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Among the topics of a closed session that preceded Monday night’s meeting of Princeton Council was potential litigation by AvalonBay Communities, developer of the rental complex on the former site of Princeton Hospital. A letter mailed to Princeton’s administrator Marc Dashield by AvalonBay senior vice president Ronald S. Ladell advised Mr. Dashield that the development company wants to be reimbursed the $100,233 paid to consultants from the escrow accounts created by AvalonBay for work during construction. Mr. Ladell claims that invoices from the Whitman company, the environmental consultants hired to oversee the construction, are incomplete. Mr. Ladell’s letter says he has spoken with the town’s municipal attorney Trishka Cecil and has filed an appeal with the Mercer County Construction Board of Appeals (CBOA) for all of the charges reflected on the Whitman invoices and billed to the two escrow accounts. But he hopes for a resolution — if the accounts be “immediately replenished in the amounts of $84,140 and $16,093. “In accordance with my conversation with Trishka, I have requested that the CBOA defer scheduling the hearing on the appeal in order to allow AvalonBay and Princeton to attempt to resolve this dispute prior to February 1, 2017,” he wrote. Mr. Dashield said Monday that he could not comment on the situation because it could evolve into potential litigation. Mr. Ladell wrote that he first contacted Mr. Dashield with his concerns last August. The back-up material he received in response was missing information for several time entries and some reports were unsigned “and therefore it is impossible to even determine which employee allegedly performed the work.” The letter quotes Mr. Dashield’s justification of the Whitman invoices as saying “it is standard practice to employ outside engineering companies to provide engineering inspection services on large construction projects …. However, none of the services provided by Whitman and his employees were engineering services and, in fact, some of those same employees are not even licensed engineers.” He uses documentation by one Whitman employee to illustrate his claims
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Land Use Ordinance Passes, To Mixed Reviews December To the relief of several residents and the consternation of some local architects, Princeton Council voted Monday evening to approve an ordinance that revises the town’s land use code regarding single family residential development. The ordinance adjusts or creates new parameters for porches, prevailing front yard setback, and the measurement of cathedral ceilings. Another section regarding garages was removed from the proposed ordinance because of wording that confused some Council members. It will be revisited when the governing body meets in January. The ordinance is the first to have been recommended by the Princeton Neighborhood Character and Zoning initiative Task Force. Formed earlier this year, the group has been looking at the implications of current zoning laws and how they are enabling existing homes to be torn down and replaced with much larger structures — at a rate that many find alarming. Mayor Liz Lempert, Council member Jenny Crumiller, and Planning Board members Wanda Gunning, Gail Ullman, and Tim Quinn met over nine months to study the issue, led by consultants, the
RBA Group. Three public forums with residents, architects, and members of boards and commissions, were held last month. Detailing the ordinance at Monday’s meeting, Princeton’s Planning Director Lee Solow said the teardown/rebuild phenomenon is not unique to Princeton. The average size of a house was 1,660 square feet in 1973, and is now 2,657 square feet, he said.
Resident Mary Clurman urged Council to pass the ordinance. “We lost part of our neighborhood to AvalonBay,” she said, referring to the development of a rental community that opened recently on the former site of Princeton Hospital. “Don’t let it happen again.” Resident Anne Neumann also spoke in favor of the measure, calling it “a good first step.” But architect Joshua Zinder called the
Calling on police departments to “embrace reform,” Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole emphasized how her priorities had changed completely in her 35 years in law enforcement. “Everybody wants to talk about guns and drugs, and, yes, we need to talk about crime and crime rates, but my most complicated issue right now is first of all equity and social justice in our policing, in our community. And also it’s the intersection of public safety and public health.” Speaking at an all-day policy forum
held earlier this month at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Ms. O’Toole noted the paramount need for trust between police and their communities, along with multi-disciplinary efforts, new training and new policies. “And my number one priority,” she said, “is focusing on the next generation and the relationship between our children and our police. Because if we are going to succeed we need the trust of our community. Without that trust we as police will fail.
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STRONG ROOTS, STILL GROWING: The YWCA Princeton completed a property beautification project to mark the end of a year of mission growth. The project was made possible by the generosity of the Friends of the YW, led by Margee Harper, as well as the crew at Helper’s Evergreen, led by Jenn Walton. On hand to celebrate the occasion were Geniva Martin, Nancy Faherty, Susan Carril, Margee Harper, Barbara Straut, Kathleen Nash, Nancy Henkel, Barbara Purnell, Penny Thomas, Judy Hutton and Jenn Walton.
Foul Play Ruled Out In Death of Student
Foul play has been ruled out in the death of 19-yearold Wonshik Shin, a Princeton University sophomore. Mr. Shin was found dead in his dormitory room at Forbes College on Sunday, December 18. At press time Tuesday, the cause of death had yet to be determined by the Mercer County Medical Examiner’s office. From Seoul, South Korea, Mr. Shin was a member of the Korean American Student Association, the VTones East Asian music group, and the Princeton University Rock Ensemble. The University has extended its condolences to his family and offered counseling services at McCosh Health Center to members of the University community.
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with summonses and a pending court date. On December 18 at 10:13 a.m., it was reported that sometime between December 9 and 18 someone stole a locked bike from a bicycle rack on South Stanworth Drive. On December 19, at 4:24 p.m., it was reported that on December 18 at 4 p.m. someone entered a retail es-
tablishment on the 100 block of Nassau Street and stole several items of clothing. On December 19, at 2:48 a.m., a 33-year-old male from Princeton was charged with DWI subsequent to a call about an erratic driver on South Drive. He was also found to have an active warrant from the Princeton Municipal Court in the amount of $185.
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A Community Bulletin Red Cross Holiday Giving Campaign: Donors to this cause can give symbolic gifts in a wide range of budgets, helping to provide hot meals, blankets, vaccinations, and more to those in need, in honor of a loved one or colleague. Visit www.redcross.org/gifts. Christmas Eve Chorus: Singers can join to take part in the Christmas Eve service at Princeton University Chapel. Rehearsals are December 22 and 23 from 5-7 p.m. Call Penna Rose at (609) 258-3654 or email prose@princeton.edu to participate. Menorah Lighting Ceremony: On Tuesday, December 27 at 5 p.m., the menorah is lit on Palmer Square, at the north plaza on Hulfish Street. Special guest speakers and music will be provided by Odessa Klezmer Band, followed by a procession to the Nassau Inn for music, dancing, and traditional kosher Chanukah foods. Recycling Rescheduled: The recycling scheduled for Monday, December 26 in Princeton has been changed to Saturday, December 31. Put items at the curb by 7 a.m. Trash collection will take place as scheduled on Monday, December 26. Council Reorganization Meeting: On Wednesday, January 4, Council holds its official reorganization meeting at 5 p.m. in Witherspoon Hall, 400 Witherspoon Street. Formal action will be taken.
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REMEMBERING THE BATTLE: Re-enactors dressed as American soldiers celebrated the Battle of Princeton last January. Beginning on the night of January 2, 2017, a week of living history events, sponsored by the Princeton Battlefield Society, the Princeton Historical Society, Morven Museum, and others will commemorate the 240th anniversary of the historic battle and related events. (Photo by Meredith Barnes of Molly Picture Studio)
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Princeton Commemorators Prepare for 240th Anniversary of Landmark Battle At this point in 1776, still in the early days of America’s war for independence, American troops were installed in winter quarters at Valley Forge, but General Washing ton was already planning his Christmas night crossing of the Delaware and attack on British headquar-
ters in Trenton that would of African descent” on their lead to the pivotal Battle march from the Old Trenton of Princeton on January 3, Barracks. 1777. Mr. O’Neil stated that he wanted to “remind Americans that blacks and whites worked together in the Continental Army and that unity of all Americans is possible through cooperation, perseverance, and understandLocal groups have been ing.” He added that their making their ow n plans wreath will also honor Capduring the past year to com- tain William Shippen, who memorate that battle and re- died at the Battle of Princelated events, and during the ton, the first Marine to die first week in January visitors in a land-based battle. and locals will have ample Mr. O’Neil invited any inopportunities to immerse terested marchers to join themselves in the history them, with additional inforof those days and to relive mation available at www. the experience of General ezekiel’smarch.org or on Washington, his troops and Facebook: Ezekiel’s March. the residents of Princeton of www.princetonmagazinestore.com Mr. O’Neil’s ancestor Ezekiel 240 years ago. Continued on Next Page The Princeton Battlefield Society, the Princeton Historical Society, and Morven Museum have teamed up to present a program called “Retreat through the Jerseys: Prelude to the Battle of Princeton” at the Historical Society on Thursday January 5; a series of programs led by re-enactors and historians on Saturday, January 7 to highlight the activities of British troops who occupied Princeton in 1777; an event Saturday evening at the Princeton Battle Monument on Stockton Street just north of Morven; and, early on Sunday, January 8 at the Battlefield, “The Battle, a Real Time Tour,” of the Best Stores conducted by British Army historian William P. Tatum, and Fine Services accompanied by an array of re-enactors of various Continental, congressio nal, and British regiments to show where, when, and why events unfolded at the actual battle in 1777. Starting off the week’s Weekend events on Tuesday night, January 2, Thomas O’Neil Music &Santa III, a direct descendant of Ezekiel Anderson of Lawrenceville, who was a scout in the second Continental Army, will be leading a Later Holiday march from Trenton to the shopping Princeton Battlefield, where Wed-Sat he will place a wreath on the common grave of British until 8:30 pm and American troops after garages with $3.00 dawn on January 3. A forevening parking mer U.S. Marine officer, who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. O’Neil will be For our complete OUR HOLIDAY HOURS joined by Leo Bridgewater, holiday events NOV. 25 – DEC. 23 an African-American and calendar, Mon & Tues 10 am – 6 pm also an Iraq and Afghanistan promotions and Wed – Sat 10 am – 8:30 pm war veteran, who, according parking information Sunday 11 am – 6 pm please visit Dec. 24 10am – 4pm to Mr. O’Neil, will “reprepalmersquare.com. Dec. 31 10am – 4pm sent the one-quarter of the northern Continental Army
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P rofiles i n e ducation Derrick Wilder: “Strong-Minded and Strong-Willed” Director of Performing Arts at Lawrenceville School Derrick Wilder, who came to Lawrenceville School in 2005 as director of dance, became chair of the performing arts department (including dance, theater, and instrumental and vocal music) two years ago. Under his leadership, the dance program has flourished and grown rapidly over the past 11 years, with a range of ballet, modern, and jazz classes for students of all levels, a host of student-led dance companies, and an abundance of performance opportunities, most notably the fall musical and the annual Spring Dance Concer t. Before coming to Lawrenceville, Mr. Wilder enjoyed a successful career as a dancer, choreographer, administrator and dance educator. Here, in his own words, he talks about how his interest in dance shaped the experiences of his early days and eventually led him to travel all over the country and, more recently, all over the world. He also talks about a personal philosophy that has guided his life and led him to merge his love of dance with his interest in teaching at Lawrenceville. “Fame” in Atlanta always wanted to be a performer. My favorite show was Fame and my idol was Gene Anthony Ray, who played the character Leroy. I grew up in Atlanta and even when I was playing
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basketball with my friends in the street — we had a makeshift basketball rim on a telephone pole — my friends knew that at 8 o’clock I had to go and watch my favorite show. They made fun of me, but I didn’t care. I would literally drop the ball and run away to watch the show. I grew up with my paternal grandparents. It was a close-knit family. My aunt and uncle lived three houses down, my father lived across the street, my mother in another part of Atlanta. I saw everyone almost equally. Growing up I thought it was complicated, but now I realize it was the best-case scenario. Mrs. Rutledge, New School I r e m e m b e r s ay i n g, I don’t want to go to this white school, but looking back now I see it was the best decision. It changed my life. That’s where I met Ethel Rutledge, one of the most phenomenal people on the planet. She was my fifth grade teacher, and she put me on a path that I had no idea existed. I still visit her every time I go home. She’s 96. When I entered this school my world changed tremendously because all of a sudden I was exposed to students from around the world. And there was Mrs. Rutledge. At the time, I had no idea of the stardust she was spreading. When it rained she had us taking folk dance lessons.
She saw how much I enjoyed it and how quickly I picked up the steps, so she would teach me and we would practice and then perform. She had a passion for dance and she brought this into the fifth grade classroom. Later when I was in 11th grade she got me an audition with a local dance company, and I received a full scholarship to the Southern Ballet Academy. She believed in the arts and its connection to education and how it opened the world for children. It was important to her to have that component and the academic component working side by side. She was ahead of her time. NYC So I’m in high school and dancing with the North Fulton Jazz Theater, and, because of Fame, I think I’m going to New York to audition for Broadway. That’s what I love. I love singing. I love dancing. I want to be on Broadway. But I learned about Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) and I realized my love of ballet. I like the discipline of it. I like the structure of it, and I also want to do something that isn’t happening for many people of color. That appealed to me as well. I auditioned for DTH in Atlanta, and I received a full scholarship from them, so at age 18 I moved to New York with $350. My family was not happy about that. They didn’t quite understand. I
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ALWAYS MOVING FORWARD: Derrick Wilder, a natural-born performer and teacher, spent many years dancing professionally before taking over the Lawrenceville School dance department, which has flourished under his leadership over the past 11 years. was at DTH for two and half years, studying, working at fast food places, paying my rent, and then I moved to School of American Ballet, where I studied for the next two and a half years. Both of these experiences gave me the push I needed to further my career. The Broadway dream had been put on the shelf. This ballet dream had taken hold of me and I was loving everything about it. Back to Atlanta After five and a half years of training my audition process started — 17 auditions, 16 rejections, and one “yes,” and ironically it was with the Atlanta Ballet. I didn’t want that job. I didn’t want to leave New York, but that’s exactly what happened. My family didn’t always understand what I was doing, but they supported me because I’ve always been strong-minded and strongwilled. But they kept asking the question, when I was in these dance conservatories, “Well when are you going to graduate?” And it was hard to explain, so finally I got a job, and I’m graduating and I’m moving back to Atlanta, so they were happy about that. I was with the Atlanta Ballet for a year as an apprentice, then my next job was with the Dayton Ballet and the rest unfolds from there. To College Jump forward many years. I’ve had a great career. Times for dance companies in the U.S. had become increasingly difficult. I wanted to get control of my life. I went in one day to the Dayton Ballet and said, this is it. I’m not doing this anymore. I was running their third company, which includes students from the company and features their Dance Power series. We went into schools, and this is where dance and education cross. That year I did 187 lecture demonstrations. The education component kept coming back in. But then I asked myself, what is it that I want to do in life? My best friend at the time was at Columbia University, and she said, You have to come here, and I said, are you crazy? I was in my 30s. But I thought, I’ve pursued this goal. I’ve had my dream come true. I had an epiphany. It was a wonderful moment. I had that moment of realization and release — it was OK if I danced or if I didn’t. I knew I was going to be OK with the next thing I did. It was
an easier transition because I felt good about it. I went to Hunter College for a year and a half. I came out with a 4.0. I then applied to Columbia and got in. I was done with dance. I had decided to move away from dance. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. i was majoring in anthropology. I thought I either wanted to work for an advertising agency or start my own event planning company. To Lawrenceville So I was with a friend and he looks at me and says, why are you going away from dance? And I was without words. I couldn’t answer that. I thought the answer was that my philosophy in life was always move forward, never move back, so I’m always moving forward, and he was like, OK, but why does that not include dance? ” A nd I honestly couldn’t answer him. I’m getting ready to graduate from Columbia and I don’t have a job. Uh oh, what am I getting into? And I find out from a friend, a dancer and a math teacher at Lawrenceville School at the time, that they’re looking for a new director of dance, so I send in my resume, I come for an interview, and this is the start of my teaching career. I came into this place thinking I’ve hit the motherlode, and I still believe that. I thought, this is going to be easy. They have a building dedicated to the arts, a theater, a building dedicated to music. This is where you can make art happen. But it was an uphill battle the first three and a half years to get people to understand the discipline of it all. I had to change the mindset about dance of the young males here on campus. And to change the mindset of my colleagues. And students discovered that what I demand of them is as hard as what a varsity coach demands Selling the Program I knew I had to sell the program, so I did all kinds of crazy things. At a school meeting I set up a night club. I had a disco ball and lights and I had a roped off area, and kids were dancing. I passed out ”tickets,” all about signing up for dance. I did all kinds of crazy things to get them involved, and the program took off faster than anyone thought it would. In my second year there were so many students auditioning for our spring dance concert. I’ve had a couple of you ng m e n who are
dancers at Princeton Ballet, and they’re treated just like varsity athletes around campus because everybody now recognizes how hard it is. I intentionally wear varsity coach’s attire. At first they said, you’re not a varsity coach, but I said, yes I am. It’s difficult keeping it fresh and relevant, but because dance has always been hard I think it prepared me for any hardships I faced at Lawrenceville. In teaching dance I’ve been known to ask people to go out and come back in, because once they come into the space they need to be present, and they don’t need to do this only with dance. They need to find something in their lives where they repair themselves, their souls, their minds, their spirits. You must give yourself something in the day where it’s just you and it’s sheer joy that repairs you, so you can go out and start the process all over again, because that’s what life is about, pushing through these moments, getting to the other side without letting it crumble you. I try to live my life that way. I try to be as authentic as I can. Dance has helped me do that, and I realize the life lessons I’ve learned from Mrs. Rutledge and others along the way. Here’s the big surprise about my job. Outside of dance, there is something that brings me my greatest joy here, being a housemaster. I almost didn’t take the job when I found out I had to be a dorm parent. But that moment can happen when you get a personal connection, where it’s not formalized in the classroom and those real moments happen, when they see that you’re upset and you have to work through it, or when they are lost and they come to you for guidance. I love the dance program and what it has become in the past 11 years, and being a house master is the surprise gem of this job. —Donald Gilpin
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Expansion of Princeton Charter School Unfair and a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
To the Editor: We oppose the expansion of the Princeton Charter School as both unfair and a waste of taxpayer dollars. While the effects of putting a charter school in a small suburban school district were unknown when the school opened 20 years ago, the negative impacts are apparent now. The existence of the charter school segregates our students and leaves the public school with less money to provide the valuable public service of educating every student that resides within its borders regardless of their income or any learning issues. As taxpayers, we should expect that our property tax dollars are used in the education of our community’s children where they are most needed. The school board elected by the entire Princeton community and the superintendent they hire are the ones to determine where our resources are best used. If a Princeton resident is unhappy with the board’s decisions, he can vote in new members at the next election. Better yet, they could run to be a school board member themselves. If the state grants the Princeton Charter School this expansion, our citizens lose their voice in how that money is spent. Instead, over a million dollars will be taken from our accountable officials and given to the Princeton Charter School whose board is elected only by the families that attend the school. Property taxpayers have no recourse if they disagree with how the money is spent. The concern is real. The Princeton Charter School plans to use the money for elementary grade expansion. Meanwhile our high school is bursting at the seams. Princeton relies almost entirely on its local residents rather than the state to fund its schools. Yet, if they allow the expansion, the state is deciding how our locally raised money is used and removing all community oversight! We all want quality education for our children. But this expansion benefits a small group of families already very generously served by the existing charter school at the very real expense of our public schools and our taxpayers. AMY CrAfT Poe road MEgAn MCCAffErTY fisher Avenue JulIE TroMBErg rAMIrEz Stone Cliff road
was, supposedly, not as strong in academics as PCS. over the years, the grapevine script has changed: we have been hearing how wonderful JW is, which means that the competition from PCS must have facilitated changes that improved its quality dramatically. I believe that competition is a good thing. It keeps PCS on its toes, because its charter gets renewed only if it provides education at least as good as the district schools, and it keeps those schools on their toes as well. It also instills an ethic of constant improvement, which only serves our student population better. While our daughter was a student there, PCS received a “Blue ribbon” award, as part of the “no Child left Behind” act. I was proud as a parent, because this meant that the school did not cherry-pick the students, but instead worked with the students it had, and was able with its more limited resources to improve the academic skills of its most disadvantaged students, more than other schools in the area. PCS is ready to accept the challenge of educating more disadvantaged students by changing its charter to a weighted admission lottery, which would favor them substantially. I would like to ask for your support and the support of the entire Princeton community in this challenge. It is a noble challenge, in the spirit of a cooperative competition, and it is something open-minded Princeton citizens should embrace. nAdIA BrAun Cherry Hill road
How Can YMCA Be a Community Organization It Discriminates Against the Handicapped? Charter School Teacher Surprised by Antipathy When To the Editor: Some Have Directed Toward Expansion Plans I called up the YMCA this afternoon and heard its wel-
come message. The Y is for healthy living (I ask how, if those who need it cannot access the exercise room), social justice (really, the Y by not making the facility accessible is discriminating) and everyone is welcome (how?). I ask you how the Y can say or even think that when they exclude a segment of the community, the handicapped, from two thirds of its facilities. Someone on the AdA helpline told me that, while older buildings were exempt from the original AdA regulations, Title 3 regulations are that 20 percent of a renovation budget of older buildings should be used to make the facilities more accessible. The Y is using semantics when it says it is “refreshing” its facilities rather than renovating them. When they redid the women’s locker room they changed where the entrance was, to make checking in to the facility easier for the staff, and replaced functioning (although no longer pretty) lockers but did nothing to make the area more accessible. When I spoke to the CEo, Kate Bech, about making the facility more accessible it was clear from her comments that accessibility was not a priority, and she indicated that there was not money for making all three floors of the facility accessible. So I go back to my question, how can To the Editor: the Y be a community organization when it discriminates I am writing to you to express my appreciation of your against the handicapped. paper’s coverage of the Princeton Charter School expannAnCY HAll sion plans. As a parent of a child that went into PCS as a Walnut lane kindergartner in 2002 and graduated from it, I would like to express my support for its expansion. PCS was a great educational experience for our daughter. An impish naughty handful when little, she was nurtured 2015 NJ REALTORS® Circle of Excellence® by the excellent teachers there to become a thoughtful person, and extremely well prepared for the challenges Sales Associate of high school. She attended PHS, and went on to atCell: 609-933-7886 tend Princeton university. We credit PCS for instilling the jbudwig@glorianilson.com right academic habits and inspiring intellectual curiosity, and PHS for providing the additional challenge and social maturity. When we had enrolled her in PCS kindergarten, we did so because we had been hearing anecdotal comments from R E A L E S T AT E parents of older children that they chose PCS to avoid John 609-921-2600 Witherspoon middle school, which, in the early 2000’s To the Editor: As a graduate of Princeton university and a former new York City public school teacher, currently a resident of Princeton and a teacher at Princeton Charter School, I am surprised by the antipathy some in this community have directed towards PCS’s reasonable and modest expansion plans. given how good a job PCS does in educating 348 Princeton public school students each year, it is ironic and sad that some question its very right to exist, much less expand. PCS is a public school that is successful because it has competent and compassionate leaders, who create an environment that attracts and retains talented, committed, and supportive teachers and a talented, committed, and supportive student population. These characteristics do not make PCS a private school, as some in this community have suggested, but a model for what a successful public school can and should be. ArTHur EISEnBACH russell road
Charter School Expansion Will Not Help the Parent Supporting Expansion Says Charter School Princeton Public Schools Enrollment Issues Was “Great Educational Experience” for Daughter To the Editor: The Princeton Charter School expansion is not the right decision for our Community. The PCS trustees’ proposal seeks 76 more students, 60 of whom will be in grades K-2, at a cost of $1.16 million dollars that will be taken out of our existing school budget each year. The trustees of Princeton Charter School claim that by taking 60 children in grades K-2, from Princeton’s 4 Elementary schools, plus taking $1.16 million dollars each year from the current Princeton Public Schools budget, the expansion will help the Princeton Public Schools with their enrollment issues. It will not. first, enrollment at Princeton High School has been steadily rising for years and is already at or above capacity. none of the new 76 Princeton Charter School “seats” will help PHS. Second, in the past two years, John Witherspoon Mid-
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dle School (JWMS) enrollment has ballooned. The district must have the funds in its upcoming budget season to hire more staff, in order to maintain/readjust class sizes and maintain programs there. As explained above, the bulk of the Princeton Charter School expansions proposal would call for taking 60 children currently in grades K-2, from the 4 Princeton elementary schools. That does nothing to lessen JWMS’s enrollment. Third, the PCS proposal calls for an additional few kids per grade, in grades 4-8. This will take out only a handful of students from JWMS, spread over the three grades there. This will not affect enrollment, nor will it lessen the need for the district to hire more staff there. If charter school expansion happens, JWMS will still have almost the same number of kids, therefore will still need the same resources and teachers. fixed costs remain the same! and as a result, we will not have the money to staff those needed new sections. once again, the PCS expansion does not help JWMS. As a matter of fact it further weakens JWMS now and in the future. lastly, the majority of children PCS would take would come from three grades across the 4 elementary schools, which aren’t experiencing a crowding issue. Even if they were, the expansion as proposed would not meaningfully help. So, if the PCS expansion doesn’t help PHS, doesn’t help JWMS, isn’t needed in the 4 elementary schools, and only weakens the excellent Princeton Public Schools as a whole, why is it being forced on our community? WEndY VASquEz Audubon lane
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And the best place to start is with the next generation, so that’s my number one priority right now.” More than two years after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, law enforcement and government officials, scholars, student leaders and community members gathered to address the issue of “Racial Justice and Policing in America.” The sessions focused on policing, community relations, accountability, racial justice, profiling, human rights and effective law enforcement. In presenting the first keynote speech of the day, Ms. O’Toole offered extensive observations from her police experience in Boston, where she had served for many years, eventually becoming the first female police commissioner in that city’s history; in Ireland, where for six years she was chief inspector of the Irish national police service; and in Seattle, where she assumed her current post with a mandate for reform, in June 2014. “In all my years of policing,” she said, ”there’s never been a more challenging time, but with that challenge comes opportunity.” She described the past two years in Seattle as a very difficult period, with the department under a federal consent decree, required to curb excessive force and biased policing. “Not only did the department deserve that consent decree, it is a much better place as a result of that decree. When I arrived I said we need to wipe this slate clean. We need to embrace reform as a good thing. Change is not bad.” With reforms already in progress in Seattle at the time of the Ferguson shooting, Ms. O’Toole cited Seattle’s success with new policies on the use of force in crisis intervention, new policies and training for police and an emphasis on deescalation.
“We’ve reduced our use of force by 55 percent just in the last year and a half,” she said. “We’ve spent a lot of time on de-escalation, and our officers are handling things a lot differently now. We’ve done a lot of work in mental health crisis intervention. Our police officers are working with health professionals, learning how to engage and how to de-escalate those very complicated situations. “We’re doing 10,000 mental health crisis interventions each year now, and we’re giving our officers the training they need to deal with those situations. Now, in only 1.6 percent of those situations are we using force, and most of that is minimus force. Before the training, 70 percent of those cases involved force. New policies, new training, new thinking can make a difference in our communities.” Pointing out the wisdom of community policing, as opposed to the war on crime of her early career and the “wrong turn” after 9/11, Ms. O’Toole highlighted the importance of positive police-community relationships. “As I was fighting to restore community policing money after 9/11, I had to say to people in D.C., “Look, it’s not going to be some intelligence czar in Washington who discovers the next threat to our community. If we’re lucky it’ll be the cop on the beat in the city or town, but more likely it will be a member of our community who will come forward and talk to the police.” Ms. O’Toole also commented on the importance of hiring officers who reflect the communities they serve, and ”not people who think that policing is all about the gun fighting and car chases they see on television, but people who understand that policing is a vocation.” Emphasizing the police officer as guardian rather than warrior, she noted the success of hiring efforts in her increasingly
diverse department. “We’ve hired young responsible, articulate, idealistic people from very different backgrounds with very different professional and personal experiences,” she continued. “It’s very exciting to see. They’ll make our department so much more effective.” In her response to a followup question from Princeton Council member Heather Howard, who is also a lecturer in public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Ms. O’Toole stated that ”the use-of-force policy that requires de-escalation applies in Princeton as well as in Seattle and other towns and cities throughout the country.” She stated that new policies and new training and acceptance of change “are critical at this point.” Princeton Police Chief Nick Sutter, who applauded the “excellent forum,” echoed Ms. O’Toole’s message, observing that her proposals have been implemented in Princeton and are consistent with best practices as outlined in President Obama’s report on 21st Century Policing. Mr. Sutter summed up the comments made by Chief O’Toole, and also by retired Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who spoke later in the day on the philosophy that “the police are the public and the public are the police. Without collaboration and trust, neither can be successful.” Forum moderator Ben Jealous, former president and CEO of the NAACP, now visiting professor at Princeton University, also emphasized the necessity for all factions to work together “to make a functional relationship between the police and the communities most in need.” He added, “The point is we are all Americans. They are all American children and all our responsibility. If we solve this, if we all come together, life is better for all of us. Let us come together and own the fact that these are all our kids.” —Donald Gilpin
NOT WARRIORS BUT GUARDIANS: Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole urged a Woodrow Wilson School forum on “Racial Justice and Policing in America” to pursue “equity and social justice,” embrace reform, and engage in active community policing. (Photo by Egan Jiminez)
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Christmas Riffing in the City of Dreams With Count Basie and the Centenarians Let me not mar that perfect dream…. —Emily Dickinson he four-line poem ends with the Belle of Amherst planning to “so adjust my daily night” that the perfect dream “will come again.” The far from perfect dream that follows has been adjusted to permit me a dreamer’s freedom of movement regarding time, space, life, death, and documentary authenticity. The main thing to know is that many of the celebrated somebodies and occasional nobodies who come my way happen to have been born in the year 1916. It all begins in midtown Manhattan at Birdland, on Broadway and 52nd Street, the “Jazz Corner of the World,” where the Count Basie rhythm section is deep into one of those blissful interludes between the heaves of storm wherein the Count makes a few small bright notes do what the Belle does with a few small bright words. At a table to my left a silver-haired man with a comfortable face and a warm sure voice is speaking, not reciting, Shakespeare’s sonnet “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes.” Thanks to the transcendent serendipity of dreams, the words he speaks are as seamlessly aligned with the music as Freddie Greene’s guitar line. The moment he speaks of “desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,” I recognize the film director and onetime matador Budd Boetticher, whose Bijou dreamworks ranged from One Mysterious Night to Seven Men from Now. The two beauties at Budd’s table drinking in every word and swooning when the lark sings “at heaven’s gate” are Evelyn Keyes, best known as Scarlett O’Hara’s younger sister, and the demure Karachiborn Maggie Lockwood, who was on the train with Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes. Keyes can be seen online as the page-boy-styled hustler touching cigarettes (“Light me”) with a sullen hood in 99 River Street. Listening with closed eyes to Bud and the Bard, Lockwood shows what Hitchcock saw as her ability to live within her lines. In dreamland, you live within your lines even as they dissolve before your eyes like the words The End in a rainy rear window of a film noir getaway car. Times Square Skies The way it happens in dreams, Basie’s band has gone floating into the skies over Times Square. Out there in the aurora borealis splendor of the Crossroads of the World the doomed trumpet legend Freddie Webster is taking a chorus for the heroin angels in the smoke coming from the mouth of the giant Camel’s billboard. As if in brassy acclamation of “the best sound since the horn was invented,” there’s a shrill fanfare from Cat Anderson and Al Killian above the blaring boogiewoogie of taxis on Broadway where the viceprez Paul Quinichette ascends through the floodlit haze like the Ghost of Jazz Christmas Past while Lord Buckley does Scrooge at the Royal Roost and the true prez Lester Young broods on Birdland from the window of his room at the Alvin
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at the Lenox Lounge in Harlem explaining to Charlie Christian and Slim Gaillard how he wanted to transform Beach Haven into a hymn to diversity “with faces of every bright color laffing and joshing in these old darkly weeperish empty shadowed windows.” The Most Trusted Man Here’s a banquet table, set up for some kind of Christmas event with wreaths of holly and multicolored lights. A waiter who looks like Perez Prado is showing me to a seat between a plumply rumple-faced, naggingly familiar nobody and a very definite somebody, wow, it’s Walter Cronkite. I’ve still got enough of the 2016 heebiejeebies in my head to wonder what the “most trusted man in America” has to say about the recent election, but before I have a chance he’s on about growing up in Kansas City. Pausing between bites of a dream steak, a Porterhouse to die for, he tells me about KC back in the day, Signboard Hill, t he Show Me State’s neon answer to Times Square. He’s going on about how as a kid he used to watch the great trains come and go down on the tracks passing in and out of Union Station, the fancy Pullman cars car r y ing mov ie s t ar s, t h e r ich and famous, and the coach cars of soldiers, migrant families, traveling s alesmen. He’s getting mistyeyed about Lost America. Don’t Squeeze It! Wait, the little guy on my left just nudged me. “You may think I’m a nobody,” he says, “but I’ve probably been seen by more people than Walter Cronkite has.” So I say, “That’s okay, I’m a nobody, too. I’m supposed to be out looking for a stand for our Christmas tree.” “That sounds like a very normal nobody kind of thing to do,” he says, holding out his hand. “I’m Dick Wilson,” and I’m thinking what a normal name for a normal nobody, when I realize, oh my God, it’s Mr. Don’t squeeze the Charmin Whipple! This is getting too weird, my wife’ll make fun of me, she who never dreams about anything but going to the market and here I am instead of pinching myself I’m squeezing the life out of the package of toilet paper Dick Wilson just handed me, and it’s like there’s some sort of critical organic connection between the Charmin and Mr. Whipple because he’s getting smaller and smaller before my eyes, sinking into a dark dream spiral of nobodyness, and I feel awful, I want to bring him back, “Look, you’re a
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ART Princeton Art Museum Digitization Project Focuses on Photographer Minor White The recent announcement that more than 5,000 images and related material by American modernist photographer Minor White are now available through the Princeton Universit y Ar t Museum’s website was welcome news, and not just for those already familiar with Mr. White’s groundbreaking work. The site, which was funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is geared also to the uninitiated who might see one of Mr. White’s photographs and be curious about seeing more. “We worked very hard to imagine a user who might not be familiar and know exactly how to begin exploring White’s work on the site,” said Katherine Bussard, the museum’s Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography. “The searchability was very important to us. You can go by any number of key words, geographic locations, or subjects.” Type in “winter,” for instance, and haunting black and white images of snowcovered landscapes, slushy N e w Yor k s t r e e t s , a n d close-ups of icicles appear — lots of them. Male nudes is another categor y with numerous entries. A “word cloud” offers ideas of some keywords that might pique curiosity.
Minor White, who died in 1976 at the age of 68, is considered one of the most important photographic artists and teachers active during the 30 years after World War II. Born in Minneapolis, he was given a Brownie camera by his grandfather when he was seven years old. According to a timeline on the website, he learned the basics of photography while studying botany at the University of Minnesota and making photomicrograph transparencies of algae. He went on to have a busy career that included teaching at California Institute of Fine Arts, Massachusetts Instit ute of Technolog y, and Rochester institute of Technology, founding the photography magazine Aperture. “Minor White is one of the most important figures in 20th Century American photography,” said Ms. Bussard. “This is not only because of his images, but especially because of the role he had as a teacher. If you look at any number of photographers who came in the decades after him, all roads lead back to him. “The images are arresting and sometimes quite mystical,” she continued. “They are formally very beautiful. But the reach of his legacy does have a lot to do with his role as a teacher.”
Mr. White’s Princeton connection dates from a one-day workshop in 1974 organized by his former student, photography professor and curator Peter C. Bunnell. Mr. White donated his archive to the University in 1976. “My understanding is that he was deeply impressed with how seriously photography was being taken at Princeton,” said Ms. Bussard. “Bunnell’s was the first endowed professorship within a university art history department to teach photography.” The Minor White Photographic Archive is a digitization and cataloging project begun in 2014. It marks the first time there is online access to more than 6,000 finished prints, artist’s proof cards, and bibliographic history. Plans are for the entire archive — more than 26,000 items including 19,000 artist’s negatives and 7,000 u ndocu m ente d, f i n ishe d photographs, along with correspondence, personal and published writings — will be made available online. The launch of the new Minor White Archive is part of the museum’s recently established Minor White Project, described in a press release as “a comprehensive effort to consider and deploy opportunities to exhibit, publish, research, acquire, and reconsider White’s work and legacy.” Mr. Bunnell curated
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Important milestones include the Biosphere in Potsdam, Germany; the Gate House and the Campus Restaurant in Ditzingen, Germany; the Trutec Building in Seoul, Korea; and the Tour Total office high-rise in Berlin. Their work has been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008 and 2014, the Marrakech Biennale 2012 and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Ar t, New York. Their work was celebrated this year in the Summer House for London’s Serpentine Galleries Architecture Programme. Their monograph Spielraum edited by Hal Foster was re“Thicket” at PU cently published by Hatje School of Architecture Frank Barkow and Regine Cantz. Leibinger, founders of the Berlin-based architectural office Barkow Leibinger, opened Thicket at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Thicket inauArt Times Two, Princgurates the School’s new exhibition series. 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The artwork conveys the impact of a walk through a pinewood, near a healthy lake, on a breezy day — just what you’d find while walking on any of D&R Greenway’s preserves. “D & R Greenway L and Trust has been conser ving New Jersey land since 1989, so that remarkable landscapes may continue to inspire artists,” says D&R Greenway president and CEO Linda Mead. “Connections with students are urgent. They are the preservationists of tomorrow. The fate of nature is in their hands.” Barros, founding curator of the Olivia Rainbow Gallery, brings nature subjects to her students, ages 4-18, helping them engage with the natural world through hands-on experiences. D & R G r e e n w a y’s O l ivia Rainbow Gallery was founded by Chris and Leslie Kuenne in memory of their daughter Olivia, a budding artist for whom nature, especially rainbows, was a passion. ———
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laborations !” students, through January 13. www. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has The Garden State Watercolor Society Juried Show through January 15. (609) 989-3632. Grounds for Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has Paul Henry Ramirez’s “RATTLE,” a site-specific installation, on view through January 8, “Ayami Aoyama: Silence,” “Ned Smyth: Moments of Matter:” through April 2, and other works. www. groundsforsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “The Einstein Salon and Innovators Gallery,” and a show on John von Neumann, as well as a permanent exhibit of historic photographs. $4 admission Wednesday-Sunday, noon- 4 p.m. Thursday extended hours till 7 p.m. and free admission 4-7 p.m. www.princeton history.org. The James A. Michener Art Museum at 138 South Pine Street in Doylestown, Pa., has “Jonathan Hertzel: When Sparks Fly” through December 31, and “Shifting the Limits: Robert Engman’s Structural Sculpture” through February 5. Visit www.michener artmuseum.org. The Jane Voorhees Z immerli A r t Muse um, 71 Hamilton Street, on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, has “Fletcher and the Knobby Boys: Illustrations by Harry Devlin” through J u n e 25. b i t .l y / Z A M MatM. Mor peth Contem porary, 43 West Broad Street, Hopewell, has “Light, Solid as Stone,” recent paintings by Christine Lafuente, through December. morpethcon temporary.com.
“NATURE’S POTPOURRI”: What do branches, pinecones, roosters, multicolored frogs, perky perched birds, plunging feeding birds, and intricate insects have in common? These natural objects have been transformed into art by students of “Art Collabortions!” in their multi-media exhibit, “Nature’s Potpourri,” on view through January 13. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Hawkins at D&R Greenway Land Trust) Mor ven Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has docentled tours of the historic house and its gardens, furnishings, and artifacts. “Bruce Springsteen : A Photographic Journey” runs through May. www. morven.org. New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, has “Toy World,” toys made by New
Jersey companies, through April 30. www.statemuseum.nj.gov. The Princeton University Art Museum has “Remember Me: Shakespeare and His Legacy” through December 31, “Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives” through January 22, and “Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of
Art” through February 5. (609) 258-3788. South Brunswick Arts Commission, 540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction, has “Rhythm, Texture, Color,” through January 12. sbarts.org or (732) 329-4000 ext. 7635. Tigerlabs, 252 Nassau Street, shows works by Ryan Lilienthal through January 1. info@tigerlabs. co.
“THICKET”: The Princeton University’s School of Architecture kicks off the School’s new exhibition series with “Thicket,” a 1:1 pavilion opened by the founders of the Berlin-based architectural office Barkow Leibinger, that blurs the boundaries between materiality and space making. Pictured here, is a detailed view of “Thicket.”
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evident in a duet with soprano Patricia Schuman. Ms. Schuman and bass-baritone David Pittsinger showed the difficulty of selecting opera singers with full dramatic voices to maneuver the refinement and restraint of an 18th-century work. Ms. Schuman was light on the extensive vocal runs of “Rejoice greatly” and was elegantly accompanied in the “Angel” recitatives, but in some of the more lyrical passages, it seemed she wanted to produce much more sound than was appropriate for the music. Mr. Pittsinger was most comfortable at the top of his register in “The trumpet shall sound,” (crisply accompanied by trumpet soloist Garth Greenup) and in the dramatic “Why do the nations rage so furiously together,” but his coloratura singing seemed mechanical at times and he occasionally looked unhappy with his own performance. A veteran of the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Pittsinger is clearly used to being able to cut loose vocally and fill a huge space and orchestra with his voice. Despite the extensive solo work, Messiah has always been known as a work for chorus. For Friday night’s performance, the Montclair State University Singers had been well prepared by Heather Buchanan. The chorus was consistently well balanced, with a young and fresh sound from the sopranos and uniform vowel production from all sections. The women in particular sang with a very forward sound to cut through the orchestra, and it was refreshing that the choristers were able to fully sing out. The coloratura writing in such choruses as “And he shall purify” was clean, and although some passages required more meat from the men’s sections, the tenors were light and clear, and the basses provided a good choral foundation. Following Ms. Schuman’s “Angel” recitatives, the chorus uniquely began “Glory to God” as if from afar — evoking a chorus of angels gradually getting closer to the action. The members of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra who played this performance were consistently focused on clean articulation and lean playing. Led by a continuo trio of harpsichordist Robert Wolinsky, portatif organist Masayuki Maki, and cellist Jonathan Spitz, the orchestra provided well-defined playing throughout the work, emphasized by an imaginative performance of solo quartets within the ensemble. essiah is a long piece, and Mr. Manahan omitted sections which cut the work down for the audience but retained its familiarity. Messiah is a piece for scholars, but an ultimate goal is to entertain and inspire audiences, and Friday night’s performance by New Jersey Symphony Orchestra succeeded in both. —Nancy Plum
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Music and Theater package is available for the “Daddy Long Legs” at George Street Playhouse 2 p.m. performances on
Weaved throughout the musical romance of Daddy Long Legs, currently on stage at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse, are messages promoting the importance of education and the empowerment of young girls and women. So what better way to share those ideals this holiday season than with a special “Daughter Days” package for select per for mances of Daddy Long Legs December 22 and 24. Daddy Long Legs is appropriate for daughters ages 10 through 100. T h e “D au g h te r D ay s”
Thursday, December 22, and Saturday, December 24. Buy one ticket and get one free for these performances when you use the promotional code JERUSHA. The package also includes a free hot chocolate and candy bar at intermission, and the opportunity for a photo on stage after the show. This offer is only valid for the previously mentioned performances and subject to availability. It is not valid with any other offer, previously purchased tickets, or theater and bus packages. Individual tickets, starting at $20, and full-and partial-
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Lewis Center Announces Five New Hodder Fellows
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced the selection of five Mar y MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2017-18 academic year. Poet Eduardo C. Corral, choreographer Milka Djordjevich, visual artist Chitra Ganesh, playwright
Join us for Eno Terra’s inaugural educational series where touted “Wine Professor” Tony Verdoni, along with our Sommelier Nicolas Arriagada, will guide students through Italy’s major wine regions broken up into 6 units with guided tastings in a classroom setting. Tony is a member of the Sommelier Society of America, the Caterina de Medici Society, and the Society of Wine Educators; has co-authored The Sommelier Executive Council’s Vintage Wine Book and a new book, 21; and he appears in the TV series “Eat! Drink! Italy with Vic Rallo.” The series consists of six one-and-a-half-hour sessions on the following Tuesday’s:
Jan 10: A tale of two Islands JanJan 24: Enotria Tellusof–two Southern Italy 10: A tale Islands FebJan 7: Italy’s Heartland – Tuscany & Sangiovese 24: Enotria Tellus - Southern Italy Feb 24: The Italian Coast Feb 7: Italy’s Heartland - Tuscany & Sangiovese Mar FogThe & the Foothills Italian Coast Feb 7:24: Piedmont & the story of Nebiollo Mar 7: Fog & the Foothills Mar 21: Veni Vidi Vino Piedmont & the story of Nebiollo The Story of 3 Venices Mar 21: Veni Vidi Vino The Story of 3 Venices
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Dipika Guha, and visual artist Marc Andre Robinson are this year’s recipients of the Hodder, created to provide artists and humanists in the early stages of their careers an opportunity to undertake significant new work. Hodder Fellows may be writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have, as the program outlines, “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts.” Eduardo C. Corral is a poet and the son of Mexican immigrants. His first book, Slow Lightning, was selected by Carl Phillips as the 2011 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As a Hodder Fellow, Corral plans to research and write a sequence of poems informed by the life and the work of visual artist Martín Ramírez. Milka Djordjevich is a Los A ngele s - bas e d choreo g rapher whose work draws from a variety of compositional strategies, questions and preconceived notions of what dance should or should not be. As a Hodder Fellow, Djordjevich will undertake the research and development of her fourth project in a series of works exploring the perception of the female dancing body in the so-called “neutral” space of the theater. Chitra Ganesh graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a BA in comparative literature and art-semiotics, and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the Creative Arts, and most recently the Juncture fellowship in Arts and Human Rights at the Yale University Law School. During the fellowship year, Ganesh will pursue work on a multipart feminist science fiction print project. Dipika Guha is a playwright raised in India, Russia, and the United Kingdom. She was the inaugural recipient of the Shakespeare’s Sister Playwriting Award with the Lark Play Development Center, A Room of Her Own, and the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival. As a Hodder Fellow she will be working on a play about the history of partitions, homelands, and the politics of migration. Marc A ndre Robi ns on works in sculpture, drawing, and video that revolve around a psychology of historical, cultural, and familial belonging. With the Hodder fellowship, Robinson will integrate 3D scanning and modeling technology into his studio practice with a focus on creating outdoor works. In addition to creating new work, Hodder Fellows may engage in lectures, readings, performances, exhibitions, and other events at the Lewis Center for the Arts, most of which are free and open to the public. To learn more about the Hodder Fellows, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the over 100 public events presented each year, visit arts. princeton.edu. ———
DAUGHTER DAYS AT GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE: Elise Vannerson (foreground) and Ben Michael (background) play Jerusha and Jervis in “Daddy Long Legs” at George Street Playhouse until December 24, 2016. George Street is offering their “Daughter Days” package on select performances. The package includes buy one, get one free tickets, hot chocolate and candy bar intermission, and the opportunity to go on-stage after the show. “Daughter Days” seeks to promote the importance of female education and creative expression. For tickets, call the box office at (732) 246-7717 or visit www. georgestreetplayhouse.org. (Photo Credit: T. Charles Erickson)
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One of the most anticipated of Princeton University Concerts’ offerings this season has been the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle, performed by the Takács String Quartet over a series of six concerts. Having begun the cycle this past November with two sold-out concerts, the group returns to
day, January 18 and Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 8 p.m. for the next two programs. Each concert presents a selection from Beethoven’s early, middle, and late periods, allowing listeners to immerse themselves in the entire spectrum of the composer’s oeuvre. Both concerts will feature “Beethoven
the center of the hall and the audience will surround the musicians on all sides. In celebration of this special mini-series, Princeton University Concerts is offering several events around the concerts. On Tuesday, January 17 at 7 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium at Fine Hall, there will be the second class of the three-part
ration with the Princeton Adult School, taught by Emeritus Professor Scott Burnham and first violinist of the Takács Quartet, Ed Dusinberre. The 3-part class can be bought as individual events through the Princeton Adult School. In addition, all ticketholders can hear Professor Burnham illuminate the
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4. Concert tickets are not required to participate in the Late Night Chamber Jam, but reservations are required and can be made by visiting princetonuniversityconcerts.org or by calling (609) 258-2800. For further information, visit princetonuniversityconcerts.org.
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Continuing Manchester by the Sea (R) Jackie (R)
Sunday - Thursday: 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 (PG-13)
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Friday: 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Saturday: 2:25, 4:45 Sunday-Thursday: 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25
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Friday:1:05, 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 7:15, 9:00, 10:20 (R) Saturday: 1:05, 1:55, 4:10 Sunday-Thursday: 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20
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ever, his hope of becoming a pro disappeared when he was convicted for committing a murder. He did try out for the major leagues when he was paroled at 40, but that proved to be an exercise in futility. As a result, Troy takes to whiskey, that he drinks straight from the bottle. Rose (Davis), his long-suffering wife, is understandably worried that he will drink himself to death. The picture’s other pivotal characters include the couple’s teenage son (Jovan Adepo), Troy’s adult son (Hornsby) from his first marriage, and Troy’s mentally challenged brother, Gabe (Williamson), a wounded World War II veteran who has a metal plate in his head. The plot thickens when Troy informs Rose that he has a mistress who is pregnant. Will this be the last straw that breaks the back of their shaky relationship? Denzel and Viola deliver emotionally-provocative performances that will probably get them Academy Award nominations. The movie paints a plausible picture of black life in the inner city in the 50s. Excellent (HHHH). Rated PG-13 for profanity, ethnic slurs, mature themes, and sexual references. Running time: 138 minutes. Distributor: Paramount Pictures. —Kam Williams
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Allied (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, violence, and brief drug use). Real life romance drama, set in North Africa in 1942, about a Canadian spy (Brad Pitt) who falls in love with a French resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) while on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines only to learn that she might be a double agent in league with the Nazis. Cast includes Lizzy Caplan, Jared Harris, and Vincent Latorre.
Wednesday, December 21 Winter Solstice 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Celebrate Winter Solstice at Terhune Orchards, located at 330 Cold Soil Road in Princeton. Warm-up with a cup of hot cider, visit the farm animals, and walk the surrounding trails. Also, pick-up a box of cookies for Santa at The Farm Store! 10 a.m.: “Small Worlds, Big Hearts: The Maasai and the Michener” exhibit opens at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa. (on view through January 25, 2017). Learn more at www.michenerartmuseum. org. 6 p.m.: Princeton University women’s basketball vs. Wagner at Jadwin Gymnasium. 7 p.m.: The Bailey Trio performs holiday classics at McCaffrey’s Supermarket, 635 Heacock Road in Yardley, Pa (second floor Mezzanine). 7:30 p.m.: Performance of “A Christmas Carol” at McCarter Theatre in Princeton (through December 31). For tickets, call (609) 258-2787. 7 to 9 p.m.: Celebrate the shortest day of the year with screenings of short films accompanied by warm beverages at the Princeton Public Library. Thursday, December 22 2 p.m.: Performance of the musical “Daddy Long Legs” at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick (through December 24). For tickets, visit www.george streetplayhouse.org. 5 to 7 p.m.: Chorus Rehearsal for the Christmas Eve Service at Princeton University Chapel (also on Friday, December 23 at 5 p.m.). 7:30 p.m.: Musical group The Hot Sardines perform a rhythmic brass concert at McCarter Theatre. 8 p.m.: Performance of A Child’s Christmas in Wales at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison (through January 1, 2017). For tickets, visit www.shake spearenj.org. Friday, December 23 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Final day for the WOW Pop-Up Gallery on Witherspoon Street in downtown Princeton. Proceeds benefit the YWCA Princeton’s After School Children program. 7 p.m.: Travel by lantern light from the spot on the river where Washington’s army landed to the 18th century home of the farmers and ferry operators who welcomed them. Tour begins at the Johnson Ferry House in Washington Crossing State Park. The cost to attend is $5-$10. Advance registration is required. 7:30 p.m.: Performance of A Christmas Carol at McCarter Theatre (through December 31). For tickets, call (609) 258-2787. 8 p.m.: Meeting, Princeton Folk Dance at the Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Princeton. $5 to attend. Saturday, December 24 First Night of Chanukkah 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Join Pennington Market as the Mummertime Musicians
Arrival (PG-13 for brief profanity). Science fiction thriller about a linguist (Amy Adams) recruited by the military to lead an elite team investigating why 12 alien spacecraft have landed at different locations around the planet. With Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and Michael Stuhlbarg. Assassin’s Creed (PG-13 for intense action and violence, mature themes, and brief profanity). Science fiction adventure about a career criminal (Michael Fassbender) who discovers he’s descended from a long line of assassins before taking on his ancestors’ ancient adversaries. With Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Charlotte Rampling. Cameraperson (Unrated). Documentary about the career of Kirsten Johnson, cinematographer of the Oscar-winning, documentary Citizenfour and other ground breaking exposés. Collateral Beauty (PG-13 for mature themes and brief profanity). Introspective character portrait starring Will Smith as a Madison Avenue executive who writes letters to Love, Time, and Death after withdrawing from the world in the wake of a personal tragedy. Ensemble cast includes Academy Award-winners Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet, Oscar nominees Edward Norton and Keira Knightley, as well as Michael Pena and Naomie Harris. Doctor Strange (PG-13 for action, crashes, and pervasive violence). Benedict Cumberbatch plays the Marvel Comics character in this origins tale about a neurosurgeon who morphs into a superhero following a tragic car accident. Ensemble cast includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Rachel McAdams, and Benjamin Bratt. The Eagle Huntress (G). Biopic about a 13-year-old Aisholpan, hailing from a tribe of Mongolian nomads, to become the first female in her family to earn the esteemed status of Eagle Hunter. In Kazakh with subtitles. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (PG-13 for action violence). Adaptation of a textbook mentioned by J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, set in 1926 and chronicling the adventures of a wizard (Eddie Redmayne) who ventures from Great Britain to New York City. Support cast includes Carmen Ejogo, Johnny Depp, Zoe Kravitz, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, and Ron Perlman. Hacksaw Ridge (R for graphic violence, gruesome images, and ethnic slurs). World War II documentary drama recounting the battlefield heroics of Army Medic Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who saved 75 fellow G.I.’s lives during the fight for Okinawa. With Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving, Teresa Palmer, Sam Worthington, and Rachel Griffiths. Jackie (R for profanity and brief graphic violence). Natalie Portman plays Jackie Bouvier Kennedy in this intimate portrait of the First Lady in the days following the assassination of JFK (Caspar Phillipson). Co-starring Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby Kennedy, Gaspard Koenig as Teddy Kennedy, and John Carroll Lynch as LBJ. La La Land (PG-13 for profanity). Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) directed this homage to Hollywood musicals set in present-day Los Angeles about an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a jazz musician’s (Ryan Gosling) whirlwind romance. With J.K. Simmons, John Legend, and Rosemarie DeWitt. Loving (PG-13 for mature themes). Biopic recounting the legal and real-life struggles of the Virginia couple (Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton) who mounted the historic court battle leading to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on interracial marriage. With Will Dalton, Dean Mumford, and Terri Abney. Manchester by the Sea (R for sexuality and pervasive profanity). Drama about a janitor (Casey Affleck) who becomes the guardian of his teenage nephew (Lucas Hedges) after the untimely death of his older brother (Kyle Chandler). With Gretchen Mol, Michelle Williams, and Heather Burns. Moana (PG for peril, scary images, and mature themes). Animated adventure about a Polynesian teenager (Auli’i Cravalho) who embarks on a dangerous mission across the Pacific Ocean to save her people with the help of a legendary demigod (Dwayne Johnson). Voice cast includes Rachel House, Temuera Morrison and former, NFL player Troy Polamalu. A Monster Calls (PG-13 for mature themes and scary images). Fantasy about a 12-yearold boy (Lewis MacDougall), teased by bullies and mistreated by his grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), who copes with his single-mother’s (Felicity Jones) terminal illness with the help of an ancient tree monster (Liam Neeson). Featuring Geraldine Chaplin, Toby Kebbell, and Ben Moor. Moonlight (R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity, and brief violence). Movie, set in Miami, about a young, gay black man’s (Ashton Sanders) struggle with his sexuality while growing up in a tough, inner-city neighborhood. With Mahershala Ali, Andre Holland, Naomie Harris, Janelle Monae, Shariff Earp and Duan Sanderson. Nocturnal Animals (R for menacing, violence, profanity and graphic nudity). Adaptation of Tony and Susan, Austin Wright’s suspense thriller about an art gallery owner (Amy Adams) haunted by dark truths that were revealed in a novel written by her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal). Ensemble cast includes Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, Laura Linney, Michael Sheen, and Armie Hammer. Office Christmas Party (R for crude sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use, and profanity). Raunchy holiday comedy about two corporate executives’ (Jason Bateman and T.J. Miller) attempts to save their jobs by throwing a wild party to impress a potential client. Ensemble cast includes Jennifer Aniston, Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer, Olivia Munn, Courtney B. Vance, and Rob Corddry. Passengers (PG-13 for sexuality, nudity, action, and peril). Outer space adventure about two astronauts (Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) who struggle to survive aboard a rocket ship headed to a distant planet after their hibernation pods open 90 years prematurely. With Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Fred Melamed, and Michael Sheen. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (PG-13 for violence and extended action sequences). Intergalactic epic about a rebel soldier (Felicity Jones) who was recruited to lead a band of heroes on a mission to steal the design for the Empire’s weapon of mass destruction, featuring Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna, Mads Mikkelsen, Jiang Wen, Alan Tudyk, and Donnie Yen. Sing (PG for rude humor and mild peril) Animated musical about an optimistic koala bear’s (Matthew McConaughey) attempt to save his struggling theater by staging a singing competition for a menagerie of animals. Voice cast includes Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, Jay Pharoah, and John C. Reilly. Trolls (PG for mild rude humor). Animated musical adventure about the alliance forged between an optimist (Anna Kendrick) and a pessimist (Justin Timberlake) to defend their village from a race of creatures who like to feast on tiny trolls. Voice cast includes Zooey Deschanel, Jeffrey Tambor, Russell Brand, and Gwen Stefani. Why Him? (R for profanity and pervasive sexuality). Comedy about an overprotective father (Bryan Cranston) who schemes to sabotage his daughter’s (Zooey Deutch) relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire (James Franco) during a campus visit when the boorish boyfriend plans to propose. With Megan Mullally, Keegan-Michael Key, Cedric the Entertainer and Adam Devine, with cameos by hi-tech visionary Elon Musk and Kiss’s Gene Simmons and Peter Criss.
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1 p.m.: Christmas Day Carillon Concert at the Graduate School at Princeton University, 88 College Road West, Princeton. 4 p.m.: Second Chanukah Candle Lighting at Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville. Monday, December 26 10 a.m.: Battles of Trenton Walking Tour led by Ralph Siegel of Trenton Battlefield Tours. Attendees should meet at 26 South Warren Street in Trenton. 3 p.m.: Free screening of the family film Zootopia (2016) at Princeton Public Library. Tuesday, December 27 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: See artifacts depicting the history and contributions of New Jersey at the New Jersey Militia Museum, located at the Lawrenceville Armory at 151 Eggerts Crossing Road in Lawrence. 5 to 6 p.m.: Annual Menorah Lighting at the North Plaza on Hulfish Street in front of Mediterra restaurant in downtown Princeton. Includes guest speakers and a musical performance by the Odessa Klezmer Band. Wednesday, December 28 11 a.m.: Tots on Tour at Grounds for Sculpture (GFS) in Hamilton Township. Enjoy storytime, become GFS Park Explorers and make handson artwork (also at 1 p.m.). This event is free with park admission. 3 p.m.: Screening of the animated comedy The Secret Life of Pets at Princeton Public Library. 7 p.m.: Plays-in-the-Park production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at State Theatre of NJ in New Brunswick (through December 30). For tickets, call (732) 246-7469.
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provide entertainment while Elves and Santa Claus stroll through the store for the last time before Christmas. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Final day to take a photograph with Santa Claus at Market Fair Mall in Princeton. Visit www.marketfairmall.com to reserve a space in line. 10:30 a.m.: Screening of Elf (2003) at Princeton Garden Theatre. 11 a.m.: Santa’s Arrival at Princeton Airport, 41 Park Road in Princeton. Bring a wrapped gift with your child’s name in large text and Santa will distribute it when he arrives. Participants are also asked to bring an unwrapped gift of clothing, books or toys to be distributed through the Mercer County Board of Social Services. For more information, call (609) 921-3100. 2 to 3 p.m.: Free, Highlights Tour at the Princeton University Art Museum. 4 p.m.: Christmas Eve Family Service at Princeton United Methodist Church (Christmas Eve Candlelight Service begins at 8 p.m.). 8 p.m.: Christmas Eve Service at Princeton University Chapel. 8 p.m.: Christmas Eve Mass in Spanish at St. Paul’s Church in Princeton. 8 p.m.: Candlelight Service at 1867 Sanctuary, located at 101 Scotch Road in Ewing. Sunday, December 25 Christmas Day 10 a.m.: Christmas Day Mass at St. Paul’s Church in Princeton (also at 11:30 a.m.). 11 a.m.: Christmas Day Worship Service at Princeton University Chapel. 1 p.m.: First Crossing Reenactment at Washington Crossing Historic Park, 1112 River Road in Washington Crossing, Pa.
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sanitation in addition to the poor working conditions for the employees.” A resident of the Princeton area for several years, Ms. Fay wanted to open the salon nearby. “We were driving through Princeton and wondering where to put the salon, when we noticed this space on Witherspoon Street. It was the former site of Forer Pharmacy, and had been vacant for a number of years. “I saw an opportunity to open the nail salon, and I didn’t want it to be in a strip mall, but in town. I wanted it to be special. It would be different from all the others which I didn’t like — those with poor customer service and unappealing design of space. I wanted a sleek, sophisticated look. “Barbara and Bob Hillier (of Studio Hillier) were so helpful. Barbara designed t h e i n te r i or s p a c e a n d helped with the color selection. They also designed the store front.” The salon is exceptionally attractive, offering a spacious setting with a sleek sophisticated elegance. The work stations are state-ofthe-art, and every care and attention has been taken to provide a clean, sanitary, and safe environment. The decor also features a series of black and white photographs displayed on the walls, the work of Ms. Fay’s late father-in-law, Robert Sargent Fay. Environmentally-Friendly Ms. Fay did a great deal
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“Max (Veronneau) made a great play, I took a shot and he played it along the wall,” said Cressey. “He made a great pass out to me in front and luckily the puck bounced off the side of the net and I tipped it in.” That tally was the first shot of a barrage that saw the Tigers score four goals in the period, knotting the game at 2-2 and then battling back from a 4-2 deficit to make it a 4-4 game heading into the final 20 minutes of regulation. Minnesota State, though, responded with a tally four minutes into the third period and that held up as the Mavericks won 5-4. “We got four goals, everyone started rolling, it was great,” said Cressey, who picked up an assist on the fourth goal of the period that saw Ryan Kuffner score twice for the Tigers and Josh Teves add another tally as the Baker Rink crowd of
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With Seniors Brase, Caruso Sidelined for the Season, Stephens, Cannady Stepping Up for PU Mens’ Hoops Myles Stephens was in the starting lineup for the first time in his career and Devin Cannady was making his fourth-ever start as Princeton University men’s basketball team welcomed Saint Joseph’s to Jadwin Gym last Wednesday. The two sophomores acquitted themselves well as Stephens, a former Pennington School standout, contributed 12 points and six rebounds in 38 minutes while Cannady tallied a team-high 17 points in 35 minutes.
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Stephens and Cannady figure to play increasingly key roles for the Tigers as the program announced after the game that senior star Henry Caruso recently suffered a toe injury that will sideline him for the rest of the season, joining fellow senior Hans Brase on the shelf as his college career was ended after injuring his knee in late November. “We are adjusting,” said Henderson, reflecting on the absence of Brase and Caruso. “I still love the team. This is a tough loss tonight but we learned a lot about what we are going to be like going forward. I have confidence in the group ; maybe we were thinking a little bit too much about who wasn’t here to start. It is a basketball game and they have to play. St Joe’s played really well. I thought they were just way faster to the ball tonight.”
Stephens didn’t have much trouble adjusting to being in the starting lineup. “Nothing really changed, I just wanted to come in and play how I usually play, provide offense and defense for the team,” said Stephens. “Step into the role, just doing what I can to help the team win.” Getting outrebounded 5834 by St. Joe’s played a major part in keeping Princeton from winning against the Hawks. “We just have to be tougher, we know we are undersized,” said Stephens. “We have had trouble rebounding in the past so we just have to be tougher, box out, and go get them.” Cannady, for his par t, is looking to be mentally tougher in his new role. “Being the starting point guard now, I think I need to work on being an extension of coach on the court and finding my looks within the offense and helping the team get the best shots,” said Cannady.
“Most importantly, this season, what we are focusing on is being solid defensively. For me, I am in the game four minutes earlier. I am just trying to give a good start to the team and that is the mentality going forward.” When Princeton went on a 13-2 run to forge ahead of the Hawks 62-61 with 6:33 remaining in regulation, Cannady was sensing a big finish for the Tigers. “That was the first time you heard the fans get into it the whole game and when that happens, the momentum is in our favor,” said Cannady. “I thought at that mo ment if we had some defensive stops and got some rebounds, made more shots, it could have went our way,
but it didn’t and so we will just have to figure that out moving forward.” Henderson, for his part, knows that he has some things to figure out as the shorthanded Tigers move forward. “We made a nice run and got up 64-61 but we couldn’t muster the engine tonight,” lamented Henderson, whose team is slated to play at Monmouth on December 20 and at Bucknell on December 22 . “We have some nice looks but they killed us on the boards. They got to the free throw line and made their free throws. We have been struggling from the line a little bit. We have got a lot of work to do.” —Bill Alden
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Princeton University women’s volleyball star Cara Mattaliano, the only player in program history to win multiple Ivy League Player of the Year honors, punctuated her stellar career by earning AVCA All-Region honors in the Northeast Region. Mat taliano, who led Princeton to back-to-back Ivy League titles over the last two seasons, earned AllRegion Honorable Mention this week by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) after leading the Ivy League in both kills and points, while also returning the Tigers to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2007. The 6’1 native of Glen Ellyn, Ill., who became the 13th player in Princeton history to surpass the 1,000kill mark for her career, ended the season ranked first in the Ivy League in kills (3.76). She also ranked seventh in the Ivy League in digs (3.48), and was one of only two players to rank in the Top 10 in both categories. She had double-digit kills in 16 of her final 17 matches, including a 21-kill effort in Princeton’s Ivy-clinching 3-2 comeback win over Cornell and 11 in her NCAA tournament debut against BYU. She finished her career with 1,112 kills, 11th most in Princeton history. ———
PU Men’s Swimming Has Season Suspended
The Princeton University men’s swimming and diving team was informed last week by Princeton Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux Samaan and head coach Rob Orr that its season has been suspended pending a decision about the remainder of the team’s schedule. The decision to suspend the season was made after a complaint alerted the University to several materials, including content on the University-sponsored men’s swimming and diving team listserv, that was vulgar and offensive, as well as misogynistic and racist in nature. “We make it clear to all of our student-athletes that they represent Princeton University at all times, on and off the playing surface and in and out of season, and we expect appropriate, respectful conduct from them at all times,” said Samaan. “The behavior that we have learned about is simply unacceptable. It is antithetical to the values of our athletic program and of the University, and will not be tolerated. After reviewing the situation with Coach Orr, we have decided to suspend the season, and all associated team activities, effective immediately.”
on February 22-25. University Spokesperson John Cramer told the Daily Princetonian in an interview that he could not reveal any information regarding the nature of the e-mails due to pr ivacy concer ns for those involved and respect for “members of the women’s swimming and diving team.” He could not confirm or deny whether members of the women’s swimming and diving team were the subject
of the anonymously reported e-mails. However, Cramer noted t hat im mediately subse quent to the meeting with the men’s team, Samaan and coaches of the women’s team addressed members of the women’s team. Cramer cannot describe the specifics of that meeting. “The athletics department and the University are com-
mitted to providing an inclusive environment free from harassment and intimidation and characterized by mutual respect and concern for the well-being of others,” said Samaan. “In recent years we have worked closely with Princeton’s SHARE office (Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising Resources and Education) to provide educational and training programs for
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Samaan added that a “determination will be made about t he stat us of t he team’s remaining schedule” and that her office will work “to determine additional actions aimed at education and positive culture building for the team.” T he team is cur rent ly scheduled to swim in two remaining meets (against Nav y on Januar y 7 and against Harvard and Yale on February 5), along with the Ivy League Championships
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Displaying Intensity Under New Coach Noone, PHS Boys’ Hoops Tops WW/P-S 57-41 in Opener With new coach Pat Noone ta k i ng t he helm of t he Princeton High boys’ hoops program, the intensity level has been racheted up. “This year, it is a bit of a d i f fe r e nt p h i l o s op hy ; toughness has been really stressed,” said PHS senior point guard Sam Serxner. “Everything we are about is defense, heart, and picking each other up and just giving everything we have the entire time on the court.” Last Friday as the Little Tigers hosted WW/P-S in their season opener, they gave everything they had from the opening tipoff, jumping out to a 12-1 lead after one quarter. “We have struggled in that past with our starts, coming out a bit slow so our big focus has been on high intensity from the start,” said Serxner. “ We k n ow s o m e t i m e s there is a drop off before you can pick it up and we figure if we can be the team that plays harder from the very beginning, it is going to give us every advantage.” Leading 24-14 at half, PHS blew the game open in the third quarter, outscoring the Pirates 22-13, on the way to 57-41 win. “I think that says a lot about coach Noone, every time he gets a chance to talk to us, he really fires us up and gets us going,” said
Serxner, in assessing the team’s third quarter surge. “We love playing for him.” Ser xner and his teammates loved starting the season with a solid victory. “It is always best to start with a win; we had a great crowd and great momentum,” said Serxner. “That start really helped that. We are having a great time; it is easier to do well and be happy when you are winning.” In Serxner’s view, the Little Tigers developed a good team chemistry before the season even started. “It is a great group, there is no divisiveness, everyone is happy for everyone when we are doing well,” said Serxner. “We all want to win and when a team can come together like that, good things can happen.” In the win over WW/P-S, PHS produced a group effort offensively as sophomore Isaac Webb scored 10 points with senior Cristo Silva contributing nine points, senior Alex Filion chipping in seven, and senior Zahrion Blue adding six. “We have the best player in the CVC in Zahrion Blue; team strategies this year are going to be to take him away because they know how dangerous he is as a scorer and a playmaker,” said Serxner.
ON POINT: Princeton High boys’ basketball player Sam Serxner looks to pass the ball last Friday night as PHS opened the season against visiting WW/P-S. Senior point guard Serxner scored a team-high 17 points to help PHS prevail 5741 in the debut for new head coach Pat Noone. The Little Tigers host Nottingham on December 22. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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“We have got a lot of people who can put the ball in the basket; we need people to step up.” Serxner put the ball in the basket more than anyone on PHS last Friday, tallying a team-high 17 points. “I probably averaged five points a game last year; this year it is not like I have a specific number but I want to be 10-12 points a game kind of a guy and do everything I can,” said Serxner, an All-State defender for the PHS boys’ soccer team who is headed to Wesleyan University to continue his academic and athletic career. “Shots are going to come my way, I just have to knock them down when they are there.” Fo r n e w h e a d c o a c h Noone, coming to PHS has been a positive experience as he succeeds Mark Shelley. “What a great atmosphere there is here in Princeton; everybody has been welcoming; it is a great family environment,” said Noone, who is coming to the program after serving as the head coach at Lincoln High in Jersey City and previously working as an assistant coach at Rutgers-Newark. “It is the same thing we are trying to do with the basketball program. Coach Shelley did a great job last year and we are just trying to pick up from where he was and trying to keep it going.” In taking the helm, Noone is looking to instill a combination of harder-nosed play and unity. “We want to have a little bit of defense and rebounding; we really want to have that togetherness that you saw tonight,” said Noone. “I think the guys were really into it; the bench was into it. That was the big thing, it was not just the five guys on the court but all 13 of the guys. Everyone was into it. We had a great crowd, the atmosphere was awesome.” While PHS got off to an awesome start, Noone was a little uneasy until his squad stifled the Pirates down the stretch. “You get up 12-1 but you are nervous ; you look at the clock and you have another three quarters,” said Noone. “It was a good start, it felt good because they built off of that. Defensively our press wore them down; we threw a couple of different things at them.” In Noone’s view, the promising start helps him solidify the bonds with his new players. “They are really excited right now, I think tonight they thought, this is kind of fun, we can trust him,” said Noone, whose team hosts Nottingham on December 22. “He is running the program the right way and they are enjoying it.” Serxner and his fellow seniors are hoping to enjoy a big winter in their final campaign with the program. “We have got nine seniors on the team; it sucks to lose and this is it,” said Serxner. “We want to play as hard as we can and make sure that we have no regrets at the end of the season.” —Bill Alden
Showing Some Offensive Punch Early On, PHS Girls’ Hockey Aiming to Be Competitive Although his Princeton High girls’ hockey team lost its first two games this winter, Christian Herzog has seen some encouraging signs. “We are scor ing some goals,” said PHS head coach Herzog, whose team fell 7-4 to Pingry in its opener on December 13 and then lost 9-3 to Princeton Day School a day later. “We are putting a few points up compared to a few years ago; it was like the fourth game until we got our first goal. We have some newer, younger talent that we can work with over time.” The Little Tigers are getting good work at forward from senior captain and star Maggie Herring and freshman standout Victoria Zammit. “Maggie is going to have a good senior year,” said Herzog of Herring, who has tallied two goals and an assist so far this season. “Victoria is leading the team in scoring (four goals). She is putting the points up so far, she is making an impact. I have her on a different line than Maggie.” Herzog is looking for a pair of sophomores, Catherine Liu and Grace Reardon, to make an impact offensively this winter. “Catherine Liu is playing pretty good on the line with Maggie; she is in the right spot, she has pretty decent hands,” said Herzog, whose corps of forwards also includes senior Ashley Dart, sophomore Angelique Bencivenga, junior Ella Nadeau, senior Ella Quainton, junior Sydney Rubin, junior Anna Schmult, sophomore Adriana Todorova, junior Valeria Torres-Olivares, and freshman Ellen Whiteside. “Grace Reardon coming back as a sophomore; she knows her positioning and also has decent hands.” The PHS defense is spearheaded by the trio of junior assistant captain Alexa Zammit along with junior newcomer Orsolya Stipsicz and sophomore assistant captain Olivia Corrodi. “I have Alexa Zammit returning, she is the main defenseman and she is looking good,” said Herzog. “Orsolya is from Hungary; she played on a national champion team in floorball there. She showed up and she skates pretty well backwards. She doesn’t know the game in and out but definitely has something to build from. She is going to be good. Olivia Corrodi is an assistant captain; I put her on defense.” Freshman Ella Chauder has stepped in at goalie, making 15 saves against Pingry and 19 stops in the PDS game. “She plays on a club team; she mentioned that she had some experience at goalie,” said Herzog. “She is already starting to work butterfly and stuff so she is making progress. She is a freshman so I have time with her.” The PHS players are having a good time so far this winter. “I am happy with the leadership, particularly Maggie and Alexa speaking up in the locker room and on the bench,” said Herzog. “Olivia does her thing on
the ice; she lets the other two do the speaking. It is not cliquey at all.” Wit h t he L it t le Tigers playing at Mater Dei on December 22 before going on
holiday break, Herzog is optimistic heading into 2017. “I am hopeful for the future,” said Herzog. “We have a limited amount of practices and I think we are gelling. There is good camaraderie. I am looking forward to rest of the season.” —Bill Alden
GETTING AFTER IT: Princeton High girls’ hockey player Alexa Zammit heads up the ice in a game last season. Junior defenseman and assistant captain Zammit has tallied a goal and an assist so far this season as PHS has gotten off to a 0-2 start, falling 7-4 to Pingry in its opener on December 13 and then losing 9-3 to Princeton Day School a day later. The Little Tigers play at Mater Dei on December 22 before going on holiday break. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Having missed some games earlier this season with a leg injury, Tyler Coffey made up for lost time last weekend as the Princeton Day School boys’ hockey team hosted its 47th annual Harry RulonMiller ’51 Invitational. On Friday, the junior forward scored three goals to help PDS defeat Rye Countr y Day ( N.Y.) 8 -1 in an opening round contest. A day later, Coffey chipped in two assists as the Panthers topped Chatham High 4-0 in the championship game. Coming into the weekend, Coffey and his teammates were primed to put on a good show for their fans. “I definitely think that this tournament was our tournament to win,” said Coffey. “Before the season started, coach Perry (assistant coach Perry Roscioli) said a lot about having pride in playing at home and I think we really showed that this weekend. We played for Mr. Rulon-Miller and for everybody in the PDS community.” Cof fey helped get t he Panthers off to a good start against Chatham, assisting on a goal by Russell Friedman 2:18 into the contest. “The first goal was on the power play, that was good,” recalled Coffey. “I think that was our first shift out there; it was really quick, probably eight seconds into the power play.” The Panthers didn’t look back, building a 3-0 lead midway through the first period on their way to the 4 - 0 triumph. It was the program’s first title at its Invitational since 2013 and a good tuneup for a showdown at Don Bosco, slated for December 20. “It means a lot for us; we haven’t won it in a while,” said Coffey, who had two assists in the win as PDS improved to 6-3-1. “We can carry it over into Bosco and hopefully later in the sea-
son in Januar y when we play some good prep school teams.” In assessing his role on the Panthers, Coffey is looking to bring offensive punch to the ice. “I see myself a providing more skill and strength,” said Coffey. “I am strong but I need to get faster to play at the next level.” PDS head coach Scott Bertoli was happy with his team’s fast star t against Chatham. “The biggest challenge for us is just playing up to our potential, playing fast; playing up tempo and being aggressive in the offensive zone,” said Bertoli. “I think our biggest asset is our speed. We are not the biggest team, we are not the most physical team but when we get going and we get three or four lines into the mix with six defensemen, we skate and we put pressure on teams. I think at times we can overwhelm them; that was pretty evident last night and then again early today.” The combination of Coffey and star junior defenseman Nic Petruolo is another big asset for the Panthers. “We are a different team when Petruolo and Coffey are in the lineup,” asserted Bertoli. “They are the two most skilled guys on the ice just about every time we play. They anchor that top power play unit; you insert them, Nick on the back side and Tyler up front and it just makes every line stronger. It makes us more confident it gives us more of a threat offensively.” A number of other scoring threats have been emerging for the Panthers in the first month of the season. “I thought Russell Friedman had a really good weekend; we have made the adjustment and had him come
STRONG COFFEY: Princeton Day School boys’ hockey player Tyler Coffey heads up ice in game last season. Over the weekend, junior forward Coffey starred as PDS won the championship at its 47th annual Harry Rulon-Miller ’51 Invitational. On Friday, Coffey scored three goals to help PDS defeat Rye Country Day (N.Y.) 8-1 in an opening round contest. A day later, Coffey chipped in two assists as the Panthers topped Chatham High 4-0 in the championship game. PDS, which improved to 6-3-1 with the win over Chatham, was slated to play at Don Bosco on December 20 before taking a holiday hiatus. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
up and play on Coffey’s line,” said Bertoli. “Since we have put the line together of Coby Auslander, Ryan Lisk, and Ty Eastman, they have probably been our most consistent line. It is not always evident on the score sheet. The line that generates the most offense and consistently has the most offensive zone time is Ian Zyvith with Jack Mascali and Evan Szabo. Ian is one of the most fluid skaters I have ever seen, he has really come into his own this year. Jack and Evan are two of the most disciplined guys on our team and they get in the right spot.” Senior goalie Logan Kramsky was in the right spot as usual for PDS against Chatham, recording 17 saves in earning the shutout. “Logan is outstanding, the kid does what he needs to do, game in and game out,” said Bertoli. “He is a tremendous leader in just everything he does, the way he goes about his business, the way he prepares for games. He just gives you as a coach, and I would guess as a player, so much confidence. When we make mistakes, he comes through. He is just such a good kid; I am glad he has had the success that he has had. We are playing better hockey in front of him right now.” Experiencing success at the Rulon-Miller Invitational was a confidence builder for the Panthers. “It has been a couple of years; I just told these guys regardless of who we are playing I want them to play good hockey and play the game the right way; by and large, this weekend we did,” said Bertoli. “Regardless of what the score is, I want them to go about their business, where they are working on things and are improving.” With his squad at 6-3-1 after the weekend, Bertoli likes the way his players are taking care of their business. “We would love to win every game but given some of the circumstances and not always being at full strength and playing some very good teams; I am happy,” said Bertoli, whose team will be on a holiday hiatus after their clash with Don Bosco with their next game scheduled for January 4 against Wyoming Seminary (Pa.). “We had our crack at Delbarton and fell a little bit short (a 1-0 loss on December 8). I like to the play the best. Don Bosco is a team we have played and have played well over the last three or four years so we are excited for that. I think we are confident and we feel good about it and we are going to need to because they are a heck of a team with a high skill level. We will be tested in different ways that we have been tested to this point.” Coffey, for his part, is happy with how things are going so far this winter. “We lost Fletch (last year’s senior captain Connor Fletcher), which is big but we are getting through that,” said Coffey. “I think we are moving forward in a good direction.” —Bill Alden
With Serafin Starring at Both Ends of the Ice, PDS Girls’ Hockey Wins Title at Invitational Kr isti Serafin and her teammates on the Princeton Day School girls’ hockey team were determined to give a little more at both ends of the ice as they hosted Rye Country Day (N.Y.) in the championship game of the Harry Rulon-Miller ’51 Invitational. With sophomore Flynn Gorman moving to goalie from forward to fill in for sidelined senior star netminder Annika Asplundh, PDS was looking to make life easier for the neophyte in the net. “We were trying to get a lot more shots on net just to help her out so if they score, it doesn’t get in her head,” said senior defenseman and co-captain Serafin, who tallied a goal and two assists to help the Panthers top Summit 13-4 in the opening round of the tournament on Friday to earn a shot for the title. “Also defensively in front of the net it was just protect her because she is not used to being in that position.” Scoring three unanswered goals the first period put PDS in a very good position. “In the beginning we started off kind of crazy but after having that lead, it settled down a little,” said Serafin. “It gave us the confidence we needed to be able to say we can do this. I think it was really important.” Serafin set up the second goal as she fired a blast from the point that was directed into the net by sophomore Julie Patterson. “It was good, it was a team effort,” recalled Serafin, reflecting on the tally. “I got a really nice pass and got my shot off and Julie tipped it in so it was good all around.” After the teams each scored one goal in the second period, Serafin helped seal the deal for the Panthers early in the third as she threaded a pass into the crease that was banged home by freshman standout Gia Massari. “That was pretty incredible, Gia Massari is definitely a good player,” said Serafin. “She gives us a lift, she really stepped up.” PDS cruised from there, winning 6-1 to earn its first title at the Invitational since 2013. “Being a senior, it is definitely special for me,” said Serafin, reflecting on winning the championship. “I know it is special for the other girls, even the freshmen, being a part of that and representing the school that way. I see it as a step forward and a confidence builder as we move along.” It has been special for Serafin to serve as the captain of this year’s team along with classmate and fellow defenseman Kiely French. “It is definitely an honor and I am really excited
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to share that with Kiely French,” added Serafin. “We have been working hard and even though we are wearing the C we really work hard with Julie David, Allison Klei, and Annika. It is a good senior group so I am really lucky.” I n S eraf i n’s v iew, t he whole squad is showing a good work ethic. “Everyone has been coming to practice and working really hard,” said Serafin. “Even on the bench, everybody is lifting each other up.” PDS head coach Lorna Cook viewed the win over Rye as an uplifting performance. “We have tried to use it as a learning experience this year; adversity is not a bad thing if you turn it into a positive and make it an opportunity to grow,” said Cook, reflecting on playing without Asplundh in goal. “We looked at it as now we have to be more careful and play a lot smarter and the decision making has to be more defensive-minded for that. Today, I couldn’t be happier with how they played.” The Panthers played well from the opening face-off on Sunday. “They came out hard, they were moving the puck with each other right away,” said Cook. “Yesterday we were very jittery with the puck, we were giving it away a lot on our own. Today, they focused on keeping control. Gia putting in that first goal got momentum going in our favor.” The play of the precocious Massari, who scored four goals in the title game, created momentum for PDS. “Gia gives everything she has and I think she sets an example there but then she is also so skilled and so smart,” said Cook. “She is very selfless on the ice too, she is always looking to make the right play so I think, especially as a freshman, she gives everyone that confidence having a player who is just giving it everything. She has a lot of composure too and even though she is only a freshman, she has a mature way about her.” In Cook’s view, Serafin displayed maturity at both ends of the ice against Rye. “Kristi went down and made two saves, just going down on shots to block them and I think that sets the tone too for everybody,” said Cook. “You do whatever you can to get into the shooting lanes; that gives Flynn back in goal some reassurance too that I just have to do what I can here but everyone is working hard in front of me. With the offense, she did a great job today of picking her moments. A lot of it was giving good passes
to our forwards who did a pretty good job in the neutral zone of getting open and getting their feet moving.” Winning the Rulon-Miller title sets a good tone for the Panthers heading into the holidays. “It was one of the goals for us a team and a lot of the players; we had a disappointing loss in it last year where we actually outplayed the other team but we just couldn’t put the puck in the net,” said Cook. “To come out today with that kind of fire to just know we are missing our goalie but you know that we are going to play our team game. Not having Annika in net only affects the shots against, it doesn’t change the way that we can control play everywhere else.” The play of sophomore Gorman in goal proved to be a pleasant surprise for PDS. “Flynn did awesome; yesterday was hard on her because I think we just didn’t play that well as a team in front of her,” said Cook of Gorman who was the PDS recipient of the tour nament’s Christopher Reeve ’70 Sportsmanship Award. “I think we kind of left her out too dry a little bit. Everything just came together for everybody today but she stood in there. She made some huge saves when she had to. She has learned to keep her stick on the ice and that is really the main thing, trying to get square with puck.” With PDS, now 5-1, returning to action when it hosts Wyoming Seminary (Pa.) on January 4, Cook is looking for her players to keep playing well. “Today, to have it all come together shows them what they can do and how that standard is set,” said Cook. “So when we move move for ward from the break, they know how well they can play. They are going to hold themselves to it when they don’t play as hard as they did today. They will know it because we have seen what you can do.” Serafin, for her part, is confident that the Panthers will live up to that standard as they head into the 2017 portion of their schedule. “We need to keep working really hard in practice and stay unified as a team,” said Serafin. “I know that is going to be huge for us moving into these tougher games, keeping our heads right. I am just really looking for this team to win, we can definitely compete against Hill and Shady Side. I know we have a good shot. It is just coming back after break and refocusing. We know we can definitely do it.” —Bill Alden
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Hun Girls’ Basketball Showing Progress As New Players Making a Major Impact For many basketball teams, getting off to a 2-4 start would be a cause for concern. But with the Hun School girls hoops team having suffered through a 1-22 campaign last winter, posting two wins in its first six games this season represents major progress. “We have been competitive in every game; last year when we went into games in literally the first three minutes, the game was already decided,” said longtime Hun head coach Bill Holup. “The girls always played hard every game last year but the outcome was decided. We were overwhelmed by just about everybody but this year the girls know that they have a chance. They know that teams have to prepare for us. Not only are we playing hard, we are much more competitive this year.” Hun showed its competitive
fire in a 57-42 defeat to the Shipley School ( Pa.) last Friday. “Shipley is a really, really good team and they were beating us pretty good in the first half,” said Holup. “We played a really good second half and ended up losing by 15. I think we played looser; we just played basketball. We were much more composed and did a better overall offensive, defensive job in the second half. We put up a good fight.” The addition of sophomore transfer guard/forward Jada Jones has certainly made Hun better. “Jada has that ability to score; last year we didn’t have a go-to player,” said Holup. “She is a basketball player, she knows how to play the game. She knows how to work to get open. She has got a good shot, she can
KEEPING UP WITH JONES: Hun School girls’ basketball player Jada Jones puts up a shot in a game earlier this season. The addition of sophomore transfer Jones has helped the Raiders get off to a 2-4 start, already doubling last year’s win total when they went 1-22. Hun is next in action when it plays at Princeton Day School on January 5. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
handle the ball. She is also looking for her teammates as well. She has the ability to play guard or forward, which makes her versatile.” The play of post-graduate point guard Anna Maguire has positively impacted her teammates. “Anna is a true leader on the court for us, she is very upbeat,” said Holup, noting that Maguire is currently sidelined but should be back in action in January. “She has got the basketball skills but she also has those leadership qualities that our team really needs. She is always talking to the girls, trying to keep everybody up when they are down a little bit. She wants to handle the ball and she is constantly looking for everybody on the team to contribute. We love having her out there and the girls really look up to her as well.” A pair of freshmen, Alexis Harvell and Nicole Angelini, have also been contributing. “Alexis is doing a nice job; we have to keep working with her, she is still raw,” said Holup. “She gives us the size that we didn’t have last year. She is giving us a chance inside the paint now, something that we didn’t have last year. Nicole Angelini is a very pleasant surprise; she is mainly a soccer player. She is completely fearless on the basketball court, she will mix it up. If she makes a mistake, she makes sure that she doesn’t make that same mistake again and makes up for it at the other end of the floor.” Holup is expecting Hun to keep up the good work when it returns from the holidays. “It is a very promising outlook; it is just a good time to celebrate the holiday and have a little bit of a break,” said Holup, whose squad is next in action when it plays at Princeton Day School on January 5. “We will be able to come back with a positive attitude and know that we are competitive now.” —Bill Alden
Fueled by Michaels’ Leadership, Production, Stuart Hoops Gets Off to Sizzling 7-0 Start Hosting its Great Road rival Princeton Day School last Thursday, the Stuart Cou nt r y Day basketball team had plenty of reason to be fired up. In addition to familiarity and proximity breeding contempt, PDS had knocked a higher seeded Stuart team out of the state Prep B tournament last season. But as Tartan junior captain and forward Maddie Michaels and her Stuar t teammates took the court, they were intent on taking an even-keeled approach to the game. “We really wanted to come in with the mindset that it was just another game,” said Michaels. “We wanted to get rid of the rivalry and focus on our team and what our goals were and how to progress into the season.” T he Tar tans displayed their focus right away, jumping out to a 14-4 lead by the end of the first quarter. “We were really coming together, seeing the open player keeping eyes up,” said Michaels, reflecting on Stuart’s hot start which saw it jump out to a 32-11 advantage at halftime. “It was like a new team, it was like nothing I have ever seen before. It was really great, there was energy on the court.” Keeping the energy up in the second half, Stuart rolled to a 62-32 victory over the Panthers. “Today was definitely a step forward for our team,” said Michaels, who contributed eight points in the win. “We hope to move forward from this.” The one -t wo punch of sophomore Bey-Shana Clark and junior Jalynn Spaulding gave the Stuart team a big edge against PDS with Clark scoring 21 points and Spaulding chipping in 18. “It is really great; they are great pair,” said Michaels of Clark and Spaulding. “They know the game and they know how to work together. They know how to get you open and how to
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find that open player. It is a really great dynamic for the team to have those two.” As a team captain, Michaels is looking to foster a positive dynamic around the Tartans this winter. “My one goal is to keep the team together; I don’t want to see us stray away from the community and culture we are building this season,” asserted Michaels. “I really want us to keep that going throughout the whole season. Coach (Justin Leith) has this idea that we want to peak at the right time and I want us to get to that as a team and not lose each other on the way. When we peak, we peak together.” Michaels has worked hard to build confidence on the offensive end. “I was feeling good during that game ; definitely knocking down shots was good and my mindset was on to the next play,” said Michaels. “Throughout my years in high school, I have never been the biggest shooter. My mindset is usually defense. Being able to knock down this shots helps us move forward.” Stuart head coach Justin Leith was pleased with the way his team used defense to take control of the game against PDS. “It was good, we played tough defense and smart defense the way we have to because we are not very deep,” said Leith, whose roster has only nine players. Seeing the Tartans pull away in the second half was another good sign. “That was really the goal; at halftime, it was look they have some good athletes, they are very well coached,” said Leith. “Look at the end of the game, when it was a 2030 point lead for us and they are still picking up full court. They are still trying to get something out of it also, which helps us too. I would certainly never underestimate them at all. It is really about us trying to get better as a team and not worrying about the other team. It is just put a blank jersey on them and let’s really work.” Leith certainly likes the work he is getting from Clark and Spaulding. “They are great; they are fun to watch and it is fun to watch them grow their relationship,” said Leith. “Last year, they were both new to the school and to each other. We went down
to D.C. for a scrimmage this year and I think there were a couple of times where it was a screen and roll and they realized that they can work together really well and play off of each other’s strengths. It is still progressing, it is not 100 percent there yet. They are both reality solid, good players. They are sharing the ball with everyone else, they are moving the ball.” Michaels is providing a strong voice in her role as captain. “Maddie is our leader, she exemplifies leadership,” said Leith. “Even in the third quarter when we talked about trying to sustain a lead or pull away, she was the one, without me saying anything, coming out of the timeout saying to the girls let’s keep the pressure up, we have to work. That is what you expect but it is fun to watch her take on that role and then some.” T he play of f resh man point guard Jasmine Hansford has also been fun for Leith to watch. “Jasmine sees the floor tremendously well and finishes strong,” said Leith. “She is small but she is always making shots with contact against taller players. She is a good shooter.” In Leith’s view, Stuart is making strides with each outing. “I am happy with our progression; I think in our first game we played one really good quarter,” noted Leith, whose team improved to 7-0 after a 52-33 win over Manville last Monday and is next in action when it hosts the Stuart Invitational on December 27, 28, and 30. “We had one and a half good quarters in the second half against George on their home court in their tournament. The next game against Germantown Friends, it was 14-14 at halftime and then we pulled away in the second half. They scored four points in the second half so we put together two full quarters there. Today I thought we played three really solid quarters.” Michaels, for her part, believes that the Tartans can put together a special season. “We definitely need to keep up this sense of teamwork, this community, and communication,” said Michaels. “It is also keeping our mind on the right thing. We don’t want to go into January overestimating ourselves. We want to go in knowing that we have done the work. We want to know that we are undefeated because of our hard work.” —Bill Alden
LEADING THE WAY: Stuart Country Day School basketball player Maddie Michaels drives to the hoop in recent action. Last Thursday against Princeton Day School, junior forward and team captain Michaels scored eight points to help Stuart prevail 62-32. The Tartans, who improved to 7-0 with a 52-33 win over Manville last Monday, are next in action when they host their Stuart Invitational on December 27, 28, and 30. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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next in action when they Boys’ Swimming: Showing host Hun on January 5. its strength in the sprints, PHS defe ate d Ha m i lton 129-41 last Thursday. Daniel Barberis won the 50 freestyle while Gabriel BarBoys’ Basketball: Sparked Cohen prevailed in the 100 by John McAr thur, PDS free to help the Little Tigers Boys’ Basketball: Desmond improve to 4-2. PHS hosts topped Paul Robeson (Pa.) Cambridge starred in a los- Allentown/Robbinsville on 75- 69 in the third place ing cause as Hun got edged December 22. game at t he Spr ingside 48-47 by Union Catholic last C h e s t n u t H i l l Ac a d e m y ——— Sunday in the Hoop Group (Pa.) Blue Devil Classic last Girls’ Swimming: The DaTip-Off Classic at Caldwell weekend in Philadelphia, vis sisters, junior Samantha University. Post-graduate star Pa. Senior forward McArCambridge tallied a game- and freshman Cameron, high 17 points for the Raid- had a big day as PHS deers, who moved to 2-7. Hun feated Hamilton 115-55 last is next in action when it hosts Thursday. Samantha Davis Academy of New Church (Pa.) won the 50 and 100 freestyle races while Cameron on January 4. Davis prevailed in the 200 individual medley and the 100 breaststroke for the Little Tigers, who improved to 3-2-1. PHS hosts Allentown/Robbinsville on DeG irls’ Basketball : Erin cember 22. Devine played well as PHS fell 49-28 at WW/P-S last Friday in its season opener and first game under new head coach Steve Hennessy. Sophomore forward Devine scored nine points for the Girls’ Basketball: Missing Little Tigers. PHS plays at five players due to injury, Nottingham on December a shorthanded Pennington 22. squad fell to Blair Academy ——— 56-15 last Wednesday. The B o y s’ H o c k e y : A i d e n Red Raiders, who dropped Trainor had a big game to to 1-4 with the loss, are next help PHS defeat Paul VI in action when they com5-3 last Monday. Freshman pete in the John Molinelli/ forward Trainor scored two Hopewell Tournament on goals with senior standout December 27 and 28. and captain Brendon McCormick adding three assists as the Little Tigers FIRING LINE: Hun School boys’ hockey player Tanner Preston improved to 7-0-1. PHS will fires the puck up the ice last Friday against Academy of New look to keep on the winning Church (Pa.). Senior defenseman and co-captain Preston con- track when it faces Wall on tributed three assists in the game to help the Raiders prevail December 22 at the Mercer Boys’ Basketball: Jalen 8-0. Hun, now 2-3, is next in action when it competes in the County Park rink. Gaffney came up big as Purple Puck Tournament in the Washington, D.C. area from ——— Lawrenceville defeated host December 28-30. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) Kingswood-Oxford (Conn.) 63-58 in the championship game of the KingswoodOxford (Conn.) Tournament last Sunday. Gaffney scored a game-high 19 points for the Big Red, who improved to 6-2. Lawrenceville plays at the Solebury School (Pa.) on January 5. ——— Boys’ Hockey: Pito Walton and Nikita Nesterenko scored goals in a losing cause as Lawrenceville fell 6-2 to Northfield Mt. Herman in the seventh place game at its annual Lawrenceville Hockey Tournament last Sunday. The Big Red, now 2-6-1, are next in 3 Gutter Protection Devices that Effectively Work! action when they play at the Hotchkiss School (Conn.) on Free estimates! All work guaranteed in writing! January 4. thur scored 33 points for the Panthers, who moved to 7-1 with the win. PDS is slated to take part in the Prime Time Shootout from December 27-28 at Trenton Catholic Academy. ——— Girls’ Basketball: Brooke Smukler scored 11 points but it wasn’t nearly enough as PDS fell 62-32 at Stuart Country Day last Thursday. The Panthers, now 3-3, are
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Diana Daniel Lucas Diana Daniel Lucas of New tow n, Pennsylvania, died December 14, 2016 at the Pennswood Village Retirement Community in Newtown. She was born in Staten Island on November 25, 1922, the daughter of Diana Elmendorf Richards Lucas and Eugene Willet van Court Lucas, Jr. She attended St. Margaret’s School in Waterbur y, Connecticut, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1944. She made her home in Princeton for many years and in 2003 moved to the Pennswood Village Retirement Community. In keeping with her love of learning, Diana built a long and respected career at Educational Testing Services. She was a strong advocate of women’s higher education and was for decades a leading force at the Bryn Mawr Club of Princeton’s Book Sale, which raises funds for scholarships. She also had a heart for needy dogs and cats and spent many hours as a volunteer at the shelter, SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals, where a cat was named Lucas in her honor. Diana was predeceased by her brother, Peter R. Lucas. A funeral service was held on Monday, December 19, 2016 at Trinity Church in Princeton. Memorial contributions can be made to Bryn Mawr College, 101 North Merion
Martin Bratman Martin Bratman, 90, of Lawrenceville and Big Pine Key, F la., pas s e d away peacefully on Tuesday December 6, 2016 at Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell with his family by his side. Marty loved people and was happiest surrounded by family and friends. “Who else is coming?” was a common refrain heard during almost any outing. He lived a wonderful life made rich by those who loved him. When Marty connected with someone they were his friend for life. Born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1926, Marty enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and served as a tail-gunner on a B-29. Following his service, he moved to New Jersey and pursued many jobs. He worked as a chicken farmer, a door-to door vacuum cleaner salesman, and a furniture salesman. Mar ty and his late wife Mary Bratman (Manto) opened Viking Furniture in Trenton. Through their hard work the store flourished and they moved the business to Princeton where it remained for 30 years. Marty closed Viking in 1984 and he and Mary retired to the Florida Keys.
Retirement did not last long and he soon opened Paradise Bagels and Deli in Key West, Fla. After several successful years Marty closed the deli to pursue lifelong hobbies of fishing, flying, skeet shooting, painting, and creating stained glass murals and stepping stones. Son of the late David Bratman and Lillian Greenberg Bratman; husband of the late Mary Manto Bratman; he is survived by his son, J. Robert Bratman of Pennington; 2 daughters, Dr. Cynthia Bratman of Princeton and Wendy Mason of Mexico; a sister, Dr. Audrey Tarchine of Tucson, Ariz.: 3 grandchildren, Tyler, Kira, and Zachary; a great-grandson, Dominic; his beloved companion Joan Mainzer of Hamilton; and his two dedicated caregivers Connie and Frank. Services will be private. A celebration of his life will take place in May. Arrangements are by the WilsonApple Funeral Home, 2560 Pennington Road, Pennington. Condolences are welcome at www.wilsonapple. com. Donations in memory of Marty Bratman may be made at www.copdfounda tion.org.
Patricia worked for several years at Prudential in Hanover Park, N.J., retiring in her mid-60s to lovingly care for her husband. When he died in 1997, Patricia became a world traveler, visiting places in Eastern and Western Europe, as well as South America. With a group of very close friends, she also became an avid gym member, cinephile, theatergoer, and reader, and became involved in the lives of her 10 grandchildren. Patricia lived at Park Avenue until 2013, when she moved to Loudoun County Virginia, where she was involved in the community association as well as an active member of its social life. In 2015, after a fall, she moved to Acorn Glen in Princeton, where she died. Patricia is sur vived by three sons, Brian of Herndon, Va.: Robert of Princeton: and Richard of Lebanon N.J.: as well as 10 grandchildren; Corrina of Watertown, Mass.; Meghan of New Orleans, La; Christopher of New York City; Mark, Jeffery, Rebecca, Carolyn, and Sara of Princeton; Emelia and Owen of Lebanon N.J. Family and friends gathered on Thursday, December 15, 2016, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Burroughs, Kohr & Dangler Funeral Home, 106 Main Street, Madison, NJ 07940. A Funeral Mass was celebrated on Friday, December 16, 2016 at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church, Morristown, NJ. Interment followed at St. Vincent Cemetery, Noe Ave & Shunpike Road, Madison, NJ. ———
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Patricia Maslanka Patricia Maslanka, a longtime Madison, N.J. resident, died Monday, December 12, 2016. She was almost 89. Born Patricia McGovern in 1927, in a house that her parents built at 98 Park Avenue in Madison, she was the youngest of three siblings. Along with her brother, Daniel, and her sister, Betty, her cousin Jackie was practically another brother, living next door as part of the extended family circle that included her father’s parents and siblings. Her mother emigrated from Ireland at 16, and her relatives settled in Brooklyn N.Y. Patricia attended St. Vincent Mar t y r E lementar y School, and Madison High School in the building that is now the Middle School. After high school, Patricia worked in a local bank, learning skills that she would use throughout her life, including contributing them to a community finance committee on which she served just two years ago. Patr icia mar r ied John L. Maslanka in 1953. The couple moved to Perth Amboy, N.J., and gave birth to her eldest son, Brian there. The family relocated to Santa Barbara, Calif. shortly afterward, another son, Stephen, was born, but died at fifteen months old due to heart failure. Robert was born in 1959, and when he was three, the family moved to Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1968, they moved back to the family home on Park Avenue in Madison. There, the family welcomed a new baby, Richard, in 1969.
Quarto Armenti, 82 of Princeton died Sunday, December 18, 2016 at home surrounded by his loving family. Born in Pettoranello Di Molise, Italy he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1971. He served in the Italian military for two years. Quarto retired after several years of service with RCA, West Windsor. He also was a self-employed landscaper in the Princeton area and a member of St. Paul’s Church. Son of the late Adantimo and Carmela ( Perna) Armenti; brother of the late Dora Cifelli; brother-in-law of the late Enrico Cifelli, Ercole Carnevale, Biagio Armenti; he is survived by his wife of 57 years Rosina (Toto) Armenti; two sons and two daughters-in-law, Adantimo (Tony) and Patrizia Armenti, Vito and Susan Armenti; two brothers and two sisters-in-law Quintino and Sylvia Armenti of Argentina and Ezio and Vanda Armenti of Italy; seven sisters and five brothers-in-law, Delia and Florindo Rossi of Argentina, Rosina Carnevale, Ada Armenti, Anna and Michele Soragnese of Italy, Esterina and Giusseppe Rossi of Toronto, Canada, Lina and Giusseppe Valerio of Italy, Flora and Costantino Procaccini; a sister-in-law and brother-in-law Isolina and Mario Pirone of Italy; six grandchildren Cristiano, Sabrina, Briana, Alessandro, Adriano, Antonio; and a great grandson Tiarnan Dougherty and a host of nieces and nephews. The funeral will be held 8 : 30 a.m. on T hurs day December 22, 2016 from The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton. A Mass
of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9 :30 a.m. on Thursday at St. Paul’s Church, 216 Nassau Street, Princeton. Entombment will follow in the Franklin Memorial Park, North Brunswick. Friends may call on Wednesday evening from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society. ———
Enid Andersen Chace E n i d “ S u e” A n d e r s e n Chace died peacefully at home at the age of 87 on November 19, 2016 in Lawrenceville. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., on S eptember 29, 1929, she was the daughter of Eyston and Olive Kingston Andersen. Her father, who emigrated from Norway to the United States at age 16, called her “Susie Q” as a young girl, a moniker that evolved into her preferred lifelong nickname, Sue. She graduated from Bronxville High School and Pembroke College, now Brown University, in 1951. Sue spent the summer of 1951 studying in Oslo, Norway. She was introduced to her future husband, Dean Chace, who was a student at Princeton University, by a mutual friend in 1949. They were married in 1953 and remained devoted life partners until Dean’s death in October 2011. Sue and Dean lived in Haddon Heights, N.J., when first married; Dean was a young patent attorney at RCA and Sue was an enthusiastic first grade teacher. In 1957, they relocated to Princeton, where they remained active members of the Princeton community for 60 years. A member of the Nassau Presbyterian Church and the Nassau Club of Princeton, Sue was a past president of the Present Day Club, member of the Princeton Garden Club, an avid golfer at Springdale Golf Club, and a talented bridge player. Sue returned to teaching in 1972 and taught
kindergarten at Riverside and Littlebrook Elementary Schools in Princeton for 12 years. She devoted her time and energy as a volunteer at Princeton Hospital and as a docent at the Princeton University Art Museum. For the last 25 years of her life, in her family she was known as “Gibby,” a nickname acquired from a toddler granddaughter. Sue was an extraordinary person who made a positive impact on people’s lives. Without a doubt, Sue was a kind and gentle matriarch of her family, but also had a quick wit and dry sense of humor. She was a giver and taught her children to always think about giving back to their community, school, or church. Sue was also known for her kindness and compassion for her four-legged friends and had a special way of communicating with her family’s pets. Among her family’s favorite memories are summers in the Adirondacks at Canada Lake, N.Y. We will always remember the evenings on the porch and Gibby and Dean enjoying a sunset and the calls of the loons across the lake. E n i d “ S u e” A n d e r s e n Chace leaves daughter Elizabeth Chace Donahue (David) of Lawrenceville; and sons Christopher Chace (Margaret) of New York, N.Y.; and Scott Chace (Nathalie) of London, England; grandchildren Molly, Willy, and Nick Donahue, Blythe Chace, and Annabelle and Chloe Chace; and her sister in law Shirley Jane Chace. She was predeceased by her beloved husband Dean and brother Evan R. Andersen. A celebration of Sue’s life will take place on Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 2 p.m. at The Present Day Club in Princeton. Burial will be private. Donations in memory of Sue may be made to the Canada Lake Conservation Association, PO Box 483, Caroga Lake, N Y 12032 or to Planned Parenthood, PPFA, 123 William Street, 10th floor, NY, NY 10038, ppaction.org.
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Thursday March No weekday services.24 HolyThe. Eucharist, Rite II, 12:00 pm Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector Holy Eucharist with• Mr. Foot and The Rev. Nancy J. Hagner, Associate TomWashing Whittemore, Director of Music 33 Mercer St. Princeton www.trinityprinceton.org Stripping609-924-2277 of the Altar, 7:00 pm Keeping Watch, 8:00 pm – Mar. 25, 7:00 am Friday, March 25
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BUYInG: Antiques, paintings, Oriental rugs, coins, clocks, furniture, old toys, military, books, cameras, silver, costume & fine jewelry. Guitars & musical instruments. I buy single items to entire estates. Free appraisals. (609) 306-0613. 08-10-17
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For Sale or Rent HOME FOR SALE: 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, attached 2-car garage, full basement in beautiful Griggstown on 1.3 acres. Convenient to Princeton & Rutgers. $325,000 or Rent $2,200 per month (908) 359-1557 fishnet83@yahoo.com
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FOR SALE, MOVING: 42” glass top table, dark wood base + (4) upholstered dark brown naugahyde Parsons chairs, $450. Also, Schwinn exercise bike, sturdy w/bells & whistles, fully adjustable, $100. All very good condition. Lawrenceville. (609) 883-0538.
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HOUSEKEEPER NEEDED: Kind, professional couple in Princeton area needs help cleaning, cooking, laundry, shopping 20 hrs/wk. Monday-Friday, 4 hrs/day. Must have car, cell phone, speak English, good attitude, great references. Great pay for the right candidate. Contact Robin (215) 990-7547. 12-07-3t
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32 Chambers Street LEARNING Princeton, NJ 08542 DESIGNER (#6192): Master’s deg in Instructional (609) 924-1416 Tech, Instructional Design or rel +18 Martha F. Stockton, mos exp. Use design, A/V editing, & —Wilbur D. Nesbitwebsite design tools, Adobe Creative Broker-Owner
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Focus Workforce Management is currently seeking to interview applicants for a distribution center in the Cranbury, NJ area. PAY: Up to $11.00/hr for Production. Up to $13.50/hr for Forklift Drivers. SHIFTS AVAILABLE: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Shifts Available. Apply at www.workatfocus.com or call (801) 919-7746 to schedule an interview! 12-07-3t
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TECHNICAL PROJECT CONSULTANT (#6196): Bach deg (or forgn equiv) in Engnrng, Comp Sci, Info Systs, IT, or rel +5 yrs exp. Use XML, XSDs, web services, Java, IMS Question & Test Interoperability Specifications, & APIP 1.0 accessibility standards to manage book of work for K12 progs incl proj sched, interfacing w/stakeholders & management, and deliver solutions on schedule. F/T. Educational Testing Service. Princeton, NJ. Send CV to: Ritu Sahai, Strategic Workforce Analyst, ETS, 660 Rosedale Rd, MS-03D, Princeton, NJ 08541. No calls/recruiters. 12-21
HEALTHCARE CONSULTANT JOB CODE CT102 (CitiusTech, Princeton, NJ) Plan, manage & execute tasks for consulting projts in the healthcare fld. Evaluates bus rqmts & systs rqmts. Dvlps & implements bus testg strategies, bus process dsgns & wrkflows, process re-engring function & implementatn. Participate in analysis & dsgn, bus rqmt doc review & finalizatn. Lead & complete the projt tasks from kick off to the production launch. Track dvlpmts in Health & IT & stay abreast of new dvlpmts. Understanding of clinical wrkflows & exposure to clinical settings, .Net Technologies, XML, Crystal Rprts, Visual Studio, VB.Net. Master’s deg in Comp Sci/IT/IS or frgn equiv +12 mths of exp. Loctn: Princeton, NJ & various unanticipated loctns w/in the U.S., reloc maybe rqd. Please refer to job code & email resume to: us_jobs@citiustech.com 12-21
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER ANALYST JOB CODE CT101 (CitiusTech, Princeton, NJ) Anlyz & eval existg or proposed systs, & devise comp progs, systs & rel procedures to process data. Prep high level dsgn docs to assist in probl analysis, & submit recommendatns for solutns. Perf complex tech assignments, prep prog specs & diagrams, & dvlp coding logic flowcharts. Encode, test & debug, & install the operating progs & procedures in coordinatn w/comp operatns & user depts. Use tools such as Datastage Dsgner, Data Warehouse, DB2, SQL Srvr & Datamart. Bachelor’s deg in Comp Sci./Eng. or a rel fld +5yrs of progressive exp. Loctn: Princeton, NJ & various unanticipatd loctns w/ in the U.S., reloc maybe rqd. Please refer to job code & email resume to: us_jobs@citiustech.com 12-21
Thinking about a NEW CONSTRUCTION in Princeton? Multiple projects are available ranging from $799,000 to $1,495,000, built to the highest standard with attention to the finest details! Call me to schedule a private showing. There might still be time to customize your home!
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