#b#Cheerleaders Win#/b#
The West Windsor-Plainsboro Junior Midget Wildcats Cheer Squad took first place at the 2011 Pop Warner National Championships on Wednesday, December 8, at the ESPN Sport Center at Walt Disney World.
Team members include Erica Anderson, Molly Hanington, Yasmine Otero, Ashley Marrazo, Beth Greenman, Lindsey Hinczynski, Kathryn Schoenauer, Taylor Pacelli, Erin O’Brien, Ziah Williams, Jessie Bistrais, Alyssa Rivers, Alyssen Rivers, Abby Wold, Jessica Trochiano, Karlie Lombardi, Marisa Loury, Ally Samet, Emily Strober, Julia Redavid, Emma Kramer, Erin Sheets, and Katie Lyon.
Lisa Lombardi is the head coach. Assistant coaches include Gayle Redavid, Molly Kramer, Tammy Browning, and Jordan Browning. Junior coaches include Colleen Farrell, Ashleigh Honig, Lauren Kullmann, and Essences Otero.
#b#Private School News#/b#
St. Paul School’s Eighth Grade Scholastic Olympics team took second place in Trenton Catholic Academy’s 30th annual Scholastic Olympics. West Windsor residents Michael Bamford, Samantha Schattin, and Miguel Ortiguera were among the students competing in science, math, English, history, religion, art, and spelling.
This is the 11th consecutive year St. Paul placed in the top two. The team has placed first four times in the past six years.
#b#In College#/b#
Duke University: Daphne Ezer, a 2008 graduate of High School South, is one of 36 American students to be awarded the 2012 Marshall Scholarship for graduate studies in the United Kingdom. The scholarship will allow her to pursue a doctoral degree in genetics at Cambridge University.
A senior at Duke, Ezer is pursuing a double major in computer sciences and biology, and has been selected as the Duke Faculty Scholar (the highest award given by faculty to undergraduates). As an undergraduate, she has been involved in computational biology research at Duke Institute for Genome, Sciences, and Policy. She serves as the president of the Duke chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and is co-president of the Biology Majors Union.
Ezer and her family lived in Plainsboro for 18 years before moving to Norfolk, Virginia, in 2008. She credits much of her success in college to the teachers she had in WW-P and the opportunities the schools gave her to pursue her interest in the science through the PRISM program in middle school, the Waksman genetic research club, and the Science Olympiad team in high school. Building on her experience at WW-P, Ezer helped to establish Science Olympiad teams at public schools in Durham, North Carolina.
#b#Good Causes#/b#
Richard Goldfinger of West Windsor was honored by Beth El Synagogue on December 4 at its annual State of Israel Bonds breakfast.
Born in Newark and raised in Hillside, Goldfinger graduated from Seton Hall University and was a senior partner in the accounting firm of Goldfinger, Block, Glickenhaus, and Dinar for 50 years. He moved to West Windsor with his late wife, Thelma, 12 years ago.
A visit to Israel influenced his decision to purchase Israel bonds. Goldfinger buys Israel bonds annually for his seven grandchildren.
Goldfinger, a member of Beth El Synagogue for 12 years, personally funds the maintenance and care of the synagogue’s grounds. He was honored for his commitment and support of the Jewish community and the State of Israel Bonds.
His son and daughter-in-law, Joel and Jacqueline Goldfinger, are also active members at Beth El. Joel is the treasurer and Jacqueline is in charge of publicity. His granddaughters, Laurel and Rachel, are also active in the synagogue.
The event raised more than $600,000 in Israel bond investments.
Marie Alonzo Snyder of West Windsor taught a mini dance class for people with Parkinson’s Disease at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Philppines, on November 19. With the help of Dr. Cid Diesta, one of her father’s neurologists, Alonzo Snyder led 80 people from the local Parkinson’s support group that meets once a month.
She also leads the Princeton Dance for Parkinson classes, a program of DanceVision, to bring movement and creativity to people with Parkinson’s Disease on Wednesday afternoons at Princeton Dance and Theater Studio in Plainsboro’s Forrestal Village.
#b#Board Member#/b#
Jean Maddalon of West Windsor was elected to the newly created Drexel University Property Management Industry advisory board. She is the executive director of New Jersey Apartment Association.
Drexel University is the only school in the United States that provides both residential and commercial property management programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The board’s goal is to prepare students to meet the 21st century challenges of managing residential and commercial investment real estate assets.
