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Trump’s Plans to Cut Arts and Culture Funds Have Local Implications Among the Trump administration’s planned budget cuts are the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. While this isn’t the first time these two agencies have been targeted, the current threats have culturally-minded citizens concerned. The NEA and NEH, which at 0.02 percent represent only a small slice of the Federal budget, help fund locally-based arts and cultural organizations. The Princeton Public Library; People & Stories, Gente y Cuentos; McCarter Theatre; and Trenton’s Passage Theatre Company are among those that have received support. But landing a grant from the NEA or NEH isn’t only about finances. “It’s the symbolism of it as well,” said Emily Mann, artistic director of McCarter Theatre. “We not only get the money from them, we have the imprimatur. And that can be leveraged.” Only last month, McCarter received a $35,000 grant to support a year-round creative incubator for writers in all stages of their careers. Ms. Mann is “very alarmed,” she said last week, at the current threats. “The NEA has been so supportive of McCarter. I think what is really important is that people understand that the arts are not a luxury. They are essential to a healthy democracy, the heart and soul of a community and a country. When you look at history, the great civilizations are remembered for their arts and humanities. The destruction of the arts and lack of understanding of the essential side of the arts to a nation is the beginning of the downfall of a nation.” Stanley Katz, a professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and director of its Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, is concerned. But he doesn’t necessarily see doom for the NEA and NEH in the near future. “It’s too soon to tell. We really don’t know what is going to happen,” he said last week. “I think it’s very unlikely that they will completely abolish or defund the two. There has been enough support for a long time to keep them alive. The real issue is whether there will be additional cuts to their annual budgets, which are at a low level now.” Mr. Katz said it is likely that there will Continued on Page 4

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Council Votes Against Charter School Expansion

Before a standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 outspoken community members the Municipal Council voted 4-1 on Monday night to approve a resolution urging the State Department of Education to deny Princeton Charter School’s (PCS) recent application to expand. In responding to a conflict between PCS and Princeton Public Schools (PPS) supporters, who have claimed devastating effects to their budget if the expansion is approved, the Council members discussed the issue at some length and listened to a range of opinions from the public before casting their votes on the resolution. Council member Jo Butler recused herself from the proceedings on the grounds that she works for a consulting firm that has been employed by PCS in the past. The lone nay vote was lodged by Bernie

Miller, who proposed tabling the issue so the Council could fully examine the “unintended consequences” of breaking with precedent to interfere in the business of other institutions in the community. The Council resolution will serve as a non-binding recommendation to Acting New Jersey Commissioner of Education Kimberley Harrington, who will make the final decision on the Charter School proposal, probably by early March. Citing a significant potential impact on Princeton taxpayers if the expansion is approved, new Council President Jenny Crumiller stated, “I believe we have an obligation to do what we can. The Charter School expansion would have a negative effect on the rest of the community.” The issue of lack of local control of charter schools also concerned Ms. Crumiller, who cited the need to “have a hearing

because people in town feel they have no other place to go.” Lance Liverman, along with others on the Council, emphasized that his vote was “not against the Charter School. It’s about fairness in the community.” He predicted that in the current political climate more and more citizens will be turning to the local government for support in cases like this. The Council members noted that they had received many compelling emails from constituents on both sides of the issue, though most in support of the Council resolution. Council member Heather Howard noted the “tremendous pride” manifested in community support for both PPS and PCS, “How proud people are of our schools, how they want to maintain what is so Continued on Page 13

Council Members In Saturday’s Marches From Trenton to L.A.

KEEPING IT PEACEFUL: The diverse crowd of more than 6,000 women, men, and children who showed up in Trenton on Saturday to march for women’s rights, civil rights, and other causes threatened by the new administration was upbeat and positive. Princeton Council members were among those marching from the War Memorial to the State House. (Photo by Emily Reeves)

Among the millions taking part in the women’s marches Saturday, January 21 in several corners of the globe were members of Princeton’s governing body. Council members Lance Liverman, Heather Howard, and Tim Quinn joined marchers in Trenton. Jo Butler was in Los Angeles and participated in that city’s event. While Mayor Liz Lempert was under the weather and could not attend, and Councilwoman Jenny Crumiller was not able to take part, both professed to be with the marchers in spirit. Bernie Miller did not take part, but his wife rode one of the two buses from Princeton to Washington to march there. The Trenton event began with speakers and musical guests inside Patriot’s Theater at the War Memorial, continuing with a march to the nearby State House. Speakers included Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, Congressman Donald Norcross, Assemblywomen Pamela Lampitt, Elizabeth Muoio, and Shavonda Sumter, civil rights advocate Edith Savage-Jennings, and many more including representatives of Planned Parenthood and Garden State Equality. Mr. Liverman said he was asked by people why he was taking part in the Trenton march, which is estimated to have attracted upwards of 6,000. “The answer is simple,” he wrote in an email. “With the administration in place at the Federal Continued on Page 13

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMISSIONER of the New Jersey Department of Education We, the undersigned, vigorously oppose Princeton Charter School’s application to expand its enrollment by 76 students. This expansion would have devastating consequences for Princeton Public Schools and the 3,700 students served by the district. Please reject the application, as it is not in the best interests of the Princeton community. Aabid Abbasi Sadaf Abbasi Fadi Abdel Andrea Ackerman Nachiappan Adaikalavan Matthew Adebayo Pamela Adler Riz Aktur Arz Aktur Kristen Albright Kelly Alexander Lyle Kevin Allen Danielle Almstead Robert Altman Peter Andolfatto Alexis Andres Michelle Angelone Heidi Applegate Joseph Arns Shaista Azizalam Charan Bajwa Alice Baker Jay Balasubramanian Ashley Balavoine Joshua Ballinger Debjani Banerjee Tara Bansal Andrea Barker Stephane Barlet Stephen Barone James Basso Lisa Beamer Beamer Thomas Beatty Sam Becker Elizabeth Beers Beth Behrend Margaret Beissinger Marjorie Bell Dara Bellace Susan Bellew Ruha Benjamin Francesca Benson Keren Bergman Andrea Bergman Jeffrey Bergman Alfred Bertrand Molly Besler Santina Beslity Shamoli Bhattacharjya Caden Bialow Stacey Bialow Helena Bienstock Cliff Birge Cecilia Birge Robin Black Douglas Blair Haim Blecher Adam Blejwas Jane Borns Lori Bornstein Amanda Botwood Lisa Boulanger Matthew Bowen Lynda Bradley Edward Brady Carol Breslaw Carlos Brody Debbie Bronfeld Nellie Brook Zoe Brookes Marie Bros Anna Brouwer Christine Brown Julia Brown

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be additional cuts. “Then the question is, how does that come?,” he continued. “It could be an across-the-board percentage cut for all programs. Or as we had in the early 90s, selective cuts. The NEA at that time cut out all grants to individual artists and major institutions. There isn’t any specific agenda against either of the endowments right now. My guess is that it would be an across-the-board cut.” Most arts organizations don’t count on the NEA for a significant portion of their budgets, Mr. Katz said. “The impact on the town of Princeton will probably be pretty marginal. I can’t think of any particular regular programming here that is dependent upon an annual grant from the NEA or NEH.” That said, “It’s bad, moralewise,” Mr. Katz added. “Emotionally and psychologically, it’s a blow. I don’t want to say it’s not a problem. But I think in general, the community of arts supporters have badly over estimated the extent upon which the arts are dependent on the NEA. The bulk of support for the arts comes from state and local funding, and that isn’t affected by this. Advocates will make it sound like a crippling blow, but it won’t be.” The NEH provided funding for an endowed program in the humanities at Princeton Public Library. The library matched the grant, and the program is now managed by the Princeton Public Library Foundation, which distributes some of the funding each year for live, in-person programming, the Museum Pass program, and development of the collection, among other uses. “It is really important and has benefited Princeton directly, as well as public libraries in general,” says the library’s director Brett Bonfield. Humanities fellow Hannah Schmidle and public programming librarian Janie Hermann work with other libraries as part of the initiative. “It was a pilot program,” Mr. Bonfield said. “The idea was to demonstrate the value of the humanities within a public library context. It would be a huge loss for the State of New Jersey, and our community, if people didn’t have access to these kinds of programs and services.” Mr. Bonfield also serves on the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, as does Mr. Katz, a longtime board member and its former president. The overwhelming majority of the funding for the Coun-

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cil comes through the NEH. “Roughly half of the funding of the NEH goes to Federal support, and the other half goes to the states,” Mr. Bonfield explained. “Each state gets a certain portion of that Federal funding. New Jersey gets about $800,000 a year and we’re able to distribute that to non-profits in New Jersey that serve the entire state. That has really enabled the state’s cultural institutions to fulfill their missions in important ways. “For not a tremendous amount of money, the value we’re able to provide is really high. And for a lot of the non-profits that benefit from the funding, it would be hard on them to be as successful without it. Nobody really depends on us to keep the lights on, but $10,000 here and $20,000 there really goes far.”

Having peaked in the mid1970s, Federal arts and humanities funding has been going down ever since. While there have been serious cuts over the past few decades, the budgets of the NEA and NEH have survived. “We have been threatened in the past and fought back and prevailed,” Ms. Mann said. “I don’t know if we will prevail this time or not, but we have to organize and let them know how essential the NEA, NEH, and public broadcasting are. Both art and journalism are at stake. We don’t want to come back to when it has to be about the rich patron only. If we have to, we have to, but that’s not healthy and it could mean the downfall of many institutions. No matter who you voted for, this is alarming for the health of our society.” —Anne Levin

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A Community Bulletin Meet the Mayor: Mayor Liz Lempert holds open office hours Friday, January 27 from 8:30-10:30 a.m. in the lobby of the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. SOUP-er Bowl: A panel of local chefs from Whole Earth, The Rocky Hill Inn, Fantastic Thai Cuisine, and elsewhere share secrets of making their signature soups on Sunday, January 29 from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Members of the community can share recipes at bit.ly/PPLsouperbowl for a compilation of recipes to share online. Late Thursdays at Princeton University Art Museum: On February 2, 5-8 p.m., the museum on campus is open for tours led by the newest class of student guides. Free. Chinese New Year Celebration: Plainsboro Public Library at 9 Van Doren Street marks the Year of the Rooster on Saturday, February 4 from noon-4:30 p.m. with traditional food, crafts, dances, games, art, and lantern riddles. www.lmxac.org or (609) 275-2897. Communiversity Applications: Available for Communiversity ArtsFest 2017, taking place April 30. Artists, crafters, performers, food vendors, merchants, non-profit organizations, and sponsors should visit artscouncilofprinceton.org to download applications. The deadline is February 28. Donate Blood: The American Red Cross is in major need of blood donations, which can be made at 707 Alexander Road, Suite 701. Visit redcross. org for more information. Free Rabies Clinic: Saturday, February 25, 9 a.m. to noon at the Princeton Fire Department, 363 Witherspoon Street.

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Planning a convivial atmosphere and simple service, Cargot, across from McCarter Theatre and next to the Dinky Bar and Kitchen, which opened six moths ago, will seat 165 inside (including 15 at the bar) and 65 outside on its patio. “Cargot will serve delicious, French-inspired, approachable food,” a press release reads, “and will offer a seasonally changing menu of classic brasserie fare including Steak Frites, Escargot, Moules Frites, Steak Tartare, and more.” The name is derived from a French dish — shrimp or lobster cargot — but is also punning on the building’s past as freight and cargo site for the old train station. Run by Fenwick Hospitality Group, which also operates the Dinky Bar and K itchen, Agr icola, Main Street Restaurant Group, and the Great Road Farm, Cargot Brasserie was designed by Delano Design Studio of New York. Fenwick owner Jim Nawn commented, “The Dinky has been met with appreciation in the community, similar to Agricola, and based on the same experience of great food, service, and environment. But it alone is incomplete, as we move toward opening Cargot, which will offer a different but complementary experience, dining on French inspired fare throughout the day, in a bright and comfortable setting.” Reflecting on the new arrivals coming to Princeton Shopping Center, Elizabeth Furnelli, managing director of Eden property management, stated, “It’s an exciting time at Princeton Shopping Center as we prepare to welcome several new partners throughout the spring.” She went on to mention The Papery, which is relocating from Palmer Square, Chop’t and Dental Care Princeton,

stating, “We look forward to the new openings, which all continue to enhance our vibrant neighborhood.” In response to a question about seven vacant store spaces at the shopping center, Eden’s Communication Manager Elizabeth Traynor declined to comment further, saying only, “We take a thoughtful approach to merchandising and look forward to that continuation at the Princeton Shopping Center. Palmer Square Management marketing director Anita Fresolone reported on the addition of MAC Cosmetics at 11 Palmer Square West, and expressed optimism about several other Continued on Next Page

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great elementar y school teachers who definitely had an impact on me. I always knew I was going to be a teacher.” Not only did she quickly gravitate toward the profession, but after working at a summer camp with kids from kindergarten to sixth grade during her high school and college years she knew that her focus would be on younger children. Her affinity for math and science teaching came a bit later. “I feel there are a lot of kids who are alienated from math and science,” she said. “I wanted to show kids that they absolutely can do it, that it’s not a mysterious thing that only certain people can be good at. I wanted to show them that there’s a world out there they can access. I love doing all the hands-on stuff

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passion, which will be helpful when they go to high school, because when a kid has a passion everything else falls into place.” As a science teacher, Ms. Jacob is frequently able to fuse her concerns for the environment with her teaching at the Montessori School. She discussed a lesson on soil erosion featuring a visit from a local farmer and a design project where the students planned what their particular farms would look like. “Last year we talked about where foods come from and how hard it is to become a farmer,” she said. “We talked about soil. And in the spring we’re going to study water, where it comes from, how we pollute it, how we clean it.” In the Middle During her 23 years in the classroom, Ms. Jacob has taught all of the elementary grades, from first to eighth, but middle school is her favorite age to work with. “Most teachers don’t even think about middle school,” she said. “They want to be elementary or high school teachers. The age is challenging for some. Some people don’t remember what it’s like to be in middle school. They kind of black it out. I remember being that age, all the things kids are going through. I can relate to what they’re saying, what they’re doing, how they’re behaving.” Expressing concern about the inevitable constraints of high school, Ms. Jacob emphasized the importance of children’s middle school experience. “I feel that middle school might be the last chance they have to see that they can do anything they want,” she said. “Sometimes when kids get to high school they get put into little boxes, or they put themselves into boxes where they say, ‘Oh, I’ll never be good at math.’ The oppor tunit y to give them a great experience to be excited about school before they go off to high school is fun for me.” She went on to describe other pleasures of teaching middle schoolers. “Really they make me laugh,’ she said. “They’re so funny and so excited about things in the world. They say things that are so observant and

HANDS-ON EDUCATOR: Michelle Jacob, science and math teacher and middle school program coordinator at Princeton Montessori School, believes that all schools could use “a big infusion of Montessori” to focus children and teachers less on testing and more on skills. sometimes so crazy.” Contemporary Difficulties In the current troubled climate for education, both public and private, Ms. Jacob showed concern about some recent trends and reiterated her commitment to the Montessori philosophy. “Education could use a big infusion of Montessori,” she said. “The idea of teaching kids just to pass a test makes me crazy. The idea of somebody deciding what a kid needs to know at a particular age is artificial. Some kids just develop more quickly than others, and some kids just aren’t ready because of family issues or health issues, or a whole host of things that could affect them on the test day. I think we need to redesign a lot of the system. We need to have kids more excited about things and less concerned with just filling in the bubbles. We do want accountability, but we don’t want tests to be that accountability.” Other facets of the contemporary world also pose difficulties for young students, according to Ms. Jacob. “Kids have gotten over-scheduled,” she noted. “They’re almost regimented. They get so used to following a schedule that sometimes

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Fair Share to reach an agreement or determination of our obligation. We will continue to provide affordable housing opportunities notwithstanding the legal process. Most recently, affordable units have been built at Copperwood, Letters Do Not Necessarily Reflect the Views of Town Topics AvalonBay, Merwick-Stanworth, and in two group homes for disabled adults. For more information, please refer to the FAQ on the princetonnj.gov website. LIz LEMPERT, JENNy CRuMILLER, JO BuTLER, To Mayor Liz Lempert, Council President Jenny Crumiller, HEATHER HOWARD, LANCE LIVERMAN, and Council Members Jo Butler, Heather Howard, Lance BERNIE MILLER, TIM QuINN Liverman, Bernard Miller and Timothy Quinn: Princeton Community Housing (PCH) is a non-profit developer, manager, and advocate for affordable homes and is the largest provider of low and moderate income rental homes in Princeton. Over five decades, PCH has To the Editor: worked collaboratively with Princeton government and has I’m writing in support of Princeton Charter School’s exdeveloped and manages Princeton Community Village, pansion. Our experience of the school has been overwhelmElm Court, and Harriet Bryan House, as well as homes at ingly positive, and the education provided our daughter Griggs Farm and other locations throughout town. over the past five years, extraordinary. She will go on to We have always supported the Mt. Laurel Doctrine — high school equipped to do work at the highest level of that each community in the state must provide, through its challenge and achievement, and we feel deeply fortunate zoning codes, its fair share of a variety of housing options that she had the chance to thrive in an atmosphere of so that persons of all incomes may have an opportunity to vigorous learning, aided by small school size, a highly motivated teaching staff, and sense of community that its find homes in their chosen community. We were very disappointed to learn that on January leaders have cultivated meticulously over its 20 years in 10, a trial expected to continue well into February began existence. That said, our personal experience is not in itself an arin the Superior Court in Trenton. The goal of this proceeding, which is being advanced by Princeton and four gument for expansion, or even for charter schools. Count other municipalities, is to obtain the lowest possible fair me among the cynical when discussions of charter schools share housing allocation. Each municipality has appropri- came up in the 80s and 90s and my fellow liberals and I ated $50,000 to cover the costs. The Mercer trial will be found that they likely distracted resources and attention the second attempt to validate the allocations advocated from local public schools. Why not double down on the by an expert hired by the municipalities. A similar 2016 schools at hand rather than fracture efforts by diverting trial in Middlesex County resulted in a finding that the those resources to new and untried projects? municipal methodology failed, in almost all respects, to The turning point came when I accepted a job as pubconform to the methodology ordered by the Supreme Court lisher of The New Republic, whose liberal credentials I’d in 2015. long admired, but whose iconoclastic stances — particuFar more important than a municipal fair share number is larly on “identity politics” issues, which were anathema the development of a realistic compliance plan that results to them — I found particularly refreshing. In addressing in zoning that permits a variety of housing options that complex issues head-on, and with an eye towards what can serve persons of all incomes. In Princeton, a public benefits the community, it provided illumination on the process to build consensus on a compliance plan has been trade-offs, not a cheerleading section for the party. And at a standstill since mid-2015 while legal maneuvers to the magazine taught me of the value of charter schools, reduce the fair share have taken precedence. With respect beginning with: why not? Particularly for underserved comto low and moderate income homes, concern has been munities that were failing their children at catastrophic expressed that each affordable home must be financed by rates, why not try out new models of success that could construction of four market rate homes. PCH has demon- help those children, their futures, and eventually, those strated throughout its history that affordable homes can be communities? I agreed. created without sole reliance on inclusionary 80/20 zoning And of course, charter schools — as opposed to, in my strategies, and we will continue to create affordable homes opinion, privatized education and the range of issues inwithout reliance on 80/20 financing. troduced by, for example, current Education Secretary Every day we see the growing need for affordable homes. nominee Betsy DeVos — are at base progressive notions, The lack of a sufficient number of homes at all price points which is why President Bill Clinton signed the first Charter prevents seniors from remaining in their community, forces School Program into law in l994 and kicked off a conworkers to commute long distances, discourages employers tinuous line of support from leading Democrats. Barack from locating or expanding their businesses here, hinders Obama expanded on Clinton’s leadership around charter economic growth and limits the socioeconomic diversity schools, doubling funding for high-quality, public charter schools and launching “National Charter School Week.” that so many in Princeton appreciate. We urge the Mayor and Council to end the fair share Hillary Clinton was and is a charter school supporter, and litigation by following the example of over 90 other New while she was booed at the National Education Association Jersey municipalities — negotiate a fair share allocation convention last July for saying so, it’s a philosophy she’s now, utilizing the mediation process offered by the court, carried since her earliest days working at the Children’s so that we can move forward together to plan and provide Defense Fund. Finally, Cory Booker — a progressive from the get-go — is a strong supporter of Charter Schools, in the homes that we all agree are needed. We look forward to continuing our work to ensure that New Jersey and elsewhere. Why? Because they all believe in bringing both the spirit Princeton will remain an inclusive, income diverse, vibrant community of opportunity for persons of all back- of innovation that charter schools foster, and have seen how innovation drives new ideas and, in President Clinton’s grounds. RICH GITTLEMAN words, “rapidly replicating excellence.” We’re blessed to President, Board of Trustees live in a community that provides a range of excellent public schools and committed teachers, and which continues to attract new families at a record rate. Knowing that the current expansion proposal for PCS would help alleviate crowding at the middle school; educate existing and new students with greater efficiency, from a revenue perspecTo the Editor: Princeton has a long history of working cooperatively tive; double down on attracting kids from our underserved with Princeton Community Housing, but we feel the need households; and provide the current PCS students more to correct the record. We are in court because the State elbow room, I’m hopeful that the school’s expansion readministrative process under COAH (the state housing quest will be granted. STEPHANIE SANDBERG agency, Council on Affordable Housing) has been dysVreeland Court functional since 1999. As a result, in 2015 the New Jersey Supreme Court created a process for towns to go to court to have their affordable housing obligations determined, and plans approved — a function that previously would have been performed by COAH. To the Editor: The trial courts throughout the State, including in Mercer I must confess that we were one of those families that County, have been tasked with determining each town’s were seeking a “high quality alternative” in public eduaffordable housing obligation through 2025, and we are cation at Princeton. For three years, we tried Princeton participating in that process. Princeton joined with most of Charter School under the promise of a better education the other municipalities in the state to share costs in hiring and teachers committed to improve the academics of our an expert to conduct an analysis of each town’s obligation. kids. The experience was not exactly as promised, not all Meanwhile the judge hearing the case for Mercer County children received the promised great education (especially hired an independent consultant, or “Special Master,” to in the upper school). At the end, PCS made us feel that we help her determine the appropriate obligation number for were not the right demographics for the school, we ended each Mercer County town. moving back to PPS. The municipal expert, Econsult, determined Princeton’s The argument that PCS offers a better and cost effective obligation to be 320 units. The court’s special master calalternative to PPS is not quite accurate. Most of what PPS culated Princeton’s number as 424 units. Independently, provides at no cost PCS charges to parents, which imposes Princeton held a series of public meetings and in consultaan additional financial burden to low-income families. The tion with our Planning Board and staff, determined that we greatest impact of this, in a small school like PCS, is that it could create 445 new affordable units, and we submitted creates social disadvantages and stigmas to those families that plan to the Court to that effect. This is more than the and, most importantly, to their children. Furthermore, to municipality’s expert required, and even more than the fully function PCS relies on family contributions which add Court’s own expert had estimated. The analysis prepared by Fair Share calls for Princeton to add 1480 new afford- another layer of inequality. Parents that contribute the most able units. Currently Princeton has 10,136 housing units, enjoy better all-around treatment, especially in the upper of which approximately 959 are non-market, subsidized school. After all, let’s be reminded that PCS is privately run, but publicly funded. There is no accountability when housing. those who run the school are a small group of influential We remain committed to working with the Court and teachers and parents on the Board of Trustees.

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The above has had its toll on the impact of PCS in the community. using data from DOE/NJ, in 1998 (a year after PCS started), the demographic composition of PPS and PCS were roughly similar and closely mirroring Princeton’s. The percentage of African Americans and Hispanics students were 18 percent in PPS and 12 percent in PCS, Census of 2000 shows 12 percent for the town. Seventeen years later, in 2015, these two groups represented 19 percent of the student body in PPS and just 6 percent of PCS, Census of 2010 shows that African Americans and Hispanics represented 14 percent of Princeton. The percentages of students in free/reduced lunch show even bigger differences, in 1998 10 percent of students were in the program at PPS while PCS did not have any; by 2015 those percentages increased to 13 percent for PPS and only to 2 percent for PCS. These numbers show that in almost 20 years of its existence, PCS has been unable to provide access to “high level education” to minority groups that have been traditionally marginalized and to low income families in general. In my opinion and own experience, I strongly believe that the Princeton Charter School does not need an expansion, it needs a serious makeover or a definite shutdown. VERONICA OLIVARES Edwards Place

Charter Schools Are Supposed to Offer A Two-Way Street of Collaboration

To the Editor: Our family moved to the Princeton Public Schools (PPS) district in 2005, so we were not here when the Charter School was founded. Given my background in education, I remember wondering, back then, why we had a charter school. It wasn’t clear to me why an “alternative” was needed when the public schools appeared so strong. Nonetheless, the Charter School’s existence has been a fact during the years in which we’ve raised our children here, and millions of all of our tax dollars have been directed toward it. I know families who have happily sent their children to the Charter School, and been more than pleased by it. Still, I continued to wonder what our school system overall was gaining from it. In the interest of following the Obamas’ example to “take the high road” and be an engaged citizen, I’ve tried to listen carefully as the heat has risen over the Charter School’s proposed expansion. I reached out to those I knew at the Charter School and tried to understand their perspectives. I believe their good intentions for the children they serve and want to serve. I believe they want it to be a place of excellence, compassion, and creativity, just like all the other schools in our district. But I believe it is not in our community’s best interest to expand the Charter School at the expense of our school district. Given the powerful benefits of diversity in the Princeton Public School system, I understand the Charter School’s desire to attract a more diverse population. The impetus toward inclusivity characterizes our community’s best and most aspirational self. But the Charter School has not presented evidence that it is better positioned to serve more English language learners or low-income students more effectively than the Princeton Public Schools. I believe that we must make the best interest of our most vulnerable students and the closing of the achievement gap a major priority — and I am unconvinced that Charter School expansion is the answer. I ask the Princeton Charter School to share publicly more about the innovations it has incubated — what can PPS learn, for example, about curricular and social-emotional impact of a K-8 (as opposed to K-5 and 6-8) structure, and the importance of recess in middle school? The two-way street of collaboration would benefit all of our children, and that’s what charter schools are supposed to offer. I urge those who will make the decision about the proposed expansion to consider the opportunity cost for the school district overall if these funds are diverted to serve the small community of the Charter School. The tradeoff is untenable. The Charter School’s expansion proposal would damage the many for the benefit of few. I encourage our community to prioritize meeting the needs and potential of our most vulnerable students within PPS. I believe we can do better on this score, and we must. I am for our community’s best effort to offer excellence and balance, and I don’t think the Charter School expansion is the most judicious use of the $1.2 million at stake. I hope that out of this process, we can come together toward the common good. JESS DEuTSCH, EDM, LSW Founder, Princeton Balance

Timing Excellent for Front Page Photograph of New Mercer Oak

To the Editor: I was very pleased by your photograph of the new Mercer Oak on page one of the January 11 issue of Town Topics. The timing could not have been better. In the obituary you ran for Louise Morse, it was indicated that she gave the Battlefield Society or the Park Commission the seedlings for the new Mercer Oak; and Saturday (January 14) was the Memorial Service for Louise Morse. Thank you for sharing an incredible life story with us. Thank you for sharing the photograph with us. DAN RAPPOPORT Copperwood

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great about our schools.” In response to Mr. Miller’s objections to the resolution, Ms. Howard added, “I’m comfortable with setting this precedent.” She cited similar recent actions by municipal councils in Highland Park, Montclair, and Red Bank, and expressed her concern over likely property tax increases or cuts in service in the wake of the Charter School expansion. New council member Tim Quinn, who reported receiving 61 emails on the issue, stated that the Council hearing and resolution were a response to a constituent request, not to political pressure. He suggested consolidation of PPS and PCS as a viable solution to the current controversy and voiced his further support for the resolution. “I think this resolution is important,” he said, “because our constituents have no other outlet to have their opinions voiced to the state.” Among the speakers addressing the Council were both Larry Patton, head of PCS, and Steve Cochrane, superintendent of PPS. Mr. Patton emphasized the negative impact on the Charter School if their request for expansion, 76 more students in grades 1-3, is denied. He went on to note the importance of the Charter School over the past 20 years, “to give parents of Princeton a different option to provide a high quality education for their children.” He disputed the contention that PCS expansion would financially devastate the District, noting how the District schools have grown and thrived over the past 20 years. Mr. Cochrane, in supporting the Council resolution, declared the Charter School funding process “inherently undemocratic,” and claimed that the loss of $1.2 million if the expansion is approved would force the District to cut both teachers and programs. “Losing that money each year would steadily erode the quality of education for all our students,” he said. “The proposal is economically and educationally unfair. It’s also undemocratic.” In addition to the school leaders, parents and others on both sides of the controversy, including representatives of “Keep PPS Strong,” a recently-formed group opposing the Charter School expansion, spoke passionately in presenting their positions. In response to the Council vote, PCS Board President Paul Josephson expressed his disappointment with the decision. He noted that it is unusual for a municipal council to oppose charter school amendment requests. “I’m surprised that this council would act to alienate a large group of their own constituents,” he stated in a press release. “As far as the resolution itself, I think that the Council had no interest in looking at this issue objectively.” He went on to state that Council should have met with PCS to discuss the rationale behind the amendment request. PCS, he added “has been flat-funded and operating without a budget increase over the last eight years.”

School leaders continue to seek a resolution to the clash over PCS’s proposed expansion, and Mr. Josephson noted that two productive meetings between PCS and PPS had taken place in recent weeks. —Donald Gilpin

Saturday’s Marches continued from page one

level, it is a matter of time before women’s services are reduced. I am talking about Planned Parenthood and general assistance (welfare, children’s feeding programs, and health benefits). I wanted everyone to know I am in full support of helping the least among us survive.” And speaking of children, Ms. Howard was impressed by the number of them present at the Trenton march. “What was particularly exciting was how intergenerational it was — how many kids where there,” she said. “It was an incredible crowd, really diverse, and exceeding all expectations. The mood was optimistic. People had a positive perspective of how they’re going to stay engaged and continue to advance a progressive agenda. There were so many handmade signs. It was really inspiring.” In Los Angeles on business, Ms. Butler said the city might have had the largest crowd of any march held in this country. That meant “there wasn’t much actual marching,” she wrote in an email. “Aerial photos show the entire parade route engulfed with people. It was an energizing experience to be among so many likeminded, committed, and determined women and men. I was impressed with the cultural diversity of the crowd and touched that women of all ages were out in unity in a way that they haven’t been galvanized in years. The president isn’t the only person who can use social media to speak directly to the people. The organizers of this march now have the most valuable listserv in the country.” Mr. Quinn was impressed with the “energy, unity, and sense of purpose among a very diverse group of marchers” in Trenton. “It seemed that every time I turned around,” he wrote in an email, “I’d see someone else from Princeton who would introduce me to someone new. What I hope doesn’t get lost in the coverage of the sheer size of the marches is how kind, patient, and cooperative everyone was. In stark contrast to our fractious national debate, everyone at the Trenton march was exceedingly polite and supportive. It was a special event.” Ms. Lempert said she was inspired to see photos of crowds in Trenton, Washington, and across the world. “People are energized and ready to engage,” she wrote. “Gloria Steinem said it well: ‘This is the upside of the downside.’” —Anne Levin

“Palmer Square on Ice” Turns Green Into White

On Saturday, February 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Green on Palmer Square will be turned into an icy wonderland. The free event is open to the public. Ice experts from Ice Sculp-

ture Philly will transform the expanse into an icy landscape. Among the creations planned are an ice throne, an ice bar serving complimentary hot chocolate beginning at 12:30 p.m., an ice graffiti wall, and a live demonstration at 1 p.m. “We’ve talked about having a winter-themed event in the past, but never landed on the right idea,” said Anita Fresolone, Marketing Director at Palmer Square Management. “Then someone introduced me to Peter Slavin from Ice Sculpture Philly, and I knew this would be the right fit.” Palmer Square stores and restaurants are open on this day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For further information, call Ms. Fresolone at (609) 9212853 or email her at afresolone@palmersquare.com.

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“We’re Not in Kansas Any More” -- Hello Goodbye Obama On the Morning After

he morning after the Inauguration we’re out of milk so I drive over to the shopping center. Maybe because I’ve had no breakfast, everyone I see looks grim and hung-over. It’s a William Blake crowd, “marks of weakness, marks of woe” on every face. Or maybe it’s just me remembering how it seemed on January 21, 2009, everyone smiling, high on hope, strangers shyly nodding hello. Eight years ago! Was the contrast really so stark? Surely life’s more subtle than that. When I get behind the wheel of my green 2000 CRV, the key won’t turn, steering wheel’s locked, so I give it a turn or two, no use. Then I look up and see almost directly across from me in the parking lot the green 2000 CRV that actually belongs to me. No, life’s not subtle. I’ve begun January 21, 2017 by getting into the wrong car. Driving home, the date begins sinking in. At sunrise on January 21,1966 I was with seven million pilgrims at Sangam, the meeting of holy rivers, the Ganges and the Jumna. Seven years later a friend who’d shared the moment with me writes from England with the news that his first child was born in the early morning hours of January 21. A year later living nearby in Bristol, my wife and I come to know and love the little girl and begin to think, “We can do this,” and so we do, and here we are in Princeton on the morning after. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more,” which makes sense since that’s where I was born, and I haven’t been back in 20 years. Come to think of it, the last time was January 20-21, 1997. As Bill Clinton was being sworn in for his second term I was on my way home from my aunt’s funeral in Hutchinson, just northwest of Wichita, where Barack Obama’s mother was born. That’s her in the photo opposite holding the future president of the United States. A Girl Named Stanley Lately I’ve been looking through my copy of Dreams From My Father, which was written in the early 1990s when the presidency was only a gleam, if that, in Barack Obama’s eye. I first read the book in the weeks before the 2008 election, for a column (“It’s in the Prose: To Know Obama, Read His Story,” Nov. 12, 2008) that ended with the wish that I’d had time to write more about the president’s mother, Ann, born Stanley Ann Dunham, Stanley being her father’s name as well as that of a character played by Bette Davis in a film her mother liked. The Kansas connection caught my attention around the time Senator Obama was delivering the “United States of America” keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the speech that put him on the map. “The Most Beautiful Thing” The scene from Dreams From My Father I wanted to write about takes place when

Ann Dunham is visiting her son in New York City in the early 1980s. Noticing an ad in the Village Voice for a revival of the 1959 art house favorite Black Orpheus, she tells Barack and his half-sister Maya she hasn’t seen it since she was 16, her first foreign movie. She’d thought it “the most beautiful thing” she’d ever seen. So they all three go to the film, which Obama feels like leaving halfway through because although it’s “a groundbreaker of sorts,” he finds it patronizing, with its “black and brown Brazilians” singing and dancing “like carefree birds in colorful plumage.” When he turns to his mother to see if she might be ready to go, he’s stopped by the sight of her wistful face “lit by the blue glow of the s creen.” I n that moment he feels as if he were “being given a window into her heart, the unreflective heart of her youth.” He suddenly realizes that “t he depiction of childlike blacks” on the s creen was “a reflection of the simple fantasies that had been forbidden to a white middle-class girl from Kansas, the promise of another life: warm, sensual, exotic, different.” He turns away, “embarrassed for her.” After the film, Maya says, “Kind of corny, huh …. Just Mom’s style.” For Obama, it’s more than that, so much more that he finds himself avoiding situations where he and his mother might be forced to talk. He’s having trouble dealing with the idea that her naive response to such a film might actually have changed the course of her life, priming her for the relationship with a Kenyan exchange student named Obama that led to marriage and Barack’s birth on August 4, 1961. The moment in the movie theatre takes on added meaning later when Ann talks more openly about her relationship with Obama’s father. As she describes the opposition to their marriage and the circumstances that eventually led her to divorce him — the fact that the father in Kenya

violently opposed his son’s union with a white woman and that his first marriage, a village wedding, might not have been sanctioned by a legal divorce — her chin begins to tremble and she bites down on her lip, “steadying herself,” telling Barack, “We were so young, you know. I was younger than you are now. He was only a few years older than that.” At this point, she brightens up, recalling the time he was an hour late for their first date. When he didn’t show up after a few minutes, she’d stretched out on a bench, and fallen asleep, waking up to find he’d finally arrived with a couple of his friends. As they stood there looking down a t h e r, “ I heard your father saying, serious as can be, ‘ Yo u s e e , gentlemen. I told you that she was a fine girl, and that she would wait for me.’” As his mother laughs at the memory, Obama sees her again as the girl she had been. “Except this time I saw something e l s e ,” h e writes. “In her smiling, slightly puzzled face, I saw what all children must see at some point if they are to grow up — their parents’ lives revealed to them as separate and apart, reaching out beyond the point of their union or the birth of a child, lives unfurling back to grandparents, great-grandparents, an infinite number of chance meetings, misunderstandings, projected hopes, limited circumstances. My mother was that girl with the movie of beautiful black people in her head, flattered by my father’s attention, confused and alone, trying to break out of the grip of her own parents’ lives. The innocence she carried that day, waiting for my father, had been tinged with misconceptions, her own needs. But it was a guileless need, one without selfconsciousness, and perhaps that’s how any love begins, impulses and cloudy images that allow us to break across our solitude, and then, if we’re lucky, are finally transformed into something firmer.

What I heard from my mother that day, speaking about my father” was “the love of someone who knows your life in the round, a love that will survive disappointment.” What moves Obama is his mother’s effort to help him see his father the way she saw him. “And it was the look on her face that day that I would remember when a few months later I called to tell her that my father had died and heard her cry out over the distance.” Blue and Red “Dreams from the Prairie,” the opening chapter of Janny’s Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (Riverhead 2011) gives evidence that there’s a lot more to Kansas than the “red state” that voted for Trump and twice voted against Obama. Kansas is “complex, contradictory, and surprising,” a “state of extremes” a “far cry from the stereotype.” Its motto is Ad astra per aspera: “To the stars through difficulties,” an idea that, Scott suggests, might have resonated with Obama’s idealistic mother had she lived to see him take the oath of office. “Her Capacity for Wonder” Introducing the 2004 edition of Dreams from My Father, Obama says that if he’d known his mother was going to die of cancer “with brutal swiftness” a few months after the book was published, he might have made it “less a meditation on the absent parent” and “more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life.” In his summary of her last ten years, he describes how she spent the time doing what she loved, “working in the distant villages of Asia and Africa,” where she “gathered friends from high and low, took long walks, stared at the moon and foraged through the local markets of Delhi or Marrakech for some trifle, a scarf or stone carving that would make her laugh or please the eye. She wrote reports, read novels, pestered her children, and dreamed of grandchildren.” She also helped during the writing of the book, “correcting stories that I had misunderstood careful not to comment on my characterizations of her but quick to explain or defend the less flattering aspects of my father’s character.” Obama ends the preface where he ended his last press conference: “In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder …. I know that she was the kindest most generous spirit I have ever known,” and “what is best in me I owe to her.” nd while we may not be “in Kansas any more,” thousands marched in Topeka and Wichita, Ann Dunham’s hometown, on the day millions here and all around the world made the glorious most of the morning after. —Stuart Mitchner

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Rider Art Gallery Presents “Looking”

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The R ider Universit y Art Gallery will present an exhibition of works by Allen Fitzpatrick titled “Looking” from Thursday, January 26 through S u nday, Febr uar y 26. The exhibit will include an opening reception on T hursday, Januar y 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. and an artist’s talk on Thursday, February 2 at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Allen Fitzpatrick is on the faculty of the Lawrenceville School, where he holds the Distinguished Teaching Chair. He received his MFA from the New York Academy Graduate School of Visual Arts. This exhibit will feature works that focus on the still life and landscape from direct observation. The Rider University Art Gallery is located in the Bart Luedeke Center on “FORMAL PEARS WITH KNIFE”: This somewhat foreboding still-life is included in Allen Fitzpat- Rider University’s camrick’s exhibit titled “Looking” in the Rider University Art Gallery Thursday, January 26 through pus, 2038 Lawrenceville Sunday, February 26. Learn more at www.rider.edu/arts.

Road, in Lawrenceville. It is open Tuesday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. To learn more, v isit w w w.r ider. edu/arts.

Area Exhibits Art Times Two, Princeton Brain and Spine, 731 Alexander Road, has “Mandala, Locating Self” through March. Works are by Marsha Levin-Rojer, Pamela Turczyn, Cathy Watkins, Phyllis Wright. “Philip Pearlstein: A Legacy of Influence” runs through March 25. (609) 203-4622. Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has the Neighborhood Portrait Quilt on permanent exhibit. Sculptures by Patrick Strzelec are on the Graves Terrace through June 30. www.artscouncil

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“PATTERN POSTS, 2017”: Artist Josh Rockland is displaying his work at Small World Coffee on 254 Nassau Street through the month of January. On his website, joshrockland.com, he writes: “My paintings have a personal, narrative quality that combines seemingly unrelated objects in an aesthetic and accessible way.” Rockland is originally from Princeton and currently resides in Morristown.

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ofprinceton.org. Artworks, Everett Alley ( Stockton St reet ) , Trenton, shows “My Eyes Dow n Here” by Juliet Martin and “The Shortest Distance B et ween Two Points” by Katelyn Liepins January 24-February 18. www.artworks trenton.com. B er n ste i n G a l ler y, Robertson Hall, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, has “A Quiet Defiance: Women Resisting Jihad in Mali,” photo exhibit through January 26. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “Furniture as Art,” four exhibits in one, January 21-March 12. (609) 989-3632. Grounds for Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Ned Smyth: Moments of Matter” through April 2, and other works. www.groundsforsculpture.org. H i s tor i c a l S o c i e t y of Pr inceton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “The Einstein Salon and Innovators Gallery,” and a show on John von Neumann, as well as a permanent exhibit of historic photographs. $4 admission WednesdayS u n d ay, n o on - 4 p.m. Thursday extended hours till 7 p.m. and free admission 4-7 p.m. www.prince tonhistory.org. T he Ja me s A . M i chener Art Museum at 138 South Pine Street in Doylestown, Pa., has “Shifting the Limits: Robert Engman’s Structural Sculpture” through February 5 and “The Death of Impressionism? Disruption & Innovation in Art” through Februar y 26. Visit www.michener artmuseum.org. The Jane Voorhees Z im merl i A r t Muse um, 71 Hamilton Street, on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, has “Fletcher and the Knobby Boys: Illustrations by Harr y Devlin” through J u n e 2 5. b i t .l y / Z A M MatM. Mor ven Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has docentled tours of the historic house and its gardens, furnishings, and artifacts. “Bruce Springsteen : A Photographic Journey” runs through May. www. morven.org. New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, has “Toy World,” toys made by New Jersey companies, through April 30. www.statemuseum.nj.gov. The Princeton University Art Museum has “Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives” through January 22, and “Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art” through February 5. (609) 258-3788. Tigerlabs, 252 Nassau Street, shows the work of abstract expressionist Ed Belbruno through March 3. www.tigerlabs.co. West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction, presents its Faculty Student Show through February 24. www.westwindsor arts.org.

Shaw’s Maid of Orleans Brings Her Mission to McCarter Berlind, Leads Bedlam Foursome in Celebrated, Stripped Down Production

he young heroine of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan (1923) has a lot in common with the celebrated Bedlam theater company that is presenting the play at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre through February 12. “There is something about the girl,” says a soldier in the opening scene of the play, as Joan of Arc wins over the local squire to supply her with a horse, armor, and troops, and, following orders directly from God, she sets out to free the city of Orleans from the English. No, Bedlam is probably not divinely inspired, nor is it likely to be canonized or burned at the stake for heresy. But the fearless theater company does resemble Joan in its fierce physical and intellectual energy; its charisma; in its rebellious determination to challenge old, long-accepted ideas; and in its down-to-earth clarity and simplicity. With only four actors playing more than 25 roles in Shaw’s talky, three-hour, historically-based chronicle of the miraculous Maid of Orleans, Bedlam is committed to making the audience hear the lines and experience the event with minimum distractions of set, costumes, and special effects. There is also minimum distance between performers and audience. The luminous Andrus Nichols in the title role and dynamic ensemble members Eric Tucker, Edmund Lewis, and Tom O’Keefe — shifting rapidly, convincingly, ingeniously among a colorful contingent of 15th century French and English characters (royalty, clergy, aristocracy, soldiers, peasants) — collaborate with the audience to bring to life the inspiring story of Joan’s rise to power and victory, the revenge of the resentful religious and feudal authorities, and, in a fanciful epilogue, the rehabilitation and canonization of Saint Joan. The Bedlam quartet is a remarkable ensemble, creating such a vast, vivid world with so few performers, not to mention that the same four, only hours before curtain time on Saturday, had just performed all the parts in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, being presented in rotating repertory with Saint Joan. Along with various miracles in the story of the young country girl Topics who crowns the French king and leads an

army to drive the English from France, let’s include here the miraculous feat of these Bedlam actors and their memorization of hundreds of lines, which they use so deftly to help create dozens of unique characters. For the final scene, in which, 25 years after the tragic culmination of her life, Joan, as a “dream” visits King Charles VII, whom she had crowned in Reims, the actors actually sit with the audience at different spots in the theater, removing barriers between spectators and performers, sharing the space, making the audience a part of the play. John McDermott’s stripped-down set design — including just a high, roughhewn staircase, a couple of chairs, some f lexible hanging white cloths, and a chandelier, with lighting by Les Dickert, also demands audience engagement in teaming up with the Bedlam company to imaginatively create a range of locales. The scene moves from castle chambers to riverside military camp to the Cathedral at Reims, the ecclesiastical court, and King Charles’s bedroom during the six

scenes presented in three acts. About 60 audience members sit in chairs on the stage, sharing the space with the actors. The chairs are reconfigured during the two intermissions, as perspectives on the events of the play shift. Another facet of Saint Joan that illuminates its affinities with the Bedlam ethos is the rich, engaging blend of solemn and comical. Both Shaw and Bedlam take seriously this tragic story and the many ideas — philosophical, religious, political — that emerge from it. There are serious clashes here between the individual and the church, the individual and society. Joan, dressing in male clothes, asserting her right to answer directly to the word of God, proves to be an intolerable affront to the established religious and feudal hierarchies. Though she was finally canonized by the Catholic Church in 1920, 489 years after her death, Joan’s questions in the closing seconds of the play still resonate almost another century later: “O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?”

ON TRIAL: After all her miraculous success in leading the French to victory, Joan (Andrus Nichols) finds herself captured, brought before an ecclesiastical court on charges of heresy, and interrogated by the Inquisitor (Eric Tucker) in Bedlam theater company’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan,” at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre through February 12. (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) Topics

The serious matter of the play comes across here in eloquent debates and intense drama, as Joan’s conflict comes to its culmination in a searing scene in the ecclesiastical courtroom. Throughout the play, however, Shaw and Bedlam share a lighter tone, with a sharp satiric edge and more than a touch of delightful whimsy. The humor is rich and entertaining, and never undermines the seriousness of Joan’s story and the play’s important ideas. All four actors are fascinating to watch and impossible to resist in their appeals to engage and immerse the audience in the proceedings. Ms. Nichols’ Joan readily wins over the audience as she proceeds to win over the population of France. “She is so positive,” as they say, and, despite the disarming honesty that annoys her superiors, also convincing — in her moments of enthusiasm, as well as in her anger, frustrations, and despair over her plight and the intransigence of her accusers. Mr. Tucker, who also directed with unerring inventiveness and sure-handedness, plays the dashing military commander Dunois, the crafty English Earl of Warwick, and a slew of others with skill and aplomb. Mr. Lewis embodies the weakwilled Dauphin (later King of France), then the irascible, mean-spirited English chaplain de Stogumber and another cluster of distinctly interesting characters. Mr. O’Keefe is striking and memorable as the rigid French Bishop Cauchon, the French soldier (and Joan’s early ally) Poulengey, and an impressive array of other characters, religious and otherwise, including a colorful English soldier, who becomes Joan’s last ally. The unpretentious immediacy of these performances and this production puts the emphasis where it should be: on the text, the story and the rich imaginative experience of audience and performers together. edlam’s production of “Saint Joan,” in rotating repertory with “Hamlet,” will be playing at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre, 91 University Place in Princeton, through February 12. For tickets, show times, and further information call (609) 258-2787 or visit mccarter. org. —Donald Gilpin

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Lucas Richman, conductor Sierra Boggess, guest vocalist Broadway’s original Little Mermaid comes to Princeton! Sierra Boggess will cast her own spells as she reprises songs from favorite roles and sings iconic melodies. Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Lorenzo, Edward E. Matthews and Vilma Keri, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Paneyko, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood W. Phares, Mr. and Mrs. John Steﬀens, and Mr. and Mrs. James Utaski

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Steinway Society memberships are $50 per individual or $85 per family and include admission to all six musicales. Tickets for individual musicales are $18 for adults or $10 for full-time students, and may be purchased at the Jacobs Music Recital Hall 30 minutes before each program. For more information, visit www. steinwaysocietyprinceton.org. To receive email notifications of upcoming musicales, send Yevgeny Morozov an email to steinwaysoc @ Steinway Society Hosts gmail.com. Seating is limited, so patrons are advised to arInternational Recitalist rive early to assure a seat. Yevgeny Morozov, a prize ——— winner in many international competitions in the U.S. and “Newtown” Screening Europe, will present a musi- And Discussion With Director cale for the Greater Princeton A screening of the documenSteinway Society on Sunday, tary Newtown, will be followed February 19. The concert will by a discussion with director take place at 3 p.m. in the Kim Snyder at Princeton PubRecital Hall at Jacobs Music, lic Library on Thursday, Janu2540 Brunswick Pike (U.S. ary 26 at 6:30 p.m. Filmed Route 1), Lawrenceville. over the course of nearly 3 A social hour with refresh- years, the documentary tells ments and conversation with the story in the aftermath of Mr. Morozov will follow his the December 14, 2012 mass performance. shooting in Newtown, Conn. A virtuoso concert pianist, Through testimonials from Mr. Morozov made his na- teachers, parents, first retionally televised debut at the sponders, emergency room age of 15 in Kiev, performing staff, and other key witnesses, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue the film reveals the story of with the Ukrainian State Sym- a community traumatized by phony Orchestra. He has also grief, yet determined to move appeared as a piano soloist forward, ignited by a sense of the BBC Scottish Symphony purpose. The free program Orchestra in Glasgow, and will be held in the library’s Odessa National Philharmonic Community Room. Symphony Orchestra. ——— Mr. Morozov is currently serving on the piano faculty Princeton Abbey Hosts at Rutgers University’s Ma- French Baroque Ensemble son Gross School of the Arts, Princeton Abbey and Cemwhere he is completing his etery is pleased to announce doctoral studies. He main- they will be hosting a concert tains a teaching studio in from Les Agrements de MuEast Windsor. His Steinway sique on Sunday afternoon, Society program will feature February 5 at 4 p.m. The works by Bach, Beethoven, concert will feature works by: Schubert, and Chopin. Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin

Marais, Louis and François Couperin, and Charles (François) Dieupart. This concert hass general admission with a suggested donation of $15 at the door. Les Agrements de Musique is a French Baroque ensemble founded by Minju Lee and John Burkhalter to survey the grandeur and intimacy of the musical riches associated with the courts of Louis XIII, his son and heir Louis XIV, and in turn his great-grandson Louis XV. Minju Lee, harpsichord, earned her bachelor’s degree in music composition at Hanyang University in Korea, her master’s degree and doctor of musical arts in harpsichord performance under Arthur Haas at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Oberlin Conservatory of Music under Lisa Crawford. John Burkhalter, recorders, studied the performance of early music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston under Daniel Pinkham and the performance of baroque music at Harvard University under the noted Dutch recorder virtuoso, scholar, and conductor Frans Bruggen. Located just minutes from Nassau Street, Princeton Abbey offers a unique and magnificent way to honor a life well lived. With its exquisite architecture, handcrafted ironwork and breathtaking stained-glass windows, Princeton Abbey and Cemetery is a peaceful setting where you can come to celebrate life. Princeton Abbey also provides an inspirational setting for concerts, events and remembrance services. For more information about Princeton Abbey & Cemetery, contact Katherine Walden at (609) 452-1600.

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he Takács String Quartet returned to Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University last Wednesday night for the third of the ensemble’s six-part journey through the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven. Throughout the fall and early winter, Princeton University Concerts has built ancillary educational events around these performances, and as in the previous concerts, the Takács Quartet played to a nearly full house. Also as with other performances in this series, seating in the house was limited to downstairs and onstage, creating a more intimate atmosphere. The Takács Quartet has built these concerts around pairing quartets from different periods of Beethoven’s life. Published in 1801 and part of Beethoven’s “early” period, the six quartets of Opus 18 date from the composer’s late 20s and are among his first works for this type of ensemble. For Wednesday night’s program, the Takács selected Quartets #4 and #5, two works which although from the same opus showed Beethoven’s progressive compositional thought. String Quartet in A Major, #5 immediately showed Beethoven’s reverence for Mozart, especially heard in the delicate touch of cellist András Fejér. Violinists Edward Dusinberre and Károly Schranz, together with violist Geraldine Walther, maintained the sprightly and playful nature of the four-movement work, with precise entrances and uniform dramatic flow. Mr. Dusinberre’s playing in the upper register of the violin was particularly clean. The second movement “Menuetto” revealed spirited interaction between first and second violins, as violist Ms. Walther led the musical action with a clear and wellprojected sound. Ms. Walther continually communicated with the other players, pairing with Mr. Fejér in the third movement melodic passages that sounded right out of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. The Takács showed its collective attention to

detail with the close of Quartet #5, which ended not with the usual Classical exclamation point, but with a graceful and humorous twist. String Quartet in C Minor, #4 was darker than #5, with dramatic underpinning from the cello and a great deal of musical punctuation from all instruments. The Takács handled well switches from dark to more chipper sections, keeping the music intense and driving in a contained way. A secondmovement canon between second violin and viola contained a great deal of articulation and the musicians of the Quartet were uniform in sforzandi within the détachée playing. An intense “Menuetto” contrasted with a very Viennese “Allegretto,” and the fourth movement closed the work in rondo form, with each refrain played more fiercely than the one before. ating from the last few years of Beethoven’s life, String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132 was a polar opposite from Opus 18 in structure, harmonic language, and internal contrast. The character of the work’s slow introduction was instantly contrary to earlier Beethoven works, as the movement shifted moods frequently, finally settling into a somewhat typical Classical style. An intricate and well-played dialog between violins and viola/cello marked the second movement, with an elegant duet between violinists Mr. Dusinberre and Mr. Schranz that recalled the Baroque sequential style of Vivaldi. The Takács Quartet played the languid melodies of the chorale-like third movement with rich intensity, rarely lifting their bows from the strings. Mr. Schranz provided a particularly luxuriant sound in the lower register of the Violin II part. Like many of Beethoven’s late works, Opus 132 contained a great deal of contrasts and divergences, both among and within movements, and the Takács Quartet emphasized these well as they brought the work and concert to a joyous close. —Nancy Plum

The next performance in the Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle will be on Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium. The Quartet will play pieces from Opus 18, Opus 135, and Opus 59. For information call (609) 258-9220 or visit www.tickets.princeton.edu.

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I DON’T SUPPOSE THERE’S ANY WAY WE CAN SETTLE THIS PEACEFULLY: Xander Cage (Vin Diesel, left) meets with Serena (Deepika Padukone) one of the three leaders who control Pandora’s Box, the weapon of mass destruction that Xander is trying to destroy in order to prevent the world domination aspirations of Serena and her two companions. (Photo by George Kraychyk © 2016 Paramount Pictures All Rights Reserved)

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Calendar Wednesday, January 25 1 p.m.: Wednesday Tea & Tour at Morven Museum and Garden in Princeton (repeats weekly). 7:30 p.m.: Contra Dance with the Princeton Country Dancers at the Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street (repeats weekly). Thursday, January 26 6:30 p.m.: Screening and discussion of the documentary Newtown at Princeton Public Library. 7 p.m.: Sorber’s Motivators Toastmasters Meeting at the West Windsor Library, 333 Nor th Post Road in Princeton Junction. Guests are welcome. RSVP by calling (723) 631-0114. 7: 30 p.m . : S c r e e n i n g of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) at Princeton Garden Theatre in collaboration with Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO). 8 p.m.: Great Minds Salon Speaker Series featuring Rory Kramer at The Jewish Center of Princeton. Dr. Kramer will deliver a presentation on “Race, Space, and Place: How Racial Segregation is Impacted by the Way Communities are Physically Constructed.” Friday, January 27 11 a.m.: Free, Tiger Tales for children ages 3-5 at Cotsen Children’s Library (repeats weekly). Saturday, January 28 10:30 a.m.: Screening of Charlotte’s Web (2006) at Princeton Garden Theatre. 2 p.m.: Hand Drumming Workshop at the Arts Council of Princeton. For more infor mat ion, v isit w w w. artscouncilofprinceton.org. 2 to 3 p.m.: Free, Highlights Tour at the Princeton University Art Museum (also on January 29). 2 to 5 p.m.: Princeton Symphony Orchestra Clarinet Masterclass with David Krakauer at Hamilton House on the campus of Westminster Choir College. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required by calling (609) 497-0020. 3 to 4 p.m.: Free, Storytime in German for children and families at Princeton Public Library. 7 p.m.: Café Improv at the Arts Council of Princeton. 8:30 p.m.: Gravity Hill Band performs at Hillbilly Hall, 203 Hopewell-Werts-

ville Road in Hopewell. Admission is $10. A portion of the proceeds will be contributed to Morven Museum and Garden’s annual fund. Sunday, January 29 11 a.m.: Weekly Ecumenical Worship Service at Princeton University Chapel. 1 p.m.: Free, Carillon Concert at the Graduate School at Princeton University, 88 College Road West. 1 to 4 p.m.: Wassailing the Apple Trees at Terhune Orchards in Princeton. Dancing and singing with Molly Dancers, cider drinking, live music, and wagon rides. Admission is free. 2 p.m.: Princeton History Sunday Walking Tour around downtown Princeton. Attendees should meet at Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street. 2 to 3:30 p.m.: A panel of local chefs share their favorite soup recipes at the “SOUP-er Bowl” at Princeton Public Library. Free. 4 p.m.: Princeton Symphony Orchestra “Un/Restrained” concert with David Krakauer on clarinet at Richardson Auditorium. 4 p.m.: Jeanine Honstein and Laurie Matisse Art Opening and Reception at Stuart Country Day School, 1200 Stuart Road, Princeton. Monday, January 30 4:30 p.m.: Middle School Math Circle at Princeton Public Library. Princeton High School students show students in grades 6-8 how fascinating math can be. Lesson plans will focus on applied mathematics and statistics. Register in advance at www.princetonlibrary.org. 5 p.m.: Princeton Community Works’ 2017 conference for non-profit personnel at the Frist Campus Center on the Princeton University Campus, off Washington Road. The highly anticipated annual conference offers a comprehensive educational opportunity for non-profit boards, administrators, and for volunteers. For workshop information and to register in advance, visit www.prince toncommunityworks.org. Tuesday, January 31 11 a.m . : H om e s ch o ol Week at the Princeton University Art Museum. The day’s theme is “Mexico” and includes interactive tours followed by related art projects. All ages are welcome. No tickets or reservations required. 4 to 5 p.m.: Members of the Princeton High School Chess Club give free lessons

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at Princeton Public Library. Wednesday, February 1 11 a.m . : H om e s ch o ol Week at the Princeton University Art Museum. The day’s theme is “Pop Art” and includes interactive tours followed by related art projects. All ages are welcome. No tickets or reservations required. 1 p.m.: Wednesday Tea & Tour at Morven Museum and Garden in Princeton (repeats weekly). 5 p.m.: Princeton University women’s squash vs. Penn (men’s squash begins at 7:30 p.m.) at Jadwin Gym. 7:30 p.m.: Contra Dance with the Princeton Country Dancers at the Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street (repeats weekly). Thursday, February 2 Groundhog Day 10 a.m.: Meeting, 55-Plus Club at The Jewish Center of Princeton. “Franz Schubert’s Final Months” will be the topic of a presentation by Scott Burnham, Scheide Professor of Music History at Pr inceton Universit y, emeritus, and distinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 11 a.m . : H om e s ch o ol Week at the Princeton University Art Museum. The day’s theme is “Epic Tales from India” and includes interactive tours followed by related art projects. All ages are welcome. No tickets or reservations required. 5:30 p.m.: The International Cinema Ser ies at Princeton Garden Theatre presents a screening of Fire at Sea (2016). Friday, February 3 11 a.m.: Free, Tiger Tales for children ages 3-5 at Cotsen Children’s Library (repeats weekly). 11 a.m . : H om e s ch o ol Week at the Princeton University Art Museum. The day’s theme is “Africa” and includes interactive tours followed by related art projects. All ages are welcome. No tickets or reservations required. 6 p.m.: Princeton University women’s ice hockey vs. Yale. 7 p.m.: Princeton University women’s basketball vs. Dartmouth. 8 p.m.: “Black Comedy: No Tears, Just Politics” featuring NYC comic actor Grant Cooper and Dr. Lindsey Swindall at the Arts Council of Princeton 8 p.m.: Violinist and conductor Gidon Kremer returns to McCarter Theatre with his chamber ensemble Kremerata Baltica, comprised of 30 talented young musicians from the Baltic States.

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AT THE CINEMA 20th Century Women (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, and brief drug use). Movie set in Santa Barbara during the summer of 1979 about the exploration of love and freedom by a landlady (Annette Bening), one of her tenants (Greta Gerwig), and her teenage son’s (Lucas Jade Zumann) friend (Elle Fanning). With Billy Crudup, Alia Shawkat, and Alison Elliott. The Bye Bye Man (PG-13 for terror, violence, sexuality, bloody images, mature themes, profanity, partial nudity, and underage alcohol abuse). Horror film about a supernatural demon (Doug Jones) unwittingly unleashed by three college students (Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount and Cressida Bonas) after they moved into an old mansion located off-campus. Cast includes Faye Dunaway, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Cleo King.

A Dog’s Purpose (PG for peril and mature themes). Three time Oscar nominee Lasse Hallstrom directed this adaptation of W. Bruce Cameron’s novel with the same name about a dog (Josh Gad) that uncovers the meaning of life with the help of a series of owners. With Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, and Britt Robertson. Fences (PG-13 for profanity, mature themes, and sexual references). Denzel Washington and Viola Davis co-star in this adaptation of August Wilson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play about the struggles of an African American family living in Pittsburgh in the 50s. With Mykelti Williamson, Jovan Adepo, Stephen Henderson and Russell Hornsby. Hidden Figures (PG for mature themes and mild epithets). Adaptation of the Margot Lee Shetterly best seller describing the exploits of three African American unsung heroines (Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae), NASA mathematicians who played pivotal roles in America’s success against Russia in the space race. Cast includes Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, and Mahershala Ali. La La Land (PG-13 for profanity). Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) directed this homage to Hollywood musicals set in present-day Los Angeles about an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a jazz musician’s (Ryan Gosling) whirlwind romance. With J.K. Simmons, John Legend, and Rosemarie DeWitt. Lion (PG-13 for mature themes and some sensuality). Real-life story about a 30-year-old’s (Dev Patel) search for his long-lost birth mother (Priyanka Bose) and big brother (Abhishek Bharate) in India with the help of Google Earth, 25 years after being adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham). With Rooney Mara, Divian Ladwa, and Eamon Farren. In English, Hindi, and Bengali with subtitles. Manchester by the Sea (R for sexuality and pervasive profanity). Drama about a janitor (Casey Affleck) who becomes the guardian of his teenage nephew (Lucas Hedges) after the untimely death of his older brother (Kyle Chandler). With Gretchen Mol, Michelle Williams, and Heather Burns. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (PG-13 for violence and extended action sequences). Intergalactic epic about a rebel soldier (Felicity Jones) who was recruited to lead a band of heroes on a mission to steal the design for the Empire’s weapon of mass destruction, featuring Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna, Mads Mikkelsen, Jiang Wen, Alan Tudyk, and Donnie Yen. Sing (PG for rude humor and mild peril). Animated musical about an optimistic koala bear’s (Matthew McConaughey) attempt to save his struggling theater by staging a singing competition for a menagerie of animals. Voice cast includes Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, Jay Pharoah, and John C. Reilly. Split (PG-13 for violence, profanity, disturbing behavior, and mature themes). Horror film, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, about three teenage girls (Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula, and Anya TaylorJoy) who were kidnapped by a maniac (James McAvoy) who has 24 personalities. Supporting cast includes Kim Director, Brad William Henke, and Betty Buckley. —Kam Williams

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alum as well as those in the squash community who are associated with Princeton,” said Osborne. “Bob made us do the work. Just being able to give back and to win that title more for him and all of the hard work he put in to recruit us and to challenge us, is something special and definitely a memory that is going to be with me for the rest of my life.” Osborne, though, hit a crossroad early in his freshman campaign, taking a brief hiatus from the team that fall as he struggled with the transition to college squash. “I just needed to take some time to reset because mentally it became draining more than anything else,” said Osborne. “Sure enough, you take a short break and you realize then I really love this sport. We had fun coming down and having that two hours every day, doing something that deep down I must really enjoy. It wasn’t a very long break, just a few days.” Gaining that perspective has helped Osborne in his current role as he splits his time, working for women’s head coach Gail Ramsay and men’s head coach Sean Wilkinson. “That is definitely the one thing I was able to bring to this program, that insider intel of what actually goes on; which days can we do harder practices, which days can we do lighter,” said Osborne, noting that initially he did have to establish a distance from players that were his friends during his playing days. “They tend to know a lot about the academic side of it but the social side of it doesn’t come up with the coaches. I have good insight into saying that this weekend is probably not a good weekend to do anything because of the things going on campus outside of the academic and athletic world.” Over the last year, Osborne has gained a lot of insight into the game and teaching from coaching with Ramsay and Wilkinson along with longtime volunteer assistant Neil Pomphrey. “With Sean being relatively new and Gail having been here for over 20 years, they have different ways of setting up their systems and their teams,” said Osborne. “There are benefits to each program and so trying to learn each system and also learn what different players on the teams need and using that to build my coaching base gave me a solid year of learning from the two of them.” Ramsay, for her part, believes that Osborne has made a valuable contribution to her program. “For his age, he is mature and professional,” said Ramsay, who has been coaching the Tiger women since 1994 and has guided the program to five Howe Cup national titles. “He brought that connection with the teams and the coaching staff, which could

sometimes be disastrous, but in his case, the experiences were really positive and he did a great job.” In her view, Osborne has also brought a unique competitive experience to his role. “He hit the ground running; he coached some throughout college and he is self taught in his own game,” added Ramsay. “Those type of people have a real insight in how to play and how to get people to do things. He did bring that element to the team.” Wilkinson was excited to have Osborne remain around the men’s team. “It was pretty much a nobrainer, Tyler has got a tremendous squash IQ,” said Wilkinson, who coached Osborne in his final two college seasons. “You get a lot of great athletes that learn to play squash. Tyler is a great athlete who actually understands the sport at a much deeper level.” In Wilkinson’s view, Osborne has displayed an even deeper understanding of the game over the last year. “He has developed phenomenally well; he is in a situation where he gets to work with two head coaches that have slightly different styles of communication and certainly different takes on the game,” said Wilkinson. “With his ability to learn and understand the game at a deep level, I think he has really come a long way. I don’t find myself holding his hand. He is the type of assistant coach that if I have to miss a day for whatever reason, I am not panicking. I don’t have to tell him what to do or leave a lesson plan for him. He really does do a tremendous job with all of our kids.” Due to Osborne’s progress, Wilkinson believes that the young assistant has a bright future in coaching. “I don’t think there is a coach in the country that wouldn’t want him working for his program; he is head coach material right now,” said Wilkinson, who succeeded Callahan as the Tiger men’s coach and is in his fourth season leading the program. “I know from being in Tyler’s shoes a few years ago, being a young assistant coach with a lot of enthusiasm, you have to be patient to wait it out. That is unfortunately the way it is at the moment. If he is willing to be patient and hang on and wait for the right opportunity, someone is absolutely going to snap him up. He is the real deal.” Osborne, for his part, is showing an enthusiasm to master the fine points of coaching. “I am starting to develop a stronger voice and starting to have a better knowledge of each of the coaches, their systems, and the players,” said Osborne. “Having seen the players from a coaching point of view for two years, I can figure out what certain players

BORN LEADER: Tyler Osborne tracks a shot during his career with the Princeton University men’s squash team. Osborne ’15, who helped the Tigers win the 2012 national title in his freshman season, is currently serving as a full-time assistant coach for both the Princeton men‘s and women’s squash programs. (Photo Courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications)

Osborne is excited to still have a place in the sport and is in no rush to leave Princeton. “With the amount of fun I am having doing this job, it is tough to see myself not staying involved in some way in college squash,” said Osborne. “This happens to be one of

the jobs where if you are in it, you are in it for the long haul. A lot of the coaches across collegiate squash have been with their teams for years. The turnover rate isn’t that high. I am happy to bide my time and work for a little bit and see what becomes available.” —Bill Alden

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yler Osborne came to Princeton University in the fall of 2011 from Canada to join the Tiger men’s squash team as a prized recruit of legendary head coach Bob Callahan. The Kingston, Ontario native quickly thrived in his new country, earning All-Ivy League and second-team AllAmerican honors as a freshman, taking a key role in one of the greatest triumphs in program history, posting a victory over Trinity’s Miled Zarazua to help Princeton edge the Bantams 5-4 in the College Squash Association (CSA) championship match and end their 13-year reign at the top of the men’s college game. After earning multiple AllIvy and All-America honors over the rest of his college career, Osborne wasn’t ready to leave Princeton. Shortly after graduating in 2015, he was named as the full-time assistant for both the Tiger men’s and women’s programs, a position that became possible due to the contributions to The Robert W. Callahan ’77 Head Coach of Men’s Squash endowment, established after the coach’s untimely death earlier that year when he succumbed to brain cancer. Osborne jumped at the chance to stick around at his alma mater and stay involved in squash. “I had helped out with the Princeton summer camps three of my four summers,” said Osborne. “I had been helping out with the Princeton junior program throughout my college life here. I love squash and I always thought it would be a hardship if I couldn’t continue in some fashion with squash. Having an opportunity to still be involved with it was something I was super excited about and then to have it be Princeton just makes it all more sweeter, trying to give back to the the university that gave me so much and so many memories. It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. For Osborne, the historic 5-4 win over Trinity in February 2012 before an overflow crowd at Jadwin Gym remains the indelible memory of his Princeton career. “The most amazing thing was the sheer number of people who were involved in that day,” recalled Osborne, who posted a career record of 57-10 playing in the top third of the Tiger lineup. “The crowd was spectacular. I think for me, one of the main reasons I was able to get through that match was just the amount of support I had off the court rooting for me. I was never in an environment before that where you could feel so many people that wanted the same thing that you wanted and that gives you that extra motivation. As the match goes on, it would really be a letdown if I wasn’t able to pull this one out.” Earning the title for Callahan made it extra special. “Bob has had a tremendous influence on me and every other Princeton squash

need and how I can best help them and the advice I can give them that I think will get them there. I also took the time last year to go through two levels of coaching development in Canada. Those clinics definitely helped to give me the tools I need to become a better coach and a more insightful coach to help the players as best as I can.” Focusing on match tactics is a key component of Osborne’s effort to help his players. “To me that is the one part of the game I have always had a pretty good understanding of and it is the one part that I feel like I can give back,” said Osborne. “Whether it is watching and doing match reviews with the players, even in matches, I think it is something I have a good grasp of.” While recruiting is seen as a necessary evil by many assistant coaches, Osborne is relishing that aspect of his job. “It is neat hearing of people’s interest in Princeton and pursuing which players we think would make the best fit for the programs and which players we think would help us on and off the court,” said Osborne. “It is like a puzzle, trying to put it together. There are so many tremendous players and athletes out there from all over the world that trying to find those that would best help Princeton makes it exciting.”

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PU Sports Roundup Princeton Football Program Names Gleeson Coordinator

Sean Gleeson, who has b e e n a m e mb e r of t h e Princeton University football offensive coaching staff for each of the two Ivy League championship seasons over the last four years, has been promoted to offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach, the program announced earlier this month. Gleeson, a former star quarterback at Williams College, succeeds James Perry, who was recently named the head coach at Bryant University. Since Gleeson’s arrival in 2013, the Princeton offense has averaged 34.1 points per game, the highest output for a Tiger offense over a

four-year stretch in program history. Princeton broke the Ivy League records for both scoring offense (43.7 points per game) and total offense (511.6 yards per game) during its historic 2013 Ivy League championship season. T his past fall, Pr ince ton ranked first in the Ivy League in scoring offense ( 34.6 points per game ), total offense (415.5 yards) and rushing offense (183.2 yards) en route to the 2016 Ivy League title. “I’m infused with tremendous excitement in the face of this new responsibility,” said Gleeson in reflecting on his promotion. “Over the past four years, Coach ( Bob ) Surace has displayed great trust in me, and I plan on continuing to work hard to honor his confidence. It also goes without saying that my longtime friend, James Perry, will have a lasting impact on me,

as well as this offense.” Gleeson has coached multiple All-Ivy League running backs, including two-time h o n or e e J o e R h at t i g a n though he will now work with the quarterbacks while also serving as offensive coordinator. W hile at Williams College playing under Perry, then an assistant with that program, Gleeson was the highest rated passer in the NESCAC in 2005, minimum 100 attempts, with a rating of 163.6. His team finished 8-0 on the year in 2006, and was part of a two-quarterback system that threw for more than 4,000 yards over two seasons. He received the Ephs’ Farley Award in 2006, which is awarded to the member of the football team who demonstrates superior qualities of dedication, loyalty, and sacrifice for the betterment of the team.

the greatest seasons in field PU Field Hockey Stars PU Alumnae Reinprechts Retire from U.S. Field Hockey hockey history as she was Named to U.S. U-21 Team Former Princeton University standouts, Katie ’13 and Julia Reinprecht ’14, have retired from the United States National Field Hockey, the national team announced earlier this month. The two sisters retire as two-time Olympians, helping the U.S. to fifth place in the 2016 Rio Olympics. It was the team’s highest finish since the 1996 summer games in Atlanta. They also won two gold medals at the Pan American Games (2011, 2015). Wrapping up their careers, Katie finished with 166 caps while Julia had 154 caps. Katie Reinprecht is fourth all-time in Princeton history in points with 53 goals and 50 assists. She was a four-time All-American midfielder and two-time NCAA All-Tournament player. In 2012, Reinprecht had one of

the National Field Hockey Coaches’ Association (NFHCA) National Player and MidAtlantic Player of the Year. Her 29 assists that year are the most in a single-season in program history. She was also the Ivy League Player of the Year in back-to-back years (2008-09). While at Princeton, Julia Reinprecht was a four-time All-American defender and All-Region player. Reinprecht was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team twice (2009, 2012). Some of her other accolades include the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year in 2013 and conference Rookie of the Year in 2009. Both Reinprechts won four Ivy League titles in their careers at Princeton and were members of the program’s NCAA championship team in 2012.

Princeton University field hockey stars, sophomore striker Sophia Tornetta, and freshman defender Maddie Bacskai, have been named to the U.S. U-21 field hockey roster, the national team said last week. Tor n e t t a, a n at i ve of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., has earned All-Ivy League honors in each of her first two seasons at Princeton, scoring 16 goals in her career, including nine last fall. Bacskai, who hails from Berwyn, Pa., was a first-team All-Ivy honoree in her debut campaign last fall, scoring a pair of goals in a season that saw Princeton advance to the NCAA semifinals. The U.S. U-21 squad will hold training camps in February and March, with the earlier camp in Chula Vista, Calif., and the second camp at Duke.

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THORNY SITUATION: Princeton University women’s soccer player Tyler Lussi, left, goes after the ball in a game last fall during her senior season. Earlier this month, Lussi, the leading scorer in Princeton women’s soccer history, was selected 21st overall by the Portland Thorns in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Draft. Lussi finished her college career with 53 goals and 122 points, twice earning All-America and Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year honors while being named All-Ivy League four times, including three first-team honors. Portland was the top seed in the 2016 NWSL playoffs before taking a semifinals extra-time defeat against the eventual champion Western New York Flash. Lussi joins Diana Matheson ’08 of the Washington Spirit and Jen Hoy ’13 of the Chicago Red Stars among Princeton alums in the NWSL. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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When the Princeton High boys’ swimming team lost 94-76 to Notre Dame on December 1 to fall to 0-2, it looked like the squad could be in for a long winter. But PHS head coach Carly Misiewicz saw a battling spirit from her swimmers that day that left her feeling confident. “We really gave them a fight,” said Misiewicz. “I think the Notre Dame meet was probably one of the best meets of the entire season for us as far as everyone being positive and really being there to race and wanting to do well.” In the wake of that defeat, PHS has done really well, winning eight of its next nine meets to finish the regular season with a 9-3 record. “To come back and swim as hard and as fast as we did, I think just speaks volumes about the team,” said Misiewicz. “It shows that they are not willing to give up and always going to put up a fight.” The Little Tigers produced a hard effort in its season finale, cruising to a 115-55

win over Hopewell Valley on January 12. “I think overall we had some really phenomenal swims and spectacular times across the board,” said Misiewicz. “My thing going into it was that this meet is for the seniors. So let’s get out there and let’s swim fast and make sure that they are really having a good time and a great meet and that they feel really supported for their last regular season meet. It definitely did go really well.” Two senior stalwarts, Will Kinney and Alex Petruso, have done some great things this winter for PHS. “Will Kinney is standing out by far for us,” said Misiewicz.“He did the 100 freestyle in 51.4 against Hopewell, unshaved and untapered. To be sw im ming that fast right now is speaking to everything he has done training-wise this season with everything he has put in and all the little tiny details that he has really tried to work on to perfect. He has swum really well. Alex Petruso is someone who consistently swims well across the board.”

Another senior, Gabriel Bar-Cohen, was slowed by illness at the beginning of the season but has been surging lately. “When he came back, we had to rebuild and rework towards everything he had worked towards at the start of the season,” said Misiewicz of Bar-Cohen. “He has been somebody at any meet throughout the season, when I say what are you thinking, what are you feeling, the first thing he always says is, coach, whatever you want me to swim. That’s huge for a senior to really want to do what is best for the team.” In Misiewicz’s view, PHS is a team to watch at the Mercer County Championships, which take place from January 26-28 at WW/P-N. “I do think we can challenge for a title; we have to have the same mentality we had going into it last year,” said Misiewicz. “Honestly I don’t think people really expected us to get third last year. They thought going into the season Princeton is not really as great as they were before and then we came out and surprised everybody with how we performed. To me, it just showed how much they wanted it, how fast everybody across the board swam after the preliminaries.” The Little Tigers need to stay in the moment to swim their fastest in the county meet. “T he t h i ng t hat I a m stressing to them is that if you have a not so great swim, shake it off, and feed off of everybody else doing well,” said Misiewicz. “Maybe one race doesn’t go your way but maybe the next race, you have the race of your life. Swimming is a very mentally tough sport, so it is not getting into their heads and not focusing on what place are we going to be. It is just get out and swim your race and do what you have to do to beat the person next to you.” —Bill Alden

PHS Girls’ Swimming Facing Uphill Battle As It Goes for Fifth Straight County Crown As the Princeton High girls’ swimming team goes for a fifth straight team title at Mercer County Championships this week, it faces an uphill battle. “S out h ( W W/ P- S ) and Notre Dame are definitely going to be tough so I think we have just got to get in and swim our race and not worry about what happens,” said PHS head coach Carly Misiewicz, referring to the county meet which takes place from January 26-28 at WW/P-N. A lot of good things have happened for PHS this winter as it has gone 9-0-1 in its last 10 meets after falling to WW/P-S and Notre Dame in the first week of the season. Misiewicz credits senior star Melinda Tang with setting a positive tone this winter. “Melinda is phenomenal; she is somebody I don’t even have to ask what do you want to swim because I know she will swim anything and do well with anything,” said Misiewicz. “She has come out of her shell and really come into her own as a leader.” Another senior standout,

Maddie Whaley, has provided leadership and production for the Little Tigers. “Maddie is having another really good year, she is another really versatile swimmer,” said Misiewicz. “I want to say that she has swum every event for us except maybe the 100 butterfly but I am sure she has probably done that sometime too. She is another swimmer who will do anything for the team.” Misiewicz points to a third senior, Maddie Schwimmer, as exuding a special work ethic. “Maddie Schwimmer is another senior who is really standing out, she is working so hard every single day in the pool and it is showing,” said Misiewicz. “Sometimes, here or there, she says that isn’t really as fast as I wanted and I say think about what practice we did yesterday, you are sore and tired. The point of regular season is to swim through being tired so when the counties come you are putting the same effort in but you are not tired so therefore you are going to drop more time.” The Davis sisters, fresh-

man Cammie and junior Samantha, have also come through with some big efforts for the Little Tigers this winter. “Cammie Davis is a standout freshmen this year,” said Misiewicz. “Sam Davis has also been doing a lot for us this year; she took the year off last season and just did club swimming. She has really done a lot for us in the breaststroke and the individual medley this year so we are really happy to have her back. I am really excited to see what she can do and how she can contribute at the counties.” Since the county meet involves a preliminary round before the finals and swimmers can end up in fewer events than in a dual meet, Misiewicz notes that regular season form doesn’t always hold in the competition. “It is a whole new ballgame and anything can happen on that day,” said Misiewicz. “We are going to focus on what is going to happen on that day and not what has happened in the past. There are different options and areas that you have to weigh. You just have to see how it unfolds. I am really excited and looking forward to the counties.” —Bill Alden

WHALE OF AN EFFORT: Princeton High girls’ swimmer Maddie Whaley displays her freestyle form in recent action. Senior star Whaley played a major role as PHS went 9-0-1 in its last 10 meets to finish the regular season at 9-2-1. This week, the Little Tigers will be going for a fifth straight team title as they compete at the Mercer County Championships from January 26-28 at WW/P-N. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Youthful PHS Girls’ Hoops Taking Its Lumps, But Believes Positive Approach Will Pay Off Steve Hennessy knew his Princeton High girls’ basketball team faced a big challenge when it hosted Allentown last Friday. The Redbirds brought a 10-1 record into the contest and PHS didn’t have the services of senior starters Jamaica Ponder and Zoe Tesone. Undeterred, the Little Tigers got off to a good start, hitting two 3-pointers in the early going to make it a 6-6 game. “The way it started was great; we told them that we wanted to slow the game down and take a lot of time off the clock with each possession,” said Hennessy. “The first couple of possessions, we moved the ball. I counted eight, nine passes and we got those open shots.”

Allentown, though, turned up the defensive intensity, putting on full-court pressure that sparked a 17-0 run and the Redbirds never looked back on the way to a 59-23 triumph. “That press broke us six out of seven times in the second quarter,” lamented Hennessy. “Zoe and Jamaica are our press breakers. They can do it, that is their job. Zoe is strong and fast. Jamaica is a great ball handler. We knew that could be trouble. Missing those two caused us to be susceptible to that press.” In the third quarter, PHS did a better job as it was only outscored 14-11 by Allentown. “It was just intensity, we shut down the back door and we were keeping two

DEVINE INTERVENTION: Princeton High girls’ basketball player Erin Devine puts up a shot in a game earlier this season. Last Saturday, sophomore forward Devine scored a game-high 15 points in a losing cause as PHS fell 47-35 at Montgomery to drop to 4-11. The Little Tigers play at Hightstown on January 27. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

guards back on the press,” said Hennessy. “It was back and forth.” Despite the margin of defeat, Hennessy liked the play he got from a trio of sophomores, Catherine Dyevich, Erin Devine, and Anna Intartaglia, as Dyevich scored 10 points against Allentown with Devine adding seven and Intartaglia chipping in three. “We had a lot of good things as well,” said Hennessy. “Catherine Dyevich crushed it, she is playing fantastic. We got Erin Devine on track tonight; she has been a little cold, and she hit a couple of good shots. We put a lot of pressure on our point guard Anna Intartaglia; I thought she handled it great. We have the seniors; they play well but we need to look to the future.” Looking ahead, Hennessy wants his players to focus on being sharper offensively. “I want to see better basketball; I want to see us moving the ball quicker and shooting better, that is how we succeed,” said Hennessy, who got a game-high 15 points from Devine as PHS fell 47-35 to Montgomery last Saturday in dropping to 4-11. “In the third quarter, we were zipping that ball around and we got some open shots. I know we have put stretches together against good teams that are solid. We just can’t keep it going for four quarters.” Noting that the Little Tigers are not hanging their heads, Hennessy believes things are going in the right direction. “Everyone is feeling good about themselves, everybody expects to go in and win the games we can win,” said Hennessy, whose team plays at Hightstown on January 27. “They are feeling good. They are coming back to practice and working hard. They know they are a young team.” —Bill Alden

Finding a Home With PHS Boys’ Hockey, Junior Defenseman Ashcroft Making Impact Nick Ashcroft has bounced around in his high school hockey career. As a freshman, he played for the Hun School boys’ program. A year later, he headed to New England to play for the Chesire Academy (Conn.). This winter, he returned to the Garden State, having joined the Princeton High boys’ hockey team. Taking the ice this January after sitting out 30 days under transfer rules, Ashcroft has found a home in his third stop. “I love it; playing for PHS has made me love hockey again,” said junior defenseman Ashcroft. “My teammates have been great, everyone has been supportive. They helped me make friends in a new school, which has been the best.” Being partners with his old friend, junior defenseman Max Garlock, along the blue line has smoothed the transition for Ashcroft. “There is a little bit of chemistr y there because we played together growing up,” said Ashcroft. “We have always wanted to play hockey together again. It has been a lot of fun.” Ashcroft was hoping to have more fun last Wednesday as PHS skated to a 2-2 tie with Robbinsville, moving to 11-2-3. “We got four big points against Notre Dame with back-to-back wins and we need to take that into every game,” said Ashcroft. “The effor t just wasn’t there tonight and we need to address that as a team. It wasn’t a single player that was off, it was just as a whole. It wasn’t there.” With the game knotted 1-1 going into the third period, PHS was looking to turn up the intensity. “We needed to dig deep and obviously out work them,” asserted Ashcroft. “We needed to get back to our game, we were letting them play their game, running around in our zone and we can’t let them do that.” Coming up with some brilliant work on the offensive end, Ashcroft blasted a onetimer into the net to give PHS a 2-1 lead with 6:26 remaining in regulation. The joy from that tally was short-lived as the Ravens answered with a goal just 55 seconds later. “It did feel nice but they scored a pretty quick one after which turns good feelings into bad feelings,” said Ashcroft. In the waning moments of the contest, the Little Tigers generated a number of scoring oppor tunities but couldn’t break through as the foes ended up in the 2-2 stalemate. “The pressure was there, the offense was there,” said Ashcroft. “We didn’t capitalize like we wanted to do.” In Ashcroft’s view, PHS needs to learn from the tie in order to do what it wants in postseason play. “This is definitely a wakeup call because we know how much better we can play and this was not one of our strong games,” said Ashcroft. PHS head coach Terence Miller concurred, expressing

displeasure with his team’s performance against Robbinsville. “I am not thrilled with the effort; I give Robbinsville credit, they did well,” said Miller, whose team had fallen 4-2 to Bishop Eustace the previous day. “We didn’t like our first two periods; we just didn’t play well. We didn’t have our legs tonight. We can talk about back-to-backs but there are really no excuses. We didn’t have it; we weren’t ready tonight.” Fortunately for the Little Tigers, senior goalie Sawyer Peck played well against Robbinsville, making 23 saves, including several point blank stops. “Sawyer stepped up his game in a big spot as he usually does,” said Miller. “He played lights out the other day and he has continued to play lights out. He seems to elevate his game in big spots. We are going to need him to continue to do that because our schedule doesn’t get any easier.” In Miller’s view, Ashcroft is bringing game to PHS

from his defenseman spot. “Nick has a good shot from the point; he is at his best when he keeps it simple,” said Miller. “He has been a nice addition for us.” In order to play its best down the stretch, PHS needs to pick up the intensity. “We are going to have to sharpen up if we want to get to where we want to be,” said Miller, whose team faces Middletown North on January 25 and then has a rematch against Robbinsville on January 27, with both games taking place at Mercer County Park. “Today’s effort wasn’t quite enough. I think we will, and I think we can, do better. It is on us at this point.” With the Mercer County Tour nament arou nd t he corner, Ashcroft is confident that PHS will play sharper. “I am always looking forward to the county tournament, it is a great atmosphere,” said Ashcroft. “It is always fun playing in front of your crowd. We have a chance to win it this year. I think we might do it if we put the effort in and the hard work and bring to every single game as if we are playing Notre Dame.” —Bill Alden

NICK OF TIME: Princeton High boys’ hockey player Nick Ashcroft controls the puck in recent action. Last Wednesday, junior defenseman Ashcroft scored a goal as PHS tied Robbinsville 2-2 and moved to 11-2-3. The Little Tigers face Middletown North on January 25 and then have a rematch against Robbinsville on January 27, with both games taking place at Mercer County Park. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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I ing to set up a teammate as everybody should be,” said think sometimes our execushe sent the puck into the French. tion doesn’t necessarily go crease area. “In these games, they get the right way.” “I really wanted Rebecca to go through everything In French’s view, she and (Tang) to get a goal,” said a t hey have lear ned f rom the other veterans on the smiling French, reflecting on watching us in better games. squad feel an extra responher accidental tally. It was a really fun game. In sibility to produce. 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a little bit quiet as a freshman, which is understandable. She is coming out a little more, which is great.” Jones produced a great game, scoring 30 points and handling the ball in the absence of point guard Anna Maguire, who is currently sidelined by a leg injury. “Jada is really stepping up; with the burden of losing Anna and the fact that she is more of a scorer than a point guard, she has had to assume a lot more of that responsibility,” said Holup. “Some of the shots that she hits are pretty incredible. She is legit and she is only a sophomore. We are happy to have her. She has been a great addition to the school community not just the basketball program but the school itself.” Wit h Hu n hav ing won three of its last four games, Holup is looking for his players to keep stepping up. “We are fighting ever y game and ever y day we are getting closer to having Anna back, “ said Holup, whose team hosts Peddie on January 25, plays at Pingry on January 27, and hosts Nottingham on January 30. “I am very happy with the win.” Sutphen, for her part, believes that showing a little more poise will help the Raiders pile up more wins. “What I think we need to do more of is to take smarter shots,” said Sutphen. “A lot of times, we are rushing the ball up. If we pull it back sometimes and take a deep breath, that will be a lot better.” —Bill Alden

FORWARD PROGRESS: Hun School girls’ basketball player Leah Sutphen drives to the basket in recent action. Last Saturday, sophomore forward Sutphen scored eight points to help Hun defeat Willingboro 54-49 and improve to 6-7. Hun hosts Peddie on January 25, plays at Pingry on January 27, and hosts Nottingham on January 30. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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PHS Boys’ Basketball: Zahrion Blue triggered the offense for PHS as it posted a 61-51 win at Allentown last Friday. Senior star Blue, who is averaging 20.4 points a game, poured in 27 points for the Little Tigers, who improved to 7-5. PHS hosts Hightstown on January 27. ——— Boys’ Track : The boys’ distance medley provided a major highlight as PHS competed in the NJSIAA Group 4 state relay championships last Saturday at Toms River. The quartet of Will Hare, Oliver Hamit, Cy Watsky, and Alex Roth placed first in a time of 10:29.82. The Little Tigers finished seventh of 24 schools in the team standings at the meet.

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Lawrenceville Boys’ Basketball : Ezra Swell starred in a losing cause as Lawrenceville fell 96-69 to Upper Room Christian (N.Y.) last Sunday. Swell poured in 27 points for the Big Red, who dropped to 9-7. Lawrenceville plays at Life Center Academy on January 27, hosts Princeton Day School on January 27, plays at Marist High on January 30, and hosts Our Savior (N.Y.) on January 31. ——— Girls’ Basketball: Janean Cuffee scored 16 points but it wasn’t enough as Lawrenceville fell 49-38 to Peddie last Saturday. The Big Red, who dropped to 4-6 with the loss, host Pennsbury High ( Pa.) on January 28 before playing at the Shipley School (Pa.) on January 31.

Boys’ Hockey: Led by Ryan Lisk and Cade McLaughlin, PDS defeated Notre Dame 9-1 last Monday. Junior Lisk and freshman McLaughlin each had two goals and an assist as the Panthers improved to 9-8-2. PDS plays at Lawrenceville on January 26 before hosting St. Augustine on January 30.

Local Sports Cupid’s Chase 5k Set for February 11

Communit y Options is holding its annual Cupid’s Chase 5K in seven different locations throughout New Jersey on February 11, with one of the races taking place in Princeton. The Princeton event will start at the Princeton Shopping Center at 10 a.m. with registration beginning at 8 a.m. The fee to enter the race is $30 on or before February 10 and $40 on race day. Log onto www.cupidschase. org for more information on the races and to register. ———

Princeton Girls’ Softball Accepting Registration

The Princeton Lit tle League ( PLL) is currently accepting registration for its Princeton Girls’ Softball program at www.princetonlittleleague.com. Girls between the ages of 6-12 are eligible to play softball; the league age is determined by a player’s age as of Basketball: Jalynn Spauld- December 31, 2016. ing starred as Stuart dePrinceton Girls’ Softball feated Wardlaw-Hartridge has three age div isions : 55-26 last Monday. Junior guard Spaulding tallied 17 points for the Tartans, who improved to 15-3 with the victory. Stuart hosts Pennington on January 27 before playing at Bound Brook on January 30.

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Rookies — ages 6 to 8; Minors — ages 9 and 10; and Majors — ages 11 and 12. Each division will have practice and/or a game once during the week and once on Saturdays. Weekday practice times will depend on coaches availability. Saturday games/practices will be between 9-1 p.m. depending on game schedule and coach schedule. The season begins with op e n i ng cere m on ie s on April 1 and concludes with the end of season celebration on June 10. In order to be eligible, players must either live within the PLL boundary area, which includes par ts of Rocky Hill, Skillman, and Hopewell, or attend a school in the PLL boundary area. The registration fee is $18 0. C o n t a c t C h r i s s y Brown at cryanbrown14@ gmail.com with any questions about the program or scholarship requests. ———

Dillon Youth Basketball January 21 Results

In action last Saturday in the 4th/5th grade boys’ division of the Dillon Youth Basketball League, Bon Appetit defeated Alchemist & Barrister 29-25. Kian Bragg scored 15 points for Bon Appetit in the win. Travis Petrone scored 16 points in the loss for A & B. In other action in the division, Cross Culture topped Conte’s 4033. Jack Kolano scored 12, and Frank McLaughlin added 11 for Cross Culture. Joshua Trotman and JihadJasiri Wilder both scored 13 points in the loss for Conte’s. Princeton Pi beat McCaffrey’s 35-28 as John Linko

CENTURY CLUB: Princeton High wrestling senior star James Verbeyst controls a foe in recent action competing at 160 pounds. Last Saturday, Verbeyst posted the 100th victory of his PHS career when he pinned a foe from Burlington City. Later, Verbeyst earned his 101st win in a victory over an opponent from Pennsauken as he went 3-0 on the day, having defeated a foe from Willingboro in his first bout. Verbeyst is believed to be the first wrestler in program history to achieve 100 wins. PHS is next in action when it hosts WW/P-N on January 25. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

scored nine points to lead the way. Remmick Granozio tallied 18 points in a losing cause for McCaffrey’s. In the 6th/7th grade boys’ division, Jefferson Plumbing defeated Lependorf & Silvers tein 35 -14. Ryan Cruser (15 points) and Drew Petrone (14 points) led the scoring attack for Jefferson. In other games in the division, Corner House topped Vincent Baldino & Brothers 35-23. Jonah Yuan scored 12 points and Jaxon Petrone scored 11 points in the win for Corner House. James Petrone (nine points) and Teohan Blind (eight points) led the way for Baldino in the losing effort. Mason, Griffin & Pierson defeated Woodwinds 46-33. Mason Griffin was led by Jeremy Sallade (18 points), Palmer Maurer (nine points) while Ma x Blecher s core d 11 points in a losing cause for Woodwinds.

In the 8th/9th grade boys’ division, the Nets beat the 76ers 52-39 as Gefen BarCohen scored a game-high 21 points in the win. Edan Blecher scored 12 points and Jack Suozzi scored six points in the losing effort for the 76ers. The Knicks edged the Sonics 55-51 as Jay Jackson led the way with 17 points for the victors with Patrick McDonald adding 16 points. Matthew Rinaldi scored 33 points in the loss for the Sonics. In the girls’ division, Princeton Nassau Pediatrics beat Princeton Pettoranello 3810 as Malka Beere and Price Donaldson led the way with 18 points and six points, respectively. Sneha Kumar scored six points in a losing effort for Pettoranello. Princeton Dental Group defeated The JM Group 34-8. Lauren Klein scored 27 points for the victors. Gallagher Risk Management beat the Majeski Foundation.

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PDS Boys’ Basketball : The trio of John McArthur, David Coit, and Chase Lewis came up big to help PDS defeat Hamilton 75-53 last Monday. Senior McArthur scored 26 points with senior Lewis adding 24 and sophomore Coit chipping in 21 as the Panthers improved to 12-5. PDS hosts Hopewell Valley on January 25, plays at Lawrenceville on January 27, and hosts Pennington on January 31. ——— Girls’ Basketball: Bridget Kane starred as PDS edged WW/P-S 47-44 last Monday. Junior guard Kane scored a game-high 15 points for the Panthers, who improved to 5-10. PDS plays at Doane Academy on January 26, at South Hunterdon on January 27, and at Abington Friends (Pa.) on January 30.

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(Pa.) 7-4 last Thursday to earn its first victory of the season. Castagna tallied two goals and two assists for the Red Raiders, who improved to 1-8. Pennington hosts Episcopal Academy ( Pa.) on January 25 before playing at the Haverford School (Pa.) on January 27 and the Germantown Academy on January 31.

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Obituaries

Jeremiah K. Reilly Jeremiah K. Reilly, 88, beloved husband, father, and grandfather passed away peacefully at home on January 15, 2017. Born in Hamden, Conn. in January 1929 to Alice Sullivan Reilly and David M. Reilly, Sr., prominent Connecticut attorney, Jerry attended Hopkins Grammar, LaSalle Military Academy and graduated from The Loomis School. A member of the class of 1951 at Kenyon College, he left in 1949 to pursue a career in show business in New York City. His tap dancing talent earned him a part in the revival of Where’s Charley with Ray Bolger. After successful previews in Boston at the Shubert Theater, he was drafted into the U.S. Army for the Korean War effort and, sadly, missed the Broadway run of the show. Jerry married Ann Crotty in 1951, settled in Hamden and began night school in business at Yale. Without a degree, he took the Industrial Engineer test, passed, and thus began his career at Safety Car Heating and Lighting, H.B. Ives, and at Nucor, the birth of nuclear power, under Admiral Hyman R ickover. L ater, in New York City, he was a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, V.P. of acquisitions for Beech Nut Squibb, president of Table Talk Pies in Worcester, Mass. and back to New York City as president of Ward Baking Co. These jobs took the family to Ridgefield, Conn. and Sudbury, Mass before settling in Princeton in 1973. There, he turned to entrepreneurship and opened Halo Farm, Inc., in Lawrence in 1975, a microdairy specializing in beverages and ice cream. He then opened Halo Pubs and Halo Fete. Jerry possessed a keen intelligence, a vibrant wit, and a kind generous soul. An avid tennis player, he once ranked number one in the Men’s 45 and over USTA Middle States. Jerry was predeceased by his sisters, Alicia Reilly Walker and Grace Reilly Schuermann and his brother David M. Reilly, Jr. He is survived by his wife Ann Reilly; his four children, Kathleen Reilly Arnold, Brian Reilly, Mary Clare Mooney, and Eileen Reilly; grandchildren Lucy Arnold Gore, Megan and Logan Reilly, and Shannon and Schuyler Mooney; great grandson Ryder Jalber t; son-in-law Anson Mooney and grandson-in-law Nick Gore.

A memorial service will be held at St. Paul’s Church, P r i n ce ton on S at u rd ay, January 28, 2017 at 11 a.m. Donations may be made to his favorite charity The Hole in the Wall Gang, a camp for children with cancer.

Helen enjoyed the outdoors and nature, and spent many summers in her youth as a counselor at camps in Ohio and Vermont teaching riflery, swimming, and directing the drama and theatrics programs. Her family wishes to express heartfelt gratitude to the aides, caregivers, and medical staff who made her last years more comfortable. A celebration of Helen’s life will be held at 11 a.m. on February 24, 2016 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540. Interment will take place privately in Milan, Ohio this summer. Gifts in Helen’s memory m ay b e m ade to : Tr i n ity Counseling Service, 22 Street, Princeton, Helen Smyers Spencer Stockton NJ 08540 or TrinityCounHelen Smyers Spencer, seling.org/Donate. 94, a 70-year resident of Princeton, died peacefully on January 9, 2017 after a long struggle with dementia. She was born in Norwalk, Ohio, on July 10, 1922, only child of William Henry and Mildred Schwab Smyers. She was raised in Milan, Ohio, birthplace of Thomas Edison, where she graduated with honors from Milan High School. She was first violinist in the Erie County orchestra and editor of the school newspaper. Helen at tended Miam i University in Oxford, Ohio where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She John Winterbottom later attended the Academy John Winterbottom died of Dramatic Arts in New January 15, 2017 in SkillYork to fulfill her dream of man with his family by his acting. As a volunteer, Helen side. taught swimming and lifeBorn April 9, 1921 in saving at Columbia University to nurses flying overseas London, Ontario, Canada, in World War II. Helen was John (aka Jack) came to the involved with the Camp Fire United States on scholarship Girls in her youth and later to study at Yale, where he worked at their New York earned his PhD in English literature. After teaching at headquarters. Helen married the late Dartmouth and North CaroJames L. Spencer in 1945 lina State, he settled with his in New York. Two years lat- wife, Miriam, in Princeton er, they moved to Princeton and spent the rest of his cawhere they became members reer at Educational Testing of Trinity Episcopal Church. Service. At ETS he worked Helen was a 50-year mem- on the Law School Admisber of Trinity’s Altar Guild, sion Test and the Graduate a substitute teacher, and Record Exam and developed served as assistant to the an innovative arts testing rector at All Saint’s Church. program. His real passion, She worked with the Dio- though, was the cello, which cese of New Jersey in Tren- he played devotedly, and ton and was employed at with wonderful skill, from Trinity Counseling Service age 9 to 90. An avid hikfor 17 years until her retire- er and naturalist, he spent some of his happiest days at ment at age 81. his cabin on a remote hilltop In her professional career, in Barnard, Vermont, part of Helen was also a member a range appropriately called of the staff at Firestone Li- the Delectable Mountains. brary, Princeton University, After retiring, he volunThe Flower Basket, and Wilteered as a docent at the liam Sword and Co. Helen Princeton University Art Muwas a past member of the seum and took much joy in Women’s Investment Club of introducing children to art. Princeton, the Present Day Club, and was a Board Mem- It wasn’t long before he’d ber of the Chapin School, immersed himself in a serious study of art. In his 80s Princeton. he wrote a scholarly paper Mrs. Spencer is survived on Giovanni Battista Tiepoby her children; Stanford lo, the great 18th centuryH., of Belle Meade, Nancy painter of epic canvases. S. and her husband Alan R. John’s wit, his gift for conRushton, Md., of Fleming- versation, and his openness ton; Linda S. and her hus- to people from all walks of band Robert N. McClellan life, brought delight to all of Princeton Junction; and who met him. four grandchildren; Andrew In his last years he sufS. and Daniel A. Rushton; fered from dementia, but his and Cassandra H. and Garsweetness and wry humor rett B. McClellan. continued to shine through. Helen was deeply loved The family would like to and respected; her warmth, thank Veronica Carbon as car ing, s t reng t h, sm ile, well as the staff at Skilled bright blue eyes, and giv- Nu r s i ng at S ton ebr id g e ing of herself will be missed Montgomery for their comby all who have known her. passionate care. Survivors She had a strong faith and include his son Richard and an always-positive outlook. his wife Kay and daughter

Devon, his son Daniel and his wife Carol and daughter Nina, and his daughter Julie and her partner Stephen. A memorial service may be held at a later date. Donations in John’s memory can be made to Trenton Community Music School at trentoncommunitymusic.org. ———

Stephan Dean Sennert Stephan Dean Sennert of Princeton died on January 8, 2017, one day before his 74th birthday, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He had recently retired as president of F and S Distributors, Inc., a familyowned business started by his father and associates more than 50 years ago. The company, which has been located in Clifton, Whippany, and now Jackson, New Jersey, supplies hydraulic seals to many corporations nationwide. Steve and his wife, Nancy McCarthy, moved to Princeton in 1993. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last May. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, on January 9, 1943 to the late Edmund Sennert, Jr. and Doris Newkirk Sennert. While he was a young child, the family moved to Pompton Plains, New Jersey, near where his parents had lived before World War II. Steve was a graduate of South Kent School in South Ke nt, C on n e c t ic ut, a n d Lafayette College, where he earned a BS in industrial engineering. He put that education to good use when he joined the Peace Corps in 1968. For two years he was a volunteer in Bolivia, where he assisted in the design and construction of water, road, and school projects. Following his Peace Corps service, Steve moved to Fargo, North Dakota, to work at the Center for Economic Development at North Dakota State University for two years. There he was involved in helping to improve the lives and job opportunities of residents of rural counties and four Native American reservations, including Standing Rock. While in Fargo, Steve married his first wife, Constance Card, in 1971. They moved to New Jersey in the early 1970s when he joined his father’s business, F and S Distributors, Inc., then in Clifton. They lived in Ironia for a few years, then moved to Flanders. Connie died in 1990. In addition to his enjoyment of music — classical, international, jazz, swing, and American popular music of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s — Steve loved photography. While he lived in Flanders he worked as a photographer on weekends for Recorder Publishing Company, which publishes newspapers in north and central New Jersey. Two of his photos, which he printed in a darkroom in his cellar, won awards from the New Jersey Press Association. In 1981, two of the photographs he took in Bolivia while in the Peace Corps were exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. They had won prizes for photographs taken by current and former Peace Corps members to mark the organization’s 20th anniversary.

In addition to his wife, Nancy, Steve is survived by his daughter, Doris Katharine Sennert of Los Angeles ; her maternal grandmother, Caroline Wendt of Indianapolis; and his sister, Letitia Burdett of Flanders. Other survivors include his nephew, B. Stephan La Rose of Flanders; his niece, Georgiana Sennert of Lake Hopatcong; his stepbrother and business partner, James F. King of Lakewood; and his stepsister, Carol Ann Bray of Marietta, Georgia. Steve was a member of the local senior citizens organization Community Without Walls. His family plans to have a memorial gathering in the spring to celebrate his life. Nancy appreciates the assistance and services of the Frank E. Campbell funeral home in Manhattan. Those wishing to make a donation in Steve’s memory are encouraged to contribute to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Harriet Baldwin Bryan Harriet Baldwin Br yan passed away on January 1 in Whitefish, Montana surrounded by her family. She was born in Berlin, N.H. on July 31, 1931 and grew up in Hillsboro, N.H., where she attended a one-room s c h o o l i n H i l l s b or o u g h Center. After a year (with relatives in Sweden), she attended Northfield School in Northfield, Mass. and graduated from Wellesley College in the class of 1954. After teaching in the Essex, Conn., public schools for two years she married Kirk Bryan and moved to Cambridge, Mass., where her husband was a graduate student at MIT. In Cambridge, she taught at Buckingham School. Harriet and her husband spent a postdoc year in Sweden, where they were welcomed by many relatives. Harriet was already fluent in Swedish. During that year in Stockholm, their first baby, Betsy, was born in Karolinska Sjukhus. Returning home the family lived for t wo years in Woods Hole, Mass., where Harriet had a second child, Samuel. The family then moved to Virginia outside of Washington D.C., where her husband worked as an oceanographer at the Weather Bureau. During her eight years in Virginia, Harriet became an active member of the League of Women Voters, and participated in a narrowly won referendum on Public Housing in Fairfax County. After moving with the family to Princeton in 1968, Harriet again became active in the League of Women Voters. Later she was asked to be the League’s representative on the board of t he nonprofit, Pr inceton Community Housing (PCH), which had already

developed Princeton Community Village in the 1970’s. Being on the PCH Board allowed her to pursue her life long interest in affordable housing, which had been inspired in part by her two years in Sweden. She remained an active member of the PCH Board for over 20 years as a nearly full-time volunteer, serving as president and in a variety of committee assignments. During Harriet’s tenure with PCH, she focused with other volunteers and staff — notably Eleanor Angoff. Sheila Birk hammer, Jim Floyd, Sandra Perchetti, and Ted Vial — on new initiatives to increase affordable housing in Princeton. Projects in which she was actively involved include Elm Court (1985), Griggs Farm (1989), and the Elm Court Extension (Harriet Bryan House, 2009). In the case of the Elm court extension there was a general consensus on the need for more affordable housing, but the choice of site was controversial, requiring endless meetings, court cases, and presentations to boards in both the Borough and the Township, which were then separate. Harriet’s consistent optimism, effective advocacy, and the financial aid of PCH supporters in the community were key factors in the long campaign to obtain final site approval. In recognition of Harriet’s efforts, PCH renamed Elm court Extension in her honor at the grand opening. In 2003 Harriet and her husband moved to Stonebridge, a retirement community in Montgomery Township, where she was active on the Nursing Committee, in spite of increasing problems with her own health. Harriet is survived by her husband, Kirk Bryan; her daughter, Betsy Kohnstamm of Whitefish; her son, Samuel Bryan of Seattle, Wash; and two grandchildren, Mary Kohnstamm of Bozeman, Mont.; and Carl Kohnstamm of Squamish, B.C. ———

Minerva H. Reed Minerva H. Reed, 67, beloved mother and grandmother passed away in her home unexpectedly on Monday, January 16, 2017. Born in Charleston, S.C. she lived in the Princeton area since the late 70’s. A f te r g r ad u at i n g w it h a Bachelor’s degree from Douglass College and two Masters Degrees from Columbia University, Minerva became the first female and African American Director of Career Services at Princeton University. Minerva is survived by her father Joseph Harris, her two children Razwel Brown and Calvin Reed III, and her grandson Shuler Brown. A Memorial Service will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 28, 2017 at the Witherspoon Presbyterian Church, 124 Witherspoon Street, Princeton followed by a repast at the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, 58 Prospect Ave n u e, P r i n c e ton, N J. Please do NOT wear dark colors. It’s a celebration of life. Arrangements are by Watson Mortuary Service Inc., 26 Gifford Avenue, Jersey City, NJ. Continued on Next Page

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Robert Carter Miller Jr.

Robert Carter Miller Jr. passed away peacefully at Acorn Glen in Princeton on January 5, 2017. Bob was born July 1, 1936, in Huntington, N.Y., to Robert Carter Miller and Mildred “Moo Moo” Baylis Miller, and was a resident of New Jersey for most of his life. He was married twice, first to Sandra Schuessler Miller and then to Ruth Gibson Miller. He spent his early life in Princeton, where he attended Nassau Elementary School and Princeton Country Day School before advancing onto the Taft School in Watertown, Conn. He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather by attending Princeton University, graduating in 1958 with a BA in English. During college, Bob played freshman soccer and was a member of the swim team for two years. He sang in the University Chapel choir and was a member of Tower Club. After two years in the Army stationed in Fort Polk, La., Bob began his professional life as a teacher. He taught for the next 20 years as a Middle School teacher and soccer coach at the newly formed Princeton Day School. He took great pride in the final chapter of his teaching career — learning sign language and working at the New Jersey School for the Deaf in Ewing until his retirement. Bob was a nature enthusiast and had an encyclopedic knowledge when it came to identifying flora and fauna. He was deeply passionate about history, especially the history of Native Americans. He treasured finding arrowheads, spearheads, and even an ax on the former LenniLenape encampment near his boyhood home. He loved to walk his dogs in the Institute Woods and was fond of camping and hiking in Stoke State Forest and Sunfish Pond. He worked with inner city children at the Princeton Summer Camp in Blairstown and kept in touch with the program through the years. It was always a source of joy for him. Bob enjoyed a very active social life, attending Scottish Country Dance classes in the local area for over three decades. He loved all things Princeton. He was an act ive member of the Princeton University Chapel and was a supporter of Princeton University athletics, with his favorites being football, men’s hockey, men’s lacrosse and men’s soccer. Bob was well traveled and trotted the globe from Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe. Bob is sur vived by his daughter, Ann Paiva; son,

A ndrew Brewster Car ter Miller; grandson, Alexander Joachim Paiva; granddaughter, Sophie Joachim Paiva; and his sister, Nancy Baylis Miller. He is predeceased by his daughter, Fiona Gibson Miller and brother, Thomas Brush Miller. A memorial service for Bob will be held on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at the Princeton University Chapel at 1:30 p.m. followed by a reception at Murray Dodge Hall, Princeton University, at 3 p.m. Interment will be private. Memorial donations can be made in Bob’s honor to the Princeton-Blairstown Center. http://princetonblairstown.org/donate-now. ———

Ann France Freda Ann France Freda, 89, died January 21, 2017 at University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro surrounded by her family. Mrs. Freda, a longtime resident of Princeton, was a RN working on the surgical floors A-1, A-3, and J-6 of Princeton Hospital. While on A-1 she was promoted to Head Nurse, that title was changed to Nursing Care Coordinator (NCC) years later. Mrs. Freda had a stellar reputation and was known to run a tight ship with excellent patient outcomes; she was loved by her patients and respected by physicians, nurses, and other hospital staff. Many members of her former nursing staff credit her with instilling in them the importance of patient care, treating every patient with dignity and respect. Mrs. Freda went back to school at the age of 51 to earn her BS degree. She retired in 1997 as the NCC of J-6. In retirement Mrs. Freda participated in the Grandpal Reading Program at Littlebrook Elementary School serving as a Grandpal for many children, including two of her own grandchildren. She was a longtime parishioner of St Paul’s Catholic Church. Mrs. Freda was born on March 31, 1927, in Scranton, Pa., to Gertrude and Stanford France. Mrs. Freda graduated from St. Mary Hospital School of Nursing in Scranton before moving to Princeton in 1951 to start her nursing career at Princeton Hospital. She was married in 1951 and raised three children in Princeton. Mrs. Freda is survived by her children, Maureen Freda Peterson and husband, William Peterson, of Bowie, Maryland; Kathy Freda of Olympia, Washington; Mark Freda and his wife, Beth Ogilvie Freda, of Princeton; her beloved grandchildren, Brandon Boyd of Aliso Viejo, California; Dawn Boyd of Billings, Montana; and Rebecca and Alex Freda of Princeton. She is also survived by her sisterin-law, Rosemary Roberto, of Hamilton, New Jersey and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents and her dear sister, Barbara France Dunne of Manassas, Virginia. Contributions in her memory may be made to: Princeton HealthCare System Foundation and directed to the Annual Fund, Hospice or any other department at Princeton HealthCare System Foundation, 3626 US Route One, Princeton, NJ 08540. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at St. Paul’s Church 216 Nassau Street, Princeton. Burial will follow at the

Princeton Cemetery. Fr iends may call on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton.

Ruth S. Houck Borgia Ruth S. Houck Borgia, 96, daughter of Bethenia and Ernest Stout died at her home in Lawrence Township on Tuesday January 17, 2017. Ruth is survived by 7 children Shirley Houck, Harry Houck, Robert Houck, Carol Ciarlone, Richard Houck, Ruth Donhauser, and Jeffrey Houck. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and 4 greatgreat grandchildren. Ruth worked at the New Jersey Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles. She had several hobbies that she thoroughly enjoyed throughout her life that included knitting, crocheting, weaving, and growing roses. She was a member of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company and the Oratorio Choir at Germantown First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Pa. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 1 p.m. in the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08542 followed by interment at Kingston Cemetery, Kingston, NJ. Friends may call Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home. Extend condolences and remembrances at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

Kenneth George Negus Kenneth George Negus, 89, of Ewing passed away suddenly at his residence on Friday, January 20, 2017. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he lived in Princeton for many years before his recent move to Ewing. He earned his PhD from Princeton University and taught graduate level German literature at Princeton University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, and Rutgers University. Kenneth served in the U.S. Army in Germany after the end of World War II. He cofounded the Astrological Society of Princeton and was its president for 44 years. He published Johannes Kepler’s astrological writings, wrote

poetry, loved to garden and cook, take walks, sing, and play classical guitar. He was predeceased by his first wife, Joan Negus in 1997. Surviving are his wife Carol Raine, a daughter and son-in-law Niki Giberson and Gary (Port Republic, N.J.), two sons and daughters-inlaw; Chris Negus and Sheree (Manchester, N.H.) and Jon Negus and Jacque (Palatine, Ill.); 8 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Visiting hours at the funeral home are Friday, January 27, 2017 from 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Avenue, Princeton, NJ on Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 3 p.m. followed by burial at Fountain Lawn Memorial Park in Ewing, NJ. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Astrological Society of Princeton. Please make checks payable to ASP c/o D. Orr, 14 Ravine Drive, Matawan, NJ 07747. Extend condolences and share memories at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

or events anywhere in North America. She howled with wolves on Isle Royale, Michigan, watched polar bears in Churchill Manitoba, and hiked in Pangnirtung, Nunavit Territory. (She conceded the use of an airplane to reach places that did not have roads.) A devoted mother and grandmother, she had a charm and positive energy that brightened the day of all who met her. Preceded in death by her former husband and her son Dale James Bennett, she is survived by her daughter Nancy Bennett and grandchildren Neil and Ivor Havkin of West Windsor and daughter Emily Jane Bennett and grandchildren Sarah, Patrick, and Kathleen Neff of Golden, Colo. A funeral mass is scheduled at the chapel at St. Mary’s Assisted Living, 1 Bishops Drive, Lawrenceville at 2 p.m. Saturday January 28th. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Pet Rescue of Mercer, PO Box 2574, Hamilton NJ, 08690 petrescueofmercer.org.

George Eugene Zeitlin Emily L. Bennett Emily (“Elva”) Langford Bennet t died peacefully Wednesday January 22, at her home at St. Mary’s Assisted Living in Lawrenceville at age 93. The daughter of the late Fr a n ci s D a ly a n d Ver a Sweeney, Emily was born and raised in St. Paul Minnesota and attended St. John’s School and Hamline University. She worked for the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Service in Vienna after World War II and studied opera with renowned Austrian opera singers Fritz and Louisa Krenn. Following her marriage to fellow American Frank Bennett, the couple returned to the United States while Frank completed his studies at MIT. They eventually settled in Lawrenceville in order for Frank to take a position as director of engineering at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In addition to raising three children, Emily worked as an administrative assistant for the Princeton University Alumni Council for almost 25 years. Following her University retirement, she worked as private secretary to emeritus physics professor John Archibald Wheeler, who acknowledged her assistance in his autobiography Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics. A lifelong bibliophile she was a member of the Bronte Society, the St. Andrew Society, the English Speaking Union, and the Princeton Folk Music Society. Emily loved to travel and thought nothing of jumping into the car with one or more family members for long, cross-country drives (camping along the way) to visit friends, family, places,

George Eugene Zeitlin, 86, resident of both New York and Princeton, and a leading tax partner at Chadbourne and Parke, and a former dean of the tax law program at New York University School of Law, died Jan. 19, 2017, after a four-month illness, with family and friends in close attendance. He was a vigorous and active man who played tennis twice a week, belonged to a bridge club, and did the New York Times crossword puzzle in ink every day. He was an enthusiastic world traveler who had most recently returned from a trip to northern Greece, and had a lifelong devotion to Judaism and Jewish learning. He greatly enjoyed his profession of tax attorney. He was a partner at Chadbourne for 34 years and kept up a full client caseload until he became ill in the fall. He handled bet-the-company IRS audits for corporations and advised on mergers and acquisitions and tax issues facing high net-worth individuals. “George was one of the true lions of the tax bar,” said Chadbourne tax department chair William Cavanagh, adding he was the firm’s lead tax partner in the 1980s and 1990s. “George had a broad command of almost all areas of tax law, which is somewhat unique for a tax lawyer,” Cavanagh said. “He was a very gifted and creative problem solver. George could take the most complex tax problem and reduce it down to simple, understandable terms and then come up with a solution.” Zeitlin began his career as a tax lawyer at Chadbourne in 1955 after graduating from Columbia Law School in 1953 and serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army. He earned his

LLM in Taxation from NYU in 1961. He briefly left Chadbourne to serve as deputy tax legislative counsel in the U.S. Treasury Department in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Zeitlin returned to New York in 1966, serving as a full-time tax professor at New York University School of Law until 1982. He was an associate dean of the graduate tax division of the law school from 1975 to 1982, overseeing the school’s LLM program. While on the law school’s full-time faculty, Zeitlin was counsel to Chadbourne. He became a partner at the firm after stepping down as associate dean in 1982. He continued to teach part time in the school’s tax program until just a few years ago. Zeitlin was attracted to tax law for the puzzles inherent in the practice, said his daughter, Judith. “He liked the problem solving and the abstract nature of the problem,” she said. She added that her father was a “child of the Depression” and enjoyed having more than one job throughout his life. “He was a man of tremendous energy and dedication,” who was uninhibited and liked to tell jokes, she said. “He was a warm, gregarious guy who remembered all his students,” Cavanagh added, noting he frequently kept in touch with his former students who viewed him as a resource. “He was master teacher in that he would make sure young tax lawyers would understand all aspects of a transaction.” His wife of 63 years, Froma Zeitlin (now emeritus), was Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Classics at Princeton University (1976-2010). He supported her enthusiastically throughout the years in all her scholarly enterprises and took enormous pride in her accomplishments. George continued to spend weekdays in New York at his law firm and his weekends in Princeton, a town which he loved and where he made numerous friends, as he did everywhere he went throughout his life. They valued him among other virtues for his honesty, open-mindedness, empathy, legendary hospitality, and famous sense of humor. George was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on September 11, 1930, to Benjamin Zeitlin, a pharmacist, and Ruth Leiberman Zeitlin, a bookkeeper, who owned and operated their own pharmacy in several successive locations in Brooklyn and in the Bronx. He received his AB in 1951 from Columbia College, a JD in 1953 from Columbia University and LLM in taxation in 1961 from New York University. He will be greatly missed by his wife, Froma; his children Jonathan, Ariel; and Judith (and son-in-law, Wu Hung); his grandchildren, Sam and Joshua Zeitlin, Lida Zeitlin Wu, and Eve Cooke; his stepgranddaughter Nina Jiang and step-great-grandchildren Caitlyn and Lucas Kindij; as well as his brothers Richard and Paul. May his memory be for a blessing. Donations in George’s name may be made to the WallaceLyon-Eustice Tax Fund at NYU at law.nyu.edu or the American Jewish World Service at ajws.org.

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GIRLS’ LACROSSE COACH Princeton Charter School, a K-8 public school, seeks a motivated individual to coach girls’ lacrosse from March 21, 2017-May 23, 2017. Students practice three days a week with games falling on those days. Eligible candidates must be able to be at school by 3:00 pm. Interested candidates should submit resumes to Mr. Mark Papp, Director of Athletics, Princeton Charter School, 100 Bunn Drive, Princeton NJ 08540. Teacher or Substitute certificate required. Princeton Charter School is an EOE.

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PRINCETON, Located on 4 ¼ acres, near downtown Princeton, this six bedroom, five full- and two-half bath renovated and restored home was designed by famed Philadelphia architect Wilson Eyre. Jr. The exterior is stone imported from the Cotswolds, England with carved wood cedar shingle roof. Beautiful grounds feature three Koi ponds, tennis/sport court and pool. $3,800,000 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)

NEW LISTING LAWRENCE TWP., This 5 BR, 4.5 BA cstm built home on 5 acres features a 2-story foyer, LR w/ gas FP, DR, kit. w/ cstm cabs. & granite cntrtps, plus a heated pool. $1,450,000 Joseph Plotnick 732-979-9116 (cell)

OPEN SUNDAY 1-4 PM MONTGOMERY TWP., New in Montgomery Woods, this wellmaintained Ashwood Model, features 3 BRs & 2.5 BAs. Dir: Blue Spring Road to Brookline Court. $345,000 Michael Mayo 713-449-6498 (cell)

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PRINCETON, This 3 BR, 1.5 BA duplex offers a fabulous location. Features include a living room w/ gas fireplace, dining room and EIK, plus a collection of amenities hard to match. $675,000 Denise Varga 609-439-3605 (cell)

PRINCETON JCT., Located in Sherbrooke Estates, near train & shops, this 4 BR Col. home offers 2.5 new BAs, a FR & updtd kit. Dir: Princeton-Hightstown Rd to Sherbrooke Dr. $599,000 Harriet Hudson 609-577-7335 (cell)

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$1,390,000 NEWLY PRICED

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175 Cedar Lane, Princeton 5 Beds, 3+ Baths

27 Eiker Road, South Brunswick Twp 4 Beds, 2.5 Baths $575,000 NEWLY PRICED

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167 Pennington Rocky Hill Road, Hopewell Twp 3 Beds, 2 Baths $509,000 NEWLY PRICED

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8 Wyckoff Drive, Hopewell Twp 4 Beds, 2.5 Baths $475,000 NEWLY PRICED

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