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500 a copy _J X to a i t- 3 ‘ a; Q- uj \ O -J A Forbes Newspaper Friday, June 22,1990 t/5 ca u j a u j ( - i h t a o 5 : u a-' 3h o r-P ,t iU o jU Borough airs cable complaints O 'T •- to make a presentation, and al­ the property around its satellite Rutter assured Wiley that the,; Poor response, most on an annual basis, I make dish off Durham Avenue, increase shrubbery recommended by bor-; the same requests and nothing its public access programming ough engineer Thomas Van would; cost irk residents gets done.” and improve its response to ser­ be in place by 1991 and that the* Wiley repeated the warning he vice and billing complaints. company will consider fencing the,; gave TKR last year — that if the “Simply as the property owner entire parcel within the next six. By Georgia Vosinakis company expects to have its fran­ of a 1-acre portion in Metuchen ... weeks. Rutter said the company' METUCHEN - Although some chise renewed in 1993, it will have you ought to be a good neighbor,” fenced the entrance to Westing- of the faces may have changed, to effect improvements in the said Wiley. “We ask that the area house Street in August in re­ the song from TKR Cable Co, rep­ same three areas which needed be screened because it is adjacent sponse to motorists cutting; resentatives has remained the “drastic improvement” last year. to a residential area.” through there. same one year after their last visit According to Wiley, Margaret Wiley explained that the bor­ . Wiley accepted Rutter’s assur­ with the Borough Council regard­ Ann Behrends, TKR’s program ough “typically demands” this ances that the buffering will be ing needed improvements. manager, Larry Rutter, the com­ type of buffering in a residential completed by the end of the year, “This is sort of an annual rit­ pany’s north district operations area, and after last year’s prom­ but there were additional con­ ual,” observed Mayor John Wiley manager, and Joe Guastella, oper­ ises by the cable company that it cerns about the cable company. Jr. about Monday night’s meeting ations maintenance manager, would be accomplished, the bor­ “I have two documents which with five TKR representatives, should have been able to recall ough is now “extremely frus­ tell a tale of concerns,” began three of whom also were present his initial requests that TKR pro­ trated” that this “relatively simple Daniel LeBar, chairman of the at last year’s meeting. “You come vide screening for and maintain task” has not been done. (Please turn to page A-12) Student A dream is guilty come true of murder Physician arrives EDISON — A township youth in United States *• will serve a minimum of 30 years in prison and could face a life By Jim Wright sentence for the October 7. 1988, EDISON — Sergey Skovortsov murder of a fellow Edison High finally has fulfilled his dream School student of coming to America. Now he James E. Ferguson, 16, was hopes that someday he can be found guilty June 13 in a New called a doctor again. Brunswick Superior Court of the The 34-year-old Skovortsov murder of Stephen Fulcher dur­ was a sports medicine physi­ ing an altercation outside the cian for 11 years in his native school after a dance. Ferguson Leningrad in the Soviet Union drew a hunting knife and stabbed before coming to the United Fulcher three times — once in States eight months ago. the upper leg and twice in the Now the township resident chest One of the- latter thrusts is a massage therapist in the pierced the heart. office of Dr. Cynthia Snyder in The knife — described as a 5- Somerville waiting for the day inch curved hunting knife -A was, his, English improves enough, - later found on the /school grounds to take the physician’s licens* Fulcher, \yho was 17, was token ing exam. 1 ( : to John F I-'- nn< Ay Medical Cen­ His relatives came to the ter, where he difcd less than an United States 12 years ago, (Please turn to page A-12) and Skovortsov only recently decided to join them out of fear for his family. “I have two boys, ana I was Board mulls afraid for my children,” he said, recalling his decision to leave Russia. “Also I’m a Jew.” eliminating Once his sister-in-law sent him emigration papers from Israel, Skovortsov had to give PEG class up his job as a doctor. He had By Georgia Vosinakis specialized in osteopathy and METUCHEN — The school dis­ orthopedics at the Leningrad trict’s Program for the Exception­ Health Center. ally Gifted pupils seems to be in “When the KGB finds out jeopardy of being changed, re­ you want to leave, you auto­ duced in scope or even elimi­ matically lose your job,” he ex­ nated, and 40 proponents of the plained. “One day, one of the program expressed their concern men I worked with came up to at a meeting of the Board of Edu­ me and asked, ‘When are you cation on Tuesday. leaving? I want to move into The 10-year-old program, your apartment’ ” unique to Middlesex County, has Skovortsov took English les­ provided a more intense curricu­ sons in New York after com­ lum for the borough’s academi­ ing to this country and re­ cally advanced pupils by challeng­ ceived his certificate as a mas­ ing them in a self-contained class, sage therapist at the Somerset School of Massage. mixing the brightest students from —Photo by Daniel Sheehan —Copyrighted photo by Jeff Tarentino the third, fourth and fifth grades. He was referred to Snyder Members of the Class of 1990 at the five high schools in “We’re trying to upgrade every­ Massage therapist Sergey Skovortsov of Edison works the by the school and joined the Edison and Metuchen are now graduates, and this week the one’s opportunity and not restrict kinks out of the knee of Somerville High School diver Amy Somerville office in March. Metuchen-Edison Review begins its coverage of the com­ education to children in a self- Masters. Skovortsov was a practicing physician in the Soviet “In Russia, it’s called man­ mencement exercises with articles and photos on page A-11 contained class,” said Gennaro Union and is hoping to eventually be certified as a doctor in ual therapy because massage Lepre, superintendent of schools, the United States. is considered a capitalist of three of them. Coverage of the high school graduations will (Please turn to page A-12) continue next week. (Please turn to page A-12) 20-year-old fights for life after head-on collision By Charles Everett 6:48 p.m. when it passed an uni­ EDISON — A young man who dentified vehicle in a no-passing skipped his high school gradua­ zone and glanced off the second tion to be with friends is fighting vehicle, which was operated by for his life after a nearly fatal au­ Elaine Villanova, 18, of Wood- tomobile accident on a busy town­ bridge. ship street The Audi spun around into the southbound lane near the Apollon Quinton Jenkins, 20, of North Gym, then slammed head-on into Plainfield, was one of five people injured in a head-on collision a 1988 Acura Legend operated June 21 on Talmadge Road near southbound by Roosevelt Wynn, the headquarters of Twin County 27, of Elizabeth. Grocers. He was a member of the Wynn was taken to Robert Class of 1990 which graduated Wood Johnson University Hospi­ that evening from North Plain- tal along with two passengers in field High School. the Audi, Cleaver Ransom, 20. of Bridgeport, and Felicia Madden, Jenkins suffered a fractured neck and was airlifted to Univer­ 17, of North Plainfield. Wynn and sity' Hospital, Newark, where he Ransom were listed in satisfactory remained in a coma and was condition Wednesday afternoon listed in poor condition as of while Madden was listed in stable Wednesday afternoon. He was a condition. passenger in a 1979 Audi oper­ Villanova was not injured. ated by Patricia Deolio, 32, also of Reports indicated that Jenkins, North Plainfield, who was listed Madden and Ransom were not Photo by Jim D'Amico in fair condition Wednesday at wearing seat belts at the time of Jenkins, 20, of North Plainfield, - lies in a coma at University the accident Debris from two cars lies in the street after a head-on collision University Hospital. Hospital, Newark. Jenkins had skipped his high school gradu­ According to reports, the Audi No charges have been filed June 21 on Talmadge Road, Edison. As a result of the acci­ was northbound on Talmadge at pending a further investigation. dent, five people were injured, one of whom — Quinton ation that night to be with friends. PAGE A-2 - ME REVIEW - June 22, 1990

of Old Post Road. and Chevrolet transmission re­ gust 6 at both tennis facilities vices Commission for the 1990-91 Should the funds become avail­ pairs. Other bidders were Joe’s while a Ladder Tournament Pro­ school year. Her reappointment to able, the first portion, a 0.313-mile Transmissions, $13,394; Tech gram will be held in July. the MCESC was announced at a stretch from Wooding Avenue to Transmissions, $13,300; and Deol’s The tournaments are open to Melville Road, would be upgraded Transmissions, $9,760. Deol’s was men, women and children — sin­ meeting of the board Tuesday. news briefs at a cost of $106,950. The second not awarded the contract because School board member Vincent gles and doubles. Prospective par­ section, which runs for 0.208 mile it did not provide the necessary ticipants should register at the Bonica extended the board’s ap­ from Melville Road to Route 1, documentation. courts. preciation to Dyas for the work would be repaved at a cost of * * * she has done on the commission, Edison Most stores at Menlo Park Mall which was formed in 1978 to pro­ will be closed by the end of the $73,230. The third section, a 0.265- Children in the township’s play­ Metuchen mile stretch from Route 1 to Bou­ ground program will be treated to vide educational programs and Stephen J. Markbreiter has re­ month as work continues on the services to the public school dis­ ceived the 1990 Inventor of the renovation of the mall. levard of the Eagles, would be up­ an “Old Fashioned Picnic in the The Metuchen Amateur Radio graded at a cost of $90,090. Park” on July 3 at Lake Papa- tricts in Middlesex County. Year award, presented by the Macy’s, Wallach’s, Arcadian * * * Club will hold its annual Field board of directors of the New Gardens, the First Fidelity Bank ianni. The day’s activities will in­ Day this weekend at Busch Cam­ York Patent, Trademark and and the City Federal Savings The Township Council has clude fishing, contests and a cos­ pus of Rutgers University, Pis- Copyright Law Association. Bank will remain open while the awarded a $32,000 emergency tume parade. Children can sign cataway. A public forum on the bor­ The award was presented at a mall is being rebuilt Freedom contract to Equipco Sales and up for the picnic at their local Club members will set up ama­ ough’s proposed historic preserva­ reception held last month in Travel, the M&C Pizzeria and a Leasing Corp. for the purchase of parks. teur radio stations for an exercise tion ordinance, sponsored by the Markbreiter’s honor at the Grand unisex hair salon will be open at a used Bomag trash compactor at Other planned events include a in emergency preparedness. The Borough Council campaign of Lib­ the municipal dump. ertarians John Latsko and Eric Hyatt Hotel, New York City. least through this summer. * * * Junior Olympics track and field event, which is sponsored by the The holder of many patents re­ The mall is scheduled to be re­ competition on July 19 at Edison American Radio Relay League, Meltzer, will be held at 8 p.m. lating to the recovery of fuel gas opened in the fall of 1991. The award of contracts for High School stadium and a Play­ begins Saturday at 2 p.m. and con­ Wednesday at the Centenary from landfill gas, Markbreiter was * * * transmission repairs were made ground Carnival from 10 a.m. to 3 tinues for 24 hours. Thousands of United Methodist Church, 200 honored for innovative technology by the Township Council at its p.m. August 1 at the Stelton Com­ amateur radio operators in the Hillside Avenue. The Recreation Department is meeting last week. in reducing atmospheric pollut­ planning five trips this summer. munity Center. United States and Canada will Featured speakers will be ants from sanitary landfills while The first will be to Wild West Joe’s Transmission Repair Inc., For more information about any participate. Robert Carter, a Rutgers law pro­ recovering fuel gas and liquid car­ City on July 5 and will cost $14. Amboy Avenue, was awarded a of these events, call the Recre­ The goal of exercise is to inform fessor, and Patricia Apy, a Red bon dioxide. The second will be to the Grand contract for the repair of Ford ation Department office at 287- people that amateur radio opera­ Bank attorney. -* * * Prix at the Meadowlands on July Motor Co. LTD transmissions at 0900, Ext 312. tors are ready at all times to pro­ $650 per unit or a total of $7,800. * * * vide communications in the event Edison High School hosted an 13 and will cost $12. Carter is chairman of the Board international festival recently to A trip to Sesame Place is Other bidders were Tech Trans­ A supervised tennis program of a disaster. promote cultural awareness and planned for July 18. Tickets will missions, which submitted an sponsored by the Recreation De­ The Field Day is open to the of Editors of the New Jersey Law partment will be held Wednesday public. Journal and is a member of the understanding. be $12.50 for adults, $14 for chil­ $8,700 bid, and Supreme Trans­ * * * Groups participating in the festi­ dren and free to children under 2. missions, which submitted a bid through Labor Day at the town­ civil practices committee of the val included the International The last trips, to Dorney Park, of $8,597.10. Another bidder, ship’s Central Avenue and Oak Eileen Dyas, a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Apy Students’ Association, Student will be held July 26 and August 8. Deol’s Transmissions, submitted Tree tennis facilities. Metuchen Board of Education, has been involved in litigation Council, French Club, Spanish Ticket prices will be $13 for the lowest bid at $625 per unit or The facilities will be open with has been designated as the concerning similar preservation Club and Model United Nations adults and children 6 and older; a total of $7,500 but did not pro­ scheduled, supervised activities board’s representative to the Mid­ codes in Middletown and Free­ Club, and those in attendance $11 for children 3 to 6 and senior vide the proper documentation Wednesdays through Sundays dlesex County Educational Ser­ hold. were treated to ethnic foods, mu­ citizens over 61; and free to chil­ and, therefore, was not consid­ from 9 a.m. to noon and 5 to 8 sic, a fashion show and a martial dren under 3. ered. p.m. For the Finest in Gourmet Deli Selection arts demonstration. Tickets are limited and distrib­ Meanwhile Supreme Transmis­ In addition, the department will Teacher-coordinators of the uted on a first-come, first-serve sions, 300 Plainfield Avenue, was hold two tennis tournaments dur­ , q w r. t event were Gail Drew, Marge basis. Residents can sign up for awarded a contract for $10,114.28 ing the summer. The Annual Sum­ Huber and Joseph Kovacs. the trips at the various play­ for various Chrysler Corp., Ford mer Tournament will begin Au­ grounds or at the Recreation De­ Two schools in Edison have re­ partment office, 328 Plainfield Av­ ceived certificates of recognition enue, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Geography Recognition weekdays. For details, call 287- Contest conducted by the office of 0900, Ext. 312. U S. Sen. Bill Bradley. James Monroe School, Sharp Barry Larson, the township’s Road, was honored for its geogra­ acting business administrator, will phy project that declared a “Date­ serve as acting clerk from Monday line: The World.” SL Helena’s through July 4, while Township School, Grove Avenue, was cited Clerk Adele Searfoss is on vaca­ An Aqua-Pure ® ‘Much more than a deli' for showing its students “Geogra­ tion. Chemical Removal Water Filter phy Around the World.” * * * is the answer! 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'Must be Automatic Delivery credit approved for Free One Year Service Contract • Offer not valid for exsisting United/MacArthur customers. June 22, 1990 - ME REVIEW - PAGE A-3 Senior units Brown to continue as head under way of county women’s group METUCHEN — Pamela Brown of nursing at Roosevelt Hospital. of Metuehen was re-elected to The Middlesex County Commis­ in township chair the Middlesex County Com­ sion on the Status of Women was^ mission on the Status of Women established in 1985 by the Mid-L EDISON - The township’s Se­ at the group’s reorganization dlesex County Board of Chosen nior Citizen Housing Agency held meeting May 31 at Roosevelt Hos­ Freeholders. It is concerned with a ground-breaking Wednesday at pital, Edison. the roles, rights and responsibili-; the site of a planned 100-unit se­ For Brown, a member of the ties of women and serves as an nior citizen community at the Edi­ Metuehen Borough Council, this advocate for women’s interests in - son Woods development on Route will be her second one-year term. traditional and non-traditional ar­ 1. Ruth Anne Koenick of Pis­ eas. “The project will consist of stu­ cataway was elected vice chair­ The commission surveys the dio and one-bedroom residences woman and Annette Stec Horvath of New Brunswick was elected needs, concerns and capabilities’ designed specifically for the of its constituents and coordinates' needs and requirements of senior secretary for the organization. Koenick is the coordinator of Mid­ the efforts of many groups and in­ citizen households,” said George dividuals who are working toward Asprocolas, the Township Coun­ dlesex County’s Rape Crisis In­ the full participation by women in cil’s liaison to the agency. tervention Center. Horvath is di­ According to Asprocolas, the rector of public information at public and private sectors. units will be restricted to low- and Roosevelt Hospital. The commission also assists the'; moderate-income households. Five women were appointed to Middlesex County government by ; For example, the gross annual the commission by the Middlesex developing and implementing/ income limit for a single-person County Board of Chosen Free­ programs to increase the partici-; household is $27,496, Asprocolas holders. pation of women in public life, to said. Appointed to three-year terms access the needs of women in the In addition, the head of each were Carol Hila of Woodbridge, county, to identify and coordinate household must be at least 62 Katherine E. Kleeman of South services and resources available years old. Brunswick, Margery S. Golin of in the county and to recommend The project will be developed, Edison and Carol Roan of Plains- policies and services. owned and managed by Atlantic boro. Ten earn honors Realty, a Woodbridge-based de­ — Photo by George Pacciello Hila is a former Woodbridge veloper. teacher who establishes partner­ A shopper finds some shelter from a late Tuesday afternoon downpour beneath an umbrella as at Rutgers Prep All residences will be contained ships between businesses and EDISON — Ten students from' in a single, three-story structure she walks through the Tops Appliance City parking lot, Route 27, Edison. schools. Kleeman, a mother of the township have been named to with elevator service, Asprocolas two, is a senior program associate the honor roll at Rutgers Prepara­ said, noting the building will fea­ with the Center for the American tory School, Somerset. ture community, reading and ac­ Woman. Golin, a former member Each student achieved honor tivities rooms. A fully landscaped Man faces assault charge of the Edison Township Council, roll standing for having grades of courtyard area also is proposed. is an attorney with the New B-minus or better. The pupils arc “This project is the first of a Brunswick firm of Hamilton and EDISON — A quarrel at an The suspect was taken into cus­ building. Shilesh Patel was lying Vaishali Patel, ,12th grade; Garvin! number of contemplated senior in the weeds along the curb when Golen. Roan, a former Plainsboro Jesdanun and Alpa Patel, 11th citizen housing projects to be de­ apartment complex Sunday night tody nearly two hours after the Township Councilwoman, is a ended with an Elizabeth man be­ stabbing when he was sighted in Patrolman Rod' Benedickson ar­ grade; Vijay Maktla and Leslianne veloped in the township,” Asp­ program coordinator for Venture Yen, eighth grade. rocolas said. “Each project will be ing stabbed and an Edison resi­ the parking lot of the Liquor rived at the scene. Association of New Jersey. dent facing a charge of aggravated Locker, a liquor store on Oak Atul Patel was treated at JFK Also, Jennifer Hassenberg and designed as affordable housing for Mary Kay Kirschrnan, a regis­ Pamela Hay, seventh grade; Robe-'• the senior citizen population of O CC O l l i t Tree Road near Dayton Drive. Pa­ Medical Center for a cut on his trolmen Michael Leight and Ger­ right hand he suffered during the tered nurse from Perth Amboy, rt Hay and Jonathan Vafai, sixth Edison.” Atul Patel, 30, of 3 Dayton was named to a one-year term. Drive, was arrested outside an ard Katula reported seeing blood incident. grade; and Sam Sheinin, fifth apartment building on his street on the suspect’s face and shirt She is an assistant administrator grade______for allegedly stabbing Shilesh when the officers confronted him. Patel, 32, of Elizabeth, in the right According to Patrolman Thomas MUNICIPAL COURT Academy selects hand and left forearm around 9 Vickery, Shilesh Patel left a Day- CRIMINAL CHARGES W E CANTURNA p.m. The stabbing victim and his ton Drive apartment with his wife five from Edison assailant are not related. and a friend after an argument • Drunk Driving . Drug Charges Shilesh Patel has been dis­ between the victim and his assail­ • Speeding • Disorderly EDISON — Five pupils from SUMMER VACATION charged from John F. Kennedy ant Atul Patel allegedly went over Tickets Charges Woodrow Wilson Middle School Medical Center, where he re­ • Traffic • Indictable have been selected to participate to the victim’s 1989 Chevrolet Cor­ Violations Offenses ceived treatment for his wounds. sica and told the victim to come INTO A GREAT in the Joseph Baldwin Academy Atul Patel is being held in the for Eminent Young Scholars at out of the car if he wanted to Middlesex County Adult Correc­ fight. Andrew Northeast Missouri State Univer­ tion Center, North Brunswick, in sity this summer. 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NO ANSWER, i'm talking facts our opinion ANV Lock ON To a machine. and YOUR END? Static over cable TV comment By Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. The Township Council in Edison will begin the review process to determine whether it should renew the franchise rights of TKR Cable Co., which provides the township with cable televi­ Too much power sion services. It is a process the Metuchen Borough Council already has The federal government is tak­ a ing unnecessary liberties with our begun. civil liberties. Many municipalities that have been through it have found it to Government prosecutors can be an effort in futility. now seize assets from you even if Like other utilities with virtual monopolies on the services you have never been charged or they supply, cable television companies are not easy to dislodge convicted of a drug-related crime. once in place. But unlike most other utilities, they are not How’s that? Under current forfei­ regulated by the state. ture laws, your property can be It is for these reasons that — while municipalities negotiating confiscated if there is “probable with cable companies have been able to get some concessions — cause” it was financed through “illicit” means. Problem is, the the companies seem to maintain the upper hand. definition of “illicit” is rather It’s a situation that more often than not leaves cable compa­ broad. nies in place and residents frustrated. The law says money used to pay And in Edison and Metuchen, cable subscribers have reason for drugs can be seized no matter for their frustration. how many times it subsequently Perhaps their biggest complaint deals with telephone calls to changes hands. Alas, that cash is the company. While TKR maintains its ability to handle calls not conveniently earmarked as has improved, many subscribers indicate it is as difficult as ever drug-tainted. Thus, if you borrow money from to get through, and should a connection be made, it is often with a bank that is suspected of laun­ a machine. dering funds from drug dealers Others have complained about frequent and sometimes your account can be frozen. You lengthy services interruptions on some or all of the channels. must prove that the money you In some cases, one channel is substituted for another for no used was not drug-related. You apparent reason, for varying durations and at inopportune are presumed guilty and must times. On several occasions, for example, baseball games on prove your innocence. ESPN have been affected by this malady, and it has happened Federal prosecutors are step­ to other stations as well. ping up their use of this power. It Still other TKR customers have complained that the picture doesn’t take a rocket scientist to No longer just a case of wishful thinking see how this authority can be quality is not what they expect from a cable television service. abused. The law concerning the Meanwhile, TKR is in the process of completing a $4 million To the Editor: of a one-party dictatorship. The is awesome. However, if the party whole area of seizing property is upgrade and recently mailed an update to subscribers that On June 5, a primary election skirmishes won in each district and the people who comprise it too murky and vague. indicates viewers can expect improved picture quality and reli­ was held in Edison. It was said to were fought under the banner of sit back on their laurels and con­ As if such broad discretion ability. be an off-year election and few Jim Kukor, who is currently being ceive victory as a given, they will weren’t worrisome enough, a That may be, but the update no doubt did little to allay cus­ inferences could be drawn from viewed by more and more people be badly mistaken. Worse than number of federal law enforce­ tomers’ frustrations, for it also brought up the matter of rates — such contests. The one exception as the Great Emancipator. that, they’ll be losers. ment officials are pushing to ex­ another sore spot with many subcribers. to this generally accepted rule is So now the party is free. Free Never again can we allow resig­ pand these extraordinary powers “All existing TKR customers will automatically receive Advan­ when burning local issues are at from what we perceived to be nation to a fate lead us. Never to crimes involving not just drug stake. In these instances, off-year stagnation. Free from a leader­ again can we allow a committee money laundering but fraud. tage service, offering more stations than ever before, and — still elections tend to crystallize and ship who, at the very least, was person to be elected because that We’ve already seen how RICO pay the same low price of $16.95 per month,” according to the clarify true voter sentiment The not doing the job. Free from ques­ committee person perceives his has been bent out of shape from mailing. analysis of such elections can oc­ tions of motivation and murky as­ duty to be solely a favor to the its original intent to prosecute or­ But that $16.95 rate already reflects a recent increase that cur unencumbered by other extra­ sociations. Free to pursue the chairman. Never again. ganized crime. drew justified criticism from subscribers and local officials neous factors. How the top of the lofty goals espoused in our cam­ I eagerly look forward to the American tradition has never alike. ticket performs has no bearing on paign. Free to challenge the Dem­ day when party affiliation is been to give individuals un­ And now TKR will offer a new basic service at a reduced rate the results. ocrats without wasting our limited looked upon as a philosophical checked power in the hopes that There were no pressing na­ resources challenging each other. preference as was intended, they will use it wisely. That asks for customers interested in improved local reception but not in tional, foreign policy or economic Free, I say, to plot our own course all the satellite-delivered channels — such as ESPN, C-SPAN rather than a red badge of cour­ too much of human nature. issues to confuse the matter at and control our own destiny. If we age or a scarlet letter. I look for­ Congress should examine this and TNT — which are part of the Advantage service. So instead hand. No, this primary election fail this time it’s because of our of paying $16.95 a month for about 33 channels, subscribers can ward to the day when a teacher at area and restrict the rights of sei­ asked one question: Are you satis­ own failure, but if we win the vic­ a Board of Education meeting, zure to the cases where an indi­ elect to pay $15.95 for about 15 channels. fied with the current status and tory becomes all the more sweet vidual has actually been indicted. If this were an attempt to stem criticism of its rates, it is not leadership of the Republican Party? Free to practice what we who points out to me some ineffi­ The answer to this question re­ ciency in the budget, doesn’t have likely to work. After all, it does not take a mathematician with a preached. to preface her remarks by saying, : doctorate in calculus to determine that those figures don’t add ceived a resounding negative re­ The other s side, the Democrats sponse on June 5. for a change,, appear^intent upon “Don’t let anyone see you talking M isdirected ire up to a fair savings. It’s a downright laughable offer. For those of you who like statis­ shooting themselves (in both feet to me because I’ll lose my job.” Another cable company operating in Central Jersey has a I look forward to the day when Museums are coming under fire tics, here are a few. Voter turnout, The state and the locality appear again for selling major works of similar bare-bones package — albeit with several more channels as usual, was pitifully low. Both to have forgotten that this country a cop can vote his pocketbook, his including WGN, C-SPAN and Philadelphia stations — but it security, as well as his conscience art in their possession. This so- parties have the same problem, so was founded upon a revolt against called deaccessioning strikes charges about half of what it does for its version of Advantage. nothing new here. What was new taxation without representation. sees fit When the R next to his name at the Board of Elections many as a perversion of the mu­ Despite TKR’s attempts to improve service, complaints from was the fact that the bottom of the Our current mayor is saddled with seum’s role as a cultural reposi­ Edison and Metuchen residents about their cable company are ticket, the lowly committee peo­ the sins of both institutions, since stands for Republican, not rebel­ lion. When people are not afraid tory. . not likely to end soon, and they all no doubt will be raised as ple, were responsible for the ma­ he freely chose to be a dual of­ The hubbub is overdone. Why jority of the voters who did turn ficeholder. He can never deny he to speak out in public at Town­ the two municipalities go through the franchise renewal pro­ ship Council meetings, instead of shouldn’t cultural institutions cess. We hope TKR representatives will hear them and make a out Their victory was the result of was sworn in by Gov. Florio and shuck off what they feel doesn’t hard work. The interest was defi­ through that association managed calling me on the phone without genuine effort to improve. giving their name. fit? Most museums do better when nitely the result of a struggle for a waiver of the cap law, the re­ they focus their efforts on a rela­ control of the party. Where a chal­ sults of which will become appar­ There are still people around tive handful of areas. Instead of lenge existed, no incumbent com­ ent when tax bills arrive. Shortly, who think how you vote will putting unwanted artwork in the mittee person on the Middlesex the “senator” Paterniti will ask for somehow become a matter of pub­ cellar, why not let another institu­ County Organization line lost in your vote again. Let me just say lic record. tion or even a private collector his or her district Some 80 com­ that the people get the govern­ I look forward to all these have at it? The work will then be your opinion mittee people in all were swept ment they deserve. things, but until we win it’s still a more appreciated and cared for. into office, this time for a two- The Republican Party now has matter of wishful thinking. But re­ There are only a handful of col­ year term. the horses to pull the wagon as member, wishful thinking is the lections (one thinks of the Impres­ The battle waged was whether well as the trail boss to lead us to substance dreams are made of, sionist paintings of the An- you wanted a Republican Party to our destination. We have at least and it looks as though our dreams nenbergs) that shouldn’t be bro­ continue in its mode of impo­ 100 committee people who are are soon to come true. ken up. But those are rare excep­ Firefighters do great work tence, or a party alive with hope, workers. We almost won last year PHILIP A ROCCO tions. filled with aspirations to someday with a handful. The networking Edison While busting up a great assem­ To the Editor: In addition to the wonderful soon free itself from the shackles that these people can accomplish I am writing to make your read­ work they did on the fire, every blage of paintings or autographs ers aware of the compassionate person involved in the investiga­ or baseball cards may be poi­ and skillful men who work in the tion was both courteous and uno­ gnant, the process also means that Edison Fire Department btrusive. When I apologized to Animals are needed for medical research others will have a chance to put My fiance and I moved all of together new collections with new Capt Robert Campbell for being To the Editor: our possessions to 2213 Rivendell in his way, he simply said, “No, I saving substance extracted from rapidly only to the extent that re­ perspectives and senses of direc­ Way on June 1. We are getting A great deal of controversy sur­ animal sources. searchers can find diseases in an­ tion. This kind of vitality and should be the one to apologize. rounds the topic of using animals change turns on more people than married in August and, needless You are trying to get your life in Every drug must be tested on imals that simulate those of hu­ to say, all of our belongings are in scientific and medical re­ several species of animals before mans. Computer simulation could it turns off. order. I am the one who is inter­ search. At one extreme are those Bashing museums over deac­ both new and precious. We were fering.” its proper dosage and side effects not replace animal testing be­ burned out of our new home just who say that there are sufficient can be determined and before it cause no computer can predict cessioning shows an ossified view I would like to formally thank research alternatives that animals of art that is the antithesis of what six days later. Capt Campbell and all of the can be tested, with reasonable as­ the unusual reactions of drugs on When we saw our unit from the should never be used in experi­ surance of safety, in man. All of the organ systems and on the met­ art should be. men, both professional and volun­ ments; at the other end are those outside on June 8, we thought teer. who were involved in fight­ these steps are essential to deter­ abolic processes. In some early surely there would be nothing to who believe that humans should mination of safely and efficacy in phases of research, in vitro (test salvage. Much to our surprise and ing the Rivendell fire, as I am be allowed free reign in animal sure they are not told often the management of patients hav­ tube) tests are available and are delight, and due to the compe­ experimentation. ing cancer and other diseases. METUCHEN | D enough how much their work is The American Cancer Society effectively used. Techniques for tence and caring afforded us by When certain drugs proved to improving non-animal testing are e™JKEVIEW the firefighters, we were able to appreciated. Their respect for believes that the proper course both our possessions and our grief lies between the two. increase the lifespan of animals under continuing development recover much more of our things with leukemia, these drugs be­ “It is not easy to sacrifice living than we ever imagined. Dishes has made this terrible ordeal that Our national board of directors has issued the following position: came candidates for treatment of things for the benefit of man,” P.O. Box 804, Edison, N.J. 08818 • 494-7727 and glasses were removed from much more tolerable. children. However, each drug had I also sent a copy of this letter “The American Cancer Society says Dr. John Laszlo, ACS na­ A FORBES NEWSPAPER the cabinets and placed on the to be tested for toxicity levels and tional senior vice president for re­ counter tops; clothes were to Mayor Thomas Paterniti to continues to support the careful, A DIVISION OF FORBES, INC, responsible use of animals in for the best way of administering search. “Scientists are extremely drenched but not destroyed. Al­ make him aware of the Fire De­ them, singularly or with other partment’s fine work medical research, particularly cognizant of their responsibility to AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER though the damage was devastat­ drugs. These determinations had society and are usually among the ing, we are confident that every­ KATHY BRENNAN cancer research, and has long ad­ The Metuchen-Edison Review (I.S.S.N. 0747-2390) to be worked out in animals in is published every Friday by Forbes Newspapers, A thing possible was done to mini­ Edison vocated the use of non-animal sys­ leading ethicists and conserva­ order to anticipate adverse effects tionists. Together with lay input, it Division of Forbes Inc., 211 Lakeview Avenue, Pis- mize our loss. tems whenever possible. The soci­ cataway, N.J. 08854. Second-dass postage paid at ety expects its research grantees, on the brain, bone marrow, and is possible to strike a balance be­ Piscataway, N.J. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Forbes Newspapers, Fulfillment Office. individuals and institutions to be kidney. tween the needs of humans to P.O. Box 757, Bedminster, N.J. 07921. Subscrip­ Without preliminary animal make progress in treatment of hu­ tion rates $20.00 per year in Middlesex County; in compliance with the 1970 Fed­ out-of-county $24.00; $27.00 per year out-of-state. eral Animal Welfare Act This act studies, many children would man and animal diseases and the Railbed could be park provides that these procedures have died in the attempt to find need to protect the sanctity of liv­ MALCOLM S. FORBES, JR. are conducted under supervision out whether the rationale of using ing things.” Chairman To the Editor: to the benefit of all. Nature enthu­ of a licensed veterinarian.” drug combinations was sound. To­ I agree wholeheartedly with Dr. A new Supreme Court ruling fa­ siasts, hikers, joggers, walkers and Most of what is known about hu­ day, thanks to decades of re­ Laszlo. We must always respect JOHN J, O’BRIEN vors the converting and banking perhaps bicyclists would be man physiology has come from search, childhood leukemia is life. But we must always keep in President and Publisher of unused railbeds to linear parks served. The how-to is available animal studies. The following ben­ now curable in about 70 percent mind the great advances that have EDWARD F. CARROLL and trails. This eases the way for from the Rails to Trails Conser­ efits have resulted: cancer treat­ of all cases. been made when we face this dif­ Executive Editor Edison and Metuchen to posi­ vancy, of which I am a member ments, development of antibiotics, There is virtually no area of ficult question. In finding the bal­ tively move to convert the Conrail and encourage others to learn organ transplantation and vacci­ medicine that has not benefitted ance we must decide what will JAMES E. PARKS spur (South Plainfield to Perth about and join. nations against smallpox, hepati­ enormously from appropriate ani­ accomplish the most good for all. Advertising/Marketing Director Amboy) which runs under Main tis, polio and other major dis­ mal model studies. We might also Street at Spring Street PYobably the one greatest hur­ RICHARD W. SHEPHERD GEORGE GANNON dle is the usual one — money. But eases. note that animals themselves re­ Chairman of the Board Circulation Director In the past there has been re­ Insulin has saved millions of ceive benefits from animal re­ luctance to convert this railbed to it has been done and, therefore, STUART C. FINCH lives since it was first produced search. In the course of AIDS re­ President THOMAS R. DeCARO a connecting crosstown roadway, so could wei Editor RICHARD E. BIRDSALL from the pancreas of cattle and search, for example, scientists dis­ American Cancer Society, but I’m hard-pressed to see how hogs. Vitamin B-12, which cures covered a vaccine for feline leu­ anyone could object to a linear Metuchen New Jersey Division, Inc. CRYSTAL RUTH the deficiency in pernicious ane­ kemia. North Brunswick Advertising Representative park running through our towns mia, is another example of a life­ Often, we can progress more June 22, 1990 - ME REVIEW - PAGE A-5

your W hat once was Raritan now is Edison opinion Campaign to change township’s name to Nixon was 500 votes shy of success

By David C. Sheehan there felt that their tax assess­ following reasons for the name ments were disproportionately change: An assault EDISON — To many resi­ high in the Highland Park sec­ “The name Edison was cho­ dents of the community, Edi­ tion and that they were paying sen mainly to honor a great on the area son Township has “always” “too large a share of the cost man who benefited all of hu­ been called Edison. Some old- of the Township government” manity; many individuals in To the Editor: timers, however, clearly re­ These reports further indi­ the new developments are un­ member it being named Rari­ cate the idea of a separate aware that Menlo Park, where Highest taxes, most traffic, dirti­ tan Township. borough had been raised on Thomas Alva Edison invented est air, highest insurance, most There are several names more than a few occasions, but the electric light, is in Raritan tolls, high cancer rates, most car which preceded even Raritan met with mixed results. Township; the prestige of the thefts, unaffordable housing, lit­ Township. Several hundred By January 1905, opinions name of Edison will also give tered streets, bloated government, years before the arrival of the seemed to have come into prestige to our town of 26,000 state budget deficit, worst garbage first European settlers, groups agreement, and “citizens of and will be recognized more crisis, high utility costs, longest of Lenni-Lenape Indians lived the Park have taken up the promptly and become nation­ commutes, loss of manufacturing, in settlements ovelooking the borough proposition ... and as ally known; there shouldn’t exodus of young people, most Raritan River. These residents a result have been encour­ have been any difference toxic waste dumps — the list of called the area “Piscataqua,” aged to go ahead. With great within the town, but the one assaults on our quality of life from which the name Pis- speed, petitions were gath- name of Edison should have seems endless. cataway is derived. erered, delivered and verified. been agreed upon unani­ But wait, the list isn’t complete Dutch and Swedes were The bill, proposed by Counse­ mously. It would have been an yet Thanks to the Federal Avia­ among the first European set­ lor Edward Hicks, passed the acknowledgement of the great tion Administration and the Port tlers in the area, arriving in Senate on March 7, 1905, and genius of Edison, since the Authority, New Jersey is now the the middle of the 17th century. the House on March 16. As 75th anniversary of the Light’s national leader in noise and air In 1651, a large tract of land, soon as the bill had passed the Diamond Jubilee is being ob­ from the Raritan to the Pas­ House, it was rushed to Gover­ pollution from jet aircraft served this month.” Thomas Alva Edison No other state comes close to saic, including what is now nor Stokes who signed it the The name-change group m? - i« i New Jersey in the percentage of Edison Township, was deeded same day.” went so far as to have bumper “ tw Wnm or m m u- people who live under the con­ by the Dutch king to Augustine With no other changes in the stickers printed as part of mt mm mi w mm im.mm is * nm i* m wm* hjw stant thunder and danger of criss­ Herrmanns, a Dutch settler. size of the township we know their campaign. These banners tm m mi* mmnm & m mwm m mmum a * * *«**«**# mum* * m crossing jets. No other state can One of the first structures to today, Edison continued to read, “LIGHTS ON” Vote For #tm **** %ssm* ******* rmiw. encourage the growth of our ,f t% mi m *t. tmmm m mvin «* match New Jersey in the number bear the name Raritan — that EDISON, N.J., and Change m tmrnm m mmmm u** *m* of citizens bombarded by the community was the Raritan is, until 1954. It was at that Raritan Township to EDISON, m mwa imu mmm *#* mtm «** m S «7u**m mmnvti m. noise, dumped fuel and pollution Bridge (now known as the time that the community was N.J. nmtftui ****** mmrm mm* from a neighboring state’s jets. Albany Street Bridge; Route beginning to “come into its 27). The bridge forded the Another petition, however, And no other state has so many own” as a town. Yet identity was drawn up encouraging its public institutions that would sit Raritan River between New confusion reigned over the Brunswick and what is now signers to have Raritan Town­ idly by and watch it happen. sprawling, growing municipal­ m mt*nm kww™ '« the borough of Highland Park. ship adopt the name “Nixon.” Well, the New Jersey Coalition ity because there were several Even today, many hear the Against Aircraft Noise is not going The first bridge was com­ other municipalities in New w* m sum**,’**'-'' pleted in 1795 and was a wel­ name “Nixon” and assume it VKtt mu**"". to watch it happen. We are going Jersey which also bore the **•.*»«** v ,. , , .MM M «>•« come relief to the ferry boat refers to then-Vice President 5 »<:>*« » "**' *' to do everything it takes, with or name Raritan — Raritan Bor­ Richard M. Nixon. It is further stt rW without the help of our govern­ used prior to the bridge’s con­ ough in Somerset County and struction. assumed that the name of the ment, to stop this latest assault on two other Raritan Townships Nixon area of Edison was Before 1870, Edison Town­ in Monmouth and Hunterdon our health and quality of life. ship was a part of portions of given to honor the vice presi­ We will counterattack on two counties. dent Woodbridge and Piscataway Additionally, the township fronts: townships. On March 17, 1870, Such, however, is not the One front will be to force the had no central post office at boundary lines were drawn, the time. None of the post of- case. . Q f FAA to rollback the Expanded and the area was incorporated East Coast Plan and to conduct an ices that served Raritan Town­ Two men, Anthony Ferrullo as a separate township. It was and August Nelson, petitioned environmental impact study in ac­ given the name “Raritan” be­ cordance with the law. The Gen­ ship used Raritan Township for the name of Raritan Town­ cause of its proximity to the as a post mark — Nixon, Stel- ship to be changed to Nixon. eral Accounting Office, New Jer­ Raritan River and to honor sey Department of Environmental ton, Rahway, Metuchen and Nelson was an employee of the presence of the Raritan Woodbridge post offices the Nixon Nitration Works in Protection and Gov. James Florio Tribe of the Lenni-Lenape In­ agree with this strategy. served Raritan Township. Raritan Township, and the dians who first settled here. To compound the confusion, name was to honor Lewis Nix­ — Photo by Thomas R. DeCaro The second front will be to con­ The name Raritan, however, vince the Port Authority to give residents never identified on who located in the town­ was not the only suggestion for themselves as residents of ship in 1913 and developed This bust of Thomas A. Edison stands in the Council Cham­ New Jerseyans the same protec­ the name of this new munici­ bers of the-Edison Township Municipal Building. The decision tion that citizens in other parts of Raritan Township. Rather, the nitration works there. pality. Other options offered they would report that they Many township residents did by township voters to change the name of the municipality the country have against older, included Washington and Met- noisier, less-safe and more pollut­ lived in Bonhamtown or Nixon not, even in 1954 when the from Raritan to Edison was made in part to honor the “Wizard uchen. or Menlo Park or Stelton or names were placed on the bal­ of Menlo Park ” ing aircraft. We will not tolerate In 1900, residents of the anything less than what the citi­ Sand Hills. lot, know who Lewis Nixon Metuchen area of the town­ Mrs. Charles Wira, an active was. wnere, in six years, he con­ zens of California enjoy. ship petitioned the State of newspaper reports of No­ It’s time for the people of the member of several community As part of Nelson’s cam­ structed 100 vessels including vember 3, 1954, said, “Wait New Jersey to incorporate as groups, decided that some­ paign to change the name of the submarine torpedo boat Garden State to take action to a separate borough. This peti- and see what happens now. protect their quality of life. His­ thing had to be done to end the township to Nixon, it was Holland and seven other sub­ We are not licked yet The tory has shown that our public in­ ion drive arose, according to the confusion in the rapidly reported that Lewis Nixon marines. ... The Holland was double referendum was too stitutions won’t do it for us. His­ old accounts, out of a feeling growing community. She felt a “...was born in Leesburg, Vir­ the first submarine used by confusing and there was not tory also has shown that the peo­ that those in Metuchen were change in name would give ginia, in 1861 into a family that the United States Navy.” adequate instruction to the ple eventually will prevail over in­ not given enough voice in the the township a single, cohesive can trace its English and Irish Other accomplishments voters on how to vote.” operation of the public justice. identity. She was the leader of ancestry back to 1390. Lewis noted were Nixon’s “receiving The same newspaper report schools. Independent of the many youth groups, Girl Scout Nixon was graduated from the a Doctor of Science degree township, the borough would continues, “But Mrs. Charles troops and other community- United States Naval Academy from Villanova University, be­ Wira, chairman of the Women have complete control over the oriented organizations, and at the head of the class of 1882 coming a Fellow of the Ame­ CRAIG CANTONI direction and future of its own her husband, Charles, was an and was sent by the govern­ for Edison, said, ‘I am indeed President, New Jersey Coalition rican Geographical Society very happy with the choice educational system. active member of the town­ ment to the Royal Naval Col­ and being a member of the Against Aircraft Noise Following Metuchen’s lead, ship’s police reserves. and so are the women who and MARTIN J. MINNICINO lege in England for post grad­ Sons of the American Revolu­ Highland Park incorporated as Wira composed several rea­ uate studies. In 1884, he was worked so hard to bring it Edison a separate borough in 1905. sons favoring a change in the tion.” about’ ” transferred to the Naval Con­ Nelson and Ferrullo con­ Residents there claimed that name of the municipality, not struction Corps and designed Little, apparently became of they were not given a strong only from Raritan but to Edi­ cluded, “Lewis Nixon was the court battle threat, and the the battleships Oregon, Mas­ truly an outstanding man of enough voice in the governing son. She formed a group sachusetts and Indiana. ... In name Edison was adopted. State should of the township, historical called “Women for Edison.” our country, and equally de­ A meeting of the Board of 1895, Nixon founded the Cres­ serving with Thomas Edison records indicate. Residents She and the group laid out the cent Shipyard in Elizabeth Commissioners — the forerun­ run schools the honor of having this town­ ner of today’s Township Coun­ ship named after him.” cil — was held on November It was not unusual for a To the Editor: 11, 1954. It was at that regular community to adopt the name meeting, reports show, that the of an industrialist who lived in If the school districts are al­ board “began conducting its lowed to operate as they have the town. Tiny Helmetta, in business in the name of Rari­ been doing the last seven to 10 the southern part of Middlesex tan Township but finished do­ years, then we all will be ^working- FLIGHTS ON" County, is named for the wife ing business as Edison.” of tobacco and snuff manufac­ justto support the schools. The official changeover was turer George Helme. Helme simple. “Oscar Kaus, township Florio put a total amount to provided housing and employ­ spend for each student from about clerk, read a notice to the gov­ ment for most of the residents erning body. It recounted the $7,000 per student in lower grades of that community, and the to $9,000 for high school. Yet Edi­ V o t e F o r requirements of the law to son, one of the highest spenders name of Helmetta was chosen change a name, referred to the for schools, the cost as of today is to honor Helme’s wife, Etta. receipt of petitions to put the $7,700 and there is money that is, Neighboring Sayreville is question on the ballot, gave in my opinion, thrown away, such named for the Sayre and the official vote on the two as more weight thrown on other Fisher brick works which once name questions and stated activities instead of academics. provided employment for resi­ that he proposed to immedi­ There are child study teams EDISON, N. J. dents of that community. ately notify the secretary of that overwhelm the system and Ferrullo and Nelson cam­ state in Trenton and the vice principals who are un­ paigned hard for the adoption county clerk as required by needed. Class sizes should be at More than 35 years ago, voters in what is now Edison Township decided to change the of the Nixon name. Wira took law. Then, he signed the no­ least 30 students per class. Don’t municipality’s name from Raritan. One group — “Women of Edison” led by Mrs. Charles Wira — her “Women for Edison” cam­ tice. Commissioner Russell B. forget that students who are slow used these bumper stickers and other forms of campaigning to convince voters that the name of paign throughout the township Walker ... called for a roll call learners have special classes. The Edison would be best for the township. Another group — led by Anthony Ferrullo and August and the referendum was vote.” And the name was Edi­ New Jersey Education Association Nelson — campaigned for the name of Nixon, after the Nixon Nitration Works. It was a harp- placed on the ballot of the No­ son. vember 2, 1954, general elec­ Reporters made note of and actually administered in a fought campaign, voter turnout was rather heavy and the results were close. tion. At the polls, voters were behind-the-scenes way. reported the time as being given three choices: Retain 9:26, Wednesday, November The best answer to the schools the name of Raritan Town­ are that the states take complete 10,1954. ship, change the name of the Wira attended the ceremo­ control of the school districts with town to Edison, or change the property owners still being taxed. Change Raritan Township nies and presented the attend­ name of the township to ees with a homemade birthday Plus taxes from state sources with Nixon. the state takeover of all public cake. The cake was sur­ A heavy turnout of voters — rounded by small replica elec­ schools, the problem of equal edu­ 9,393 out of the 14,000 eligible cation will be solved. If any rich tric light bulbs and was topped to voters — yielded the following with a stork holding a sign people want their children to results: “The voters ... ap­ which read, “Happy Birth-day, have extras, then let the rich par­ proved a referendum to Edison!” ents contribute out of their own change the name to Edison by bank accounts. a vote of 3,723 to 3,075, and at To have the state operate the the same time defeated a David C. Sheehan is co­ schools would be no problem ex­ counterproposal to change it founder and president of the cept when the first phase is to Nixon by a vote of 3,060 for Edison Township Historical So­ started. Nixon to 3,557 against” ciety. This article is one in a Unhappy with the results of series for the Metuchen-Edison the election, the Nixon Review by society members on KARL KOVACH EDISON, N. J. “camp” threatened a court the history of the area. Edison battle. They, according. to PAGE A-6 - ME REVIEW - June 22, 1990 Associate pastors named P0N D E R 0SA at Catholic parishes in area STEAKHOUSE METUCHEN — New associate Church, Perth Amboy. He will re­ pastors have been appointed at main full-time chaplain at SL three Roman Catholic parishes in Mary Regional High School, South the Review’s area. Amboy. Rev. Douglas J. Haefner be­ In related appointments, Rev. comes associate pastor of St John B. Gordon leaves Guardian Francis Cathedral, Main Street and Elm Avenue. He had been a Angels Church on Plainfield Ave­ full-time graduate student nue, Edison, where he had been Rev. Kevin C. Jones, a newly- associate pastor. He was named to ordained priest, was named asso­ a similar position at St Magdalen ciate pastor of St Matthew’s de Pazzi Church, Flemington. Also, Rev. Joseph G. Celano has B y e , Church on Seymour Avenue, Edi­ son. He replaces Rev. Thomas P. been transferred from associate Ganley, who becomes associate pastor of St Mary’s Church, South pastor of Immaculate Conception Amboy, to the same position at St Church, Spotswood. Cecelia’s Church, Iselin. He will Rev. Francis F. Vaz is the new continue to be part-time chaplain JEFFREY MARICS associate pastor of Our Lady of at Middlesex County College. and Peace Church, on Amboy Avenue The appointments were effec­ CHRISTINE VARDARO at the Edison-Fords border. He tive June 12 except for the Scott had been in the same position at appointment, which takes effect Christine Vardaro St John the Evangelist Church, August 1. Dr. SHELDON WALTUCH Dunellen. plans to marry Rev. Michael P. Scott, who had Bye# been associate pastor at Our Lady Kids can make art Jeffrey Maries Cantor, Waltuch of Peace, was appointed to the same position at Holy Spirit out of sandpaper EDISON — Christine Vardaro of to be honored Meyer Road and Jeffrey Maries of Scouting awards EDISON — Registration begins Eardley Road are engaged to be at Sunday event Tuesday for “Sandpaper Art,” a married. for Chupela, library program sponsored by the Edison The bride-to-be is the daughter EDISON — Dr. Irving Cantor Free Public Library for children of Thomas and June Vardaro, also and Dr. Sheldon Waltuch of Edi­ EDISON — The Delaware- in 2nd through 5th grades. of Meyer Road. Miss Vardaro son will be among four communal Raritan Girl Scout Council re­ Programs are scheduled for graduated in 1985 from Edison R S b e ye leaders honored by the Middlesex cently presented children’s librar­ Monday, July 2, at the Clara Bar­ High School and is employed in County Friends of Yeshiva Uni­ ian Dolores C. Chupela and the ton library, 141 Hoover Avenue; the finance department of the versity at a testimonial breakfast Edison Public Library with recog­ Tuesday, July 3, at the main li­ Township of Edison. on Sunday. nition awards. brary, 340 Plainfield Avenue; and The bridegroom-to-be, who is The tribute will begin at 9:30 Chupela received a special rec­ Thursday, July 5, at the North the son of Arpad Maries of Edison a.m. at Etz Chaim Congregation, ognition award for community Edison library, 777 Grove Avenue. and Patricia Fatipel of Jamesburg, 230 Dennison Street, Highland service on behalf of Girl Scouting. All programs begin at 2 p.m. graduated from Edison High Park The library system received a cer­ For registration or more infor­ School in 1983. He is employed by This offer Aaron Israel of Highland Park tificate of recognition for its sup­ mation, stop in at the appropriate Fords Mill Supply in Fords. and Dr. David G. Rabinowitz of port of Girl Scouting. library or call 738-0748 for Clara A wedding date of May 25 has East Brunswick also will be hon­ The latter award is on display in Barton, 287-2351 for the main li­ been planned. ored. the children’s room of the main brary, 548-4759 for North Edison. Members of six congregations library on Plainfield Avenue. won't Inst long! have been active in organizing Both awards were presented by this event on behalf of Yeshiva Fife Miers, Edison Park Service University, the oldest and largest Unit director, at the Girl Scout university under Jewish auspices council’s annual awards ceremony Parkinson’s disease: topic in America. last month. Edison and Metuchen Cantor, vice president of Con­ are part of the council’s service of symposium on June 29 gregation Ohav Emeth, Highland area. Park, is a computer manager with Johnson & Johnson. The New Jersey Parkinson In­ New York City. Waltuch, treasurer of Congrega­ ‘Stay and Play’ formation and Referral Center will hold its annual Patient and After a hot luncheon, partici­ tion Ohr Torah, Edison, is a pri­ pants will have the opportunity to vate orthodontist. this summer at Y Family Parkinson’s Disease Sym­ posium on June 29 at Scanticon- attend two workshops of their Israel, a board member of Con- choice. They will include such igregation Ahavas Achim, High­ METUCHEN - While the first Princeton. session has already begun, open­ The morning program will in­ topics as “Accommodation with­ land Park, is a financial analyst/ out Surrender,” “Sexuality and consultant with AT&T-CBS Fi­ ings are available for the next two clude presentations by two lead­ sessions of Summer Stay and Play ing Parkinson’s neurologists — Dr. Parkinson’s Disease,” and “Get­ nance. Roger C. 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STANHOPE — Folk music leg­ nac Singers. The war interrupted ends Arlo Guthrie and Pete See­ his career but Seeger was soon ger share top billing for a night of back performing with The Weav­ classic folk songs next Saturday, ers. He infuses his music with po­ June 30, at 8 p.m. in Waterloo Vil­ litical messages about a variety of lage. causes — notably human rights Guthrie, who got his start at the age of 13 performing with his fa­ and the environment, his two fa­ ther Woody Guthrie, has been a vorite themes. leading force in folk music since 1967, when he performed “Alice’s Seeger’s politics landed him in Restauarant Massacree” at the hot water during the McCarthy Newport Folk Festival. era but he continued to perform Since then, Guthrie has played classic tunes such as “Tiny at the epochal Woodstock Festival Boxes.” and produced many hits, includ­ Tickets for the performance are ing “Coming Into Los Angeles” $21. and “City of New Orleans.” A bom For more information, call 347- storyteller, Guthrie is an accom­ plished musician, playing key­ 4700. The Village of Waterloo is in boards, guitar, banjo and harmon­ Allamuchy State Park off Exit 25 ica with equal ease. of Route 80. Concerts take place Pete Seeger’s career stretches rain or shine. No food, beverages, back before World War II, when containers, cameras pets or al- he began playing with the Alma­ choloic beverages are permitted.

Warren Beatty as the comic book cop Dick Tracy. Just call it Ish ta rll. New theatrical group announces casting Flop sweat of Holocaust drama EDISON — Auditions for a play According to Cupo, Krystal With any luck, ‘Dick Tracy’ will mark the the end of comic book movies to be staged by a newly formed Mountain “is about the sacrifices theatrical troupe will be hosted made to retain love, family pride To call Dick Tracy a crashing bore wouldn’t be entirely accu­ Dick Tracy, his girlfriend Tess Trueheart (Glenne Headly) and next week by the Edison Valley and tradition in today’s world.” rate: the noisy soundtrack is replete with explosions, gunshots the young orphan they adopt are dressed in the left end of the Playhouse, 2196 Oak Tree Road. Needed are an actor and ac­ and face-splattering punches spectrum while the henchmen of the chief villain, Big Boy Krystal Mountain, an original tress in their late 60s or early 70s but the story offers nothing so Caprice (A1 Pacino) take their fashion tips from the other side of drama by Iselin resident Don to play the couple, an actor in his assertive as a crash. Call Dick D eep Fo c u s the rainbow (they could have been called the Biv Gang). It’s Cupo, will be the premiere pro­ early 40s to play Fred and a Tracy a grinding bore, a dron­ strictly a gimmick but in the early scenes, when you still hope duction of TACT — Take A woman in her late 30s to plhy ing bore, a thudding, plopping STEVEN HART Dick Tracy might be some fun, it gives the movie some kick Chance Theater. Cupo’s previous Shari. A young teen actor is also or plodding bore. On second Unfortunately, having devoted so much thought to the film’s play is the award-winning O.K., needed to play Ziggy. thought, just call it Ishtar II and settle back to watch as it does look, Beatty consigned the screenwriting duties to Jim Cash and Until Something Better Comes for Touchstone Pictures what the original neutron bomb did for Along. Jack Epps Jr. One would think the team that slapped together Auditions will be held Monday, Columbia Pictures. Top Gun, The Secret of My Success and Legal Eagles would have Krystal Mountain is an intense In Ishtar, you will recall, Elaine May took the storyline for a drama about a family of Holocaust June 25, Tuesday, June 26, and no trouble coming up with a passable comic strip stoDick Tracy Wednesday, June 27, from 7 p.m... loose, off-the-cuff comedy and built it up into a hugely expensive has no plot, only a situation: Tracy wants to bag Big Boy; Big survivors: Heinrich and Gretchen, pseudo-epic; blessed with two interesting lead actors with a flair German-Jewish immigrants to 9 p.m. at the Edison Valleyl Boy wants Tracy out out of commission. Trying to keep the film Playhouse. The production will be for comedy, she had them play dull nerds with nothing funny to fast-paced, Beatty keeps every scene so short that each encoun­ haunted by memories of the con­ say or do. Dick Tracy, produced and directed by Warren Beatty centration camps; Fred, their old­ staged in August, to be followed ter seems chopped-off Near the end there’s a scene in which est son and a Vietnam War draft- by a local tour. — one of the leads from Ishtar — showcases the same kind of Tracy, proposing to Tess, begins stammering and hesitating, filmmaking insanity. dodger; Shari, the Christian For more information, call cutting short one sentence and starting another. The entire film widow of their younger son; and TACT at 283-0158 or the Edison Check it out, folks. Dick Tracy seeks to emulate the financial is paced that way: there’s no sense of rhythm (or rhyme and Ziggy, Shari’s 12-year-old boy. Valley Playhouse at 755-4654. success of Batman, a movie derived from a comic hero of con­ reason) and you’re so busy trying to figure out which actor is tinuing interest, by adapting a nearly 60-year-old comic strip buried under the putty that you lose track of what’s supposed to hardly anyone bothers to read anymore. It is a crime story with be going on. If it weren’t for Beatty's name on the credits, you’d a bland hero who does next to no sleuthing. The menagerie of never associate the director of the well-crafted Reds with this geeky, monstrous villains offers a score of cameos from interest­ film. Craft exhibition set ing actors - James Caan, A1 Pacino, Dick Van Dyke - rendered The executives at Touchstone Pictures have made Dick Tracy unrecognizable with grotesque makeup and given appearances the focus of a publicity barrage exhausting even by current so fleeting the final credits bring to mind a roll call for the standards, but all the preview T-shirts, merchandising and flack­ at Allaire State Park missing in action. It has songs written by Stephen Sondheim but ing can’t disguise the odor of flop sweat coming off this picture. permits only a couple of bars of any given tune to be heard; it If Dick Tracy is a success, it will be success generated solely by MONMOUTH - Over 100 crafts­ Among the village’s restored has a femme fatale played by Madonna, a rock singer with looks hype and marketing; with any luck the movie will fail so com­ men from all over the region will pre-Revolutionary War buildings but no acting ability, and gives her neither a full production pletely it may help end Hollywood’s passion for comic strip gather at Allaire State Park for will be demonstrations of broom­ number (the only time in which she gets to sing a complete song films. the 11th annual Allaire Craft Fair, making, painting on silk, basket is during a rehearsal drowned out by the mugging of her gang­ Aside from the color scheme, Dick Tracy has two things going set for Saturday, July 14, from 10 making and glass blowing. ster boyfriend) nor an interesting love scene with Tracy, whom for it: Dustin Hoffman’s hilarious walk-on as Mumbles (which a.m. to 4 p.m. Once again the Wheaton Village she is supposed to be trying to seduce. bears a more than passing resemblance to his work in Rain Among the crafts to be on dis­ Glassblowers will show how they make glass the traditional way, Actually, Dick Tracy does improve on Ishtar in one area: the Man) and “Rollercoaster Rabbit,” a new Roger Rabbit cartoon play at the fair will be handmade flick has a unique, impressively thought-out look Beatty and the that plays before the opening credits. Unlike the obnoxious wearables, including hand- with a furnace heated the night production designer Richard Sylbert, taking their cue from the “Tummy Trouble,” which was paired off with last year’s Honey, I painted silks, one-of-a-kind and before to ensure the proper tem­ limited palette of old newspaper presses, have given Dick Tracy Shrunk the Kids, “Rollercoaster Rabbit” has plenty of inventive utilitarian ceramics, jewelry of perature for the demonstration. a Sunday funnies style as striking as that created by Tim Burton gags, though the ending takes us back to Who Framed Roger precious and non-precious mate­ Among the participants will be and Anton Furst for last year's Batman. The colors are re­ Rabbit instead of letting the cartoon stand by itself. If they’d rials, baskets, hand-blown glass, 12 recipients of Arts Council fel­ stricted to particular shades: a green desk pad, green shirt and showed the cartoon after the film, rather than before it, the furniture and toys. lowships and exhibitors in the green car might have comp **■ iU- ’■ ----„Ilt nf Tracy would have looked a lot hnn- This year’s fair will include a New Jersey Arts Annual exhibi­ demonstration by celebrated tion series. quilters, among them Sue Rod­ I addition to the crafts, blue- gers, whose quilts have won grass music will be performed by awards both here and abroad. the Small Change Band. There will be an old fashioned train as well as pinic areas and refresh­ ments. Allaire Village is located two miles west of Garden State Park­ way Exit 98. The entrance is off Route 524, Allaire Road. For more information, call Hor- tense Green at (609) 292-6130 or 938-2371. Circle Players open auditions by appointment PISCATAWAY - The Circle Players will hold auditions for the comedy Light Up the Sky Friday, June 29, through Sunday, July 1, at the Circle Playhouse, 416 Vic­ toria Avenue. All auditions are by appoint­ ment only and will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on June 29, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on June 30 and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on July 1. Needed are four women ages 25 to 65 and 15 men ages 30 to 60. Auditioners are asked to pre­ pare a one- to three-minute monologue showcasing comedic ability. Smith and Roland Orzabal. For an appointment call 247-8940. PAGE A-8 - ME REVIEW - June 22, 1990 Trip Shakespeare: Aiming at the middle of the road and missing TRIP SHAKESPEARE with the huge fat tone only a fret­ Across the Universe (A&M) less can provide; the moments of Lots of bands work harder at greatest instrumental delicacy being strange, but Trip Shakes­ (the placid closer “Honey Tree,” peare, a Minneapolis four-piece the micro-Jaco break on “Gone, that has perfectly zilch in common Gone, Gone,” the warm under­ with the rowdy garage music that statements on “Drummer Like town’s infamous for, seems to ex­ Me”) depend on Munson, and he’s ude oddness without giving it a as reliable as a league-leading re­ thought prep-punks with the imaginations lief pitcher. One of the band’s sig­ Well, that’s not exactly right — of psycho killers. Add a dozen or nature ideas is to substitute a they do give oddness more than so years of advanced cultural cyn­ slightly head-turning chord for the just a thought on occasion, ap­ icism, toss out the art-school mini­ one you expect at a crucial junc­ pearing in public wearing things malist chic and the hiccuppy vo­ ture, and it’s usually a deft move like gigantic dorsal fins or purple cal mannerisms, and you end up by Munson that gets them around angel wings strapped to their with something close to the Trip the comer. backs. There’s a strong streak of Shakespeare collective mindset: The writing (mainly by Matt willful eccentricity in these folks, understatedly insane, ready to Wilson) and the singing (by all an unabashed flakiness that one turn their limitations into a style, three men) are damn hard to pin suspects is at least partially a put- off the wall because they couldn’t down. There are plenty of points on. find the wall if they tried. where these guys seem deter­ But the music is spacy in an Most of the ideas this band re­ mined to keep tongues firmly in utterly unforced way. The com­ lies on are aggressively unhip — cheeks: on “Snow Days,” for ex­ positions are completely tonal extended bass solos, an Allman ample, a likable and lighthearted (well, almost completely: there’s Brothers sense of g r a d u a 1 semi-swing tune that perversely the occasional nutcase guitar pacing, big broad paintbrush refuses to swing — with Harris at break); the singing is forthrightly strokes of sentiment Somehow the helm, berserkly bashing cym­ melodic and uncontaminated by the band’s distinctive blend of bals at every opportunity, the arch attitude; the counterpoint is these things adds up to one of the band takes the blue notes and tin- intelligent; the rhythms are weirder records heard this year kly piano and all the other cock- straightforward. It almost seems by somebody who spends most of tail-y elements and refuses to like the ’Speare is aiming at mid­ his free time seeing out weird blend them into the expected dle-of-the-road pop-rock nor­ records. lounge mix — the lyric is divided malcy, trying to be a Grass Roots Much of the mystique derives between simple day-off-from-work for the ’90s. But they don’t quite from the rhythm section, one of blissfulness (the snow is “a bless­ pull it off, and what happens in­ the most unorthodox rhythm sec­ ing on your town”) and the urge to Trip Shakespeare: John Munson, Matt Wilson, Elaine Harris and Dan Wilson. stead is better. tions you’ll find anywhere outside bash a tiresome “Mrs. Braintree” Beneath the hippie hair (lots of a Harry Partch festival. Harris who can’t lighten up and enjoy hair here, as much as any six non- plays standing up, using an idio­ the white stuff. “The Slacks,” a and it explores down past the liest of the album’s choral rockers is hearsay; haven’t seem ’em) metal bands in the business) and syncratic setup (from the photos pounding rocker with a pretty point where things get a little (aha! there’s an influence, sort of, they’ve acquired a lot of fierce the carefully selected goof suits, I’ve seen it looks like she keeps loony premise (the title refers to creepy. and one definitely worth fishing fans, not only in the Midwest This you couldn’t find four more white- all the cymbals to the left and all The songs here that will proba­ for). “Turtledove,” the funky and peculiar combination — wide- mysteriously impressive trousers bly draw the most attention are bread people anywhere this side the drums to the right), studiously and to an unlikely dance), is about bright-eyed opener, puts falsetto eyed clean-living innocent of 1955. Matt and Dan Wilson (gui­ avoiding the kinds of backbeat yea short of resembling a They the upbeat numbers, all powered harmonies to their traditional country-boy charm, sick twisted tars and piano), John Munson combinations we’re all used to; by clear-headed three-part har­ purpose (Expressing Ardent Love, inside-joke wit, occasional large­ (bass) and Elaine Harris (drums) Might Be Giants outtake: graft an she knocks out a mean backbeat, accordion onto that kind of lyric monies, generally a bit closer to as they do everywhere from Eng­ ness of spirit, and quirky indepen­ — dig those outrageously unfunky but it’s nothing you’ve quite heard power pop than the band’s qui­ lish madrigals to the Temptations) dence of musical style — probably Anglo names! — all have a jocky and it’s strictly Dial-A-Song time. eter material, but consistently before. Munson, on fretless bass, The wiseapple factor has always — and it all looks pleasant and a has about as much chance of mak­ cheerleaderish Clearasilled milk- seems the strongest traditional showing that ’Speare is pretty far bit predictable until you get be­ ing a lot of money as Stump Mer­ fed Midwestern look, as squeaky- worked well for TMBG, whose ar­ from any clear influence you musician in the band, a tasteful rangements are so far off balance tween the lines of the second rill has of completing the 1995 clean as that other band led by melodist who holds down the low could name. “Gone, Gone, Gone” verse and recognize that the nar­ season as the Yankees’ manager. brothers named Wilson, the one you don’t mistake them for any­ is a gradual momentum-gainer But, hey, this is my job, recom­ register (important work in a band thing else, but here, where the in­ rator and his lady love are both from somewhere out West, always lacking a conventional kick drum) with a very weird, cool late vocal pigeons (“Here above the phone mending albums that are probably appeared to be. One of ’Speare’s strumentation is more or less “real,” the goofier stuff doesn’t al­ break over guttural metal guitars; lines she coos/ High into the tree- too good to be popular. notorious 10-minute concert an­ it’s sad and powerful, as songs tops I call” — huh?!). Can some­ It may be necessary to do some­ thems, the parodic farm-boy bio­ ways quite jell. with the word “gone” in them body sing a straightfaced love thing fairly weird to get in the Then, after being Funny Guys ought to be. “The Crane” (not to song while pretending to be a right frame of mind to take in graphic ballad “Toolmaster of Church services maybe once too often, they turn Brainerd,” sends up the whole be confused with 1988’s best bird? Only if he’s Matt Wilson of Trip Shakespeare: walking wholesomeness shtick with a reat twice on Sundays around and expose emotional crane-related song, TMBG’s Trip Shakespeare, in which case through the suburbs under a full eadpan spoken introduction about depths that can truly surprise you. “They’ll Need a Crane”) seems to it makes perfect sense. moon in a wolf suit, maybe, or the hazards of going through METUCHEN — The First Pres­ “Drummer Like Me,” narrated by be using auto repossession as Across the Universe is the band’s reading 16 Burroughs books in a “milking school” and into the byterian Church, 270 Woodbridge an out-of-work drummer who one some kind of metaphor for escap­ major-label debut; they’ve put a row, or migrating to dairy country dominant local occupation in Avenue, will conduct two services imagines isn’t destined for much ing the banality of the bourgeoi­ couple out on their own without and taking a semester at a promi­ ^rainerd: “That’s not an easy life; on Sundays during July and Au­ of anything (“Got a friend with a sie, and does this with surprising corporate support, and with a live nent milking school. 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Hems for inclusion in "Goings On at a THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Avery LIGHT & FIGURE Paintings by P.J Green 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $2 for adults, $1 tune. (Rock) Thursdays: Acid House dance Glance'' should be sent to Steven Hart, Enter­ Brooks stars in Shakespeare's comedy about and Timothy Moran on display through June for children and the elderiy. Through August: night. June 26 Landaas, Gimme the Gun tainment Section Editor, 211 Lakeview Ave­ Petrucchio's "taming" of the fractious Kate so "Fresh Perspectives,” high school art from 775-1991. nue, Piscataway. Please include telephone 27 at the Blackwell Street Center for the Arts, MUSIC that her younger sister Bianca can marry. July Northern and Centra! New Jersey. Through number for follow-up questions. 32-34 West Blackwell Street, Dover. 328-9628. 20 through August 12 at the Levin Theater, 1990: "Evolution to Revolution: 19th Century BETSY BALLINGALL Flautist performs HARMONY STREET. 210 Somerset Street, George Street near Route 18, Douglass Col­ HIROSHI MURATA Paintings, prints and re­ Lighting Devices in America.” Ongoing: works by J.S. Bach. Rachmaninoff and Plainfield. Live music every Thursday, Friday, lege, New Brunswick. Admission $18 to $15. cent sculpture by the Japanese-born Flemi- “ From the Ground Up,” exhibit on the un­ Poulenc. Sunday, June 24, at 3 p.m. in the Saturday. 769-0441. THEATER Preview discount July 19. 932-7511. ngton resident on display through June 30 at earthing of a coelophysis. June 29: Summer First Presbyterian Church. 270 Woodbridge the Rabbet Gallery, 120 Georges Road, New Funday for children and families. 538-0454, Avenue, Metuchen. 549-5101. HIDEAWAY LOUNGE, Edison Country Inn, TRUE WEST Sam Shepard’s play about Brunswick. 828-5150. Routes 1 and 287, Edison. (Dinner and two brothers — one a Hollywood screenwriter, WYNTON MARSALIS JAZZ ENSEMBLE dance) 548-7000. ANYTHING GOES The Cole Porter musical MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND performed by Plays in the Park July 3 the other a petty crook — who accidentally W. ELMER SCHOFIELD Impressionist Sunday, July 15, at 8 p.m. in the State The­ CRAFTS, Main Street and Green Village atre, 19 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. through July 14 (except July 4 and July 8) at meet at their mother’s California house. June paintings by a member of the New Hope Cir­ HURRICANE ALLEY, Headquarters Plaza Road, Madison. Tuesday through Saturday Admission $25 to $8. 932-7511. 8:40 p.m. in the RooseveH Park Amphitheater, 28 through July 7 at the Zaidi Theatre, sec­ cle, on display through July 31 at the Zimmerli Hotel, 3 Headquarters Plaza, Morristown. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Rock) 898-9100. off Route 1, Edison. Free admission. Playgo­ ond stage of the Franklin Villagers Barn The­ Museum, George and Hamilton streets, New Admission $1 for adults, 50 cents for children. DAVID MONTEFIORE London-born tenor ers may begin placing lawn chairs at 6 p.m. atre, 475 DeMott Lane, Somerset. Admission Brunswick. 932-7237. 548-2884 $8. 873-2710. Through June 30: “The Linen Threads They performs theatrical and operatic works Tues­ JASON'S, 1604 F Street, South Belmar. Spun,” flax-making. 377-2982. day, Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m. on the lawn of the 681-9782 ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN Charles Fuller's RON TERNER Works by the Bronx photog­ Jewish Community Center, 100 Grant Avenue, C’MON GET HAPPY! Musical salute to the rapher and gallery owner, on display through drama about a black family man and the vi­ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West J. AUGUST’S, 19 Dennis Street, New “ golden age" of radio, performed through July 10 at the Pargot Gallery, Jewish Commu­ Deal. Admission $9, $7.50 for the elderly, re­ Sept. 29 at the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse. cious street hood who has accidentally 53rd Street, New York. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 Brunswick. Sundays: Open stage. Thursdays: nity Center, 1775 Oak Tree Road, Edison served seats available. 531-9100. gunned down the man's daughter, performed p.m., Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Reggae night. 246-8028. Route 173 West, Hampton. 735-6070 or (800) 494-3232. HHP-7313. August 16 through Sept. 23 by the Players’ Wednesdays. Admission $6, $3.50 for stu­ MUSIC FROM ASTON MAGNA "Music Company, Mill Hill Playhouse, East Front and dents, $2 for the elderly. (212) 708-9400. LADY JANE’S, 14th & Hudson Streets, 200 YEARS OF HUNGARIAN PAINTING Heard in Jefferson’s America” at the Nicholas • FINISHING TOUCHES Jean Kerr's roman­ Montgomery streets, Trenton. Admission $10, Music Center, George Street near Route 18, Hoboken. (Rock) 659-9390. $5 for students and the elderly. (609) 989- Pieces from the collection of Nicolas M. Salgo. NEW JERSEY MUSEUM OF AGRICUL­ tic comedy about mid-life crisis, performed Douglass College, New Brunswick. June 23: 3038 or (215) 295-3794. former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, on dis­ through June 24 by the New Theatre, Knights TURE, College Farm Road, New Brunswick. Works by Beethoven, Reinagle, others. Sepa­ LIVE TONIGHT, 125 Washington Street, play through October at the Hungarian Heri­ Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., of Columbus Hall, Maple Street, Bernardsville. rate admission $15. 932-7511. Hoboken. (Rock and comedy) June 22: Admission $10, $7. 234-9238. tage Center, 300 Somerset Street, New Bruns­ Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Admission $4, $2 for Gimme The Gun, Second Self. June 23: Local wick. 846-5777. FILM children, free to children under 4. 249-2077. ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S "All-Mozart Custom, The Whatnots. June 28: Ann B. GODSPELL Musical based on the Gospel Evening" featuring “ Sinfonia Concertante" Davis, The T-Dolls. June 29: Chris Stamey According to St. Matthew, performed by the NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM, 205 West and other works. Tuesday, July 24, at 8 p.m. Group. June 30: The Cynics, Monster Zero Capsule reviews by Steven Hart. 795-9606. Eclectic Players Aug. 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 at St. State Street, Trenton. Tuesday through Sat­ in the Nicholas Music Center, George Street Mary’s Spiritual Center, Route 34 and Phalanx S p e a k e r s urday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Sunday 1 p.m. FOREIGN FILM SERIES Thursdays at 7 near Route 18, Douglass College, New Bruns­ Road, Colts Neck. Admission $7. 946-4806. to 5 p.m. Free admission. Through June 30: wick. Admission $18. 932-7511. LOOP LOUNGE, 373 Broadway, Passaic. p.m. in the Kennedy Library, 500 Hoes Lane, TIM HILDEBRANDT Fantasy artist known “ Potters in the Sun,” Pueblo Indian pottery. (Rock) 365-0807. Piscataway. July 19: A Taxing Woman’s Re­ for his work both solo and with his brother will I WON’T DANCE Oliver Hailey's thriller Through July 8: "25 Years of Collecting Fine OUT OF THE BLUE Mainstream jazz per­ probes the relationship between three charac­ turn (Japan). July 26: Hour of the Stars sign copies of his 1991 fantasy calendar “Vi­ MAIN STREET COMEDY CAFE, 146 Main Art.” (609) 292-6464. formed Tuesday, June 26, at 8 p.m. in the ters suspected of killing a celebrity couple. (Brazil). August 2: Levy & Goliath (France). sions of Other Worlds" Saturday, July 28, Street, Hackensack. Live comedy Friday and Nicholas Music Center, George Street near Performed through June 23 at the Edison August 9: The Boat is Full (Switzerland, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Comic Attitudes, 88 OLD BARRACKS MUSEUM, Barrack Saturday. 488-5888. Germany. France). August 16: Nosferatu Route 18, Douglass College, New Brunswick. Valley Playhouse, 2196 Oak Tree Road, Edi­ Albany Street in Kilmer Square, New Bruns­ Street (next to State House complex), Tren­ (Germany). August 23: Well Digger’s Daugh­ wick. 249-5558. Admission $12. 932-7511. son. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30 p.m., Sun­ ton. Revolutionary War museum. Tuesday MAXWELL’S, 1039 Washington Street, ter (France). All shown with English subtitles. days at 7:30 p.m. Admission $9, $8 for the through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 Hoboken. (Rock) June 21: The Shoes, Miss Free admission. 463-1633. RICHARD SCHULMAN GROUP Acclaimed elderly on Fridays and Sundays. 755-4654. p.m. to 5 p.m. Donation $2, $1 for students Terry & The Healing Power, The Marys. June jazz quartet performs Saturday, June 23, at 8 and the elderly, 50 cents for children under 22: Reverb Mofos, Urge Overkill, Cop Shoot MIKADO INC. Gilbert and Sullivan’s oper­ MAGIC AND METAPHYSICS Film series p.m. in the Piscataway Amphitheatre, Skiles 13. (609) 396-1776. Cop. June 23: The Pussywillows, Shack- etta about Japan, updated and set in a devoted to surrealism and horror, Fridays at 7 MUSEUMS Avenue (behind post office), Piscataway. Free wacky. June 26: Pylon, Shrimp Boat. July 4: present-day Japanese corporation, performed p.m. in Voorhees Hall Room 105, College Av­ admission. 463-0777. RICHMONDTOWN RESTORATION, 441 The Feelies. 798-4064. through June 24 at the Paper Mill Playhouse, enue campus of Rutgers University, New AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, Greenville Library, 1841 Kennedy Clarke Avenue, Staten Island. Historic vil­ Brookside Drive, Millburn. Admission $33 Brunswick. Admission $2. June 22: Dreams TOKYO STRING QUARTET Acclaimed Boulevard, Jersey City. Monday through Sat­ lage. Wednesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 MINE STREET COFFEEHOUSE, Neilson through $19. 376-4343. That Money Can Buy. June 29: Solaris quartet marks its 20th anniversary season. urday from noon to 5 p.m. Permanent exhibi­ p.m., Saturday and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Bayard streets (basement of the First (Milledoler Hall, Room 100). July 6: The Last Saturday, July 21, at 8 p.m. in the State The­ tion devoted to civil rights movement and role Through December: Exhibit on the Ichabod Reformed Church), New Brunswick. Shows MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM Comedy per­ Wave. July 13: Apocalypse Now (Milledoler atre, 19 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. of black churches. Also musical instruments of Crane House. Wednesdays in July and Au­ Saturdays at 8:30 p.m., admission $3. June formed weekends through July 7 at the Off- Hall, Room 100). July 20: Alice. 932-4685. Admission $25 to $8. 932-7511. Africa, America and the West Indies; kitchen gust: Little Folks Program at 2:45 p.m. July 23: Ken Perlman, banjo. June 30: Rich Gra­ Broadstreet Theatre, 5 South Greenwood Av­ ham, world music. After that closed until Sept. enue, Hopewell. Admission $16 Saturdays, typical of black urban households circa 1930; 14, 15: Apprentice weekend. Sept. 1, 2: Rich­ African shields and sculpture. 547-5262. 8. 572-4173 or 549-0931. $14.75 Fridays and Sundays, includes des­ mond County Fair. (718) 351-9414. sert. (609) 466-2766. EXCURSIONS AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIS­ RUTGERS GEOLOGY MUSEUM, Hamilton NIGHTLIFE MURPHY’S LAW, Ocean Boulevard and TORY, Central Park West at 79th Street, Chelsea Avenue, Long Branch. (Rock) 229- OTHELLO Avery Brooks stars in Shakes­ EAST BRUNSWICK SOCIAL RUNNERS Street between College Avenue and George New York. Daily 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., Wed­ BANANAS COMEDY CLUB, Holiday Inn, 5175. peare’s tragedy about the Moor whose love Group runs of four and a half miles every Street (Old Queens Campus), New Bruns­ nesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 9 2117 Route 4 East, Fort Lee. Live comedy for Desdemona is poisoned by jealousy. June Thursday at 6 a.m. and six miles every Sat­ wick. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contribution of $4 for adults, $2 for chil­ Friday and Saturday. 947-7444 OBSESSIONS, 1380 Sussex Turnpike, 22 through July 15 at the Levin Theater, urday at 7:30 a.m. 846-2479. p.m. Free admission. 932-7243. dren, free Fridays and Saturdays from 5 p.m. Randolph. (Rock) 895-3243. George Street near Route 18, Douglass Col­ BIRCH HILL NIGHT CLUB, Route 9 South, to 9 p.m. (212) 769-5100. SAYREVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MU­ lege, New Brunswick. Admission $18 to $15. RARITAN VALLEY ROAD RUNNERS Old Bridge. (Rock, dance) Thursdays: All­ OUTBACK SALOON, 15 West Main Street, SEUM, Main Street and Pulaski Avenue, Preview discount June 21.932-7511. Group runs of four to 10 miles every Wed­ THE ART MUSEUM, Princeton University. male revue. 536-0650. Bound Brook. (’60s rock and Top 40) 469- nesday starting at the YW-YMHA, 2 South Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 Sayreville. Sundays from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. 7743. PLAYS IN THE PARK Free performances of Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park. All welcome. p.m., Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Museum 721-0334. BOURBON STREET CAFE, Old Bay Res­ well-known musicals at 8:40 p.m. in the 254-3120. shop closes 4 p.m. Western European paint­ taurant, 61-63 Church Street, New Bruns­ Roosevelt Park Amphitheater off Route 1, Edi­ PARK PLACE, 1181 Morris Avenue, ings, sculpture and decorative art from 19th TRAILSIDE NATURE AND SCIENCE CEN­ wick. 246-3111. son. Playgoers may begins placing low- Union. (Rock) 686-3737. and 20th centuries. Pre-Columbian art and Art TER, Watchung Reservation, Coles Avenue backed lawn chairs at 6 p.m. Anything Goes of the Americas reopened.Through June 17: and New Providence Road, Mountainside. CALALOO CAFE, 190 South Street, Mor­ from July 3 to July 14. Oklahoma! from July EXHIBITIONS PINES MANOR, Route 27 and Talmadge "20th Century Works on Paper." (609) 452- Science and nature displays. Saturday and ristown. Live comedy Friday and Saturday; Road, Edison. (Dinner and dance) 287-2222. 25 to August 4. How to Succeed in Business 3788. unday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Free admission. reservations required. 993-1100. Without Really Trying from August 15 to Au­ BORN TO KILN Ceramic art by Connie Planetarium shows Sundays at 2 p.m. and THE PIPELINE, 841 Broadway, Newark. gust 25. No Sunday performances; no show 3:30 p.m., admission $1.50 for adults, $1 for CITY GARDENS, 1701 Calhoun Street, Bracci-Maclndoe and six of her students, on BERGEN MUSEUM OF ART AND SCI­ (Rock) 481-0486. on July 4. 548-2884. the elderly. Through June 25: “ From Dispos­ Trenton. (Rock) (609) 392-8887. display through July 7 at the New Jersey De­ ENCE, Ridgewood and Fairview avenues, Paramus. Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. ables to Home Decorating," rugs woven from SHOESTRING PLAYERS Children's theater signer Craftsmen gallery, 25 Livingston Ave­ PLAYPEN LOUNGE, Route 35, Sayreville. to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission plastic garbage bags. Call 789-3670 to regis­ CLUB BENE DINNER THEATRE, Route troupe performs folk tales from around the nue, New Brunswick. 246-4066. (Rock) 721-0100. $2.50 for adults, $1 for students and the eld­ ter for programs. 35, Sayreville. 727-3000. world Saturday, July 21, at 2 p.m. in the Nich­ erly. Lanpe Permanent exhibition devoted to olas Music Center, George Street near Route BEV DOLITTLE "Camouflage art" combing culture of the Lenape Indians. 265-1248. CENTRAL JERSEY STAMP, COIN & CLUB 375, 375 George Street, New THE POMPOUS MENAGERIE, 789 Jersey 18, Douglass College, New Brunswick. Admis­ naturalistic work and illusion on display CARD EXCHANGE Sunday, June 24, from 10 .Brunswick. Tuesdays: New music. Wed­ Avenue, New Brunswick. 846-4111. sion $6. 932-7511. through September at the Framing Fox Gal­ a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Budget Motor Lodge, nesdays: All-male revue. Thursdays: Ladies lery, 89 Main Street, Lebanon. 236-6077. CORNELIUS LOW HOUSE/MIDDLESEX COUNTY MUSEUM, 1225 River Road (over­ Route 9 North, Woodbridge. Free admission. night. Fridays. Saturdays: Dance party w/d.j. RAZZLES, Sumner Avenue and The Bou­ SOUTH PACIFIC The Rodgers & Ham- looking Landing Lane), Piscataway. Tuesday 247-1093. Doors open 9 p.m. 828-8385. levard, Seaside Heights. (Rock) 830-3555. 4 PHOTO FEMINISMS Artwork on gender merstein musical performed through June 30 through Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free admis­ by the Premier Theatre Company at the Hen­ and social issues, on display through July 1 at DINOMIGHT Fourteen creatures of the CONNECTIONS, 503 Van Houten Avenue, sion. 745-4489. derson Theatre, 850 Newman Springs Road, the Walters Hall Gallery, Chapel Drive at Mesozoic era, on display through July 3 at the Clifton. (Rock) 473-3127. THE ROXY, 95 French Street, New Bruns­ George Street, Douglass College, New Bruns­ Lincroft. Admission $12, $10. 758-1118. Monmouth Museum, Brookdale Community wick. 545-8971. wick. 932-7511. CRANBURY MUSEUM, Park Place, Cran- College, Lincroft. Admission $6, $4 for chil­ CORNER TAVERN, 113 Somerset Street, bury. Sponsored by the Cranbury Historical dren and the elderly. 747-2302. New Brunswick. (Rock) 247-7677. SHARKY’S CLUB, 90-92 River Street, and Preservation Society. (609) 395-8525. Hoboken. (Jazz, funk, blues) 659-1833. GARDEN STATE INTERNATIONAL AN­ CORNERSTONE, 25 New Street (corner EAST BRUNSWICK MUSEUM, 16 Maple TIQUES FAIR Saturday, Aug. 18, and Sun­ of New and Pearl streets), Metuchen. (Jazz) SHORE BAR AND RESTAURANT, 20th Street, East Brunswick. Saturdays and Sun­ day, Aug. 19, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the No cover charge; reservations recommended. Avenue and the Boulevard, Ship Bottom. TODAY'S days, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission. Garden State Exhibit Center, Davidson Ave­ June 22: Dave McKenna, solo piano. June 23: (609) 494-0558. Through Sept. 29: "Early Heating and Light­ nue (next to Hilton hotel), Somerset. Admis­ Big Nick Nicholas Quartet, June 27: Bobby CROSSWORD PUZZLE ing." 254-7329. sion $5. 768-2773. Gordon Trio. June 29, 30: Bobby Gordon SOMERSET HILLS HOTEL, Warrenville Quartet. 549-5306. Road (Exit 33 from Route 78), Warren. Ev­ EAST JERSEY OLDE TOWNE, River Road POTTERSVILLE ANTIQUES SHOW AND ery Friday and Saturday: Jazz w/Bill Robinson. at Hoes Lane, Johnson Park, Piscataway. SALE Benefit for the Pottersville Volunteer Fire COURT TAVERN, 124 Church Street, New Reservations recommended. 647-6700. ACROSS Village composed of relocated 18th century Brunswick. (Rock) June 21: Urge Overkill. 58 Grid VIP PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED Company. July 26, 27 and 28 at the Potters­ 60 Cajole structures setnear the headquarters of the ville schoolhouse and firehouse, Route 512, June 22: Two Saints, Third Party. June 23: THE STONE PONY, 913 Ocean Avenue, 1 Pistols: 61 In the past county park police. Guided tours for small Pottersville. Admission $4. 439-2544. Arnold the Pig, Dogzilla. June 27: Solar Cir­ Asbury Park. (Rock) Sundays: Cats On a slang 63 Antler part groups Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., larger cus. July 6: Fright Wig. 545-7265. Smooth Surface. Thursdays: Bobby Bandeira. 5 Uninteresting 64 Concerninq s T O O D O P A L W A R M groups by reservation only. Call 463-9077 June 23: Ginger Baker. July 13: Modern Eng­ 9 Sticky stuff 65 Be violent H A L V E R A C E A M O 1 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through THE COVE, 108 Chestnut Street, Roselle. lish. July 19: Yogi & The Sweat Band. July 27: 14 Dull pain 66 Made do with A R 1 E L G L E E C L U B S Friday. DANCE (Jazz rock, popular) June 22: Dr. Pig, Legacy, The Nerds. 988-7177. 15 Double 67 Of import M A D R 1 G A L S A L L O T Round Trip. 241-1226. negative 68 Poetry FRANKLIN MINERAL MUSEUM, Evans ISRAELI DANCING Series continues A G O N Y If L E E T S 16 Massachusetts 69 Dawn liquids Street off Route 23, Franklin Borough. through the summer at Temple Neve Shalom, ESCAPADES, 349 West Side Avenue, Jer­ STUDIO 1, 88-89 Verona Avenue, North town si L 1 G H T F E L T Friday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 250 Grove Avenue, Metuchen. Fee $4. 494- sey City. (Rock) 433-2126. Newark. (Rock) 482-1150. 17 — Garry or DOWN T E N E T C A R E S S 1 N G p.m., Sunday from 12:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 5660. Dodge O A T B O R E D G O O Open to groups by reservation, admission $2 FM STATION. Route 23 North, Wayne. T-BIRDS CAFE, 707 Main Street, Asbury 18 Diverging 1 Fish spears Park. (Rock) Sundays: Acoustic jam 5 p.m. to P R O C R E A T E S C O N E for adults, $1 for children. Separate admission MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY (Rock) 633-5544. 20 Be agitated 2 Tree nut for adjoining Buckwheat Dump. Some 300 Performing "Appalachian Spring” set to Cop­ 9 p.m.. Mondays: Mad Dog’s Open Jam. 502- A R E S 21 Commotion 3 Sixty H E A T ■ S P types of minerals from New Jersey Zinc Co. land’s score, "Deep Song" to Cowell, “ Night FAST LANE II, 207 Fourth Avenue, As- 0072. 22 Booths 4 Arrange A S S 1 S T SR to T O R mines plus replica of mine. 827-3481. Chant" to Nakai and "Temptatons of the bury Park. June 22: Aztec Two-Step, Chris­ 23 Fishing-line 5 Wall pier S H A N T R E p R O M 1 S E Moon” to Bartok. Saturday, June 30, at 8 p.m. tine Lavin. June 23: A Flock Of Seagulls. June TJ’S HIDEAWAY, 605 Tompkins Avenue, part 6 Highways P A L E S T 1 N E F 1 N A L HACKENSACK MEADOWLANDS DEVEL­ in the State Theatre, 19 Livingston Avenue, 30: Gary U.S. Bonds. July 7: Richie Havens. South Plainfield. 668-9860, 25 Glances over 7 Twain title 1 R A S A D E N E N N U 1 OPMENT COMMISSION ENVIRONMENTAL New Brunswick. Admission $25 to $8. 932- 988-3205 27 Garment part 8 Boxer, e.g. MUSEUM, 2 DeKorte Park Plaza, Lyndhurst. VALENTINO’S, 350 West First Avenue, C E D E P E W S E S K S 7511. 29 Sundown 9 Garment D Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., GREEN PARROT, 1927 Route 33, Nep­ Roselle. (Rock) 245-9605. 30 Like velvet 10 " —boy!” Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission 34 Curve 11 Leg part $1. History of Meadowlands and Urban Salt 36 Divine food 12 Frog's kin Marsh, diorama, exhibit on garbage crisis and 38 Stage show 13 Pipe joints recycling. 460-8300. 39 Collaboration 19 Slave of old Penn, pomp, circumstance 42 Exhausted 24 Crippled JANE VOORHEES ZIMMERLI ART MU­ 43 Moslem faith 26 Benefit 38 Forgive 40 Bench SEUM, Rutgers University, George and bass, and Orzabal, who played and “Mad World” still demon­ 44 On Soc. Sec. 28 Tarnish 54 Spurious Hamilton streets, New Brunswick. Monday 30 Lawmaker: 41 Container (Continued from page A-7) rhythm and occasional lead gui­ 45 Killed 55 Ribbon: comb, through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (closed strated the gloomy appeal of the 46 Eggs abbr. 46 Bread spread tar. original recordings, but were revi­ 48 Was sulky form Wednesdays), Saturdays noon to 5 p.m. 47 Knocks over 31 Typing no-no through June 30, Sundays noon to 5 p.m. The band skillfully recreated 32 Join together 49 Glazing need 56 Territory have undergone a metamorphosis talized by non-synthesized percus­ 49 Common folk through July 30. Closed Saturdays in July. 33 Experiment 50 Strong fabric during the four-year layoff be­ the lush arrangements of the new sion and added harmonies. 51 Entire 57 Big top, e.g. Closed in August, reopens Sept. 4. Through 34 Functions 52 A US vice album, which incorporates jazz, quantity July 31: Landscapes by “W. Elmer Schofield: tween their international smash 35 Muddy president 59 Emoluments 54 Art piece An American Impressionist." Sept. 16 through album of 1985, Songs From the Big soul and even gospel to the dark, Songs From the Big Chair was 37 Artless 53 UK city 62 Backward Nov. 18: “Japonisme Comes to America," Chair, which spawned two No.l synthesized rhythms Tears For well-represented as well, by works with a strong Japanese influence. Sept. singles, and The Seeds of Love, Fears established during their “Head Over Heels” and “The 16 through Nov. 18: "Echizen Washi," exhibit which many critics have referred first two records. The live mix, Working Hour.” Of course, the of traditional Japanese handmade paper. 932- however, punched up some of the chart-toppers “Everybody Wants 7237. to as their Sgt. Pepper. The comparison to the Beatles more subtle shades of songs like to Rule the World” and “Shout” JERSEY CITY MUSEUM, 472 Jersey Ave­ is warranted, especially with the “Women in Chains” and “Advice climaxed the set “Shout,” the nue (fourth floor of main library building), choppy organ, compressed vocals for the Young at Heart” for maxi­ club-mix anthem with its scream Jersey City. Tuesday through Saturday from mum impact Good thing, too, be­ therapy message (what do you ex­ 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday from 10:30 and hippie all-you-need-is-love a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Saturdays through La­ politicking of the hit single “Sow­ cause otherwise, the extremely ef­ pect from a band that nicked its bor Day. Through Aug. 17: New Jersey Arts ing the Seeds of Love.” But there fective vocal interplay between name from Arthur Janov, author Annual,.fine arts exhibition. 547-4514. is a lot more to the TFF evolution Adams, Smith and Orzabal might of Primal Therapy), was a perfect than Beatle-cloning. New, very have overshadowed the instru­ encore. The band, which re­ METLAR HOUSE, 1281 River Road (near mentation, which deserved all the the Lynch Bridge), Piscataway. Piscataway American influences are at work mained plugged in even after Township historic museum, weekday tours by here, and these influences came attention it got Smith and Orzabal had made appointment. 752-1124 or 752-4178. to the forefront while performing “Famous Last Words” and their escape, fleshed out the or­ “Badman’s Song,” were also in­ METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Fifth the songs onstage. iginal sparse arrangement and Avenue at 82nd Street, New York. Tuesday The physical manifestation of cluded from the new album, while jammed it into a show-stopper. through Thursday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. Tears For Fears’ absorption of “Sowing the Seeds of Love” was to 5:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 9:30 American rhythms is Oleta Ad­ tagged by a few choruses from the How they got together with a.m. to 8:45 p.m. Contribution $5 for adults, ams, a former hotel lounge singer Beatles’ “Let It Be,” which Adams Michael Penn, like the aforemen­ $2.50 for children and the elderly. (212) 879- tailored with a delightful gospel tioned national anthem medley, is 5500. that Curt Smith and Roland Or- zabal met in Kansas City during texture. still a mystery. But one thing’s for MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM, Bloomfield their last U.S. tour. Moved by the Not that Tears For Fears’ older sure — Tears For Fears has and South Mountain avenues, Montclair. passion of her soulful voice, the material didn’t stand up well. moved into the big time. Like Tuesday through Wednesday, Friday through XTC, a lesser-known but incredi­ Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday duo recruited her as an unofficial Songs from the 1983 debut, The and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Donation third member of the band and Hurting, enlivened by the ex­ bly gifted group, they have gradu­ $2 for non-members. Through Aug. 17: "Af­ featured her prominantly on the tended band, which included a ated from the new wave, where a rican-American Art Owned in the Community." horn player, keyboards, drums, few gimmicks and only a little 746-5555. new record. Seated midstage at her piano, guitar, percussion and two backup talent can go a long way, to the THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ARTS AND Adams was the centerpiece of an singers, broke out of their sam­ kind of group whose abilities may SCIENCES, Normandy Heights and Col­ eight-person ensemble that pled and programmer limbo. continue to surprise and delight umbia roads, Morristown. Monday through “Change,” with its dri\ ng beat "s for a long, long time. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday from backed up Smith, who played June 22, 1990 - ME REVIEW - PAGE A-11 400 receive diplomas at John P. Stevens High

EDISON — Commencement Davies, Saraswati D. Dayal, Joshua David Neuman, Manish S. Patel, Rakesh H. Patel, ceremonies were held June 14 for Fuhr, James Hill Holloway, Michelle B. Kase, Malkia S. Payton, Jeffrey T. Plum, Hemang the more than 400 graduates of Kar Mun Lam, Gina M. Martignetti, Palak R Shah, Ian Warren Siminoff, Eric Daniel Simon. Mody, Sunil V. Patel, Tejal R. Patel, Richard J. Kevin J. Szemborski, Robert Steven Trost. John P. Stevens High School. Petagna, Darlene M. Piegdon, Alvina Seto, Alicia Ann Ardito, Steven 8. Brattli, Nichelle Manish Mittal, who will attend Bindu U. Solanki, Judith R. Sosnowski, Dana R. Bryant, Yong Jin Chong, Monisha Cbow- Wharton School of Business at the M. Tessel, Maria F. Zuluaga. dhary, Alison A. Clough, Florante T. Dancel, University of Pennsylvania, and Paul M. Baldassano, Sumana Band- Edwin A. Empaynado, David Jeff Goldberg, yopadhyay, Jason Samuel Berkey, Jared Craig M. Huzar, Jennifer Jabado, Andrea Beth Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, who will Scott Briskin, Eric William Carney, Esteban Klein, George Lin, Scott Edward Neustein, attend Harvard University, ad­ Chan, Jose A. Cruz, Bradley S. Divock, Sean Mary Ng, Adam Palmer, Elana Fay Paru, Jor- dressed their classmates. M. Erskine, Michele Lisa Gelade, Matthew F. danna Rae Paru, Kenneth Radcliffe, Elliot Dr. Joseph Kreskey, deputy su­ Gerdes, Seth Jason Goldberg, Sharin A. Hat- David Ratzman, Jason S. Suchodolsky, And­ tersley, Jewel W. Kaplan, Mitchell B. Kasoff, rea Tsoukantas, Rhonda Jill Van Blerkom, Lisa perintendent of schools, and Carlene Renee Lovett, Christian M. Lundell, Ann Ventola. Board of Education members James P. McCarthy, Daniel Nunez, Rupa Charles Andreasen, Ralph Bayard Patel, Jennifer Caryn Rector, Brian Seth Reiss, Diane Elizabeth Baumeister, Eric Felix and Kenneth Davis presented the Kathy Lynn Sowell, Sylvia E. Tan, Gaurang M. Costa, Mona Deora, Angelique Marie Dum- Trivedi, James C. Walsh. anski, Juan M. Forero, David Seth Goldberg, graduates with their diplomas. Gwendlyn M. Balazs, Joseph Roger Balle Jeffrey D. Jeglinski, Marisa S. Katz, Orit Ken­ Members of the Class of 1990 dal, Siatta P. Kennedy, Kratu Khanna, AI- are: Jr., Deborah A. Bandola, Elsa Yolima Cano, fonzina M. LaVecchia, Jeffrey S. Lehrfeld, Neil Eric J. bonderman, Electra Coutsoubelis, B. Lim, Brian Lock, Deborah L. Malkiewicz, Receliza S. del Rosario, Ann M. Fausto, Dennis Louis Adriano, Geoffrey James Daniel A. Miller, Ronald T. Mirra, Manish Helene Laura Feldman, Jeffrey Michael Geller, Mittal, Avnit K. Nanda, Rahul Nayar, Hye Yung Block, Rachel Ruth Bower, Francesca Joseph Jason B. Kaplan, Grace Tse-Ju Lee, Vineet Del Priore, Laura Jean Desiderio, Jerry Leon­ Park, Eric A. Schuhrer, Rodney C. Silva, Diane Madan, James Joseph Mikuski, Kevin R. Oli- ard Farrow, Paul Freedman, Mahmood Mock B. Velez, Puma H. Vyas, Latasha Lashawn vis, Shital R. Patel, Maureen Raggio, Mahesh Wheeler. Hamid, Kristofer D. Jackson, Meghna Kakar, C. Sadarangani, Brian Scott Safian, Anthony Purvi J. Kapadia, Madhavi Karra, Chul Hoon Scala, Mona Shakir, Elaine Mindy Stein, Hemang A. Champaneria, Edward Albert Kim, Sue K. Kim, Jamie Beth Lichstein, Nicole Cheryl J. Tapper, Christi J. Terrell, Robert R. Dempsey, Michael C. Evans, Peter Matthew L. Masino, Tina Lorraine Matthews, Frank J. Want, Jessica Sandra Zurawiecki. Feiner, Todd E. Galski, Glenn G. Garze, Yas- Papaianni, Pamela Ricigliano, Craig M. Scott Thomas Aman, Robin Lisa Bauer, Ritu min Halim, Yesenia L. Hernandez, Glen James Schachter, Allison Marie Stulack, Stephanie Bhatia, Gregory N. Chang, Michael H. Cohen, Johnstone, Dokyun Kim, Cara C. Largoza, Ann Wiegers, Timothy Yip, Jennifer C. Zucker. Lisa Dawn Crescenzo, Lance M. Emmons, Yuliy Lebedev, James M. Lin, Tania Mik- Sandeep Aggarwal, Kristin Lee Bachmann, Stacy L. Feigenbaum, Carlos Omar Hassan, olajczak, Wendy Nichole Olenik, Michael R. Dwayne Edward Bowen, Sean T. Cash, Jane Chin Yong Jun, Stacey Michele Kay, Dafna Paolello, Joy C. Parisi, Hiren D. Patel, Mara Marie Colling, Anjaii Arjan Daswani, Mark Kendal, Michelle Lee Kotkin, Paula Christine Lynn Rubin, Marcie H. Sabrin, Lynn San- DiGennaro, Nunzio Gallo, Ali S. Gersh, Mich­ Lariccia, Kathryn Ann Malague, Dina Lynn Mo­ tamaria, Young-Jun Shin, Shanna L. Slad- ael John Giannetti, Edward Scott larrapino, rales, Stacy Ann Navarro, Daniel S. Paone, owsky, Charles P. Wright Jr., Sang K. Yun. Lynn Patricia Jancsek, Mariano Lebron, Martin Chetan D. Patel, Jennifer L. Pulaski, Helen E. Michael A. Amendola, Stacy Hope Axelrod, Bruce Levitt, Wei-Fong Liang, Robert James Rotondi, Leonard G. Tartamella, Jennifer Lynn Tina Louise Balias, Allison Lynn Beck, Lisa Lindquist, Carrie L. Link, Howard M. Morrison, Tobin, Richard Wei-Lung Yun. Thomas Parrinello, Anita Magan Patel, Priti J. Alysa R. Bennett, Paul John Brown, Tina Michelle Burger,, Jihwoo Choi, Erica Cohen, Patel, Richard John Ryan, Lisa Marie Sweet, Chan, Anthony DeLuca, Thomas J. DeVito, James Edward Colling, Michele DiGennaro, Lauren Faith Tarr, Mimie K. Yun. Dhaval H. Desai, Neel Rajnikant Doshi, Denise Robert J. Farkas, Stephen A. Goldberg, Adam Edward Andolino, Joanne Bernhardt, Scott Dunsavage, Dawn M. Guilfoyle, Seth A. Gus­ Abu Grant, Anupama Jain, Michelle Jones, Eric Blaess, Thomas V. Bykowski, Michael J. man, Deborah Nicole Kelco, Mamta Khanna, Michael Robert Joseph, Laura E. Kliger, Mich­ Chin, Sun J. Cho, Ruth S. Chon, Andrew Barbara A. Lee, Juan Antonio Lou, Joseph elle Liu, Kwang Hyuk Park, Bina M. Patel, James Cogswell, Sharon M. Cohen, Kim Michael Lucey, Robin K. Miller, Jennifer I. Sandip C. Patel, Natalie A. Quaglieri, Trina M. Raeuber, Charles John Siclari, Gayle Robin Slater, Merritt Joan VanPelt, Elaine Yin. Deana Louise Aldi, Robert Blakeney, Nicole Boothe, Dena G. Centalonza, Lisa A. Deuel, Meghan Ann Doeler, Patricia A. Donnelly, Robert J. Dudash, Robert S. Gelman, Jennifer A. Guarino, Janelle A. Haviland, Shireen S. Kazmi, Kristen Ann Kraska, Patricia Mary McElwain, Farhan Pervez, Richard M. Pod- eszwa, Carol M. Rim, Bryan R. Rusche, Bindu R. Shah, Joseph D. Turner, Pravin A. Vazirani, Nolan J. White, Robin Claudia Wilsey. Suzanne D. Ackerman, Antone C. Barnes, Joanne Ellen Blair, Leslie Christine Chang, Yl- Cnun Chen, Kyhara DeGeneste, Lisa Marie Dittmann, Marc B. Herman, Vikas Kapoor, Geetu Shyam Karnani, Jeffrey T. Klein, Sub- odh K. Lai, Michael William Morgan, Jason Christopher Noack, Michelle Geanette Overton, Christopher F. Parry, Bina T. Patel, Neha D. Patel, Vaishali H. Patel, Jerry Earl Plum, Carrie B. Rosen, Rachel E. Roth, Mich­ ael Gerald Smith, Carl S. Stokes, Andrew Mit­ chell Stollak, Andrea Lynn Toth. Donald John Alena, Christopher Aliberti, Rachael Frances Bean, Anthony Bradley, Alisa Anne Bridgman, Brian W. Carter, Jamal Malik Chandler, Kyu Sok Cho, Anthony A. D'Amico, Tania Maria DiLisi, Erika C. Easley, Christine — Photo by Patti Miller Elizabeth Gallagher, Cassandra Ann Gill, Christine Marie Hoffer, Arlene Patricia Ignar, Rob Farkas, a member of the Class of 1990 at John P. Stevens High School, listens intently to Michelle F. Kudesh, Francine Lynn, Sameer Mathur, Stacey C. Morrison, Michael R. Pack­ one of the speakers at commencement exercises June 14. ard, Kiran M. Patel, Nisha Rao, Jonathan Christopher Shulfer. Elisa Aloe, Claudine L. Bartels, Melissa A. Bianchino, Mayuri A. Dave, Donna Doherty, Paul G. Duarte, Donna Marie Furchi, Adriene N. Greene, Jamie Lori Kaufman, Matthew Lo- ysen, Kristian J. McMorland, Erika Lynn Mor- Metuchen High School bids tensen, Suman Mutreja, Tosha Rochelle Nel­ son, Snehal B. Patel, Vipul R. Patel, Carol Ann Purick, Jennifer Jane Rotunno, Michael Schultz, Priya Sekhri, Milan R. Shah, TeW- andna R. Smith, Gerard Tenebruso, Beth A. Toth, Robert W. Trobliger, Nitya Vasan, John C. Zmyewski. farewell to the Class of 1990 Janis Baumgartner, Hossam M. Bayoumy, Dawn M. Castle, Tai Nen (John) Chang, Gaet­ ano Ciccarella, Linda K. Colon, George N. METUCHEN - Commence­ Nicole Beth Oilier, Lori Lee Dunn. Dennis James O'Leary, Erik David Olsen. Crostewitz, Rose A. D'Amico, Kenneth R. DiF- Tammy Marie Einhorn, Katharine Louise Jason A. Pace, Kelly Anne Palko, Amy Beth renza, Jessica Farber, Glenn R. Ferrer, Sheri ment ceremonies were held June Elliott. Panzarasa, Patricia Helen Panzarella, Sarah L. Giordano, Howard Goldberg, Jennifer 14 for 133 graduates of Metuchen Kristen Candice Floeck. Catherine Parlow, Dawn Marie Parsons, Hardy, Michael H. Hoffman, Gregory Koblentz, High School. Kelly A. Gear, Richard Ryan Gerner, Suma Christopher M. Pastras, Jacquelyn Lorraine v —Photo by Patti Miller Arlene Frances Leach, David S. Lefkowitz, Suji Lee, valedictorian of the B. Ghanta, Pamela Sarita Giddens, Marni Patskanick, TraceyLee Ann Powell, Edward Wendy Liu, Melissa M. Molnar, Scott D. Most- Greenberg, Johanna Gronroos. Power, James Francis Primich, Aileen Tina ow, Robert Matthew Oshiro, Lenore M. Rac- Class of 1990, and the class’ two Parents try to capture a precious moment in their children’s Andrew Marc Hacker, Wendy Anne Hancox, Pugliese. anelli, Leigh Schwartz, Nishith A. Shah, Diane salutatorians, Neil W. Bernstein lives during graduation ceremonies at John P. Stevens High Jonathan Marc Helfman, Raymond F. Higgins Ellen Taylor, Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, Ray­ and Keith E. Derman, were III, Katherine Ann Hinton, Ha Thi-Thu Hoang, Rhea Naomi Qualls. School on June 14, mond R. White Jr., Keith R. Wilson. among the speakers. Todd Hoang, Thomas George Huber. Laura Ann Rabb, Daniel Roger Ralph, Mpmhprs of the Metuchen High Michael Wade Idell, Denise Marie Ihrig, Tricia Marie Ralph, Tara Alyce Randolph, Jen­ Suzette Marie Ippolito. nifer Kimberly Rivera, Corinne Frances Rut- School Class of 1990 follow, and tiger. names in boldface are National Lisa Marie Jones. Peter Joseph Kaminskas, April Marie Kel­ Janine Victoria Sansone, Laura Gail Honor Society members. ley, Tyshon Kareen Kelton, Geeta Kohli, Ger­ Bishop George Ahr High School Schreibersdorf, David Benjamin Shackney, ald Robert Kozak, Fawn Jennifer Kritzler, Will­ JoAnne Marie Sheehan, Karen Anne Smelas, Christopher Craig Allen, Michael B. And- iam James Kuhne. Anthony Smith, Nicole Smith, Rebecca Brenda riuli, Suzanne Michelle Angus. Katie Jean Lavin, Be Thi Le, Mei Yee Lee, Smith, Peter John Stankunis, Soojin Su, Eli­ David James Baldwin, John R. Barham, Suji Lee, James Joseph Lentino, Denise zabeth Anne Sullivan, Peter J. Szwarc. holds commencement for grads Thomas M. Beardsley, Mari Ayanna Bell, Neil Marie Leonard, Anne Lo, Stacey Ann Warren Bernstein, Shree P. Bhandary, Nilufer Luckus, Eithne Marie Lynch. TracyAnn Teske, Monique Y. Thompson, Darayes Bharda, Douglas Bilgrav, Nancy Kirs­ Stephanie Leigh Manheim, Justin Howard DiCosmo, Claire Marie Dillon, Tara Patrice McCartney, Caren McCoskey, Molly Della EDISON — Members of the ten Bingham, Megan Marie Blasi, Megan Manley, Mariella Beatriz Marquez, Suchitra Kerri Lynn Trimblett. DiNuzzo, Joyce Marie Doligosa, Christina McDevitt, Owen F. McGowan, Sean Francis Class of 1990 at Bishop George Michelle Brown, Gary Bulwicz. Sharmini Mattai, Lawton James McCombs, Shawn A. Uscocovich. Maria Donachie, Laura Lynn Dreger. Ahr High School received their Mclnerney, Brian James McLaughlin, Adriana Peggy Janet Casolite, Wendy Cassell, Ale­ Nan McWilliams, Mark Eugene Mead, Al- diplomas during commencement Jamison Edward Eichert, Maria Esposito, Mejias, Joseph Jarett Messina, Thomas Will­ xander George Christopoulos, John Thomas meshia Natasha Medley, Luis Albert Mejias, Samantha Wachsberger, Jennifer Anne Kenneth Gilbert Evans, Kevin McAllister Ew­ iam Metzier, Susan Mary Meyers, Jennifer Clark, Florence Elaine Clyburn, Daniel Cotton. Franklin Meltzer, Edward Milano III, John A. Weis, Bryan G. West, Shawn Wielage, Tyler K. exercises June 2. ing. Lynn Michaels, Christopher J. Milevoi, Melissa Rita Lynn Dashnaw, Chadwick Gerrell Mindler, Rosario Muldowney. Wilson, Stephen John Witkowski, Amy Collette Claire Dillon, the class’ valedic­ Sean Patrick Fallan, Kara Lynn Felton, Kat­ Jean Minucci, Jessica Mongelli, Teresa Marie Davis, Joseph B. Dawes, Cristina Marie DeAn- William Craig Nann Jr., Lisa Marie Nata- Wood, Brian Alan Wood, Samantha A. Woods. torian, and Julie Kozack, salutato- hleen Patricia Felton, Monique Fernanders, Mulvihill, Kevin Leo Murphy, Meredith Lee drea, Jennifer Ann DeMeo, Keith E. Derman, shyn, Thanhthuy Hoang Nguyen, Eric James Krista Lee Yetsko. rian, were among the speakers at Thomas William Ferraro, Debra Ann Figurski, Murphy. Shannon Marie Dick, Timothy Joseph Diebold, Nielsen. Joann Elizabeth Zolner. Deborah Mary Fitzgerald, Bernadette Marie Erica Anne Nappi, Deirdre Marie the event. In the fall, Dillon will Foley, Donna D. Fugaro, Madeline Anne Naughton, Christopher Nigro, Michael Angelo attend the Wharton School of Fugere Nogueira, Darren James Norfleet, Tracey Ann Business at the University of Debbie Anne Gahr, Roxanna Lucia Gam- Notaro. Pennsylvania, and Kozack will at­ botto, Maria Ann Garda, John Lee Gastgaber, James O'Brien, Tina M. Ochlan. Marie Fern A. Gayo, Kelli L. Gendron, Mich­ Sapna Nandkumar Padte, Christian Matt­ tend Rutgers College. ele George, Margaret Nora Gervino, Liberata hew Pajak, Michele Ann Palmer, Denise Members of the Class of 1990 Giovanna Gianfrancesco, Michele Ginda, Jill Ellen Pankow, Kimberly Ann Parker, Joseph follow. Names in boldface indicate Ann Gochal, Matthew Edward Golden, Nikki Francis Parks III, Barbara Louise Pawlikowski, National Honor Society members. Ann Golden, William C. Groves III, Stephanie Christopher W. Pellegrini, Evy Perez, Michael Irene Grzan. Petronella III, Deborah Ann Pisarchik, Mitchell Dawn Marie Abatemarco, Kimberly Anne Danielle Frances Harris, Theodore Robert Wade Platt, Kerry Ann Price, Zonia M. Puertas, Aiosa, Louis J. Albano III, Keith Joseph Alessi, Harrison, Roy C. Henry, Baron Lerone Hilliard, Ferdinando Pugliese, John Michael Puskarik. Sidney Almeida, Nicole Marie Ambrosio, Pat­ Donald Hine, Jill Alexandra Hines, Patricia Monica C. Quinones. ricia Marie Archutowski. 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Cam- akowski, Stephen Kostas Kouretas, Julie Ann Sobreiro, Michael Robert Stebner, Gail Marie argo, Anthony Joseph Canonico, Matthew Kozack, Theresa Suzanne Krill, Lynda Ann Stemmier, Paul F. Stentella. Caplette, Susan Capriotti, Liliana Maria Car­ Kujawski, Jack Raymond Kulpa, Timothy Pat­ Heather Jeanne Thomas, Karen Ann bon, Robin Lynn Cartwright, Rachel Jennifer rick Kurpat. Thompson, Laura Deanna Thompson, Alastair Carty, Carla Marie Casano, Garrett John Cas- Kaliope Lalis, Darlene Lamourt, Beth Friel Toseana-Torres, Christina Marie Treich4 sio, Nicole Christiane Elise Chevalier, Karen Lancellotti, Tanya Marie Lawler, Catherine Tammy Ann Trenta, Mary Lou Tucciarone, Lynn Clark, Tara Marie Colfer, John Joseph Mary Leahy, Angelo Leonardis, James Robert Tara Marie Turello, Michael Joseph Turner. Collins, Lori A. Colombrita, Karen Anne Lepping Jr., Laura Ann Lisi, Karen Mary LoC- Loren Ann Valendo, Peter Anthony Vig- Coyne, Joseph Michael Corallo III, Marion Ma­ asio, Stephanie May C. Locsin, Patricia nuolo. son Crino, Wendy Crystal, Margit Erika Csigo, Marie Loughlin, Jennifer Lynn Loughran, Christopher Richard Watson, Tamara Mich­ Scott Michael Czarnota. Marlena Lorenco, Michael Luke Lubas, Marisol ele Weber, Christopher Harold Westrlck, Gabriel Silva DaCosta, Kathleen Monica Lugo, Samantha Jane Lukacs, Jennifer Cat­ Charles Joseph Widder, Michael Christopher D'Albenzio, Lenore Ann Daniewicz, Rosanna herine Luzhak. Wobeser, Kimberly Ann Wybraniec. Dp Amorim, Susan Carol DeAngelis, Michael Eric Leonard Magnuson, Linda H. Maia, David Michael Yencik, Sandra Ann Yurek, DeBellis, Jason Albert DeFilippis. Felicia Paul Jason Makar, Lisa Marie Malopolski, Pat­ Katherine Ann Yustak. Ann® DeKarski, Robert B. DelaCruz, Theresa rick Arone Manalastas, Judith Marie Man- Kelley Ann Zaic, Renee JoAnne Zamajtuk, —Photo by Jack Abraham Lynn Delaney, Aniko Elizabeth Delbacs, dapat, Jennifer Anne Marotta, Robert Paul Magdalena Katherine Zurawski, Michael Bar­ Cheryt Ann Deliman, Mark Richard Delurski, Masci, Elise Marie Massimo, Robyn Lyn Mat- rett Zylka. Keith Derman, one of two salutatorians at Metuchen High School, receives his diploma during the Cheryl Theresa DeMaio, Nicole Marie Deme- onis, Margaret M. Mazzarella, Kevin Michael triou, Leonard Michael DePinto, Eileen Fiona school’s June 14 commencement ceremonies. PAGE A-12 - ME REVIEW - June 22, 1990 Borough airs complaints Board mulls end of class {Continued from page A-l) i Continued from page A-l) tionally gifted students need a allowed to lapse, and the office regarding his recommendation to separate environment much like borough's- Cable Advisory Com­ was closed a few years ago. substitute a less-costly accelerated other special education students mission. Bartolotta identified local of­ program that would serve more do. According to Lebar, the bor­ fices in Cliffwood Beach and Pis- students. “Wherever possible, special ed­ ough's municipal consent ordi­ cataway, as well as the company’s A few parents praised Lepre for ucation must provide the least nance, which allows TKR to ope­ main office in Warren, and said establishing PEG and urged him disruptive program possible," said : rate in Metuchen, refers to public the company is not considering not to change it Others agreed Lepre, adding that the proposed access channels and commitments opening any more offices. that the program should be ex­ change would be "easier to man­ in TKR’s application which had In reference to the company’s tended so that more students age." proposed “three channels for mu­ telephone difficulties, Bartolotta could benefit by its enriching ef­ Lepre also expressed misgivings nicipal education and public ac­ said the volume of incoming calls fects. cess use that were going to be im­ has increased because of the ad­ regarding the PEG “cut-off which When the school district reorga­ restricted participation in the pro­ plemented through some sort of dition of a pay-per-view service nized its three elementary schools joint program at Middlesex which allows a subscriber to or­ gram to those students with a in September to group all chil­ minimum intelligence quotient County College.” der a movie or sports event to dren of the same grade into one “As far as I know, all we had watch at a specific time. score of 155. He said he could not school, rather than scattering a see much of a difference when was Channel 6, which was not Councilman John DeFoe asked particular grade among the three public access but local origination if this were keeping the company comparing this minimum score to schools, it posed a problem for one at 145. used by a similar shared by 35 other communities,” from handling people with com­ PEG. said LeBar, who asked about the plaints and if the calls could be “Reorganization provided the Woodbridge program improvements the borough could divided among the staff so that opportunity to group children Holtzman said the pupil entry anticipate in the area of public pay-per-view orders could be han­ with similar academic ablity in into PEG was not based solely on access. dled by different personnel. math and reading,” said Marcia IQ but also on “teacher recogni­ Charles Bartolotta, the com­ Bartolotta called this a “quanti­ Holtzman, assistant superinten­ tion of certain indicators known pany’s regional general manager tative issue, not an issue of ser­ dent of schools, “and they all take to be characteristic of gifted chil­ for the past six months, referred vice.” math and reading at the same dren.” She said these indicators to the company’s necessary com­ “People perceive they’re not time.” included high verbalization, ac­ pliance with “certain procedures getting any more service and The semi-departmentalized cur­ tion and participation by a stu­ for allocation of channels to pro­ they’re paying more money for it,” riculum at Campbell School, dent vide an outlet for public access.” said Councilwoman Pamela which houses grades three He added that its capability of ex­ Brown, referring to a rate in­ through five, has made it difficult, School administrators arc also panding channels was exhausted. crease in May from $14.75 to according to Holtzman, to sched­ considering a special projects Bartolotta explained that TKR, $16.95 for basic service. ule blocks of shared time in the program which will be open to all which currently serves 3,215 bor­ Bartolotta indicated that $16.95 PEG class. pupils who exhibit high interest, ough customers, recently com­ now pays for what the company Because mainstreaming with ability and task commitment in pleted a comprehensive upgrade calls its “Advantage” package, peers in the same grade has tradi­ science, computers.inventions and of its entire system, including which used to be called “Basic.” A tionally been a priority, the PEG research. channel capacity, signal quality new basic service, at a reduced pupils join their grade-level home-room in classes for art, mu­ Robert Moss, of Eggert Avenue, and reliability. He noted TKR rate of $15.95, pays for a reduced told the school board that one of added five new channels, includ­ number of basic channels, exclud­ Among the animals available for adoption at the Edison Mu­ sic, health and physical education, according to Holtzman, the curric­ his two children participated in ing the Black Entertainment Net­ ing such Advantage offerings as nicipal Animal Shelter are Sam (top), a black and tan German the borough’s enrichment pro­ work. CNN, ESPN, MSG/VH1, The ulum coordinator. Implemented shepherd that is 11/2 years old and has had shots; a white cat as part of the reorganization, all gram, while the other was admit­ LeBar also presented a January Weather Channel, Lifetime, Nick­ (bottom) that is 11/2 years old, declawed and very friendly; and ted into PEG, and he said he : 1984 document from the state elodeon, Arts & Entertainment, pupils also participate in Camp­ her kittens. The kittens will be available for adoption on begin­ bell’s enriched curriculum found “no comparison between Board of Public Utilities, Office of USA Network and MTV. the two” accelerated programs. Cable Television, which states Bartolotta explained that the ning Saturday. The shelter is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. courses which include hands-on that the borough and other munic­ new $15.95 basic service is “some­ to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. science and computer lab. “PEG is much better. The en­ ipalities “expressed serious con­ thing we hope to keep extremely Under a proposed change in the richment program just doesn’t cerns for the communication diffi­ stable to accommodate people PEG program, the brighter pupils wash; it’s not intense enough." he culties between the company and who have cable service primarily who had participated in PEG said, adding that because of PEG, \ its subscribers.” for reception of low broadcast sta­ EHS student found guilty would attend advanced math and his child “changed his view of reading classes at their grade LeBar said that TKR had, at tions, TBS, The Family Channel, (Continued from page A-l) himself and his abilities — not fense’s arguments were merely at­ level and a “supplementary en­ only did he become more secure, that time, agreed to continue its local origination and public ac­ tempts to hide Ferguson’s guilt cess.” hour after the stabbing. richment class” that would meet but more confident” efforts to reduce the number of Ferguson’s public defenders at­ Ferguson, who was 14 at the for a half day each week calls that cannot get through to He added that the $16.95 rate tempted to prove the Ferguson time of the incident, was tried as In these supplementary classes Board members agreed to study ; the company in peak times and to for Advantage cable was in part acted in self-defense during the an adult He also was found guilty for pupils identified as exception­ the matter further before making improve its telephone service; caused by the increase of sports altercation with Fulcher, who was of possession of a weapon for an ally gifted, third-graders would a decision on the fate of the pro­ route its calls to respective de­ programs, and contracts to show a member of the school’s wres­ unlawful purpose and unlawful learn literature and children’s gram. partments based on the sub­ them have added to the com­ tling team. possession of a weapon. philosophy as well as critical scriber’s particular need; and list pany’s costs. They also claimed Ferguson, While the latter charges could thinking and logic problem­ different department telephone who is black, was enraged by ra­ carry a six-year sentence, it is ex­ solving; fourth-graders would par­ numbers on the customer’s bill. LeBar asked the representa­ cial epithets during the fight; pected that the sentence will run ticipate in creative writing and “I am now receiving about one tives if TKR would cooperate in however, several witnesses who concurrent with the longer mur­ developing higher-level thinking Library ‘friends’ complaint from the general public allowing the Cable Advisory Com­ took the stand during the trial had der sentence, which carries a skills in logic, brainstorming, criti­ per week said Uebar, indicating mission to survey cable customers. given conflicting testimony con­ minimum of 30 years in prison cal thinking, categorizing, predict­ meet Wednesday that customers state they “either “Absolutely,” replied Bartolotta. cerning the use of racial slurs. without parole. ing, questioning and evaluation can’t get through or the line is “All we ask is for the municipality The jury of eight men and four Superior Court Judge Barnett E. techniques; and fifth-graders EDISON — The Friends of the' busy or when they doget through, to respect confidentiality and women were unconvinced and ap­ Hoffman is expected to decide on would explore career education, Edison Township Public Library, the customer service representa­ right to privacy of the customer.” parently agreed with the prosecu­ the sentences within the next two photography, literature, econom­ will hold their next meeting Wed-, tive is not responsible, can’t re­ Bartolotta added that the com­ tion’s contention that the de­ months. ics and expansion of their think­ nesday at 7:30 p.m. at the main- solve the problem, or is rude and pany surveys its customers once a ing skills. library, 340 Plainfield Avenue. hangs up. year and that complaints about Many board members said they The public is invited to attend. “This is the same story we’ve telephone communications is the Doctor comes to America were opposed to dropping PEG Details may be obtained from) had for over six years,” he added. greatest concern. because they said they felt excep­ Susan Krieger at 287-2298. “What is the company doing to i Continued from page A-l) eliminate this problem?” Councilman James Dudley sug­ term,” he explained. with spinal curvatures. Bartolotta cited power outages gested to the company’s commuity Massage, he said, in the So­ His goal is to be a sports as a recurring problem; however, relations manager, Melissa acP- viet Union is considered more medicine physician in this Ed O’Brien, council president, herson, that she check with the than just something to be en­ country, but he wants to im­ countered that this also was a re­ borough Recreation Department joyed. prove his English first and curring “story” told by TKR rep­ to coordinate efforts to cover “In health clubs in the then study for his physician’s resentatives. events in Metuchen. United States, it’s not like a exam while his wife is working “Airlines answer 10,000 calls a Dudley, Wiley and council can­ medical treatment,” he said. as an X-ray technician. day without one one-hundredth of didate Michael Donnelly have “In Russia, it’s a treatment “She’ll study first (to become the problems,” said Donald Kahn, considered ways in which the bor­ against different diseases and a registered nurse); then I’ll go a member of the borough Plan­ ough could oust TKR and replace a very helpful treatment for to school,” he explained. ning Board who attended the it with another company that injuries. It’s part of medicine.” In the meantime, he is en­ council meeting, “so there is a sys­ would provide better service. Skovortsov’s treatments in­ joying his freedom in the tem but it needs someone to do clude sports and Swedish mas­ United States. it” “There is a segment of the com­ sage, accupressure, using vari­ “In Russia, for a child, Ame­ Audience member Ernest Docs munity which is saying, ‘Dump ous pressure points on the rica is like another world,” he reprimanded the company for its TKR,’ ” said Dudley, “but there is body to relieve tension and said. “You learn about it from six-year inefficiency, and to its an equal segment saying, ‘I like stress management different books, propaganda representatives, he added, “As TKR, but it can be improved.’ ” He specializes in treating and guests in America. employees, you should be embar­ The council considered the idea athletes after overwork and in­ “Here I have a goal, a rassed to work for a company that of setting “milestones” or time juries, people injured in auto­ dream,” he added. “I can can’t solve its problems.” limits within which the company mobile accidents, injuries to make more and there is no LeBar also asked if TKR would should complete certain improve­ and operation of the musculo- special permission for any­ consider re-establishing a local of­ ments and the representatives left skeletel system and children thing.” fice “in order to make service with a warning from Wiley similar more direct and accountable to to the one he gave TKR last year, our local constituents.” The lease when he said, “The clock is tick­ SAM ASH MUSIC INSTITUTE on its Durham Avenue office was ing on you,” 2^ 2 KEYBOARDS Bom To Be Keyboard Beautiful classes At Top Drawer for CORDON NEGRO BRUT BY FRE1XENET North, we believe ff beautiful cabinets everyone lH! come from beautiful trees. 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S A V E 70% deweEyRet *n Go'4 SAVE 60%,I Reg. t799-$2800 -■ NOW- 141 $319-$1120 “ Reg. *400-$2775 NOW $120-$832

Diamond Cluster Rings Diamond Stud Earrings Set in 14k Gold Reg. $220-$2600 NOW '110-'1300 SAVE 60% Reg. $999-$2100 NOW $399-$840 SAVE 50%

Diamond Tennis Bracelets Reg. $4200- $10,400 SPECIAL VALLE!! SAVE 50% NOW $2100-$5200 YOUR CHOICE '599" # 1 Diamond Stud Earrings 5/8 CT.TW TW = Total Weight # 2 1 CT.TW Tennis Bracelet, SALE ENDS JUNE 24th 1990 # 3 ,5 ,6 1 CT.TW Anniversary Ring All above set # 4 ,7 1 CT.TW Cluster Ring in 14k Gold **Earrings pictured on sale for $89.-$128. Others $16.50-$138.

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