over that 22-day period we will be out on the water 30-35 times with classes out. We spend a lot more time on the boat and they want to do that. We may talk about recovering from workouts but they are asking if they can row the next morning at 7 and I say I will be there. This time of year, the boat naturally gets better.” The competition throughout the program has helped the Tigers get better across the board. “It hasn’t stopped, the 2V and 3V had a tete-a-tete today,” said Crotty. “The ability and the depth come from the rowers getting equal attention; they are getting good, solid coaching and it is not just from me. Bill Manning is a real professional. Alex Mann went to the Institute of Rowing Leadership in Boston, he has been a real good addition to the staff. The improvement directly reflects the coaching and hard work being put in by everyone.” The program’s group of senior rowers, Karthik Dhore, Wi l l ia m D ow n i n g, M at t Drabick, Jason Elefant, Fabrizio Filho, Andrew Frazier, Steve Swanson, and captain Casey Ward, have set a positive tone. “They are good leaders
and good guys,” said Crotty. “Day in, day out, they set good examples of how to carry yourself and the way to react to the results of selection. The guys enjoy coming to the boathouse everyday. They strive to be better and they want to be on higher boats but they are able to keep that internal and exclude toxicity.” Crotty has enjoyed seeing Ward’s emergence as a leader in the program. “Ward has been leading for several years; he was leading more quietly than he has this year,” added Crotty. “We have the largest team in our history; we are sending six 8s to sprints. We have never done that before, having that kind of crossover is a task and he does it on the fly. There are 16 freshmen and nine or 10 guys in the other classes and he deals with all of that. He knows what to bring to me and what not to bring to me.” With his varsity 8 having produced an 8-3 regular season with one loss to Cornell and two defeats to Columbia as it has risen to the top-5 in the national rankings, Crotty knows his rowers will have to bring it this weekend to prevail at Eastern Sprints. “I am excited to see how things go,” said Crotty. “Cornell is very good, Columbia is very good, both boats are flat out good. We have to continue to make progress and we have been doing that. It is decimal points, having
TOP OF THE PODIUM: Members of the Princeton University men’s track team celebrate after winning the title at the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships last Sunday at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Individual victors for the Tigers at the meet included junior Adam Bragg in the pole vault, senior Tumi Akinlawon in the high jump, senior Matt McDonald in the 10,000, junior John Hill in the 100, senior Nana Owusu-Nyantekyi in the triple jump, and senior Stephen Soerens in the decathlon. Soerens’ win provided the margin of victory for Princeton as it piled up 163 points, just ahead of the 159.5 totaled by runnerup Cornell. The victory gave the Tiger men the triple crown for the seventh time in program history - claiming Ivy League Heps victories in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track in the same school year. Photo Courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications) this guy be a little better one day or that boat be a little better. It is incremental progress so that when you get on the bus to go to sprints you are confident enough to relax. To improve our position against the Ivies, we will need to have a great heat to make the final and have our best race of the season in the final.” —Bill Alden
PU Sports Roundup PU Women’s Tennis Ousted in NCAAs
A late rally came up short as the Princeton University women’s tennis team fell 4-3 to South Carolina in the opening round of the NCAA tournament last Saturday in Charlottesville, Va. Needing to sweep the last three matches to win the match, the Princeton women’s tennis team took care of the first two, but that last point proved elusive. The Tigers got wins from Lindsay Graff at No. 1, Alanna Wolf at No. 3, and Katrine Steffensen at No. 4 as they ended the spring with a 12-9 overall record. ———
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After taking the doubles point, the Princeton University men’s tennis team lost four singles matches to fall 4-1 to Minnesota last Friday in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Charlottesville, Va. The defeat in Princeton’s first NCAA tourney appearance since 1998, left the Tigers with a final record of 19-8 overall, tying for the second-most wins in program history, a number most recently achieved in 1999. ———
PU Linebacker Zeuli Signs Deal With Eagles
Princeton University senior star linebacker Mike Zeuli, the 2014 Ivy League Co-Defensive Player of the Year, has signed a rookie minicamp deal w ith the Philadelphia Eagles. A defensive back-turnedlinebacker, Zeuli led the Ivy League last season with 16.5 tackles for loss, ranked second with 8.7 tackles per game, and tied for fifth in sacks with four. He had 16 tackles in his final collegiate game, which moved him over the 200-tackle mark for his career. He anchored a Tiger defensive unit that finished the regular season second in the conference and eighth nationally in rushing defense. One of only four defensive players in the Ivy League to
earn unanimous first-team All-Ivy distinction last season, Zeuli ranked 12th nationally with an average of 1.8 tackles for loss per game this season. He had double-digit tackles in four of Princeton’s last seven games averaged 13 tackles per game against the top three teams in the standings. “I’m thrilled for Mike that he has this opportunity with the Philadelphia Eagles,” said Princeton head coach Bob Surace. “He has everything you can ask for in a football player and a leader, and I know he’ll impress the Eagles with his work ethic and passion for the game.” Zeuli will see a couple of familiar faces in Philadelphia. Former position coach Stephen Thomas left Princeton after the season to become a Defensive Quality Control coach for the Eagles, while former teammate Phil Bhaya, the co-captain of the 2013 Ivy League championship team, is now a scout with the Eagles. ———
Tiger Women’s Track 2nd at Ivy Heps Meet
Julia Ratcliffe and Megan Curham starred as the Princeton University women’s track team placed second at the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Junior star Ratcliffe, the NCAA hammer throw champion, set a Heps record for the second straight season, throwing to 68.16 meters (223’7) to win the event. Sophomore distance star Curham won both the 5,000 and 10,000 while classmate Lizzie Bird prevailed in the steeplechase. Harvard scored 157 points to win the team title with Princeton second with 118 and Columbia third with 99.
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LAST STOP: Princeton Day School girls’ lacrosse senior goalie Kirsten Kuzmicz guards the cage last Monday in PDS’s 18-11 victory over Pennington in the state Prep B championship game. Senior star Kuzmicz made 12 saves in the win as she earned her second state title of the year after helping the PDS girls’ soccer team to the Prep B title last fall. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
“May 11, that was our t icket,” s aid a beam ing Kuzmicz. “It is an awesome way to end it. It feels great after four years, finally getting a championship in lacrosse.” Things didn’t star t out great for the Panthers as they fell behind 2-0 in the first 2:30 of the contest. “It was a little shaky in the beginning,” said Kuzmicz, who was converted to goalie from midfield last spring in her junior season. “There was a whole another 50 minutes left so we know we have to fight hard until the end.” Kuzmicz fought hard in the cage, making some key saves as PDS started to roll, going on an 11-0 run that broke open the contest. “Our team clicked in. I was feeling good,” said Kuzmicz, recalling the first half run. The Panthers never looked back, building their lead to 18-5 late in the second half to turn the game into a rout. In the raucous post-game celebration, the Panthers repeatedly chanted May 11, May 11 while Kuzmicz and the team’s other senior, Morgan Foster, brandished the trophy and plaque the team earned with the victory. In reflecting on the qualities that made PDS a championship team, Kuzmicz cited intensity of effort and feeling. “We are a hard working and very passionate team,”
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Senior Goalie Kuzmicz Adds Another Title to Resume As PDS Girls’ Lax Tops Pennington for Prep B Crown
SHOUT IT OUT: Members of the Princeton Day School girls’ lacrosse team celebrate after defeating Pennington 18-11 in the state Prep B title game last Monday. PDS got five goals apiece from sophomore Morgan Mills and freshman Madison Mundenar in the win as it ended the spring with an 11-6 record. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) said Kuzmicz. “We have bonded really well since the beginning of the season. As the season went on, we played a lot harder. We kept stepping up our game.” Longtime PDS head coach Jill Thomas was thrilled to see Kuzmicz and Foster end their careers in style. “A year in goal and she wins a state title so there you go, you can’t really beat that,” said Thomas. “It is terrific, what a feeling to go out with a championship, good for them.” PDS played terrifically all over the field as it went on its 11-0 first half run that changed the tone of the contest. “We played pretty darn well; we made the adjustment on the draw and took control of the center of the field,” said Thomas. “They just got into what we have been working on in the past couple of weeks, playing our game and setting our tempo; doing what
we do instead of worrying about what everybody else does. Once we could do that, it was great.” The Panthers showed great balance on the offensive end as sophomore Morgan Mills and freshman Madison Mundenar each tallied five goals and an assist in the win over Pennington with sophomore Hannah Bunce chipping in three goals and an assist, freshman Kate Bennett contributing two goals and two assists, and senior standout Foster adding a goal and four assists. “It is pretty hard to face guard one because we have a bunch of people we can go to, which is kind of nice,” said Thomas. It has been nice for Thomas to see her young squad develop into such a force. “T hey believe in their senior leadership,” said Thomas, whose team ended the season with an 11-6 record. “T hey have g row n s o
much. We got eight sophomores and freshmen on the field out of 12. We started to jell and understand in Florida and then we had bumps along the way. The Peddie game (a 13-11 win on April 29) is when we really said we can play this game. We really started to sense what we had to do and to not have the unforced turnovers. They realized what they were. They have really worked hard and gotten it done so that is good.” Kuzmicz, for her par t, is proud of how the team worked through the ups and down to finish with a title. “We were in a lot of the games and even the games we didn’t do so well in, but we still worked hard,” said Kuzmicz, who is heading to Franklin and Marshall College where she plans to walk on to the school’s women’s lacrosse team. “We didn’t really stop, we have been going seven days week.” —Bill Alden
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Tuckman Savoring Special Family Feeling As PDS Boys’ Lacrosse Makes MCT Semis Playing through an intermittent drizzle, the Princeton Day School boys’ lacrosse team built a 3-1 first quarter lead against crosstown rival Princeton High in a Mercer County Tournament quarterfinal clash last Saturday. But in the second quarter, Jonah Tuckman and his PDS teammates poured it on visiting PHS, as the third-seeded outscored the sixth-seeded and two-time defending county champion Little Tigers 7-0 to take a 10-1 halftime lead. “I think we just started to click; I think everyone started to move the ball well,” said junior star Tuckman. “Every one of our goals was just multi touch, everyone was helping each other. We didn’t really dodge through and shoot. We were all playing really unselfishly and that is what we were looking for today.”
PDS never looked back, rolling to a 15-2 win over PHS. The Panthers are slated to face second-seeded Allentown on May 12 in the MCT semis with the winner advancing to the title game on May 14. Tuckman ended up with three goals and an assist in the win over PHS and formed a productive partnership with younger brother, freshman Elon, who chipped in two goals and three assists. “It is fun, we just go back to playing in the backyard,” said a smiling Tuckman, reflecting on the connection he feels with his brother. “We used to come out here on the turf over the summer and stand by the crease, pass it back and forth and just try and finish on an empty net. It is showing on the field; it is a really good time to have him out there.”
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Tuckman’s bond with senior star Jacob Shavel, who added three goals and an assist in the win over PHS, exemplifies the team’s onfield chemistry. “Jacob is one of my best friends and throughout the whole offseason we have been playing together and we have been working hard in the weight room,” said Tuckman. “We have really built a lot of chemistry throughout the whole team. It is not just Jacob and I or Elon and I, the whole team has a lot of chemistry. It is really working well.” The team came to the aid of the Tuckman brothers earlier this season after their mother passed away after a long battle with cancer. “The day after it hap pened, I was downstairs in my basement and I looked up and seven or eight of the guys on the team were just standing there to hang out with me and my brother the whole day and just be with us,” recalled Tuckman. “The team has been doing that the whole time, we have really been there for each other, it has been great.” Tuckman has worked hard to be there for for his teammates. “I put a lot of work in over the offseason; it was a lot of growth both in the weight room and mentally so I have been playing well,” said Tuckman, who scored three goals and two assists in a losing cause as PDS fell 11-10 at Rutgers Prep last Monday in the state Prep B semifinals. “Also, our whole team has been playing well together. That definitely has a lot to do with my numbers boosting.” As PDS looks ahead to the MCT semis, Tuckman believes the Panthers are saving their best for last. “We pumped up our schedule like no other this year,” said Tuckman. “Early in the year our record wasn’t showing what we were but we knew we were playing good lacrosse and then we ended up just turning around. We
knew we were playing well and now we are just thriving, playing our best lacrosse when it matters.” PDS head coach R ich D’Andrea was thrilled with the way his team played in its second quarter outburst against PHS. “We have been trying to dictate the pace the entire year,” said D’Andrea. “That is one of the big things for us, having guys understand, based on the makeup of our team, that there is always a premium on possession. Guys have really worked on clearing the ball. If you clear the ball well, it gives way to more possession and luckily, we were able to capitalize on some of those today.” T he dom inant play of sophomore Nick Day on face-offs helped PDS control possession against the Little Tigers. “Nick was fantastic at the X, we are lucky to have Nick,” said D’Andrea of the WW/P-N transfer. “He is a hardworking guy; he is a locker room guy. He has worked really, really hard. In the few last weeks, he has become really disciplined. He is doing all the right things now at the right time.” Day’s good work has freed up the older Tuckman to focus on his offensive production. “Last year, Jonah was a guy we relied on for faceoff, man-up, man-down, and defense,” said D’Andrea. “It was rare that he left the field. Having Nick with us this year has taken a little pressure off of him. He has really worked hard to develop his shot. He is dodging hard, he is moving the ball well. Jonah is a special player; he is one of our spiritual lightning rods.” Senior star Shavel is another spiritual leader for the Panthers. “Jacob has a nose for the ball, he does some great things for us,” said D’Andrea. “He finishes the ball, he is one of our guys who handles and possesses well. Jacob has a way of finding ground balls in big spots ; it has been fours years of that. He brings such good experience to the field, that is why he is one of our captains.”
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The Panthers’ experienced defensive unit, spearheaded by seniors Christian Vik and Kevin Towle, juniors Amir Melvin and James Fragale, along with senior goalie Chris Markey, shut the door on PHS. “They did a great job, they pressured hands the whole time,” said D’Andrea. “They knew the assignments, right, left. Those guys have a way of backing each other up. Not only are they a talented group but knowing that you have Chris Markey in goal for you is a big help. He made some big ones when he needed to; he has done that for us all year.” No matter how the year ends for PDS, D’Andrea likes the way his players have gone about their business. “I think for us, it hasn’t been about one game the
entire year, it is about showing steady progress,” said D’Andrea. “There is an art to when teams peak; it is an inexact science. Most importantly, the guys are more focused than they have been, they are working hard, they are tweaking on a daily basis. That is all you can ask for, who knows what is going to happen.” Tuckman, for his part, is confident that the Panthers will show their teamwork to the end. “We just have to keep moving the ball and keep playing together,” said Tuckman. “The whole year we have been preaching family and togetherness; that is what we have to look for. We have to have each other’s back and play together.” —Bill Alden
MAN POWER: Princeton Day School boys’ lacrosse player Jonah Tuckman fires the ball in third-seeded PDS’s 15-2 win over sixthseeded and two-time defending champions Princeton High in the Mercer County Tournament quarterfinal last Saturday. Junior star Tuckman tallied three goals and an assist in the win. On Monday, PDS fell 11-10 to Rutgers Prep in the state Prep B semifinals to drop to 10-6. PDS was slated to face secondseeded Allentown on May 12 in the MCT semis with the winner advancing to the title game on May 14. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Coming into his sophomore season on the Princeton High boys’ lacrosse team, Johnny Lopez-Ona knew that he had to make things happen on his own. After a promising freshman campaign in 2014 that saw him ride the coattails of such senior offensive stars as Kevin Halliday, Matt Purdy, and Matt Corrado, LopezOna realized that graduation left a void on the PHS attack. “I definitely think there were a couple of roles to fill with the four captains that graduated last year,” said Lopez-Ona. “We have had some great kids that stepped up too, like Rory Helstrom and Chris Diver. I definitely have more goals this season where I have dodged and scored rather than some of the other times last year where I was fed by dodgers.” Getting off to a hot start in May, the wiry, baby-faced Lopez-Ona has scored some big goals, tallying three goals with four assists in an 18-8 win over WW/P-N on May 1 before notching three goals and an assist in a 7-6 victory over Hopewell Valley on May 5. I n L o p e z - O n a’s v i e w, the performance against Hopewell Valley was a big step forward for the Little Tigers. “It confirms the work we have been doing throughout the season to get better and
to be able to play against opponents like that,” said Lopez-Ona. Lopez-Ona and his teammates played well in the opening round of the Mercer County Tournament as sixth-seeded PHS rolled to an 18-2 win over No. 11 Steinert. “I think our coaches and captains have been instilling a precedent of focus,” said Lopez-Ona, who tallied two goals and two assists in the win. “I think it had rubbed off on me where everybody is getting ready for the postseason and trying to do the best they can and save the best for last.” Following in the footsteps of older sister, Emilia, a former PHS field hockey and lacrosse star who is playing in her freshman season this spring with the Penn women’s lax team, has given Lopez-Ona extra inspiration to do his best. “My younger sister, my older sister, my dad, and I would always play outside,” said Lopez-Ona. “I feel like having to live up to her has been pushing me to play better.” PHS head coach Peter Stanton likes the way Lopez-Ona is pushing himself to get better. “The game that he played against Hopewell was amazing,” said Stanton. “Last year, he had the benefit of playing with three re-
ally experienced seniors on the offensive end. Against Hopewell, the team that set the standard for the CVC this year, he had two fantastic individual goals where he took the ball strong to the front of the goal and threw it by a good keeper. To see him do that in a really meaningful game was a great sign for his development.” While PHS fell 15-2 to third-seeded Princeton Day School in the MCT quarterfinals last Saturday to end the country title defense for the two-time champions, Stanton believes his squad is headed in the right direction. “We have finally learned our roles and a big part of that was coaches understanding what our players are capable of and putting them in the right places,” said Stanton, whose team will be taking part in the upcoming South Group 3 sectional where it is seeded fourth and will host 13thseeded Jackson Memorial in a first round contest. “Our guys know how we can win. We are going to have to win a little bit differently than we have in the past. We have figured something that can work for us.” Lopez-Ona, for his part, believes that things are starting to work well for the Little Tigers. “After a slow start, we have now had probably five games where we have really stepped it up,” said LopezOna. “It definitely feels like we are peaking.” —Bill Alden
Despite Superb Effort From Goalie Shane, PHS Girls’ Lacrosse Edged in MCT Semis Mira Shane didn’t waste a n y t i m e s h o w i n g t h at she meant business as the Princeton High girls’ lacrosse team played at Notre Dame in the Mercer County Tournament semifinals last Thursday. The PHS senior star goalie repelled three Notre Dame shots in the first two minutes of the contest. That was just the beginning of a sensational performance by the Michiganbound Shane, who went on to make 16 saves, including several point blank stops against the high-powered Irish attack. Shane’s heroics, though weren’t enough as the fifthseeded Little Tigers dropped a 5-4 heartbreaker to topseeded and eventual champion Notre Dame. PHS head coach David Schlesinger lauded Shane’s performance. “Mira is amazing; she is so athletic and so quick,” said Schlesinger, who consoled Shane afterward as the goalie slumped over in tears near the team huddle after giving her all physically and emotionally. “Her understanding of the position has grown so much this year, the way she plays angles and now she is a step ahead of the shooters. She knows what she wants to give up. She is forcing the shooters to shoot where she wants them to shoot. She is an amazing leader, a great player.” In reflecting on the defeat, Schlesinger acknowledged that his team misfired as it dug a 3-1 hole at halftime. “I thought we could do a little bit more offensively,” said Schlesinger. “We struggled a little bit in the first half moving the ball the way we wanted to. In the second half, it started to click. It was a great battle.” PHS did get a great offensive effort from rising star Jordyn Cane, who scored three goals on the evening. “Jordyn has stepped up and is playing the best lacrosse of her life,” asserted Schlesinger. “She is a mar-
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YOUNG GUN: Princeton High boys’ lacrosse player Johnny Lopez-Ona races up the field in a game earlier this spring. Last Thursday, sophomore star Lopez-Ona tallied two goals and two assists as sixth-seeded PHS toped No. 11 Steinert 18-2 in the opening round of the Mercer County Tournament. Two days later, Lopez-Ona and his teammates couldn’t get it going as they fell 15-2 to third-seeded Princeton Day School on the MCT quarterfinals to move to 7-8. In upcoming action, LESSONS • RENTALS • INSTRUMENTS & MORE PHS will be taking part in the upcoming South Group 3 sectional where it is seeded fourth and will host 13th-seeded Jackson Memorial in a first round contest. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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effort was tremendous and I am really happy for them even though they are all disappointed right now.” With the state tournament on the horizon, Schlesinger believes that the effort his team gave against Notre Dame bodes well. “We are play ing good lacrosse right now,” said Schlesinger, whose squad is seeded ninth in the North Group 3 sectional and will play at eighth-seeded Roxbury in a first round contest. “We are all banged up; we have got two girls with concussions and another girl with a high ankle sprain so we are very short of players right now. For us to have to kind of effort, that kind of performance was great.” —Bill Alden
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Making Big Progress Under New Coach Cook, Hun Girls’ Lax Produces Solid 7-8 Campaign There was some crying when the Hun School girls’ lacrosse team lost 12-7 to WW/P-N in the Mercer County Tournament earlier this month but Liz Cook was smiling inside. “For some reason, the game against North was so awesome, something clicked on the way to the game, they said coach we have got this,” said Hun first-year head coach Liz Cook. “They had tears at the end and that was nice to see, it showed how much they cared. They showed
a real progress. All that work from October on really paid off. The transition game was beautiful. I think we played at a whole other level. They really believed in themselves. They played together and were connecting together.” Hun gained some self belief in two other key games down the stretch, a 15-14 regular season win over Prep B finalist Pennington in overtime on April 29 and a 10-9 victory over Blair in the state Prep A quarterfinals two days earlier.
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“Pennington has a really great team, they have a lot of speed,” said Cook. “The girls have worked hard before games, watching film. They have studied hard, they are like sponges. They have learned to adjust and play against each team ; doing things to take away their strengths and play to our strengths. We did that against Penning ton. We watched a lot of film on Blair before that game. We had a game plan and they carried it out. I really enjoyed watching that; it was a great bus ride back.” The Raiders ended their good ride this spring with a 15-9 win over Stuart Country Day last Wednesday, giving the squad a final record of 7-8, a vast improvement on the 1-11 mark posted in 2014. “We really needed that, it was great to come out with a win,” said Cook, who got four goals and four assists from senior star and Bryn Mawr-bound Erica Dwyer in the win over Stuart. “It was funny, after the Stuart game, the kids all wanted to have practice the next day.” Cook knows she was lucky to have a group of seniors t hat included defenders Shannon Graham, Amanda Barbour, and Taylor Nehlig along with midfielder/attacker Dwyer. “I will miss every single one of them; it was my first year here and they were my leaders,” said Cook, referring to her quartet of seniors.
“I could really count on them. The three defenders helped hold our defense together and Erica settled ou r at t ack a n d c a l m e d things down when we had the ball.” Cook, for her part, enjoyed making an impact in her first year at the helm of the Hun program. “I wanted them to believe in themselves and to have a female mentor to help them athletically and academically,” said Cook. “I told them the culture of losing is over; they see that they are able to attain anything they go after. I told them they needed to improve every day in practice and in every game and they did that. They always had the talent, they just needed some guidance.” With a core of talented players coming back, Cook believes that Hun will keep improving. “I am really excited about the future,” asserted Cook. “We have such a young team, they are so hungry for it. A lot of them play lacrosse outside of school. Over the next two or three years, they could be something really special. They are really together.” —Bill Alden
TURNING THE CORNER: Hun School girls’ lacrosse player Nicole Apuzzi runs around a defender in recent action. Last Wednesday, freshman standout Apuzzi scored two goals to help Hun defeat Stuart Country Day 15-9 in its season finale. The victory gave the Raiders a final record of 7-8 this spring, a vast improvement on the 1-11 mark posted in 2014. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Baseball : Evan Barratt starred in a losing cause as eighth-seeded Hun fell 6-3 to top-seeded Steinert last Wednesday in the Mercer County Tournament quarterfinals. Sophomore Barratt went 3-for-4 with two doubles as the Raiders moved to 116. Hun will be starting play in the state Prep A tournament on May 13 when it hosts Peddie in an opening round contest. The double-elimination competition will conclude on May 16-17 at Hun. ——— Boys’ Lacrosse: Chris Aslanian triggered the offense as Hun topped Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) 17-5 last Saturday. Post-graduate Aslanian tallied five points on three goals and two assists to help the Raiders improve to 16-0. Hun will be competing in the Inter-Ac Challenge this week and will be playing Academy of New Church (Pa.) in a quarterfinal game on May 13 at the Proving Grounds in Conshohocken, Pa. Hun will also be playing in the state Prep A tournament where it is hosting Lawrenceville on May 19 in the championship game.
Lawrenceville Girls’ Lacrosse: Unable to get its offense going, thirdseeded Lawrenceville fell 11-1 to top-seeded Notre Dame in the Mercer County Tournament championship game last Saturday at Hightstown High. Chloe Jones scored the lone goal for the Big Red. Two days later, Lawrenceville lost 16-4 at Oak Knoll in the state Prep A championship game. Jones tallied as the Big Red moved to 14-5 on the season. Lawrenceville will wrap up the season by playing at Germantown Academy (Pa.) on May 13. ——— Boys’ Lacrosse: Jon Coffey led the way as Lawrenceville defeated the Westtown School (Pa.) 21-0 last Monday in the first round of the Inter-Ac Challenge. Coffey scored six goals and had an assist to help the Big Red improve to 10-7. Lawenceville will face Malvern Prep (Pa.) in the quarterfinals of the Inter-Ac Challenge on May 13 at the Proving
Stuart Lacrosse: Harley Guzman led the way as Stuart defeated Hamilton 15-13 last Saturday. Junior star Guzman tallied four goals to help the Tartans improve to 6-9. Stuart was slated to end its season by playing at Lawrence on May 12.
PHS Baseball: Falling behind 4-0 in the first inning, PHS fell 12-1 to Hightstown last Monday. The Little Tigers, who dropped to 7-12 with the defeat, are slated to play at WW/P-S on May 14, host Voorhees on May 16, play at Notre Dame on May 18, and host Nottingham on May 19. ——— Softball: Unable to get its bats going, 11th-seeded PHS fell 12-0 to third-seeded Steinert in the Mercer County Tournament quarterfinals last Monday. The Little Tigers had reached the quarterfinals by upsetting sixth-seeded WW/PN 8-3 in the first round of the MCT last Saturday as sophomore Nancy Gray hit a homer and senior Sarah Eisenach was the winning pitcher with a complete game effort. The Little Tigers, now 6-14, play at Trenton on May 13, host Nottingham on May 15 and play at Notre Dame on May 16. ——— Boys’ Golf: PHS finished 12th of 17 teams at the Mercer County Tournament last week at the Princeton Country Club. The Little Tigers had a team score of 354 in the competition that was won by Peddie, who totaled 289. ——— Boys’ Tennis: Getting state tournament play underway, top-seeded PHS was slated to host ninth-seeded Colts Neck on May 12 in the quarterfinals of the Central Jersey Group 3 sectional. The winner will advance to the sectional semis on May 14. ——— Boys’ Track: Alex Roth and Joe Gray provided highlights
as PHS finished ninth of 15 teams last Saturday at the Mercer County Championship meet at Steinert. Sophomore standout Roth was the only double medalist for the Little Tigers as he finished third in the 3200 (9:34.72) and fifth in the 1600 (4:23.81). Senior Gray finished third in the 400 (50.39), while sophomore Cy Watsky was sixth in the 800 (2:02.01). In the field, junior Theo Tel finished fourth in the long jump (20-10.75). ——— Girls’ Track: Maia Hauschild starred as PHS took fifth last Saturday at the Mercer County Championship meet at Steinert. Junior star Hauschild won the 400 in a time of 58.95 and took second in the 200 in 26.30. Senior Paige Metzheiser finished fourth in both the 800 (2:23.56) and the 1600 (5:11.86). Sophomore Noa Levy tied her personal best of 5’0 while placing fifth in the high jump. Junior Serena DiBianco was fourth in the long jump (16-0.25). In the relays, the girls’ 4x800 (Aileen Wu, Evie Bentch, Annefleur Hartmanshenn, Julie Bond) finished second.
PDS Softball: PDS fell 12-2 at New Hope-Solebury (Pa.) last Monday. The Panthers, who moved to 2-9 with the loss, play at Rutgers Prep on May 14 before hosting Trenton Central on May 15. ——— Boys’ Tennis: Scott Altmeyer and Lex Decker posted singles wins but it wasn’t enough as PDS fell 3-2 to Pingry last Thursday. In upcoming action, the Panthers have matches at Hopewell Valley on May 14 and at Notre Dame on May 15 before competing in the state Prep B tournament on May 17 and 19 at Wardlaw Hartridge.
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Grounds in Conshohocken. Pa. The Big Red will also be taking part in the state Prep A tournament where it will play at the Hun School on May 19 in the championship game.
CATCHING ON: Princeton Day School catcher Paul Franzoni awaits a pitch in recent action. Last Thursday, sophomore star Franzoni helped PDS top Morristown-Beard 13-0 in the state prep B quarterfinals. The Panthers, who defeated Pennington 12-9 last Saturday in a Mercer County Tournament consolation contest in improving to 10-11, were slated to play at Gill St. Bernard’s on May 12 in the Prep B semis with the winner advancing to the title game on May 14 at Diamond Nation in Flemington. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
Local Sports Post 218 Legion Baseball Holding Registration, Tryout
The Princeton Post 218 American Legion baseball team is hosting a registration and tryout on May 10 at Smoyer Park from 10 a.m. to noon. Players ages 15-19 who live in Princeton or attend school in town are eligible to be on the team. For further information, contact Tommy Parker via e-mail at tommy@princeton. edu or by cell at (609) 5754428 or Paul Sumners at pdsumners@gmail.com. ———
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Motion 5k run/walk on May 16 onto www.stuartschool.org and hit the link for Poetry in Motion at 8 a.m. The event also includes a 5k run. ——— children’s race for those under 10 and childcare for ages three Recreation Department and up. The course begins at Offering Several Programs the main entrance driveway to The Princeton Recreation Stuart at 1200 Stuart Road in Department has activated onPrinceton. Stuart Road will be line registration for a number closed during the race and am- of 2015 spring and summer ple parking will be available. programs. The race was established in The programs include: Day 2008 in memory of Victoria Camp, Teen Travel Camp, Flournoy McCarthy, a former Basketball Camps and English department chair and Leagues, Skate Board Camp, 1971 graduate of Stuart. All Youth Track Camp, Commufunds raised go to support Stu- nity Park Pool Membership, art’s Lies, Light, McCarthy Visit- CP Pool Programs, Kid’s ing Author Program that brings ‘Splash ‘n Dash’ Aquathon prominent writers to spend the and many more. day on campus to share their There is an Early-Bird Speexperience and knowledge of cial Discount on select CP Pool writing with Stuart students Memberships, Day Camp and Registration for all events, in- Teen Travel Camp registration cluding childcare, is available at available until April 15. Stuart starting at 7:30 a.m. on More information can be the day of the race. For more found online at www.princeton information on the race, log recreation.com.
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ON THE LINE: Hun School softball player Alexis Goeke guards the line at first base in a game earlier this season in recent action. Last Thursday, junior Goeke contributed a double as Hun defeated Pingry 6-1 in the opening round of the state Prep A tournament. A day later, the Raiders topped the Hill School (Pa.) 10-5 in a regular season contest to improve to 9-8. In upcoming action, Hun was slated to play at Lawrenceville in the Prep A semis on May 12 with the winner advancing to the title game on May 14. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Obituaries Elizabeth D. Somers Elizabeth D. Somers, 94, a longtime Princeton resident, died of natural causes on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton, New Jersey. Born in New York City, Elizabeth came to Princeton in 1921 with her parents Giovanni and Raffelina (DeAngelis) DiMeglio, both born in Ischia, Italy. Upon arrival here, her father began the Rialto Barber Shop on Witherspoon Street. From the age of five Elizabeth started helping her father in the barber shop. At the age of 12 she and her mother worked for the National Recovery Administration. Elizabeth graduated from Princeton High School and Rider College and was employed as a secretary by both Dr. John F. Sly at Princeton University and subsequently Dr. Paul Chesebro at The Hun School until she retired. After retirement, she went to work at her son’s law office
on Harrison Street where she was well liked by all of the office clientele. Elizabeth wed George B. Somers in 1948. Their son, George B. Somers, Jr. was born on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. while his father was attending law school. Years later, the family moved back to Princeton where George, Jr. opened his practice. Mrs. Somers was predeceased by her parents, two sisters; Vincenza “Nancy” ( DiMeglio ) Guanieri and Mary ( DiMeglio) Hodges; niece Susan DiMeglio; and two nephews John DiMeglio and Robert Guanieri. She is survived by her son, George B. Somers, Jr of Princeton; three grandchildren Melissa Somers of Lawrenceville, John Somers of Brooklyn, New York and Jeb Somers, at home; a brother, Antonio DiMeglio of Tucson, Arizona; five nieces; Sandi Guanieri, Debora DiMeglio, and Judy DiMeglio all of Tucson, Arizona; Lucia Hodges and Carol Hodges, both of Little Rock, Arkansas; and two nephews, Joseph DiMeglio of Tucson, Arizona and Raymond Hodges, of Little Rock, Arkansas. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Friday, May
15, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in St. Paul Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, New Jersey followed by a committal service and interment in Princeton Cemetery. A r rangement s are en trusted to Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton, New Jersey. Extend condolences and remembrances at www.TheKimbleFuneralHome.com. ———
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Long-time Princeton resident Margaret Mary Burlee Considine died peacefully on Saturday, May 9, 2015 follow ing a three -month struggle with cancer. She was 94 years old. Marge (as she was known to Princetonians) was born and raised on the historic Tree Hill Farm in Richmond, Virg inia. A f ter g raduating from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. in 1941 with a degree in English, she enlisted in the Navy on July 31, 1942, the very first day that women were eligible for service. Following Officer Candidate School at Smith College, she worked in the Code Room at the Naval Operating Base in Norfolk, Virginia, where she was promoted to Lieutenant and supervising officer of the Code Room and Radio Room. Marge participated in the robust social life of the Base’s Officer’s Club, where she met her future husband Lt. Norbert Aloysius Considine. After VE Day, she worked in the same capacity at Terminal Island in Long Beach, California, where she and Norbert were engaged and later married in Richmond upon returning to civilian life on the East Coast.
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After brief stints in both New York City and Philadelphia, Marge and Norb settled in Princeton in 1947. Their first home here was in the Stanworth apartments, where they made many enduring friendships that they passed on to their four children: Norbert, Brian, Kevin, and Mardi. Her husband, son Norbert, and daughter Mardi pre-deceased her. In addition to caring for her family, Marge worked at a number of schools and non-profit organizations in Princeton, including Princeton Hospital and Princeton Country Day School; with her husband she was a cofounder of Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart where she worked in various capacities. Her longest and most passionate engagement was as a Docent at the Princeton University Art Museum, where she led tours and organized study trips for members from 1980 until recently. A devotee of art, family, and friends, Marge upheld the intrepid spirit of her war years with extensive travel to Europe, Myanmar, South Africa, Istanbul, and the North Sea, and never shied away from a social engagement on the home front. She is survived by her son Brian and his wife Pam, their two sons, Liam and Caleb; her son Kevin and his partner Sonny Dumas; her daughter-in-law Eileen; her son, William and stepson Peter; her step-daughter Wylie; and five great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to HomeFront, 1880 Princeton
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Avenue, Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 47 Skillman Road, Skillman, New Jersey. Burial will be private. Arrangements are under the direction of the MatherHodge Funeral Home of Princeton. ———
William D. Baird Jr. William D. Baird Jr., known as Denny, of New Vernon, New Jersey, died peacefully on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at the age of 70. He was the son of William D. Baird and Dorothy Wodehouse Baird. Born in Washington, D.C., the son of a Naval aviator, Denny was raised in various parts of the country including McLean, Virginia, where he graduated high school. At Brown University, Denny was a member of the Delta Phi fraternity and he graduated in 1968 with a degree in political science. Denny’s 43 year career in commercial and investment banking included 27 years at Chemical Bank where he served as president of Chemical Bank-Delaware and managing director of the Global Securities and Foreign Exchange Group. In the early 1990s, he was named CEO of Princeton Bank and Trust Company. He also served as CEO of the Glenmede Trust Company of New Jersey and CEO of Beacon Trust Company before retiring in 2011. He was a member of numerous community boards including service as Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Morristown Medical
Center, trustee of McCarter Theatre and the Executive Council of the New Jersey Network Foundation. Denny was a longtime member of the Morris County Golf Club, the Morristown Club, and Saint John on the Mountain Episcopal Church. He enjoyed playing golf, gardening, collecting art, his golden retrievers, and spending time with family in Duck, North Carolina. Denny is survived by his wife of 47 years, Joy; sons, Chip and his wife Tressa of Bernardsville, New Jersey; David and his wife Jill of Arlington, Virginia; and Andrew and his wife Sarah of Kent, Connecticut; and eight grandchildren. He is also survived by his three siblings, Lyn, Richard, and Laura and their families. Family and friends were invited to visit on Sunday, May 10, 2015 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Gallaway and Crane Funeral Home, 101 South Finley Avenue, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. A funeral service was held on Monday May 11, 2015, at 10 a.m. at The Episcopal Church of Saint John on the Mountain, 379 Mt. Harmony Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey. Burial was at the St. Bernards Cemetery, Washington Ave, Bernardsville, New Jersey. For further information, please contact the funeral home at (908) 766-0250, or to light an online condolence candle please visit www.gcfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorial donations to Campaign 360, c/o Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, 475 South Street, Morristown, New Jersey 07960.
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Trinity Episcopal Church Crescent Ave., Rocky Hill, N.J. • 921-8971 (Office) Father Paul Rimassa, Vicar
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Services: Holy Eurcharist at 8:00 a.m. & 10 a.m. “All Are Welcome”
Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church 124 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ Reverend M. Muriel Burrows, Pastor 10:00 a.m. Worship Service 9:00 a.m. Sunday School for Adults 10:00 a.m. Sunday School for Children 1st-12th Grade Nursery Provided • Ramp Entrance on Quarry Street (A multi-ethnic congregation) 609-924-1666 • Fax 609-924-0365
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH 407 Nassau St. at Cedar Lane, Princeton
Sunday 9:00am Christian Education Sunday 10:30am Worship with Holy Communion Tuesday 7:30pm Taize-style Evening Prayer (Princeton University Chapel)
Call or visit our website for current and special service information. Church Office: 609-924-3642 www. princetonlutheranchurch.org An Anglican/Episcopal Parish www.allsaintsprinceton.org 16 All Saints’ Road Princeton 609-921-2420
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SPRING CLEAN UP: Prune shrubs, mulch, cut grass, weed, leaf clean up and removal. Call (609) 883-7942 or (609) 240-6404. 04-01/06-24 J.O. PAINTING & HOME IMPROVEMENTS: Painting for interior & exterior, framing, dry wall, spackle, trims, doors, windows, floors, tiles & more. Call (609) 883-5573. 05-13-16 NEED SOMETHING DONE? General contractor. Seminary Degree, 17 years experience in the Princeton area. Bath renovations, decks, tile, window/door installations, masonry, carpentry & painting. Licensed & insured. References available. (609) 477-9261. 02-18-16 SPRING CLEAN UP! Seeding, mulching, trimming, weeding, lawn mowing, planting & much more. Please call (609) 637-0550. 03-25-16 OFFICE SUITE FOR LEASE: 220 Alexander Street, Princeton. ~1,260 usable SF on 2 levels. $3,200 per month. Weinberg Management, WMC@collegetown.com, (609) 9248535. tf PRINCETON: 1 BR DUPLEX House for Rent. $1,575/mo. Parking Available. Call (609) 921-7655. tf
Fran Fox (609) 577-6654 windhamstitches.com 03-18-16 MUSIC LESSONS: Voice, piano, guitar, drums, trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, saxophone, banjo, mandolin, uke & more. One-on-one. $32/ half hour. Ongoing music camps. CALL TODAY! FARRINGTON’S MUSIC, Montgomery (609) 9248282; West Windsor (609) 897-0032, www.farringtonsmusic.com 02-11-16 HANDYMAN: For all home repairs. 35 years experience. Specializing in kitchens, baths, basements, flooring, ceramic tile, painting, drywall. No job too large or too small! Free estimates. Licensed & insured. Call (908) 966-0662. 03-04/05-20 PRINCETON RESTAURANT SPACE FOR LEASE: 1611 SF available immediately. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 08-27-tf I BUY ALL KINDS of Old or Pretty Things: China, glass, silver, pottery, costume jewelry, evening bags, fancy linens, paintings, small furniture, etc. Local woman buyer. (609) 9217469. 08-06-15
Galina Peterson Sales Associate, Realtor®
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CARPENTRY General Contracting. No job too small. Licensed and insured. Call Julius Sesztak (609) 466-0732.
www.foxroach.com 253 Nassau Street,Princeton, NJ 08540
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Introducing: 43 Linden Lane Princeton 3reat In-‐Town Loca7on
OFFICE SHARE-Wellness Center. Nassau St. 2nd floor, p/t only, available most days. Parking, great location, (908) 399-3499. 05-13-3t CLEANING SERVICE: with 20 years of experience & references, for houses, apartments & offices. (908) 829-4009; (732) 754-3731. 05-13-3t
Located a half block from Nassau St and a few minutes walk to campus. The recent renova7on was completed by award winning architect Kirsten ThoF.
Direc7ons: Nassau St. to Linden
05-13-3t GREEN TERRACE LLC: Landscaping - Tree Service - Snow Removal-Lawn Mowing-Spring Clean Up-Planting-Mulching & more. Tree Removal-Stump Grinding-Tree Trimming. Registered & Insured, Free Estimates. Contact us now: (609) 649-1718 or (609) 883-1028. E-mail: GreenTerraceLLC@hotmail.com References available. 10% off first service with this ad. 04-01/06-03
Marketed by David Schrayer Ior more informa7on call me directly (609) 933-‐5813
APARTMENT BUILDING FOR SALE by owner-In town apartment building with 3-units. Quiet & desirable residential neighborhood. Only a few blocks to Princeton University, Palmer Square & Public Library. Large parking lot. Asking $850,000. Please write to forsalebyownerprinceton@gmail. com
Offered at $969,000
ROSA’S CLEANING SERVICE: For houses, apartments, offices, daycare, banks, schools & much more. Has goo d English, own transportation. 20 years of experience. Cleaning license. References. Please call (609) 751-2188 or (609) 610-2485. 05-13-4t
Deck Renovation and Refinishing • We Repair Steps! • We Restore Old Looking Concrete! • We Re-Point Old Mortar Joints! • We Rebuild Steps! • We Repair Brick and Stone Walls! • We Fix Settling and Cracking Issues in Patios and Walkways!
We design Patios and Outdoor Living Spaces MASONRY RENOVATION AND REPAIR
We fix all masonry problems... it’s our passion!
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puregreenoutdoor@gmail.com fully insured • N.J. home improvement contractor #13VH06880500 Re-New is a division of Pure Green Outdoor Services, LLC
WANTED:
CURRENT RENTALS RESIDENTIAL RENTALS: Princeton – $1600/mo. 1 BR, 1 bath, galley kitchen. Available August 20, 2015. Princeton – $100/mo. Parking space. One block from Nassau Street. Available now.
OFFICE RENTALS: Princeton – $1600/mo. Nassau Street. 2nd floor, 3 offices, use of hall powder room. Available now. Princeton – $1650/mo. Nassau Street. 2nd floor “B”, 3 rooms. Private 1/2 bath. Available now. Princeton – $2300/mo. Nassau Street. 5-room OFFICE, completely renovated. Reception area, conference room, 4 private offices. 4 parking spaces included. Available now. Princeton – $2950/mo. Nassau Street, 2-story OFFICE. Parking. Available June 2015.
We have customers waiting for houses! STOCKTON MEANS FULL SERVICE REAL ESTATE. We list, We sell, We manage. If you have a house to sell or rent we are ready to service you! Call us for any of your real estate needs and check out our website at: http://www.stockton-realtor.com. See our display ads for our available houses for sale.
32 Chambers Street Princeton, NJ 08542 (609) 924-1416 Martha F. Stockton, Broker-Owner
STOCKTON REAL ESTATE… A Princeton Tradition
Physical Therapist/ Med Dr./Dentist +/-2,000 SF Space for Rent in Lawrenceville, off of 95 & Princeton Pike, next to the first approved 200 participant Adult Health Daycare Center. Ground Level, plenty of parking. Call for more information. (609) 921-7655. tf
Experience ✦ Honesty ✦ Integrity 32 Chambers Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 (800) 763-1416 ✦ (609) 924-1416
WHAT’S A GREAT GIFT FOR A FORMER PRINCETONIAN? A Gift Subscription! We have prices for 1 or 2 years -call (609)924-2200x10 to get more info! tf MOVING? TOO MUCH STUFF IN YOUR BASEMENT? Sell with a TOWN TOPICS classified ad! Call (609) 924-2200 ext 10 DEADLINE: Tues before 12 noon tf FLEA MARKET: Saturday May 16 from 9am until 1, at Princeton First Aid Squad, 237 North Harrison Street, next to Princeton Shopping Center. Over 30 vendors selling bric-a-brac, small appliances, kitchen, toys, furniture, books, clothes, etc. 50/50 & refreshments, too!! Rain or shine!!! 05-13 PROFESSIONAL QUALITY ELLIPTICAL MACHINE: Octane Q47ci Home Elliptical. Top of the line, perfect condition, free delivery! $3,500 or best offer. caspariant@ earthlink.net or (609) 213-2218. 05-13
STYLE AND SPACE
This expansive home is located on a marvelous piece of property in Hopewell Township not far from town center. This custombuilt home is warm and welcoming. Stunning first floor that includes master bedroom, luxurious bath and fabulous kitchen. Upstairs 2 bedrooms, a full bath, plus a study. 1400 sq.-ft. finished basement, private rear deck and detached 2-car garage. All this and more on a great piece of property in a quiet but convenient location. A MARVELOUS VALUE $659,000
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NASSAU STREET: Small Office Suites with parking. 390 sq. ft; 570 sq. ft; 1467 sq. ft. Please call (609) 9216060 for details. 08-06-tf BUYING ALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM
Everything! Guitar, bass, drums, percussion, banjo, keyboard, ukulele, mandolin, accordion, microphones, amplifiers, & accessories. Call (609) 306-0613. Local buyer.
NEW LISTING: Lawrenceville $1,099,000 Spacious 5 bedroom, 5.5 bath custom built Colonial on 2 acres in the exclusive private neighborhood of Rosedale Estates. Finished walk-out Basement (2,000 sq ft) with full bath and kitchenette. Dir: Elm or Carter Rd to Rosedale Rd to Mia Dr. Left onto Benedek. 1st house on left. 609-921-2700 ID#6559860
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PRINCETON-NASSAU STREET-OFFICE SPACE: $575/month plus parking available. (609) 921-7655. tf BUYING: Antiques, paintings, Oriental rugs, coins, clocks, furniture, old toys, military, books, silver, jewelry & musical instruments. I buy single items to entire estates. Free appraisals. (609) 890-1206 , (609) 306-0613. 07-31-15
NEW PRICE: Rocky Hill $575,000 Tucked away on a horseshoe you will find this extraordinary home with two great rooms/offices & backing to preserved land. Special moldings, beams, cedar vaulted ceilings, skylights & in-ground pool are a few of the amenties. 609-921-2700 ID#6536122
Pennington Boro $639,900 Updated 4 bd/3bth ranch w/ 2 car garage on over .50 acre. Open kitchen w/granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, hdwd flrs thru out and living rm w/ wd burning fp. Finished basement. 609-921-2700 ID#6511647
NEW LISTING: Montgomery Twp. $359,000 Home sweet home! Four bedroom two bath Cape. & two-car detached garage. The great room/dining room overlooks a brick patio & lovely yard. 609-921-2700 ID#6563848
Lawrenceville $396,000 Come see this huge3 br 2/2 ba Craftsman Style Colonial on one of the quietest streets in Lawrence. You will not be disappointed! 609-921-2700 ID# 6546994
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM
Lawrence Twp. $1,340,000 Custom elegant Colonial known as “Evergreen Manor” with Princeton address is on 1.92 professionally landscaped acres featuring 6,774 square feet living area. Five bedrooms, 5.5 bath home is an outstanding and brilliantly planned home for the professional with discriminating tastes. 609-921-2700 ID#6389917
Hopewell Twp $345,000 Cape outside Hopewell Boro, 4 BR, 2 BA, kitchen, b’fast nook, living room, HW, screened 3-season porch & patio. Many recent updates. Two car garage & basement. Dir: Rt 31 N, R Rt 546, on right past Sunset. 609-737-1500 ID#6551746
Hopewell Twp $424,900 Spacious home, new kitchen with top of the line appliances. Professionally painted in neutral tones. Close to Hopewell Twp schools and Library & new septic. Dir: Rt 31 ,W Delaware Av, R Dublin Rd 609-737-1500 ID#6546227
Hamilton Twp $349,500 Model Quality 55+ Locust Hill single home. Luxury with $100+ upgrades. Incredible kitchen, gas fireplace and den. 1st floor BR, 3 BR and 2.5 BA total. Deck and 2 car attached garage. Dir: Yardville-Hamilton Sq , Locust Hill Blvd 609-737-1500 ID#6522362
NEED A PLUMBER? Master Plumber Phillip E. Gantner for plumbing, heating & mechanical. Residential & commercial. NJ License: B 106867. (609) 943-1315 (cell); pgantner47@gmail.com tf EDDY’S LANDSCAPE & HARDSCAPE CORP: Lawn maintenance, spring/fall cleanup, mulching, mowing, rototilling, fertilizing, pruning, planting, lawn cutting, tree service. Patios, walls retain, stone construction, drainage, fences, etc. Free Estimates. 10% off. (609) 213-3770; edy_davila@msn.com 03-04/11-25 HOME REPAIR SPECIALIST: Interior/exterior repairs, carpentry, trim, rotted wood, power washing, painting, deck work, sheet rock/ spackle, gutter & roofing repairs. Punch list is my specialty. 40 years experience. Licensed & insured. Call Creative Woodcraft (609) 586-2130
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM
Lawrence $379,900 Woodmont contemporary Aries model townhouse, major improvements & upgrades. 2 BR, 2.5BA. ultra kitchen w/ granite, FR w/ stove FP and 2 car garage. Dir: Franklin Corner L Woodmont 2nd L Marvin 609-737-1500 ID#6552054
Robbinsville $389,000 Washington Towne Center “The Lofts”. 2 BR, 2 BA, 2512 Sq Ft with Basement Storage. Huge open end unit with Loft. Dir: Rte #33,Robbinsville-Edinburg, Left into Parking Lot. Bldg 2360 #309 3rd Flr (Next to Centro Grill). 609-737-1500 ID#6477812
Hopewell Twp $824,899 Contemporary 4 BR, 3 full BA with 4 car garage on 6.7 acres. Master BR with sitting area and balcony, Jacuzzi, custom cabinetry. Fabulous stonework entrance, blue stone patios, bi-level deck. Dir: 31N, L Woodsamonsa, R Poor Farm. 609-737-1500 ID#6537315
06-11-15 STORAGE SPACE: 194 Nassau St. 1227 sq. ft. Clean, dry, secure space. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details.
NEW PRICE: Pennington, NJ $295,500 Discover a quaint 2 story house on Main St. with a large front yard which allow for privacy. There are 3 bdrms, bath, small den, large LR and DR. The backyard has a patio and two storage sheds. 609-737-1500 ID# 6504167
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SPRING FLEA MARKET at Princeton Elks 2129, Sunday May 17, 9-1, 354 Route 518 Skillman, near Route 601 (Great Road). Rain date is Sunday May 31. There will be over 50 vendors selling household, kitchen, books, furniture, clothes, art, toys, gift items, electronics, etc. Bake sale & refreshments will be sold. Spaces ($10) are still available, just show up Sunday any time after 7:30. 05-13 GARAGE SALE: Saturday, May 16th, from 9-1. 91 Bertrand Drive, Princeton. Small furniture, clothes, toys, shoes, small appliances, kitchen items, etc. 05-13
Rheva Katz Coldwell Banker Hearthside, Realtors 100 Brandywine Blvd. Newtown, PA 18940 267 350-5555, x2593
10 Ainsley Court, Newtown, PA: Looking For The Perfect Home and Low Taxes Too? This is the one! Situated on a cul-de-sac premium lot. Open floor plan with a bumped out family room. Floorto- ceiling stone fireplace. Gourmet kitchen. Backs to trees. Energy efficient. Conveniently located near Princeton, NJ and Philadelphia. For details on home see: http://10ainsleycourt.CanBYours.com. Call for directions for this Sunday’s Open House. $849,900
OFFICE FURNITURE FOR SALE: 1) Credenza, 94”L x20”W x30”H, 6 drawers. 2) Complimentary bookcase, 70”L x12½”W x72”H. 3) Mosler safe, 23¼”L x 28”W x 42”H. (609) 471-1412. 05-13 FOR SALE: (2) 5-drawer Flat files/ map file cabinets, steel, 41”w, 281/2”d, 16”h, $150. each. Bookcases various sizes, $15. each. (609) 651-6280, leave message if no answer. 05-13
STOCKTON REAL ESTATE… A Princeton Tradition Experience ✦ Honesty ✦ Integrity 32 Chambers Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 (800) 763-1416 ✦ (609) 924-1416
Employment Opportunities in the Princeton Area ELEMENTARY TEACHING POSITIONS:
PART TIME DRIVERS:
St. Paul Catholic School of Princeton currently seeks candidates for the elementary teaching positions listed below. All applicants should possess a bachelors degree in an approriate field of study (masters preferred) & hold or be eligible for New Jersey Certification. Teaching experience preferred. Anticipated Openings: · Kindergarten · Middle School. Math Interested candidates should complete an online application through the website below. Due to the volume of applications we cannot accept telephone inquires. ht tp: // w w w.applitrack .c o m / spsprinceton/onlineapp/ 05-13-2t
ART STUDENT/ COLLEGE PREFERRED: 20 Hours Guaranteed $15/hour. To help design, make & sell jewelry. Princeton Store. Tuesday 1-5; Thursday 11-5 or 1-6; Friday 11-5. Every other Saturday 4 hours. Text (609) 213-6217. 04-22-5t
No CDL needed, flexible hours, local and airport runs. Call (609) 5772033. 05-13-3t
PART TIME HELPER, COMPANION & COOK: Reliable, intelligent, fun person needed to cook healthy, light meals, converse/help terrific elderly individual in their home. Start several times/week & possibly build up. Must have car & be in Princeton. Telephone (917) 838-9107. 05-13
ANIMAL CARE WORKERS/GROOMERS: Positions available at Small Dog Rescue. Enjoy working with canines at a pleasant country sanctuary for small dogs. People skills helpful too. Call (908) 904-9154 or Email ewilsonj@ ix.netcom.com 05-13-3t
VAN OTR DRIVERS: Earn up to $55,000 ANNUALLY! Lots of Miles, Great Pay, New Trucks! Also offering Paid Vacation, Great Home Time! Call (888) 542-5073. 05-13-2t
ONLINE www.towntopics.com
Advertising Account Manager The ideal candidate will have experience in selling space in luxury print publications or on the web, to regional and or national clients. Candidates must be self starters able to source new business and provide quality service to their accounts. This position is based out of our Princeton NJ office but requires travel to NYC. Full and part time positions available. We offer a friendly working environment and competitive wages. Witherspoon Media Group publishes Princeton Magazine, Urban Agenda New York City, and Town Topics Newspaper. Please submit cover letter and resume to: editor@witherspoonmediagroup.com An Equal Opportunity Employer
SEARCHING FOR THE PERFECT PLACE?
Your search may be over when you see this spacious home and enter the welcoming foyer. The amenities include a stunning great room with natural wood vaulted ceiling and fireplace, eat-in kitchen, living room with fireplace, dining room, study, 4 bedrooms, 2 full and 2 half baths, gleaming hardwood floors, numerous windows providing a light-filled atmosphere, 3-car garage with 2nd floor storage, large deck with hot tub. In the perfect Pennington Borough location, a great house at a great price. $699,000
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STOCKTON REAL ESTATE… A Princeton Tradition Experience ✦ Honesty ✦ Integrity 32 Chambers Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 (800) 763-1416 ✦ (609) 924-1416
Part-Time Digital Manager Witherspoon Media Group is looking for a part-time Digital Manager to help design, edit, and manage websites for Princeton Magazine and Urban Agenda New York City. Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS and Javascript is required. The candidate must have prior experience designing and managing large-scale websites. The ability to embed video and manage digital ads is also required. This is a great opportunity to join Witherspoon Media Group’s rapidly expanding digital team. Email resume and work samples to taylor.smith@witherspoonmediagroup.com
An Equal Opportunity Employer
• Recycling • MONDAY For Princeton
NEW CONSTRUCTION AT ITS BEST
In a most convenient Princeton location, prominent builder is constructing 2 new houses, each on .75 acre. Call for details. $1,950,000
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CRANBURY, This Col. has kit. & breakfast room, a FR w/FP, a sun room, a study, a MBR w/dressing room & BA, a “Princess Suite” - BR w/BA & a Jack & Jill suite - 2 BRs share a BA, a fin. basement w/kit. & BA. $1,055,000 Katherine Pease 609-577-6598 (cell)
CRANBURY, Custom built, with attention to detail, this Cranbury home features five bedrooms, five bathrooms, an au pair suite, custom finishes and a designer kitchen. $1,150,000 Donna Reilly 609-462-3737 (cell)
NEW TO THE MARKET
NEW TO THE MARKET
PRINCETON, Open House Wed. 11 AM - 1 PM. Modern and updated Littlebrook home on a quiet tree-lined street. Close to town and schools. This is a must see! Dir: Nassau to Scott. $775,000 Ingela Kostenbader 609-902-5302 (cell)
PRINCETON, Open House Wed. 11 AM - 2 PM. Renov. kit., formal rms w/ access to deck, HW, a master ensuite & 2 BRs w/hall BA, a FR w/wb FP & 4th BR on LL., 2-car gar. & mudrm. Dir: Shadybrook to Dodds to #38. $869,000 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
NEW TO THE MARKET
LUxURY LITTLEBROOK COLONIAL
PRINCETON, Bright and expanded split level home in desirable Littlebrook location, hardwood floors, fireplace and other features, a twocar garage, fenced yard, four bedrooms and 2.5 baths. $875,000 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
PRINCETON, Col. home w/ formal DR & LR, a kit. w/ granite countertops, a great room, a MBR, 1 BR w/en-suite BA & 2 addit. BRs connected by a Jack-and-Jill BA and a full basement w/ a wine cellar. $1,888,000 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
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