To the Editor:

My son Christopher Reeve, the actor and activist who grew up in Princeton, has been nominated for inclusion in the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame. He was nominated in the Arts and Entertainment category, which also lists Alan Alda, Michael Douglas, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie and The E-Street Band, all of whom have a connection to New Jersey, as do the other nominees. The other categories with similar lists of well known people with a New Jersey connection are sports, enterprise (i.e. business), historical and general.

Anyone can vote for their favorite candidate in any of the categories using the internet link njhalloffame.org. The deadline is December 31, 2011. Your email address is the mechanism by which they make sure you only vote once for a particular candidate, but you can vote for more than one candidate in a category and for candidates in other categories as well.

Since learning of Chris’s nomination from the Reeve Foundation in October, when the nominations were announced, I have told a few friends about this honor and left it at that. I’m taking this further step of calling attention to it and to the opportunity to vote for Chris because I think many Town Topics readers might want to vote for him and thus assure that he has a good showing from his hometown.

Barbara L. Johnson
Wilton Street