Two students from High School South won awards in Paper Mill Playhouse’s annual Rising Star Award ceremony held on June 7.
Eric Judson won for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role for his performance as Paul in High School South’s production of “A Chorus Line,” and Emma Kothari was awarded the Janet Sovey Scholarship, one of five scholarships awarded to outstanding individual students who plan to continue studying theater in college.
Kothari was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, and High School South’s director Marilyn Mangone Stoddard was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography and Staging. The show also received an honorable mention in the categories of Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical, Outstanding Performance by a Chorus, Outstanding Achievement by a Teacher or Outside Director and Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction.
New Eagle Scout
Colin Stern, a member of Boy Scout Troop 759, chartered by Queenship of Mary Church in Plainsboro, earned the rank of his Eagle Scout during a ceremony on June 3.
For his Eagle community service project, Stern led his troop in the construction of a wooden information kiosk for the WW-P Soccer Association to serve as a message board for local teams. The structure is located at the Conover Road fields in West Windsor.
Stern, a Plainsboro resident and rising sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earned 49 merit badges during his time as a Boy Scout and served in various leadership roles with his troop. His parents are Howard and Mary Stern. For more information about Troop 759, go to troop759nj.org.
North business and economics teams compete
Business and economics teams at High School North performed well in a number of competitions this year. The teams are coached by North faculty advisor Morton Levine.
The National Economics Team, comprised of Shivani Prusty, Jessica Xu, Ezra Edelman and Ribhav Bose recently finished second in the National Economics Challenge. They competed in New York, on an allexpenses paid trip, beating nearly 15,000 other competitors. After the competition, Prusty spoke live on CNBC’s morning news and business talk program program, Squawk Box.
In addition, competitors from the Business Club, including Asmita Baskar, Roshan Mahanth, Sean Martin, Uday Vutla and Gautham Yalla, placed as one of top 15 teams worldwide in the Wharton High School investment competition, beating teams from China and India in April at the Wharton School of teh University of Pennsylvania.
The Federal Reserve Challenge Team, which includes Rochelle Li, Anjali Agrawal, Asha Agrawal, Daniel Wang and Ezra Edelman placed second in the Federal Reserve Challenge. The team competed at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City against other teams in the northeastern region.
Members of the Euro Challenge Team, including Baskar, Mahanth, Prusty, Xu, and Arhant Shah made the semifinals of the national Euro Challenge competition. This is the fourth consecutive year they have advanced this far in the competition.
Deaths
Arthur J. Manuel, 94, a resident of West Windsor, died May 30 at Atrium Senior Living in Plainsboro.
Manuel began his career as a research and development chemist with Hayden Chemical in Brooklyn, New York, then moved to the Princeton plant in Penns Neck where he worked on antibiotics, among other projects. It was here that he met Julia Morris and the two married. Hayden became part of American Cyanamid and remained with the company for 40 years until his retirement in 1986.
Manuel was an active member of Princeton Friends Meeting, where he served as clerk and treasurer for many years. He also served in the Army during WWII. In 1972, he helped found the Twin “W” Rescue Squad. After his retirement, his garden, classical music, grandchildren and daily five mile walks kept him entertained.
He was predeceased by his wife of 65 years, Julie B. Manuel, and is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Beatrice and Stephen Francis of West Windsor; son and daughter-in-law, John and Janice Manuel of Tennessee; son William of West Windsor; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 23, at 2 p.m. at Princeton Friends Meeting House, 470 Quaker Road, Princeton. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mercer Street Friends Center, 151 Mercer St., Trenton, N.J. 08611 or to Princeton Friends Meeting, 470 Quaker Rd., Princeton, N.J. 08540.
Harriet J. Randall, 96, of Princeton Junction died on July 2.
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Randall was predeceased by her husband, William H. Randall, and son, Donald L. Randall. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sandra J. and James Bird of Princeton Junction; two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Services were private.
Edmund R. Kania, 92, died on June 30. Survivors include daughter Jeanette Kania Wiegartner and her husband, John, of Plainsboro.
