To the Editor:

What fun we had at our May 4 Roaring Twenties Formal Dinner Dance for adults and teens with special needs!

We’re proud of our long-standing partnership with the Princeton Recreation Department, a collaboration that has kept this event going and growing! John Groeger, Nicole Paulucci, Stacie Ryan—and PRD alum Joe Marrolli—you’re the best! This year also brought a new partnership with the Princeton Senior Resource Center, as we pooled our efforts to run back-to-back events with common themes for our respective constituencies. Thank you to Barbara Prince, Cheryl Gomes, Donna Cosgrove, and all of their colleagues at the PSRC for helping to make both events so successful.

Our DJ Steven Knox and his “Roadie Dad” Dan, and our photographers Jaime Escarpeta and Ken Colbert, were awesome! Dinner was fantastic thanks to McCaffrey’s and PSS parent and baker extraordinaire Ashley Oppenheimer-Fink. And PSS Junior Coach Olivia Browndorf and her family surprised everyone with glow gifts that really made the evening!

This year’s formal would not have been possible without the dedicated adult volunteers who worked on the décor and who helped set up, chaperone, and clean up after. Thank you Abitha Ravichander, Ariel Eighmey, Beverly O’Connor, Chiemi York, Eileen Donahue, Hana Oresky, Joan Morelli, Katerina Bubnovsky, Liz Cutler, Nora Hassainzadeh, Pushpa Kulkarni, Tom Kreutz, Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura, Suzy Yang, Valerie Walker, Wendy Vasquez, and Yasuo Sugiura.

Our most heartfelt thanks go, as always, to our student volunteer “buddies.” We hope these young people know what a long-lasting contribution they have made to an often under-appreciated segment of the Princeton-area community. Thank you to Charlotte Walker, Colleen Niko, Declan Rourke, Emerson Marsh, Emilia Santiana, Emilyanne Shelley, Gracie Poston, Jackie Patterson, Jane Lillard, Lauren Morelli, Leah Bakoulis, Marli Siciliano, Matt Ams, Niklas Wegmann, Rhea Ravichander, Yannick Ibrahim, and Zach Klein.

Our last dance of the season will be our annual pool party and dance at the Princeton Community Pool on June 1. Swimming will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (weather permitting), followed by pizza (and other goodies!) and dancing until 9 p.m. For more information or to register, go to princetonrecreation.com or princetonspecialsports.com. Buddies, if you would like to volunteer for the pool party, please email Valerie Walker at pssbuddies@outlook.com.

Deborah Martin Norcross,

Co-President

Princeton Special Sports and Programs