At a glance

Old computers.  Outdated software.  Inadequate training.  Lack of electronic access. Lost opportunities.

While Princeton Regional Schools lead other districts in most performance criteria, we are falling behind on the technology front.   And we need your help.

PowerUp PRS! is a joint campaign of the Princeton Education Foundation and the Princeton Regional Schools with the goal of providing our students with universal access to state-of-the-art technology tools that will support critical levels of communication, collaboration and innovation in every classroom from Pre-K through 12th grade.

The Board of Education is committed to meeting this significant challenge and maintaining a strong technology budget once we “leapfrog” over the chasm that exists today. The need is great.   It would cost $4 million to do all that is needed. Addressing this “deferred maintenance” cannot be met within our existing budget. It cannot be ignored, either.

We would not send our children onto athletic fields without the proper equipment or ask them to play in the band or orchestra without quality instruments. Neither should we expect that we can continue to prepare them well as our nation’s best learners if we do not provide them with
 the new basics now.

We invite you to explore this site and find out more about PowerUp PRS! and how it will affect every child in every discipline, every day.

Princeton High School's Alma Mater is traditionally sung at the Fall Pep Rally by the Cat's Meow, the oldest all-female a capella group at PHS. It is also sung by the student body at the Gold Key Service Award Ceremony in the spring, as well as at the annual graduation ceremony, led by the ladies of the Cat's Meow.

Now stand and sing with heart and voice

Our Alma Mater's praise!

Let all who know thy guiding hand

To thee, the chorus raise.

Our friendships hold in memory

Thy tow'r against the sky

And evermore our hearts will sing

In praise of Princeton High!

Please read about John Lithgow's recent trip home to Princeton.

http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2011/10/13/the_princeton_packet/news/doc4e97578eb5be7962109599.txt

Composer Robert Livingston Aldridge has been named director of the Music Department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Aldridge will begin work on July 1, 2012.

“We are delighted with the appointment of Robert Livingston Aldridge as Director of the Music Department,” says George B. Stauffer, Dean of the Mason Gross School. “He is a distinguished composer, winner of a Grammy for Elmer Gantry, and recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and other prestigious fellowships. He is an experienced administrator as well, having served as Chair of the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University for six years. And he brings to the Music Department a wealth of professional connections that will benefit our students and faculty alike. We are fortunate to have this elegant artist and leader join the Mason Gross team.”        

Aldridge has written more than 80 works for orchestra, opera, musical theater, voice, dance, string quartet, solo and chamber ensembles, including the critically praised opera Elmer Gantry, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis with a libretto by Herschel Garfein. Nashville Opera gave Elmer Gantry its fully staged world premiere in November 2007, and Aldridge received a Grammy Award in 2012 for best Contemporary Classical Composition for the Elmer Gantry recording.

“The Opera Institute at Rutgers was an important factor for me, that there’s a funded place for the production of opera,” Aldridge says, referringto the school’srecent expansion of its opera program as a result of a $6.6 million bequest to Mason Gross from the estate of 1977 University College alumna Victoria J. Mastrobuono. “I really want to move that forward.”

Aldridge also says he hopes to establish a musical-theater program, as he did along with other department chairs at Montclair State.

“I am very excited about working with the Theater and Dance departments to develop interdisciplinary programs,” he says. A musical-theater program “is something to be seriously considered and done.”

Other Aldridge words include: Leda and the Swan (2003); Clarinet Concerto (commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and premiered by David Singer in 2005; Naxos recording 2010). His music has been performed at New York City’s Lincoln Center and has recently been conducted by Keith Lockhart and performed by Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich. He was a founder of the Boston-based Composers in Red Sneakers, an internationally recognized composer consortium.

Aldridge, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in literature, also holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music (MM, Composition) and the Yale University School of Music (MMA and DMA, Composition). He was the founding director of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University from 2006 to 2009 and served as chair of the Music Department at Montclair State University from 2005 to 2011.

http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2012/01/14/the_princeton_packet/sports/doc4f0f3b9054231712028451.txt

PHS Alum in New York Times

Ishani Ganguli a PHS graduate and past editor of The Tower.  Please follow the link to her article in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/26error.html

Fellow of Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs

Wellesley College junior Rachel Snyderman, and a graduate of Princeton High School (class of '07) , has been named a fellow of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, which prepares women for positions of global leadership.

Snyderman’s participation in the institute will begin with an intensive course this January, where she will take lessons from various international relations and public policy experts, including Albright herself, former U.S. secretary of state and a member of the Wellesley College class of 1959, who will serve as the institute’s first distinguished visiting professor.

The following summer, Snyderman— one of 40 students selected to participate in the institute’s inaugural year— will participate in a Wellesley-funded internship in the United States or abroad, applying what she has learned in a real-life setting.

"Madeleine Albright transformed the office of Secretary of State and international policy and is my inspiration for pursuing this fellowship," she said.

Snyderman, an economics and Latin American studies major, spent last summer as an intern for the institutional development department of an Argentine economic and political development company in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While at Wellesley she has also worked in a jet propulsion laboratory at NASA, tutored disadvantaged children in Roxbury, Mass., and served in the Economic Student Association and with the arts and music society Tau Zeta Epsilon.

The Albright Institute will combine the expertise of Wellesley faculty, researchers and leading public policy practitioners to educate young women for positions of global leadership. Albright is one of the most prominent diplomats in U.S. history, having served as secretary of state, representative to the United Nations and having worked in the National Security Council. Her leadership is both the inspiration and the foundation for the new institute.

"We are witnessing a generational change in the American political scene. This is the right time — and Wellesley is the right place — to help train a whole new group of young women leaders," Albright said.

For more information, go to http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2007/www.wellesley.edu

Congratulations to Rachel on this achievement!

One On 1:  Actor John Lithgow Reflects On His Many Roles (PHS Class of  '63)

"By the time he [John Lithgow] graduated Princeton High School, he'd already attended about eight other schools in Ohio and Massachusetts.  Then he attended Harvard University, where a solo in a Gilbert and Sullivan show sealed the deal." 

To read the whole article log onto:  http://www.ny1.com/content/features/90257/one-on-1--actor--john-lithgow-reflects-on-his-many-roles/Default.aspx

Heidi Faith '73.  Heidi is currently a graphic designer in the San Francisco Bay area.  In 1980 she was a part of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team.  She was also the head lacrosse coach at Stanford University for six years.

Mike Lemonick '71.  Mike went to PHS and lives in Princeton.  He was a staff science writer for Time Magazine for twenty years, and currently works for Climate Central, a Princeton-back think tank.  He now contributes to magazines such as Time, Scientific American, and National Geographic, and lectures at Princeton University.

Paul Miles '81.  Paul is the founder and president of the Academy for Athletes, a sports consultation business that aids athletes in creating a "Game Plan for Life" and provides them with support after they end their athletic career.  Before his career in executive management, Miles played football professionally for the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Dr. David Fiero '85.  More than a third of Princeton High School students have gone through the ordeal of orthodentia with the aid of Dr. Fiero who once walked the halls of PHS.

Jerseyans Win Classical Grammys

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2012/02/jerseyans_win_classical_grammy.html

Cyd Trumbo - Superintendent's Office

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trip to the 70th Commemoration of Pearl Harbor with the purchase of Princetonopoly.  Please go to www/princetonopoly.com for more information.  Thank you!