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Vol. LXV, No. 50
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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![]() HONORING AN ORIGINAL: On a recent trip to Hawaii where they participated in 70th anniversary ceremonies marking the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Princeton High School (PHS) Studio band met veteran Allen Bodenlos (in front of band). Commissioned the night before the attack on Pearl Harbor to start a dance band, Mr. Bodenlos said that he was the original Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B. The band, of course, played the song for him.
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After five years of debate over the fate of the Dinky train station, Princeton Borough Council last week passed an ordinance that will allow Princeton University to proceed with plans for a $300 million arts and transit neighborhood. Should the measure receive final approval from the Regional Planning Board, the University will move the terminus 460 feet to the south as part of the plan.
After another lengthy session taken up by extensive cross-examination of expert witnesses, the Regional Planning Board did not make a decision on the fate of the faculty housing project proposed by the Institute of Advanced Study. The next hearing on the plan, which is being challenged by the Princeton Battlefield Society, is scheduled for January 26, 2012.
The future of Princeton Boroughs post office was among the items to be discussed at last nights meeting [Tuesday, December 13] of Princeton Borough Council. A representative was to be on hand to update residents on the status of the Palmer Square station and answer questions about where a new, smaller post office will be located.
A little-known feature of Princeton University history is the fact that undergraduate coeducation there did not actually begin, as many may believe, in 1969. From 1887 through 1897, the University conducted a dangerous experiment with the creation of Evelyn College for Women.
Were under new management here and things arent going so well, observed Congressman Rush Holt (D-12) in a recent telephone town hall with his constituents (my peers, as he described them, at one point).
It was the first stop on an extended road swing for the Princeton University mens basketball team and it exemplified the pitfalls of playing in an unfriendly environment.
In last years ECAC Hockey quarterfinals, the Princeton University womens hockey team battled Quinnipiac tooth and nail but couldnt overcome the Bobcats.
Over the past few years, the Princeton High boys basketball team has utilized a run-and-gun approach to develop into a consistent winner.
As a grade schooler, Conrad Denise went all out as a fan at the Princeton Day School Invitational hockey tournament.
Coming into its annual invitational tournament, the Princeton Day School girls hockey team had a clear point of emphasis.
Readers of Raymond Carver may recognize the variation on the title story from one of his most famous collections, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Roberta Smith used a version of the same title for a discussion of the fashionably obtuse language of the art world four years ago (New York Times December 23, 2007).
My father was easy to shop for at this time of year. Anything to do with Sherlock Holmes was the Christmas mantra. As December came around, some publisher always had a book to offer, although nothing could top William S. Baring-Goulds boxed two-volume The Annotated Sherlock Holmes published in 1970 by Clarkson Potter. Any time I want to commune with my taciturn father, who died in 1986, all I have to do is browse in either volume, looking for his pencilled notes. Another way of getting in touch with him is to take out the bound typescript of his dissertation, an editing of the first three books (which treat of Incorporeal Substances) from the medieval encyclopedia that I cannot, to this day, pronounce without a hitch (De Proprietatibus Rerum), every word of it typed by my mother on a Royal portable.
In his more than twenty-five years conducting the Princeton University Orchestra and directing the Program in Musical Performance, Michael Pratt has no doubt seen a number of his students go on to undertake careers in music. One of the departments early success stories has been Hobart Earle, a 1983 graduate of the University (only six years after Pratts arrival) and now an international conductor with a long-term post in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. Mr. Earle returned to Princeton this past weekend to conduct his alma maters orchestra in a program of expansive symphonic works.
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