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Biology Professor Simon Levin Wins National Science Medal Simon Levin, Princeton University professor of biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, will receive a National Medal of Science, the country’s highest honor in science, at a White House ceremony in early 2016. “It was a delightful surprise,” Mr. Levin said. ”For me, there is no more meaningful recognition than the National Medal of Science, and I am grateful to so many for their support — family, mentors, colleagues, and students. Princeton University has been a wonderful place to pursue the interdisciplinary work that is essential for dealing with the challenges of managing our environment sustainably.” Mr. Levin’s work in ecology has shaped how scientists consider the larger implications of local factors, according to Lars Hedin, chair of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton. “His work on ecological theory and on how macroscopic patterns emerge from local interactions among organisms has influenced a generation of scientists,” Mr. Hedin stated, “and is continuing to influence the way we think about biodiversity, complexity, and human agency in a world that is undergoing rapid environmental change.” Mr. Levin described his award as “a great recognition for the importance of ecology and environmental science. So many of my colleagues in the ecological community have expressed their sense of gratification in that recognition.” Complexity, particularly how largescale patterns — such as at the ecosystem level — are maintained by small-scale behavioral and evolutionary factors at the level of individual organisms, has been the focus of Mr. Levin’s research. His work uses observational data and mathematical models to explore topics such as biological diversity, the evolution of structure and organization, and the management of public goods and shared resources. In addition to ecology, Mr. Levin, the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton, has also done research in the fields of conservation, financial and economic systems, and the dynamics of infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance. “In recent years,” Mr. Levin states on his website, “I have turned my attention to the parallels between ecological systems and financial and economic systems, Continued on Page 8
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Speaking to a packed room of citizens and representatives of local, county, and state government, Mayor Liz Lempert ushered in 2016 at Princeton Council’s official reorganization meeting Monday evening by going over accomplishments of the past year and touching on some plans for the new one. Starting with a look at consolidation three years after the merger was put in place, Ms. Lempert told the audience, “Today I’m happy to report that it is working, and working well.” She touted net savings of $2.77 million since Princeton Borough and Township were made into one entity, and said more savings can be expected in coming years. Ms. Lempert began the meeting at Witherspoon Hall by recognizing former Borough mayors Mildred Trotman and Marvin Reed and former Township mayor Phyllis Marchand, with a special proclamation for Mr. Reed. He and his wife Ingrid have recently moved from Princeton to Montgomery, and Mr. Reed has stepped down from the Planning Board. The audience gave him a standing ovation. Also in attendance were U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, state Senator Kip Bateman, Mercer County
Executive Brian Hughes, Mercer County Freeholder Andrew Koontz, and other county politicians. The oaths of office were administered to fire chief Dan Tomalin, deputy chief Kyle Rendall, and assistant chief Salvatore Baldino. Council members Lance Liverman and Heather Howard were sworn in for new terms. Mr. Liverman was voted new Council president after being nominated by outgoing president Bernie Miller. Citing Mr. Liverman’s status as the only elected official in Princeton who was born in the
town and attended its public schools, Mr. Miller called him “a real Princetonian who understands our town and the workings of our community.” Each member of the governing body except for Patrick Simon, who was unable to attend, offered brief remarks. “I don’t take my elected position lightly,” Mr. Liverman said when it was his turn. “Moving forward is the new theme.” Councilwoman Jo Butler thanked staff members, particularly the town’s engineer Bob Kiser, who Continued on Page 8
Timothy Vasen, University Theater Director, Remembered as Colleague, Teacher, Friend Close to 300 family members, friends, colleagues, and members of the Princeton community gathered Sunday in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street on the Princeton University campus to remember and celebrate the life of Timothy Vasen. Mr. Vasen, 51, lecturer in theater and director of the Program in Theater at Princeton, died on December 28 following an accident at his home in Brooklyn, New York.
The gathering also included current and past colleagues from the Yale School of Drama and Baltimore’s Center Stage. More than a dozen speakers shared memories of Mr. Vasen as a dedicated family man, an avid outdoorsman, a food aficionado and cook, a world traveler, a talented theater director, and a generous colleague, teacher, and mentor. “Some of us have lost a very dear friend, one of the finest human beings we Continued on Page 29
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A Community Bulletin The Town Topics website now includes video postings of municipal meetings by Princeton Council, Planning Board, and Zoning Board. Visit www.towntopics. com. Affordable Care Act Assistance: At Princeton Public Library on Saturday, January 9 at 11 a.m., an information and enrollment session will be held. Representatives from participating health insurance companies will also be available. The enrollment period ends January 31. A trained navigator will also be at the library on successive dates; call (800) 355-0271 to make an appointment. Goals and Priorities: Princeton Council will hold a special meeting on January 13, 7 p.m. at Witherspoon Hall to discuss goals and priorities for 2016. Ask-a-Lawyer: At Princeton Public Library on January 13, from 7-8:30 p.m., free legal advice on immigration and other issues is offered in the second floor conference room. For more information, call (609) 924-9529 ext. 220. Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) is seeking candidates for its executive board, to be elected at the annual reorganization meeting January 31. Anyone interested should contact co-chairs Bernie Miller (bernardpaulmiller@gmail.com) or Scotia Macrae (swmacrae@yahoo.com) as soon as possible. Communiversity Applications: They are now available for the April 17 event. Merchants, food vendors, non-profit groups, artists, and performers can visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org to download an application, or call (609) 9248777. First Baptist Church of Princeton in partnership with Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) invites members of the community to share a supper every Tuesday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Church, located at the corner of John Street and Paul Robeson Place. Meals can either be taken home or eaten at the Church. The Crisis Ministry of Mercer County holds a food pantry in the lower level of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Tuesday, 1:30 to 7 p.m.; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 1:30 to 4 p.m. For more information, call (609) 3965327, or visit: thecrisisministry.org. Cornerstone Community Kitchen in partnership with the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen serves free hot meals Wednesdays, 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Princeton United Methodist Church, Nassau at Vandeventer street. For more information, call (609) 924-2613, or visit: www. princetonumc.org.
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larly worshipping at Sunday services held, most recently, at Princeton Day School. “ We’re a l m os t t h ere,” said Father Peter A. Baktis, a recently retired military chaplain from the U.S. Armed Services who came to Princeton to head the church last March. “When I got here I inherited the bu i ld i ng proj e c t, w h i ch started more than five years ago. It was a shell. But we’ve raised money and were able to complete the interior. The big work has been site work — digging a drainage ditch, grading, asphalt, that kind of thing. But we’re ready and will have the ribbon-cutting with Archbishop Michael on January 30 at 9:30 a.m.”
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Many people who hear the name of the church assume it is Russian Orthodox, but it is not. “It’s part of the Orthodox Church of America, which encompasses Orthodox Christians from all over the world,” Mr. Baktis said. “It’s the church of the east. The liturgy is more ornate. We chant, with no musical accompaniment. It’s more traditional.” Founded in 1998 as a mission by Father John Cassar in Rocky Hill, the parish relocated to St. Joseph’s Seminary in 2003. When that site became unavailable eight years later, the group began holding services at PDS. Five years ago, they purchased the property at 904 Cherry Hill Road. “We were going to convert a house, but the project was expanded,” Mr. Baktis said. “The foundation of the house was enlarged, and that made the church deeper.” An affable man with an engaging smile, Mr. Baktis is the grandson of Belarusian and Lithuanian immigrants. He grew up in Brooklyn, and his family belonged to the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow, L o n g I s l a n d . “I a l w ay s thought I’d be a priest,” he said during an interview a week before Christmas. “I was an altar boy, and I just knew.” H e e nte re d t h e A r m y Chaplain Corps in 1990, and was deployed as an active duty chaplain in Kosovo, Iraq, Kuwait, and Bosnia. He also served at installations in the United States, Germany, and South Korea.
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has announced he will retire this year, for their efforts. She also thanked resident Holly Nelson for bringing landscape students from Rutgers University and the innovative ideas they offered for the re-design of Mary Moss Park. Ms. Howard cited public safety in her remarks, with special praise for the police department. She also recognized the Health and Human Ser v ices depar tments for their work on a Community Needs Assessment during the past year. “I also want to thank all the voters of Princeton for their engagement in the political process,” she said. Ms. Lempert called consolidation “a massive undertaking by elected officials, municipal staff, and citizen volunteers. It will forever be a seminal event in our town’s history and has cemented the municipality of Princeton’s reputation as a place for government innovation,” she said. She
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C.K. Williams’s “Fearless Inventions”: A Last Look Into the “Dearest Distance” His fearless inventions … quest after the entirety of life: he will include every emotion, every bit of evidence that has a natural claim on our attention. Contemporary life is so rich and vivid in his poetry that by contrast many of the movies and poems we are used to seem pale, spaced-out and insipid. Robert Pinsky on C.K. Williams n the special December 27 poetry issue of the N.Y. Times Book Review (NYTBR), after admitting that the Times “has not always treated poets well,” John Williams quotes an unsigned review from 1860 faulting Walt Whitman for seeing “nothing vulgar in that which is commonly regarded as the grossest obscenity.” Whitman is also upbraided for rejecting “the laws of conventionality so completely as to become repulsive,” although it’s noted that on occasion “a gleam of the true poetic fire shines out of the mass of his rubbish.” Reviewing C.K. Williams’s Selected Later Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux $30) in the same issue, Katy Lederer finds “visceral discomfort … — a sense a human boundary has been knowingly traversed, an intimacy exploited” through “intrusions into others’ private lives” that “feel less acquisitive than desperate.” Williams, who died September 20, is also cited for “subject matter” that “could be pedestrian and at times vulgar,” giving “the impression of a writer” who is “spiritually off-balance.” Those remarks follow a litany of Williams’s accomplishments: winner of the “trifecta of American book awards (the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a longtime professor at Princeton University and the recipient of almost every major fellowship and citation available to poets.” While conceding that there are “poems of great beauty” in which she has found “deep pleasure,” the reviewer stresses in the same sentence “failed experiments,” “political opinions” (meaning in lieu of poetry?), and “erudite epics of self-loathing.” The review’s most resounding negative is Lederer’s unfounded claim that “Much has been made by reviewers through the years of Williams’s essential coldness and remove.” [italics mine]. Readers who know the poetry will be wondering “what reviewers?” The only evidence Lederer can offer is a line from Richard Eder’s 2006 N.Y. Times review of Collected Poems: “Frequently he gives us not the sun but the sundial registering it.” What Eder actually presents is a celebration of Williams’s “intense engagement with what he encounters,” rendered “with meaty force and startling imagery.” And what Eder “makes” of Williams is a long way from “essential coldness and remove” — “a poet of indignant compassion for the left-out; one who would say everything that can be said; one who would contain multitudes” and in whose work “nothing human is alien, nor is much else.” If anything, Eder seems to be describing a poet who has more than a little in common with that
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producer of “rubbish,” Walt Whitman. The Virtues of Misreading The Monday after C.K. Williams died, I received a review copy of his Selected Later Poems featuring his artist son Jed’s striking jacket painting and the blurb from former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky referring to Williams’s “fearless inventions.” The conspicuously out-sized scale of the book and the lettering and the chapter titles reflect, to quote Pinsky again, the poet’s “ranginess of language and big long lines” — “big” like the man himself. In fact, Williams’s height provides the turn in the title poem from his prize-winning 2003 collection The Singing, where a “black speaking black” and a 6’5 white poet pass by one another on a Princeton street. When the black signals his awareness of the white on the other side of the street (“He shouted-sang ‘Big’”), Williams smiles, amused “to have my height incorporated into his song”; when the other man then chants “I’m not a nice person,” Williams un derstands it as an advisory, “ T h at i f m y smile implied I conceived of any thing like concord between us I should forget it.” B e c au s e of the new book’s larger format, the p o e m’s l o n g lines need not be broken as they are in the or ig inal col lection. Giving each line the benefit of its unpunctuated entirety makes a difference in a poem that includes not only an image of the “big” poet but his awareness of the other singer and his need to fully absorb all the elements of “the duet we composed the equation we made the conventions to which we were condemned.” The poem closes with two “big long lines” that reach to the heart of his work: “Sometimes it feels even when no one is there that someone something is watching and listening/Someone to rectify redo remake this time again though no one saw nor heard no one was there.” Fortunately for poetry, C.K. Williams was, is, will always be there. If nothing else, the Times reviewer’s misreadings are of value as an unintended reader’s guide to the “great beauty” in Williams that Lederer mentions but never discloses; no wonder, since what attracts her particular notice tends to be unbeautiful: “the sexual congress of locusts,” “a dream about a beetle being eaten by a spider,” and a poet who watches vultures “descend upon their territory, projecting onto them his own duplicity and need.”
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bivalence” (for instance, the sad fact that father and son didn’t “embrace one another,/unless someone had died, and not always then”). “On the Métro” opens with the poet sitting next to a “young woman” with a “strong figure and very tan skin” who, after glancing at the title of the book he’s reading (Cioran’s The Temptation to Exist), “becomes present in a way she hadn’t been before.” When the rocking of the train brushes her bare arm against his, she doesn’t pull it away, which brings “news of someone touched, someone sensed, and thus acknowledged, known.” After making sure we understand that lust has nothing to do with the contact (“in no way is she offering more than this, and in truth I have no desire for more”), Williams recalls a girl he’d “mooned for from afar” sitting across the table from him in the school library one day, “our feet I thought touching … with all I craved that touch to mean” — only to find that all he was touching was the table leg. As the girl on the Métro gets up, and crosses in front of him on her way out (“not looking back”), the poet allows himself “the thought” that though he’s “probably to her … as senseless as that table of my youth, as wooden, as unfeeling, perhaps there was a moment I was not.” A Novel in Eight Stanzas Selected Later Poems begins with “The Neighbor,” another likely source of “visceral discomfort” for the N.Y Times reviewer, what with the neighbor’s “horrid, deformed little dogs,” “her landing’s sickening reek.” This would also seem to be another so-called intrusion “into others’ private lives”: the woman with her “gray-yellow hair, army pants under a nightgown,” “hiding her ravaged face in her hands.” As happens in “In the Métro,” Williams is reminded of a girl from the past, his “first real love” (“til I left her”) who appears when he hears a song coming from the neighbor’s apartment that his “college sweetheart” used to “sweetly” sing along with. For a moment, Williams imagines that his neighbor actually is the girl he long ago abandoned, last seen “drunkenly stumbling, falling, sprawling” at a party, eyes “swollen with tears.” Though he denies it, he persists in the illusion, the tearful girl merging with the neighbor, “ragged coat hanging agape … mouth torn suddenly open” right through to the concluding stanza where he holds the door open for her after she’s made her way down “the littered vestibule stairs, one agonized step at a time”; when she falters “at the step to the street,” she asks “Can you help me?” and takes his arm, “leaning lightly” against him, taking “her wavering step into the world,” whispering “Thanks, love,” leaning “lightly, lightly” against him. eading this novel in eight stanzas, I’m thinking how sad that people who take their cues from the NYTBR may never read that poem, or any of the others, let alone open the book and come to know the warmth, presence, and questing intelligence of C.K. Williams. —Stuart Mitchner
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Regarding “My Fly,” a daring, irrepressible flight of fancy in memory of a friend, Lederer quotes only the opening line with its stress on how flies “always look freshly generated from fresh excrement”; no mention is made of the connective audacity of the premise that the poet’s dead friend (the sociologist Erving Goffman) has been “incarnated” as a “pestering anti-angel,” then a companionable entity (“Joy! To be together, even for a time!”): “Yes, tilt your fuselage, turn it towards the light/aim the thousand lenses of your eyes back up at me: how I’ve missed the layers of your attention.” Williams follows the wilfully absurd notion to its exhilarating conclusion, an everyday moment taken to the cosmic limit: “Now you hurl against the window, skid and jitter on the pane: I open it and step aside/and follow for one final moment of felicity your brilliant, ardent atom swerving through.” Reviewer’s Choice Confronted with 233 pages representing t wo decades of poetry, any reader is going to ma ke choices reflecting his or her point of v iew. W here the Times reviewer sees a proj e c t ion of the poet’s “own duplicity and need” in “At What Time on the Sabbath D o Vu l t u r e s Awake?” (one of the hitherto unpublished “new poems”), I see another playful reference to parallel universes, not a fly this time but a vulture who likes to “lie around reading the paper” on a Sunday. I also see “great beauty” in the lines preceding the denouement, “as the light in the dearest distance brightens and moves down over the hillside bedazzled/with late autumn hues and the new winter chill becomes something you can almost ingest.” It’s moving to think of a poet living out one of the last autumns of his life, his eyes fixed on “the dearest distance” as he feeds on the “new winter chill” while the vultures “clamber onto the carcass.” Where’s the “duplicity and need” in a poet devouring the prey of his poem “on a day portending such glorious craving and fulfillment”? You become alert to the reviewer’s agenda when Lederer equates Williams’s later work with the later novels of fellow Newark native Philip Roth. It’s in this context that she offers her misreadings of “On the Métro,” which develops from a sensory fact of life more subtle than “lust,” and “The Dress,” which is about much more than “cloying maternal am-
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To the Editor: The African American community has been a vital presence in Princeton since the late 17th century. They were slaves who worked on large farms and in homes as agricultural and domestic servants. The early presidents and trustees of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) owned slaves. John Witherspoon, sixth president of the college and Richard Stockton, trustee of the college, owned several slaves. Both Witherspoon and Stockton were signers of the Declaration of Independence. By the 1700’s there were free colored residents who were descendants of slaves and in later years, many families had migrated to Princeton from the south to find employment. The increasing wealth in the community together with the university’s expansion created a high demand for labor and service positions that were generously offered to the colored residents. These families were relegated to the area that is now known as the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood. Because Princeton was a Jim Crow town, the colored population was not welcomed in certain stores, could not eat at restaurants, or frequent social establishments; so by the early 1900’s there were many businesses and establishments owned by the residents in the area of Jackson Street to Birch Avenue: florists, barber shops, beauty salons, candy stores, ice cream parlors, restaurants, clothing stores, and taxi services; as well as teachers, lawyers, and physicians. This community was self-sufficient and many homes were built by skilled carpenters and laborers who lived in the area. A segregated Princeton created separate housing, schools, YM/WCA, fraternal organizations, establishments, clubs. and the cemetery. Our families were moved from Baker Street to build Palmer Square, and Jackson Street (now Paul Robeson Place) for a municipal thoroughfare. Witherspoon Street, from Paul Robeson Place to Birch Avenue, was referred to as “African or Guinea Lane”. Compared to other communities in Princeton, the Witherspoon-Jackson community was a neglected area by the town of Princeton, but a proud, clean, and welcoming community by the hardworking residents. For the centuries that African American families have resided in this area of Princeton they welcomed their neighbors who were Italian American, Irish, and Jewish families. After several years many of these families moved to other areas of Princeton leaving the descendants of the African
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To the Editor: 2015 marked the 20th anniversary of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, which pays tribute to the 1,563 New Jerseyans who did not return home from the Vietnam War and is located on the grounds of the PNC Arts Center at Exit 116 Garden State Parkway. It also marked 49 years since I first landed in Vietnam, after being drafted by the U.S. Army. As executive director of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation (NJVVMF), I have been reunited with my brothers and sisters in our mission at NJVVMF. Together, we offer experiences at the Memorial and adjacent Museum that recognize the sacrifices, courage, and valor of Vietnam veterans. I want to remind my fellow New Jerseyans that NJVVMF is privileged to operate the only museum in the country dedicated to the Vietnam Era. It is an important place where we educate people of all ages about the era through ceremony, exhibitions, events, and programs. Letters, artifacts, and video testimonies provide rare, personal experiences. Visitors learn history from those who lived it through our Vietnam veteran volunteered tours. Free tours are offered at 11 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month. Each year more than 9,000 school children visit us and their time with the veterans is life changing for both the students and guides. Our veterans have also helped veterans of recent wars through projects like our huey helicopter restoration and Combat Paper Project. As a not-for-profit organization, NJVVMF is self-supporting and we need the public’s support, both financially and through participation, to exist. With your help, we will preserve the legacy and continue to honor those who served and our active duty service men and women. Please remember us as we remember them. Interested residents may check line 61 on the New Jersey tax form to donate. For information on the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and Vietnam Era Museum and Educational Center, visit njvvmf.org or call (732) 335-0033. BILL LINDERMAN Executive Director, NJ Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation
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DOCUMENTING THE WITHERSPOON-JACKSON COMMUNITY: The Neighborhood Portrait Quilt is part of a permanent exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton that tells a story of the neighborhood’s important leaders and residents. The quilt was crafted by local quilter and educator Gail Mitchell. To learn more, visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Preserving Princeton’s Past With Portrait Quilt
The Neighborhood Portrait Quilt has joined the Arts Council of Princeton’s permanent exhibitions in the Sands Gallery at the Paul Robeson Center. Utilizing materials drawn from the collection of the Historical Society of Princeton, the quilt incor porates docu-
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Portraits of Cuba at Carversville Grocery
Bucks County native Jonathan M. Hansen will showcase images from his frequent trips to Cuba over the past decade at Max Hansen Carversville Grocery. The exhibit will run from now until January 31, 2016. A special artist reception and meet and greet will take place on January 15 at 6:30 p.m. Jonathan is the younger brother of Max Hansen, one of the area’s premier caterers and owner of Carversville Grocer y, located at 6208 Fleecy Dale Road in Carversville, Pa. The artist reception will also feature Cuban inspired snacks and refreshments prepared by Chef Hansen. Jonathan grew up in New Hope, Pa. and enjoyed his first solo exhibition last spring at the Belmont Galler y of Ar t in B elmont, Mass. He is the author of The Lost Promise of Patriotism (2003) and Guantanamo: An American History (2011). His current book is entitled Young Castro. Jonathan states, “Cuba is very much in the news these days, and people of all walks of life seem very curious about the country. My hope is that these images reveal a side of Cuba not often seen before.”
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Area Exhibits Ar t Times Two, the gallery at Princeton Brain and Spine, 731 Alexander Road, has works by Hetty Baiz, Beatrice Bork, H e at h e r Ke r n, Na n c y Kern, Shirley Kern, Pamela Kogen, and Susan Mac Q u e e n as par t of “Animal Nature” through March. (609) 203-4622. Artworks, Everett Alley ( Stock ton St reet ) , Trenton, has “10x10” Red Dot Exhibition, “Trenton Blacksmith” photographs b y C . J. H a r p e r, a n d “Chaos and Calm – Ruee Gawarikar” through January 23. www.artworks trenton.com. D & R G r e e n w a y, 1 Preservation Place, has “Earth/Fire” through January 22 and “Three Generations of Kuenne Artists” through January 15. www.drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has “Alice Revisited” through January 9 and “John A. Roebling’s Sons” through March 8. (609) 989-3632. The James A. Michener Art Museum at 138 South Pine Street
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ing grown up in a bilingual household — her mother, late actress Felicia Monteleagre, was from Chile — she felt at home. “This brought everything together in my life in one incredible package,” she said. Growing up Bernstein was “never boring … well, maybe sometimes,” she said. “But it was a fantastic experience. Our house was always full of people. There was a lot of laughter, a lot of word games being played, tennis being played, stories being told, and always music, of course. It was just a lot of fun.” Leonard Ber nstein died in 1990 at the age of 72; his wife died in 1978 at age 56. El Sistema has exploded since Ms. Bernstein began the process of making Crescendo six years ago. “There were three or four of these programs in the U.S. then, and now there are over 100,” she said. “Over half a million kids are enrolled right now in Venezuela, and it’s growing everywhere else.” Music educator Jose Antonio Abreu founded the program 40 years ago in an underground parking garage, with a small group of children from a tough Caracas neighborhood. He was convinced that teaching underserved kids to play instruments and collaborate in an orchestra would instill in them discipline, harmony, solidarity, and mutual compassion, and consequently change their lives. Among the most famous graduates of the program is Gustavo Dudamel, the music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and an enthusiastic proponent. “Music saved my life and has saved the lives of thousands of at risk children in Venezuela,” he has been quoted as saying. “Like food, like health care, like education, music has to be a right for every citizen.” Other success stories include a 19-year-old double bass player from Venezuela’s El Sistema who was recently hired by the Berlin Philharmonic. “That’s huge,” Ms. Bernstein said. “It’s one of the top orchestras in the world.” But the aim of El Sistema isn’t to produce professional musicians. “The idea is about building human beings,” said Ms. Bernstein. “Some stay with music; others don’t.” The film follows three children in two El Sistemainspired youth orchestras, Harmony Project in Harlem and Play on Philly! in West Philadelphia. Viewers watch the children struggle to master their instruments
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THE POWER OF MUSIC: After only a few months of study, young participants in the El Sistema music education program in Trenton were invited to play at a festival held last June at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The Trenton program is the focus of a Martin Luther King Day event at the Arts Council of Princeton, at which a documentary by Jamie Bernstein, daughter of composer Leonard Bernstein, will be screened. and confront fears along the way, and see the surrounding community respond to the music. Making a documentary was new to Ms. Bernstein, but her friend Elizabeth Kling is a film editor and was confident they could make it happen. “If I had known what was involved, I probably wouldn’t have done it. So it’s good I didn’t know,” Ms. Bernstein said. “It was very hard. It was exhausting. We’re still pinching ourselves that we got it done.” Ms. Bernstein grew to love the editing process that went into threading together the stories of young musicians i n s t r u g g l i n g n e ig hb or hoods. “It’s all about timing and rhythm, so maybe that has something to do with it,” she said. Since opening a year ago, Crescendo has
won prizes and is now available on Netflix and I-Tunes. Screenings such as the January 18 event are a regular part of her schedule. The Trenton Community Music School program was launched a year ago at Grant Elementar y School. Less than a year after opening, the children performed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center as part of the NJ El Sistema Alliance, and as special guests of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in last month’s Holiday POPS! concert. So how would Leonard Bernstein have reacted to El Sistema? “That’s all I ever think about,” Ms. Bernstein said. “How thrilled he would have been! He was so committed to making the world a better place. He didn’t live long enough to see that
there was this program that put together the elements he cared most about. It’s kind of what impelled me to make the film. It was like I was telling his story.” The screening of Crescendo: The Power of Music is Monday, January 18 at 7 p.m. at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street. The film will be preceded by a brief performance by Wood N Strings, a youthful Trenton-based string quartet, and followed with a reception with Ms. B er ns tei n a nd S t a nford Thompson, teaching ar tist and founder of Play on Philly!, featured in the film. Admission is free but seating is limited and reservations are strongly suggested: email info @ trentoncommunitymusic.org. —Anne Levin
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Humperdinck’s Opera “Hansel and Gretel”
Alumni of the Westminster Choir College CoOPERAtive Program will perform Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel on Friday, January 15 and Saturday, January 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, January 17 at 2:30 p.m. in the Robert L. Annis Playhouse on the Westminster campus in Princeton. The semi-staged product ion w ill be performed with piano accompaniment and sung in English. Tickets are $25. On Sunday, January 17, children under 12 will be admitted for free when accompanied by an adult. Originally composed for a children’s Christmas celebration, Hansel and Gretel is a setting of the classic Brothers Grimm tale, and it has found its place as a family favorite complete with enchanting fairies and an evil witch. It has long been a staple of German operatic tradition and is considered an ideal way to introduce children to the theater. Ted Taylor is music director and David Paul is stage director. The cast is composed of alumni of Westminster’s CoOPERAtive summer opera training program. The CoOPER Ative Program is a three-week intensive program with private coaching, focusing on operatic style, performance techniques, dramatic presentation, language and diction, body awareness, resumé and application advice. Directed by Westminster voice faculty members Laura Brooks Rice and Eric Rieger, the CoOPERAtive Program is presented in cooperation and con-
sultation with professionals in the field of opera. Music director and conductor Ted Taylor returns for his sixth year as master coach for the CoOPERAtive Program. As pianist he has appeared with such luminaries as Sylvia McNair, Christine Schäfer, Ben Heppner, Kathleen Battle, Eileen Farrell, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Regine Crespin, and Carlo Bergonzi. As a conductor he has appeared with many American opera companies; he made his New York City Opera debut in 2003 conducting La Traviata. David Paul has worked as a director for opera, theater, and film throughout the United States and abroad. The New York Times hailed his recent production of Gluck’s Iphigenie en Aulide as “a gift to opera lovers,” and the Washington Post has lauded his “sure sense of theater.” Tickets can be purchased at the door, through the box office at (609) 921-2663, or online at www.rider.edu/ arts. All proceeds from these performances will benefit the Westminster CoOPERAtive Program. ———
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Mummenschanz is back to celebrate its 43rd anniversary with a new show at McCarter Theatre on Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m. The ordinary becomes extraordinary in the wordless universe of Mummenschanz when common materials, everyday objects (like toilet paper) and colorful abstract shapes and forms like the famous “Clay Masks,” “Slinky
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Women Working For Empowerment Gala
Instit ute of Wonder f ul Women Working for Empowerment (IW3E) will host a Theater Gala in conjunction with McCar ter Theatre’s production of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson on Sunday, January 10 at 2 p.m. Immediately following the performance there will be a meet-the-cast reception, dinner, silent auction, and live music. Proceeds will benefit IW3E’s Just in Time Scholarship and Mentoring Program. The cost to attend is $85. August Wilson’s ten play cycle, chronicling the lives of African-Americans in each decade of the 20th century, is among the greatest masterpieces of our time. One of Wilson’s most powerful and transcendent works, The Piano Lesson is a profound, melodic tale set in 1930s Pittsburgh. Jade King Carroll, has made a name for herself directing the works of August Wilson around the country including productions of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,
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Princeton Steinway Society Presents Fourth Musicale
The award winning concert pianist Esma Pasic-Filipovic will present the fourth musicale of the Greater Princeton Steinway Society’s 2015-16 season on Sunday, January 17 at 3 p.m. The concert will
be held at the Recital Hall at Jacobs Music, located at 2540 Brunswick Pike (Route 1) in Lawrenceville. A social hour with refreshments and conversation will follow the performance. A prize winner at numerous piano competitions in Yugoslavia, Pasic-Filipovic has taught in the piano department at Westminster Conservatory since 1998. Her program entitled, “Viennese compositions in C Major,” will include Mozart’s Sonata KV 309, Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 53 (Waldstein), and Schubert’s Wanderer Phantasie in C Major. Founded in 1989, the Steinway Society is dedicated to developing the talent of young piano students. For more information, visit www.steinwaysocietyprinceton.org.
Wednesday, January 6 Noon: Re-opening of the Princeton Historical So ciety’s Museum at Updike Far mstead, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton. Current exhibits include “The Einstein Salon and Innovators Galler y” and “John von Neumann,” the mathematician who led the team to invent MANIAC at the Institute for Advanced Study and information about his involvement in the Manhattan Project. Admission is $4. 4 p.m.: Meeting of Acting Out, a free club for those interested in acting and led by members of Princeton High School’s Drama Aficionados Club; Princeton Public Library. 7 p.m.: Stuart Country Day School and Princeton Academy welcome Dr. Lisa Miller, author of the New York Times bestseller The Spiritual Child. This event is open to the public and free to attend. The book talk and discussion will take place at Stuart’s Cor Unum Center, located at 1200 Stuart Road in Princeton. For additional information, visit www.stuartschool.org/lisamiller. 7 p.m.: The Rick Fiori Organ Trio performs at Acacia Restaurant, 2637 Main Street, Lawrenceville. Thursday, January 7 10 a.m.: CASA for Children of Mercer County information session for new volunteers. The non-profit organization speaks up in court for the best interests of children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect; 1450 Park s ide Ave nu e, Suite 22, Ewing. 6 : 30 p.m. : Join Yoga Stream’s Debbi Gitterman for a free yoga class in the galleries of the Princeton University Art Museum. Attendees should bring their own mat. 7 p.m.: Becky Libourel Diamond discusses her book, “The Thousand Dollar Dinner,” the story of a 19th century culinary challenge between Philadelphia restaurateur James Parkinson and the Delmonico family of New York. Free to attend; Princeton Public Library. Friday, January 8 9:45 a.m.: Free, Job Seekers Session at the Princeton Public Library. Saturday, January 9 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.: Early childhood sample class for children ages 2 to 5 at the Waldorf School of Princeton. To register, email admissions@princetonwaldorf. org. 10 a.m.: D&R Canal State Park Towpath Cleanup. Attendees should meet at the parking lot on Canal Road, South Bound Brook, across from the South Bound Brook Post Office (11 Madison Street). Bring work gloves and sturdy shoes. For more information, contact Bob Barth at (201) 401-3121. 10:30 a.m.: Screening of Babe (1995) at Princeton Garden Theatre. 1 to 3 p.m.: Princeton Friends School Open House. To learn more, visit www. princetonfriendsschool.org.
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our game.” With the Tigers having now won two straight after falling at Ohio State and Dayton in midDecember, Smith believes the team is finding its game as it heads into Ivy League play with a critical test at Penn (9-2) on January 9. “Overall so far we have had a really tough season; we have been playing against some good opponents.” said Smith, who contributed 15 points and eight rebounds to help Princeton defeat Marist 77-44 on December 29. “Win or lose, we have learned a lot of things from the games so going into the Ivy League we feel prepared. We feel like we have good momentum and we are just ready to play in the conference. It is one of the most exciting parts of our season definitely.” Princeton head coach Courtney Banghart was excited by how the team pulled away from Hampton. “This non-conference schedule has been a real challenge,” said Banghart, who got 17 points and 10 rebounds from senior Michelle Miller in the win with senior Alex Wheatley chipping in 14 points and seven rebounds and senior Taylor Williams contributing 11 points and six rebounds in 17 minutes off the bench. “These guys are a winning program, every program on our schedule is a winning program, so we knew we were going to get a great fight. Hampton is different from any team we play, they are very aggressive in passing lanes. It is hard to prepare for that when that is not what we see. I thought it was a really good win.” In Banghart’s view, the losses at Ohio State and Dayton should help steel her team for the challenges ahead in Ivy play. “We found that we have such great toughness but we don’t necessarily have a great edge yet and what I mean by that is that we always punch back but I am not sure they are ready to make the first punch,” said Banghart. “I felt like over the course of the last two games that is what they have done, they have thrown the first punch. That will be a key to our success.” Princeton is looking to get more punch out of Smith. “We just expect her to be ready to
be in full form and what she is experiencing is her first year as a starter,” said Banghart. “It is nice to have seen her make so much progress over the last two weeks and two months even but mostly the last two weeks. I want her to be better, she wants to be better and we will get her there.” The Tigers are determined to keep making progress collectively as they start their Ivy title defense. “My experienced guys know what is expected of them; they know they need to be sharper at times,” said Banghart, who has guided the Tigers to five Ivy crowns in the last six years. “They are so rugged and they are learning to play with more edge. The bench is just coming along and hopefully the experience we gained in a very tough non-conference schedule will be great for the league. We still have some time to get better and we will get better.” Banghart acknowledges that playing at Penn to open the league campaign is a tough assignment. “Penn is a really good team and we know that,” said Banghart of the Quakers who were second in the Ivy standings last winter to the Tigers after winning the title in 2013-14. “We are on the road which we know to be a challenge. ON THE BALL: Princeton University women’s basketball player We found out who and what Vanessa Smith goes up for the ball last Sunday in Princeton’s we are about in the non-confer- 79-55 win over visiting Hampton in its final non-conference ence games and we are going game. Junior forward Smith scored 11 points and had three to build on that going into the rebounds to help the Tigers improve to 11-3. Defending Ivy conference. We expect to get League champion Princeton tips off its conference campaign everybody’s best. The target is with a game at Penn (9-2) on January 9. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) gigantic on our back and we wear that with pride.” our game and they are going to play their Smith, for her part, is confident that Prince- game. Hopefully we will come out with a win. ton will play with pride this Saturday in Phila- We are just going to focus on doing the things that we need to do, regardless of the venue delphia. “Penn is always a great team, we have and whose jersey is against us. We try to play a great rivalry going on with them,” said together to the best of our potential and just have fun with each other.” Smith. —Bill Alden “We are going to come out there and play
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With Koelzer Catching Fire From the Blue Line, PU Women’s Hockey Extends Winning Streak to 8
HOT STREAK: Princeton University women’s hockey player Kelsey Koelzer heads up the ice. Last weekend, junior defenseman Koelzer came up big. On Friday, Koelzer scored three goals in a 6-1 win over Brown for her first career hat trick and then chipped in a goal and an assist in a 5-1 victory over Yale a day later as the Tigers posted their eighth straight win. Princeton, now 13-4-1 overall and 7-4-1 ECAC Hockey, plays at Union on January 8 and at Rensselaer on January 9. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski).
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Taking a six-game winning streak into the holiday break, the Princeton University women’s hockey team was determined to keep its foot on the gas when it resumed action last weekend with games against Brown and Yale. “We had 20 days off so we worked super hard this past week,” said junior defenseman Kelsey Koelzer. “It was like we never left, we just picked up where we left off. We have a good streak going, which is awesome to keep morale up. It is exactly the way we know we can play. We have a lot of skill, we have a lot of talent but, most importantly, we work really hard.” That hard work paid dividends for Koelzer as she scored three goals in a 6-1 win over Brown on Friday for her first career hat trick and then chipped in a goal and an assist in a 5-1 victory over Yale a day later, helping the Tigers extend their w inning streak to eight as they improved to 13-4-1 overall and 7-4-1 ECAC hockey. Koelzer and the Tigers displayed their skill and talent in the first period against Yale, outshooting the Bulldogs 16-3 and taking a 2-0 lead on two power play goals. The second goal in the
per iod came on a top shelf blast from Koelzer. “It started with a scramble in our zone, their penalty killers were pretty aggressive going back into our d-zone but we did really well,” said Koelzer, recalling the tally. “We had good back check help and then the puck squirted to the middle of the ice and I was able to pick it up and Morgan Sly was able to take the defense with her which gave me a nice lane to the net.” The Tigers had a nice start on the power play, cashing in on their first three-extra-man opportunities. “It is something that you work on, it is something that is key for your team winning come postseason and the end of the season,” said Koelzer, reflecting on the power play. “It gives you that boost that your hard work to draw the penalty is going to be rewarded.” Koelzer has given Princeton a big boost in recent action, tallying nine goals and four assists in the last eight games after scoring three goals with an assist in the first 10 contests. “I think the most important thing is just using my feet,” said Koelzer, a 5’9
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native of Horsham, Pa. whose 12 goals leads the Tigers. “I think early in the season, I was a little bit hesitant and wanting to secure the d-zone play and be a staple back there. I just wasn’t picking the right spots at the right time and was hesitant. You have to either go or don’t go. I think once I decide what was best for that, it was a lot easier.” Forging a par tnership w i t h f r e s h m a n K i m i ko Marinacci on the blue line has helped spark Koelzer’s offensive production. “Kimiko is really key in allowing me to pick my spots and jump up because I know that she is more of a stay at home defenseman and we work really well together on that,” said Koelzer. “She recognizes when I am joining up and I have faith in her that if we get stuck on a rush, she is going to be back there. She makes really smart plays back there which is all you can really ask, especially out of a freshman.” In assessing Princeton’s play in its eight-game winning streak, Koelzer sees the team’s work ethic as a major factor in its success. “I think it is doing all the small things right,” asserted Koelzer. “We work so hard during the week in practices. We work on our skating, we work on our dzone. I think the d-zone is our staple and allows us to produce the offense. Every game we have the confidence that if we keep the puck out of the net, we are going to pick up the win. I think that is key.” Princeton head coach Jeff Kampersal concurs, noting that the team has demonstrated that it is all in. “ T h e te a m h a s b e e n playing really well; they buy into what we do,” said Kampersal. “They really trust what we are trying to get done. Everybody pitches in and does their job so it has been a lot of fun to work with this group. The team is buying into the process of sleeping well, training well, eating well, and conditioning. We condition after the game whether we win 6-1 or lose 6-1.” While the Tigers were a little sluggish in the early stages of the game against Brown, they did a good job in putting together a stellar weekend. “I thought we started off really slow, maybe that is to be expected after the layoff,” said Kampersal. “The kids are in good shape, we are still working on mental toughness. I thought we had good mental toughness starting from the second period of Brown on.” Kampersal saw the team’s work on the power play as a bright spot. “Cara (assistant coach Cara Morey) has been working hard with that group on the power plays,” said Kampersal. “To score three today, we will take it. If we can get the power play going, then we can be dangerous down the stretch.” With Koelzer on a hot
streak, the Tigers are a par ticularly dangerous team. “Kelsey is just unreal so I hope people on the national level pay attention because she just dominates games at different times,” said Kampersal. “She is similar statistically to last year; she had an amazing season (8 goals and 18 assists). She started off slower this year, she was trying to do too much and now she is just being Kelsey, picking her spots. When she does pick her spots, she is very explosive and forceful. She had three goals yesterday and two of them were lasers.” The defense was forceful collectively last weekend. “T hey moved t he puck wel l,” s a id K a mp er s a l. “Yesterday in the first period we struggled moving it but in the last five periods, we did a good job breaking out.” At t he of fensive end, Princeton had things moving. The team’s top line of senior Jaimie McDonell, junior Molly Contini, and junior Hilary Lloyd generated two goals and seven assists this weekend while freshman standout Karlie Lund tallied a total of two goals and two assists in the wins. “Jaimie is solid, Molly is chipping in, and Hilary was great all weekend so that was good,” said Kampersal. “I thought Karlie was solid yesterday but a little off. Today she was back on, she is a good offensive presence for us.” With Princeton standing second in the ECACH standings behind Quinn ipiac (16 -1- 3 ove r a l l, 9-1-2 ECACH), Kampersal knows his team needs to keep up its hot play as it heads to Union (0-14-5 overall, 0-6-2 ECACH) on January 8 and at Rensselaer (5-10-3 overall, 3-4-1 ECACH) on January 9 for its last action before a 16day exam hiatus. “We need to get as many points as we can,” said Kampersal. “We were on the road a ton earlier but it will be good to get on the road and team bond. Hopefully we’ll have a good week of practice here. It is getting down to the nitty gritty for academics with them so we have to put in two more good efforts.” Koelzer, for her par t, believes the Tigers are primed to maintain their effort level. “We are on the road and we are in a heavier work period, it can be a little stressful depending on how much work you have,” said Koelzer. “It is going to be really important for us to stay focused all week and do what we need to do in practice so come next weekend we are firing on the same cylinders that we have this week.” —Bill Alden
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Hosting No. 3 Quinnipiac last week in its first game since December 12, the Princeton University men’s hockey team looked like it was still on holiday break in the early stages of the contest. Getting outskated from the opening face-off, Princeton yielded five unanswered goals in the first period of the December 29 game. P r i nce ton h e ad coach Ron Fogarty acknowledged that his squad wasn’t up to speed against the powerful Bobcats. “When you’re playing a top team in the nation, you better be hitting on all cylinders and they did a great job of jumping on every loose puck,” said Fogarty. “Our inability to make contact as a first guy up ice was a difference in many odd-man rushes and the scoring opportunities that they had. We were caught between; you have to fully commit or you play a trap and we don’t play a trap so you have to fully commit to the systems.” While Princeton held its own the rest of the way as it fell 6-0, Fogarty knew that the Bobcats played close to the vest after building its early cushion. “When it is 6-0, they are going to lay off the gaps, the game is going to look a little more even,” said Fogarty. “That game was a product of Quinnipiac being a better hockey team. Quinnipiac is a good team. As coaches, we speak to the media and you say what went wrong with your team and you give all the cliches. When in fact you have to look at the other team and say that is a pretty damn good hockey team. That is what the difference was.” Fogarty was hoping to see a different result the next day when the teams wrapped up their home-and-home set in Hamden, Conn. “It is to see how you can recover and what your next step is in the progression,” said Fogarty. “It is great to have a game tomorrow night. If you are going to split, win the second game.” While Princeton didn’t get a split, it took a step forward the next night when the teams met for the second game of the home-and-home set as the Tigers jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the first period on goals by Ryan Siiro, Max Veronneau, and Josh
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PU Sports Roundup Princeton Wrestling Takes 8th at Midlands
Jonathan Schleifer came up big as the Princeton University wrestling team placed eighth overall last week at t he prestigious Midlands Championships in Evanston, Ill. Sophomore Schleifer made the finals at 174 pounds, becoming Princeton’s first-ever Midlands finalist and helping the Tigers to its best-ever finish in the team standings in the 53-year history of the event. Schleifer, who scored an overtime takedown against second-seeded Micah Barnes to win a tense 5-4 semifinal, fell 1-0 in a tightly contested final to Ohio’s Cody Walters. Princeton boasted t wo other place-winners at the competition as junior Brett Harner took third at 197 and senior Abram Ayala placed sixth at 184. “Overall, I am very excited with how the team competed,” said Princeton head coach Chris Ayres. “To be a part of a program-best eighth-place finish makes this a special moment for the team and everyone who helped get us to this point. It was especially exciting watching Schleifer and Harner compete, as they both made pretty big jumps in their wrestling. Abram competed well in the winners bracket, but the semis match took a lot out of him which hurt his run in the consolation bracket. It was a nice close to 2015.” Princeton is next in action when it wrestles at Binghamton on January 8. ———
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Princeton University women’s soccer start Mimi Asom, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year who tied Princeton’s freshman record for goals in a season with 12, has earned one of 26 invitations to the U.S. U-20 Women’s National Team training camp in Carson, Calif., January 3-10. The roster, on which Asom is the only Ivy Leaguer and one of five forwards, has been assembled ahead of the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, which will be held November 13-December 3 in Papua New Guinea. The Americans are one of 16 teams in the field. Asom’s teammate, sophomore Vanessa Gregoire, was part of the Canadian team at the U-20 Women’s World Cup this past August. Asom’s strong freshman season helped the Tigers finish with a 14-4-1 overall record and 6-0-1 in the Ivy League, winning the Ivy title and earning the chance to host an NCAA first-round game, in which the Tigers, behind two goals from Asom
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PU Men’s Hockey Alum Stars in NHL Winter Classic
Former Princeton University men’s hockey player Mike Condon ’13, a Massachusetts native, starred for the Montreal Canadians as they beat the Boston Bruins 5-1 in the NHL Winter Classic on New Year’s Day played at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. Goalie Condon made 27 saves in the win playing before a crowd of 67,246 in the stadium, which is 20 minutes away from where he was born. His biggest moment came when he made a dazzling glove save on Boston’s Ryan Spooner with 0.1 seconds left in the second period to keep the Canadians ahead 3-0 heading into the final period. Condon’s family enjoyed a special moment before the contest as his father Ted, a longtime Massachusetts state trooper, led the police escort of the Montreal team bus to the stadium.
PU Men’s Volleyball Opening 2016 Season
Coming off an 11-13 campaign that saw it reach the EIVA semifinals, the Princeton University men’s volleyball team is opening its 2016 season this week by hosting Ohio State on January 5 and then playing a two-game home set against Canadian college Laval on January 7 and 8. The Tigers figure to be led by senior captain Devin Stearns, who will enter his fourth year as a starter and has more than 600 kills and nearly 250 digs in his Tiger career. Coach Sam Schweisky will also be looking to junior setter Chris Kennedy to be a key player for the squad as he has amassed nearly 1,500 assists in his career. Freshman Cor r y Shor t from Lighthouse Point, Fla., a two-time Sun Sentinel Player of the Year honoree and a member of the USA Boys Youth National Training Team (2014-15), should to be a key newcomer for the Tigers.
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and we had other girls build their confidence.” As PHS faced Lacey in t he championship game last Wednesday, the players were a little tight. “We were nervous; in the first quarter, I kept saying to my assistants, we look so nervous,” recalled Van Hise. “If you are nervous it is because of one of two things — one, you are playing against someone like a Ewing, who makes you nervous, or two, there is some kind of stakes. There are not too many games we play where the stakes are high like that.” PHS overcame those nerves in style, pulling out a 32-31 win as senior forward Adria Backus hit the gamewinning layup with one second left in regulation. “To the girls’ credit, they really embraced that we were in a championship game,” said Van Hise. “They were a little tentative but our defense kept us in it. Lacey was a little off in the first half so we were able to build a little bit of
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Monday as it fell 42-25 to Princeton Day School to move to 2-3. “To get the win against somebody that we could feel really good about in a championship game, we are going to try to build off of that. I think the girls are feeling good right now. It was good for our chemistry too to see that we could do it and win a tournament like that. It bonded us a little bit closer so that will be good too.” Looking ahead, Van Hise is focusing on getting his team to execute better at the offensive end. “Defensively, I think we have been fine,” said Van Hise, whose team hosts Steinert on January 8 and WW/P-N on January 11. “I think it is more of a focus offensively with player movement and ball movement. Again it is continued grow th of the girls that haven’t been relied on in the past and getting them to step up.” —Bill Alden
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After Taking Holiday Tournament in Dramatic Style, PHS Girls’ Hoops Feeling Good About Its Prospects
ON TARGET: Princeton High girls’ basketball player Julia Ryan prepares to launch an outside shot. Last Wednesday, senior star Ryan scored a game-high 16 points as PHS edged Lacey 32-31 in the championship game of the Zebra Classic in New Brunswick. The Little Tigers, who moved to 2-3 with a 42-25 loss to Princeton Day School last Monday, host Steinert on January 8 and WW/P-N on January 11. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Having sputtered to a 1-42 start this season, the Hun School boys’ hockey team saw its annual trip south to the Purple Puck tournament in the Washington, D.C. area as a chance to right the ship. “We had played mostly home games so it was time to get on the road and cure whatever struggles we were hav ing,” said Hun head coach Ian McNally. “We were hoping that would be the case and it ended up being just right.” The Raiders got off on the right foot at the tournament, cruising to an 8-1 win over DeMatha Catholic (Md.) in its first game of the opening round, displaying scoring balance as eight different players found the back of the net. “We had the same offensive guys that we had last year, we just hadn’t had a game like that where we broke out with five or six goals,” said McNally. “It was unexpected, it was pretty neat.” Building on that breakthrough effort, Hun topped Calvert Hall (Md.) 6-1 and O’Connell (Va.) 7-0 to wrap up pool play. In the final rounds on Thursday, Hun beat O’Connell 7-0 in the semis and then edged St. Joseph’s Prep (Pa.) 5-4 in an overtime shootout to win the title for a second straight year. There was a definite sense of deja vu as Hun had posted an overtime win in taking the Purple Puck championship game last year with Kyle Pettoni coming through in the shootout. “It was an exact play-byplay of last year when we played Gonzaga in the final, same score, same everything,” noted McNally, whose team was ahead 3-1 in the first period against St. Joseph’s but had to rally from a 4-3 deficit to force the overtime shootout. “Last year we put Pettoni in the shootout because he had scored a couple of goals in the championship game. It was not typical for him but he comes up big in big games. So he scored a
couple and we thought we would just throw him in the shootout. He said it was the first penalty shot he had ever taken and he scored to win it. We put Pettoni in the shootout this time because he had done it last year. It was the exact same move, a top shelf shot.” In McNally’s view, coming through with the back-toback titles was a confidence builder for coaches and players alike. “That is the feel good part for the kids,” said McNally. “What we wanted to get out of it was scoring goals and feeling good again, and we got that. Obviously that is only a moral victory. At the end you want to be skating around with the trophy.” Even though Hun has suffered more losses already this season than last winter when it went 22-3-3, McNally believes the team can add to its trophy case. “We told the kids after the first month, this is not going to go the same way as last year,” said McNally. “We are not going to win 22 games because we are already starting to lose a bunch. At the end of the day we could still be just as successful. We were going to D.C. and we could win that and we have the tournament at the end of the year and if we win that, you will forget that we ever lost those games. For coaches, we are happy that they started playing the way we usually do
and for the players, they are feeling good to get wins again.” McNally believes that the production he got last week from his top line of sophomore Frank Vitucci along with juniors Jon Bendorf and Blake Brown, bodes well for the rest of the season. “I think we didn’t put enough stock in the fact that Bendorf, Vitucci, and Brown hadn’t played as a line and now they did,” said McNally “I think all three of them had 14 points this week so those three were pretty strong. At the end of the day, those are three highly offensive players who can score basically on ever y single shift and when that happens, it opens up space for the other lines as well.” With the Raiders facing some strong foes in up coming action as they host Wyoming Seminary (Pa.) on January 6 before playing at Lawrenceville on January 11, McNally is looking for his players to build on their performance at the Purple Puck tourney. “It came at a pretty strong time because we were down in the dumps going into the break,” said McNally. “ T h e s e a r e s t ate m e nt games for us. You have got to have confidence going in to play your best. We are at least able to play our best now and we will see how it goes from here.” —Bill Alden
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ENCORE PERFORMANCE: Hun School boys’ hockey player Frank Vitucci, left, battles a foe for position in recent action. Sophomore forward Vitucci starred last week as Hun won the Purple Puck tournament in the Washington. D.C area for a second straight year. The Raiders, who edged St. Joseph’s Prep (Pa.) 5-4 in an overtime shootout last Thursday to win the tournament and improve to 6-4-2, host Wyoming Seminary (Pa.) on January 6 before playing at Lawrenceville on January 11. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
Already matching its win total from last winter when it went 5-16, the Princeton Day School girls’ basketball team is reaping the benefits of focusing on the basics. “We have been doing a lot more in practice in terms of shooting and working on just being able to put the ball in the basket,” said PDS head coach Kamau Bailey, whose squad defeated Princeton High 42-25 last Monday as it improved to 5-4 this season. “I am a fundamentals guy, so first and foremost, we are working on skills, being able to shoot the ball and put it in the basket in different spots on the floor.” The Panthers put in a lot of shots as they topped
Doane Academy 58-37 on December 21 at the Stuart Invitational to end the 2015 portion of their schedule and go 2-1 at the event. “Two of our wins have already come against teams that beat us last year significantly,” said Bailey, noting that the Panthers turned the tables with wins over the Hill School (Pa.) and Germantown Friends. “For me that is satisfying. When I got the schedule this year and looked at it, I saw it was a little bit of a tougher schedule this year. We are not playing some of the teams that were guaranteed wins in the past so I anticipated the girls being better skill wise and intensity being a little better and execution being a little better, which it
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has been so that is great.” Sophomore Maddie Coyne has shown some great progress. “Maddie is emerging as one of the bigger offensive threats on our team, she is really a vocal leader out there,” asserted Bailey, noting that Coyne is a star performer for the PDS girls’ soccer team that has won two straight state Prep B crowns. “She is really competitive as well, she wants to win.” A pair of sophomores, Ryan Robinson and Bridget Kane, have been displaying plenty of competitive fire this season. “Ryan is a strong player, she is playing really good defense,” said Bailey. “We are still working on her to penetrate and go to the basket; she is playing well. Bridget has a great attitude out there on the court. She is very athletic. She ran cross country this past fall and she is in great shape. Bridget is a clutch player too.” PDS has also been getting some clutch play from senior forward Helen Healey. “Helen has been playing great this year; in our first win against Hill, she had 20 rebounds,” said Bailey. “In the G er mantow n Friends game, she got us started offensively with a couple of drives to the basket and a short jump shot from the elbow. She has been more of an interior player but now she is starting to shoot more.” In Bailey’s view, a growing
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Stuart Basketball: Jalynn Spaulding starred as Stuart defeated Hightstown 40-16 last Saturday. Sophomore guard Spaulding scored 19 points to help the Tartans improve to 10-2. Stuart plays at Nottingham on January 7 before hosting Kings Christian on January 8 and Bound Brook on January 11.
PHS Boys’ Basketball : Matt Hart led the way as PHS defe ate d P r i nceton Day School 60-56 last Monday. Senior Hart tallied 18 points to help the Little Tigers improve to 2-4. In upcoming action, PHS plays at Steinert on January 8 and at WW/PN on January 11. ——— Boys’ Hockey: Brendon McCormick triggered the offense as PHS defeated Red Bank Regional 4-1 in the consolation game of the John Piccolo Winter Classic Hockey Tournament at Old Bridge. Junior star McCormick scored three goals to help the Little Tigers improve to 5-3-2. PHS plays Monroe on January 9, Notre Dame on January 11, and Steinert on January 12.
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TRIUMPHANT MOMENT: Princeton High wrestler James Verbeyst savors a moment of triumph after winning a bout last season. Last week, Verbeyst helped PHS place second of 11 schools at the Patriot Invitational at Secaucus. Junior Verbeyst took second at 145 pounds at the December 28 competition. Individual winners for the Little Tigers at the event included Daniel Monahan at 113, Alec Bobchin at 120, and Ethan Guerra at 195. Alex Freda at 152, and Noah Ziegler at 220 joined Verbeyst in finishing second for PHS. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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HOLDING COURT: The “Paddle Gals” players from the Princeton Recreation Department Women’s Platform Tennis League pose for a group shot on the court near the Rec League office. Pictured kneeling is Vikki Caines, league captain and Rec Department Administrative Assistant/Customer Service Supervisor. In the front row, from left to right, are Keli Lynch, Patti McCarthy, Ruth Kaplan, Ruth Sayer, Susan Kanter, Emily Reeves, Susan Voorhees, and Mary Lott. In the back row, from left, are Beatrice Bloom, Carrie Elwood, Michael Marie Hill, Lisa Callaway, Patty Sanson, and Rosalind Hansen. The Platform Tennis program is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The Women’s Round Robin League takes place every Wednesday morning. (Photo by Ben Stentz) is eligible to play tee ball this spring as long as they turn 5 years old by August 31, 2016. In order to be eligible, players MUST also meet one of the two following criteria: 1) Players can live within the PLL Boundary Area, which includes par ts of Rocky Hill, Skillman, and Hopewell, or 2 ) They c a n at tend a s cho ol i n the PLL Boundary Area. The season will run from early April through mid- June. Pre-season te a m p r a c t i c e s w i l l b e held from April 4th onwards. Opening Day will be April 9 (both ceremonies and games ) . Champion ship Saturday and End of Season Celebration will be June 11. PLL Night at Trenton Thunder will be May 13. Tickets are $11 each and can be purchased as part of the registration process with part of the proceeds for each sale going to PLL. Regular game schedules will be as follows: • Tee Ball (ages 4-6) Saturdays only with variable start times approximately bet ween 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.; • Instructional Division (ages 6-8) Monday nights (6-7:30 p.m.) and Saturdays from approximately (9:3011 a.m.); • Rookies Division (ages 7-9): Thursday nights 6-8 p.m. and Saturdays 11:15 a.m.-1p.m., plus one practice per week TBD by Team Manager; • Minors Division (ages 9 -10 ) : Tu e s d a y n i g h t s from 6-8 p.m. and Saturdays from 1:30-3:30 p.m., plus one practice per week TBD by Team Manager; • Intermediate (ages 1113 ) : We d n e s d ay n i g h t s from 6-8 p.m. and Saturdays from 4-6:15 p.m., plus one practice per week TBD by Team Manager. All players registering for the Rookies, Minors, and Intermediate Divisions (ages 7 and up) must attend Mandatory Player Evaluations on Februar y 27 at the Hun School. The registration fee for PLL Spring Baseball 2016 is $205. Each player will receive a full uniform. The registration fee for Tee Ball is $120 (Tee Ball players will receive a cap and
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Dillon Youth Basketball January 2 Results
In action last Saturday in the 4th/5th grade boys’ division of the Dillon Youth Basketball League, Daniel Cibbarelli scored 16 points and Frank McLaughlin added 11 as Jefferson Plumbing defeated Princeton Youth Sports, 37-19. Matthew Land scored nine points in the loss. In other games in the division, Jack Durbin, Jack Kolano and Jack Serxner scored eight points apiece as Ace Hardware topped Mason, Griffin and Pierson, 28-12. Matthias Damrau scored eight points in the loss. Lependorf and Silverstein defeated Princeton Dental Group, 24-12, as Rohan Smith scored 10 points and Sam Pittman added six. Jason Singer scored seven points in the loss. Jeremy Sallade scored 22 points to lead Princeton Pi to a 41-15 win over Conte’s. Bram Silva had seven points and Julian Liao added six in the win. Ryan Friedman had five points for Conte’s.
In the 6th/7th grade boys’ division, Benjamin Barkofsky scored 11 points to lead McCaffrey’s to a 23-18 win over Corner House. Jake Renda scored six points in the loss. Patrick McDonald scored 30 points and Ryan Bowen added 26 as Princeton Orthopedic Associates topped Baldino and Brothers, 64-32. Will Doran had 21 points in the loss. In the 8th/9th grade boys’ div ision, Princeton PBA No. 130 edged Woodwinds, 39-38, in overtime as Judd Petrone scored 13 points and Vincent Taylor added 12. Jay Jackson scored 28 points in the loss. Jaylen Johnson scored 26 points and Jack Souzzi added 14 as Cross Culture defeated Princeton Restorative, 48-40. Tyler Komis and Denzel Washington scored 16 points apiece in a losing cause. In the girls’ division, Casey Serxner scored 18 points to pace the Dream to a 24-21 win over the Sparks. Shea Sullivan had 10 points and Sammy Renda added seven in the loss.The Liberty topped the Wings, 40-17, as Yayla Tur scored 18 points, Grace Rebak had 14 and Cate Quinones added six. Milan Couillens had 10 points to lead the Wings. Hillary Allen and Sarah Granozio scored 10 points apiece as the Mercury defeated the Mystics, 27-13. Lauren Klein had seven points in a losing cause.
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have known,” said Michael Cadden, chair of the Lewis Center last week. “All of us have lost one of the world’s finest teachers of theater — an intellectually voracious, physically vital, and imaginatively daring practitioner of the art form he cherished above all others.” Mr. Vasen directed plays and taught classes at Princeton part-time starting in 1993. He went on to direct plays in New York, Philadelphia, and at theaters throughout the countr y. From 1997 to 2003 he was resident director at Center Stage in Baltimore, then joined the Princeton faculty in 2003 and in 2012 became director of the Program in Theater. Mr. Vasen’s university directing credits include many classic works — Ar isto phanes, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Synge, Brecht, Beckett, and Williams — as well as new works by emerging student playwrights at Princeton, Yale School of Drama, and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. “I was impressed from the first by Tim’s passionate commitment to working with the students as artistic collaborators on the kind of work that demanded their full investment,” Mr. Cadden stated. “Tim always insisted theater was first and foremost about people in a room together, figuring something out. Initially the artists; eventually to be joined by an audience.” Mr. Vasen often also collaborated with colleagues in other departments at Princeton — Slavic languages and literatures, music and Hellenic studies — creating the popular course “Re: Staging the Greeks” and becoming a recognized authority on directing world premieres of unproduced Soviet-era projects. “Tim did a marvelous job directing the Program in Theater,” Mr. Cadden added, “reaching out to colleagues across the Universit y to explore ar tistic-scholarly collaborations. Tim always argued that university arts
George F. Pinelli
George F. Pinelli, 81, of Princeton died Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at Brandy w ine Senior Liv ing at Princeton. Born in Pettoranello, Italy he lived most of his life in Princeton. A U.S. Army veteran, he played in a military band during the Korean War. He retired from K. Hovnanian of Princeton after many years of service. Son of the late Genesio and Antoinetta (Picciano) Pinelli; brother of the late Genesio Pinelli; husband of the late Frances Dolly Pinelli; he is survived by a daughter and son-in-law Debra L. and Mario Tamasi of West Windsor; a son and daughter-in-law David and Donna Pinelli of Howell, Mich.; two grandchildren Tyler Tamasi and Marlena Pinelli. The Funeral Service was held at 10 a.m., Monday, Januar y 4, 2016 at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton. Clergy from St. Paul’s Church officiated.
Burial followed in Princeton Cemetery. Calling hours were held Sunday, January 3, 2016 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the funeral home.
Rosser Lee Clark, Jr. Ros s er L e e Clark, Jr., 92, of Pr inceton pas sed away at his home on January 2, 2016. Born in Greensboro, N.C, Rosser h a d b e e n a r e s i d e n t of Princeton since 1996. Rosser was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend, who had a smile for ever yone he met. He was mar r ied i n 1949 to Mar y Har r is Clark. Rosser was a decorated Nav y fighter pilot who served in the Pacific theater in World War II. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Essex, and faithfully at tended reunions of his squadron. He continued his military service in the Naval Reserve for more than 20 years. A f te r t h e w a r, Ro s s e r returned to Davidson College where he completed his BS degree. Soon thereaf ter, he began a nearly 40 -year career in textile e n g i n e e r i n g . I n 19 57, Ro s s e r’s work to ok h i m and h is you ng fam ily to Comodoro R ivadav ia, in the Patagonian region of A r g e nt i na. W h i le t h ere, Rosser established the Guilford Argentina textile mill, which is still operating today. I n 19 6 3 , R o s s e r a c cepte d a j ob w it h U.K .based Cour tau lds Fibers in Mobile, Ala., where he wor ke d u nt i l h i s r e t i r e ment in 1988. Rosser was an avid tennis player and sports fan in general. A lifelong Presbyterian, he was most recently a member of Nassau Presbyterian Church. T he son of Rosser L ee Clark, Sr. and Eva Vertie A iken, he was pre - de ceased by his brother Rober t Clark. He is sur vived by his wife Mary Bess; his d a u g h te r M a r g a r e t Tu tt le of D e c at u r, G a. ; h is daughter Sallye Zink and her husband Ron of Princeton ; and his son Rosser Lee Clark, III and his wife R ach el of Fa l ls Chu rch, Va. He is also survived by his sister Sara Sue Kruppenbach and her husband Harry of Laurinburg, N.C. and his sister-in-law Elizabeth Clark of Lynchburg, Va. In addition, he is survived by grandchildren Robin Lee Clark and Marion B ess Clark, plus nu merous nieces and nephews. Rosser will be laid to rest in The Princeton Cemetery at a private service. A memorial ser v ice for family and f r iends w ill be held a t N a s s a u P r e s b y te r i a n Church later in the year. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Rosser’s memor y may be made to t he charity of one’s choice. Arrangements are by Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton, N.J.
Kenneth Walter Fisher
Kenneth Walter Fisher pas s e d away p e acef u lly s u r rou nde d by h is w ife and children on January 1, 2016. He was born on December 30, 1931 in Heston, Middlesex England to Walter and Matilda Fisher and grew up in London. When World War II was imminent, the family cottage was requisitioned to house Polish fighter pilots and the family was relocated to a house where they enjoyed electricity and piped water for the first time. He excelled in his studies despite the challenges of growing up in the midst of wartime England. He completed his Bachelor’s degree at Queen Mary College of London and his Master’s from University College London. Subsequently, he was the recipient of a British Empire Cancer Campaign Fellowship in the emerging field of microbiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, under the direction of Professor William H. Hayes, receiving his PhD in 1957 on the mechanism of Gene Transfer in bacte-
rium Escherichia coli. In the same year he was one of the founding staff members of the Medical Research Council (UK) Microbial Genetics Research Unit at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and also received an award from the M,R.C. unit at Kings college to spend a year at the Pasteur Institute in Paris with Professor Francois Jacob. Upon returning to London he worked for a time with Professor Maurice Wilkins at the Kings College, University of London M.R.C. Unit. In 1961, at the Biochemistry Congress in Moscow, he was invited to join a panel of Western geneticists and meet with a group of clandestine Soviet geneticists at Kurchatov’s Institute of Atomic energy in Moscow, to inform researchers behind the Iron Curtain of progress in molecular genetics in the west, since genetics had been banned in the U.S.S.R. under the influence of Lysenko and Stalin. Also in 1961 he was invited by Francis Crick to broadcast on BBC’s science programs “Accelerators and Brakes in Biological systems.” He assisted Professor Wm. Hayes with early BBC TV science broadcasts on microbial genetics hosted by Dr. Crick focusing on important current findings in the emerging field He was subsequently awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship that presented the opportunity of emigrating to the United States where he worked under Dr. Arthur Pardee at Pr inceton Universit y, studying repression of virus and protein synthesis, and gave seminars throughout
the USA: including M.I.T., Princeton, Washington University, St. Louis, Berkeley, Stanford, and Caltech. While in Dr. Pardee’s lab, in 1963 he met his future wife; Mettie Barton Whipple, a Princeton graduate student working with Professor Pardee. They were married in July 1965 in Heston, Middlesex, U.K. After doing another year of research at Hammersmith Hospital in London and a 4-year appointment as Director of the Graduate Program in the Sciences at Kansas State University, they settled in Princeton to raise their family. Dr. Fisher went on to become chairman of the department of biology at Rutgers University, Douglas Campus. During his teaching tenure he focused on both undergraduate and graduate studies in genetics and mutational biology. After retiring, his life revolved around bee keeping, gardening, and caring for his devoted family. He is survived by his beloved wife of 50 years, Mettie Barton Fisher; two sons, Sean Hayes Fisher (Ellen) of Barrington, R.I., and Galen Hunt Fisher(Joi) of Richmond, Va.; three stepchildren, Mettie Micheaux Whipple (Nipper Harding) of Yarmouth, Maine, Sherman Taylor Whipple of Hull, Mass., Louise Whipple Gillock (J.T.) of Franklin, Ky.; 11 grandchildren; one great grandson : and his sister Myra Head (David) of Reading, England. Services will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton, New Jersey on Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be in Nashville, Tenn. at a later date.
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programs are in a particularly good position to benefit from the intellectual and artistic resources of their surrounding community.” Joseph Labatt, a 2015 Pr inceton g raduate, de scribed Mr. Vasen’s influence on his life: “Tim Vasen was the one who encouraged me to apply for an internship at The Public Theater, and my time there taught me that I belonged in the professional theater world. Tim Vasen was the one who let the cast and crew of Half stay in his home for free so we could afford to put up the show in the NYFringe, a show where I made lifelong friends. And Tim Vasen was the one — during perhaps the worst week of my life, as I was quarantined in McCosh Infirmary with gastro and pneumonia — who took over my role in Onegin for our opening night, so that I could sleep in a hospital bed undisturbed for almost 30 hours. I was lucky to have him in my life. He was a good man, and he will be so, so missed, by so, so, many.” Mr. Vasen is survived by his wife, Leslie Brauman; his children, Sam and Rosie; his mother, Sally Vasen Alter; his father Richard Vasen; and his brother Dan Vasen. —Donald Gilpin
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PRINCETON RESTAURANT SPACE FOR LEASE: 1611 SF available immediately. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf
JOES LANDSCAPING INC. OF PRINCETON
STORAGE SPACE: 194 Nassau St. 1227 sq. ft. Clean, dry, secure space. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf
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HOME REPAIR SPECIALIST: Interior/exterior repairs, carpentry, trim, rotted wood, power washing, painting, deck work, sheet rock/ spackle, gutter & roofing repairs. Punch list is my specialty. 40 years experience. Licensed & insured. Call Creative Woodcraft (609) 586-2130 06-17-16 J.O. PAINTING & HOME IMPROVEMENTS: Painting for interior & exterior, framing, dry wall, spackle, trims, doors, windows, floors, tiles & more. Call (609) 883-5573. 05-13-16 NASSAU STREET: Small Office Suites with parking. 390 sq. ft; 1467 sq. ft. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf NEED SOMETHING DONE? General contractor. Seminary Degree, 17 years experience in the Princeton area. Bath renovations, decks, tile, window/door installations, masonry, carpentry & painting. Licensed & insured. References available. (609) 477-9261. 02-24-16 FALL CLEAN UP! Seeding, mulching, trimming, weeding, lawn mowing, planting & much more. Please call (609) 637-0550. 03-25-16
Property Maintenance and Specialty Jobs Commercial/Residential
Email: joeslandscapingprinceton@ gmail.com Text (only) (609) 638-6846 Office (609) 216-7936 Princeton References •Green Company HIC #13VH07549500 04-29-16 AWARD WINNING SLIPCOVERS Custom fitted in your home. Pillows, cushions, table linens, window treatments, and bedding. Fabrics and hardware. Fran Fox (609) 577-6654 windhamstitches.com 03-18-16 OFFICE SUITE FOR LEASE: 220 Alexander Street, Princeton. ~1,260 usable SF on 2 levels. Weinberg Management, WMC@collegetown. com, (609) 924-8535. tf PRINCETON: 1 BR DUPLEX House for Rent. $1,575/mo. Parking Available. Call (609) 921-7655. tf BUYING ALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS! Everything! Guitar, bass, drums, percussion, banjo, keyboard, ukulele, mandolin, accordion, microphones, amplifiers, & accessories. Call (609) 306-0613. Local buyer. 07-31-16
MUSIC LESSONS: Voice, piano, guitar, drums, trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, saxophone, banjo, mandolin, uke & more. One-on-one. $32/ half hour. Ongoing music camps. CALL TODAY! FARRINGTON’S MUSIC, Montgomery (609) 9248282; West Windsor (609) 897-0032, www.farringtonsmusic.com 02-11-16
WE BUY CARS Belle Mead Garage (908) 359-8131 Ask for Chris tf WANTED: Physical Therapist/ Med Dr./Dentist +/-2,000 SF Space for Rent in Lawrenceville, off of 95 & Princeton Pike, next to the first approved 200 participant Adult Health Daycare Center. Ground Level, plenty of parking. Call for more information. (609) 921-7655. tf WHAT’S A GREAT GIFT FOR A FORMER PRINCETONIAN? A Gift Subscription! We have prices for 1 or 2 years -call (609)924-2200x10 to get more info! tf IT’S A GREAT TIME TO CLEAN & ORGANIzE YOUR HOME! If you offer these services, consider placing your ad with Town Topics! Call (609) 924-2200 ext 10 DEADLINE: Tues before 12 noon tf
HOUSEKEEPING & CLEANING: By woman with 20 years experience. Good references, own transportation. Call Rosa at (609) 516-4449 or (609) 394-2725. 12-23-3t LOLIO’S WINDOW WASHING & POWER WASHING: Free estimate. Next day service. Fully insured. Gutter cleaning available. References available upon request. 30 years experience. (609) 271-8860. tf PART 3- FINAL SALE OF PRINCETON ESTATE: High end custom furniture, Asian art & sculpture, king size bed & end table, black lacquer dining table & chairs, high end accessories. Lalique & Baccarat glass. Green indoor/ outdoor wicker set, outdoor furniture planters & statuary. New items added. Photos can be seen on estatesales.net, MG Estate Services. 1092 The Great Road, Princeton (entrance on Drakes Corner Rd.). Friday & Saturday, January 8 & 9 from 9:30-3:30; Sunday, January 10 from 11-3:30. Must see sale! Reasonable prices. 01-06 ANTIQUES WANTED: Estate contents purchased. Kyle Kinter Antiques, Lambertville/Hopewell. (609) 306-0202. 11-18-8t
Employment Opportunities in the Princeton Area DRIVERS: NE Regional Run. $.44cpm. Monthly Bonus. Home Weekly. Complete Benefit Package. Rider Program Immediately. 100% No-Touch. 70% D&H. (888) 406-9046. 12-30-2t
FULL TIME MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN: For Princeton Fitness and Wellness at Plainsboro. Responsibilities include performing routine & preventative maintenance, installation, equipment repair, painting, plumbing, etc. Please contact (609) 799-7777. 01-06-3t
Advertising Sales Full and part time Account Managers needed to work on selling both print and digital to regional and national accounts. Ideal candidates will have experience selling advertising in luxury print publications and reside in Central or Northeastern NJ. Compensation is negotiable based on experience.
TIRED OF AN OFFICE PARK? Office space available in historic building overlooking Carnegie Lake. Princeton address. Furnished or unfurnished. Newly renovated. Free parking. Conference room, kitchenette, receptionist included. Friendly, professional atmosphere. Contact Liz: (609) 514-0514; ez@zuckfish.com 12-23-3t
Send cover letter and resume to: editor@witherspoonmediagroup.com
HANDYMAN: General duties at your service! High skill levels in indoor/outdoor painting, sheet rock, deck work, power washing & general on the spot fix up. Carpentry, tile installation, moulding, etc. EPA certified. T/A “Elegant Remodeling”, www.elegantdesignhandyman.com Call Roeland (609) 933-9240 or roelandvan@gmail.com tf CARPENTRY General Contracting. No job too small. Licensed and insured. Call Julius Sesztak (609) 466-0732.
Lawrence Twp
$509,900
Woodfield Estates. Beautiful Colonial with a Tudor façade. Bright and cheerful. 4 BR, 2.5 BA. Elegant, extra large master suite plus 3 ample BR. Office on main floor, eat-in-kitchen and so much more. 609-737-1500 ID#6544173
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tf TUTORING AVAILABLE: in Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Physics, SAT, ACT & AP. For more information contact Tom at (609) 216-6921. tf
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1–4 PM Hopewell Twp $1,075,000 Magnificent custom built Colonial on almost 2 acres overlooking Jacobs Creek in prestigious Hopewell Ridge. This grand home is perfect for glamorous entertainment and its 5+ bedrooms have space for everyone. 609-921-2700 ID#6662777
Princeton $475,000 Rare opportunity to acquire Princeton’s historic and charming Clarke Cottage, near The Battlefield Park and Palmer Sq. Elegant living room w/fireplace, modern amenities, central air, garage, over an acre garden. Min. to Trains & I95. 609-921-2700 ID#6665655
Lawrenceville $533,000 Expanded Vernon Colonial, 5 bedrooms, Great Rm & Family Rm w/gas stone FP, 2 rm skylit kit,SS appl. & granite counters, freshly painted, 2+car gar.newer system, window & doors. 609-921-2700 ID#6650764
Lawrenceville $479,000 This 4 bedroom 2/2 bath home is set back from the road on a beautiful 1+ acre property. This centrally located home will not disappoint! 609-921-2700 ID#6586995
MEMOIR-- A remembering of events of one’s life, often focusing on feeling, emotion. About fragments or highlights of one’s life, memoir is essence. We write your story sculpting it into a finished manuscript suitable for loved ones, or for publication. Call My Memoir at (609) 649-2359. 01-06 EXCELLENT BABYSITTER: With references, available in the Princeton area. (609) 216-5000 tf ONE DAY HAULING & HOME IMPROVEMENT:
NEW LISTING Princeton
$529,900
Charming 3 bedroom, 2 Bath Cape with spacious Open floor plan on the main level. A deck, yard and driveway. In walking distance to Princeton University.
609-921-2700
ID#6676417
NEW PRICE Hopewell Twp $320,000 Spacious cape built in 1995 with room to grow. Attic (plumbing for full bath) and basement unfinished. Formal dining room, kitchen with island, great room and mud room. Possibilities are unlimited! 609-737-1500 ID#6645207
NEW PRICE Hopewell Twp $347,500 3 BR Colonial house sitting on .5 acres, 3 mi from Hopewell HS, has had brand new bathrooms & kitchen installed & restoration to living room, dining area & hardwood floors. A new septic was installed as well. 609-737-1500 ID#6546227
NICE PRICE Hopewell Twp $749,000 Impressive 5 BR riverfront home in historic Titusville. 3 car detached garage, dock and patio on the river. New kitchen, 2 fireplaces, central air. Enjoy glorious sunrises and magnificent sunsets 609-737-1500 ID#6569420
We service all of your cleaning & removal needs. Attics, basements, yards, debris & demolition clean up, concrete, junk cars & more. The best for less! Call (609) 743-6065. 01-06 MOVE IN FOR THE NEW YEAR!
Hopewell Twp $899,000 Sophisticated elegance describes this expanded contemporary. 4 BR. 4 full, 2 half BA, fin. w/o base w/lots of windows, new kitchen w/granite & Sub Zero ref.. Floor to ceiling windows, balconies, 1st fl master. 609-737-1500 ID#6678225
Hopewell Twp $469,000 Princeton Farms. Bigger than it looks from the street, 4 BR, 2.5 new baths, Family Room addition, screened porch, new kitchen with granite counters, public sewer, gas heat in Hopewell Twp neighborhood. 609-737-1500 ID#6672750
Hopewell Twp $419,000 4 BR 2.5 BA home, hardwood flooring throughout, central air, central vac, woodstove in basement can heat entire home if you like! Nestled on 2.52 ac on quiet country road. Seller providing new septic. 609-737-1500 ID#6623906
West Windsor $564,900 Colonial totally renovated and added large 2 story addition on wonderful landscaped lot. 4 BR, 2.5 BA Ultra Kitchen and great room, basement. DR, deck, garage, 2 zone heat and Air. 609-737-1500 ID#6587037
OUR TRUSTED PARTNERS: NMLS 113856 MLS# 113856
House for rent with Princeton address. 3 BR, LR/DR w/fireplace, updated eat-in kitchen, garage, laundry w/washer & dryer, hardwood floors. Includes lawn & snow maintenance. Move-in ready, available now. No pets, smoke free, $2,600. (609) 683-4802. 12-30-3t PRINCETON RENTAL: In town duplex on quiet street; walk everywhere; 3 bedrooms, 1½ baths, dining room, living room, great kitchen, washer/dryer, full basement, hardwood floors throughout. Newly painted. Charming. Lovely garden in back yard. Smoke free, no pets. $2,600/ mo. (609) 731-6126. 12-30-3t
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Adath Israel Shabbat Dinner and Service
Adath Israel Congregation and the Life and Legacy Foundation invite the community to an early Kabbalat Shabbat Service on Friday, January 29 beginning at
Ecumenical
Worship Service in the Princeton
University Chapel Preaching this Sunday
The Rev. Dr.
Alison L. Boden Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel
Sunday Jan 10, 2016 11:00 a.m.
Music performed by
The Princeton University Chapel Choir with Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music and Eric Plutz, University Organist
Guests are asked to RSVP by January 26 by calling (609) 896-4977. Adath Israel Congregation is located at 1958 Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville. For more information, contact Hanina Ruttenberg at hanina@ adathisraelnj.org. ———
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6:15 p.m. It will include a special Kabbalat Ha’Siddur for the Synagogue’s Religious School Gimmel class. During the dinner, the 2015 Life and Legacy Promisers will be honored. The cost for the Shabbat dinner is $10 for adults and children ages 12 and older ($5 for children under 12). An activity table will be available for young children.
chapel music presents
“Inside Out” Inspired Sermon Series at PUMC
Anger, disgust, fear, joy, and sadness – all of these emotions can be useful according to the plot of the Disney/ Pixar film Inside Out. Using the film’s characters as examples, t he pastoral staff at Princeton United Methodist Church ( PUMC ) will consider the spiritual uses of these emotions in a series on healthy spirituality at worship services on Sundays in January at 9:30 and 11 a.m. “No one ever thanks God for anger or fear, but these are emotions that God has provided,” says Rev. Jana Purkis-Brash, senior pastor. “Why did God give them to us? How do we use these gifts in a way that is honoring to God and others?” Located at the corner of Nassau and Vandeventer, PUMC is a diverse congregation whose members come from many surroundi n g com m u n it i e s, b ackgrounds, and faiths. All are welcome. For more information, call (609) 924-2613 or visit www.princetonumc.org.
a service of poetry, music and meditation with members of the jazz vespers ensemble and the chapel choir
wednesdays 8 pm october 14 november 11 january 13 february 17 march 9 april 20 university chapel admission free
908.359.8388
Route 206 • Belle Mead
DIRECTORY OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES Mother of God Orthodox Church Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 703-615-9617
V. Rev. Peter Baktis, Rector
www.mogoca.org
Sunday, 10:00 am: Divine Liturgy Sunday, 11:00 am: Church School Saturday, 5:30 pm: Adult Bible Study Saturday, 6:00 pm: Vespers
Christian Science Church
Feel God’s healing love for you Discover your Christlike identity Find peace and truth in our weekly Bible Lesson First Church of Christ, Scientist 16 Bayard Lane, Princeton ~ 609-924-5801 ~ www.csprinceton.org Sunday Church Service, Sunday School, and Nursery at 10:30am Wednesday Testimony Meeting and Nursery at 7:30pm Christian Science Reading Room 178 Nassau Street, Princeton 609-924-0919 ~ Open Mon.-Sat. 10-4
Princeton United Methodist Church
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
214 Nassau Street, Princeton Msgr. Joseph Msgr. Walter Rosie, Nolan,Pastor Pastor Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 and 5:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish: Sunday at 7:00 p.m.
AN EPISCOPAL PARISH
Sunday 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I 9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:00 a.m. Sunday School for All Ages 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II 5:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist Tuesday 12:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I Wednesday 5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist with Healing Prayers The. Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector The Rev. Nancy J. Hagner, Associate • Mr. Tom Whittemore, Director of Music
33 Mercer St. Princeton 609-924-2277 www.trinityprinceton.org
Cnr. Nassau St & Vandeventer Ave 609-924-2613 www.princetonumc.org Jana Purkis-Brash, Senior Pastor
Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street 609-924-0103 www.nassauchurch.org in downtown Princeton across from Palmer Square
Sundays
Affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the American Baptist Churches, USA
Worship Service at 10 a.m. Fellowship at 11 a.m Education Hour at 11:15 a.m
Trinity Episcopal Church Crescent Ave., Rocky Hill, N.J. • 921-8971 (Office) Father Paul Rimassa, Vicar
You’re Always Welcome! ...at the
CHRIST CONGREGATION
50 Walnut Lane•Princeton•Jeffrey Mays, Pastor•921-6253
Worship and Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 11:00 a.m. Youth Choir and Fellowship 5 p.m. Sermon Series: A Healthy Spirituality: "Inside Out" ALL ARE WELCOME Nursery Care Available
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Services: Holy Eurcharist at 8:00 a.m. & 10 a.m. “All Are Welcome”
Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church 124 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ Reverend M. Muriel Burrows, Pastor 10:00 a.m. Worship Service 9:00 a.m. Sunday School for Adults 10:00 a.m. Sunday School for Children 1st-12th Grade Nursery Provided • Ramp Entrance on Quarry Street (A multi-ethnic congregation) 609-924-1666 • Fax 609-924-0365
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH 407 Nassau St. at Cedar Lane, Princeton Martin K. Erhardt, Pastor
Sunday 9:00am Christian Education Sunday 10:30am Worship with Holy Communion Call or visit our website for current and special service information. Church Office: 609-924-3642 www. princetonlutheranchurch.org An Anglican/Episcopal Parish www.allsaintsprinceton.org 16 All Saints’ Road Princeton 609-921-2420
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9:15 AM
SUNDAY Holy Eucharist 8 AM & 10:15 AM* *Sunday School; childcare provided Christian Formation for Children, Youth & Adults 9:00 AM
11:00 AM
WEDNESDAY Holy Eucharist 9:30 AM
Worship Church School & Adult Education Worship Worship Explorers (Age 4-Grade 3) Child Care available at both services
The Rev. Dr. Hugh E. Brown, III, Rector Thomas Colao, Music Director and Organist Hillary Pearson, Christian Formation Director located N. of the Princeton Shopping Center, off Terhune/VanDyke Rds.
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Hopewell Twp. 5BR, 6.5BA, State-of-the-Art Kitchen, finished BSMT, in-ground pool.
$1,475,000
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Montgomery Twp. $1,395,000 Comfort and the perfect amount of elegance describe this center hall Federal Style Colonial on beautiful Planters Row in Skillman. LS# 6570038 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Brigitte Sabar & Marianne R. Flagg
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Hopewell Twp. $1,200,000 Incredible 4BR, 4 full & 3 half bath home w/ impressive Country French inspired architectural details, 17 foot ceiling, beautiful floors & more. LS# 6653716 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Roberta Parker
Lawrence Twp. $948,000 Historic Smith-Ribsam House, c. 1740. 6BR, 3/2BA. Renovated kit. Attached 1BR apartment. Pool, pool house, 4-car gar. & more on 4.5 acres. LS# 6559789 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Donna M. Murray
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1065KingstonRd.go2frr.com Princeton $869,000 Beautiful Lakefront 0.7 acre lot in Riverside Elementary School district. 3BR, 3BA with first floor Master Suite. LS# 6686546 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Helen H. Sherman
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Princeton $856,800 5BR, 3BA contemporary ranch style home w/in-law suite that has separate entrance. HWD floors, and newer improvements all on approx .47 acres! LS# 6614755 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Kenneth “Ken” Verbeyst
Cranbury Twp. $780,000 Superbly kept 4BR, 2.5BA Cambridge colonial located in Shadow Oaks. Pride in ownership abounds here! LS# 6669204 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Richard “Rick” Burke
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RESTORED CLASSIC HOME BELLE MEAD, This William Thompson mid-century modern home on over 2 acres features a ground floor built around an atrium w/ saltwater pool. The home has 4 BRs, 4 full BAs and 2 kitchens. $1,950,000
PRINCETON, Danish Design at its best, Scandinavian `see through` stairs lead to 4 BRs w/sleeping lofts & cathedral ceilings, 3.5 baths, full finished bsmnt w/ family rm, exercise rm, X-box rm & laundry rm. $785,000
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PRINCETON, This Western section contemporary ranch features dark oak wood floors, designer plaster walls, new kitchen, five bedrooms, three full- and one-half baths and an in-ground pool. $999,999
PRINCETON, Beautifully appointed 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath Colonial in Ettl Farm backing to open area. Gourmet white kitchen with granite counters open to vaulted family room. Hardwood floors throughout. $1,415,000
Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
WEST WINDSOR COLONIAL
OPEN WED. 11:30AM - 1:30PM & SUN. 1-4PM PRINCETON, Fantastic modern Colonial in desirable neighborhood. Large and bright rooms, hardwood floors throughout. Completely renovated by RB homes, like new construction. $1,495,000
WEST WINDSOR, 5 BR, 3 BA home features 2-story entry foyer w/HW flrs & palladian window, kitchen w/granite, breakfast rm w/ sliders lead to yard w/ a gazebo & surround sound system, hot tub, deck & patio. $835,000
Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
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