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Former GCA President Katie Heins Is This Week’s Princeton Personality . . . 18 The Princeton University Orchestra Launches Its 2015-16 Season . . . . 23 Charles Coulston Gillispie, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Princeton Dies . . . 42 Senior U .S . District Judge Joseph Eron Irenas Dies at 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 PU Women’s Hockey Excited for 2015-16 Season . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Undefeated PHS Boys’ Soccer Aiming for Titles . . . . 36
The Centennial of Princeton Resident Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to Be Celebrated Next Week . . . . . . . . . . 7 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 29 Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . 28
At a meeting of Princeton Council Monday night, several residents of the neighborhood surrounding the construction site where the developer AvalonBay is building an apartment complex voiced strong concerns about chemical smells. Citing migraine headaches, sore throats and other unsettling effects, they urged the governing body to take action to make the Witherspoon Street site safer as construction continues. Municipal staff members said they have been monitoring the site since strong odors were first reported on Wednesday, October 21. The smells were identified by the town’s health and engineering departments as coming from painting primer and top coat polyurethanes on the Henry Avenue parking garage, adjacent to the site. The Mercer County Division of Public Health was called in to help investigate the matter, and a Materials Safety Data Sheet was posted on the town’s website. Mayor Liz Lempert was among those who smelled the substance last week. “The list of materials was alarming,” she said of the data sheet. Town administrator Marc Dashield said that the data sheet is meant for workers at the site. But Heidi Fichtenbaum, an architect who works in the green building industry and a resident of the neighborhood, disagreed. She added that just because the odor dissipates doesn’t mean the chemicals are gone. Ms. Fichtenbaum, who lives on Carnahan Place, said she first smelled the odor last Wednesday while driving by the site in her car with the windows closed. “Even though the windows were closed, within five seconds my car was filled with
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Two Newcomers In Race for Council Seats
In the upcoming election on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats Lance Liverman and Heather Howard, both Democrats, will be up for re-election to Princeton Council. Contesting them are Republicans Lynn Lu Irving and Kelly Di Tosto, both newcomers to the Princeton political arena. The incumbents cite improvements and accomplishments during their time on Council, particularly during the adjustment period to a consolidated community, as reasons for re-election to the all-Democrat governing body. Ms. Irving and Ms. Di Tosto count party diversity and keeping Princeton affordable among the reasons to cast votes their way. Mr. Liverman, who is a property manager, served on Princeton Township Committee before the town consolidated in
2012, when he became a member of the merged Council. A native of Princeton, he is often a voice of mediation during Council discussions. “I find myself as a person in the middle,” he said. “I listen to both sides. I try to be in the middle of each issue.” His love for the community, desire to serve, and longtime local affiliation are reasons to keep him on Council, he said. Among the issues that concern him are the future of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood, where many residents feel threatened by rising prices and redevelopment. “I’m kind of mixed on this. I wish the character of the neighborhood could stay the way it is,” he said. “But I also understand when an investment such as a home is the only investment you have,
you might need to sell, for whatever you need the funds for. It’s a tough issue.” As for the fact that all of the current Council members are from the same party, Mr. Liverman said, “We’re not seven people thinking the same. People say we’re a one-party government, but you can be one party and not think the same. We all have different opinions on issues.” Ms. Howard, a health policy expert who works at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, served on Borough Council prior to consolidation, when she was elected to the merged Council. She has focused on public safety, health, and immigration issues during her term. “There is a national debate going on about the Continued on Page 14
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Thomas John Muza, 57, of Hightstown, was sentenced to state prison Friday for embezzling $240,000 from the Princeton University Triangle Club over a period of five years, 2008-2013. He was the Triangle Club’s accountant from 1993 to 2013. According to the Attorney General’s office, Mr. Muza pleaded guilty on March 27 to a charge of second degree theft by unlawful taking. In addition to his sentence, he must pay a restitution of $240,000. At the sentencing hearing he had already paid $200,000 of that sum. Mr. Muza was dismissed from his post as accountant for the historic musical comedy troupe in May 2013 after discrepancies and suspicious expenditures were discovered in the Triangle Club financial records. He had been paid a $4,000 annual salary and had been a signatory on the club’s bank account. Mr. Muza, who also served as general manager of McCarter Theatre Center, was removed from that post as a result of the theft investigation. Mr. Muza admitted that he used his position as accountant for the Triangle Club to embezzle approximately $240,000 by writing club checks to himself and cashing them or depositing them directly into his personal bank account. The former accountant, who was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Continued on Page 4
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Timothy P. Lydon, was initially charged by the Division of Criminal Justice on November 27, 2013 and was indicted on June 2, 2014. The case was referred to the Division of Criminal Justice by the law firm employed by the Triangle Club. “Muza corruptly repaid the trust of the members of this illustrious musical comedy troupe by stealing nearly a quarter of a million dollars from them,” stated Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman. “What’s more, this was not a one-time lapse; he had his hand in the till over and over again in the course of five years.” “With this prison sentence,” Director Elie Honig of the Division of Criminal Justice added, “we send a strong deterrent message that white collar crime does not pay. Muza must pay back every dollar he stole from the Triangle Club, and he will always bear the stigma of being a convicted felon.” Robin K. Lord, Mr. Muza’s lawyer, said that the former accountant would apply for early release from prison in accordance with the Intensive Supervision Program, through which he could possibly be released in several months. —Donald Gilpin
Clubs The English Speaking Union welcomes Beth Fuchs for a lecture on Sulgrave Manor, George Washington’s ancestral home in England, on Sunday, November 15 at 3 p.m. at The Lawrenceville School’s Kirby Arts Center. Fuchs is the President of the National Society of Colonial Dames in New York. Admission is free for club members and $10 for non-members.
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C O N TAC T o f M e r c e r County, the Crisis and Suicide Prevention Hotlines, will hold a fundraising event Fr iday, November 13 at Mercer Oaks Country Club in West Windsor. Honorees are Lenora Green, Educational Testing Service; Hal English, Grand Bank; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Alba Herrera is the Volunteer Spotlight and Mercer County Freeholder Pasquale “Pat” Colavita Jr. is honorary chairman. CONTACT provides a Crisis and Suicide Prevention Hotline (( 609 ) 896 -2120 or (800) 273-TALK), online chat service (w w w.crisischat.org) and support services for senior citizens and active and retired military personnel. “We’re 36-years strong in
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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. Whole Earth Center is holding a food drive, in collaboration with Princeton Chiropractic Wellness Center, through November. Anyone donating $5 for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen gets a gift package for free wellness services from local providers. Visit Princetonchiropractic.com. Princeton Farmers’ Market will host a food drive Thursday, November 12, at Hinds Plaza. Food and cash donations will be collected on behalf of those who use food pantries operated by The Crisis Ministry of Mercer County. For more information, visit: www. thecrisisministry.org/yes-we-can-food-drives/. Halloween Parade: The Arts Council of Princeton’s annual Hometown Halloween Parade is Thursday, October 29 starting at 5 p.m. on Palmer Square Green. The parade makes its way through town and ends up at Hinds Plaza. It’s free and open to the public. Visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org for information. Meet the Mayor: On Friday, October 30 from 8:30 to 10 a.m., Mayor Liz Lempert holds open office hours in the lobby at Princeton Public Library. Jonathan Haslam, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, will give a lecture, “Do We Understand Putin’s Russia?” on Friday, October 30, 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the IAS campus. 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) 396-5327, 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. For more information, call (609) 924-2613, or visit: www. princetonumc.org.
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“BEAUTIFUL MINDS”: John and Alicia Nash, who died in a car crash on May 23, were celebrated last Saturday in a full day of lectures on Nash’s work followed by a Remembrance Service in the Princeton University Chapel. (Courtesy of Princeton University)
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TOPICS Of the Town In addition to Ms. Nasar, whose 1998 Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Mr. Nash, A Beautiful Mind, became the basis for the 2001 Oscar-winning movie with the same title, the day’s speakers included a distinguished array of mathematics and economics professors. T he Remembrance Service mixed personal recollections of the Nashes with observations on Mr. Nash’s remarkable career. Mr. Nash won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994 for his early work in game theory, though many felt his contributions to mathematics, specifically recognized by the Abel prize, were his most impressive accomplishments. Renowned for attacking the most difficult problems in his field, Mr. Nash is widely considered one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. The story of Mr. Nash’s life, according to Ms. Nasar, included three very different acts: “genius, madness, reawakening.” Admitted to the doctoral program at Princeton with a recommendation letter of five words: “This man is a genius,” Mr. Nash, in 1950, in his early 20s, created a theory of noncooperative games, the Nash equ ilibr iu m, a power f u l mathematical tool still widely used in fields of business, government, social sciences, economics, and evolutionary biology. But soon afterwards, Mr. Nash declined into mental illness, where delusion took over from reality, and he was hospitalized in 1959 with paranoid schizophrenia. After a long period of being unable to work and suffering from illness, isolation, and poverty, his redemption began. “Slowly he just somehow woke up,” Ms. Nasar explained, attributing his recovery to the aging process, his personal struggle to control his illusions, and the support of a few people — most notably his wife Alicia, who, after their divorce in 1963, stood by him and helped nurse him
back to health. They remarried in 2001. Ms. Nasar praised the film version of her biography, but stated that “the transformations in Nash’s mind were greater than any that were seen on the screen.” She emphasized that the third act of his life was both a reawakening and a love story. “Had Alicia not taken him in, he wouldn’t have been in any condition to come back,” she said. “John Nash’s third act should not have ended as it did. Nonetheless it was a great act. It was a miraculous recovery. He got his life back.” Among the speakers at the University Chapel Remembrance were family, friends, and colleagues. Mr. Nash’s older son, John David Stier,
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spoke fondly of his father and stepmother, and particularly of the campus and the larger community in which his father was able to reclaim his life. “With friends like these,” he stated, “it was impossible for my father to stay in the darkness forever.” Mr. Stier described Princeton as a place where his father “was always accepted, never criticized, and always allowed to be himself.” Kirsti Strom Bull, president of The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, which presented the Abel Prize for mathematics to Mr. Nash just four days before his death, told of the days of celebration in Oslo in May as her friendship with the Nashes grew. She remembered Mr. Nash’s final words to her: “You must come visit us in Princeton,” followed two days later by “the tremendous shock for the whole Academy” when news of the tragedy arrived. Also remembering the final days was Louis Nirenberg, a colleague and friend of Mr. Nash for 60 years and co-recipient of the 2015 Abel Prize. Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the Courant Institute at New York University, Mr. Nirenberg recalled several meetings with Mr. Nash over the years as they worked together on mathematical problems, then connecting in Oslo for the Abel recognition before flying home together, and, finally, waiting together with John and Alicia for transportation home from Newark Airport. “For that hour [before the Nashes’ fateful accident] Alicia and John and I were just chatting.” David Smith, President of the MIT Club of Princeton — John and Alicia had first met at MIT in 1955 when Alicia was a physics major there and John was a mathematics instructor — spoke about Alicia’s “tenacious strength and courage” and her extraordinary support for her husband, as well as her advocacy for the mentally ill. “John was a quiet person” Mr. Smith said. “Alicia was the outgoing one.” Another longtime friend, James Manganaro, remembered first encountering Mr. Nash when Mr. Manganaro was a freshman student in Mr. Nash’s class at MIT in 1957, “The most startling thing about Professor Nash’s class was his use of the English language. I’ve never heard the language used with such clarity.” An “appreciation” from Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber, read by University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee, described the extraordinarily wide and deep impact of the life and death of the Nashes. Condolences poured in to the University from around the world. “The world felt a personal connection to John and Alicia Nash,” Mr. Eisgruber’s letter stated. “And people around the world felt a personal loss when they died so suddenly. John and Alicia embodied for millions of people both the exhilaration of human aspirations and the sorrow of human tragedy. The worldwide legend of John and Alicia will endure as a story of struggle and redemption.” “We may not see the likes of John Nash again,” Ms. Nasar stated in her lecture, “but his story will remain” — an extraordinary man and an incredible story, as so many confirmed at Saturday’s celebration and remembrance. —Donald Gilpin
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Question of the Week: “What are your favorite Halloween costumes?”
“Back in the day, pre-baby, our best and favorite costumes were Star Wars characters, sports players and flower-child hippies. Now that we have a two-year-old, we thought that it would be fun to do a family costume. Our daughter, Rylee, will be a very scary and ferocious pink and purple dinosaur, and we will be dinosaur trainers. Think Jurassic Park!” —Rachelle and Tomer Yabrov with Rylee, Los Angeles, (originally from Princeton)
Simon: “I loved being a robot and once I was a Darth Vader. My daughter thinks that this year I should be dressed as a marshmallow.” Nika: “Pocahontas! I have watched two shows. Last year I was a ballerina.” —Simon and Nika Morrison, Princeton
“My personal favorite Halloween outift was when I went as an Oompa Loompa for my 35th Halloween. But my son and I work together each year on a costume for him. We’re especially proud of past ninja looks. This year it’s creating Robin Hood.“ —Dean Smith, Princeton
Sarah: “I think my favorite costume was when I was a Red Riding Hood and my husband went as the Big Bad Wolf — typical. This year I’ll be working on Halloween so I’ll be missing out.“ Mary: “I like to keep the costumes simple. Cute little mouse, kitty.” —(from left) Sarah Elias, from Franklin Park, and Mary Azer, East Brunswick
To mark the centennial of Alber t Einstein’s general theor y of relativit y, t here are events ta k ing place from Berlin to Bozeman, Montana. Prominent among them is a two-day conference November 5-6 at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where the physicist was a faculty member from 1933 to 1955. “G enera l Relat iv it y at 100” is aimed, mostly, at an invited audience. But it opens on Friday, November 4 with a performance of a play at Princeton University’s Richardson Hall, Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein, that is open to the public. And for those who want to witness international experts trading ideas on diverse aspects of general relativity from cosmology to quantum gravity and from black holes to neutron stars, the entire conference can be live-streamed by logging on to the IAS website. The celebration concludes with a recital for invited guests by violinist Joshua Bell and a screening of the new documentary Einstein’s Light by Nickolas Barris, who was Director’s Visitor in 2013 at the Institute and is the founder of Imaginary Films. “It is a birthday party, but in many ways this is the home where the party should be celebrated foremost,” said Robbert Dijkgraaf, Leon Levy Professor and Director of the Institute. “It hasn’t escaped the world that general relativity is 100 years old, and
there are many events. But no place is more appropriate to highlight this than Princeton.” It was here that Einstein resided for 22 years, longer than he lived anywhere else, Mr. Dijkgraaf added. And it was here that the theory took shape. “It is a fascinating story of a great idea that becomes famous all over the world, but nothing happens for 50 years. And in the 50s, it becomes fashionable again,” he said. “A nd t his is because of Princeton.” The author of the play, Light Falls, is Brian Greene, a member from 1992 to 19 93 i n t h e I n s t i t u te’s School of Natural Sciences and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Columbia University. The music is by Jeff Beal, who composed for the TV series House of Cards. The play is designed by 59 Productions, currently represented on Broadway by the musical An American in Paris. The director is Scott Faris of the television series Walking with Dinosaurs. “This is a wonderful presentation about the struggle of Einstein coming to his great theory, mostly taken from letters he and others wrote,” said Mr. Dijkgraaf. “These are original voices de s cr ibi ng t h e s tor y. It wasn’t an ‘aha’ moment. He essentially struggled for 10 more years taking the theory from describing motion to describing space, time, and the whole universe. The piece is very much about the despair as he struggles and the elation as he finds his theory, and the physical evidence is presented that has transformed our way of thinking about space and time.” Joshua Bell’s recital at the screening of the documentary Einstein’s Light marks the world premiere of Bruce Adolph’s score set to the final visualization of the film. The movie explores how scientific imagination and in novat ion advance knowledge, with Einstein
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Judge Rejects Latest Attempt To Block Institute Housing Plan
The Princeton Battlefield Society will appeal a Mercer County judge’s rejection of its most recent attempt to keep the Institute for Advanced Study from building faculty housing on land owned by the Institute that the Battlefield Society says is historic and should not be disturbed. Attorney Br uce Afran, representing the Battlefield Society, said Judge Mary Jacobson’s ruling last Friday was not unexpected. “These cases are really resolved in appellate court, so everybody expected this to have to go to a higher level,” he said on
Monday. Judge Jacobson’s decision upheld the approval that Princeton’s Planning Board gave the Institute last year for an amended version of the project, which had first been approved in 2012. The IAS wants to build 15 units, clustering eight townhouses and seven single-family dwellings on a seven-acre parcel. The Battlefield Society says the houses would be on land where American and British soldiers fought during the Revolutionary War in 1777. The Delaware & Raritan Canal Commission blocked
the project in 2012 because of its encroachment on a stream corridor, and the IAS tweaked the plans to slightly shrink the footprint. It was that amended application that the Planning Board approved last year. The Battlefield Society said that because of the amendments, the project is essentially new and the IAS should have to start over. The Planning Board did not agree, and Judge Jacobson concurred. As part of the ruling, Judge Jacobson issued a temporary delay on any start of construction to allow time for the Battlefield Society to appeal. “We respect Judge Jacobson’s opinion, but we do not
believe she’s correct,” Mr. Afran said. “And we believe there are serious failings in what the Planning Board did three years ago and again [in 2010]. They refused to hear relevant evidence. This decision is an error and it ignores all of the duties of the Planning Board to protect historical sites.” The Institute issued the following statement: “The Institute for Advanced Study is very pleased with Judge Jacobson’s decision to uphold the Princeton Planning Board’s approval of our amended plan for Faculty housing and we look forward to moving ahead with the project.” —Anne Levin
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Princeton United Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventer Avenue, is a collector of cereal bags in the MOM Brands Cereal Bag Brigade, a free, national recycling program created by MOM Brands and TerraCycle. MOM Brands is the largest family-owned cereal company in the United States. The collections help divert cereal bags from landfills. Princeton residents can help keep additional cereal bags and liners out of the garbage by dropping off empty bags at the church weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. By participating in the Brigade, PUMC earns points for every unit of waste it collects and sends to TerraCycle. The points can be redeemed for charitable gifts or a cash donation to a non-profit organization or school. In this case, the donations will be going towards additional supplies and programs for the benefit of the PUMC Appalachian Service Project. TerraCycle recycles the traditionally non-recyclable cereal bag waste into new products and materials such as playgrounds, park benches and recycling bins. For more information on drop-off times or what’s accepted, call (609) 924-2613 or email office@princetonumc. org . To learn more about TerraCycle’s Brigade programs and sign up for free, visit www. terracycle.com.
The Historical Society of Princeton (HSP) is pleased to host its 14th Annual House Tour on Saturday, November 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This signature event celebrates local architecture and design and includes insider tours of five unique homes. Participating homes include: 2 Hamilton Avenue, 21 Morven Place, 102 Lafayette Road, 64 Cleveland Lane, and 51 Patton Avenue. House Tour Chair David Schure states, “An exceptional variety of houses were recruited this year and each one serves as a distinct example of its own time and style. Many lifelong Princetonians will find that they are discovering homes, spaces, and artwork that they never knew existed.” Advance tickets are $45 for HSP members and $50 for non-members. All tickets purchased on the day of the tour are $50. Proceeds fund HSP’s core mission activities throughout the year including exhibitions, historical care, and educational programming. HSP is grateful to lead sponsors Charles Schwab and Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty for their generous support of this event. For more information, visit www.princeton history.org.
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A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURE: Morris S. Fabian will deliver a free, public lecture on his personal recollections of the local agricultural industry from 1943 to 1962 on Sunday, November 1 at 2 p.m. The presentation will focus on the area’s former dairy industry including Cool Meadows Farm, owned and operated by J.M. Fabian, breeder of Guernsey cattle and producer of Golden Guernsey milk. The event will take place at the Hopewell Township Branch of the Mercer County Library, located at 245 Pennington-Titusville Road in Pennington. To RSVP, email hvhist@aol.com.
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Mailbox Betsy Baglio Would Bring to Board Her Gift For Helping Individuals, Groups to Collaborate
To the Editor: Betsy Kalber Baglio, who is running for a seat on the Princeton Board of Education, was my student at Princeton University 20 years ago. She was a member of my Senior Seminar in Education and student teaching in Hopewell simultaneously. Sometimes you just know that a person is a natural! While teaching requires the development of a complex set of skills and a knowledge base that far exceeds that of many professions, Betsy came with a character and personality that was just about perfect for the work. She is intelligent, cheerful, hardworking, and committed to improving the educational community. She did outstanding work as a student in my seminar and in the classroom, and has continued to grow in her professional life and learning since then. She has been a successful elementary school teacher, a teacher working with other teachers to develop their skills, a wife, mother, and active community member. It was a joy to me when she and her young family moved back to Princeton and we have continued to be friends. Betsy brings to this work her gift for helping individuals and groups to collaborate, a talent I have seen grow over the years I have known her. She did it as a student in my seminar and continues to hone that skill. It is certainly the perfect time in our town’s educational history to bring that gift to the Board of Education. We are one town now; we have come through a difficult period which threatened to do serious damage to our schools; we can now work together to make a good educational system so much better for all our students. Betsy Baglio can and will do that. As her former teacher and her friend, I am immensely proud of her work, and I urge all to vote for her on November 3rd. MArUE WAlIzEr Hartley Avenue
attended Board of Education meetings and has an in-depth knowledge of how our school system operates. In addition to her passion, commitment, and service, Dafna has been an attorney for 15 years and has the highest level of competence, skills, and training to assess and analyze complex issues; generate meaningful and pragmatic solutions; and work with others to consider and implement them. Our Board of Education, our schools, and our community will benefit from Dafna’s balance of pragmatism with passion; tradition with innovation; and business/legal expertise with above-and-beyond service orientation. I urge you to join me in voting for Dafna Kendal on Tuesday, November 3. ANNE DESMOND Tee-Ar Place
Zwicker and Vella’s Opponents Have Been In Lockstep With Christie’s Job-Depleting Agenda
To the Editor: The future is now for Andrew zwicker and his political partner Maureen Vella. Their opponents have been lockstep in support of Governor Christie’s job-depleting, infrastructure-depleting agenda — policies that were implemented to nihilistic “Tea Partyers in Iowa. New Jersey continues to rank near the bottom in job creation and our bond rating keeps plummeting. Physicist zwicker offers hope to reverse the calculated mismanagement of his opponents. He has a proven record as head of Science Education at Princeton Plasma Physics in investing in people (check out his Wikipedia page). To meet Andrew is to like and admire his curiosity and pragmatic policy initiatives. See for yourself, YouTube Andrew zwicker. If former Congressman rush Holt had a younger brother, it would be Andrew. Please vote for Andrew zwicker for New Jersey National Assembly 16th district on Tuesday, Nov. 3. This election promises to be close, so every vote will count. ADAM BIErMAN Grover Avenue
sure to keep the Board focused on the central issue: The quality of our children’s education. rob and Dafna have both shown their concern for the future of our school system, for their own children and all of our children. As Board of Education members, they will work hard to ensure that “Princeton” remains synonymous with “education” at all levels. OWEN O’DONNEll, AMY GOlDSTEIN Snowden lane
Howard and Liverman Will Continue To Be Responsive to Our Residents
To the Editor: Some people pride themselves in claiming that they “vote for the person, not the party.” While it’s essential to vote for candidates of excellent character and leadership abilities, party is equally important. Why? Because of policies and priorities. I support Heather Howard and lance liverman for Princeton Council. Because of who they are, I know they will continue to be responsive to our residents, and work hard for the good of all. Because they are Democrats, I can be confident that they will seek progressive solutions to whatever problems our town may face. Because that’s what Democrats do. As members of a team of Democrats, Heather and lance helped make sure that our town was ready to implement marriage equality faster than any other town in Mercer County. They worked to build trust between our immigrant neighbors and the police, and supported local efforts to combat wage theft. In the wake of yet another massacre, Heather and lance stood with other Democrats from the town and across the state to demand laws to rein in gun violence. And both are working to pass an earned sick leave ordinance to benefit workers and families in Princeton. These are the kinds of actions that reflect core Democratic values from the national level on down, and which republicans (with rare exceptions) typically oppose. On November 3, I will vote for Heather, lance, and the other Democrats on the ballot. Vote for the person AND the party, because policies and priorities matter. DAN PrESTON Moore Street
Dafna Kendal’s Balance of Pragmatism Supporting Rob Dodge and Dafna Kendal It’s Time to Bring New Leadership, Thinking, To: ___________________________ With Passion Will Benefit Board of Ed For Seats on the PRS Board of Education Expertise to Board of Chosen Freeholders From: _________________________ Date & Time: __________ To the Editor: To the Editor: To the Editor: I am writing to endorse the candidacy of Dafna Kendal As concerned parents of students in the Princeton Public Mercer County___________________. has been governed by the Democratic Hereweissupport a proof of your ad, scheduled to run for election to the Princeton Board of Education and to en- Schools, rob Dodge and Dafna Kendal for seats party for decades. As Mercer County deals with the many courage others to vote for her on Tuesday, November 3. on the Board of Education. challenges facing our county, it is now time to bring new Please check it thoroughly and pay special attention to the following: I grew up in Princeton and returned to raise my children At Board meetings throughout this past year, rob has leadership, thinking, and expertise to the Mercer County here because of the unique and enriching environment regularly brought up important points about the budget Board of Chosen Freeholders. that the town offers and the high quality of the education and increased overcrowding our schools, (Your check markinwill tell usadvocating it’s okay) We have known Ira Marks for 35 years. During that time, provided by our school system. Dafna is committed to maintaining that quality while also incorporating the innovation and new ideas that Princeton Public Schools need to continue to be a state — and nationally — recognized “lighthouse” school district. This combination is critical as the world and the educational needs to prepare our children to thrive in it rapidly evolve. As a fellow member of the littlebrook and JWMS parent communities, I have observed first-hand Dafna’s service to our schools in her leadership positions on the littlebrook PTO as well as in numerous other volunteer roles. Dafna is always the first to raise her hand when help is needed in the classroom or during events. She has also regularly
preparation now and a close working relationship with the municipal council to effectively manage future class sizes and resources for our children. Beyond these core concerns, rob has a clear and nuanced understanding of the wide variety of local, state, and even national issues that are important to our schools. Dafna has shown a rare willingness to ask tough questions, and her training as a lawyer helps her get to the root of thorny problems. She is committed to providing all students in the district with the best possible opportunities to learn, from those who need extra help to learn effectively to those who thrive with extra enrichment. Dafna will be
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we have seen Ira do a remarkable job on the lawrence Township School Board by reducing school taxes without sacrificing educational quality. Ira was also one of the leaders who fought the developer-driven lawrence Township Council back in the 1980s. As a result, lawrence Township is a beautiful town today, with a Master Plan designed appropriately. He is that candidate for Freeholder who will bring new leadership, thinking and financial expertise to the Board of Freeholders. Ira, a CPA, has over 30 years of experience dealing with financial issues in both the private and public arenas. Ira has the expertise to deal with Mercer County’s $325 million budget. Ira’s goals include seeking tax revenues from sources other than our Mercer County homeowners and enhancing the quality of life for Mercer residents in all areas of our county. Ira was named one of the state’s leading CPAs by New Jersey Monthly Magazine earlier this year. Change is good — Ira is the nominee to bring that needed change to Mercer County. Vote for Ira on November 3. MICHAEl AND MArY ClEArY Pembroke Court
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To the Editor: As current and former school board members writing as Princeton voters (not on behalf of the Board of Education), we are proud that our public school community has surmounted many challenges in recent years. Our district has become stronger, more financially stable, and is operating better than ever. Many people worked hard to bring our district to this point, but few more so than Patrick Sullivan. The strength and ongoing improvement of our school district hinges upon the election of extremely capable, dedicated, selfless people like Pat. Pat is highly intelligent, thoughtful, and earnest. We have had the privilege of working closely with him on the school board on a wide variety of matters. To every problem, Pat applies exceptional financial and legal acumen, incisive analytical skills, and a pragmatic, results-oriented approach. In every discussion, Pat raises the level of discourse by his courteous, professional demeanor and his ability to empathize with varied, often conflicting, perspectives on complex issues. A natural thought leader since his first day on the board, Pat never tries to impress or dominate. His board work is marked by a collegial approach, insightful contributions, creative ideas, and hard work. Pat has a nuanced understanding of the often politically charged issues in public education at all levels. He is the ideal steward of the district; never reactive, never shortsighted. Pat makes his decisions as a board member based both on his long-term vision of what our schools can and should be for all children and a sharp, unwavering focus on what’s best for the children and educators now. Please join us in voting for Pat Sullivan (ballot position No. 3) for the Board of Education on Tuesday, November 3. ANNE BurNS, MOlly CHrEIN, DANIEl HAugHTON, MArTHA lAND, TIMOTHy QuINN, ANDrEA SPAllA
forever green, which is deeply important to the future of this crowded state. Is this what we want more of? I say it is time for a change. We need to elect fresh, energetic, and sensible representatives for the 16th District. Andrew Zwicker and Maureen Vella, a physicist and judge, respectively, have the background and experience to help turn New Jersey around. Both Zwicker and Vella are accustomed to dealing with difficult issues in the worlds of science, technology, education, social policy, and civil liberties — Andrew at the Princeton Plasma Physics lab and Maureen in New Jersey’s courts. New Jersey needs representatives like Zwicker and Vella who can lead us once again to prominence in corporate scientific endeavors, in education, in women’s rights, in environmental preservation, in medical research, and other essential public policy arenas. Anyone who runs for public office deserves our gratitude. But it is time for a clean sweep. We must bring in forwardlooking representatives with the vision and talents to bring New Jersey into the future. On Nov. 3, vote for Andrew Zwicker and Maureen Vella. CASEy lAMBErT North road
Liverman and Howard Have Helped Police Dept. Come Together After Consolidation
To the Editor: As a member of the sandwich generation caring for aging parents and young children, I wholeheartedly endorse the liverman/Howard team for their expressed passionate commitment to making Princeton safe for the senior and youth populations alike. And setting a great moral example for every Princeton citizen, they also have publicly declared a determination to guarantee the safety of everyone no matter what their ethnic background. These two incumbents, who serve as Princeton Council’s liaisons to the Public Safety Committee, worry about the safety of my parents and my children as though they were related to me. They are sickened by the swatting incidents in the schools and the often unexpressed but very real terror felt by the school children under psychological attack. And simultaneously they worry about the safety of the vulnerable seniors, often home alone and targets for To the Editor: I have lived in Princeton for 53 years, and care about our physical attacks and fiscal scammers. elected state officials. Jack Ciattarelli and Donna Simon are doing an outstanding job for the 16th legislative District, which represents Princeton. They are honest, hardworking, dedicated, and are not afraid to reach across the aisle to achieve goals they feel are important for our district. Because they have made a name for themselves by conscientiously serving all constituents, we need them representing us in Trenton. Jack and Donna are up for re-election to the State AsCOLD SOIL ROAD sembly on Tuesday, November 3. I urge you to support these experienced candidates. PRINCETON, NJ 08540 JOAN BASSETT Harriet Drive
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Andrew Zwicker and Maureen Vella Have Vision, Talents to Bring NJ into the Future
To the Editor: New Jersey is a small state with very large problems. under governor Chris Christie, our burdens have multiplied with one poor administrative decision after another, the unfinished cleanup of Hurricane Sandy still on our agenda, and the lingering shadows of scandal, to name just a few. We all know that governor Christie’s attempts to present himself as a viable presidential candidate are unsuccessful, nationally as well as here in his own state. His vision is flawed and his policies are just as wrong for us as for the country as a whole. Thanks to this administration, New Jersey has one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates and an intolerable debt rating. At the same time, the Christie administration refused to support the job-creating and critical third tunnel into New york City, which would have been paid for largely by the federal government; has failed to support a hike in the laughably low gasoline tax; is attempting to defund Planned Parenthood which provides health care for working women (and men); is undermining our public school system; and is fighting hard to revoke conservation easements already in place, gutting the entire concept of
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Sons of Lynn Lu Irving, Kelly DiTosto Support Their Mothers for Council Seats
To the Editor: We are writing in support of the candidacies of our mothers, lynn lu Irving and Kelly DiTosto for Princeton Council. They are prepared to demonstrate the same commitment to Princeton that they demonstrated to their families. As Councilwomen, they will repay Princeton for the safe and nurturing environment in which we, their sons, learned and flourished. Our mothers patiently pushed us to excel in our classes at Princeton High School and, as Councilwomen, they will urge other Council members to be thoughtful and astute in decision-making. Our mothers never missed an ice hockey or lacrosse game and as Councilwomen will never miss a Council meeting. They cared for us back then, and will care for the welfare of all Princeton residents in the same way. As we, the next generation of citizens are about to finish our college educations and begin our professional lives in Princeton and beyond, we look back to the victories we achieved in our classrooms and on the rink and sports fields and remember the selfless devotion and commitment of our mothers lynn lu Irving and Kelly DiTosto They are what Princeton Council needs to meet today’s fiscal, social, and moral challenges. Please elect them to the Princeton Council! MICHAEl lu IrVINg longview Drive, DEAN DITOSTO Bainbridge Street
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Dafna Kendal for Board of Education We are writing to endorse Dafna Kendal for Board of Education. Dafna is the mother of two children in the district, Jack in 6th grade at John Witherspoon and Julia in 3rd grade at Littlebrook. Dafna is a practicing lawyer and has also been an active volunteer in the Princeton community. She has volunteered in numerous roles for the Littlebrook School PTO for several years, including serving on the executive board as co-treasurer. She has also been a coach for Princeton Girls Softball. If elected, one of her key initiatives would be a comprehensive review of the district budget to help ensure wise spending, along with an examination of traditional and non-traditional revenue streams. She also wants to work with the Board to help better engage the community in issues affecting the schools. As a Board member, Dafna would work to reduce the opportunity gap with demonstrated results within three years; examine enrichment opportunities in the elementary schools to ensure instructional sufficiency; and ensure that Special Education remains a hallmark of the district, with goals of increasing the support for non-traditional learners. We trust Dafna’s integrity and work ethic, and we appreciate her desire to run for the benefit of every child in the district. We strongly endorse Dafna Kendal for the Board of Education and urge you to join us in voting for her on November 3. Sincerely,
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EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: On Sunday, November 1 from 3 to 5 p.m., the Arts Council of Princeton and the Princeton Shopping Center host the annual Day of the Dead celebration, which includes sugar skull decorating, face painting, and refreshments, courtesy of the Taco Truck. This free community event will be held at the Princeton Shopping Center Courtyard, 301 North Harrison Street. For more information, visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
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role of the police in communities around the country,” she said. “But here at home we have really emphasized the relationship between the police and the community, and I want to continue that. It is so important.” The fact that people from the immigrant communities now feel comfortable about making complaints to police is evidence that relationships have improved. “We want to be a welcoming community to everyone,” Ms. Howard said. “That’s a key part of our public safety strategy, and everyone should trust
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the police. We need to make sure everyone has access to the services they need. That’s why the issue of wage theft is so disturbing. But we have made progress. It’s gratifying to work on those issues.” Ms. Irving, who has worked in real estate, said the current Council has not lived up to residents’ expectations of better services and lower property taxes. Raising a family in town “gives me all the perspective necessary to identify with the problems I share with fellow Princetonians,” she said in an email. “I will use my proven social skills to collaborate on solving them.” If elected, Ms. Irving continued, she would like to reduce the number of ordinances that require more capital spending or inconvenience residents, and see Council “stop wasting time on passing resolutions that have nothing to do with Princeton and distract the council from the essence of its responsibility. The priority challenge is to keep Princeton affordable for all. Princeton has a $61 million annual operating budget, $11.4 million of which goes to servicing the debt — that’s about 19 percent of the budget. The Council should focus on cutting taxes to keep the embattled middle class from having to flee town. I’d like to see Princeton Council focus strictly on local issues while actually listening to local residents’ concerns.” Ms. DiTosto, who works in accounting, is a longtime P r i n ce ton re s id e nt w ho raised her three children here. “I have a sincere desire in looking out for the best interests of all of Princeton’s residents and taxpayers and a belief that office holders should serve the best interests of all members of our community regardless of party affiliation,” she said in an email. “The issues that a local government face are, to a great extent, financial. No other current Council member has an accounting or financial background and I believe I can play an instrumental role in bringing about a more fiscally responsible Council.” Running for Pr inceton Public Schools’ Board of Education are Elizabet h ( Betsy) Kalber Baglio, a former public school teacher and educational consultant
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who is a parent volunteer at Community Park Elementary School; Robert Dodge, a research scientist in a biopharma company; lawyer Dafna Kendal; and incumbent Patrick Sullivan, who is a private investor, former corporate lawyer, and investment banker. N e w J e r s e y A s s e mbly members Jack M. Ciattarelli and Donna M. Simon, who are Republicans, are being challenged by physicist Andrew Zwicker and attorney and former municipal court judge Maureen Vella, both Democrats. County executive Brian Hughes, a Democrat, is up for re-election, contested by Republican Lisa Richford, while County Clerk Paula Sollami Covello, a Democrat, is challenged by Republican Susan Bagley. In the race for Mercer County Freeholders, Democrats A nn M. Cannon, Pasquale “Pat” Colavita Jr., and Samuel T. Frisby are contested by Republicans Anthony “Tony” Davis, Ira Marks, and Jason Lee DeFrancesco. —Anne Levin
Arts Council Fundraiser At Grounds for Sculpture
The Arts Council of Princeton’s (ACP ) annual fall fundraiser, Dining by Design 2015, will be held on Saturday, November 14 at 6 p.m. at Grounds for Sculpture. Funds raised support the ACP’s outreach community education programs for atrisk youth and low-income seniors. The evening will feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, “Party Boards,” a threecourse dinner catered by Stephen STA R R Events, wine-pairings, a live auction and more. ACP Board Vice President, Julia Gilbert, is serving as this year’s Event Chair. Highlights of the evening include special guest auctioneer, Sebastian Clarke of Rago Auctions and Ant i q u e s Ro a d s h o w, a n d a performance from the ACP’s “CAPs” program participants, playing percussion instruments handmade from recycled materials. Grounds for Sculpture is at 80 Sculptors Way in Hamilton. Dining by Design tickets start at $250 per personand can be purchased at www. artscouncilofprinceton.org or by calling ( 609 ) 9248777.
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toxic fumes,” she said, adding that she recognizes the smell because of the work she does. “I knew it was toxic right away.” She said she could also smell the fumes coming from sewer grates at the bottom of her street, leading her to believe the chemicals had gotten into the sewer system. “In order for the smell to be that strong there has to be such a huge volume of this chemical in the air,” she said. “It is just unconscionable.” Princeton engineering director Bob Kiser said that the drains were inspected, but nothing unusual was detected. He attributed the smell in the drains to wind conditions. A not her neighborhood resident asked why work wasn’t shut down at the site as soon as the smell was detected. “What’ll it take? Someone passing out?,” he said. Princeton Health Commissioner Jeffrey Grosser said that since the painting was finished when he and his colleagues went to the site, there was no need to shut it down. Henr y Avenue resident Jennifer Lea Cohan said the fumes were overpowering last Wednesday when she walked over to Community Park Elementary School to pick up her two children. “I don’t scare easily at all,” she said. “But I wondered if I was going to pass out.” While painting of the garage is finished, another round of strong odors will
likely emanate from the site when the roofs are installed on the apartment buildings. “That won’t happen until next year, and we want to coordinate with them [AvalonBay],” said Mr. Kiser, stressing that the town wants to be notified in order to alert residents before that work begins, possibly in January. A resident of Jefferson Road told Council members he had suffered three migraine headaches he attributed to the construction site. “These fumes are disgusting,” he said. “This should never have been able to happen. They [AvalonBay] can’t be the ones to decide what happens in our neighborhood.” Ms. F ichtenbau m s a id the chemicals used for the painting of the garage are “a known carcinogen and a neuro-toxin.” She urged Council to take action, even if it puts the town at legal risk. “People’s health is on the line,” she said. “That’s not okay.” Councilman Patrick Simon commented that the site should probably have been treated as a hazardous material spill. Some members of Council thanked staff members for their diligence in monitoring the site. Councilwoman Jenny Crumiller asked if the town can get AvalonBay to use the least harmful adhesive when they begin work on the roofs. “We can recommend, but we can not enforce,” Mr. Dashield said. —Anne Levin
PCYH Presents Yoga and Acupuncture for Veterans
On Saturday, November 7, Princeton Center for Yoga and Health (PCYH) will offer a free yoga class for veterans. The yoga class will meet from 12:30 to 2 p.m., followed by a free acupuncture treatment with Karen Flicker. Flicker specializes in pain management. The yoga class will be taught by Dan Fernandez. The multi-layered class is designed to relieve some of the debilitating effects caused by PTSD. Participants must register in advance by emailing Deborah@princetonyoga.com. Seats are limited. For a full schedule of upcoming classes, visit www. princetonyoga.com. PCYH is located at the Orchard Hill Center, 88 Orchard Road in Skillman.
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Books Author of “True Style” At Nick Hilton Oct. 31
G. Bruce Boyer, the author of True Style: The History & Principles of Classic Menswear (Basic Books) will be visiting Nick Hilton, 221 Witherspoon Street, on Saturday, October 31, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mr. Boyer has been called the “Robert Caro of the cufflink, the Boswell of the bow tie” and “the Raymond Chandler of menswear journalism.” Mr. Boyer will be meeting and greeting customers, speaking casually about his life and work, and signing free copies of True Style. The event is in
conjunction with an appearance by Nick Hilton’s premier fabric supplier, Gladson, Ltd. According to Jeffrey Felner, New York Journal of Books, “G. Bruce Boyer has, in essence, created an encyclopedia of men’s fashion and style …. True Style is the most comprehensive and all-encompassing volume on the topic of men’s fashion that has ever passed in front of these eyes …. Besides the advice, the wonderful and knowledgeable narrative, Mr. Boyer offers the reader the history, an aspect of fashion and style that is so often overlooked within this genre of books.” The Wall Street Journal comments, “Where fashion was once dictated from the top down, it now rises from the street up. But as G. Bruce Boyer shows in True Style, islands of elegance still survive …. [A]
cheerful attempt to define the underlying principles for dressing well, while at the same time providing some of the history behind what we wear.” Maxims from Mr. Boyer include: “There’s nothing right or wrong about style. Like a poem, it simply is.” “Style is the art of bending fashion to personality.” “Style and taste are particular sorts of intelligence.” and “The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.” ———
Library and Labyrinth Host “Work of the Dead”
Thomas Laqueur, the author of The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Princeton Univ. Press) will appear at Labyrinth Books on Friday, October 30 at 6 p.m. The presentation and discussion is hosted by Labyrinth and the Princeton Public Library. Mr. Laqueur’s “engag-
ing writing style enlivens this somber subject,” according to Library Journal. Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, comments: “Why we feel compelled as a species to treat our mortal remains with such an astonishing variety of rituals, is the subject of this deeply learned and richly detailed meditation. Eschewing simple explanations, ranging across centuries and cultures, plunging with unflagging energy into vast archives, Laqueur discloses and explores the work that the dead do for the living. The Work of the Dead is like a vast canvas in which the reader can somehow see at the same moment the tiny buttons on a frock coat and the curvature of the earth. The book is a moving triumph of scholarship and the historical imagination.” Thomas W. Laqueur is professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud and Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. ———
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“An Epic of Consciousness”: Notes from a Journey Into William Gaddis’s “The Recognitions” Like everyone else, I’ve never gotten over The Recognitions. —Harold Bloom hen I told a friend who likes big, difficult novels that I was about to begin William Gaddis’s 956-page tour de force The Recognitions, which was published by Harcourt Brace 60 years ago, he wished me luck: “I’ve tried at least 4 or 5 times to crack that book, but without success.” In a later message, after hearing that I’d embarked on so daunting a journey, he said, “I’ll pray for you.” Over the decades, for every person who told me I had to read The Recognitions, someone else told me it was unreadable. Yet people who had “been there” carried on as if they’d returned from the journey of a lifetime. Having arrived safely, if dazed and word-weary, I’ll tell you some of what I experienced on my four-month sojurn in Gaddis’s mid-century wasteland. A Reviewer’s Nightmare The hapless reviewers who had to deal with The Recognitions in March of 1955 have been mocked and reviled at length in Jack Green’s broadside Fire the Bastards, which is discussed on the New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog. Rightly anticipating what was in store, Gaddis mocks wouldbe reviewers in a scene near the end of the novel (“You reading that?” “No, I’m just reviewing it … all I need is the jacket blurb to write the review”). But what’s a busy journalist with a deadline supposed to do? Dip into the beginning, sample the middle, maybe read the last 50 pages? Or take a year’s leave of absence? In his New Yorker essay, “Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard to Read Books,” Jonathan Franzen, who named his novel The Corrections as a nod to Gaddis (a piece of literary coattail-riding if there ever was one), says he read the book as “a kind of penance.” Like “somebody going out to score hard drugs,” he bought a copy of the Penguin edition, and “every morning for a week and a half … went from the breakfast table to a beige ultrasuede sofa module, turned on a lamp, and read non-stop for six or eight hours.” Franzen describes the reading experience as “something like a fugue state, as if planting my feet on a steep slope, climbing …. There were quotations in Latin, Spanish, Hungarian, and six other languages to be rappelled across. Blizzards of obscure references swirled around sheer cliffs of erudition, precipitous discourses on alchemy and Flemish painting, Mithraism, and early-Christian theology …. I was alone and unprepared on a steep-sided, frigid, airless, poorly mapped mountain …. But I loved it. At the novel’s hidden pinnacle, behind its clouds of subsidiary symbolism, beyond its blind canyons of Beat anti-narrative, is a story about the loss of personal integrity and the difficult work of regaining it.” What’s To Love? I didn’t love The Recognitions. I mean, what’s to love? Did Gaddis create this monster expecting it to be loved? Did Picasso or Bosch expect people to love Guernica
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or The Garden of Earthly Delights? Any number of times I asked myself, “Why am I reading this? Do I really want to go on?” And of course I gave myself the Everest base camp answer, “Because it’s there,” a literary phenomenon, one of the least read “great books” in the world, the only work in its day large enough to inspire unthinkable superlatives, the mid-20th-century Moby Dick, the American Ulysses. So, what would make The Recognitions worth braving all that learned and longwinded adversity? How about believable, interesting, sympathetic characters? Who’s to like in Gaddis’s world? Who’s to fear or hate or be in awe of? Where’s a Leopold Bloom? W h e r e ’s a Captain Ahab or a genially buoyant narrator like Ishm a e l ? Yo u r best bet would s e e m to b e Wyatt Guyon, t h e n o v e l ’s fallen artist/ protagonist who almost dies before he has time to live and who ceases to be explicitly referred to after page 118, remaining a nameless presence until he emerges under the alias Stephen Ashe some 500 pages l a t e r. W i t h Wyatt drifting ghostlike in and out of the narrative, the reader has to make do with a crowded, hard to follow gallery of types like Otto Pivner, a born loser who is thwarted at every turn, love, life, and literature. Stanley Steps Forth Thomas Pynchon and Alexander Theroux, two authors for whom Gaddis helped lay the groundwork, respond to the character challenge by giving their requisitely one-or-two-dimensional players memorably quirky names like Slothrop and Eyestone. Except for a few cases like Sinistra and Agnes Deigh, Gaddis’s characters at least sound like “real people” with names such as Gordon, Ellery, Valentine, Esther, and Stanley, the musician who steps forth from the society of knaves and fools, wits and poseurs, killers and creators, to perform, literally, the novel’s denouement, playing his own composition on a “gigantic organ” in an ancient Italian church. Though the priest has warned him not to use too much bass (“non usi troppo i bassi, le note basse”), Stanley doesn’t understand Italian, goes heavy on the bass
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Manhattan literary-bohemian society ever written. Each of the deliriously interminable New York/Greenwich Village party scenes, which between them must occupy at least a third of the novel, is a phantasmagoria of black comedy-of-bad manners. In Tim Page’s biography of novelist Dawn Powell, who reviewed The Recognitions in the New York Post and was unfairly skewered for it in Fire the Bastards, he notes that she must have realized that Gaddis’s “hustlers and poseurs” were “not so dissimilar” from those in her novel, The Wicked Pavilion. Powell’s review makes an on-the-money comparison of Gaddis to the Ancient Mariner waylaying the reader with lectures on the Church Fathers while the “ever-defaulting hero” hurries “in his many guises through bordellos and monasteries.” C.K. Williams The book sharing my bedside table with Gaddis is C.K. Williams’s 2012 collection Writers Writing Dying, which I’ve been rereading in the month since he died, along with The Recognitions, which he mentioned admiring in one of our last conversations. Late one night, reading by the little booklight, I was moved to find this line in a poem called “Prose”: “Sometimes I give up even on it and drag myself out to the streets like Wyatt in Gaddis’s Recognitions.” In case I ever doubted that Gaddis was capable of creating a character “real” enough to believe in, here was poignant evidence from a poem about a crucial period in the life of a great poet’s work. Prose, he writes, has been keeping him sane “in the wretched blot of being nineteen” and wanting to write poetry but not knowing how to begin. And so, when even prose doesn’t work, he drags himself into the streets “from that miserable Paris hotel” with his alter ego, Wyatt Guyon. You don’t have to read far in The Recognitions to understand the appeal that Gaddis’s style would have for a young poet who would eventually become known for his long, prosy lines. It’s easy to imagine Williams being struck by sentences like this one: “Undisciplined lights shone through the night instructed by the tireless precision of the squads of traffic lights, turning red to green, green to red, commanding voids with indifferent authority: for the night outside had not changed, with the whole history of night bound up in it had not become better nor worse, fewer lights and it was darker, less motion and it was more empty, more silent, less perturbed, and like the porous figures which continued to move against it, more itself.” wish I could email C.K. Williams that sentence, to see if he agreed that his work eventually had something in common with the articulated consciousness, the play of mind, stop and start, interrupted, turned back on itself, the way the line “with the whole history of night” comes up against “fewer lights and it was darker” and then, at the end, as the author of Writers Writing Dying might have had it, “more itself.” —Stuart Mitchner
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Former Garden Club of America President Katie Heins Brings Her Leadership Skills To A Variety of Projects
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o lead, one must be able to motivate others, to summon their best efforts in order to attain a successful result. Pinceton resident Katie Heins is such a leader. Former president of the Garden Club of America (GCA) and Stony Brook Garden Club of Princeton, she has held numerous positions of responsibility in these organizations. Through her effort, energy, and expertise, she has helped them to become more productive, responsive, and influential. As her friend of 30 years, Princeton resident Susan Levy, points out, “The productivity of any organization, it is often said, reflects its leadership. The Garden Club of America is better for having had Katie as its president. It is more productive, more cohesive, and more directed. Katie inspires by her own remarkable example, adhering to the highest standards, eager to take on challenges.” These leadership qualities were evidenced in Ms. Heins’s early years. Enthusiastic student in school, president of the Student Council, active participant in many responsible positions, she welcomed opportunities to achieve. Time Outdoors Born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Kat har ine — always known as Katie — was the second child of three born to George and Jane Phillips. Growing up in central Pennsylvania, Katie
enjoyed the chance to spend time outdoors appreciating the natural world, and at the same time to excel in school. “I think my happiest childhood memory is of playing outside with my friends,” she recalls. “We were outside all the time. I loved the Pennsylvania farmland and the beauty of the countryside. I also liked everything in school, especially math and science. I really liked school from the very beginning.” Her leadership skills surfaced early, and serving as president of the Student Council, Katie discovered the opportunity to make an impact and see positive results. “I liked leadership and being in a position to make a difference. I really liked this right away.” She also liked going to the movies, and enjoyed family outings to the beach in the summer. Importantly, she continued to be inspired by her paternal grandmother, Frances Phillips, a ver y special person in her life. “I especially looked up to her. She was a lovely person, very elegant. She also had beautiful gardens, which I loved.” School and the love of learning remained a major focus for Katie, and after graduating as valedictorian in high school, she entered Penn State. Majoring in Spanish, she also had a semester at the University of Salamanca in Spain, an experience she remembers with great pleasure.
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They settled in Philadelphia, and Katie decided to take post graduate work in creative writing at nearby Bryn Mawr College. “It was something I had always enjoyed,” she reports, “and I was pleased to have the opportunity to explore it more fully.” What took her time even more fully was the arrival of four children in the next six years. Child-rearing kept her busy, and it wasn’t until the Heins family moved to Princeton in 1980 that her as yet dormant interest in gardening began to flourish. “Princeton was new to us, and we liked it right away,” says Ms. Heins. “In 1983, friends invited me to join Stony Brook Garden Club. When I first joined, I began to create my own garden, and I found that I really enjoyed it.” Prev iously, despite always admiring the beauty of her grandmother’s gardens, Ms. Heins had never seriously gardened herself. Once she began to explore the pleasures of gardening, typically, she delved deeper and deeper into the experience. “My garden just grew and grew,” she explains, “and I learned that you can’t just plant something you like and expect it to do well. You have to understand about sun and shade, soil conditions, etc. I decided I needed more information.” Fabulous Education She then entered the rigorous three-year program at the Arboretum School of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, earning a certificate in horticulture. This was at the same time she was parenting four children, running a household, and volunteering at Stony Brook. “It was a fabulous education,” notes Ms. Heins. “It involved all aspects of horticulture, including Latin nomenclature, landscape design, etc.” Serving on various
committees at Stony Brook, including the horticulture committee, and eventually becoming president of the club, she found that her interest in gardening and horticulture continued to deepen. As president of the club, she was involved in a variety of projects, including mounting a statewide flower show and seeking to preserve and showcase the Rockingham historic site. As Susan Levy, currently Garden Club of America liaison to the Royal Horticulture Society in England, notes regarding Ms. Heins’s tenure, “By delegating well, overseeing thoroughly, and working hard, Katie helped mold a stronger club.” During this time, Ms. Heins also became more involved in creating and designing her own personal garden, which came to be especially admired by colleagues and friends. It became such a showcase that it was documented by the Stony Brook Garden Club for the Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens in 2009, and was among 28 public and private gardens featured in the 2014 book Gardens of the Garden State. Stony Brook is one of 200 garden clubs throughout the U.S. which are part of the Garden Club of America (GCA). This non-profit organization, founded in 1912, is dedicated to horticulture, conservation, and civic improvement, and includes 18,000 members. Singular Honor Since 1996, Ms. Heins has served on GCA national committees, including program, library, horticulture, and strategic planning. She ultimately chaired the horticulture committee, and began serving GCA in executive leadership capacities as recording secretary in 2006. In 2013, she became the 40th president of the club, a singular honor. Ms. Heins’s ability to contribute, coordinate, and lead in all these positions has been recognized by those who work with her. “Katie is a go-getter, whether it’s designing her own garden or leading the Garden Club of America,” points out Dede Petri, Ms. Heins longtime colleague, who now serves on the board as GCA first vice president. “Under her watch, the GCA advanced conservation, civic improvement, and education initiatives. Visitors to the GCA Redwood Grove in California can now gain access because of a successful fund-raising effort to restore the trail; the GCA has renewed its long-standing opposition to unsightly billboards by opposing the proliferation of digital flashing signs; and clubs have been empowered to pursue projects supporting native plants, pollinators, youth education, and more.” Adds Susan Levy: “The GCA is a complex organization whose influence extends across our nation and beyond. As such, it requires a visionary who understands the whole and its parts, and is committed to helping them flourish. Katie was just that person.” Continued on Next Page
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As president, Ms. Heins was instrumental in achieving a number of goals. Impor tantly, she ser ved as a respected and admired leader and motivator of the many volunteers and officers accomplishing the work of the GCA through more than 40 national committees and 12 geographic zones. Also during her tenure as president, the GCA advocated at the federal, state, and local levels regarding issues relating to sustainable agriculture, seed diversity, and food security. In addition, the GCA raised the subjects of climate change, the national park system, preservation of native plants and national public lands, and environmentally-responsible transportation. Wonderful Experience These were just some of the major initiatives undertaken and advanced during Ms. Heins’s watch. Her role as president entailed a comprehensive array of responsibilities. As she explains, “It involved a real mix, including public speaking, administration, finance, and travel. I didn’t like public speaking at first, but I did become more comfortable with it over time.” The opportunity to travel across the county on club projects was one she particularly enjoyed. “Seeing different parts of the country and all the differences in culture and topography was a wonderful experience.” Proud of her two-year tenure as president, Ms. Heins makes another important observation. “What I especially enjoyed as president was to see the power of women make a difference. T he women involved in GCA are lawyers, doctors, and other professionals. it
is the women and members of the clubs who really do the work.” Further, she adds, “I believe that the most important quality for someone to be successful both professionally and personally is the ability to listen. I have always felt this way. You really have to hear what someone is saying.” Although her tenure as president ended June 30th this year, Ms. Heins remains active in the organization and will serve as a horticulture judge at flower shows, including the Philadelphia F lower Show. A nd, she adds, she looks forward to spending time working on her own garden in her new home. With the demands of the GCA presidency, she has not had time to focus on this. “Now, I plan to create a new garden and work on it.” She will no doubt be busy in many ways. As she says, “I never seem to fail to fill my vacant hours!” Wide-Ranging After 35 years in Princeton, Ms. Heins remains a fan. “We did like it right away, and we still do. What I especially like about Princeton are the people and the cultural opportunities. There is so much diversity. I enjoy going to McCarter and events at the University. I l have also audited classes at the University in the history of architecture and comparative literature. This is really a wonderful community, and I also love the accessibility to New York.” Her interests are wideranging — from travel (summers in Sun Valley and visits to Italy) to the books of John Steinbeck to the symphony, and according to her friend Susan Levy — cooking. “Katie is a fabulous cook, a passion she now shares with her children — and her friends love it too. She
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approaches cooking as she approaches flower arranging and horticulture, as an art form, and of course, she does it well. As I grew to know her socially, I learned that whatever Katie did, she did well. That’s the thread she pulls through her life.” Ms. Levy cites another example. “30 years ago, I met Katie at a mutual friend’s dinner party. It seems like yesterday! She arrived with the quintessential hostess present, a small, charming f lower ar rangement she had made specifically for our hostess. Beautifully conceived, with bits of fern and wild flowers, it focused on our hostess’s preferences while representing Katie to a ‘T’. As tiny as it was, it was filled with gratitude for the invitation, and a palpable appreciation for the plant material and floral design.” Spending time with her family — four children and now 10 grandchildren — is a priority for Ms. Heins, and she sees them as often as possible. “I am very proud of them,” she explains, “My family is what is most important to me.” And this includes memories of her grandmother, who perhaps, even unknown to Katie at the time, instilled a love and appreciation of a garden and what it can mean. “I have thought of my g ra nd mot her cons t a nt ly through my GCA journey,” reflects Ms. Heins. “I think she would be simply amazed to think her beautiful gardens were my initial inspiration to become interested in plants and gardening and to take it to a whole new level of education and leadership that she never dreamed about. She just did what she loved to do, and so have I, but in a different way. However, my interests remain rooted in the garden both literally and figuratively.” —Jean Stratton
Police Blotter No Injuries, Damage After Gas Main Leak On Hardy Drive
At 9:49 a.m. on October 22, Princeton Police, Princeton Fire Department, Princeton First Aid & Rescue, responded to Hardy Drive for a reported gas main leak. PSE&G also responded to the scene and arrived at 9:55 a.m. A 2-inch gas main was struck by a backhoe operator with Hillis Group, 2100 Wood Ave, Easton, Pa., while digging to plant trees in a cul de sac area at the end of Hardy Road. The
backhoe operator was reportedly uninjured and there was no additional injury at the scene. There was no property damage to any surrounding residences. No one was home at the same residences. The gas leak was reported safe and under control by PSE&G at 10:37 a.m. Police blocked off the area to traffic until the gas leak was corrected. No traffic backups were reported. Lakeside Flasher On October 23, at 11 a.m., a 19-year-old female reported that as she was sitting on a park bench along a tow path
at the south side of Carnegie Lake off South Harrison Street, a male described as white, 6’ tall, wearing sunglasses, a blue hoodie and a beige surgical mask covering his nose and mouth, walked up to her from a tall grassy area and stood 10’ feet away. He was naked from the waist down, exposing his genitals. The male stared at the victim for a few seconds before she ran toward South Harrison Street. He did not speak to or touch the victim during the incident. The area was immediately searched by the Princeton Police and the Princeton University Department of
Public Safety, but the suspect was not located. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Ben Gering at (609) 921-2100 ext. 1840. ——— On October 17, at 9:12 p.m., a 56-year-old female and her 20-year-old son were arrested after he attempted to use a fraudulent driver’s license to enter the Ivy Inn. His mother argued that her son was 23 years old as stated on the license. He was charged with tampering with public records and she was charged with hindering the apprehension of another.
Do We Understand Putin’s Russia? Photo courtesy of www.kremlin.ru
Jonathan Haslam George F. Kennan Professor School of Historical Studies We should not assume that making sense of post-Soviet Russia was ever going to be easy. Great Powers that lose empires bear grudges and the speed with which an empire is lost can exacerbate the problem. No one can expect that a powerful country run by a former secret policeman is going to operate by the same rules of the game to which we are accustomed. Quite simply, what may seem sensible or rational to ourselves is irrelevant. In this public lecture, Johnathan Haslam will explore the realities of Russia today, and in so doing, attempt to answer the question on so many American minds: “What is Putin up to and why?”
Friday, October 30 5:30 p.m. Wolfensohn Hall Institute for Advanced Study
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Tea during the Thanksgiving weekend. Families can enjoy tea, sandwiches, and cookies while children create crafts and adults relax on Sunday, November 29, 2-4 p.m. Children 10 and under: $5, accompanying adults: $10. On January 8, the Trenton Museum Society will be hosting the Alice in Wonderland Cabaret with vocalist Tom Chiola and pianist George Sinkler. Tickets will be available soon for limited seating, so make reservations early with PayPal: $35 in advance or $40 at the door if tickets are available. ———
“On Your Own Time” Exhibit At Lakefront Gallery in Hamilton
“ABRAHAM AND ISAAC”: This 62” x 62” oil on canvas by orthopedic surgeon, drawer, and painter Marc Malberg will be among the artworks displayed in the Rider University Art Gallery’s newest exhibit, “Biblical Inspiration in a Secular Age” running from November 5 to December 6. Malberg is one of five exhibiting artists whose work is based on a 21st century revisionist perspective on the Bible. Malberg’s images of Abraham and Isaac, Abraham and Aaron, Moses and the Burning Bush, and Absalom, King David’s son, will be on view in the exhibition. five nationally and interna- which western civilization is “Biblical Inspiration In Secular Age” Exhibition tionally known artists. They built but has not been mined Rider University’s Art Gal- share a common interest in for years. The Rider University Art lery opens an exhibition on the Old Testament, which Thursday, November 5 titled they treat not as a religious Gallery is located on the top Biblical Inspiration in a artifact but as a crucial text floor of the Bart Luedeke CenSecular Age. Organized by in western culture. They ap- ter, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, guest curator Judith Brod- proach this canonical mate- Lawrenceville. Gallery hours sky, the exhibition will run rial with a critical, postmod- are Tuesday to Thursday 11 from November 5 through ern eye tempered by current a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday Sunday, December 6. A re- philosophic and theoretic noon to 4 p.m. For more inforception in honor of the art- considerations: feminism, mation call (609) 895-5588 ists will take place on Thurs- rebellion against contempo- or visit www.rider.edu/officesday, November 5, and is free rary art world conventions services/art-gallery. and open to the public. The which demand secularism; ——— artists will speak about their extracting contemporar y work in a free program open meaning from the ethical Trenton Museum Exhibition to the public on Thursday, and moral precepts con- Celebrates “Alice in Wonderland” tained in the Old Testament; F r o m N o v e m b e r 14 November 12 at 7 p.m. and an excitement in explor- through January 9, the AlThe exhibition will feature ing a rich lode of ideas upon ice Revisited exhibit will be on display at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park. There will be an opening reception from 7-9 p.m. on November 14. The museum is free, although donations are accepted. Lewis Carroll wrote the enchanting story of Alice in Wonderland 150 years ago. Dallas Piotrowski, known throughout the region primarily as a realistic painter of the natural world, has been creating an ongoing series of Alice in Wonderland paintings and drawings for a number of years. Her series provided the inspiration for the Trenton Museum Society’s exhibit Alice Revisited, a celebration of Carroll’s fanciful story, at the Trenton City Museum at Makeover Contest! Ellarslie. Alice has inspired many Win a high-end styling package, other artists, including those courtesy of Daniel Smits Salon in Princeton. selected for this exhibition. Csilla Sadloch was inspired Package includes: by watching a child with • Haircut long hair on a swing, imag• Single Process or Highlight ining that she was falling down the rabbit hole. Art• Gloss ist Rhoda Kassof-Isaac col• Blowdry laborated with poet Joseph a $300 value Longino to produce a series of digital collages and companion poems retelling the Alice in Wonderland story. Visit www.PrincetonMagazine.com Continuing the theme, for your chance to win! there will be a Mad Hatter’s
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F r o m N o v e m b e r 14 through Januar y 14, the Lakefront Gallery in Hamilton is hosting a multimedia exhibition titled, On Your Own Time, featuring a range of works including photographs, paintings, and quilts. Part of the exhibit is dedicated to artwork from the staff of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton. Another part focuses on photography and watercolors from Princeton Photography Club members Patricia Bender and Deborah Paglione along w ith invited guest artist Katina Houvouras. Nearly 60 works in total will be on display. Each piece stands to impress viewers, regardless of (or perhaps due to) the artist’s day job. T he exhibition’s open ing reception is Thursday, November 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. Light refreshments, w ine and cheese will be served. The exhibit and reception venue is the Lakefront Gallery located at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, One Hamilton Health Plaza, Hamilton. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. For more information or directions, contact Sheila or Carl Geisler at (732) 422-3676 or visit the Princeton Photography Club website at www. princetonphotoclub.org. ———
“I’M LATE”: This 23.25” x 19.25” acrylic on board titled, “I’m Late” is one of several Alice in Wonderland-themed artworks by local artist Dallas Piotrowski. Her paintings and drawings provided the inspiration for the “Alice Revisited” exhibit, a celebration of Lewis Carroll’s fanciful story, at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie. The exhibit, which includes works by Piotrowski and other artists, will be on display from November 14 through January 9, with a reception from 7-9 p.m. on its opening day. (Photo courtesy of www.jerseyarts.com}
Lecture on Amalfi Gardens At Dorothea’s House
“A malf i con A more — The Most Beautiful Gardens of the Amalfi Coast” will be the topic of a presentation by aut hor and photographer Robert I. C. Fisher at Dorothea’s House on Sunday, November 1, at 5 p.m. Mr. Fisher w ill offer a visual trip to the “Divinia Costiera,” where legendary gardens now featured in his new book, Gardens of the Amalfi Coast, became favored retreats for, among others, Greta Garbo, Graham Greene, and Rudolf Nureyev. The author’s interest in Italian history and culture began while studying the Renaissance at New York’s Institute of Fine Arts. Escape to the Amalfi Coast w as publ is he d i n 1999. He has since edited travel guides to Rome, Naples, a n d F l o r e n c e ( F o d o r ’s Travel). Dorothea’s House is located at 120 John Street in Princeton. The lecture is free and open to the public. Par ticipants are encouraged to bring refreshments to share at the reception following the program.
“TREASURE OF THE SEA”: This stained glass artwork created by Cheryl Kinter, a registered nurse in the pediatric emergency department of Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) University Hospital Hamilton will be displayed at the Lakefront Gallery’s multimedia exhibition titled, “On Your Own Time.” Part of the exhibit is dedicated to artwork from the staff of RWJ Hospital Hamilton, while the other part focuses on the photography and watercolors from Princeton Photography Club members. The exhibition will run at the Lakefront Gallery in Hamilton from November 14 through January 14.
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CAPTURING THE LEAVES OF AUTUMN: Fifth and sixth graders from the Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart created the leaves pictured above under the direction of their art teacher, Gail Morford. The students’ watercolor monoprint leaf art and vivid leaf ceramics make up an exhibition in the D&R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery. The exhibition will be on display business days through November 24 and is free and open to the public. The Olivia Rainbow Gallery is located at 1 Preservation Place.
Princeton Academy Student Art Celebrates Fall
D &R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery presents an exhibition celebrating the leaves of autumn, created by fifth and sixth grade boys from Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart through November 24. The exhibition is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday at 1 Preservation Place. The exhibition features Pr inceton Academy st u dents’ leaf monoprints and ceramics that capture the beautiful colors of autumn. Guided by art teacher Gail Morford, the boys included
pink in both art forms because of current emphasis on Breast Cancer Awareness. Mordford and her students were inspired by Mary Cassatt’s monoprints. The boys formulated these images by first painting an image, then pressing paper against the wet paint, resulting in a virtual blizzard of leaves. Clay building techniques are also popular, their painted sculptures resulting from leaves found on the Academy’s 50acre Great Road campus. D &R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery is funded by Chris and Leslie Kuenne in memory of their daughter. The next exhibition in her
Gallery will present three generations of Kuenne artists, including Olivia, November 30 through January 15. For more information about the D&R Greenway visit: www.drgreenway.org or call (609) 924-4646.
Area Exhibits Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery, Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, has works by James Balog and Susan Hoenig in “Vanishing Landscapes” through November 13. www.pds.org.
Art Times Two, the gallery at Princeton Brain and Spine, 731 Alexander Road, has works by Hetty Baiz, Beatrice Bork, Heather Kern, Nancy Kern, Shirley Kern, Pamela Kogen, and Susan MacQueen as part of “Animal Nature” through March. (609) 203-4622. Arts Council of Princet o n , 102 W i t h e r s p o o n Street, has “The Making of An American Script” by Faraz Khan on view through October 31. www.artscouncil ofprinceton.org. Artworks, Everett Alley ( Stockton Street ), Trenton, has “Art of Darkness” through October 31. www. artworkstrenton.com. The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, has “A Palette of Pixels: The Evolving Art of Video Games” until December 13. www.tcnj. edu/artgallery. D & R Greenway Land Tr u s t , Joh ns on E du c a tion Center, 1 Preservation Place, has the Princeton Photography Club’s exhibit “Nature Soothes, Nature Restores, Nature Heals” through November 6. Also on view is “Imaginary Landscapes” by Lucy McVicker. www.drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has Early American Typewriters on display through November 8 and “John A. Roebling’s Sons Company” is on view through December 6. (609) 989-3632. Erdman Ar t G aller y, Princeton Theological Seminary, 20 Library Place, has “Birds of Longing: Exile and Memory,” Unweavings by Laurie Wohl, through October 30. (609) 497-7990. Historical Society of Pr inceton, Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street, has “Princeton’s Portrait: Vintage Photographs from the Historical Society of Princeton” Wednesday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m. The show is also on view at the Updike Farm location, 354 Quaker Road, every first Saturday, noon-4 p.m. $4 admission. www.princetonhistory.org. T h e J a n e Vo o r h e e s Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, has “Donkey-donkey, Petunia, and Other Pals: Drawings by Roger Duvoisin” through June 26, 2016. bit.ly/ZAMMatM. Millstone R iver G aller y, Mer wick Care and Rehabilitation Center, 100 Plainsboro Road, has “Color and Light,” watercolors and pastels by Gail Bracegirdle and NJ DeVico through November 20. Mor ven Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has docent-led tours of the historic house and its gardens, furnishings, and artifacts. www.morven.org. T h e P r i n c e to n U n i versity Art Museum has “Cezanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection” through January 3. “Sacred Caves of the Silk Road : Ways of Know ing and Re-Creating Dunhuang” is exhibited through January 10.“Princeton’s Great
“RIGHT ARM BOWL”: To celebrate the installation of a new sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard at the entrance to the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment on the Princeton University (PU) campus, the PU Art Museum has organized a collection of nine works by the artist. The works of other artists who share von Rydingsvard’s concerns surrounding sources, modes, and relevance of cultural production rounds out the collection. The exhibition titled, “Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations” is on display now until February 7 at the PU Art Museum. Pictured above is one of the sculptures on display by von Rydingsvard. This stunning sculpture titled, “Right Arm Bowl” is one of four total sections made out of cedar by the artist. On November 19 at 5:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall, von Rydingsvard and metal artist Richard Webber will discuss her new sculpture with James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher, and David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, director. A reception in the museum will follow. (Photo Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Lelong, New York) Persion Book of K ings” is on view through January 24. “(Any) Body Oddly Propped” by Doug and Mike Starn is on the lawn. (609) 258-3788.
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he Princeton University Orchestra launched its 2015-16 season this past weekend with both old and new, challenging this year’s roster of musicians to draw on their highest level of playing. Conductor Michael Pratt paired the newest in performance imagination with a masterwork rooted in orchestral tradition, at the same time showing off one of the orchestra’s more talented members. This year the University Department of Music has established a collaboration with the innovative So– Percussion group as Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence. In its residency, S o– Percussion has been deeply entrenched in bringing their unique approach to the percussion around us to the students at the University, and Friday night’s concert at Richardson Auditorium was one more example of this creative and inventive combination of ensembles. Composer David Lang’s concerto man made, for percussion quartet and orchestra, made full use of the unique performance techniques and instruments of the S o– ensemble, complemented by the backdrop of a full orchestra. Lang’s man made began with the members of S o– Percussion supplying a rhythmic base with twigs snapped in various timings. No part of the twig was wasted — even dropping the pieces on the floor became part of the rhythmic pattern. The four percussionists were gradually joined by the orchestra in varying degrees of instrumentation. As So– Percussion moved to play four sets of wine bottles, perfectly tuned to one another, the sound built in drama. By the time the solo percussionists had moved to marimbas, steel drums, and four garbage cans, the overall sound had developed a sense of cacophony, but in a busy city street kind of way. So– Percussionist Josh Quillen in particular showed himself to be a particularly physical player on all instruments, and one certainly could not argue with the precision of the ensemble as a whole. Lang’s work showed jazz influence in allowing the soloists space to seemingly improvise on their own, and throughout the work, conductor Mr. Pratt kept soloists and orchestral ensemble well in line. In Friday night’s performance (the concert was repeated Saturday night) this piece was a study in sound, with exact timing and concentration required from all players. The University Orchestra took a breather
from the intensity of the Lang work with Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, commissioned in 1950 by the great swing artist Benny Goodman. The orchestration for this piece was scaled back considerably to strings, piano, and harp, with the solo clarinet as the only wind color in the orchestral texture. Leaving the clarinet so exposed might create a great deal of pressure on the soloist, but Princeton University senior Paul Chang (a winner of last year’s Orchestra Concerto Competition) was well up to the task. Throughout the two-movement work, Mr. Chang maintained serene composure while maneuvering an intense solo part with numerous large skips in the melodic line. The first movement recalled the spaciousness and gentle pace of other Copland works, and Mr. Chang consistently took a sensitive approach to the music. Most impressive were the numerous delicate conversations between solo clarinet and strings, and clarinet and harp. Mr. Chang played the cadenza which linked the two movements with a very open feeling, leading to a virtuosic bridge to a movement marked by crisp rhythms and an appropriate amount of sauciness from the soloist. Use of piano gave the work a sense of Americana, and Mr. Pratt led the orchestra through the work’s subtle jazz atmosphere. he University Orchestra closed the evening with Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C Major, which was everything a mid-19th century symphonic work should be. Beginning with subtle strings against crisp trumpets, the University Orchestra played the first movement reverently, transitioning into the “Allegro” well. Mr. Pratt kept the orchestral color chipper, with a majestic feel, bringing out well the sforzandi and joyful nature. The opening movement was a wild ride in terms of orchestral lushness and orchestral drive, all well handled by the players. As with many 19th-century works, wind and brass solos abounded, including well played passages from oboist Tiffany Huang, flutists Alexia Kim and Nicole Odzowski, and horn players Nivanthi Karunaratne and Allison Halter. Especially in the third movement, the same poignant melodic fragment was passed among instruments, setting up a joyful fourth movement to close the evening. —Nancy Plum
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HUN SCHOOL STUDENT FILMMAKER SHOWN AT PRESTIGIOUS FILM FESTIVAL: Hun School senior Lauryn Henry ’16 was one of 500 student filmmakers whose original work was premiered at the 2015 All American High School Film Festival. Lauryn screened her film “Sophia” on Saturday, October 10 at the AMC Empire 25 Theatres, Time Square, New York. The film was one of 25 finalists in the Best of Fest category. The All American Film Festival received over 1,400 student submissions from 48 states and 31 countries, making it the largest high school film festival in the United States.
Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” At Richardson Auditorium
P r i nce ton P ro Mu s ic a ( PPM ) will open its 37th season of choral masterworks on November 1 at Richardson Auditorium with the intensely dramatic Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn. Bass-baritone Dashon Burton will perform the role of Elijah in his third appearance with PPM. Appearing alongside Burton will be Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Sarah Nelson Craft, mezzosoprano; and Rexford Tester, tenor. Preceding the concert, Dr. Wendy Heller, professor of music at Princeton University, will give a talk about Elijah. The pre-curtain talk begins at 3 p.m. Of the concert, Artistic Director Ryan Brandau says, “I’m thrilled that Princeton Pro Musica w ill present Elijah, one of the towering monuments of the repertoire. Its music, by turns, is intensely dramatic and beautiful; it draws out the highest levels of power and artistry from the singers and orchestra of Pro Musica.” Ticket prices range from $25 to $60. To purchase, call the PPM office at (609) 683 -5122 or visit w w w. princetonpromusica.org. ———
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This Week at Richardson Auditorium • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Biss, piano 8 pm, October 30 (pre-concert talk at 7 pm, free for ticket holders) • Princeton Pro Musica: Mendelssohn’s Elijah 4 pm, November 1 (pre-concert talk at 3 pm, free for ticket holders) All events are subject to change. Visit the Richardson Auditorium website for updates.
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Musical Comedy Duo Cat and Vegas at Har Sinai
TCNJ graduates and musical comedy improv team Cat and Vegas will perform at Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation’s Annual Comedy Night Series on Saturday, November 7 at 6:30 p.m. Canadian comic Belynda Cleare will perform as the opening act. Tickets are $40 and admission includes dinner and free parking. Ticket sales are encouraged in advance to account for dinner service. To purchase, call the Har Sinai office at (609) 730-8100. Proceeds will benefit social and educational program offerings at the synagogue. Har Sinai is located at 2421 Pennington Road (Route 31) in Pennington.
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H E A R T F E LT V I R T U O S I T Y Edward T. Cone Concert Sunday November 8 Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University Campus 3pm Pre-Concert Talk / 4pm Concert
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ROSSEN MILANOV, conductor JOYCE YANG, piano SCHUBERT / Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished” CONE / Symphony RACHMANINOFF / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
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NA MI Mercer will host its 14th annual Night Out With NAMI on Sunday, November 8 at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1200 Stuart Road in Princeton. This year’s benefit will feature Dr. Richard Kogan who will perform an evening of music by Tchaikovsky entitled, “Music and Melancholy.” Dr. Kogan, a psychiatrist and concert pianist, is known for his “Music and the Mind” lecture/recital series. “Music and Melancholy” will include musical works by Tchaikovsky in combination with an examination of the influence of Tchaikovsky’s inner turmoil on his creative output. Additionally, this year’s Night Out With NAMI will honor Carol A. Kivler as the 2015 Pillar Award recipient. The Pillar Award recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary, long-term contribution to the mission of NAMI Mercer and the people it serves. Guests are invited to arrive at 2 p.m. for the silent auction. The benefit concert will begin at 3 p.m., followed by a cocktail reception, formal dinner, and live auction. Tickets for the concert are $50; tickets for the concert, cocktails, and dinner are $150 per person.
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Music and Conversation At Jewish Film Festival
The New Jersey premiere of the Israeli film East Jerusalem West Jerusalem opens the 16th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival on October 28 at the Nicholas Music Center at Rutgers. The film screening will be followed by a discussion session and live music by Israeli musician David Broza. The film documents Broza, who, in 2013, brought together a group of Israeli, Palestinian, and American musicians to record music under the direction of G ra m my Award - w i n n i ng performer Steve Earle. For eight days and nights, the musicians — including Issa Freij, Mira Awad, and the rap duo GTown — participated in a marathon recording session held in East Jerusalem. Pausing only to indulge in each other’s local cuisines, the group discovered the universal power of music, even within a longtime war zone, and Broza realized a dream of Palestinians and Israelis creating a dialogue through music.
Opening night festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers’ Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street, New Brunswick on October 28. Tickets for opening night range from $6 — $20. Free parking is available. A matinee screening of the film is scheduled for November 1 at the Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick. For information, or to purchase tickets online, visit the website BildnerCenter. rutgers.edu. ———
Princeton Harp Festival Concert Series
The Princeton Harp Festival will showcase three innovative harpists in a series of concerts on November 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. at the Princeton Crowne Plaza Conference Center in Plainsboro and November 8 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Princeton. Tickets for all concerts are $20 ($10 for students) and can be purchased at the door. The November 6 concert will features Francois Pernel, an innovative harpist known for his improvisation style in classical, swing, and jazz music. Vocalist Addi McDaniel and harpist Jacqueline Kerrod will highlight the concert on November 7. Harpist, conductor, and composer Sylvain Blassel will perform on November 8. For more information, visit www.theharpfestival.com.
Celebrating Excellence In Education Wellness, Balance and the Importance of Recovery in the Lives of Our Students, Reflections from Superintendent of Schools Stephen Cochrane: Wellness and Balance was the first of the five goals identified last spring by our Strategic Planning Steering Committee. At a time when there is national concern about historically high levels of stress and competition among high school students, Wellness and Balance is about redefining success and reigniting the joy of learning. It is a goal about reducing anxiety and, at the same time, increasing achievement. It is a goal about slowing our students down so they can actually learn better, play better, and feel better. Recently, the Wellness section of the New York Times carried an interview with Dawn Scott, the fitness coach for the US Women’s National Soccer Team. The women’s team not only won the World Cup in July but went on to dominate a host of other international competitions throughout the summer. Their ascendance on the world stage begged the question: How did they get so fit? I was struck by the answer Ms. Scott gave when asked to name the single greatest change she brought to the fitness of the team: “Recovery,” she said. She then went on to explain: “The American team was already famous for its conditioning. The women had always done a lot of running. But when I came in, they weren’t devoting the same resources to recovery, which I thought was a problem. To me, recovery is such a massive aspect of overall fitness. It’s what prepares you for the next session or game. If you don’t recover, you start the next session tired and that sets you up for poor performance or injury.” When I read that quote, I thought of our kids. They are amazing students often functioning at a very high level, but they describe themselves as always running. Class to class, activity to activity, event to event, assignment to assignment. How much better might they perform if we built in time for recovery? To be sure, the culture of running is in the ethos here. It comes from our community, from the colleges, from the kids themselves. But what can we do as a school system to change the culture? What can we do to inspire our kids to want to run incredibly hard, but also to recognize the need to recover? What can we do to help them slow down enough to prevent injury and, at the same time, optimize their performance physically, artistically, and intellectually?
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Our district’s focus this year on Wellness is designed to do just that. We have already implemented “Homework Free” periods in our calendar with the intent of providing our students with time throughout the year when they can mentally step away from focusing on homework, projects, and studying for tests. Our hope is that during these “recovery” times students will focus instead on reading for pleasure, spending time with family and friends, enjoying activities outside, and attending concerts, plays and athletic events.
CHANTICLEER AT MCCARTER THEATRE: With its seamless blend of 12 a cappella male voices, Chanticleer’s repertoire covers all vocal literature bases, from Gregorian chant to Renaissance polyphony and Romantic art song. The group will perform at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre on Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30 p.m. To purchase tickets, call (609) 258-2787 or visit www. mccarter.org.
Just as periods of physical recovery allow hard working athletes to bring their performance to a higher level, mental recovery allows our students to process what they have learned, recharge their creative batteries and raise the level of their academic performance. The simple truth is that our students learn more, work harder and perform better when they are relaxed, well-rested and personally engaged in their academic experience. Our goal in the Princeton Public Schools is to do all we can to promote those conditions.
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Over the course of the next few months, our Action Team on Wellness and Balance will be working to design a blueprint of long-range measures that will build into our culture the recovery, the resiliency, and the relationships that will prepare them to fulfill our mission and truly lead lives of joy and purpose. For more information about our Strategic Plan and our work with wellness, visit us at www.princetonk12.org.
This film captures all the excitement behind the scenes and on stage at the prestigious van Cliburn international Piano Competition. Free and open to the public; popcorn provided.
Schedule of Events: October 28th
2005 Cliburn silver Medalist Joyce Yang Performs Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
k to School Night, Community Park Elementary, 7:00pm h eElementary, a R T F e l7:00pm T v i R T u o s i T Y edward T. Cone Concert k to School Night, Johnson Park k to School Night, Littlebrook Elementary, 6:30pm 4pm sunday november 8 Richardson auditorium, Princeton university Campus k to School Night, Riverside Elementary, 7:00pm Dates, times, programs, and artists subject to change rd of Education Meeting, Valley Road, 8:00pm princetonsymphony.org 609 497-0020 k to School Night, Princeton High School, 7:00pm This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a PartnerClosed Agency of the Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. f Development Day, Schools forNational Students
Board of Education Candidates Night, John Witherspoon Middle School, 7:30pm November 5th Schools Closed; NJEA Teacher Convention November 6th Schools & Offices Closed; NJEA Teacher Convention November 13th & 14th John Witherspoon Middle School Fall Drama, 7:30pm, PHS Auditorium November 20th & 21st Princeton High School Fall Drama, 7:30pm, PHS Auditorium November 26th & 27th Thanksgiving, Schools & Offices Closed December 22nd Princeton High School Choir & Orchestra Concert, 8:00pm, Princeton University Chapel December 24th - January 3rd Winter Recess, Schools & Offices Closed
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aunched by Robert Lawrence Stine in 1992, Goosebumps is a popular series of spooky stories that are carefully crafted to scare 7- to 12-year-olds. The so-called Stephen King of kiddie literature has published hundreds of titles over the years and has sold about a halfbillion books worldwide. Directed by Rob Letterman, the film stars Jack Black as R. L. Stine, (the author he’s portraying makes a cameo appearance during a mob scene). Letterman and Black also collaborated in 2010 on a poorly received remake of Gulliver’s Travels. At the point of departure, we find teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) and his recently widowed mother (Amy Ryan) grieving their loss and in need of a change of scenery, so they move to Madison, Delaware. Their next-door neighbor, Mr. Stine (Black), is a reclusive grouch who warns the boy to keep off his property and stay away from his home-schooled daughter Hannah (Odeya Rush). However, it’s love at first sight for Zach, who is instantly attracted to her. On his first day of classes at Madison High, Zach becomes friends with a loner named Champ (Ryan Lee). After
school, the pair’s curiosity gets the better of them, and they decide to see what’s happening at the Stine’s house. After entering the house, they rummage through the author’s mysterious manuscripts that are hidden in the basement, but they don’t realize that they have just unleashed an army of monsters. They’re all characters from Mr. Stine’s fertile imagination: a giant praying mantis, the abominable snowman, the werewolf, lawn gnomes, zombies, venus fly traps, the invisible boy, and so on. What’s more, the zombies are controlled by a diabolical dummy who wants to wreak mayhem in Madison, and possibly go on to rule the world. Can the creatures be corralled and safely redeposited between the covers of the author’s journal? Can Zach win the heart of Hannah in spite of the objections of her overprotective father? The movie is a family-friendly adventure that provides a perfect blend of light hearted humor and spine tingling fright that will scare and delight children of all ages. Excellent (HHHH). Rated PG for scary images, intense action, and rude humor. Running time: 103 minutes. Distributor: Sony Pictures. —Kam Williams
Energetic conductor König is known for his “huge musicality,” and Biss, whom The Guardian calls “a truly world-class pianist,” specializes in Beethoven. Their collaboration on Beethoven’s playful Second Piano Concerto is sure to enchant. + Classical Conversation begins one hour before the performance.
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I HOPE WE’LL BE HAPPY HERE IN MADISON, DELAWARE: Zach (Dylan Minnette, left) and his mother Gale (Amy Ryan) moved to Delaware to help them recover from the death of her husband. Their new home is next door to the author R.L. Stine’s house, who immediately informs him that his house is off limits for them. Nonetheless, Zach and his new friend Champ, go into Stine’s house after school one day and while looking through Stine’s manuscripts, unwittingly release a collection of zombie monsters, who proceed to terrorize the town. (Photo by Hopper Stone, SMPSP-© 2015 CTMG. All Rights Reserved)
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The College of New Jersey Art Gallery is pleased to present A Palette of Pixels: The Evolving Art of Video Games, an exhibition exploring video games as a medium of artistic expression and communication over more than three decades. October 21–December 13, 2015 • Tues, Wed, Thur 12-7 pm; Sunday 1-3 pm
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Friday, October 30, 8 pm Kendall Main Stage Theater Pixel Music: Video Game Soundtracks in Concert, a concert of video game music featuring guest conductor Gerard K. Marino For tickets: www.tcnj.edu/boxoffice
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wo days before Super Storm Sandy in October of 2012, The Farmhouse Store opened its doors on Hulfish Street. The onslaught of that ferocious hurricane might have daunted many owners of a newly opened store, but Ron and Kristin Menapace took it in stride. In fact, it could have been considered a good sign.
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“It’s like rain on the wedding day. It can bring good luck,” says Mr. Menapace, with a smile. Sandy notwithstanding, The Farmhouse Store has been a big success, and has been recognized in New Jersey Monthly’s “Best in New Jersey” for home furnishings in 2011, 2012, and 2014. Owners Ron and Kristin Menapace could not be happier. “The Farmhouse Store is proud to have had more than 17,000 customers developed in the last three years since our opening. We knew when we started that we were bringing special products to the marketplace. We appreciate our customers’ loyalty and the friendships we have cultivated in the community.” Unique Selection The Farmhouse Store now located at 34 Hulfish Street, is noted for its unique selection of handcrafted artisan gifts, pottery, glass, wood, textiles, metal, paper, home decor, and jewelry. It has a special focus on barnwood furniture, manufactured by their own company.
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“Our barnwood collection furniture includes some of our best selling items,” says Mr. Menapace. “They are significantly less expensive than what you could find at a big-box retailer, and are handcrafted, using antique barn boards reclaimed from 100 to 200 year-old barns and mills.” “I started making furniture just out of college,” he adds, but eventually he found his way into a successful career in the corporate world. He was intr ig ued, however, when his brother opened a Farmhouse Store in Westfield. Impressed by its success, he decided to embark on a new adventure, and he opened a similar store in Princeton. Originally from Hillsborough, Mr. Menapace felt Princeton would be a good match for his establishment. “Our store is a great fit for Princeton. I can’t think of a better location for us. We really thought we could fill a niche for reasonably-priced unique furniture. Princeton is diverse. Customers are looking for something different and unusual. They don’t just want things that are mass produced. Nothing here is mass produced. We work with artisans from all over the world. Number One Seller “We also design and make our own barnwood furniture, and it is our number one seller. We have a catalog of standard items, but we can customize to fit the customer’s needs. And our prices are reasonable. For example, we offer a large very handsome farm table for $1200, which is a great price. We have sold a lot of coffee tables and benches, too.” Adds Ms. Menapace: “Our customers have really welcomed our barnwood furniture, and they can enjoy customizing it. With our dining tables, for instance, customers can select dimensions, a
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thin or thick top, turned or tapered leg and many finish options (wax, different colors of polyurethane, paint or a combination of these for the same price).” Architectural salvage is another category that has resonated with customers, reports Mr. Menapace. “We use a lot of this. For example, we have a column from the 1700s, the Revolutionary War period. This is a piece of history. “We re-imagine pieces that might otherwise have been discarded. Recycle, re-use, re-craft, repurpose! We have made a great coffee table that came from a piece from the railroad. It has attached metal hardwood, and is at least 100 years old. There is also a 100 year-old flat oak file that may have been used for architectural blueprints. It has very narrow drawers, and I think it will make a great table. “We made another interesting architectural salvage piece into a wine table. We have salvaged doors from Egypt, and amazing large wooden carvings of a fish from Indonesia, as well as beautiful onyx platters from Indonesia. “In addition, we have large decorative stars made out of tin from barn roofs. These are so authentic, and some have nail holes, even bullet holes. They are extraordinarily popular, and make great wall hangings.” Brass Artillery Shells This sense of imagination and creativity is evident throughout the store. One of the counters is from a Salem County general store of the 1850s; a 1930s vintage washing machine is used as a store display, and another intriguing item is a European vintage porcelain baby’s bathtub, complete with a cork stopper for the drain. Movie buffs will find the 1930-40s authentic Hollywood studio light irresist-
ible. Once used on movie sets, it is mounted on a tripod, and is a one-of-a-kind item. A vintage teak wood jewelry box will be fine for a guy’s cufflinks or pocket change, and the same fellow may be captivated by brass artillery shells from World War I found in France, with intricate designs carved by American soldiers. The selection is really amazing, and customers love to browse among the many and varied items, all especially chosen by the Menapaces. From jewelry to Woodstock wind chimes to draperies and handsome upholstered sofas and chairs, the possibilities are endless. Glassware, tea towels, candles and clocks, pillows (some with U.S. state and international city motif), unusual “Gurgle Pots” — fishshaped pitchers in all colors that actually “gurgle” when filled with water — the list goes on. Baby gifts, pet-related gifts and accessories, mugs, butter dishes, picture frames, books, carved wood ducks, and the extremely popular Fraser fir candles, with an especially fragrant holiday scent, are all on display. Artwork, including items from local artists is also available, and Mr. Menapace points out that the artists and artisans are from all over the world. Great Team “We have a very eclectic group of artists — from pottery to jewelry to furniture. We know the artist, and we know their kids. Customers like the story behind the items. I especially enjoy being the bridge between the artist and the local community. I love giving the artists the platform for their work.” The Menapaces are also very proud of The Farmhouse Store’s staff. “I feel fortunate we work with such a great team of associates,” says Ms. Menapace. “They enjoy working together to help our customers find the perfect hostess or housewarming gift or birthday
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SUCCESS STORY: “We are excited about our expansion. We have nearly doubled our size, and have added furniture from Rowe Fine Furniture in Virginia, including upholstery, and we have also expanded our line of hardwood barn furniture.” Kristin and Ron Menapace, owners of The Farmhouse Store, look forward to sharing their unique and eclectic range of one-ofa-kind artisan gifts and home decor items with customers. present. And our designers love creating comfortable and functional spaces that you want to come home to. “Ron and I really enjoy the creative aspect — finding unique and different products, meeting the artists, and working with our customers. We love learning about our artists and sharing that information with the customers.” Complimentary interior design service is offered, and the two ASID designers will help the customer create a special place, add the owners. This very appealing store, with something for every room in the house, and with its wide price range, continues to attract customers of all ages from Princeton and beyond.
Mr. Menapace has found his change from the corporate world to be an on-going success. “I always wanted to have my own business, and I love it that I can be home with my kids at night. The expansion has been great. We knew we’d get bigger from day one, and we really emphasize a sense of community. I love the people we get to meet, from the quirky artists to the people in the Princeton community. We really feel The Farmhouse is like no other store in Princeton.” Hours are Monday through Wednesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday and Friday 10 to 8:30, Saturday 10 to 7:30, and Sunday noon to 5. (609) 688-0777. Website: www.the farmhousestore. com. —Jean Stratton
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on Fogarty is hoping that familiarity will breed success as he begins his second year at the helm of the Princeton University men’s hockey program. “Everyone is on the same page right away this year,” said Fogarty, who guided Princeton to a 4-23-3 overall record last year in his debut campaign. “Whereas last season, you had to stop practices to make sure guys were in the right spot and explain to them a lot of things over again. Now it is second nature where they can just go and play the game. They came back in great shape. They understand the systems and structure that we are going after. Now we are just continuing to work on skill development.” Over the weekend Fogarty saw development as the Tigers faced Yale and Brown in preseason scrimmages in Providence, R.I. “The hope leading into the preseason is to have the Dartmouth playoff series last year as a building block, not as an end and then try to start over again,” said Fogarty, whose team starts its 2015-16 campaign this weekend when it competes in the Capital City Classic at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton. Princeton is slated to play Yale on October 30 and either Maine or Massachusetts on October 31. “The pace of play is similar to what we ended with; it hasn’t taken a dip. Usually it does at the end of the season when we start the fall. The continuum of knowledge and execution has been great here the first part of the season.” Princeton is looking to execute better offensively, coming off a season when it averaged just 1.3 goals a game. Fogarty will be depending on leading returning scorers, senior Jonathan Liau (4 goals and 10 assists in 2014-15), junior Ben Foster (4 goals, 6 assists), and senior Kyle Rankin (3 goals, 7 assists) to pick up their production. “They are looking good; we are asking for the same plus more from them,” said Fogarty of the trio of Liau, Foster, and Rankin. “Your leading goal scorer had four goals, you need that output increased exponentially. They are going to be given opportunities on special teams to up that total from last year. They will be better placed
because they understand the system, not just them, but the whole team.” A quartet of freshman forwards, Alex Riche, Spencer Kryczka, Max Veronneau, and Ryan Kuffner, will be getting opportunities right away. “We need the freshmen to step in immediately and to contribute,” added Fogarty. “All of them played this past weekend. They are going to get their fair share this weekend against Yale on Friday night. We look for them to come in and not play like freshmen. There will be a lot of impact minutes for them, they should contribute right away.” Fogarty is expecting a bigger contribution from sophomore forward Eric Robinson (2 goals, 2 assists) at the offensive end. “Eric Robinson is playing very well; he took time last year to play well without the puck and get to areas to support those teammates,” said Fogarty, whose other returning forwards include senior Mike Ambrosia (2 goals, 5 assists), junior Ryan Siiro (1 goal, 4 assists), junior Garrett Skrbich (2 goals, 2 assists), sophomore Ryan Berlin (2 goals), sophomore David Hallisey (2 goals) and senior Michael Zajac (1 goal, 1 assist). “He had a great weekend during our scrimmages at Yale and Brown. We are looking for him to continue his strong play here.” Princeton boasts strong foundation in his corps of veteran defensemen, which includes junior Tommy Davis (2 goals, 3 assists), sophomore Joe Grabowski (1 goal, 3 assists), junior Marlon Sabo, senior Kevin Liss (1 goal, 2 assists), sophomore Matt Nelson (1 goal, 1 assist) junior Quin Pompi (2 assists), and junior Hayden Anderson. “That is where we have a lot of experience and games played last year,” said Fogarty. “We return a lot of guys, we just lost Aaron Ave and Tom Kroshus to graduation so we have a pretty good core coming back. We are looking to keep the goals against down this year. They have all stepped up their game, they are moving the puck quicker and moving into space for the breakouts.” Promising freshman Josh Teves should
also help along the blue line. “Josh will play right away; he is a defenseman that has a great hockey IQ,” asserted Fogarty. “He knows when to jump up and can distribute it really well.” Junior workhorse goalie Colton Phinney made a jump last winter when he posted a 3.08 goals against average and a save percentage of .910 in 29 appearances. “Colton is looking good, he just has to take the next step now,” said Fogarty, noting that sophomore Ben Halford (3.84 goals against and .889 save percentage in three appearances) and freshman Austin Shaw are pushing Phinney for playing time. “Instead of making one or two saves, he has to make three or four and be consistent on the first shot. If he can control the first one and let the defenseman worry about the rebounds, he can have a great season.” Looking ahead to the sea- IN SYNCH: Princeton University men’s hockey player Kyle son opener against Yale, Rankin sends the puck up the ice in a game last winter. Fogarty believes that match- The Tigers will be looking to senior Rankin to provide proup provides an early litmus duction and leadership this year in their second season under head coach Ron Fogarty. Princeton starts its 2015test. “It is a great barometer to 16 campaign this weekend when it competes in the Capital see where we are at, it should City Classic at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton. be closer than last year, I Princeton is slated to play Yale on October 30 and either Maine or Massachusetts on October 31. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) know that,” said Fogarty. “In the games last year, they were out- get the second and third so if we can get a skating us and outcompeting us. We are handful of wins, that will be important.” looking to close that gap. Any time you Scoring early and often is the formula play your first game, there is going to be a to get the Tigers on the winning track, aclot of running around with a lot of energy. cording to Fogarty. We just have to make smart plays against “It is also just scoring quicker in the Yale and quickly recover if any mistakes games, getting one in the first period, occur.” which was something that was difficult for In Fogarty’s view, producing a quick start us to do last year,” said Fogarty. would help jumpstart the rebuilding pro“Hopefully you take the step. The syscess. tems and structure are second nature so “I think they need a couple of wins ear- that is going to free up the players to just ly,” said Fogarty. “In the course of the se- play the game. Now they will know where nior class all the way down, there hasn’t players are in place to help them if they been many wins. You want to see the hard are in trouble with the puck and the atwork and the changing of the system pay tack mode will be more in full force with off quicker than last year. We got the first us this year.” win against Cornell but it took a while to —Bill Alden
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Opening its season at Mercyhurst last Friday, the Princeton University women’s hockey didn’t waste any time getting in the swing of things, taking a 1-0 lead in the first period on a goal by Morgan Sly. “The kids have been preparing hard for three weeks and they were ready to play so they came out strong,” said Princeton head coach Jeff Kampersal. “Mercyhurst is a really good team, they are really well coached. I think it was their fifth game and it was our first game so us competing in the first period was what I was most worried about. They showed up and answered the call for sure.” The Tigers built on that tally by junior forward Sly a s j u n i or A u d r e y Pot t s scored in the second period and senior Cristin Shanahan notched a third period goal that turned out to be the game winner in a 3-2 triumph. A day later, freshman Karlie Lund scored the first goal of her career and Sly added another tally as the Tigers held on for a 2-1 win over the Lakers. Kampersal liked the way his players competed all weekend. “One of the
things we are focused on is mental toughness so to not be satisfied with driving all that way out and getting a win but getting two wins that was huge for our kids,” said Kampersal. “They were consistent with their effort.” Sly’s consistent play all over the ice was a big plus for the Tigers. “She did a really good job, I think she and Karlie were the point leaders in both games,” said Kampersal. “But I think more so than her scoring, her physical play was key. She had some good plays along the wall as a breakout wing. She had some good forechecking. That stands out more than her goals but she is a very skilled kid and we definitely needed those because they were both one-goal games. She played solid all the way around.” Senior Shanahan continued to show her knack from coming through in close games. “The kid is amazing, she was probably our first or second best for ward all weekend,” said Kampersal of Shanahan. “She scores game-winning goals. Last year she had four game-winners and she has
OPENING STATEMENT: Princeton University women’s hockey player Cristin Shanahan, right, battles for the puck in a game last season. Last Friday, senior forward Shanahan scored the winning goal in the third period as Princeton edged Mercyhurst 3-2 in its season opener. A day later, she chipped in an assist as the Tigers completed a sweep of the two-game set with a 2-1 victory. Princeton starts ECAC Hockey action this weekend when it plays at Yale on October 30 and at Brown on October 31. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
already started out this year with one. She is a clutch player. She played clutch in the second period of the second game. We took five penalties in a row and we were essentially killing the whole period. Shanny and the other penalty killers did a great job.” Based on last weekend, it looks like freshman Lund is going to be a great addition for the Tigers. “Karlie is a really skilled player; she can slow a game down with her smarts and her skill,” said Kampersal. “She is also a good faceoff person. She is a freshman who has stepped in right away and she is going to play a big role for us. So if she can continue to do what she did this weekend, ever y weekend, that will help tremendously. It balances out our third line.” As usual, senior goalie Kimberly Newell came up big for Princeton, making 28 saves in the opener and recording 27 in the second game. “I think she is one of the best goalies in the country, if not the best,” said Kampersal. “When she is focused in, she is tough to beat. She played really well in game one and we decided to go back with her for game two. They didn’t call very many penalties in game one but I thought it would change in game two and they definitely made more calls. The goalie has to be the best penalty killer and in that second period, we were under the gun the whole time and she played great.” Kampersal is looking for his players to continue to show focus as Princeton starts ECAC Hockey action this weekend when it plays at Yale on October 30 and at Brown on October 31. “We have to try to get as much rest as we can and then get through midterms this week,” said Kampersal. “Yale knocked us out of an Ivy championship last year on the very last day so we should have decent motivation going into that game. It is not that we want to play angry but it is an Ivy contest and we want to make sure that we are ready to go. I think we will be. Brown had a new staff so I am not necessarily sure what to expect from them but we have to go there and play hard as well.” —Bill Alden
Princeton Football Squanders 1st Half Opportunities, Falters Down the Stretch in 42-7 Defeat to Harvard With three minutes left in the first half at Harvard last Saturday, Bob Surace liked his team’s chances as it battled the undefeated Crimson team. The Tigers were locked in a 7-7 tie with Harvard and could well have been in the lead, having gotten the ball inside the Crimson 30 twice in the first quarter without scoring. “I felt so good after those first 27 and a half minutes,” said Princeton head coach Surace. “We weren’t executing on offense as well as we could. I thought we are not going to drop the ball, we are going to finish the blocks better. We have these guys right where we want them.” Surace was further heartened a moment later when the Tigers forced a fumble at the Harvard 15-yard line. But the Crimson recovered it and proceeded to march 85 yards and score on a five-yard pass from Scott Hosch to Ben Braunecker to take a 14-7 lead at halftime. “ We k nocke d t he ba ll loose on the 15 with two guys there but they recovered it,” lamented Surace as he reflected on the pivotal sequence. “I don’t know if the tide turned but it was an important play. We were under three minutes at that point and if we fall on that ball, the way our kicker kicks, there is a likelihood we go into halftime with at least a 10-7 lead. Instead, the
score is 14-7 them. They made some really nice plays to get that score.” In the second half, Harvard made one nice play after another as it rolled to a 42-7 win over the Tigers. Surace acknowledged that the game got away from the Tigers after halftime. “My biggest fear going into the game was a swarm of points they could get,” said Surace, whose team dropped to 4-2 overall and 1-2 Ivy League with the defeat while 15th-ranked Harvard improved to 6-0 overall and 3-0 Ivy as it posted its 20th straight victory. “It went from 7-7 with the ball on the ground to 14-7 them. Then it was three and out, we blow a coverage and it is 21-7. Then it is three and out, we punt, they return it for a long gain with the ball inside the 30. They score again and it is 28-7.” T he Tigers were wor n down by Har vard as the Crimson piled up 647 yards of total offense and made 28 first downs compared to the 293 yards and 13 first downs produced by Princeton. “We were a little shorthanded and we got some injuries early,” said Surace, who got 236 yards passing from starting quarterback Chad Kanoff with versatile backup QB John L ovet t passing for a touchdown and making five catches for 68 yards. “That really constricted some of the things that we wanted to do. We wanted to
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PU Sports Roundup Princeton Men’s Golf Wins Hoya Event
Rallying from a nine-shot deficit on the final day of competition, the Princeton University men’s golf team won the Georgetown Hoya Invitational at The Members Club at Four Streams in Beallsville, Md. Junior star Quinn Prchnal tied with Rhode Island’s Billy Walthouse after 36 holes for first place individually at 2-under after 36 holes in the two-day event, but Walthouse won a playoff 37th hole to claim the title. In the team standings, Princeton posted a score of +24 to edge first-day leader Rhode Island by three strokes. The tournament win is Pr inceton’s third in five events on the fall, marking just the second time in program history that Princeton has won three multi-team tournaments in the same year, joining the 1999-2000 campaign when the Tigers won three spring events. ———
Tiger Men’s Soccer Defeats Harvard
Jeremy Colvin came up big as the Princeton University men’s soccer team defeated Harvard 3-2 last Saturday. Freshman standout Colvin tallied a first half goal and assisted on Thomas Sanner’s game-winner in the second half to help the Tigers improve to 7-4-2 overall and 1-2-1 Ivy League. Princeton hosts Cornell on October 31 and Drexel on November 3. ———
PU Women’s Volleyball Defeats Penn 3-1
Kendall Peterkin starred as the Princeton University women’s volleyball defeated Penn 3-1 last Saturday in Philadelphia. Senior star Peterkin posted 22 kills, 10 digs, and four blocks to help the Ti-
gers prevail 25-21, 22-25, 25-11, 25-14. Princeton, now 9-8 overall and 4-4 Ivy, hosts Dartmouth on October 30 and Harvard on October 31. ———
Princeton Baseball Alums Get General Manager Jobs
While millions of fans been enjoying a thrilling postseason in Major League Baseball, two former Princeton University baseball players have moved up the front office ranks in MLB. In late September, Mike Hazen ’98 was named the senior vice president and general manager of t he Boston Red Sox. Two weeks later, Mike Chernoff ’03 was named the general manager of the Cleveland Indians. Hazen, a two-time firstteam All-Ivy League center fielder, was selected in the 31st round (922nd overall) of the 1998 Major League Baseball draft by the San Diego Padres. With the Red Sox organization for the last decade, Hazen began his stint in Boston as the director of player development in February of 2006. Serving in several areas including player acquisitions, player evaluation, contract negotiations, major league scouting, and pro scouting, Hazen was named the team’s assistant general manager last January. Succeeding Ben Cherington, Hazen is the Red Sox’s 15th general manager since 1933. Prior to his stint in Boston, Hazen spent five years with the Cleveland Indians organization as the assistant director of player development, coordinator of major league advance scouting, and assistant director of pro scouting. A two-year captain for the Tigers and a Massachusetts native, Hazen owns Princeton’s program record for stolen bases (49). Hitting .333 in his four seasons for Prince (159 games played), Hazen amassed 168 hits, 104 runs batted in, 112 runs scored, and 246 total bases. Among the program leaders in doubles (30), triples (8), home
runs (10), and extra base hits (49), Hazen finished his Princeton career with a .487 slugging percentage. A two-time winner of the William J. Clarke Award as an undergraduate, Hazen was presented with the Princeton’s Robert L. Peters, Jr. ’42 Award in 2006. T he William J. Clarke Award is awarded annually to the member of the Princeton varsity baseball team who demonstrates the greatest proficiency in baseball by achieving the highest score in hitting, fielding, and outstanding plays. T he Rober t L . Peters, Jr. ’42 Award is presented annually at the Reunions alumni baseball game to an alumnus who has made significant contributions to the game of baseball following his graduation, or having played baseball at Princeton, has distinguished himself in his chosen field of endeavor. Chernoff, for his part, has been in the Cleveland organization for 12 seasons and was elevated to the role of general manager after serving as new president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti’s assistant GM since October of 2010. An infielder for the Tigers from 2000-03, Chernoff started with the Indians following graduation as an intern in the baseball operations department. During his collegiate career, Chernoff was a part of three league championship teams at Princeton, going to three NCAA Regionals, which included the 2001 regional at South Carolina where the Tigers defeated Citadel. A starter for the Tigers over his last two seasons, he batted .281 and was a senior captain during Princeton’s 2003 Ivy League Championship team that played in the NCAA Regionals at Auburn. In his final season, Chernoff was awarded the Kafer Trophy. Donated by the Class of 1900, the Kafer Trophy is awarded annually to the member of the Princeton
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Princeton Field Hockey Rallies Past Harvard
Maddie Copeland led the way as the 20th-ranked Princeton University field hockey team rallied to defeat Harvard 2-1 last Saturday. Senior Copeland tallied a pair of second half goals to help Princeton overcome a 1-0 halftime deficit and stay in first place in the Ivy League with a 5-0 league mark. A day later, Princeton fell 4-1 to No. 2 Connecticut as Copeland scored the lone goal for the Tigers. Princeton, now 8-6 overall, hosts St. Joseph’s on October 28 and Cornell on October 31. ———
FIRST AND TEN: Princeton University women’s soccer player Tyler Lussi chases after the ball in recent action. Last Saturday, junior star Lussi scored the game-winning goal as Princeton defeated Harvard 2-1 and won its 10th straight game. The victory improved to Tigers to 13-3 overall and 5-0 Ivy League and moved them into sole possession of first place in the league standings. Princeton hosts Cornell on October 31. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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PU Men’s Water Polo Enjoys Big Weekend
Displaying its prowess at both ends of the pool, the 12th-ranked Princeton University men’s water polo team posted a 4-0 weekend, topping Johns Hopkins 15-8 on Friday, beating Gannon 16-10 and Navy 12-8 in action on Saturday, and then topping George Washington 18-9 on Sunday. T he Tigers, now 14 - 4 ove r a l l a n d 6 - 0 C W PA Southern, are next in action when they compete in the CWPA Southern Championships from November 7-8 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. ———
Tiger Alum Young Makes World Series
Former Princeton University baseball star Chris Young ’02 has made it to the World Series as the Kansas City Royals defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 last Friday to win the American League Championship Series in six games. The Royals were slated to host the National League champs, the New York Mets, in Game 1 of the World Series on October 27. T he 6’10 r ight-handed pitcher was named earlier this week to start Game 4 of the Fall Classic, which is scheduled for October 31. Young starred in Game 4 of the ALCS series as he became the first Princeton player to ever start a League Championship Series. Young turned in 4.2 solid innings to help the Kansas City Royals to a 14-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Earlier this postseason, Young helped the Royals to a Game 1 American League Division Series win over the Houston Astros. Taking over for starter Yordano Ventura following a lengthy rain delay, Young tossed 4.0 innings of shutout baseball. Fanning six of the first seven batters he faced, Young set a new Royals postseason record with seven strikeouts by a relief pitcher.
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In 2014, Alex Roth couldn’t run in the Mercer County Cross Country Championships due to injury. Last Friday, Princeton High boys’ junior star Roth was thrilled to toe the starting line at this year’s county meet. “It is a great environment,” said Roth. “It was super cool to run with all of these competitive teams and competitive guys. It was great experience.” Roth proved to be one of the top competitors on the course at Thompson Park in Jamesburg, taking third individually to help PHS finish a strong second, just three points (74-77) behind champion Robbinsville. Coming into the race, Roth was focused on going after WW/P-S senior star Tim Bason, who ended up taking first. “I wasn’t really worrying about time; I was trying to get in the mix to get a top position,” said Roth, who covered the course in 15:59.61. “I basically went out and just tried to hang with Tim Bason and just tried to go with it after that in the second half.” Roth hung with Bason for about half of the race before getting edged by 1.40 for second place by Zach Michon of Robbinsville down the final straightaway. “I thought it was a good race; I felt confident,” said Roth. “The Robbinsville guy got me at the end but I felt like I ran the race I was looking for.” While PHS entered the day looking for the team title, Roth saw the second-place finish as a positive. “We were hoping to come in and win it,” said Roth. “Robbinsville brought their A-game so it doesn’t always work out perfectly. We definitely ran well as a team and we can move forward going into sectionals.” Roth, who also stars for the PHS track team, feels he is moving forward individually. “I have had overall improvement in terms of getting stronger as a runner,” said Roth. “During track, we worked a lot on strengthbased and speed-based stuff. It definitely helped me a lot this year.” PHS head coach Mark Shelley liked the way his team showed overall improvement even as it fell just short of the title. “On the one hand, there is the disappointment, the guys feel it,” said Shelley, noting that his team edged perennial champion WW/P-S by 13 points (77-90) to earn the runner-up spot. “But at the same time when we look at where we were a few years ago or when we look at last year, we were a distant fifth 129 points out, I am real proud of them. We focus on what we call process and to me in the grand scheme of life, this is another step.” Topping WW/P-S a week earlier in CVC competition was a key step for PHS, according to Shelley. “We beat South last week at the divisional meet,” said Shelley. “It was just a huge mental barrier for us and I feel like that gave us a good springboard. We knew it was going to be a very tough race today with three teams.”
Shelley was looking for Roth to show more competitive toughness in the county meet. “Alex has the physical tools, we got to make sure that we add that mental tiger mentality to it,” said Shelley. “We have been focusing on that in workouts. When you don’t feel your best you still have to gut it out and that is what he did today. We were talking to him about being willing to go out with Tim Bason to put distance between himself and other kids who might hang around. We really talked to him about the need to string out the race, not just for him but for his teammates. We didn’t want to get caught in a kicker’s race at the end with this huge pack, and he strung it out.” S ophomore Will Hare showed some major progress in the county race, taking 11th in a time of 16:27.67. “Will is tremendous, he did exactly what he wanted to do,” said Shelley, who also liked what sophomore Alex Ackerman and senior Jeremy Taylor did on Friday as they placed 14th and 20th, respectively. “He is a talkative, fun-loving kid and I think that helps his running. He never gets too worked up. He is calm, he is relaxed. He has taken steps. He was second here in the freshman race last year and really blossomed towards the end of spring track. He ran a lot of miles over the summer. At the beginning of the year, he was our third or fourth runner and now he is
clearly our No. 2. He is just really, really stellar.” The Little Tigers will have to be stellar in order to make it out of the state sectional meet, which is slated for November 7 at Thompson Park. “Our sectional is insane, of the top 20 teams in the state in all classifications, five are in our sectional,” said Shelley. “It is Old Bridge, South Brunswick, Hunterdon Central, South, and us. To me, the biggest negative as a coach, if I knew I could win the sectional, I would probably run it just to qualify because then you can really taper for the state meet and hone in. You can’t do that, we have to be sharp if we want to be in the top five.” Based on the team’s progress over the last few weeks, Shelley expects his runners to be sharp when they return to Thompson Park. “There is a lot more confidence about the sectional, when you beat South twice, that is one big step for our program,” said Shelley. “We know they are good and will still be good next year but it is nice to take that step. We are thinking we have a shot to not just be barely fifth but to be second or third or whatever depending on how everybody else chooses to run it.” Roth, for his part, believes PHS has a shot to do some big things. “I feel like we have some work to do,” said Roth. “If we can pull it together, we can make it out and hopefully make it out of the groups as well.” —Bill Alden
With Sophomore Taylor Assuming Leading Role, PHS Girls’ Cross Country Takes 2nd at County Meet Chloe Taylor came into the Mercer County Cross C ou nt r y Cha mpionsh ips looking to play a supporting role in the pack for the Princeton High girls’ team. B ut w h e n PH S s e n ior star Lou Mialhe started to struggle late in the race at Thompson Park in Jamesburg, sophomore Taylor assumed the frontrunner mantle for the Little Tigers. The willowy Taylor floated past Mialhe and took fifth overall to help PHS take second behind champion WW/P-S. “Lou didn’t do as well as we hoped,” said Taylor, who clocked a time of 19:41.43 over the 5-kilometer course with Mialhe taking seventh in 19:53.12. “I just thought if we are going to win we need to get as far up there in the pack as possible. I think I passed her going down the last hill. I like running the downhills.” Taylor was taken aback by her performance. “I love this course, I am kind of surprised, it is higher up than I expected,” said Taylor. Working through a physical issue and gaining valuable experience last fall in her freshman campaign, Taylor has been on the way up for the Little Tigers this fall. “Last year in cross country season I was anemic so I wasn’t running as well,” said Taylor. “I to ok iron a n d t hat helped. Training with the bet ter girls on the team helped me. Lou has been a great motivation.” PHS head coach Jim Smirk liked the way his girls stuck together to take second, edging third-place finisher Peddie 101-105 for the runner-up spot. “We definitely didn’t have our best day but that being said, you saw us run a little
MAKING STRIDES: Princeton High boys’ cross country runner Alex Roth heads to the finish line last Friday at the Mercer County Cross Country Championships. Junior star Roth took third individually to help PHS finish a strong second, just three points (7477) behind champion Robbinsville. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
bit stronger as a team because of it,” said Smirk. The Little Tigers did get a strong performance from Taylor. “I think we have gotten used to Lou being out front, she didn’t race as well as she had hoped or we had hoped but then you saw Chloe Taylor say alright look if she is not going to have it, it is her responsibility to take on the mantle of being the No. 1 for the day,” said Smirk. “She did a phenomenal job with that. She really handles three big moves early in the first two miles. She survived some big att ack s a n d d e c i d e d n ow cool, I survived them, and let’s go, let’s race. She put herself in a great position today.” Junior Annef leur Har tmanshenn produced a great effort as she took 15th in a time of 20:15.44. “The same can be said of Annefleur, she was our No. 3 today,” said Smirk. “She had been running in the four or five spot all season and she put together a really masterful race. She is a kid who worked her way up through the ranks.” In Smirk’s view, the team’s constant emphasis on working as a unit came in handy for PHS on Friday. “We talk a lot about that, times are measured individually but this is a team sport,” said Smirk.
“Our warmups, our training, they are all geared towards team and all season they are geared towards making our best effort. I think you are seeing a lot of that play out. If we take second in the county on a bad day, that is pretty good.” Smirk is hoping that his team has a better day when it returns to Thompson Park on November 7 to com pete in the state sectional meet. “Going up to Group 4, we are going to have to solve some stuff, there is no question,” said Smirk. “Group 4 is about consistency, maybe we weren’t as consistent as we needed to be today. We’ll have to work on that but I think one thing that has been consistent about us a long time in our program is that we fight and we are tough and we saw that today. A lot of teams when it doesn’t go well, it goes bad.” Taylor, for her part, believes that PHS will benefit in the long run from its experience at the county meet. “We are dealing with injuries and we are trying to get over that,” said Taylor. “ We have t ime b efore sectionals so we will tr y to use this race. Seeing I am up there in the county with some of the girls we are going to be racing again in sectionals gives me confidence.” —Bill Alden
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Beamer’s Heady Play Helping PHS Boys’ Soccer, Little Tigers Bringing Tough Mentality Into States Andrew Beamer was thrust into a critical role for the Princeton High boys’ soccer team as it hosted Princeton Day School last Saturday in the Mercer County Tournament quarterfinals. W hen PHS senior star defensive midfielder Pete Luther was unable to play in the game due to illness, sophomore Beamer took his spot in the lineup. Making the most of his opportunity, Beamer produced some stellar defensive work and headed in a second half goal that proved to be the margin of victory as topseeded PHS edged No. 8 PDS 2-1. Beamer enjoyed the intensity of the rivalry game, which featured some physical, skilled play. “It was a good competition,” said Beamer. “We moved the ball well through the middle and we got it
out to the flanks pretty well and then our crosses were key. It really put us in some good goal scoring opportunities.” Some eight minutes into the second half, Beamer cashed in an opportunity as he headed in a Sam Serxner free kick to give PHS a 2-0 lead. “I waited back post for the ball to come in and then I just jumped and headed it,” said Beamer. Things got a little dicey for the Little Tigers as PDS answered with a David Cedeno goal a minute later. “After they scored, we went to a little more defensive mindset for the last 10 minutes to seal the lead,” s a i d B e a m e r. “ We s t i l l moved it pretty well. We got up some of the time and we had some good crossing opportunities as well.” Moving up to varsity this
HEADY PLAY: Princeton High boys’ soccer player Drew Beamer heads the ball up the field in recent action. Last Saturday, sophomore Beamer scored on a header to provide the margin of victory as top-seeded PHS edged No. 8 Princeton Day School 2-1 in the Mercer County Tournament quarterfinals. PHS fell 2-1 to No. 4 Pennington in the MCT semis last Monday and will start play in the state tournament next week. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
fall has been a good experience for the lanky Beamer. “It has been great, it is teaching me a lot for next year because all of them are going to leave,” said Beamer. “The biggest challenges are moving the ball quicker, my first touch, and finding people quicker through the middle.” PHS head coach Wayne Sutcliffe was thrilled to see Beamer come up big on Saturday. “Pete Luther had to come off so we brought Drew on,” said Sutcliffe. “He has played so many minutes this year so no surprise there. Ironically, in training we are constantly working with him on far posts and sure enough he got one. I am so proud and happy for him to make such a significant contribution to the team. He is very levelheaded; he has so many qualities. He is going to be one of the best we have ever had.” It came as no surprise to Sutcliffe that PDS gave his team a good battle. “It is different from a CVC game obviously; it is a different type of challenge,” said Sutcliffe, whose team took a 1-0 lead on a first-half goal by Alex Ratzan. “Credit to them for finding a way to get a goal.” While PHS didn’t achieve its goal of defending its MCT title as it fell to fourth-seeded Pennington 2-1 in the semifinals last Monday, PHS has the mentality to make a deep run in the state tournament when it starts play in that competition next week. “It is not about the performance, it is about the result,” said Sutcliffe, whose team advanced to the state Group 3 championship game last fall. Beamer, for his part, is confident that the team can produce some more good results over the next few weeks. “We have 14 seniors on this team and they all have leadership qualities, it just helps,” said Beamer. “It is all about finding your rhythm and just keeping with it. We are getting better.” —Bill Alden
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Goalie Eberhart Showing Focus Down the Stretch As PHS Girls’ Soccer Girds for State Tournament Rachel Eberhart sensed that it was going to be a pressure cooker when the Princeton High girls’ soccer team hosted WW/P-N last Wednesday in the first round of the Mercer County Tournament. With the rivals hav ing played to a scoreless draw through two overtimes on October 8 in a regular season meeting, sixth-seeded PHS expected a tough battle from the 11th-seeded Northern Knights. “We remembered the last game, we knew it was going to be a tough one,” said Eberhart. “We knew they were going to put the pressure on us. We had to keep the ball on our feet and play our possession game and not get frantic and let them disrupt it and push us into doing long balls because that is not our game.” In the rematch, the teams were still scoreless nearly 70 minutes into the contest and Eberhart had several big stops. “I would say the game was very even and I definitely had a couple of shots to handle,” said Eberhart. “We had a couple of shots. It was a back and forth game.” The PHS defense helped keep t he game even as it held the fort in front of Eberhart. “They were doing a good job,” said Eberhart of the Little Tiger defensive unit. “North was putting a lot of pressure on us so I think we handled it pretty well. We played safe when we needed to play safe and we built out of the back when we could.” The Little Tigers broke through as senior Hanna Rush banged home a rebound of a shot by Sasha Ryder to make it 1-0 with 11:07 remaining in the second half. “I think personally we are a second half team,” said Eberhart. “We build momentum as we go. The more we play, the more we pick up and the more we get our heads into it.” Eberhart made the lead stand up, earning a shutout as PHS prevailed 1-0. “A lot of it for me is confidence because being a goalkeeper is a huge mind game,” said Eberhart, who had six saves in the win over WW/P-N. “A lot of it is coming off your line and knowing when to be aggressive and when to hold your position. I think I have really come a long way in being able to go out and challenge and come off my line.” PHS head coach Val Rodriguez knew her team faced a challenge in the matchup against WW/P-N. “It seemed like déjà vu from the last game, we played them to double overtime,” said Rodriguez. “They have a good team and they take us off of our game so yes I was getting nervous that we were going to be looking at overtime.”
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Rodriguez wasn’t surprised that Rush came on to get the winning goal. “Hanna is focused; she knows what she is going to do when she gets into the game,” said Rodriguez, who inserted Rush into the contest moments before the decisive tally. “We needed to shoot and Sasha got the shot off. We followed which is what we practice all the time. We were really lacking shots. I think we were dangerous, we created some opportunities and we got center frame and no shot went off.” In Rodriguez’s view, Eberhart has been showing good focus down the stretch of the season. “The last couple of games, Rachel has been really, really good,” said Rodriguez of Eberhart, who had seven saves in a losing cause on Friday as the Little Tigers fell 2-1 to third-seeded Allentown in the MCT quarterfinals. “In the Hightstown game on Monday, she made a great save. Today she had
a couple big saves on free kicks. She is just coming off the line a little bit more than she normally does so she is running right into the postseason mode. She is where she needs to be at the moment. W hile PHS’s MC T r un ended with the tough loss to Allentown, it still can enjoy a big postseason as it starts play in the state tournament next week. “They need to realize that when they play consistently and they play together, they are a good team,” said Rodriguez. “We really could compete but there are games where we don’t play together and don’t play as a unit. I am hoping that senior mindset is going to carry us through. They have got to be hungry. This is it, one and done time.” In Eberhart’s view, the team is hungry to play its best soccer. “I think we are building momentum, I think it is because of our game mentality,” said Eberhart. “We need to just have the composure to keep it on our feet and keep the passing going.” —Bill Alden
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Moses Mahiri was pumped up as the Princeton High football team got ready to play at WW/P-S last Friday evening. “I was hyped before the game,” said PHS sophomore running back Mahiri. “The whole team together was trying to get up our energy because coach (Charlie Gallagher) has always been talking about getting your energy up before the game, dur ing games and af ter games and keep it going.” Mahiri ended up providing plenty of energy at tailback, rushing for 116 yards and a touchdown on three carries as PHS posted a convincing 34-7 win over the Pirates in moving to 3-4 and snapping a two-game losing streak. With PHS clinging to a 7-0 lead midway through the second quarter, Mahiri got things going, taking off on a 44-yard run to the WW/P-S 9-yard line. On the next play, senior star Rory Helstrom bolted nine yards for a touchdown as PHS increased its lead to 14-0. “I was going for it; I made a move on the safety,” recalled Mahiri, whose older brother, senior center Kiki, helped spring him for the big gain. “I cut to the left and I thought I had it but then he got me and that just kind of set me off like I could have had that touchdown.” In the third quarter, Mahiri got that touchdown as he broke loose down the sidelines and sprinted 76 yards for a score as PHS increased its lead to 34-0. “I saw the safety coming down and I didn’t know where to go so I just went right and then I stiff-armed him and my thought was oh crap, that might be a flag but I kept going,” said Mahiri, recalling his scoring jaunt. “Then I saw my two receivers blocking and I thought OK, I will take it outside and I will run as hard as I
can. I will run my heart out. It is going on my highlight reel.” Mahiri will remember his performance on Friday as a major highlight in his career. “I think it is a breakout game for me,” said Mahiri, noting that he had a big run at WW/P-S last year in a JV game. “It felt good.” It felt good for PHS to snap a t wo - game losing streak. “Our mindset was that we have got to get back to .500; we are just working on it slowly,” said Mahiri. “We came together really nicely today, offensively and defensively.” PHS head coach Charlie Gallagher liked the way things came together for Mahiri. “He had two huge runs, 44 and 76 yards, he was pretty juiced,” said Gallagher. “It was good for the line. It is a couple of kick-out blocks, a couple of down blocks, and when that all clicks, you get a big run so we are excited for Moses. I was telling him every time he was about to run the ball, are you ready for this. It was good to see that he has a little bit of wheels so he got down the field nicely.” The other Mahiri, senior Kiki, is making a nice contribution on both sides of the ball for the Little Tigers, playing center on offense and linebacker on defense. “We thought he could fit in at a couple of spots on the offensive line, we have had him at guard and center,” said Gallagher, noting that Kiki is a three-year varsity player for PHS. “We have moved him from the line to linebacker. He moved well as a defensive lineman, so of all our linemen I thought he would be the best fit at linebacker. He has got nice size too. He has done a really good job at linebacker for us so we have been really happy with that.”
Gallagher was happy with his team’s defensive effort against the Pirates as they didn’t give up a touchdown until late in the fourth quarter long after the game was decided. “I don’t think they crossed the 50-yard line until later in the game, maybe they were at our 40 or something like that,” said Gallagher. “We kept them out of the red zone. Defensively, we did a really nice job. We have to keep it up.” As PHS looks to end the regular season on a high note, it will have to keep doing a nice job on both sides of the ball. “We have two really tough games in front of us, even before the consolation game or playoffs,” said Gallagher, whose team hosts Robbinsville on October 31. “Robb i n s v i l l e h a s g ot three wins on the season, they are much better and then you have North. They are dangerous, they have a lot of speed. We have got our work cut out for the next two weeks.” In Gallagher’s view, the win over W W/P-S should give the Little Tigers a lift as they come down the homestretch. “Momentum is huge in football, like any ot her sport,” said Gallagher. “They don’t have to do anything on Saturday and they can come back fresh on Monday, They will be a little rested and winning cures all. We were back and forth with a win and a loss a win and a loss and then had another loss on top of that so I know they weren’t happy. It is good to get back into the winning column.” Mahiri, for his part, feels that PHS has what it takes to keep winning. “We are a strong football program; the coaches work on us nonstop and get us to keep moving and doing what we need to do,” said Mahiri. “I feel like we can get to .500 and even pass that with our remaining games.” —Bill Alden
HOLY MOSES: Princeton High running back Moses Mahiri heads upfield against WW/P-S last Friday. Sophomore Mahiri had a breakout game against the Pirates, rushing for 116 yards and a touchdown on three carries to help PHS to a 34-7 win. The Little Tigers, now 3-4, host Robbinsville on October 31. (Photo by John Dowers)
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Showing Progress in Loss to Allentown in MCT Semis, PHS Field Hockey Primed for Run in State Tournament In an early September clash, the Princeton High field hockey team fell behind Allentown 3-0 at halftime on the way to a 4-1 loss. Things were a lot different when the teams met in the Mercer County Tournament semifinals last Thursday at Mercer County Community College. T h r o u g h 3 0 m i n u te s , fifth-seeded PHS battled top-seeded and undefeated Allentown tooth-and-nail and the teams headed into halftime knotted in a scoreless stalemate. PHS head coach Heather Serverson liked the way her players rose to the occasion in the rematch. “I think we played really well; I think we tightened up the issues we had the first time around when we played them,” said Serverson. “I just told them to keep doing what they were doing and that eventually one of them would go in hopefully.” Unfortunately for the Little Tigers, Allentown found the back of the cage three minutes into the second half. PHS responded by controlling possession for much of the half but couldn’t cash in as it fell by that 1-0 margin. “In games like this it is the little things that make the difference; they found a way to put the ball in and we didn’t,” said Serverson. “It is just unfortunate that we weren’t able to pop one in. I think we could definitely score on this team.”
Sophomore goalie Kate Rogers did some big things in the cage for the Little Tigers, making several point blank stops. “Kate came through for us big time, she had a lot of great saves,” said Serverson. “I am impressed with the composure that she was able to play with.” PHS showed composure all over the field in battling the Redbirds, who went on to defeat Robbinsville 1-0 on Saturday to win the MCT title. “We did well down the middle, from the front to the back,” said Serverson. “Mariana Lopez-Ona had an improved game today. Julia Snyder and Georgia McLean played well. Jamaica Ponder made some good plays. It was a team effort.”
While Serverson was disappointed by the outcome, she believes her players left it all on the field. “They could not have done more; they did their best,” asserted Serverson. “I think we were evenly matched. I don’t necessarily think they are the better team; they just found a way to score.” With PHS starting play in the North 2, Group 4 state sectional, where it is seeded third and will host No. 6 East Brunswick in a quarterfinal contest on October 29, Serverson believes her squad can build on its performance against Allentown. “I think we are prepared now for our new Group 4; we’ll see how that goes,” said Serverson. “They are all stepping stones. We will move on from this and hopefully be better for it.” —Bill Alden
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CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT: Head coach Ed Tseng, far left, and the members of the Princeton Day School girls’ tennis team celebrate after the Panthers won the state Prep B tournament last Thursday at the Garden State Tennis Center in Edison. PDS scored 10 points with runner-up Gill St. Bernard’s tallying 8 as it won its fourth straight Prep B crown. The team included Sydney Vine, Tarika Kumar, Touria Salvati, Devika Kumar, Anna Kovacevich, Arya Jha, and Renee Karchere-Sun.
PDS Girls’ Tennis Wins 4th Straight Prep B Crown, As Outstanding Doubles Play Makes the Difference Heading into the final day of the state Prep B girls’ tennis championships, the Princeton Day School team knew it wasn’t a lock in its bid to win a fourth straight crown. While PDS held a slim one point lead over Gill St. Bernard as the players took the courts at the Garden State Tennis Center in Edison last Thursday for the championship round, both teams were alive in three finals. PDS head coach Ed Tseng realized his squad was in a dogfight. “I knew anything was possible,” said Tseng, who had Sydney Vines in the second singles finals while the first doubles of the Kumar sisters, Devika
and Tarika, and the second doubles team of Anna Kovacevich and Tauria Salvati also advanced to the championship round. “I knew there was a chance for Gill to win, I knew there was a chance for co-champs and I knew there was a chance for us. Obviously we were shooting for a straight out championship.” Acknowledging that his players were on edge as they headed to the finals, Tseng wanted them to focus on effort, not result. “It was probably the whole spectrum of emotions, nervousness, excitement, and fear but from day one we have been focusing on just leaving everything on the court,” said Tseng. “I kept reinforcing to the players that, yes I want to win but ultimately I don’t mind if you lose if you leave everything out there and give your best versus giving up or not giving your best effort.” Ultimately, PDS was able to hold off Gill to achieve the four-peat, tallying 10 points to edge the runner-up Knights by two points. T he Pa nt her s got t he clinching point when the Kumar sisters pulled out a marathon 6-4, 6-7 (15-17) 6-4 win over Martine DiDomenico and Lara Drzik of Gill at first doubles. “It was the closest match and the last match, they lost that second set in the tiebreaker and they were pretty deflated but I told them on the changeover that the good news is that most third sets are pretty quick so let’s make it in your favor,” said Tseng. “Sure enough, they jumped out to a 5-0 lead and lost a couple of games but then they finished it.” In Tseng’s view, senior Devika provided the stability that made the difference in the clutch last Thursday. “I joked around with them all season long and even with their parents that they
don’t act like sisters, they get along,” said Tseng. “It definitely helped that they were sisters and one was a little older with more experience. Devika was definitely the calming one and the leader on the team.” The second doubles team of Kovacevich and Salvati prevailed 6 -1, 7- 6 (7-5) over Julianna Poupard and Nikki Goldwert of the Ranney School to give PDS its other point in the championship round. “They got it done a little quicker; it wasn’t as dramatic,” said Tseng. “That could have gone either way too so that was a big win.” It is big for PDS to earn the championship four-peat. “We obviously were grateful for it and we know it is pretty rare,” said Tseng. “I knew we had a chance. That was the goal but the more we focused on that, the more pressure that everyone would feel. Winning it was a by product of our approach the last few years.” Tseng, for his part, believes there was a special feeling around this year’s squad. “We really felt like a family,” asserted Tseng, crediting assistant coach Trevor Campbell and volunteer coach Jon Brown with helping to create that atmosphere. “Most seasons go by pretty quickly, this season went by very quickly. We really jelled as a team. Everyone had each other’s back so that was good.” —Bill Alden
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A s t he P r inceton Day School field hockey team prepared to play local rival Stuart Country Day in the opening round of the state Prep B tour nament last Wednesday, the emphasis was on striking quickly. “We wanted to get out of the gate strong,” said PDS senior star Rowan Schomburg. “We knew our mindset had to be score first and score often.” T h e Pa n t h e r s a c c o m plished that goal, jumping out to a 1-0 lead on a first half goal by senior Katie Shih. After Stuart answered with a tally 10 minutes into the second half, Schomburg helped get PDS back in the lead as she assisted Val Radvany on a goal off a penalty corner. “Inserting, I always want to get to the post and that is what happened,” said Schomburg. “Everyone was in the right spot at the right time.” Stuart evened the game at 2-2 with a goal midway through the half, forcing over time. The Panthers, though, didn’t waste any time clinching the win as Madison Mundenar blasted a ball into the cage just 28 seconds into the extra session. “We knew the first minute had to be really strong because we obviously did not want to play 20 more minutes today,” said Schomburg. For PDS, advancing to Prep B semifinals, where the Panthers will play at topseeded Montclair Kimberley on October 28, was a major step forward. “It is huge, we have improved so much over the past year and over the past two months even since playing Stuart in early season,” said Schomburg. “This was really big.”
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A day after the win over Stuart, PDS routed Steinert 7-1 in a Mercer County Tournament consolation game as it improved to 6-11-1, having gone 5-1-1 in its last seven games. Schomburg is proud of the progress the Panthers have shown in the last month of the season. “Coach (Heather) Farlow is an amazing coach, she has really made great improvements with our team,” said Schomburg. “Our team chemistry is great. We all love being together. We hang out in the team room all of the time, it is really great. When we come to practice we know what we have to do. We have really hard practices.” In Schomburg’s view, the key to the team’s recent success is playing harder at the offensive end of the field. Getting touches in the circle and aggression is huge,” said Schomburg. “We do a lot of power and finesse drills so our shooting has improved. As you saw today, Madison has made strides.” PDS head coach Heather Farlow believes that the emphasis on shooting paid dividends for Mundenar in the overtime. “Yesterday we practiced shooting for close to an hour so I am glad that it paid off,” said Farlow. “I told Madison right before overtime, we need to get a corner or you need to just hit it and just get the shot off because you will be surprised at what happens.” As the game headed into overtime, Farlow looked to calm her players’ nerves. “I said we just need to finish and let our hard work pay off,” recalled Farlow “It was 0-0, you haven’t lost this game. I think they were a little bit upset with the second goal. We just needed to shake it off and come out there hard. It is absolutely nerve-wracking; I told them that you guys like to make it interesting. It is something that we have practiced
pretty consistently in terms of t a l k i n g ab ou t s it u a tions.” In reflecting on PDS’s recent progress, Farlow attributes it to her players working more as a unit on the field. “I think it is confidence in playing together as a team and just letting the ball do the work,” added Farlow. “I think we have always had a focus on the team concept. We didn’t need anybody to be a hero, you just have to keep it simple.” In Farlow’s view, the win over Stuart should serve as a major confidence builder for the squad. “We are young so you
don’t want to be overconfident, you don’t want to be insecure,” said Farlow. “You want to have the right balance of confidence and competitiveness. I think for some of us after we scored one, we thought that it was going to be done and then after we scored two, I think they thought it was going to be done so we had to dig a little deeper today.” Schomburg and her classmates on the team, Lauren Finley, Kate Laughlin, Ashley Abrams, and Shih, have helped the team become more secure in its identity. “They have been great, they have been really positive with our younger players,” said Farlow. “It is hard losing, so when they started to have some success early on and play competitively against teams
that blew them out last year, I think that gave them some encouragement and confidence to get the young guys excited about what they could do.” Schomburg, for her part, has enjoyed guiding the team’s younger player along with classmates and fellow captains Finley and Laughlin. “The seniors in the past have taught us very well and we have tried to follow in their footsteps,” said Schomburg. “We are really happy with that and the rest of the team definitely steps up all the time so we see a lot of leadership coming from the younger girls too. We are a young team so it is helping us.” —Bill Alden
SENIOR MOMENT: Princeton Day School field hockey player Rowan Schomburg, second from right, goes after the ball as PDS played Stuart Country Day School last Wednesday in the opening round of the state Prep B tournament. Senior star Schomburg chipped in an assist as fourth-seeded PDS prevailed 3-2 in overtime over the fifth-seeded Tartans. PDS, which defeated Steinert 7-1 in a Mercer County Tournament consolation last Thursday to improve to 6-11-1, is slated to play at top-seeded Montclair Kimberley in the Prep B semis on October 28. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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were getting sick,” said Benefitting From Experience at County Championships, to have a re-do; we get Smith. another crack at it,” said “We didn’t have flow, we PDS Cross Country Ready to Shine at Prep B Meet Woodside. “I think they are going Bringing an undefeated at halftime is that we have didn’t have mesh, and we While the Princeton Day our level and we are workrecord into its game at Law- to stop tip-toeing so I just hit didn’t have continuity. We School boys’ and girls’ ing as hard as we can to get to take this, saying maybe we didn’t do as well as renceville last Saturday, the the hole and bounced it out,” got Simon (Vadas) back in squads finished well out better,” said Woodside. we wanted to so let’s get Hun School football team said the 5’9, 210-pound May- the middle of the week, he of the running at the Mer“We are going to take it done next Wednesday. was out with pneumonia over didn’t look like a juggernaut field, who ended up rushing cer County Cross Country everything we learned this in the early stages of the for 101 yards on 12 carries the weekend. Fred (Hansard) Championships last Friday, season and we are going to I think that is where our in the victory. “I made some wasn’t able to play this week, they gained a lot from the change the effort, refocus focus is now. We need to contest. we rested him up.” take the momentum and experience. The rivals were tied at 0-0 people turn around and got and prepare better. I think continue it on and finish The Hun defense hasn’t after the first quarter with in.” The PDS boys took 16th the big thing is to prepare the season out in st yle Mayfield, who also plays rested this season, emerg- of 18 teams with junior better. This county is so the Raiders squandering next Wednesday. The level some opportunities through linebacker, helped the Hun ing as a strength for the Kev i n S u n le ad i ng t he good that it is very difficult is much more to our liking, Raiders. defense get the job done. some sloppy play. way, taking 81st individu- but I think they ran as hard the school sizes are much “Our defense has been ally as he posted a time of as they could and as well as closer to ours, and the “They were getting us with Hun post-graduate running back/linebacker Imamu their quick passing game but playing lights out this year, 18:57.55 over the 5-kilo- they could and I am proud competitive level is much Mayfield acknowledged that another thing at halftime the defense is really solid,” meter course at Thompson of them for the effort.” closer to us. We’ll do very the Raiders got off to a slug- was that we made some ad- asserted Smith, who got a Park in Jamesburg. PDS is looking for a big well there. I am really lookjustments to that and we cut 52-yard interception return gish start. “This race for them is effort as it wraps up the fall for a touchdown from defen- ver y, ver y fast because by competing in the state ing forward to doing some “We started off flat, we that short,” said Mayfield. sive back Gabriel Cohen in there are so many good Prep B championship meet good things over there and can attribute that to having “We were flying to the ball, then starting to think about the third quarter. teams,” said PDS head at the Blair Academy on preparing for next year.” a pretty bad week of practice rallying to tackle. The de“Our offense has given coach John Woodside. October 28. leading into this game,” said fense held strong today.” —Bill Alden up a bunch of points on In reflecting on Hun’s 6-0 Mayfield. “It is like we get a chance “Competitively they get ourselves this year, but I swept up. Their first miles “Our coaches have been start, Mayfield believes the think our defense has only were really, really good but telling us play like you prac- team draws strength through given up 17 points all season I think it was the price and tice and that is why we start- unity. when they have been on the they fell apart. They fell “Everyone on the team ed out pretty slow.” field.” apart more than we exEarly in the second quar- loves football; that’s where it Smith liked the effort his pected.” ter, a 68-yard touchdown all matters,” said Mayfield. players gave him the second As for the PDS girls’ “We practice hard most pass from Simon Vadas to half against Lawrenceville. squad, it placed 12th of Josh Henderson got the of the time. We all bonded. “I think we got our act to- 14 teams as junior MorThere are a lot of PGs on Raiders up to speed. gether, we started coming gan Mills set the pace, this team and we all love “That was definitely a mooff the ball and we started finishing 41st in a time of mentum swing for us,” said each other. We play for each to get that downhill running 21:30.57. other so when our backs are Mayfield. “We needed some game going a little bit,” said “It was pretty nearly the confidence in our passing to the wall, we really step up Smith. Care & Rehab same thing for the girls, game because our running and fight hard.” “We have been really hapthey were a little more conComing to Hun after a game was a little slow in the beginning so that helped us stellar career for Manala- py with the passing game servative on the way they pan High, Mayfield has fit over the last two weeks; it went out,” said Woodside. out a lot on offense.” has not been as efficient “They held on to their perMinutes later, Mayfield in well with the school and as we want it to be but it is formances a little better bulled 17 yards for a touch- the team. getting there. Everything is and a little closer.” “I love Hun, I was accepted down as Hun built a 14-0 a work in progress.” For Woodside, who is with open arms,” said Mayhalftime lead. Not ing t hat his team in his debut season at the field. “The guys have been “On that play the coach seemed flat the last few helm of the program after was like we have got to get nothing but great to me. I weeks, Smith wants the guiding the Princeton High have brothers here and it is Innovative Design • Expert Installation this boys, we have got to s )NNOVATIVE $ESIGN Raiders to get fired up as boys’ team for many years, punch it in; it was now or going to be an experience I Professional Care they head into the final two the lessons learned at the never because before that am going to remember the s %XPERT )NSTALLATION games of the season. county meet are the part of our run game wasn’t work- rest of my life.” Ph 908-284-4944 Fx 908-788-5226 “We have got to make sure a long term process. Hun head coach Todd ing that well,” said Mayfield. s 0ROFESSIONAL #ARE dgreenscapes@embarqmail.com License #13VH06981800 “We are trying to raise “So I just told myself to go Smith loves having Mayfield as a coaching staff that our kids are still excited to play playing for him. “Imamu is hard and run angry.” Ph-908-284-4944 Fax-908-788-5226 the game,” said Smith. 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Fi e l d H o c ke y : Shan non Dragan played well in a losing cause as Hun fell 1-0 to Moorestown Friends last Monday. Senior goalie Dragan made six saves as the Raiders dropped to 6-9-1. Hun will start action in the state Prep A tournament this week where the Raiders will play at Blair on October 28 in a semifinal contest. In addition, Hun will host Peddie on October 31 in a regular season game. ——— Boys’ Soccer: Getting outshot 22-3, Hun fell 6-0 at Lawrenceville last Saturday. The Raiders, now 5-7, host Peddie on October 31. ——— Girls’ Soccer: Sparked by Kara Borden, Hun defeated L aw rence High 3 -2 last Monday in a Mercer County Tour nament consolat ion game. Sophomore standout Borden scored two goals as the Raiders improved to 7-6. In upcoming action, Hun will continue play in the state Prep A tournament where the third-seeded and defending champion Raiders will play at No. 2 Oak Knoll on October 28 in a semifinal contest. ——— B oys’ Cross Countr y : Alex III set the pace as Hun finished 13th of 18 teams at the Mercer County Cross Country Championships last Friday at Thompson Park in Jamesburg. Junior Ill took 48th individually, covering the 5-kilometer course in a time of 17:38.40.
Lawrenceville Boys’ Soccer Morgan Lussi came up big as Lawrenceville defeated Hun 6-0 last Saturday. Lussi scored four goals to help the Big Red improve to 6 - 8 -1. L aw rencev i lle plays at Blair Academy on October 31. ——— Field Hockey: Chloe Jones, Lizzy Gacey, and Amelia McL aughlin each scored goals as Lawrenceville defeated Hun 3-0 last Saturday. Lawrenceville, now 8- 6, hosts Peddie in the semifinals of the state Prep A tournament on October 28 and will also play at Blair Academy on October 31 in a regular season contest.
PHS Girls’ Tennis: Ending its season on a high note, PHS defeated WW/P-N 3-2 last Monday. The Little Tigers swept the doubles matches as the first doubles pair of Rachel Kleiman and Nikhita Salgame and the second doubles team of Maggie Herring and Caroline Tan both posted straight-set victories. PHS finished the season with a 15-4 record.
Pennington Football: Nyshere Woodson led the way as Pennington defeated the Hackley School (N.Y.) 34-31 last Saturday. Woodson rushed for 266 yards and three touchdowns to help the Red Raiders improve to 5-2. ——— Boys’ Soccer: Jared Panson and Paolo Magalhaes scored goals as fourth-seeded Pennington edged top-seeded Princeton High 2-1 in the Mercer County Tournament semifinals last Monday. The Red Raiders, who improves to 13-2-2. will face secondseeded WW/P-S in the MCT title game on October 28. In addition, Pennington will continue play in the state Prep A tourney where the third-seeded Red Raiders play at second-seeded Blair Academy in the semis on October 29. ——— G irls’ Soccer: Shannon Boyce scored in a losing cause as seventh-seeded Pennington fell 2-1 to second-seeded Hopewell Valley in the Mercer County
Stuart Field Hockey : Continuing its solid play down the stretch, Stuart defeated the Baldwin School ( Pa.) 2-0 last Monday. The Tartans improved to 5-12-1 as they built on a 6-0 win over Nottingham last Thursday in a Mercer County Tournament consolation contest. Stuart hosts Lawrence on October 28 in its season finale.
Newark Academy in the semis on October 29. The w inner advances to t he championship game on November 1. ——— Girls’ Soccer: Unable to get its offense going, topseeded PDS fell 3-0 to No. 4 Notre Dame last Monday in the semifinals of the Mercer County Tournament. The Panthers, now 15-2-1, will resume play in the state Prep B tournament with firstseeded PDS hosting fourthseeded Wardlaw-Hartridge in the semis on October 29. The victor advances to the title game on November 1.
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HEADLINERS: The Princeton National Rowing Association’s Mercer Rowing Club (PNRA/Mercer) women’s youth 8 plus coxswain crew heads toward a bronze medal at the famed Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston earlier this month. The crew, which included Caitlin Cleary, Colleen Princeton Junior Football Gillis, Kate Hickey, Sara Hansen, Katie Lustig, Mia Barkenbush, Rachel Mumau, Elise Gorber, and Eileen Hu, took third of 85 boats in its event. The girls are coached by Steve Baranoski Recent Results In action last Sunday in in his first season with PNRA/Mercer. The PNRA/Mercer men’s youth eight plus coxswain crew the Princeton Junior Foot- also excelled, finishing seventh out of 85 crews in its event. ball League (PJFL) senior division (ages 11-14), the Perry, Patrick Frith, and James at (609) 921-0946. Saturday mornings at DilAdditionally, the Friends lon Gym on the campus of AIG Colts won 34-21 over Phineus Choe scored touchdowns for PBA 3. Langston of Princeton High School Princeton University. In adBai Brand Jets as Will Doran and Judd Petrone led the Hinds had the lone score Athletics, through the Hall dition, each team will have way offensively. The ACE for the PBA 1. The Univer- of Fame Committee, will one practice per week at Insured Raiders topped the sity Orthopaedics 2 team award four PHS student- one of the public schools AYCO Bills 29-14 as Ben posted a 12-6 win over PBA athletes with $1,000 schol- in Princeton. The Dillon League is open Williams, Nick Zahn, and 2. Peter Niforatos and Eric arships that night to help to boys and girls in grades John Reardon came up big. Wright-Muller scored TDs in further their education. 4-9 who are Princeton res——— In the junior division (ages the victory. ——— idents or attend school in 8-10), The Black Chubb InDillon Hoops League Princeton. Only Princeton surance Saints won 25-20 residents and nonresidents over The Blue Narragansett PHS Athletics Hall of Fame Holding Registration The Princeton Recreation that attend a school locatBay Lions. Derrick Choe, Holding Induction Dinner The Princeton High Ath- Department is now taking ed within the geographical Logan Frith and Matt Land scored for the Saints. Jack letics Hall of Fame is holding registration for the 45th boundaries of Princeton Trowbridge and Harry Ber- the induction dinner for its season of its Dillon Youth may register for the program. Nonresidents may be Basketball League. nardi scored TDs in a los- 10th class of honorees. Those being cited include: ing c aus e. T he Maje sk i The registration deadline accepted later if there are Foundation 49ers defeated athletes — Alan Ammerman is November 15. Space in still available spots. ResiThe Graylyn Design Eagles ’58, Houston Webber ’68 the program is limited and dency is based on where 20-13. Remmick Granozio Bobby King ’74 (deceased), teams will fill up on a first you pay property tax. Mailthrew for two touchdowns Johnny Morris ’78, Ter- come, first served basis or ing address does not equal and ran for another. The essa DiPerna ’86, Dixon by the registration deadline, residency. O n e c a n r e g i s te r at : Petrone Associate’s Char- Hayes ‘00, Dr. Natalie Gen- whichever comes first. http://r e g i s te r.c o m m u gers edged The Pure Insur- gel ’06; coach/athlete — Jim The season runs from ance Packers 19-18. Ben Beachell ’64; and the 1975 m id - D e cemb er t h rough n i t y p a s s.net/princeton. Walden and Teddy Klepacki Field Hockey State Champi- m i d - M a r c h a n d g a m e s More information can be scored touchdowns for the onship team. are t ypically played on found online at www.princetonrecreation.com. Chargers. T he induc t ion w ill b e In t he rook ie div ision held on November 14 at the (ages 6-7), The University Mercer Oaks Country, 725 Orthopaedics Dark Crys- Village Road West, West tals topped University Or- Windsor with cocktails and thopaedics 30 -12. Kyle social hour from 6-7 p.m. Harvey and Will Arns each and dinner and the induchad two touchdowns in the tion ceremony to follow win with Alex Villanelle add- from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets ing the other score. Robbie for the evening are $55 and McPherson and Courtney must be purchased prior to Whitest scored for the Uni- the event. No tickets will be versity Orthopaedics 3. The sold at the door. Persons PBA 3 Dominators defeated who wish to purchase a the PBA 1 Tigers 18-6. Sam ticket should contact Bob
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Obituaries
Joseph E. Irenas Joseph Eron Irenas, Senior United States District Judge, died on Friday, October 16, 2015, at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, surrounded by his family. At the age of 75, Judge Irenas was working five days a week, despite having taken senior status in 2002, and undergoing hemodialysis treatment three times a week. He was presiding over a jury trial when he suffered a fall at the Camden courthouse, which ultimately led to his death. Born July 13, 1940, in Newark, New Jersey to Zachary and Bess Irenas, Judge Irenas and his younger sister Diana Schoenblum, were raised in Elizabeth. It was there, in 1951, on the first day of the sixth grade, that Judge Irenas met his wife Nancy (nee Jacknow). Judge Irenas was a proud a l u m n u s of t h e P i n g r y School, graduating in 1958. In 2009, the school awarded him their highest alumni honor, the Letter-In-Life Award. In his acceptance speech, he advised graduating students: respect all people, behave ethically, be grateful for the support of your family, and tip restaurant servers well. After Pingry, the Judge attended Princeton University, meeting many life-long friends there. He graduated from Princeton in 1962. At his Class’s 50 th Reunion, he was awarded the Lifetime Class Service Award for going “above and beyond the call of duty” in contributions to his class. In the summer of his junior year at Princeton, and perhaps foreshadowing the Judge’s future as a government ser vant, the Judge spent the summer in Alaska tagging salmon for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Once, when asked to describe one of the hardest things he had ever done, the Judge responded, “digging a hole in the permafrost to serve as an outhouse.” Upon graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1965, Judge Irenas clerked for the Honorable Justice Haydn Proctor of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
He then began a ver y prolific and successful private practice at McCarter & English, LLP. Described by the firm as a “genuine renaissance lawyer,” Judge Irenas received recognitions as both a litigator and a transactional attorney, and served as one of the firm’s manag ing par t ners. His reputation at the firm was “legendary;” “he was feared by some, loved by many, and respected by all.” Also during the Judge’s time in private practice, he was appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to serve as a bar examiner. In November, 1991, the Judge was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to fill a newly created district court seat in the District of New Jersey, Camden Vicinage. He took the bench in April, 1992. In the early days, the Judge worked 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., notwithstanding his commute to and from Princeton, where he lived. In addition, he taught Professional Responsibility, First Amendment, and Products Liability law as an adjunct professor at Rutgers - Camden L aw School. In 2002, the Rutgers Law Journal dedicated their Volume 34, Number 1 to the Judge. The following year, he was awarded the Judge John F. Gerr y Award by the Camden County Bar Association, in recognition of his “spirit and humanitar ianism.” In 2005, he was awarded the William J. Brennan, Jr. Award from the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey which “honors those whose actions have advanced the principles of free expression.” In later years, Judge Irenas often sat by designation on the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and had organized the Camden Courthouse’s Professionalism Day program for the past three years. He participated in a panel discussion for this program the afternoon before his fatal accident. When the Judge was asked during his Senate confirmation hearing “what particular contribution” he hoped to make to the judiciary, he answered, “I would … like to make some contribution in the area of case management, docket control, and the moving of cases.” As his colleagues on the bench, members of the bar, and his law clerks — past and present — can attest, he was resoundingly successful in that regard, frequently volunteering to take complex cases and maintaining a nearly full docket of civil and criminal cases, even in the face of formidable health challenges. After taking senior status, he was fond of saying that he was “working for free,” in light of the fact that, due to life tenure protected by the U.S. Constitution, the Judge would be paid whether or not he reported to work.
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Former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit, Edward R. Becker, once described the Judge as “a man of incandescent brilliance.” Indeed, the Judge’s intellect was undeniable by all who encountered him. In addition to his numerous intellectual accomplishments, Judge Irenas had deep compassion for those in need. He recently retired from the Board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Mercer County, where he served as a trustee for many years. He was the first recipient of the NAMI pillar award in 2012 for his significant contributions to the organization. He was also an enthusiastic supporter of Cathedral Kitchen, a soup kitchen located in Camden. At the holidays, rather than exchanging gifts, the Judge and his staff pooled their money to make a donation to Cathedral Kitchen. The Judge would then personally deliver the check. To his law clerks, he was an incomparable teacher and mentor. To his countless friends and poker buddies, he was a trusted confidante with a mischievous sense of humor. To his children, Amy and Ted and son-in-law Bob; and to his grandchildren Joe, Patrick, Charlie, Jenna, Shayne, and Zoey, he was a wise advisor and unwavering supporter. To his sister, Diana, he was simply “the best big brother and friend” one could ever have. To his wife of 53 years, Nancy, he was a partner, soul mate, and the love of her life. A private funeral was held in Princeton. A public memorial will be held in the coming weeks. Donations in memory of Judge Irenas may be sent to: NAMI Mercer NJ, 3371 Brunswick Pike, Suite 124, Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648 (online at www.namimercer. org/support/donationopportunities.shtml); or Cathedral Kitchen, 1514 Federal Street, Camden, New Jersey 08105 (online at http://cathedralkitch en.org/get_involved/commem orations_and_tribute/). ———
Elizabeth Speagle
Elizabeth “Betsy” Speagle of Princeton passed away on October 10, 2015. She was born on December 26, 1926 in Cambridge, Mass., daughter of Albert and Alice Edson. She attended the Brimmer and May School in Boston and Mount Holyoke College. She moved to Princeton in 1948 and met her future husband, Richard Speagle, who has pre de ce as e d h er. B e t s y was a longtime resident of Snowden L ane in Princeton. She is survived by her children, Emily of Concord, Mass.; Holly (Steven Dunning) of Albuquerque, N. Mex.; and Robert (Cynthia Nelson) of Lawrenceville; grandchildren, Sarah Bates (Steve Bates) and Alex Dunning; and great-grandchild, Katie Bates. Betsy was a teacher and director at Cross Roads Nursery School for many years. She touched many lives and was known for sharing nature with children, sourcing frog eggs for observation of the life cycle from tadpole in the aquarium to release to the ponds. She was a great cook and known for the wonderful Christmas cookies that she shared
with many. Betsy was loved and will be missed. Betsy’s family especially thanks the staff at Acorn Glen Assisted Living for the wonderful and loving care they provided and to Willie Rosso, her mechanic. ———
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Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1918, Charles Coulston Gillispie, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and professor emeritus of the history of science at Princeton University, was the son of Robert L Gillispie and Virginia L. Coulston. He grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was a member of the class of 1935 at the South Kent School in South Ke nt, C on n e c t ic ut, a n d graduated from Wesleyan University in 1940 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. After graduation, he remained at Wesleyan for his master’s degree in history. From 1942 until 1946, Gillispie served with the Third Army in Europe in a heavy mortar battalion, reaching the rank of captain. Following the war, he returned to the study of history, joining Princeton University’s faculty in 1947 and earning a PhD in history from Harvard University in 1949. He married Emily Ramsdell Clapp in 1949, whom he met in the summer of 1938 when they were members of a student group that travelled to Britain and the Continent under the auspices of the Experiment in International Living. He is predeceased by his beloved wife and helpmate of 64 years, and by his younger brother, Robert L., Jr. Gillispie was a leading figure in the establishment of the history and philosophy of science as an academic discipline, having founded the Program in History of Science at Princeton in the 1960s. He is the author of many books that have become classics in the field, including Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850; The Edge of Objectivity : An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas; and Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science. He was also the editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, a monumental reference work in 16 volumes with more than 4,500 essays on scientists and mathematicians of all periods and nationalities, for which he received the Dartmouth Medal from the American Library Association in 1981. His final work, Lazare and Sadi Carnot: A Scientific and Filial Relationship, a book of over 500 pages co-authored with Raffaele Pisano, was published last year. Gillispie’s many awards and distinctions include the 1997 Balzan Prize for History and Philosophy of Science for “the extraordinary contribution he has made to the history and philosophy of science by his intellectually vigorous and exacting works.” Gillispie received the Pfizer Prize in 1981 from the History of Science Society for his book, Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime, and the Sarton Medal in 1984. Among his
other awards are the Dibner Award for Distinction in History of Science and Technology from MIT in 1994 and la Médialle Alexandre Koyré from the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences in 1985. In 1972, he was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, America’s oldest learned society. He received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Wesleyan University in 1971, from Lafayette College in 2001, and a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Princeton University in 2011. Gillispie was founding adviser for Princeton’s Sachs Scholarship, one of the University’s most prestigious fellowships awarded to two graduating seniors: one for two years of study at Oxford University’s Worcester College, and the second for one year of study or travel abroad on a program of the student’s own design. Arrangements are under the direction of The MatherHodge Funeral Home Princeton. ———
Robert Clayton Burns Robert Clayton Burns died Friday, October 16, 2015 at Meadow Lakes in Hightstown, New Jersey. He was 98. A fortunate man, the elements of his life were mainly of his own choosing: family; making, teaching, and writing about art; a broad array of projects, contributions to his community; and always, the pursuit of a good game of tennis. Robert was born in LaGrange Illinois in 1916 to Harvey and May Pratt Bur ns. T he fam ily later moved to Maplewood, New Jersey where he and his older brother Gordon spent most of their childhoods. There Robert discovered an aptitude for and pleasure in drawing and painting, and the resource of his vivid imagination. He studied painting in Van Deering Perrine’s Children’s Laboratory Group. Perrine’s passionate commitment to the work and to the ideal of fostering each student’s individual vision rather than teaching a particular method made a lasting impact on Robert. In some contrast, later art training provided thorough grounding in the traditions and craft of painting. He graduated from Yale Art School in 1939 and accepted a job teaching art at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida. There he met Amie Goodwin and fell in love. They married in the summer of 1941; within months Robert was drafted and the country was at war. Robert’s service during the war employed and enriched his skills. He made murals, charts, posters, manuals, film slides, newspaper art and maps, and analyzed aerial photos. His paintings had begun to be recognized before the war with first
prizes in competitions in New York, New Jersey, and Florida, and Honorable Mentions in Prix de Rome competitions of 1937 and 1939. During the war, in 1942 his oil painting, “Troop Movements” won first prize in the Life Magazine Competition for Service Men. The war’s end allowed a return to family life, now with two children, and the exertions of a working artist. Freelance work: book illustration, portraits, murals … the illustration of one Classic Comic, “Twenty Years After” (Dumas) … evolved into steady employment in adver tising in New York and finally into a doctoral degree and 25 year teaching career at Trenton State College, near Trenton, New Jersey. Within the college he flourished and contributed; taught studio, and art history; designed the college seal and mace; served on committees, and as chairperson of the art department; completed a detailed study of a designed approach to college scheduling; designed sets for many plays; wrote and spoke out energetically during the tumultuous 1968-69 years; and led student art-study trips to Europe. Beyond the college, he continued his by then normal breadth of work, completing portraits, mural and illustration projects. He also designed and built family homes, provided courtroom sketches for the infamous Addonizio Trial of 1970, completed art restoration projects, and whenever possible … played tennis. He felt privileged to have been an artist. Yet his idea of art was workman-like not pure, and included all sorts of efforts to make sense of our world and to make it more beautiful and functional. It was an ideal based on intellect and analysis as much as on subjective vision, and it was an ideal envisioned as service. He was preceded in death by his wife, Amie (Frances Euamy ) Goodw in Burns ; brother Gordon Kendrick Burns ; sister-in-law Rose Irene Moore; brothers-inlaw John Lemuel Goodwin, Lawrence Goodwin, Herman Goodwin Jr., and Kingman Colquitt Moore. Sur viving are daughter Sandy Burns; son Carl Burns; granddaughters Erin Winton Burns and Kelsey Scott Burns; sister-in-law Dorothy Ruestow Burns and her children’s’ families; and sister-in-law Mary Jo Miner Goodwin and her children’s’ families.
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South Brunswick Twp. $569,900 4BR, 3BA custom built & well-lit home w/hwd floors, spacious kit, and guest room on main floor. Close to the canal towpath. Princeton address. LS# 6663278 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Richard “Rick” Burke
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Princeton $419,000 2nd floor 1 BR, 1 bath condo conveniently located steps from Princeton University, great restaurants, cafes and shopping LS# 6623505 Call (609) 924-1600 Marketed by Danica Keenan
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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
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
GARAGE SALE: Saturday, October 31st, Halloween. Bikes, Xbox games, furniture, bookcases, Pottery Barn office suite. From 9-2, 352 Jefferson Road, Princeton. No Early Birds please. 10-28 ONE DAY GARAGE SALE on HALLOWEEN. Saturday, October 31st, 9am–4pm, 111 Fairway Drive, Princeton, (609) 921-9313. Rugs, Collectibles, Mirrors, Set of 6 Pressed Back Oak Chairs, Lots of Fun Gifts, Furniture, Appliances, Bicycles, Vases, Crystal Glassware, Dinnerware, Full Size Bed, Pac ’N Play, New Toys, Clothing & more... 10-28 EARLY BIRD HOLIDAY SALE at Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton. Preview Sale October 30th, 6:30 pm-9:00 pm featuring Men’s & Ladies Fashions & more. First come, first served tickets available at Trinity for $10 beginning 1 pm October 30th. Rummage Sale Saturday, October 31st, 9:00 am-3:00 pm, featuring housewares, electronics, holiday gift shoppe, clothing & more; free entry. Benefiting Trinity’s Outreach programs. For more information, call (609) 924-2277 ext 351 or facebook. com/trinityprincetonrummage 10-28 ‘86 BUICK REGAL FOR SALE: Call (609) 393-8547, anytime. 10-28
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A Princeton tradition! STOCKTON REAL ESTATE… A Princeton Tradition Experience ✦ Honesty ✦ Integrity 32 Chambers Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 (800) 763-1416 ✦ (609) 924-1416
LAWYER PARTNER DESK FOR SALE: Old fashioned style, 38”w x 29”h x 77”l with hutch. Beautiful condition. Original retail $22,000, asking $10,000 or best offer. (908) 625-8858. 10-28 MACK’S WINDOW CLEANING: Windows & storm windows. Inside & out. $8 each window. Fully insured. All work guaranteed. Call (609) 9241404 or (609) 393-2122. 10-14-3t PRINCETON ACADEMICS TUTOR-COUNSEL-COACH
HOUSE FOR RENT: Yardley, PA, Lower Makefield Township. 4 BR, 3.5 bath, 2-car garage, basement. 3500 SF, $2,650/month. Robert Pearl (215) 431-4495; Long & Foster (215) 4935600. 10-28 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 EXCELLENT BABYSITTER:
All grades & subjects. Regular & Special Education. ADHD coaching. Beginning to advanced reading instruction. Test prep- PARCC, SSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT. School assessments & homework club. Build self-esteem while learning! JUDY DINNERMAN, M.A., Reading & Educational Specialist. 35 yrs. experience, U. of Pa. certified, www.princetonacademics. com, (609) 865-1111. 10-07-4t PRIVATE FOOD COUNSELING: And therapeutic food preparation with Dorothy Mullen. If your chronic health issues are driven by food & the need to change entrenched habits, contact foodmoodcounselorDor@gmail.com 09-23-6t LAWN MAINTENANCE: Prune shrubs, mulch, cut grass, weed, leaf clean up and removal. Call (609) 883-7942 or (609) 954-1810. 09-09-8t FOR RENT: 1-family country house, 2 story, 2 BR, LR & den, sewing room, 2 baths, enclosed porch. Located on Route 27 N. 4 miles N. of Princeton, on main bus line to NY & Princeton. Private back yard, private large driveway, washer & dryer available in basement. No subleasing bedrooms, no smoking, pets or waterbeds. 1.5 month security required, $1,900/mo. + utilities. (732) 821-1927, leave message. 10-14-3t
DECORATIVE PAINTING & FINISHES: By Ivan. Wall finished of all types. Venetian plasters, marbling, murals, gilding & regular house painting. FREE ESTIMATES. Call Ivan (609) 510-6754 or (908) 227-9044. 09-30-6t HOME IMPROVEMENT: Small & large construction jobs including custom carpentry, tile work, flooring, masonry, sidewalks & patios w/pavers, handyman items & decks. References, licensed & insured. Immediate response, (609) 613-0197. 10-28-2t HOUSE FOR RENT:
With references, available in the Princeton area. (609) 216-5000
Nestled on Historic estate with Princeton address. 3 BR, LR/DR w/fireplace, eat-in kitchen, garage, laundry, hardwood floors. Includes lawn & snow maintenance. Move-in ready, available now. No pets, smoke free, $2,600. (609) 683-4802 10-28-3t
tf 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 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 ELDERCARE/BABYSITTING/ HOUSECLEANING: Caring, compassionate, honest & experienced European lady looking for an adult care/companion live-in position. I will provide exceptional care for your loved one. Excellent references available. (267) 907-2161. 10-21-3t IRIE PAINTING: Quality workmanship, interior & exterior, light carpentry, power washing. Free estimates, fully insured, references. (609) 5848808; Email iriepainting@gmail.com 09-16-8t
PRINCETON HOME FOR RENT: In BORO, close to shopping, schools & transportation. 2-3 BR, 2 bath, LR, DR, eat-in kitchen, finished basement with laundry, off-street parking, $3,000/mo. (609) 924-8746 or (732) 422-1782. 10-28-3t STORAGE SPACE: 10 minutes north of Princeton, in the small village of Blawenburg, starting at a $210 discounted monthly rent. For details: http://princetonstorage.homestead. com or (609) 333-6932. 10-07-6t KARINA’S HOUSECLEANING: Full service inside. Honest and reliable lady with references. Available week days. Call for estimate. (609) 858-8259. 10-21-4t HOME HEALTH AIDE: 25 years of experience. Live-in or out. Would love to take care of your mother or father. I am well known in Princeton. Top care, excellent references. Also available nights & weekends. The best, cell (609) 356-2951; or (609) 751-1396. 10-28-4t
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Former home of the Princeton Doll & Toy Museum in a most desirable and convenient location near the Tomato Factory, local shops, restaurants and all that Hopewell has to offer. $275,000
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residential rentals: Princeton – $3600/mo. 3 BR, 2 bath cottage on Picturesque Farm. 2-car garage, central air. Available now. Hopewell twp – $3000/mo. 4 BR, 2.5 bath, washer/dryer, 2-car garage. Available now. Princeton – $2200/mo. Duplex, 2 BR, 1 bath, LR, kitchen. Available now. Princeton – $1700/mo. 1 BR, 1 bath, LR, kitchen, 1 parking space included. Long-term tenant wanted-2 years.
coMMercial rentals: Princeton – $2300/mo. Nassau Street, 5 room office. Completely renovated. Available now.
one daY HaulinG & HoMe iMProVeMent: We service all of your cleaning & removal needs. Attics, basements, yards, debris & demolition clean up, concrete, junk cars & more. The best for less! Call (609) 743-6065. 10-28-4t rosa’s cleaninG serVice: For houses, apartments, offices, daycare, banks, schools & much more. Has goo d English, own transportation. 20 years of experience. Cleaning license. References. Please call (609) 751-2188 or (609) 610-2485. 10-28-4t toWn toPics classiFieds Gets toP results!
Princeton – $1650/mo. Nassau Street. 2nd floor “B”, 3 rooms. Private 1/2 bath. Available now.
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Princeton – $1600/mo. Nassau Street. 2nd floor, 3 offices, use of hall powder room. Available now.
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call (609) 924-2200 ext. 10 for more details. tf i BuY all kinds of Old or Pretty Things: China, glass, silver, pottery, costume jewelry, evening bags, fancy linens, paintings, small furniture, etc. Local woman buyer. (609) 9217469.
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Experienced in all residential home repairs. Free Estimate/References/ Insured. (908) 966-0662 or www. superiorhandymanservices-nj.com 08-19/11-04 BuYinG: Antiques, paintings, Oriental rugs, coins, clocks, furniture, old toys, military, books, silver, jewelry & musical instruments. I buy single items to entire estates. Free appraisals. (609) 890-1206 , (609) 306-0613. 07-31-16 tk PaintinG: Interior, exterior. Power-washing, wallpaper removal, plaster repair, Venetian plaster, deck staining. Renovation of kitchen cabinets. Excellent references. Free estimates. call (609) 947-3917 10-21/04-13 tHe Maid ProFessionals: Leslie & Nora, cleaning experts. Residential & commercial. Free estimates. References upon request. (609) 2182279, (609) 323-7404. 06-17/12-09
Princeton restaurant sPace For lease: 1611 SF available immediately. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf storaGe sPace: 194 Nassau St. 1227 sq. ft. Clean, dry, secure space. Please call (609) 921-6060 for details. 06-10-tf 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 Joes landscaPinG inc. oF Princeton Property Maintenance and Specialty Jobs Commercial/Residential Over 30 Years of Experience •Fully Insured •Free Consultations 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
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TWICE THE TREAT IF YOU NEED A SEPARATE OFFICE AND WORKSHOP
Situated in a convenient location on Carter Road in Lawrence Township, this special property has a lot to offer. Perfect for someone who needs a separate home office building with restroom and adjacent workshop. Parking for 5 cars. This 1.13-acre property also offers a beautifully renovated and maintained 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath traditional house. Live and work in a gorgeous setting.
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This charming 2 or 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath Inverness Model at the “Four Seasons at Cranbury”, has much to offer. In a most desirable “50 and over” enclave in nearby Historic Cranbury the home is in move-in condition. There is a pool and tennis court for even more treats. $435,000
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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 EDDY’S LANDSCAPE & HARDSCAPE CORP: Lawn maintenance, spring/fall cleanup, mulching, mowing, rototilling, fertilizing, pruning, planting, lawn cutting, tree service. Patios, walls retain, stone construction, drainage, fences, etc. Free Estimates. 10% off. (609) 213-3770; edy_davila@msn.com
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ONE DAY GARAGE SALE on HALLOWEEN. Saturday, October 31st, 9am–4pm, 111 Fairway Drive, Princeton, (609) 921-9313. Rugs, Collectibles, Mirrors, Set of 6 Pressed Back Oak Chairs, Lots of Fun Gifts, Furniture, Appliances, Bicycles, Vases, Crystal Glassware, Dinnerware, Full Size Bed, Pac ’N Play, New Toys, Clothing & more... 10-28 EARLY BIRD HOLIDAY SALE at Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton. Preview Sale October 30th, 6:30 pm-9:00 pm featuring Men’s & Ladies Fashions & more. First come, first served tickets available at Trinity for $10 beginning 1 pm October 30th. Rummage Sale Saturday, October 31st, 9:00 am-3:00 pm, featuring housewares, electronics, holiday gift shoppe, clothing & more; free entry. Benefiting Trinity’s Outreach programs. For more information, call (609) 924-2277 ext 351 or facebook. com/trinityprincetonrummage 10-28 BRENTWOOD PIANO FOR SALE: Bench included. Please call (609) 331-2624 for information. 10-28 LAWYER PARTNER DESK FOR SALE: Old fashioned style, 38”w x 29”h x 77”l with hutch. Beautiful condition. Original retail $22,000, asking $10,000 or best offer. (908) 625-8858. 10-28 MACK’S WINDOW CLEANING: Windows & storm windows. Inside & out. $8 each window. Fully insured. All work guaranteed. Call (609) 9241404 or (609) 393-2122. 10-14-3t PRINCETON ACADEMICS TUTOR-COUNSEL-COACH All grades & subjects. Regular & Special Education. ADHD coaching. Beginning to advanced reading instruction. Test prep- PARCC, SSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT. School assessments & homework club. Build self-esteem while learning! JUDY DINNERMAN, M.A., Reading & Educational Specialist. 35 yrs. experience, U. of Pa. certified, www.princetonacademics. com, (609) 865-1111. 10-07-4t PRIVATE FOOD COUNSELING: And therapeutic food preparation with Dorothy Mullen. If your chronic health issues are driven by food & the need to change entrenched habits, contact foodmoodcounselorDor@gmail.com 09-23-6t LAWN MAINTENANCE: Prune shrubs, mulch, cut grass, weed, leaf clean up and removal. Call (609) 883-7942 or (609) 954-1810. 09-09-8t
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FOR RENT: 1-family country house, 2 story, 2 BR, LR & den, sewing room, 2 baths, enclosed porch. Located on Route 27 N. 4 miles N. of Princeton, on main bus line to NY & Princeton. Private back yard, private large driveway, washer & dryer available in basement. No subleasing bedrooms, no smoking, pets or waterbeds. 1.5 month security required, $1,900/mo. + utilities. (732) 821-1927, leave message. 10-14-3t
Employment Opportunities in the Princeton Area PART TIME ART ASSISTANT~HOLIDAY SEASON Looking for creative art major (high school or college student) to help with designing jewelry in my Princeton Studio. Thursdays 3-6; Fridays 3-6; Saturdays 11-5. $15/hour. Must be available at least 10 hours a week, December 1st–23rd; more hours available. Please no jewelry designers. Text (609) 2136217. 10-28-3t
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Take a stroll down to our previous office at 4 Mercer Street or come to our new location, 4438 Routh 27 North in Kingston, where you can purchase a copy for 75 cents (3 quarters required) from our coin-operated newspaper boxes, 24 hours a day/7 days a week.
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343 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 609-921-9202 Each RE/MAX office is independently owned and operated.
NO GHOSTS OR GOBLINS JUST GREAT VALUE This lovely studio in Princeton’s Palmer Square has just been professionally painted and has a brand new kitchen with granite counters, wood-burning fireplace and beautiful bath. Enhanced by a marvelous view and a most convenient location, it offers a gracious lifestyle in the heart of Princeton. $269,000
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BELLE MEAD, This William Thompson mid-century modern home on over 2 acres, features a ground floor built around an atrium w/saltwater pool. It has 4 BRs, 4 full BAs and 2 kitchens. Restored to perfection. $2,100,000 Linda Twining 609-439-2282 (cell)
PRINCETON, This one bedroom condo with large windows overlooks Nassau St./Princeton University and private Palmer Square courtyard, features hardwood floors, wood-burning fireplace & built-in shelves. $395,000 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
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PRINCETON, One of the last conforming buildable lots in the “old boro.” Never been built on. Opportunity to build your dream home. Minutes from Princeton University and downtown Princeton. $799,000 Ingela Kostenbader 609-902-5302 (cell)
PRINCETON, Features a paver walkway surrounded by beautiful landscaping, a light-filled foyer, hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, huge windows & glass doors overlooking the backyard & patio. $1,250,000 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
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PRINCETON, Hilltop Colonial with 5 bedrooms & 5.3 renovated baths, gourmet kitchen opens to family room, large windows overlook the patio and in-ground pool. Dir: Cherry Hill to Davies to Arreton. $1,332,500 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
PRINCETON, Being built by Angelone Homes. Home features open floor plan, top-of-the-line appliances, master BR w/ walk-in closet & BA, office & 5th BR w/ full BA on main flr. Ready for showings. $1,999,000 Beatrice Bloom 609-577-2989 (cell)
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