Interview with Peter Epstein conducted by Lew Gantwerk on April 26, 2023. Recorded at the Princeton Public Library. Part of the Voices of Princeton partner project with the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer County. Peter Epstein was born in 1941, moving to Princeton 18 months later with his family shortly after RCA (where his […]
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Interview with Jeff Lucker conducted by Kim Marks on April 21, 2023. Recorded at the Princeton Public Library. Part of the Voices of Princeton partner project with the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer County. Jeff Lucker’s biographical statement: I was born on April 21st, 1945 in New York. My parents at the time lived
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By law, Francesca Benson (then Stonaker) had to stop teaching when she adopted her children. In 1969, she joined the central New Jersey Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and was soon drawn into a committee tasked with setting up full-time day nursery. Alongside fellow activists, Francesca found and lost premises, recruited teachers,
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Victory Chase moved to the Princeton area in 1969 and soon became involved with the central New Jersey Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). As well as attending consciousness-raising sessions with fellow feminists, she volunteered for the committee on sex stereotyping in early readers. When University NOW Day Nursery (UNOW) opened in September
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Mark Rosso has lived in Princeton nearly his whole life. He discusses his family’s arrival and work in the area, as well as his happy childhood attending school and growing up in Princeton in the 1960s and 1970s. He shares remembrances from adolescence of the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the atmosphere in
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Janet Stern and Doretta Gallucci met in the late 1990s through their work at the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP). The pair discusses the history of the ACP and the process of getting the current ACP building approved, including difficulties working with the planning board and soliciting feedback from residents in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood.
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Ida Belle Dixon, celebrating her 100th birthday in 2019, shares memories of growing up in Georgia and moving to Princeton during high school. She recounts stories of taking care of children throughout her life and shares changes she has seen in Princeton over several decades.
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Ruth Miller moved from Canada to Princeton in 1970 with her husband and young sons. Tragically, in 1972, she lost her husband. Her youngest son was just old enough to enroll at University NOW Day Nursery (UNOW). Not only did the school provide full-time care, which Ruth needed as she transitioned back to work, but
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Bernard Miller came to Princeton in 1957 to work at the nearby Radio Corporation of America laboratory after seven years as an active-duty Air Force officer. Prior to arriving in Princeton, Bernard taught engineering at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He worked on classified aerospace projects and later took graduate courses in
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