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Classes for Adults, page 6; Trenton’s Book Lover, 14;
New NJ Symphony CEO Dare, 28; Roma Bank Acquired, 35.
The Kennedys perform
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Borden Perlman & PRS and Pennington Insurance; NRG Energy & GenON Energy;
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Editor’s note: Eleanor Letcher’s
letter in the December 19 issue, in
which she criticized the recent decision by the United Way to cut
funding to two multi-agency collaborations that provide mental
health and domestic violence
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he devastation of Hurricane
THANK YOU, Eleanor Letcher of
Sandy has impacted all of us. In an CONTACT, for pointing out the
effort to better understand the im- need for mental health and crisis
pact that this storm had on the busi- services in our community, includness community, the Governor’s ing suicide prevention. One in four
office has reached out to the people in a year experiences a diagPrinceton Regional Chamber of
nosable mental health
Commerce and other
problem, according to
local business organiformer U.S. Surgeon
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er’s groundbreaking
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report, Mental Health
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1999.
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help New Jersey receive the fund- health, suicide prevention, addicing it needs for a full recovery. It tions care and domestic violence,
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Company Index
Bartolomei & Ballezzi, 29; Billtrust, 29; BioNJ, 29; Borden Perlman, 29; Callaway Henderson,
29; Community News Service, 31;
Council on Gender Parity in Labor
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I encourage all people who are
interested in mental health and other affordable community health
care to support agencies that do the
work directly since they can no
longer rely upon United Way to do
so.
Mark Lamar, LCSW, MBA
Executive Director, Family
Guidance Center Corporation
THE UNITED WAY of Mercer
County has it all wrong. Donors
(like me) are not concerned about
the monetary impact of their donation. They are concerned about the
impact their donation has in the
community. They want to know
that services are available for those
that need them. They want to know
that there is a place to turn when
they themselves need help! They
want to know that their donation is
making a difference.
Jared Loughner, James Eagan
Holmes, Wade Michael Page, Andrew Engeldinger, and now Adam
Lanza all carried out horrific
crimes against humanity. Mass
shootings are big news, they generate sensational media coverage.
Yet, according to the website,
Mother Jones.com, what the media
have failed to do is connect the dots
between these incidents and mental health. Mother Jones conducted
an in-depth investigation into these
events (61 in all and 24 in the last
year alone) and the most revealing
fact to come out of their investigation is that 38 of these perpetrators
showed signs of serious mental illness prior to the killings. Was treatment readily available for them, or
were they placed on an endless
waiting list for services? That is
what happens when your community safety-net has been defunded.
Less resources and long waiting
lists!
I can not understand why the
United Way of Greater Mercer
County decided to stop funding
EVERY community agency whose
primary purpose is to provide our
safety-net of services. Can you?
Without access to affordable mental healthcare, domestic violence
programs, crisis hotlines, violence
prevention programs and homelessness prevention services, our
community is going to suffer. Family
Guidance,
Womanspace,
Homefront, PEI Kids, Contact, and
CASA work together helping
many in our community. Their impact is immeasurable.
I know that preventing every
tragic event, like the Newtown
shooting, is not possible. However,
having affordable, accessible,
quality mental healthcare available
in our communities is a vital prevention tool. In light of this funding loss, if you really want to make
a difference, consider a donation to
your local mental health treatment
center or violence prevention program. Your support will have a significant impact on their ability to
make a difference in our community.
Pamela Senatore
The writer is a development associate at Family Guidance Center.
Why Did It Happen?
How to Prevent It?
P
erhaps the most frequently
asked question in America in recent weeks is “why did a gunman
go into an elementary school and
murder helpless innocent children?” The second most asked
question is “how do we prevent
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violent behavior for over 25 years.
And yes, there is a clear path to explain violent behavior and also a
clear path to offer the best type of
prevention.
To understand an essential motivator in the Newton, Connecticut,
killer’s behavior, one must understand a predominant emotion in
America today: resentment. Resentment is a middle grade form of
anger somewhere between cold
and chilly and sarcasm to rage at
the other end. The central feature of
resentment is a feeling of unfairness, that something is not right.
To understand the behavior of
the killer one must understand resentment and how that gives one a
feeling of justification to right his
or her wrongs, to take an action that
to him would make it seem fair or
balanced since he feels he has been
wronged. The first step in looking
at violent or hurtful behavior is to
understand what the justification is
in the individual, what is he feeling
unfair about, what is the issue,
what is not right in terms of his
world view. As stated, resentment
is a form of anger that seeks to
blame and seeks revenge for the actions that the individual feels were
unfair.
Once a justification is established that something is not right,
then one looks to alternatives with
questions such as how can I resolve
this? What can I do to find the solution to what I feel is unfair? Unfortunately, because our culture is so
permeated with blame and resentment it is not easy to look to one’s
environment to find a solution. If
one were to turn to the mental
health system that could offer a
place to help resolve the feelings of
unfairness one would find many
avenues blocked. Access to mental
health is full of obstacles due to the
lack of funds in our community
mental health centers.
Also, private mental health insurance is often characterized by
limits and barriers to treatment
with authorizations and cutbacks
on services as insurance companies strive to make money and not
have as their goal the provision of
services. It is not uncommon in a
community mental health center to
have a three to five-month wait for
a mental health appointment due to
a lack of funding to these centers
that provide a vital service to our
community.
Once you have a justification,
the feeling of unfairness, and you
cannot find alternatives to help you
resolve the unfairness, the next
step is to consider is consequences.
What are the consequences if I undertake violent/hurtful behavior,
what will happen to me in terms of
my life if I do this or that. Unfortunately, laws are only made for people who follow them. Others who
are governed by shame, blame, and
anger do not think in terms of consequences because if you are intent
on killing yourself, then what is the
sense of a consequence stopping
the destructive behavior.
When one is resentful and bitter
and has no alternatives to resolve it
and does not concern him or herself
with the consequences, the next
step is looking at ability. What is
available in terms of guns or
weapons that can help one achieve
and right their wrong? Certainly
with 20,000 new handguns reaching the market every day, there is
no problem in getting access to
guns in our society.
Furthermore, in addition to the
easy access to guns, there are numerous examples in the media of
others who have committed acts of
violence. This is known as “social
proof” in that when one is thinking
about committing an action and
then sees an immediate example of
that action being committed in the
media he/she is then convinced that
it is possible to carry out the action
they are thinking about.
The media refers to it as “copycat,” but it is really social proof
(evidence) that it can be done. Certainly, in the last six to eight
months there have been numerous
examples of evidence from the
shooting on the mall that occurred
several weeks ago to the Sikh Temple that occurred in October.
When taken together in terms of
justification, alternative, consequences, and ability, it is possible
to view how violent behavior of attacking and hurting others can occur. For when one is resentful, other people are not seen as people,
they are seen as things, they are
seen as objects or animals. Humans
have an internal regulator against
killing other people. However, the
first step in any type of murder is to
dehumanize the individual to make
them a thing or object or something
that is non-human.
The Second Question. In terms
of how we stop violent behavior,
we have to stop looking to laws to
try to regulate violent behavior and
put more attention to offering alternatives. There has to be an emphasis on curtailing the ability, especially through the access to guns. In
Japan, a country that outlaws the
possession of firearms, there are
fewer murders in a year due to
firearms than there are in a busy
weekend in New York City.
Perhaps the attention in the media as to how many times mass
murder events are portrayed and
what is said about them that offer
social proof can be curtailed and
minimized. Also, in terms of ability, I do believe that New Jersey
schools offer a very solid approach
to providing safety to our students.
They deserve high marks for the efforts they have made to ensure that
our students are in a safe environment. In violence prevention
terms, this is known as “hardening
the target,” when you install safety
procedures in your establishment.
Unfortunately, overall, even the
best ways of “hardening the target,” according to violence prevention experts, only increase the security of your facility by 30 percent. When someone is intent on
killing him or herself, it does not
matter in terms of how many police
may be at the building or what the
barriers are. Although these can
help curtail the amount of violence
that may occur, they cannot prevent the violence from occurring.
Only through a long-term approach of teaching our children
how to regulate their anger and instill the feeling of compassion that
seeks to understand another person’s pain thereby eliminating the
possibility of becoming angry can
we prevent these tragedies from occurring, In the meantime it’s a sad
truth, because society has neglected
many of the suggestions presented
here, tragedies such as the horrific
event in Newtown, Connecticut,
are likely to continue to occur.
Ronald J. Coughlin, Ed.D.
NJ-Licensed Psychologist,
3576 Quakerbridge Road
Wow’s the Word
For Arts Benefit
‘W
ow!” Was the word used
by many as they entered Frick Laboratories, Princeton University for
the Arts Council of Princeton’s
Dining by Design: POP! Fundraiser held on December 1. The ACP
would like to thank our event sponsors, dinner hosts, guest artist presenters, auction donors and our
event committee, especially the
talented and dedicated decor CoChairs Dawn McClatchy and
Sandy Bonasera and their team. We
would also like to thank the over
400 attendees who supported our
event and recognize our Board of
Trustees for their unprecedented
generosity and dedication. In addition, we truly appreciate Princeton
University for providing the spectacular event venue.
We are proud to have exceeded
our fundraising goals to continue
our critical support of important
free programs that make the arts
accessible to at-risk youth, seniors
and people from all backgrounds.
Programs for at-risk youth include:
Arts Exchange (for HomeFront of
Trenton), Art Reach (for Princeton
Young Achievers and Princeton
Nursery School), and Kids at
Work: Discovery through Art (for
Princeton Regional Schools). This
funding is also supports scholarships to ensure that our classes are
accessible to all and for Creative
Aging Programming for Seniors
and Caregivers. For more information about these and other Arts
Council of Princeton programs we
invite you to visit our website
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Thank you again to everyone for
your continuing support in helping
to achieve our mission of “building
community through the arts.”
Jeff Nathanson
Executive Director
Jeniah “Kookie” Johnson
Director of Community Relations
JANUARY 2, 2013
continued partnership in sourcing talent
both from Rutgers University and the surrounding area.”
Among the U.S. 1-area employers represented will be Billtrust, Church & Dwight,
WKXW 101.5, ADP, Miles Technologies,
AmeriHealth, Eden Autism Services, and
Northwestern Mutual, as well as some from
as far away at Seattle, Washington, and
Lombard, Illinois.
The career fair program, available online
at http://careerservices.rutgers.edu, reveals
job opportunities that you might not even
guess from a Google search. For example,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be
EDITOR:
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The USDA is searching for a biologist.
Job prospects for graduates appear to be
Thursday, January 3
improving, according to the Rutgers Career
Services people. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that employment increased by 146,000 jobs in November, with a decline in the unemployment rate
to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December,
he Scarlet Knights of Rutgers may 2008.
now compete in the Big Ten on the athletic
“The outlook for graduates is brighter
fields, but the state university based at the than in recent years,” said Jones. “The Nanorthern end of the Route 1 corridor has not
tional Association of
forgotten its home base.
Colleges and EmployRutgers will host its 51st
ers also reports that the
The employment outsemi-annual New Jersey
unemployment rate for
Collegiate Career Day on
new college graduates
look for graduates is
Thursday, January 3, from
fell significantly from
brighter than in re9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at
8.3 percent in Septemcent years. The unthe Rutgers Student Center
ber, 2011, to 6.3 perand at Brower Commons
cent in September,
employment rate for
on College Avenue.
2012.”
new college graduThe event is free and
Rutgers Career Serates fell from 8.3 peropen to the public — not
vices advises job seekjust Rutgers students. In a
ers to bring hard copies
cent in September,
statement for the event
of their resumes for
2011, to 6.3 percent in
program the interim direcemployers. Business
September, 2012.
tor of Rutgers Career Serattire is strongly recvices, Janet Jones, said
ommended. Free shutthat the university “anticitle buses will transport
pated 2,500 job seekers from Rutgers and candidates to and from parking areas at the
some 200 other colleges and universities. Scarlet Parking Lot West near Rutgers High
We are also pleased to host over 150 em- Point Solutions football stadium in Piscatployers, representing a wide range of organizations from the corporate, nonprofit, and
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In January, CCS, located on the
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Several new information technology courses will be offered
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For anyone looking to get a better understanding of the SQL language, CCS will be offering Oracle
Certification Prep courses, beginning with “Introduction to SQL,”
from Saturday, February 16, to Saturday, March 23. CCNA Training
is also available from Saturday,
April 6, to Saturday, May 18.
For those with an interest in construction project management, the
center is offering a certification
program that requires eight core
courses and 30 classroom hours of
electives. The first core course,
“Construction Blueprint Reading,”
begins on Tuesday, January 8.
Certified medical billing coders
typically earn 20 percent more than
those who are not certified, according to the CCS. This semester the
center has scheduled its medical
billing and coding courses so that
students can finish the certificate in
one semester. “Medical Terminology: A Short Course” is the first in
the series, beginning on Monday,
January 7. Eleven additional classes will be held through Wednesday,
May 29.
The AMA certificate in project
management is designed to equip
individuals with the required skills
to set up project plans, schedule
work, and monitor progress to
achieve designed projects goals
and results. Among the project
management courses this winter
are “Successful Project Management.” from Tuesday, January 8, to
Tuesday, February 12, and “Successful
Negotiating,”
from
Wednesday, January 30, to
Wednesday, February 27.
Two professional development
courses for teachers are being offered this winter and spring:
“Teacher Tool Belt Part I” for first
year teachers on Saturday, February 23, and “Teacher Tool Belt Part
II,” for educators, counselors, parents, and social workers seeking to
bridge the gap between adults and
teens on Saturday, March 9.
Back to School Night for Adults
will be held on Monday, January 7,
at 5:30 p.m., with a snow date of
Monday, January 14. A free information session on the Phlebotomy
Technician program will be held on
Monday, January 14, at 5:30 p.m.
For locations for both events, visit
www.mccc.edu/ccs.
For more course information,
including registering for career
courses and certificate programs,
contact the CCS at 609-570-3311,
or visit the MCCC website at
www.mccc.edu/ccs. Get the latest
CCS news by visiting www.facebook.com/ccsmercer.
Business Meetings
Thursday, January 3
7 a.m.: BNI Top Flight, weekly networking, free to attend. Clairmont
Diner, East Windsor. 609-7994444.
8 a.m.: Round Table Referral Network, Weekly morning networking
every Thursday. Free. Robbinsville/Washington Fire House,
1149 Route 130, Robbinsville.
www.meetup.com/Round-TableReferral-Network.
Friday, January 4
10 a.m.: Professional Service
Group, weekly career meeting,
support, and networking for unemployed professionals, free.
Princeton Public Library.
www.mercopsg.net. 609-2927535.
Monday, January 7
7 p.m.: Plainsboro Township, Construction Code Seminar. Understand the construction permit
process. Register by E-mail to
[email protected]
m. Cultural Center, 641 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro. 609-7990909.
Tuesday, January 8
7 a.m.: Capital Networking Group,
weekly networking, free. Princeton United Methodist Church, 7
Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton.
609-434-1144.
2 p.m.: Computer Learning Center
at Ewing, Computer Tips and
Tricks. Free. 999 Lower Ferry
Road. www.ewingsnet.com. 609882-5086.
5:30 p.m.: MIDJersey Chamber,
Post Holiday Networking Event
with the Greater Bordentown
Chapter. Cost: $10. HOB (Heart
of Bordentown) Tavern, 146 Second Street, Bordentown. www.midjerseychamber.org. 609-6899960.
6:30 p.m.: South Brunswick Library, Google Apps & Android
Services. Two-part overview focuses on Gmail, Google docs,
calendar, books, YouTube,
Google music. Continues Tuesday, January 15. 110 Kingston
Lane, Monmouth Junction.
www.sbpl.info. 732-329-4000.
6:30 p.m.: Princeton Macintosh
Users Group, Q&A followed by
speaker and meeting. “Exploring
JANUARY 2, 2013
Digital and Unique Resources at
Princeton Public Library,” Janet
Hauge and Erica Bass of the library. Free. Stuart Hall, Room 6,
Princeton Theological Seminary,
Alexander Street, Princeton.
www.pmug-nj.org, [email protected].
7 p.m.: Believe, Inspire, Grow,
“How to Get Ink,” Karen Hodges
Miller, author of “Finish Your
Book: A Time Management Guide
for Writers.” Register online or by
E-mail to [email protected]. Weidel Realtors,
Route 31 and Delaware Avenue,
Pennington. www.believeinspiregrow.com. 609-280-1905.
7:30 p.m.: JobSeekers, networking and job support, free. Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street.
www.trinityprinceton.org. 609924-2277.
Wednesday, January 9
7 a.m.: BNI West Windsor chapter,
weekly networking, free. BMS
Building, Pellettieri Rabstein &
Altman, 100 Nassau Park Boulevard. www.bniwestwindsor.com.
609-750-3024.
8 a.m.: MIDJersey Chamber, “Rise
& Grind” with the Hopewell Chapter. Cost: $15. Osteria Procaccini,
7 Tree Farm Road, Pennington.
www.midjerseychamber.org. 609689-9960.
1 p.m.: Team Nimbus, “Small
Business Insight,” monthly lunch
talk, every second Wednesday,
free. Camillo’s Cafe, Princeton
Shopping Center. www.teamnimbusnj.com. 908-359-4787.
7 p.m.: West Windsor Republican
Club, “Mercer County Commercial Real Estate” presented by
Jerry Fennelly, president of NAI
Fennelly. He will focus on West
Windsor. Fennelly’s expertise in
corporate and marketing services
has resulted in the completion of
800,000 square feet of transactions in the past 12 months. West
Windsor Senior Center, 271
Clarksville Road, West Windsor.
www.wwgop.org. 609-799-1301.
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Champions for Business
Business Before Business Breakfast
Letter from the Chairman
Dear Chamber Members:
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce (PRCC),
please accept our heartiest wishes
for a happy New Year to all!
We leave 2012 with some good
memories of a very successful
year, in which we enjoyed expanded membership, sharply increased
event attendance, and solidified
several of our initiatives into ongoing programs including the Women
In Business Alliance (WIBA) and
the Young Professionals’ Leeep effort. The year 2013 promises to be
another of growth and creative initiatives due to our energetic base of
Members and outstanding staff.
Before getting into your Chamber’s activities for 2013, we must
note our final Business After Business (BAB) event of 2012, which
was held December 6 at the magnificently decorated Morven Mansion, was another wall-to-wall turn
away sellout. The BAB events continue to grow in popularity and we
invite all Members as well as anyone who would like to join to contact the Chamber for reservations.
The BAB functions are particularly useful for those who are seeking to meet new friends, make
business connections or just to enjoy a pleasant evening after the
work day. The events themselves
are relaxed and casual with each
featuring excellent food and refreshments.
Our members compete to host
BAB events through an application, in which they agree to provide
high standards of hospitality. The
events occur each month, and as
each host is different, they move
throughout the Princeton Region,
so we have a wide variety of members in attendance because of the
geographic rotation. Host companies and organizations utilize the
BAB opportunities to display their
products and services as well as to
introduce themselves to the PRCC
Membership.
If your business or organization
is interested in hosting a BAB
event, please contact Vikki HurleySchubert at 609-924-1776, ext.
100, for further information. These
events definitely attract potential
customers, donors and supporters!
Our next BAB event will be on
Wednesday, January 30, at 5 p.m.
at the Salt Creek Grille on Route 1.
The Salt Creek Grille always does
a fabulous job in hosting the Chamber. Please make sure you get your
reservation in early for this event as
we expect large attendance.
One of the remarkable attributes
of the PRCC is our close association with Princeton University and
that relationship will be at work as
we begin 2013 with a pair of the
university’s prominent professors
speaking at upcoming events.
On Thursday, January 10, Cecilia Elena Rouse, the current Dean of
the Princeton University Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Professor in
the Economics of Education, will
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be speaking at our regular monthly
luncheon at the Westin. Professor
Rouse is also the Founding Director of the Princeton University Education Research Section, and we
expect a very valuable and informative presentation.
The Women in Business Alliance will follow up on Thursday,
January 17, with Professor AnneMarie Slaughter who is the former
Dean of the Woodrow Wilson
School and presently Professor of
Politics and International Affairs.
She will address the role of the
family in America’s future — truly
a timely topic. Our WIBA events
have been drawing sell-out crowds
so please make sure you register as
soon as possible.
As always, you can obtain information on upcoming Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce
events and other valuable offerings
by calling the Chamber at 609924-1776 or checking www.princetonchamber.org.
Patrick Ryan
Chairman of the Board
Welcome New Chamber Members . . .
Alex and Ani
BlackRock
Borrego Solar Systems
Clark Law Offices, P.A.
Fennelly Environmental Associations, LLC
G-Squared Interactive
Imagine Outdoor Advertising
J Hilburn
LightSource Chiropractic of Princeton
PBM Management
Professional Investigation and Consultation
Services
ngrid W. Reed, policy analyst,
on “Princeton as a model for a fresh
fiscal perspective in government.”
Wednesday, January 16, 7:30 to
9:15 a.m., Nassau Club of Princeton, 6 Mercer Street.
Ingrid Reed will examine how
New Jersey's expenses exceed its
revenues at all levels of government
and how Governor Christie will
have to deal with the long-term fiscal impact of Hurricane Sandy on
New Jersey taxpayers. The self-examination process Princeton took
during the path to consolidation
may be an effective model for struggling municipalities.
Ingrid Reed
Monthly Membership Luncheon
C
ecilia Elena Rouse, dean of
the Woodrow Wilson School, on
“Challenges in Postsecondary Education.”
Thursday, January 10, 11:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m., Princeton Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 100 College Road East.
Cecilia Elena Rouse is the Dean
of the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs and
Professor in the Economics of Education. She is the founding director
of the Princeton University Education Research Section, is a member
of the National Academy of Education and a research associate of the
Member News
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olunteerConnect wants to
know: Would you like to use your
skills for Hurricane Sandy relief?
Please go to the VolunteerConnect
website at www.volunteerconnectnj.org for a listing of ways to help
with recovery efforts locally and
across the state.
Sustaining Sponsors 2013
With great appreciation, the Chamber thanks the following companies and organizations
who have shown their support and loyalty to the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce
by becoming Sustaining Sponsors. Our Sustaining Sponsors enable the Chamber
to advance to a level which allows the resources for greater benefits and enhanced
programs events to our Members and the business community.
PLATINUM
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Tyco International, Fox Rothschild LLP, Bank of America/Merrill
Lynch/US Trust, PSE&G, NJM Insurance Group, Thomas Edison State College.
GOLD
Verizon, NRG Energy, Leigh Visual Imaging Solutions, GlenMede, Paychex, Nassau Inn, Capital Health,
Princeton University, Hopewell Valley Community Bank, Wells Fargo
SILVER
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC, Caliper, Mercer County Community College, Nelligan Sports Marketing,
Eden Autism Services, First Choice Bank, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, J. Robert Hillier, PNC Bank,
Princeton Air Conditioning, Inc., Mercadian, Provident Bank, Sun National Bank Center,
Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein & Blader, PC, The Bank of Princeton, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
BRONZE
Bartolomei Pucciarelli, Bloomberg, Borden Perlman, Bovis Lend Lease, Inc., Community Options, ETS,
First Bank, JM Group, Mrs. G TV & Appliance, Munich RE, NAI Fennelly, Princeton Fuel Oil, Princeton HealthCare System,
Princeton Internet Group (PING), St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center, Sam's Club, SES Engineering, Signature Title Agency,
Stevens & Lee, TD Bank, United Way of Greater Mercer County, WithumSmith+Brown, PC
Cecilia Elena Rouse
National Bureau of Economic Research.
The Lower Ferry Road Group
is offering a $20,000 finders fee for
anyone that brings a company to
lease our beautiful 40,000 sf office
warehouse in the Hopewell area.
For more information, and to see
pictures and video of this amazing
space, please visit www.princetonchamber.org and click ‘Member
News.’
Habitat for Humanity of
Trenton announces the Grand
Opening of the ReStore on Saturday, January 19, 2013, located at
106 Ewing Ave. in Trenton, NJ.
Dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:00 am. followed by
time to shop for lots of wonderful
specials on furniture, building materials, appliances, electrical and
plumbing supplies, etc. All proceeds from the sale of items in the
ReStore supports the building of
simple, decent houses for hardworking low income families in
Mercer County.
View other Member news and
events by visiting www.princetonchamber.org. To get your news
posted, please log into your account.
E-mail
Amanda
Schoonover, communications coordinator, if you need assistance.
Save These Dates
For February
Tuesday, February 5: Plainsboro Business Partnership Networking Event.
Thursday, February 7: Monthly Luncheon.
Wednesday, February 20:
Business Before Business Breakfast.
Thursday, the February 21:
Business After Business hosted by
Arts Council of Princeton.
Thursday, the February 28:
Mercer County Economic Summit.
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Chamber Members donated more than 100 toys and books to children in need
throughout Mercer County at this year's December Business After Business
Holiday Party on December 6 at Morven Museum and Garden. This is the second year the Princeton Regional Chamber participated in the Children's Futures Toy Drive. Photos by Don Addison
January Events
Thursday, January 17, Women
in Business Alliance Evening Networking. 5 to 7:30 p.m. Dodds Auditorium, the Woodrow Wilson
School, Princeton University.
Anne-Marie Slaughter on “Work,
Family and America’s Future.”
Network with other professional
women in the Princeton Region at
this Women in Business Alliance
event,
featuring
Anne-Marie
Slaughter, the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66
University Professor of Politics and
International Affairs at Princeton
University.
Thursday, January 24, Princeton Leeep Second Birthday Party. 5
to 7 p.m. Triumph Brewing Company, 138 Nassau Street.
Join Princeton Leeep to celebrate
our second birthday! Come out to
Triumph Brewing Company for
food, drinks, fun, and networking
with young professionals from the
Princeton Region. Member price is
$20, which includes one drink and
plenty of delicious food.
Wednesday, January 30, Business After Business Networking. 5
to 7 p.m. Salt Creek Grille, Princeton
Forrestal Village, One Rockingham
Row.
Start the New Year off right with
quality networking at one of the Region’s most inviting restaurants ––
Salt Creek Grille. Enjoy delicious
hors d’oeuvres and a cocktail by the
fire with your Chamber friends.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Walk to Washington and Congressional Dinner.
Join the New Jersey Chamber
and Princeton Regional Chamber at
the premier business event of the
year. In the aftermath of Hurricane
Sandy, the 2013 Walk to Washington
will be dedicated to those who are
helping New Jersey recover, rebuild
and re-New Jersey.
Sign up through the Princeton
Regional Chamber's website to reserve a special seat in the Chamber's
private train section and a special
seat at the Congressional Dinner!
The chartered Amtrak train leaves
for DC on Jan. 31.
To learn more about any of these
events, please visit www.princetonchamber.org or call 609.924.1776.
Interested In Joining?
Did you know that more than 60
percent of our member businesses
have 25 or fewer employees? What
does that mean? This means that
these small businesses need resources — resources many of our
Members are ready, willing and
able to provide.
If you haven't taken the time to
attend one of our events, now’s the
time to step forward and join the
Chamber! We provide our nearly
900 Members with quality services, which include networking and
marketing opportunities that will
enhance their ability to run a successful business.
Chamber Events. Receive invitations to attend nearly 100
events each year, including networking receptions, luncheons, forums and special events.
Awareness Building: Increase
your visibility by participating in
Annual
Chamber
tradeshow
events, awards galas, and golf outings.
Destination Marketing: Automatically become a Member of the
Princeton Regional Convention &
Visitors Bureau with Chamber
Membership.
Continued Growth through
Diversity: Embrace regional diversity through growing partnerships such as the Capital Region
Minority Chamber of Commerce
and the Women in Business Alliance.
Customer Referrals: Be recommended. Each week the Chamber receives inquiries asking to be
referred to a business which will
meet their needs.
Brochure/Business Card Display: Display your brochure
and/or business card at the Chamber Office, at no additional charge.
Chamber Website: Build your
online presence through the Chamber website, a leading resource to
find out about Princeton region.
The site profiles all Chamber
Members.
Business Directory: Get published in comprehensive listing of
more than 800 Member businesses
published annually. Additional advertising opportunities are available.
Newsletter: Gain exposure by
being featured in the Chamber's
monthly U.S. 1 newsletter.
Direct Mail Options: Purchase
a mailing list of the full Chamber
Membership or have your flyer inserted into the Chamber's monthly
events calendar mailing.
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DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS, JANUARY 2 TO 12
For more event listings visit
www.princetoninfo.com. For timely updates, follow princetoninfo on
Twitter and Facebook. Before attending an event, call or check the
website. Want to list an event?
Submit details and photos to
[email protected].
For listings of meetings, networking groups, trade associations, and training organizations,
see Business Meetings in the Survival Guide section.
Wednesday
January 2
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Keeping
Your Resolutions
Healthy and Fit Boot Camp,
Princeton Recreation, Community Park South, Princeton, 877454-9991. www.princetonrecreation.com. Register. 6:30 to
7:30 a.m.
Live Music
Open Mic, Alchemist &
Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10 p.m.
Music in the Air
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra makes its 2013 debut with
concerts in Newark and New Brunswick, Friday through Sunday,
January 4 through 6. Meet its new CEO, page 28.
Art
Faith
History
Lewis Center for the Arts,
Princeton University, 701
Carnegie Center, West Windsor,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/arts. First day of sculpture
and ceramics exhibition. On view
in lobby through February 8. Free.
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Art After Hours, Zimmerli Art
Museum, George and Hamilton
streets, New Brunswick, 732-9327237. “Art=Text=Art” theme. Multifaceted approach to the arts includes a guided tour at 5:30 p.m.,
entertainment and activities.
“Dance as Drawing: The Arts of
Trisha Brown,” a lecture and
dance presentation presented by
Jeff Friedman. $6. 5 to 9 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Bell’s Tavern, 183
North Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-2226. Exhibit of paintings by Carol Sanzalone. On view
to January 9. 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Christmas Carol Festival, Saint
Raphael Holy Angels, 3500
South Broad Street, Hamilton,
609-585-7049. Sing Christmas
carols. Refreshments. Free. 7 to
8:30 p.m.
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. Holiday trees
decorated by area business and
organizations. $6. Wednesday to
Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. Tour the restored
mansion, galleries, and gardens.
Register. $20. 1 p.m.
Dancing
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction followed
by dance. $8. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Cornerstone Community
Kitchen, Princeton United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, Princeton,
609-924-2613. Hot meals served,
prepared by TASK. Free. 5 to
6:30 p.m.
Gardens
Meeting, Central Jersey Orchid
Society, D&R Greenway Land
Trust, Johnson Education Center,
1 Preservation Place, Princeton,
609-924-1380. “The New York Orchid Show” presented by Dick Doran. Plant raffle and refreshments. 7:30 p.m.
Wellness
Healthy and Fit Boot Camp,
Princeton Recreation, Community Park South, Princeton, 877-4549991. Register. 6:30 to 7:30 a.m.
Thursday
January 3
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
All in the Family
Holiday Series, Bristol Riverside
Theater, 120 Radcliffe Street,
Bristol, 215-785-0100. Steve
Solomon’s “My Mother’s Italian,
My Father’s Jewish and I’m Home
for the Holidays!” $30. 7:30 p.m.
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[email protected]
Live Music
Karaoke, Station Bar and Grill,
2625 Route 130 South, Cranbury,
609-655-5550. www.stationbarandgrill.com. 8 p.m.
On Stage
Bristol, 215-785-0100. www.brtstage.org. Steve Solomon’s “My
Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m Home for the Holidays!” $30. 7:30 p.m.
Film
Movie, Lawrence Library, Darrah
Lane and Route 1, Lawrence
Township, 609-989-6920. www.mcl.org. Screening of “King of
Devil’s Island,” 2010. Refreshments. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Dancing
Dancing by Peddie Lake, 112
Etra Road, Hightstown, 732-9954284. www.dance.homestead.com. Six-week dance class offering instruction by Candace Woodward-Clough in swing, foxtrot,
waltz, and Latin dancing. Beginners at 7:30 p.m.; intermediates
at 8:30 p.m. $84 per person. Email [email protected] to register. 7:30 p.m.
JANUARY 2, 2013
Family Folly: Comedian Steve Solomon’s
‘My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish, and
I’m Home for the Holidays’ comes to Bristol
Riverside Theater, January 3 through 6.
Folk Music
Trenton Farmers’ Market, 960
Spruce Street, Lawrence, 609695-2998. thetrentonfarmersmarket.com. Open year-round.
Thursdays to Saturdays. 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
The Kennedys with the Wag,
Folk Project, Morristown
Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, 973-335-9489. www.folkproject.org. $8. 8 p.m.
Gardens
Live Music
Meeting and Program, Garden
State African Violet Club, Robbinsville Library, 42 RobbinsvilleAllentown Road, Robbinsville,
609-259-7095. www.princetonol.com/groups/gsavc. “Elements of
Design” by Health Menzel. E-mail
[email protected] for information. 7 p.m.
Dick Gratton, Chambers
Walk Cafe, 2667 Main Street,
Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995.
www.allaboutjazz.com. Solo
jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Music and Merlot, Hopewell
Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard
Road, Pennington, 609-7374465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Wine by the
glass or bottle, brick oven pizza, and cheese platters are available. Jackson Kingsley with indie
and alternative sounds. 6 to 9
p.m.
Open Mic, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-1931.
www.westwindsorarts.org. $5. 7
p.m.
Wellness
Meditation Group, Mercer Free
School, Lawrence Community
Center, 295 Eggerts Crossing
Road, Lawrence, 609-403-2383.
mfs.insi2.org/meditation. For all
levels in a sharing experience.
Register. 6:45 to 8:15 p.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Holiday trees decorated by area business and organizations. $6. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, 55-Plus, Jewish Center
of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street,
609-896-2923. www.princetonol.com. “Five Myths about Nuclear
Weapons: Challenging the Nuclear Gospel” presented by Ward
Wilson, senior fellow at the
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey
Institute of Internal Studies. $3.
10 a.m.
UFO Ghosts and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal Study
Group, Hamilton Township Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Discussion
about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, crop circles, poltergeists, channeling, and government cover-ups facilitated by Pat
Marcattilio. Free. 7 to 10 p.m.
Singles
Widows Support Group, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-2522362. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Susan M. Friedman facilitates.
Call to register. 11:30 a.m.
Friday
January 4
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Flowers & Fireworks
Art Exhibit, Gallery 14, 14 Mercer
Street, Hopewell, 609-333-8511.
www.photogallery14.com. Opening reception for Charles T.
Miller’s “Zen Versions,” a group of
works that take on the explosive
power of fireworks and transforms them into peaceful moments of Zen, and “Iris Dancers,”
a series of that began from photos or irises and other flowers
which are manipulated into images of movement. On view to
February 3. Meet the photographer on Sunday, January 6, 1 to 3
p.m. 6 to 8 p.m.
Classical Music
Meeting, Piano Teachers’
Forum, Jacobs Music, Route 1,
Lawrence, 609-921-1510. “Give
Us a Meadow...No PIano..and
We Will Learn Together” presented by James Goldsworthy. $10.
9:15 a.m.
Pop Music
House Concert, Candlelight
Concerts for Epilepsy Awareness, Pennington. www.candlelightconcert.org. Dan Reed
and Anguished Minds perform at
benefit concert. Register. $20. 8
p.m.
Art
Food For Thought Gallery Talk,
New Jersey State Museum, 205
West State Street, Trenton, 609292-6464. www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “The History of
NJSM Natural History Collections” presented by David Parris,
curator of natural history at the
museum, focuses on 117 years of
collected specimens and fossils.
For adult learners. Free. 12:10
p.m.
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 12:30 p.m.
www.photogallery14.com. Opening reception for Charles T.
February 3. Meet the photogra-
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On Stage
Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m Home for the Holidays!” is a solo show featuring all
of his dysfunctional family members. $30. 8 p.m.
• Composite (White) Fillings
• Root Canal Therapy
• Crowns, Bridges
• Extractions
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Gum Treatments
• Whitening
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• Implant Dentistry
• Digital X-Rays
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Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25
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609-397-0275. www.acmescreeningroom.ticketleap.com.
Screening of “Let the Fury Have
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D’Ambrosio via Skype. $15. 7
p.m.
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Dance Practice, G&J Studios, 5
Jill Court, Suite 15, Hillsborough,
908-892-0344. www.gandjstudios.com. $10. 8 p.m.
English Country Dancing, Lambertville Country Dancers,
American Legion Hall, 41 Linden
Avenue, Newtown, PA, 609-8827733. www.Lambertvillecountrydancers.org. No partner needed.
Beginners welcome. $8. 8 to 11
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JANUARY 2, 2013
January 4
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Wine Institute, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Road, Washington Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500. www.crossingvineyards.com. “Taste
Wine Like a Pro” includes instruction, wine tasting, and learning
materials. Register. $30. 7 p.m.
Wellness
Drum Circle, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896920. Beginner’s drum circle with
Ange Chianese. 4:30 p.m.
Drum Circle, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro,
609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. $15. 7:30 p.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. Holiday trees
by area business and organizations. $6. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Cat Show
Central Jersey Cat Fanciers,
Sheraton Hotel, Parsippany, 570807-0406. ticama.org/cj. Threeday regional show features close
to 250 cats in 20 rings. Pedigree
cats include Bengals, Sphynx,
Maine Coons, Siamese, Orientals, Ragdolls, Persians, plus
household pets and kittens. Judging takes place in seven rings.
Vendors with gift items and cat-related supplies. Homeless pets for
adoption. $8. 3 to 9:30 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Non-denominational
support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink,
609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Harvard. $10. 7 p.m.
Advance Auto Parts Monster
Jam, Sun National Bank
Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue,
Trenton, 800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com. $15 to $55. 7:30
p.m.
Saturday
January 5
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Say Om in the Home
Yoga at Home Workshop, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Workshop focuses on tools, techniques, and knowledge to develop your own home practice without the reliance on DVDs, books,
and Internet sources. Register.
$32. Noon to 2:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Benefit Concert, Westminster
Conservatory, Bristol Chapel,
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. “Romantic Gems Extravaganza,” a benefit concert for
the Dr. H. Korkina Scholarship
Fund for dedicated Westminster
students. The program features
work by Schumann, Brahms,
Schubert, Grieg, Mendelssohn,
Beethoven, and more. Musicians
include past and present students
of Larissa Korkina including
Darya Tahvildar-Zadeh, Dallas
Noble, Julian Edgren, Farshad
Tahvildar Zadeh, Alex Ge, Anna
Joselle Lomboy, Ryan Zhang,
Jeffrey Yu, and Andrew Sun. They
have previously showcased their
talents at venues including
Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Kimmell
Center. Reception follows in
Thayer Lounge. Free admission,
donations invited. 5 p.m.
The Planets, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, State Theater,
15 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 800-ALLEGRO.
www.njsymphony.org. Jacques
LaCombe conducts. American
Boychoir sings. $20 to $82. 8
p.m.
Live Music
Music and Merlot, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road,
Pennington, 609-737-4465.
www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Wine by the glass or bottle,
brick oven pizza, and cheese platters are available. Jung Wopmbats with eclectic rock. 6 to 9 p.m.
John & Carm, Chesterfield Inn,
633 Jacobstown Chesterfield
Road, Chesterfield, 609-2981917. 7 to 10 p.m.
Ange & Friends, Halo Pub, 4617
Nottingham Way, Hamilton, 609586-1811. 7 to 10 p.m.
Billy Hector Band, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown, 609-3240880. www.the-record-collector.com. $20. 7:30 p.m.
John Bianculli and Jackie
Jones, Americana Diner, 359
Route 130, East Windsor, 609448-4477. www.americanadiner.com. 8 p.m.
Pop Music
Laser Rock Shows, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908526-1200. www.raritanval.edu.
“New Jersey Rocks.” $7. 8 p.m.
World Music
Dancing
Drum Circle, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, Orchard Hill
Center, 88 Orchard Road, Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Group drumming led by Mark Wood. No experience necessary. Drums provided or bring your own. $15. 8 p.m.
to 10 p.m.
Salsa Sensation, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Lesson
followed by social dance. No partner needed. Refreshments. $12.
7 p.m.
Social Dance, G&J Studios, 5 Jill
Court, Suite 15, Hillsborough,
Art
Art Class, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
www.westwindsorarts.org. Monoprint workshop presented by
Priscilla Snow Algava of Princeton and Mitch Lyons, the creator
of the printmaking process. Continues Sunday, January 6. Register. $195 plus $35 materials fee.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Highlight Tour, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 2 p.m.
On Stage
of his dysfunctional family members. $30. 2 and 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Star Shows, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908-526-1200.
“Winter Skies.” $7. 7 p.m.
Film
the Hour.” Meet director Antonino
D’Ambrosio via Skype. $15. 7
p.m.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $22. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Health
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Central Jersey Donor
Center, 707 Alexander Road,
www.redcrossblood.org. 7 a.m. to
2 p.m.
Wellness
Mindfulness Meditation Practice
Group, Center for Relaxation
and Healing, 666 Plainsboro
Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro, 609750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Register. $26. 9 to
11:30 a.m.
Yoga at Home Workshop, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Workshop focuses on tools, techniques, and knowledge to develop your own home practice without the reliance on DVDs, books,
and Internet sources. Register.
$32. Noon to 2:30 p.m.
Meditation Workshop, Hickory
Corner Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor, 609448-1330. www.mcl.org. “Introduction to the Art of Living” using
breath, meditation, and mind.
Register. Free. 2 p.m.
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JANUARY 2, 2013
For A Cause: Dan
Reed performs in
Pennington for Candlelight Concerts for
Epilepsy on Friday,
January 4.
Men Do Care
by the Rev. Peter K. Stimpson
Q
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Holiday trees decorated by area business and organizations. $6. Wednesday to
Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
Noon to 4 p.m.
Battle of Princeton, Historical
Society of Princeton, Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Family program with military artifacts and a
walk to the Battle Monument.
Sunday
January 6
Kids Stuff
Reading Buddies, Plainsboro
Public Library, 9 Van Doren
Street. Reading skills assistance
for children pre-k to grade two.
Presented by Girl Scout Troop
70690. E-mail
[email protected] for information. Free. 10 a.m.
Central Jersey Chess Tournament, New Jersey Chess, All
Saints Church, 16 All Saints
Road, Princeton. www.njchess.com. Open to kindergarten to
eighth graders of all levels. All
players receive a medal or trophy.
Register online, $30; on site, $40.
E-mail [email protected] for information. 2 to 6 p.m.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Four Score
and Seven Years Ago
Cat Show
Classical Music
Vendors with gift items and catrelated supplies. Homeless pets
for adoption. $8. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Concert Series, Christ Church, 5
Paterson Street, New Brunswick,
732-545-6262. www.christchurchnewbrunswick.org. The
Young Players Philharmonic, an
area orchestra of school-aged
musicians, joined by organist
John Sheridan in a Handel concerto for organ. $20. 4 p.m.
Birdseed Sale, New Jersey
Audubon, Plainsboro Preserve,
80 Scotts Corner Road, Plainsboro, 609-897-9400. www.njaudubon.org. Birdfeeders also
on sale. 10 a.m.
Freezing Cold Hash Run, Rumson Hash House Harriers, 2053
Woodbridge Avenue, Edison,
732-572-0500. www.active.com.
Non-competitive three to five-mile
group run in Edison woods on an
off-road course laid out with baking flour through woods, grass,
swamp, and marsh. No fee, no
awards, no recorded times. A
sense of humor is a must. Must
be over 21 to participate. $20 day
of event. Pre-register for $15 and
receive a free shirt and open bar
admission beginning at 7:30 a.m.
10 a.m.
Nature Video, Washington
Crossing State Park, Visitor
Center, Titusville, 609-737-0609.
“A Year in Whitehall Country.”
Register. Free. 12:45 p.m.
Family Nature Programs, New
Jersey Audubon, Plainsboro
Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner Road,
Plainsboro, 609-897-9400. www.njaudubon.org. “Animal Tracking.” Register. $5. 2:30 p.m.
Sports
Advance Auto Parts Monster
Jam, Sun National Bank
Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue,
Trenton, 800-298-4200. www.comcasttix.com. $15 to $55. 2
and 7:30 p.m.
Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink,
609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Dartmouth. $10. 4
p.m.
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Emancipation Proclamation,
Jamesburg Historical Society,
Jamesburg Presbyterian Church,
175 Gatzmer Avenue, Jamesburg, 732-512-7417. www.jamesburghistory.net. President
Abraham Lincoln, portrayed by
Bob Costello, discusses the
events leading to the creation of
the Emancipation Proclamation.
He will also read the document
and take questions from the audience. Refreshments follow. Donations invited. 2 p.m.
Live Music
Jazzy Sundays, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Wine by the glass or bottle and
cheese platters are available.
Gary Mazzarulli performs. 2 p.m.
to 5 p.m.
The George Quinntet, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. George
Quinn, a composer and bassist,
leads an ensemble from Princeton High School’s jazz groups. 3
p.m.
Art
www.photogallery14.com. Meet
the artist event for Charles T.
February 3. 1 to 3 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Gourgaud Gallery,
23 North Main Street, Cranbury,
609-395-0900. Opening reception for “Art to Curl Up With” hosted by Daniel Thomas. The artwork is for sale with 20 percent
benefitting the Cranbury Arts
Council. On view to January 27. 1
to 3 p.m.
Gallery Talk and Highlight Tour,
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-2583788. artmuseum.princeton.edu.
Free. 2 p.m.
On Stage
of his dysfunctional family members. $30. 3 p.m.
Film
Sunday Movies, Ewing Library,
61 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-8823130. Screening of “Becoming
Jane.” 2 p.m.
the Hour” at 6 p.m., $6. “Struck by
“Lightning” premiere with Q&A
with Chris Colfer via webcast at 8
p.m., $15. 6:15 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Practice, G&J Studios, 5
Jill Court, Suite 15, Hillsborough,
Food & Dining
Wine Tastings, Silver Decoy
Winery, 610 Windsor-Perrineville
Road, East Windsor, 609-3716000. www.silverdecoywinery.com. Tasting room open. 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Wellness
Wine Tasting and Yoga, Crossing Vineyards and Winery, 1853
Wrightstown Road, Washington
Crossing, PA, 215-493-6500.
www.crossingvineyards.com.
Vinyasa yoga class for all levels
followed by a wine tasting and private tour. Bring a yoga mat. Register. $35. 11:30 a.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Holiday trees decorated by area business and organizations. $6. Last day. Noon
to 4 p.m.
Emancipation Proclamation,
Jamesburg Historical Society,
Jamesburg Presbyterian Church,
175 Gatzmer Avenue, Jamesburg, 732-512-7417. www.jamesburghistory.net. President
Abraham Lincoln, portrayed by
Bob Costello, discusses the
events leading to the creation of
the Emancipation Proclamation.
He will also read the document
and take questions from the audience. Refreshments follow. Donations invited. 2 p.m.
After the Tour, Lambertville Historical Society, Acme Justice
Center, 25 South Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-0770.
www.Lambertvillehistoricalsociety.org. “Going From This Old
House to Home Sweet Home”
presented by owners of three different homes in Lambertville who
will share personal experiences
with major home renovations.
Panel members will address high
and low points of their project.
Register. $5. 2 to 4 p.m.
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UESTION: I play golf with
a buddy of mine who is
caring for his wife who
had a stroke. It occurred to me
that usually it is the other way
around. Is it unusual for men to
be caregivers?
ANSWER: Not any more. In
the 20th century, a man’s role
was to work to support his family,
his wife providing nurturing to
children and aging parents. If a
man were to be pulled into caregiving, it was to arrange for
home health aides or visiting
nurses, or at most running to the
pharmacy or bringing his wife to
her doctor’s appointments.
But today, many factors have
changed. Role reversals are
more common with men caring
for children and women taking
over a much larger percentage
of the work force. Children are
moving further away from home
due to our mobile society, hence
being less available to help. And
there are simply more aging parents, as baby boomers (19461964) are retiring at the rate of
10,000 a day!
Therefore, not only do we
need to realize that there are
more male caregivers, but to also focus more on their needs.
The male stereotype defines
men as confident, doing rather
than feeling, always accomplishing tasks, but rarely discussing
feelings. And men tend to have
more acquaintances than deep
friendships, it thereby being
harder to unload their feelings.
Hence, when confronted like
your friend with a spouse who
has a chronic, debilitating disease, coping is hard, perhaps
relegated to holding it in or
toughing it out, both leading to
feeling alone, frustrated, and depressed.
We need to help men like your
buddy by having him tell us what
he is doing, which serves as a
natural segue into how he must
be feeling. But we cannot stop
there. We also need to offer a
safety net of friends, who can not
only help him with chores, but also offer respite care so that he
can go out to dinner or play golf.
Friends can also teach him simple skills like how to cook, clean,
and do laundry. And they can encourage him to take better care
of himself by eating well, limiting
his alcohol use, exercising and
getting a good night’s sleep.
They can also encourage his
family to call often if they are at a
distance, helping him feel loved
and appreciated. And joining a
support group would really help
the feeling of being so alone and
teach him more coping skills.
I shall be offering a presentation titled Men Do Care on Saturday, January 12, from 10 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. at the Princeton Senior Resource Center at 45
Stockton Street. It will then be
followed by a new “Men Do Care
Support Group,” which will meet
weekly on Monday evenings
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. starting on
January 28. The program is cosponsored by the PSRC and
TCS, and made possible due to
a grant from the Sally Foss and
James Scott Hill Foundation.
Register at 609-924-7108. No
charge!
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Princeton
609-924-0060
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JANUARY 2, 2013
In Trenton, a Community Built on Books
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by Linda Arntzenius
ric Maywar is a born
storyteller, so it is no surprise that
visitors to Classics Books and Gifts
at 4 West Lafayette Street in Trenton become friends. Until September the store was located at 117
South Warren Street, where it became known as “the” place to meet
the most interesting people in Trenton. Now described as a “destination bookstore,” it is the place to
enjoy and join in on poetry readings, musical performances, and
Friday Night Scrabble, the store’s
downtown tradition.
Maywar clearly lives and
breathes books. Stories by favorite
authors bubble through his conversation. He grew up in Michigan,
where his father, the first of his family to go on to higher education,
taught sociology at a community
college. His mother was a social
worker. You could say that social
concerns are in Maywar’s blood, but
it took him a while to recognize it.
Books were his first love:
“When I was a kid, my parents, my
brother, and I would go into Ann
Arbor to visit the many specialty
bookstores there. It was heaven. I
had a romantic idea of what it
would be like to own a bookstore,
something along the lines of sitting
in a corner surrounded by books
and reading all day.” Maywar double-majored in literature and sociology at Michigan’s Kalamazoo
College, graduating with a bachelor’s in 1989 before going on to an
MFA in writing from Western
Michigan University, which led
him to the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1990.
It was in Philadelphia, some 20
years ago, that he met his wife and
partner, Donna, who hails from
Trenton, the town where they’ve
made their home. Both were working for Tower Records at the time.
They’ve been married for 16 years
and have two children: Nia (11)
and Noah (7). Nia’s name means
“purpose” in Swahili. Noah’s was
chosen in response to the flood the
couple experienced in their first
book shop in New Hope when
Donna was pregnant. But we’re
getting ahead of the story.
How did the couple become
bookstore owners? By accident,
says Maywar. When a local minister was leaving Trenton and selling
his large collection of books, Eric
couldn’t resist: “They were really
good books and I bought the bulk
of his collection hoping to sell
them at a church fundraiser. We
sold four books.” The couple was
left with a truck load, and Eric
started frequenting flea-markets,
such as the Columbus market, to
sell them. With a basement full of
bookcases, Maywar began inviting
friends and bookstore owners over:
“We’d play Scrabble, and I’d ply
them with wine until eventually
people began asking me when I’d
open a real bookstore.”
Given Maywar’s childhood
dream, it was an idea that found
purchase. Since he worked in market research, he asked a few colleagues to do a feasibility study.
That confirmed what he already
thought: a used bookstore in an affluent,
arty,
high-trafficked
touristy town such as New Hope
was a “no-brainer.” Donna kept her
day job (she now works in human
resources in the pharmaceutical industry, making sure that companies
cost of renting space,” Maywar recalls. The art dealer turned out to be
a no-show and the antiques dealer
eventually dropped out.
But Classics Books found its
niche as the only independent
bookstore in Trenton: “The TDA
were smart and flexible,” Maywar
says. “They identified what and
who they wanted and they helped
make it happen. Bringing new
businesses to downtown Trenton
creates a sort of perpetual motion
machine, a generator that revitalizes the city.” That was in 2005.
So, after two floods, the Book
Cellar moved to Trenton to become
Classics Books. This past September the store moved again, lock
stock and barrel some 15,000
books and 60 bookcases carted
from South Warren Street to West
Lafayette, from a rented space to a
building that Maywar co-owns
with his wife, Donna, and his
mother-in-law, Laurice Reynolds,
who helps run the store during the
week when Eric works as a project
manager for Educational Testing
Service. He mans the store on Friday nights and Saturdays.
The new building signals further
deepening of the couple’s commitment to Trenton, where a second
generation of Maywar bibliophiles
is developing. “Nia just wants to
read the books, but Noah is convinced he’s going to grow up and
run the store,” says Maywar.
Back in 2005, any new business
venture seemed risky, especially a
used bookstore at a time when the
prices of books were dropping because of the Internet. Things
change, however, and Maywar has
learned to live with and even em-
are equal employment opportunity
compliant) while Eric jumped fulltime into the book business. That
was 15 years ago, and their first
venture was the Book Cellar in
New Hope by the Delaware.
Flooding was one reason the
Maywars moved their business to
Trenton. That and the Trenton
Downtown Association (TDA),
which, under the leadership of Matt
Berkheiser, decided that Trenton
needed an independent book store.
As Maywar tells it, the TDA
reached out to a bunch of bookstore
owners, but only three expressed
interest. For the Maywars, the original idea was not to replace their
Eric Maywar clearly
lives and breathes
books, and books
were his first love.
book shop in New Hope but to add
a second location. Eric would run
the New Hope store while Donna
would run the Trenton venue.
“Trenton’s demographics are
great,” says Maywar. “There are
80,000 people living in a small
area, and that number is increased
by a further 20,000 who come here
every day for work.” Still they had
reservations. The turnover for
businesses had always been high in
the downtown area. But the couple
found the TDA receptive to their
concerns. “To minimize the risk,
they came up with the concept of a
co-op that would bring together a
bookstore owner, an antiques dealer, and an art dealer to share the
brace online businesses such as
Amazon.com. Visitors to the Classics Books website can click on an
Amazon button and make purchases for which Classics earns a small
commission. As an independent,
Classics Books offers a different
experience.
Classics Books sells books of all
kinds, but there are two sections
that do better than others: African
American titles and art books. State
workers on their lunch break frequent the store on weekdays, and
tourists staying at the Marriott hotel across the street find their way
there on weekends. The arrangement by subject invites browsing
from cookbooks to poetry, from
philosophy to golf. There are children’s titles, science, history;
something for everyone, including
a section at the front of the store for
books by local writers from Trenton, Princeton, and nearby places
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Running a book store is a
lifestyle choice. An acute observer
of human nature, Maywar has found
that the store attracts an eclectic mix
of people who are open to community. “Book people are great; they
are smart, perhaps because of all the
books they read, and when they
come into the bookstore they’re at
their best; even the most crotchety
of curmudgeons is happy browsing
through books on a favorite topic.”
The book store has become a
center where you will find board
games atop piles of books. Local
clubs meet there. Flyers promote
local events such as the recent Holiday House Tour in Trenton’s historic Mill Hill district. Through its
“Books at Home” program, the
store supplies free books to Trenton
schoolchildren for their home libraries. “That’s been going for the
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Book Worm: Owner
Eric Maywar outside
of his Classics Books
& Gifts shop on West
Lafayette Street in
Trenton.
past six years, and in the first year
we gave away some $4,000 worth
of books,” says Maywar. The program operates on book and dollar
donations (a big jar on the store
counter) and an annual fundraiser.
After one such successful event,
some $10,000 worth of books was
given away. “Teachers came by and
loaded up their cars,” he recalls.
Like its previous incarnation on
South Warren Street, the bookstore
on Lafayette is a modest 1,000
square foot space but the layout is
different. On Warren the store was
long and narrow. Here there is room
for bookshelves back to back, allowing for more titles. The new location has the bookstore on the first
floor, office space let to the New
Jersey Library Association on the
second, and room for a rental apartment on the third: “Donna has big
plans for a penthouse of sorts that
would include a roof garden,”
laughs Eric. You never know, it just
might happen. This part of the city is
being transformed, as the work going on outside the building testifies.
In 2006 Maywar went to work
for the Trenton Downtown Association. Between then and 2011 he held
a variety of positions with the organization, including the business
development manager (serving as
ombudsman and fixer for businesses located within the city’s Special
Improvement District) as well as organizer and manager of Patriots’
Week, a six-day Revolutionary War
festival. Under his leadership, the
event grew in size and garnered the
attention of local media and a mention in the New York Times.
A grant from the Princeton Area
Community Foundation helped
support the bookstore’s Friday
night and Saturday events as well as
the 2008 Trenton Book Fair, which
featured Pulitzer Prize winners,
HBO Def Poets, and local writers.
Besides these, Maywar helped the
Passage Theater Gala Committee
bring in a $15,000 profit with its
2009 Fundraiser Gala.
For his efforts, Maywar has received recognition in the form of a
2011 Spirit of the Community
Award from the community group
Living a Powerful Life; a 2010
Spirit of the Community Award
from Isles for community work and
its Books at Home program, which
also won a 2010 Key to Education
Award from the Trenton Public Education Foundation. In 2009, he received an Ally of Humanity Award
for community work from the nonprofit organization BOOST, and in
2008 the Trenton Council of Civic
Associations named the bookstore
its Business of the Year.
But more than awards, the best
aspect of the store is the people it attracts, says Maywar. People such as
visual artist and Scrabble champ
Barbara Keogh (whose art work is
displayed and who works several
hours a week in the store) and
Scrabble enthusiasts Dan and Sarah
Robinson of Pennington, who have
been visitors since the days of the
Book Cellar in New Hope. “Now
that Sarah and I have two kids, Abby is 2 and a half and Ethan is just
nine months, we don’t get there
quite as often but we love the
place,” says Dan Robinson. “Abby
will play scrabble with anyone who
Like Father Like
Son: Eric Maywar,
right, and his son,
seven-year-old Noah,
inside his store.
is willing.” Robinson works for
Grapevine Visual Concepts designing trade show exhibits and is a talented origamist. “Book people
form very tight bonds, and this is a
great community,” he says.
Many of the bookstore’s regulars
are artistically inclined. When asked
for his take on the Trenton bookstore, renowned photographer Jon
Naar E-mailed his list of “Ten Reasons to Love Classics and Eric Maywar.” Number one is that it is “one
the rare places in downtown Trenton
where you can interact cordially
with members of all races, genders,
and ages,” says Naar. As a resident
of Trenton’s historic Mill Hill district, Naar lives within walking distance of the bookstore. He commends Eric for his knowledge of the
store’s hundreds of book and for the
lengths he will go to in locate “any
used book you ask him to find.” Also a Scrabble player, Naar describes
Maywar as a champion player and
his favorite opponent to beat. “That
very rarely happens,” he says.
Princeton poet and publisher
Ellen Foos is also a fan. “Years ago,
I got an invitation through a book
group friend to go to a party in the
basement of Eric’s home to play
games and buy used books. I was
impressed that he knew and loved
so many games. Over the years I
participated in his store-sponsored
Scrabble tournaments and online
Family Feud games. He is a master
at building community (first) and
customers (second). In 2008 I
brought poets to the store to read
and also participated in the book
fair. In 2009 I helped a bit with the
publication of the Trenton Re-
view,” says Foos.
The store is at its busiest on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons. The Friday night Scrabble
tradition now draws an impressive
range of aficionados, and each year
the bookshop hosts a grand Scrabble tournament to which the top
players are invited to compete. For
that event a local soprano is
brought it to sing the National Anthem “as befits a sporting event of
this magnitude,” says Maywar.
One recent Saturday, author
Carmen Rubin read her books
“The Gifted Guitar” and “Ashti
Meets Birdman Al.” Rubin has
known Maywar for five years,
since the publication of her first
children’s book. “Eric very kindly
offered to host a reading and book
signing,” says the Manalapan author whose books are published by
her own Peppermint Press.
After the reading, the visitors
linger. The conversation ranges
from jazz and jazz artists to art and
aspirations for the future. Young
listeners are engaged; adults delighted. This is what happens at
Classics Books. The small space
fosters immediate connections. As
Naar put it “Classics Books is one
of a dying breed of independent
bookstores and the best one within
75 miles of Strand Books in New
York City.”
Classics Books and Gifts, 4
West Lafayette Street, Trenton.
Monday-Thursday, noon to 2 p.m.;
Friday noon to 2 p.m., 6 p.m. to
midnight; Saturday 11 a.m. to 4
p.m. 609-394-8400, [email protected],
or
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January 6
After the House Tour, Lambertville Historical Society, Acme
Justice Center, 25 South Union
Street, Lambertville, 609-3970770. www.Lambertvillehistoricalsociety.org. “Going from This Old
House to Home Sweet Home,” a
home renovation panel discussion. $5 includes refreshments. 2
to 4 p.m.
Cat Show
Vendors with gift items and catrelated supplies. Homeless pets
for adoption. $8. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, Astrological Society of
Princeton, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, 609924-4311. www.aspnj.org. “Mercury and the 2012 Presidential
Election” presented by Amir Bey.
Social hour follows the talk. Register. $10 donation. Rescheduled
from November 4. 2 p.m.
Guiseppe Verdi’s 200th
Birthday, Dorothea’s House,
120 John Street, Princeton, 609924-8275. www.dorotheashouse.org. Sandy Steiglitz, host
of WPRB’s Sunday Morning
Opera program, honors the 200th
anniversary of the Italian maestro’s birth in a program highlighting his life and music. Bring a refreshment to share. Free. 5 p.m.
Israel Affairs Committee, Beth El
Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-4434454. www.bethel.net. “A Safe
and Secure Israel: What Will It
Take,” a conversation about the
makeup of the new congress and
what it will signify for the future of
the U.S. and Israel relationship.
Guest speakers are Paula Joffe
and Seth Mirowitz. Register. 7
p.m.
Outdoor Action
Birdseed Sale, New Jersey
Audubon, Plainsboro Preserve,
80 Scotts Corner Road, Plainsboro, 609-897-9400. www.njaudubon.org. Birdfeeders also
on sale. 10 a.m.
Socials
Record Breaking Day, Rubik’s
Cube World Record, High
School North, 90 Grovers Mill
Road, Plainsboro. recordcubers.blogspot.com. The current world’s
record was set by 300 people
solving Rubik’s cube at the same
time in the same venue. It’s time
to break it. 4 to 7 p.m.
Monday
January 7
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Adult Education
Back to School Night for Adults,
Mercer County Community
College, Conference Center,
www.mccc.edu. Explore new careers, plan to reenter the workforce, or seek insights into emerging career trends. The college’s
center for continuing studies offers individualized information
and advise about short-term certificate programs and classes.
Free. 5:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 1065 Canal Road,
Princeton, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
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An opening reception takes place Friday, January
4. Meet the artist on Sunday, January 6.
Art
Plainsboro Artists’ Group,
Plainsboro Public Library, 9
Van Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro.
Painters, sculptors, mixed media
artists, and photographers meet
to exchange ideas and connect
with each other. 6:30 p.m.
Film
Les Choristes (The Chorus),
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, Fireplace on
second floor, 609-924-9529.
www.princetonlibrary.org. French
with English subtitles. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Flavors of Princeton, Princeton
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Evan Blomgren, the chef from Rocky Hill Inn,
demonstrates how to make
hearty soups. Samples provided.
10 a.m.
Wine and Yoga Night, Rat’s
Restaurant, 126 Sculptor’s Way,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.ratsrestaurant.org. All levels.
Bring your own mat. Register.
$40. 6 p.m.
Health
Monthly Meeting, Compassionate Friends, Capital Health System, 1445 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Hamilton, 609-5168047. www.tcfmercer.org. Meeting to assist families toward the
positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age
and to provide information to help
others be supportive. 7 p.m.
Lectures
Construction Code Seminar,
Plainsboro Township, Cultural
Center, 641 Plainsboro Road,
Plainsboro, 609-799-0909. Seminar to assist residents in understanding the construction permit
process, with an emphasis on
common home improvements
and renovations. Register by Email to [email protected]. 7 p.m.
Socrates Cafe, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Ask questions, listen,
raise challenges, and more. Register. 7 to 9 p.m.
Not In Our Town, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, Fireplace on second floor,
609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Discussion on race facilitated by the Princeton-based
interracial and interfaith social action group. 7:30 p.m.
Colleges
Back to School Night for Adults,
Mercer County Community
College, Conference Center,
www.mccc.edu. Explore new careers, plan to reenter the workforce, or seek insights into emerging career trends. The college’s
center for continuing studies offers individualized information
and advise about short-term certificate programs and classes.
Free. 5:30 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in for soups,
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Socials
Stamp Collecting, Coryell’s Ferry Stamp Club, 1 Maple Avenue,
Flemington, 908-806-7883.
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Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
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Art
Art in the Area, Mary Jacobs Library, 64 Washington Street,
Rocky Hill, 609-924-9073. “Le
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Quat’z’Arts in the Montmartre district of Paris, presented by Christine Giviskos, associate director
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Film
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Brunswick Library, 110
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1962. Popcorn will be served.
6:30 p.m.
Sneak Preview Screening, Arts
Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777.
Screening of “A Thousand Cuts,”
a feature film co-written and directed by Charles Evered, a
Princeton resident and former
artist in residence. Actors include
Michael O’Keefe, Michael A.
Newcomer, and Jimmy Van Patten. Q&A moderated by Kino Lorber. For mature audiences 18
plus. Free. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Country Western Dance, Enterprise Fire Company, 469 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-5863639. Lesson and dancing. $9. 7
to 10 p.m.
International Folk Dance,
Princeton Folk Dance, Riverside
School, 58 Riverside Drive,
Princeton, 609-921-9340. www.princetonfolkdance.org. Ethnic
dances of many countries using
original music. Beginners welcome. Lesson followed by dance.
No partner needed. $3. 7 to 9
p.m.
Literati
Writers Room, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Writers of all
levels share their work and receive feedback. 7 p.m.
Poetry Workshop, Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896920. www.mcl.org. Bring 10
copies of your poem. Free. 7:30
p.m.
Health
Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome,
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Mercerville, 609-462-4023. www.rwjhamilton.org. The syndrome
causes nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and headaches. Register. $5. 6:30 p.m.
Wellness
Create a Vision Board Workshop, Center for Relaxation
and Healing, 666 Plainsboro
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History
Planning the Future of a Ewing
Landmark, Preservation New
Jersey, Ewing Community and
Senior Center, 999 Lower Ferry
Road, Ewing, 908-295-7739.
www.1867sanctuary.org. Roundtable discussion of future possible
uses of the 1867 Sanctuary at
Ewing. The architectural firm of
Mills and Schnoering Architects
begin the public phase of the
study to explore an adaptive
reuse of the sanctuary. Register
by E-mail to 1867sanctuary.org. 7
to 4:30 p.m.
For Families
Winter Storytime for Preschoolers, Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, Kingsford Community
Room, 31 Titus Mill Road,
Hopewell, 609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Register. $15.
10 a.m.
Lectures
Computer Tips and Tricks, Computer Learning Center at
Ewing, 999 Lower Ferry Road,
609-882-5086. www.ewingsnet.com. Q&A session at 1:30 p.m. 2
p.m.
Princeton Macintosh Users
Group, Stuart Hall, Room 6,
Princeton Theological Seminary,
Alexander Street, Princeton.
www.pmug-nj.org. Q&A followed
by speaker and meeting. “Exploring Digital and Unique Resources
at Princeton Public Library” presented by Janet Hauge and Erica
Bass of the Princeton Public Library. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Introduction to Google Apps
and Android Services, South
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Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junc-
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www.believeinspiregrow.com.
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Karen Hodges Miller, author of
“Finish Your Book: A Time Management Guide for Writers.” Register online or by E-mail to [email protected]. 7 p.m.
Estate Planning and Surrogate
Decision Making, Princeton
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Presentation
by attorney Rebecca Esme. 7
p.m.
Science Lectures
Astronomy Talk, Amateur Astronomers Association of
Princeton, Peyton Hall, 4 Ivy
Lane, Princeton University. www.princetonastronomy.org. “Small
but Powerful: The Smallest Supermassive Black Holes” presented by Jenny Greene, a professor
of astronomy at Princeton University. Free. 8 p.m.
Schools
Open House, The Bridge Academy, 1958B Lawrenceville Road,
Lawrenceville, 609-844-0770.
www.banj.org. For parents and
professionals to obtain information on the program, curriculum,
and admission policies for the private school for ages 8 to 18 with
language-based learning differences including dyslexia. It is accredited by the Orton-Gillingham
Academy. Register. 9:30 a.m.
Open House, St. Paul School,
214 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-7587. www.spsprinceton.org. For grades K to 8. 11
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Outside the Box: The Road Less
Traveled, Princeton Learning
Cooperative, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, West
Windsor, 609-851-2522. www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Panel discussion with Holly
Bull, president, Center for Interim
Programs; Patty Leuchten,
founder and president of the Avoca Group; Charlotte SnipesWells, former non-traditional student; and Andrew Nagle, student
at Princeton Learning Cooperative. Free. 7 p.m.
JANUARY 2, 2013
Make a Snowflake
National PTAs are making
snowflakes to send to the students
of Sandy Hook Elementary so they
can create a “Winter Wonderland”
when they go to their host school
after
the
holidays.
Send
snowflakes by Saturday, January
12 to Connecticut PTSA, 60 Connolly Parkway, Building 12, Suite
103, Hamden, CT 06514
Snowshoe Walks
Mercer County Park Commission offers deep snow nature
walks for people with snowshoes.
The walks will be at the Pole Farm,
Rosedale Park, and Curlis Woods.
E-mail
Jenn
Rogers
at
[email protected]
for
more information.
Good Cause
Lambertville-New Hope Winter Festival will benefit Fisherman’s Mark through a food drive
and cash donations. The social
service organization based in Lambertville provides a full range of
services, including a food pantry
that emphasizes nutrition, for families in six local counties. Visitors
may bring non-perishable food to
the main events or donate at
www.fishermansmark.org. Contact Tracey Costanzo at [email protected] or call 609-3970657 for information about organizing a food drive or volunteering
to help.
Organic Land Care
Rutgers Cooperative Extension presents Organic Land Care
Certification Course, a new program of seminars for the landscaping industry, on January 10, 11, 17,
and 18 at the Middlesex County 4H Center, 645 Cranbury Road, East
Brunswick, from 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Register. $500 includes
breakfast and lunch. Call 732-3985275. The deadline for registration
is Monday, January 7.
The four day organic land care
certification program is designed
for professional landscapers, property managers, public works employees, groundskeepers, landscape architects, and master gardeners. Program participants will
also earn NJ DEP pesticide recertification credits and the NJDEP
Natural Turf & Landscape Management certificate. Some of the
topics include, Landscape Alternatives to Lawns, Interpreting Soil
Sample Results, and Marketing
Your Organic Company. Other presentations will focus on organic
practices for promoting healthy
soil, enhancing biodiversity, and
reducing polluted run-off from
managed landscapes. This program is not intended for recreation
and sports turf fields. Certification
is attained by passing an optional
exam at the end of the program.
Participants that pass the exam will
be considered a certified organic
land care provider and be listed on
the Rutgers website as such.
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Mercer College’s Theater and
Dance and Entertainment Technology programs have auditions
for high school seniors and college
students from any college on Saturday, January 26, from 1 to 6 p.m.
There are two dance auditions
scheduled on the same day from 3
to 4 p.m., and 6 to 7 p.m. 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor.
For “Cabaret” prepare one song
(16 bars), one monologue (tww
minutes in length), and warm up
prior to the dance audition. Wear
appropriate clothes to move in. For
“The Colored Museum” prepare
one monologue, two minutes in
length. For more information contact Jody Person at [email protected].
Paper Mill Playhouse has auditions for its 2013 Summer Professional Training Programs for
young performers ages 10 to 18.
Audition dates are Saturdays, January 26 and February 2, at Kean
University’s Wilkins Theater, 1000
Morris Avenue, Union. An appointment is required. To schedule
an audition appointment send Email to [email protected].
Include the student’s full name, age
as of July 1, 2013, E-mail address,
phone number, and preferred audition date.
Students participate in classes in
singing, acting, auditioning, dance,
and a series of guest artist workshops led by professional actors,
directors, and casting agents. The
training programs include the fiveweek Summer Musical Theater
Conservatory held in July, or the
three-week August Musical Theater Intensive. During auditions
students are judged for vocal skill,
dance ability, personality, and song
interpretation
skills
(acting
through your song). Students will
be placed in a program based on
their auditions. Visit www.papermill.org for more information.
Volunteer Please
New Jersey Blood Services, a
division of New York Blood Center, which supplies blood products
and services to 60 hospitals
throughout the state, is in need of
volunteers at blood drives. The
blood service volunteer assists
donors with registration, escorts,
and observes post donation reac-
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[email protected] for more
information and an application.
Opportunities
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tions. Volunteers should have the
ability to relate to the public, be
able to perform different jobs as
needed, and have the willingness to
follow the rules. For information
contact R. Jan Zepka at 732-6168741 or E-mail [email protected].
NJSACC Afterschool Ambassadors seeks volunteers to serve as
representatives of NJSACC in 21
counties and connect with afterschool professionals. It is a twoyear commitment. An ambassador
should be familiar with afterschool
programs in the local community,
committed to networking and advocacy for afterschool programs,
involved and informed in current
trends in out of school time, and
very computer and Internet knowledgeable and functional.
Responsibilities include attendance in training and participation
in webinars, phone conference,
and web forums, meeting with local an county officials to build support, and help to organize special
events. Requirements to be considered for the program include a
completed application, a minimum
of three years of professional experience in the afterschool field, and
two E-mails of reference. E-mail
Caregiving Services
Interfaith
Caregivers
of
Greater Mercer County, a nonprofit organization headquartered
in Hamilton, provides free caregiving services to homebound elderly
and people with disabilities
throughout Mercer County. Free
services include transportation to
doctor’s offices, shopping, light
housekeeping and maintenance,
visits in person or by telephone,
and occasional meal preparation.
Services enable care receivers to
avoid institutionalization and stay
in their homes — independently,
safely, and with dignity. To volunteer, donate, or request services and
information visit www.icgmc.org
or call 609-393-9922.
Photo Contest
Festival of Ballooning seeks
creative photos for its 2013 poster
depicting
interesting
angles,
unique points of view, and “cool”
compositions. The grand prize is a
hot air balloon ride for two. E-mail
photos to [email protected] by Saturday,
January 5. Visit www.balloonfestival.com for more information.
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JANUARY 2, 2013
Little Worlds of Planets, Birds, and Magic
W
here have all the
Cornell boxes gone?
There is a wonderful Joseph
Cornell box at the New Jersey State
Museum on view in its “American
Perspectives” exhibition. From the
1950s, it is a classic, with a rough
brown wood box framing a planetary orb balanced on a wire. Other
elliptical shapes add to the celestial
theme — Cornell (1903-1972)
loved to incorporate elements of
astronomy and signs of the Zodiac.
A conch shell and broken wine
glass add to the sense of mystery.
“I believe Cornell is unique in
the canon of American art,” says
Margaret O’Reilly, the museum’s
curator of fine art. “Although he
was inspired by the work of Max
Ernst, Cornell himself was not a
Surrealist, although he is often defined that way.
“Now considered important
works of symbolist art, the elements of theater and wonder at the
world are found in nearly all his
oeuvre,” continues O’Reilly.
“While the scale of the works make
them appear intimate, they reveal
an expansive world view, yet very
little that is personal about the
artist. I believe he was exploring
and containing the world outside
his own somewhat reclusive existence.”
A quest to find additional collages and shadow box constructions of the pioneer of the art of assemblage turned up little in central
New Jersey. A lifelong New Yorker, Joseph Cornell’s only connection to the Garden State may be that
he obtained film footage from a
New Jersey warehouse that he
by Ilene Dube
spliced together for his found film
montages.
The Princeton University Art
Museum has two prints by Cornell
in its collection, with no immediate
plans to exhibit them. But last
year’s major Kurt Schwitters
(1887-1948) retrospective got us
thinking about Cornell. Dadaist
Schwitters took the concept of collage and assemblage, established
as a modern art form by Picasso
and Braques, and “synthesized different strands of influence — cubism, expressionism, futurism, and
dada — (in his) use of found objects,” said Kelly Baum, curator of
modern and contemporary art, at
the time of the exhibition.
Like Schwitters, Cornell used
found objects to create poetry, and
whereas Schwitters used discarded
objects, Cornell used fragments of
what he considered precious objects.
Although he exhibited at the
Museum of Modern Art in his lifetime, Cornell preferred to exhibit
in “less pretentious” venues such
as schools; he especially wanted
children to see his boxes, and to
touch them. For him, childhood
represented the idyllic past.
For those craving a bit more of
Cornell’s idiosyncratic universe,
the Philadelphia Museum of Art is
presenting an installation of rarely
shown objects from its collection,
as well as private collectors,
through February. It has been
paired with the exhibition “Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg,
and Duchamp,” because of the
connection between Cornell and
Duchamp.
January 8
Singles
Social Club, Widows and Widowers, Congregation Beit
Shalom, Concordia Shopping
Center, Perrineville Road, Monroe, 732-723-9706. Discussions,
dinners, shows, and companionship for ages 55 plus. Register.
1:30 p.m.
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, PA, 215-736-1288.
www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6 p.m.
During the years of their friendship, Cornell assisted Duchamp in
assembling a series of editioned
works, very likely including the
specific version of Duchamp’s
“Box in a Valise” (1935-43), on
display here. Also on view is Cornell’s “Duchamp Dossier,” a lidded
cardboard box containing an original work by Duchamp given to
Cornell along with typed and handwritten notes, letters, postcards,
exhibit announcements, and other
documents collected from their
friendship and correspondence.
There is an altered book by Cornell, “Untitled Book Object (Journal d’Agriculture Pratique et Journal de l’Agriculture,),” starting
Socials
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732398-9033. www.plainsbororotary.org. 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Next Step Speaker Series,
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
“Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning” presented by Rebecca Esmi, attorney at Esmi Law Firm. 7
p.m.
with a modern farming manual,
published in 1911 in France, that
has been transformed and manipulated with foldings, cutouts, and insertions of drawings and objects,
including a picture of the Mona
Lisa embracing pharmacy bottles
and a bed pan.
Cornell had an astute collector’s
eye, finding nuanced ephemera
everywhere from newsstands and
shops to second-hand markets in
New York City. Boxes of sewing
notions, bones, stones, shards of
glass, postcards, small containers,
labels, dolls, matchboxes, tree
bark, and balls appealed to him.
Some of these were similar to the
childhood trinkets his mother
Wednesday
January 9
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Commercial Real Estate, West
Windsor Republican Club, West
Windsor Senior Center, 271
Clarksville Road, West Windsor,
609-799-1301. www.wwgop.org.
“Mercer County Commercial Real
Estate” presented by Jerry Fennelly, president of NAI Fennelly.
Fennelly’s expertise in corporate
Planetary: ‘The
Earth’s Spin Box’ by
Joseph Cornell, in the
collection of the New
Jersey State Museum.
would bring him after her trips to
New York. Throughout his career
he assembled these into “dossiers,”
using notebooks, suitcases, and
boxes.
Those balls often became planetary bodies, such as in a box construction titled “Sandbox,” in
which a silver ball bearing appears
to be the Pluto to a larger ring. The
and marketing services has resulted in the completion of
800,000 square feet of transactions in the past 12 months. He is
a graduate of St. Peter’s College
with a degree in business administration. 7 to 8:45 p.m.
Classical Music
Jazz Vespers, Princeton University Chapel, Princeton campus,
609-258-3654. www.princeton.edu. A service of poetry, music,
and meditation featuring members of the Chapel Choir and Jazz
Vespers Ensemble. Free. 8 p.m.
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In Pretty Boxes: Other works by Joseph Cornell,
right, include, from top left, ‘Duchamp Dossier,’
‘Sandbox,’ and ‘Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren
Bacall.’
blue sand in the box forms concentric circles, suggesting orbit in a
night sky.
Cornell was a stargazer and collected astronomic maps and zodiac
illustrations. One of his constellation boxes, similar to the one at the
State Museum has a blue orb suspended on two wires, from which
dangles a gold bracelet (Saturn’s
ring?) against a Zodiac background. Broken shards of mirror
also line the inside of the box, reflecting a mysterious white plaster
assemblage.
One of Cornell’s favorite childhood memories was visiting Luna
Park in Coney Island, where visitors took “A Simulated Trip to the
Moon.”
A Christian Scientist, he looked
to the heavens for relief. Cornell
sometimes put the orbs inside glass
bottles, perhaps bottling the universe for medicine.
Critic Holland Cotter has called
Cornell “a poet of light; an architect of memory-fractured rooms; a
connoisseur of stars, celestial and
otherwise, an archivist of time.”
He also archived birds and some
of his boxes appear to be cages for
them. They are like dioramas, a humorous take-off on something you
would see in a science museum. In
1949-’50 he had an exhibit at the
Egan Gallery in New York,
“Aviary by Joseph Cornell,” with
wall-mounted lattice supports for
bird-related objects. In one untitled
construction of a woodpecker
habitat, he combined birds and
spheres.
Julien Levy’s gallery was a premier venue for modern art, especially photography, and in 1932
Cornell was included in a surrealism exhibit there. He had access to
daguerreotypes and albumin silver
prints that became fodder for his
own work. He obtained portraits of
bygone stars, such as Mina Loy by
Man Ray, and used it in a 1938
work, “Imperious Jewelry of the
Universe.”
Cornell made portable shrines
for all the stars he grew smitten
with. He never married nor had a
sustained relationship, but developed numerous crushes.
Born in Nyack, New York, Cornell’s father was a textile designer
and merchant who carved wood
boats and furniture in his leisure
time. His mother had been trained
as a kindergarten teacher. They
lived in a large gothic revival mansion with two pianos. It was assumed that his sister was the one
with artistic talent. While she was
sent to study art with Edward Hopper, Joseph would escape for long
stretches with his books. Cornell
attended Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, but did not
graduate.
When Cornell’s father died in
1917, the wealthy family fell on
hard times and moved to a basement on Utopia Parkway in
Queens, New York. Bashful and
somewhat reclusive, he helped his
mother to care for his younger
brother, who was disabled with
cerebral palsy. In his late 20s, Cornell taught himself art, but rather
than drawing and painting, he cut
up bits of paper and ephemera. It
was the era of movies, and he was
more influenced by the vaudeville
theater his family attended (the
family was less inclined to visit art
museums).
Seeing Harry Houdini perform,
his imagination was stoked by
magic and vanishing. Whereas
Houdini escaped from boxes, Cornell would escape into boxes.
He also worked as a textile and
graphic designer and sold fabric
and appliances to make ends meet.
It was only after the show at the
Egan Gallery that he could earn a
living from his art.
Live Music
Wellness
Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com.
Sign up at 6:45 p.m. 7 to 8:45 p.m.
Open Mic, Alchemist & Barrister, 28
Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-9245555. www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10
p.m.
Healthy Eating on a Budget, Ewing Library, 61 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-8823130. Presented by Mercer Street Friends.
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Guided Meditation, Center for Relaxation
and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. $15. 7 p.m.
Meditation Workshop, Hickory Corner Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East
Windsor, 609-448-1330. www.mcl.org.
“Finding Inner Peace” with Umesh Bhatia.
Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Chapin School, 4101 Princeton Pike, Princeton, 609-924-7206. www.chapinschool.org. Reception for “People in
My Life,” an exhibit of large oil paintings by
Dan Finaldi. On view to January 31. 5 to 7
p.m.
Dancing
Contra Dance, Princeton Country
Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction
followed by dance. $8. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Cornerstone Community Kitchen,
Princeton United Methodist Church,
Nassau at Vandeventer Street, Princeton,
609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org.
Hot meals served, prepared by TASK.
Free. 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Health
A Healthy Way to Dine, Robert Wood
Johnson Hamilton Center for Health
and Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge Road,
Mercerville, 609-462-4023. www.rwjhamilton.org. “Simple Suppers: Winter
Warmer Soups” presented by a registered
dietitian who will also answer questions related to chronic disease. Register. $10. 6
p.m.
History
Guided Tour, Drumthwacket Foundation,
354 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-6830057. www.drumthwacket.org. New Jersey
governor’s official residence. Group tours
are available. Register. $5 donation. 1 p.m.
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609924-8144. www.morven.org. Tour the restored
mansion, galleries, and
gardens before or after
tea. Register. $20. 1 p.m.
For Families
Winter Storytime for
Preschoolers, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed, Kingsford Community Room, 31 Titus Mill
Road, Hopewell, 609-7377592. www.thewatershed.org. Register. $15. 1
p.m.
Lectures
Getting Your House
Ready for Sale, West
Windsor Library, 333
North Post Road, 609799-0462. “Home Inspections and Smart Repairs.”
Free. 7 p.m.
Later in his career, Cornell made
“readymade” films without touching a camera. These have been described as moving collages.
Today, many artists, including
Rauschenberg, are indebted to
Cornell. The artists exhibited in the
neighboring exhibit, “Dancing
Around the Bride,” “developed
chance-based strategies to create
work emphasizing art’s relationship to life,” according to exhibition text. Cornell’s compositions
rely on the surrealist technique of
irrational juxtaposition. “Cornell’s
works are maps of the imagination,
where connections among the most
disparate things and ideas are
drawn according to the imperious
rules of memory and desire,” says
Anna Vallye, postdoctoral curator-
Meeting, Princeton Photography Club,
Johnson Education Center, D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1 Preservation Place,
Princeton, 732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org. “Purposeful Imagery: Case
Studies of Advanced Students’ Works” presented by Ricardo Barros. 8 p.m.
Politics
Commercial Real Estate, West Windsor
Republican Club, West Windsor Senior
Center, 271 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609-799-1301. www.wwgop.org. “Mercer County Commercial Real Estate” presented by Jerry Fennelly, president of NAI
Fennelly. Fennelly’s expertise in corporate
and marketing services has resulted in the
completion of 800,000 square feet of transactions in the past 12 months. He is a
graduate of St. Peter’s College with a degree in business administration. 7 to 8:45
p.m.
ial fellow at Philadelphia Museum
of Art.
Collages and Constructions
by Joseph Cornell, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Benjamin
Franklin Parkway at 26th Street,
Philadelphia. On view through
February.
Dancing Around the Bride:
Cage, Cunningham, Johns,
Rauschenberg, and Duchamp,
Philadelphia Museum of Art. On
view through January 21, 2013.
www.philamuseum.org.
Joseph Cornell’s “The Earth’s
Spin Box,” a construction from the
1950s, can be seen in the American
Perspectives exhibit of works from
the permanent collection at the
New Jersey State Museum, 205
West State Street, Trenton.
www.nj.gov/state/museum.
Socials
Meeting, Outer Circle Ski Club, Chili’s
Restaurant, Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-721-4358. www.outercircleskiclub.org.
Open to adults interested in ski trips, hikes,
picnics, and game nights. New members
welcome. 8 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Chess and Board Games, Bordentown
Library, 18 East Union Street, Bordentown, 609-298-0622. Bring your favorite or
play one of the library’s games. Register.
4:30 p.m.
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JANUARY 2, 2013
After Sandy, Show Must Go On
‘T
he Show Must Go On” is an
adage long identified with those who work in
the theater. Accordingly, it sums up New Jersey’s professional theaters attitude during
and after Superstorm Sandy.
Despite the fact that it is January and a full
two months after the havoc, it is not too late
to recall how our theaters were able to survive as well as be a support to their communities.
Throughout the state, there exists a thriving professional theater community consisting of 23 theaters, quite a few of which had to
test their ability to carry on, indeed, survive
in the wake of the most destructive storm
ever recorded in our state.
While many theaters had to contend with
loss of power, damaged gas lines, and flooding as well as with the loss of performances
and revenue, most were up and running
within a week thanks to emergency relief
funding. The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has been at the forefront in the recovery
with an umbrella grant of $250,000 designated to help cover theater losses to its
grantees.
Most severely impacted, however, by the
intensity of the storm in the shore area was
the Surflight Theater in Beach Haven, where
its production of “Barefoot in the Park” was
brought to a halt.
No need to invent drama as one listened to
the Surflight’s executive director Ken Myers
admit that the theater was not only having
“money difficulties, followed by a fire, then
a flood.
“We cope,” he said, revealing that the theater had no income for the past seven weeks
to support the staff. He is hoping for a good
response from the insurance company and
support from the Small Business Association.
Surflight did get a check for $10,000
from the Rauschenberg Foundation and
emergency funding from the Dodge Foun-
by Simon Saltzman
dation. Myers says, “We lost 3,000 costumes. The business offices, including
group sales and public relations, had two
feet of water. In the theater, up to row H was
under water. We lost 18 computers and with
it lost data, some of it being dried out and recaptured. We’d just finished a refurbishment. Now we had to tear those repairs out,
ripping out the dry wall again. The lights
were saved except for ground circuitry.”
Myers adds, that they still can’t drink the
water, but “we were the first to offer our
neighbors free coffee and we gave a ‘thank
you’ concert for the first responders and the
community. We plan to have our season open
in April as planned. But mid-February, the
theater will host a production by a local
group: ‘Our Gang.’ They don’t have a stage
While many New Jersey theaters had to contend with
loss of power, damaged as
lines, and flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,
most were up and running
within a week.
so they’ll use ours.”
The New Jersey Repertory in Long
Branch also had considerable water damage
and had to abort a number of performances
of “Annapurna” during its run. Directors
SuzAnne and Gabe Barabas also had to deal
with the destruction of a cottage residence
specifically used to accommodate actors.
“Annapurna” reopened within a week and
played out the remainder of its run to full
houses. The world premiere of a new comedy “Esther’s Moustache” by Laurel Ollstein,
an original member of Tim Robbins’ awardwinning theater company, The Actors’Gang,
opened mid December and will play through
Sunday, January 13.
The Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn and
the Two Rivers Theater Company in Red
Bank kept their theaters open as energizing
centers for the community. This availability
allowed those in need an opportunity to
come together, recharge their spirits, as well
as their electronic devices. The same was
true at McCarter and Passage theaters in
Princeton and Trenton.
While the storm hit during Two Rivers’
production of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,”
about a king who unites people, the theater is
happily (and appropriately) ushering in the
New Year with Noel Coward’s valentine to
theater, “Present Laughter,” starring the
Tony nominated (“End of the Rainbow”)
Michael Cumpsty. It begins Saturday, February 16.
Performances of “Man of La Mancha”
were brought to a halt midway through its
hugely successful run at the Shakespeare
Theater of New Jersey in Madison. Despite
its location on the campus of Drew University, which lost power, performances resumed within the week to ever-growing audiences.
Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey managing director Jeanne Barrett remembers the
Flooded: New Jersey
Repertory Theater in Long
Branch sustained considerable water damage and had
to cancel several performances of ‘Annapurna.’
scramble to get everyone in the company
home, some back into New York City or, as
the actors’ housing was already full, to find
additional places for them to stay. A trustee
whose home had a generator was able to take
in three actors.
“Fortunately none of the big trees on the
Drew Campus or near the Florham Park offices fell on the buildings. There was a loss of
$100,000 in ticket sales and expenses,” she
says, adding that “Man of La Mancha” resumed on Friday evening when the well-patronized musical was extended for a week.
Leadership at all of our state’s professional theaters was never more apparent than it
was during Sandy. Shakespeare Theater of
New Jersey’s managing director Barrett
summed it up best: “Theater people are used
to crisis on a daily basis. You pick up, deal,
and go on.”
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Thursday
January 10
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Help Our Heroes
Veterans Luncheon, Princeton
Elks, 345 Route 518, Blawenburg, 908-359-7122. Luncheon
with the Montgomery Veterans
Memorial committee to help
maintain the Montgomery Veterans Memorial and develop related programs for the community.
The Elks Veterans Service committee provides direct and personal benefits for veterans, especially homeless veterans and
those with acute needs. Register.
Noon.
On Stage
Farm Markets
Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-2581500. www.princeton.edu/arts. “A
Steady Rain,” a psychological
crime drama by Keith Huff. $12. 8
p.m.
Trenton Farmers’ Market, 960
Spruce Street, Lawrence, 609695-2998. Open year-round.
Thursdays to Saturdays. 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Winter Market, Princeton Farmers’ Market, Princeton Public Library, 609-655-8095. Stock up for
the holidays and for winter with a
variety of foods. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Literati
The Too-Busy-For-Books Book
Club, Pennington Library, 30
North Main Street, Pennington,
609-737-0404. www.penningtonlibrary.org. New book club to support newly-resolved readers. Discuss “The Uncommon Reader,”
Alan Bennett’s 120-page book.
Cookies will be provided. 7:30
p.m.
Health
Orthopedics Open House,
Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton Center for Health and Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge Road,
Mercerville, 609-462-4023. “Total
Joint Surgery” presented by an
orthopedic surgeon. Dinner program. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
Central Jersey’s Premier Gastropub
Critics Choice Award
Best Burger in NJ by NJ Monthly Magazine
~ Extensive Beer Menu (17 Draft Beers) ~
137 Washington Street (Rt. 518) • Reservations: 609.683.8930
www.rockyhilltavern.com
Live Music
Larry Tritel and Guy DeRosa,
Thomas Sweet Cafe, 1330
Route 206, Skillman, 609-4302828. www.thomassweet.com.
Guitar, harmonica, and vocals. 7
p.m.
Karaoke, Station Bar and Grill,
2625 Route 130 South, Cranbury,
609-655-5550. www.stationbarandgrill.com. 8 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. First day
for “Structure and Flow: An Exhibition Exploring Contrasts in Abstraction” includes works by Al
Aronson, Benjamin Colbert, Nancy Cohen, John Franklin, and
Alyce Gottesman. On View to
March 9. Opening reception is
Saturday, January 12, from 3 to 5
p.m. 1 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Alfa Art Gallery, 108
Church Street, New Brunswick,
732-296-6720. www.alfaart.org.
Opening reception for “New
Brunswick Through Photographers’ Eyes.” 7 p.m.
Bar Open Every Day from 5PM
Accepting reservations for:
Sunday Brunch 11AM - 2PM
Dinner 7 Days from 5:30PM
Private Parties and Events • Corporate Retreats
16 Tastefully Appointed Rooms
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January 10
Wellness
Meditation Group, Mercer Free
School, Lawrence Community
Center, 295 Eggerts Crossing
Road, Lawrence, 609-403-2383.
mfs.insi2.org/meditation. For all
levels in a sharing experience.
Register. 6:45 to 8:15 p.m.
For Parents
Meeting, Central Jersey Mothers
of Multiples, Hamilton Library, 1
Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Way,
Hamilton, 609-516-5748. www.cjmom.org. Supportive network to
share experiences, gain information, and socialize with other families of twins and triplets. 7 p.m.
Lectures
Marketing Roundtable, New Jersey Association of Women
Business Owners, New Jersey
Builders Association, 200 American Metro Boulevard, Suite 123,
Hamilton, 609-448-6364. www.njawbomercer.org. Register. $15.
8:30 a.m.
Lawyers C.A.R.E., Mercer County Bar, Lawrence Library, Route 1
South, 609-585-6200. 15-minute
consultations with a lawyer about
legal issues of family law, real estate, landlord and tenant law, personal injury, criminal and municipal court law, wills and estates,
bankruptcy, and immigration.
Free. 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Celebrate Israel, Beth El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream Road,
East Windsor, 609-443-4454.
www.bethel.net. “Six Days that
Changed the Middle East” presented by Rabbi Eric M. Lankin
and Abba Eban. Register. $10.
7:30 p.m.
Politics
Rutgers Institute for Information
Policy and Law, Eagleton Institute of Politics, 191 Ryders
Lane, New Brunswick, 732-9329384. www.eagleton.rutgers.edu.
“New Jersey Public Media: Status, Initiatives, and Research”
with William Marrazzo, CEO and
president, WHYY; Neal Shapiro,
CEO and president, WNET and
NJTV; and Laura Walker, CEO
In Oil: Dan Finaldi’s
exhibit ‘People in My
Life’ is on view at the
Chapin School
through January 31.
An opening reception takes place
Wednesday, January
9.
and president, WNYC and NJPR.
Refreshments. Register. Free. 3
p.m.
Socials
Veterans Luncheon, Princeton
Elks, 345 Route 518, Blawenburg, 908-359-7122. Luncheon
with the Montgomery Veterans
Memorial committee to help maintain the Montgomery Veterans
Memorial and develop related
programs for the community. The
Elks Veterans Service committee
provides direct and personal benefits for veterans, especially
homeless veterans and those
with acute needs. Register.
Noon.
Public Speaking
Toastmasters Club, Strayer University, Room 103, 3150
Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville,
908-421-6152. Public speaking.
6:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Next Step Speaker Series, RWJ
Health Center, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-5845900. “Time at Last: Navigating
Retirement” presented by Shirley
Roberts and Carol King. 2 p.m.
Friday
January 11
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Farm Fresh Year Round
End of Year Wine and Cheese
Party, West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, West Windsor Arts Council, Alexander Road,
The kitchen is the heart of
the home… where meals and
memories are made…
Custom Kitchens, Baths & Renovations
145 West Ward Street,
Hightstown, NJ 08520
Showroom: 609-448-5600
cranburydesigncenter.com
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Screening of “Fresh,”
the Greener NJ Productions pilot
that featured the West Windsor
Farmers’ Market and four of the
vendors. Music by Darla Tarpinian
on upright bass, Rich Tarpinian on
guitar, and Bo Child on mandolin.
Register. $10. 7:30 to 1 p.m.
Classical Music
Open House, American Boychoir, 19 Lambert Drive, Princeton, 888-BOYCHOIR. www.americanboychoir.org. For boys
in grades 4 to 8. 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Live Music
brick oven pizza, and cheese platters are available. Kim Yarson
and Sandy Zio present rock and
pop. 6 to 9 p.m.
David Johansen, The Record
Collector Store, 358 Farnsworth
Avenue, Bordentown, 609-3240880. www.the-record-collector.com. $30. 7:30 p.m.
Dapp, Dublin Square Pub, 167
Route 130, Bordentown, 609298-7100. www.dublinsquare.pubs.com. 21 plus. Free.
9 p.m.
Art
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Free. 12:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Bank of Princeton,
10 Bridge Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0333. www.thebankofprinceton.com. Wine and cheese
reception for exhibits by the Arc of
Mercer and James Falciano. Exhibits on view to January 15. 5 to
7 p.m.
Gallery Exhibit, Peddie School,
Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown,
609-490-7550. www.peddie.org.
Opening reception and artist talk
in conjunction with “Score,” an exhibition by Shanti Grumbine. The
project uses the New York Times
to elicit a sacred experience of the
everyday. The cut newspapers
pages reveal pull quotes and
headlines to insert in a clef and
four-line staff to translate into
sound, breath, and lyrics. The
“score” can be read, performed,
or passed on as a chant. On view
to February 8. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
On Stage
Moving Mountains, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy about a widower in
pursuit of women. $29.50 to
$31.50 includes dessert. Through
Saturday, February 9. 7 p.m.
Sunday in the Park with George,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical based on
Georges Seurat’s 1884 painting
presented by Pinnsworth Productions. $18. 8 p.m.
p.m.
A Murder is Announced, Somerset Valley Players, 689 Amwell
Road, Hillsborough, 908-3697469. www.svptheatre.org. Drama based on Agatha Christie
book. $18. 8 p.m.
Film
Screening of “Save the Date.” $8.
7 and 8:50 p.m.
JANUARY 2, 2013
End of Year Wine and Cheese Party,
West Windsor Community Farmers’
Market, West Windsor Arts Council,
Alexander Road, West Windsor, 609-9334452. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org. Screening of “Fresh,” the Greener NJ
Productions pilot that featured the West
Windsor Farmers’ Market and four of the
vendors. Music by Darla Tarpinian on upright bass, Rich Tarpinian on guitar, and Bo
Child on mandolin. Register. $10. 7:30 to 1
p.m.
Dancing
Big Band Bash, Millstone Community
Education, 18 Schoolhouse Road, Millstone, 732-786-0950, ext. 70003.
[email protected]. Full Count,
an 18-piece big band, featured vocalist
Rose Shargo, and dance instructor Candace Woodward-Clough, present an
evening of music and dancing. Register by
E-mail. $15 to $20. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Dance Practice, G&J Studios, 5 Jill Court,
Suite 15, Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. $10. 8 p.m.
Literati
Evenings with Friends, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org.
“Emily Raboteau and Albert Raboteau: A
Father-Daughter Conversation” features
Emily Raboteau, author of “Searing for
Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora,” and Albert Raboteau, professor of
religion at Princeton University. Refreshments followed by conversation. Register.
$50. 6:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Country Barn Dance, Montgomery Special Education PTA, Princeton Elks, 354
Route 518, Blawenburg, 908-868-3916.
Line dancing led by Dave Kim. Cash bar.
Benefit Galas
The Grumbling Hive or How Vice is a
Virtue and Vice Versa, Concordia
Chamber Players, Cradle Valley Farm,
New Hope, 215-297-5972. www.concordiaplayers.org. Modern day ballad
opera based on a tale from the 1700s.
$150. 7 p.m.
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For Families
La Leche League of Crosswicks, Bordentown Library, 18 East Union Street,
Bordentown, 609-298-0622. Support, encouragement, information, and education.
For mothers and small children. 10:30
a.m.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Bobby Collins, George Street
Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New
Brunswick, 732-246-7717. www.gsponline.org. “Fixing Society One Moron at a
Time,” a blend of characterizations and observations. Collins has had Showtime specials, three DVDs and six CDs. $39. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Winter Happy Hour, Rat’s Restaurant,
126 Sculptor’s Way, Hamilton, 609-5860616. Complimentary tapas with purchase
of a cocktail, beer, or wine. 4 to 7 p.m.
Health
Tinnitus, Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton Center for Health and Wellness,
3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville,
609-462-4023. Discuss causes, treatments, and simple remedies to alleviate
the symptoms. Register. Free. 10 a.m.
Singles
Happy Hour, Yardley Singles, Washington Crossing Inn, River Road, PA, 215736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Cash
bar. 5 p.m.
Divorce Recovery Seminar, Princeton
Church of Christ, 33 River Road, Princeton, 609-581-3889. “Dating Again.” Nondenominational support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Titans Hockey, Sun National
Bank Center, 609-341-1100. www.trentontitanshockey.com. South Carolina. 7 p.m.
Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink, 609-2584849. Union. $10. 7:30 p.m.
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At the Movies
P
rinceton-based screenplay writer
and film director Charles Evered will host a
free sneak preview of his new film, “AThousand Cuts,” on Tuesday, January 8, at the
Arts Council of Princeton.
For a quick preview of what to expect the
clues are found in Evered’s fast-paced setup. As a man (played by Michael O’Keefe)
intently travels from a backwoods road towards manicured suburbia, contrasting
flashes of torture erupt on the screen. Those
scenes initially shock but slowly let us know
that we are watching scenes from a film
called “A Thousand Cuts.”
These contrasts are accented by fast cuts
from far shots to close ups and scenes jumping from images dominated by cool blues to
alarming oranges. Music too switches from
straining sustained notes to the percussive
and rhythmic.
When the traveler (later known as Frank)
arrives in a well-fashioned Los Angeles suburb, the film-within-a-film scenes are replaced by the strange real-life scenes of a
party where a woman snorts cocaine with a
clown and others wearing clown noses. The
party is hosted by “A Thousand Cuts” creator, Lance Ross (Michael A. Newcomer).
As night falls on this land of dreams, Ross
gets intoxicated, insults his fellow show biz
colleagues, and shows himself to be a cad, a
desensitized self-proclaimed king of “the
house that torture made.” His disregard for
education, culture, and truth make him even
more despicable, as in the case where he attempts to persuade an attractive female journalist to strip for him.
Frank, as expected, arrives, infiltrates the
party, and at about 15 minutes into the film
turns off the electricity, marking a long day’s
journey into night for both Ross and himself.
When the lights return, the film’s preceding images (including a photograph that
starts the film and appears at the party) are
coiled and set to spring. So when Ross encounters the seemingly mild Frank (who pretends to be the electrician) and tells him that
he admires him for “how real you are,” we
know that the filmmaker is going to regret
the words. We can also be certain that the
film is ready to exploit violence for both cinematic content and social reflection.
Evered, a New Jersey born and Yale
trained dramatist, has written for stage
(“Adopt a Sailor” performed by Sam Waterston and Eli Wallach), television (“Monk”),
and screen (adapting and directing “Adopt a
Saturday
January 12
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Musical Art
609-570-3333. www.kelsey-
Sailor” with Princeton native Bebe Neuwirth
and Peter Coyote in lead roles). A former
artist-in-residence for the Arts Council of
Princeton, he divides his time between
Princeton and Los Angeles.
“A Thousand Cuts” — writes the 48 yearold director, husband, and father — is an
artistic reaction to hyper-violent films and a
questioning about the culture that makes
them commercially successful.
In the aftermath of such recent violent occurrences in our nation, the preview showing
should provide a lively after-screening discussion with Evered and several members of
his cast.
A Thousand Cuts, Tuesday, January 8, 7
p.m. Free. The Arts Council of Princeton,
102 Witherspoon Street. For more information,
call
609-924-8777
or
visit
Mainstream Movies
Confirm titles, dates, and times with theaters.
A Haunted House. Comedy with Marlon
Wayans. Opens Thursday, January 10. AMC.
Anna Karenina. Keira Knightley and
Jude Law in drama set in 19th century Russia. Montgomery.
Argo. Action with Ben Affleck. AMC.
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away. Fantasy
about two young people. AMC, Regal.
Django Unchained. Western drama stars
Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson, and Leonardo DiCaprio. AMC, Garden, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Gangster Squad. Action with Sean Penn
and Giovanni Ribisi. Opens Thursday, January 10. AMC.
The Guilt Trip. Comedy with Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand. AMC, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Hitchcock. Biodrama with Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Scarlett Johansson
focuses on the backstory of the making of
“Psycho.” AMC, Montgomery, Multiplex.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Martin Freeman portrays Bilbo Baggins.
AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Hyde Park on Hudson. Drama about
FDR and his cousin stars Bill Murray and
Laura Linney. Montgomery.
Jack Reacher. Crime drama written and
directed by former West Windsor resident,
theatre.net. Musical based on
Classical Music
Open House, American Boychoir, 19 Lambert Drive, Princeton, 888-BOYCHOIR. www.americanboychoir.org. For boys
in grades 4 to 8. 10 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.
Chamber Choir, Kinnara Ensemble, All Saints Church, 16 All
Saints Road, Princeton. www.kinnaraensemble.org. “The
Singing” is a one hour concert
Christopher McQuarrie. AMC, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Les Miserables. Musical stars Hugh
Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway. AMC, Garden, MarketFair, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
Life of Pi. An Indian boy is left with an
orangutan, a hyena, and a Bengal tiger after a
shipwreck. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex,
Regal.
Lincoln. Daniel Day Lewis portrays Lincoln. AMC, MarketFair, Montgomery,
Multiplex, Regal.
Monsters, Inc.. Animated 3D with voices
of Billy Crystal and John Goodman. AMC,
MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
Parental Guidance. Comedy with Bette
Midler and Billy Crystal. AMC, MarketFair,
Multiplex, Regal.
Playing for Keeps. Romantic comedy
with Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel. AMC.
Promised Land. Drama with Matt Damon. Opens Thursday, January 4. AMC.
Red Dawn. Action directed by Dan
Bradley. AMC.
Rise of the Guardians. Animated fantasy. AMC, Multiplex, Regal.
Silver Linings Playbook. Stars Bradley
Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. AMC, Montgomery, Multiplex, Regal.
Skyfall. 007 returns with Daniel Craig
and Judi Dench. AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
featuring works that explore music and singing in their texts. The
repertoire includes works by
Brahms, Britten, and Lassus. $20
includes a reception with the
artists. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk
Cafe, 2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995. www.allaboutjazz.com. Solo jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Do You Hear The People
Sing: Isabelle Allen plays
young Cosette and Hugh
Jackman is Jean Valjean in
‘Les Miserables.’
This is 40. Comedy with Paul Rudd.
AMC, MarketFair, Multiplex, Regal.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
Part 2. AMC, Regal.
Wreck-It Ralph. Animated adventure
with the voices of John C. Reilly and Jane
Lynch. Regal.
Zero Dark Thirty. Chronicle of search
for Osama bin Laden. Opens Friday, January
11. AMC.
Venues
AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, 325 Sloan Avenue, I-295 Exit 65-A, 888-262-4386.
Destiny 12, 2465 South Broad Street,
Hamilton, 609-888-1110. Closed temporarily as
of December 21. Call for updates.
Garden Theater, 160 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-683-7595.
MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-520-8960.
Montgomery Center Theater, Routes 206
and 518, Rocky Hill, 609-924-7444.
Multiplex Cinemas Town Center Plaza,
319 Route 130 North, East Windsor, 800-3154000.
Regal Theaters, Route 1 South, New
Brunswick, 732-940-8343.
brick oven pizza, and cheese platters are available. John Bastiani
with pop rock. 6 to 9 p.m.
Combo Bosso Nova, Halo Pub,
4617 Nottingham Way, Hamilton,
609-586-1811. 7 to 10 p.m.
Laura Hull, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com.
Concert features American popular songs, jazz standards, and
original songs. 7 p.m.
Larry Tritel and Guy DeRosa,
Thomas Sweet Cafe, 1330
Route 206, Skillman, 609-4302828. www.thomassweet.com.
Guitar, harmonica, and vocals. 7
p.m.
John Bianculli and Jackie
Jones, Americana Diner, 359
Route 130, East Windsor, 609448-4477. www.americanadiner.com. 8 p.m.
John & Carm, Wildflowers
Restaurant, 2572 Pennington
Road, Pennington, 609-7372392. www.wildflowersinnrestaurant.com. 9 p.m.
Pop Music
Laser Rock Shows, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908526-1200. www.raritanval.edu.
“Classic Rock.” $7. 8 p.m.
Art
Tots on Tour, Grounds For
Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. For
ages 3 to 5. Listen to a story, be-
come park explorers, make original works of art. One adult must
accompany each child. Register.
Free with park admission. Rain or
shine. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Art Talks, Grounds For Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Sculptor
Robert Taplin discusses his inspirations and process. Register. 1
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Opening
reception for “Structure and Flow:
An Exhibition Exploring Contrasts
in Abstraction” includes works by
Al Aronson, Benjamin Colbert,
Nancy Cohen, John Franklin, and
Alyce Gottesman. On View to
March 9. 3 to 5 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Red Filter Gallery, 74
Bridge Street, Lambertville, 347244-9758. www.redfiltergallery.com. Opening reception for “Old
Works for the New Year,” a
shared exhibit by Alisandra Wederich and Forrest Old. On view to
March 3. 3 to 5 p.m.
On Stage
Moving Mountains, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. Comedy about a widower in
pursuit of women. $29.50 to
$31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m.
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SINGLES
MEN SEEKING WOMEN
WOMEN SEEKING MEN
WOMEN SEEKING MEN
In search of a woman with a sense of
humor. I am DWM, educated, semi-retired, financially secure, not bad looking,
warm hearted and a great dancer (years
ago). I enjoy movies, plays, travel, and
museums. I don’t do drugs or smoke but
I have been known to have a drink. I am
a nice guy, easy going, warm and affectionate. Please include a phone number
and your response. Box 238434
down-to-earth lady, honest and caring.
Would like to meet a sincere gentleman
who is the same. Someone who enjoys
life’s simple pleasures, good conversation, walking, listening to good music,
going to the shore occasionally. If you
are interested in meeting a lady with no
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mostly the oldies but other music also.
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queen with a good sense of humor. I am
a single, black, physically fit man, intellectual, rich with personality and style.
Traditional values still carry the day and
chivalry is not a lost art, as far as I am
concerned. I stand 5’10” and weigh 197
pounds. Clean-cut, brown skin, and
medium build. I enjoy the great outdoors
during the summer, and I find a way to
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609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical based on
p.m.
A Murder is Announced, Somerset Valley Players, 689 Amwell
Road, Hillsborough, 908-3697469. www.svptheatre.org. Drama based on Agatha Christie
book. $18. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
How I Became a Pirate, Bristol
Riverside Theater, 120 Radcliffe
Street, Bristol, 215-785-0100.
www.brtstage.org. Omaha Theater Company presents tale
based on Melinda Long’s book.
$15 to $25. 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.
Star Shows, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908-526-1200.
www.raritanval.edu. “Winter
Skies.” $7. 7 p.m.
Film
Screening of “Save the Date.” $8.
7 and 8:50 p.m.
Saturday Film Series, West
Windsor Arts Council, 952
Alexander Road, West Windsor,
609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org. Screening of
“Even the Rain,” a Spanish film
set in Bolivia. Post screening discussion with Mara Bok, a teacher
of Spanish at Community Middle
School. Drawing on her personal
experiences with the city of Cohabamba in Bolivia, she will provide context for cultural patterns
portrayed in the film. $7. 7:30
p.m.
Dancing
Ballroom Blitz, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 50 Cherry
Hill Road, Princeton, 609-9451883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Tango lesson followed by
open dancing. No partner needed. $12. 7 to 11:30 p.m.
Folk Rock: The
Kennedys, Pete and
Maura, perform at the
Folk Project at the
Unitarian Fellowship
in Morristown on Friday, January 4.
English Country Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne
Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 609-924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction followed by dance. $10.
7:30 to 11 p.m.
Rumba Workshop and Dance,
G&J Studios, 5 Jill Court, Suite
15, Hillsborough, 908-892-0344.
www.gandjstudios.com. $30 for
both. 8 p.m.
Literati
Reading Series, Panoply Bookstore, 46 North Union Street,
Lambertville, 609-397-1145.
Adele Kenny, founding director
the Carriage House Poetry Series
and poetry Editor of Tiferet Journal, is the author of 23 books of
poetry and non-fiction. 6 p.m.
Good Causes
Benefit Dinner, Rebuild and Recover the Jersey Shore, Stone
Terrace by John Henry’s, 2275
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5857654. Dinner buffet, comedian,
DJ, music, door prizes, dancing,
silent auction, and more. Register. $80 benefits first responders
in Seaside and Toms River. 6 to
10 p.m.
Samara Rocks, West WindsorPlainsboro High School South,
346 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609-716-5050. www.ww-p.org. Benefit concert for Samara, a
six-year-old with an aggressive
childhood cancer. She is the
daughter of Darrah Scheller, a
language arts teacher at the
school. The concert is chaired by
Eli Bramnick, a seventh grade
student at Grover Middle School
in West Windsor, and Jared
Glassband, a seventh grade student at Pond Road Middle School
in Robbinsville. They are both
members of Princeton School of
Rock Z-Team Band, the performers at the event. The school’s Student Council is teaming up with
the two boys to organize the
event. Tickets will be on sale in
the commons and at the door. All
proceeds will help the family with
medical expenses. Donations
may be made online. $10. 7 p.m.
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ART
JANUARY 2, 2013
FILM
LITERATURE
DANCE
DRAMA
MUSIC
PREVIEW
Air, Dare Are Stories of NJSO’s 2013 Season
I
n the 2013 Winter Festival
Jacques Lacombe, music director
of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO), continues his investigations of natural elements
that have inspired musical compositions and turns the spotlight on air
and the atmosphere. The 2011 Festival focused on water; the 2012
Festival on fire. The winter festivals go beyond the concert stage by
collaborating with non-musical organizations, which offer special
events inspired by the NJSO
theme.
To associate classical music
with the environment gives us a
chance to link music of the past to
issues of today’s life, Lacombe
says. Bringing partner organizations into the concert hall and exposing them to people who might
not even know of their existence is
a rich collaboration, he believes.
“Orchestras need to have connections to the community, and I think
that with partnerships, we are
stronger. It goes back to being
proud of who we are and what we
have here in this state.”
Lacombe’s reaching beyond the
concert hall affirms the ideas of
Richard Dare, who takes over as
president and chief executive officer of the NJSO today, just before
the winter festival begins. As an orchestra executive, Dare helped rescued the faltering Brooklyn Philharmonic. Before that he built an
international investment conglomerate. Both men agree about relating concert programs to concerns
of daily life and about involving
communities in professional performances.
The 2013 Winter Festival consists of two programs. The first
takes place in New Brunswick’s
State Theater on Saturday, January
5, at 8 p.m. as well as in Newark on
Friday, January 4, and Sunday, January 6. Special events by non-musical organizations are scheduled
for Newark. Michael Tippett’s
Symphony No. 4, which calls for
the sound of breathing, opens the
program. Gustav Holst’s “The
Planets,” where the American Boychoir provides the finale’s wordless chorus, concludes the concert.
“It will be the first time I perform ‘The Planets’ with a boys’
choir,” Lacombe says. “The piece
was written for female voices, but
the work calls for a mystical sound,
coming from the sky, and I thought
children’s voices could work very
well — they have less vibrato, and
I think it will create an even
stronger sense that you are hearing
something from another world.”
The second program takes place
in Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium on Friday, January 25, as well
as in Newark on Saturday, January
26, and in Morristown on Sunday,
January 27. Pieces scheduled are
Peter Tchaikovsky’s “Tempest
Fantasy Overture,” Jan Sibelius’
“The Tempest,” and Ludwig van
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6
(“The Pastoral”), which depicts a
thunderstorm. The Shakespeare
Theater of New Jersey participates.
by Elaine Strauss
Tucked between the two winter
festival concerts is a batch of concerts that includes the Beethoven
Symphony and might qualify as
having to do with air. NJSO trumpeter Garth Greenup breathes the
solo part in Franz-Joseph Haydn’s
Trumpet Concerto; the orchestra
also plays Johannes Brahms’
“Variations on a Theme of Haydn,”
which is based on the Austrian national anthem. That cohort of concerts is set for Friday, January 18, at
7:30 p.m. in Trenton’s War Memorial, as well as in Red Bank on Saturday, January 19, and in Englewood on Sunday, January 20.
The like-mindedness of Lacombe, now in his third season at
the NJSO, and Dare, his new CEO,
is evident in Dare’s account of an
early encounter between the two.
Interviewed by phone from New
York City, Dare says, “From the
first time Jacques and I met privately and sat down to dinner together, we talked about life and
what is the legacy that we want to
contribute to. What bubbled to the
top was this: We want to be able to
connect people to the relevancy of
this art form.
“Here’s an example that I shared
with Jacques that he laughed at and
enjoyed: It’s shocking in our society that you can put on an opera, and
show folks a story of love and betrayal with war and rape and redemption — huge themes. They’re
the same themes that you see if you
open up a newspaper. It’s been validated over the centuries that art
encompasses this.”
But — and here comes the
chuckle: “The only public discourse that occurs is: ‘The soprano
hit the high notes well,’ or ‘The
conductor dragged in the third
movement.’I felt that Jacques and I
understood each other.”
Dare, 48, was born in Indiana,
the second in a family of five children with a majority of boys. From
age four he grew up on a dairy farm
in northern California. “We milked
cows and grew alfalfa,” he says. “It
shaped who I am now. We had a
large, rambling Victorian house and
no TV because the reception was so
bad. We had a four-party phone
line. The most culture we had was
the AM radio in the barn. I spent a
lot of time working in the barn.”
“It was a wonderful way to grow
up. I rode my bicycle to the schoolhouse. I brought in wood for the
stove at school. It allowed a lot of
time to think and imagine and wonder about the world. I read the Encyclopedia Britannica with my siblings. We started with the junior
edition.”
Dare tells me that his first encounter with classical music occurred when he was 14. “I was
cleaning the school and I pulled out
an LP record. It had an attractive
cover. The teacher let me take it
home. It was Tchaikovsky’s
From the Top: Richard Dare, right, is the
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s new
CEO. Jacques Lacombe, above, enters
his third year as conductor. Photo by Fred Stucker
‘Francesca da Rimini.’ I was absolutely stunned. I was mesmerized by the soundscape and the story. I brought the record back, and
asked the teacher if she would
teach me to write music like this.
She told me you had to take lessons. I tracked down a piano
teacher who found that a neighbor
had a piano. My brothers and I
wheeled it up the stairs into the
house. The teacher told me to get
Czerny and Hanon. For the next
three years I practiced seven days
week seven hours a day. I was obsessed.”
“I began composing. I thought it
was an avocation. I thought that all
composers were dead. But I wanted to do it because it was so beautiful.”
D
are spent a year at Newbold
College, outside of London, England. “I had a wonderful music
composition teacher there,” he
says. “Grandiosely, I wrote a piano
concerto and some tone poems.”
After returning to the United States
he earned a bachelor’s degree in
liberal studies and a master’s degree in education, with a focus in
psychology, from California’s Loma Linda University.
Asked about his music background in a question-and-answer
document distributed by the NJSO,
he claims broad experience. “My
primary focus in college was musical composition (composition, theory, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and so forth) . . . I also
studied the piano, organ, violin,
trumpet and percussion for much
of my youth. But my primary love
was always writing music-concerti, tone poems, ensemble pieces,
even a ballet.”
Looking back on his post-university prospects, he says, “Then it
was time to grow up and get a job.
One of the things you can do in the
United States is be an entrepreneur.
I ended up going into business. I
learned that if you can write a
piece, you can write a spread sheet.
With both, you’re trying to organ-
ize something large and complex.
“Like anybody starting out
you’re new and unproven. You
don’t have a lot of connections, just
book learning. You scramble and
start out consulting, giving ideas.
My first job was with an orthodontist. I consulted about how to develop a bigger business, and created a
managed service organization.
“At first you don’t have the capital to invest. Gradually, you ask
for a little equity instead of a consultant fee. Then you say, ‘We want
to finance it.’ Then you say, `We
want to do it ourselves and have the
exclusive rights to it.’ You rise by
being the person who has the better
ideas.”
Dare calls a vacation with his
wife, Kitty, in Japan, roughly a
decade ago “an epiphany.” The
outcome was the formation of Pacific Rim Partners, a private investment firm that melded American
products and Japanese business
practices. Dare learned Japanese.
The couple decided to “do it the
Japanese way and get involved in
several lines of enterprise at once
— restaurants, energy, infrastructure, technology, and media. We
want to cooperate with competitors, not eliminate them,” he says.
And then his wife began studying art history for a master’s degree
at Columbia University. “We set up
little apartment for her and decide
that I will visit her once a month. I
jump back on the plane and head
for the main office in Tokyo. I
think, ‘This is the dumbest thing
I’ve ever done.’ I love building the
business, but I don’t want to be
away from my family. In Tokyo I
set in motion a plan to package the
company and sell off the parts. It
took about a year to find a home for
everything.” Dare wondered what
he would do with the rest of his life.
“I decided that music is what I
really love. I started googling
around. I googled Brooklyn because I had never been there. I
thought there must be an orchestra.” The resident orchestra, the
Brooklyn Philharmonic, had run
out of funds and had canceled an
‘I would love to be able to bring the love of music of all types to every
single man, woman, and child in New Jersey,’ says Richard Dare.
entire season. Hoping to recover,
they hired Alan Pierson, the
founder of the avant-garde Alarm
Will Sound ensemble as artistic director. “I sent him an E-mail and
told him who I was,” Dare says.
“We met and he laid out his vision.
I wanted to execute the vision, to
expand and refine it.”
With Dare on board as CEO of
the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the orchestra completed what one journalist called its “reboot” season of
2011-’12, performing programs
geared to local residents in various
neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Critics and audiences were enthusiastic.
Invited to apply for the vacancy
at the NJSO when CEO Andre
Gremillet moved to the Melbourne
Symphony in Australia, Dare gave
a dramatic initial presentation. “I
was so excited to be able to speak
with the trustees and other members of the NJSO Search Committee that I took the initiative to put
together an entire printed book for
each of them to share my thoughts
about how we might fit together as
a team and what my leadership
might mean in the context of all
they’ve already achieved together
so far,” he says. “It may have been
presumptuous of me to provide so
much detail up front, but I felt the
opportunity was really so immense
that I wanted to communicate my
thoughts as clearly as possible.”
The NJSO announced Dare’s
appointment in early December.
Soaking up his new environment,
during a reception at Princeton’s
Drumthwacket, he says. “I’m looking forward to 5 to 10 years in New
Jersey.”
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s 2013 Winter Festival,
State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. With the
American Boychoir, Saturday, January 5, 8 p.m. $20 to $88.
Winter concert, Trenton War
Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive,
Trenton. Friday, January 18, 7:30
p.m. $20 to $76.
Winter Concert, Richardson
Auditorium, Princeton University. Friday, January 25, 8 p.m. $20 to
$88.
973-624-3713 or www.njsymphony.org.
JANUARY 2, 2013
SURVIVAL GUIDE 2013
COMPANIES SHOW HOW
P
TO
Callaway had been affiliated with
Sotheby’s. But that year Callaway
traded his company’s Sotheby’s affiliation for Christies. When merger talks began in 2011, Callaway
took another look at the marketing
reach that comes with the Sotheby’s name and wanted to take advantage of it. And for Henderson,
“the prospect of combining and
creating the single best real estate
company in Princeton was great,”
he says.
Henderson’s grandfather, John
T. (Jack) Henderson, first opened
his office in Princeton in 1953. In
the 1970s Jud’s parents, John and
Peggy worked for Jack and eventually took over the firm. Henderson
says his mother — who remains an
agent with the firm — fully supported the merger. “She knew this
combination was the best way to
keep a family-owned business not
only relevant but thriving,” he
says.
Both families maintain an equal
ownership share with equal voting
FOR MANY, JOBS ARE STILL KEY
M
ary Anne Kennedy, co-founder of St.
Paul’s Networking Group in Princeton for
the unemployed and under-employed, wrote
the book on the job-seeking process — literally.
Last year Kennedy published “Finding
the Right Job: A Step-By-Step Approach”
(available for $14 from Kennedy’s website
— www.makhr.com) as a tool for job seekers
not just to find a position but to find the right
position. “There is a methodology to the job
search,” says Kennedy. “The search starts
with knowing what it is you want to do.”
Kennedy says job applicants should be
prepared to provide examples of their abilities. “Tell me about a time when you were in
a situation and people didn’t get along,” an
interviewer might say. “Give me the situation, what actions you took, and what was the
result.”
Or the interviewer might ask the applicant
to describe a problem they solved in a
“unique manner.” Or: “What kind of software do you use? Can you give me examples
of how you did an implementation of specific software?” A smart candidate, Kennedy
advises, should have some good answers.
She reminds job seekers that, when they
reach the interviewing stage, there can be
three different types of interviews awaiting
them. They are the phone screen, the traditional one-on-one interview, and the “group
or panel interview,” which “may include 3 to
10 people on an interview team, interviewing one potential candidate, all at the same
time. A well prepared group interview team
will have assigned specific questions for
each interviewer.
“As the candidate, it can be an intimidating situation, but remember the interview is
an information gathering session. You are interviewing all of these people as much as
they are interviewing you. Be sure to give
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AISLE
by Scott Morgan
rinceton is a tough mar- owners and agents had been doing
ket for real estate. Home sale val- things their own separate way for
ues, even in a down market, are decades,” says Henderson.
high and so is the prestige, which
From the technology standpoint
means no shortage of competition. alone, the union required combinAt the top of the Princeton food ing everything from websites and
chain for decades were Henderson back office systems to consumer
Sotheby’s International Real Es- materials and agent workspaces.
tate and N.T. Callaway, the two “We thrust a lot of change on our
firms that factored into half the res- agents, who, thankfully, were up to
idential deals in town. A year ago the challenge and I think recogthe two firms came to a cordial un- nized the merits of what the new
derstanding — they could continue company would provide,” Henderto butt heads or they could work to- son says.
gether. So “the Gucci and Versace”
And although Callaway calls the
of Princeton real estate, as co-own- merger “a friendly get-together,”
er Jud Henderson calls the firms, Henderson says that “a small nummerged without
ber of employa single dollar
ees” were let go
changing
so that the comThe
Gucci
and
Verhands.
pany
could
sace of Princeton real
A year after
save on redunthe merger Callestate firms were
dant costs. “We
away Hendertried to find a
brought
together
in
son Sotheby’s
place
[for
part by the lure of anInternational
everyone]
Realty, based at
other big name:
wherever we
4 Nassau Street,
could and manSotheby’s.
has been inaged fairly well
volved in 59
to do so,” he
percent of all
says. But not everyone made the
residential real estate transactions transition. Callaway Henderson
in Princeton, says Henderson. And now employs 15, plus 200 agents
the conjoined company’s revenue in five offices
is 12 percent higher than what both
The merger itself, says Hendercompanies would be expected to son, was actually spurred by Sothehave achieved on their own.
by’s. “They opened up the dialogue
Co-owner Pete Callaway says between us. N.T. Callaway was the
the unification came with little up- first affiliate when the auction
heaval, but still took some adjust- house took on that model with real
ing. “At first it was hard for the estate companies in 1976.”
agents,” he says.
Pete Callaway opened his first
“There’s a lot that goes into office in 1974, and until 2005 N.T.
combining two companies whose
Writing the Book
On Job Hunting
REACH ACROSS
U.S. 1
eye contact to
each person on
the panel with
each question, but
pay particular attention to the person who has
posed the questions.”
Through it all,
Kennedy advises,
“be engaging and
interested. Show
enthusiasm, be
articulate, clear
and concise. Give
appropriate eye contact. Respond to the
question and then be silent. Do not ramble. If
you feel you haven’t responded appropriately or clearly, ask the interviewer if you answered their question.”
Kennedy emphasizes the value of occasional silence. “Know when you have completed your thought, and stop. Wait for the
next question. Too many times people think
it’s better to add more details, but that’s not
true. The more concise the response, the better. So get comfortable with silence ... The
last thing you would want to receive as part
of the feedback from an interview that didn’t
go well is ‘he/she just wouldn’t stop talking.’”
— Michele Alperin
Excerpted from the November 14, 2012,
issue of U.S. 1.
Job Hunters Need
To Embrace Social Media
The evolving world of communication
technology and etiquette has extended into
every sphere of life, and, says career coach
Alex Freund, job seekers need to embrace it.
“If you want to accelerate finding a job, social media is the best way.”
Power Partners: Co-owners of the merged Callaway Henderson real estate Norman Callaway,
left, Karen Urisko, Pete Callaway, Matthew Henderson, Jane Henderson Kenyon, and Judson
Henderson at the company’s 2012 Holiday party.
rights. The company also established a rotating broker-of-record
term, and because Callaway had
seniority in the ownership circle,
he was the first. Henderson is the
current.
On the Callaway side, Pete’s
son, Norman, and daughter, Karen
Callaway-Urisko, are managing
members with administrative
roles. Callaway’s wife, Christina,
is an agent with the firm. Henderson’s siblings, Matt Henderson and
Jane Henderson Kenyon, also are
managing members with administrative roles. All are licensed
agents.
Jud Henderson started working
for his grandfather’s firm (for his father) at the ripe age of 18, as a li-
Freund, principal in Hopewell-based
Landing Expert Career Coaching, says many
recently unemployed people that he sees are
often lost when it comes to the latest ways of
connecting with those who can help them
find a new job.
“They are not comfortable with social media,” he says. “Initially they resent it. They
don’t know how to deal with it. There is a
great deal of hesitation and skepticism.”
What’s more, social media is not intuitive.
“There is a steep learning curve,” says Freund.
Get LinkedIn. Freund, who has 4,400
LinkedIn connections, cannot emphasize
strongly enough that LinkedIn is the place
that anyone in career transition needs to be.
“LinkedIn is number one,” he says. “Second
is Twitter, then Google+, and Facebook.”
Facebook is 10 times larger than LinkedIn,
he says, but he sees it as “primarily for
younger people.”
LinkedIn, on the other hand, is “number
one for business.” Beyond being the go-to
site for serious business people, it is where
recruiters often look for talent. “More than
90 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn.”
Show your face. Freund finds that many
people do not want to post their photos on social media sites. Sometimes the issue is as
simple as having put on a few pounds and
feeling uncomfortable about appearance.
Other times, he says, people fear discrimination.
They worry that broadcasting their ethnicity or age will sink their chances of being
considered for a job. And they’re right. Recruiters can pass over them, and they will
never know why, says Freund. Still, he insists, it’s imperative to post a picture.
“Facts are facts are facts,” he says.
Whether you are 10 years away from Social
Security or a mere 10 months out of college,
your approximate age is part of your package. People may discriminate against you
when they see your picture, but, says Freund,
they will definitely discriminate if you don’t
post a picture. “They’ll assume that you have
something to hide.”
Research your contacts. The rules for real world job hunting apply online, as well.
censed real estate salesman. After
graduating from Hamilton College
with a bachelor’s in English, he
went to work full-time at Henderson
Realtors
Callaway grew up in New York
City and started his professional
life in the 1960s in a decidedly different arena — Upperville, Virginia, where he managed a large
horse farm. He was called back to
Princeton for “family responsibilities,” which he figured would keep
him in town no longer than a year.
He also figured he’d spend his
short time in Princeton dabbling in
real estate and went to work for Edmund Cook, who at the time was
Sites like LinkedIn are places to network, but
before beginning the process, determine just
who you want to meet. Research your target
industry and companies. Locate people within them who might be able to help you or give
you information. Then, says Freund, reach
out to them online.
Keep it brief. “Don’t post your whole resume to LinkedIn,” he says. “People have an
abundance of reading every day. The shorter
and more to the point, the better chance that
people will read it.”
Embrace keywords. Long a staple of resume advice, the importance of using keywords applies on social media sites, too. Job
hunters of a certain age recall being told to
use action verbs. But now, says Freund,
verbs have been ditched in favor of keywords.
This is especially true when computers
are on the prowl for job candidates. They will
only “see” those whose keywords match the
narrow criteria of a specific job.
After you have set up a social media network, made new connections, and nurtured
relationships, hang onto them after you land
a new job.
“Keep social media a part of your life,”
says Freund. “Clients who have found jobs
often say ‘I’ll be on social media forever!’”
Some follow through, but many don’t. This
is a mistake, says Freund, a veteran of many
job transitions. “Fit social media into your
life. It has a beginning, but no end. Stay with
the program.”
— Kathleen McGinn Spring
Excerpted from the October 24, 2012, issue of U.S. 1.
Competing for IT Jobs
F
or Jerry Masin, hiring someone who
can think and learn in the right way is more
important than finding a technological whiz
kid. As the president of SetFocus, a Parsippany-based training and placement academy
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one of the biggest names in real estate in the Princeton area.
In 1969 Callaway formed a partnership, Peyton Callaway Real Estate. By 1973 he felt he was ready
to go out on his own and opened
N.T. Callaway Real Estate in
Princeton. His company eventually
opened (and still operates) offices
in Pennington, Montgomery, Cranbury, and Lambertville.
Callaway says he is glad to be
re-affiliated with Sotheby’s after
his brief time with Christies, in
large part because when it comes to
residential real estate, the Sotheby’s name carries a lot of weight
and is a label hung in most luxury
markets around the world. “The
power of seeing ‘Sotheby’s’ on the
sign really is contagious,” he says.
And since the firm has about 500
offices worldwide, it is used to
dealing with transitions and mergers into the Sotheby’s family
“Sotheby’s guided us through the
merger very well,” Henderson
says. “They knew what to expect
and it went smoothly.”
Sotheby’s has a team in place that
has been helping with these types of
situation around the world these last
few years, Henderson says. “They
knew what to expect financially,
culturally, legally and logistically
pretty much every step of the way.
We’re indebted to them, really.”
The other aspect that has bolstered things for the united company, says Callaway, is the fact that
the Henderson and Callaway companies both built their names on being local, family-owned enterprises. This, he says, built loyal customer bases — but customer bases
that always liked the other company as well. “I can’t tell you how
many homeowners have come to us
and said thank you for coming together, because now we don’t have
to choose between you,” he says.
“There’s also the reality that the
market had changed dramatically.”
and together we knew we could be
more certain that a family owned
business could continue to thrive in
this community.”
Of course, a much-improved
residential real estate market also
helped Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s turn such a profitable 2012.
Even in the depths of the Great Recession, Princeton’s formidable
housing market remained relatively
safe in its bubble and was largely
immune to wholesale foreclosures.
Sales, though down, still outperformed most markets in 2009 and
2010, and average home prices remain almost double those in the rest
of Mercer County. According to
Henderson, Princeton’s average
home sale price is just below
$700,000; the rest of Mercer County’s average is just below $400,000.
“We’re selling more houses for
more money,” Henderson says of
2012. In fact, 2012 is the third
straight year Henderson can claim
that his company sold more houses
than the prior year. Sale prices have
not yet returned to their 2004 summit, but the number of houses moving has steadily increased. And
while Princeton’s average home
price is about $700,000, the average for Callaway Henderson
Sotheby’s has been about
$850,000.
The uptick in units sold buoys
the hopes of both Callaway and
Henderson against recent talk of
“the cliff” on which the economy
and residential real estate is feared
to be resting. The cliff is a convergence of factors hinging on proposed federal tax increases and
cuts in national spending that
could, if misplayed, send the recu-
Beware the Merger Pitfalls, and Don’t Be Overeager
B
ack in the year 2000, when
mega-corporations were merging
into mega-mega corporations,
Inc. Magazine published an article by Ralph Ward titled “Seven
Ways to Avoid Merger Blunders.” The advice was aimed at
the largest business entities, but
some of it applies to smaller scale
and even mom and pop companies thinking of merging with another.
As Inc. pointed out, company
directors, or small business owners, often take a “bet the company” approach to the merger decision, “with too little time, facts,
or advice to make a fully informed call.”
The result: “More and more
mergers are not only failing to
create value, but are in fact destroying value, often with hidden
skeletons in the closet that closer
perating residential market back to
its gasping 2009 self. “All this is
not exactly making people feel all
warm and fuzzy,” Henderson says.
“But the market is getting better.
It’s just that the money is lower, but
remember, we just had three years
in a row of increased sales.”
Callaway adds that worries
about the so-called cliff are mostly
aimed at the rich, who want to know
how their wealth will be affected.
But keep in mind that Princeton has
no shortage of wealthy people and
the effects of the federal tax/cut
have yet to take shape.
Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s,
however, is not worried and has
settled in nicely at 4 Nassau Street.
Henderson says the company
chose 4 Nassau Street for a few rea-
inquiry could have revealed.”
Among the advice that could apply to companies of any size:
1.) During due diligence, challenge “overzealous estimates of
costs saved or revenues enhanced.” One approach, according to the magazine, identify “the
five greatest downside risks of
this transaction, both between announcement and close, and after
the close.” Then ask how you will
protect against those risks.
2.) Be sure to provide “the
right incentives for target talent to
stay and prosper.” The article cited the merger of Daimler and
Chrysler and the resulting “flight
of rising talent on the Chrysler
side.”
3.) Identify the “specific liabilities of the company you’re marrying into.” If your prospective
sons. One is financial. “But really
it’s also a better retail presence than
34 Chambers Street (Henderson’s
previous main office, which is separately owned by Jud and Matt),
and quite frankly had been in operation as a real estate office for
much longer than 34 Chambers,”
he says.
“We did separate out real estate
that was owned by either family
and was not part of the new company ownership,” Henderson says.
“We all agree that made things easier.” A new single tenant has been
signed for all of the space at 34
Chambers Street, where the previous multiple tenants have been
leaving throughout the year.
Callaway and Henderson prefer
not to divulge any details about the
merger partner operates in an arena far removed from yours, you
are more likely to be “blindsided.”
4.) Determine a realistic value
of the other company. Inc. quotes
Robert Apgood, president of
Canterbury Group: Companies
considering a merger often “don’t
know what price they should really pay, they don’t get a sound
value for the company, and they
don’t know why they really want
to buy it.”
5.) Don’t be too eager. When it
seems that everyone else in your
category is merging, don’t rush
into a deal just to avoid being the
“last man standing,” as Mark
Sirower, a consultant with the
Boston Group, described it to Inc.
“Set a firm price and stick to it —
are you willing to walk away?”
new tenant or when it will move in.
Numerous sources, including former tenants of he building, have
told U.S. 1 that a re-insurance company from Bermuda has expressed
interest in the space.
On top of the new tenant, Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s has
ramped up its multimedia, having
hired Sotheby’s vet Natalie Gilmore
as its new marketing director and
two photo/video professionals to
make Internet listings more interactive and alluring. Henderson says
his company had tried the idea of
agents shooting their own videos
and photos, but the results were predictably iffy. “Rather than make it a
headache for the agents, we hired
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he other day I had a meeting with the also includes eight monthly papers serving
ad sales representatives who help create the Hamilton, Ewing, Trenton, Lawrence, Robdeals that monetize all this editorial content I am binsville, Hopewell, Princeton, and Bordenresponsible for every week — the stuff that town.”
keeps us in business. It was the sort of meeting
For the past six months or so, Griswold, Vathat you would imagine most publishing com- leri, and I have kept a pretty low profile, trying
panies have once a year or so, at the very least. It to mesh lots of moving parts into one cohesive
was a chance for the editorial people to spell out new entity. It’s been an eye-opening process,
their mission to the people who need to sell it to and I am now a merger maniac, seeing merger
the public.
possibilities in all sorts of business settings.
It all went pretty much as you might have exFor example: On December 12 U.S. 1 ran a
pected — identifying some concerns on the ad cover story on the toy store at the Princeton
side that the editorial folks
Shopping Center that had
never realized, sharing
been placed on the market by
some of the strategies the
its longtime owner, John
Since U.S. 1 and
editors have for squeezing
Sherman. I sensed that SherCommunity News
late-breaking news, or lastman, like me, was approachmerged in June I have
minute ads, into the paper.
ing the traditional retirement
The only unusual thing was
age and was weary of continbeen looking at busiits timing: it was the first
uing the daily grind of runness in a new light.
such meeting the sales reps
ning a business. But he wasfor U.S. 1 had had with their
n’t ready to move into a rest
editor in probably 20 years.
home; in fact, he was looking
The fact that it was happening now can be at- forward to taking up his longstanding hobby —
tributed solely to the merger U.S. 1 undertook painting — as a fulltime pursuit. To that end he
last June 1 with Community News Service.
was willing to sell his store for a relative song.
We wrote about the specifics of the merger in
Another course of action occurred to me:
the June 20 issue of the paper: “The owners of Why not consider merging with an art gallery?
Community News Service in Lawrenceville Even if the two stores were physically separatand U.S. 1 Publishing Co. in Princeton have ed, it seems to me that one computer system,
merged to create a single company publishing one bookkeeper, and one personnel manager
10 community newspapers with a combined cir- could be used to run both. A worker calls out
culation of more than 160,000 copies in Mercer sick at the toy store the weekend before ChristCounty and central New Jersey. The combined mas and perhaps one of the staff at the art gallery
company publishes on average more than 520 could help out. Sherman might find it invigoratpages per month.
ing to spend some of his “floor time” at an art
“Jamie Griswold and Tom Valeri, co-pub- gallery instead of the toy store.
lishers of Community News Service, and
And then (since it’s always easy to manage
Richard K. Rein, founding editor and publisher someone else’s business) I began to think of
of U.S. 1, share ownership of the new company, growth opportunities. Add children’s art supCommunity News Service LLC. Rein will serve plies to the inventory of the toy store. In the art
as editorial director of the new company, and section promote the upcoming exhibit of chilwill continue as editor of the weekly U.S. 1 dren’s art at the art gallery. When a customer
Newspaper and the bi-weekly West Windsor- tells you that their child’s art was not selected
Plainsboro News. Griswold and Valeri will be
co-publishers of the combined company, which
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for IT professionals, Masin sees up close
how fast and how often technology
changes. And being able to keep up with
the changes is more important than
knowing any one particular program.
Be creative, be smart. Masin has
found that a broad understanding of how
technology works is better than specific
knowledge of one application or program. SetFocus looks for someone who
can translate technology into life experience and vice versa. He looks for the
problem solver, the creative thinker, and
the ability to make the abstract into
something concrete.
It’s a competition out there. Besides
the unethical aspects of making promises of getting a job, Masin cautions
would-be IT workers to know how competitive the job market is. The irony is
that the field actually works against experienced workers right now. In interview rooms all over the world, new-tothe-field candidates are going up against
seasoned pros. And while it’s hard to
break into the field at an entry-level, it
can be harder for a longtime IT worker to
get work.
Why? Money. Newer workers are
willing to work for less than seasoned
workers who have gotten used to big
paychecks, Masin says. At the same
time, experienced workers have gotten
wise and are willing to work for less.
— Scott Morgan
Excerpted from the September 26,
2012, issue of U.S. 1.
New Rules Are Old Rules
J
obs today can be hard to find, and
good jobs — the kind that lead to a longterm career in the field you are interested
in, with good pay and benefits — are
even harder to find.
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But there
are jobs out
there,
says
Suzanne Kaplan, owner of
JobTalk4All.com, an expert
in helping others find the
right career.
You just have
to
know
where,
and
how, to look. There is no mystery to job
seeking, she adds. In fact, if there is a
“new rule” to looking for a job, it is that
the old rules still work the best.
What Not to Do. “The biggest mistake people make in searching for a job
today is in thinking that all they have to
do is to upload a resume to an online job
board,” says Kaplan. Whether it is a national or a regional site, the number of resumes submitted for each job is often in
the hundreds or even thousands, and it is
difficult for any one person’s resume to
stand out. “The chances are, no matter
how well your resume is written, it’s going to end up in a slush pile.”
But she doesn’t discount the need for
an excellent, professionally written resume. “The rules for resumes have
changed. Today you need to understand
which keywords are important for the
job you are looking for. Without the right
keywords, your resume probably won’t
be seen.”
Get Out and Meet People. Once
you’ve got that great resume, the best
next step is to get out and meet people.
“Get out of your comfort zone. Go out
and network. It’s no longer a choice
when you are looking for a job, because
if you are not willing to do it, there are a
dozen other people who are just as qualified as you who are out there — and they
are the ones who will get the job,” she
says. People hire people they know, so
the more people you meet, the better
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chances of getting the job you
want.
Volunteer. “The truth is that in
today’s job market, young people
with little job experience will probably have to work for free,” says
Kaplan. Volunteering is an excellent way to gain experience. “It’s a
great way to display and to increase
your job skills, build a resume, get
experience, and develop better references.”
— Karen Hodges Miller
Excerpted from the September
19, 2012, issue of U.S. 1.
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Free Job Search
At Your Library
F
or those who haven’t looked
for a job recently or who are newly
applying for a “real” job, the universe of possibilities can seem
overwhelming — especially with
the Internet playing such an important role in the job-seeking process.
Luckily, a number of tools are
available for free to library card
holders through the New Jersey
State Library and local libraries.
These include not only job search
tools but also extensive support
through the preliminaries that are
so critical to finding satisfying
work.
A recent presentation by librarians Jane Brown and Janet Hauge
on “Databases for Jobseekers” at
the Princeton Public Library introduced several of these tools. As
many share similar features, the
Job and Career Accelerator will be
described in detail, followed by
shorter explanations of other similar tools. Here are some of the ways
it can be used:
Get suggestions of potential occupations. The purpose of the Occupation Matcher tool is to widen
your thinking about what types of
occupations you might consider; it
requires answering 100 questions
about potential job tasks that you
like, dislike, or are unsure about.
Investigate individual occupations. One of the first questions a
potential jobseeker wants answered about any occupation is
how many openings it will have
over the next decade or so. Answering this question is the first
tidbit of information under “Explore Occupations” — a description of the occupation, average
salary, number employed, and projected growth from 2008 to 2018 as
well as number of current job openings; this information is available
for the United States as a whole or
in a selected state.
You can also check how well
your own knowledge, skills, and
abilities mesh with those the occupation requires; what kinds of tools
and technology you will need to
use; and what kind of education
and training is necessary.
The Occupation Matcher also
helps answer one of the most important questions for new college
graduates and people considering
changing fields: Would I enjoy
working in this type of job? To do
so, it offers a long, detailed list of
likely job tasks for each potential
career.
Look for a job. When using jobsearch tools, librarians point out
that you should always use the “advanced search” option, which allows you to more narrowly specify
not only the jobs you are looking
for but also those you are not interested in. It is important, of course,
to also note when and where a job
was posted.
Prepare your resume and cover
letter. Perhaps the biggest surprise
in this database and others like it is
the “hands-on” help in crafting resumes and cover letters.
For resumes, the first things you
see are sample resumes of people
who have applied for jobs in the
same field, at all levels; each example is accompanied by “expert
notes” that describe the strengths
of the particular resume.
And if you see something you
like in a sample, even just a small
piece, you are invited to use it as a
template in your own resume. You
can also store multiple versions of
your resume, and cover letters as
well.
Writing a cover letter proceeds
similarly. The database takes you
through each step in writing a cover letter, saving it as you go along.
Another database, Career Transitions, is also available to library
users through Jerseyclicks.org.
One of its unique offerings is a simulation to help you prepare for a behavioral interview; it teaches you
how to describe a relevant situation
from your past experience, what
your goal was, what action you
took and why, and what the result
of your action was.
The simulation interview is
based on a particular hiring organization and job opening as well as a
profile of a specific interviewee all of which are provided beforehand. During the simulated interview, you will be asked to choose
among three options in response to
several different questions.
Then comes the feedback on
your interviewing skills. Brown
says, “When you’re unsuccessful,
it tells you what can do to improve
your performance. In the real
world, it is rare that you ever get
that feedback.” A successful first
interview yields a second one, at
the end of which you find out
whether you got the job.
— Michele Alperin
Excerpted from the July 11,
Connect With
A Career In Biotech
W
hatever anyone can say
about the economy in New Jersey,
biotech is one of the few sectors
that continues to hire. The sector
has also curried the favor of the
Christie administration, which has
poured generous grants and incentives into the state’s pharma and
biotech companies, many represented by Hamilton-based BioNJ,
a trade group for the state’s life sciences sector.
Training for the unemployed.
Vicki Gaddy, the director of BioNJ’s Talent Network, says that
New Jersey provides generous incentives for unemployed life sciences professionals to update their
skills or try new things. The state
provides up to $4,000 worth of
grant money to individuals, for the
duration of their unemployment, to
pay for courses and professional
development programs.
Also, says Gaddy, people in life
sciences often have R&D backgrounds, but no training in regulatory affairs — a huge growth segment in the biotech sector. Statesponsored training, she says, can
provide “a nice piece you can add
to your resume.”
The well-rounded. The confluence of shrinking economy and
technological advancement has
created an entirely new normal in
how most businesses operate. Fading are the days of specialists who
zero in on one area of an industry.
Rising in their place is the wellrounded worker who knows the Ato-Z of how his company or industry works.
As a rule in big-biotech, however, companies are not yet looking
too hard for the all-around candidate, Gaddy says. Big life sciences
still want specialists and still want
people who know an area better
than most.
But the opposite is true when it
comes to small companies. Small
companies need people who understand how to do their jobs, but
also understand market and regulatory affairs and finance. The reason
is simple — small companies don’t
have the manpower to create whole
departments dedicated to specifics.
Interviews. Google Inc. is notorious for its outlandish interview
questions designed to gauge how a
candidate thinks in abstract ways.
There is no right answer, but there
are plenty that won’t get you the
job.
This model of creative interviewing is spreading, and Gaddy
says the life sciences are no different — companies are getting more
creative with their interviewing in
an effort to see how a candidate’s
mind and personality operate.
— Scott Morgan
Excerpted from the June 20,
Women Needed
In STEM Careers
I
f you want to have a chance to
win, you have to play the game, but
when it comes to “STEM” careers
(science, technology, engineering,
and math), the majority of women
are still not playing.
According to a report by the
U.S. Department of Commerce,
while women hold almost half of
all jobs in the U.S. economy, they
hold less than 25 percent of STEM
jobs — and that percentage has not
increased greatly in the past few
decades, despite an increase in the
number
of
college-educated
women who are now in the overall
JANUARY 2, 2013
Job Search Tips for the ‘Older’ Worker
T
echnology, different work
styles and management structures, and a whole new way of
searching for jobs have all led to a
changed work place for the older
worker. In fact, even our perception of who that “older worker” is
has changed.
“It often depends on the industry you are in,” says career coach
and engaged retirement specialist
Carol King. “For people in IT, old
can be anyone over 30. In many
other industries, you can have
problems searching for a new job
if you are over 40.”
“Retirement is not the end, but
rather the beginning of a new
stage of life, and also may be the
beginning of a whole new career,
particularly if the person feels he
or she has been forced to retire
through a company downsizing,”
says King. Many so-called retirees are really searching for new
careers, and they often face misconception and discrimination —
not just by employers and coworkers, but their own misconceptions as well.
Perception of the older
worker. Many employers and
managers view older workers as
having obsolete skills, particularly in the technology area, are
physically limited and more likely to need time off for doctor’s
visits or illness, are unwilling to
work as hard as younger workers,
and expecting a higher salary.
“Some of these perceptions are
valid, and others are not,” says
workforce. Why? Because women
hold a very low share of STEM undergraduate degrees, particularly
in engineering, according to the report.
In addition, women with a
STEM degree are less likely than
men to work in a STEM occupation
and are more likely to instead
choose to work in education or
healthcare, according to the report,
despite lower disparity in earnings
between men and women in STEM
careers versus other fields. Women
in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more
than comparable women in nonSTEM jobs.
The Council on Gender Parity in
Labor and Education of the New
Jersey State Employment Education and Training Commission is
seeking to help close the gender
gap in STEM careers. And Judy
Formalarie, an employee of the
council, has been instrumental in
the development of an annual conference to further that goal.
“Each year we develop a report
on the state of STEM careers in
New Jersey based on the conference. Obviously, that report is
heavily influenced by the speakers
and their topics. This year we want
to make sure that all of the participants have a chance to speak and
give us their feedback.”
One of the many reasons that
few women go into STEM careers
is a lack of knowledge by parents,
other family members, and educators, says Formalarie.
She uses herself as an example.
“I graduated from high school in
1971 and I thought I had only a few
choices: get married or become a
nurse, a teacher, or a secretary.”
For women, says Formalerie,
STEM careers are “porous careers.” It’s as if you took a water
pipe and drilled it full of holes. At
each step, more and more women
fall through those holes.
It starts in middle school and
high school, where young girls
take fewer math and science classes than the boys. Because they are
not as prepared in high school, they
are less likely to study for a STEM
King. That means that the first
thing the older job worker must
do is convince potential an employer that he or she does not fit
that stereotype.
Upgrade your skills. Are you
computer savvy? Some older
workers may have trouble with
simple tasks such as sending Emails, for others, it may be the
need to know the latest version of
a particular software program.
Find out what software and technology is used in your industry
and make sure you are up-to-date
on your skills.
A different style of office. In
most offices today there is less
“face time” between employees
and managers, or even other employees. Communication takes
place via E-mail or text messaging. Be ready for this change.
Be realistic about salaries.
For many people who have been
downsized, the reality is that they
will not find a job at their previous salary level. For some, their
industry just no longer exists. For
others, outsourcing, technology
changes, and the recession mean
that there is more competition for
fewer jobs — and that means that
employers can pay less to get
good workers.
“Be realistic about the salaries
in your field,” says King. “Do
some research, not only on what
those salaries are, but on what
you really need to live. Can you
afford to take a smaller salary?
Then get over the salary you used
career in college.
Those who do get a college degree in the sciences are more likely
to choose teaching over working in
industry, Formalerie notes, putting
them immediately in the lowerpaying end of a science career.
Those who do choose industry are
more likely than men to drop out to
raise a family, and most never return.
“Many women believe that once
they have taken a few years off to
raise a family, they are too far behind to go back to a STEM career.
That’s not necessarily the case, but
the perception is there, so many
never try to return,” she says.
One of the most important
things that women already in
STEM professions can do is to
mentor other women, according to
Formalerie. No matter what age
group a woman is interested in
working with, there are mentoring
opportunities.
“We need to be working with
girls as early as middle school,”
she says. There are programs in
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Fitting In While Acting Your
Age. It can be difficult for an older worker to feel comfortable in
an office filled with 20 and 30somethings, so how do you fit in
with a younger group while still
acting your age? Fitting in is
about working with the culture of
the organization, explains King.
If the preferred method of communication is a text message,
learn how.
No matter what your age, transitions are easier if some thought
and planning is done before hand.
While that might not be possible
in the case of a layoff, for the person who is a few years from retirement, taking the time before it
happens will make that transition
easier. Work provides benefits
beyond just a salary: it brings
structure to daily life, status and
identity, a sense of usefulness and
social interaction.
— Karen Miller
Excerpted from the April 25,
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schools through the Girl Scouts
and other organizations to work
with young girls. Girls in college
also need female role models to
help them learn more about job opportunities available to them in the
sciences, and once these young
women are in the workforce, they
need mentors to help them to learn
and get ahead.
A sense of social purpose is one
attraction of a STEM careers.
“Women, in particular, are interested in having a career that will benefit society,” says Formalerie.
“A woman will put her eye to a
microscope for eight hours a day
because she understands that she is
working for a cure for cancer or another disease,” she says. “Women
want to do good in the world, and
STEM careers are an excellent way
to do that. One of the ways to interest more women in these careers is
to show them the social purpose.”
— Karen Hodges Miller
Excerpted from the June 13,
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for Lease. Prominent location on high traffic
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Hamilton, NJ. A 14,152± mixed use property
available for sale with small space also available
for lease. 897± square feet of office space and
four 360± square foot garages are available for
lease. In addition to the garages, yard storage
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Hamilton, NJ. A 2,958± square foot medical
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this location is ideal for an expanding practice or
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Merging Ahead
professionals,” he says. The company also has launched a YouTube
channel to get its listings out to a
broader audience.
The company also measures its
success by how well its campaign
toward Hurricane Sandy relief has
come along. Since November the
firm has contributed a portion of its
sales to relief charities in New Jersey and is on track, Callaway says,
to reach its goal of $10,000 by January 31.
Still, more than anything, Henderson is banking on the cachet
carried not just by the Sotheby’s
name, but by the Henderson and
Callaway names in the Princeton
market. “We’re a locally owned,
family-owned company surround
by a lot of not-locally owned and
not-family-owned companies,” he
says. “We think the legacy of two
local, family-owned companies
can survive and thrive. After one
year, there’s no doubt that together,
we are better serving our clients.”
Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Real Estate, 4 Nassau Street, Princeton 08542; 609-921-1070;
fax, 609-921-2927. www.callawayhenderson.com.
Year of the Merge
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DataCede-Strategic
Initiatives Management Group. DataCede, a re-insurance company
based on Research Way, merged
with Strategic Initiatives Management Group LLC in March. Strategic Initiatives managed distressed
insurance companies and was run
by Holly Bakke — the commissioner of the state Division of
Banking & Insurance from 2002 to
2005.
DataCede produces software
(CedeRight), a cloud-based package that untangles the process of
getting insurers paid by re-insurers.
DataCede, 2 Research Way,
Princeton 08540; 877-7892333; Joseph Zarandona, director & CEO. www.datacede.com.
Bartolomei & Ballezzi. Two
Lawrence-baced accounting firms
joined forces on Brunswick Pike.
Ballezzi & Associates has merged
into Bartolomei Pucciarelli, giving
the combined company offices in
Lawrence, Cranbury, and Ocean
townships.
“We are continually looking to
increase our commercial business
practice,” said James Bartolomei,
managing partner of Bartolomei
Pucciarelli. “This deal is a home
run for us as we continue to expand
our operations.”
He said that as Ballezzi’s practice grew, the company wanted to
join a firm “with a diverse team of
professionals and broader resources to support them in delivering the progressive services which
both firms are known for.”
In existence for some 40 years,
the majority of Ballezzi & Associates’ customer base is in commercial businesses, with a specialty in
the information technology sector.
Many of those clients are software
development companies requiring
a wide variety of services, including outsourced CFO, business consulting, performance analysis, and
capital procurement.
According to Ballezzi, a 15-year
relationship between the two companies made the decision an easy
one. Throughout that time, the two
firms have collaborated on numerous projects, giving both a solid
understanding of each other’s capabilities and approach to client
services, he said.
Plainsboro Joins
Princeton Chamber
F
inding that running a business group is more difficult that it
seems, the Plainsboro Business
Partnership merged last February
with the Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce.
The Plainsboro Business Partnership was founded by Plainsboro
resident and businessman Paul
O’Brien, right, in 2009 during his
unsuccessful run for a seat on
township
committee.
“Even
though we ran two years of consecutive monthly meetings we needed
to come up with another plan,” said
O’Brien, who added that the Business Partnership was in talks with
the Princeton Chamber for about a
year before they reached a deal.
“We now have the energy and
the number of people involved to
“There is a true alignment with
regard to integrity, values, and
shared concern for our clients’ best
interests,” said Ballezzi. “This was
very important to me and my partner. In fact, when we made the decision to merge up, BP was the only firm we considered.”
Bartolomei Pucciarelli LLC,
2564 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville 08648; 609-8839000; fax, 609-883-9008.
James Bartolomei, partner.
www.bp-cpas.com.
Borden Perlman. Borden Perlman, the insurance firm at 2000
Lenox Drive, merged with PRS, a
Highland Park firm headed by
Sean Kelly and W. Burton Salisbury. The new firm was called Borden Perlman Salisbury & Kelly
(BPS&K). The merger followed on
the heels of a deal at the beginning
of the year in which Borden
merged with Penninton Insurance.
After the PRS merger, the company’s corporate offices were located at Borden’s Lenox Drive office, with the combined company
maintaining its presence in Highland Park and Trenton.
The merger increased BPS&K’s
total client base to almost 12,000.
clients. Partner Douglas Perlman
said the merger allowed the company the ability “to offer even more
in-depth products and services. We
look forward to not only getting
bigger, but better.”
This was the second merger of
the year for Borden. In April the
company combined with Pennington Insurance, formerly on Route
31 in Pennington. Pennington Insurance President W. Scott Miller
and his son W. Scott Miller Jr.
joined Borden Perlman and moved
into the Lenox Drive headquarters.
Borden Perlman Salisbury &
Kelly, 2000 Lenox Drive,
Suite 202, Lawrenceville
08648; 609-896-3434; fax,
609-895-1468. Douglas Borden, president. www.bordenperlman.com.
NRG Energy & GenON. NRG
Energy at 211 Carnegie Center
completed its merger with GenOn
Energy, based in Houston, creating
the largest competitive power generator in the United States.
The holdings of the combined
company includes almost 100
power generation assets with a total capacity of approximately
47,000 megawatts (MW) to some
40 million homes in locations in
the east, gulf coast, and western
United States. The combined company, which retained the name
NRG Energy, is now dual headquartered. Its financial and commercial headquarters is in Princeton and its operational headquarters is in Houston. The company
has a combined value of $18 billion.
really explode this. There’s a steering committee of 12 people who
are planning events and organizing
things,” said O’Brien. “These
folks are doing what I had originally envisioned for the group.”
“This combination ushers in a
new era of scale, scope, and market
and fuel diversification in the competitive power industry,” said NRG
president and CEO David Crane,
who continues in his present positions.
NRG Energy Inc. (NRG), 211
Carnegie Center, Princeton
08540-6213; 609-524-4500;
fax, 609-524-4501. David
Crane, president and CEO.
www.nrgenergy.com.
Billtrust-Mark Altman & Associates. Billtrust, based in American Metro Center, a provider of automated invoicing and statement
systems for small and mediumsized businesses, has been rapidly
expanding.
Billtrust’s latest merger last January was Mark Altman & Associates of Hudson, Massachusetts.
“The company does municipality
billing, for local towns and governments, areas where we were not
strong,” said said Flint Lane, president and CEO of Billtrust.
Mark Altman became group
president at Billtrust as head of the
municipality group. His company’s print and mail facility became
the eighth operating facility in Billtrust’s nationwide network.
Billtrust, 100 American Metro
Boulevard, Suite 150, Hamilton 08619; 609-235-1010;
fax, 609-235-1011. Flint
Lane, president & CEO.
www.billtrust.com
WithumSmith+Brown-Eisner
Lubin. CPA firm WithumSmith+Brown on Vaughan Drive
merged with New York-based EisnerLubin in a deal that added 50
employees — including nine partners — to Withum’s ranks.
The merger also expanded
Withum’s services by adding EisnerLubin’s non-profit, manufacturing, and real estate concentrations. and is expected to add nearly
$12 million annually to WithumSmith+Brown’s revenue.
Managing partner Bill Hagaman said the merger would add
$11.6 million in revenue to his
firm, which currently earns $76.7
million in annual revenue, for a
combined total of approximately
$88 million next year.
“We’ve been meeting with them
for a little more than a year,” said
Hagaman. “I felt the primary factor
was the makeup and culture of the
firms. We’re going to have some of
our partners going to New York to
work full time, and the current
managing partner, Bob Simon, will
be the partner-in-charge.”
WithumSmith+Brown,
5
Vaughn Drive, Suite 201,
Princeton 08540; 609-5201188; fax, 609-520-9882.
William Hageman, managing
partner. www.withum.com.
JANUARY 2, 2013
U.S. 1
Life in the Fast Lane
R
oma Bank has been acquired by Short Hills-based Investors Bank in an all-stock deal
announced on December 19. Under the deal, Investors will acquire
Robbinsville-based Roma Financial Corp, the parent company of
Roma Bank and its holdings —
$1.84 billion in assets and $1.5 billion in deposits — for some $452
million.
The majority of the funds —
about $338.5 million — will be
used to buy shares held by Roma
Financial, and $113.5 million will
buy privately held Roma shares.
Meanwhile, legal action may be
imminent as a result of the deal.
New York-based law firm Levi &
Korsinsky has announced it is considering a class action suit.
In a letter on its website, Levi
said it is investigating whether the
Roma board of directors didn’t adequately shop the company before
entering into the Investors deal,
thus underpaying for Roma shares
and unlawfully harming Roma
stockholders.
Shareholders seeking information or who wish to join the action
are asked by the law firm to go to
http://zlkdocs.com/ROMA-InfoRequest-Form-552.
Under the deal, each outstanding share of Roma Financial common stock will be converted into
0.8653 shares of Investors common stock upon completion of the
merger. The transaction is valued
at $15 per Roma Financial common share based on Investors Bancorp’s average closing stock price
for the 10-day trading period ending on December 18.
Also, Investors would own 100
percent of Roma’s shares, and all
26 Roma branches will be renamed
Investors Bank. Roma Bank has
branches in Mercer, Burlington,
Ocean, Camden and Middlesex
counties. Roma has 302 full-time
and 64 part-time employees. Officials did not specify how the merger would affect existing Roma employees and branches.
It is anticipated that RomAsia
Bank, a subsidiary that is 91 percent owned by Roma Financial,
will merge into Investors Bank, according to a release.
If the merger is successful, Investors Bank will have $8.9 billion
in deposits and $14.1 billion in assets. That would make it the largest
New Jersey-headquartered bank
by measure of deposits held in the
state, and the second-largest by
measure of assets.
R
oma Financial has faced
difficulties in recent months as a
result of low-interest rates, delinquent loans, and tougher banking
regulations. Peter Inverso, Roma
president and CEO, who is slated
to retire next year, called the bank’s
most recent earnings, announced
November 5, “disappointing,”
adding that nine months of profits
were severely impacted by charges
the bank had to take over troubled
loans and related costs. The bank
also announced in October that
federal rules were forcing it to cut
in half its regular quarterly dividend to 4 cents a share.
Roma faced a significant challenge when the federal Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency in
September ordered the bank to improve its credit review process,
compliance with federal anti-money laundering laws, internal audit
procedures, and oversight of information technology.
According to Inverso, the decision to merge was one of two options being considered by bank of-
Edited by Bill Sanservino
Roma Bank Acquired: Peter Inverso, left, CEO
of Roma Bank, and Kevin Cummings of Investors
Bank. The two institutions have agreed to a $452
million deal for Investors to acquire the Robbinsville-based Roma.
ficials. The other was to convert all
of the company’s shares to publicly
traded stock as a way to raise capital. In that case, Roma would have
had to deal with increased oversight and regulations from the federal government.
“Our board had a responsibility
to evaluate and consider the offer
from the standpoint of their governance obligations to the shareholders,” said Inverso. “In doing that,
you have to look at what the opportunities are for our shareholders
and our employees.”
Under the terms of the merger
agreement, three members of Roma Financial’s board of directors
will be appointed to the board of directors of Investors Bank, with the
remaining Roma board members
serving on an advisory board. Current Roma Bank customers will become depositors of Investors
Bank, and will have the same rights
and privileges in Investors as if
their accounts had been established
with Investors Bank on the date
they were established with Roma
Bank.
“The Roma Bank branch network complements our presence in
central and southern New Jersey
and provides a strong foothold in
the greater Philadelphia market,”
said Kevin Cummings, Investors
Bank president and CEO. “Roma
Bank’s customers can look forward to an enhanced array of products and services delivered with
the same high level of service Roma Bank provides.”
The deal will be the seventh that
Investors has made since June
2008, said Cummings. During that
same period, the bank nearly doubled in size, from $6.8 billion in assets to its current $12.2 billion now,
and expanded to 102 branches.
“Investors is a well-managed,
community-oriented
institution
which, like Roma Bank, distinguishes itself with its focus on customer service,” said Inverso. “The
breadth of Investors’product offerings will allow us to maintain, expand, and enhance services and
products for our customers.”
The merger has been approved
by each company’s board of directors and is anticipated to close in
the second quarter of 2013, subject
to the approval of Investor Bancorp and Roma Financial shareholders, and regulatory approvals.
Roma Bank was founded in
1920 as the Roma Building and
Loan Association with $21,000 in
assets with a small office in Trenton. According to the Roma website, “the bank’s founders were
public-spirited citizens of Italian
ancestry responding to the need to
help fellow Italian immigrants be-
come deeply rooted in their community through home ownership
and sound thrift and savings
habits.”
“In those pre-FDIC days, Roma
Bank’s customers trusted the
bank’s founders and knew their
money was safe with Roma Bank.
From its very beginning, it was evident that Roma Bank was all about
building things,” says the website.
In 2006, Roma concluded its
initial public offering and began
trading on NASDAQ under the
symbol “ROMA.” In 2010, Roma
acquired Sterling Bank which increased the companies reach into
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The deal with Investors also includes a new 30,000-square-foot
office building being constructed
on Route 33 in Robbinsville Town
Center adjacent to the Roma Headquarters. The three-story building,
which will accommodate mixed
use retail and office space, broke
ground in October. Robbinsville
Township is expected to occupy
the building’s third floor.
Roma Bank (ROMA), 2300
Route
33,
Robbinsville
08691; 609-223-8200; fax,
609-223-8303. Peter Inverso, president. www.romabank.com.
More Hotel Price
Gouging Alleged
Mercer County
Realtor of the Year
2 0 1 2
Gloria Nilson, Realtors, Real Living is independently owned and operated
omewood Suites on Route 1
in Plainsboro has been cited by the
state Attorney General’s office for
alleged price gouging during the
aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
The hotel was one of six businesses named by the Attorney General’s Office on December 19. It
joins the Extended Stay America
hotel on Route 1 in West Windsor
on the list of 13 hotels and 11 gas
stations throughout the state facing
price gouging lawsuits.
According to the lawsuit,
Homewood raised its rates by 77
percent following the storm. It began charging $229 per night, $100
more than before the storm. Investigators said they found 108 instances of alleged price gouging at
the hotel.
The six filings are the third
group of lawsuits brought by the attorney general following investigations of complaints filed by consumers. According to a lawsuit
filed on November 28, Extended
Stay America allegedly raised its
room rates by varying excessive
amounts, up to 59.8 percent and allegedly engaged in price gouging
on 107 instances during the state of
emergency.
New Jersey’s law against price
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increases during a declared state of
emergency or for 30 days after the
end of the state of emergency is declared. An excessive price increases is defined as charges that are
more than 10 percent higher than
the price for which merchandise
was sold during the normal course
of business prior to the state of
emergency.
Businesses charged in the lawsuit face fines of up to $10,000 for
the first offense, or up to $20,000
for each subsequent offense as well
as reimbursement for the state’s investigative and legal costs.
Homewood Suites by Hilton,
3819 Route 1 South, Plainsboro 08536; 609-720-0550;
fax, 609-720-0551. Mary Ann
Kowalchek, general manager.
www.homewoodsuites.com
Crime Report
Jhoanna Engelhardt-Fullar,
42, of Burlington, above, the former medical staff director at
Princeton Healthcare System
(PHCS) has been sentenced to four
years in prison after she admitted to
embezzling some $186,000.
Engelhardt-Fullar, a Burlington
Township resident, admitted to
writing company checks to herself
from the medical staff account and
ran up unauthorized debit card purchases over an 18-month period
between April 2010 and February.
PHCS is the parent organization of
the University Medical Center of
Princeton at Plainsboro.
State Superior Court Judge Gerald Council also ordered that she
make partial restitution in the
amount of $72,000. EngelhardtFullar faced a maximum of 10
years in state prison and a
$150,000.
Authorities began investigating
Engelhardt-Fullar after an internal
audit revealed irregularities. According to the county prosecutor’s
office, Engelhardt-Fullar cut fake
checks written to herself and transferred money budgeted for the staff
account onto her own credit cards.
She also used the staff account
debit card to make over 130 unauthorized purchases that included
groceries, restaurant meals, car re-
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pairs, payments to a timeshare, and
Apple electronic devices.
Peter Plumb, 55, a chiropractor
with an office at 1213 Lawrenceville Road, was charged by
Lawrence Police with sexual assault and two counts of criminal
sexual contact on December 17.
According to Lieutenant Mark
Ubry, the first incident occurred
earlier this year with a 20-year-old
female patient. The doctor was accused of placing his hand on her
pubic area in an effort to align her
hips.
Incidents also occurred in November and December, said Ubry,
when a 39-year-old female patient
was treated by Plumb, a resident of
Yardley, PA. During the treatments
Plumb allegedly touched her
breasts through her clothing and also placed his hand in the area of her
groin. During one treatment session, according to the police,
Plumb informed the victim that he
needed to work from the inside out
and then removed the victim’s
pants and penetrated the victim
with his fingers.
Plumb’s bail was set at
$100,000 for the sexual assault
charge and $2,500 for each count
of criminal sexual contact, police
said. Anyone with information is
asked to call the police at 609-8691111 or E-mail [email protected].
Deaths
Joel May, 77, on December 24.
He was president of the Health Research and Educational Trust of
New Jersey (HRET-NJ) in Princeton. He was also a faculty member
in public health of the University of
Medicine and Dentistry-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School. In
1984 he founded the Pennington
Group, a health care management
consulting firm. He later taught the
use of personal computers at senior
groups and computer clubs.
Gerard S. Carlozzi, 56, on December 25. He was the former
chief operating officer of Integra
Life Sciences in Plainsboro.
Brenda Farr Engel, 59, on December 21. She was a partner at the
law firm of Backes & Hill in
Lawrenceville.
JANUARY 2, 2013
RETAIL SPACE
BUSINESS SERVICES
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Hair Salon Space for Lease, Montgomery Center, Rt. 206 Skillman NJ.
Center anchored by 65,000 SF “World
Class” Shop-Rite. Space totals 1,450
SF. Plumbing (not fixtures) in place;
present salon been in same location
over 15 years. Please contact Hilton Realty 609-921-6060 or [email protected] www.hiltonrealtyco.com.
Contact JDS Concierge Service 609921-2359
www.jdsconciergeservice.com
Accounting and tax services for
individuals, families, and businesses; free initial consultation in home or
office; CPA, 30 years experience in
healthcare, small business and other
areas of accounting. 908-907-3702, email [email protected]
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Unique Rental Space zoning (I3), ordinance passed for retail and recreation
activities, ample parking all utilities, one
1200’, one 2000’, one 2500’ one 3600’,
and one 10,000. Located at 325 and 335
New Road, Monmouth Junction. Call
Harold 732-329-2311.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
HAMILTON & LAMBERTVILLE 300
to
50,000
SF
Office/WH/Flex/Showroom/Studios.
Amazing spaces in extraordinary buildings! Low rents / high quality units with
all you need! Brian @ 609-731-0378,
[email protected].
STORAGE
902 Carnegie Center, Princeton:
Clean, dry, humidity controlled storage
on Route 1 in West Windsor. Spaces
start at 878 SF. Please contact Hilton
Realty 609-921-6060 or [email protected] www.hiltonrealtyco.com.
Kuser Plaza, Hamilton: 1077 & 6333
SF (divisible) storage/warehouse space
available immediately. Please call 609921-6060 for details.
HOUSING FOR RENT
Writer available for book, article,
business plan projects, and others. Expertise in business, technology, investments. Former Computerworld and
McKinsey Quarterly editor. Drafted Wall
Street Journal columns, wrote New York
Times articles. Helped Bobby Kennedy
Jr. write Harper Collins book. Business
plans used to raise $70 million.
[email protected] or 646-528-3231.
COMPUTER SERVICES
Computer problem? Or need a
used computer in good condition $80? Call 609-275-6631.
Simple to complex engineering Android apps development. See free
sample apps under kokeb.com in
Google Play or call 215-860-1916.
GRAPHIC ARTS
Graphic Design Services: Logos,
Newsletters, Brochures, Direct Mail,
etc. Reasonable rates. Fast turnaround.
Call
732-331-2717
or
email
[email protected]
www.kathysmythdesign.com
U.S. 1
LEASE/SALE 250 Phillips Blvd-Ewing
TAX SERVICES
Tax Preparation and Accounting
Services: For individuals and small
businesses. Notary, computerized tax
preparation, paralegal services. Your
place or mine. Fast response, free
consultation, reasonable costs. Gerald Hecker, 609-448-4284.
TRANSPORTATION
Personal Driver seeking to transport commuters, shopping trips, etc.
Modern, attractive car. References
provided.
E-mail
to
[email protected] or call 609-3313370.
HEALTH
Give yourself the gift of a soothing massage by candlelight and quiet
music. $45. Ariel Center for Wellbeing.
609-454-0102. www.arielcenterforwellbeing.org.
conveniently located - competitively priced
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Princeton Crossroads Corporate Center
2,221 - 21,300 square feet of office space for lease
Owner/Occupy vacant space for $8.91/SF Gross*!
R&D/Office/Light Manufacturing
Near PEAC Fitness, New Hotel & Capital Health - Hopewell
Easy Access to Interstate 95 and 295
Trillium Realty Advisors, L.L.C.
www.trilliumrealty.com
609-466-0400
* - Call for details - assumes purchase of the entire building with in-place income
For Lease:
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Pennington/Hopewell: 2 storey, 4 br
home 3000 sq. ft. Garage bay, washer,
landscaping and snow removal included. Great school district. 609-737-3322
or
e-mail
[email protected]
www.straubecenter.com
Directly off Route #130.
Close proximity to exit
#8 New Jersey Turnpike,
Route #33 and 295
Princeton - 1 BR Duplex house for
rent. $1,495/mo. Parking available. Adjacent to Princeton University. 609-9217655.
CLEANING SERVICES
Polish cleaning service by Lucy.
Trustworthy, responsible, excellent references. Please call for free estimate.
201-786-3877.
HOME MAINTENANCE
Windsor
Industrial
Park
1RUWK0DLQ6WUHHW:LQGVRU5REELQVYLOOH0HUFHU&RXQW\1-
A Quick Response Handyman: will
give you a free estimate for electrical,
plumbing, painting, repair or other project around your house. Please call 609275-6631
Amazing
house
painting.
Interior/exterior. Wallpaper removal,
deck & fence staining, powerwashing.
Licensed and fully insured. Owner operated. Free estimates. 215-736-2398.
Fall Yard Work - leaves, trimming,
clean up, planting, or more. Please call
609 722-1137.
Generator and Electrical Service
Panel setup and instructions. Free estimate. Call 609-275-6631.
robthehandyman- licensed, insured,
all work guaranteed. Free Estimates.
We do it all - electric, plumbing, paint,
wallpaper, powerwashing, tile, see website
for
more:
robthehandyman.vpweb.com [email protected], 609-269-5919.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs. Many
services available. Reasonable rates.
Work done at your office or mine. Call
Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit www.vyours.com.
Cinema Quality Video: Large sensor
digital filming and post production. High
end results for corporate video, trade
shows, spirit videos and web production, without the barrier of a traditional
film
budget.
Visit
www.RandomThought.tv.
Contact:
[email protected]
Feeling overwhelmed with completing your daily tasks? Need help?
GREAT RENTS & LOW CAM / TAXES
Available Spaces:
Building #20
Unit C 13,500 sq. ft. (3,500 sq. ft. office
ED
space/10,000 warehouse
5 drive thru doors
LEASspace)
truck wash bay, 1/4 acre of outdoor storage/parking.
Building #18
Unit G/H 12,500 sq. ft. ( +/- 4,000 sq. ft. office
space, 8,500 sq. ft. warehouse)
2 tailgate loading
ASED
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doors, 1 drive in door, racking in place, commercial
dishwasher and counters, 20’ ceilings in warehouse.
Units A/B/C 7,500 sq. ft., 1,000 sq ft. of office,
3 tailgate loading, 22’ ceilings
Building #15
16,000 sq. ft. (1,500 sq. ft. office, 14,500 sq. ft.
warehouse distribution space), 9 loading docks,
tractor trailer parking.
Building #8
12,000 sq. ft., 16 ft.Lceilings,
EASEDdivisible, dead storage
- $3.00 psf.
Building #7
6,000 sq. ft. 1/2 acre of private paved area, private
ASED will build interior to
LEheight,
parking, 24’ ft. ceiling
suit, 2 drive in doors.
Building #6
Unit A: 4,000 sq. ft., 2000 sq. ft. of office space,
one overhead door, column free
Unit B: 4,000 sq. ft., one overhead door, column
free storage space.
Unit C 3,200 sq. ft. of office/showroom/sales space.
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No warranty or representation, express or implied, is made
to the accuracy of the information contained herein and
same is submitted subject to errors, omissions, change of
price, rental or other conditions, This listing may be withdrawn without notice.
BROKERS PROTECTED
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Employment Exchange
HELP WANTED
HOW TO ORDER
Fax or E-Mail: That’s all it takes to order a U.S. 1 Classified. Fax your ad to
609-452-0033 or E-Mail [email protected]. We will confirm your insertion and the price. It won’t be much:
Our classifieds are just 50 cents a word,
with a $7 minimum. Repeats in succeeding issues are just 40 cents per
word, and if your ad runs for 16 consecutive issues, it’s only 30 cents per word.
Questions? Call us at 609-452-7000.
HELP WANTED
Can You Deliver?
Every Wednesday we deliver 19,000 copies
of U.S.1 Newspaper to 4,500 business locations
in the greater Princeton area. Every other Friday
we deliver the West Windsor & Plainsboro News
to homes in those towns. We welcome people
with common sense, curiosity, and a reliable car
to help us do the job.
Earn $100 per day! Plus Mileage!
HELP WANTED
ADVOCATES: Jobs in new office.
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[email protected].
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Computer - Senior Programmer
Analysts (multi-positions) - Princeton, NJ, IT consulting firm. Develop, test
& maintain computer systems & software using Microsoft .Net Technologies,
C#.NET, Java, J2EE w/databases SQL
Server, Sybase, & Oracle on UNIX &
windows platform. Must have Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (as evaluated
by a crdntial evaluation service) in Tech
or Engineering or Computer Science or
related field + 5 years progressive experience. Reply w/Job Ref # 111 to: HR
Dept, PamTen, Inc, 5 Independence
Way, Ste 300, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Part-time companion caregiver
needed: Part-time Thursday, Saturday,
and Sunday. Non-smoker, drug-free,
experienced, works well with seniors.
609-915-4788.
SALES - REAL ESTATE Need a
Change? Looking to get a RE License?
We take you by the hand to ensure your
success and income! FREE Coaching!
Unlimited Income! No Experience needed! Contact Weidel Today! Hamilton:
Judy 609-586-1400, [email protected]; Princeton: Mike 609-9212700, [email protected].
Systems Analysts (multi-positions) Princeton, NJ IT consulting firm
Plus Bonuses for information you provide our editors!
Mail or fax us a note. We hope to hear from you.
Tell us about yourself and why you
are free to deliver on Wednesdays.
Mail to U.S. 1 Delivery Team, 12 Roszel Road,
Princeton 08540; or fax to 609-452-0033
HELP WANTED
JOBS WANTED
to analyze, design, develop, code, test,
implement, and maintain computer systems & software using Microsoft .Net
Technologies, C#, VB. NET, Visual Basic6.0, VBA, Java, UNIX, COM, XML,
XSLT, Share Point 2010, Oracle, SQL
server & Sybase Database, SSIS,
SSRS & Crystal Reports. Must have
Master’s degree or equivalent (as evaluated by a credntial evaluation service)
in Tech or Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Apps + 1 year related
experience. Reply w/Job Ref #110 to:
HR Dept, PamTen, Inc, 5 Independence
Way, Ste 300, Princeton, NJ 08540.
08540. You must include your name, address, and phone number (for our
records only).
JOBS WANTED
Job Hunters: If you are looking for a
full-time position, we will run a reasonably worded classified ad for you at no
charge. The U.S. 1 Jobs Wanted section
has helped people like you find opportunities for years now. We reserve the
right to edit the ads and to limit the number of times they run. If you require confidentiality, send a check for $4 with your
ad and request a U.S. 1 Response Box.
Mail or Fax your ad to U.S. 1 Jobs
Wanted, 12 Roszel Road, Princeton, NJ
Companion Position Full/part-time.
College graduate seeking ideal position
as a companian or personal
assistant/traveling companion. We can
discuss yuor individual needs. References available/own transportation.
Please call 908-745-8603.
Home Health Aide interested in providing patient care in your home, an extended care facility, or hospital room. I
have over 25 years expereince and own
a car. References upon request, available immediately. 609-356-9473.
Looking for a full-time position. Experienced Business Consultant/Call
Center/NOC & Telecom Trainer. Very
computer literate 201 381-9114. See
me on LinkedIn: http://www.linedin.com/in/brianstokesnj
Semi-retired editor seeking work as
proofreader, copy editor, data entry,
rewriting. 15 years experience. Reasonable rates. 609-751-4576.
West Windsor School
of Real Estate
1st Class Begins
January 21, 2013
$199
Call Paul DeBaylo
Real Estate Instructor
609-203-2151
or call Gloria Hutchinson
at 609-683-5000
HEALTH
Massage and Reflexology: Immeasurable benefits include deep relaxation, improved health, pain relief.
Holistic practitioner offers Swedish, shiatsu, reflexology, chair massage onsite. Gift certificates, accommodating
hours. Call Marilyn: 609-403-8403.
MENTAL HEALTH
Looking for ways to manage outof-control children? Unhappy in your
job or career? The romance that isn’t
happening? An experienced licensed
counselor can help to move you forward
in one visit or more. Princeton location.
Client-friendly fees. Call IFC at 609558-1445.
INSTRUCTION
Fear Away Driving School Learn to
drive from the best. Special rate. 609924-9700. Lic. 0001999.
Music lessons on guitar, bass and
drums, taught by an experienced musician and teacher, are available. For information contact Mike Huse 609-8659417, [email protected].
Music Lessons: Piano, guitar, drum,
sax, clarinet, F. horn, oboe, t-bone,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin, cello, banjo,
mandolin, harmonica, uke, and more.
$28 half hour. School of Rock. Adults
or kids. Join the band! Princeton 609924-8282. Princeton Junction 609-8970032.
Hightstown
609-448-7170.
www.farringtonsmusic.com.
Piano Lessons / Improvisation for
all instruments with accomplished jazz
pianist. Classical, jazz, all ages, all levels. My home or yours (Princeton area).
References available. Call Alexander
609-240-7442 or e-mail [email protected].
MERCHANDISE MART
1966 Live Action TV series Batmobile Replica now $180. Also comic
MERCHANDISE MART
books, variant covers, action figures.
Send me your wants. E-mail [email protected], 848-459-4892.
For sale: Furniture, 2 wing chairs
$75. each, cherry curio cabinet $ 225.
All in excellent condition. Please call
609-577-8244.
Snow Blower: MTD White 9HP 26”.
Electric starter. Used, good condition.
Located in Rocky Hill. $700. 973-9928528.
GARAGE SALES
Vendors wanted for Princeton YWCA February 3, 2013 flea market. Tables
$20. E-mail to [email protected].
MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob at 609457-5501.
WANTED TO BUY
Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
Hamilton Twp., 609-890-0142. Our retail outlet is open Saturdays 10 to 4:00,
or by appointment.
OPPORTUNITIES
Free: Have your own business. No investment. No risk. Join today and receive $50 just for trying. I will help you
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Looking for energetic, motivated
people for buisnes opportunity. For
more info please call Janina at 908-5665325.
CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL
[email protected]
JANUARY 2, 2013
Richard K. Rein
for the art exhibit, you suggest they
take some lessons at the gallery.
And maybe a parent-child art class
can be offered. Synergy is a word
that is bound to be used.
Clearly the merger idea is on the
minds of more than just me and my
new partners at Community News
Service. As this annual Survival
Guide issue of U.S. 1 suggests,
mergers have spread throughout
our business community. This issue, I thought, might be the opportunity to share some of the initial
observations and lessons I have
gained from the merger process:
Celebrate Your Differences.
When my prospective new partners asked to see my most recent
profit-and-loss statements for U.S.
1, I gave them a strange look. The
only records I had in 27-some years
of being in business were personal
income tax returns. How did I
know whether or not the operation
was profitable during the course of
the year? I looked at my bank balance and noted whether it was up or
down since the last time I looked.
On the other hand, I tossed a few
editorial ideas onto the table that
got similar looks of wonderment.
It’s a good thing. They are business guys (though each with their
own distinct specialty). I am an editorial guy. We have a lot of ways to
complement each other, only a little bit of overlap.
Don’t Let the Lawyers Kill It.
If you are buying, selling, or merging a business, sooner or later you
are going to need a lawyer. Your
lawyer may want to work as hard as
he can to promote your interests;
their lawyer will work equally hard
to promote theirs. But in a merger
both parties need to look out for the
common good.
As my lawyer said, we could
write the world’s tightest business
contract, and there would still be
nothing to protect me if the other
guys turned out to be jerks (or vice
versa, I should probably say).
Don’t Let Deadlines Ruin It.
In any business deal there is always
a temptation to get something done
by a particular deadline. Get it in
before December 31 and we will be
able to take advantage of (or avoid)
this or that.
Maybe because my prospective
new partners and I faced very real
deadlines every week and every
month, we set goals for our
progress, but quickly adjusted
them as we needed to.
Keep It Simple. Early on in our
merger process we realized that we
were merging a sole proprietorship
(me, trading as U.S. 1 Publishing
Company) with a limited liability
partnership (Community News
Service LLC). We could have dissolved both entities (with all those
attendant costs) and then recreated
a new one (with possibly even
more attendant costs). Or we could
do what we did — rewrite the partnership agreement to include me
and then have the newly expanded
Community News “acquire” U.S.
1. It took about 20 minutes.
Explain it to your employees,
and keep explaining it. I have heard
that when the two real estate agencies merged, the Henderson and
Callaway agents were all informed
of the merger in one moment of
surprise. I think Valeri, Griswold,
and I would agree with the need to
work out the merger agreement in
relative isolation.
Once done, however, the need to
communicate the deal and its consequences has to be a high priority.
And as the merger’s consequences
reverberate through the operation,
the discussions need to continue.
New Community:
Co-publishers Griswold, left, and Valeri
with editor Rein.
The meeting described at the beginning of this column followed
hours of time devoted to translating U.S. 1’s units of ad measurement into those of Community
News, figuring out ways of sharing
ad production files from all 10 publications, and establishing a unified billing system.
But even after all that, I discovered, the U.S. 1 weekly production
cycle was timed in a way to foul up
at least one day a week in which the
sales reps should be out meeting
with customers. We on the editorial
side of U.S. 1 need to discuss how
to fix that. Time for another meeting — an element of business I am
beginning to appreciate.
Emphasize synchronization
before synergy. In my newly
merged environment, it doesn’t
take too long before my editorial
instincts lead me into a fantasyland
of new editorial enterprises, in
print and beyond. But I keep thinking of a phrase uttered at one of our
early morning coffee klatches in
the planning stages of this partnership: “First do no harm.”
Appreciate Your New Partners. For the sole proprietor turned
partner, the bad news is that you
can’t do it all by yourself anymore.
The good news is you don’t have to
do it all by yourself anymore.
On the Friday after Hurricane
Sandy struck our office at 12
Roszel Road was still without
power. Meanwhile I was dealing
with no power at home, as well as a
60-foot tree that had fallen behind
my rental property, knocking the
chimney over, crushing the air conditioner, and rendering the furnace
and hot water heat unusable. I felt
pretty much defeated, but my partners were not. They went to search
for a generator so that at least a few
computers could run at the office.
Amazingly they found one, at
some distant store in Pennsylvania.
They drove back and met me at the
office. More amazingly, as we discussed where to place the generator outside the office, we suddenly
noticed lights coming back on in
the office. Some people might call
it a miracle; others would consider
it a happy coincidence. I think it’s a
good omen.
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