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Ariana M. Vera of Princeton, a senior at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, is a semifinalist in the 2007 National Achievement Scholarship Competition. She will compete for one of 800 achievement scholarship awards for academically-talented Black American students on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

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Susie Wilson of Princeton has been named as one of two Progressive New Jerseyans of the decade by the Trenton-based New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), a state-issues think tank, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Len Lieberman of Hoboken was the other awardee. Ms. Wilson was for 23 years executive coordinator of the Network for Family Life Education in the Center for Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. After a term on the New Jersey State Board of Education, where she was an architect of statewide policy requiring sexuality education in public elementary and secondary schools, she planned and managed operations of a resource, advocacy and technical assistance organization committed to implementing sexuality education programs in public schools and community agencies. She will be honored at a reception at The Heldrich in New Brunswick on Sunday, October 14, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $100 each. For more information, call (609) 393-1145, extension 10. or email njpp@njpp.org.

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