Plainsboro Township and the Audubon Society honored the late Maggie Scrivo Schaefer, a Plainsboro advocate for the preservation and enjoyment of Plainsboro’s natural resources, on October 29. A hiking trail was dedicated in her memory at the Nature Center of the Plainsboro Preserve on Scotts Corner Road, Plainsboro.
The 56-year-old Schaefer, who recently died after a 17-year battle with cancer, helped change the landscape of Plainsboro by serving as the first chair of the recreation committee, spearheading Plainsboro’s first Founder’s Day Celebration, chairing the Recreation and Parks Master Plan Committee, and supporting the acquisition of the Plainsboro Preserve, 1,”000-acres of undisturbed open space, hiking trails, and a 50-acre lake.
Schaefer, who had a doctorate in exercise physiology, taught at Rutgers, coached women’s speed swimming at Douglass College, and worked as an administrator at Johnson and Johnson.
Henry Schaefer, a Plainsboro Township planning board member and former member of the Township Committee, who shared his wife’s passion for the outdoors says he is grateful to the township and Audubon Society for honoring his wife “in this most appropriate manner.”
