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Weddings
Barbara
Vanderkolk and Thomas Gardner
Vanderkolk-Gardner. Barbara A. Vanderkolk and Thomas E. Gardner were married on September 20, 2003 in the garden of their home in Princeton.
Princeton Township Mayor Phyllis Marchard officiated. The matron of honor was Janet Davis of Princeton. Thomas Boardman of Minneapolis was best man. The bride was escorted by her 16-year-old son, Jordan Vanderkolk Gibbs, a student at Princeton High School. A dinner dance at the Bedens Brook Club followed the ceremony.
Ms. Vanderkolk Gardner was until recently a senior vice president at the national headquarters of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Princeton. She is the incoming president and CEO of the Fannie E. Ripple Foundation, a healthcare philanthropy in Basking Ridge.
Mr. Gardner is the president and CEO of Songbird Hearing, makers of digital disposable hearing aids, in Cranbury.
Mr. Gardner, who is divorced, has two grown children, John and Jennifer Gardner, and one grandchild, Lauren Weble, all of Sarasota, Fla.
Ms. Vanderkolk Gardner is the widow of Alan Gibbs, former Commissioner of Human Services in New Jersey and Washington, whose adult daughter, Cynthia Gibbs, lives in Richmond, Va.
The couple honeymooned in Anguilla. They have homes in Princeton and Sarasota.