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Vol. LXV, No. 36
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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Vol. LXV, No. 36
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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 (Photo by Emily Reeves)
PLACE OF PEACE: “Our goal is to identify a beautiful and peaceful and living place where the names of these 13 Princetonians can be memorialized for all time,” University President Shirley Tilghman said when Princeton’s 9/11 memorial was dedicated on September 13, 2003. For more about the memorial and the names of Princeton University alumni killed in the 9/11 attacks, see the book review on page 12. (Photo by Emily Reeves)
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A number of area institutions are paying tribute to those lost on September 11, 2001 with gatherings, exhibits, and quiet places set aside for reflection. From panel discussions to the laying of wreaths and the issuing of a commemorative CD, there are multiple opportunities for marking the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently announced that all 21 New Jersey counties are eligible for federal disaster assistance to aid in the recovery from Hurricane Irene. This is an expansion of an earlier approval of disaster aid that applied only to certain counties within the state. Mercer had not been among the original counties that were declared eligible.
President Barack Obama has nominated Princeton University professor Alan Krueger to be the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
During the uncertain hours (and even minutes) that the Princeton community experienced before, during, and after hurricane Irene, there were two mainstays that people knew they could rely on. The Princeton Public Library proved once again that it is “Princeton’s living room” by remaining open late into the evening in the days immediately after the storm to accommodate the many residents who lost power. (Princeton High School student George Quinn captured this effort on a YouTube video called “Plug in and Power Up.”)
On the website of the organization Voices of September 11, there are wrenching accounts written by survivors of the attacks on the World Trade Center. These detailed descriptions by evacuees, eyewitnesses, and first responders, make the horror of that morning ten years ago shockingly real.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Marvin Rosen was doing his radio show at Princeton University’s WPRB-FM. A phone call from his wife at 10 a.m. alerted him to the horrific events unfolding at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.
For Steve Everette, the Christmas of 2010 is one that he will never forget.
If summer training is any indication, it looks like the Princeton High boys’ soccer team is headed for another big fall.
While guiding the Princeton High football team to a 0-10 record last fall in his debut season as head coach was painful, Joe Gargione believes he will be better for the experience.
Flying out of Newark on a brilliantly clear night in March 2002, we saw a vision in the sky above Manhattan. The spectacle of two phantom towers soaring beyond any mortal architect’s wildest dreams had people going “Oooh” and “Ahhh!” These happy sounds were followed by a falling off, a shared sigh as people remembered what was signified by those two shafts of blue light.
Marvin Cheiten, who has brought a new play to the Hamilton Murray Theater in late August for the past several years, is taking a different route with his current production of Zenobia, a revision and revival of his original 2005 play. Rather than his usual local, modern setting, and his comedic style (often satirizing the murder mystery genre and the community of Princeton), with Zenobia Mr. Cheiten takes his audience to Asia Minor in the third century and the short tumultuous life of the warrior queen of Palmyra, an ancient kingdom in what is now Syria.