Liliana Morenilla came to Princeton trained as a lawyer. Responding to the needs of the community, she became a hardworking teacher, translator, and leader in community outreach with more than 30 years of experience working with Spanish and English-speaking students. She is involved with facilitating their immersion into the Princeton community by translating educational materials […]
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Oral History with Fran Zeitler. Fran was joined by her husband Fred Edelman, who also appears on the recording.
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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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Interview with Rabbi Josh Goldstein conducted by Mara Olmstead on April 12, 2023. Recorded at the Princeton Public Library. Part of the Voices of Princeton partner project with the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer County. Rabbi Joshua Goldstein served as Temple Sha’arey Shalom’s leader for 30 years, retiring on June 30, 2012. In July, 2012,
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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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Matthew Wilkinson was born and raised in Princeton and now teaches at Princeton High School. He attended Littlebrook Elementary School, Valley Road and John Witherspoon Middle School, and graduated from Princeton High School (PHS) in 1979. After leaving for college, Matthew returned to teach at Princeton High School in 1986. He shares his recollections of
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Aditya Shrivastava recalls his uncertainty when he first heard about the COVID-19 pandemic and wondered how it would affect Princeton High School, which ultimately shut down and switched to virtual learning. Aditya has been staying home with his parents and brother and keeps in contact with his friends and family online.
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Mulin Huan, a sophomore at Princeton High School (PHS), recalls first hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese news media. As a Chinese American, Mulin notes that he has long kept up with both Chinese and American news sources, something that continues through the pandemic. Once PHS shut down, he notes that it was a
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Michelle Brown, a junior at Princeton High School (PHS), learned about COVID-19 in November 2019. She had traveled back to Princeton from China just before the first few cases were reported in China. The virus seemed to become a local issue when Princeton University reported cases in the spring of 2020. Since PHS switched to
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Stephanie Moon, a Princeton High School (PHS) student, shares that in the early spring she was not sure how the COVID-19 pandemic would affect school and the Princeton community. She started to worry after she heard about local cases and PHS closed for the school year. In her day-to-day life at home, Stephanie can set
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