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(Photo by Louis Patrick Marchetta)
Princeton resident Liz Marchetta is scheduled to depart for South Africa on Wednesday, July 26, as a Peace Corps volunteer. Ms. Marchetta will work for a non-governmental organization fighting the aids epidemic in Africa, where "problems of global health often have solutions as simple as clean drinking water and proper sanitation," she said. Citing Paul Farmer, Nelson Mandela, and Bill and Melinda Gates as sources of inspiration, Ms. Marchetta said that she finds motivation in "every person I have met who understands and realizes their potential to make a positive impact and contribution to their surrounding environment, no matter how small or seemingly meaningless."
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Linda Arntzenius
Liz Marchetta's decision to serve as a volunteer for the Peace Corps in Africa seems so natural a choice that it is a surprise to learn that she was at first so undecided about her undergraduate major that she switched subjects five times. After graduating from Princeton High School (PHS) in 2002, she set out to study journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
It seemed a good choice. She had, after all, already gained quite a bit of writing and editing experience as a Teen Editor of the "Sex, Etc" newsletter and website, for Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey's Network for Family Life Education, from August 2000, when she was still a student at PHS, until August 2005, when she was attending UNC.
Besides researching and writing articles for the newsletter, website, and Teen People magazine, Ms. Marchetta conducted a needs assessment and use survey of newsletter subscribers in more than 40 states, served as representative and teen advocate at fundraising, high school, and public relations events, and testified as teen advocate for comprehensive sex education in a Washington, D.C. senate hearing. Her academic interests and college pursuits were influenced by her PHS political science/social studies teacher, Din Ambar, she said.
Matthew Hersh
After months of searching for a naturalist who would provide an imaginative approach to revitalizing Harrison Street Park in Princeton Borough, the municipality and neighbors seem ready to choose a park-neighborhood resident to revitalize the woodsy but slightly rundown park.
Matthew Hersh
As the Princeton Shopping Center gets ready for a phased, three-year modernization of its 50-year-old facility, a new pet supply store will move in this month, filling a vacancy created when Petco relocated to Route 1 last year.
Matthew Hersh
You see him sweeping Nassau Street for grateful shop owners who think there is too much trash on Princeton's main strip; you see him planting flowers around town, including maintaining five gardens at his home at Redding Circle; and you can see him almost every morning holding the door for appreciative customers at Starbucks on Nassau Street.
Bill Rieszer is one of Princeton's most recognizable figures. And despite a disability that keeps him from walking at full strength, he's been keeping up the town's appearance for decades.
