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Celebrating 70 Years on the Princeton Beat
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Seventy years ago, on Friday, March 15, 1946, the Princeton Post Office delivered approximately 3,400 copies of the first issue of Town Topics to homes and businesses in town. Printed on both sides of a piece of paper 10” by 3.2,” the small paper was folded together like an oversized train timetable. As Jeb (Donald C. III) Stuart (19412008), editor from 1981 until 2001, wrote in 1996 in a 50-year history of the paper, “Town Topics began in a couple of briefcases carried around Princeton early in 1946 by brothers-in-law Dan Coyle and Don Stuart [Jeb’s father]”. The plan was to cover the entire Borough and Township with a single free circulation newspaper, an idea which the editors felt would appeal to potential advertisers and set Town Topics apart from the competition, the Princeton Packet and the Princeton Herald. For the first issue and every week for the next 25 years, Mr. Coyle wrote the front page, which consisted of an article titled “We Nominate,” about a person or persons who deserved recognition. The 1,625 Princeton men and women who had been involved in World War II, 38 of whom had died, were the
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nominees for the first issue. There was no Town Topics office. The editorial and advertising work were carried around in two briefcases and delivered once a week to the Princeton Herald on Chambers Street for printing. The paper grew in popularity with advertisers and readers, tripling its size between 1946 and 1949. Mary Coyle (Mr. Coyle’s wife) and Cissy Stuart (Mr. Stuart’s wife and Mary Coyle’s sister) came on board to help out with billing and publication day rush. By 1949 the paper had grown to the point where it was printed on actual newsprint and in a full tabloid size, and in 1950 the editors moved into much-needed office space in a three-story brick building at 4 Mercer Street, where it remained until 2007. The Coyles lived at 11 University Place, just behind the new Town Topics offices and Mary Coyle found she was increasingly on the job both in the office and at home, where they shared their phone number with Town Topics. Mrs. Coyle’s daughter Georgie Evans, who now lives in San Francisco, remembers, “It was a family enterprise. Our life was centered around Town Topics. Uncle Donnie was in the office. My mom worked as office manager and did the advertisements. Aunt Sissy was in charge of the mailing, so it was really a family enterprise with Uncle Donnie at the helm. My father wrote the ‘Man of the Week’ column, and every Monday night — of course he never wrote it ahead of time — we’d hear the typewriter clicking into the night.” Ms. Evans described running with her sister Mardie around the corner to the newspaper office, playing with her cousins Jeb and Charlie Stuart. “The office was our playground. Our cousins became our best friends. We had fun.” Ms. Evans fully expected Jeb to follow his father as editor. “I wasn’t at all surprised that Jeb took it on,” she said, “and then Sheila became so involved. I’m delighted that it’s still going.” As the paper grew in the early 1950s additional employees were hired. Kay Bretnall began writing a column titled “It’s New to Us” in 1953, became a full-time reporter in 1959, and continued in that post until 1984. The paper grew to its current six-column format by the early 1960s, with a circulation of 14,000. Preston Eckmeder arrived in 1959, and, as he describes
it, “did a little bit of everything” at Town Topics for the next 35 years. He covered sports events, the police beat, selling ads, layout, picking up and delivering papers, and, according to Jeb Stuart’s 1996 account, “a hundred and one other jobs, all with unfailing good humor.” Mr. Eckmeder, retired since 1994 and living in New Hope, Pa., described his Town Topics career as “the best years of my life. We were proud of what we were doing. We were a band of brothers. We enjoyed working with each other. It was
a great place to work, first it was me and Don, then me and Jeb. It was a pleasure to work for those guys. I’d get up every day and couldn’t wait to get to work.” Transitions
In the early 60s, Town Topics moved its printing operation to Merlo and Sons in Trenton, 20 miles closer to Princeton, a move which provided the opportunity to expand the paper and to print on Wednesday mornings, 24 hours earlier than before. Continued on Page 7
Advertisers Past and Present Have Shared Town Topics’ Commitment to the Community The news, of course, is the foundation of any newspaper. Right alongside, however, are the advertisers, who support and contribute to the success of the publication. As Town Topics marks its 70th anniversary, it has been fortunate to count upon many loyal advertisers over the years. They differ widely in merchandise and type of services; what they share is a commitment to quality products, customer consideration, and support of this newspaper over many years. Many are family businesses, which have been passed down through the generations. All have remained competitive in changing times and tastes, while retaining the individual qualities that make them unique. And, above all,
they have stood the test of time. A favorite place for generations of Princetonians, Rosedale Mills specializes in pet products, animal feed, equestrian-related items, including saddles and tack, and garden supplies. It has a long history dating to the 1800s, and it is a true family business, says owner John Hart, Jr. Family Ownership
The original Rosedale Mills was a saw mill and feed supply business. Mr. Hart’s great-grandfather Joseph Hunt owned the mill from 1902 to 1943, when it was sold. It reverted to family ownership in 1950, when John Hart, Sr. and a friend purchased it. The primary business then was feed for cattle. Continued on Page 9
IN THE BEGINNING: Town Topics’ founders Dan Coyle (left) and Don Stuart wrote all the copy and sold all the ads for their timetablesized publication
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The Princeton Packet, in a transaction expected to close on April 1, will become part of Pennsylvania-based Broad Street Media, which will own and operate the newspapers and digital websites of the Packet Media Group. James B. Kilgore, who has lived in Princeton for most of his life, will remain publisher of the new company’s titles and will retain a seat on the board. Mr. Kilgore joined Packet Media Group in 1976 and has served as president and publisher since 1980. Packet Media’s general manager and marketing director Michele Nesbihal will also keep her current position. The new company will be located on Witherspoon Street in the current Packet Media Group building. Broad Street Media CEO Darwin Oordt will oversee the day-to-day operations of the new company, as well as its strategic planning. Packet Media currently publishes five community newspapers, having shut down seven of its 12 publications last year and reduced Princeton Packet publication from twice a week to once a week. Broad Street Media was formed in 2010 and currently publishes community newspapers and specialty products, with a combined circulation of more than 500,000. The Princeton Packet has been published as The Princeton Packet since 1916 and, before that, under several different names since 1786. Packet Media Group was founded when James Kilgore’s father, Barney Kilgore, bought the paper in 1955.
Police Blotter On March 8, at 4:21 p.m., police responded to the 500 block of Brickhouse Road to investigate the report of a burglary and theft from a vehicle. The victim parked his unlocked vehicle at 5:30 p.m. on March 7 and when he returned the following morning at 7:21 a.m. he noticed a Garmin GPS unit, cell phone, and two pair of dress shoes were taken from the vehicle. On March 11, at 2:28 a.m., a 29-year-old male from Princeton was charged with DWI, subsequent to a motor vehicle stop for failure to maintain a lane on Walnut Lane.
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A Community Bulletin The Town Topics website now includes video postings of municipal meetings by Princeton Council, Planning Board, and Zoning Board. Visit www.towntopics.com. Meet the Candidates: Princeton Council candidates Tim Quinn and Anne Neumann will be at 141 Harris Road on Saturday, March 19 to meet the public and engage in a discussion. Mr. Quinn will be there from 5:30-7 p.m.; Ms. Neumann from 6:30-8 p.m. All Princeton voters are welcome. The event is sponsored by the Princeton Community Democratic Organization. Battlefield Cleanup Day: On Saturday, March 19 from 1-4 p.m., help the Battlefield Society and Sierra Club spruce up Princeton Battlefield for spring. Gloves and pruning shears will be provided; but bring shears if you have them. Visit princetonbattlefieldsocinfo.com to RSVP. Living Local Expo: At Rider University gymnasium in Lawrenceville, the 10th Annual Living Local Expo: Being Green Pays Off is held Saturday, March 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More than 70 eco-friendly local businesses will be on hand. Speakers will address sustainability issues. Admission is free. www.livinglocalexpo.org. Candidate Endorsement Night: The Princeton Community Democratic Organization has changed the location of its March 20 event to Princeton Jewish Center, 435 Nassau Street. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the program starts at 7 p.m. Candidates running for the Democratic nomination for Princeton Council will speak. Open to the public, but only PCDO members can vote. Showhouse Needed: The Junior League of Greater Princeton is looking for a home to serve as its holiday showhouse fundraiser in November. The ideal residence should be of architectural interest, have enough design spaces, ample parking options, and generous grounds. Call (908) 227-9429 or (609) 577-0751 with suggestions or questions. Red Cross Needs Volunteers: Friday, April 8 at 10:30 a.m., the American Red Cross office at 707 Alexander Road will hold a volunteer orientation. For more information, visit redcross.org. AARP Tax Aide Program: On Mondays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through April 11 at Princeton Public Library, seniors and people of low and moderate income can get free assistance preparing and electronically filing federal and state tax returns. This is for individual returns only. Appointments are necessary; call (609) 924-9529 ext. 1220. Assistance is also available at Princeton Senior Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street, Fridays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Appointments are necessary. Call (609) 924-7108. Wildlife Center Needs Volunteers: Mercer County Wildlife Center is holding orientations for new volunteers at the facility in Hopewell Township March 19 and April 3. Attendance at only one event is necessary. Visit www.mercercounty parks.org. First Baptist Church of Princeton in partnership with Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) invites members of the community to share a supper every Tuesday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Church, located at the corner of John Street and Paul Robeson Place. Meals can either be taken home or eaten at the Church. The Crisis Ministry of Mercer County holds a food pantry in the lower level of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Tuesday, 1:30 to 7 p.m.; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 1:30 to 4 p.m. For more information, call (609) 3965327, or visit thecrisisministry.org.
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TOPICS Of the Town The Barbara Boggs Sigmund award is named for the late Princeton Borough mayor and the first woman freeholder in Mercer County. Ms. Sigmund was instrumental in founding Womanspace in 1977. While she declined to be interviewed for this story, Ms. Hall provided a statement: “It is an honor to be recognized with the 2016 Barbara Sigmund Award. My family was personally destroyed by domestic violence and we have rebuilt by helping others, those families and victims who have felt alone. Since opening up about my story, I have been approached by countless others who have taken a stand. We must keep talking about this issue and work to end domestic violence.” In an article she wrote for today.com two years ago, Ms. Hall opened up about her experience. “I have felt guilty for so long that I didn’t do more to help my sister,” she wrote. “My father, who died soon after my sister of what my mother believes was a broken heart, said of his children that I was the child who ‘was always for right.’ Yet I have felt so ‘wrong’ since her death. “My guilt centers around one night at my home in Chicago. My sister was visiting when I heard a commotion downstairs. I rushed to see what had happened, only to find my home torn apart and my sister with a huge, red knot on her face. She was angry, embarrassed, and afraid. The other person there told me she ‘fell,’ but I ordered that person to leave immediately as I comforted my sister. The next morning when I went to check on her, I found she had let the person back into my home. I was furious and demanded they both leave. While we eventually reconciled, it wasn’t until we had gone without speaking for months.”
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Renate was murdered a few years later. It took Ms. Hall years to be able to speak about the tragedy. But she managed to channel her guilt into something positive by creating a segment for the TODAY show’s “Shine a Light” series, focusing on domestic abuse. The emotional segment, in which a group of young women relate their stories and talk about the shame and misery they have felt, is hard to watch. Born and raised in Texas, Ms. Hall, 45, worked as a reporter and anchor at television stations in her home state and later in Chicago before joining NBC in 2007. She co-hosts the 9 a.m. hour of TODAY and anchors “MSNBC Live With Tamron Hall.” She is a graduate of Temple University, and was Continued on Next Page
P R I N C E TO N U N I V E R S I T Y
EVENTS AT THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL MIRACLE, MUDDLE THROUGH OR MELTDOWN? THE FUTURE OF ISRAELIPALESTINIAN RELATIONS TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 4:30 P.M. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University TAL BECKER Senior Fellow, the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem; Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs This event is co-sponsored with The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton.
THE U.S. AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY: PROGRESS AND PERILS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 4:30 P.M. Robertson Hall, Princeton University DAVID J. LANE MPA ’88 U.S. Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome Ambassador Lane is visiting the School as its 2016 Joseph S. Nye Jr. ’58 International Lecturer.
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recently tapped to fill Bill Cosby’s seat on the school’s board of trustees after he resigned due to allegations that he sexually assaulted women over decades. Ms. Hall received Temple’s Lew Klein Alumni in the Media award in 2010. She has been recognized by Day One, a New York based advocacy group for domestic violence victims. As part of the “Shine a Light” series, she has raised more than $42,000 to help end the abuse. “Tamron Hall addresses the issue of domestic violence w it h compas s ion, courage, and a commitment to helping other women and girls recognize abusive relationships,” reads a printed statement from Womanspace. “She also reminds us that domestic violence casts a wide net, impacting not only the intended victims, but also their sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, children, friends, and entire communities. Hall is firm that ‘love doesn’t have to hurt,’ and she is working diligently on ending the prevalence of victim blaming which is overshadowing the real issue at hand, which is putting an end to the violence.” The awards gala is the biggest event of the year for Womanspace, and the organization is still accepting sponsorships and selling tickets. All proceeds go toward programs and services for victims and survivors of human trafficking, domestic and sexual violence for women, men, and children. Visit womanspace.org for more information. —Anne Levin
ISIS Expert Phyllis Bennis To Speak and Sign Books
At the annual membership renewal and new member welcome gathering of the Coalition for Peace Action on Sunday, March 20, ISIS expert Phyllis Bennis will speak and sign books at the Unitarian Universalist Church. The event begins at 2 p.m. with a free light meal for those who have contributed a 2016 membership. Ms. Bennis’s talk begins at 3 p.m. and is free to the public. Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror is the title of her talk and her latest book. She will autograph copies, which will be for sale, at the event. Ms. Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, working as a writer, activist, and analyst on Middle East and United Nations issues. She is a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001, she helped found and remains active with the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli occupation. She is the author and editor of 11 books. Ms. Bennis works with many anti-war organizations and writes and speaks widely across the United States and around the world as part of the global peace movement. She has served as an informal adviser to several UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues. To reserve a spot, visit
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Question of the Week:
“This week is Town Topics’ 70th
anniversary. What has the newspaper meant to you and what do you look forward to reading each week?”
“I like all the articles. I think they’re all very well written, lots of information, and I look forward to the paper every week. And I love that it’s an independent local newspaper for free.” —Alan Draun, Princeton
“What I love about Town Topics is its hometown news and hometown feel. I like that I get to find out what’s happening in our own town. It’s current information and it’s well written” —Milena DeLuca, Princeton
“Town Topics is a place to always look for community news and make sure I know what’s going on in the community. But by far the feature I look forward to is the question of the week. I like to see if someone I know has answered the question, which doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s such a pleasure to say I saw you in Town Topics.” —Andrew Zwicker, Kingston, NJ Assemblyman representing the 16th Legislative District
“I think Princeton has a really unique community brought together by all the local businesses that support each other and it wouldn’t really happen without Town Topics publicizing everything that happens in town.” —Malena Attar, Princeton
“In 1967 I decided to check the classifieds in Town Topics and saw an ad that two working girls were looking for a roommate on Witherspoon Street. So I told my sister and this ad changed her life: she met her husband through it, has been married for 50 years, has 3 children and 8 grandchildren.” —Molly Menand, Princeton
“Town Topics has all the news that’s worth getting. I look forward each week to reading the police blotter, just to make sure that I’m not in it and that my husband is accounted for.” —Maria Evans, Princeton
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Later in the decade Town Topics had to adjust its free circulation policy and institute a charge of ten cents per copy at newsstands, while still delivering free of charge to every home in Princeton. The Coyles left Princeton to settle in Mar yland in 1973, and later that year Mr. Coyle passed away at the age of 57. Different weekly stories replaced the “We Nominate” feature, and the paper switched from hot to cold type or offset printing in November 1973. Large and bulky though they were, a couple of computers, according to Mr. Stuart’s account, “could typeset news and ads a lot faster and cleaner than the huge rattling linotype machines that used molten lead. The changeover, taking place in just six days, was not entirely smooth, with some ads going in upside down and columns of news and classifieds crooked, but from late 1973 all editorial advertising copy would be set, proofed, and laid out on pages in the Mercer Street office, with pictures turned into halftones by a new camera at Town Topics. Cameraready pages were prepared and taken to a new printer, Somerset Press in Somerville, which had the latest web offset press. Preparation time shor tened and technique improved so that t he camera-ready pages could be completed most weeks by 7 p.m. Tuesday. By 1980 Town Topics had made its final transition to a tabloid newspaper with a full front page, which could include more than one story and all late breaking news. New Editor, New Era In 1981 Don Stuart, the newspaper’s co-founder and editor for its first 35-years, died suddenly and unexpectedly of cancer at age 67. He had not missed a day of work due to illness since the paper began. His son Jeb, who had been an assistant editor and sports writer since June 1967, took over. In 1982 he was joined by his wife Sheila, who had previously written the “It’s New to Us” column. She took on the paper’s finances, and, under her guidance, Town Topics modernized the billing and circulation operations and upgraded to Apple computers and page layout software to replace some of the paste-up process. Ms. Stuart, who now lives for most of the year in San Francisco, reminisced about the old days at Town Topics. “As far as our family is concerned,” she said, “Town Topics dominated ever ything. I don’t know where we would have been without it. It formed the whole rhythm of our family life.” Emphasizing the importance of the newspaper to the town, Ms. Stuart added, “Jeb’s dad and Jeb and Dan Coyle had integrity about reporting on Princeton and reporting the news. Everything got edited very carefully.” She commented also on the high standards and painstaking care of Barbara Johnson, assistant editor and writer from 1975-1998. “Their intentions to stay as accurate and local as they could made Town Topics a very special thing,” she said.
Jeb and Sheila’s son Craig, now head of treasury management strategy at Wells Fargo Bank and living in San Francisco`with his wife and two children, remembers Town Topics setting the rhy thm of the week — “every week the same pattern, with intensity levels rising on Monday and Tuesdays” as the deadline approached, then a great relief on Wednesdays and a relaxed Thursday, before getting back to work on Friday. “The tenor of work and home life was marked by this cycle of getting the paper out,” he said. The Town Topics office on Mercer Street was a home base for Craig when he wou ld somet imes be dropped off from Princeton Day School, or later when he would stop in from his dorm room at Princeton University. “We didn’t give a thought to just walking into the office and plumping down in dad’s chair,” he said. “It was a family business. We had that liberty.” He would frequently help out with the Wednesday delivery and distribution of the papers and would occasionally take sports photos or write feature stories, “whenever what my dad needed that would match with my interests.” He described two memorable feature stories he wrote, one on a controversial bike helmet law in town and another on “an art project at the University where somebody posed nude and was arrested.” Craig was editor of the PDS school paper and wrote for the Daily Princetonian in college, then after college went to Thailand, where he wrote for an English language magazine for four years. As far as following in his father’s footsteps was concerned, Craig explained t hat “somet hing f ur t her afield was more interesting to me. I wanted to get out into more of the world.” Craig’s younger sister Laurie, who also lives in San Francisco, with her husband and two daughters, remarked on how “interconnected with us as a family” Town Topics was. She too helped with the Wednesday newspaper deliveries, either on her bicycle or throwing the papers out the back window of the family car.
After getting her driver’s license, Laurie remembers with pride being entrusted with taking the paper down to the press on Tuesday nights. “I was glad my dad trusted me with that. That was one of the most important jobs. If I didn’t get there, the paper wouldn’t come out.” Laurie stated that Town Topics had a major impact on her life. She emphasized the integrity of the enterprise and the importance of people so clearly invested in their work and taking responsibility for the quality of the newspaper. New Editor, New Directions In the late 1990s Lynn Adams Smith, who had been commuting from Princeton to a furniture and design business in SoHo in Manhattan, decided she “wanted to do something more involved with the community.” She responded to an ad to work in sales at Town Topics, went in for an interview and liked what she saw. She had always loved the idea of community newspapers, and before moving to Princeton had read a copy of Town Topics to get a sense of the place she would be moving to. After working at Town topics a few months, Ms. Smith asked her attorney to contact Mr. Stuart with an anonymous offer to buy the paper. Eventually, “he knew it was me, but it took me three years to convince him. He didn’t want to retire, but did it because of his health. “He had a lot of confidence in me, and I’ll always appreciate that,” Ms. Smith said. “He respected my business sense. He trusted we weren’t going to sell to a big newspaper chain.” With the financial backing of a small group of the newspaper’s employees and former employees, along with the Princeton architect J. Robert Hillier, Ms. Smith took over Town Topics in 2001 with a goal of preserving the paper’s look and tradition, upgrading where possible, and bringing Town Topics into the 21st century. Mr. Hillier, who remembered Town Topics’ beginnings, “because my mother’s flower shop, the Flower Bas-
ket, was one of their early advertisers,” explained how he became part owner: “My direct involvement with the paper began with an email, ‘How would you like to own a piece of a Princeton institution?’, followed by a cup of coffee with Lynn Smith the next morning, and an investment in the purchase of the paper the next day. The rest is a happy history.” Ms. Smith described cutting and pasting the paper together, sticking the copy to a large board during her early days at Town Topics. “We’d put the large boards into a big suitcase and take turns driving them to Lakewood to the printer. The paper, in some ways, was still stuck in the 1950s.” Under Ms. Smith’s leadership, Town Topics acquired computers for everybody and began to send files electronically. The old metal desks from the 1950s, which had become embedded in the floor, were melted down for scrap metal and replaced. And the office, for the first time in many years, even got a new coat of paint. Rapid Growth In 2007, after 57 years at 4 Mercer Street, Town Topic s move d f rom t he University-owned building to new quar ters, a t wo family home re-modeled by Mr. Hillier, at 305 Witherspoon Street. Town Topics purchased Princeton Magazine in 2008, and in 2012 launched Urban Agenda Magazine, giving birth to Witherspoon Media Group. In 2014 Princeton Magazine established its online retail site, A Store by Princeton Magazine. By 2015 Witherspoon Media Group had outgrown its Witherspoon offices, needing more storage, parking, and work space, which it found at its current home in Kingston, one mile north of Princeton, where its headquar ters dates to 1878, when the Union Line Hotel was built to serve stage coach traffic between Philadelphia and New York. Town Topics, Princeton Magazine and Urban Agenda now benefit from a daily stream of online content. A Store by Princeton Magazine at www.princetonmagazinestore.com represents approximately 50 artisans and local retailers.
Princeton Magazine is on instagram@princeton_magazine, with shots of everything Princeton, including local scenes, events, landmarks, and links to new articles. Witherspoon Media Group’s publications receive a growing number of followers on Twitter, Facebook, eNewsletters, and LinkedIn. Multiple times per week colorful, thematic articles known as Princeton Insider on TownTopics.com and PrincetonMagazine.com and Urban insider at UrbanAgendaMagazine.com link directly to each product page for easy, streamlined shopping. Witherspoon Media Group is also moving into the field of custom publishing, putting out newsletters, newspapers, and magazines for different companies. In reflecting back on the past 15 years as Editor-inChief of Town Topics and now the expanding Witherspoon Media Group, Lynn Smith first stated that she will “always be thankful to Jeb for having confidence in me and for Bob and Barbara Hillier for stepping in when I needed them.” Ms. Smith said that she is “proud of the positive environment at Witherspoon Media. The staff takes pride in their work and in all the different publications. It is a multi-talented group, with many different, rich backgrounds.” Mr. Hillier, commenting on the role of Witherspoon Media in the rapidly-changing Internet era, added “In spite of what is written about the challenges of print media, local publications like Town Topics continue to thrive and play an important role in the spectrum of media communication, as do its sister publications, Princeton Magazine and Urban Agenda Magazine. Town Topics has a history of good objective reporting that is well written and, under Lynn’s excellent leadership, that will continue.” In 1996, on the occasion of Town Topics’ 50th anniversary, Editor Jeb Stuart wrote about the effort and dedication of the paper’s employees, ”Town Topics has been fortunate in its 50-year history,” he said, “in having a staff that cares
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One Table Cafe Marks Women’s History Month
One Table Cafe, located at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, will honor Women’s Histor y Mont h on Friday, March 18, 6:30 p.m. with guest speakers Judith Donohue Hut ton, Ceclia B. Hodges, and the Witherspoon/People’s Verse Speaking Choir. Hightstown’s Twelve Farms Restaurant has volunteered to prepare and donate a three-course dinner. Owned by Trinity parishioners Rennie and Barbara DiLorenzo, Twelve Farms refers to the DiLorenzo’s goal of eventually highlighting the produce from one local farm each month. Ms. Hutton, the CEO of the Princeton YWCA, has served globally on the YWCA World Service Council. Ms. Hodges is the founding member of the Withe r s p o on / Pe ople’s Ve r s e Speaking Choir. All are welcome, the cost of the meal is offered at “donate what you can.” The dinner’s net proceeds in 2016 benefit Mercer Street Friends, Trenton Area Soup K itch e n, B r e ad for t h e World, and Episcopal Relief and Development. Dress is casual, children are welcome, and conversation is encouraged. Reservations are a must and the deadline is March 15. Call (609) 924-2277 ext. 352. The next One Table Cafe is April 15. Visit onetablecafe. org for more information. ———
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In the 1960s, the focus changed, as farms began to give way to development, recalls Betty Hart, Mr. Hart’s mother, and wife of then John Hart, Sr. “The major change was adding lawn and garden products. In addition, feed for animals, pet food and supplies, among a variety of other products, were emphasized.” The store, now located on Titus Mill Road in Pennington, recently added a selection of equestrian clothing and gear, notes Mr. Hart, who also looks forward to including his own farm-raised beef, poultry, and pork. “I have been a life-long farmer, and I have a farm nearby. We raise cattle, chicken, and pigs, and we will soon have these products available for our customers.” “The business has certainly changed over time,” he adds, “but the focus on quality products and customer service has remained the same. I am glad to continue our family tradition and be able to serve our loyal customers who have been coming to Rosedale for so many years.” Hulit’s Shoes is a Princeton tradition. The store has prov ided generations of Princetonians (including Albert Einstein) with footwear. With changes peppering the town seemingly non-stop, Hulit’s offers a sense of continuity and durability, as well as a fine selection of shoes for the entire family. Founded in 1929 by Warren Hulit, the store has been a Nassau Street mainstay. Family members have been actively involved in the store through the years. Warren’s sons, Ralph and Pete Hulit, were known to many shoppers, and his daughters, Nellie Meyers and Lillian Hall, were on hand too. His daughter Clara Hulit and her husband Charlie Simone, also in the store, were the parents of current owner Chuck Simone. “I started working parttime in high school and then full-time in 1971,” he says. “I became owner with my late wife Phyllis in 1987.” Entire Family He is pleased now that his son Ryan, representing another generation, is continuing the family tradition, and has become manager. “This store serves the entire family, and that is sort of a dying breed these days,” points out Mr. Simone. “We try very hard to emphasize service, and we make a special effort to fit the shoe. We know how to fit children’s shoes, for example.” Indeed, Hulit’s has seen many children grow up over the years, he adds. “We have seen so many families coming in, and we’ve gotten to know them. We now see their children and even the greatgrandchildren of customers from the early days.” The more informal lifestyle of society these days has been reflected in the shoe business, and as Mr. Simone says, comfort is a major goal. “People want to be comfortable today, and this is true in dress shoes too. We have shoes from all over the world now, and can provide something for everyone’s needs and taste. What customers appreciate in addition to the extensive selection of footwear
is Hulit’s special brand of individual service. “We offer a lot of personal attention,” says Mr. Simone, “and I think people like the way they are treated here.” Batch of Blueberries It was 1939 when Charles Peterson, Jr., then six years old, went out to pick a batch of blueberries, and then proceeded to sell them. The late Mr. Peterson’s early entry into business proved so successful that he built his fledgling operation into Peterson’s Nursery, Garden Center & Landscaping in Lawrenceville. Mr. Peterson’s son Charles III, daughter Liz, and his widow Linda now operate the business. “We have evolved from a seasonal produce business to a year-round garden center, nurser y, and landscaping business, and with a second generation family operation, we have many customers who come in, saying, ‘My father always got his tomato plants at Peterson’s;’ or ‘I remember helping my mother choose flowers at Peterson’s for our garden;’ and ‘When I was a kid, we always came here to get our Christmas tree,’” reports Mrs. Peterson. She adds that the emphasis may shift a bit but that people will always be interested in gardening. “Large gardens may give way to s ma ller gardens, rais e d beds, or container plants, but people still enjoy ‘digging in the dirt!’ “Plant choices and growing methods are changing as people move to more natural and organic methods. Peterson’s has long been a leader in encouraging the use of non-chemical gardening products. Charles Peterson, Jr. always suggested using natural, organic fertilizers, and advocated the use of natural seaweed products in the 1980s, way before the flood of ‘natural/organic’ products came on the market. Charlie did a lot of research on insect control in the greenhouse, and Peterson’s has been selling ladybugs for natural aphid control for many, many years.” Personal Touch The internet has certainly brought changes, continues Mrs. Peterson. “We can order products or connect with customers in such a short time. But the internet removes the personal relationship that we like to build with our customers. And internet pictures are not always accurate when it comes to colors and shades of colors. Words do not always describe a plant correctly. “Gardeners want a handson buying experience when it comes to plants. They want to be able to see and touch what they are buying. When shopping at Peterson’s, our customers can see how different colors and flowers will go together in their garden or landscape. They appreciate talking with our knowledgeable staff. Charlie’s daughter, Liz, and son, Charlie have been involved with plants all their lives, and can offer advice about what will grow in the sun or shade or what the watering needs are of a specific plant. They can recommend what will grow in the sun in a dark corner of their living room, or what will survive on their hot, sunny deck, or what will screen a swimming pool from neighbors. Internet shopping does not provide
that personal connection.” “The changes and challenges we see these days compared to when my grandparents ran the business are vast and never-ending,” points out Jill JeffersonMiller, product manager of Jefferson Bath and Kitchen, a division of N.C. Jefferson Plumbing, Heating & A/C. Opened in 1947 by Ms. Jefferson’s grandfather, Norton Jefferson, the company included his brother Bob. His son Bruce (Jill’s father) grew up in the business, becoming owner in 1988. Over time, a bath and k itchen show room, now located on the PrincetonHightstown Road in Princeton Junction, was added to the operation, and Ms. Jefferson-Miller notes the many changes of that aspect of Jefferson’s focus. “The emergence of the internet and on-line shopping has been one of our biggest challenges this past decade — at least for the Bath and
Kitchen side of our business. As a small business, it is impossible to compete with the large on-line distributors.” Product Links What Jefferson Bath and Kitchen can offer, however, is personal, knowledgeable guidance. “I spend a lot of time with my customers finding out what their needs are, their style and taste in design, budget, etc. I answer their questions about the options and how they compare, the quality of products, and how they function. I then provide detailed quotes and always offer a discount off the manufacturer list price.” Ms. Jefferson-Miller adds that the internet has also been beneficial to business in a number of ways. “I probably spend half my time on the internet looking up specifications, ordering material, and gathering information for products and projects. I provide product links to my customers so they can see what we have to offer without having to take time to come into the showroom
to make selections. It also allows us to offer more options to the consumer than what we can display in our showroom.” Fo c u s on q u a l it y a n d customer ser vice remain foremost at Jefferson, she emphasizes. “We still offer the same high quality, personal service to all our customers. We’re a family business, and we work in a very small radius surrounding the Princeton area. Our customers are like family, and we instill that philosophy with our technicians to ensure that they treat each home and homeowner with the utmost respect. “We’ve been in business for 60 years next month, and Princeton has been a wonderful place to do business. Many of our customers remember my grandfather and have been loyal to us from the beginning. We now work for many of the children and grandchildren of those customers. We are multi-generational on the business side and on the
consumer side as well!” A mainstay in the jewelry field since 1912, originally as George Marks Inc., Hamilton Jewelers has upheld the tradition of providing the Princeton community with enduring value, exceptional quality, and outstanding service. With an extensive selection of fine jewelry, timepieces, and home decor items, it offers customers a unique shopping experience. As president and CEO of Hamilton, Hank Siegel has led the company to new levels of success, while retaining its core values and its character as a family business. “It is an honor and a responsibility,” he says. “Today, we have more than 100 employees. The business started with three — my grandfather, grandmother, and one employee.” Dream of a Father I r v i n g S i e g e l, H a n k ’s g r a n d f at h e r, p u r c h a s e d the business in 1924. His son, Martin (Hank’s father) Continued on Next Page
Seventh Annual Members’ Meeting & Open House Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm 1 Monument Drive Multipurpose Room (signs will be posted from parking lot) Open to members, prospective members and the public. To vote on board members, your membership must be current by April 9, 2016
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special items with a unique heritage, it offers yet another intriguing Hamilton shopping experience. Still going strong after 67 years of service, Nelson Glass & Aluminum Co. is an independent, familyowned firm on Spring Street, offering a wealth of experience in the glass business. “It all started in 1949 with one truck and one man, my dad, Bob Nelson, serving one small town,” says owner Robbie Nelson. “Today, nearly 67 years later, we service Princeton and the surrounding area. We do it all — residential and commercial, simple or complex. We are still the one-stop shop for everything glass, including windows, insulating units, tops and shelves, mirrors, shower doors, storms, solar film, and more.”
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joined the business, later becoming president. Hank shares his father’s philosophy regarding values in business and family. As Martin Siegel says, “I started to help my dad in the business when I was 12 years old. I never thought of doing anything else. I came on board formally in 1955, and now my son Hank is president and CEO. It has meant more than I ever expected to have the family business continue. It’s a dream of a father, passed on to a son and a grandson.” Most recently, Hamilton has added a new Nassau Street storefront, H1912, nearby the flagship Hamilton location. Featuring vintage jewelry, watches, and
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Ke e p i n g u p w i t h t h e changes in today’s rapidlychanging technology is a must for a business, she adds. “We have developed a fabulous website and an interactive Facebook presence, but a huge part of our business is still face-to-face service. Glasswork is highly specialized, and every job is different. “Also, we don’t really compete with the big box stores with their generic approach to products and customer service. Being THE glass company in Princeton for nearly 67 years has given rise to a huge, loyal customer base, which spans generations. We have customers who were classmates of mine at Princeton High School, whose parents were customers of my dad years back. Of course, long-time employee Alice Kent, with more than 52 years with Nelson Glass, has been the continuous thread through the generations.” Early Days Buying or selling a house is one of the most challenging experiences one encounters. A knowledgeable, reputable real estate broker can make all the difference. Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty is such a resource. The result of a merger in 2012 of two of Princeton’s most respected realtors, this company specializes in residential brokerage. “The heritage of Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty dates back to 1953 when my grandfather, John T. Henderson, Sr. opened his first office located on A lexander St reet,” s ays Judson R. Henderson, Broker of Record. “Since those early days, the company has thrived and entered the 21st century with a third generation of Hendersons actively managing this exceptional boutique business. “In 1974, Pete Callaway founded N.T. Callaway Real Estate, also opening his first office in Princeton. Like our family’s firm, N.T. Callaway Real Estate grew, adding offices in several strategically located area communities.”
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Keeping up with the clients’ tastes, demands, and needs is challenging, adds Mr. Henderson. “Certainly, buyer demands have changed over time, and like most trends, they are constantly evolving. One consistent theme, however, is that a coveted location is still the most important trend for buyers.” In addition, he points out, “The advent of the internet and now social media have been the two single biggest changes to the way we market real estate. As a smaller, local owner and based company, our Sotheby’s International Realty platform puts us in front of the right potential buyers on a global level. We pride ourselves on knowing that we are small enough to adapt to the latest technology changes when needed but large enough to make sure we get their sellers’ properties in front of the world. Ultimately, he adds, “We believe that it is our commitment to the community in which we live that sets us apart. We see community involvement as a passionate obligation. We work and live here, and we’ve been doing it for decades. That resonates with our buyer and seller clients alike.” “Next Best Thing” W hat is s o i nt r ig u i ng about Landau is that you will always find something new and often, something unexpected. Long known as the place to go for wool, this Nassau Street favorite still has a wide selection of sweaters, throws, scarves, and other wool items. In addition, however, customers will find a variety of other hard-toresist choices: caps, hats, coats, jackets, Princeton University insignia apparel, gloves, sheepskin slippers, and the special “Einstein Corner” filled with newspaper articles, photos, and books about Princeton’s famous former resident. This is all in keeping with coowner Robert Landau’s philosophy of finding the “next best thing.” “We pursue what people want,” he explains, “and we have been able to mold our direction. The key is when something is special to extend the offering so that many customers can get it.” Indeed, a keen awareness of what customers like and will buy has been a strong fo cu s for L a ndau s i n ce Henry Landau opened it as a dry goods store in Jersey City in 1914. “The principle has always been the same,” points out his grandson Robert. “You try to find quality merchandise that will last and that people will buy.” In 1955, Mr. Landau’s father and mother, David and Evelyn Landau, moved the store to Princeton, and from that point on, it has been a process of evolution, notes Robert. In addition to his own and his brother and co-owner Henry Landau’s acute business sense, a major reason for success is that they operate a very hands-on store. Both are buyers, and are on the floor with customers. “Because we are here, we can observe, hear things, and see whether our ideas work. Our forte is seeing the enthusiasm of customers when they like something or knowing when they don’t want something and why,”
explains Robert. Changing Times “Adapting to changing times is a requisite for survival,” he adds. “You have to adapt to what is going on, and we have been able to do that.” Princeton is a unique location, he points out, with visitors from all over the world, and many find their way to Landau. “People come from all over the world to visit Princeton University, and half of our business is University-related. People visit the campus, and then walk across the street and stop in to see our store.” An adver tiser in Tow n Topics every week since the store opened, Mr. Landau is proud of the Landau tradition and the loyal customers, who are eager to find that “next best thing.” Princeton is fortunate to have Stockton Real Estate LLC to help buyers and sellers complete the perfect real estate transaction. It has become a true Princeton tradition, and owner Martha (Marty) Stockton recalls the history of the firm started by her mother Anne (Nannie) Stockton in 1974. “My mother worked for Lawrence Norris Kerr from 1960, then bought 32 Chambers Street from ‘Lawrie’ when he retired in 1974. I worked part-time for my mother from 1982 to 1990, when I came on full time, In 2000, I became owner, and I changed it to Stockton Real Estate, LLC, and at that time, started our orange and black sign. “My office is a boutique office. We specialize in service. The agents and brokers here strive for perfection when it comes to helping a client or customer through the process. And, we have all of the technology to handle things the way the public demands — quick and thorough!” Major Purchase Ms. Stockton notes the importance of the internet in the real estate business today. “Gathering as much information for a home buyer and seller is the key so that everyone can make intelli-
gent and smart decisions. It is a major purchase for most people, and one needs to know as much as possible. “Instantaneous information has saved hours; in the past, we would spend a lot more time tracking down information for people.” Regarding buyers’ choices these days, Ms. Stockton points out that “Everyone is way too busy today. Most people want to move into something that is ready to go, be it new — or if it is old, it must have newer kitchens and baths. “We handle about a ninemile radius of Princeton, and repeat customers are an excellent source of our business. I am in the process of selling a property right now that one of our agents sold in 1989. I found that 1989 file, which surprised even me!” What is it about a Volvo? This automobile has almost unmatched customer loyalty. Once people have one, they keep it as long as possible, and then, only when necessity dictates, turn it in for — of course — another Volvo. Vo l vo o f P r i n c e t o n (Long Motor Company) is very much a family business, notes co-owner David Long. He and his brothers Matt and Larry opened the dealership at 255 Nassau Street in 1982. Four Sons “The location was previously a Dodge dealership, and the space became available,” says Mr. Long. “We were there until 1986, when we moved to the Mercer Mall, and then to our current location on Brunswick Pike in Lawrenceville in 1991.” The family focus is everpresent. Today, Mr. Long’s four sons, David, Jeffrey, Chris, and Nick are all actively involved in the business. His brother Larry is now deceased. In addition to the Lawrenceville location, the Long Motor Company has dealerships in Edison and Bridgewater. “Customer loyalty is incredible,” says Mr. Long. Continued on Next Page
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“We have clients returning for another Volvo, who refer friends here. In fact, our firm, an independent, family-owned business, buys the most Volvos of any other small independent company in the world — outside of Sweden. “Princeton people love their Volvos. They keep coming back for more.” Volvos, which are manufactured in Sweden, are known for their safety record, he adds. In addition, he says, “Volvo is ver y environmentally-friendly, For example, Volvos are 85 percent recyclable.” Also appealing to customers is the recent emphasis on design. Volvo has added new lines with a more stylish look, a bit more flair. Giving Back Volvo of Princeton has won many awards for sales and service over the years, and giving back to the community has always been an important part of the Long family philosophy. The company regularly contributes to numerous charities and organizations in the area. “The focus is about giving back,” says Mr. Long. “This has always been important to us. We want to make a difference to people.” Main Street’s popular Euro-American Bistro & Bar in the Princeton Shopping Center and its companion Eatery & Gourmet Bakery in Kingston have been Princeton favorites since the early 1980s, when the Kingston establishment opened. Followed by the the Rocky Hill Commissary in 1987 and the Bistro in 1991, the entire enterprise has become a mainstay for diners and for corporate and personal entertaining. “The focus in the beginning was on fresh home cooking to go,” recalls founder Sue Simpkins. “I thought Princeton was missing that middle range of unpretentious food that is approachable. We offered healthy eating, using the freshest and best ingre-
dients, and everything was made from scratch.” A hands-on cook in the beginning, Ms. Simpkins included many of her own recipes, and the Kingston location quickly became the place to go for those looking for wholesome, great-tasting food. Catering Division In 1987, Main Street became a true family business, when Ms. Simpkins’ son, John Marshall came on board. He has continued, becoming co -owner and president, focusing on the business operation. As the demand for catering increased, Main Street established a catering division, which has become a major part of their business. Main Street Catering includes everything from corporate functions to informal dinners to the grandest and most elaborate parties and weddings. For many, a lunch or dinner at the Bistro is a continuing pleasure. Diners know they can count on consistently good food and a relaxing congenial environment. “We have an especially big ‘Monday through Thursday’ group, a very loyal clientele,” reports Ms. Simpkins. “Some customers come three and four times a week.” Keeping up-to-date and adapting to changing times is necessary for any business, and as John Marshall note s, “ We cont inue to evolve, but always retaining our focus on the classic comfort food we are known for. Main Street has always done well during challenging economic times because of this. People know they can count on us.” Adds Ms. Simpkins: “We never wanted to get in a rut. We always want to be better. Better than we were the year before, or the day before!” Modern and Classic Nick and Jennifer Hilton, ow ners of N ic k H i l ton Princeton on Witherspoon Street, offer expert design, and quality for people, who, as Mr. Hilton says, “simply want to look nice.”
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Seeking again to stop construction on an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) facult y housing project, the Princeton Battlefield Society (PBS) took its long fight to federal court last Thursday, filing a complaint under the Clean Water Act against IAS, its contractor, and its engineers. The Battlefield Society claims that the proposed IAS construction infringes on unprotected wetlands, though the state Department of Environmental Protection stated in late January that they have found no evidence of that.
The PBS, in its January 7 letter of intent to sue, cited “unpermitted discharges into wetlands” and called for the removal of all fill material, restoration of the wetlands and a penalty of $37,500 per day for each of two designated wetlands on the building site. The Institute, its engineering firm, Van Note-Harvey Associates, and its construction company, Pillari Bros. Construction Corp, are all liable for almost $14 million each in annual fines, according to Battlefield Society lawyer Bruce Afran. “It’s clear that there are wetlands there,”
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Mr. Afran claimed. In additional actions, the Battlefield Society is pursuing appeals in the New Jersey Appellate Division, one on a Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission re-vote in February 2015 to approve the Institute building plan, and the other on the Princeton Planning Board approval of the Institute plan. Mr. Afran further stated that the Civil War Trust maintains its offer of $4.5 million to buy the disputed land and turn it over to the Battlefield. The Institute continues to maintain that it “has received all the necessary reg ulator y approvals to proceed” with the 15-unit hou s i ng proj e c t, w h ich “meets a critical need for the Institute. Tw o w e e k s a g o, t h e Battlefield Society joined a coalition of eight other historic preservation and conservation organizations to urge IAS to cease development plans that they claimed were destroying an important part of the site of the Battle of Princeton, “among the most significant engagements of the American Revolution.” —Donald Gilpin
Residents Request Rezoning For Former Butler Tract Residents of the neighborhood near the 33-acre Butler Tract want Princeton Council to reconsider rezoning the nearly demolished site from educational to residential. A group of homeowners spoke at the meeting of the governing body on Monday to express their concerns about the future of the property, which for several decades served as housing for Princeton University graduate students and their families. Demolition of the barrackslike buildings on the tract has been underway since December. Because the property is currently zoned E-1, for educational purposes, it could conceivably be used for new school buildings. While the University has indicated that the site will most likely be used for housing, neighborhood residents want to make that official by having the zoning changed. “Rezoning Butler would
ratify the University’s own statements that residential is the best way to use the land,” said Sally Goldfarb, a Sycamore Road resident. “It also fits Princeton’s master plan, which recognizes a commitment to controlling development along the edges of the University campus to ensure a smooth transition between the University and the community.” Built as temporary housing after World War II, the Butler Tract ended up serving nearly 70 years as a home for graduate students. The property is bordered by Hartley Avenue, Sycamore Road, Longview Drive, and South Harrison Street. Graduate students and their families are now housed at Lakeside, a new complex on Faculty Road. A total of 304 bungalow houses stood on the property that was previously the University’s polo field. The small frame buildings first served
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ere’s a trivia question from left field: what do Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth, C.K. Williams, Stephen Crane, Paul Simon, Sarah Vaughan, Chris Christie, Jerry Lewis, and Percy Shelley’s grandfather have in common? Answer: they were all born in Newark. So was Leslie Fiedler, author of the landmark study Love and Death in the American Novel. In his essay, “Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis?” from Murray Pomerance’s anthology Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film (NYU Press), Fielder recalls once working in a shoe store side by side with “a crew of losers,” one of whom was Danny Levitch, who happened to be Jerry (Levitch) Lewis’s father. Fiedler recalls that although Levitch was constantly boasting about his “rosy prospects in the theater,” he always seemed to end up working as an extra salesman. Fiedler thinks that the father’s habitual failure “must have haunted Jerry and fueled in him a relentless desire to succeed.” In 1945, Jerry Lewis, who turns 90 today, was 19, living in Newark with “a very pregnant wife” and earning $135 on “a good week” in various Manhattan night clubs; his act was to make funny faces while lip-synching along with photograph records. Then one day, on the corner of Broadway and 54th, he met “a tall, dark, incredibly handsome man in a camel’s-hair overcoat.” As Lewis puts it in Dean & Me: A Love Story (Doubleday 2005, with James Kaplan), he and Dean Martin were “the most successful show business act in history” during the ten years after World War II. This happened because “Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came out of the blue …. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us, but what we really were, in an age of Freudian self-realization, was the explosion of the show-business id.” The team exploded without a script, “the same way wise-guy kids do on a playground, or jazz musicians do when they’re let loose. And the minute we started out in night clubs, audiences went nuts for us.” The Busboy From Hell It’s after midnight at the 500 Club two blocks off the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, late July of 1946, and the ultra-cool Italian crooner is onstage singing a romantic ballad until someone with the voice of a hyperventilating nine-year-old begins heckling him. When the singer says, “Hey, I’m tryin to make a living up here,” the heckler screeches, “Doing that? Hahhah-hah!” After the singer motions for his nemesis to come up on the stage, this creature, the busboy from hell, staggers
and swerves blinking into the light, he can’t see, he’s crashing into tables, people are starting to laugh, wondering, “Is this for real?” The Italian takes some sheet music from the piano and says “You sing it!” and the busboy replies in his infantile falsetto, “I only sing in Jewish,” and they’re off. For the next two hours, it’s a free-for-all, the well-lubricated audience in hysterics as the overgrown brat in his busboy jacket scampers and scuttles around the tables like a chimpanzee on speed, smashing dishes, chasing cigarette girls, and terrorizing waiters while the singer somehow holds his own, no problem, everything’s cool, boys will be boys. The first time Jerry Lewis savaged Dean Martin’s act, at a night club in New York, he wasn’t sure how the singer would react to “the monkey who had ruined his song.” When their eyes met, Lewis saw “the indulgent smile” of the older brother he had “always longed for.” “ We we r e i n s om e d if ferent ter r itor y, some pr e v i o u s l y u n explored zone,” says Lewis in Dean & Me, “way out on a limb streaked with stardust.” The “love story” came to an end ten years later when Martin simply outgrew his straight-man role. At 39, he had to move on or else go through middle-age teamed with a lunatic Peter Pan. Dino had new worlds of acting to conquer and conquer them he did while Jerry expanded on what David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film terms “the American comic preoccupation with the little man beset by an incomprehensible, heartless, or intractable world.” Dangerous Laughter In a piece on Lewis’s solo film career titled “Idiot Semi-Savant,” Gary Giddins remembers being dragged up a theater aisle by his mother, who was worried that he might hurt himself laughing at The Delicate Delinquent. I know whereof he speaks. Though I was a faithful viewer of Martin and Lewis on the Colgate Comedy Hour, the only time I recall laughing so hard I thought I’d damage a vital organ was watching a certain scene in The Caddy (1953), during which, true to Lewis’s
boast, “the audience went nuts.” The scene in question takes place in a locker room and involves an inventive practical joke at the expense of a typically hapless Lewis character named Harvey. A skinny loser in an ill-fitting suit with a bowtie and a pancake hat, Harvey is victimized the moment he walks into a room full of “caddies” who look more like middle-aged truckers drinking beer and hanging out. After twice politely asking (“I beg your pardon”) how to get to the locker room and being ignored, Harvey screams in his high Joisey Jewish voice, “I beg your pardon!” and gets a glass of water tossed in his face by a heavyset bully who sneers, “Hey you’re quite a tomboy, aren’t ya?” Looking to have some fun at Harvey’s expense, several of the men sneak into the locker room to watch him undress, and just as he’s bending over, one of them tears a sheet, causing Harvey to think h e ’s r i p p e d the seat of his p a n t s. W h e n he reaches nervously back, afraid to look, his hand touches the bare shoulder of the man seated on the bench behind him. Of course no one in “real life,” not even a total idiot, could possibly make the fearful assumption Lewis is making, a dumbed down case of grossly mistaken identity right out of There’s Something About Mary, but the by-now roaring audience could care less, the power of suggestion carries the day, along with the seismic expression of horror spreading across the landscape of Lewis’s face as his hand moves on to encounter a chin and a nose and a forehead. Seen online in a quiet room half a century removed from the all-consuming pandemonium of a packed theatre, the surreal moment seems mildly amusing, of interest mainly as a chance to observe how much the comic impact of the scene depends on Lewis’s face, a face that belongs “principally and gigantically to cinema,” as Murray Pomerance puts it in his essay “A Sensational Face,” where the premise is that at a time when Martin and Lewis were “the very biggest item in show business, there existed no widely
circulating, immensely popular, and intensively variegated forms of screen imagery on which people could see other people’s faces in close detail — outside of cinema.” In effect, what Lewis is doing in the locker room is a highly developed closeup version of the funny-face act he performed at 19 lip-synching along with a record for $135 a week. The Uses of Laughter So should I write it off to my low-brow adolescence that I not only laughed myself sick over the locker room scene — the bullying of an effeminate Jewish loser — but had a nasty habit of doing spontaneous Jerry Lewis impersonations (“Oh da pain!”) at the time? Certainly there’s nothing in the comic frenzy of such scenes worth mentioning in the same breath with Buster Keaton, “the great stone face” who remains hilariously impassive while the world is collapsing around him. And though the torn-pants routine may resemble a gag from Chaplin’s bag of tricks, you know you’re a long way from the force of genius that is always present when Chaplin is at his most Chaplinesque. When I decided to show the locker room scene to my son, I wasn’t trying to prove a point about its significance or even effectiveness. I was just curious to see how he’d react, especially since he’d been feeling down on himself all day (“I’m so clumsy, I can’t do anything right, it’s hopeless, what’s the use, etc etc”). He needed no canned laughter, no environment of an audience in hysterics, to laugh himself silly. In fact, he was laughing from the moment Harvey walked into the hostile room saying, “I beg your pardon.” He knew how it was, he’d been there, endured the same sort of teasing and worse, far worse — and who hasn’t? What matters is that Jerry Lewis cracked him up and cheered him up while making him take himself less seriously. Streets of Newark f “the nerds who are the antiheroes” in Jerry Lewis movies, Leslie Fiedler writes: “Defined from the very beginning as losers, they cannot kill a dragon, find the Holy Grail and become saints or kings; nor can they be convincingly portrayed as overthrowing a tyrant and freeing his oppressed people …. In Jerry’s world the only welllit places are the classrooms, gymnasiums, laboratories, and auditoriums of seedy second-rate colleges flanked by sleazy nightclubs, bars, and soda parlors to which the students flee when school is out.” At this point, Fiedler observes that the “pot-holed streets” over which Jerry Lewis’s protagonists move remind him “very much” of those in Newark, New Jersey, “a city that began to die before it began to live.” —Stuart Mitchner
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Books Bryn Mawr Wellesley Book Sale, March 25-30, Features Books from Library of Local Composer T he 2016 Br y n Maw r Wellesley Book Sale opens at Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, Princeton, on March 25, Preview Day, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., when tickets are $25. The first full free-admission day of the regular sale is March 26 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The sale will be closed for Easter on March 27, and open again on March 28 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Half-price Day is March 29, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. $10 a Box Day is Wednesday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year’s sale, which often receives the libraries of well-known collectors, w r iter s, a n d e d u c ator s, features a major collection from the estate of local composer and conductor Moshe Budmor, retired professor of music at the College of New Jersey, music director of the Princeton-based Jewish community chorus LaShir, and music director of the Echobow Theater Dance Company, which he ran with his first wife, the dancer and movement specialist Katya Delakova. Along with extensive sheet music and Hebrew music books are such titles as Yaqui Tribe Easter Ceremonies that reflect his many interests. Preview tickets purchased online after the March 18, 6 p.m. deadline will be assigned numbered positions at the end of the line in the order that they are purchased. Customers may not
take carts, strollers, and other wheeled vehicles into the sales areas at any time during the sale, although wheelchairs, walkers, and other mobility-assisting devices are permitted. For further details, visit bmandwbooks.com. ———
Susan Jacoby Discussing Her New Book March 22
Susan Jacoby will be talking about her new book, Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion (Pantheon $29.95) at Labyrinth Books on Tuesday, March 22 at 6 p.m. Ac c or d i n g to R i c h a r d Dawkins, author of Brief Candle in the Dark, “The modern wave of secularist books has seen no author more historically erudite t han Susan Jacoby. Im mensely learned, yet with a lightly witty style, she smoothly surveys the whole phenomenon of religious conversion, from ancient times to our own. The section on slavery in America is especially moving, giving the lie to the myth that abolitionism was primarily motivated by religion. And — a blessed bonus — she has no truck with that pretentious gimmick favoured by so many historians, the historic present tense.” The New Yorker observes: “This militantly secular history of religious conversion reconsiders famous converts, from Augustine to Muhammad Ali, to reveal
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the complex web of political, economic, and social forces that can lead to individual conversions ….Its conclusion — that religious coercion inevitably ‘produces a false uniformity that collapses as swiftly or slowly as social conditions permit — is powerful.’” Mov i ng t h roug h t i m e, continents, and cultures, Strange Gods is punctuated by portraits of individual converts embodying the sacred and profane, including Augustine of Hippo; John Donne; the German Jew Edith Stein, whose conversion to Catholicism did not save her from Auschwitz; boxing champion Muhammad Ali; and former President George W. Bush. The story also encompasses conversions to rigid secular ideologies, notably Stalinist Communism, with their own truth claims. Susan Jacoby is the author of 11 previous books, most recently Never Say Die, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, The Age of American Unreason, Alger Hiss and the Battle for History, Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism, and Half- Jew : A Daughter’s Search for Her Family’s Buried Past. ———
Conversation on Ecologies At Labyrinth March 23
Eben Kirksey, Joao Biehl, and Bill Gleason will be discussing Mr. Kirksey’s book Emergent Ecologies(Duke $25.95) at Labyrinth Books on Wednesday, March 23 at 6 p.m. Emergent Ecologies uses artwork and contemporar y philosophy to illustrate opportunities and reframe problems in conservation biology such as invasive species, extinction, environmental management, and reforestation. Following the flight of capital and nomadic forms of life — through fragmented landscapes of Panama, Costa Rica, and the United States — Mr. Kirksey explores how chance encounters, historical accidents, and parasitic invasions have shaped present and future multispecies communities. New generations of thinkers and tinkerers are learning how to care for emergent ecological assemblages — involving frogs, fungal pathogens, ants, monkeys, people, and plants — by seeding them, nurturing them, protecting them, and ultimately letting go. According to Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship, “Emergent Ecologies is a great read. It is movingly written, methodologically innovative, and provides an intellectually rich account of an important and timely
subject that will inspire, entertain, and challenge.” Eben Kirksey is professor of Environmental Humanities at UNSW Australia and visiting lecturer at Princeton’s Environmental Institute. He is the editor of The Multispecies Salon and the author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power. João Biehl is professor of anthropology at Princeton University where he is also the co-director of Princeton’s Program in Global Health and Health Policy. He is the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. Bill Gleason is professor and department chair of English at Princeton University where he is also an affiliate of the Environmental Institute. He is the author of The Leisure Ethic : Work and Play in American Literature, 18401940 and of Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature. ———
Labyrinth Presents “The Positive Pianist”
Thomas Parente will be talk ing about his book, The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance (Oxford 2015), at Labyrinth Books on Thursday, March 17 at 6 p.m. Along with 40 years of teaching experience and research on how to develop a productive, focused mental state when practicing the piano, Mr. Parente applies Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow to musical performance, showing that linking productiv it y and enjoyment in piano playing has a positive impact on students, motivating them to practice more in order to experience flow again, which creates optimal learning conditions for piano practicing. As the chapters progress, students learn how to evaluate their own progress. The book offers teachers the tools to impart to their students a practice method informed by flow. Mr. Parente argues for an objective, goal-oriented backdrop that will lead piano students to achieve greater confidence, accuracy, and musicality. Dr. Thomas J. Parente is an associate professor of piano at Westminster Choir College of Rider University and maintains an active studio of private piano students. He has presented workshops, courses, and clinics both nationally and internationally.
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To the Editor: I’m guessing I’m not the only one who is looking forward to the day when the obsessive and futile efforts of the Princeton Battlefield Society ( PBS ) to halt the construction of new faculty housing on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study ( IAS ) come to an end. The PBS’s hyperbolic misrepresentations of the motives and actions of the IAS are an embarrassment. A fact the PBS ignores is that the Institute is also an important part of our local and national history. And where is the PBS’s gratitude for the glorious Institute Woods, which the IAS generously shares with the community? The time and energy and funds the PBS has poured into this fruitless fight would have been much better spent on improving and maintaining the Princeton Battlefield State Park’s monuments and buildings — some of which are in serious disrepair. JANE ELDRIDGE MILLER Laurel Circle
Time to Thank Senator Booker for Protecting Americans’ Hard-Earned Retirement Savings
To the Editor: Saving for retirement is difficult, and it is even more difficult because some of your financial advisors are able to cut into your savings thanks to a loophole in the law. This loophole costs Americans at least $17 billion per year, as much as 25 percent of retirement income or 5 years’ worth of savings. Advisers are legally able to recommend assets which help them pad their wallets instead of what is best for your retirement income. A proposed Department of Labor rule will close this loophole, but Wall Street and much of the financial services industry strongly oppose this measure. Their champions in Congress have proposed legislation preventing this rule from taking place. Senator Cory Booker is one of those in Congress who is fighting to eliminate this loophole and protect our retirement savings. Thank Senator Booker for protecting Americans’ hard-earned retirement savings. AARP on behalf of its 1.3 million New Jersey members wants to protect the retirement future of those being ill-served by this loophole, and calls on Congress to reject this legislation, and uphold this critically important rule. ATIF JALAL AHMAD AARP Intern
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SYDNEY NEUWIRTH ART DONATION: Artist Sydney Neuwirth of Princeton donated 15 acrylic paintings, like the one above, to the Trenton Public Education Foundation for fundraising purposes to enhance the lives of Trenton public school students. Her work will be available for purchase at an art sale and wine tasting on April 12 at The Mansion at SAVE Animal Shelter. Neuwirth will be present to meet guests.
Sydney Neuwirth Art Fundraiser
Artist Sydney Neuwirth, of Princeton, has donated a collection of 15 acrylic paintings to the Trenton Public Education Foundation (TPEF) for fundraising purposes to enhance the lives of Trenton public school students. On Tuesday, April 12 from 5:30 to 8 p.m., there will be an art sale and wine tasting with the opportunity for guests to meet Sydney Neuwirth and purchase her colorful pieces. It will take place at The Mansion at SAVE Animal Shelter, 1010 Route 601, Skillman. The ticket price of $35 includes a sampling of wines from around the world and hors d’oeuvres and can be purchased at tpef.org, by emailing info @tpef.org or calling (609) 656-4900 ext. 5604. The proceeds from the Art Sale will support the Trenton Public Education Foundation’s arts education initiative, which is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ program called Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child, being administered by TPEF on behalf of the Trenton public schools. Through a competitive process, the TPEF was accepted, making Trenton the 19th Any Given Child partner city in the nation. The primary goal of the Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child program is to Julius says...
assist communities in developing and implementing a plan for expanded arts education in their schools, ensuring access and equity for all students in Pre-K through 8th grade. Although the initiative provides a structure for work to be accomplished, the Kennedy Center understands that every community is unique, and tailors the consultation and facilitation to each site. In Trenton, the plan will be expanded to include an arts education plan in the high schools as well. A prestigious 35 - m e m b e r C o m m u n i t y Arts Team, representing the school district, the Office of the Mayor, the arts and education communities, business leaders and philanthropy, has been working with representatives from Kennedy Center throughout the year to create the strategic arts education plan for the Trenton public school students. For Sydney Neuwirth, this project is the ideal match for her personal philosophy. She said, “Art is such an important part of a child’s growth. It helps children view the world. It gives them self-confidence and a sense of curiosity about life. How great if a child appreciates more of what he sees because of art! To me, a world without art is barren.” Neuwirth, a lifelong New Jersey resident, values her earliest memories with the
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can implement the programs the Community Arts Team is developing as part of Any Given Child. How wonderful that funds raised through the sale of Sydney’s art will be able to expand children’s opportunities to explore the arts! We’ll be selling art to enhance art education and art experiences.” For more information about Trenton Public Education Foundation, please visit tpef.org.
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arts. She was born in Belleville, N.J., a suburb of Newark, where her family had a paint business. As a child she lived in an apartment above her family’s paint store, which was a gift in her life. She explained, “I was indulged mightily with art supplies — wallpaper samples, paints, and glass supplies — and I was able to experiment with everything. It was a great basis for my interest in art.” She went to West Orange High School and then got a BA degree from NJ College for Women, now Douglas College at Rutgers University. She studied art and majored in English. Neuwirth began her career as a writer and editor, but it was art that grabbed her. After she married her husband, Lee, a mathematician, they moved to Princeton and raised their family there, as he was the director at the institute for defense analyses. When they were married, Neuwirth took watercolor classes locally; life classes drawing models. She also took dance and encouraged her daughter, actress Bebe Neuwirth, to dance as well. She said, “I’d take Bebe to dance class and sit back and draw.” Between dancing and painting, Sydney Neuwirth has always been immersed in art. She instilled that in her own child too. Bebe has done pottery since high school. She laughed, “Recently Bebe would design pottery and I’d paint it! It was great fun!” For 40 years, Sydney Neuwirth has been showing and selling her art in galleries in New York, New England, New Jersey, California, and New Hope. She amassed such a collection of art that she is happy to make donations. When her daughter, a member of the Board of The Actor’s Fund, created the Dancers Resource to assist professional dancers in many areas when they have problems, Sydney supplied paintings of dancers, and Bebe supplied
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WOODROW WILSON EXHIBIT: On April 4 Princeton University will open an exhibit that examines the contested legacy of Woodrow Wilson. The exhibit will be held in the Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall. In conjunction with the exhibit, there will be a panel discussion on April 8 discussing Wilson’s life and career held in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Woodrow Wilson Exhibit Opens 4/4
The contested legacy of Woodrow Wilson forms the focus of a new exhibition and panel discussion at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Opening April 4, the exhibition documents not only the positive but also the negative aspects of Wilson’s tenure as 13th president of Princeton University and 28th president of the United States. The April 8 panel discussion will provide an educational and panoramic view of the many aspects of Woodrow Wilson’s life and career. The panel discussion will be held in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall on the University’s campus. The exhibition will be held in the Bernstein Gallery at
Rober tson Hall. E x h ibit hours are September–May: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; June–August: MondayFriday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. To schedule a tour for a large group, contact Kate Somers at (609) 497-2441 or ksomers@princeton.edu. Among historians, Wilson is consistently ranked as one of the country’s great presidents, noted for his successful domestic legislative agenda in his first term and international achievements in his second. At Princeton, many entities bear Wilson’s name, honoring his important contributions to both the institution and the nation. Yet, Wilson was also a highly divisive figure in his time, alienating many and denying others the fullness of their humanity on racial
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grounds. Under his watch, Pr inceton Universit y re mained a bastion of white A nglo - Saxon Protestantism, and, as U.S. president, the federal civil service was re-segregated, closing one of the few paths to African American advancement. The exhibition on Woodrow Wilson draws on modern scholarship, newly digitized resources, and Princeton’s special collections to paint a more complete picture of Wilson than is often presented, highlighting the ways in which he failed a great number of Americans. Through correspondence, writings, photographs, newspapers, and other documents that place Wilson in historical context, visitors will gain a fuller understanding of his complexities and why he continues to evoke both admiration and opprobrium nearly a century after his death. T he exhibit and panel discussion were compiled by Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, a division of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. ———
BFA Senior Exhibition At Stockton University
Stockton University’s Visual Arts faculty announces an exhibition of their spring Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) graduates. These 11 students w ill be displaying their Senior Thesis artwork showcasing acquired skills, problem solving, and personal execution of theory and techniques learned in the course of their studies. The exhibition will be on display from April 3-24. The opening reception to meet the artists will be held from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, April 10 in the Stockton Art Gallery on the main Galloway campus. This event is free and open to the public. The featured artists are all from New Jersey. Seven are concentrated in visual communications, one in painting, and three in photography. The visual communications artists are: Alyssa Byk of Little Egg Harbor, Miguel Jimenez of Vineland, Christina Luell of Waretown, Kiera Perry of Williamstown, Lisa Rickershauser of Medford, Daniel Russo of Toms River, and Daniella Tripodi of Williamstown. Majoring in painting is Rachel Garro of Marlton. Carly Accardi of Villas, Matthew Clayton of Hammonton, and Christina Kha majored in photography. The Stockton University Art Gallery is located at 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway. The Gallery is in L-wing, adjacent to the Performing Arts Center. It is free and open to the public seven days a week from noon -7:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon4:30 p.m. on Sunday. For
“CITY JOURNAL”: This artwork by Nadini Chirimar entitled “City Journal” is apart of the IndoAmerican Arts Council’s seventh annual “Erasing Borders 2010: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora.” The piece is a 44x66 inch mix of drawing, woodblock printing, gold leaf, collage, and embroidery on Japanese Kozo paper. directions, a campus map, or event updates visit www. stockton.edu/artgallery. For information, call (609) 6524214.
Area Exhibits Ar t Times Two, the gallery at Princeton Brain and Spine, 731 Alexander Road, has works by Hetty Baiz, Beatrice Bork, H e at h e r Ke r n, Na n c y Kern, Shirley Kern, Pamela Kogen, and Susan Mac Q u e e n as par t of “Animal Nature” through March. (609) 203-4622. Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Every Fiber of My Being,” a group show of textile and contemporar y embroider y, in the Taplin Gallery through April 17. www.artscouncilofprince ton.org. Artworks, Everett Alley ( Stock ton St reet ) , Trenton, has the third annual Juried Print Exhibition, “It’s All Wood” by Sean Carney, and works by students, through April 2. www.artworkstrenton. com. D & R G r e e n w a y, 1 Preservation Place, has “D e c oy s — T i m e l i n e : From Craft to Art,” from the Jay Vaw ter collection, through November. “Flight,” which celebrates birds in flight, runs through April 8. w w w. drgreenway.org. E l l a r s l i e , Tre nton’s Cit y Mu s eu m i n C ad walader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has the Breath of Fire Ceramics Invitational through April 30. (609) 989-3632. G ourgaud G a l l er y, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has works by students through March 27. cranburyartscouncil@ gmail.com. H i s to r i c a l S o c i e t y of Pr inceton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has reopened with
“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. w w w.princetonhis tory.org. The James A. Michener Art Museum at 138 South Pine Street in Doylestown, Pa., has “Pat te r n P i e c e s : C a n You Make a Quilt Out of Wood?” through May 15, “Holly Trostle Brigham: Sisters and Goddesses” through May 29, “Garber in Spring” through August 7, and “Philadelphia in Style: A Century of Fashion” through June 26. Visit www.michener artmuseum.org. The Jane Voorhees Z i m m erl i A r t M use um, 71 Hamilton Street, on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, has “ D o n k e y - d o n ke y, Pe tunia, and Other Pals : Drawings by Roger Duvoisin” through June 26, 2016. bit.ly/ZAMMatM. Morven Museum and G arde n, 55 Stockton Street, has docent-led tours
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STOCKTON UNIVERSITY EXHIBIT: Daniel Russo of Toms River is one of the senior Bachelor of Fine Arts students exhibiting at the Stockton University Art Gallery in Galloway. The exhibit will display the Senior Thesis artwork of 11 New Jersey artists. Russo’s computer generated graphic design project (pictured above) is included in the show that runs from April 3-24.
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The 38th Annual Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture
MUSIC REVIEW
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Presents Unique Work for Violin and Orchestra
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his season, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director, Rossen Milanov, have dedicated programming to the creativity of women, and this past Sunday afternoon’s performance at Richardson Auditorium featured one of the more creative artists on the music scene today. Composer Caroline Shaw, who doubled as violinist soloist in her own Lo for Violin and Orchestra, crossed many genres of music as both composer and performer. These multiple genres of music thoroughly permeated her three-movement work, which was effectively played by the Princeton Symphony. With movements delineated by tempo markings rather than titles, Lo seemed to be semi-autobiographical, showing bits and pieces of many composers whom Ms. Shaw has credited with influencing her own creativity. Ms. Shaw began the solo violin line with a rising melody against swirling orchestral activity. She seemed in her own world, playing lines which were virtuosic at times against chorale-like passages from small combinations of winds and brass. An especially elegant passage featured Ms. Shaw playing a plucked solo line to clarinet accompaniment. Subtle xylophone playing by Phyllis Bitow accompanied Ms. Shaw in a dreamy violin melody toward the close of the work. In 2013, Ms. Shaw became one of the youngest recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and she has clearly put her extensive training to use pushing the boundaries of classical music. As a somewhat programmatic work, Ms. Shaw’s piece was closely related to the one-movement tone poem of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, also included in Sunday’s concert. The 19th-century tone poems told stories, and Sibelius’s Pohjola’s Daughter drew from Finnish mythology. Throughout the work, Mr. Milanov emphasized the characters within the story, portrayed by instrumental solos. Contrabassoonist Karl Vilcins, bass clarinetist Sherry Hartman-Apgar, cellist Arash Amini and English horn player Nathan Mills all gracefully played haunting passages infused with dark colors matching the stark winter atmosphere of the story.
These instruments were often paired up or joined by oboist Nicholas Masterson and clarinetist Pascal Archer as Mr. Milanov kept the strings even and the orchestral palette well controlled. One could easily hear the characters trudging through the snow, and the piece closed effectively with the strings fading as if someone were walking away into the darkness. Mr. Milanov turned to a classic to close Sunday’s performance — Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C Minor. The four-movement work is rooted in the classical early 19th-century symphonic form, and has been compared to the symphonies of Beethoven in its key and use of melodic material. Mr. Milanov drew intensity from the Princeton Symphony from the start of the first movement’s slow introduction, with clean solos from Mr. Masterson, flutist Patrick Williams, and hornists Laura Weiner and Douglas Lundeen. Mr. Milanov easily brought out the instrumental shadings of the work while finding elegance in the full orchestration. The second movement “Andante” was marked by a smooth flow to the strings, with all players well focused on the nuances of the music. Mr. Masterson’s oboe solos fit well into the texture, and clarinetist Mr. Archer played complementary solos with feeling. The symphony maintained a graceful Viennese lilt in the third movement, as Mr. Milanov found a joyous feel to the music. Conducting from memory, Mr. Milanov clearly knew the work well, closing the fourth movement with a smooth transition to the closing “Allegro.” he Princeton Symphony Orchestra presented this concert in conjunction with artwork of middle school students presented in the Richardson lobby, part of an initiative to combine music, literature, and art. With the Sibelius work drawing from Finnish literature, this display not only brought attention to talented students in art but also created an effective visual connection to Sunday afternoon’s performance. —Nancy Plum
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The Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s next Classical Series concert will be in Richardson Auditorium on Sunday, May 15 at 4 p.m. It will feature music of Tchaikovsky and Richard and Johann Strauss, and the premiere of a work by Sarah Kirkland Snider. For information call (609) 497-0020 or visit www. princetonsymphony.org.
Beyond the Aleppo Codex:
Bible Manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza and the Textus Receptus BEN OUTHWAITE
Joint Head of Special Collections, Head of the Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library Biblical scholars should be familiar with the great medieval codices such as Aleppo or Leningrad, which are the foundations of the modern scholarly editions of the Hebrew Bible, but the remarkable collection known as the Cairo Genizah has preserved thousands of leaves of medieval Bible manuscripts, from the crudest home-made copies to enormous parchment pages from long-lost great codices every bit the equal of Aleppo or B19a. What can these leaves tell us about the text of the Hebrew Bible in the Middle Ages and what does the Genizah collection reveal about the community of scribes and scholars who produced them?
Tuesday, MARCH 29, 2016 • 4:30 p.m. Princeton University • McCormick Hall, Room 101 Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies, Ronald O. Perelman Institute of Judaic Studies
TCNJ Students Join High ful experience on so many performs live at the PSO’s School Choirs from Japan levels,” said Dr. John Leon- Spring Chamber Concert
On March 28 at 6:30 p.m., ard, department of music Sunday, March 20 at 4:30 more than 200 singers will chair and director of choirs p.m. at the Institute for Ad______________ gather on the Mayo Concert at TCNJ. “Performing great vanced Study ( IAS ). Uys, music with high-caliber pro- harpist Bridget Kibbey, and ______________ Date Time: ______________________ Hall stage at The College of & fessional musicians at one of soprano Mary Mackenzie New Jersey (TCNJ) campus our ad, scheduled to run ___________________. in Ewing. TCNJ students the world’s most celebrated will perform works by comusing the language poser and former Princeton oughlywill and pay special attention to the following: perform alongside five venues, of music to communicate University professor Edward school ll tell high us it’s okay)choirs from Japan who all come from the love, compassion, and em- T. Cone, IAS’s Artist-in-Resiregion affected by the 2011 pathy across culture and dence Sebastian Currier, Ca� earthquake, Fax numbertsunami, � Address � and Expiration seeing Date the mille Saint-Saëns, and Mario and languages, resiliency in the faces and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Fukushima nuclear disaster. The performance is part of actions of the young JapaWritten nearly 50 years Project Hand-in-hand, which nese musicians who join us, apart, Cone’s Duo for Vioaims to support the recovery is a special experience.” lin and Harp and Currier’s For more information, visit Night Time are significant of the Japan disaster by using music to support cultural www.tcnj.edu. contributions to the reperexchange and communica——— toire, reflecting the influence tion. This will be the fourth PSO Executive Director of Béla Bartók’s compositime in five years that TCNJ Performs at the IAS tional symmetry and rhythhas partnered with Project Princeton Symphony Or- mic manipulation upon their Hand-in-Hand. chestra (PSO) Executive Di- individual styles. Also on “Being a part of Project rector Marc Uys returns to the program is Saint-Saëns’ Hand-in-Hand is a wonder- his musician roots when he Violons dans le soir, based on the eponymous poem by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu. Fast Food • Take-Out • Dine-In Prior to joining the PSO, Hunan ~ Szechuan Uys was concertmaster of Malaysian ~ Vietnamese New York City-based Arcos Daily Specials • Catering Available Orchestra and assistant concertmaster of the Sarasota 157 Witherspoon St. • Princeton • Parking in Rear • 609-921-6950
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Sat, Mar 19 at 8 pm State Theatre in New Brunswick WAGNER Siegfried Idyll SCHUMANN Piano Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 CHRISTIAN ARMING conductor STEPHEN HOUGH piano NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Stephen Hough, hailed by The Guardian for his “scintillating technique and sparkling sound,” is featured in Schumann’s only piano concerto.
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NJSO ACCENTS: Riffs – NJSO musicians Andy Lamy and Michael Stewart play traditional Irish tunes in a St. Patrick’s Day salute after the concert.
MUSIC OF THE NIGHT: NORM LEWIS WITH THE NJSO
NJSO Food Drive: Non-perishable food items will be accepted at the performance.
Sun, Apr 17 at 3 pm State Theatre in New Brunswick NORM LEWIS vocalist THOMAS WILKINS conductor NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA You know him as Broadway’s first African-American Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. Norm Lewis, the phenomenal star who brought this and other favorite roles to life, takes center stage with the NJSO in a concert filled with favorites from Broadway and beyond.
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HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC: Local residents Deepal Chodhari and Pratik Devasthale will perform a concert of traditional Hindustani classical music at Plainsboro Public Library on Saturday, March 19 at 3 p.m. Chodhari is the only female santoor player in the entire northeast. Tabla player Dr. Pratik Devasthale, a pharmaceutical research scientist by profession, regularly accompanies local and visiting artists in concerts across the tri-state area. He teaches the tabla in Plainsboro, and participates in numerous ensembles. In the tradition of Hindustani classical music the performers will use compositions as springboards for their own original improvisations.
“ASTONISHING PERFORMANCE”
This performance is presented in collaboration with the State Theatre and is sponsored by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.
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BACH’S BIRTHDAY An all-Bach program featuring organist Eric Plutz Sunday, March 20 at 3:00 pm
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Sing Along with The Muppet Movie
One Night of Queen
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All-Bach program u Pre-concert talk at 6:30pm with
Friday, April 1 – 8pm Discover all of the sounds a piano and percussion can make. This interactive concert features the acclaimed ensemble Sō Percussion and Rachel Richardson from American Ballet Theatre. Program includes music by J.S. Bach, Steve Reich, John Cage and Princeton’s own Steven Mackey. Stay afterward to jam with the musicians! SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2016, 1PM RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM IN ALEXANDER HALL BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY 609.258.9220 PRINCETONUNIVERSITYCONCERTS.ORG OR BUY AT THE DOOR JUST $5 KIDS $10 ADULTS
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Join us on World Autism Awareness Day with an autism-friendly interactive movie performance!
Saturday, April 2 – 2pm
Professor Wendy Heller of the Princeton University Music Department.
Tuesday, April 5 – 7:30pm
ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN Performed by Gary Mullen and The Works
Thursday, April 14 – 7:30pm
ZAKIR HUSSAIN’S PERCUSSION MASTERS OF INDIA Saturday, April 16 – 8pm
MIDORI, violin
Program: Bach, Prokofiev, Brahms, Tchaikovsky u Pre-concert talk at 2pm with Professor Simon Morrison of the Princeton University Music Department.
Sunday, April 17 – 3pm
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Opera Orchestra. He collaborated with harpist Jacqueline Kerrod in the duo Clockwise, touring South Africa performing premieres of n e wly com m i s s ion e d works by 10 South African composers. In 2007 he led performances of Philip Miller’s Rewind – A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony, including its world premiere in Cape Town and U.S. premiere in New York. Harpist Bridget Kibbey is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, t he Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Ar tist Award, a 2015 Salon de Virtuosi Grant, and the only harpist to win a position with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society II. Soprano Mary Mackenzie has collaborated with Pierre Boulez, John Harbison, Richard Danielpour, and James Primosch. As a chamber musician she has appeared with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, The Juilliard School’s AXIOM Ensemble, New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Metropolis Ensemble, among others. For more information, visit princetonsymphony.org.
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Suspense, Humor, Intrigue, and a Murderer on the Loose; McCarter Stages “The Mousetrap,” Agatha Christie’s Classic
gatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opened in London in 1952, and 64 years later, after more than 25,000 performances, it is still playing, by far the longest running show in theater history. Though McCarter’s current rendition of the classic murder mystery will run only two more weeks, until March 27, the highenergy, captivating Matthews Theatre production displays vividly the lasting appeal of this show. Whether you’re a whodunit aficionado or not, this show with its eight finely drawn, deftly presented characters and its rich visual appeal is highly entertaining from start to finish. The Mousetrap has all the key ingredients of a great murder mystery: a Victorian manor house in an isolated rural setting, cut off from the rest of the world by a massive snow storm; strong-willed characters, all mysterious in their own ways, all with secrets, all of whom might be something other than what they appear to be. And from the first moment of the play, the suspense is high and rising — there’s a murderer on the loose! Dame Agatha (1890-1976) wrote about 60 novels, with more than two billion copies sold, and 16 plays. Only the Bible and Shakespeare have outsold her. Ms. Christie turned to playwriting in midcareer because of her objections to other playwrights following her books too closely in adapting them. She claimed that greater simplification was necessary for the stage. The greater simplification and concentration of action results in perhaps even greater pleasure, excitement, and surprise for the theater audience than for the readers of her novels. The Mousetrap was based on a radio sketch Ms. Christie wrote to commemorate the 80th birthday of Queen Mary. She later turned it into a novella and then created the full-length stage play. Before the lights come up on the main stage at McCarter, a scary prologue, played out in large silhouettes on the front curtain, sets the tone for the evening: a woman’s scream, panicked voices, a phone call, a police whistle — and a radio voice announces that Scotland Yard reports a woman has been murdered. The front curtain falls away to reveal the great hall at Monkswell Manor, which will remain the setting for the rest of the evening. The remarkably majestic and detailed set by Alexander Dodge features dark wood paneling, a 17-foot high ceiling with carved pendants, a large stone fireplace, sconces on the wall, Victorian furniture, heavy curtains open to reveal a huge upstage window with the snow outside falling and piling up steadily. Lighting by Philip S. Rosenberg and chilling sound effects by Nick Kourtides, enhanced by the imposing size of the Matthews Theatre stage, effectively, eerily help to establish the ominous, isolated world of the play. Mollie (Jessica Bedford ) and Giles
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(Adam Green), married just a year, are opening a guest house in the country 30 miles outside London and are preparing to receive their first guests. The tension rises steadily, as the snow falls, the eccentric, suspicious guests — some expected, some not — enter one by one, the radio continues to broadcast reports of the murder, and a phone call announces that the police will soon be arriving to conduct an investigation at Monkswell Manor. First is a nervous, talkative, affected young man (Andy Phelan), who claims to be an architect and is appropriately named
MURDER LURKS: Mollie (Jessica Bedford) finds herself in the midst of a deadly intrigue, in an isolated old manor house, cut off from the rest of the world, surrounded by an odd assortment of complete strangers, one of whom is a murderer, in McCarter Theatre’s production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” the longest running play in the history of English theater. (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) McCarter Theatre’s production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” will run through March 27 at McCarter’s Matthews Theatre. Call (609) 258-2787 or visit online at mccarter.org for information.
Annual Used Book Sale
April 14–16, Whiteley Gym Princeton Theological Seminary
Book donations are being accepted April 4–9 Theology, history, philosophy, science, and global studies are most appreciated and needed, but all books will be taken. Donations can only be accepted during the following times: Monday, April 4–Friday, April 9 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., and 5:00–8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 9 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
For more information, email annualbooksale@ptsem.edu.
Christopher Wren. As he chats with Mollie, his fascination in exploring the depth of other people establishes a theme of the play. “I do so like knowing all about people,” he tells her. “I mean, I think people are so madly interesting. Don’t you? They’re all interesting, because you never really know what anyone is like — or what they are really thinking. For instance you don’t know what I’m thinking about now, do you?” His words take on an ominous quality as the mysterious characters with their secrets and their deceiving appearances, enter the scene.
If you’d like to schedule a drop-off, email annualbooksale@ptsem.edu.
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Second to arrive is the haughty, matronly, harshly critical Mrs. Boyle (Sandra Shipley); followed by Major Metcalf (Graeme Malcolm, Scrooge in McCarter’s Christmas Carol over the past several years), a distinguished, good-natured retired military man; Miss Casewell (Emily Young), a sharp-tongued young woman, masculine in attire and manner with a mysterious past; and finally Mr. Paravicini (Thom Sesma), a histrionic, heavily made-up older man whose Rolls Royce, he reports, is stuck in the snow nearby. He introduces himself as “a man of mystery” and delights in the growing intrigue at the manor house. Detective Sergeant Trotter (Richard Gallagher) arrives later, on skis, to complete the fascinating ensemble and, of course, to track down the murderer, who has already killed one “blind mouse” and is waiting to strike victims two and three. “Three Blind Mice,” the murderer’s eerie signature tune is heard several times throughout the evening. By the end of the first of two acts, the phone lines have been cut, the house is completely isolated, another corpse lies stretched out on the floor, and everyone knows that one among them is the murder and another his or her next victim. Fear and danger increase, as the sergeant pursues his interrogation, probing into the characters’ guarded pasts, forcing hidden truths from the unwilling suspects and finally attempting to stage a re-enactment of the murder. It’s a superb cast. Mr. Green, who played Figaro in The Figaro Plays at McCarter two years ago, and Ms. Bedford create absorbing, appealing, three-dimensional characters, easy to relate to, as they work out their marital issues under the mounting pressures of the onslaught of difficult guests and the ominous murder plot. The other characters, all larger than life, are rendered credibly here in fine idiosyncratic, often humorous detail. Deftly directed by Adam Immerwahr, the ensemble misses no opportunity for humor or dramatic intrigue. Characters’ reactions, sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant, are spot-on and fun to watch. The pacing is appropriately focused to keep the audience involved in solving the mystery. Costumes by Jess Goldstein vividly help in delineating these finely drawn individuals and in establishing the setting in post-World War II England. cCarter’s first-rate production makes the most of Agatha Christie’s masterful plotting and these delightfully drawn figures, ensuring that audience members engage with the denizens of Monkswell Manor in urgently seeking the truth. No secrets will be revealed here. Surprises abound, and you’re sure to keep guessing until just before the curtain falls at the end of this unremittingly entertaining evening. —Donald Gilpin
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HINDUISM, RACE, AND THE ‘SCIENCE’ OF PHILOLOGY
The Young Messiah
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Bestseller Adaptation Describes a Year in the Life of the Christ Child
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015 was a banner year for Christian-oriented movies, as over 30 faith-based films were released in theaters. 2016 appears to be following suit, with Risen, The Lady in the Van, and The Witch among the movies with religious overtones. Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh (The Stoning of Soraya M.), The Young Messiah is a Biblical story about critical events that transpired during a momentous year in the life of the Christ child (Adam Greaves-Neal). The intriguing historical drama was adapted from Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, a bestseller by Anne Rice. The foray into Christian-themed literature is a big change for Rice who earned Beliefnet’s 2005 Book of the Year for her work based on the Gospels. The New Testament provides very little information about Jesus’s formative years, and this film convincingly fleshes them out. As the movie unfolds, we find Him living in Alexandria and behaving like your typical 7-year-old while His parents, Mary (Sara Lazzaro) and Joseph (Vincent Walsh), struggle with how to go about explaining the concept of God to His own Son.
We also learn that they have been living in exile because of King Herod’s (Jonathan Bailey) order to his army to execute all the young boys born in Bethlehem. The despot was determined to prevent the rumored Messiah from seizing the throne. Herod’s death allows the family to return home, although the obsessed centurion Severus (Sean Bean) is still searching for Jesus and sees Him lurking behind every rock. Meanwhile, Jesus goes about healing His sick uncle, curing a blind rabbi, and bringing both a bully and a bird back from the dead. And He also performs many random acts of kindness. However, He desperately searches for an explanation of these powers until Mary finally tells him about the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Birth, and His divine destiny. Excellent (HHHH). Rated PG-13 for violence and mature themes. Running time: 111 minutes. Distributor: Focus Features. —Kam Williams
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Calendar Wednesday, March 16 7:30 a.m.: Princeton Chamber Breakfast with Holly Bull, gap year counselor and president of the Center for Interim Programs; Nassau Club of Princeton. Noon: Sustainable Princeton hosts a discussion on “Overcoming Barriers to Green Building in Princeton – Solutions Wanted” at Princeton Public Library. Free to attend. 6 p.m.: Kelly Simmons reads from her latest book, One More Day at Labyrinth Books of Princeton. 7 p.m.: The United States Air Force Rhythm in Blue
Jazz Ensemble performs at Lawrence High School, located at 2525 Princeton Pike in Lawrenceville. The concert is free to attend. 7:30 p.m.: Screening of Henry V (1944) at Princeton Garden Theatre. Thursday, March 17 St. Patrick’s Day 10 a.m.: Meeting, 55-Plus Club. ”Sea Level Variability Over the Past 2,000 Years” will be the topic of the presentation by Benjamin Horton, professor at the Department of Marine and Coastal Science at Rutgers University. Noon: Cat Adoption Day presented by the Animal Alliance of New Jersey at Pet Adoption Center, 1432 Route 179 North, Lambertville (cat adoption fees will be waived).
1:30 p.m.: “Savor the Flavor of Eating Right” with registered dietician Jill Kwasny and McCaffrey’s Executive Chef Eric Blackshire at McCaffrey’s Supermarket, Princeton Shopping Center. 6 p.m.: Reading and discussion of Thomas Parente’s latest book, The Positive Pianist at Labyrinth Books of Princeton. 7 p.m.: CommunicationImprov Workshop presented by networking group Gotham-Princeton at Eno Terra restaurant in Kingston. To RSVP, call Joshua Zinder at (609) 924-5004 or visit www.gothamnetwork ing.com. The cost to attend is $35. Friday, March 18 9:45 a.m. to noon: Free, Job Seeker Sessions at the
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1 to 4 p.m.: Community Clean-Up Day at Princeton Battlefield State Park and hosted by the Princeton Battlefield Society and the Sierra Club. 6:30 p.m.: The Adoptive Parents Organization of Central NJ invites all area adoptive families to a special celebratory Mass at St. Gregory the Great Church in Hamilton Square. A dessert reception will follow the Mass. For more information, visit www.apocnj.org. Sunday, March 20 12:30 p.m.: Exhibition on Screen presents Girl with a Pearl Earring (2015) at Princeton Garden Theatre (also on March 30). 1 p.m.: Building on the success of “Meet the Music,” PUC’s first program for kids and families, Princeton University Concerts (PUC) presents a concert geared towards children ages 3-6 entitled, “Baby Got Bach” at Richardson Auditorium. 3 p.m.: Special Exhibition Tour at the Princeton University Art Museum: “Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills.” Free to attend. Monday, March 21 Recycling 11:30 a.m.: Lunch and Learn with a Naturalist at Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. 1 p.m.: The Women’s College Club of Princeton welcomes speaker Barbara Figge Fox for a presentation entitled, “Every Button a Story: What Stories Do Your Buttons Tell?” This meeting is free to attend and open to the public; All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Princeton. 4 p.m.: Reading Treehouse II meeting at the Princeton Public Library, a free reading group for second and third graders that meets on the third Monday of each month. Tuesday, March 22 6 p.m.: Susan Jacoby reads from her latest book, Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion at Labyrinth Books of Princeton. Wednesday, March 23 6 p.m.: Eben Kirksey, Joao Biehl and William Gleason discuss Emergent Ecologies at Labyrinth Books of Princeton. Thursday, March 24 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Princeton Farmers Market in front of The Nassau Inn. Shop local produce, flowers, baked goods, meat, cheese, and crafts (the market returns to Hinds Plaza on April 21). 6:30 p.m.: Meeting, The Princeton Meditation Group at 12 Roszel Road (Suite B201) in Princeton. No charge. All are welcome to attend.
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WIGGED OUT: The 2016 Pi Day Einstein Lookalike Contest was, as always, a highlight of Princeton’s annual celebration of all things Einstein. At the Nassau Inn this past Saturday, 3-14, a standing-room-only crowd cheered on impersonators of all ages as they marked the famous scientist’s birthday by dressing up as his likeness. The winner, nine-year-old Andrew Marucci, decided to shop local, taking his winnings (a check for $314, of course) across the street to Jazam’s where he quickly spent every penny. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
Princeton Public Library. Ron Conlon will discuss how to stay competitive in a constantly evolving job market. Noon: Mercer County Park Commission leads a free group hike through Mercer Meadows. Free to attend (attendees should meet at Mercer Meadow’s Blackwell Road lot). 12:30 p.m.: Gallery Talk at the Princeton University Art Museum entitled, “Joseph Mallord William Turner: The Power of Nature.” Free to attend. 7:30 p.m.: The Princeton Symphonic Brass, under the baton of Lawrence Kursar, holds its debut concert on Friday, March 18, 7:30 p.m. at All Saints Church, 16 All Saints Road, in Princeton, New Jersey. The theme of the concert is “Russia to America” and will feature the music of Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lenotovich, DiLorenzo, Botschinsky and Prima. Admission is by voluntary contribution with all proceeds going directly to the performers. Saturday, March 19 9 to 10:30 a.m.: Early Childhood Sample Class at the Waldorf School of Princeton. Explore Waldorf programs for children ages 2 to 5. For more information, visit www.princetonwaldorf.org. 10:30 a.m.: Screening of The Goonies (1985) at Princeton Garden Theatre. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Art for Families: Make it Pop at Princeton University Art Museum. Explore the colorful art of Andy Warhol and make a pop culture inspired work of your own. 1 to 4 p.m.: D&R Greenway staff and volunteers guide visitors through the organization’s art galleries and host activities for children inspired by the current exhibits.
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West Virginia (24-9 overall, 12-6 Big 12) on March 18 at Columbus, Ohio in an opening round contest. The winner of that game will advance to a second round game on March 20 to face the victor of the clash between thirdseeded Ohio State and 14thseeded Buffalo. “It’s an unbelievable honor to be playing in the NCAA Tournament,” said Princeton head coach Courtney Banghart, as quoted on the Princeton sports website. “We played a very difficult non-conference schedule and we’re so grateful that the selection committee rewarded us for our body of work. I’m bursting with pride for my team that became the first team in Ivy League history to earn an at-large bid.” After losing the nail-biter to Penn on March 8, a subdued Banghart felt her team still merited consideration
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Annie Tarakchian, Amanda Berntsen, and Taylor Williams, will get another shot at the NCAAs. “I think this senior class, in particular, has always had competitive toughness on the defensive end,” said Banghart of the group, which played a key role last year when Princeton topped Wisconsin-Green Bay 80-70 in the first round of the NCAA tourney to earn the program’s first win in March Madness before it fell 85-70 to Maryland in the next round. “On offense, you have to stick your neck out and shine. Why you love them is that they are gentle souls, all five of them. If we played with the same toughness on the offensive end as we did on the defensive end tonight, which was one of our main keys, we would have won the game but we didn’t do that.” Banghart believes that her team will be steeled by Penn loss, making it tougher in the NCAAs. “We have really good kids, who have gotten better while they have been here so this year has been successful in the eyes of the development of our players and our people,” said Banghart. “If we get into the NCAA tournament, I think we will have some success there.” —Bill Alden
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MARCH GLADNESS: Princeton University women’s basketball player Alex Wheatley goes up for a hook shot last week against Penn. Senior star Wheatley scored 20 points but it wasn’t enough as Princeton fell 62-60 to the Quakers in a winner-take-all showdown for the Ivy League title on March 8. The Tigers, who moved to 23-5 overall and 12-2 Ivy with the loss, were able to put that setback behind them last Monday evening when they received a bid to the NCAA tournament. Becoming the first Ivy team to ever be an at-large selection to March Madness, the Tigers were seeded 11th in the Sioux Falls, S.D. region and will face sixth-seeded West Virginia (249 overall, 12-6 Big 12) on March 18 at Columbus, Ohio in an opening round contest. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
Hosting Penn in its regular season finale last week, the Princeton University men’s basketball team appeared to be on cruise control. The Tigers led 53-36 with 10:59 left in regulation and the crowd of 2,464 at Jadwin Gym was getting listless as Princeton seemingly toyed with Penn. But a scrappy Quaker team turned the March 8 contest into a rough ride for Princeton, going on a 3519 run to narrow the Tiger lead to 72-71 and getting one last possession with a chance to pull out the win. Princeton, though, held the fort, making a stop in the final sequence, improving to 22-6 overall and 12-2 Ivy League. A f te r w a r d , a r e l i e ve d Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson tipped his hat to Penn. “I said to coach (Steve) Donahue after the game, we should have gone down both games to Penn,” said Henderson, whose team rallied to edge the Quaker 73-71 in overtime in Philadelphia on January 9. “We were really fortunate in the first game, we made some really big plays. Tonight they were terrific; I thought it was really hard to guard them. They made all the right decisions down the stretch.”
While Princeton fell just short of an Ivy title down the stretch as a 73-71 loss at Harvard on March 4 ended up being a decisive factor in the Tigers finishing one game behind Yale in the Ivy title race, Henderson was confident that his squad earned the right to take part in the postseason. “We capped off what I think is a very good year and we are hopeful to keep playing,” said Henderson. “We really want to keep playing.” Henderson and the Tigers got their wish as they learned Sunday night that they had received a bid to the NIT (National Invitation Tournament) where they are a six seed and will play at third-seeded Virginia Tech (19-14 overall, 10-8 ACC) in Blacksburg, Va. on March 16 in an opening round contest. It is Princeton’s sixth appearance in the NIT and first since 2002. The Tigers were last in the postseason in 2014, when they advanced to the quarterfinals of the CBI (College Basketball Invitational) with a win over Tulane before falling to Fresno State. The winner of the Princeton-Virginia Tech contest will face the victor of the clash between second-seeded BYU and seventh-seeded Alabama-Birmingham in the
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second round. “We are very happy to be in the NIT and to continue our great year together,” said Henderson, as quoted on the Pr inceton spor ts website. “I’m excited for our team as we head on the road to play a strong Virginia Tech team.” P r i n c e ton j u n i or Pe te Miller and his teammates learned a valuable lesson they can use in the postseason from surviving a strong challenge from Penn. “Those guys are really scrappy; they are good and they don’t give up at all,” said Miller. “It was the same thing in the first game, we were up big in the first half and they just didn’t go away. I think they are always going to keep going, we just have to know that they are not going to stop.” The Tigers have proven tough to stop in Princeton, going 13-0 at home this season to set a new program mark for most home wins without a loss in a season. “We really like playing in front of the crowd at Jadwin,” said Miller, who drew plenty of cheers on the evening as he chipped in nine points and a game-high 10 rebounds in the win over Penn. “It is a special place; to win games here and make our fans happy is everything to us.” Miller and his teammates are happy to be heading to the postseason. “Obviously last Friday night was really tough for us, I think we are still feeling the effects of the ripple down,” said Miller, referring to the disappointing loss to Harvard. “We are going to rally this week, get our morale back up, and just keep going because we think we can make a run in a postseason tournament.” In Henderson’s view, his squad has the potential to do some damage in the NIT. “I am hopeful that we can flush whatever just happened as fast as possible and grow and get better and ask more of ourselves because there is a lot left in this team,” said Henderson. “We have to redefine what we are all about here going forward and what our resolve is like.” —Bill Alden
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it has ever b een,” s aid Kampersal. “The conditioning of the players is the best it has ever been. Getting the most wins is awesome but even better than that was that the process to get that point is way better than it has ever been. They can be proud of it. They just filled whatever role they were asked to play, they were great leaders and they left the program in a better place so it is just a good group.” With the Tigers bringing back a good group of players including junior stars Kelsey Ko el z er, Mol ly C ont i n i, Cassidy Tucker, Morgan Sly, Fiona McKenna, and Molly Strabley along with sophomores Kiersten Falck and Emily Achterkirch and freshmen Karlie Lund, Stephanie Sucharda, and Kimiko Marinacci, the program is in an excellent place. “We will be senior heavy which is good so we will have a lot of experience,” said Kampersal. “We have firepower coming back. We have an awesome class coming in, so we are really excited.” —Bill Alden
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It was a brutal first minute for the Princeton University men’s lacrosse team when they hosted No. 11 Maryland last Saturday. The Terps controlled the opening face-off as Austin Henningsen scooped up the ball and scored seven seconds into the contest. Some 46 seconds later, Maryland tallied again as Matt Rambo fired a shot past Princeton goalie Tyler Blaisdell. That opening salvo set the tone as Maryland rolled to a 17-5 win over the Tigers. A subdued Princeton head coach Chris Bates acknowledged that his team was on its heels from the start. “We got punched between the eyes,” said Bates. “All week long we talked about getting ourselves into a settled half field. The disappointing thing is how we reacted as a team defense. We are just not urgent enough in communication. We are not playing together. We didn’t make Maryland work very hard for their goals. We didn’t cover the ball well, we didn’t follow our game plan particularly well … when they set picks at goal line;
we wanted to double team them. It was little breakdowns and you can just tell we dig ourselves a ditch and it is hard to get our confidence back. You could feel it.” On Monday evening, Princeton showed a lot more urgency and came away feeling better as it defeated No. 19 Rutgers 10-7. Sophomore goalie Blaisdell star red, making 14 saves to help the Tigers retain the Meistrell Cup, given to the winner of the local rivalry, and defeat the Scarlet Knights for the 28th time in 29 tries. L ook ing a head to t he Rutgers game and the 95th meeting in the series, Bates believed his players had the right mentality to get on the winning track. “These guys have worked hard and I like the locker room and I like the work ethic but we have got to turn words into actions,” said Bates, who got three goals from Ryan Ambler in the win over Rutgers with Zach Currier and Bobby Weaver chipping in two apiece as Princeton snapped a threegame losing streak and improved to 2-3.
“These guys care but we just have to execute. The post game message was that you guys have to find a way together and hold each other to a higher level of accountability.” With Princeton opening Ivy League play by hosting Penn (3-2) on March 19, the Tigers need to come together to make a league title run. “We said throughout the week that the die isn’t set and the die will be set here in the next week to two weeks going into the Ivies,” noted Bates. “We are at a critical juncture. We are going to help these guys react but each guy has a responsibility to the greater good here to do the right thing and stay on the path. I want us to play with confidence. This is a good team with talented guys; we need to start feeling good about our ability to execute.” —Bill Alden
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PU Sports Roundup Princeton Athletics Mourning for O’Connell
800 SERVICE: Princeton University women’s track star Cecilia Barowski speeds around the track in a recent race. Last Saturday, senior Barowski placed sixth in the 800-meter final at the 2016 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., clocking a time of 2:06.81. Barowski earned second-team All-America honors for her finish and looks ahead to the outdoor season, which starts this week when the Princeton women compete in the Bulls Invitational at South Florida in Tampa from March 17-18. (Photo by Beverly Schaefer, Courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications)
T he Pr inceton University athletics department is mourning the passing of Thomas O’Connell, the head coach of Princeton baseball from 1982-97. O’Connell passed away on March 7 at the age of 82. A mass of Christian burial was held on March 14 at the St. Paul’s Catholic Church. In his tenure guiding the Tigers, O’Connell led the Princeton baseball team to a record of 323-313-6 for a winning percentage of .508. The Tigers went to the NCAA Tournament three times during O’Connell’s tenure (1985, 1991, 1996), won two Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League championships (1985, 1991) and one Ivy League title in 1996. O’Connell was honored with the Robert L. Peters, Jr. ’42 Award in 2003 for his contributions to the baseball team over his tenure. “Coach O’Connell will be greatly missed,” said current Tiger head baseball coach Scott Bradley. “What he
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did for the baseball program championship experience.” The regional titles were here at Princeton will never The 2018 tournaments the first for each Tiger, as be forgotten.” will be played March 10 Major’s previous best finand 11. The location of the ish was fifth two years ago ——— 2018 tournaments and the while Chin took 10th in her Ivy League Presidents location and dates of the first NCAA Regional appearApprove Hoops Tourneys 2019 tournaments will be ance last season. Ending its tradition of de- announced at a later date. Major’s finish led a topciding the conference’s authree sweep for the Tigers ——— tomatic bids to the NCAA in women’s saber, with Albasketball tourneys based Princeton Baseball lison Lee finishing second on regular season stand- Defeats Richmond and Gracie Stone third. ings, the Ivy League said last Danny Hoy led the hitWith the regional finishes, week that it is adding men’s ting attack as the Princeton which count for 60 percent and women’s basketball University baseball team of a fencer’s qualification tournaments to its slate of defeated Richmond 5-3 last to the NCA A Championconference championships Monday. ships (regular-season results beginning with the 2016-17 Senior infielder Hoy had are the other 40 percent), academic year. three hits to help the Tigers Princeton has qualified the The League’s Council of improve to 2-4. With the maximum 12 fencers to the Presidents approved four- win over Richmond and a NCAA finals for the sixth team tournaments in men’s 6-2 victory over Penn State time in seven years. and women’s basketball, on Saturday, Princeton was The Tigers will have Isawith a one-game reduction named Spider Invitational bel Ford and Charlene Liu for each team in the regular Champions. in women’s épée, Ashley season. The tournaments Princeton heads to Wash- Tsue and Chin in women’s will determine the league’s ington, D.C. this weekend foil, and Major and Stone in automatic bids to the NCAA to play a four-game set at women’s saber. Division I Basketball Cham- Georgetow n from March As for the Princeton men’s pionships. The 2017 Iv y 17-20. team, Jack Hudson and Alex League Men’s and Women’s ——— House qualified in men’s Basketball Tournaments will épée, brothers Thomas and both be held over the same Princeton Softball two competition days, March Goes 0-3 at Long Beach Michael Dudey in men’s foil, 11 and 12, at The Palestra Kaylee Grant prov ided and Edward Chin and Peter in Philadelphia. some offense as the Prince- Pak in men’s saber. The full field for the NCAA “The presidents adopted ton University softball went the proposal to establish 0-3 at the Long Beach tour- championships, which will men’s and women’s bas - ney held last weekend in be held March 24 -27 at Brandeis in Waltham, Mass., ketball tournaments after Lakewood, Calif. thoughtful discussions and Freshman Grant had a hit will be released Tuesday afcareful review of the thor- as Princeton fell 9-2 to Cal ternoon on NCAA.com. ——— ough information provided State- Fullerton 9-2 on Satby our athletics directors urday. PU Women’s Water Polo and head coaches. UltimateOn Sunday, Grant banged ly, this decision was based out a hit in a 13-1 loss to Goes 2-1 at San Diego Event Haley Wan starred as the on enhancing the overall UCLA and then went 2-forexperience for our basket- 3 with an RBI as the Tigers 14th ranked Princeton Uniball student-athletes, while got nipped 5 - 4 by Long versity women’s water polo team went 2-1 last weekend also paying attention to time Beach State. at the Sad Diego State Invidemands by shortening the Princeton, now 3-9, will regular season,” said Peter continue its California swing tational. In its opening game at the Salovey, Yale president and by playing a doubleheader at chair, Council of Ivy League Loyola Marymount in Los event on Saturday, Wan tallied two goals and an assist Presidents. Angeles on March 16 and The format for each tour- then taking part in the San to help Princeton defeat No. nament will be two semifinal Diego State Tournament 20 San Diego State 8-5. In action on Sunday, Wan games on the first day (Sat- from March 18-20. had a goal and an assist as urday) with the No. 1 seed ——— the Tigers were edged 9-8 playing the No. 4 seed and Princeton Fencers by No. 11 UC-San Diego and the No. 2 seed playing the then contributed two goals No. 3 seed, followed by the Win Regional Titles championship game played S e n i o r s a b e r D e s i r a e and three assists as Princethe next day (Sunday). The Major and sophomore foil ton rolled to a 14-3 win over tournaments’ winners will Taylor Chin won titles for Chapman. receive the League’s auto- the Princeton Universit y The Tigers, now 11-2, matic bids to the NCAA Di- women’s fencing team as are next in action when vision I Men’s and Women’s it competed at the NCAA they compete in the Loyola Basketball Championships. Mid-Atlantic/South fencing Marymount University InviThe teams that finish with regional last Saturday at tational from March 18-19 the best records from the Moravian College, hosted in Los Angeles. 14 - game, regular-season by Lafayette. conference schedule will continue to be recognized as Ivy League champions. “T he st r uct ure of our basketball tournaments is consistent with our model of college athletics and the format allows us to preserve the significance of the regular season,” said Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris. “Most importantly, this creates a landmark event during March Madness for our basketball student-athletes to anticipate while they are in school and to cherish throughout their lives after graduation.” Princeton University men’s basketball head coach Mitch Henderson welcomed the change in format. “This is a great opportunity to showcase our talented studentathletes when all eyes are on college basketball,” said Henderson, a former assistant coach at Northwestern in the Big 10, which has held a conference tournament IRISH STEW: Princeton University women’s lacrosse player Camille Sullivan heads upfield in recent action. Last Saturday, since 1988. “These tournaments en- sophomore midfielder Sullivan scored two goals in a losing hance the importance of cause as No. 6 Princeton fell 16-11 at No. 7 Notre Dame. The every single game of our Tigers outscored the Irish 4-1 over the last 8:34 of the contest conference schedule as our but it was too little, too late as Notre Dame had built a 15-7 teams compete for the op- cushion. Princeton now 4-1 overall and ranked seventh, plays (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) portunity to be a part of a at No. 8 Penn State (6-1) on March 16.
Even though it was the last swim of her Princeton High career, Madeleine Deardorff didn’t let emotions get the best of her as she stood in the blocks for the second leg of the 400 freestyle relay final last month at the Meet of Champions. “I just wanted to empty my mind of everything and swim as fast as I could,” recalled Deardorff. “I think that is what we all did.” The quar tet of seniors
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Brianna Romaine, junior Melinda Tang, sophomore Abbey Berloco, and Deardorff proved to be the fastest relay in the state, winning the race in a time of 3:28.60, just .28 seconds short of the meet record. “It was exciting for all of us, especially because Brianna and I knew it was our last relay with Abbey and Melinda,” said Deardorff. “It was kind of emotional. I think the fact that we came so close to Hillsborough’s record was special. We were seeded third going into it; that was with our fastest time that we had swum this season but last year at MOC we had a 3:29. It was good to get down to a 3:28 in this meet. It would have been nice to get that state record in the 400 free relay but we got our best time. You can’t really ask for more.” A highlight of Deardorff’s final campaign came when PHS added to its nice run at the Mercer County Swimming Championships, winning a fourth straight county crown. “It meant a lot to us, especially because it was my last year,” said Deardorff, reflecting on the team title. “I think it felt great because when I was a freshman, it was the first time we had won in a while and now it has been four straight titles after South (WW/P-S) had that really great run for a while. It felt really great to be able to keep coming and winning with new swimmers every year, having people leave and still being able to provide the depth and win.” Deardorff enjoyed some great individual swims at the county meet, winning the 100 butterfly and taking second in the 200 individual medley. “I think it is really awesome how we can switch around events and still do well points wise,” said Deardorff. “It is really special and not a lot of teams can say that. The fact that last year I did the 400 free and the IM and now I did the 100 fly and Melinda and Brianna switched events makes it really nice to have some variety.” PHS ran into an incredible team in the state tournament, falling 97-73 to topseeded and defending state champion Scotch PlainsFanwood in the semifinals of the North 2, Group B sectionals for its only dual meet loss in a 13-1 campaign. “We knew going into it that Scotch Plains had insane depth,” said Deardorff. “It is almost impossible to match but I think we went into it levelheaded, looking to swim our fastest. I think we all swam pretty
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HAPPY ENDING: Princeton High girls’ swimming star Madeleine Deardorff displays her butterfly form in a race last season. Senior star Deardorff ended her PHS career on a high note earlier this month, combining with classmate Brianna Romaine, junior Melinda Tang, and sophomore Abbey Berloco to win the 400 freestyle relay at the Meet of Champions. The quartet clocked a time of 3:28.60 in winning the event, just .28 seconds short of the meet record. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
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Sticking Together Through Rough January, PHS Girls’ Hoops Demonstrated Resolve Things could have fallen apart for the Princeton High girls’ basketball team as the losses piled up in January. But the team responded by playing some of its best basketball of the season in early February. “We only won one game in January and we didn’t jump off the ship,” said PHS head coach Dan Van Hise, whose team posted a 1-9 record in January. “The first two weeks of February we went 4-2 so that showed a lot in that they stuck together enough to put that stretch together and extend our season that way. January was very tough, it was game, practice, game, practice.” The Little Tigers absorbed some tough breaks in the last two weeks of the season as injuries depleted the lineup. “Z o e Te s one spra i ne d her ankle and inflamed her achilles, her achilles had been bothering her all year,” said Van Hise, whose team ended the winter with a 7-17 record. “After the South (WW/PS ) game she was out for the year so we didn’t have her dow n the stretch.
Taylor Stone got a concussion down the stretch.” As a result, Van Hise gave some of the younger players in the program some varsity experience. “We have a good freshmen class so we brought them up from JV,” said Van Hise, noting that he had Erin Devine on the varsity for most of the year and later promoted Anna Intartaglia, Olivia Intartaglia, Catherine Dyevich, and Ella Kotsen. “We are really excited about the five of them so we wanted to get them a little bit of time, especially with the injuries and stuff. It just made sense.” The freshmen got a trial by fire in the state tournament as 15th-seeded PHS fell 61-12 at second-seeded Monroe in the first round of the Central Jersey Group 4 sectional. “Playing in a state tournament is still a good experience for us; it is something we do take pride in,” said Van Hise, noting that it was the finale for his trio of seniors, Julia Ryan, Crystal Wang, and Adria Backus. “Being a 15 or 16 seed is hard; it extends your year after an already long season
NO BACKING DOWN: Princeton High girls’ basketball player Adria Backus dribbles up the court in action this season. Senior guard Backus provided leadership to help PHS enjoy a solid February as it posted a final record of 7-17. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
but we want to be the kind of program that values that. It was let’s try to get some of these girls playing time to see how they respond.” Van Hise liked how his seniors responded all winter long. “Julia was our workhorse; she felt a lot of pressure this year, as to be expected, having to shoulder so much of the scoring load,” said Van Hise. “She stuck with it; she tried to let the game come to her. Crystal got our most improved award, she has come a long way with her confidence. She was an absolute leader on the team, she showed emotion; she would get upset, she would be excited. Off the court, she was great, and on the court, she turned into a confident shooter. Adria was one of those intangible players. She was a glue girl, giving us defense and rebounding. We will miss all three of them.” Noting that he came into the season hoping to match the eight wins posted in 2014 -15, Van His e was proud to just miss that goal by one victory, considering all of the circumstances. “They didn’t know how to play with each other at the beginning of the year because so much of the load was on the seniors last year; it was basically a brand new team,” said Van Hise. “You have to mold yourself a little bit to get the most out of your girls and that is what we were trying to do. That stretch in February showed that when we had everybody and with them having played together for a month and a half, we were really starting to click a little bit. It couldn’t be seen through because Zoe and Taylor got hurt.” Van Hise, for his part, sees good things on the horizon for the program. “It will be a good mix of veteran leadership and younger players; I am looking for the younger girls to push those veterans a little more too because there won’t be such a big gap between them,” said Van Hise. “The freshmen have been playing together forever; they are like the next group like last year’s seniors. They played with Clarence (assistant coach Clarence White) growing up so they know how to play the game. They are dedicated, they are committed so we are really looking forward to them playing. Next year is going to be interesting.” —Bill Alden
PHS Boys’ Basketball Battled Hard to the End In What Turned Out to Be Shelley’s Swan Song Although the Princeton High boys’ basketball team finished the season with an 8-17 mark, it wasn’t that far off from having a winning season. PHS lost five games by seven points or less, including two contests by three points and another by a point. While Little Tiger head coach Mark Shelley was hoping for a better final record, he liked the way his players hung in there. “We just lost some really close games in that stretch in late December and early January,” lamented Shelley. “But at the same time, we are proud of how they bounced back.” Shelley was particularly proud of the team’s 65-64 win over Hamilton on February 26 in its regular season finale. “It was great; it was not as pretty as it should have been but we were able to get everybody in and played pretty well down the stretch,” said Shelley. “We were down five or six points with a couple of minutes left and we were able to come back, which we hadn’t been able to do earlier this year. It was a good way to close the regular season. The guys were fired up for the seniors, we knew it was the last time that they were going to play at home. Matt Hart and Michael Dowers performed real well in the clutch for us; it was what you want from your senior leaders.” A lt h ou g h 16t h - s e e d e d PHS fell 94-62 at top-seeded Hunterdon Central in the first round of the Central Jersey Group 4 sectional, Shelley was glad that his seniors got to play in the state tourney. “For our senior guys, it was the first time that most of them had been in the state playoffs because we had fallen short the last couple of years,” said Shelley. “It was really important for them to have that opportunity. I was very impressed with Hunterdon Central. I thought that was the best team we had played since I have been here.” PHS’s one-two punch of junior Zahrion Blue and Hart was very impressive as Blue averaged 19.2 points with Hart scoring 21.9 points a game.
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“They are just tremendous; they are two different players,” noted Shelley. “Zahrion is probably the best open court floor player in the county and then Matt is just such a good fundamental player, inside out. It kept us in every game we played, there were only two games where we just got blitzed. To their credit, they still did that even when teams knew to guard them. They are the scouting report.” Har t, who passed t he 1,000-point mark in his career this season, provided both production and leadership for the Little Tigers. “Matt is what you want in a player,” asserted Shelley. “He works hard, he has gotten so much better, not just offensively but defensively and rebounding. He works hard in practice. He is a leader, he is quiet but he sets a good example. He really worked on parts of his game that weren’t as strong to be a more complete player. You could tell by what the other coaches said about him how much he impressed the teams we played against.” Another senior stalwart, Michael Dowers, consistently set a good example for his teammates. “Michael is a great kid from a great family,” added Shelley. “I know he is disappointed in the sense that he wanted to be a more consistent scorer for us but he was a great leader for us in every sense of the word. He is one of those guys that is glue for your program.” Assessing the senior group as a whole, Shelley lauded its contribution to the program. “We had four other seniors who played different amounts of minutes at different points,” said Shelley,
whose other seniors were Colin Taylor, Patrick Lafontant, Shahieym Brown, and Reykwaun Lozada. “They all contributed to some extent, practicing for games. It is always tough to say goodbye to those guys.” Shelley, for his part, is saying goodbye to the team, having decided to step down from the head coaching post after four seasons at the helm. “I am not going to coach next year, this decision was really made back in November and December,” said Shelley, who has three young children and whose wife is an associate pastor working at a church in Philadelphia. “It is total, 100 percent because of my family. It is nearly impossible for us do anything together in December as a family with me doing varsity basketball because it is nights and the weekends.” For Shelley, who coached g irls’ varsit y basketball for Chapin High in South C arolina before com ing to Princeton, getting the chance to guide the Little Tigers has been a fulfilling experience. “It has been tremendous; when we left South Carolina in 2009, I wasn’t sure if I would ever get to be a varsity coach again,” said Shelley, a history teacher at PHS who plans to continue as the head coach of the Little Tiger boys’ cross country program. “I had never coached the boys so to have this opportunity work out after a couple of years is really gratifying. Most coaches will say it and it is true, it is the relationships that you develop with these kids that are so valuable. I hope there are kids that I have made an impact with on the court.” —Bill Alden
BLUE THUNDER: Princeton High boys’ basketball player Zahrion Blue, left, dribbles past a defender in a game this winter. Junior forward Blue averaged 19.2 points per game and combined with senior forward Matt Hart (21.9 points a game) to give PHS the top one-two scoring punch in the area. The Little Tigers finished the season with an 8-17 record. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
It didn’t take long for Kamau Bailey to realize that his Princeton Day School girls’ hoops team could do some good things this winter. PDS started the season by beating Hill 31-15 in early December and Panther head coach Bailey was impressed by more than the result. “I just saw a different feeling and a different vibe out on the floor,” recalled Bailey. “The girls were moving the ball better, they were moving off the ball better, the defense was better. Everything seemed like it was going to be a fruitful season.” Bailey’s first impression proved prescient as PDS went on to post a 12-13 record this season, a marked improvement on its 5-13 mark in 2014-15. “One of the things that really helped us this year in getting some of the victories that we got was that we came into games with a lot of confidence and really feeling that we did the
work in practice in order to do what they need to do on the floor to get the win,” said Bailey in assessing his squad’s improvement. “We got a little bit better at putting the ball in the basket; we had some 50 and 60 plus point games. The girls gained confidence in themselves and their shot.” The Panthers achieved a major confidence builder when they edged local rival Stuart Country Day School 53-45 in the state Prep B quarterfinals. The Panthers built on that win by topping Northern Burlington 50-47 in their regular season finale. “They were a really good team, they had a solid record coming into that game, we just got off to a really good start; I think we were up 15 in the first half,” recalled Bailey, reflecting on the victory over North Burlington which saw sophomore star Maddie Coyne pour in 20 points. “The press was working very well, we got some steals
“We had some senior leadership; Helen Healey had a great season and Isabel Meyercord had a big season,” said Bailey. and some buckets in tran“They had some big sition. They started hitting games for us. Helen had some shots in the second half; we were locking their four points in the last minthree-point shooters down ute of that Prep B game easy. They came back by against Stuart. Helen stuck ball faking and taking one with it. Jacquelyn does all dribble to the left or right the right stuff. She is very and knocking down shots supportive. She is someone during the season with some but we held them off.” of the newer girls trying to While PDS fell 74-49 to learn the plays who would eventual champion Pen- pull them aside and help nington in the Prep B semis them go through the plays and was knocked out of and walk them through the the Mercer County Tourna- Xs and Os.” ment in the first round by Hart’s willingness to help Allentown in a 73-39 loss, Bailey saw positives in both w as emblemat ic of t he team’s improved chemistry efforts. this winter. “We were ready to go “We really adopted the against Penning ton ; we were tr ying to stop the whole family concept,” asJohnson sisters and Carly serted Bailey. “We are a Rice and what happened team. In our timeouts and in that game is that one of in our huddles, we say ‘famthe people that we weren’t ily.’” With such returning playfocused on (Annie Brunner) ended up having 22 points,” ers as Coyne and fellow sophomores Ryan Robinsaid Bailey. “In the Allentown game, son, Bridget Kane, Summer we were down a bit at half Patterson, and Kate Bennett and we battled back. I was along with juniors Shayla proud of my girls because Stevenson and Alexis Daeven though we were down vis and freshman Brooke Smukler, prospects look Careand & Rehabilitation Center quite a bit we rallied had the best third quarter bright for the PDS team. “I am excited about what we have had all season, outthe future holds because I scoring them 16-12.” have a good group of girls Bailey credited the team’s trio of seniors, Helen Hea- returning; they all seem to ley, Isabel Meyercord, and really like each other,” said Jacquelyn Hart, with keep- Bailey. “I think we have a lot of ing spirits up. momentum going into next year. We went from three to five to 12 wins. My goal this year was to get at least double figure wins.” 908.359.8388 —Bill Alden
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fun and be safe, learn the fundamentals of the game, and grow as athletes and as young people. Details regarding age requirements, residence or school requirements, weekely division schedules, and other information regarding the programs are contained on the league’s website by clicking on the “PLL News” link. The season will run from early April through midJune. Pre-season team practices will be held from April 4 onwards. Opening Day will be April 9. Championship Saturday and End of Season Celebration will be June 11. The registration fee for Tee Ball is $120 (Tee Ball players will receive a cap and jersey). The registration fee for Instructional Baseball is $205 (players receive a full uniform). Scholarships are available towards registration fees and the purchase of equipment (gloves and shoes). Please note that the PLL is introducing a $20 Sibling Discount for each child after your first child registers for baseball or softball. Please contact Meghan Hedin with any questions about registration, scholarships, or volunteering at meghan.hedin@gmail.com.
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The Princeton Athletic Club is holding its fourth annual 6k Winter Wonder Run on April 9 at the Institute Woods. The run starts at 10 a.m. at the Princeton Friends School, 470 Quaker Road. This event is limited to 200 participants. For more information and to register, log onto www. princetonac.org. A portion of the proceeds benefits Princeton High girls’ basketball team. ———
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The Princeton University Geosciences Society is holding its first annual Theresa’s Trail 5-kilometer run/walk in April 16. The race, which benefits the The ALS Association of Greater Philadelphia, will start at 9 a.m. at the University’s Frist Campus Center Lawn. There is a $25 registration fee until April 1 and a $30 registration fee on the day of event. Those who register by March 31 will get a free T-shirt. There is a student discount fee of $20 and a family discount fee of $15. For more information on the event and to register online, log onto http://theresastrails.kintera.org.
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MERCURY RISING: Members of the Mercury team are all smiles after taking the girls’ division title of the Dillon Youth Basketball League earlier this month. The Mercury topped the Wings, 39-25, in the title game as Mojisola Ayodele scored 14 points and Sarah Granozio added 10. Pictured in the front row, from left, are coach Monique Claiborne, Hillary Allen, and Sadie Crahan. In the back row, from left, are, Shoshana Henderson, Mia Bocian, Mojisola Ayodele, Lucy Kreipke, Maya Lerman, and Sarah Granozio. Not pictured is Molly Brown.
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From the 1830s to the 1930 s, Jew is h s cholar s played a key role in the development of the young field of Islamic Studies in Europe. T hey painted a broad canvas, describing Islam in highly positive terms as the religion closest to Judaism, according to Dr. Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Currently a Guggenheim Fellow, Heschel will present research from her current book project: The Jewish Fascination with Islam: The History of Jewish Scholarship on Islam and its Impact on Modern Jewish Self-Understanding. The talk, “Jewish Scholars and the Study of Islam,” will be held on Monday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Douglass Campus Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick. The lecture is free and open to the public. It is cosponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, the Center for Middle
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A beautiful person died February 21, 2016 in a flood of love and peace and hopefully, a little bump of morphine. The Reverend Hazel Vivian Staats-Westover: a soso cook, a too-fast driver, an insomniac, a giggler, a feminist, a leftist, an activist, and a Christian. She grew up Dutch in rural New Jersey between the wars, riding horses, going to the one-room schoolhouse where her mother was the only teacher, and playing the organ in the Griggstown Reformed Church. She and her younger brother Lloyd had a musical revue that launched a lifetime of musicianship. She had perfect pitch, toured playing a silver trumpet in an all-girls brass band, and well into her 90s she would twist her face up and sight-read full scores and sing soprano alongside. The full sweep of her life
is too big for a Facebook post: there are countless inter v iews and citations ( Feminists who Changed America, 1963-1975!) and little dictaphone tapes where she told her stories, and we’ll have to put it all together at some later date. For now, the abridged version: after her father had died young in a car crash, she went west to USC and then to Chicago Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School. She ministered to Japanese internment camp survivors. She housed and mentored a young Jesse Jackson in Southside Chicago while he organized Martin Luther King’s Operation Breadbasket (please listen to Cannonball Adderley’s Country Preacher, which was recorded at that time, about that time). She spoke in front of 100,000 people at a socialist antiwar rally in Paris, sharing the dais with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh. She was a chaplain and the first director of the Women’s Center at Princeton University after they began admitting women in the 70’s. When a greatgranddaughter of hers had a third-grade history lesson about the Roosevelt’s, Hazel was pleased to pitch in. She had, after all, lunched with Eleanor. She married twice in her life. Her first husband was the father of her two children Dawn and Allan, a preacher turned civil rights activist who left her during the full ardor of the free love era. Her second husband was an ex-Marine and lifelong Republican who adored her, adorably, until his death last year, even as she posted STAND UP TO THE NRA petitions all over Facebook.
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SERVICES Sunday, March 20 Liturgy of Palms and Holy Eucharist, Rite I, 7:30 am Liturgy of Palms and Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 9:00 am Liturgy of Palms and Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 11:00 am Compline, 7:00 pm Monday, March 21 Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 12:00 pm Tuesday, March 22 Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 12:00 pm Wednesday, March 23 Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 12:00 pm Holy Eucharist, Rite II with Prayers for Healing, 5:30 pm Tenebrae Service, 7:00 pm Thursday March 24 Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 12:00 pm Holy Eucharist with Foot Washing and Stripping of the Altar, 7:00 pm Keeping Watch, 8:00 pm – Mar. 25, 7:00 am Friday, March 25 The Prayer Book Service for Good Friday, 7:00 am The Prayer Book Service for Good Friday, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Stations of the Cross, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Evening Prayer, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm The Prayer Book Service for Good Friday, 7:00 pm Saturday, March 26 Easter Egg Hunt, 3:00 pm The Great Vigil of Easter, 7:00 pm Sunday, March 27 Holy Eucharist, Rite I, 7:30 am Festive Choral Eucharist, Rite II, 9:00 am Festive Choral Eucharist, Rite II, 11:00 am
abbreviated version of her travels — into East Germany, the Soviet Union, to China for the U.N.’s World Conference on Women — and he asked her why she traveled so much. “I just wanted to MEET all these PEOPLE out there,” she said in the jolly all-caps emphatics she used for everything. “Just to see who they ARE, see what makes us all HUMAN.” Her family is in awe of everything she did and saw in her life. She shaped many lives. But for family, she left a simpler example: optimism and joy to the last. “I don’t know where I’m going after this,” she said not long before she died, “but I’m sure it’s going to be great.” In that great place, wherever it is, she might rejoin her son, Allan. She is survived by her daughter Dawn; her grandsons Charles, David, Nathan, Leslie, Robert, and Florent; six great-grandchildren; and Bob Staats-Westover’s three children; Douglas, Diane, and Bryce; grandchildren Peter, Stephen, Mark, Michael, Anna and John; and ten great-grandchildren. Written by her grandson Nathan, transmitted with great love through Dawn Thornburgh, blessed to be her daughter …. A Celebration of her Life and Memorial Service will be held on March 26, 2016 at 10 a.m. at the University Chapel at Princeton where she was ordained. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to your favorite charity: Hazel would encourage something to do with women’s issues, but will maintain, as always, her dedication to your right to choose.
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As fitting for someone who worked on a version of the Bible with all the male pronouns taken out (think HERstory, but over the entire King James Bible), Hazel was a massive Hillary supporter, even if her politics were more Bernie. It’s bittersweet to think Clinton will win but Hazel won’t be here to see it. The Clintons, for their part, have a huge responsibility not to play cynical with the support of women like Hazel, who shouldered the struggle for decades. She fought a non-binary fight, for women’s rights but also for love and economic justice and inclusion of all kinds. Hazel had been officiating ceremonies for same-sex couples for years before it was legal marriage. When it came time for her to officiate a grandson’s wedding, she happily suggested that for the multi-faith non-believer couple that she could put a brown paper book cover over her Bible so the Buddhists and Jews and Christians would all feel equally welcome. Despite her lifetime in the ministry, Hazel was never content to parrot scripture as if it held incontrovertible truths (it was, after all, written by men). She always had more questions than answers, and death was no different. She spent much of this winter at her daughter’s home in Key West dying rather cheerfully, with an out-loud sense of wonder. “This is so fascinating,” she would say. “I get to see what life is all about.” The hospice doctor came in the week after Christmas and had the kind of warm bedside chat that hospice is so good for. Grandma told him some
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Eastern Studies, and the Institute for Women’s Leadership. The talk is the annual Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program. Free parking is available behind the Campus Center. ( For GPS search, use “57 Lipman Drive”) Advance registration is requested by emailing csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu or calling (848) 932-2033. For more information, visit the website BildnerCenter. rutgers.edu. Susannah Heschel is a prominent scholar who is an expert on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany, anti-semitism, and the history of biblical scholarship. Her publications include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, which won a National Jew ish Book Award, and The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. The daughter of the prominent scholar and civil rights leader Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, she has followed his example in her commitment to social activism and commitment to civil rights. The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life connects the university with the community through public lectures, symposia, Jewish communal initiatives, cultural events, and teacher training.
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Carter and Hunter Beatty; and Logan, Lilah, Gage and Jase Nagel; and nieces Pat Gray and Claudia Benyon and nephew Doug Gray. A Celebration of Life will take place on Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 3 p.m. in the community room at Spruce Circle in Princeton. All are invited to attend. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to SAVE Animal Shelter. ———
Phillip Amico
Marilyn Murray Marilyn Murray, 81, of Princeton, died February 27, 2016. Born August 22, 1934 in South Bend, In., she graduated from Purdue University and earned a Masters degree in social work from IUPUI in 1984. She worked briefly in that field in Seattle and for 10 years in Tucson before moving to Princeton in 2001. Here, she worked as a dog-walker and caregiver, enjoying all the people and pets that she was able to help. Predeceased by her parents, William and Mildred Gray; brother Ronald Gray and daughter Sheryl Liechty; Marilyn is survived by brother Lowell (Jean) Gray of Titusville, FL; son Brian (Becky) Liechty of Plymouth, In.; daughter Lynn (Larry) Peterson of Tucson, Ariz.; grandchildren Ryan, Kevin, and Eric Peterson; and Erica Liechty (Adam) Nagel, Jessica (Rick) Beatty, and Tristan ( f i a n c e A l e x i s M or g a n ) Liechty; great-grandchildren
Phillip Amico, 57; a long time resident of the Palmer Square neighborhood in Princeton, passed away March 9, 2016 of natural causes. Phillip was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.; the son of the late Joseph C. Amico, MD and Mildred Amico. He graduated from Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, Georgetown University, and Syracuse University. Phillip had a long and rewarding career with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson; traveling the world as a marketing director for the neuroscience franchise. He is sur v ived by h is mother, Mildred Amico of Rye, N.Y.; brothers Paul of Hoboken, N.J.; Joseph of Armonk, N.Y.; Christopher of Manlius, N.Y.; and Matthew of New York City along with 9 nieces and nephews. An event celebrating his life will be held on Saturday, March 19 from noon to 3 p.m. at Grand Vin, 500 Grand Street, Hoboken, N.J. You may contact the family for further details.
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Alice R. Davison
Alice R. “Betty” Davison, 92 of Princeton passed away Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at Park Place Center in Monmouth Junction, N.J. Born in Spring Lake, New Jersey, she was a lifelong resident of Princeton. A f ter g raduat ing f rom Princeton High School, she enlisted in the United States Navy at the onset of World War II, being honorably discharged at the end of the war. She then joined the NJ Bell Telephone Company where she worked for many years before joining The Hun School of Princeton where she worked until her retirement. She was a member of Trinity Church and American Legion Post 76. She was a proud charter member of the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad Ladies Auxiliary and the Engine Company #1 Ladies Auxiliary. One of her proudest accomplishments was writing “The Firemen’s Prayer” that is still read today. Alice was predeceased by her husband Francis S. “Sam” Davison; her son, Francis S. “Booper” Davison Jr.; her parents, Pauline and Charles Rauch; a sister, Marjorie Hunt; and brothers Albert “Hooker” Rauch, Joseph Rauch, and Jack Rauch. She is survived by her daughter-in-law Ann Davison and her grandchil-
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dren Sara, Ryan, and Scott Davison, all of Princeton; her sister Marilyn Wilson of Robbinsville; special niece Linda Fugate of Columbus; and many additional nieces, nephews, and friends. Funeral services were held Saturday, March 12, 2016 at the Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton, officiated by Rev. Catherine E. Williams, Associate Pastor of Pastoral Care, Princeton United Methodist Church. Alice was laid to rest with military honors beside her beloved husband in Princeton Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Senior Care Ministry of Princeton, PO Box 1517, Princeton, NJ 08542 or a charity of the donor’s choice.
Barbara Ann Walsh We remember Barbara, 83, a remarkable colleague, friend, aunt, and sister who passed away unexpectedly one year ago on March 20, 2015. Now, on this first anniversary of her passing, we reaffirm our love for her and how much she touched our lives and those of all who knew her. Barbara was brought up in New Bedford, Massachusetts and became the first in her family to attend college, graduating from Pratt Institute with a degree in food service management. She expanded her expertise in gourmet food preparation, graduating with special honors from Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris and receiving certification in Italian cuisine in Venice. A special honor was her election as a “Life Fellow” of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. Her career included positions in school foodservice management and acting director of food services at the Reader’s Digest Association. Along with responsibility for the service of 4,000 meals a day to staff, she was in charge of the prestigious executive dining room, hosting international celebrities, government, and corporate officials. A highly skilled food service administrator with a top performance record, she was recruited as director of food and nutrition services for the Princeton, New Jersey regional school system where she worked until her retirement. She loved interacting with the teachers and students, inviting them to menu meetings and food tastings, and encouraging them to enjoy new foods she and her staff prepared. While adhering to the strict federal meal and budget guidelines, Barbara focused on fresh, healthy, whole foods presented in an appealing manner.
Throughout her career, she was a gourmet cook and food stylist. As president of the New Jersey Nutrition Council and the New Jersey School Food Service Association, she received awards and accolades from her colleagues and professional associations. She trained dietetic interns and medical nutrition students from Rutgers University’s food science department and was associate professor of food service management, Gloucester County College, Gloucester, N.J. She was a contributing author of quantity food preparation and sanitation textbooks, and participated in research projects with the U.S. department of agriculture nutrition and technical service. Barbara moved to Te questa, Florida after her retirement, where she enjoyed leisurely days in her condo by the intracoastal waterway. She loved spending time with her 3 sisters and their husbands, 7 nieces and nephews, and 16 great nieces and nephews. She will be remembered for her spirit of adventure, her love of animals, and her secret recipe for chocolate fudge sauce! She didn’t have children, but we, her three sisters, were the beneficiaries of her kind heart, generosity, and love of travel. We are truly blessed to have had her for a sister, and we will never forget the
wonder f u l memor ies we shared together. She will live on in our hearts forever. Her loving sisters, C h r i s t i n e, C a r ol, a n d Sandie. ———
Shang Wen Yuan
Shang Wen Yuan, 87, of Princeton died Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at home surrounded by his loving family. Born in Shanghai, China, he moved to the United States in 1949. He received a BS and MS in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1953 and 1955, respectively. Mr. Yuan resided in Morristown for over 35 years before moving to Skillman in 2000. He retired in 1998 with over 40 years of service as a civil engineer with, and a partner of Hazen and Sawyer Consulting Engineers, New York City. Son of the late Yuan An Pu and Jin Qian Mei, he is survived by his wife of 54 years, Pearl P. (Yao) Yuan; a son Jeffrey Yuan; a daughter Frances Yuan; two sisters Jean Yuan and Sylvaine Tam; and three grandchildren Brian and Mira Yuan, and Justin Liu. The funeral service was held at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 14, 2016 at the Mather-Hodge Funeral H o m e, 4 0 Va n d e ve nte r Avenue, Princeton. Burial followed in the Princeton Cemetery.
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TREAT YOURSELF to this lovely colonial in The Estates at Princeton Junction. Beautifully set on a corner lot, follow the paver path to the welcoming front door, having sidelights and window above. The brick facade makes an elegant statement, and accentuates the keystones and other architectural touches. Folding around the house, and beautifully designed and executed, is a spacious terrace, just perfect for entertaining. Two-storey entry opens to both the formal living room and dining room. You will notice that the living room is filled with light--the current (and only) owners even added some windows. Warmly burnished wood floors are to be found throughout this level, even in the kitchen. The family room has a wood burning fireplace, and a wall of windows. The kitchen is terrific, with custom glass tile backsplash, island, breakfast area, and a greenhouse bump-out opening to the outside. Upstairs, the main bedroom has a sybaritic bathroom with a corner soaking tub. There is an additional room attached to the MBR, providing a quiet place to read, exercise or relax. Three additional bedrooms are found on this floor. There are many rooms with ceiling fans, bathroom with custom tile, and every creature comfort. The professionally finished basement includes a separate room, egress window, half bath, and large room for play or exercise--you name it. West Windsor schools, quiet street, and easy access to the train complete this very pretty picture. $825,000
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32 chambers street Princeton, nJ 08542 (609) 924-1416 Martha F. stockton, Broker-owner HousecleaninG: Experienced, English speaking, great references, reliable with own transportation. Weekly & bi-weekly cleaning. Green cleaning available. Susan, (732) 8733168. 02-03/03-30 sHort terM rental: FURNISHED HOUSE, PRINCETON. Month of JUNE. Chestnut Street. Walk to everything! Fully modernized, 3 BR, 2 baths, W/D, TV, WIFI, utilities, central A/C, cleaning service, 3-car parking. Delightful porch, garden & terrace. $4,900/mo. CONTACT: nimby@aol.com for photos, etc. 03-09-4t rosa’s cleaninG serVice: For houses, apartments, offices, daycare, banks, schools & much more. Has good English, own transportation. 20 years of experience. Cleaning license. References. Please call (609) 751-2188 or (609) 610-2485. 03-02/05-04 Princeton acadeMics tutor-counsel-coacH All grades & subjects. Regular & Special Education. ADHD coaching. Beginning to advanced reading instruction. Test prep- PARCC, SSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT. School assessments & homework club. Build self-esteem while learning! JUDY DINNERMAN, M.A., Reading & Educational Specialist. 35 yrs. experience, U. of Pa. certified, www.princetonacademics.com, (609) 865-1111 03-09-4t HoMe HealtH aide: 25 years of experience. Available mornings to take care of your loved one, transport to appointments, run errands. I am well known in Princeton. Top care, excellent references. The best, cell (609) 356-2951; or (609) 751-1396. 03-09-4t
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With references, available in the Princeton area. (609) 216-5000 tf tUtORING AVAILABLE: in Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Physics, SAT, ACT & AP. For more information contact Tom at (609) 216-6921. tf HANDYMAN: General duties at your service! High skill levels in indoor/outdoor painting, sheet rock, deck work, power washing & general on the spot fix up. Carpentry, tile installation, moulding, etc. EPA certified. T/A “Elegant Remodeling”, www.elegantdesignhandyman.com Call Roeland (609) 933-9240 or roelandvan@gmail.com tf
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SHORt tERM RENtAL: FURNISHED HOUSE, PRINCETON. Month of JUNE. Chestnut Street. Walk to everything! Fully modernized, 3 BR, 2 baths, W/D, TV, WIFI, utilities, central A/C, cleaning service, 3-car parking. Delightful porch, garden & terrace. $4,900/mo. CONTACT: nimby@aol.com for photos, etc. 03-09-4t PRINCEtON ACADEMICS tUtOR-COUNSEL-COACH All grades & subjects. Regular & Special Education. ADHD coaching. Beginning to advanced reading instruction. Test prep- PARCC, SSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT. School assessments & homework club. Build self-esteem while learning! JUDY DINNERMAN, M.A., Reading & Educational Specialist. 35 yrs. experience, U. of Pa. certified, www.princetonacademics.com, (609) 865-1111 03-09-4t
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24 Saratoga Dr, West Windsor Twp 4 Beds, 2.5 Baths, $789,999
Elizabeth Zuckerman / Stephanie Will NEW LISTING Sales Associate
Heidi A. Hartmann Sales Associate
44 Hornor Lane, Princeton 3 Beds, 2 Baths, $579,000
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27 Evans Lane, Lawrence Twp 4 Beds, 2.5 Baths, $689,000
Donna Reilly & Ellen Calman Sales Associates
Elizabeth Zuckerman / Stephanie Will Sales Associate